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 | | The Hamtramck of today, with almost 18,000 people, differs from the Hamtramck of 30 or 40 years ago, when my husband was growing up. |
 | | According to Walter Wasacz, a reporter with the weekly community paper, The Hamtramck Citizen, Hamtramck is "the most multicultural city in the state of Michigan." Over 65 percent of the children who attend Hamtramck public schools speak English as a second language. |
 | | As Greg Kowalski, chair of Hamtramck's Historical Commission and author of Our Town: The Story of Hamtramck, explains, "Artists and other creative people are attracted to the city for its grittiness." In fact, Hamtramck's current mayor, Gary Zych, is a sculptor who was born in Hamtramck and raised in the suburbs. |
| www.thewitness.org /archive/oct2000/hamtranck.html (2870 words) |
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