Thursday, April 11, 2013
Held Friday at Shenandoah Country Club, the event honors Detroit Independent Grocers founder John Loussia and Catholic Bishop Bashar Warda.
The Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce will honor Detroit Independent Grocers (DIG) founder John Loussia and Catholic Bishop Bashar Warda Friday during the organization's 10th annual Awards Dinner, held at Shenandoah Country Club, 5600 Walnut Lake Road, in West Bloomfield. Gov. Rick Snyder will be the event's keynote speaker, according to an event press release. Other local and federal elected officials are expected to attend. Loussia, who owns Value Wholesale, was selected as Business Person of the Year for serving as the driving force behind uniting grocers in the city toward a common cause of providing fresh, healthy food options for Detroit residents. He is a Bloomfield Township resident. Honored as Humanitarian of the Year, Warda …
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Family of Samir Mikha Hannawa, 49, a West Bloomfield father of seven, benefits from emergency relief fund.
Seven children in West Bloomfield who are without their father after his murder in Detroit are receiving a moral and financial boost, thanks in part to their classmates. The local nonprofit organization Chaldean American Ladies of Charity (CALC) are collaborating with the Walled Lake Consolidated School District and the nonprofit Chaldean Community Foundation on an emergency relief fund to help after Samir Hannawa, 49, was gunned down while working Nov. 7. The case is yet unsolved, while Hannawa leaves behind a wife and seven children, ages 2-to-18 — five of which are in the Walled Lake Consolidated School District. Victoria Hannawa, 12, is a seventh-grader at Walnut Creek Middle School, where students paid a minimum of $2 to listen to …
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Monday, November 26, 2012
First Chaldean-American elected to state legislature, Klint Kesto, rallies support in West Bloomfield.
Personally walking door-to-door introducing yourself might seem like tedious work for a candidate running for office, but for elected State Representative Klint Kesto (R-39th District) it marked a path to history. When Kesto announced victory Nov. 6 in the hotly-contested race for an open seat over Democrat Pam Jackson, at Shenandoah Country Club in West Bloomfield, he said it wasn't about him as much as the community which made him the first Chaldean-American elected to the position of House representative in Michigan. There are more than 120,000 Chaldeans in Michigan (a colloquial term referring to Iraqi Christians, of whose ancestry dates to Historical Babylon) and growing in a time when many are leaving the state, said Chaldean-…
