Motor City Review - Public Affairs
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 Smooth Jazz V98.7 is committed to raising public awareness as well as providing vital information regarding issues of community concern. In an effort to identify the most significant community issues, we welcome your comments or if you have a topic that you would like for us to address please feel free to e-mail Sandy Kovach, Public Affairs Director, at kovach@wvmv.com .Motor City Review airs Sundays at 6am on Smooth Jazz V98.7 and is hosted by Sandy Kovach.
click here for Podcasts of Selected Interviews
Shows & Featured Guests & Topics
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7/5/09
Mark Lane
Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit
313-557-8774
www.goodwilldetroit.org
Jacqui Kuehn
Starfish Family Services
www.starfishonline.org
Michelle Andrews
National Heritage Acadamies
http://heritageacademies.com/
Jameile Hage
Wayne County Foreclosure Prevention Program
313-833-2948
www.fightmortgageforeclosure.com
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6/28/09
Nick Karmanos and Linda Wittstock Massaro
1-800-Karmanos
www.karmanos.org
Shannon Wygrant, Home Instead Senior Care
Operation Medicine Cabinet
866-922-1400
Doug Grimm
YMCA
www.ymcadetroit.org
Caree Eason
Oakland County National Action Network
313-304-8838
www.nationalactionnetwork.net
6/21/09
Alice Carelton, Verbal Abuse Author
wacalice@aol.com
Rev. Fairh Fowler
Cass Community Services
www.casscommunity.org
Dr. Larry Abramson
Michigan Osteopathic Association
www.michiganDO.com
6/13/09
Stacey Golen, Beaumont Hospital, Smoking Cessation
www.beaumonthospitals.com
Melissa Thrasher, Rene&Latonya Hall
American Heart Association, Better U
www.goredforwomen.org
6/6/09
Shaa-Ista Wilcox, Coordinator for Community Services at Karmanos Cancer Institute
1-800-KARMANOS
www.karmanos.org
Heidi and David Blatt
Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation
www.michiganjewishsports.org
Emile Rohrbach
Volunteers of America
www.voami.org
5.31/09
Dr. Michael Lutz, uruologist from the Michigan Institute of Urology
http://www.miurunfortheribbon.org/
Gerald Brisson of Gleaners Food Bank
http://www.gcfb.org/
Mary Freeman, Project Administrator at Oakland County Services Collabrative
248-253-1617 for Literacy Program
Jon Gordon, author of "Training Camp: What the Best do Better Than Anyone Else
www.jongordon.com
5/24/09
Elaine Greenburg of Living for Music
www.livingformusic.com
248-661-4999
Lt. Col. Mindi Herman and Roger Burdgoff of the American Legion, Berkley Post
Berkley American Legion Memorial ride
email for info
amlegionpost374@yahoo.com
Dr. Sharon Ostalecki and Dr. Martin Tamler, co-authors of the book "100 Questions and Answers About Fibromyalgia"
www.hffcf.org
5/17/09
Dan Piepszowski, the Senior Director for the program Leadership Detroit
Detroit Regional Chamber
www.detroitchamber.com
Michelle Arquette Palermo, Clinton River Watershed Council
www.crwc.org
Mortgage Banker Anthony Weekly
Fifth Third Bank
Melanie Domrase, advocate for the American Heart Association on Stroke
www.americanheart.org
5/10/09
Katrina Carmichael of Sada's House (Sisters Against Domestic Violence)
www.sadashouse.org
Rob Donofrio , NSF
Swine Flu Prevention
www.nsf.org
Rev. Jessica Totty of Faith Christian Community Church /"Senior Citizen Expo"
810-985-5555
Tami Salsbury of the 8 MIle Boulevard Association
www.eightmile.org
5/3/09
Barbara Spreitzer-Berent and Darlene Twyman
of the Arthritis Foudation, Michigan Chapter
www.arthritis.org
Toya Russell of Matrix Human Services
www.matrixhumanservices.org
4/26/09
Benny Napolean and Irva Faber Bermudez
Detroit Central City
www.dcccmh.org
Linda Petty
Strolling the Strip
Roger Swaniger
Spectrum Human Services
www.spectrumhuman.org
4/19/09
Capt. Andre Bellamy
High School Drop out Prevention/boost
www.boostup.org
Shelly Norman Hill
Youth Development Commission
www.ydcdetroit.org
Peggy Burkhardt
Gift of LIfe Michigan
www.giftoflifemichigan.org
4/12/09
Jean Golchuk,
Movers for Moms
734-722-6683
Grant Cardone, Author, "Sell to Survive"
Meghan O'Neill
www.treehugger.com
Murray Feldman
Fox 2 News
4/5/09
Cathy Rovw, Bowlathon CCFA
Rosalinda Hunt
Share a Smile
www,shareasmile.org
John Maxwell, Author, "Put Your Dreams to the Test"
3/29/09
Melissa Thrasher, Lynn Henderson
American Heart Association
248-936-5825
www.heart.org/start
Apostle Robert Hill
Christian Love Fellowship Ministries
734-994-3243
Dr. James Looram
"Your Essential Self"
looram@looram.com
3/22/09
Bill Patrosey, Joe Kish and Chuck Baer
Shriners/Detroit Shrine Circus
248-569-2900
www.shrinecircus.com
Amanda Allen
Motor City Book Drive/Building Treasures
313-728-4631
www.buildingtreasures.org
Ife Johnson
Project Healthy Living
313-531-0900
www.projecthealthyliving.net
3/15/09
Don and Keko Davis
Don Davis Tribute/Lawrence P. Doss Scholarship Fund
Contact Lisa Wilmore, 313-980-4766
Teresa Rodges, POH Reilly Foundation
Dr. Lewis Jones, Ingham Medical Center
www.pohregional.org
3/8/09
Dennis Sampier, Director of Community Relations, Detroit Pistons
Pistons Care Telethon
www.pistons.com
Sandy Boulton, Sheryy Duquet
Solstice Designs/Project Mother's Day
www.solsticed.etsy.com
Megan Holt, American Cancer Society
Andrea Layman, Karmanos Cancer Institute
www.karmanos.org
3/1/09
Elana Sullivan
MS Society
www.nationalmssociety.org
Dr. Guy Stern, Dr. Stephen Grant
Holocaust Memorial Center
www.holocaustcenter.org
Safe Delivery Act
Cheryl Davison, advocate for State of Michigan
Dee Parsons, Catholic Social Services of Oakland County
Hotline:866-733-7733
2/22/09
Dale Johnson
Salvation Army Bed and Bread Club
www.salvationarmy.org
Melissa Thrasher
American Heart Association
248-936-5825
www.goredforwomen.org
2/15/09
Kathy Schiffer
248-391-4445
Scripps Mansion/Guest House
www.guesthouse.org
Rick Couvalt, Kathy Glynn, Dr. Pandu Rao, Jerry Lintz
PKD Foundation, Detroit Chapter
1-800-PKD-CURE
www.pkd.org
2/8/09
Margo Gorchow, Executive Director
Botsford Foundation
248-442-5065
www.botsford.org
Dr. Donald Burwell, Lee Harrison, Jeanne Baldwin
Kids Against Hunger
www.kidsagainsthungermi.org
Larry Buaranski, Director of Public Programs
Detroit Institute of Arts
313-833-4005
www.dia.org
2/01/09
Wayne County Clerk, Cathy M. Garrett
Mass Wedding Ceremony info at 313-224-5515
Gail Perry Mason
Co-Author: "Girl, Make Your Money Grow" and Financial Advisor at Oppenheimer
313-886-1200
emai; gpmason2000@aol.com
Dr. Pamela Marcovitz
Ministrelli Women's Heart Center/Beaumont Hospital
248-898-4760
www.beaumonthospitals.com
1/25/08
Katherin Morgan, Oakland County Task Force on Homelessness and Affordable Housing.
248-969-0840
Alex Broderick , President/CEO Volunteers of America Michigan
248-484-5353
www.voami.com
Bridget Dean and Joan Sheridan
Knit Michigan, raising money for cancer research
www.knitmichigan.com
1/18/09
N. Charles Anderson, President/CEO of the Detroit Urban League
www.detroiturbanleague.org
313-832-4600
Trudy Gallant-Stokes and Gwen Malone Rhodes
The LInks, Incorporated, Oakland Co. Chapter
248-434-7797
www.oaklandcountylinks.org
1/11/09
Alison Nix, American Lung Association of Michigan
1-800-LUNG USA
www.lungusa.org
Dr. Susan Roberts, PhD
Tufts University Nutritionist
Author: "The Instinct Diet"
Francis Heimes-Savickis
Social Security Administration
1-800-772-1213
www.socialsecurity.gov
1/4/09
Lynn Wilhelm, Chief Development Officer
COTS, Coalition on Temporary Shelter
www.cotsdetroit.org
313-831-3777
Toya Russell, Director of Marketing and Community Relations
Matrix Human Services
Barat Child & Family Services/Charity Preview
www.matrixhumanservices.org
313-831-1000
Pat Rosen/Chuck Ludwig
Care House of Oakland County
www.carehouse.org
313-333-0999
12/28/08
State Farm Agent Eric Huffman: 'Warm Hands & Heads from the Heart Drive'
www.wvmv.com/-Warm--Hands---Hearts-from-the-Heart-Drive-/3483777
Emile Rohrbach. Adopt a Family
Volunteers of America
248-945-0101
www.voami.org
Karen Wintringham, VP Medicare Programs
HAP
800-449-1515
www.hap.org/medicare
Kerry Weems, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
1-800-Medicare
www.medicare.gov
12/14/08
Melissa Golpe, Antonio Larkin, Tempest Walker
Covenent House- Michigan
313-463-2000
www.covenanthouse.org
Kelly Major Green
United Way, Southeastern Michigan
211
www.liveunitedSEM.org
12/7/08
Kurt Sebaly, Executive Director and Patricia Obrzut, Asst. DIrector
Penrickton Center for Blind Children
734-946-7500
www.penrickton.com
Dr. Barry Franklin, PhD
Author, "Take a Load off Your Heart"
www.beaumont.edu
11/30/08
Richard Lowenstein, CEO
JARC
248-538-6610
www.jarc.org
Murray Thom, Producer "The Together Collection"
Clark Durant, Founder of Cornerstone Schools
800-343-0951
www.CornerstoneSchools.org
11/23/08
Bernie Riker, President-Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
Randi Glanz, Michael Yendik Foundation for Children
www.ccfa.org
248-737-0900
Dr. John C. Ruckdeschel, President/CEO
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
1-800-Karmanos
Camilla Rucker, Founder
RSVIP Agency
734-772-3112
www.rsvipagency.org
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233
Mark Lee, President -- Lee Group
734-507-0866
Jack Riley, Sr. VP/Marketing Director--Fifth Third Bank
FOCUS DETROIT
www.thenewmotorcity.com
Dr. Kathy Deihl
Asst. Professor of Surgery
U of M Hospital
www.umich.eduwww.yuhelp.com
Charles D. Small, President/CEO
Don Bosco Hall
313-869-2200
www.donboscohall.org
11/2/08
Dr. Manak Sood, Cardiac Surgeon
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
1-800-231-2211
www.mhvi.org
Dr. Alan Koffron, Director Multi-organ Transplant Program
Beaumont Hospital
866-239-8615
www.beaumonthospitals.org
10/26/08
Alecia Harris
Walking With Faith
www.walkingwithfaith.org
Susanne Door, Christine Wagner
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
Cord Blood Donation
313-576-8986
www.karmanos.org
10/19/08
Elaine Greene
Dearborn Animal Shelter
www.dearborn-animals.com
Frederick Feliciano
President
Hispanic Business Alliance
313-962-6HBA
www.hbaweb.org
10/12/08
Dr. Richard Walton
Mount Clemens Regional Medial Center
Comprehensive Breast Health Center
586-412-5150
www.mcrmc.org
Tracey Sanders
Director of Business Development
Ababyomi Community Development Corporation
Abayomi Community Development
313-541-9828
www.abayomicdc.org/
10/5/08
Dr. Tressa Gardner, Director of Emergency/Trama Center
Teresa Rodges, Executive Director of Marketing
POH Regional Medical Center/Riley Foundation
248-338-5385
www.pohmedical.org
Tom Martin
Community Care Services
313-389-7525
www.comcareserv.org
9/28/08
Pat Rosen, Executive Director
Care House of Oakland County
248-333-0999
www.carehouse.org
Michael Grundy, Executive Director
Wayne County Health Choice
1-800-WELL-NOW
www.waynecountyhealthchoice.org
9/21/08
Peggy Shriver, Executive Director
Jim Adams, Campaign Manager
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
800-456-5413
www.lls.org
Elree Watkins, Maureen Meldrum
Karmanos Cancer Institute
800-KARMANOS
www.karmanos.org
w/ Susan Zinger- Michigan Design Center, Ken Peterson-Wellington Chase Homes
9/14/08
Jamail and Nicole Aikens
City Mission
313-5410-3531
www.city-mission.org
Antoine Jackson
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit
248-564-0600
www.bbbsdetroit.org
9/7/08
Elana Sullivan
Davinci Awards/MS Society
www.nationalmssociety.org/mig
Kathy Glen, Keith Reynolds, RIck Covault
PKD Foundation/Detroit Chapter
www.pkdcure.org
1-800-PKD-CURE
8/31/08
Dennis Tolbert, President
Michigan Neighborhood Partnership
313-361-4530
www.mnpartnership.org
Ernestine Sanders, President
Cornerstone Schools
313-892-1860
www.cornerstoneschools.org
Bassie Shemtov, Lifetown Director
Friendship Circle
24788-7878
www.friendshipcircle.org
8/24/08
Doug Fox, President of the Detroit Automobile Dealers Association
Miriam Noland, President of the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan
1-888-WE-ENDOW
www.cfsem.org
Robin Lott, Executive Director of Michigan Education Trust
1-800 -MET-4-KID
www.SETwithMET.com
www.misaves.com
www.michigan.gov/promise
8/17/08
Peggy Meador, Autism Society of America/Oakland County
248-393-3131
www.asaoakland.org
Dr. Clarence Nixon
Mt. Olive Community Development
313-871-5854
8/10/08
N. Charles Anderson, President
Detroit Urban League
www.detroiturbanleague.org
313-832-4600
Dr. Ted Schrieber, Cardiologist
DMC/Cardio Team One
www.dmc.org
888-DMC-2500
8/3/08
Mike Gilliam, CEO, Deborah Wintum
Quality Home Health Care
866-270-2558
www.qualityhomehealthcare.net
Ron Kagan, Executive Director
Detroit Zoological Society
www.dzsvotereducation.org
Roberta Sanders, CEO
New Center Community Mental Health Services
313-961-3700
www.newcentercmhs.org
Erin Streeter
Department of Homeland Security
1-800-BE READY
www.ready.gov
7/20/08
Tom McGannon, Director of Special Events
Beaumont Foundation
248-551-5330
www.beaumonthospitals.com
Oliver Ragsdale, Presidnet Arts League of MIchigan
Elena Ivanova, Curator of Education Cranbrook Art Museum
313-870-1680 (Arts League)
www.artsleague.com
1-877-GoCranbrook
www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/
7/13/08
Shelly Bania, Fetal Alcohal Sprectrum Disorder Prevention Specialist/Program Coodinator
Community Assessment Referral and Education, Macomb County
586-541-0033
www.careofmacomb.com
Pamela Kelly Ford, Director of Admissions
Dr. Glenda Price, Board Member
Detroit Cristo Rey High School
313-919-3949
www.detroitcristorey.org
7/6/08
Dottie Deremo, President & CEO
Hospice of Michigan
313-578-9000
www.hom.org
Gail Perry-Mason
Financial Expert/Author
800-544-9978
gail.perry-mason@opco.com
6/29/08
Dara Munson, President & CEO
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Detroit
www.bbbsdetroit.org
313-309-1600
A. J. Funchess. Assistant DIrector for Marketing
Detroit Public Library
www.detroitpubliclibrary.org
313-833-1000
6/22/08
Mary Riegle, Director-Special Events
American Diabetes Association
888-342-2383
www.diabetes.org
Anne Readett, Communications Manager
Office of Highway Safety Planning
517-336-6477
www.michigan.gov/ohsp
6/15/08
Roland Warren, President
National Fatherhood Initiative
301-948-0599
www.fatherhood.org
Lynn Wilhelm, Chief Development Officer
COTS (Coalition on Temporary Shelter)
313-831-3777
www.cotsdetroit.org
6/8/08
Diane Ward, CEO
American Red Cross/Southeastern Michigan Blood Services Region
1-800-GIVE LIFE
www.givelife.org
Bob Gregory
Detroit 300 Conservency
Campus Martius Park
313-962-0101
www.campusmartiuspark.org
6/1/08
Tracy Lark
Hospice of MIchigan
"A Fine Farewell Film Contest"
www.hom.org
Bill Walsh
David Atkinson
MCOIT: Mental Health Substance Abuse Outreach Intensive Program
313-389-7525
www.comcareserve.org
5/25/08
Herb Strather
Terry Covington
Kathy Emerich
Detroit Central City
www.strather.com
www.dcccmh.org
Locks of Love
Officer Nikki/Troy Police
www.locksoflove.org
5/18/08
Janet Lawson, Director Ford Volunteer Corp.
www.ford.com
Peggy Shriver, Exec Director
Christine Gerisi, Patient Services Manager
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Michigan Chapter
248-582-2900
www.lls.org
5/11/08
Captian Monty Wandling
Salvation Army
www.salmich.org
Frances Heimes-Savickis
Social Security Administration
1-800-772-1213
www.socialsecurity.gov
5/4/08
STEPS Program (Strong Teens Excelling in Prevention Services)
Gerald Wade, Prevention Consulanat
313-224-1181
National Kidney Foundation of Michigan
Marcie Gerlach, Communications Manager
www.nkfm.org
4/27/08
Irva Faber Bermudez, CEO
Donna Tatum, Poet and Volunteer
Detroit Central City
www.dcccmh.org
MS Society
Smooth Walkers
click above link to join or donate to our team!
Ann Kalass
Starfish Family Services
734-728-3400
www.starfishonline.org
Sander Devries
www.stopjunkmailkit.com
4/13/08
Bernie Riker
Peter Neilson
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, Michigan Chapter
888-737-0900
www.cctakesteps.org
Peggy Burkhard
Donate Life Coalition of MIchigan
248-770-5172
www.donatelifemichigan.org
4/6/08
Arab Detroit
Warren David
www.arabdetroit.com
Michigan Parkinson Foundation
Debby Orloff, Executive Director
Carol Kramarich
800-852-9781
www.parkinsonsmi.org
3/30/08
Coalition on Temporary Shelter/Domestic Violence Program
Cheryl Johnson, CEO
313-831-3777
www.cotsdetroit.org
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
(RFBD)
Carla Reeb, Executive Director
800-221-4792
www.rfbd.org/michigan_unit.htm
3/23/08
Care House of Oakland County
Charles Ludwig
Cindy Bridgeman
www.carehouse.org
Oakland County Bar Foundation
Lisa Stadig Elliot
Fran Anderson
www.ocba.org/barfoundation
(248) 334-3400
3/16/08
Toya Russell, Robin Brumlow
Matrix Human Services/Barat Child and Family Services
313-833-1525
www.matrixhumanservices.org
Randy McNeil, President of the Youth Development Commission
313-963-8916
www.ydcdetroit.org
3/09/08
Sharmen Davenport, PhD, Executive Director
Lighthouse Path
248-920-6060
www.lighthouseoakland.org
Dr. Robert Beilski
Institute for Health Studies
1-877-908-CARE
www.instituteforhealthstudies.com
Ishmael Ahmed
Mighigan Department of Human Services
Poverty Initiative
www.michigan.gov
03/02/08
Scripps Mansion/Guest House
www.guesthouse.org
National MS Society, Michigan Chapter
www.nationalmssociety.org/mig
2/24/08
PKD
1-800-PKD-CURE
www.pkd.org
Michigan Department of Human Services
www.michigan.gov/childsupport
2/17/08
Jewish Community Center
Camp KAT
248 432-5460
www.jccdet.org
Foundation For Exceptional Children
Debbie Moffat - Program Director
313 885-8660
www.hccsnet.org
Internal Revenue Service IRS
Luis Garcia
www.irs.gov
www.karmanos.org
11/16/08
734-764-2220
11/9/08
Jason Wilson, President
Shannon Gaston, VP
The Yuinon
313-341-4940
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