Dearborn Nonprofit Groups Key Part of Homecoming
Dearborn-based nonprofit groups can boost their fundraising efforts by participating in the 2011 Dearborn Homecoming festival, which attracts about 150,000 people each year.
City officials say a limited number of food booths still remain in the festival’s Food Court.
It is a rare fundraising opportunity for groups new to Homecoming, and it is being offered by the City of Dearborn and the Dearborn Community Fund.
The 2011 festival is Aug. 5-7 at Dearborn’s Ford Field Park.
Dearborn’s Homecoming is known for its spectacular fireworks, main stage entertainment and regional performers, arts and craft show, carnival and festival food, which is sold by Dearborn charities and service clubs.
Booths in the popular Food Court are only rented to Dearborn nonprofit groups. They start at $350 for the weekend. Menus are subject to approval.
For more information, call the Department of Public Information at 313-943-2285 by June 1 to reserve your booth.
May 11th, 2011 at 11:08 am
Homecoming should be the first cut made. This rain soaked beer bash has degenerated into overpriced carnival barkers trying to electioneer their way into some elected office.
May 11th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Homecoming is overrated, and should be a thing of the past. If u want to save real money, start here.
May 11th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Reality – You are correct!!!! These summer-teeth (sum r in, sum r out, sum r on the table!) carnies & the non-Drbn. corndog-winnies, leave the place trashed, break all the rules, and party-hardy to some washed-up Rock Star from the early 70’s, that can’t get a real gig anymore! Money should be better spent. Complete waste. OT up the wazzu for all City workers! Mayor – – You want to cut? Cut this 1st – then we can talk. Save Our Small Pools!! Nuff said.
May 11th, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Overtime for police, fire and city workers. Cut this taxpayer burden OUT.
May 11th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
This is one the reasons the city is 20 million in the hole.The mayor thinks homecoming & arab fest are more important than our city libraries & other city owned property DISC, GOLF COURSE, SWIMMING POOLS show some real leadership Mr. mayor CANCEL these types of events until the city can afford them again.You want some cost saving ideas…have the fire dept go on 4 /10 hr shifts or three 8hr shifts, I’m told this type of scheduling is working in the DPW? Cut down on the firehouse buildings overhead costs…FOOD, BEDDING, HEAT, AIR CONDITION WORKOUT AREAS, let these poor guys go home after their shift. Works for me. Hey times are changing,its time for “everyone” to get on board with these changes!
May 12th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
O’Reilly always talks to his employees about think out of the box, why don’t u try doing the same thing. Maybe its because u have O’Conner and Norwood do ur brainstorming for u, grow a paiir and come up with some innovative ways of saving our City money. Start with the Homecoming and then look into selling our Fla. property,we can no longer afford this, and keep r kids off the streets, by keeping some of the pools open, unless they aren’t cost effective, but r kids deserve something to make them proud of Dearborn, and make them wanat to stay here when they grow up.
May 12th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
FYI – Festivals are partially staffed with reserved police officers who work on a volunteer basis. Not as much OT as you would think.
But I agree – sacrifice the festivals and save our unique community privileges!
May 12th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
First off the boondoggle at Ten Eyck Park is the perfect example of why are city is so poorly run. First off no one in the Snow Woods Park Association was consulted about this project. The people in our neighborhood never asked for a new basketball court, because the old ones were simply a gathering point for non resident youths to loiter and cause neighborhood disturbances. The police were called and responded to calls almost daily at the old courts. Secondly the workers at that job site have been working for almost two weeks and the majority of day the bulldozer is parked next to the front end loader and the DPS workers are sitting in the grass or standing around doing nothing. Today at Ten Eyck park there 6 city trucks parked, three tractors on trailers, and 10 city workers standing around or parked in idling air conditioned trucks for over 2 hrs. The good news is there was an industrious citizen filming the whole scene. One city employee had his feet hanging outside the cab window while the air conditioner was on dripping condensation into the street. Gas is four dollars a gallon and these guys are running the air in an idled truck with the window down for an hour, ain’t that rich. That however was not as obscene as the guy in the fluorescent green shirt sleeping in the grass, or the laborer that could not respool his weed whipper with string. This is how O’Reilly manages our money over 1.5 million dollars in idled trucks, tractors,earth moving, and excavating equipment idling for hours on end while the workers just stand around. I just hope the individual filming this gets the shots of the DPS workers playing fetch with the white dog. Thanks Jack for thinking out of the box and running a tight ship.
May 13th, 2011 at 2:05 pm
It’s my understanding that the project at Ten Eyck is covered under a grant issued to the city. But I’m sure our city financial department isnt billing the grant propertly to cover the cost for the wages of the employees working on the project. And to see all the trucks and workers there on Saturdays working on Overtime wages. The money could be better spent on keep the POOL at Ten Eyck open then paying for the upgrades.
May 14th, 2011 at 10:11 am
This is for “Wow says”: As a member of the DPS (though not on the crew working at Ten Eyck), I can tell you no one on that city crew was working on
Saturday. Our overtime was eliminated about a year ago-with the exception of weather emergencies. The average DPS employee has lost at least $4,000/yr. of overtime wages. That may hearten Dearborn’s citizens, and as a Dearborn resident, I empathize. but it’s a pinch for the average worker who doesn’t make country club wages.
May 14th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Well Dearborn residence be prepaired eventually you won’t need to worry about the dpw workers working overtime or wasting your tax dollars. Our City fathers will be spending your tax dollars to out source all those jobs. Forget the fact that about 75% or more of the City workers live in Dearborn and are tax payers too! Those out source jobs will not be bringing money to the City instead many of our workers will be loosing their jobs and also loosing their homes and then we won’t have the tax money we need to survive. The City has bought two new street sweepers and they now have a bid to out source street sweeping. And to you “Reality Bites” Everyone who works in this country gets a lunch break and regular break and driving back to the yard for those breaks is probably not profitable and I am sure two hours is over estimating. Like to hear what you have to says when those jobs are outsourced. Remember when trash first got outsourced and alot of you were unhappy then and are still unhappy about the trash. Citizens of Dearborn wake up!
May 15th, 2011 at 10:18 am
Rob, that’s what’s wrong with the economic picture. You and so many view the overtime as lost income when in realality it was only supposed to be “icing on the cake”! Spend within your budget and what you are guarenteed. Overtime money sure helps out but it’s not supposed to create a life style! You and so people including the Polititions seem to like to spend money with no guarentee’s of it coming in then cry about how to get out of financial problems. And your comment about “Country Club Wages” sound’s like typical middle class entitlement whining. Shut up! Know your place and accept it.
May 15th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
To you hamel, you don’t mind paying for that “ICING ON THE CAKE” when your street is plowed or salted in the middle of the night, or have all the grass maintained in “YOUR” neighborhood park so your grand kids can enjoy their summer activities.Oh lets not forget your water & sewerage… So before you call someone out on overtime issues, wait until July 1st.when all the city parks & street sweeping is contracted out by a contractor who does not live or pay property taxes here, nor care what the park looks like , just that they have been cut and when the snow hits the ground and you have to wait again for the contractor to come out and plow or salt. That will take more time and make you as a resident upset because of the services you were once used to, have been cut because of all that “ICING ON THE CAKE”!
May 16th, 2011 at 12:06 am
First outsourcing sucks. I would rather see city workers doing city work. That being said city workers have no one to blame but themselves. That disgusting display at Ten Eyck, shows that city resources are being mismanaged and as for the excuse that these clowns were on break two fifteens and a thirty are what your contract entitles you to not three one hour breaks.
May 16th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
To Mr. Hamel: Everyone should be entitled to a middle-class lifestyle.Is it too much to ask of our corporate, or for city workers like me, our city administrators, for a living wage that doesn’t keep us perpetually one paycheck away from financial ruin? Waht you say about overtime is correct. Happily, I’ve never budgeted my overtime wages and am not too stressed. I used the phrase “country club wages” to answer people who think unionized city workers lead luxurious lifestyles-we don’t. And my place, which I know quite well and accept with gratitude, is squarely in the middle class.Would you have my wages slashed in half so I can join the swelling ranks of the working poor? If you prefer the continued fuedalization of the American economy, you must be one of the lords in the castle. If you’re in the middle class like me and you applaud the dismemberment of our economic class, then you are a fool and a dupe of our rulers.
May 16th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
I see the council will be approving $275,500 for one year of streeet sweeping – nice contract to whoever gets it. Is street sweeping really that important that we need to spend this kind of money?
May 16th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
How can anyone justify $275,500 for one year of street sweeping? Unbelievable!
May 16th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
How much would it cost the city to just encourage the home owners to sweep up their own curb?
It is a total waste of money to sweep these streets on a daily or weekly basis,they need to just come through a section once a month if that.
The damage has already been done though years ago,the cost of eight or 10 sweepers at over 200,000 each plus the man power and overtime wages to operate them and combine that with the outrageously expensive and ineffective EPOKE salt system and all the new trucks that had to be purchased to operate the system. It sounds like this one division alone would bankrupt any city.
May 17th, 2011 at 6:20 am
Amazing – last night the item was tabled and now they are going to hold a Study Session?? They didn’t put any thought into this before they put it on
the agenda (which I assume was done on Thursday)? They never cease to amaze me or I think sometimes themselves.
May 17th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
I have a great idea to save the city some money. It was suggested on an earlier post somewhere on this Website, cancel the Arab Festival and put up one tent, similar in size to the Polish and Italian tents at the Homecoming. Fair is fair, why does one culture have an entire festival and the other two mentioned simply get a tent?
This reduction in cost could help dig the city out of the mess that it has itself in. Wait, on second thought, let’s put together a committee and talk about it until after the festival has passed, then submit a recommendation to the Mayor., and send the city another bill for consulting. Sound familiar?
May 18th, 2011 at 8:18 am
Cancel Arab Festival:
the answer to your question about preference and fesitivals for one group and only a tent for other equally important cultures as our Polish and Italians (and Germans, and Irish etc.)
overlooked, minimized, and do not matter is the answer to many of the reasons why our city is hurting ……………….. McCheese and company.
time for a Change.