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HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM C & G NEWSPAPERS
DECEMBER 19, 2024 • Vol. 21, No. 27
Detroit Goodfellows doll program turns 100 years old BY KATHRYN PENTIUK
kpentiuk@candgnews.com
SOUTHFIELD — “Christmas would not have been Christmas for me without the Goodfellows.”
Brightmoor Lights Holiday Festival presents giant nutcracker garden
That is the conclusion of Loretta DeLoach, a Lathrup Village resident of 40 years. Growing up in Highland Park as the youngest of four children, she was raised by a single mother after her father passed away when she was only 5 years old.
Through the Detroit Goodfellows, a nonprofit organization, she remembers getting dolls for Christmas, regular dentist appointments and attending camp for two weeks out of the year. “We were also allowed to go to camp
because we got the Goodfellows. Yes, we got to go to camp two weeks every single year,” she said. DeLoach explained that sending children to camp every year for two weeks wasn’t
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SOUTHFIELD GETS IN ON THE GIVING
BY KATHRYN PENTIUK kpentiuk@candgnews.com
DETROIT — The nonprofit Williams Park Alliance Inc. will host the second Brightmoor Lights Holiday Festival from Dec. 18 to Jan. 3, featuring life-sized illuminated holiday displays, including symbols of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and more. Darcy Street and the Etheldra Mae Williams Park will be transformed into a winter wonderland drive-thru experience, with holiday movies on a 21-foot screen,
LEFT: From left, Southfield Police Chief Elvin Barren, Fire Chief Johnny Menifee and Southfield Mayor Ken Siver spread holiday cheer at the fifth annual Holiday Sleigh of Giving gift giveaway on Dec. 14. Lois Jones and her grandchildren joined in on the festivities. ABOVE: Santa and Mrs. Claus ditched the sleigh to do some curbside gift giving by the Southfield Public Library. Photos by Liz Carnegie
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