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The Walled Lake womancharged with murder in theslaying of a retired autoworkeras she carjacked his pickuptruck in Waterford will go totrial Sept. 21 on murder charges.

Ruth Pozdol of Walled Lakeis accused of killing 76-year-oldClifford Van Haywald of Water-ford by striking him with thetruck at a Burger King on Jan.18. Pozdol, 39, had a pretrialhearing on Aug. 5.

Pozdol will next appear at hertrial at 8:30 a.m. before JudgeJames Alexander, facing first-degree murder and carjackingcharges.

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BIRMINGHAM>> The sweepingchanges in automotive technologyare bringing new companies, suchas NNG, looking to sell new ideasto Detroit’s automakers.

NNG, a Hungarian companycreated by an Israeli entrepre-neur, recently opened new offices

in the post office building behindtheBaldwin Public Library, its am-bition, technical savvy andflair fordesign in new quarters in the cen-ter of Birmingham.

The Birmingham office is partof NNG’s expansion to support itsgrowing business and will helpthe company grow inNorth Amer-ica, said NNG president and co-founder David Wiernik.

The new offices house the com-pany’s North American senior ex-ecutives, and functions such assales, marketing, supply chainmanagement, and engineeringsupport teams.

The location in the center of Bir-minghamoffers easy access to cus-tomer and partner locations andthe bright, modern office space,with its unique Detroit-themedmural by a local graffiti artist,makes a good impression on po-

tential customers, said Jim Rob-nett, NNG vice president of busi-ness development.

“The North American marketremains a significant opportu-nity for NNG and will be a criti-cal proving ground for our newtechnologies,” said Robnett, a for-mer Chrysler executive, who saidinitially the office will have fewerthan two dozen employees but isexpected to grow.

“Suburban Detroit is the focal

point of the automotive industry.This coupled with the exceptionaltechnical talent located in South-east Michigan and the close prox-imity to our customers and part-ners, made Birmingham an ideallocation for NNG’s new NorthAmerican offices,” said Robnett.

Wiernik said NNG was concen-trating on selling navigation soft-ware that can be customized byvarious supplier companies or the

NNG opens office in center of city

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Teresa Aguilir, 4, of Pontiac, tosses a ball during a mobile Meet Up and Eat Up event Thursday morning at Pinewood Rental Townhomes inPontiac.

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PONTIAC >> It’s a trademark ofsummer: A colorful vehicle driv-ing through the neighborhood of-fering tasty treats for children.

But the Meet Up and Eat Up

program that is making therounds in Pontiac is a bit differ-ent than the common ice creamman ― the product is healthyand the food is free.

“My daughters like it,” saidOlga Aguilir, a Pontiac residentwho routinely brings her daugh-ters Teresa, 4, andKelly, 3, tomo-

bile Meet Up and Eat Up eventsorganized by the Oakland Liv-ingston Human Service Agency.

“Every day (there is) freshlunch, and nutritious, too.”

The Aguilirs were amongmany families who receivedmeals Thursdaymorning at Pine-wood Rental Townhomes at 957

N. Perry St. At each of severalstops every weekday, two vansadorned with colorful images ofvegetables arrive andmake a laparound an area to draw peopleoutside. Meals including fruit,vegetables and grains are distrib-uted to children at or under theage of 18, and attendees have anopportunity to play with volun-teers or other children.

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Volunteers from OU participate in Meet Up and Eat Up

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About 20 minutes later,the vans are packed up andthe volunteers are off totheir next destination.

“It’s been really nice be-cause we see somany of thekids every day,” said ChinaAquino, 21, of MacombTownship, who, like all ofthe volunteers, attendsOak-land University.

“We kind of get themto eat the things that theywouldn’t normally try. Wehave a rule: You have to atleast try one bite, so they’retrying vegetables and fruitsthat normally the mightsneak awaywithout eating.”

Some children play bythemselves at the outings,but others make friendswith neighbors or volun-teers.

“The kids are going toplay with the kids thatthey live right next to andthey never would have evenplayed with (otherwise),”Aquino said.

“It’s really rewarding.”The volunteers, all of

whomarewithin the healthsciences department at OU,have seen improvements inthe diet and overall healthof some children.

“This is a really good timeto impact them and maybeprevent any chronic dis-ease that could appear ifwe instill a healthy lifestylein them at this young age,”Aquino said.

Matthew Hickey, 22, ofRochester, is another vol-unteer.

“It’s been pretty darngood,” he said of the pro-gram.

“We’ve been able to geta lot of people out here andget a lot of families bringingtheir kids.”

The volunteers visit about15 sites per day and handout anywhere from 150to 200 meals in that time,Hickey said. The programprovided 18,265 meals inJuly. Last year, 7,500 mealswere distributed through-out the entire summer.

“I’ve noticed they reallylike the fruit, but … thekids do not care for salad,”Hickey said.

“As kids, they don’t un-derstand what real nutri-tion is. They go by whattastes good, but you still getkids that will eat the salad,and even though that is rel-atively few kids, it’s stillworth it.”

The fresh food has be-come a lunchtime staple forthe Aguilirs.

“(My daughters) say, ‘Goplay! Go play!’ every day.‘What time are we going?’”Olga Aguilir said.

“Sometimes I don’t wantto come (but) they say ‘Comeon, the van is coming!’”

To find the nearest loca-tion, call 211, text FOOD to877877 or visit olhsa.org/ol-hsa-participate-meet-up-and-eat-up-program.

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Consumer demand for anintegrated, unique and ac-curate navigations systemcontinues to intensify, addedWiernik, who has severaldifferent companies that hestarted in his portfolio andoriginally startedNNG’s pre-decessor in 2004 because ofthe growing interest in nav-igation guides for use onmo-bile phones.

He later moved his origi-nal company to Budapest tolink up witha Hungar-ian companythat had de-veloped im-pressive setof graph-ics for gam-ing devices.NNG, whichwas createdthrough themerger, now has 800 em-ployees spread around theworld.One of the keys toNNG’s growth is offer excel-lent solutions at a relativelylow cost, he said.

The system works forcars such as relatively inex-pensive Mazda 3 as well asultra-expensive cars suchfrom Ferrari or McLaren orthe Porsche 918 Spyder. “We

have one engine. But we canchange the graphic experi-ence. We can make all thechanges the way (the man-ufacturers) want,” Wierniksaid.

In recent years, NNG hasbecome a leader in enter-tainment, information andnavigation software, whichis used by car makers inNorth America, Europe andAsia. NNG can now pro-vide on-board, 3D naviga-tion applications that incor-porate connected featuresand a universal online up-date portal.

NNG executives said thegoal is to make “infotain-ment” and navigation easy,fun and safe and integratedthrough all communicationdevices for everybody in thevehicle.

While consumer elec-tronics companies continueto push into the automo-tive market – raising ques-

tions about data ownershipand product liability, NNGbelieves it can offer a plat-form geared towards the au-tomotive industry in order tobring connectivity to vehi-cles and maximize the coredriving experience, Robnettsaid.

Jeffrey Rehm, the direc-tor of business developmentin the Birmingham office,who joined the NNG NorthAmerica organization, ef-fective December 2014, saidNNG has a tremendous po-tential for growth.

“This is an incredible op-portunity. The evolution oftoday’s complex automo-tive systems demands ex-pertise related to software,”said Rehm, adding technol-ogies such as connected nav-igation services, over-the-airupdates andNNG latest soft-ware will alter the experi-ence of drivers and passen-gers.

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Interior view of NNG Birmingham offices.

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Kelly Aguilir, 3, (center) and Teresa Aguilir, 4, both ofPontiac, eat meals provided by OLHSA’s mobile Meet Upand Eat Up program as volunteers Cecelia Goulette, 22,of Armada (left), China Aquino, 21, of Macomb Township(center)and Allison Quigley, 20, of Macomb Township lookon.

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