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The Distinguished Young Women of
Wayne Westland 2013 scholarship program
for high school senior girls who reside in the
cities of Wayne and Westland is currently
underway.
Formerly known as Wayne-Westland
Junior Miss, Distinguished Young Women of
Wayne-Westland promotes excellence in
young women demonstrated by scholarship,
leadership and talent.Winners of theWayne-
Westland program on Nov. 16 will compete
in the statewide competition in January
2013.
Chidinma Ogbuaku, will serve as the
director of the 2013 scholarship program.
Ogbuaku was a finalist in the 2006 Junior
Miss program. A graduate of John Glenn
High School andWayne StateUniversity, she
nowhas a career inpublic relations.
"I am so excited for the Distinguished
Young Woman program this year, and that I
was able to find someone to coordinate it,"
said Pat Hermatz. Hermatz, who served as
the director of the Wayne-Westland program
for many years, is now amember of the state
board program. "I'll still be around to help,
but it's good having Chichi around to run the
program," Hermatz said referring to
Ogbuaku by her nickname. Ogbuaku wel-
comed the opportunity to give back.
"I am honored to support a program that
meant so much to me when I was in high
school," Ogbuaku said. "The scholarship
money I won made my first year of college a
lot easier. My goal is to raise more scholar-
ship money than ever so our girls can have
that experience, too."
For more information about the
Distinguished Young Woman scholarship
program, visit www.distinguishedyw.org.
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Friendly help
Friends group helps Wayne neighbor
Distinguished Young Women of Wayne Westland now under way
Sunday concert aids charity
The Mighty Voices of Thunder will
appear in concert at 4 p.m. this Sunday
Sept. 30 at St. Clements Episcopal Church
in Inkster.
The concert is a benefit for the Adopt-A-
Child-Size Committee of Inkster, a group
that has worked for 26 years to raise funds
for new winter clothing and school uni-
forms for Inkster children.
The concert has taken place in past
years at the Smith Chapel but will move to
St. Clements at 4300 Harrison in Inkster
this year. There is no admission but a free
will offeringwill be collected.
For more information, call (734) 331-
3307.
The threat of inclement weather kept a
large group of "friends" from their original
plans on a recent Saturday----but more than
80 of them gathered at a home in Wayne
Sept. 15 tohelp their neighbors.
The group is part of theFriends project in
Wayne, organized by Ed McMurray. Every
year, the group picks a neighborhood home
in Wayne where the owner is in need of
some help to make repairs due to health or
financial conditions. The group donates
their time and effort for a full day of clean-
ing, painting, repairing and yard work while
area businesses donate breakfast, lunch,
supplies, lumber and other items needed to
help the effort.
The volunteersmet at theWayne Banquet
Center at 8:30 a.m. Saturday for a continen-
tal breakfast and then departed for the
selected work site at 9:15 a.m. They attacked
the home of brothers Duane and Dave
Dickelman, where they put two coasts of
paint on the house in only four hours, hung a
new screen door and installed new yard
gates. They returned last Wednesday to
touch up some of their work, complete some
small details and finish some yardwork.
Chairman Ed. McMurray said that both
the homeowners were very pleased with the
work the volunteers completed.
“We have so many sponsors that donate
time and/or materials to the project and
without them we would have great difficulty
doing the project. We want to thank all those
people andbusinesses,”McMurray said.
He added that the volunteers who show
up every year deserve thanks, too.
“There were 51 future leaders from the
Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps
(JROTC) fromWayne Memorial High School
there on Saturday this year,” McMurray said.
“Wewant to thank all the volunteers.”
Volunteers put two coats of paint on the home and installed a new screen door and installed
new gates as part of the Friends Project in Wayne this year.
The project home before the Friends’ work.
The project home after the Friends’ work.