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The Boss Robert A. Ficano served as sheriff of Wayne County for nearly 20 years be• fore being elected Wayne County ex• I HUKM3AY, JAN. 1 ecutive in January Happy New Year 2003. Ficano's of• fice oversees an an• MONDAY, JAN. 5 nual budget of $2.2 • A Red Cross Blood Drive will billion. He is a grad• be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in uate of the Livonia the conference room at Henry Public Schools District and has earned a Ford Cottage Hospital, 159 bachelor's degree from Michigan State Kercheval, Grosse Pointe University and a law degree from the Farms. For an appointment, University of Detroit Law School He prac• callPatLecznarat(313) 640- ticed law in the private sector before entering 2631. Walk-ins are welcome. public service. • Grosse Pointe Woods City Ficano was assistant city attorney in the Council meets at 7:30 p.m. in city of Westland before being elected Wayne council chambers, 20025 Mack County Sheriff in 1984. Plaza. TUESDAY JAN 6 • A mandatory meeting for those interested in joining the Ski Hi Club is at 4 p.m. or 6 p.m. in the Fries Ballroom of County's the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, 32 Lakeshore, Grosse Pointe Farms. Both par• ents and students must attend the meeting and students need PHOTO BY RENEE LANDUYT CEO sees to bring a 2-inch photo. For Wind gusts up to 60 mph blew through southeast Michigan Sunday, Dec. 28, ripping wires from poles and build• more information, call (313) ings and tearing branches from trees. A 30-foot tree branch was severed and dropped to the ground on the 881-7511 or visit Grosse Pointe Academy grounds. In ail the Grosse Pointes, tree branches, limbs, garbage cans, signs, holiday warmemorial.org. The club is decorations and gutters were blown about as temperatures dropped 30 degrees in 24 hours. open to Grosse Pointe resi• a bright dents or students in grades 5 through 12. High winds

• Grosse Pointe North High School hosts a high school ori• wipe out entation night at 6:30 p.m. in By Joe Warner the Performing Arts Center. Editor For more information, call To say 2008 brought challenges to Wayne (313)432-3200 or visit trees, power County and Metro Detroit would be the un• gpschhols.org. derstatement of the New Year. An ailing economy with the talk of bailouts THURSDAY JAN 8 ByAmySalvagno or bankruptcy for the Big Three, the highest • Local Business Networks, Staff Writer jobless rates in the United States and numer• Grosse Pointe Chapter, meets ous scandals leading to the "resignation" of from 8 to 9:15 a.m. in the AAA Strong winds that pushed through the Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick have left Michigan office, 19299 Mack, Grosse Pointes during the night and into the Detroit in the national headlines — and not Grosse Pointe Woods. For early morning Dec. 28 left behind a land• in a favorable way. PHOTO BY SUSAN BURKE more information, call (586) scape of broken branches, downed electri• There are positive signs, including new 206-4958. cal wires and uprooted trees. Above, heavy fog blan• businesses coming to town, the revival of old • The Neighborhood Club, The area was under a high wind alert keted the area on businesses — the Book Cadillac, especially 17150 Waterloo, City of Grosse throughout the day with gusts of nearly 50 A Saturday creating an — and hope that financial help from taxpay• Pointe, offers a Mom & Tot ex• mph reported by the National Weather eerie picture of the ers will save thousands of jobs in the region. ercise class for children 1 to 2 Service. The windy weather followed soak• Grosse Pointe Yacht We still bring the world to town with the years old and their parents and ing rain, record high temperatures and thick I * *r£ 1 Club. At left, the downed North American International Auto Show, caregivers in six week sessions fog. wire in the alley behind though Cobo needs renovating, something from 9 to 9:50 a.m. The cost is Early in the morning, the violent winds Starbuck's on Kercheval that has been talked about for years. $50. For more information, vis• knocked down a wire in a parking lot off of was blocked off with Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano is it neighborhoodclub.org. Kercheval Avenue in the Village, cutting caution tape by police excited about 2009. He said different pro• • The Neighborhood Club, power to several shops. Two more wires early Sunday morning jects underway in the region will be a benefit 17150 Waterloo, City of Grosse were blown down at the intersection of until a DTE worker re• to businesses and residents. He recently met Pointe, offers a Kiddie Gym Maumee and St. Clair, knocking out power paired the damage. with the Grosse Pointe News to look back at class for children ages 2 and 3 to Grosse Pointe City Hall and the public 2008 and look forward to progress in the years old from 10 to 10:50 a.m. for six consecutive Thursdays. zee wnsDS,page3A See CEO, page 3A Hie cost is $50. For more infor• PHOTO BY RENEE LANDUYT mation, visit neighborhoodclub .org. POINTER OF INTEREST

Park man faces 'I went out in the alley one day to take trash out Schools 7A and found a tennis racket in the trash.' Opinion 8A Op-Ed 9A Photo Page 10A bank robbery charges Betty Dunwoodie Obituaries 11A Churches 5B Home: Grosse Pointe Farms Entertainment 6B By Kathy Ryan $100,000 bond in connection rest. Age: 90 Classified ads 4C StaffWriter with the 12:10 p.m. Tuesday, According to police, a man Dec. 23, armed robbery of the entered the bank, told a bank Family: Two sons; two A Grosse Pointe Park man Bank of America branch at teller he had a gun, demanded grandchildren; two great• has been charged with one Matter and Jefferson in St. money and fled in a white car. bank robbery and is a suspect Clair Shores. The bank manager took down grandchildren in another. Grosse Pointe Park Public the car's license plate number Claim to fame: Plays tennis up Nicholas Maslonka, 33, is in Safety Officer Joseph Pokier to five times a week Macomb County Jail on a is credited with making the ar• See ROBBERY, page 6A See story on page 4A

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Yesterdays headlines Most Grosse Pointe home• owners can expect higher property assessments in 1984, according to prelimi• 50 years ago this week nary studies by the Wayne County assessor's office. • FERE PROTECTION The assessment hikes are CRITICIZED: A recent fire expected to range from 2.25 that destroyed a Provencal percent to almost 5 percent. Road home has resurrected Residents in the Shores and discussion about consolidat• City may see a slight decline. ing the fire departments of all • WOODS FIGHTS MILK five Grosse Pointe communi• RIVER STATION: A Wayne ties. County Circuit Court judge Consolidation into one dis• temporarily halted construc• trict has long been a subject tion of a prefabricated office of discussion and often bitter facility at the Milk River debate in the community. pumping station in Grosse • VANDALS PREY ON Pointe Woods last week, OUTDOOR DECORATIONS: pending hearings scheduled Several instances of vandal• to begin tomorrow on the ism were reported in the City matter. of Grosse Pointe and the Park The Woods City Council during the Christmas week. asked its attorney to seek a A homeowner on Lakeland temporary restraining order complained of a deliberately against construction, alleging smashed spotlight in the it is a capital improvement front of his house; a Lincoln and by state law needed to be Road resident found her approved by the members of string of outdoor lights the drainage district, namely smashed on her front porch; the Woods and Harper a Rivard resident complained Woods. that a five-foot silhouette of • CLEMINSON HALL Santa Claus had been lifted REDEDICATED: Cleminson from his front yard; and a Hall, South High School's Devonshire resident reported original library, was rededi- a string of lights and two cated recently after this flood lights had been stolen year's student association from her front lawn. helped enhance it with • JOY BELLS TO RING $3,000 in new carpeting. AGAIN: The carillon from the Attendees at the event in• estate of the late Mr. and Mrs. cluded artist William Yaeger Henry B. Joy on Lakeshore who painted wall murals in FROM THE JAN. 1, 1959 ISSUE OF THE GROSSE POINTE NEWS Road was presented to the the library in 1936 and Mrs. City of Grosse Pointe Farms Walter Cleminson, wife of by the couple's son and South High's principal from daughter. 1940 to 1957 after whom the Out with the old The Farms council appro• hall was named. priated money to have the South High School gradu• No old man with a scythe is skulking into oblivion in this interpretation of the calendar change. Stephen Calder of Grosse Pointe carillon moved to the Water ated its first class, comprised Woods has a better a way to usher in the new year. Filtration Plant grounds on of 48 students, in 1928. Moross between Lakeshore and Grosse Pointe Boulevard. year-old woman who said she The fire did not spread to that hook into a subject's skin. was going to sell them to get the house, but the garage was The result is a powerful jolt that money for drugs. destroyed and the two vehi• stops a person in their tracks, 10 years ago this week • GARAGE FIRE: Grosse cles inside were severely but is not lethal. Pointe Park firefighters damaged. The fire began in Five years ago this week • WOODS STANDOFF ON 25 years ago this week • STOLEN CLOTHES: were called to a home on one of the cars parked in the GUN RANGE: After 11 months About $ 1,400 worth of cloth• Middlesex after the garage. • NEW WATER PLANT of study, the Grosse Pointe • PROPERTY VALUES ing was stolen-from three residents discovered their • ST. PAUIXELEBRATES POSSIBLE: Grosse Pointe Woods City. Council still isn't EXPECTED TO INCREASE: stores in the Village by a 59- garage on fire. 100 YEARS: St. Paul Catholic Shores has joined a consortium sure whether the dty'sgun^_. J Church marked 100 years of of eastside suburbs looking in• range should be permanently/ '' servicerStrPaurs was orga• to building its own water treat• closed to residents. The city's nized as a mission in 1825 and ment plant. risk management specialist as an official parish in 1834. • TASERS: Grosse Pointe recommended eHminating The current church building Shores public safety officers public use of the range because was finished and the first have been outfitted with Tasers. such use increases the city's lia• Mass celebrated in January Tasers firetwin , 21-foot wire bility. 1899. strands tipped with metal barbs —By Kdren Fontanive

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^L- The Studio Theatre is kick• ness all her life, Myra is tired Hildebrandt, Kelli Sarakun, ing off 2009 with John of pretending to be somebody Megan Blaschak, Dave Patrick's comedy, "A Bad Year else. She has given up her Woitulewicz and Stephen for Tomatoes," at 8 p.m. fake Hollywood life and is Carson. Thursday, Jan. 15. searching for the simple plea• The production team in• Performances continue at 8 sures of gardening and cludes Brandon Silva, stage p.m. Jan. 15 -17 and Jan. 22 - recording her life story. Myra manager; Tracy Machak, cos• 24. sets in motion her declaration tume designer; Alan The play revolves around and discards her old cos• Batkiewicz, scenic designer; movie star Myra Marlow as tumes, begins to grow toma• Chris Wade, lighting designer; she escapes from Hollywood toes and starts her autobiogra• and Heather DeFauw, sound to the small town of Beaver phy while living in her hum• designer. Haven. ble, modest home. The Studio Theatre is locat• Her rest and relaxation Will Myra be able to change ed downstairs at the Hilberry come to an abrupt halt when her way of life or will her Theatre, 4743 Cass Ave., her nosey neighbors come to nosey neighbors interfere? Detroit. Ticket prices range call. But the inventive and Will this be a bad year for from $10 to $12. For tickets imaginative Myra devises a tomatoes? and more information, call sneaky plan to keep her "A Bad Year for Tomatoes" (313) 577-2972, log on to neighbors on the edge of their is directed by Kate Brandon. wsushows.com or visit the seats. The cast includes Annabelle Wayne State University box After being in show busi• Young, George Abud, Erin office at 4743 Cass, Detroit.

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i- fr limbs. also reported little damage. WINDS: In Grosse Pointe Shores, At press time, the National Public Works Director Brett Weather Service issued anoth• Trees down, Smith reported minimal dam• er wind advisory as a cold age. One residential tree came front moved through south• PHOTOS BY KATHY RYAN electricity out down at the north end of town, east Michigan. Wind gusts of Above, basketball was canceled at this house on Cook Road in Grosse he said. up to 40 mph were expected in Pointe Woods after Sunday's high winds blew down the basketball Continued from page 1A . Officials in Grosse Pointe the late afternoon Dec. 29 and net. Woods officials reported spotty power outages, but no major Park and Grosse Pointe Farms into the early evening. damage following the storm that brought gusts of up to 60 mph. safety department. Top and right, Sunday's high winds nearly brought down an ancient The department was run• elm tree on Kensington in Grosse Pointe Park. Winds uprooted the ning on a generator Monday, tree about 6 a.m. Sunday, but it fell onto another tree, preventing Dec. 29, but city offices re• MEDA PAINTING & FINISHING, INC. damage to the house. The crew from J and W Tree Artisans completed mained closed, said Officer what the wind storm began on Sunday afternoon. Public safety offi• Paul Onderbeke. 32 Years of Grosse Pointe Referenci PHOTO BY RENEE LANDUYT cials reported several large tree limbs had come down during the Deputy Director Jim Fowler, • Interior & Exterior Painting storm throughout the Park. In other areas of the Grosse Pointes, it of the Grosse Pointe Woods • Faux Finishing & Glazing was the tale of the yellow tape as downed power lines were cordoned off, such as Kercheval Public Safety Department, • Complete Carpentry Services and Buckingham in Grosse Pointe Park. Though the traffic lights were out on Mack from noted only temporary power 8 Furniture & Cabinet Refinishing Cadieux to Alter Road, Park officials reported only spotty power outages and no major damage. outages in some neighbor• Left, Coldwater Creek in the Village was closed due to the power outage. hoods and a few fallen tree Free Estimates/Pricing to Fit Your Budget 313-886-6217 www. Ficano went on to say that Oakland County. Big Three afloat after the CEO: Beijing, Frankfurt, Los Angeles "I think the people of Senate failed to approve a and Chicago are working hard Oakland County and Sen. bailout package before its holi• is to steal the thunder from the (Mike) Bishop are for the day break. Motor City when it comes to progress there," he said, leav• He questioned the motives of looking good the auto show. ing Oakland County Executive many who voted against the "How it is run, how it is paid L. Brooks Patterson out of his measures, and his office sup• Continued from page 1A for — everything needs to be comment. ported an advertising cam• looked at," Ficano said. "We Patterson, who went against paign in many southern states new year. This is part one of a have to change and we have to Kilpatrick on his numbers to touting the importance of sav• two-part discussion. have a business model that renovate and not necessarily ing the Big Three. Ficano said it THE AHEE SIGNATURE works." expand Cobo, saw some of his was also supported by the The Auto Show Cobo — with the auto show wishes come true in legislation Greater Detroit Chamber of CREDIT CARD Ficano said for the auto show and several other much smaller that made its way through Commerce, Peter Karmanos, to stay in Detroit, Cobo needs events — brings in about $6.2 Lansing in December. the Hitch family, Rock serious work and the coopera• million in revenues a year. Kilpatrick said the work need• Financial, the UAW, the AFL- tion of the whole region — in• Ficano said Grand Rapids ed would far exceed $ 1 billion. CIO, Detroit Renaissance and cluding the city of Detroit, brings in about $6.6 million in As Ficano also wished, the DougRothwell. Oakland County, Macomb revenue on conventions in a administrators of Cobo will "I couldn't believe the hostili• County and beyond. smaller facility now fall to a five-member ty from some of these unin• - i Ah»( S ^iiu'-ina :<•][: -i d« i "We have identified work "It's possible to do so much board that includes a represen• formed senators," Ficano said. that means $288 million in con• more," he said. "Real people tative of Wayne, Oakland and "There seemed to be such a dis• struction costs," he said. "We and real jobs are on the line Macomb counties, Detroit and connect. The negative impact ffuct'iiri CrnufiMs svur isliis/1 need to look at revenue with here." the. state of Michigan. All must of not helping our automakers on i *t ry p,m /msi franchise agreements and agree unanimously on deci• would be felt across the United Scandals in Detroit naming rights. We need to look sions affecting Cobo. States. As a region we need to Extvnifd finant •• u 'r»s j*jilnblr> at everything." Ficano confirmed some of The argument is how the educate people. We haven't Ficano said Detroit's trade• the projects, including renova• project should be funded. The done a good job of that." mark is the auto show, but it's tions to Cobo, were put on the current tax on liquor and hotel Ficano said the restructuring endangered by aggressive back burner due to issues at rooms in Wayne, Oakland and that is under way, along with a moves in other cities looking to Detroit City Hall involving Macomb counties is scheduled plan for the future will make compete. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. to end in 2015. It would need to the Big Three very competitive, "This brings a half-billion "As the text message issue be extended to 2022 to fund the enough to survive this reces• dollars to the Detroit economy heated up, the focus was gone," expansion and renovation pro• sion. each year," he said. "We're still Ficano said. "Things worsened ject. "Our silence and work ethics making more cars here than from a public scrutiny stand• "We will get there," Ficano have worked against us," he anywhere in the United States. point, and self-preservation said. "It's something the region said. "We just bared our teeth We need to protect this show mode took over instead of busi• needs. The auto dealers have and went to work. I think the and the only way to do that is to ness getting done. In June and stepped up to the plate when it tone was set when President come together on these large July, the pieces were in place comes to the auto show. It's a Bush refused to meet with the projects. for the project there. It's going tough economy, but we plan to automakers. He now knows "For so many years, every• to happen now. We are cau• move forward." how important it is to the econ• body operated in their own silo. tiously optimistic that it's mov• omy. The rest of the world Apply online at ahee.com, You could get away with it. ing forward." Auto Bailout wants the innovations we bring visit our showroom, or call us at Now we all have challenges. Ficano said while Macomb Ficano was obviously elated to the table. The next UAW 313-886-4600 for more information. Everybody has to be on the County supports the initiative, President George W. Bush an• contract will make them very same page." there is still work to be done in nounced his plan to keep the competitive. It's worth saving." GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY 1, 2009

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PHOTO BY PAUL KAN IA Grosse Pointe resident Paul Kania took his son, Larry, sledding at Balduck Park during the first heavy snowfall of the season. Larry- joined dozens of other children who used the day off school to have fun. Above, Larry rotates as he slides down the hill At left, still smiling, Larry trudges up the hill for the umpteenth time. - At right, Larry shows what fun sledding is and that practice makes perfect.

POINTER OF INTEREST At 90, Betty Dunwoodie continues to play tennis as much as five times per week. She stays active by walking, playing bridge and volunteering her time.

By Karen Fontanive lennium. Through it all, to this "Betty is one in a .million. StaffWriter day, she still plays tennis. She is ageless and timeless," Dunwoodie discovered ten• said tennis professional Joe Chances are if you play ten• nis in the alley behind her Shaheen. "A lot of people nis, you know Betty Detroit home, literally. would love to be able to do Dunwoodie. "I went out in the alley one what she does. Whenever Chances are if you play day to take trash out and found she's out on the court, she is bridge, have taken classes a tennis racket in the neigh• always working on something through the Grosse Pointe War bor's trash," said Dunwoodie. no matter how many" years Memorial or are involved with "I took the racket and grabbed she's played." Henry Ford Cottage Hospital a small rubber ball and hit it Said Dunwoodie, "The only or any of its charity fundrais• against the garage door. thing I don't do is run back• ers, you know Betty "I did a lot of banging. Every ward for the balls. I can't risk Dunwoodie. time it hit a board in the door, falling." Chances are if you have lived the ball would bounce crazy She walks two to three' in Grosse Pointe long enough, and go down the alley and I'd miles on the days she doesn't you know Betty Dunwoodie. have to chase that darn ball. I play tennis and plays ^bridge That's because Betty hated that." ., •, twice a week^t.GjrpsseXpinte, Dunwoodie has been around She got pretty good at hitting Methodist Church. V Grosse Pointe for a long time. the ball before it bounced When she isn't on the This active woman plays ten• down the alley. courts, walking around town nis three to five times a week, All of that banging and chas• or at the bridge-table, shei^ay bridge two times a week and ing would lead her to become j2t be at The Grosse Pointe War volunteers at least once a captain of her Southeastern Memorial, where she has vol• week. High School tennis team — unteered for theiast 15 years, There are a lot of people who and without having a single PHOTO BY RENEE LANDUYT "I used to wqi-k with the'7i;H do that. But not all of them are tennis lesson. grade skiers —;£hec^th4rn iri, 90 years old. Upon graduating in 1934, Betty Dunwoodie prepares to volley a shot during a recent tennis lesson. Dunwoodie, who was take their pictures.' Now¥$p This Grosse Pointe Farms she had planned to attend the captain of her Southeastern High School and Wayne University tennis teams has been playing whatever is needed," she said;. resident has lived through the University of Michigan, but the tennis about 80 years. Or she may be at'-the gift Great Depression, the advent Depression struck a few years shop at Henry Ford Cottage of television and the new mil- earlier and derailed her plans. tend Wayne University, now Waterworks Park when she Detroit to work in the family Hospital. "I began volunteer• Her father, the chief structural Wayne State University. She was about 16. They married in law practice," said Dunwoodie. ing at the hospital abdat ,17* engineer at an architectural cites a program Franklin 1942. Dunwoodie had two boys years ago. I worked %very firm, was laid off. Roosevelt implemented to pro• He was a lawyer for the FBI and while they were babies, Thursday in the office," she Grosse Pointe News "My dad was out of work for vide tuition to students who during World War II and while she stopped playing tennis. "I said. "For the last 15 years, I've been working in the gift USPS 230-400 two or three months," she said worked. he was at Quantico, she didn't know people who played," she said. "When the shop. I see more people this PUBLISHED EVERY recalling those difficult times. "I was lucky enough to work worked for the U.S. Census THURSDAY BY "We didn't have any new in the dean's office — typing, Bureau. Then the couple kids were in school all day, I way." POINTE NEWS GROUP LLC clothes for two or three years. filing, folding letters, stuffing moved to Albany, New York. started playing tennis again." Or she may be volunteering 96 KERCHEVAL AVE.GROSSE We didn't spend money on can• envelopes, whatever was need• "The Daughters of the Her husband died in 1972 at Grosse Pointe Methodist POINTE FARMS, MI 48236 dy, pop, shows or movies. We ed," she said. American Revolution opened and a few$$arslater sj^mar|s . , .PHONE: (313) 882-6900 made up games, listened to the And, there was tennis. She a canteen there. I worked serv• ried Bob Dunwoodie, a widow• Looking at the slender PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID at Detroit, radio. There wasn't any televi• was captain of the Wayne ing coffee and doughnuts to er whom she had known Durrwbodie, with her piercing Michigan and additional mailing offices. sion. As bad as it is now, it was University tennis team and soldiers. I played a lot of ping- through the children's school blue eyes, it's easy to imagine SUBSCRIPTION RATES: S37.50 per year via mall in the Metro area, S65 outside. worse then," said Dunwoodie. graduated with a degree in pong with them as well," said and Little League. the woman who once mod• postmaster: Send address changes to While money was tight and economics and business. Dunwoodie. Bob Dunwoodie, a trial eled for J.L; Hudson,'B/Siegel Grosse Pointe News, 96 Kercheval, her plans for attending U-M Always athletic, she met her After her husband was trans• lawyer, developed Alzheimer's and Kern's. Grosse pointe Farms, Ml 48236. fell through, Dunwoodie says first husband, Edward Devine, ferred to Little Rock, Ark., disease. Betty Dunwoodie's To what does Dunwoodie The deadline for news copy is 3 p.m. Monday to ensure insertion. she was lucky to be able to at- while rollerskating at Dunwoodie continued her eyes well up as she recalled the credit her longevity and her ADVERTISING COPY FOR SECTION B work with soldiers. An exclu• doctors suggesting they travel active lifestyle? ' . must be in the advertising department sive hotel and spa in Hot and enjoy themselves while "I do some calisthenics by 10:30 a.m. Monday. . Springs was turned into a rest they could. And they did. They every morning to loosen stiff ADVERTISING COPY FOR SECTIONS traveled the United States, A AND C must be In the advertising stop for wounded soldiers. bones. Watch your diet. My department by 3 p.m. Monday. Dunwoodie worked there. England, Scotland, France, mora didn't allow pop and CORRECTIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS: While In Arkansas, she learned Italy and Sicily. "I'm still travel• candy was a treat. She be-, Responsibility for display and classified to play bridge which she often ing," she said. lieyed in> milk, cereal, fruits advertising errors is limited to either 'cancellation of the charge for of a re• played with the soldiers. But it was tennis that helped an& vegetables with a minimal run of the portion in error. Notification her through her husband's amount of meat, usually must be given in time for correction in Her husband received a the following issue. We assume no transfer to Seattlei but the cou• Alzheimer's. He spent 13 years chicken. To this day, I only eat; responsibility of the same after the first ple never made it. in a nursing home. "They a small amount of meat %t insertion. "There was a terrible car ac• wouldn't let me visit in the most two or feree.times/a THE GROSSE POINTE NEWS reserves week," she advised. the right not to accept an advertiser's cident and my husband never morning, so I played tennis order. Grosse Pointe News advertising regained full use of one of his and then went at lunch to feed "My grandmother lived to representatives have no authority to bind this newspaper. Only publication of arms. He was assigned a desk him," said Dunwoodie. 100 and my parents lived into an advertisement shall constitute final job, but by then the war was And, she's still playing ten• their nineties. I guess I inherit• acceptance of the advertiser's order. over, so we came back to nis. ed fairly decent genes." GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY 1, 2009 5A.

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Hundreds of band and or• will be held in the North gym, chestra students in the Grosse 707 Vernier in Grosse Pointe Pointe school district will wel• Woods. come the New Year with the Grosse Pointe schools instru• ninth annual Band-O-Rama mental music directors Leslie and String Extravaganza Brumm, Jim Cadotte, David Thursday, Jan. 8 and Friday, Cleveland, John Donnellon, Jan. 9. Dean Doss, James Gross, Paul Musicians from Grosse Miller, Gail Scarlett, and Dan Pointe North High School, White will conduct. Parcells Middle School and The event features the pro• Poupard, Monteith, Ferry and gression of the students from Mason elementary schools will elementary through middle perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and high school performance in Band-O-Rama. All district levels. The community is invit• schools will participate in the ed to attend. A minimum $1 String Extravaganza on Friday, donation is requested at the also at 7:30 p.m. Both concerts door.

The Grosse Pointe South High School Pointe Singers Concert Choir wowed Detroit Symphony Orchestra attendees at six concerts , Dec. 18-21 at Orchestra Hail in Detroit. Along with the Andover High School Choir from Bloomfield Hills, Souths choir sang out sea• sonal favorites. They were accompanied by the DSO during its annual "Home for the Holidays" performances, led by conductor Thomas Wilkins. Holiday selections ranged from Robert Shaw's "The Many Moods of Christmas" to Bill Holcombe's "Festive Sounds of Hanukkah." The choir is under the direction of Ellen Bowen.

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GUEST EDITORIAL By John M.Crisp

History repeats

itself for the good

t's a banal truism to note that history repeats itself. But it does, if not in the details, at least according to general outlines and patterns. History is predictive, and scholars and writers who interpret the past are, at the same time, ac• counting for the present and foreseeing the future. If only we paid more attention to them. For example: The current financial crisis broke just about the time I hit the mid-point of Kevin Phillips' book HAPPY NEW YEAR 'American Theocracy,'' published in2006. Phillips argues convincingly in non-alarmist prose that America is facing an unfortunate chapter in its history stem• ming from the confluence of three related phenomena: The Cheney's memoirs done, is doing and will do depletion of the world's oil supply, the expansion of the influ• To the Editor: through his people. ence of evangelical Christianity in American politics and the Throughout history, retired The Point of Relevance team shift of America's economic engine from manufacturing to a public figures have published rejoices that we are able to autobiographical versions of freely lift up our Lord Jesus their lives and accomplish• Christ. We are thankful and American dominance based on oil may have The Grosse Pointe News welcomes your letters to the editor. ments. grateful that we do not stand run its natural coarse, but American All letters should be typed, double-spaced, signed and limited to From Benjamin Franklin's alone but have the continued 250words. Longer letters may be edited for length and all letters"Autobiography " to Bill support of many people in the ingenuity and labor are still global may be edited for content. We reserve the right to refuse any let•Clinton's "My Life," these works community who join us in faith necessities. ter. Include a daytime phone number for verification or questions.hav e characterized the author and obedience to do his work The deadline for letters is 3 p.m Monday. in favorable terms and have ig• and promote our vision: To il• nored inconvenient details. luminate Jesus Christ in the marketplace. questionable system of "financial services" based on credit and Lara's Legacy Now we're told that Vice debt. Piano Co.; Cafana Cleaners; President Dick Cheney will pre• It is a refreshing privilege to So if history does repeat itself, it's not good news for us. To the Editor Chuck Dyer; Einstein Bros. pare his memoirs. If his recent work together as a community Phillips sketches credible parallels between our current cir• We are proud of the com• Bagels, Kercheval; Grosse comments as a "lame duck" are — people and leaders from dif• cumstances and the conditions that prevailed during the de• bined efforts of our friends, Pointe Moving & Storage; any barometer, he should have ferent churches and denomi• clining decades of several cultures that had previously enjoyed neighbors and the Grosse Grosse Pointe News, Ben the good sense and good taste nations, believers and nonbe- a century or more of world dominance. Pointe and tri-county business Burns, Peter Birkner and Julie not to do so. lievers, coming from different Phillips focuses, for example, on the 17th century Dutch, communities for their three Sutton; Maurer's linens; Party For example, Cheney recent• occupations and different who developed global dominance of trade and technology years of support to the Lara Adventure; Tom Rusinow; and ly told one friendly audience — stages of life. We praise God based on their exploitation of the forces of water and wind. Rutan Endowed Scholarship at Tina Sills. at the Hudson Institute, for the fellowship and the rela• The Dutch were succeeded by the British, who between Wayne State University for the We gratefully make note of Heritage Foundation or a simi• tionships which have been 1760 and 1914 parlayed technological inventiveness and vast benefit of the Physician the many local businesses that lar venue which caters to neo- formed. reserves of coal, into a global empire. Coal served Britain well, Assistant Studies program. contributed to the evenings ex• conservative extremists — that We praise him for all who but oil was the energy source of the future. And its exploitation The Eiigeng Applebaum citement: Aridiamo^Lakefront Donald Rumsfeld should not have been moved and blessed by the United States promoted America's succession to world* jEbllege was the site of this Bjs|p0¾ tj^hehenetjm • Suite " fiave1>eenfireda s defense sec-, $t the pb|riars ar0;;for|lh| dominance. * 1 year's "Cats Meow" party and Hotel, Aritotiio's in'the Park, retary, because "he did a great guest speakers whohave open• The decline of the Dutch and British was characterized by fundraiser. Three hundred peo• Blue Goose Inn, Cadieux Cafe, job for us." ly shared God's principles with their inability to recognize the shortcomings of their primary ple enjoyed "signature" dishes Crews Inn, Detroit Symphony Later, and in contrast to the us. energy source and adapt to new energy developments. Both from 19 of our area's finest Orchestra, Detroit Opera civility with which President Again and again God's might experienced a resurgence of nationalism and fundamentalist restaurants. House, Edsel & Eleanor Ford Bush has treated Barack is demonstrated by his work• religion in their last years, as well as an interest in the notion of As the 18-piece Rhythm House, Edwin Paul Salon, Obama in the presidential tran• ing in and through so many an apocalyptic "end time.'' Society Orchestra played old Eastside Dermatology, sition, Cheney told Fox News people. This should sound familiar to us. But the most telling parallel standards, our guests strolled Elizabeth Meda Design, that incoming Vice President We thank you for your par• between our culture and those of the past is that their declines from special scallops on a English Gardens, Forton's Joseph Biden would be pre• ticipation — attending semi• were characterized by their abandonment of technological in• spoon with spicy avocado to Mower Service, Gifts Afloat, pared to weaken the vice presi• nars, volunteering, extending novation and manufacturing in favor of an economy based on sushi to tenderloin sliders to el• Joe Girardi, Godiva dency which Cheney had so invitations, distributing fliers dubious financial schemes, credit, speculation, and debt. egant veal and chicken cannel• Chocolatier, Shey Dehring; heroically bolstered through and contributing monetarily. Historically, when "moving money around" surpasses "mak• loni and beyond. Greektown Casino; Grosse obfuscation, his theory of the We appreciate all your gen-, ing things" as a share of the gross domestic product, a sharp Everyone's palate was satis• Pointe War Memorial; Grosse 'Unitary'' executive, etc., etc. erosity and look forward to decline in the economy can't be far away. fied thanks to the special epi• Pointe Audiology; Hour Media And who could forget that your continued support in fur• So Phillips argues. And he should be feeling remarkably pre• curean efforts of the following Inc.; Irish Coffee; Jan & Jim's Cheney single-handedly thering God's plan: scient right now. Assuming that his arguments are more or less restaurants: The Beach Grill, Hallmark; Hilton Garden Inn; neutered the Environmental "Go and make disciples of all valid, what might the past say about the present? A couple of Bob's Boathouse, Centaur Bar, Janet's Lunch; Jerry's Party Protection Agency, and spear• nations, baptizing them in the suggestions: Chelli's Chili Bar, Da Edoardo Store; Joseph Ryan's Hair headed the charge to war in name of the Father and the Son The current crisis in the U.S. economy can be understood Foxtown Grille, Dylan's Raw Design; Chip LaMarre Golf Iraq by falsifying intelligence? and the Holy Spirit and teach• only against the backdrop of larger economic patterns that Bar & Grille, Garden Fresh Pro; LaFontaine Automotive I've been watching politics for ing them to obey everything I have operated on world-dominant cultures of the past. This Gourmet Salsa, Hard Rock Group; Marriott at the 55 years, and I've never encoun• have commanded you." means that it's entirely wrong-headed to blame our current fi• Cafe, The Hill Seafood and Renaissance Center and tered a worse or more danger• —Matthew 28:19-20a. nancial woes on anything as specific as the Community Chop House, Jack's Waterfront Marriott Troy; Mark Morden ous public servant than Dick Thank God for the ultimate Reinvestment Act, which facilitated the extension of credit to Restaurant, Lucy's Tavern on PGA Pro.; Mr. C's Car Wash; Cheney. gift his Son Jesus Christ who sub-prime borrowers. If the act was a mistake, it was only a the Hill, The Melting Pot of National Coney Island; Opus The closest competitor was shed his blood so that we could very small part of a much larger partem of imprudent econom• Troy, Mosaic, Mudgies Deli, Pat One; Palace Sports; Platz Sen. Joe McCarthy of have eternal life. Animal Hospital; Pointe Family ic practices. O'Brien's, Room for Dessert, Wisconsin. His career started to "For God so loved the world Dentistry; Reflections Salon; Second, if the American century is near its end, another cul• Tom's Oyster Bar, Union Street unravel when a courageous that he gave his only begotten Michelle Riley, DDS; Robusto's ture will step up to take its place. China? But China is unlikely and The Woodward. lawyer, Joseph Vvfelsh, accused son, that whoever believes in Martini Lounge; Roma Cafe, to establish global hegemony based on the world's rapidly di• We are especially thankful to him of unjustly impugning a him should not perish but have SandProducts; Small Plates; minishing petroleum supplies without considerable worldwide the following corporate spon• young lawyer with the memo• everlasting life." Steveann's Salon; Taylor Door; conflict, including war. And our globe couldn't endure, ecologi• sors for their continued sup• rable question, "Have you no Art of Relaxation; The League —John 3:16. cally, a rising China powered by coal. port: Muti-Financial Security shame, sir?". Shop; The Great Frame Up; May you and those you love Corp., Wolverine Packing Co., The good news is that while history is predictive, it's not des• Pointe Pedlar; Thomas Edison It would indeed be a shame if be blessed and enjoy all that The Pegasus Taverna, Fifth tiny. China currently is taking only tentative steps toward the Inn; Yoga Shelter, Grosse anyone read Cheney's mem• God has for you. May you be Third Bank, The Filippis development of what some think is the next great essential en• Pointe; Too Unique Boutique; oirs. comforted by his amazing love, Foundation, Financial ergy source, "green power." and the Whack the Mole Band. WILLIAM HODGMAN as expressed through the gift An expanding green technology vacuum calls for creativity, Solutions of Michigan, Jackson Grosse Pointe Park of his son. inventiveness, skilled labor and investment. American domi• National Life Insurance Co., The LARA committee wants We look forward to seeing nance based on oil may have run its natural course, but Autodesk Inc., Thomas Cronin, to thank everyone who partici• Point of Relevance you in 2009 at our next Point of American ingenuity and labor are still global necessities. Karam-Daly Agency Inc., pated in this event. It was due Relevance event. To the Editor: Taking advantage of this opportunity could provide the best Michigan UAW CAP Council, to your involvement that we set POINT OF RELEVANCE "rescue package" of all. Giarmarco, Mullins & Horton, a record for attendance. As a Christmas is a great season TEAM John M. Crisp teaches in the English Department at Del Mar St. Clair Investment Advisors result, we raised more than to thank God for all he has Grosse Pointe College in Corpus Christi, Texas. Contact him at LLC, Tepel Brothers Printing $65,000 for the Lara Rutan [email protected]. Co, village Ford and Wujek- Memorial scholarship for —SHNS Calcaterra & Sons Inc. Physician Assistant Studies at GUEST OPINION By Dale McFeatters Also contributing to the suc• Wayne State University. This cess of the evening were the brings the endowment to generous donations of the fol• $135,000 over the past three The tanked economy OUR STAFF lowing companies and mdividu- years. als: edmund t. AHEE jewelers, We are grateful to the general he classic definition his presidency. But rather than CIRCULATION EDITORIAL 013)343-5577 Joseph DuMouchelle Auction chairman, Mike LeFever, and of a recession is two looking like the relatively brief 013)332-0294 Amy Conrad: Manager House, LaLonde Jewelers & his entire committee for their quarters of negative 2001 recession—eight months Bob St John Sports Editor Cheryl Lockhart Ann ffmty. Features Editor Gemologists, Catherine and tireless work. A special thanks gross domestic total—that followed the dot• Brad Llndbeig: Staff Writer Ken Schreiner, Kloka Design to Lisa Whitmore Davis and the product. And al• com bust, this one is looking KaChy Ryan: Staff Writer DISPLAY ADVERTISING Group LLC, Sue and Don development office staff at Tthough the economy grew in more like 1981-82 that lasted Amy SaJvagno: Staff Writer (313)862-3500 Karen Fbntanive: Staff Writer Pointe Armbruster, Connolly Travel Eugene Applebaum College. the first two quarters of2007, 16 months. Diane MoielUi KathleePwerJ.Birknern M. 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April it will be the longest since Fran Ve tarda David Hughes Kris Preass Advertising names of individuals and com• CHARLES R. RUTAN FAMILY income—began to slide in the Great Depression, a record Assistant Manager Pat Tapper Representative MelanieMahoney Penny Derrick Jessica Ahee: panies for their generous help JUDY, RICK, RACHEL AND December, 2007. the country would just as scon Carol Jarman and support: Drew DeFour for NICK President Bush will leave of• not break. MarySchlager Sally SdHunan: Aidministrative Assistant his outstanding piano enter• Love Always Remember fice with the dubious distinction Dale McFeatters is a writer for tainment; Tom Pettit & Curzon Always Committee of having two recessions during Scripps Howard News Service. GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY 1, 2009

OP-ED

I SAY ByKathyRyan

When you need a knee...

• then suddenly sending a pierc• have the knees of an 18-year- good doc that the pain in my an idle stroll, I was on a mis• He just looked at me. I don't ing pain that starts at the knee old anymore." knee was boiling down to a sion, though I had not ruled think he understood. One can't and shoots up and down my Well, there are lots of things quality of life issue. out a glance at the $ 1 aisle. help but wonder if I told him t whole leg, as if to say, "Ha!! on my body that aren't 18 any• As I related to Schreck, one But my knee had. I lasted my Alpine skiing career was Gotcha!!! Thought you'd run more, but unlike most of of my favorite, more mindless about 10 minutes before the being threatened or my ice that marathon today, didn't those, I actually need my things to do, is to wander pain became so excruciating, I dancing Olympic dreams you?" knees. around Target for an hour or was forced to terminate my dashed with this bummer of a .uchActually, Well, all right, I've never run As my left knee deteriorat• so, shopping for things I never mission, leave my post, knee if I could have garnered that's the nicest a marathon, but when it got to ed, so did my disposition. In knew I needed. But at those derelict my duties, and aban• more sympathy. What is there thing I've been the point that I couldn't walk fact, I'm downright cranky. I low prices, who can resist? For don my shopping cart. about men that they don't un• saying lately, as I to the corner, I checked in with can't ride my horse, I can't me, it's retail therapy at its The next day, at an appoint• derstand that shopping, if hobble around, the emergency room staff at walk my dog, I can't carry gro• best, the large red shopping ment with Schreck, I was go• done correctly, is a sport? Othe victim of a knee that has Beaumont. A torn meniscus ceries in from the car (OK, cart a shrink's couch, where ing to throw myself at his feet, So here I sit, weighing the been the victim of a hard land• was the diagnosis, with the scratch that one. That always all of life's little ills can be beg him to help me before my prospect of a partial knee re• ing off a horse, a run-in with a added caveat that my knee makes me cranky whether my cured with a stroll down the Target sojourns were but a placement, gazing out the win• St. Bernard, and with enough wasn't as young as it used to knee hurts or not. What really seasonal specials for $1 aisle. memory. But I quickly came to dow at a foot of snow, wonder• years on it that it is officially be, so the prognosis for a • pushed me over the edge was And with the rest of the store my senses, realizing that with ing if my knee would hurt this playing the back nine of its life. speedy and complete recovery when a Ryan child would actu• loaded with hundreds of items this knee, once I went down on badly if I was on a beach in I had never given my knees was not good. An appointment ally come out to help me bring for $5 or less, who needs the floor, I wouldn't be able to Key West, and if the seasonal much thought until my left one with an orthopedic surgeon in the bags, and would start Freud? get back up. So instead, I sat specials for $1 aisle includes turned on me. The little bug• was needed, and Paul eating me food right out of the So the other day I headed calmly while he poked about Margarita mix at the nearest ger can be downright mean, Schreck, M.D. got the nod. trunk, but that's another col• out to Target, an actual list in my swollen knee and related Target. inflicting a sharp pain with He may live to regret it. umn.) hand, with the intent of finish• to him in stark, cold clinical Since I can't even get my car every step, or, worse, being The first thing he said was, In a rare moment of painless ing my Christmas shopping. language, my oh so sad Target out of the garage, I won't be fine for about two minutes, "Well, keep in mind, you don't sincerity, I explained to the Unlike most trips, this was not experience. finding out any time soon.

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ergy of its first settlers, the territory was first visited by a Algonquians against their ene• womanly virtues of its earliest The lives of men today are as holidays French explorer as early as my, the Iroquois. Such was the wives and mothers and maid• compared with those of men who were 1610, only two years after the first collision between the ens together with the happy founding of Quebec by white man and the Iroquois." combination of thrift and cour• identified with Grosse Pointes development Champlain. It is probable that Grosse tesy, vigor and pertinacity, cou• and cultivation. "This is highly probable inas• Pointe was visited by the ples with love of beauty and fi• much as the Franciscan friars French before the hostility of nancial foresight, possessed by plored this territory they found tribe; but there were many al• at that early period had extend• the Iroquois has closed the pas• The following article is from later residents, have given certain tribes occupying cer• so, of respectable connections, ed their missions along the St. sage by the lower lakes. It is the archives of the Grosse Grosse Pointe a heritage of tain tracts, with evidence these who betook themselves to a Lawrence as far as the waters well known that the hostility of Pointe Historical Society, circa which every one may well be natives had resided here for a wandering life of hunting and of Niagara." the Iroquois along the eastern 1930. For more information, proud. considerable period of time. trading, partly from love of ad• In the brief account of the borders of the lower lakes and visit gphistorical.org. It makes one almost sigh for It is impossible to determine venture and partly because journey of Joseph LeCarron a their connecting waters was the ancient habitants at the re• with any precision at what time they could find no other means French Recollet priest, to Lake the cause of the exclusion of "The settlement of Grosse membrance of those tarries and this township was first discov• of livelihood. Huron in 1616, it is said that the French for many years. Pointe began with the settle• wish for the return of the good ered by the French. It must "There is no reason to regard he, "Reached the rivers of Lake In consequence the mission• ment of Detroit, so that the tra• old days when the Indian have been visited by travelers them as a despicable or essen• Huron from the land of the aries and voyageurs were dition and the histories of the Canoe, the French Calash car• or roving traders and bold tially vicious race. The Mohawks on foot and paddling obliged to make their way here two places are most closely in• ryall and charrette were the rovers called by the French, 'Coureurdebois,' a bark canoe. by the way of the Ottawa River, terwoven." only vehicles of conveyance. "Coureurs de Bois," long be• (bushrangers) were seldom if "It was an evil day for leaving the St. Lawrence in the he story of its early The lives of men today are as fore its settlement. ever, found guilty of any Canada when on the 26th of neighborhood of Montreal and life is as attractive holidays compared with those "Many of these were of the treachery to the government, May 1609, Samuel de passing up the Ottawa and its as a French ro• of men who were identified lower classed and dropped which had no claim upon their Champlain, impelled by his portages to Lake Nepissing, mance of medieval with Grosse Pointes develop• readily into the ways of the na• respect beyond the fact that own adventurous spirit, de• and thence by French River to times: The courage ment and cultivation. tives, adopting their habits and they were of French blood." parted from the hamlet of the Georgian Bay and Lake and daring, the vivacity and en• When the French first ex• becoming adherents to the There is a tradition that this Quebec to follow a war party of Huron.

GUEST OPINION By Kenneth M. Braun

State checkbook still missing from Internet

homas Jefferson In addition, the MDOS has million, so figuring out how to ries an estimated 2009 price reason for the expenditure envisioned the fi• A government that is provided a cost estimate for produce that first report cost tag of $117 million. and the amount. nances of govern• spending money on the project. the department 0.0012 per• It would take less than one The report has its limita• ment should be For staff to initially create cent of its total budget. Now week of spending from just tions and falls short of the "as clear and intel• everything from 20th the first online expense report that they know how to do it, one of these new programs to "gold standard" of trans• Tligible as a merchant's Century Fox to 21st cost $2,400. the cost for each subsequent start up and fully fund an on• parency set by Missouri — a books," allowing "any man of The "going forward" price quarterly report is just line expense report project state Web site which, among Century Jobs any mind" to "comprehend to continue posting this report 0.00035 percent of the annual for every state department. other things, is updated daily them, to investigate abuses shouldn't have a 19th each quarter is just $700; or budget. The decision to "show and also provides the salary and consequently to control information for every state Century standard for $2,800 annually. The MDOS Roughly applying these ra• Michigan the money" — or them." also notes that these costs tios to the entire $43 billion not—is a matter of priorities, employee. However, while the showing the have been and will be entirely state budget would mean that not resources. This ballpark While the Office of the Information Age places such taxpayers where it's absorbed by assigning the the total cost of creating the figure will surely vary de• Governor has stated that transparency within our task as a job priority for exist• first reports of this kind for pending upon the specific de• replicating Missouri would grasp, a detailed expense re• all going. ing employees. No additional every department would be tails of each department's cost $100 million or more, port for Michigan govern• staffing costs were or will be $516,000. Thereafter, the total spending. they have yet to justify why ment will not soon appear on The governor's office also necessary. cost of quarterly reports for But economies of scale replication of what the MDOS the Internet "for public inspec• deemed the information con• The governor's office ap• every department would be could also drive down the es• has already accomplished is tion. With one exception: tained in such a report pears to be misunderstanding just $129,000 — or $602,000 timate significantly: The beyond Michigan's reach. Last spring, Michigan amounts to a level of detail the modest nature of this re• annually to keep this whole Michigan Department of A government that is spend• Secretary of State Terri Lynn that would be of "little value quest for information. transparency project running. Information Technology ing money on everything Land began placing a quarter• to the taxpayer." Bearing in mind that the an• These numbers are figura• should theoretically find it from 20th Century Fox to 21st ly report of the Department of Requests to the Office of the nual budget for all of state tively "pennies in the seat easier to replicate the proce• Century Jobs shouldn't have a State's expenses online. Governor were made by the government is nearly $43 bil• cushions" of the state budget. dure for each department 19th Century standard for Despite this example to Mackinac Center for Public lion, it would appear that the For example, one relatively now that MDOS has shown showing the taxpayers where guide them, the Office of the Policy's "Show Michigan the comparative price to imple• new government program, the way. it's all going. Governor has twice refused Money" transparency project. ment an MDOS-equivalent re• the "21st Century Jobs Fund," The MDOS has taken a Kenneth M. Braun is a poli• requests to replicate this re• An identical and earlier re• port for all departments cost taxpayers $65 million in modest but firm step in the cy analyst specializing in fis• port for other departments of quest from the center is what would be far short of "prohibi• 2008; and a brand new pro• right direction, placing online cal and budgetary issues at state government, dismissing inspired Land to begin post• tive. "The fiscal 2008 budget gram designed to lure movie the names of vendors getting the Mackinac Center for the idea as "cost prohibitive." ing her departments reports. for me MDOS was about $20» producers into Michigan car• paid by the department, the - Public Policy. GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY 1, 2009

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G.P Woods Beautification awards

Edwin Paul Spa owners David and Elizabeth Wagensomer were presented with the Landmark Award for 10 years of outstanding beautification to their property. From left, David Wagensomer, Mayor Robert E. Novitke and Elizabeth Wagensomer.

Residential Renovation Awards were presented by Mayor Robert E. Novitke, front row, far right, to Carol Glaeser, Dawn Levick and, back row from left, John Glaeser, David Levick and Michael Thoit.

City of (§>VB&%2 IjfLmtttt, Michigan County of Wayne, Michigan ORDINANCE NO. 380 AN ORDINANCE TO ADOPT AND APPROVE THE CITY OF GROSSE POINTE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND TAX INCREMENT FINANCING PLAN PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ACT 197, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN OF 1975, AS AMENDED, AND TO PROVIDE FOR ALL MATTERS RELATED THERETO: WHEREAS, the City of Grosse Pointe Downtown Development Authority (the "Authority") has prepared and recommended for approval the Development Plan and Tax Increment Financing Plan (the "Plan") on file with the City Clerk for the Development Area in the Downtown District within the City; and Community Central Bank President Dave Widlak, left, was given the Business WHEREAS, on December 15, 2008, the City Council held a public hearing on the Plan pursuant to Act 197, Renovation Award by Mayor Robert E. Novitke. PublicActs ofMichigan, 1975, as amended (the "Act"); and WHEREAS, the City Council has given the taxing jurisdictions in which the Development Area is located an opportunity to meet with the City Council and to express their views and recommendations regarding the Plan, as required by the Act; and WHEREAS, after consideration of the Plan, the City Council has determined to approve the Plan. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF GROSSE POINTE ORDAINS: I. Sections 28-20 through 28-29 are added to the Grosse Pointe City Code as follows: ARTICLE II. DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND TAX INCREMENT FINANCING PLAN Sec. 28-20. Findings.

, : (a) The Development Plan and Tax Increment Financing Plan on file with the City Clerk (the "Plan") meets : 'tne requirements set forth in the Act. The proposed method of financing the developments is feasible and the Authority has the ability to " arrange the financing. (c) The developments are reasonable and necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act. (d) The land included within the Development Area to be acquired, if any, is reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of the Plan and the purposes of the Act in an efficient and economically satisfactory manner. (e) The development Plan is in reasonable accord with the master plan of the City. (f) Pubiic services, such as fire and police protection and utilities, are or will be adequate to service the project area. (g) Changes in zoning, streets, street levels, intersections, and utilities, to the extent required by the Plan, are reasonably necessary for the project and for the City. - Sec. 28-21. public, Purpose. The City Council hereby determines that the Plan constitutes a public Gabriela Boddy, Mayor Robert E. Novitke and Angelo DiClemente chaired the 36th annual purpose. Grosse Pointe Woods Beautification Awards Night Sec. 28-22. fteqt interest of the Public. The City Council hereby determines that it is in the best interests of the public to proceed with the Plan in order to halt property value deterioration, to increase property tax valuation, to eliminate the causes of the deterioration in property values, and to promote growth in the Downtown District. Sec. 28-23. Approval and Adoption of Plan. The Plan is hereby approved and adopted. A copy of the Plan and all later amendments thereto shall be maintained on file in the City Clerk's office. Sec. 28-24. Preparation of Base Year Assessment Roll. (a) Within 60 days of the publication of this Ordinance, the City Assessor shall prepare the initial base year assessment roll. The base year assessment roll shall list each taxing jurisdiction in the Development Area on the effective date of this Ordinance, the initial assessed value of each parcel of property within the Development Area, and the amount of tax revenue derived by each taxing jurisdiction from ad valorem taxes on property in the Development Area. (b) The City Assessor shall transmit copies of the base year assessment roll to the City Treasurer, County Treasurer, the Authority and each taxing jurisdiction, together with a notice that the base year assessment roil has been prepared in accordance with this Ordinance and the Tax Increment Financing Plan contained in the Plan approved by this Ordinance. Residential Beautification awards were given to Aldo and Alba Cardosi, Jim and Paula DeCarlo, Sec. 28-25* Preparation of Annual Tax Increment Assessment Roll. Each year within 15 days Geoff and Toni Diamond, David and Theresa Embree, Scott and Deanna Fischer, Stavros and following the final equalization of property in the Development Area, the City Assessor shall prepare the tax Maria Malliaras, Gary and Sara Phillips, Jim and Nam Poole, Denis and Jennifer Quain, Dave increment assessment roll. The tax increment assessment roll shall show the initial assessed value of each parcel and Karen Raska, Doug and Jackie Schaible, Nancy Silveri, Joseph and Patricia Wenzler, of property within the Development Area and the amount by which the current assessed value as finally • equalized for all taxable property in the Development Area exceeds the initial assessed value of the property as Michael and Beth Widgren, Bob and Katy Yaklin and Gary and Nannette Zarb. shown on the base year assessment roll'(the "captured assessed value"). Copies of the annual tax increment assessment roll shall be transmitted by the Assessor to the City Treasurer, the County Treasurer, the Authority and the treasurer of each taxing jurisdiction within the Development Area, together with a notice that it has been prepared in accordance with this Ordinance and the Plan. Sec. 28-26. Establishment of Project Fund: Approval of Depositary. The Treasurer of the Authority shall establish a separate fund whieh shall be kept in a depositary bank account or accounts in a bank or banks approved by the Treasurer of the City, to be designated Downtown Development Authority Project Fund. All moneys received by the Authority pursuant to the Plan shall be deposited in the Project Fund. All moneys in the Project Fund and earnings thereon shall be used only in accordance with the Plan. Sec. 28-27. Payment of Tax Increments to Authority. The City Treasurer, and the County Treasurer shall, as ad valorem and specific taxes are collected on the property in the Development Area, pay that proportion of the taxes, except for penalties and collection fees, that the captured assessed value bears to the initial assessed value to the Treasurer of the Authority for deposit in the Project Fund. The payments shall be made on the date or dates on which the City Treasurer and the County Treasurer are required to remit taxes to each of the taxing jurisdictions. Sec. 28-28. Use of Moneys in the Project Fund. The moneys credited to the Project Fund and on hand therein from time to time shall be used annually in the following manner and following order of priority: Fjrst. to pay into the debt retirement fund, or funds, for all outstanding series of bonds issued pursuant to the Plan an amount equal to the interest and principal coming due (in the case of principal whether by maturity or mandatory redemption) prior to the next collection of taxes, less any credit for sums on hand in the debt retire• ment fund. The Mayor's Beautification Advisory Commission members are, front row from left, Joyce Second- to establish a reserve account for payment of principal of and interest on bonds issued pursuant to the Cook, Angelo DiClemente, Mayor Robert E. Novitke, Carol Sauter, Walter Schwartz, Kelly Plan to the extent required by any resolution authorizing bonds. Martin Rahaim and William Allemon; back row from left, Kevin Ketels, Deborah Mathews, Lisa Xfeird., to pay the administrative, auditing and operating costs of the Authority and the City pertaining to the Gaglio, Gabriela Boddy, Maria Nederhood, Dennis Ilyduk, Arthur W. Bryant and Gerald Hilton. Downtown District, including planning and promotion, to the extent provided in the annual budget of the Not pictured are Heather Simmet, Sally Sterr and Janet Hagen, Authority. Fourth, to repay amounts advanced by the City for project costs, including costs of preliminary plans, and fees for other professional services. Fifth, to pay the cost of completing the remaining public improvements, if any, as set forth in the Plan to the extent those costs are not financed from other sources. Sixth., to pay the cost of any additional improvements to the Plan that are determined necessary by the Authority and approved by the City Council in accordance with the Act. Sec. 28-29. A^n^al Report- Within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Authority shall submit to the City Council, with copies to each taxing jurisdiction, a report on the status of the Project Fund. The report shall include the amount and source of revenue in the account, the amount and purpose of expenditures from the account, the amount of principal and interest on any outstanding indebtedness, the amount in any bond reserve account, the initial assessed value of the Development Area, the captured assessed value of the Development Area and the amount of captured assessed value retained by the Authority, the tax increments received and the amount of any surplus from the prior year, and any additional information requested by the City Council or deemed appropriate by the Authority, The secretary of the Authority shall cause a copy of the report to be published once in full in a newspaper of general circulation in the City. II. Miscellaneous Provisions. (A) Section Headings: Severability. Section headings are provided for convenience only and are not intended to be part of this ordinance. If any portion of this ordinance shall be held to be unlawful, the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. Grosse Pointe Woods Business Beautification Awards were presented to, front row from left, (B) Publication and Recordation, The Ordinance shall be published in full promptly after its adoption in Sue Kouri, Kim Schmidt, Sue Gregory and Caroline Atnip of Community Central Bank; Sandra the Qrosse Pointe News, a newspaper of general circulation in the City, qualified under State law to publish legal notices, and shall be recorded in the Ordinance Book of the City, which recording shall be authenticated and Robert Rabaut of Rabaufs Interiors; Lisa Hammerlee of String Beads; and Kathleen by the signature of the City Clerk. Gibney Drawbaugh of Kathleen Gibney, D.D.S. office. Back row from left, David Widlak of the (C) Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect seven (7) days after its adoption. (Ordinance became Community Central Bank; George Koueiter of George Koueiter Jewelers; Lorrie Lipa and effective December 22, 2008) Bernadine Sherwood of Van Elslander Cancer Center; John Minnis and Robert Kacza of the Grosse Pointe Public Library - Woods Branch; Sue Kouri and Kathy Hawkins of the Community Julie Arthurs, i I t> 1_. r\ t _ e #~isi r\ i\ o J *>; -i, -, — -i » *„-4-„i -» £ G.P.N.: 01/01/2009 Clerk, City of Grosse Pointe 11 vciiuoiuauiv, ^- *¾ wiwuaugii vri Jtvauiiccn \jiuncy, jl/.is.o. unlet, aixu jmciiaiu ivxaiciuucivXJI Grosse Pointe Collection, GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY 1, 2009

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Rochester Hills, MI 48309. high schoolers when she William M. Sheahan Share a memory with the traced the powerful strains of family at modetzfuneral Rachmaninoff's Piano Grosse Pointe Park resident homes.com. Concerto No. 2 to a common William M. Sheahan, 86, died room piano and found Mr. Sunday, Dec. 21,2008. Hughes at the keyboard. They Mr. Sheahan graduated Jerry Scudder Hughes were married for 57 years. William M. Sheahan Jerry Scudder Hughes Ellis J. Van Slyck M.D. from Denby High School in A memorial celebration will 1940. His college years at the Grosse Pointe Woods resi• be held at 12:30 p.m., Throughout his long and Slyck, Vanessa Ann Van Slyck University of Detroit were in• dent Jerry Scudder Hughes Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, at distinguished career, Dr. Van pave Sullivan) and Randolph terrupted by World War II. He passed away peacefully in his Christ Church Grosse Pointe, Slyck contributed much to pa• Van Slyck Birkenmeier. served in England, France and sleep at home, Monday, Dec. 61 Grosse Pointe Blvd., Grosse tient care and research relat- r A memorial service was held J Germany where he was 22,2'OOk He was 8L "^."" " Pointe Farms. .. ;- ing to cancer arid' hemSLtofogic at St. Michael's Episcopal awarded the Bronze Star and Orphaned at 8, he attended Memorial donations may be disorders. He wrote extensive• Church in Grosse Pointe Good Conduct medals. Grosse Pointe High School, made to the Neighborhood ly about his specialty and au• Woods. After his discharge in University of Chicago and Service' Organization, 220 thored or co-authored 80 pub• Memorial donations may be January 1946, Mr. Sheahan re• earned his bachelor's degree Bagley, Suite 1200, Detroit, MI lications. He served as an ab• made to The Dr. Ellis J. Van turned to the University of from Wayne State University. 48226. stractor for Excerpta Medica, Slyck Memorium at the Detroit, earning a bachelor's Following a variety of event• a medical publisher, for 20 Children's Leukemia degree. His career was spent ful jobs — from egg truck dri• years. Dr. Van Slyck also ad• Foundation of Michigan, with various companies as a ver to skiptracer — he spent Ellis J. vanced the knowledge, skill 29777 Telegraph Road, Suite sales executive placing experts many years with the Fisher and expertise of his specialty 1651, Southfield, MI 48034 or with large factories that need• Body Co. before beginning a Van Slyck M.D. in many other ways. leukemiamichigan.org. ed high-end professional ser• career in computers in 1970. After a long and courageous Dr. Van Slyck served on the vices to solve their manufac• A talented pianist and en• battle with cancer, Ellis J. Van medical advisory board of The turing problems. thusiastic choral singer, he Slyck, M.D. died Saturday, Children's Leukemia Shirley Caroline Mr. Sheahan is survived by was active in many organized Dec. 20, 2008. He was a resi• Foundation of Michigan from Shirley Caroline Wendt his loving wife, Judge musical pursuits, notably as dent of Grosse Pointe Shores. 1975 to 1983 and as chairman Wendt Maureen P. Reilly; children, longtime accompanist for the Dr. Van Slyck was a lifelong from 1981 to 1983. Harper Woods resident in her desire for independence Daniel (Melissa), Tom and Grosse Pointe Community and Episcopalian and an active He was a member of the Shirley Wendt, 83, died as her eyes grew dimmer. Maureen (Dave) Gillhouse; Summer Choruses. church member having served American Medical Association Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008, at St. Ms. Wendt cherished her grandchildren, Michael and The Hughes household on his beloved St. Michael's in and had a Life Fellowship in John Hospital and Medical family, and they adored their Kathryn Gillhouse, Catherine McMillan Road in Grosse many capacities over the years the American College of Center. Aunt Shirley. and Victoria Sheahan and Pointe Farms was continuous• including as senior warden. Physicians and the American Ms, Wendt was born Feb. She is survived by her Jenna, Patrick and Colin ly alive with music produced He received great comfort and Society of Hematology. He 13, 1925, in Detroit to William nieces, Diane Moskaluk, Sheahan. by family, friends and neigh• joy from his faith. was also clinical assistant pro• Fred and Meta Henrietta Rein Cynthia (David) Burt, Pam He was predeceased by his bors. Those who doubted their A native of New York City, fessor of medicine at the Wendt. (Gene) Baerwolf, Dawn first wife, Lois. talents found bongos or ka• Dr. Van Slyck received his un• University of Michigan School She received her doctorate (Roger) Panczner, Marcia A funeral Mass was cele• zoos thrust in their hands. dergraduate and medical de• of Medicine in Ann Arbor. in education from Wayne Eubanks and Dr. Christine brated Friday Dec. 26,2008, at Mr. Hughes viewed his grees from Yale University. He Since his retirement in 1987, State University. She was a Phillips; her nephews, Dr. St. Paul on the Lake, Grosse greatest musical accomplish• had post-graduate training at he twice served in the Indian teacher for eight years and an William (Sharon) Hassig and Pointe Farms. ment as the many years he de• St. Luke's Hospital in New Medical Service as a volunteer assistant principal for 23 in Dr. Walter M. (Dr. Jennifer Memorial donations may be voted to bringing music into York City, Barnes Hospital, physician in New Mexico and the Detroit public schools. Her Irwin) Hassig; 19 grandnieces made to the charity of the the lives of the men of Washington University, in St. Oklahoma. love for children and her staff and grandnephews; and 10 donor's choice or the Mariner's Inn. Louis, Mo., and Vanderbilt During college, he crewed, were the hallmarks of her ser• great-grandnieces and grand- Capuchin Monastery, 1740 Mt. He also was a skilled bridge University Hospital in played varsity tennis and per• vice. nephews. Elliott, Detroit, MI 48207. player and birder. Nashville, Tenn. He served in formed in the Yale Glee Club. Ms. Wendt had many inter• She was predeceased by her Mr. Hughes took great pride the U.S. Army Medical Corps Dr. Van Slyck played 2nd vio• ests including crafts, reading, sisters, Norma Phillips and in the success, and joy in the as a captain during the Korean lin in the Grosse Pointe geography and walking. She Elaine Hassig; and brothers- James Vernon Patton happiness, of his children and War. Symphony Orchestra from traveled around the world pri• in-law, Dr. Walter W Hassig grandchildren. He is survived In 1957 he joined the staff of 1968 to 1970. He was a mem• or to her retirement. and Bud Phillips. Grosse Pointe Woods resi• by his children, David Hughes Henry Ford Hospital's hema• ber of The Society of Her family remembers her A memorial service was dent James Vernon Patton, 89, of London and Durham, tology division in Detroit. He Mayflower Descendants. He giggles, her love for her held Dec. 27, 2008, at First died Thursday, Dec. 25,2008. England, Molly Hughes became division head in 1978. and his wife, Ann, traveled ex• church, chocolate, Snoopy English Evangelical Lutheran Mr. Patton was a veteran of Lindgren of Lomita, Calif., and In that capacity, he directed tensively pursuing their inter• and Woodstock, winning at Church, Grosse Pointe Woods. the United States Air Force. He Chris Hughes of Weston, Henry Ford's hematology fel• est in world birding. dice, and books-on-tape and Arrangements were handled retired from Uniroyal after 40 Mass.; and his grandchildren, lowship program and co-di• Dr. Van Slyck is survived by CDs. Most of all she loved by A.H. Peters Funeral Home. years of service. He was a Julia, Holly and Weston. rected the weekly joint hema• his beloved wife, Annalea people. She faithfully attend• Memorial contributions member of the Masons and His greatest joy in life was tology and hematopathology Welker Van Slyck; children, ed Bible study and her month• may be made to the Building the Grosse Pointe Senior his wife, Sue, who prede• conferences for a decade. He Loring J. Van Slyck (T.J. ly luncheon with the teachers. Fund, Luther Center, or to the Men's Club where he enjoyed ceased him by seven years. was also an active participant Birkenmeier), Zenas R. Van She maintained many friend• Music Fund, Open Door playing pool. They met and married as in the clinical research activi• Slyck (Bernadette Missant), ships over the years. Series, First English He is survived by his chil• teenagers enrolled in the ties of the Southwest and Abigail Ayres Van Slyck Her family especially thanks Evangelical Lutheran Church, dren, Penni (George) Jarjosa, University of Chicago's experi• Oncology Group in Sari (Mitchell Favreau); grandchil• all those who were her 800 Vernier kd, Grosse Pointe Perilyn Patton and Pamela mental program for talented Antonio, Texas. dren, Valaire Ellis (Tara) Van guardian angels, assisting her Woods, MI 48236. (John) Diegel; grandchildren, Michael (Emily) Jarjosa and Jennifer (Brian) Tscholl; great• grandchildren, Alexis, Luke, and John; and siblings, Werdna Garrett and William Knox Patton. He was predeceased by his loving wife, Priscilla. 1 A funeral eulogy was held Tods for Caregivers -^s^^.V^^^wv^^ Dec. 29, 2008, at the Modetz ' Order Rowers and Gifts Funeral Home, Orion 1 Online Memorials & Guestbooks

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'The National Museum of Prehistory at Les History, food Puts you in the know... Eysies de Tayac could for where to go for this weeks 1 *' r i and sights keep most visitors hottest specials, products Si service. occupied for hours, Continued from page IB even days—although sunlight, warmth and security a local Web site remains a mystery. The National Museum of suggests the typical Prehistory at Les Elyzies de visit is one hour.' Tayac could keep most visitors occupied for hours, even days — although a local Web site many in the northern hemi• suggests the typical visit is one sphere. But it is the beginning hour. of the four-month truffle sea• Beautiful displays of artifacts son and the Perigord region is and tools from very early hu• an area where the so-called man civilization line countless "black diamonds" thrive. us- display cases. References indicate the trea• Videos throughout the mod• sured and flavorful fungus is ern museum explain how the most often found on the roots items were used. There are of oak trees. life-size reproductions of hu• Pigs historically have mans and the animals with I wanted to take this opportunity to wish my used to scout them out, tl which they shared the country• they apparently are as k< Shopping Review readers and advertisers a side. eat them as the human g New Year that is filled with the peace and joy November: An inhospitable ers are to capture the wl of true community as we pull together in the and unwelcome 30 days for black truffles. year to come. Thank you for your patronage and God Bless you and your families richly. The National Museum of Prehistory in Les Elyzies puts visitors in touch with civiliza• tion in the Dordogne region more than 15,000 years ago.

Dogs also have been suc• cessfully trained to sniff out the simple plant which, in low- yield years, brings an enor• mous price per kilo. Poaching of truffles and the "borrowing" of dogs are problems some• CoCoseum InternationaC times forcefully resisted. Salon & Day Spa The Perigord's other natural riches include tobacco and Welcomes hairdresser: hardwood forests, especially walnut trees whose fruit is sold JOHN K. as-is, pressed into oil or used to Formerly of Lamia & Lamia flavor countless spreads. Foie gras of geese and ducks is another local specialty, sa• Call Coloseum today to make your reservation. vored by some and eschewed • He looks forward to serving you soon. by others because the poultry 313-881-7252 is force-fed to enlarge the liv• Evening hours available ers. Villages of various sizes and ages pepper the Dordogne val• ley. Thousand-year-old castles perch at the edges of r^ecipices, ready to defend A cemetery in Sarlat comprises many small greenhouses to shelter family gravesites. eir turf. Most, if not allj tanged hands numerous5 times throughout their histo• ries, in spite of human ingenu• 'pern- ities like those on display at Castelnaud. This fine old structure today Just in time for the cold weather serves as a museum where vis• itors can examine the develop• FUR SALE!!!! ment of the bow and"see how Interested in selling your furs OR would you like to trade catapults were used to bash in- your fur for a newer one?? Samira's offers new and gently protective walls. used furs at affordable prices! Hurry in and receive an Some were so large and additional 10% off these already low prices complex, they could only fire Samira's wishes you a Happy New Year their stones twice in one hour 313-886-5043 * 21207 MackAvenue in the Woods — leaving the castle's defend• Samira's - Consignment shopping at its' finest! I ers plenty of time to rain fiery arrows upon their enemy. Of course patient aggressors could always wait until food and water sapped the strength and will of castle occupants. The chateau at Beynac was used as a setting for one of the many movies about Jeanne d'Arc (1999, Luc Besson). The village of Beynac beneath the SUPER • SUPER CLOSE • SUPER NUTRITIOUS castle was a location for the SUPPERS • SUPER CONVENIENT popular film Chocolat (Lasse Your answer to... "What's (or dinner9 • SUPER DELICIOUS Hallstrom, 2000). A chateau guide is likely to point out the Super Suppers is even more the answer to bringing the family historical inaccuracies of vari• together at the dinner table during the busy holiday season. So ous scenes in Jeanne d'Arc. give them a call at. 313-881-3511 or visit the website at And one loses any sense of ro• www.ssgrossepointemi.com Happy Holidays from Super Suppers. manticism after experiencing the cold and darkness that was • We will publish your full color photo & message part and parcel of life during peaceful times in these stone structures. • Deadline is 2 weeks prior to the first week of the next month! Back in Sarlat-le-Caneda, • Coll 010.6d2.d500 for detoils or moil us the completed form below that Saturday market will drive away any fears of going hun• gry or unclothed. Vendors line the twisting streets and alleys of the town, selling everything from fresh• ly-poached shellfish to suspi• cious-looking sausages and cheeses; from tablecloths in Hoppy Birthday typical French colors and dec• Dig J 6 Jeff Ahe? oration to walnut oils and Enter into the beautiful world of LaBelle Amanda Dirkner Antiques, Etc. Here you will find everything December 12th c- December l°rh three-packs of local wines and that an antique and collectible lover could December 8th Mom & Dad tins of foie gras; and from ever want. Meander for hours through the Wish you the Dest shoes to ceramics and paint• graceful vignettes of furniture, china, jewelry, ings. glassware, linens, sports memorabilia, A smaller market on ephemera and more. A feast for your eyes and Wednesdays offers mostly your soul; like visiting an old friend. Photos Will Be Dosed On Space Availab ,. J* food. Wonderfully priced and service that is beyond your Sarlat was rescued from ne• expectations - that's the world of LaBelle's, where they are glect in the years following always buying partial and full estates by appointment. Located /..¾ Name World War n, when local citi• at 24861 Harper just south of Ten Mile in St. Clair Shores. Open GROSSE POINTE NEWS zens recognized the jewel in Tuesday - Friday 11am - 6pm and Saturdays 10am - 3 pm. Call 586-445-3144 or visit the website at wwwJabelleantiques.com the rough and launched a long and expensive rejuvenation of the town — a work still in progress. The rewards have been in• creased income from tourism, a restored place in the sun and a strong sense of pride and ac- j. il , ,„i call Sally Schuman ® 313-343-5586 * [email protected] l-UU tp 11 Ol 111 1C11L Ull 111C ]JCU L Ol 113 inhabitants. GROSSE POINTE NEWS, "JANUARY 1, 2009

FACES & PLACES

Historical society ball

The 2008 Detroit Historical Society Ball raised more than $175,000 for the society's exhi• bition and educational pro• grams at both the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum. An additional $15,000 was raised for the society's Adopt-a- Class program, which provides museum admission, guided tours and transportation to metro Detroit schools unable to afford field trips. The event was co-chaired by Mary Ann Bury of Grosse Pointe Park, Marianne Endicott of Grosse Pointe Shores, Vivian Rogers Pickard of Bloomfield Hills and Sydell Schubot of Franklin. Monica Gayle of Fox 2 News served as mistress of ceremonies. The ball also featured the chance to watch Detroiters in a "Dancing with Detroit's Stars" competition. The community sponsor for the 2008 Ball was "Explore the Culinary Treasures of Italy" offered Italian PHOTOS BY ELAYNE GROSS, COURTESY OF THE DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY JPMorganChase, with Heritage Society members and their guests included an Comerica Bank as the valet Devin and Corey Scillian of Grosse Pointe Park. sponsor, Wolverine Packing array of Italian foods during a fundraiser. The Italian • was the auction sponsor, Miller Studies, Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures Canfield Paddock and Stone was the dance sponsor, St. John and Cultures department of ^yne State University was Health was the dessert sponsor, the benefactor. Pictured above, are Senior Chancellor, and Hour Detroit and Fox 2 were media sponsors. Penske Consulate of Italy in Detroit Robert Lanza, event chair Corporation, James Marian A. Impastato, Chef Bujar Mamuslari, event co- Nicholson/FVS Chemical and chair Patricia Cardellio, Jesse Cardellio and the Hon. Francis W McMillan were pre• mium table sponsors. The Joseph N. Impastato Special guests included Lanza, Chrysler Foundation and Consul General of the Republic of Macedonia Igor Meriwether Capital were plat• inum table sponsors. Bank of Dukoski and Bachir S. Tawk, acting consul general, America, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Consulate of Lebanon in Detroit. At right is Peter J. • M. Bayer Jr., Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Mr. and Cracchiolo: Mrs. Thomas Buhl, Ed and Judy Christian, Clark Hill PLC Attorneys at Law, DTE Energy, Marianne Endicott, Mr. and Mrs. James T. McMillan XX, NATIONAL Why not surprise someone with Michigan's From left, Detroit Historical Society Trustee Terence Thomas O'Brien Edwards Construction Finest Coney Island Chili Sauce? of Grosse Pointe, society president Sandy McMillan of Grosse Co. and Toyota Motor Sales Pointe Farms, Beverly Burns and society trustee Ben Burns of That's right, you can now order USA were gold table sponsors. the City of Grosse Pointe. National Coney Island's chili sauce and hot dogs to enjoy at home. Place your order today! Nationwide ctejjyery available. 6700 East Davison •Detroit, MI 48212 Tel. 313-365-5611

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Detroit Historical Society Ball co-chairs Marianne Endicott of Grosse Pointe Shores and M.«i \ Ann Bury of Grosse Pointe Park are pictured with Detroit Historical Society Executive Director Bob Bury of Grosse Pointe Park and co-chairs Sydell Schubot of Franklin and Vivian Rogers Pickard of Bloomfield Hills.

War Memorial War Memorial, 32 Lakeshore, Auditions for the Children's Grosse Pointe Farms. Pointed Choir will be at 5 p.m. Monday, The Windmill Pointe Garden Club members will join the New Local Jan. 5, in the Grosse Pointe Club meets at 11:30 a.m. Somerset Singles for two Vvar Memorial auditorium, 32 Wednesday, Jan. 7, at the home northern Michigan ski trips. ice Directory Lakeshore, Grosse Pointe of Mary Northcutt. Cathy The first trip will be to Boyne Farms. The choir is for those Murray is the co-hostess. Highlands Jan. 11 to 13 and the u will find,.. aged 8 to 14 years and is direct• Hector Debrabant of Telly's second will be Feb. 2 to 4 to ed by Heather Albrecht. Nursery will present a pro• Caberfae. Practices are from 5:30 to 7 gram on bonsai. For more information, call A comprehensive online resource p.m. Wednesdays, Jan. 7 Gloria Clark at (586) 293-4858. through May 13 at Brownell for Grosse Pointe shopping & services. Middle School. The spring con• Fox Creek Questers cert is at 7 p.m. Monday, May Historical society 18. Fox Creek Questers meet at For more information, e-mail 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, at Grosse Pointe Historical instant search feature. [email protected]. the home of Debbie Voohrees. Society offers "Going Once, Bonnie Medura is the co-host• Going Twice," with Lori Stefek Access to maps, coupons, and ess. 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 10, Friends of Vision Carol Sauter will present the at the Provencal-Weir House, information about local area program on the underground 376 Kercheval. Stefek, an The Friends of Vision, a sup• railroad. International Society of retailers and service businesses. port group for the visually im• Appraisers accredited apprais• paired and blind, meet from 10 er and owner of Stefek Estate Calendar of local events to 11:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 5, Spanish group Sales, will discuss how to put and on Wednesday, Jan. 7, at an item up for auction and will to plan your next outing. the Detroit Institute of The Grosse Pointe Spanish appraise items on site. Ophthalmology, 15415 E. Language Meetup Group Fifteen-minute verbal ap• Jefferson, Grosse Pointe Park. meets at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, praisals only will be given on Enter This Weeks Jan. 7, at Caribou Coffee in the one item per guest. CONTEST Village. For more information, Reservations for appraisals are Locate the hidden windmills on visitmeetup.com. required. No large items, coins Marketplace or weapons will be permitted. GrossePointeMarketplace. com The cost is $5 for historical so• Advertise Your Business Call & You Can Win ciety members and $10 for Correction Ski club 313.343.5585 Fabulous Prizes! non-members. Lisa and Jason Dougherty's last The Grosse Pointe Ski Club For information, call (313) name was misspelled in tie Dec. 25, meets at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 884-7010, or visit ?no8. issue. i Jan. 7, ai uik Grosse Foiaie gpiiisLoricai.uig. ce.com GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY 1, 2009 HEALTH Parents can influence their children's decisions

"When I was a boy of 14, my Now researchers at Iowa come reality. nurturing a child's positive self- related "protective factors." "When children have a father was so ignorant I could State University also say that a "What people believe ulti• image, experts agree. While The program teaches adults strong bond with a parent, they hardly stand to have the old child's future alcohol use may mately has an impact on what that task may seem daunting, to better communicate with are apt to feel good about man around. But when I got to be directly influenced by a par• actually occurs," Madon said. various government agencies children; how to be more in• themselves and therefore be be 21,1 was astonished at how ent's expectations about alco• "But it's not just because they offer free guides to help par• volved in their day-to-day ac• less likely to give in to peer much he had learned in seven hol consumption. In analyzing believe it. It's not magic. When ents and caregivers promote tivities; how to set and enforce pressure to use alcohol," ac• years."—Mark Twain data obtained through inter• we believe something — even healthy lifestyles and open up rules; how to be positive .role cording to the booklet. "When views with about 800 Iowa if it's wrong — and when we the lines of communication models; how to help children the relationship between a par• Contrary to what exasperat• mothers and their children, believe it's true, we act as with children so they will make choose friends; and how to do ent and teen is full of conflict or ed parents of teenagers may Stephanie Madon, ISU psy• though it is. And sometimes informed, responsible choices. regular check-ins with chil• is very distant, the teen is more often think and feel, family atti• chology professor and lead au• when you act as though some• Building Blocks for a dren. likely to use alcohol and to de• tudes and behaviors do play an thor, and a team of researchers thing's true, your behaviors Healthy Future is an early Make a Difference: Talk to velop drinking-related prob• important role in shaping the found strong evidence a moth• will cause the belief to become childhood substance abuse Your Child About Alcohol is a lems." choices young people make. - er's beliefs regarding her true. prevention program developed booklet by NIAAA for parents To view the NIAAA booklet, As the National Institute on child's likelihood of using alco• "So I think the moral here is by the Substance Abuse and and guardians of young people visit niaaa.nih.gov, find Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism hol altered her child's self-view to help children develop posi• Mental Health Services age 10 to 14. It provides strate• "Publications" and click on points out, a large body of re• in either a positive or negative tive and pro-social concepts Administration for parents of gies for communicating with "pamphlets." Hazelden, a non• search shows that, even during direction. about themselves, because children age 3 to 6. The materi• teens about alcohol, ways to profit agency based in Center the teen years, parents have an In other words, if a mother children are likely to make als are based on six action spot warning signs of potential City, Minn., also offers a wide enormous influence on their believes her child will use alco• choices that match how they steps that relate directly to drinking problems and how to range of prevention resources children's behaviors, values hol, there-is an increased likeli• view themselves." what researchers and preven• help teens resist for parents; visit arid decisions about drinking. hood that the belief will be• It's never too early to begin tion professionals term family- alcohol. hazelden.org/bookstore.

Benjamin Teisan, 9, of Grosse Pointe Woods, decided entertain• ing visitors, volunteers and employees at Beaumont Hospital, Women's health donation Grosse Pointe would be a great way to pass the time while visit• The Bon Secours Nursing Care Center Auxiliary recently presented a $125,000 seed check to help fund the Women's Health and ing Ins grandfather. The programmed piano is usually off limits, but Teisan, who has been playing since he was 4 years old, was Heart Center at Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe. The auxiliary has donated $ 1.4 million since its inception in 1984 and has provid• given an exemption. ed funds for various expansions, renovations and the purchase of new equipment. Accepting the check from Beaumont, Grosse Pointe are from left, foundation director and hospital trustee George Haggarty, senior vice president and hospital director Rick Swaine and The Beaumont Foundation director Margaret Casey. Alcoholics

Grosse Pointe War Memorial's Anonymous 24hr Henry R)rd Comcast Television 24 Hour Hot Line Channels For the tops in Wayni 5 and 915 Whole Community County (313) 831-5550 January 5 to January 11 Featured Guests & Topics For the third consecutive year, Henry Ford Hospital has 8;3Q am Vitality Plus (Aerobics) Who's in the Kitchen? been selected as one of the 9:00 am Musical Storytime Chris Lane - Pickerel nation's most preferred hospi• 9:30.8111 Pointes of Horticulture tals for overall quality and im• 10:00 am Who's in the Kitchen? Things to Do at the War Memorial age by the National Research 10:30 am Things to Do at the War Memorial Corporation. 11:00 am Out of the Ordinary African Dance, Magic Show, High School 11:30 am Tech Pointes Musical and Intro to Face Reading The 903-bed hospital was named a "Consumer Choice 12:00 mn Economic Club of Detroit Oat of the Ordinary Award" winner by consumers 1:00 nm The SOC Show Joe Homsey & Dam Bashawaty in Wayne County. Henry Ford 1:30 pm Great Lakes Log MR! Appointments within 24 hours. Personality Profiling and Radical Frorgiveness shared the award with the 2:00 pmThe John Prost Show University - of Michigan Reports faxed immediately to your 2:30 pm The Legal Insider Tech Pointes Medical Center. physician for a more precise diagnosis. 3:00 pm Things'to Do at the War Memorial 3:30 pm Art and Design DVRs Each year, NRC of Lincoln, 4:00 pm Vitality Plus (Tone) Neb., publicly recognizes the "I found Wayne Macomb MBI to be 4:30 pm Musical Storytime Economic Club of Detroit nation's top hospitals as extremely-professional, I had an 5:00 pm In a Heartbeat Ronald Williams, Chairman & Ceo, Aetna Consumer Choice Award win• appointment the same day 5:30 pm The SOC Show "A Conversation on Health Reform" ners. - a very low stress environment" fcOOpmThe Legal Insider The award identifies hospi• - Elaine L 6:30 pm Who's in the Kitchen The SOC Show tals that health care con• 7^00 pm Vitality Plus (Step/Kick Boxing) Thirty Years Part III sumers have chosen as hav• 7:30 pm Things to Do at the War Memorial ing the highest quality and Our staff has over 20 years experience and expertise as Board 8:00 pm In a Heartbeat Great Lakes Log image in more than 250 mar• 8:30 pm Tech Pointes Mike Hoey, Chris & John Vantol kets throughout the U.S. >rtifi«l Radiologist* who spedalixe In non-radiation MR! Imaging, rt 9:00,pm,,A and Design Match Racing "These Consumer Choice and accredited by The American College of Radiology. 9:30 pm Pointes of Horticulture award winners exemplify the Affiliated with St. John Hospital and Medical Center, St. John 10:00 pm The John Prost Show The John Prost Show dedication it takes to provide 10:30 pm Great Lakes Log Ron Gettelfinger quality health care to their Macomb/Oakland Hospital, Henry Ford Macomb Hospital 11:00 pm Out of the Ordinary United Auto Workers communities and we are 11:30 pm Tech Pointes pleased to honor them Midnight Economic Club of Detroit The Legal Insider through the eyes of their pa• When Quality Counts... 1:00 am The SOC Show Honorable Joseph N. Impastato tients," says Ginny Martin, 1:30 am Great Lakes Log president of NRC's Two Local ion$ to Serve You 2:00 am The John Prost Show Art and Design Healthcare Market Guide 2:30 am Tech Pointes Jennifer Callans Division. WAYNE-MACOMB MM 3:00 am Art and Design 18245 Ten Mile Road Ste 100 Michigan Annual XXXV Of the 3,200 hospitals Roseville, Mi 48066 3:30 am Pointes of Horticulture 4:00 am The John Prost Show named by consumers in the study, the winning facilities MACOMB MR! 4:30 am Great Lakes Log 42700 Schoenherr Rd 5:00 am Out of the Ordinary A DVD Copy of any rank highest in their Sterling Heights, Mi 48313 5:30 am The Legal Insider WMTV Metropolitan Statistical Areas, as defined by the U.S. Count On the Best! 6:00 am Things to Do at the War Memorial program can be obtained for 6:30 am Art and Design Census Bureau. Most Insurances accepted 7:00 am Vitality Plus ( Tone) $20 More than 200,000 house• wtvw.waynemacorriboiri.ront or call for a complete list 7:30iiamiMusical Storytime holds representing 400,000 8:00 am In a Heartbeat Schedule subject to change without notice. rnnsnmprs in the mnrifmntjs » aiulip u samv tiny upimtMint'ttL mil.) Mi- 48 states and the District of Columbia were surveyed. GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY 1, 2009

Spirit of Christmas tree

The 53 students of the Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church religious education program presented its interpretation of the birth of Jesus Sunday, Dec. 14. The annual pageant this year was titled "Spirit of the Christmas Tree" and included singing carols and roles for every child.

week of Jan. 5 and are held at the First English Lutheran Bereavement Church, 800 Vernier, Grosse ministry Pointe Woods. Each session costs $8 or at• St. Paul on the Lake Catholic St. Paul Jan. 4. Sunday, Jan. 4, at the Grosse at the door. tend as many classes in a week Church's bereavement min• St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Pointe War Memorial, 32 In January, the annual mem• as needed for $68. istry holds a Mass and lunch Church, 157 Lakeshore, Lakeshore, Grosse Pointe bership fee is $15 and becomes For more information, call from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Grosse Pointe Farms, holds the St. Albertus Farms, the pass for the rest of the sea• Judy Sheehy at (313) Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 157 Solemnity of Mary Mother of A transcription for two cel• son. 886-7534 . or visit Lakeshore, Grosse Pointe God Mass at 10 a.m. and noon St. Albertus Historic Church, los of Bach's "Chaconne in De For more information, call [email protected]. Farms. The speaker will be the Thursday, Jan. 1. St. Aubin and Canfleld, Detroit, Minor" from the. "Partita for (313)885-4633. Rev. Gene Simon, past director holds an Epiphany Mass at 11 Solo Violin," will be performed of the Manresa Retreat House. a.m. Sunday, Jan. 4. Doors by Stefan Koch and Renee Teahouse St. Ambrose open at 10 a.m. Goubeaux. Fitness Firm For more information, call The "Piano Trio in C Major" The Russian Tea House Fine dining St. Ambrose Catholic (313) 527-9321 or (313) by Haydn will be performed by The Fitness Firm offers low serves lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 Church, 15020 Hampton, 285-9398. violinist Lorraine Perlman, cel• impact dance aerobics, incor• p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, at St. The Royal Eagle at St. Grosse Pointe Park, holds a list Sylvelin Bouwrnan and pi• porating kick box, yoga, free Sabbas Orthodox Monastery, Sabbas Orthodox Monastery, New Year's Day Mass at .10 anist Linda Greiner. weights, toning and flexibility 18745 Old Homestead, Grosse 18745 Old Homestead, Harper a.m. Thursday, Jan. 1. Chamber music Clarinetist Lillian Dean, vio- classes from either 9:30 to Pointe Woods. Woods, offers a full menu of The Mass of the Feast of the list Constance Markwick and 10:30 a.m. Mondays and The suggested donation is food from around the world Epiphany of the Lord will be at Grosse Pointe Chamber pianist Blake Ray will play Wednesdays or from 6:45 to $20 from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday, 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, and at Music presents music by Bach, Mozarf s "Kegelstatt Trio." 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Call (313) 521-1894 for Jan. 8. For reservations, call 8:30 and 11:15 a.m. Sunday, Haydn and Mozart at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 and available Thursdays. Classes begin the reservations. (313)521-1894.

Grosse Pointe UNITED METHODIST CHURCH A Friendly Church for All Ages 211 Moross Rd. f Grosse Pointe Farms 886-2363 SUNDAY WORSHIP 9:3(h.m. Worship CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH SERVICE CHURCH SCHOOL First Church of Christ, Scientist 9:45 am. Church School 4 yrs. - 5th Grade 10:45 am Church School - Middle & Senior. High 282 ChalfonteAve. Grosse Pointe 11:00 am Adult Church School Nursery & Toddler Care Provided Sunday Service -11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Unitarian Church Wednesday Testimony Meeting r?ew, , Rev. Judith A. May 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. January 4,2009 Christ the King Rev. Pamela Beedle-Gee-Associate Pastor 10:30 a.m. Service yearntoaet Lutheran Church Mack at Lochmoor All are warmly welcome at both services "Question Box Sermon" St. Michael's Free Childcare provided 884-5090 Questions? 884-2426 Speaker: Rev. John Corrado Episcopal Church Childcare will be provided 8:15 & 10:45 a.m. - Worship Service Welcomes you 17150 MAUMEE .9:30 a.m. - Sunday School 881-0420 GRACE UNITED & Bible Classes and your family Visit us at www.gpuc.us CHURCH OF CHRIST Grosse Pointe Supervised Niirsery Provided www.christthekinggp.org Sunday Services LUTHERAN CHURCH First English Evangelical 1175 Lakepointe at Kercheval Congregational Church 170 McMillan Road Lutheran Church Grosse Pointe Park 822-3823 Randy S. Boelter, Pastor 8:00 a.m. Grosse Pointe Farms 10:00 a.m. FAMILY WORSHIP Holy Eucharist 800 Vernier Hoad (Comer of Wedgewood) (crib room available) 313-884-0511 (313) 884-5040 Sunday - Worship 10:30 a.m. Pointe Woods 10:15 a.m. Church Schooi 10:15 a.m. www.stjamesgp.ong 8:15 am- Traditional Worship Tuesday - Thrift Shop 10:30-3:30 Affiliated with the UCC and ABC Presbyterian Church Saturday 9:30 am - Contemporary Worship w/ 240 CHALFONTE AT LOTHROP Church School Holy Communion Wednesday - Amazing Grace Seniors 5:00pm Holy Eucharist Rev. Dr. M. Jacob Kaufman, Pastor classes begin 9:30 am Sunday School every second Wednesday at Sunday www.gpcong.org Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. this Sunday 11:00 am- Traditional Worship The Tompkins Center at Education for all ages 9:00am Windmill Pointe Park 11:00 - 3:00 gpcong@sbcglobal. net jucatfonfor all-9:15 am September 7 Fellowship 9:45 am Nursery Available 884-3075 Wednesday Bible Study - 8:30 p.m. Pre-school through High School Holy Eucharist 10:15 am COME JOIN US Rev, Walter A, Schmidt. Pastor Pastor: Marguerite (Margo) Allen Wednesday Rev, Gerald Elsholz, Associate Pastor 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon Holy Eucharist Rev. James Rizer, Pastor "Go Make Disciples" - A House of Prayer for All People El Choral Eucharist Traditional Anglican Worship Since 1842 Nursery care provided Grosse Pointe Baptist Church SUNDAY 20475 Sunningdale Park 8:30a.m,and 11:00 a.m - Holy Communion Grosse Pointe Woods Helping people make Christ St. Paul Ev. Lutheran Church (Mack and Vernier) the center of their lives 11:00 a.m. -Church Sunday School 375 Lothrop at Chalfonte and Nursery 313-884-4820 Sunday Worship - 11:00 am 881-6670 THURSDAY www.stmichaeisgpw.org Sunday School - 9:30 am for Age 2 - Adult 9:00 a.m. Worship 12:10 p.m. -Holy Communion [email protected] 10:10 a.m. Education Hour 170 E. Jefferson Avenue Check out our complete list of ministries at 11:15 a:m. Worship On Hart Plaza at the Tunnel Free Secured Parking in Ford Auditorium www.gpbc.org Nursery Available Underground Garage with entrance in Old St Mary's Catholic Church Rev. Frederick Harms, Pastor the median strip of Jefferson at Woodward 21336 Mack Avenue Grosse Pointe Woods Rev. Morsal Collier, Assoc. Pastor (313)-259-2206 1 ^ Greektown-Detroit Phone: (313) 881-3343 www.stpaulgp.org marinerschurchofdetrOit.org Jefferson Avenue f Welcomes You 9 & 11 a.m. Worship Services ' - k (corner of Monroe & St. Antoine) (PresByterian Church in the Sanctuary Serving Christ in Detroit for over 154 years Epiphany Sunday Visit and worship with us Crib & Toddler Care when you're downtown January 4» 2009 Grosse Pointe 8:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. a-" Memorial Church Weekend Masses 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 'A light by the lakeshore* "Young Children and Worship" Program for Preschool Saturday: 5:30 p.m. Meditation: "Wise Guys" The Presbyterian Church (USA) through 2nd grade at 9 a.m. service Sunday: 8:30 a.m. A STEPHEN MINISTRY and 10:00 a.m. (Latin - Choir) Scripture: Isaiah 60:1-6 and Matthew 2:1-12 LOGOS Congregation 10:10 a.m. Christian Education 12:00 p.m. Traci M. Smith, Preaching 16 Lakeshore Drive for all ages Church School: Crib - 8th Grade Grosse Pointe Farms Daily Mass: 313-882-5330 Monday - Saturday at 12:15 p.m. Parking Lot 8S25 t. jerterson at Burns, uetron www.gpmcnurcn.org a.m. rnaay ncumenicai Men s Dreaiciast Confessions 20 minutes before every Mass Behind Church Visit our website: www.japc.org. 313-822-3456 GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY 1, 2009

ENTERTAINMENT

TO EARTH By Kathleen Peabody What is your green

and our immediate communi• Grosse Pointe ple effect that can produce can." ness and environmental indif• ties but that, in many cases, it "I wish for much sunshine health in our environment be• — Tom Glaeser, Manager, ference." Now Moss educates is an economically viable poli• and enough rain to keep my yond our imagination." Allemons Landscaping youth and adults in all as• cy as well. posies (and me) happy and — Mil Hurley, owner, A "That communities plant pects of gardening and sees — Cheryl M. English, own• hearty, and I hope for good Southern Gardener, host more diverse trees in public them blossom into individuals er/operator, The English health so that I may continue WMTV5 Pointes of spaces while assessing all ap• who care about preserving Landscape enjoying my volunteer gar• Horticulture propriate sites for especially their environment and the nother year has be• "My gardening wish for dening efforts and working in "Rather than a wish, I'd like long-lived trees." beauty of the natural world. gun and what better 2009 would be.that everyone my own gardens on this good to put forth a hope — that the — Alan Marschke, head of ' "My wish is that gardeners way of ringing in the would understand the impor• Earth. scientific community finds the the Grosse Pointe Historic will reach out in 2009 and new than sharing in tance to'our environment and —Ruth Ellen Mayhall, mas• reason (and consequently, a Tree Cloning Project open the eyes of a child or • the wishes of some to our families of gardening ter gardener and VP/program cure) for the devastation of the "I wish for temperate days, adult to the beauty in nature> of our illustrious gardeners, using organic fertilizer and chair for the GPS Garden Club bee population. Without bees, cool nights, a loooong garden• and excite them about this landscapers, shop owners and non-toxic pest control meth• "My wish is a cure for the the human community will ing season, lots and lots of new world." other greenies. ods and that their gardens and emerald ash borer. If nothing have to deal with dire circum• heirloom tomatoes, and — Barbara Hayes, director, These are the responses I re• families would thrive as never is done, the beetle could kill stances related to food avail• evenings to share it all with Detroit Garden Center & ceived with the question, before!" every beautiful ash tree in this ability. family, friends and neigh• Chair, Herb Society of "What is your environmental, — Robin Heller, executive country" — Sue Hanson, president, bors!" America, Grosse Pointe Unit gardening, horticultural wish director, LocalMotion —Joe Shock, forester, City Master Gardeners of Greater — Diane Yordy, advanced Here's hoping all your 2009 for 2009?" "My wish for 2009 is simply of Grosse Pointe Woods Detroit, a chapter of the master gardener, Grosse environmental wishes come "I wish that we continue to to have a year of pleasant, "That we can look at our Wayne County MSU Pointe Garden Center board true! grow in our realization that moderate weather with the hy• own gardens, appreciate and Extension member Kathleen Peabody is an ad• living a 'green' lifestyle is not drangea gods kind to me." love them and take the steps "That we can keep trying to Garden writer and educator vanced master gardener who only essential to the ongoing —John Verpoort, vice presi• to take care of them. Our provide excellent service and William Moss says, "Before I lives (and gardens) in Grosse health of the planet at-large dent, Men's Garden Club of small steps of care cause a rip• keep prices down as best we gardened I had plant blind• Pointe Woods.

A LA ANNIE By Annie Rouleau-Scheriff A kicky holiday cheese ball

appy New Year! I'm making a home• made cheese ball that requires not much more than a The playhouse on the grounds of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Hfood processor. Creamy and flavorful and rolled in nuts, my cheese ball recipe is from the pages of "So Tour Edsel & Eleanor Ford HousNow You Owen A Foo d Processor," by Donna Holiday tours at the Edsel & manner in which the Ford fam• about family holiday traditions, Reynolds. Donna teaches life Eleanor Ford House continue ily enjoyed their home during see the home adorned for the skills and food classes at through Sunday, Jan. 4. the yuletide celebration. On a season and hear about celebra• Brownell and Pierce middle The home is decorated in a guided tour, guests will hear tions from the past. New this schools. year, visitors can see the gin• gerbread wonderland display Cheddar Nut Ball PHOTO BY VIRGINIA O. MCCOY created by area children, 2/3 cup pecan nut pieces (or With a food processor, cream cheese, sharp cheddar cheese youth, groups and adults dur• other nut) and toasted pecan pieces, this cheese nut ball will be a hit with ing Ford House's first annual 18-oz. package cream your parry guests. contest. The confectionary cre• cheese (not softened), cut into ations will remain on display six cubes cubes, shredded cheddar, green Carefully wrap in plastic wrap through Jan. 4. 1 cup shredded sharp Ched• onion, mayonnaise and garlic and store in the refrigerator un• dar cheese salt. Pulse-chop several times, til ready to serve. 1 tablespoon chopped until well blended. Add the To serve, place the cheddar Schedule/admission green onion or other onion green pepper and pulse-chop nut ball on a serving plate and 2 tablespoons mayonnaise four to five more times. surround it with crackers. (or whole milk) Transfer mixture to a small Choose a healthy whole grain 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt bowl and refrigerate for about type cracker or spread in celery 1/3 cup chopped green pep• an hour to give the cheese mix• boats. This is a deliriously sim• per ture time to firm up a bit before ple recipe. The onion and green Begin by placing the nuts in a handling. pepper add just the right food processor (regular blade). Form the chilled cheese into amount of kick to this zesty Pulse-chop four to six times un• a ball and roll in chopped nuts cheese ball. Toast the nuts be• til coarse.' Transfer to a plate. until coated on all sides. fore chopping if you like. Set aside. Rinse and dry processor bowl and add cream cheese

A mandatory meeting for Both parents and students those interested in joining the must attend the meeting and Ski Hi Club is offered at 4 or 6 students need to bring a 2-inch p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6 in the Fries photo. Returning members can Ballroom of the Grosse Pointe join for this season from 4 to 7 War Memorial. p.m. The club is open to Grosse The membership fee is $35 Pointe residents or active stu• and each trip is $48 without dents in grades 6 through 12 equipment rentals or $64 with and offers ski trips coordinated ski rentals. To add a snowboard and chaperoned by parents. rental, the fee is $67 per trip.

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NORTH YEAR IN REVIEW ULS YEAR IN REVIEW SOUTH YEAR IN REVIEW

GIRLS BASKETBALL North, South get rolling with victories Latest win gets North to .500 mark to win By Bob St. John By Bob St. John Sports Editor Sports Editor

Look out MAC Red foes, Grosse Pointe South's girls Grosse Pointe North is back to basketball team gained a sig• its championship form after nature win last week, beating dismantling Romeo 56-40 Dec. No. 3 ranked Detroit Pershing 22. 70-64 in overtime. The game was originally The game was played at scheduled for Friday, Dec. 19, Detroit Renaissance and was but a snowstorm cancelled part of the Renaissance school and the game couldn't Holiday Classic Games 2008. be played. "This was definitely a confi• A 16-0 second-quarter run dence-building win," South was the difference. It turned head coach Kevin Richards the host Lady Norsemen's one- said. "Pershing was a quick, point deficit into a 26-11 lead athletic team and beating them with just under one minute left shows our girls they can play PHOTO BY WILL HARRAH in the second stanza. with any team in the state. Junior Chloe Srebernak, shown here against Marine City, They led 26-13 at the half PHOTO BY WILL HARRAH "I'm proud of how well we scored 15 points to help South beat No. 3 ranked Detroit and extended it to 30-15 on a Senior Jasmine Kennedy was a force in the paint against executed and now we have a Pershing in overtime. junior Kayla Womack layup Romeo, scoring 20 points. few days off before getting and senior Olivia Stander back to practice and getting deemed themselves in the throws to send the game to three-point shot midway forced more than 20 turnovers, points and seven rebounds and ready for our league schedule overtime by making those criti• overtime. Owens' free-throw through the third period. which led to several fast-break Womack finished with five to start." cal free throws." attempts came with only two "We're starting to get our layups. points. The Doughgirls led 33-30 at The Lady Blue Devils missed seconds left on the clock. She legs under us, which has made Senior Jasmine Kennedy "Jasmine worked her tail off the half, but the Lady Blue the front end of a one-and-one was fouled going up for a put? our full-court pressure more had a game-high 20 points, and Madie played her best Devils out scored them 31-22 and the Doughgirls' junior back. effective," North head coach while Stander finished with 14 game of the season," Bennett in the second half to lead 61 -55 Senee Shearer drained a three- Sophomore Aisha Rodney Gary Bennett said. "Our pres• points and seven assists. said. 'Ariel is getting back into with just a minute left in the pointer to cut it to three. The scored a game-high 33 points, sure really took Romeo out of Junior Ariel Braker, playing the swing of things. She adds a fourth quarter. same scenario tied the game at while junior Chloe Srebernak its game and that was evident about half of the game, had tremendous amount at both "We let them get back in the 61 with 30 seconds left. added 15 points and senior after the first possession of the eight points, five steals, four re• ends of the court." game by not making some free South junior Kate Pangori Clare Conway had 10 to lead game." bounds and, three assists. With the win, Grosse Pointe throws down the stretch," and Pershing senior Rodnisha the Lady Blue Devils, who ira- The- Lady Norsemen's trap Senior Madie Kent had five North evened its^eoord at 3-3. Richards said,, "The girls re^ Owens each hit 1- of-2 -Iree-* fffovedto £-0 overall. marketplace.com

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Grosse Pointe North Girls hoops, Bennett highlight North

By Bob St John Sports Editor

Sports Editor Bob St. John takes a look back at the best stories that headlined the three Grosse Pointe high schools' athletic programs in 2008. It starts with last year's win• ter and spring sports and ends with the recently concluded fall athletic season. Teams of the Year Grosse Pointe North's Team of the Year is the girls' basket• ball squad that won its first- Doug Zade, just a sophomore, made All-State First Team at No. 1 singles for North's boys tennis ever Class A state champi• team. 9HBI onship last March. Head coach Gary Bennett to be a state championship that that won a division title and loss, Bennett still gives credit to and his Lady Norsemen fin• might be won with a final shot. made the state quarterfinals, both teams and a hand shake ished the dream season 26-2 The Lady Norsemen dis• the boys and girls cross coun• to the opposing head coach. overall. pelled that notion as they try teams that ran in the state Bennett is just one of several "We had some great chem• outscored East Lansing 22-12 finals, the boys hockey team North head coaches who led istry and senior leadership, to win the tide by double digits. that made it to the Final Four, their teams to lofty heights. FILE PHOTOS which played a big part in win• Braker led the way with 15 and the girls volleyball squad Scott Lock is making a habit Olivia Stander earned a spot on the girls soccer "Dream Team" ning the state title," Bennett points and 16 rebounds. this fall that made it to the state of leading North's boys hockey for a second straight season. That achievement has rarely hap• said. Kennedy had 13 points, fol• Final Four. program to the state semifi• pened for aiiy athlete in the state. Once the Lady Norsemen lowed by Kelly DeFauw with nals. cleared the first two hurdles, 11, Stander with nine, Womack Coach of the Year Last season made it two made a state finals appearance earn All-State honors in their the district and regional tour• with six and Maddie Kent with Gary Bennett's tenure as Final Fours in a row, but the last spring. respective sports. naments, they set their sights four. head coach of Grosse Pointe Norsemen lost 3-0 to co-cham• Don't forget Frank Sumbera Olivia Stander made the girls on the Elite 8. The ladies finished the sea• North's girls varsity basketball pion Marquette in the semifi• who led his North football soccer "Dream Team" for a The Lady Norsemen de• son a perfect 14-0 in the program has been filled with nal. They also lost to team to a spot -in- the second second straight year. This is stroyed Southfteld Lathrup 57- Macomb Area Conference Red many success stories. Marquette, 8-2, in the 2007 round of the state playoffs. It her senior year, which could be 35 to*advance to the Final Four Division, beating Utica None more incredible than semifinals. was the fifth straight year his the best of her four-year varsity at the Convocation Center on Eisenhower, Sterling Heights last year's run to the state Lock won back-to-back state squad has made the postsea• career. the Eastern Michigan Stevenson, Port Huron championship in which he or• championships in Division 2, son. Ariel Braker also made the University campus. Northern, Utica, LAnse Creuse chestrated without the services beating Sault Ste. Marie 3-0 in Drew Mascarin guided his girls baskeball "Dream Team" Forget about nerves, and rival Fraser. of key senior Kristine Klein, 2001 and Davison 4-0 in 2002. boys tennis team to a regional as a sophomore. The 6-foot, 2- Bennett's squad blasted North In nonleague games, the who suffered a knee injury Kim Lockhart etched her title and a spot in the state fi• inch center is back on the court Farmington 65-32 in the semifi• Lady Norsemen beat Livonia midway through the state play• name in the coaches' history nals, after rehabilitating a knee in• nal as Ariel Braker had a mon• Ladywood, Detroit offs. book in November, leading the Two more spring coaches, jury suffered last spring. ster game, netting 23 points Renaissance, Birmingham Bennett was honored as the Lady Norsemen to the state Pat Wilson and Charles Chris Zak, a 2008 graduate, and 20 rebounds, including 12 Marian, St. Clair, Utica Henry Class A coach of the year by semifinals in Class A. Buhagiar, led the boys and girls earned All-State honors for offensive. :'; Ford II and Grosse Pointe the daily newspapers and L-ast spring, Chip Stencel track and field teams to region• boys golf after tying with friend Jasrnine Kennedy had nine South. earns the respect from each guided the Lady Norsemen's al titles and appearances in the Tim Shield of Grosse pointe points and 13 rebounds, While Their only losses came to and every player who dons a soccer team to an improbable state finals. , ', South.lbr third in last spring's Olivia Stander and! Kayla Rochester Jan. 8 and Saginaw North jersey. run to the state championship This fall, Jen Nadeau state championship with a two- Womack reached double fig• Arthur Hill Jan. 28. "Coach Bennett is a great game. They finished the regu• stepped in as head coach of the day total of 151. ures in points, netting 12 and A congratulations is extend• coach, a great teacher and a lar season with a .500 record, girls field hockey team and led Kevin Gibson and Mike 11, respectively. ed to the girls soccer team that wonderful person," senior but found a groove in the play• the squad to new heights, in• Neveux made the Division I Norm reached the pinnacle lost in the state championship Maddie Kent said. offs that led a path to the finals. cluding winning a division All-State honors for boys' by beating East Lansing 58-46 game, the girls and boys track Bennett has the respect of Scott Dockett guided the championship and a quarterfi• hockey and for girls' hockey, in the championship game. It and field teams that won re• fellow coaches who know girls' hockey team to the semi• nal spot. Alexa Quinlan and Lauren was tied at 17 after the first gional-titles, the boys golf team when the whistle blows at the finals, but they lost to Ann Walsh made All-State First quarter and the Lady that won a division title and start of each game, Grosse Arbor in the Final Four. Players of the Year Team. Norsemen held a slim 28-26 reached the state finals, the Pointe North will be ready to Matt Eszes also guided his Grosse Pointe North's stu• Other All-State First Team lead at the half. football squad that made the play tough defense until the fi• girls tennis team to a state fi• dent-athletes excelled through• athletes were John Neveux, An 8-8 third period set the second round of the state play• nal horn sounds. nals appearance, while Brian out the 2008 calender and football; Jenny Rusch, swim• tone for what was shaping up offs, the girls field hockey team Whether it's a huge win or a Stackpoole's boys golf team many were talented enough to ming; and Doug Zade, tennis.

University Liggett School Baseball, Cimini highlight ULS in 2008

started the 2008 season ranked final game, but abruptly ended Other prominent starters No. 1 and didn't disappoint. their season with an upset loss were Mark Ghafari, Dominic The Knights won a second to Metro Conference foe Jamett, Jeremiah Manning, straight Metro Conference reg• Lutheran Westland. Joe Simon and Tommy ular season and tournament ti• "Despite the loss in the re• Graves. tle with an unblemished gional finals, we had a pretty The boys lacrosse team record. darn good season," head coach made huge strides last year, They won every game in the Dan Cimini said. "Every player beating city rivals Grosse By Bob St. John regular season and won a dis• on this team worked hard to Pointe North and Grosse Sports Editor trict title with a thrilling come- try to win a state title. Pointe South in the same sea• from-behind victory in the first "We came close, but not son for the first time in years. University Liggett School round against Sterling Heights close enough because I really Head coach Chris Hartley didn't have a state champion in Parkway Christian. think we were the best team in resigned after the season after 2008, but several teams and in• Senior Curtis Fisher had the the state in Division IV" accepting a job offer in Seattle. dividuals were close. game-winning hit in the bot• The Knights were powered The girls' tennis team made tom of the seventh inning. by Fisher and fellow seniors it to the state finals, finishingi n Teams of the Year The Knights crushed Royal Mike Thomas and Patrick the top 10, and the boys' tennis The boys' baseball team Oak Shrine in a regional semi- Gustine. team made it to the state finals FILE PHOTO Curtis Fisher; a 2008 graduate, earned a spot on the "Dream Was Team" and played in the annual East-West All-Star baseball Cost-Effective SAVE UP TO 50% S499 game last summer. Statewide Coverage OFF YOUR NEXT HEATING BILL! district tournament. Advanced Portable Infrared iBeater once again. The ULS tennis programs Place your 2x2 display ad and have been two of the most suc• Coach of the Year reach over 3.5 million readers Michigan «ess asso t • Heats up to 1000 sq. / Cannot start a fire for Just $999! Place a 25-word cessful in state history and Tamara Fobare, David Michigan Pre; A* t ft. evenly forabou t a •/ FREE shipping keep cranking out talented 827 N.Washing t l.issified ad and reach over 4 SI aelay /Full factory warranty Backhurst, Chris Hartley are Lansing. Mi 489 •• illion readers for just $299! i/Safearound kids & pets /NEW iow price! athletes year after year. head coaches who guided ULS Phone: 517.372 Contact this newspaper or Call NOW to Order This fall, the girls field hock• athletic teams to success in Fax: 517.372.24 2008. MichiganPress.c Michigan Press Association. 1-800-469-0456 ey team won a division title Mi-Dan@michi; Order online 24-7 www.EHeaterStore.com and made it to the state semifi• However, ULS was fortunate nals, while the boys soccer to have Dan Cimini, varsity squad won a district champi• baseball head coach, on his SAVE A LIFE TODAY Buried in onship with a thrilling 1-0 vic• way to San Diego, along with Credit Card Debt? tory over Royal Oak Shrine. his mentor, Grosse Pointe Over $10,000 in credit card bills? Junior Dan Zukas scored the South varsity baseball head Only making the minimum payments? title-vanning goal late in the coach Dan Griesbaum, to ac• cept the ABCA/Diamond *- We can get you out of debt in months instead of years second half. *• We can save you thousands of dollars The girls volleyball team Sports Company High School + We can help you avoid bankruptcy came out of nowhere to shock Division HI Region 4 Coach of Personalize your own recovery Division IV by capturing a dis• the Year accolade. Hot a high-priced consolidation loan or one of those consumer credit counseling ] Open ended program dumtiwi- trict championship. The American Baseball Saanu - Fttneu -Vitamin Thernnv- Call; Insurance Accented 1-877-456-3313 Financing AvaiiaNe www.stopyouraddtctioa.com for your FREE consultation 866-479-5353 throughout the season before Not available in 3lf states playing their best during the See ULS, page 3C GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY!, 2009

SPORTS

Grosse Pointe South Girls hockey, girls tennis lead South in 2008

Dan Griesbaum rode his se• niors to an unblemished divi• sion record, as well as a dis• trict title. His Blue Devils beat city rival Grosse Pointe North four times a year ago. Griesbaum expects big things from his players and By Bob St. John they respond with winning Sports Editor seasons. Don Wolford's enthusiasm Grosse Pointe South's 2008 spilled over late last spring was full of dozens of wonder• when his Blue Devils lacrosse ful stories, including the open• team finally played up to its ing of the new pool facility. potential, which resulted in a first-ever spot in a state Final Teams of the Year Four. Head coach Todd Briggs and the Lady Blue Devils swim• Players of the Year ming and diving team crushed Grosse Pointe South's all but one of the foes on its Jordan Long began the 2008 2008 slate. season by making a big splash The team placed several in the state diving champi• competitors in the Division 2 onships. He won the gold state finals, including several medal with 496.60 points com• mentioned later in this article. pared to 432.80 for runner-up Two South teams went on to John Santein of University of capture state championships. Detroit Jesuit. First, the girls' hockey squad Long missed the first couple beat Ann Arbor 4-2 in early of meets this season with an March to win. In the spring, injury, but will return after the the girls' tennis team crushed holiday break and be ready to everyone in its wake en route defend his title. to easily capturing a Class A Angela Chupa, Mary Chupa, state championship. Carolyn Chupa, Melanie For the hockey team under Capuano (fourth time she Bill Fox, it was the eighth state earned All-State honors as the title in the 11-year history of first three years came at No. I the Michigan Metro Girls High singles), Mary Kate Hayden, School Hockey League, and Lizzy Hyde and Victoria for the tennis squad under Grams each made All-State Mark Sobieralski, it was its First Team in girls tennis in first crown since 1986. PHOTO BY RENEE LANDUYT 2008. The hockey team had sever- Jordan Long, sitting, won the diving competition in last year's state finals, thanks to hard work, dedication and the coaching of In addition, Angela Chupa -ai seniors, Alex Rentz, Jenna Chad Hepner, standing. was selected Ail-American, Huitsing, Maria Hartman, which is one of 40 in the coun• Mary Dosch, Anna Shepard, lost. that made it all the way to the Kingswood and Livonia to a state title contender. They try and one of two in the state, Kathleen McDonald and Other finalists was the No. 1 state Final Four for the first Ladywood en route to winning have improved their overall joining Shannon Matthews of Ashley Thibodeau. doubles team of Melanie time ever, the boys hockey the title. point totals in the state finals Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Junior C.J. Jarboe was stel• Capuano and Mary Kate team that made it to the re• Sobieralski's team was the past few years, as has the Kingswood. lar in net thoroughout the sea• Hayden, the No. 2 doubles gional finals before losing 1-0 loaded with talent from top to boys' swim team under head Reid Fragel made the foot• son and in the title game squad of Elizabeth Hyde and in double-overtime to Warren bottom, but that didn't stop coach Eric Gunderson. ball "Dream Team" for defense against the Pioneers she had Victoria Grams, and the No. 4 DeLaSalle, and the boys' ten• him from loading up the Both coaches put hundreds this fall, while Jackie Stevens, several spectacular saves. doubles team of Molly Lynch nis team that won division schedule with as many top- of hours of time into teaching Ali DeLoof and Molly DeWald

"The girls were motivated and Stephanie Skau. dual meet, division tourna• rankedsquads as possible. , the finer points of swimming made All-State in swirnming. ,t. after not t>erforrning up to our "This group of girls were fo• ment and a regional ^ tourna• "The girls needed to be chal• and that has attracted many Tip, Shield, was truly, an All- si'^darHs "~ the year before',* cused each and every match' ment. , " " "'MT'^ lenged as much as possible' top-notch swimmers to" their Eye*0t^n|f" earning "Dream Fox said. "They worked hard and they performed up to ex• and I think they stepped up to programs. Team" honors as one of the and were able to beat a very pectations," Sobieralski said. Coach of the %ar every challenge presented to Tom Berschback was back state's top goaltenders in ice good Ann Arbor team. "We were the favorites head• Bill Fox got his girls to be• them, including winning the for another crack at winning hockey and making All-State "Our goal was to win our last ing into the season and the lieve they were the best ice state championship as the fa• dual meets, division meet and for boys golf in the spring. game and we did." girls didn't let the pressure get hockey team last year and they vorite," Sobieralski said. regional titles, which his play• Other standouts are Mark The Lady Blue Devils fin• to them." proved it by winning a state Cooper's squad got off to a ers did for an umteenth sea• Riashi, an All-State pitcher ished 19-0-2 overall. Other teams that made a championship. fast start, winning several ear• son. who set pitching records for Sobieralski's squad also splash in 2008 included the The year before, the Lady ly-season tournaments, and it He keeps on cranking out the Blue Devils last spring; went undefeated. It blew away girls' golf squad that finished Blue Devils had their worst kept on rolling along, going top players and top teams that Alex Parker was an All-State the competition and easily second, in the Division I state season in the program's histo• undefeated in dual meets and finish in the top 15 in the state. tennis player this fell at No. 1 won the division dual meet, finals, the girls and boys cross ry, but Fox got his girls to focus winning the Macomb Area Track and field coaches singles; Alex Rentz earned the the division tournament and country teams that made the from the start of the first prac• Conference Red Division Werner Schienke and Steve prestigious Miss Hockey hon• regional tournaments before state finals, the boys and girls tice to the last horn of the state Tournament. Zaranek, who also coached or and was an All-State First embarking on the state finals track and field teams that championship game at City Seniors Kelsey Burgess and the girls' cross country team, Team player; Mike scene. made the state finals, the girls Arena in Detroit. Charlotte Park said during in• and fellow cross country Cunningham made All-State At the finals, Angela Chupa soccer team that won a district The only blemishes on the terviews they enjoyed playing coach Tom Wise, dedicated in soccer; Charlotte Park won her No. 1 singles flight, title and recorded an upset in a schedule were two ties against for Cooper because he had a hour upon hour to help their earned All-State honors in while Carolyn Chupa won the regional serniflnal game, the city rival Grosse Pointe North. serious side and a fun side that student-athletes perform at a girls golf; Ashley Thibodeau No. 3 singles flight. boys baseball team that won a Other than that, Fox guided made playing serious golf en• high level, which is why they was an All-State lacrosse per• Mary Chupa, No. 2 singles, league title with a perfect 12-0 his Lady Blue Devils to big vic• joyable. win year after year. former; and Edwin Gay was and Sarah VanWalleghem, No. mark and a district champi• tories against Ann Arbor, Briggs is slowly turning Wise recently announced his an All-State cross country run• 4 singles, made the finals, but onship, the boys lacrosse team Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook South's girls swim program in• retirement from coaching. ner.

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Executive Director, Dave Keilitz, sent Cirnini the official notice this fall. The ABCA National Convention is Jan 2 through Jan 5. "This is a great honor to be selected nationally," Cimini said. "We had a great season with a great bunch of young men. Even though we didn't win a state championship, we had one heck of a season." Joining Cimini as regional Jackson coaches of the year are Craig Reg $350 Now $195 Phillips of Fort Plain High School in NeW York, Jeff Smoot of Strasburg High FILE PHOTO School in Virginia, Tony The 2008 University Liggett School baseball team had an undefeated record until losing to Rasmus of Russell County Lutheran Westland in a Division IV regional championship game. High School in Alabama, Brian Miller of Mid Prairie High 2008 than graduate Curtis Division IV All-State First Counsman, earned Division n School in Iowa, Kirk Bock of Fisher. Team, joining 2008 graduates All-Division Team I honors in Harrison High School in He dominated the baseball Patrick Gustine and. Mike field hockey. Discontinued Styles Sale Arkansas, Don Freeman of diamond last spring for the Thomas, as well as current se• Claire Perrachio made All- From Dec. 26 to Jan.18, enjoy 30-40% savings on all Heritage High School in Knights, leading them in near• nior Tommy Graves. State in girls tennis last spring, discontinued shoes and belts. Washington and John Diatte of ly every offensive category. Others who earned All-State making the finals of the No. 3 Valley Christian High School The power-hitting First Team honors were se• singles flight. Somerset Collection (Level 1, South), (248) 816-2888 in California. pitcher/centerfielder earned niors Drew Amato and Aziz Catherine Vatsis, No. 1 sin• The ABCA High School "Dream Team" honors and Jan, who played on the gles, and Jamie Bow, No. 2 sin• Division m National Coach of was selected to play in last Knights' No. 4 doubles team gles, made the semifinals of the Year is Bock. summer's prestigious East- this fall. They helped the team their respective flights in the Men Edmonds West All-Star Game at make it to the state finals. state finals, while the No. 4 Leave an impression.™ Players of the Year ComericaPark. This fall, seniors Charlotte doubles team of Sarah Pollick Among the best of the best at Fisher was one of four Waidmeir and Whitney and Eihe Ottaway also made Offer not walia an aileriadmonds^cQin. Sale limited to inventory. ULS, no one stood taller in Knights who made the Baubie, as well as junior Paige the semifinals. 4 GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JANUARY 1, 2009 LASSIFIED 'VERTISING

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700 APTS/FUTS/DUPLEX|700 APTS/FLATS/DUPLEX|700 APTS/FLATS/DUPLEX• 701 APTS/FLATS/DUPLEX 704 HOUSES-RENT 705 HOUSES FOR RENT 709 T0WNH0USES/ 716 OFFICE/COMMERCIAL POINTES/HARPER WOODSiPOINTES/HARPER WOODSiPOINTES/HARPER WOODsl DETROIT/WAYNE COUNTY POINTES/HARPER WOODS C0ND0S FOR RENT FOR RENT 1 bedroom, Grosse BE ACONSFIE LD- GROSSE Pointe Park, 2 bedroom duplex, HARPER WOOdS, 2050 Roslyn- available 2 bedroom. Lakeshore HARPER WOODS Pointe. Hardwood, up• South/ Jefferson. Refin- beautiful upper flat, 22122 Moross. 100% 18984 Woodside. 3 immediately. 3 bed• Village, hardwood REDUCED dated, freshly painted, ished floors. New appli• approximately 2,200 renovated, central air, bedroom, $850. War• rooms. Completely re• floors, new carpeting. Suites {1,600 sq. ft.) , S750; includes heat/ ances, updated bath• square feet. 2 bed• basement. $790. Move- ren, 5471 Yale, 2 bed• modeled. 2 1/2 car ga• Freshly painted. $825. One furnished air. {313)683-3617 room, laundry. $540. rooms, 2 baths, living in ready. (313)343-0622 room, 2 bath condo, rage. No smoking, no {313)683-3617 Individual offices basement, garage, pets. $900. . (248)797- Rent/Lease to Own (586)772-0041 room, natural fireplace, DUPLEX- Ontario/ Ca- HARPER Woods- 2 1105 Lakepointe- 2 formal dining room, $850. Mt. Clemens, 64 9888 Roger, 313-886-1763 bedroom and study, BEAUTIFUL 2 becT dieux. 2/ 3 bedroom, Rosebud, 2 bedroom, 2 bedroom condo; new room lower near Vil• kitchen with applian• garage. Dead end AVAILABLE now- 3 carpet, private laundry/ SMALL executive offi• lower. Hardwood ces, den, sunroom, bath condo, $795. floors. $750. (248)752- lage, hardwood floors, street. $625. (313)407- Open Friday- Sunday, bedroom, 1 bath. storage; $695/ month. ces in Harper Woods new kitchen, washer, window treatments, Grosse Pointe Woods, 313-575-4325 available for immediate 8620 garage, Private, quiet. 5177 10am- 7pm. (586)786- dryer, must see, 6118, (586)573-0748 updated. Fenced. No LAKESHORE Village, occupancy. (313)371- 2 bedroom upper, References. $1,250, EAST English Village, pets, $1,050. (248)891- 6600 $1,200/ month. Chandler Park/ Grayton end unit, new kitchen, Maryland. Air, applian• (313)300-5249 (313)821-4140 0058 ces. No pets. Parking. area, spacious 2 bed• 705 HOUSES FOR RENT paint, all appliances. 2 721 VACATION RENTALS CONVENIENTLY lo• room upper flat, appli• POINTES/HARPER WOODS GROSSE Pointe bedroom, washer/ dry• FLORIDA References. $700. NEFF- 806, lower or (313)881-3149 cated 2 bedroom car• ances, garage. Also 2 homes, 3- 4 bedrooms, er. $800. (313)885- upper. From $875. 1221 Fairholme. Prime MARCO island- condo, riage house, living bedroom at Kelly/ Mo• location in the heart of appliances, basement, 4752 Sharp 2 bedroom, new the Gulf view. On the 2041 Vernier, Grosse room, dining room, 1 ross. For appointment Grosse Pointe Woods, yard, garage. Call for 714 LIVING QUARTERS kitchen, fireplace, air, call (248)730-5985 beach, 2 bedrooms, 2 Pointe Woods, 1 bed• car garage, $795/ immaculate 4 bed• details, (313)927-2731 TO SHARE baths. Pool and exer• appliances, garage. room upper, central month plus utilities. room, 2 1/2 baths. LAKESHORE execu• cise room. Available Prime location. Fax re• EAST English Village. ST, Clair Shores- water air, basement, garage, Fresh decor, laundry. Upper flat, 2 bedroom. Hardwood floors, 2 car tive carriage house, February and March. sume to:. (313)886- No pets. John, 313- attached garage. property, 3 bedroom 586-536-5079 new driveway. $635, all $600 plus security, fully furnished, all in• colonial, 2 fireplaces, 3365 510-8835 5041 Bishop. (313)510- Fenced corner lot. clusive, private, heated appliances included. $2,200, plus mainte• $459, includes utilities/ 723 VACATION RENTALS No smoking. No pets. FARMS upper 2 bed• 4470 garage Discerning in• cable. Maid service. MICHIGAN room, $900. lower 2 New Clam nance and utilities. 2 quiries only. $1,200. (3.13)418-1738 POINTE Manor Apart• (586)771-8155 bedroom, $975. Fire• Investment year lease. 586-792- 248-568-5217 CRYSTAL Mountain ments. 1060 Alter/ Jef• 3990 716 OFFICE/COMMERCIAL Ski and Golf resort 316 Hillcrest, 2 bed- place. All appliances. (313)884-6861 ferson. Nice, clean & 706 HOUSES FOR RENT FOR RENT home. Sleeps 12. Short room upper flat availa• Garage. No pets. 969 Beacon sfield (313)640-1857 quiet 2 bedroom apart• 1430 Hollywood- DETROIT/WAYNE COUNTY notice, price negotia• ble. Appliances, hard• 2 bedroom lower, ment. $550; 1 bed• $1,250. 3 bedrooms. 15005 Jefferson, $140- IMMEDIATE occupan• ble. 616-956-7691 wood floors, garage. GROSSE Pointe City- 1 room, $480. AN utilities Updates throughout $400. Secure, profes• living room, dining cy. Courville three bed• 313-617-8663 bedroom upper flat room, kitchen with included. {313)331- (810)499-4444 sional offices with fa• HARBOR Springs- ski basement, garage, 6971,(586)292-3189 room colonial, natural cilities. {313)410-4339 chalet. 3 bedroom 349 St. Clair, 2 bed- appliances, basement 1449 Maryland, spa• fireplace. Fenced back $535 plus security, in• 20390 Harper, upper. sleeps 6. 10 minutes room, 1 bath, upper, with washer 8i dryer, UNIVERSITY- clean, cious, 2 bedroom up• yard. $950/ Section 8 from Boyne Highland, cludes heat, water. per, freshly painted, 305 sq. ft./ 3 room fireplace, central air, (586)463-2228 off street parking, big one bedroom up• Ok! {313)882-6017 Nubs Nob. weekly, $1,000. (313)806-7149 $750. per. $500 includes util• newly remodeled kitch• suite, $350, includes heat. (313)884-7575 monthly or seasonal GROSSE Pointe Farms, 2009 Vernier ities. 313-268-4377 en and bath, new car• Jimco Properties rates. Please call 373 Neff- 2,000 sq. ft. upper studio. Great lo• peting throughout, 1 bedroom upper, 702 APTS/FLATS/DUPLEX (313)884-6861 20602 Harper. Corner {260)637-7225 High, ceilings, ' wood cation. $550/ month. shared basement. 4366 Chatsworth commercial, great visi• floors, beautiful. 313-414-2142 kitchen with S.C.S/MACOMB COUNTY $650. Shown' by ap• HARBOR Springs, va• appliances, shared 2 bedroom upper, bility. Formerly a spa, $1,200/ month. 313- 2 bedroom, 1. 5 baths, pointment, Jim Saros approximately 880 cation time! Cozy con• 613-4554. basement and garage, Agency, (313)884-6861 living room, kitchen, do, sleeps 8. Many ex• grosse Pointe Park- laundry, carport, 9/ Jef• shared basement, square feet. $800/ $625. ferson. $700. (248)723- tras. {313)823-1251 850 Neff- 2 bedroom, Nottingham South/ Jef• 1641 Broadstone, garage; Mack 8t month plus security ferson. Updated 2 bed• All properties shown 7907, (248)763-1584 deposit, (313)881-4377 small and cozy upper Grosse Pointe Woods, East warren, $550. flat. References/ secur• room, private base• by appointment. 3 bedroom, remodeled. ment, security parking, ONE and two bedroom 4812 Chatsworth AVAILABLE, class• ity deposit required.. apartments- St. Clair Central air, $1,800. 2 bedroom upper, rooms, opposite new $750/ month. No appliances/ washer/ RIVARD- 342, large (313)343-0622 dryer. Water included. one bedroom, near Jef• Shores, Eastpointe, living room, kitchen, WCCC. Harper woods, smoking, no pets. Harper woods. Well 18301 Old East 8 Mile. (313)885-3926 Quiet location, $660/ ferson. Laundry, fresh 19138 Roscommon- 4 shared basement, I ntdiii month + security de• decor, air, balcony- maintained, air condi• bedrooms, updated, Mack & East Warren, (586)291-1977.. ., ii , posit. 586-530-6271 very sharp. $775. No tioning, coin laundry new carpet/ paint, EXECUTIVE Office 893 St. Clair- lower, 1 and storage. $595- $550. bedroom, hardwood pets. (313)510-8835 section 8 ok. $745. 10670 Nottingham space. 950 square $695. The Blake Com• 313-496-3981 floors; basement wash• State and federal housing feet/ storefront/ $950/ Ml (ESS laws prohibit discrimination UPPER, 1413 Mary- pany, 313-881-6882. 2 bedroom brick ranch, month, plus utilities. er/ dryer; $875 in• that is based on race, color, land, Grosse Pointe No pets/ no smoking. living room, dining religion, national origin, 19453 Woodland, 15116 Mack Avenue, ^^^^^fc ^^^^^ cludes utilties. upper: 2 sex, disability, age Park. Appliances, no Harper Woods. 3 bed• room, kitchen, Grosse Pointe Park, bedroom, large kitch• (Michigan Law), pets. (313)885-7138 704 HOUSES-RENT room ranch, all hard• basement, Morang & marital (Michigan Law) (313)821-5105 en, hardwood floors; or familial status. WINDMILL Pointe wood. Updated kitchen Whittier; $725. $850/ includes utilties. MADISON Heights- 2 with tile. Updated For further information, Drive, 2,000 sq. ft. All Properties Grosse Pointe With The Classifieds (313)885-2020, Clau• bedroom ranch. Fresh basement with carpet• call the Michigan bright upper with wa• Shown by Appointment woods dia/ Chuck Department qf Civil Rights ter views, 3 bedroom, paint, very. cozy. Imme• ing. 1 1/2 garage. $850. at 800-482-3604; the U.S. diate posssssjpn, AP-. ,313-231-6525 Office space for lease 2 bath, den, new kitch• ; r) SECTION 8- homes. •-Department tif HGusirfg'and DJpjG,es, « updated ^'individual offices;: *T ••iihevUrban Development en; 'appliances;* garage;-; Wi 915 Neff, 2 bedreionv 5 Fax your ads 24 hours Rent: $800-4950. 3/ 4 Starting at $400/ mo., $750 includes: applian• 800-669-9777 no smoking, referen• kitcfien. StOTge shed. bedrooms. Available or your local $725/ month. 586-924- 313-343-5569 includes all utilities ces, water, air. No Fair Housing Agency. ces. $1,700/ month. immediately. (248)988- pets. {313)824-9174 702-208-4984 0547 8977 313-268-2000 (313)882-6900 ext.

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