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MARCH-APRIL 2016 grosse $2.50 IN STORES Pointemagazine PLAY BALL! What do Ty Cobb and Tom Gage have in common? Grosse Pointe! WEDDINGS Grosse Pointe nuptials, modern showers and more HOME & GARDEN EXPO Get great ideas for indoors and out at annual REALTORS’ event Featuring the best of Grosse Pointe life THE HILL SEAFOOD & CHOP HOUSE • USDA Prime Steaks • Wild Caught Seafood Where Wedding Dreams • Corporate Catering Come True in your home or office Bridal Showers • Weddings • Private Dining Room seats 50 Catering • Rehearsal Dinners • Happy Hour – Mon-Thurs, 5-7pm Engagement Celebrations In Our Private Dining Room Lunch • Dinner • Catering Monday - Saturday 123 Kercheval | Grosse Pointe Farms Call for Reservations 313.886.8101 TheHillGrossePointe.com ENHANCE YOURHOME THE LUXURY DIVISION OF ART VAN FURNITURE Our interior designers are dedicated to bringing your vision to life. Creative Services Include: Complimentary Design Services, Architecture and Space Planning, Bespoke Furnishings, Custom Product Design Development, Fine Art Curating and Material Selection. ROYAL OAK 248.549.9105 | GROSSE POINTE 313.343.0021 | STERLING HEIGHTS 586.566.5670 | GRAND RAPIDS 616.957.2369 | PETOSKEY 231.348.2013 SCOTTSHUPTRINE.COM NOVI 248.349.2950 | DOWNERS GROVE, IL 630.852.4189 pointe contents Pointe Extras Cover Features 14 Books on the Lake 16 Bogart’z Home, Garden & 18 Soroptimist International 28 Lifestyle Expo Looking forward to the 26 Easy, early Spring gardening annual expo and its new cafe 30 Grosse Pointe South Art Fest 32 Moving forward at GPHS Tom Gage 34 Hope on over to these Easter events! 38 Tom Gage made recipient 35 Think Spring at Tau Beta’s 13th Annual of the J.G. Taylor Spink Spring Market Award 36 Easter: What does the annual celebration mean to you? Weddings 40 Ty Cobb, from myths to facts 43 From a waterfront wedding to the changing 42 In memory of Harold & Cynthia Chyz trends in showers, our 48 The Shower Rules annual wedding section 50 Elliot & Killeen 56 Marchiori Catering celebrates 65 years 62 The Food Lab Pointe Personalities 64 Hello America by Mary Matuja Katherine & Aiden 68 Look what’s new ... at Bayview! 10 Katherine, a friendly 88 A phenomenal day for hockey baby, and Aiden, future 94 AAUW Used Book Sale hockey pro 98 Dominic Pangborn: Detroit’s artist in residence Sheylan 12 Sheylan Budek, South student and aspiring In Every Issue psychiatrist 8 On Pointe with the Publisher 22 Pointe Investment Steven 23 Pointe Landlord 20 Steven Skorupski, journeyman lineman for 24 Right at Home DTE and proud father 60 Cooking with Chef Ethan Steiner 61 Pointe Health 65 Legal Pointes with Jon Gandelot Nancy Pointe Fitness 70 Nancy Renick, retired 66 teacher and owner of The 67 Great Lakes Log Village Toy Company, loving 71 Pointe Caregiver mother and grandmother 72 Restaurant Guide Paparazzi Roger 80 78 Roger Mason, owner of 86 A European Edit Pointe Electronics and 90 Pointe Pets family man 91 Pet Health 92 Calendar 4 MARCH-APRIL 2016 | GROSSE POINTE MAGAZINE A FULL BAG OF GROCERIES CAN WEIGH OVER 10 POUNDS * National MedBridge data 2014 With over 100 MedBridge ARE YOU PREPARED FOR HOME? units across the country, find When you need help recovering from a medical issue, ask for out how you may benefit MedBridge—your bridge from hospital to home. 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Expect: • Distinct unit focused on getting patients home • Average patient stay of less than 30 days • 90% of rehab stay patients return to the community • Less than 18% return to the hospital (below industry average) • High patient satisfaction • Attending physicians and nurse practitioner services • Therapists trained in specialized equipment and treatment techniques • Dedicated and experienced nursing personnel MedBridge is your best way home. medbridgerehab.com Pointe magazine March-April 2016 John Minnis Editor & Publisher Lauren McGregor Assistant Editor Terry Minnis Business Manager Graphics Diane Morelli Ken Schop Dennis Zelazny Account Representatives Kris Beaver Dorothy Hawring Diane McIntyre Shelley Owens Marilyn Waldmeir On the cover The March-April 2016 cover art of Contributing Writers Anna Bartolotta the gazebo on The Hill was painted Lina Bowman by renowned Grosse Pointe Shores Ted Everingham artist Dominic Pangborn, who Virginia Ficarra maintains a studio in Detroit. See Jon Gandelot Dr. Saima Khan story on page 98. Ronda Maniaci Beth Newhart Lauren Pankin Margie Reins Smith Sarah Stahl Where in the Pointes? Ethan Steiner Where in the Pointes is this object? Pete Waldmeir On Monday, March 28, we will ask Ken Welch this question on our Facebook wall. Contributing Photographers The first person to respond with Christine M.J. Hathaway the most specific answer will win a John F. Martin gift card to Champ’s Rotisserie & Donald Schulte Seafood! Participants MUST wait for The Portrait Place the question to be posted by Pointe Editorial Advisory Board Magazine. Good luck! (Last issue’s Jim and Angie Bournias answer: horse fountain in the Shores.) Betsy Burt-Feller Coleman Feller To find us on Facebook, search “Grosse Pointe Magazine” Ahmed and Mary Ann Ismail Bob and Diane Klacza Grosse Pointe Magazine is published six times a year by Pointe Media Incorporated, 18530 Mack Ave. #106, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236. Phone: (313) 640-8955; e-mail: [email protected]. Grosse Pointe Magazine reserves the right to reject any advertising. Copyright 2016 Pointe Media Incorporated. Complimentary delivery to all Grosse Pointe homes. $20/ year subscriptions available for non-Grosse Pointe and nonresidential addresses. 6 MARCH-APRIL 2016 | GROSSE POINTE MAGAZINE CELEBRATE WITH JAZZYou owe it to yourself to join us for an upcoming night of delicious food, professional service and great entertainment. You deserve more that just a night out. You deserved to be entertained. Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe 97 Kercheval, Grosse Pointe Farms Call 313.882.5299 for reservations. Visit www.DirtyDogJazz.com for complete information. pointe on pointe Pointe John Minnis Editor and Publisher magazine Think Spring! y now, as you read this, Detroit Tigers Spring It turns out that Ty Cobb once had a home here in the Training is well under way. Unfortunately, we Pointes. For verification, I posted a query on Facebook. B will not be able to be there this year due to the Chip Chapman was the first to respond, saying he thought impending publication of our new magazine, Detroit River Cobb’s house was on Moross between Kercheval and Grosse Living. We are happy to report the response to the new Pointe Boulevard. Cathy Champion confirmed, saying publication has been great. The folks and businesses along fellow Realtor George Smale listed the property some years the Detroit River/Jefferson corridor have welcomed us and back. George confirmed Cathy’s memory and adds, “Yes, are excited to have “their own” magazine. We will keep you I grew up around the corner, and one of my best friends posted as to our progress. lived in the house (after Cobb of course), so it was common While we’re not able to be in Lakeland this year, we did knowledge.” provide some “baseball” content for your reading pleasure So it turns out we have two Grosse Pointe Baseball Hall in this “spring issue” of Pointe Magazine. We followed of Fame honorees in this issue of Pointe Magazine — Tom up on our story from last summer of baseball writer Tom Gage and Ty Cobb! To commemorate that interesting Gage’s recognition at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in confluence of fame, former Grosse Pointer and Wisconsin Cooperstown. Many thanks to fellow Grosse Pointe Library State Journal cartoonist Phil Hands drew me a sketch of Foundation trustee Sandy MacMechan, and good friend of Tom meeting Ty Cobb outside the Hall in Cooperstown, Tom’s, for providing us with a photo from Cooperstown. saying, “Fancy meeting you here!” Phil, as always, did a Also, thanks to the Friends of the Grosse Pointe Public great job of capturing Tom and Ty Cobb. Incidentally, Phil Library, who hosted a visit from Charles Leerhsen, author has been drawing cartoons for me since he was a student of Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, we were able to provide yet at Grosse Pointe South High School. He is now nationally another baseball-related story for our many Tigers fans. (Be syndicated and has won numerous press awards for his sure to read the story by former sports writer and columnist outstanding work. He can be found on Facebook and at Pete Waldmeir.) www.philhandscartoons.com. Congratulations, Phil, you have done your hometown proud! Speaking of authors, be sure to attend this year’s Books on the Lake event at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club. The library and Library Foundation have once again brought in three Yes, I grew up around outstanding authors, including our own Devin Scillian. So be sure to attend. I will see you there! the corner, and one of my As always, be sure to patronize our many loyal advertisers and businesses without whom this magazine devoted to best friends lived in the the Grosse Pointes would not be possible. 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