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Eiq^ires 7/^14 ■ S ty Grosse Pointe News VOL. 75, NO. 27,20 PAGES JULY3,2014 one dollar (delivery 7 i(Z) One of America's great community newspapers since 1940 grosse pointe, Michigan Complete news coverage of all the Pointes Woods chief: Fights scared the hell out of our residents’ By Kathy Ryan Parcells field. disorderly conduct. “Our officers were hav Staff Writer According to There were no injuries, ing trouble seeing in the Pazuchowski, officers but according to dark, and for the safety of GROSSE POINTE were faced with 13 fights Pazuchowski the fights everyone, we turned on WOODS — “Our family that broke out among “scared the hell out of our the lights,” he said. event is no longer a fam juveniles who attended residents.” There were more than ily event.” the event for no other As a result, 50 officers, including That was the best reason than to cause Pazuchowski ordered the reserve officers from sev description Woods public mayhem. fireworks to begin about eral local departments, safety director Andrew There were no arrests 20 minutes earlier than working the event. Pazuchowski could give made on the field, but usual, and before the “Kudos to the officers for the problems that two juveniles were show was over, he who did the best they PHOTO BY GARY DUNCAN occurred Sunday night at arrested at the service ordered the high beam could to control the situ- the city’s annual fire station across Vernier. lights located around the What started as a fun, family night turned into a works display on the They were charged with field to be turned on. See SCARED, page8A night where officers broke up 13 fights. i G t x x H ^ ' M/4g Samaritan * saves garage By Brad Lindberg StaffWriter GROSSE POINTE FARMS — A suburban Smokey the Bear is credited with prevent ing a garage fire. “It is (my) strong opinion that the garage was within a minute of becoming PHOTOS BY GARY DUNCAN fully engulfed if it had not been for the quick actions of (Duane) Vogel,” said Lt. Andrew Rogers of Grosse Pointe Farms public safety. Night of “I did what I hope somebody would do for me,” Vogel said. Vogel, 47, of Grosse Pointe Woods, fireworks saved the garage shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday, June 28. Fireworks lit the sky over Parcells field in While driving his truck on Grosse Grosse Pointe Woods Sunday night. Pointe Boulevard, he noticed black smoke Above, Woods residents Ashleigh and coming from the direction of a house at Allie Deveroux show off their red, white the corner of Merriweather. and blue spirit. At right, the spectacular “My first thought was someone had a display. The event was marred by unruly backyard barbecue, but it was making teens as police broke up 13 fights. See way too much smoke,” Vogel said. story above for more information. He soon realized the smoke came from the closed and separate bay of an other wise open three-car, attached garage. “It was coming from under the eaves,” Vogel said. “I stopped because maybe somebody needed help.” He banged on the door of the house and yelled. No answer. “Smoke was getting worse and emitting Easy as pie from the eaves of the garage,” Rogers said. Vogel felt the garage door — warm, not By Brad Lindberg Club. hot — before opening it. StaffWriter Bob Malicki, a boat club member Six-foot flames rose from a push-type and Farms park employee, managed lawn mower, charring wooden joists. GROSSE POINTE FARMS — With all the pie eating contest. “The lawn mower was engulfed,” Vogel the remnants of cherry pie caked on “We have a great time doing this,” said. “I looked around for a fire extin Andrew Kolojeski’s face, it’s a won he said. guisher. I didn’t see one.” der he swallowed enough to win the The rules were simple. “To make matters worse, there were pie eating contest during this year’s “As fast as you can, swallow it all,” four or five gasoline containers on the regatta. Malicki told children. ground near the mower,” Rogers said. Kolojeski, 9, beat nearly 40 com They fidgeted in seats on both Vogel pushed the burning mower out petitors, ages 12 and younger, sides of four picnic tables lined end- side to the driveway apron. chomping at the bit Saturday, June to-end in the park pavilion. He knocked on the house’s front door. 28, at Pier Park. “You can’t touch the pie with your “Finally, a gentleman answered the He has “no idea” how he got so hands,” Malicki instructed. “The first door,” Vogel said. “By that time the cops good at eating pie, he said. person to eat and swallow will be the arrived. Somebody must have called “He’s a good eater,” said his father, winner — GO.” them.” Tom Kolojeski. “When you put pie in “Eat your pie, dude,” a parent Officers put out the flames with a chem front of him, it makes it even better cheered. ical extinguisher and water bucket before PHOTO BY BRAD LINDBERG for him.” “No hands, bud,” said another. clearing the scene at 5:23 p.m. The contest was among many dur “You’re getting close.” The homeowner thanked Vogel. A.J. Zieleniewski, 6, digs in. ing the three-day regatta, presented “I shook his hand when I left,” Vogel by the Grosse Pointe Farms Boat See PIE, page 3A said. 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Dame to a vacant lot The hospital allocated port beams, both steel “I told my friends they three blocks away in the $80,000 to haul the house and wood. were moving the house 500 block of St. Clair. and prepare its new site, “We build a trailer by,” McCosh said. “They New owner Dr. Leslie he added. under the house, pick it said I should have a porch Kaye said once both “This is a small move up with our hydraulic party.” halves are delivered it for us,” said Travis jacking system and put it The move preserves will take about three Brown, a third-genera on wheels,” Travis Brown the itinerant Cadieux months to stitch them tion member of family- said. farm house, built else together and move in. owned B&D House Transportation tops out where circa 1850 by Kaye said she consid Movers, of Monroe. at 5 mph, he said. Isadore (sometimes ered moving the house to The garage section The Browns moved the Isidore) Cadieux and Malibu, Calif., where weighs 75,000 pounds. garage portion without a transported to the one she’d been recruited to The older part totals hitch. time farming community. join the staff of a celeb 100.000 pounds. “With these kind of PHOTOS BY BRAD LINDBERG Until recently blocking rity rehabilitation center. “Pretty light,” Brown things, you never know Top left, Mary Ann Bury and Duchess watch the ga development of “They said you cannot said. what you might run into,” rage go by. Top right, a utility company employee Beaumont Hospital, move it that far,” Kaye Brown’s grandfather, Dame said.