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THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE
‘Who’s Who’ unveiling reception
The highly anticipated unveil- ing of “Who’s Who In Black Detroit, The Fourth Edition” will take place on Friday, March 26, 6 to 8:30 p.m., at the MGM Grand Detroit, 1777 Third St. The publication has become the foremost guide for spotlighting African-Ameri- can achievers in government, business, the arts and more. What has been described as “the networking event of the year” will include entertain- ment, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Monica Morgan (pictured), one of the nation’s leading photojournalists, is editor of “Who’s Who In Black Detroit.”
March 24-30, 2010
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DETROIT NATIVES George and Brenda Reeber proudly wear the earlier designs of their daughter Amy’s T-shirts.
Amy Reeber
Chicago-based proud Detroit native remains close to her Detroit roots
By Patrick Keating
CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER
Although she now lives in
Chicago, former Detroiter Amy Reeber continues to support her hometown through her entrepreneurial efforts. She makes and sells T-shirts that read “Proud Detroit Native.”
Reeber — who said she
didn’t leave Detroit, she just went to Chicago — got the idea a few years ago when she was back in town. She was enjoy- ing some of the events sur- rounding the Super Bowl, and a thought came to her that she was a proud Detroit native. It then occurred to her to put that phrase on a shirt.
“I just worked on a very,
very simple design for a while, and I eventually put a couple of hundred T-shirts in print,” she said.
Her shirts — that come in
long- and short-sleeve variet- ies — read “Proud D Native” on one line, and “Detroit” cen- tered below that (all in lower- case). The design supercedes an earlier one which had the “D” in the old English font. Reeber decided to change it to avoid infringing on the Detroit Tigers’ trademark.
“With or without the old
English D, I think the mes- sage of my design is clear,” she said.
She’s given some thought
to other possible designs, but has no real plan to create them.
“It’s a simple design,” she
admitted. “But I like it.” For the most part Reeber
has sold her shirts via word of mouth to friends and family. But last year at Christmas she had a few for sale in De- troit Artists Market on Wood- ward and Spectacles on Grand River.
“I’m pretty good friends with
the woman who owns Specta- cles,” Reeber said. “She’s on Grand River and Broadway. So, at Christmas time last year, a I put a few shirts in each of their shops and sold a few, but again, mostly I’ve been selling to friends and family.”
She added that, at the
moment, she doesn’t have a large supply of shirts. Howev- er, she’s thinking of doing an- other run of them in prepara- tion for Memorial Day and the unofficial start of summer.
Reeber said people have asked her why she doesn’t
make shirts promoting other cities, like “proud Chicago” or “proud Atlanta.”
“That’s somebody else’s
shirt,” she said. “I’m a Detroi- ter, and I just kind of like this message.”
Reeber also has no plans
to grow into a full line of mer- chandise, such as coffee mugs. She said she doesn’t want her T-shirts to be a product people can buy at the airport.
“It’s kind of my other little
gig right now,” she said. In her “day job” she’s a cor-
porate event planner for BCD Meetings and Incentives in Chicago.
While coffee mugs are out,
Reeber would make sweat- shirts. She said she’s received a lot of requests for them, par- ticularly from men.
She notes that it would
be fun to see people walking down the street wearing her shirt. She has seen friends or friends of friends wearing the shirts in photos on their Face- book pages.
Reeber can be contacted
(and T-shirts can be ordered) through her website, www.
prouddetroitnative.com.
appointment
The Detroit Water and Sew-
erage Department (DWSD) is opening its automated meter reading installation program in the final sections of the city to complete the department’s program of installing new meter technology in Detroit homes. Customers who do not schedule an appointment to have the equipment installed will be charged a $30 meter reading fee each time DWSD attempts to obtain an actual read of the non-compliant meter.
The Detroit Water Auto-
mated Meter Reading (AMR) program is a citywide DWSD
Customers urged to schedule for meter equipment
initiative to install new auto- mated meter reading technol- ogy in every Detroit residence that will eliminate estimated water bills. The meter instal- lation program began in 2007 and more than 120,000 homes have been upgraded with the new meter technology. There is no charge to DWSD custom- ers for this service upgrade.
DWSD customers will re-
ceive notices in the mail alert- ing them AMR technicians are working in their neighborhood and must schedule an instal- lation appointment through the Detroit Water AMR Call Center. A $30 meter reading fee will be charged to custom-
ers who do not schedule the AMR meter installation each time DWSD attempts to obtain an actual meter read from the non-compliant meter.
Appointments can be
scheduled by calling the De- troit Water AMR Call Center at (866) 217-2359 or (313) 372- 2100 between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For more information visit
www.detroitwateramr.com or
contact the Detroit Water AMR Call Center at 1(866) 217-2359 or (313) 372-2100.
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