Motorists who travel Michigan Avenue between Brady and Outer Drive now have something to smile about – the three month, $2.1 million repaving project is complete and all lanes were reopened Monday.
Woodworth becomes Woodsboro High School in the movie Scream 4.
Dearborn’s Woodworth Middle School will be named Woodsboro High School when it appears in the upcoming Scream 4 movie, which is expected to open in the spring of next year.
We wrote about the school’s starring role in the movie a week ago (see earlier story, HERE). Well, now we have some official photos of what the school will look like in the movie.
The Woodsboro name also appears inside Woodworth Middle School.
For the next four days (Tuesday, June 29 – Friday, July 2) Dearborn will have a “fourth” high school with the addition of Woodsboro High School in Scream 4. The photographs show how the front of the school has been changed for the movie. Film crews also have done some work on room 208 and in the hallway outside the classroom.
The school will return to Woodworth Middle School once filming wraps up.
For those wondering, the school is being paid $500 per day for each prep and take down day and $1,000 a day for each filming date. 
While we don’t have the exact number of days right now, school officials say film crews currently are scheduled for four film days and about eight days of prep and take down. So that would be a check to the school district of $8,000.
SURA Arts Academy, a free, diversity-themed digital photography instruction program for youth run by the Arab American National Museum (AANM), is accepting registrations for its 2010 Summer Camp, which begins on Monday, June 28 and concludes on Friday, July 2. Thirty slots are available at no charge to students in grades six through nine who reside in southwest Detroit, Dearborn and adjacent areas.
SURA Summer Camp registration materials and program details are available for download at www.arabamericanmuseum.org/SURA-Arts-Academy.id.438.htm or by contacting Vanita Mistry at 313.624.0210 or vmistry@accesscommunity.org. Students are loaned digital cameras; lunches are being provided free by Super Greenland Market of Dearborn. The camp is based at AANM, 13624 Michigan Ave. in Dearborn, but includes field trips.
SURA was honored in 2008 by First Lady Laura Bush in a White House ceremony with one of just 15 Coming Up Taller Awards from the President’s Council on the Arts and the Humanities, after emerging from a field of 320 applicants. Coming Up Taller singles out the best arts- and humanities-based youth after-school programs in the United States. Only one other Michigan-based organization, Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, has ever received this award. Read more at www.pcah.org.
SURA is an Arabic word for photograph. In SURA Arts Academy, students are loaned new digital cameras. Photography students from the acclaimed Center for Creative Studies in Detroit then instruct the children on their operation during the five-day camp, which is based at the AANM and includes field trips. SURA also operates during the school year.
However, the camera is also a catalyst for discussion and the exploration of issues such as self-awareness, respect for others and the role of young people in their communities. Exhibitions of student photography are staged every fall at the AANM as the culmination of the previous academic year’s sessions.
“Arts education is increasingly important for youth, especially where school budgets are being cut and such programs are being eliminated from the curriculum,” says Janice Freij, curator of education at AANM. “According to the Arts and Civic Engagement report published by the National Endowment for the Arts, the decrease in arts participation for youth results in decreased exercise, volunteerism, and civic participation. But in our SURA Arts Academy, we’ve noticed increased grades and participation in both school and community activities among our participating students.”
SURA Arts Academy is funded by The Skillman Foundation, Bank of America and the Muna and Basem Hishmeh Foundation, Inc.