Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Megan D'Arcy is a senior at Stoney Creek High School; her father died in a plane crash five years ago.
Editor's note: This story originally posted on Rochester Patch on Nov. 27, 2011. On Dec. 9. 2011. it was chosen for Huffington Post's "Greatest Person of the Day" feature. We hope this brings further awareness to Megan and her book! When Megan D'Arcy was 13 years old, she was a frog princess who whispered to her mom, the queen, her fear that she might someday forget her dad. Her dad was a king who had died in a tragic accident, and Megan was still reeling from the shock. As the storybook goes, the queen hugged Megan tightly and reassured her. "Do you remember when the king taught you how to ride a bike?" Of course, Megan the princess replied. "Well you remember year after year how to ride your bike," the queen advised. "You’ve never …
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Stoney Creek High School
575 E Tienken Rd, Rochester Hills, MI
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
'I just did what I thought was the right thing to do,' said Phillip DeRue of Shelby Township, who was recognized by Rochester Hills leaders on Monday night.
Sears technician Phillip DeRue was finishing up a service call in Rochester Hills recently when, as city leaders acknowledged this week, he went "well above and beyond the call of duty" in coming to the rescue of a woman who suffered a serious fall. DeRue, who lives in Shelby Township, had been called to the home on Creek Bend Street to service a washing machine on Oct. 12. He was working on a computer in his truck after the call was finished when he witnessed a woman fall off the front porch of the home he had just been inside. "She came out to walk her dog and I watched as the dog's leash wrapped around and around her legs," said DeRue, 57, who has worked for Sears for five years. He said the woman fell head-first down three paved steps…
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City of Rochester Hills
1000 Rochester Hills Dr, Rochester Hills, MI
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Read how one fourth-grader and a pig named Wilbur turned a rare act of destruction into a simple act of giving.
Editor's note: This story was originally posted on Rochester Patch on Nov. 28; it has been chosen as Huffington Post's Greatest Person of the Day. See the story as it appears on The Huffington Post here. Rochester Hills, Mich. - It was Thanksgiving morning when 9-year-old Nicole Bernstein, out for a walk with her family, learned about the random crime that would spur her to action. The Bernsteins live near the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm; the night before Thanksgiving, vandals smashed several concrete animal statues and other pottery in the Children's Garden at the museum. Some light fixtures and a park bench were also destroyed. That morning, while walking their dog, the Bernsteins ran into museum director Patrick McKay, …
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Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm
1005 Van Hoosen Rd, Rochester, MI
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The Tuesday night event in downtown Rochester will raise money to build a well in Ethiopia.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Lindsey VanDaele wants to change the world, and it all starts with a girls-only dance party. VanDaele, a 29-year-old mom of two from Rochester Hills, has organized a fundraising event she calls "Divas Dancing to Make a Difference," planned for Tuesday night at Main Street Billiards in downtown Rochester. The purpose? To help bring clean water to impoverished children across the world. "It's so easy for us to complain about things in our daily lives — the dishes, the laundry, being stuck in traffic," VanDaele said. "But there are children who will die tonight because they are drinking dirty water. "That's just too much for me to handle." VanDaele attends Kensington Church, where leaders recently recommended the book The Hole In Our Gospel …
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Main Street Billiards
215 S Main St, Rochester, MI
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Here's how Danielle Ziaja is making a difference in Oakland and Macomb counties.
On the Friday before her senior year at Detroit Country Day was set to begin, Danielle Ziaja of Rochester Hills had a hair appointment, a senior photo shoot and some summer calculus homework to finish up. She is, in many ways, a typical 17-year-old. Except for the 1,300 crayons, 185 bars of soap and 3,282 tubes of toothpaste that were packed into the back of her parents' Yukon. On Friday morning, Danielle unloaded the crayons, soap and toothpaste, along with thousands of other personal care and school supply items, onto a cart bound for a warehouse at the Lighthouse of Oakland County. The shipment capped off a summer of similar donations across Oakland and Macomb counties — 31,026 items in all. "People who talk about being worried about …
North Hill Elementary student fills his '100 Pockets' with mementos of home in illustrated story.
"What I did this Summer Vacation." It is, perhaps, the most popular and predictable writing assignment for students returning to school each fall. But this year, Rochester fifth-grader Danny Glazier's essay could be more unusual than most. Danny, 10, spent his summer publishing a book. Actually, the process of writing and self-publishing a book took more than one summer break for the North Hill Elementary School student. It started back in second grade with an end-of-the-weekend family trip for ice cream. "Sunday nights were always a little challenge," Danny's mom, Michelle Glazier, said. Danny had been having a hard time leaving home to go to school. After a family-filled weekend it was particularly difficult. That Sunday evening, during…
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North Hill Elementary School
1385 Mahaffey Ave, Rochester, MI
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Monday, July 2, 2012
Danielle Ziaja collected more than 12,000 personal hygiene items for the needy in Oakland County.
It all started with a small tube of toothpaste. As the daughter of an orthodontist, Danielle Ziaja has grown up seeing her dad, Bob Ziaja, receive nonstop samples of toothpastes in his Macomb and Clarkston offices. About a year ago, she had an idea to do something amazing with the samples of toothpaste — and of other personal hygiene products that dentists and doctors received. And that's how the Rochester Hills teen made a Clean Start. Danielle, who will be a senior at Detroit Country Day, started the Clean Start Service Project, which collects personal items and school supplies to donate to local organizations that help the needy. To date, she has collected 12,640 items. They have come from dentists and doctors, from a collection drive …
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Rochester Area Neighborhood House
1234 Inglewood Ave, Rochester, MI
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Hepburn's Crêpe & Coffee
120 N Adams Rd, Rochester Hills, MI
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
The ReadySetGo program will provide Rochester-area kindergarten students with their first backpacks filled with all the school supplies they need to start off their first year.
Rochester Hills mom Alhan Miller remembers the joy of shopping for school supplies as a child. Now, all grown up and the mom of a 5-year-old who will be starting kindergarten in the fall, Miller is looking forward to sharing this excitement with her son. But along with the excitement comes her concerns about the children who aren't so fortunate. Miller, working in conjunction with the Rochester Community Schools Foundation, has founded ReadySetGo, a program that will raise money to buy backpacks and school supplies for students in need who are starting kindergarten in the fall. It's her way to give back. "Unfortunately, there are children in the Rochester area who will not get to experience the joy of school shopping because their families…
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Rochester Community Schools
501 W University Dr, Rochester, MI
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
James Becker called 911 when he saw Kelly Remick collapse while jogging in January. He's been honored as a civilian hero once before: by President Richard Nixon.
James Becker remembers looking out the window of his Rochester Hills home on the afternoon of Jan. 11 and seeing a woman "in obvious distress" collapsed on a curb nearby. So, he said, he did what any good citizen would do: He approached the woman to see if she needed help and, when she said she did, he called 911. That woman was Rochester Hills mom Kelly Remick, who had been out for a jog when she started to feel weak and lose her breath. It would later be discovered that Remick was suffering an aortic dissection; Becker's 911 call would set in motion an hourlong series of events that ended with doctors performing life-saving surgery on Remick. On Tuesday, Becker was honored by Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard for his quick …
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Pat Kane of Rochester started Benny's Kitchen after spending 10 weeks caring for a dachshund in need. "This is for the pets who may go unfed or unloved,"
Pat Kane first met the miniature long-haired dachshund whom she would later call "Benny" on a hot, dry day last June. She sensed the dog needed her help, so she whispered something in his ear. He heard her message and returned to her — for good — months later. For 10 weeks she and her husband loved and cared for Benny, until the day in January when the dog, sick with cancer and fighting pain, died in her arms. The relationship between the Rochester woman and the dog who loved her back was short-lived. But the memory of those days has inspired Kane to give back to other animals in need. In Benny's honor Kane created Benny's Kitchen, a component of the Rochester Community House food pantry. Through the organization she will collect dog and …
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O'Connor's Public House
324 S Main St, Rochester, MI
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Rochester Community House
816 Ludlow Ave, Rochester, MI
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chris murray
8:50 pm on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
I recently purchased Megan's book for my godchild's daughter. My godchild, Megan, lost her husband last August just shortly after her daughter Paige had turned 4. I'm not sure if she has read the book to her daughter yet or not but she has it for when she feels she is ready. I did read it before gifting it and thought it was very well done. more ›