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WCR’s December Auction a Huge Success!

Patty Purington, President of the Women’s Council of Realtors in Livingston County, sent out a boatload of thanks to all the Realtors, staff and Oak Pointe Country Club for their incredibly successful Annual Auction held on December 15th in Brighton. The proceeds resulted in a $4,000 contribution to The Connection Youth Services!

This worthy organization, located in Howell, helps teens and their families in crisis with a 24-hour emergency assistance and referral service, plus education help, employment, counseling and support. The Connection provides safe housing and shelter for teens 12-17 years old. They also assist homeless 16-21 year olds with finding host homes or affordable apartments.

Since they’re a non-profit United Way agency, most of their funds come from state and federal grants. Teens this year will certainly have a better Christmas, due to WCR’s generosity!

RE/MAX Platinum’s Janene Spencer-Zweng represented our company, along with other WCR members participating—Carole Bullion, Kim...

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RE/MAX Platinum Cheers Up the Holidays
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Realtors and staff at the RE/MAX Platinum offices in Ann Arbor and Brighton have been working for a few months on their holiday community service projects.

In Brighton, at 6870 Grand River Ave, the toy pile is mounting to benefit the Marine Corps' Toys for Tots annual campaign. Realtor Bruce Powelson is in charge of this project and will deliver the toys collected to the local Toys for Tots distribution center.

Please bring a new, unwrapped toy to add to the box in Brighton! If your children are grown, honor the memory of their excitement on Christmas morning by donating a new toy – perhaps one of their favorites... or if they're still young, take your child to the store and let them choose an item to donate. And remember, the toys should be non-weapon related. Any food attached to them including candy is also discouraged.

In Ann Arbor, at 325 W. Eisenhower Parkway, plans are in place for the “Adopt A Family” program. Two needy community families – a single mother of two children and a senior citizen – will receive a holiday meal, gifts to put under the Christmas tree, clothing and...

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Annual RE/MAX Holiday Auction a Huge Success

Thanks to Realtors Nancy Hubbell and Marcia Geise, the Annual Holiday Auction was a smashing success. This year RE/MAX Realtors raised $1,531! They donated $200 to Gleaners Community Food Bank, which was doubled through their “matching” program.

The auction took place in the Brighton office auditorium on the week before Thanksgiving – an annual event. Dominic Vagnetti from Inspections on Demand brought in a continental breakfast on the morning of the auction for attendees to enjoy. Thanks to Dom, everyone was “spiced” up for the auction due to those delicious Pumpkin Rolls!

Several Realtors and agents made lasagna, bread pudding, specialty cakes while others donated paintings, fragrances and candles, clothing items, gym and trainer memberships, jewelry, statuary and plants. Hand-made items included wreaths (one with pheasant feathers from Joe DeKroub's hunting expeditions!), Japanese rice paper-wrapped real egg ornaments and boxes (made and donated by an agent who lived in Japan), and origami Chinese "good luck cranes" (made and donated by an Ann Arbor agent from China...

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Historic Opera House - 130th Anniversary
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Love history? Love music? Here’s your chance to take part in a historic event on 11-11-11, which is not just a string of numbers. Come to Howell and celebrate!

At 7 p.m. on November 11th,, 2011, in honor of its 130th Anniversary, the Howell Opera House will host five nationally recognized acoustic performers on their stage. The three-story building was designed by the prolific Detroit architect Almon C. Varney, who also helped design lumber baron George W. Loomer’s house in Detroit. The Howell Opera House was built in 1881 for $11,000, with the first floor housing space for retail shops and the theater and balconies on the floors above.

With 800 seats, the Opera House served the community by offering plays from Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, speeches by notables like William Jennings Bryan and Henry Ford, live shows with jugglers and other acts, dinner theater productions and parties. Local high school graduation ceremonies took place at the Opera House, which even became a temporary home for the Livingston County Circuit Court in 1889.

The theater...

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Brighton Celebrates Halloween
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Get ready for the holidays this coming weekend in downtown Brighton! Start with a spook-a-licious Cemetery Tour sponsored by the Brighton Area Historical Society. Registration is required, and the cost is a reasonable $5 for the tour.

This deliciously frightful tour begins 9 p.m. Saturday, October 29th. A guide dressed in costume will walk you through the Old Village Cemetery—in the dark, of course—near the Millpond gazebo. Gruesome? You bet – come and learn how several early Brighton settlers met their deaths. Watch out for ghosts!

Too far to walk around the neighborhood? Live in the country with no suburbs? Join the fun on Halloween night, October 31st, from 6 until 9 p.m. at the Brighton Area Fire Department Station 31 – this is an annual event at 615 West Grand River Avenue.

Bring the kids and the pets in their costumes for pizza, cider and donuts, candy and plenty of fun games. The contest judging will begin at 8 p.m...

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