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Feather bingo planned
St. Aloysius Church Ushers Club Feather
Party Bingo is planned for 7 p.m. Nov. 7 at
Parish Activity Center in the school build-
ing, 37200Neville St. inRomulus. Doors will
open at 5 p.m.
Three paper quickies are $1 each and 12
paper games are $12 per packet. Bingo
prizes awarded are gift certificates for
chickens and turkeys.
Raffle Tickets will be available for grand
prize of turkey and basket of goodies and or
one of 20 turkey gift certificates.
For additional information, call (734) 697-
2061.
Chamber dinner and auction set
The Plymouth Chamber of Commerce
25th Annual Dinner and Gala Auction will
take place from 6-11 p.m. Nov. 7 at Laurel
Manor.
More than 400 people are expected to
attend the event and more than 350 auction
items have already beenpromised.
Tickets for the night are $75 which
includes dinner, an open bar, dancing and
live entertainment along with silent and raf-
fle auctions. The auction is supported by
hundreds of companies throughout the area
by providing items, gift certificates, services
or cashdonations to purchase raffle items.
To buy tickets, contact the chamber at
(734) 453-1540.
Tribute concert benefits church
A tribute concert featuring imperson-
ators of RebaMcEntire, The Blues Brothers
and Toby Keith is set for 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at
The Progressive Club in Romulus. Doors
will open at 6 p.m.
The show is a benefit for St. Paul United
Church of Christ Building Fund and tickets
are priced at $20. The admission fee
includes food and a cash bar. Tickets can be
purchased at the church, 24158 Goddard
Road inTaylor or by calling (313) 291-1221.
The Progressive Club is located at 11580
OzgaRoad at FivePoints inRomulus.
4-Hplans gardening project
A Green Thumb Gardening project will
be discussed from 11 a.m. until noon Nov. 8
at the Inkster PublicLibrary.
The project will include the beautifica-
tion of the garden beds at the library and
will help youth ages 5-19 toward a Junior
MasterGardener degree.
This will be an information meeting for
youth participants or adult volunteers. To
RSVP or for more information, contact
Milaina Macklin, 4-H Program Coordinator,
(734) 720-7689 ext. 112. The library is located
at 2005 InksterRoad in Inkster.
Barkin' Good Time planned
Waggin' Tails Dog Rescue, a completely
volunteer organization, is sponsoring the
annual fund raising pub crawl in downtown
Plymouth from 5:30 until 11 p.m. Nov. 8.
Participating pubs are Stella's Black Dog
Tavern, E.G. Nick's Restaurant and Bar, The
Post Local Bistro, Sean O'Callaghan's
Traditional Irish Public House, and 336
Main. The regular ticket is $25 and the des-
ignated driver ticket is $18. Participants
must be 21 years of age or older. The event
will begin at Stella's Black Dog Tavern, 860
FralickSt.
All proceeds from the crawl will go to the
rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of dogs
including veterinarian care, food, training
and other costs that help to prepare the res-
cued dogs for adoption. Tickets can be pur-
chased at www.waggintailsdogrescue.org, by
calling (248) 788-7050, or at the evening of
the event.
Waggin' Tails Dog Rescue is a registered
501©3 non-profit rescue group.
AlternativeChristmas Fair set
Purchase unique holiday gifts that make
a difference at the 14th Annual Alternative
Christmas Fair at Hope Lutheran Church,
located at 39200 West 12 Mile Road in
FarmingtonHills, 48331.
The fair will take place from10 a.m. until
3 p.m. Nov. 8. Admission is $1. More than 40
local and international charities will be sell-
ing holiday items to raise funds and aware-
ness for a variety of non-profit charities,
social service agencies, and international
trade organizations. All proceeds go direct-
ly to the charities. For more information
check out www.alternativechristmasfair.org.
The Lock Artist is topic
A discussion of The Lock Artist by
Michigan native Steve Hamilton is planned
from 7-8 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Romulus
CommunityLibrary.
Book discussions are free and open to
all, ages 18 and up. No need to register;
library staff can assist in loaning a copy of
the book.
The library is located at 11121 Wayne
Road, Romulus. For more information, call
(734) 942-7589.
Mary Poppins actors sought
Forever After Productions will host audi-
tions for Mary Poppins from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Nov. 9 and 10 at the Forever After
Rehearsal Studio at 50429 Independence St.
inCanton.
Interested actors must be between the
ages of 6 - 22 byNov. 11 to be cast in this pro-
duction. The production will be on stage at
The Village Theater at Cherry Hill March
26-31.
For more information and the audition
packet go to www.iheartforeverafter.com or
call (734) 547-5156.
Tree Lighting planned
This year, the Main Street Boulevard
Tree Lighting and Salvation Army Red
Kettle Kick Off ceremony sponsored by the
Plymouth Downtown Development
Authority will take place Nov. 14. This will
be the fifth year for the event, which draws
hundreds of people to downtown Plymouth
for the short ceremony inwhich the trees on
the boulevard are illuminated to kick-off the
holiday season, and the Plymouth Salvation
ArmyRedKettle drive.
The DDA also collects non-perishable
food for the Salvation Army pantry, which
will give out a small gift to the first 100 peo-
ple who come to the event. Many local mer-
chants donate DDA gift certificates, which
are used in drawings for those who donate
non-perishable food and toys to the
SalvationArmy.
For more information or to donate con-
tact Tony Bruscato, director, Plymouth
Downtown Development Authority, 831
Penniman, Plymouth, (734) 455-1453 or (734)
891-6485
Library sells used books
The Friends of the William P. Faust
Public Library of Westland, 6123 Central
City Parkway have planned the November
used book sale from10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Nov.
14 and 15 and fromnoonuntil 3 p.m. Nov. 16.
Sunday is also the bag sale when a medi-
um size bag of books will cost $4. Bags will
be for sale for $2. Hard cover books are
priced at $1 and hard cover fiction will be
priced at buy one, get one free. There will
be a large selection of books from
1800–1940s at this sale and a large selection
of children's books.
Formore information, call (734)326-6123.
American POPsical Saturday
The Michigan Philharmonic, a musi-
cally creative professional orchestra
based in Southeast Michigan, will pres-
ent American POPSsical at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 8 at The Village Theater at Cherry
Hill inCanton.
The concert is a hybrid, mixing both
pops and more classical works with an
American flare. Popular tunes of George
Gershwin and Cole Porter will mingle
with the new sounds of "Pork 'n Beans -
A DE-troit Counterpoint" by Detroit
composer and former DSO bass player
RickRobinson.
The concert also features Samuel
Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915
which recounts an idyllic Southern sum-
mer evening of long ago. Farmington
Hills native, soprano Audrey Kline will
show off both her classical and pops tal-
ents, drawing on her experience with
the Michigan Opera Theater and Main
Street Opera to Simply Gershwin at
GreenfieldVillage.
The concert will also feature a rarely-
performed classical work by Cole
Porter-his jazz ballet, Within the Quota,
the first ballet with an American theme,
set to music by an American composer.
Written in 1923 while the composer was
living in Paris, the ballet was released a
year before Gershwin's famous work,
Rhapsody inBlue.
For tickets and more information,
visit www.michiganphil.org or call (734)
451-2112.