MLK

This a.m. I joined a UM-Dearborn and Henry Ford Community College contingent at Cass Community Social Services on Woodrow Wilson, part of the schools' joint commemoration of Martin Luther King. Groups composed of students, faculty, and staff perform community service at sites around Detroit, providing an opportunity for students and teachers to interact and learn more, together, about the place where we live and work. CCSS serves over 20,000 meals a week, provides transitional housing services, and coordinates a massive roving homeless shelter during the winter months.

We made 1,200 turkey and cheese sandwiches for prisoners in lock-up around Detroit. The police buy the sandwiches from CCSS each day to feed prisoners, helping to subsidize the various services Cass provides. Ever make hundreds and hundreds of sandwiches all at once? Here's an effective technique: cover table with stacks of two pieces of bread; add turkey and cheese to each stack; pile five or six sandwiches on top of one another and then bring the bottom slice to the top of that tall stack. That last step, which saves the time time involved in moving one piece of bread to the top of each sandwich, almost blew our minds. Very slick. Hats off to 'Shorty' at CCSS for developing this method.