So she also invited other businesses to take part this year and they are!

Niko’s on Detroit and the Harry Buffalo are donating lunches and dinners featuring their Greek and American specialty dishes. Fat Billy’s will be providing pizza, while Moon’s Deli is donating pop, chips and cups. Breadsmith of Lakewood will be providing freshly baked bread. Reagle Beagle's American Crew distributor is also donating haircare products. A. Graphic Solution offered signs promoting the event, and DJs will rotate and play music all day for the “customers” enjoyment.

“We’re all very fortunate and our businesses are doing well, and we’re a good team of friends and business owners... it’s just something good that we wanted to do together,” explains Hoty.

While the team has everything in order for their day of giving back to our community, one of the team members will literally be working the midnight oil to get ready... that's Breadsmith. Proprietor Ginius Macys says he'll begin the process of making up to 30 loaves of healthy artisan bread for the charitable day starting late the night before.

“I will start from scratch, starting at midnight ,” says Macys. “I should finish up around 7 a.m. ”

During those seven hours, he’ll be mixing flour and other natural ingredients, making dough, allowing time for fermenting, working the dough on his bench for shaping into loaves, and allowing more time for a second fermenting or rising before the final stage of breadmaking.

“Then into the stone-hearth oven and poof! We’ll have bread for giving back. Ours is a community business, so this event is a natural fit for us,” he adds, referring to his co-owner and wife Sabine.

Hoty has put on similar events before. “We always do something charitable each year and our team is there to help.” From those similar events, she learned that even neighbors who have fallen on economic hard times will insist on tipping the hair stylists... that tipping is their way to say thanks to those who are giving to them. So Hoty and her four Reagle Beagle stylists have a plan for any tips they receive on Sunday. Like the popular movie of a few years ago, they plan to “pay it forward.” Any tips or donations will go to Jeffrey Paul’s Wigs for Kids program to help children who lose their hair due to illnesses.

“We’re neighborhood businesses pulling together in a diverse town. That says it all,” observed Macys, shown in his Breadsmith bakery at 18101 Detroit Ave. In deed, Mr. Macys, indeed.