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~~~oSouth graduate gets new heart, lungs, life AssIstant Editor d.eep breath or walk up stairs. Today she flU.geryand transplantation, particularly For the first time in her life Do rides a stationary bicycle and walks two Iver transplants. viving Siamese twin, she required extensive hospital care just to survive. A while after Gage~ of G~ Pointe Farm; cann~~lk miles three times a week. Before the trans- ch?agen a~ees that she is getting a second being sent home, it was discovered she had run, nde a bike and look forward to ,,' plant, she had a two-year life expectancy, at ..nee at hfe, but she has no idea what a mal" life. a nor- most, now if the organs are not rejected, she normal life is supposed to be. Since birth a hole in her heart. She suffered heart fail. ure when she was 3 months old. She had . Gagen, ~7, is experiencing for the first can live as long as any of us. she had a bad heart, which led to deteriorat- her first heart catheterization at 18 months. time the simple physical activities we take "Before I couldn't walk up stairs, now I tng lungs and other health problems. Nor- Sara Gagen said that today such heart de- for granted. On Oct. 20, she was the reci i- can do anytl:Jing," Gagen said last week. mal to Gagen has been poor health and the fects can be corrected in infants, but that ent of a successful heart and lungs trans~ She was aHowed to return home Dec. 2 from Inablh~yto participate in any type of physi- plant. ~esb)iterian.University Hospital, affiliated cal activity. was not the case in the '60s. Gagen was not expected to live. Before the operation, she couldn't take a with the University of Pittsburgh. The hos- Gagen was born in 1962 to Sara and Don- pital is kllown for neural and orthopedic aId Gagen, then of Indianapolis. As a sur- City officials concerned over fate of St. Clair school property By John Minnis zoned Assistant Editor not even been set yet, she said. "If they really want to do WhIle the school district is The school board is looking at something about it," he said, planning a ballot proposal for a conducting the vote in June of "they better come to talk to us." new main library, Grosse Pointe thiS year or February of next City officials are miffed that Mayor Lorenzo D. Browning year. they haven't bef>nconsulted. agreed: "I'm going to be hard- Roberts said that 'f a bond Statuesque To meet increased demands for nosed on that piece (of .property). vote were held in June and if it hbrary space, the school district I'm not happy with the school were approved, then the earlieat model is planning to go to the voters board as far as that's con. completion date of the new li- With a bond referendum to pay cerned." brary would be in September for a proposed $7.7 million lie 1992. Then another 13 montIuJ brary at the Brownell Middle The property at 389 St. Clair This c:aniaae nQIDed Ollie sporta is 200 feet wide and, depth-wise, would be needed to renovate the a keUy green Iweater knitted. by School site on Chalfonte in the old Central LIbrary building at Farms. runs through to Notre Dame. It hbI OWOeJ', Mrs. Otto Pongrac.. a IS zoned single-family residen. Fisher and Kercheval. 'Il1at FCU'DIBresident. "The neighbors If the voters approve the bond tial, whlch'means that Jf it is no means the earliest the St. Clair get a Idck out of it," she said. "We issue and an additional half mill longer used for schools, It has to property could be vacated is put a lrReater OD the statue each for operating revenue, Central be converted to single-family October 1993. ~d that's if year after the first snow just for Library on Kercheval will be homes The s1te is Just big everything goes right on sched- fun. H. just looked so cold out renovated to house the school ule and there are no delays. tb.r.:' enough for eight homes - four district admInistrative offices, on St. Clair and four on Notre not Photo by Dan J4trvus. The St. Cla1r property has which are currently at 389 St Dame been put up for sale, Roberts Clair In Grosse Pointe City. The city 1Sconcerned that the Bald. The St Clair property would school d1stnct will have a buyer then be sold to pay for or offset "It's not that the Grosse I for t.he property Ilned up only to Pointe Public SchQOl S~l!Item i U'e costs of the old Central L1- fmd that the purchaser's pn>- brary renovation. wants to try to exclude G"- posed use is unacceptable to the Pointe City," she IBid, addi .. The selling and consequent fu. city. ture use of the St. Clair property that the CIty Council's concerne of are what concerns city officials. Kathy Roberts, the school are premature. district's public relations office At the Jan. 15 council meet. Scrace, however, believell it'. said city officials haven't bee~ not too early to begin tIlJking 109, Councilman Dale &race re- consulted thus far because it's quested that a letter be sent to with the school administrators. far too early in the planning pro- He pointed out that deciding the the school district asking "what cess. She said the selling of the their intentions are:" acceptable uses for the at. Clair St. Clair is at least three years property may require 8 land-use "They can tell people what- down the road, if ever. study of the entire area, which ever they want," he said, indicat- "It's a moot point until the will take time He believes the ing that the city wlll have a say election," she said. entire process would move more In the disposition of the St. Clair First the voters have to ap- smoothly if the school district pro(jerty If It is anything other prove the new hbrary bond is- and the city are working to- than single.famlly homes as sue, and a date for the vote has gether. p~~,~ Assessment increases ordered We're sorry Due to a press breakdown throughout Pointes this year and other equipment pr0b- Clint P. Hardy lems last week, the Grosse By John Minnis cations and, therefore, their jobs. the properly assessed community Pointe News was delivered Assistant Editor If assessments are not raised lo- would pay $350 in county taxes. to the post office too late for By RonIId J. Bernas There was much excitement Residential assessments and cally, when reqUIred, then the In the 30 percent community, normal Thursday delivery, StaffWntef on the street as the car was de- state equalized values are gomg county, by law, must raIse them. assessments would have to be with subscribers getting the Clint Hardy's life has taken livered. The man who delivered up more than 10 percent m all The reasoning behind the increased 66 percent (30 x 1.66) paper a day late. We're sony many twists and turns. it offered to wash off the dust the Grosse Pointes this year state equalization laws and State to reach the 50 percent level. for any inconvenience this . He's gone from his birt.hplace that had accumulated on the The assessment increases, de- Tax Commission gUIdelines is to To make sure all county com. may have caused our read- in Adrian, Mich. to workmg on ride over. The man who washed termined by the Wayne County make sure people pay their fair munities keep up with market ers. the railroad in Winnipeg, AI. the car was also the man who Department of EqualizatIOn, share of property taxes, Mc- values, the equalization depart- berta, to Detroit to Grosse Pointe designed the car - Henry Ford. range from 12 percent m the Eachran said. ment constantly conducts com- Fanns. An all-aroWld athlete, Hardy Woods to 16.25 percent In the For example, all Wayne panson studies of home selling It's also included a 54-year played high school sports and he City. The Park's assessments are County homeowners pay a 7.mill prices and assessed values. marriage which produced four was the football team's quarter. up 15.75 percent; the Shores Will county tax. A mill represents a Of course, the studies are at daughters, nine grandchildren back. see a 14.21 percent increase, and $1 for every $1,000 of state ,~: tax least a year old by the time local and five great-grandchildren. On He took a job with an Adrian- the Farms is up 13 7 percent equalized assessed value (SEV). communities announce assess- May 16 he turns 100. based fence company, installing George McEachran, dIrettoI' of If one community IS assessed at ment increases Therefore, as- , Port GIIIJtcrity Born in 1890, Hardy was one fencing along the railroad the county equalizatIOn depart- 30 percent of market value and sessments can go up even during : CXlnCemB Peril .2A of three children born to a through the rural parts of AI- ment, said the assessment m- another community at 50 per- a soft real estate market, which SAine c1UcI,... banker and his wife. creases are good indicators of l'Is. cent, then the owner of a will not be reflected in assess- Bdtool diaIrict. .3A His father also owned the Cro- See POINTER, page lOA ing home market values becau'le $100,000 home in the lesser as- ments until a year or two later.