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candgnews.com APRIL 17, 2024 Vol. 21, No. 8
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Along with eighth grade art students at Norup International School, artist Daniel Cascardo leads the students in painting one of the murals that will hang in the school. Photo by Donna Dalziel
NORUP STUDENTS WORKING WITH ARTIST ON SCHOOL MURALS BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
BERKLEY — The students of Norup International School have been working together with a professional artist on murals that will be installed throughout the school.
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Norup, located in Oak Park, has been collaborating with local artist Daniel Cascardo to create four murals that will go up in the school — two outside the cafeteria and two outside the gym. The theme of the murals is kindness and respect for all. See MURALS on page 8A
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BERKLEY — Berkley continues to work toward finding a new city manager while its interim gets settled into helping run the town. Current City Manager Matt Baumgarten will leave his role April 19. In the interim, Nate Geinzer will be city manager while Berkley conducts its search process. This isn’t Geinzer’s first time working in Berkley, as he previously worked as the Downtown Development Authority manager in the city for several months in 2007. “It was very early in my career and I had another parttime job working with the city of Brighton, and there was a part-time opportunity here,” he said. “I spent some time in that role and then had the opportunity to get my first full-time gig in the city of Farmington Hills as their manager’s assistant, which worked out well because I was still relatively young in my marriage and we were getting ready to have a family, and a full-time job is an important piece of that process.” Geinzer only spent around seven months in Berkley, but from that period, he gathered that it was a strong community. “I had always kind of wondered … why being adjacent