November 25, 2024

Saline Area Social Service (SASS) has announced a “Campaign Kickoff … to learn more about SASS’s new location and how you can help!

Giving Together

Please join us next Wednesday, May 11th from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm for an intimate evening sponsored by Brecon Grille and Mac’s Acadian Seafood Shack to learn about SASS’s new location and how you can help! Tickets are $60 per person. Please RSVP by Sunday, May 8, 2022.

Exciting Updates!

- $150,000 Commitment from the Mullick Foundation

We are thrilled to announce that The Mullick Foundation has pledged a charitable contribution in the amount of $150,000 to help fund the purchase of our new facility. This commitment follows the Foundation’s ongoing collaboration with SASS to support local households facing financial hardship. Learn more >>

- Renovation is under way!

Some of the interior walls at the new building needed to come down to make room for our warehouse storage space. Thanks to Roofman and our awesome volunteers, the work was done in a flash ….

Interested in lending a hand with renovations or the big move? Many hands make light work and we’d love your help! Sign up here >>

- Looking Ahead

In the coming weeks we will be painting, resurfacing floors, and getting ready to move! Thanks to all our incredible volunteer help, we’re on track to be operating in the new facility early this summer.

- Help secure our new home!

SASS depends on annual giving to sustain its day-to-day operations, but to expand and sustain our ability to serve, we’re asking the community to make an additional, one-time commitment beyond their regular giving to support this campaign.

We’ve raised 45% of our $850,000 goal so far! Donate today to help build a better future for our neighbors in need. Donate here >>

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– March 6, 2022
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– March 13, 2022
via Baptist Beacon (February 2, 2022)— "Words without wisdom," by Coye L Bouyer, founding pastor of Kingdom Life Church, in Lansing, Michigan: A life-giving tongue creates a positive environment, and even brings joy to a community. However, too often many of us choose conversation that is callous and criticizes as opposed…

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via Got Questions (December 26, 2018)— "How is Satan god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4)": "The phrase 'god of this world' (or 'god of this age') indicates that Satan is the major influence on the ideals, opinions, goals, hopes and views of the majority of people. His influence also…

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via Lifeway Research (April 5, 2021)— "Americans Most Want to Avoid Fear and Anxiety, Gain Freedom and Safety," by Aaron Earls: After what was a scary year for many, more Americans say they want to avoid fear. According to a study from Lifeway Research, when asked which feeling they seek to…

– January 2, 2022
via TED Conferences (February 1998) "Billy Graham: Technology, faith and human shortcomings": In Monterey California, The Reverend Billy Graham delivered a talk of just over twenty-six minutes to a Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) conference before a screen that projected a title of no more than, matter-of-factly, his first and…

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via Southern Baptist Convention (February 26, 2019)— "Who's Your One?" Day 13: Genesis 12:1-3, "Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will…

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FIRST Robotics Competition team "Saline Singularity" watches 2019 game on televisions at local high school reveal via satellite

Saline Singularity FIRST Robotics Team week 1 progress report: Here’s what happened after the 2019 game was announced

January 9, 2019

Last Saturday, the symbolic starter pistol was fired at 10:30am sharp, starting the six-week clock for high school teams to build custom robots for 2019 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). [1,2,3] For our own Team 5066, “Saline Singularity,” that meant the first day of work — all business. Along with providing a video overview of concept, field, and scoring, an access was opened to extensive resources page that includes a list of Mechanical Resources. [4,5,6,7] Well ....

Billboard for 2018 Saline Craft Shows November event on westbound I-94

“November Craft Show” Extends The Reach Of Saline Community, Grows The Audience It Serves, And Teaches Lessons In Business

November 3, 2018

When the billboard on west-bound I-94 catches your eye just past the Belleville exit, its headline tells you just two things. Subject matter is “Craft Show” and timing is “November.” Thus hooked, you take note of next tier information: November 10, 8:00am to 3:30pm Saline Middle School We all know of course that that this is one of the original Saline Craft Shows. And that can make it easy to miss the power of this ....

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June 10, 2022

“Officially,” the final installment in the Jurassic Park movie franchise premiers today in the United States. But everyone knows that for motion pictures of the Jurassic World Dominion caliber, that means sometime during the evening prior. [1-3] But those who attended this pre-premier at State Theatre in Ann Arbor saw the bar raised on their experience. By special arrangement with The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, docents were setup with a table in the ....

Exclusive Interview With Jeff Irwin, Democrat Party Candidate For 18th State Senate District In Michigan

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Jeff Irwin is the Democratic Party candidate running to serve in the Michigan Legislature on behalf of the 18th Senate District, of which Saline is a part. His Republican opponent is Martin Church. [1,2] Earlier this month, Saline Journal invited each individual to share their thoughts with our readers on a specific series of questions. Responses from Democrat Irwin appear below. Responses from Republican Church ran in Saline Journal yesterday. [3] Saline Journal: “What would ....

Year-end report on Bixby Marionette Trust disposition outlined steady, important forward progress

December 11, 2019

A small selection of string puppets stood along one wall of a Saline Library meeting room where John Anderson provided an accounting for Arts and Culture Committee responsibilities in fulfilling City of Saline obligations under terms of its “Bixby Marionettes Trust” here. [1,2] Meticulously handcrafted by the late Meredith Bixby, these figures seemed more than contextual backdrop or props at the ready when called upon to illustrate function. Rather, they seemed here to cast scrutinizing ....