On Jan. 2, it will be three years since Christopher Soroka’s wife, Megan, was murdered by a disgruntled ex-employee at Cheli’s Chili Bar in Detroit.

For Megan’s husband, Christopher, each hour and each day still remains a struggle.

“It doesn’t get easier,” he said recently. “It actually gets worse.”

In the blink of an eye, he says, Megan’s life was taken and, along with her life, he lost his, too.

But he says his wife Megan, a 1975 Dearborn High School graduate, also positively touched a lot of other people’s lives in metro Detroit and Dearborn, where Christopher still lives today.

So this Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Dearborn Hills Golf Course, he is holding a golf outing in his wife’s honor, the third such event since her death. As animal lovers and owners of Shih Tzus, proceeds from the outing will go to a Shih Tzus Rescue in Royal Oak, he says.

“Megan was a very positive person,” he says. “She was a little ball of fire and touched a lot of people. This golf outing is a good way to bring people together to share their thoughts and memories.”

Christopher, who owns The Bar, 16010 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, tells this story of how he met his wife, Megan.

“We met in October 1996 and were married May 31st 1997,” he says. “Our first date was at a small table outside the main dining room at the Ritz (in Dearborn). In May we were married at that table. Megan and I knew of each other 14 years prior to our meeting. After about a year together, we were discussing places we have been because we knew some of the same people. We both had attended an opening of a club named the Vault in Detroit some 15 years earlier. I told Megan I saw her there. I went on to describe what she was wearing the color of her hair and how it was cut and who she was with. Megan never left me since that day.”

Christopher continues to run The Bar, a place they purchased together in 2004. But it hasn’t been easy, he concedes. Megan worked there when she was just 18 years old and it was called The Holiday Bar. So there are naturally a lot of memories there.

“It is very difficult to be in Dearborn, particularly a business she used to work at and one we took on as an endeavor together. I love this city but it is hard to be here.”

Even so, Christopher continues to keep The Bar going, thanks to a great staff of workers and the memory of a wife whose view on life was always from the perspective that the glass was half full.

While the golf outing for Megan is sold-out for this Saturday, those who want to make a donation in Megan’s name to the Shih Tzus rescue in Royal Oak can do so by clicking HERE.

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