West Bloomfield Library Wins National Award

West Bloomfield Library wins award

The West Bloomfield Township Public Library has been named one of 10 recipients of the 2010 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation’s highest honor for museums and libraries. The annual award, made by the Institute of Museum and Library Services since 1994, recognizes institutions (5 libraries and 5 museums) for outstanding social, [...]

Learning Real Life Skills

Life Skills

2,500 students visit Friendship Circle’s Weinberg Village annually to learn life skills. Complete with a mock village students are responsible to complete tasks that include street safety, time management, money management and a number of other skills. To learn more visit www.friendshipcircle.org You mean we can really get our nails done at the Beauty Salon? [...]

More Life To LifeTown With Two Beautiful Murals

The shadow-figures on the wall are playing various sports, setting the mood for entrance into our brand new gym space.

Friendship Circle’s LifeTown walls received a dash of color and life this summer from Artist Jennifer Maiseloff. The Friendship Circle commissioned Jennifer to create two murals inside of our Ferber Kaufman LifeTown facility. The first mural can be found in the hallway entrance of the new Florene Elkus & Edward Elkus Memorial Gym. The shadow-figures on the wall are [...]

Why I signed up as a PowerWalker

Mother and Daughter participate in Friendship Circle's annual Walk4Friendship.

Our family has been looking to participate in some form of selfless giving for quite some time.  Over the last 5 years, we’ve lived in Atlanta, GA, Stamford, CT and now West Bloomfield MI. As a result, we have not been able to settle into a community long enough to find that special place to [...]