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Southfield native Selma Blair accepts key to city Southfield Mayor Kenson Siver presents Selma Blair with the key to the city May 16 during a luncheon at the Westin Southfield-Detroit.
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BY MIKE KOURY
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SOUTHFIELD — Selma Blair has come a long way from her roots in Southfield to be a Hollywood actress, but she returned to the city in order to accept one of its biggest honors. Blair, known for her roles in “Legally Blonde,” “Cruel Intentions” and “Hellboy,” was given the key to the city of Southfield by Mayor Kenson Siver during a special luncheon on May 16, which also was proclaimed as “Selma Blair Day.” “(Southfield has) meant so much to me as the only city I ever lived before I grew up,” she said during the presentation. “It’s the only city I was ever loved in by my mom and my sisters and the city around me.” Blair, 52, has received a number of honors in her life, including being named one of Time magazine’s People of the Year in 2017, a Glamour’s Women of the Year recipient in 2023, a New York Times bestseller for her memoir “Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up” and the Competition Contestant award from the People’s Choice Awards in 2022. Blair told C & G Newspapers that getting a key from her hometown means just as much as any of those honors. “The People’s Choice Awards was a huge moment to realize, ‘Oh my God, people actually ever think of me,’” she said. “This was my only home before college. I never lived anywhere else. Same house, and I loved this city. … I got to really develop a lot of my foundation here. … It means so much to me.” Siver said it was exciting to be able to present Blair with the key, something the city doesn’t do often. See BLAIR on page 6A
HELP URGENTLY NEEDED AS SITUATION IN HAITI WORSENS METRO DETROIT — A mission group to Haiti that includes churches in Sterling
Heights, Southfield and more is sounding the alarm on the plight of the country — the poorest in the Western Hemisphere — as gangs have captured the town of Mirebalais, once a safe haven.
A letter by Kesner Gracia, an Episcopalian priest in Haiti, described the scene in April. “Haiti has become a veritable human slaughterhouse,” he wrote. “In Mirebalais, the streets are lit-
tered with corpses. … Unspeakable scenes of terror unfold before our very eyes.” Haiti Outreach Mission, a Troy-based nonprofit, has been wiring funds to partners in Haiti
since it’s no longer safe to travel there. Projects include medical and dental clinics, a lab and pharmacy, water purifiers, and funding for food, shelter and supplies. See HAITI on page 5A
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