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Heritage Rooms showcase exhibit on legendary wrestler BY ANDY KOZLOWSKI akozlowski@candgnews.com
MADISON HEIGHTS — Stepping into the elevator at Madison Heights City Hall is like traveling back in time. Visitors are instantly taken to a museum with exhibits like a re-creation of the one-room Kendall School, which stood in the early 1900s when Madison Heights was still Royal Oak Township. But before one enters the museum, called the Heritage Rooms and maintained by the city’s Historical Commission, there is a super-sized photo on the wall of the late Jim Myers (1937-2017) — a hometown hero and namesake of the stadium at Madison High School where he once taught and coached football, wrestling and track. Myers is an inductee in both the Michigan High School Coaches Hall of Fame and the Michigan Football Coaches Hall of Fame. Growing up, he was quite the athSee EXHIBIT on page 6A
In this file photo from 2013, Jim Myers, center, hugs brothers Mark and John Davis during a book signing for his autobiography “Animal” at the Royal Oak Barnes and Noble. Myers was a coach for the Madison Schools who moonlit as pro wrestler George “The Animal” Steele. Exhibits about his life and career are featured at the Heritage Rooms, the historical museum at Madison Heights City Hall. File photo by Deb Jacques
Co-responder program underway in Madison Heights, Hazel Park MADISON HEIGHTS/HAZEL PARK — A new program has launched in Madison Heights, Hazel Park, Ferndale and Royal Oak. The Co-Response Community
Outreach Program sees their respective police departments partner with specialists who render aid, referrals and other resources to those suffering from mental health issues, substance use disorders and other challenges. Also known as “CoRe,” it is a collaboration between local police and Oakland Community Health Network. OCHN
provides two clinicians who accompany police to crisis scenes where an individual may be suicidal or suffering a breakdown, threatening violence to themselves or others. The clinicians help police to de-escalate the situation, and just as crucially provide follow-up that improve the odds of treatment. See CO-RESPONDER on page 10A
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