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Southfield Library hosts ‘Conversations on Race’ series
2/23/22 2:26 PM
BY KATHRYN PENTIUK kpentiuk@candgnews.com
Fire leaves townhouses uninhabitable with families displaced and two injured BY KATHRYN PENTIUK
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SOUTHFIELD — On Christmas morning at 6:26 a.m., the Southfield Fire Department responded to 24000 Walden Road to
find the five-unit townhouse complex on fire. “It had a pretty good head start on us,” Southfield Fire Department Chief Johnny Menifee said. “I think the men and women of the Southfield Fire Department, as well as our mutual aid partners, did an incredible job to try to
save as much of the building as they could, and make sure that there’s no loss of life, so that’s what I’m thankful for,” Southfield Fire Chief Johnny Menifee said. Five additional fire departments part of See FIRE on page 9A
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Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
Families living in the five-unit townhouses in the 24000 block of Walden Road awake to a fire on Christmas morning.
SOUTHFIELD — On Jan. 22, the Southfield Public Library, 26300 Evergreen Road, will kick off the series “Conversations on Race” with three segments of guided conversations to build awareness and a skillset for talking about race and racism. Irene Lietz, the executive director of Conversations on Race, explained that the series was first held in February 2020 after she and Louis Forsyth, who is the reverend of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Detroit, connected at a different group that met to discuss racial issues. “We had met at another group at one point, and that group dissolved, in part because they struggled to talk about race, and it’s a hard thing,” Lietz said. “So he and I were trying to do things on our own, and we decided to have a church picnic.” According to Lietz, the churches planned a “unity picnic.”