December 03, 2021 People/Dining/Shopping/Events/Culture All defining Livonia
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Greenmead holiday gathering takes next step with more lights, activities
The Livonia Night of Lights program initiated last winter to brighten the Greenmead Historic Village will grow to provide more lights, more activities, and more fun this upcoming holiday season.
Thanks to business sponsorships, the Alexander Blue House and surrounding yards were colorfully decorated throughout December which created a great stage for Santa to meet people on the porch of the House for Saturday and Sunday evening.
This December, the effort will expand to add lights to five more historic structures and numerous trees on the Greenmead campus, located on Newburgh south of Eight Mile.
There will be new weekend activities designed to entertain people of all ages. New this year will be children’s arts and crafts inside Newburg School, and a heated hospitality tent with outside firepits for sales of alcoholic beverages, snacks, warm beverages, and soft drinks for public gatherings on the weekends. There will be street hockey rinks in the parking lot, and choir performances at Newburg Church at 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturdays.
Admission will be a $10 suggested donation per vehicle for the activities during the weekend evenings of December 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, and 19. Some event proceeds will be used to support Friends of Greenmead and the Livonia Anniversary Committee. The activities will be open from 5-10 p.m. on the Friday and Saturday dates and 5-8 p.m. on the Sunday dates.
The community holiday festivities will shift to the Livonia Civic Center area on Sunday, December 5, starting with the annual parade at 4 p.m.
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The typewriter recommends
Dough Joe Chocolates and Fraser Teas
this Christmas
There are so many ways to describe the chocolates offered year-round by Livonia's Joe Gilligan on his Website here, but these come to mind, chocolate art, chocolate so good, awesome chocolate.
Check out Joe Gilligan and see for yourself as he was featured in Cooking with edible WOW:
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A Livonia partnership with a reach across the nation
Dough Joe's is partnering up with Fraser Tea this holiday season.
They are doing a founder's favorite gift basket with a variety of their teas and chocolates made that are infused with their teas.
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Fraser Teas: with a Livonia address and the world as its home
This typewriter, thanks to the introduction by the bodyguard, has been ordering Fraser Teas for the past two years. Located on Stark Road south of Schoolcraft it is fun to drive by their building and picture the Fraser brothers working to select the best tea, using tea to bring people together, and creating innovative blends.
The Fraser brothers grew up in a family of eleven – all sharing a common appreciation for tea and the culture that surrounds it. Exploring teas turned from passion to a profession when John, Tom, and Bernard Fraser after years of study and experimenting with tea decided they could offer healthier more flavorful options.
Selecting the finest tea, using only organic ingredients and a delivery method to preserve the health benefits of the product was their goal. Besides extensive study with the International Tea Masters Association, the brothers collaborated with Asian and British Tea masters and herbalists in the perfection of their craft.
Each had his own reason for delving into the world of tea. Bernard developed his appreciation for tea culture as an ordained Catholic priest. He found himself traveling the globe to minister to families in need and aid community efforts. Where ever he went, Bernard discovered the many ways tea brought people together – in social situations, in spiritual ways, and for meditation.
When traveling John found himself searching for new, delicious tea flavors. He often purchased iced teas that left him wondering whether he could blend a fresher healthier tea. John began drinking tea and experimenting with his own blends while in college – and has just never stopped.
Tom has been an organic farmer, and nurseryman for 20 years, perfecting the practice of growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs in organic, sustainable surroundings. Tom is passionate about creating organic innovative blends that harmonize healthy teas, herbs, and organic flavors for your pleasure. Making Fraser Tea an all-organic choice was important to him from the start.
Together the Fraser Brothers embarked on a journey to explore tea culture, embracing sustainable farms across the globe that share their high standards of quality, flavor, and environmental practices.
With more than 100 varieties and counting, the founders of Fraser Tea blend bold new flavors with fresh organic ingredients to enhance health benefits, mood, and lifestyles. Fraser Tea's founders set forth a challenge to think of tea in a new way.
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Meet Bernie Fraser
Bernie brings an appreciation of tea culture and history that evolved during his years working as an ordained Catholic priest. “I have found a deep spiritual connection sharing tea, whether it was with Bedouins in the Sinai Desert or when providing comfort to those in their greatest time of need.
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Meet Tom Fraser
Tom’s passion is to enhance people’s health and well-being by crafting the most flavorful, organic teas. Masterful blending is both an art and science, besides training as a master blender, Tom also attributes his expertise to a mathematics background and years as an organic master gardener.
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Meet John Fraser
John has spent decades as a builder and entrepreneur fulfilling his passion for creating and innovating. As a tea sommelier and tea blender, John takes this spirit to the next level by crafting tea blends that are both bold and daring
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Exclusive: FridayMusings has been given an embargoed major announcement about one Livonia athlete/resident who has been selected to compete in a world competition next summer in Prague Czechoslovakia. Complete details in Musings Monday.
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Wennstrom assumes national office
Jonathon Wennstrom, principal at Buchanan Elementary School and Livonia Rotarian, says that he is "excited to have the privilege to serve on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the next Zone 6 Director! beginning in August 2022.
As a member of the Board of Directors, he will have responsibility for the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
Livonia Proud.
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David Stechholz: thank you for the very kind notice in Friday Musings about my second book, The English District Saga. I’m deeply appreciative. I’m off to Mexico City representing our Church body as Chaplain for five days of meetings with our world regional mission directors. God willing, I’ll be back late Friday night in time for the Sunday, Dec. 12 Livonia Civic Chorus Concert.
Robert Donovic: Unsubcribe. The content is not what I expected.
Scott Bahr: Unsubscibe. The content is not what I expected.
Robert Legel: thanks for the Livonia Historical Society promotion. We had a nice lunch at the RUSTY BUCKET. Susan Nenadic gave big-time info on the CIVIL WAR PARKS. First question. What State did the first battle take place in? Tennessee.
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Tamara Oliverio note to the typewriter on Facebook: I know you love Livonia just like many others do (including me). I also understand you can’t possibly understand what it is like raising school-aged kids (or being a kid) in the middle of a pandemic, technology explosion, social media, and school shootings that are way too close to home. All this while living in a community that is divided yet ironically everyone has the same goal - protecting the kids.
Please don’t contribute to this division. It only hurts our community and most importantly our kids.
Your article about the schools and parent groups is filled with inaccuracies and half-truths. There is no Livonia Chapter of the group you speak of. Parents & educators being critical of elected officials and wanting to protect the kids is not partisan nor is it an attack on Public Education. It is something everyone SHOULD be encouraged to do. It becomes partisan and an attack on Public Education when divisive inaccurate articles like this are circulated calling for more division.
I highly encourage you to listen to the concerns of the parents and educators in our community who are speaking up with an open mind and open heart.
We should ALL do a better job at listening to one another. Our community has experienced so much trauma over the past 2 years or so and there is no end in sight (now we all have to worry about school shootings and the added mental health issues related to all that). We are at a breaking point.
Please - as one person who loves Livonia as much as you do - I ask you to help us HEAL from this trauma. Listen more. Encourage others to do the same. Seek the truth. Find the common ground- it IS there.
Typewriter: Congratulations Tamara on your appointment this week to the Zoning Board of Appeals.
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Nick Palazzolo note to the typewriter on Facebook Business Suite: Care to fix this before we expose it? Pretty low bud, this type of deceit is exactly why the majority of the community is organizing and standing up. The city council election was a giant tell. And the fact that we have more members than any of the other groups in the community should be a big tell as well. Parents and residents are fed up.
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Response to Tamara Oliverio:: You always offer up compelling arguments even when I disagree with you.
The meeting I referenced was for the start-up of a Wayne County Chapter with its initial meeting, and perhaps future meeting, being held in Livonia. I call that a chapter. But why parse the significance here when the real issue is that yes, parents have legitimate differences but having followed the organization (MFL) and seen and heard some of the discussion I come away convinced that partisan organizations are using this issue to divide communities in order to perpetuate an agenda that quite frankly is difficult to comprehend.
I stand by my belief that we have a strong public school system in which parents have the opportunity to participate, voice their concerns, and yes, run for office if there are disagreements.
My comments are not dividing the community, but rather in fact is rallying those who support public education, want it to function in a positive way, and asking supports to stand up to a national, frontal attack on our educational system in the hope to drive more into private schools, thus reducing the amount of state financing and eventually destroying public schools.
Thanks for your comments welcoming me back from my 10 day holiday. You have always given me pause to think and reflect.
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A unique Christmas Tree brought to you by the McCullough family on display at Deck the Rec. |
Mail call!
Last chance to get your letters to Santa, as our Santa mailbox needs time to get them all to the North Pole and have Santa respond. He is busy making toys and making appearances at several special events this month, too. Get your letters in by 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, at the Kirksey Recreation Center!
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13th Annual Friends of Snage
Holiday Luncheon
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Dan MacIver hosted a table at the 13th annual Leo Snage Luncheon at St. Mary's in Livonia. Snage is the late Director of the Department of Public Works in Redford. With nearly 200 attending the luncheon all proceeds go this year to the Redford Goodfellows.
What makes this so special is that every year the organizations receiving funds from the luncheon are rotated between the Redford Chamber Scholarship Fund, the Redford Commission on Youth and Families and the Redford Goodfellows.
Nearly $95,000 has been raised over the 13 years. Leo's widow covers all expenses from the luncheons each year so that the ticket price is donated 100% to the organization.
Mayor Maureen Miller Brosnan posed with the MacIver table, all that is except Councilman Brandon McCoullough who had just left to return to work.
Thanks Dan, the typewriter enjoyed the conversation and company. I know that Leo Snage loved Redford Township and believed in community involvement and fellowship. This was a perfect year 13 to honor his legacy.
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One local Superintendent speaks out on the need for Mental Health Funding for schools
Paul Shepich nails the issue square on when he says "Let’s talk about the need for school districts to be appropriately funded for mental health & wellness. If the state legislature needs help to figure out what to fund how about starting here? "
The red line shows that suicide is increasing while accidental deaths are down dramatically.
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