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As city improves community center, Berkley looks to get feedback on parks future BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
Funky Ferndale Art Fair to bring weird art back to downtown BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
ABOVE: Betsy Williams will be one of the many vendors at the Funky Ferndale Art Fair with her handcrafted pieces of art made from butterflies.
FERNDALE — The weirdest and funkiest of Ferndale’s art scene soon will be back for the Funky Ferndale Art Fair. The 21st annual Funky Ferndale Art Fair will take place Sept. 19-21 on West Nine Mile Road with more than 140 artists in attendance. The event each year is held in concurrence with the DIY Street Fair on East Nine Mile Road. Event organizer Mark Loeb was excited to bring back the festival once again. He said the hardest part of producing the event was attempting to come up with something fun, different and interesting for attendees, and to give them something they aren’t expecting. One of the things Loeb said he was excited to bring to the Funky Fern-
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TOP: More than 140 artists will be in attendance for the 21st annual Funky Ferndale Art Fair Sept. 19-21 on West Nine Mile Road.
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BERKLEY — The Berkley Community Center and park areas have been receiving updates over the past year, and the city hopes to make more updates in the future. The Berkley City Council approved a project to improve the Community Center restrooms and make renovations to the concession stand at Community Field #1 at its Aug. 18 meeting. The project costs are $159,515 funded by a state community enhancement grant with work done by Allied Building Services. Facilities Manager Alex Brown said this grant funding will help the city take care of big-ticket items. “We put a new roof on, we’ve changed out the entrance doors, done some changes to the main entrance, and we’re going to be doing these bathroom remodels,” he said. “This grant has been super helpful to kind of get the building in good shape. … There’s no more water leaking and we’re going to update the bathroom. So, a lot of the bigger things are being handled by this grant, which has been great until we kind of have a bigger-picture plan of what we want to do overall with that area.” These updates will be the last updates for the Community Center under this grant funding, according to Brown. The leftover funds will be held for any contingency issues or possibly the installation of heating in the concession stand area and restrooms to make them usable closer to year-round. At that same meeting, the council also approved an agreement with consultant Johnson Hill Land Ethics Studio for an update to the city’s parks and recreation master plan for an amount up to $15,000. City Manager Crystal VanVleck said a focus of this update is going See FEEDBACK on page 2A
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