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This week, the Metro Times features Dennis Orlowski's greatest mural yet at People's Community Services.
On this day 25 years ago, a stranger walked into the Hamtramck office of the Michigan Department of Social Services and started throwing dollar bills from a paper bag. All 300 people in the office were busy gathering the money and no one could give a description of the man.
Defending Champion Norbert Revels of Hamtramck lost to Keith Chambers of Washington, D.C. in the 12th annual Superbowl for electronic football.
The power was only out for a few seconds at our house, but the outage east of Conant lasted between 3 and 4 hours, and was covered by at least four newspapers.
A New Orleans resident recommends the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival as a way to cope with hurricanes.
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A former Hamtramckan has opened a new Bosnian restaurant in St Clair Shores.
Stan Drall, a man from Hamtramck who worked for the Ford Company for 53 years, volunteers at the Automotive Hall of Fame now. Drall worked for their public relations department and is credited with getting Fords into movies, arranging transportation for celebrities in Fords, and making sure every church group in Detroit had a Ford.
Schimmel tells the City of Pontiac to sell off everything. An editorial agrees the City should follow Schimmel's advice.
The housing market in Hamtramck has been doing well this year. "Hamtramck leaps above other communities, with a 55.1% increase in sale prices -- to $25,975. In addition, Hamtramck experienced a 50% increase in the number of homes sold, from 48 during the first quarter of 2005 to 72 during the first quarter of this year."
Hamtramck Assembly makes more pink Cadillacs than any other plant.
Muslims think Americans hate them, and with good reason.
People came to Hamtramck from Toledo last April in an attempt to lure our Polish business owners to a subsidized development there.
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Folks opposed to the Call to Prayer came out of the woodwork from all over the world. For a few weeks, Hamtramck was caught in an international media frenzy. Ironically, for those who opposed the ordinance, if the city had not adopted the ordinance, there was no law preventing mosques from broadcasting the Call from loudspeakers.
The ordinance, which passed, actually gave the city a law to shut down the Call if a mosque violated the policy in terms of volume and number of times of day the Call could be played.
Since that time, there have been no public complaints about the Call, although there have been some folks who have privately griped about some mosques playing the Call too loudly.
Outside of that, there were several reports of harassment at the mosque located at Caniff and Jos. Campau regarding young people throwing stones inside the mosque. That apparently has ceased.
There actually was one complaint a little over a year ago that the time wasn't being followed. A letter was sent to the mosque with a copy of the ordinance and they immediately conformed.
Also, there were several incidents at the mosque within a week. Some teens threw a rock through a window and broke it, shoveled snow into the foyer, hitting the Iman with a shovel in the process, and they threw shoes into the prayer room.
Personally, I love it and rarely hear it. The only religious sounds audible from our house are the bells at Immaculate Conception.
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