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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Schools, Nonprofits Rally Around Family of Slain Local Man

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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