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The annual Holiday Home
Tour presented by the Northville
Community Foundation will take
place from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Nov. 14 and 15.
Five Northville homes have
been chosen for the 17th annual
tour this year. According to
Jessica Striegle, events and
fundraising manager for the
foundation, the homes selected
differ in style and offer some-
thing for every taste. The tour,
this year, she said, is an excep-
tional blend of traditional, eclec-
tic, cozy and even a home with
andAsian flair.
“Each home is beautiful on its
own but with our talented team
of decorators the homes come to
life with ideas on top of ideas for
decorating your home for the hol-
idays,” Striegle said.
Tickets are $20 in advance
and $25 the day of the tour and
are on sale now at Gardenviews
in Northville or the Northville
Chamber of Commerce. Tickets
may also be purchased onVisa or
MasterCard by calling (248)374-
0200. Tickets are limited and the
tour does sell out each year,
Striegle added.
Proceeds from the Holiday
Home Tour help fund the
Northville
Community
Foundation Senior Holiday
Baskets program which provides
gift baskets to senior citizens in
assisted living facilities as well as
the foundation scholarship pro-
gramfor high school seniors.
The Northville Community
Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) non-
profit organization organized to
enhance and enrich life in the
community. The foundation sup-
ports non-profits; educational
programs and health related
issues through the Healthy Youth
and Senior Funds; historic
preservation; and the arts. The
foundation is a tax-exempt chari-
table organization State Certified
and authorized to receive and
administer endowments and
other funds from individuals,
businesses, professional and cor-
porate sponsors. For more infor-
mation visit www.northvillecom-
munityfoundation.org.
Holiday home tour tickets now on sale
Teachers donate $10,000 to district
Decorators participating in the Northville Foundation Holiday Home Tour always provide clever and
unusual uses for holiday décor.
They are teaching by example.
Teachers and other employees in the
Northville Public Schools donated more
than $10,000 to the Northville Educational
Foundation during the giving campaign
lastmonth.
During the campaign, 178 staff mem-
bers contributed to the educational foun-
dation with a donation or by enrolling in a
payroll deduction program for the entire
2014-1015 year, according to theNorthville
EducationFoundation.
“As ambassadors for the youth of
Northville,” said Jennifer Roosenberg, the
executive director of the Northville
Educational Foundation, “NPS staff
already work hand in hand with the
Northville Educational Foundation in
raising the bar for excellence in the
Northville Public Schools. The fact that so
many staff members were willing to go
above and beyond to support students in
the district is a testimony to the high level
of dedication among the staff district-
wide.”
The funds will be used by the founda-
tion to help provide grant funding that
directly benefits students in the district,
Roosenberg said. For the 2014-15 school
year, the foundation has budgeted nearly
$100,000 to Northville Public Schools for
programs such as Innovative Teaching
grants, International Baccalaureate,
Leader In Me, student financial aid and
other programs that enrichNorthville cur-
riculum in the areas of academics, arts
and athletics.
Silver Springs Elementary educators
and staff members were presented with a
$1,000 prize from the foundation for hav-
ing a participation level of more than 70
percent, the highest in the district. Silver
Springs staff will vote on the use of the
funds.
4,200 square-feet in the lower level where
a miniature replica of the Paramount
Movie Palace in New York has been
installed. It features 12 velvet seats on ris-
ers facing a stage where actual footlights
have been installed. There is also a red
velvet curtainwith long gold tassels.
Fifteen leaded glass medallions are
installed in the coffered ceiling and are
backlit. The bar area, too, features elabo-
rate woodwork, pillars and an expansive
bar and entertainment area. There is, of
course, a pool room and back upstairs, an
octagonal music room where only a
Bosendorfer grand piano and a neo-clas-
sic sculpture are artistically placed for
maximum effect in the turret-like win-
dows.
Multiple balconies and terraces are
accessible from several rooms in the
home and two library-like rooms, one a
sitting room at the top of a stairway, are
both richly paneled in real wood.
The kitchen features two islands, one
with seating and both with extensive
granite along with the extraordinary cabi-
netry.
The entire home, according to the list-
ing agent Spiro of Coldwell Banker Weir
Manuel is a “mansion of epic propor-
tions.”
Pre-approval and proof of funds must
be submitted to Spiro prior to any show-
ing at the request of the seller.
Prose, who sued the City of Plymouth
for $700 million in both federal and cir-
cuit courts in 1999, won a $2.3 million
judgment against former newspaper pub-
lisher W. Ed Wendover and his wife, Sally
Repeck in 2005. All other defendants
were dropped or found not liable in pro-
longed court battles.
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