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Wyandotte Businesses Answer 'Pleas for Help' from City Official
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Children of Wyandotte can enjoy the Wyandotte Recreation Supervised Playground Program this summer despite the program being cut from the budget two years ago, after local businesses pooled resources to rescue the program.
When the program, commonly referred to as The Green Box Program, was cut in 2011 Doug Ochmanek, president and CEO of E.W. Smith Agency, 1717 Fort Street, collaborated with insurance companies across Wyandotte and beyond to find funding.
Ochmanek and representatives of Daly Merritt Insurance, 100 Maple Street; Karn Sitkins Payette Insurance Agency, Inc., 1420 Ford Avenue, and Howell-based Citizens Insurance Company donated $7,800 and sports equipment to the program.
Last year, businesses donated $10,000, as well as sports equipment.
Marty Daly of Daly Merritt Insurance said he was pleased to see three local businesses get involved with funding the program.
"They came together to work for the benefit of the children in the City of Wyandotte," Daly said.
Justin Lanagan, superintendent of recreation at the Wyandotte Department of Recreation, said without the action taken by the four insurance companies the program would be gone.
"They answered our pleas for help," Lanagan said.
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