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Student company gears up for three nights at the opera ByShirleyA.McShane and With the guidance of Ferry ing the arts into the general 81aft Wnler about two best fnends and mance nights, Steele said shl' teachers Margaret Steele and curnculum. "We have to wnte letter':>, their acquaintances who be. and PlChla are not allowed to The Woods Opera Company Henry Pichla Last Thursday, the Woods ask for donatIOns, contact the come embroiled 10 a SituatIOn help the students, they must may be bound for Broadway or Steele and Pichla attended Opera Company, a group of medIa, deSIgn the program headed for Hollywood. But first that tests their values and eth JOin the audIence and let the the Midwest Regional Metropol- budding playwrights, actors, book and order posters and T it must prepare for Its premiere ICS students put on their own Itan Opera Guild natlOnal singers and musical composers, shirts," Kmgsley told her &taff performance March 17-19 at The students are not work 109 show On the other SIde of the class. teacher workshop last summer met In Plchla's classroom for a Ferry Elementary School. from a pre written SCriptor FollOWingthe meeting la&t to prepare for the project Ferry general planmng meeting The room, the costume and makeup The opera company, consist- mUSICalarrangement, Steele Thursday, the students sepa was one of 20 schools In the first Item on the agenda: select. 'ltafTbegan a bramstormmg 109 of 44 fifth.graders from saId SInce September, the rated Into their a'l'Hb'lledgrOUp'l sessIOn United States chosen to partici. 109 a title for the productlOn Ferry, Mason and Poupard ele- children have been meetmg and continued wOl'kon the op pate 10 the program. Taking a vote, the majonty "The play is about the 90s, mently schools 10 Grosse tWice weekly to develop a story, era Established 10 1983, the Met. of the students selected ':>0the actors will be wearmg wnte the &cnpt, prOVidemusI- As the children filed out of Pomte Woods, has volunteered ropolitan Opera Guild teacher modern clothmg," saId costume "Friends and Allies" cal and lYrical accompamment, Plchla's classroom, Klng'lley to work on the production of a workshop series on creating deSIgner Anna Benson "It will Emily Kingsley, fifth-grade play the mUSicalmstruments, and her pubhc relatIOns btaff _ 30-m1Oute, ongmal opera under original opera offers teachers public relations manager, said be set m an alley behind a deSign the bets and costumes MIke MansoI', Kashmlra Kal .,tore" the auspices of EducatIOn at an m-depth multi-arts approach she dIdn't want to gwe away the Met, a depaltment of the and dIrect and pubhclZe the mk and Lmd&ay DaVIS- set to usmg the productIOn of origmal too much of the plot She'd only Metl'Opohtan Opera Guild Inc., whole thmg work on theIr pubhclty cam works as a method for mtegrat. say the performance will be In fact, on the three perfor Palgn See OPERA, page 23A 1\ Your Community Newspaper Grosse Pointe News Vol. 54, No.4 44 pages Grosse Pointe, Michigan Since 1940 50\:' January 28, 1993 Clark named to Park council ByDonnaWalker Richner, "I have the most to Slaft Wrller Gaskin, who chose not to seek lose from aU this, because I re-election last year after servo Dan Clark was appOInted to have to fiU a counCil opening, the Grosse Pointe Park City ing two terms on the council, and I can't find anyone with and who had never been de. Council on Monday by a 5 1 your abilIty." vote of the council. feated In an electIOn Clark was appointed later in He will serve the remaInIng Without mentIOnIng either the meetmg, after a lengthy Clark's or Robson's name, three years of Andrew RI- debate between Heenan and chner's term Heenan said the counCIl Robson over how the vacancy RIchner reSIgned from the shouldn't appoInt people "be. should be filled. cause they are friends and feel council two weeks ago to serve The mayor said a special on the Wayne County Board of sorry for them because they electIOn should be held, to let lost in the last election." CommiSSIOners, and the council the voters decide on RIchner's presented hIm a certificate of Robson said he was support. successor. mg Clark because of his out. apprecIatIOn at Monday's meet- "I don't want to see cronyIsm mg for his service to the city standlng record on the council, and raw force replace the elec- and because he got more than "Andrew, we are going to torate," he saId. miss you," saId councilman 1,600 votes In the electIOn 14 Robson said the city charter months ago James Robson, who ran agaInst clearly states that a special "It hurts me," he saId, Richner In the primary race for electIOn should be held only if 1st Distnct county commis- "when I hear SnIde remarks the council is "divisive" over about clIques and cronyIsm" SIOner last year. "The good who to appoint. news is that you're going to He admonished the audience "If the councll IS seriously to "beware of politicians who represent us on a higher plane, dIvided," he saId, "then I'd fa- and I know you're gomg to give want a speCIal electIOn because vor a special election, but that It Simply means they're bean them hell downtown" hasn't beet1 proven to me yet," Mayor Palmer Heenan told counters who've taken a poll Each school of thought _ and realIZe their candldate s})eclal elecHon vs. follow!ng doesn't have enough (council) the city charter - had several votes" Photo by Leah VartanIan vocal supporters in the stand- When the roll call vote was 109-room-only audience One taken, Heenan was the only Pushed around unidentified resident even of. council member who voted fered to pay the cost of a spe_ agaInst Clark's appomtment cial electIOn. "I vote for the people," he Young David Knoll doesn't mind being pushed around by his older cousin, ll-year-old Jordan DeHrin. It was the 5-year-old's first time on ice skates and the practice runs gave "You realize that could be saId. "I vote for David GaskIn " $5,000, $6,Ooa or $7,000," Rob- him enough confidence to get up on his own. Before he was through, he was flying son said around the ice pond at Kerby and Chalfonte. David lives in the Farms and his cousin is a See PARK, page 23A "I know," the resident re- St. Clair Shores resident. plIed. "It's worth that much to me. I don't want to see anyone appomted." After the councll voted down Hall of farner a motIOn made by the mayor to hold a specIal electIOn, he WIlbur Elston, edltonal opened the floor to nominatIOns wnter for the Grosse Pomte for the council seat. News, has been chosen for In. Robson nominated Clark, ductIon mto the MichIgan Jour- who had served on the council nalIsm Hall of Fame In East for one term (1987-91) before LanSing lOSIng in the last election to He IS being honored for out- two newcomers, Richner and standIng contnbutlOns to the councilman Robert Klacza. fields of JournalIsm and educa- Dan Clark The mayor nomInated DaVId tIOn Elston IS one of four journal IStS to be honored thIS year The other Inductees are Bill Pointer of Interest Black of WJR radIO, who died last year; Helen Thomas, White House correspondent for United Press, and Phl1 Slomovltz, pub- Herb Levitt lIsher of the JeWish News. Elston WIll be honored In a ByMargieReinsSmith Now, fresh from hIS own reo ceremony at MIchIgan State Feature Edllor tirement party, he's going back Umverslty's Kellogg Center on HIS 40-year love affair with to court - this time as a law- Api'll 17 the JudiCIal process still SIZZles yer SIxty-four year old Herb lev- "I'm proud of the Judicial sys- Photo by Margle Rein., SmIth Itt loves the court system. He tem in southeastern Michigan," Take the bill, too has examined it from two dif- Will Detroit Boat Club sink? Levitt said. "Wayne County A Detroit EdIson electrical ferent perspectIves so far - as Circuit Court and Recorder's Members of the Detroit Boat Club. a 154-year-old private club located on Belle Isle. are a newspaper reporter and as a making plans ior the club's emergence from Chapter II. Time is short. they say. The city meter was stolen from a house Court have won national recog- m the 1000 block of Hawthorne court adminIstrator nItion m the last 10 years be- of Detroit wants to take control of the clubhouse, install a major restaurant and lease a portion of the club back to members. m Grosse Pomte Woods on Jan cause of theIr advancements " 23, cuttmg off electrICIty to the Both courts have indiVIdual Members of the club's Rescue Committee said rumors are that the city wanls 10 use the home. dockets, computers, excellent facility for casino gambling. The Boat Club claims to be the oldest continuously operat- ing rowing club in the world and the oldest continuously operating yacht club in the na- The owner told polIce that chIef judges and less - much the theft may have occurred less - of a backlog than courts tion. See story on page lB. about 3 a rn, because the elec- in other metropolitan areas, he trIC clock in hIS bedroom said. 'ltopped at that time "I hope I've helped improve thiS court system during the last 30 years.