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NEW LOCATION! In front of ABC WAREHOUSE

7215 E 10 Mile Rd, Center Line, MI 48015

CORPORATE SPONSORS

OFFICIAL SPONSOR

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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN 2024 SPONSORSHIP?

Area businesses have seen a sharp increase in brand awareness after sponsorship of Cruisin' 53. Between the foot traffic at the cruise locations and the online traffic of social media advertisements, thousands of eyes will view your logo and engage with your organization. Packages are available at various price levels.

NEW THIS YEAR!

WE ARE NOW A COMBIN ED EVENT WITH THE CENTER LINE INDEPENDENCE FESTIVAL!

Get ready for an extraordinary weekend of unity and excitement as the Center Line Independence Festival and Cruisin' 53 merge into one spectacular event! This powerhouse partnership brings you a jam-packed schedule of activities and entertainment that will rev up your summer.

At the Center Line Independence Festival, thrilling rides and cuisine, inflatables, axe throwing, live music, a petting farm (and that’s just a sampler!) And of course, the annual fireworks. Meanwhile, Cruisin’ 53 adds a dazzling car show featuring a lively parade along Van Dyke, and gearheads galore!

CLICK HERE TO WATCH OUR FEATURE ON "LIVE IN THE D"!

CAR SHOW &

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ABC Warehouse Parking Lot

7215 E. 10 Mile Rd., Center Line, MI

Van Dyke will come to live with food, live music and of course, cars of all shapes and sizes! Gearheads can set up their chairs and talk shop while other attendees can enjoy the visual splendor of the car show. Add a parade and some prize money and you've got a banner summer day for Warren and Center Line. And it's all to benefit the community. Between the the registration fees and our sponsor contributions, we are the rare cruise that raises thousands for local nonprofits and groups.

CAR SHOW REGISTRATION

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NEW DAY: Sunday, June 2, 2024

CHECK-IN/DAY-OF-REGISTRATION OPENS

Our check-in table will be set up in a prominent location at headquarters for ease of access. All online registrants will be assigned a parking spot upon arrival and must check-in at the desk after parking to receive their number tag for the judges and their car plaque.

CAR PARADE ON ROUTE ALONG VAN DYKE

Starting at 11:30am, our staff will begin lining up all cruise participants within Cruise HQ for the commencement of the car parade at noon. The Grand Marshall and police vehicles will lead the parade northbound on Van Dyke with the official turnaround at Warren Civic Center . After the turnaround, cruises can remain on the route for as long as they'd like before returning to their parking spot at headquarters.

AWARDS CEREMONY

Cash prizes and certificates will be awarded in both Stock and Modified categories and one overall Best in Show. The judges will make their way through all entries at the close of registration (12:00pm) and use the same rubric. Scoring is a point-based system in five areas: body, engine, interior, paint and wheels/tires.

LIVE TUNES: SPOOKY STERLING

HOW MUCH PRIZE MONEY IS AWARDED?

$2,200 TOTAL

Three placements and prizes will be awarded to cars in both Stock and Modified entrance pools.

FIRST PLACE : $300

SECOND PLACE : $200

THIRD PLACE : $100

OVERALL BEST IN SHOW (ONLY ONE): $1,0 00

Cruisin' 53 is an event organized by the Warren Community Foundation. The Warren Community Foundation (WCF) was formed for the coordination, marketing, and implementation of various community events designed to promote the welfare of the City of Warren, Michigan, and to donate the proceeds to charitable and educational organizations doing good works. WCF believes the best way to bring people together is to get them out of the house and talking to one another. The foundation is comprised of veteran businessmen and philanthropists with decades of experience and relationships.

The Warren Community Foundation is a nonprofit under the umbrella of the Warren Center Line Chamber of Commerce (WCLCC). That chamber is one of two area specific subchambers of the Southeast Michigan Chamber of Commerce (SMCC).

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Russia could be ready to attack NATO in three years, Norway warns

NATO only has two to three years to prepare before Russia regains its ability to launch a conventional attack on the alliance, Norway's top general has said.

Tuesday 4 June 2024 14:36, UK

• The big picture: Everything you need to know about the war right now
• Russia could be ready to attack NATO in three years, Norway warns
• Baby among seven civilians injured in overnight missile strike
• Moscow warns US against 'mistakes that may have fatal consequences'
• Enemy 'suffers 1,270 casualties in 24 hours', Ukraine claims
• China hits back at Zelenskyy over summit disruption allegations
• Live reporting by Guy Birchall

By  Ivor Bennett , Moscow correspondent

Dozens of Alexei Navalny supporters have visited his grave to lay flowers and pay tribute to the late Kremlin critic on what would have been his 48th birthday. 

The opposition leader died at an Arctic prison colony in February, prompting outrage from Western governments.

Nearly four months on, his family say the cause of his death remains unexplained.

His widow Yulia Navalnaya has accused Vladimir Putin of ordering his murder, and last week his allies called for additional sanctions to punish the Russian president’s inner circle.

The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement in his death. According to his death certificate, he died of natural causes.

Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila, as well as his mother-in-law Alla Abrosimova, were among those who gathered at his grave in the Borisovskoye cemetery in south-east Moscow on Tuesday.

Video posted by SOTAvision on the social media platform Telegram shows a memorial service led by Dmitry Safronov, a priest who was previously banned from clerical duties by the Russian Orthodox Church for presiding over a similar service in March, which marked 40 days since the activist’s death.

According to the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, three police officers were on duty near the cemetery but they did not make any arrests.

Having been convicted of multiple charges, ranging from fraud to extremism, Navalny was serving sentences totalling more than 30 years when he died.

His Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) is outlawed in Russia, and has been accused by the authorities of having links to the CIA.

What remains of his team now operates in exile.

Polish farmers have resumed their protest blockade at the Ukrainian border crossing due to agricultural imports from the country.

Farmers in Poland have staged sporadic demonstrations at the border since last autumn.

The demonstrators are blocking trucks from leaving Ukraine.

Cargo vehicles heading to Ukraine are allowed to enter by 12 trucks per 12 hours and by four trucks with humanitarian aid per hour, the Ukrainian Border Guard Service said.

Other vehicles are continuing as usual.

"Representatives of Polish farmers demand reduced imports of Ukrainian crops to Polish territory from Ukraine," the Border Guard Service said.

Disputes over crop imports have strained the relationship between Warsaw and Kyiv, with both countries being major agricultural producers.

Polish farmers have complained that Ukrainian products create uneven competition, particularly since the EU lifted tariffs in 2022.

Poland banned the import of several products from Ukraine, including grain, corn, and rapeseed, in 2023.

In our last post, we brought you news that Microsoft had made allegations in the New York Times that Russia was targetting the upcoming Olympics with a disinformation campaign.

Moscow has now branded those accusations "absolute slander", with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying there is no substance to them.

Russia is widely accused of having waged disinformation campaigns over the years, often targeting elections in the United States, Europe and Britain.

Moscow has always denied it uses disinformation to influence public opinion. 

The Paris Olympics are being targeted by a Russian-linked disinformation campaign, according to the New York Times.

Since last summer, efforts have been under way by a hacker group named Storm-1679, the paper reports.

The campaign "began in earnest" when a documentary was released with a doctored International Olympic Committee (IOC) logo, along with an AI-powered impersonation of Tom Cruise's voice.

The hackers "are trying to cultivate an anticipation of violence", said Clint Watts, the head of Microsoft's Digital Threat Analysis Centre.

"They want people to be fearful of going to the Olympics."

Storm-1679 makes around three to eight disinformation videos a week, Mr Watts told the newspaper, many of which appear as if they come from media outlets such as the BBC or Al Jazeera.

Both Russia and Belarus have been banned from competing in the Olympics over the war in Ukraine, but some athletes from those countries will be allowed to compete as "neutral athletes", the IOC announced in March.

The Paris games will take place between 26 July and 11 August.

The Kremlin has said the peace talks set to take place in Switzerland this month are "absurd" as Russia isn't invited.

Moscow claimed it was understandable that some countries were declining to take part in the summit on Ukraine this month because the gathering lacked clear goals.

Ukraine says more than 100 countries and organisations have agreed to take part in the summit on 15-16 June.

The summit, which will take place at an Alpine resort near Lucerne, is intended to create a framework for lasting peace and a roadmap for Russia's eventual participation in the process.

Kyiv decided against inviting Russia because it does not trust Moscow.

China, which has grown closer to Russia after Western sanctions brought in since the invasion of Ukraine, has also said it won't be attending.

Poland has claimed Belarus and its ally Russia are behind a recent surge in migrants from the former Soviet state into the European Union.

The number of attempted illegal border crossings from Belarus into Poland has shot up in recent months from only a handful to almost 400 a day, Polish officials say.

Poland's border guards have also described increasingly aggressive behaviour by some migrants on the Belarusian side of the border, posting online videos of some throwing rocks, logs and even burning wood at Polish troops.

There have been cases of soldiers and guards ending up in hospital, and some have needed stitches after being stabbed or cut by knife-wielding assailants. 

Last Tuesday, near the village of Dubicze Cerkiewne, officials said a migrant reached between the bars of the 16-foot-high barrier and stabbed a soldier in the ribs. 

The government in Warsaw sees the new push at the border as an orchestrated attempt by Russia and Belarus to fuel anti-migrant sentiment, which could in turn boost far-right parties in the EU parliamentary vote. 

"We are not dealing with [just] any asylum seekers here, we are dealing with a coordinated, very efficient - on many levels - operation to break the Polish border and attempts to destabilise the country,"  Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, said last week while visiting troops at the border.

Ukraine's use of Western-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia will not "contribute to escalation", German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said.

Germany has long opposed lifting the ban on Ukraine's use of Western weapons to target Russia, but changed course last month.

A German government spokesperson told Deutsche Welle on 31 May that Ukraine could use German-supplied weapons to hit legitimate targets in Russia. 

Berlin's defence minister Boris Pistorius later clarified that the decision applied to the area around Kharkiv, which has recently become the target of a heavy Russian offensive.

"We are certain that it will not contribute to an escalation because, as Joe Biden has also described, it is only a matter of being able to defend a large city like Kharkiv," Mr Scholz said.

In the past, Chancellor Scholz has cited a fear of escalation as among the principal reasons for limiting Germany's support for Ukraine.

"I think it is clear to everyone that this must be possible. Under international law, this has always been possible anyway," he added.

General Eirik Kristoffersen's comments are the latest in a series of warnings from Western leaders and defence officials about the threat from Moscow and the alliance's current lack of preparedness.

"At one point someone said it'll take 10 years, but I think we're back to less than 10 years because of the industrial base that is now running in Russia," General Kristoffersen said.

"It will take some time, which gives us a window now for the next two to three years to rebuild our forces, to rebuild our stocks at the same time as we are supporting Ukraine."

Norway has been a member of NATO since its foundation in 1949.

The Scandinavian nation has increased its defence spending since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and aims to meet the 2% of GDP threshold in 2024, with a further increase of 2.7% of GDP targeted by 2030.

Last week, the US partially lifted restrictions on Ukraine's use of some Western-supplied weapons. 

It now means Ukraine can strike inside Russia with US-supplied weapons - but only if the targets are aimed at slowing Moscow's advance in the Kharkiv region. 

Ukrainian foreign minister said the move was "not 100% clearance" and came with "some rules that need to be followed". 

Speaking at a news conference with his Estonian counterpart, he said Ukraine was hoping to gain more freedom on the use of Western weapons inside Russia. 

Ukraine "will continue to work with our allies" on "expanding the scope" of weapon use. 

Some of Kyiv's allies have been reluctant to allow Ukraine to strike over the border as they fear this could drag them into a more direct conflict with Russia. 

Authorities in Kyiv have denied permission for this year's Kyiv Pride march to be held in the Ukrainian capital's metro system. 

It was hoped up to 500 people would attend the event on 16 June. 

"In order not to endanger the participants and passengers, and to avoid possible provocations, the city authorities cannot allow the Equality March to take place in the metro," Kyiv's City Hall said. 

The metro system doubles as an air raid shelter during Russian attacks. 

Authorities said the metro is a "dual-use facility and part of the city's critical infrastructure" and is "always a high-risk area due to limited space, train schedule and high passenger traffic". 

Kyiv has not hosted a Pride event since the full-scale invasion began in 2022. 

Last year's event was held in Liverpool instead. 

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Car d’Lane Classic Car Weekend

June 14 @ 6:00 pm - june 15 @ 4:00 pm.

Jump back in time at Car d’Lane! Experience the largest classic car cruise in North Idaho Friday night! Then, get up close at the show on Saturday and take a look under the hoods of these one of a kind classics. Fun for the entire family will be taking place all day Saturday including a Poker Walk, People’s Choice Voting, Young Builders Alley and more! Join us for a full weekend of classic fun in Coeur d’Alene!

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Limited on-the-day registration is available on Friday, June 14 between 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM at 12th & Sherman until sold out. Once sold out, there will be no acceptance. 

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Cruise Only Pass - $15 (on the day registration $20) Show Only Pass - $25 Cruise & Show Pass - $35 Classic cars 1980 and older will line the streets of Downtown Coeur d'Alene. Shined and ready for the show, you can take a look up close at these one-of-a-kind vehicles, hear the history from the owners, and take a look at the engine. With over 400 vehicles on display, car enthusiasts will surely enjoy the unique variety! Trailers are not permitted to the Show, and will not be allowed entry. Please plan on driving your entry to and from Car d'Lane.

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SPECIAL INTEREST LANE:

Special Interest Show Only Pass -  $25 Car d’Lane 2024 the Special Interest Lane will feature a limited number of specialized, unique vehicles that are 1981 or newer! This featured area will highlight new high-performance cars, race cars, etc. Applications will be carefully reviewed for this category as space is very limited. Notification of acceptance will be emailed after applications have been reviewed. Trailers are not permitted to the Show, and will not be allowed entry. Please plan on driving your entry to and from Car d'Lane. Special Interest is not judged and is eligible to participate in the show only.

YOUNG BUILDERS:

Young Builders Show Only Pass - $15 Car d’Lane invites all young builders, 25 years of age and younger, to enter their car or automotive-related project into the Young Builder section of the car show on Saturday, June 17. Share in the ongoing tradition of building and showing vehicles with other car enthusiasts and compete for the Young Builder Award! Trailers are not permitted to the Show, and will not be allowed entry. Please plan on driving your entry to and from Car d'Lane.

COEUR D'MOTO ALLEY:

Motorcycles - $20 Race on over and come see a showcase of rare, vintage, and exceptional motorcycles. Offering a great selection of the local motorcycle communities, it’ll be fun for enthusiasts, builders, and riders alike. Find us on North 5th & Sherman Ave. *All motorcycles must be 1983 or older or creatively modified. All styles of bikes are considered. As space is limited our team will review and approve submissions until capacity has been reached.

PACKET PICK-UP

Packet pick-up/and on-the-day registration will be on Friday, June 14 between 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM. Location - 12th & Sherman  *Limited on-the-day registration is available on Friday, June 14th between 8:00 am and 6:00 PM, while supplies last.

FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 6 PM - 9 PM

Show off your pride and joy to the excited crowds as they line the streets of Downtown Coeur d'Alene. Spectators will feel the rumbling engines, see roaring flames, and hear the beeping of old-style horns as the cars parade through the downtown corridor. Cruisers will travel West on Lakeside from 8 th  Street, North up 4 th  Street, West on Wallace, South on 2 nd, and then East up Sherman. Why not see if you can win the best pipes or best flames award? Cars must be 1980 or older.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 8 AM - 4 PM

Classic cars 1980 and older will line the streets of Downtown Coeur d'Alene. Shined and ready for the show, you can take a look up close at these one-of-a-kind vehicles, hear the history from the owners, and take a look at the engine. With over 400 vehicles on display, car enthusiasts will surely enjoy the unique variety!

YOUNG BUILDERS ALLEY

Car d’Lane invites all young builders, 25 years of age and younger, to enter their car or automotive-related project into the Young Builder section of the car show on Saturday, June 15. Share in the ongoing tradition of building and showing vehicles with other car enthusiasts and compete for the Young Builder Award!

SPECIAL INTEREST LANE

Car d’Lane 2024 the Special Interest Lane will feature a limited number of specialized, unique vehicles that are 1981 or newer! This featured area will highlight new high-performance cars, race cars, etc. Applications will be carefully reviewed for this category as space is very limited. Notification of acceptance will be emailed after applications have been reviewed. Special Interest is not judged and is eligible to participate in the show only.

COEUR D'MOTO

Race on over and come see a showcase of rare, vintage, and exceptional motorcycles Offering a great selection of the local motorcycle community classics it’ll be fun for enthusiasts, builders, and riders alike. Find us on North 5th & Sherman Ave. *All motorcycles must be 1975 or older or creatively modified. All styles of bikes are considered. As space is limited our team will review and approve submissions until capacity has been reached.

Trailers are not permitted to the Show, and will not be allowed entry. Please plan on driving your entry to and from Car d'Lane.

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ADDITIONAL EVENTS

Poker walk: saturday, june 15, 11:30 am to 3:30 pm.

Players can purchase their poker sheet at during registration on Friday and at the Car d’Lane booth by Sherman Square Park on Saturday for $10. Wild Cards must be purchased by the players before visiting their first merchant.

Players will return their Poker Sheet to the Downtown Association table located at Sherman Square Park before 3:30 PM on Saturday, June 15 to be considered for one of the cash prizes.

Cash prizes: High Hand 1st Place - $100; 2nd Place - $75; Lowest Hand - $50 (a low hand has no pairs, straits, or flushes. Aces low, face cards high).

WANT TO HELP BEHIND THE SCENES?

We could use an extra set of hands! Join the fun on the other side of the event and have the opportunity to help with registration and selling merchandise to help direct traffic for one-of-a-kind classic vehicles!

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Contact the Downtown Association via email - at [email protected] or phone at 208-415-0106 for inquiries.

The Coeur d'Alene Downtown Association is a 501C6 non-profit that was established in 1990 to provide services within the Business Improvement District. The DTA is a downtown management agency that maintains the physical appearance and quality of the downtown corridor, supports small businesses, and hosts monthly events creating a sense of place for the community.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:

Want to support one of Coeur d'Alene's largest community events and get your brand in front of thousands of people? Car d'Lane brings thousands of people to the Downtown core from all over the United States to celebrate classic vehicles!

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It's a full weekend of fun, and you will want somewhere to retreat after a long day of events! For lodging information CLICK HERE .

2024 Pre-sale Swag!

Pre-sale swag will only be sold with Car d'Lane event registration sign-ups. If you want swag but are not registering a car for Car d'Lane, day-of-event swag purchases will be available during the event hours at the Rotary Centennial Park or on Friday at the Cruise registration tent.

2024 Car d'Lane Collectors Shirt: $25 with event registration

Day of event sale: $30

2024 Car d'Lane Richardson Classic License Plate Hat: $30 with event registration

Day of event sale: $35

To register for Car d'Lane, click HERE !

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Ukraine's army chief says russia is augmenting its troops presence in the kharkiv region.

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Ukrainian servicemen search a target with a US Stinger air defence missile launcher on the front line in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

KYIV – Russia conducted an array of aerial attacks on Ukraine with cruise missiles, drones and ballistic missiles, Ukraine's air force said Thursday, while the chief of the army said Russia is increasing its troop concentration in the Kharkiv region where Moscow's forces have made significant advances in a spring offensive.

Ukraine's GUR military intelligence operation said that sea drones destroyed two Russian KS-701 patrol boats in the Black Sea off the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula. Russian officials didn't immediately comment.

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The air force said that the overnight attacks included eight S-300 ballistic missiles, 11 cruise missiles and 32 Shahed drones. All the drones and seven of the cruise missiles were shot down, the air force said, but didn't provide further details.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, seven people were wounded and a municipal services building caught fire in the attacks, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said. Russian aerial strikes were also reported in Khmelnytskyi and Dnipropetrovsk, but there were no injuries.

Ukrainian army chief Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said on his Facebook page on Thursday that Russia is bringing army units into the Kharkiv region from other parts of Ukraine to supplement forces in the two main flashpoints of fighting, the towns of Vovchansk and Lyptsi. Syrskyi said that Ukraine has also moved reserve troops into the area.

Russia's Defense Ministry said that its air defenses shot down eight U.S.-made ATACMS missiles over the Azov Sea, which borders both Russia and Russia-held Ukrainian territory.

One person was wounded by a drone explosion in Russia's Belgorod region , which borders Kharkiv and comes under daily attack from the Ukrainian side.

A lengthy delay in U.S. military aid and Western Europe’s inadequate military production has slowed crucial deliveries to the battlefield for Ukraine, and Russia has exploited the delays to make advances in the Kharkiv region.

Russian missiles and bombs also have pummeled Ukrainian military positions and civilian areas, including the power grid.

On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assailed Russian attempts to sow discord in democracies with misinformation, after hinting that the Biden administration may soon allow Ukraine to use American-supplied munitions to strike inside Russia.

In Prague for a NATO foreign ministers meeting , Blinken cited Moscow’s use of misinformation and disinformation, calling it a “poison” and signing an agreement with the Czech government to combat it.

Blinken said Wednesday that U.S. policy on how Ukraine deploys American weapons is constantly evolving, suggesting that Washington may rescind an unwritten prohibition on Ukraine’s use of them for attacks on Russian territory.

Although U.S. officials insist there is no formal ban, they have long made clear that they believe the use of American weapons to attack targets inside Russia could provoke an escalatory response from Moscow, something that Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised.

Three U.S. officials familiar with the matter told AP on Thursday that President Joe Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use American weaponry to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv.

The officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, underscored that the U.S. policy calling on Ukraine not to use American-provided long-range missiles and other munitions to strike inside Russia offensively has not changed.

Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine .

Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington and Matthew Lee in Prague contributed to this report.

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All prices are per person based on double occupancy.

All rates are per person, based on double occupancy. Actual size of cabins can slightly differ within one category.

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Journey: Volga Dream

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