- [Narrator] Coming up on "One Detroit."

We'll meet a father and son who turned their Michigan farm into a sanctuary for rescued farm animals.

Plus, we'll hear about the jobs expected to be in high demand in Michigan through 2032.

(upbeat music) Also ahead.

Two women DJs talk about Detroit's popular techno music scene.

And we'll give you some ideas on how you can enjoy this first full weekend in December.

It's all coming up next on "One Detroit."

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(bright music) - Just ahead on "One Detroit."

We'll have a future of work report on projected top jobs in Michigan over the next eight years.

Plus, we'll hear from two Detroit DJs about the music that influenced their lives and careers.

And we'll look at some of the events happening around town this weekend.

But first up, we're taking you to the Barn Sanctuary in Chelsea, Michigan.

It's a place where farm animals live out their natural lives.

The owners repurposed their family farm to become a refuge for the rescued cows, pigs, goats, and chickens.

"One Detroit's" Bill Kubota visited the sanctuary and saw how the farm animals are cared for, just like family pets.

- [Bill] Animals on the farm just off the freeway west of Ann Arbor.

At Barn Sanctuary, their residents called persons here, just like the caregivers that see to their needs.

- We do everything that farming is, except for the last part, taking the animals to the market.

- [Bill] Dan McKernan and his father, Tom, they started Barn Sanctuary eight years ago.

- Well, people just aren't exposed to farm animals.

Unless you grew up on a farm, you don't really have the experience of seeing them.

And that's what we hope to do, is let people see that our pigs and cows are more like your experience you have with your dogs and cats.

- You had yours, sorry.

That's it.

- [Bill] Caregiver and Casey Fry, a popular sight in the pig barn this morning.

- So it's turmeric paste and (indistinct) which helps with their joints.

- [Bill] Is that all they eat?

- [Tom] No, they get a lot more than that.

- They get a lot more.

This is just supplements.

- [Bill] Can you tell if they're happy?

- We can tell if they're upset.

And we can tell if they're happy because they want to interact with each other, ourselves.

They get up...

They're able to get up and eat, they're interested in playing around, and they can be little stinkers with each other.

- [Bill] Around 140 farm animals and rescue stories come with each of them.

- We rescued June in 2017, and she was rescued as a piglet.

She was found in a kind of a metal trash can and was left there with a crazy eye infection and was malnourished.

And a local dog rescuer found her, and then gave us a call.

(pig growling) - Yeah, yeah?

- [Bill] Before all this, Dan, a plant-based diet advocate, he was a tech expert in Texas specializing in fundraising for nonprofits.

Tom, a pharmacist and local township supervisor, their farm had been owned by the family for nearly a century and a half.

- And all of a sudden, I realized that this property is potentially gonna be developed commercially.

I didn't really want us to be the next McDonald's, the next gas station, whatever you find along the exit ramps and stuff along the expressway.

- And out of the blue, my dad gave me a call and asked, "What should we do with this family farm that we've got?"

So I told my dad, "How about starting a farm animal rescue on the family farm?"

And he asked, "How are we gonna pay for the feed?"

And I told him I would take care of that and figure out a way.

- [Narrator] Dan barnstormed social media.

His messaging was a hit.

- One bale of hay, it's $5, and we're trying to raise $15,000 in order to get 3,000 bales of hay.

- And so Dan came up with this idea.

And I said, "Really?

People give you money for this?

This is how this works?"

- I just wanted to give y'all an update on the chicken coop fundraiser.

We made our goal.

- And then over time, the sanctuary became my dream too.

So I am all in on this, and this is what I do.

This is my life now.

She likes to have her neck rubbed, yes.

Yes, you do.

- Mabel was rescued from a dairy farm, and she was born, her front legs look a little wonky still, but they were completely contracted.

She couldn't use them.

- [Bill] Mabel, also infertile, can't produce milk.

Useless on a dairy farm but thriving here, thanks in large part to extensive treatments to her legs at Michigan State University, uncommon veterinary care paid for by Barn Sanctuary supporters.

- We are so open to trying everything under the sun that doesn't compromise the quality of life.

So if we can give them a great quality of life and extend the quantity of life, then we feel like we're doing the right things.

Come on, buddy.

Augustus.

Hey, dude.

You can't see me.

Augustus.

Come on.

Come on, buddy.

(roosters crowing) - [Bill] Augustus, the friendly rooster.

Not just the caregivers, he gets along well with the hens too.

- When we talk about the breeds that are raised for meat, unfortunately, they're killed in the industry at six weeks of age.

But we do things very specifically here, and we've had one of those hens last six years, which is phenomenal.

- Goats named Steve, Martin, and Chevy, the three amigos.

They arrived seven years ago after a harrowing excursion aboard an animal transport that made the news.

- [Reporter] The Pennsylvania SPCA spent most of the day unloading these goats and sheep from this truck onto these vehicles.

The animals had a wild ride.

- [Bill] The animals owner fled police.

Spike strips reportedly involved.

- So with all these animals in a trailer and tow, there was a high speed chase.

Unfortunately, he crashed.

A lot of the animals in the trailer are perished.

- [Bill] The three amigos came through it okay.

The driver and his passenger on the lam, apprehended.

- [Reporter] They face more than 80 charges.

- [Bill] Barn Sanctuary now at capacity.

The countless other less fortunate farm animals, what about sanctuary for them?

- That's just something that we have to accept, to just say, "If I can't save them all, what's the point in saving one or five or 10?

So one step at a time, and we're just doing the best that we can.

- But I'd much rather do this because when I'm 95, I don't really want to be talking about, "Did you see that ordinance I helped write?"

or "How many flu shots did I give?"

No, I want to be talking about how we can make the world a better place for our kids and our grandkids by reducing animal cruelty that occurs in factory farms by reducing climate change that agriculture causes, and then also by increasing people's personal health by just eating healthier.

- [Narrator] Let's turn now to a future of work report on top jobs in Michigan over the next eight years.

The Michigan Center for Data and Analytics recently released a report on 50 jobs that will be in demand in the state through 2032.

I spoke with the organization's research manager, Evan Linskey, about the projections and the data used to predict the future of work in Michigan.

(bright music) - What is the overall mission of the Michigan Center for Data and Analytics?

- Mission, I would say, is just trying to provide data-backed solutions and data-backed understandings of problems that were asked by policy makers, by the legislature, by other departments, perhaps nonprofits, any individuals who are really kind of working in this space and wanna know more about how they can execute their programs or how they can execute their work.

- We are here to talk about a recent report that you guys did, which was Michigan's top 50 hot jobs outlook through 2032, I believe.

Can you just give us a little bit about what that report entails, what it was about, how it came about?

- The project as a whole really tries to start the conversation around what are some of the hottest jobs, fields, et cetera, in Michigan.

It sort of helps summarize and get folks talking about some of the most in demand careers in Michigan.

- How do you compile the data for these jobs?

Where does that come from and how does a job make it to number five as opposed to number 10 on the list?

- We look at statewide median wages for these occupations, as well as our projected tenure job growth, which comes from a program carried out here at the state level but that's maintained by the feds, so it's like carried out at every state.

So Ohio has these projections as well.

And then three different types of opening.

When we compare these five variables, we weigh them all evenly.

And so if you're doing very well in medium wages and job growth but perhaps a little bit less in openings, that kind of factors into it but all evenly across the five variables.

So we take this mix.

We find that we get a good healthy mix of jobs.

The list, as I mentioned, we've done this a few times now.

Usually, it has about 80% carry over.

So roughly about 40 jobs will carry over every two years.

So that's nice.

You know, if we did a 10-year outlook and two years later only four of the jobs were the same, we'd have some concerns understandably.

- Right.

One of the things you just mentioned was the three different types of job openings.

Am I understanding that correctly?

Can you explain that a little more?

- So the feds define it as transfers, which is an individual who's leaving a job for another job.

And that's not like, "I'm a registered nurse at this hospital going to this hospital."

It's more like, "I'm a registered nurse here.

I'm going to teach at Wayne State University."

Typical occupational change due to like exits.

So folks who are just leaving the labor market could create openings as well.

And those are defined as folks who are leaving for a certain period of time.

That could be maternal and paternal care, perhaps taking care of loved one, going back to school, et cetera.

But some individual who's not leaving to go to a new job.

It's just an individual who's exiting the labor force in their totality.

- What are the top jobs that you're seeing and what do they have in common with each other?

- Looking at roughly just the top 10, we see software developers, both mechanical and industrial engineers, registered nurses, and a number of other financial management, computer, STEM-related jobs often appearing here in the top 10.

You know, it's tough to narrow it down to just 50 in the total list, but that does represent almost 20% of employment within the state, actually.

So one in five jobs is captured on this list.

But really, those STEM jobs, STEM-related fields are really appearing near the top list, and they have been for a while now.

- You guys are compiling lists of projected job growth areas.

In doing that, are you discovering jobs and industries that are going to be in less demand?

- Those that perhaps require a lower barrier to entry, such as data entry, manual data entry, perhaps telemarketers, very low barrier to entry, production jobs as well, like folks who are maybe pressing T-shirts individually, things that like machines are starting to do writ large quicker than like one individual operating a machine that they were perhaps trained on in a week or in a day, that kind of thing.

There's a little bit more growth in all fields, but of a lot of that does require some level of post-secondary training.

- What would you say should be the biggest takeaway from lists like these, reports like these that you guys publish?

- So not only do we need to prepare folks for these jobs, train folks for these jobs, we need to retain these folks too.

We can't be losing them to, you know, Chicago, we can't be losing 'em to Columbus, we can't be losing them to Texas or otherwise.

And we might even have to be competing to be pulling these folks in.

- Is there anything pertinent that you wanna address about these lists?

- Again, the job 51 is still a great job just 'cause it didn't make it.

I think this year that was occupational therapist.

Elementary school teachers, HVAC mechanics, plumbers, they didn't quite make the list.

Still fantastic jobs.

So certainly hope we don't dissuade anybody from any of these opportunities just because they didn't make the list.

You know, we have a lot of the data at our website but I always like love to push our department of labor and economic opportunity, as well as the state's newest Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement and Potential and MiLEAP.

So LEO and MiLEAP are two other departments of the state, as well as local Michigan works agencies that do fantastic work in this realm.

(upbeat music) - Monday, December 9th is World Techno Day.

A time to celebrate the popular music genre that got its start in Detroit in the 1980s.

Bridge Detroit reporter Michael Walker caught up with two prominent women in the Detroit techno scene, DJ Minx and DJ Holographic.

They talked about their musical influences, the importance of Detroit's Movement and Music Festival, their personal coming out stories, and what's next in their careers.

(gentle bright music) - Detroit is known as the birthplace of techno.

Adding to that legacy DJ Minx, a legend in the city's techno scene, and DJ Holographic, who's learning from those who came before her.

How did the two of you meet?

Ariel and I met through, of course, music and being two black women from Detroit playing this thing called techno and house music.

- Yeah.

- And me being mentorish, once I know about a young lady doing some music, I've gotta meet them.

So I went to a party where she was just to meet her specifically.

- I love that.

- [Micah] Holographic looks up to Minx, and the two have formed a bond for music.

- I'm super honored to get to know her more and more every day.

And I'm trying to remember the first time I met you, but I know how many times I've heard of you.

I had so many people say like, "If you don't know Minx, you don't know nothing yet."

And I was like, "You're right."

And it just uplifted me to see you because I knew I'm in the right place at the right time.

- Both of you performed that Movement this year.

You've been there several times.

What makes each time so special?

- I would say each time is so special 'cause I've been going since I graduated high school, and I've been going every summer every year.

The Hart Plaza and being at the heart of the city of Detroit to hear music that African Americans made, house music, techno, it's gratifying.

For this past year, oh my god, it was like the best one.

I got to play a really fun and phenomenal (indistinct).

Then I gotta see some of my favorite artists like Terrence Parker.

And I got reinspired and getting to dance and express myself and seeing my other family.

'Cause that's what it is.

Movement is like another family.

- Absolutely.

Movement is like a family reunion every year, and a lot of people around the world actually know that.

- [Micah] Minx has been a fixture at the Movement Festival for more than 20 years.

- I have a stage every year, so I do a house show live stage.

And we bring in artists that a lot of them haven't played Movement or been there before.

But the elevating of these not only artists period, but LGBTQ community that come in and they play and they dance with us, it's like building another family on top of the one we already have.

- What were some of the music that that you grew up listening to?

- Motown, Michael Jackson.

- Diana Ross (indistinct).

- Diana Ross.

- Yes, the Jacksons, (indistinct).

- Aretha Franklin.

- Yep.

- A lot of Michael Jackson for me.

At 18, I started listening to Prince.

And then the radio.

It's the radio that really raised me for music here in Detroit.

- Electrifying Mojo.

- How has that shaped the music you're making today?

- First of all, with us talking about the Electrifying Mojo, he was on WGPR.

And he introduced me to a lot of the music that I still play today because this music is timeless as well.

He played a lot of Prince.

He played a lot of tracks that no one else played on different stations like the B502s, and (indistinct) Frequency 7 stuff.

He played a lot of new wave.

And this is stuff you hear right now that's being produced by house music DJs using the same samples, and we can still play that music today.

- How did clubs like the Music Institute help you realize that you want be a DJ?

- Going to the Music Institute and seeing those people dance like they cared about nothing in the world, and them, it's just being such a togetherness at this place, that was a feeling that I wanted to deliver.

I saw the DJ at the Music Institute and he would be getting down.

I was like, "Oh, I think I can be a DJ."

But realistically, it was my mentor that pushed me to say, "Well, if you wanna be a DJ, be a DJ.

The first thing I thought was, "Nope, I'm a woman.

I can't do that."

So, then I started hearing about the women that were DJing, like, there was Stent C. and there was K-Han, rest her soul, and Serena Tyler.

And I just, you know, started practicing and realizing that it is something that I as well could do.

- I worked at nightclub called Necto when I was 20, and I used to be in Nectarine Ballroom where Jeff Mills was the wizard like long ago.

And then he had a residency there.

And I would hear the DJs perform there every night and hear how he would get people to come to the dance floor but also let them go chat and mingle with other people.

So I can see, like, there was an art to it, and I just wanna be a part of that.

- [Micah] DJ Minx and DJ Holographic share their coming out journeys as artists as well.

In 2021, Minx came out publicly on Instagram, saying in the post, "So here I am.

Minx, DJ, producer, Momma, partner, lesbian, friend.

- I've got friends that thought it was a bad idea for me to come out.

I've had a husband, I have daughters, and it looked like the, I guess, homebody that people wanted to see out there DJing.

But just constantly hearing that it wasn't a good idea to let people know that, you know, I lived the way I lived.

So, I had to get over that.

Finally, we just let it go.

When I actually did come out, the phone calls that I got, like, at that moment, like, the posts went up, I'd sat and my managers were all like, "We're gonna be up."

But people that read the post were calling me, "Holy smokes, I cannot believe it.

I love you so much.

Thank you for doing this."

One person said, "You know, you just helped me.

I just came out" Or "You let it be known that it can be done."

And, like, an entire world opened up.

- Even with my family, like, I came out in a weird way of being bi.

And people also, even in our community, are not the nicest of bis.

But it was still that moment of when I told my family this.

This is where it got kind of weird 'cause I expressed it to my mother.

It was a whole nother topic that we were having, and then it came up slightly to this topic of being, "Okay, this is when I'm gonna be vulnerable with you.

We're talking about something else where I'm gonna be vulnerable with you and honest here about me liking this girl at school."

But I don't know she fully understood or, like, was willing to make the next move 'cause I don't know...

It was a book on the conversation but she was listening, and then, of course, she told her mom, which is grandmother.

And my grandmother just said, which is really made me very happy that she said like, "As long as you meet someone that respects you."

And that was really nice 'cause that means I got, like, reinforcement there.

I played, in majority, only queer places in my first five years of DJing, so there was not a conversation of, like, coming out.

I'm like, "I'm here."

"Look, I'm here."

"I'm here and I'm queer."

- But it was always naturally there.

- What's next for the two of you?

Any future collaborations?

- Yeah, we've got something brewing.

Very, very Detroit.

I am currently planning my 2025 Movement stage.

I have a few remixes coming out soon.

- I don't even wanna think about five minutes ahead.

But in truth, it's gonna be music, it's gonna be art, and it's gonna be Detroit.

Always.

My biggest thing right now is the Zodiac thing is a big project for mine and just like really just working on my music, honestly.

Like, I love digging and working on music.

I have a lot of stuff.

The funny part is, like, I'm an ambitious person so I don't think I'm doing a lot.

- Probably doing a whole lot.

- I'm doing too much.

- Yeah.

- I'm doing the most part.

- Exactly.

And this (indistinct) is doing the most.

- [Narrator] The holidays are here, and there's a lot to do in Metro Detroit, both indoors and outdoors.

Cecelia Sharpe and Haley Taylor of 90.9 WRCJ have a list of some of the events and activities taking place in today's One Detroit Weekend.

- Hey, Haley, it's so great to have you to join me to talk about the arts and cultural events happening in and around the Metro Detroit area.

So since this is your debut, why don't you start us off with the first event?

- Thank you so much, Cecelia.

It really is wonderful to be able to share events for our audience to enjoy this holiday season.

Let's start with the Winter Markt in Downtown Birmingham's Shain Park, where twinkling lights welcome market goers to a vast array of local artists and vendors where they can shop for presents or for themselves.

There's also delicious cuisine, ice sculptures, live entertainment, carriage rides, and of course Santa himself will be there.

- Ooh, the big guy.

That sounds like the perfect experience for this time of year.

On December 7th and 8th, Complexions Contemporary Ballet is making its debut at the Detroit Opera House with their 30th anniversary performance.

The Innovative Dance Company performs to live music by the Detroit Opera Orchestra, and there are a few surprises along the way.

- [Haley] Now through December 15th, head to Holly for the Holly Dickens Festival on Battle Alley where you can step inside the world of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" every weekend.

There's a theme each weekend.

This weekend is "Decked out for Dickens," and next weekend is "God Bless Us Every One."

- Who can forget that line from the holiday classic?

Another fun holiday event is Santa's Reindeer Farm at Grandpa Tiny's Farm in Frankenmuth where kids can meet Santa and his reindeer.

Don't forget your letters for Santa.

You can head there through December 22nd.

- And now through December 15th, the mesmerizing classic "Les Miserables" takes the stage at Fisher Theater.

Of course, there is so much more happening in and around our city, so stay tuned for more options.

Have a wonderful weekend.

(gentle bright music) - [Narrator] That'll do it for this week's "One Detroit."

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