News & Updates
Free Detroit Water Ice to Celebrate Franklin Cider Mill Pop Up
Mark your calendars for Thursday, May 25th – Detroit Water Ice Factory is opening a summer-long pop-up at the Franklin Cider Mill and scooping up free water ice for the entire day beginning at 2pm. Here’s what you need to know about the new pop up location: Season: May 25 – August 20 Hours of […]
Spreading Rocks – And Fellowship – At The Detroit Zoo
Royal Oak — As scores of patrons waited in line Saturday (May 20) to visit the Polk Penguin Conservation Center, more than two dozen A Time to Help Volunteers made their way behind the building to face the project that awaited them at the Detroit Zoo: Spreading thousands of pounds of landscaping rocks. How’s that […]
Making Education Accessible with Enroll Detroit
Once a parent in search of education for her children and now an advocate for others, Bernita Bradley is making education more accessible through Enroll Detroit in the #heartofDetroit. Air Date: May 18, 2017
DMC Update 3 from St. Anthony’s: Skilled Tradespeople Come Together
DETROIT/MAY 12 – Only when the church bells rang out at noon did the Detroit Muscle Crew II team of volunteers take a break. The crew spent the day on Friday volunteering their labor at the Cathedral of St. Anthony on Detroit’s east side replacing and installing more than a dozen glass block windows around […]
Miles for Smiles in Heart of Detroit
What started as assignment has turned into a passion, Rodd Monts and Larry Gardner are capturing the essence of the human spirit right here in the heart of Detroit. Air Date: May 11, 2017
Dollar General Literacy Foundation Awards S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center
S.A.Y. Detroit is thrilled to share Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded $50,000 to the S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center at Lipke Park, the largest of 23 grants totaling $181,000 statewide. Twenty-two other Michigan schools, non-profits, and literacy organizations also received grants, aimed at supporting adult, family and summer literacy programs within a 20-mile radius of a Dollar […]
Bloomfield Hills Junior Takes 3rd in State Promoting DWIF
When Tori Weingarten decided to research the Detroit Water Ice Factory last fall, she did so with one idea in mind: She wanted to find a unique product that would stand out among the rest. As it turned out, the DWIF was a winner for Weingarten this year. The Bloomfield Hills High junior routinely placed […]
Tent raising a success at Franklin Cider Mill
On short notice on Monday, volunteers from the Detroit Muscle Crew II and the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries gathered to erect a tent that will be used this summer for S.A.Y. Detroit’s satellite location of the Detroit Water Ice Factory. Special thanks go to Scott Albaugh of Albaugh Masonry, who sent three of his summer employees […]
DMC Update 2 from St. Anthony’s: Installation Days Set, Help Needed
Two windows down, 16 to go! That’s the report from Mike Stephanoff, who’s leading our Muscle Crew II’s first project at the Cathedral of St. Anthony, 5247 Sheridan St., Detroit. On Saturday, April 29, Mike and two colleagues — Ron LaBarge and Joe Ferrara — were successful in their test run: They replaced two basement […]
Mobile Mammography Center Visits S.A.Y. Detroit Family Health Clinic
A packed waiting room greeted Dr. Keyshia Covington and the S.A.Y. Detroit Family Health Clinic staff on Thursday morning. The main reason was right outside the door: It was the day that The Anthony L. Soave Family Mobile Mammography and Health Screening Center was at the clinic to ensure that all women have easy access to […]