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Ferndale assistant city manager moves into interim role BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
FERNDALE — The city of Ferndale has appointed an interim city manager while it continues its search for a permanent re-
placement. Ferndale has chosen Assistant City Manager James Krizan as its interim manager after the departure of Joe Gacioch, who has left for the city manager position in Royal Oak.
Krizan began his tenure in Ferndale earlier this year after arriving from Lincoln Park, where he had served as its city manager for four years. “The responsibilities, of course, are broader and more organization-wide,” he
said. “As assistant city manager, in the dayto-day I was directly responsible for overseeing the City Clerk’s Office, our zero waste systems manager and our special events director, and then filling in whenever Joe See KRIZAN on page 10A
Local filmmakers make ‘MAD’ passion project into a reality BY SARAH WRIGHT swright@candgnews.com
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Alan Bernstein is the director of the “When We Went MAD!” documentary film.
TROY/PLEASANT RIDGE — A documentary film made by some Michigan locals promises to give viewers insight into Mad Magazine’s history and its impact on the culture through its satirical influences. The idea for this “When We Went MAD!” documentary came from its Director Alan Bernstein from Pleasant Ridge, who has been a fan of Mad Magazine since he was 7 years old. Bernstein said he was waiting for someone to make this film but decided to take on this challenge himself when no one else did. “I’ve been interested in this since I was a kid and I’d have loved to write for MAD or make movies and I chose film making,” Bernstein said. Mad Magazine is an American humor magazine that was started by Harvey Kurtzman and William Gaines in 1952. Much of its comedic content comes from poking fun at different aspects of pop culture and politics, and it would reach 2.5 million issue sales in the 1970s. “For generations, MAD Magazine shaped and warped its readers’ senses of hu-