{"id":288,"date":"2023-09-09T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2023-09-09T21:04:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T01:04:58","slug":"trustee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/?page_id=288","title":{"rendered":"Trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Janiga, Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I originally started out in the Warrendale section of Detroit.  St Christopher was the church\/school I attended with Mom, Dad and a sister.  In 1956 we moved to Garden City where I finished up schooling in the public schools.  When I got married in 1969, my wife and I eventually bought a home in Dearborn.  Two daughters later, and one on the way, we moved to Dearborn Heights near St. Sabina church\/school.  After the divorce, I ended up in Redford and then transplanted myself to Brownstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My heritage is 100% Polish. My Mom and Dad always followed the Polish traditions at home, including me having to take accordion lessons.  The hours and years I had to practice was all due to Myron Floren on the Lawrence Welk show.  I did manage to persuade my dad to get me a drum set and then a guitar, but the accordion was always with me.  Music was so much a part of me that I decided to make it a career after I left my first profession, mortuary science.  I enrolled in music education at Wayne State, got my degree and then landed a job in the Woodhaven-Brownstown school district.  I later enrolled at Eastern University and obtained a master\u2019s degree.  I retired from teaching in 2000 but I never stopping playing jobs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I look over the past 60 years as a musician, I am very grateful for all the talented musicians and bands that I have worked with during my life.  I will continue to work as an accordionist until I can no longer squeeze the box.  I have not played my last polka, yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Janiga, Trustee I originally started out in the Warrendale section of Detroit.  St Christopher was the church\/school I attended with Mom, Dad and a sister.  In 1956 we moved to Garden City where I finished up schooling in the public schools.  When I got married in 1969, my wife and I eventually bought a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-288","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t