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25 26 27 Smooth 28 29 30 31 sailing in THURSDAY, DEC. 25 the year in review •Merry Christmas the Farms FRIDAY, DEC. 26 • Grosse Pointe South's varsity By Brad lindberg girls basketball team plays GROSSE POINTE PARK An ice sculptor wows the StaffWriter Detroit Pershing at 6 p.m. in children with his creation at the PSL Holiday Classic at the January Winterf est on If Grosse Pointe Farms were a ship Detroit Renaissance High Change is The Hill. Left, Tim Bledsoe dropping anchor after a 12-month School, 6565 West Outer Drive, (wearing suit) talks to County journey, the log for year 2008 would Detroit. Commissioner Tim Killeen have described a prosperous voyage the theme and other supporters on elec• on calm seas. • Joe Louis Arena will host the tion night Bledsoe is the first Council members addressed 44th annual Great Lakes Democrat elected to serve the neighborhood upkeep by enacting a Invitational hockey tourna• 1st House District. Below, property ordinance having a six- ment. this year Lindsay Rogers enjoys an ear month minimum rental period and The University of Michigan of the good stuff at the one inspection at least once every plays Michigan Tech at 3 p.m. By Kathy Ryan August Corn Roast in the two years. and Michigan State University StaffWriter Park. See page 3Afor Grosse Pier Park continued being the ben• battles North Dakota at 6:30 Pointe Shores, page llAfor eficiary of improvements funded in p.m. Grosse Pointe Park residents saw schools, page 12Afor Grosse large part by the Grosse Pointe • The Henry Ford Holiday several additions to the city's parks Pointe Woods and the Jan. 1 Farms Foundation. A classic car Nights is open from 6:30 to 10 in 2008, thanks to donations and the edition for the sports review. show at the park was organized by p.m. Grosse Pointe Park Foundation. the foundation to celebrate new plat• Greenfield Village is trans• Also making news: form tennis courts, tennis courts, formed into a winter wonder• January year-round warming-cooling shelter land full of activity from story• • Council appropriated $73,000 in and an ice skating rink. The car telling to ice skating. For more Community Development Block show's high turnout of exhibitors information, call (313) 982- Grant funds to Services for Older and attendees encouraged organiz• 6001. Citizens and for street improve• ers to make it an annual event. ?t also runs Sundav, Dec. 28. ments. On the Hill, the city's central busi• • A quick thinking employee at ness district, there were no sour Janet's Lunch is credited with saving notes for jazz fans looking for a night • The GU third-place game is a customer's life by performing the on the town. A jazz cafe that opened slated for 3 p.m. and the cham• Heimlich maneuver. early in the year was so successful it pionship game is scheduled for February was expanding before the 12 months 6:30 p.m. at Joe Louis Arena. • The city held its annual Chilly ran out. • Grosse Pointe Woods resi• Fest, serving up chili, hot dogs and a In December, former Mayor dents are invited to an open Valentine's Day skate. Edward Gaffney, a Republican, con• skate from 5 to 7 p.m. at • An aging Tudor on the corner of cluded his maximum-allowed three University Liggett School Trombley and Essex was torn down; Shores officer Ken Werenski mon• consecutive terms as state represen• McMann Ice Arena, 1045 Cook a victim of neglect and a bank fore• itors small flames corning I mm .i tative. Road, Grosse Pointe Woods. closure. downed electrical wire pinned un• All-in-all, it was steady as she goes Park passes must be current March der a large branch on (>\l
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50 years ago this week 25 years ago this week • POLICE RESCUE • ANTI-RECALL DRIVE IS TEENS ON ICE FLOE: Two LAUNCHED: An organization 14-year-olds were rescued by formed to support board of ed• Shores police when ice on ucation members threatened which they were skating with recall because of their broke off and began drifting vote to close Barnes with the Lake St. Clair cur• Elementary hit the streets. rent. In the first week of the cam• The boys told police they paign, volunteers collected had gone skating on the ice more than 1,000 signatures in near the Grosse Pointe Yacht support of trustees Catherine Club and had planned to Brierly, Ernest Buechler and skate to the Farms Pier Park Jon Gandelot. The trustees are about two and a half miles targets of a recall by the away. Committee for Neighborhood Just as they started*skating, Elementary Schools. the ice cracked. The wind and • FIRE HITS SECOND current carried them about a WOODS STORE: The second quarter of a mile to Lochmoor. Mack business in a month was Police used a 35-foot ladder damaged by fire. The fife at and rope to rescue the boys The Fruit Tree in Grosse Pointe who were wet, but otherwise Woods was spotted about 1:35 unharmed. a.m. by two St. Clair Shores • PARK HOME RAN• police officers. Firefighters SACKED: Burglars entered a gained entry quickly and con• Grosse Pointe Park home tained the fife to the furnace through the rear door by re• area of the store. While the moving its cylinder and ran• cause of the blaze is still under sacked the home. investigation, police speculate The thieves tore out a base• it could have been caused by FROM THE DEC. 25,1958 ISSUE OF THE GROSSE POINTE NEWS ment fireplace, removed pic• the building's heating equip• tures from the walls and shift• ment. The Rainy Day Co. in ed beds in an apparent at• the Woods was gutted by a Fire devastation tempt to find a safe. They three-alarm blaze two weeks emptied drawers and scat• ago. An early morning fife left only the walls standing at a residence on Provencal Road. The fire, believed to be fed by natural gas, caused tered the contents on the • FORD SUB MAY ADD 16 about $250,000 in damage. floor. UNITS: The developers of The homeowners were on Windemere Place, the 18-unit The fire was discovered by a 12-year-old resident who was awakened at about 2:45 a.m. by a wrongly set alarm clock. Smelling vacation and were notified of cluster home subdivision locat• smoke, the boy woke his parents and other family members who escaped without injury. Once outside, the homeowner remembered the break-in by Park police. ed on the Henry Ford n proper• the family cook was sleeping in a rear bedroom. Police discovered the cook at the bedroom window. She was rescued, but injured as • NEWCOMERS TO BE ty on Lakeshore, will soon be FETED: The Grosse Pointe asking the Grosse Pointe she broke the window to flee the fire. War Memorial Association is Farms City Council for permis• entertaining all new Grosse sion to expand the site to in• Pointe families who have clude 16 more units. moved into any of the five • CABLE TV COSTS UP: will cost $2.20 and additional RINK- University Liggett provides for an indoor loca• was jumped from behind, Pointes during 1958. The charges some 10,500 local premium outlets will cost $3.75 School recently received ap• tion for dumping ice shavings forced into her van parked on Representatives from^church- families pay for cable televi• each. proval from the Grosse Pointe collected by the Zamboni ma• the street and hit repeatedly. es and community organiza• sion will increase about 20 per• Woods planning commission chine. The woman screamed and tions will be present to invite cent beginning Jan. 1. The in• to build a new 38,000 square- • PARK WOMAN ES• fought back. She was able to the guests to participate in crease in the basic service rate foot ice rink at its Cook Road CAPES MUGGING: A 35- break away, run to a store and their organizations. The event will go from $7.99 to $8.60 per campus. year-old Grosse Pointe Park call 911. Police, having already includes refreshments and month. Premium services, The new facility replaces woman was mugged leaving a been notified by witnesses, entertainment. such as Home Box Office, will 10 years ago this week the current 30,000 square-foot store on Mack in the City of were on their way. The two Some 700 invitations have jump from $8.99 to $11.95 a rink. The asdditionaLspace Grosse Pointe. The woman •i suspects were apprehended. been mailed. month. Additional basic outlets • ULS TO BUILD NEW ICE • SUIT FILED TO STOP GPYC PROJECT: A citizens group opposed to the expan• sion of the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club and municipal marinas filed suit against the club and the Grosse Pointe Shores Village council. The group, Neighbors Concerned about Yacht Club Expansion, wants a permanent injunction against any possible expansion, citing a threat to the ecology of Lake St. Clair. Proud Parents, FREE DIAGNOSTIC Grandparents, in our Shop On Site Tech Support in Your Home or Office Aunts & Uncles... Repair or Upgrade your PC/MAC Desktop and/or Laptop Remove Unwanted Spyware/Adware Five years ago this week
Introduce Your • WOODS WETTER?: Two Grosse Pointe Woods council- New Baby women asked the council to consider a number of methods that would release four tavern Bornjn 2008 in licenses which the city is enti• tled to issue according to state The Grosse Pointe News. law. Tavern licenses allow din• ing establishments to serve beer and wine, but not liquor. A To Be Published, February 12,2009 21142 Mack Avenue couple of longtime restaurants Grosse Pointe Woods • Michigan between Roslyn & Brys in the city have been trying to We will publish your full color photo 313.881.2667 obtain the licenses for several years. and text for $20.00. • 16 SUSPENSIONS: A GROSSE POINTES-CLINTON Grosse Pointe Woods public : Deadline is Friday January 23rd! safety officer spotted a car with REFUSE DISPOSAL AUTHORITY an improperly displayed li• ; Call 313.343.5586 for details MEETING SCHEDULE cense in the rear window. Upon investigation, not only or mail us the completed form below. January 13, 2009 6:30 p.m. City of Grosse Pointe Farms 90 Kerby did the man not have a driver's Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3100 license, registration or insur• Feel free to E-mail us your photo (313) 885-6600 ance paperwork, but his dri• ver's license has been sus• inJ-peg Format to March 10, 2009 6:30 p.m. City of Mt. Clemens pended 16 times. One Crocker Blvd. [email protected] Mt. Clemens, MI 48053-2537 • SOME GRINCHES (586) 469-6803 CAUGHT; OTHERS SOUGHT: Grosse Pointe May 12,2009 6:30 p.m. City of Grosse Pointe Woods Woods police officers spoke 20025 Mack Avenue Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236 with three 16-year-old Woods (313) 343-2440 boys and their parents afterthe Grosse Pointe News boys were seen taking stabiliz• 96 Kercheval, July 14, 2009 6:30 p.m. City of Grosse Pointe Shores ing ropes off an inflatable Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan 48236 795 Lakeshore Grinch in front of a house on Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 48236 Hawthorne. Attention: Sally Schuman (313)881-6565 Please Print However, grinches contin• Child's Name (First & Last) September 8,2009 6:30 p.m. City of Harper Woods ued pilfering decorations. On 19617 Harper Avenue Cook Road in the Woods, a po• Date of Birth _^ .Hospital. Harper Woods, MI 48255 lar bear lawn ornament was (313) 343-2500 Weight & Length taken. Grinches hit several November 10, 2009 6:30 p.m. City of Grosse Point homes in Grosse Pointe Park. Parents' Name (First & Last). 17147 Maumee Avenue A straw reindeer was taken Grosse Pointe, MI 48230 Mother's Maiden Name from a front lawn on (313) 885-5800 Barrington; Jesus and Mary Address For further information, please contact our General Counsel: figures were taken from a front VisaBB MC§S6# .Exp. Date. lawn on Bedford; and fivedec • John J. Gillooly orative reindeer were taken Signature .Phone Garan Lucow Miller, P.C. from another Bedford front 1000 Woodbridge Street • Detroit, MI 48207 yard. —By Karen Fontanive - Return no later than January 23, 2009 (313) 446-5501 GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008 NEWS
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crease beginning this year. name. Concessions, including em• Members of a Shores charter ployees paying a portion of commission, charged with The village's last year? their health care premiums drafting the charter, want to and pension changes, are ex• name the pending city, "The pected to save the village mon• Village of Grosse Pointe By Brad Lindberg Park Director Jim Cooke. "It ey in the long run. Shores, a Michigan City." StaffWriter was a beautiful night." • Helen Bai accepts Keep Staff members in the attor• • Village officials and resi• Michigan Beautiful's ney general's office think the A new marina, the possible dents gather at Osius Park to Presidents Plaque for improve• name is too wordy and confus• construction of a water tower dedicate the new harbor and ments to Osius Park. ing. and advice from would-be playscape. Bai chairs the village beauti• wordsmiths in the state capitol "Capital improvements just fication committee and is a November contributed to milestones, con• don't happen," said Cooper. "It master gardener. • Wayne County officials in• troversies and frustrations takes a vision, a master plan The honor is the most presti• form Shores administrators marking 2008 in Grosse Pointe (and) residents willing to give gious given by the statewide that a tight budget this winter Shores. freely of their times and tal• organization. means road snow-clearing Construction of the marina ent." crews will have to cut back at Osius Park involved an al• Nearly two-thirds of the October plowing • and salting most total, year-long renova• playscape is paid by a donation • Dry summer weather Lakeshore, a county road. tion. Upon completion, boaters from the Grosse Pointe made things tough on village "If we have a severe winter enjoyed wider wells, straighter Improvement Foundation. elm and ash trees, already un• and the county comes out and fairways and modern utilities. '• Facing double-digit rate in• der siege by invasive disease salts once, it's going to be one Non-boaters were offered a re• creases from the Detroit water and pests. hell of a drive," said Kenyon. built walkway atop the break- department, village officials "This year, we lost quite a bit He said the village will prob• wall. continue studying the cost of more trees than normal," said ably take on the job of clearing The marina and related en• switching to the Farms filtra• Brett Smith, head of public Lakeshore. hancements to the park earned tion system. works. "In a combination of • Come snowfall, coyotes the village Keep Michigan An analysis estimates the to• ash trees and elm trees, we've roaming the south end of the Beautiful's Presidents Plaque, Sarah galbenski and sisters Olivia and Gina Peruzzi break in tal project cost at $25 million, lost a total of 65 trees. We nor• village will be living with their its top award. part of the new playscape at Osius Park Jury 13. including upgrades to the mally run about 40 trees a heads in the lion's mouth. The prospect of a tall water Farms plant. The Shores' share year." A trapper plans to track and tower tanked, literally, when a village should switch to city would be at least $4 million. • An abandoned car found capture the wild animals when potentially 1 million gallon March status. • A 1 million gallon water in a few feet of water off the snow reveals their paw prints. structure to store water and in• • Renovations to the Osius "It's a wise choice to stream• tower associated with joining Lakeshore breakwall near the crease water pressure was Park harbor are on schedule line government, consolidate the Farms water network foot of Clairview was traced to December whittled down to something for a May 15 opening, accord• services and reduce expenses," would be most efficiently locat• a female cage fighter from • A Shores man arrives that could fit inside a 25-foot- ing to Mike Kenyon, village Cooper said. ed at either Osius Park, near Monroe. home at night from a jewelry tall structure. Construction re• manager. • Voters approve over• village hall or at the Edsel & She claims she was car- party in Southfield and is mained speculative as the year The new $3.8 million harbor whelmingly a proposal to Eleanor Ford Estate, according jacked late the previous night robbed in his garage by an un• ended, and depended upon an will have 137 boat wells rang• switch the nearly 100-year-old to an engineering study. on Fight Mile in Detroit. known gunman demanding engineering study into improv• ing from 25 to 55 feet, new village to a city-style form of • Auditors urge village coun• • Kenyon announces his re• his $18,000 Rolex watch. ing the municipal water sys• electrical and water service, government. cil members to raise water tirement effective Dec. 22. Police suspect the resident tem. new dock boxes, upgraded Voters support the switch rates. The 37-year village employ• was followed home from the Wordsmiths from the state lighting, a new walkway to the 505 to 127, a nearly 4-to-1 land• A hike would shore-up the ee spent the first 10 years as a party. attorney general's office op• outer harbor, three flushing slide. municipal water and sewer public safety officer. • Twenty five dead ash trees posed the village's new name, tubes to promote water circula• • The village is designated a fund, which over the last two Also announcing her retire• on Lakeshore are removed. should it reorganize as a city. tion in the harbor, plus storage Tree City USA for the fourth years has accumulated nearly ment is Kenyon's wife, Angela, • The state attorney gener• Critics in Lansing deemed areas for kayaks, wind boards year in a row, and for. the $592,000 in operating losses. as executive assistant. al's office withdraws opposi• "The Village of Grosse Pointe and Jet Skis. fourth time in as many tries. The village is facing a 23.7 • Brian Vick, city adminis• tion to the village's proposed Shores, a Michigan City" too • Shores resident Frank The honor, from the National percent water rate increase trator of Dewitt, a residential new name, "The Village of wordy. They relented in McBride Jr. is inducted into the Arbor Day Foundation, is cele• from its supplier, the City of suburb north of Lansing, is Grosse Pointe Shores, a December, approving the Michigan Boating Industries brated by planting a tree at Detroit, according to Kenyon. named to replace Kenyon as Michigan City." name and new city charter. Association Hall of Fame. Osius Park. village manager. If the governor endorses the Final approval remained un• McBride served 50 years on August Prior to administering name and proposed city char• resolved at year's end, as the Bayview Port Huron to June • Shores police help make Dewitt, Vick was assistant ter, Shores voters will have a Shores officials awaited the Mackinac race committee and • Nearly 64 percent of the the first of what they said could manager of the City of Grosse chance to do likewise at the governor's approval and a Feb. was commodore of the Grosse cost of a new playscape being be at least three arrests for a Pointe. He is a Grosse Pointe polls Feb. 24. 24 charter election next year. Pointe and Mackinac Island planned for Osius Park this series of overnight break-ins of Park native, South High If the charter passes, the In month-by-month fashion, yacht clubs. He is referred to as summer will be funded by a parked vehicles in the Shores, School graduate and Marine Shores will yield its nearly 100- this is the year that was 2008 in the "voice of the Great Lakes" donation from the Grosse Woods, City and Farms. Corps veteran. year-old status as a village in the Shores. by coworkers at WJR radio, Pointe Shores Improvement The suspects are former or • Grosse Pointe Yacht Club favor of becoming a city effec• where he was boating editor Foundation, ^ current Grosse Pointe men, officials propose construction tive April 1. January for 44 years. Village officials allocate some of whom have histories of a second entrance-exit on • Kenyon, concluding his • Shores. resident and vil• • A bald eagle is pho• nearly $31,000 in money and of illegal drug use, police said. the south breakwall. portion of the last village coun• lage trustee Fred Minturn is tographed scowling from a tree in-kind labor to buy and install • Village officials discount The opening could be used cil meeting he'll attend before sworn in for another term on at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford the $75,511 playscape, which the idea of placing a water tow• by boaters in the neighboring retiring from his 37-year career the Grosse Pointe Board of House. will replace the current, 15- er at Osius Park. Shores municipal harbor. with the Shores, tells trustees Education. Minturn also re• year-old installation. A more likely, and somewhat • State approval of the pro• goodbye and adds, "You've tains his role as board treasur• April Foundation Trustees Laurie less visible, location for the posed city charter is hung up been my best council. I mean er. • Police receive at least one Peruzzi and Lynn Galbenski proposed storage facility on the community's new that." • Village officials are pre• report per week of coyotes in researched playscape compa• would be behind the public pared to ask voters on a May the village, according to Public nies to come up with a model works garage at the rear of advisory ballot if the village, es• Safety Director Stephen designed for toddlers through Village Hall. tablished in 1911, should Poloni. early teenagers. MEDA PAINTING & FINISHING, INC. change legal status to a city. "We have not been able to • High winds thin the urban September If voters seek change, a char• get close to them," he said. forest by uprooting trees and • Longtime Racing For Kids 32 Years of Grosse Pointe References ter commission will be estab• "We're still debating what to do snapping limbs. supporter Benson Ford Jr. of • Interior & Exterior Painting lished to draw up a framework because they're so darn A tree on Oxford breaks at Grosse Pointe Shores receives • Faux Finishing & Glazing for the new municipality. smart." the trunk, lands on a power the charity's Champion for • Complete Carpentry Services Likewise, two townships com• • Shores President Dr. line and causes a small fire that Children Award. • Furniture & Cabinet Refinishing prising the Shores, one each in James Cooper assures resi• wet leaves and branches pre• Racing For Kids raises mon• Wayne and Macomb counties, dents that interest in switching vent from spreading. ey for children's hospitals lo• Free Estimates/Pricing to Fit Your Budget will be dissolved. the village to a city form of gov• • An electrical problem is cated in cities along the Indy 313-886-6217 • An ad hoc committee is ernment is not a cloak for hid• suspected to have set on fire a Racing League circuit. www.michaelmed formed to determine the feasi• den agendas. wood frame, three-story house "I can never remember him .com bility of the Shores and Grosse At least one person attend• in the 900 block of Lakeshore. saying no when Racing For Pointe Woods severing ties ing a council meeting suggest• Firefighters from the Grosse Kids came calling," said with the Detroit Water Board ed village leaders might be try• Pointes and Harper Woods Patrick Wright, charity execu• and hooking up to the Farms ing to set the groundwork for saved the house, built in 1908. tive director with offices on the water filtration plant. succeeding from Wayne "Upon arrival, a couple areas Hill in Grosse Pointe Farms. County to become part of of the lower portion of the • Saturated with rising February Macomb County. house were engulfed in costs, the village passes a 10 • Twelve candidates file for flames," said Poloni. percent water rate increase. nine positions to serve on a May The hike is forecast to gener• charter commission. • Cooper is convinced this July ate an additional $130,000 in If voters favor the communi• month's city referendum is a • About 1,400 people watch revenue per year. ty becoming a city, the commis• matter of dollars and good the municipal July Fourth fire• • Patrol officers are present• sion will be assigned the job of sense. works show at Osius Park. ed a three-year labor contract rewriting its charter. Voters will determine if the "That's a huge turnout," said with a 3 percent salary in- PARK: Year in review Continuedfrom page 1A •Hollywood came to the cused on water and its impact ing a "dangerous dog." Pointes as movie producers be• on the environment. ' •The ACTION (Arresting disease. gan taking advantage of tax in• •The parks and recreation Car Thieves in Our •Work began on a zero-en• centives offered by the state. department hosted the second Neighborhood) was honored try children's pool and fountain The Meade Mansion on annual Corn Roast and Beer by HEAT (Help Eliminate Auto at Windmill Pointe Park. The Windmill Pointe Drive was the Tasting. Theft) for a reducing car thefts Grosse Pointe Park Foundation setting for a television pilot, •The city council approved a in the Park by 20 percent. donated $175,000 toward the "The Prince of Motor City." new dangerous dog ordinance •The Okulski Family $200,000 cost. Clint Eastwood was spotted at banning pit bulls and other re• Theater hosted the area debut May several locations in the Park, lated breeds. of "Morning Light," a film •Ground was broken on a including St. Ambrose and September about the 2007 Transpacific new townhouse development Pointe Hardware while shoot• •Park residents voiced ob• Yacht Race. It features Park on Lakepointe. ing the film, "Gran Torino." jection to the city's purchase of resident Chris Welch, 19. •West Park Market opened •The new children's wading a house on Windmill Pointe •City officials dedicated a for its fifth season. pool and fountain at Wmdmill Drive near the site of a pro• putting green at Patterson June Pointe Park was dedicated just posed water treatment plant. Park. Made of synthetic mater• •The Grosse Pointe Art a bit behind schedule. •Park police officers Lt. ial, the three-hole "course" can Center received a $10,000 •DeJuan Felton, 18, was John Kretzschmar and Officer be used year-round. grant from the Alice Kates charged with two counts of Brent Merlington participated November Hartwick Foundation to fund first degree criminal sexual in a 750-mile relay run from •The Grosse Pointe Park Have A BkssedHoCiday art classes. conduct in conjunction with a Copper Harbor to Sterling Little League champions were •City officials dusted off home invasion and assault on Heights to raise money for honored by Mayor Palmer From Our Family To Yours plans for a water treatment Harcourt. Special Olympics. Heenan. plant as the first step toward August October December separating from Detroit's wa• •The Grosse Pointe Art •Park officials revised a ban •Mayor Palmer Heenan was ter system. Center opened "Our Rivers, on pit bulls and approved non- honored for 25 years of service The Ahee Family July Our Lakes," a juried show fo• breed specific legislation defin• to the city. GROSSE POIf^TE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008 NEWS POINTER OF INTEREST Margaret Hudson-Colliins is a collector. She likes angels, clowns and creches. But her passion is collecting black Santas.
ByAnnLFouty ,i Ffeaturesfiiitof i * 8 Tradition and heritage are strong in the. life of Margaret Hudson-Collins; All around her Grosse Pointe Park home, r decorated,for Ghristmas, are signs of both. They are reflected^in the marble coffee table made in Afghanistan, the turn-of-the- century pictures and the cop• per mural hanging in the din• ing room. However, those characteristics are no more evi- (Je&t'.thaiiv 1n;ihe .collection of olatk^Sanla Clauses and the numerous creches adding sea• Hi sonal spirit to the house. •li Her husband, Steve, said he believes it is the most extensive My wife has compromis _ _ collection in Michigan, as he She bought the creches. Our and the couple's son, Carl, 17, son likes those, too." are responsible for getting As she picked up a small fig• them out of storage every urine, Collins said she bought Above: This Lennox creche is one of her favorite Christmas Christmas. it when her son was young. It is pieces. . Collins .said she's never of, a small black boy trying on At top: This "Maybe I Can Be Santa" figure reminds Margaret counted, bu'f suspects she has Santa's coat which, of course, Hudson-Collins of her son when he was young. in the neighborhood of 175 to is much too big for him. The Below: Gift bags with black Santas are hard to find in the 200 black Sadas, She doesn't statue is entitled "Maybe I Can stores. In Margaret Hudson-Collins' house, they surround the put aE of them out, rather se• Be Santa." Christmas tree. lects those that fit the. mood of During her searches for PHOTOS BY ANN L. FOUTY her holiday guests. ,, black Santa collectibles, Margaret Hudson-Collins of Grosse Pointe Park started her Just inside the double front Collins selects items that have black Santa Claus collection with a crocheted figure, given to a hard door is a pirate Santa holding a African-American facial char• her by her mother: In the background is the black angel, which taskmaster. He treasure map. The nearby acteristics. She points to an tops the Christmas tree, and a gift bag depicting a black angel. had to be dri• Christmas tree is surrounded afghan as an example. It is on a Left top: Ablack Mrs. Santa teapot, a rare piece in the collec• ven and had by various sizes of gift bags all chair near the black cowboy tion, sets on the mantel. high expecta•
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in December 2009. • Water rates increase 8.21 About 150 residents attend November CITY: Year in review "Market feasibility is key," percent through 2009. the annual event, which this • Bledsoe of the City is the Continued from page IA said Dame. The change means current year included stormy weather, first member of his political The hotel would be part of average water bills of $173.99 a cardboard boat race and syn• party to be elected to represent the DDA culminated in her son had seen the man pan• the City Flats chain based in willgoupto$195.31. chronized swimming. the Grosse Pointes in the December with adoption of a handling in downtown Detroit, the city of Holland. Company • A fire truck and sports Michigan House of process for the city to help took pity on him and wel• representatives will commis• physicals are among more September Representatives." fund enhancements to the dis• comed him into their home for sion a marketing study to de• than two dozen attractions and • A Detroit drug user is ar• The Wayne State University trict's economic growth. a night's rest. termine demand. activities at the Beaumont raigned for the August theft of political science professor in The year was bracketed by The man returned the next • Public safety officers begin Hospital Grosse Pointe Family a City resident's Mini Cooper. his second bid for the House, the February opening of day while the woman was giving free child car seat in• Health & Wellness Fair. The The case is distinctive be• beat first-time Republican Trader Joe's grocery store, alone, forced his way inside, spections. free fair celebrates the hospi• cause the man charged with Mary Treder Lang of Grosse while in December, Kroger of• knocked the woman uncon• Inspectors include Officer tal's newly renovated pediatric the crime pawned the car, a Pointe Farms. ficials announced plans to re• scious and stole cash and cred• Joe Adams, who has been cer• unit. first as far as detectives are • Municipal services are place their store oh Kercheval it cards. tified by the U.S. National • A portion of the second- concerned. forecast to take a hit by 2010, with a two-level store and • Members of the city coun• Transportation Safety story brick facade of the build• • Anna Liang of the City the year property tax receipts parking garage. Also, a mar• cil earmarked a $236,388 be• Association. ing Starbucks occupies on wins best in show, ages 14-18, are expected to reflect an esti• keting study found greater de• quest received in 2006 from the • The City tax rate next year Kercheval at Notre Dame falls in the Michigan State Fair com• mated 10 to 20 percent drop in mand than anticipated for a 50- Ruth M. Hoffman Trust for vis• will remain at 13.5 mills on a to the sidewalk. munity arts youth division taxable values. to-60-room upscale hotel. ible improvements that will budget of $11,951,372, a The failure occurred muffin contest. In the City, tax revenues On the home front, a resi• benefit the entire community. $78,470 increase. overnight. No one is injured. • New lighting, intended to could decline by $1.5 million, dential inspection program Hoffman, a longtime City The stable millage, passed • City leaders Greate a be more attention-getting, is according to an annual audit of was established to promote resident, died in 1982. The last this month, bucks the trend in downtown development au• approved for Trader Joe's at municipal finances. neighborhood beautification of her surviving relatives died property values. thority to help boost the Village Kercheval Place in the Village. • The 33rd annual Grosse and property values. in 2006. "The estimated taxable value shopping district. Pointe Santa Claus Parade is Here, the year in review: • Kroger grocery store rep• of $399,805,620 (is) a decrease "Establishing a DDA is a crit• October led by the police officers be• resentatives announce the start in taxable value of $3,520,732 ical element to being able to fi• ' • Liang, the State Fair muf• longing to the newly-formed January of efforts to renovate the store over fiscal year 2007-2008," nance the type of improve• fin contest winner and senior Grosse Pointe-Harper Woods • Trader Joe's announces a on Kercheval in the Village. said Karen Johnson, municipal ments we need to continue to at Grosse Pointe South High Honor Guard. Feb. 1 debut for its store in the Officials said they hope in six finance director. "Our budget is transform the Village and School, is elected • The municipal Christmas -Village. months to have a site plan and still balanced." make it a vital, active place of Homecoming Queen. tree at Kercheval and St. Clair A grand opening of the development agreement with business," said Dame. • Bledsoe, Democrat candi• is dedicated to the memory of gourmet grocery store is being the City. June date to represent the Grosse the late Ed and Jessie Frolich, scheduled to coincide with • Council members nix the August Pointes, Harper Woods and a longtime Village property own• completion of a new municipal March idea of erecting a four-way • City resident Timothy portion of eastside Detroit in ers and merchants. parking deck behind • Crime in the City de• flashing red light at the inter• Bledsoe wins the Democrat the Michigan House of Kercheval Place, the site of the creased 6 percent during 2007, section of Maumee and Rivard. nomination of 1st District State Representatives, wants a politi• December. old Jacobson's department according to the public safety A study of the corner con• Representative. > cal action committee to stop • Under terms of a neigh• store. department's annual report re• cluded there's no need to regu• It is Bledsoe's second run for advertising on his behalf. borhood beautification inspec• leased this month. late traffic more than the four the office. Bledsoe has pledged to tion program passed by the February "This is due in part to fewer stop signs have done for years. • Discussions between mu• refuse financial help from lob• city council, the exterior of • As promised, Trader Joe's larcenies, frauds, drunken dri• nicipal leaders and business byists. every residential structure in opens Feb. 1. ving offenses reported and do• July representatives are likely to Yet, representatives of the the city will be inspected once Instead of a ribbon-cutting mestic violence," said James • Residents receive 64-gal- conclude by the end of sum• well-financed, liberal Michigan every four years. ceremony, City Mayor Dale Fox, department director. lon recycling carts as encour• mer with merchants being able Coalition for Progress, based Inspectors will check for Scrace and store manager agement to boost environmen- to do openly what they've been in Kalamazoo, say they're not peeling paint, rotting wood, Chris Franklin help sever a April talism and cut the city's landfill doing clandestinely for years: lobbyists, not part of Bledsoe's broken windows, lawn growth Hawaiian lei moments before • A public hearing regarding costs. Display portable sidewalk campaign, are acting indepen• and more. the store opens for business. establishment of a downtown "Residents will be issued one signs to advertise sales and dently and will continue their Home inspections had only • The Village municipal development authority for the at cost," said Paul Weitzel, pub• promotions. efforts. been performed when proper• parking garage is dedicated by Village district draws an enthu• lic works director. "The cost • As the clock approached • A marketing study shows ty changed hands or when Scrace and Peter Dame, city siastic crowd to City Hall. ($52.80 each) will be (added) the witching hour and the re• more demand than expected prompted by complaints. manager. "The overall tenor was posi• to their water bill over the lease of "Breaking Dawn" for construction of a boutique • Unauthorized use of resi• the 244-space facility, locat• tive," said John Denomme, course of next year in four neared, the scene at Borders hotel in the Village. dents-only Neff Park has de• ed behind Kercheval ?lace, the promotion manager for the quarterly payments." Books in the Village was one of The forecast, commissioned creased "dramatically" due to a new home of Trader Joe's, was Grosse Pointe Village • A 79-year-old pump that happy anticipation. / by developers of the proposed photo identification policy en• the catalyst for the grocery Association. "I'm looking for• handles storm water will be re• Between 250 and 300 people, City Flats Hotel, predicted that acted two years ago, according chain opening a store in the ward to moving this process built as part of $770,000 in im• mostly teenage girls and their a hotel would appeal to busi• to Park Director Christopher downtown district. along." provements to the station at parents, stayed up late for the ness traffic in addition to week• Hardenbrook. • A 25-year-old Detroit man the corner of Charlevoix and 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 1 re• end guests. • Kroger grocery store rep• is arrested in his hometown for May Neff. lease party held at bookstores • Automatic payment cards, resentatives provide city offi• the November, 2007, attack • Construction of a 50-to-60- The pump can handle 40,000 nationwide. intended to make it easier to cials with preliminary plans to and robbery of an elderly City room, upscale hotel in the gallons of storm water per • Rain doesn't swamp use the Village parking struc• replace the Village store with a woman in her home. Village, could begin next year minute from the City sewer Marina Day festivities at Neff ture behind Kercheval Place, two-level facility and parking Police said the woman and and result in a grand opening system. Park. •• are offered for sale at City Hall. deck.
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• The first of what members • Weeks of investigation and FARMS: Year in review of the Grosse Pointe Farms surveillance pay off with what Foundation hope will be a nev• police expect will be the final Continued from page 1A er-ending series of annual car arrest of suspects in a string of shows begins with the inaugur• late-night larcenies from gun salute during memorial a repair company could pull al Grosse Pointe Farms parked vehicles. services at the Grosse Pointe obstructions out," said Chris Concourse d' Elegance. War Memorial. Fontaine, a public safety officer More than two dozen classic November Neesley, a 28-year-old Farms and coordinator of the five- cars are entered in the free • A 19-year-old repeat of• resident, died Christmas Day, man dive team. event, scheduled at Pier Park fender from Detroit confesses 2007, serving in Iraq. • The Hill Seafood & Chop to complement recent founda• to committing a rash of • Petitioners want the city to House receives municipal per• tion projects. overnight break-ins of cars enact an ordinance requiring mission to offer outdoor seat• "We were looking at a way to parked in neighborhoods near one-year minimum rental leas• ing for 12 to 14 patrons on the highlight the new warming the Mack Avenue border. es. The measure would be Kercheval sidewalk. center for the skating rink, the • Construction workers be• based on one passed last • Residential landlords must paddle tennis courts and refur• gin expanding The Dirty Dog month in Grosse Pointe have their rental properties in• bished tennis courts," said Dan Jazz Cafe into neighboring Shores. spected every two years and al• Hughes, foundation president. commercial space on the Hill. • Mayor James Farquhar is so when tenancy changes, ac• • Rumors are rife that The cafe opened in February named Elected Local Official of cording to new rules passed by Detroit's ousted Mayor and has proven to be a hit. the Year by the Michigan the city council. Kwame Kilpatrick, soon to be "There's no downside to ex• Recreation and Park The package includes a six- Santa makes his way down Kercheval during the annual expelled from Detroit's panding the Dirty Dog," said Association. month minimum rental period. Grosse Pointe Santa Claus Parade Nov. 28. Thousands lined Manoogian Mansion, is eyeing Councilman Peter Waldmeir Jr. Farquhar won the award for • Budget tightwads at City the route from the Farms to The Village. a house in the 200 block of • For the first time in memo• his instrumental support of en• Hall are keeping next year's Touraine. ry, the Grosse Pointe South hancements to the quality of spending within less than 1 A real estate agent handling High School pep band march• life through the promotion of percent of present levels. pears on the Hill with two of ing in Lake St. Clair., the property says there's noth• es in the Grosse Pointe Santa parks and recreation. Spending for fiscal year his drivers at Dreyer & The victims, who are not ing to the story. Claus Parade. • Winterfest on the Hill is 2008-2009 will go up only Reinbold Racing—Buddy Rice Grosse Pointe residents, had "The kids are excited," said marked by mild weather and a $15,790 from last year to and Milka Duno — for a been boating in the freighter October Dean Doss, second-year direc• big crowd that enjoys activities $12,973,890. fundraising auction. channel when they went swim• • Plans for construction of a tor of the 30-member band. and twice as many ice carvings "The city has no increased This is the second consecu• ming and drifted away from new west wing of St. James as last year. taxes," said Councilman Terry tive year Buhl and his team• their unachored craft. Lutheran Church on the Hill December • A ruling in Wayne County Davis. mates in the Indy Racing • A 30-foot-wide mural rep• receive municipal approval. • Joan Bartoszewicz, a 31- Circuit Court allows a recall ef• League have held the auction, resenting the Blue Devil mas• "The church is a fine addi• year election commissioner in fort to proceed against State June which takes place in advance cot will watch over swimmers tion to the Hill and has an im• the Farms, retires, from her vol• Rep. Edward Gaffney, R- • The Grosse Pointe of the Detroit Grand Prix and at Grosse Pointe-South High posing setting on a rise of land unteer position. Grosse Pointe Farms. Historical Society's 170-year- benefits children's hospitals. School's new pool. much like St. Martin's in the "It's people like you who An earlier court ruling old log cabin is fumigated • Farms patrolman and ma• The mural, designed by Field Church in Trafalgar make our community great," stopped the effort by determin• against an infestation of pow- rine unit officer Geoff Farms resident Dan Hughes, Square, London," said Farquhar told Bartoszewicz ing the recall petition was un• derpost beetles. McQueen helps save three will contain the names of Brandon Rogers, the Farms during an appreciation cere• clear and needed to be revised. "Larvae eat the wood and family members from drown• donors. planning consultant. mony. Gaffney is in the crosshairs turn it into a powder a lot like for voting to raise state income baking flour," said Dr. John taxes. Gaffney is term limited Singelyn, a society member and has 11 months left before helping restore the cabin. he must step down from office. The cabin is located behind • Gretchen Carhartt Valade, society headquarters at the a lifelong Grosse Pointer with a Provencal-Weir House on love for great music and food, Kercheval. finalizes plans to launch the • Coco Chanel, a 4-month- Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe on the old Maltipoo, accompanies her Hill. owners, Dan and Cindy She's shooting for a LaLonde, every day to their February opening. jewelry store on the Hill. Coco •-An ad hoc committee is becomes a staff favorite and formed to detenriine the feasi• customer draw. AFTER bility of the Shores and Grosse • The Rev. Bradford Pointe Woods severing ties Whitacker, rector of Christ with the Detroit Water Board Church Grosse Pointe, blesses and tying into the Farms water the fleet during Marina Day at filtration plant. Pier Park. CHRISTMAS
• A $30,000 effort to elimi• • The Rev. Robert Wright, nate invasive plant species senior pastor at Grosse Pointe from the beach above Pier United Methodist Church and Park gets good reviews from department chaplain to the SEMCOG representatives. Farms and City public safety Once the area is cleared suf• departments, is transferred to ficiently, it will be replanted a new assignment in Flint. with native species, such as Public safety officers, who black-eyed Susan and holly. say, "You can't go wrong with • Henry Ford Cottage Wright," give the reverend a Hospital announces a more good-bye party at the Pier than $10 million investment Park community building. this year in its Farms facility. • A three-year, $10 million Denise Allar, Cottage's chief DTE Energy upgrade of east- operating officer and a Farms side streetlights progresses in• 60%-80% OFF SAVE BIG resident, also announces new to the Farms. services, including 10 private • A 140-shot volley opens patient rooms and a concierge the annual fireworks show on ALL OVER THE STORE program. Lakeshore. The show cele• brates Independence Day and March is held as part of the Farms • Members of the city coun• Regatta by the Grosse Pointe SHOP FRIDAY & SATURDAY cil once again take up the issue Farms Boat Club and city. of requiring a minimum period • High gasoline prices hit for which a property owner municipalities in the pocket- FOR 2-DAY-ONLY SPECIALS may rent a house. book. 60% OFF Council members want to The Farms' public safety de• ALL COATS FOR HER, FOR HIM & FOR KIDS provide controls, yet allow lati• partment gasoline budget is SAVINGS OFF ORIGINAL PRICES tude to property owners who expected to reach $60,000, a have no choice but to rent their 33 percent increase over last 49.99 A GREAT SELECTION OF CASHMERE SWEATERS FOR HER homes in the current tight year. NOWHERE BUT LORD & TAYLOR ORIG. $134, SALE 59.99 economy. • Farms, Shores and Woods . $ o-$36o "The last thing I'm interested officials continue investigating 59.99 CLEARANCE SUITS FOR HER ORSG 28 in is over-regulating this," said the costs and benefits of ex• Farquhar. panding capacity of the Farms 60% TO 75% OFF ORNAMENTS & TRIM SAVINGS OFF ORIGINAL PRICES • Car thefts in the Farms in• water filtration plant to provide creased 50 percent from last drinking water to the Shores 29.99 CASHMERE-LINED LEATHER GLOVES FOR HER year, according to the public andWoodS; safety department's annual re• NOWHERE BUT LORD & TAYLOR ORIG. $65 & $72 port for 2007. Forty-two cars August SAVINGS PASS NOT APPLICABLE TO SPECIALS were stolen during the year. • Mary Treder Lang, a certi• Farms public safety officers fied public accountant from the have teamed with other Wayne Farms, wins the Republican County agencies to shut down nomination for 1st District car theft rings operating on the State Representative. eastside. This is Lang's first run for 20°o()FF elected office. April • More than 1,100 people at• • Kroger on Mack near tend the 60th annual Grosse SALE & CLEARANCE Moross is allowed to extend its Pointe Farms-City Fishing lease on a month-to-month ba• Rodeo at Pier Park, the oldest SALE & CLEARANCE PRICE MERCHANDISE** STOREWIDE sis. Terms include a sunset family-oriented event in the clause that the lease will end Pointes. PRA1I< no later than March 2009. Children from the City and The grocery store is plan• Farms landed 80 fish during H_HH_HHH ning construction at its two the hour-long rodeo, according other Grosse Pointe stores, one to Dick Graves, organizer. in the City and another in the • Pesky plants invading the Woods. The extension will al• shoreline above Pier Park re• PRESENT THIS SAVINGS PASS TO YOUR SALES ASSOCIATE low the chain time to consoli• ceive another herbicide treat• RFFORF EVERY PURCHASE date its stock. ment. Once the area is rid of un• May wanted flora, city officials will • Police rescue scuba divers landscape it with indigenous grope through murky waters species. ______, „ - j off Pier Park searching for sub• merged objects that hazard September Shop online at Sordandtaytar.com 'The Fashion Center and Garden State Plaza open at 7am. 2-Day-On!y Specials in limited quantities; available only white navigation. • Robbie Buhl, a Farms na• supplies last en December 26th & 27th. No other discounts apply. No adjustments ID prior sale purchases. Sale ends Monday, December 29th, except for "We marked debris that tive and national spokesman clearance items CTa s noted. Savings off regular and original prices, Selected collections; not every style in every store, Our regular and original prices are offering prices only and may or may nor. have resulted Sri sales, Advertised merchandise may bo available at safe prices in upcoming saie events. For ttie boats had struck last season so for Racing For Kids charity, ap- Lord & Taylor location nearest you, visit our website or call 1-800-223-^440. GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008
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GUEST EDITORIAL Yes, Virginlc L thereis a Claus
Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the response was printed as an un• signed editorial Sept. 21,1897. Newsman Francis Pharcellus Church wrote The Sun's response to Virginia. e take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faith• ful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: BEST OF YEAR IN REVIEW CARTOONS Dear Editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my lit• COK£gATUlAT10M$ (5R09SE POINTS fA*M5 tle friends say there is no Santa WClaus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'Hanlon Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affect• ed by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe ex• cept what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great uni• verse of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there ^ a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa An attempt to highl igh t local achievements while making it A staff writer at an editorial meeting made the observation of Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. humorous in a Mad Magazine style. how quiet it was in the pointes early August. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoy• Sets- YDU eenevs it, til, I THIS"--, V^ W£Ll_ N080UY ment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which / MOW Wt'SE -'Ai,KiN5 SJEW V.P. PiLK coixo se AS AROtfT UfSTlfK AW' SyfPOKTS OUTDOOR SAO A »H0T AS childhood fills the world would be extinguished. rue cametrr Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, ro• ,.*« tJf^s /oat mance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the Inspiration for this cartoon came from when our new General First in a series of comedy groups I did. I know it did not have a supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in Manager left his moon roof open during fish fly season, yuck. local angle but the hype at the time was too good to pass. all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of child• hood. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
GUEST OPINION ByRichLowry The miracle
of plenty An off the wall local incident on halloween that cought the at• At the end of 2008 it seemed like all the news was focused on tention of the major networks and news media. I changed the one bailout or another; I followed suit and ended up doing o what do we owe our 20-pound Butterball subject, but the cliche "my way or the highway" still remains. three cartoons with bailout themes. turkeys, our high-definition TVs, our spa• cious and warm homes this holiday? Something that won't be high on any• one's list of things to be grateful for, but sure. It is not in our fenced I did not see her lick any• undergirds our way of life — a centuries- yard or garage, and she never one's driveway and she is not old economic revolution that changed the goes out without one of us on allowed in the street unless very terms of human existence. the other end of a leash. we're crossing together. In his eye-opening book, "A Farewell to The treatment to counteract I spoke with Lillian Rogers AlmsT: A Brief Economic History of the World," Gregory Clark ethylene glycol in the system at the Grosse Pointe Woods produces a chart tracking income per person throughout histo• The Grosse Pointe News welcomes your letters to theis editor., simply stated, an intra• Department of Public Works ry. By Clark's account, it is essentially flat from 1000 B.C. to All letters should be typed, double-spaced, signed andvenou limiteds vodk ato drip . and she said residents can dis• A.D. 1800, reflecting the crushing burden of providing for our 250 words. Longer letters may be edited for length and allWarm-hearte letters d jokes from pose of anti-freeze in April and may be edited for content We reserve the right to refusefriend any let•s and family aside, it is October on designated haz• See PLENTY, PAGE 10A ter. Include a daytime phone number for verificationno orfu nquestions. to observe you r dog in ardous waste disposal days. The deadline for letters is 3 p.m Monday. Letters to the Editoran alcoholi can c stupor for several Our deepest gratitude goes be e-mailed to [email protected]. days. We waited through the to Fitzpatrick and the critical "life threatening" phases until care center staff. And also to OUR STAFF we were allowed to hope that our veterinarian, Dr. David Thanks for prompt to a successful recovery. not only will she be saved but Balaj, and the Harper Woods EDITORIAL CIRCULATION I would like our neighbors to recover without any residual Veterinary Hospital staff for at• (313)882-0294 (313)343-5577 urgent care Bob St John: Sports Editor Amy Conrad: Manager know the most obvious symp• damage to her kidneys. tending to our puppy with Ann Fouty: Features Editor Cheryl Lockhart To the Editor: toms to anti-freeze ingestion When she came home Dec. such care and compassion. Brad Lindberg: StaffWriter Kathy Ryan; Staff Witer DISPLAY ADVERTISING Christmas came early for might be a little tummy upset 7, Zena had an incredible Merry Christmas! Karen Fontanlve: Staff Writer (313) B82-3500 our family this yean and wobbly state of "drunken• hangover, but she was alive. JUDITH VANDER WEG AmySalvagno; StaffWriter Peter J.Birknen Advertising Manager Zena, our 1 1/2-year-old ness." It is frightening to think that Grosse Pointe Woods Diane Morelll: Editorial Assistant Kathleen WL Stevenson: puppy, has a clean bill of Late at night one could de• one of our neighbors might NEWS GROUP Advertising Representative Debra Pascoe; Copy Editor Member Suburban Newspaper* of America and Julie R. Sutton: health after ingesting deadly cide to wait until morning be• have improperly disposed of Representative National Newspaper Association Advertising Representative anti-freeze on Dec. 4. fore going to the veterinarian anti-freeze. CLASSIFIED AdamMUowslri: gives thanks 313)882-6900 PRODUCTION Advertising Representative Thanks to accurate observa• and that could have a tragic On our walk that afternoon, Barbara %zbeck Vetbacke: (313)882-6090 Tbm Lynch: tions and tests done by Dr. outcome. Zena's behavior was within 6 to 8 feet of me, I ob• lb the Editor: Manager KenSchop: Advertising Representative a little too weird, even for a FranVelardo: Production Manager' Kristine Preuss; Patricia Fitzpatrick at Animal served Zena take a sip from a Midnight Dec. 31, marks the Assistant Manager David Hughes Advertising Representative Urgent & Critical Care Center goofy puppy, and we were un• birdbath that was not com• end of my tenure in office. Melanie Mahoney Pat Tapper Jessica Ahee: easy. Penny Derrick Advertising Representative in Harper Woods late that pletely frozen. She also I will be forever grateful to CarolJannan Sally Schuman: evening, treatment was under We were also in complete hopped into someone's the people of District 1 for MarySchlager Administrative Assistant way in less than 12 hours after denial when asked about the pachysandra and grabbed a exposure — and that is critical possibility of anti-freeze expo• mushy apple. See LETTERS, page I OA GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008
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I SAY ByReneeLanduyt Better neighborhood with good neighbors
dances and skits, created ford it, I would move there, as I can up from the curb. This has remained steady, mine has one door closes another Halloween houses and rode would be welcomed into a new wasn't prearranged or even seen a lot of changes with peo• opens. our bikes to the park together. community of friends. something we talked about. ple either moving or passing She is looking at this as her Having a neighborhood like Don't get me wrong, I am not We just started doing it one away. My neighborhood has chance to make a change. This that is a gift to all who live dissing my neighborhood, not day because it is a nice thing to gone through transitions in the is a chance to fix something there; a wonderful gift for by any means—my neighbors do. In the fall they even last three years, but what had that broke; to find beauty and those who grow up there; and are great. And while I don't brought me apples from the remained steady is the family prosperity in the shattered mo• the kind of neighborhood I know them as well as my cider mill. across the street. ment that shakes you out of saw a bumper sticker want as an adult. brother and his wife know She has 13 children. One of This young family has awed your comfort zone. I admire reading, "If you want a My brother and his wife live theirs, I am getting to know her daughters lives with her me the most. They help those her attitude and she teaches better neighborhood, be in the Park with their two kids, mine, saying hello and some• and her other sons and daugh• living on either side of them simply by being herself. a better neighbor." a rescued dog and a foreign ex• times we even chat at the ters and grandchildren come and even across the street. I Both her and her husband Interesting, I thought. I change student. Their block is fence. to visit, help with upkeep, know because I am one they teach those they come in con• Ilike that idea. an excellent example of a com• I don't know why I like that plant flowers, cut the grass help. When it snows either tact with by their actions and When I purchased my home, munity of friends between two so much. Maybe its because it and shovel snow. In the sum• Monique or her husband, Jeff, are creating that ripple in the I had old-fashioned dreams of side streets. They know their reminds me of what seems like mer you can find her sitting on snow blow my driveway and pond that affects lives beyond talking with neighbors over the neighbors and their neighbors simpler times, when people the porch enjoying her day. they have even raked my what they will ever know. fence, chatting while watering know them. When my niece talked with one another with• On the other side lived a leaves. No questions asked That, my friend, is a worthy our lawns in the summer, started babysitting and her out a cell phone glued to their missionary widowed in his 40s and they expect nothing in re• life. etching over each others parents were out, neighbors ear or stopping in the middle now married to a minister and turn. They are a sm'ning example houses and pets while on vaca• stood by the ready if needed. of a conversation to text some• together they are raising an They have two boys, of giving for the sake of giving tion and getting to know them Most neighbors have each one else. No, I'm not getting all adopted daughter. They Cameron and Connor, who are and doing the right thing sim• as people, not just people I other's phone numbers and Donna Reed because I know moved to be near the daugh• witnessing their parent's gen• ply because it is the right pass. some even have keys to each no one vacuums in the high ter's elderly grandmother. erosity and acts of kindness. thing. And that in itself is the Neighborhoods are defined other's houses. They have pro• heels and pearls. I guess I just Now their oldest son, Their sons are learning to reward. I hope their kindness often as social communities gressive dinners where one like the old fashioned simplici• Matthew, lives in the house serve their community and is returned to them tenfold. with considerable face-to-face family serves appetizers, an• ty of sitting on the porch, talk• and is a great neighbor too. others without questioning So take a walk in your interaction among members, I other an entree and another ing with neighbors and feeling My neighbor, Judy, from what's in it for them. neighborhood, say hello and grew up in the Park in a neigh• coffee and dessert. They close like I belong to something big• across the street regularly Monique works for a suppli• wave. You might be surprised borhood like that. off the street in the summer for ger. waves and says hello. Last er to the Big 3 and you can who your neighbors are and if It was a social community a block party; they barbecue I have wonderful neighbors. summer she showed me her guess her fate. Yep, her com• you don't know them, find out and we had lots of interaction. together; they share their lives; My neighbor on one side garden and gave me some pany has closed. Merry about them. We knew everyone on the and yes, they talk over the sometimes bring in my recy• great tips should I want to start Christmas, right? Is she sad? If you want a better neigh• block, were friends with all the fence. cling bin after pick-up and I my own. Will she stop helping others? borhood, you've got to be a kids, played games, made up I love that and if I could af• sometimes bring their garbage While my brother's block No, because she knows when better neighbor.
STREETWISE ByReneeLanduyt
How will you celebrate the holidays? If you have a question you would like asked, drop us a note at 96 Kercheval on The Hill in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236or email to editor® 'We'll celebrate by bring• 'By taking a day off. We're 'By wearing a Michigan 'This year I might have to 'By visiting my friends in grossepointenews.com ing gifts to all the boys and very busy on Christmas State shirt for the bowl go to North Dakota where Whoville especially Cindy girls then resting. And for Eve so Christmas Day game. But that is tempo• they have lots of snow so I Lou, and I will treat my lit• the record I have never Rudolph and I get together rary because next year we can reunite with my fami- tle dog, Max, with love in•
brought anyone coal for with our families and eat will have a better season. iyr • stead of making him pull their stocking.' lots of reindeer treats.' Go blue and green!' SNOWMAN JR. my sleigh.' SANTA CLAUS DASHER, REINDEER TEAM INTREPIDUS, THE Anywhere there is snow MR. GRINCH North Pole and Florida CAPTAIN WOLVERINE Mt. Crumpit, North of Whoville L.A. in the offseason Ann Arbor
FROM THE ARCHIVES Compiled by Suzy Berschback French inhabitants maintained traditions precedence was strictly ob• stood three girls, each armed the unfortunate one whose everything with peculiar inter• years, married for the third served, the oldest person al• with a long handled frying pan cake fell on the glowing coals. est. time, a band of young men ways being first. The younger and trying to toss pancakes — a "The table was set with sa• To the old habitant, the bell of masked and dressed in bar• girls received kisses on the lips. custom still preserved by some vory meats, and all ate with a his church had a charm of indi• barous manner armed with Wine, brandy or rum was of• French families of Grosse relish inspired by the morrow viduality; it was a sweet mes• every kind of instrument that fered to all callers. The respect Pointe. Nearby were several which would be Ash senger summoning him from could produce a howling, dis• paid to the aged, to parents and who poured in the batter as fast Wednesday, for Lent was rigid• fields and woods. It was his mal sounds, would assemble superiors was admirable. as the pans were emptied, ly kept. After supper, dancing faitfjful sentinel, giving him the around the house of the unfor• The following article is from New Years' morning, every whilst la dame Chauvin placed commenced and at trie stroke first note of warning; joyful its tunate groom or bride. Each the archives of the Grosse Pointe child knelt to receive their par• powdered maple sugar be• of 12, all saluted the hostess triumphant peals swept over would try with a zeal worthy of Historical Society, circa 1930. ents' blessing and even when tween the cakes and piled them and took farewell of pleasure the blue waters of Lake St. a better cause to extract the full For more information, visit married, hastened with hus• up in pyramid form. The art until Easter... Clair, awakening the slumber• measure of sound from his tin gphistorical.org. band and little ones to receive consisted in tossing the light "Far remote from the old ing echoes of the primeval or iron instrument. The miser• this coveted benediction. The pancake as high as possible world, entirely dependent upon forests." able recipient of this infernal ocially, the French in• children were sent on this day while turning it. It was accom• his neighbor for comfort and Divorces were unknown serenade was obliged to capitu• habitants were an ad• to visit all their relations. On en• plished by a dexterous motion amusement and sympathy the The charavari was then in late by paying a certain sum of mirable people, tering a room, "Bon jour mon• of the hand, and merry were the old habitant became attached vogue. Whenever a widower or money which was given to the i These old French pio• sieur," "Bon jour, Madame," peals of laughter which greeted to his new home and invested widow somewhat advanced in poor. neers clung with and "Happy New Year" was the great tenacity to the traditions usual greeting of every French and customs of LaBelle France; child. Children constantly see• they were the link correcting ing the respect and deference GUEST OPINION By Francis Shrum him with the shores of his sun• their parents paid to the elders ny home. soon acquired that graceful They came from various courtesy and affability of man• parts of France, but chiefly ners that was so distinguishing We'd like to have it both ways from Normandy. The French a trait of the old French habi• language was spoken with all tant. e like to have it that societies create to protect or expect it to be otherwise is getting a bellyful of war stuff. the purity and elegance of the Mardi Gras everiing was one both ways, but themselves. They are intended simply a lie. In other words, Ever intelligent, the CIA got time of Louis XIV One of the of unusual mirth and enjoy• it usually does• to do despicable things in the you can't have it both ways. rid of the tapes and are are on old customs held in the early ment with the easy-going, fun- n't turn out that dark and out of sight. We hire In the bloody aftermath of the congressional hot seat, ac• days of Grosse Pointe and loving habitants. way. We even them to do the dirty work, but 9/11, the CIA got its hands on cused of "obstructing justice." traced to France and by frag• "It was Mardi Gras evening Whave a witty little saying that we not such dirty work that it may some people they believed It's an age-old story: We mentary history and tradition in 1735, a furious storm howled use to describe this concept: leak out and frighten the chil• were members of al-Qaida, want ugly things to be fixedi n back to the Druids, was the through the leafless trees and "You can't have your cake and dren. and they interrogated them— a lovely manner. We want to do d'Ignolee. the restless waters of Lake St. eat it, too." But somehow we Our intelligence agencies with vigor. You don't sit down evil but look good. On New Years' Eve, masked Clair were fast imprisoned in just keep trying. have been mtimately involved with terrorists, pour them a I read a book titled,' A young men would go from ice, but there were sounds of When this nation was rocked in so many conflicts and poten• cup of tea and expect them to Soldier's Guide to the Laws of house to house singing a song merriment in the house of to its very foundation by the tial conflicts during the past give you information. These War" as part of a political sci• suitable for the occasion; "We Charles Chauvin. It was build horrific events of Sept. 11, near-century that we will never are people who will blow you ence class. It is all about having ask but little," a piece of of hewn logs and fronted on the 2001, we were ready to do any• know about them all, nor up along with your children it both ways—how you can chignee, nothing more. "Will lake. A party was gathered in thing necessary to bring to jus• would we want to. and themselves in an effort to actually go into the killing you give it? If not, say so and the dining room to celebrate tice those responsible and to As the CIA's mission state• achieve the highest possible fields and take other human we will take your oldest daugh• Shrove Tuesday. The floorwa s ensure that such a horrendous ment so eloquently puts it: "We number of casualties. lives but do it in such a way ter." The chignee to which is al• partly covered with a rag carpet thing never happened again. are the nation's first line of de• The interrogations occurred that is legal, fair, upstanding, luded, is a piece cut from a whose bright tints lent a glow As is the case with most emo• fense. We accomplish what oth• sometime in 2002 and were even compassionate. newly slaughtered hog. It was of warmth to the room. A cup• tionally charged situations, we ers cannot accomplish and go captured on videotape. They Unfortunately those things placed with clothing and provi• board reaching to the ceiling began to think a little more where others cannot go." weren't pretty pictures. By simply don't coexist. sions in the singers' cart and displayed rows of blue china of carefully after the wreckage, Since 9/11, the FBI and the 2005, public and political opin• Our covert organizations are distributed to the poor. a thickness which would now rocks, rubble and body parte CIA have both been on the ions were quickly backpedal- used to the hot seat, used to do• On New Years' Day, the ex• alleviate the fear of many had been removed. front lines of counter-terrorism ing from the national fervor ing the dirty work, and changing of presents was very housekeepers and defy the Prevention of such future dis• and, like all battle fronts, the that swept the nation post-9/11. America goes right on believ• universally followed, also the rough handling of the modern asters has been heavily com• scene isn't pretty. War is a cruel, The anger was subsiding and ing the lie that we can have it making of calls. The fair host• servant. missioned to the CIA, FBI and ugly, dirty business. You can't as Afghanistan and Iraq began both ways. ess always presented her rosy "Before an open fireplace other such organizations. be involved in it without engag• to take a toll on our sons and Francis Shrum is a columnist cheek for a kiss. The right of with its crackling hickory log, These are the kinds of groups ing in just such behavior. To say daughters, Americans started for King Features Syndicate. GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008 NEWS
expectancy was no higher in by expanding knowledge — the story from a geopolitical lent of 20,000 years of 'normal' stay at the heart of this PLENTY: 1800 than for hunter-gatherers: broke the trap and created perspective. England em• human progress." progress. Thank goodness for 30 to 35 years. Stature, a mea• modern life as we know it. barked on its capitalist revolu• So long as it remains an open that, and pass the drumstick. Human sure both of the quality of diet "The richestmoder n tion at exactly the time when and dynamic economy, the Rich Lowry is editor of the and of children's exposure to economies are now 10 to 20 "the country that mastered this United States is positioned to National Review. progress disease, was higher in the times wealthier than the 1800 new system would gather re• Stone Age than in 1800. And average," Clark writes. In these wards that far outstripped all Continued from page 8A while foragers satisfy their ma• economies, it is the unskilled the treasures of any empire in terial wants with small who have benefited most. the past." With that came world opportunity to serve as your material wants in an environ• amounts of work, the modest "Unskilled male wages in power. England reaped the LETTERS: state representative for the last ment of economic stasis. comforts of the English in 1800 England have risen more since benefits first, then its successor six years. It has been an honor Then, income per person ex• were purchased only through a the Industrial Revolution than as a superpower, the United Six years and a privilege to serve the plodes upward around 1800, life of unrelenting drudgery." skilled wages," Clark writes, States. people of the Grosse Pointes, coinciding with the Industrial Throughout most of history, "and this result holds for all ad• And so the miracle that start• service Harper Woods and Detroit for Revolution that first arrived in Clark argues, humankind was vanced economies." ed 200 years ago marches on. three two-year terms. England. Without it, most of us caught in a "Malthusian trap" There have always been very "Currently, industrial soci• Continued from page 8A These are not easy times to would still be living poor, nasty, — small economic advances rich people. What's changed in eties appear to be doubling be a public servant. The chal• brutish and short lives. were outpaced by resulting the past 200 years is the growth their rate of technological electing me to the state House lenges to the state of Michigan How poor? population growth that made it of wealth and its spread. progress every 10 years," Mead of Representatives three times are well-known. "The average person in the impossible for living standards In his new book "God and writes. "If this continues, and before term limits prevented I believe the character and world of 1800 was no better off to increase. The massive pro• Gold: Britain, America, and the there is every reason to sup• me from being a candidate creative energy of the people than the average person of ductivity gains of the Industrial Making of the Modern World," pose that it will, the 21st centu• again. of this state will prevail, and 100,000 B.C.," says Clark. "Life Revolution—driven essentially Walter Russell Mead picks up ry will experience the equiva• Thank you for giving me the our current economic and so• cial woes will be overcome. I wish my successor, Tim Bledsoe, the best of fortune in seeking solutions to Michigan's problems. Merry Christmas and happy New Year! EDGAFFNEY State Representative District 1
Digital TV By Rich Kushman Special Writer
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Grosse Pointe Woods City experiences ups and downs during2008 PAGEI2A
OBITUARIES Schools look forward after a strong 2008
By Kathy Ryan K-4 classrooms; and $375 to StaffWriter start an English as a Second Language Parent Lending The Grosse Pointe Board of Library for all K-12 buildings. Education looked to the future In addition, the foundation and at the past as it opened a gave $10,800 to the EA.S.T. new pool, celebrated several reading program. anniversaries and welcomed a May new board member. •Grosse Pointe North High January School celebrated its 40th an• •The Grosse Pointe niversary. Foundation for Public •Grosse Pointe Park passed Education donated $10,000 to an ordinance prohibiting loi• Nearly 700 Brownell Middle School students and staff form the F.A.S.T (Foundations of tering and engaging, in a gang- the numbers 58-08 to commemorate the school's 50th anniver• Analysis Synthesis related activity ..referred to as sary. Translations) implementation. "flagging" on school property •Grosse Pointe South choir The much-anticipated 50,000-square foot Grosse Pointe South following an incident at Pierce University of Michigan. The Christopher Cornwall, Terrill director Ellen Bowen appealed High School natatorium, named the John and Kathleen Boll Middle School. ' award honors practicing Newnan, and Darryl Miller of her assault and battery convic• Athletic Complex, opened to the community Sept; 7. •Superintendent Suzanne school administrators who Grosse Pointe Farms; and tion in Wayne County Circuit Klein was presented with an have made significant contri• Judith Gafa of Grosse Pointe Court and sought a retrial. site. District officials will use Education of $4,308.90 to fund Excellence in Educational butions to the improvement of Wood for two seats on the •School board member the responses to determine if "Music in Mathematics" for all Leadership Award from the administrator preparation. school board in the November Ahmed Ismail defended his ac• changes should be made. . June election. tions in requesting the district's •The school board approved •Grosse Pointe Foundation •The Grosse Pointe Public. human resources department a pilot course, Applied Medical for Public Education members School System celebrated the provide him a list of teachers Research with Clinical presented the school board completion of South's new who signed an e-mail express• Investigations. The class will with $75,000 for the new gymnasium and natatorium. ; ing apprehension about the begin in the fall. FAST, reading program. •The Association for proposed International •Administrative Law Judge •The Elementary Retarded Citizens partnered Baccalaureate program. James Ward determined South Mathematics Curriculum with the Grosse Pointe Public February choir director Ellen Bowen Committee recommended School System on a new busi• •Construction of a new pool may "retain her teaching cer• Harcourt Math be used for the ness called Full Circle Upscale and gymnasium at Grosse tificate and...shall retain her kindergarten curriculum and Retail. Coordinated by Mary Pointe South High School was full teaching privileges for the Everday Math for first through' Fodell, a retired Grosse Pointe almost on schedule, according purpose of teaching in the fifth grades. Public School System teacher, to Barton Malow project man• Grosse Pointe Public Schools." •For the second time in the store will provide, jobs and ager Ahmed Beasley. The pro• •The Grosse Pointe school three months, Grosse Pointe serve as a training ground for ject is expected to be complet• board approved a new Chinese South High School choir the developmentally disabled. ed by September. language course for students at teacher Ellen Bowen was sus• •School Board President March Pierce and Parcells middle pended from teaching with pay Brendan Walsh proclaimed the •Grosse Pointe school offi• schools and both high schools. pending further investigation new sports facility addition at cials encouraged parents to April of a new incident. South to be named The John participate in a survey about •The school board accepted Grosse Pointe North High School marked its 40th anniversary September and Marlene Boll Athletic the school's student code of grants from the Grosse Pointe with its Fab 40 party April 25 at the Grosse Pointe War •Board member Ahmed conduct on the district's Web Foundation for Public Memorial. Ismail will be challenged by See SCHOOLS, page 12A
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GROSSE POINTE WOODS Closing of Children's Home, approval of senior complex top stories Assessment Referral and By Kathy Ryan Education Youth Assistance The Cook Schoolhouse StaffWriter Program. welcomes its first visitors March during an open house The closing of the Children's • The city settled a lawsuit Sept 7 as part of victory Home of Detroit after 172 with former city employee in the Pointes. years of service to troubled Jane Brown, agreeing to pay children and approval of a se• her $225,000. The city main• nior housing complex topped tained it did nothing wrong, the stories for 2008 in Grosse but agreed to settle the wrong• Pointe Woods. ful termination suit to avoids Others of import are: trial. January • City officials studied using • Linda Paladino declined a LED lights to save money. temporary post as city treasur• Council members Art Bryant er and asked not to be consid• and Al Dickinson and city ad• ered for the permanent posi• ministrator Mark WoUenweber tion. toured a company specializing • Concern over how city in LED options. funds are being invested • Mayor Robert Novitke prompted a meeting between joined other Grosse Pointe offi• the Committee of the Whole cials in delivering Meals on and those responsible for over• Wheels to area seniors as part seeing the city's estimated $8 of the national Mayors for million in reserve funds. Of Meals initiative. particular interest was if the April city's policy regarding time • A memorial arbor honor• lines on investment of reserve ing the late Jean Rice, a former funds was being violated and city councilwoman, was dedi• what needs to be done to en• cated. Rice also served for a sure compliance. number of years on the city's February beautification and tree com• • More than 500 residents missions. attended the city's seventh an• • Water levels concerned nual Winterfest at Lake Front boat well holders with boats Park. drawing more than 4 feet, as • Based on a recommenda• dredging had been postponed. tion from the public safety de• May partment, city council agreed • Dee Ann Irby was selected June uled for June 16, was held up; house on Vernier. Units from downturn in the state's econo• to continue its contract with from a field of five to become • A small number of resi• due to paperwork snafus^ the Woods, Shores, Farms, my affected the decision, direc• Macomb County's Community the city's new treasurer. dents were without power for county construction regula* Park and Harper Woods re• tor William Steele said. at least 24 hours following a tions, fireworks displays and a sponded. • City clerk Lisa Hathaway late spring storm. Grosse long holiday weekend. • In a plea bargain agree• was awarded the International Pointe Woods city administra• • The city's planning com: ment, former city treasurer Institute of Municipal Clerks FREE tor Mark WoUenweber said no mission approved an ordi'- Clifford Maison pleaded no Master Municipal Clerk desig• <10 GIFT severe damage was reported nance amendment allowing ser contest to embezzlement nation. during a series of severe thun• nior housing on land currently charges and ordered to pay the • City council banned neon CARD derstorms. occupied by the Vernier city$ll,178.42. signs on the facades or in the with Ad • The Mack Avenue resur• Terrace Apartments. • The Cook School house windows of area businesses. Grosse Pointe Woods Location facing project was delayed August was dedicated and received a Businesses have until fall, 2010 while city officials awaited final • City council approved an Michigan Historical marker to conform. The vote was 5 to approval from the Michigan amended ordinance clearing October 2. Department of Transportation. the way for a senior housing •Officials from the • Indrek Laul, owner of the July development on the Vernier Children's Home of Detroit, a Estonia Piano Company, • The orange barrels were in Terrace Apartments site. residential treatment facility helped dedicate the grand pi• place and store owners notified September for troubled children, an• ano his company recently de• construction was seMo^foegin. • Fire heavily damaged a re• nounce the facility is closing. livered to the Grosse Pointe The project, originally, sched• cently sold vacant historic Low occupancy rates and a Woods Presbyterian Church by performing a classical music concert. November • Under traffic guidelines is• Accessories We give you more wireless for your money! sued by the State of Michigan, & Phones Latest Verizon Wireless phones and accessories some stop signs have been Fast, friendly service deemed unnecessary and are slated for removal. About 38 signs are targeted. • Woods residents were VBHWOnwireless asked to tie yellow ribbons Premium Retailor around trees for U.S. Marine rgf Sgt. William Thompson who wireless returned home after four years with the Marine Corps, includ• GROSSE POINTE WOODS ing tours of duty in Iraq and 20315 Mack Avenue Afghanistan. • Municipal Court Judge Lynne A. Pierce won election to the Wayne County Circuit STERLING HEIGHTS Court bench. (586)795-8610 December WirelessZone.com/AuthorizedCellular •Retiring Wayne County Circuit Court Chief Judge William Giovan is appointed a visiting municipal court judge for the Woods and Grosse Pointe Shores.
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• Gold/Silver STAMPS ' Center in recognition of the • Platinum • U.S./Foreign couple's gift of $500,000 to the Grosse Pointe Foundation for • Proof Sets • Sheets Public Education. • Mint Sets • Collections October • Foreign • Postcards •Brownell Middle School celebrated its 50th anniversary. • ••I D u *• v B CURRENCY MILITARY •Board President Brendan • Colonial • Medals Walsh apologized for a letter he wrote on school board sta• • Confederate • Ribbons tionery hypothesizing on the •All Pre-1928 • Flags Access to maps, coupons, and motives and actions of candi• • All National Currency ' • Uniforms dates in the upcoming school information about local area board election after members retailers and service businesses. of the community questioned if he abused his position. •Grosse Pointe Public Calendar of local events School System Board of Education member Ahmed Member to plan pr next outing, Ismail owed Wayne County ap• proximately $19,000 in delin• ANA, MSNS quent taxes on his private resi• and GPNS iter This Weeks dence in Grosse Pointe Woods. CONTEST November (N.G.C., P.C.G.S.) •Judy Gafa and Ahmed Marketplace p. the hidden windmills on Ismail emerged from a field of mim^ •••• wPointeMarketplace. com five candidates to win the two To Advertise Your Business Call open seats on the Grosse I You Can Win Pointe Public School System 313.343.5585 eiiuious Prizes! Board of Education. December •The Grosse Pointe schools y (313f885-4200 declared a rare snow day after I**1' Hours: MbiV^Fri 10-6 -Sat 1 marketplace.com a major snow storm buried most of the tri-county area. GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008
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Society; a member of the Cailouette was an avid reader Francis P. Detroit District Dental and seamstress. She devoted Blake D.D.S. Society; the Michigan Dental many volunteer hours to the Association, the American resale shop at the Grosse Francis P. Blake D.D.S., a Dental Association and the Pointe Unitarian Church. She resident of Grosse Pointe International Academy of loved spending time outdoors Francis P Blake D.D.S. Marian Cailouette Frederick Kipp Cody Jr. Woods, died Thursday, Dec. Gnathology. and in particular at her cot• 18, 2008, after a short illness. He touched many people's tage in Canada. Her wry sense He was 83. lives as a professor of den• of humor was appreciated by Elizabeth Holton Dr. Blake was a well-known tistry at the U of D Dental everyone she met. Ford dentist for more than 50 years. School. Mrs. Cailouette is survived His office was oft Mack Dr. Blake was a former by her daughters, Tina Varner Longtime Grosse Pointe Avenue in Grosse Pointe member of the Grosse Pointe and Catherine Gulevich; sons, Farms resident Elizabeth Woods. He was a graduate Yacht Club and was a member Gregory Gulevich and Victor Holton Ford, 87, died of Assumption High School in and past commodore of the Gulevich; stepdaughter, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008, at Windsor; Wayne State Clinton River Boat Club. He Michelle Cailouette; and Beaumont Hospital, Grosse University, where he played enjoyed boating, tennis and grandchildren Ferrell E. Pointe. football for several years; and travel and was an avid scratch Varner, Zoe Varner, Alex Mrs. Ford was born Aug. 23, a 1949 graduate of the model ship builder. Gulevich, Jason Gulevich and 1921, in Detroit to Addison E. University of Detroit Dental Dr. Blake is survived by his Aaron Gulevich. and Pauline Brooks Holton. School. children, Peter (Louise), Joan She was predeceased by her She graduated from Miss Shortly after he began his (Francis) Plonka, Stephen husband, Joseph Cailouette. Porter's School in practice, he was drafted into (Rene6), Carolyn Potthoff and A memorial service is Farmington, Conn, and Finch the.U.S. Army, leaving his Julie Bridget (James) planned for August in Canada Junior College in New York, wife, Sally, and his first three Rodgers; 18 grandchildren; where she and her family en• N.Y. Elizabeth Holton Ford Joseph Leonard Warchol children behind as he served seven great-grandchildren; joyed many happy summers. Mrs. Ford had a lifelong in• during the Korean War. He his son-in-law, Keith M. Memorial donations may be terest in gardens and flowers. Rita, his wife of 60 years; was a dental officer, achieving (Cathy) Bever; brother, James made to Grosse Pointe An active member of The Joseph Leonard daughter, Lisa, and her hus• the rank of lieutenant and was (Geraldine); and sister-in-law, Unitarian Church, 17150 Garden Club of Michigan for Warchol band, Jim; son, James, and his stationed in Japan for more Anne Blake. He also is sur• Maumee, Grosse Pointe .52 years, she was one of only wife, Janet; daughter-in-law, than a year during his service. vived by many nieces and Farms, MI 48230. four honorary members of the Longtime Grosse Pointe Cindy; grandchildren, Jennifer Dr. Blake was involved in nephews. organization. She served an Woods resident Joseph and Dominique; and two step- professional organizations in• He was predeceased by unprecedented three two-year Leonard Warchol, 81, died granddaughters. cluding being past president Sally, his beloved of 58 years, Frederick Kipp terms as president of the club. Wednesday, Nov. 19,2008. He also is survived by his sis• of Omicron Kappa Epsilon, an who died in 2003; and his In June 2008, she received the He was born March 17,1927, ter, Virginia (Mike) Mizak, and honorary dental fraternity; a daughter, Sally Margaret Cody Jr. Garden Club of America Club in Detroit to Walter and Anna many nieces and nephews. Fellow in the American Jever. Mr. Frederick Kipp Cody Jr., Medal of Merit. Warchol. He was a skilled He was predeceased by his College of Dentists; a past A funeral Mass was cele• 60, died Thursday, Dec. 11, She was well-known for her tradesman at Chrysler Corp. son, Rick; and two sisters and president of The Vetter brated Dec. 22, 2008, at Our 2008, at St. Joseph Mercy fine taste in fashion and an• and retired in 1995. three brothers. Lady Star of the Sea in Hospital in Pontiac after a tiques. Her house was always Mr. Warchol's family said he A funeral Mass was celebrat• Grosse Pointe Woods, fol• brief illness. He was born Oct. filled with plants, especially could repair anything mechan• ed Nov. 22 at St. Paul on the STATE OF MICHIGAN lowed by full military honors. 5,1948, in Detroit. orchids, which she regularly ical from cars to home appli• Lake Catholic Church, Grosse DEPARTMENT OF Inurnment-was at Mt. Olivet He was a longtime resident sent as gifts. ances and other items. He Pointe Farms, with interment ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Cemetery in Detroit. of Birmingham with strong Mrs. Ford's life revolved loved sports, especially bowl• in Resurrection Cemetery in PO BOX 30204 childhood ties to the Grosse ing, baseball and hockey. He Clinton Township. LANSING, MICHIGAN 48909 Memorial donations may be . around her friends and family. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING made to the charity of the Pointe area. Mr. Cody gradu• Nothing pleased her more enjoyed spending time at his Memorial donations may be ated in 1966 from Austin High than to play bridge or golf cottage on Lake George. TAKE NOTICE, that the Land and donor's choice. made to Beaumont Hospice, Water Management Division of the Memories and condolences School in Detroit and attend• with her close friends. She en• Throughout his life, he al• PO. Box 5802, Troy, MI 48007- Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will hoid a public hearing at the may be shared with the family ed Michigan State University, joyed spending time with her ways had a dog, from Great 9620 or the American Stroke Village of Grosse Pointe Shores, at ahpeters.com. where he received a degree in grandchildren, Elizabeth and Danes to poodles. He was Association, c/o American Michigan 48236, on Thursday, January 8, 2009, a! 7:00 p.m. business and marketing in Charles, especially on their known to take in strays and Heart Association, 24445 The purpose oi this hearing is to 1970. extended family,vacations to find them homes. Northwestern Highway Suite secure the views of interested persons Mr. Cody .traveled the world her summer hom^^^Harbor Mr. Warchol is suj^ed.,bv 100, Sputhfjeld, MI 4§Q75, concerning the following application for- . ( "Jheresa , , permit: in his role as director of mar• Point. Application for Permit 08-82-0054-P Buccellato under 325, Great.Lake Submerged keting for Chrysler Mrs." Ford was accom• Lands, of the Natural Resources and Former Grosse Pointe resi• International and was instru• plished at fly-fishing, a fa• Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended, by Grosse Pointe dent Theresa Buccellato, mental in launching the Jeep vorite pastime for her and her Yacht Club, 788 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Shores, Ml 48236. The "Mrs. Bee," died Friday, Dec. brand in China, Egypt and father, which she then shared appiicants propose to make renovations 19, 2008, at her home in throughout all of Europe. with her children and grand• The Chinese reader and construct a new entrance to a marina basin that is shared with the Harrison Township. She was After leaving Chrysler, Mr. children. "She always cast a Village of Grosse Pointe Shores on Lake 66. Cody joined Jucy, Inc. as a nice fly for trout and salmon St. Clair, at 788 Lake Shore Road. Approximately 100 feet of seawall will be She was born May 17,1942, partner. Jucy, headquartered in the streams of Michigan removed from the east wall near the in Palm Springs, Calif., is a pi• and Canada," said her son, northeast corner to create the new har• in Detroit, the eldest child of bor entrance. Approximately 6,766 cubic Dominic and Caroline Paone. oneer in "green" advertising John. yards of angular stone will be placed below the ordinary high water mark to Mrs. Buccellato is survived for major corporations. Mrs. Ford was a member of build a rubble mound breakwater, by her husband, Anthony; Mr. Cody was a member of the Grosse Pointe Club, approximately 221 feet lakeward of the east wail, to protect the new entrance. children, Trina (John) Barta, Holy Name Church in Country Club of Detroit, and The breakwater will be capped with a concrete sidewalk, 3 to 7 feet wide. A Tricia (Mike) Behm and Birmingham and was an avid The Garden Club of Michigan. navigation light will be installed at the Anthony David (Marika Col) art collector who loved gar• She also was formerly a end of the approximately 282 foot long breakwater. An additional 5,089 cubic Buccellato; grandchildren, dening. As a loyal friend of member of The Fontinalis yards of large stone will be placed below Daniel Barta, Michael Bill W, he reached out to nu• Club in Vanderbilt, The the ordinary high "water mark along the east waii for absorption of wave energy. Anthony Behm and Caroline merous people. Jupiter Island Club in Hobe Approximately 100 feet of new seawall wili be installed across the north side of Behm. Mr. Cody is survived by his Sound, Fla., The Little Harbor the internal flushing channel, and the A funeral Mass was cele• siblings, Mary Lou and Daniel Club in Harbor Springs and existing flushing tubes will be extended approximately 54 feet. The area will be brated Dec. 22, 2008, at San A. Miller of Olympia, Wash., Sigma Gamma Association, backfilled with approximately 610 cubic Francesco Church in Clinton Fredericka Cody of Atlanta, Grosse Pointe. yards of fiil and caped with pavement. The existing drawbridge will be removed Township with interment at and Angela and Thomas Mrs. Ford is survived by her and replaced with an 8 foot wide by 50 foot long open pile boardwalk/pier. Some Resurrection Cemetery in Gonzales of Albuquerque, son, John Buel (Anna) Warren docks, associated piers, support piles, Clinton Township. N.M. Jr.; stepson, Frederick C. and spring piles for several slips and the gas dock and associated facilities wili be Memorial donations may be He also is survived by his (Eleanor) Ford III; stepdaugh• removed for the marina renovations. The ter, Virginia Brush Ford; and reconfigured docking system will reduce made to The PIME nieces and nephews, Mr. and the total slip count from 274 to 240, with Missionaries, 17330 Quincy Mrs. Daniel A. Miller, Mr. and grandchildren, Elizabeth D. 86 existing slips unchanged. Six floating head piers with finger piers, Including St., Detroit, MI 48221. Mrs. Timothy R. Miller, Mr. Warren and Charles H. one with a fuel/service "T" dock, will be Share a memory with and Mrs. Gerard F. Miller and Warren. constructed within the interior of the basin, and provide for 102 slips. The the family at Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Sokolik; She was predeceased by her fixed piers with finger piers, and a total five great-nephews; two great- of 22 individual fixed piers will be con• WujekCalcaterra.com. first husband, John Buel structed along the perimeter of the nieces; and cherished cousins, Warren; second husband, basin, for an additional 52 slips. A total of approximately 11,821 cubic yards of friends and business associ• Frederick Clifford Ford Jr.; sis• material will be dredged, approximately ates too numerous to list. ter, Barbara Holton Kammer; 3,524 from the new entrance channel, Marian Cailouette and the balance from within the marina Mr. Cody was predeceased and brother, Brooks Holton. basin. Maintenance dredging of 2,000 cubic yards per year is also proposed. Marian Cailouette, formerly by his parents, Frederick K. A funeral service was held Material wili be dredged up to 10 feet Marian Gulevich, 89, died Cody, Sr., Nancy Ryan Cody Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008, at Rand T. Sobczak Jr. of Grosse Pointe and a Michigan State below LWD. The project is located in T1S, R13E, Section 2, Village of Grosse Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, in and Rosemary Brennan Cody. Christ Church Grosse Pointe University student, studied at Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Pointe Shores, Wayne County, Michigan. Memphis, Tenn. She was a A memorial Mass was held in Grosse Pointe Farms, with former resident of Grosse Dec. 13, 2008, at Holy Name interment in Elmwood this summer. He toured both north and south China and stopped Pointe Woods. Church, Birmingham, with in• Cemetery, Detroit. The application is available for review in Shanghai to read the Grosse Pointe News. When you travel, at the DEQ website, She was born March 8, terment in St. Paul on the Memorial donations may be www.deq.state.mi.us/CIWPIS, or may take along a copy of the Grosse Pointe News and have a photo be reviewed in the Land and Water 1919, to Walter and Catherine Lake Catholic Church, Grosse made to The Garden Club of Management Division, DEQ, 27700 Dippold. She received her Pointe Farms. Michigan Memorial Fund, c/o taken of yourself in front of a local landmark. Send the picture, Donald Court, Warren, Michigan 48092- master's degree from Wayne Memorial donations may be Mrs. Thomas N. Griffith, 515 22793, by calling 586-753-3862. The along with a few words to: The Grosse Pointe News Reader, 96 public hearing record will remain open State University and taught at made to the charity of the Washington Road, Grosse for 10 days after the public hearing date. Any written comments to be submitted Fraser High School, from donor's choice. Pointe, MI 48230. Kercheval, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236; or e-mail to for the public hearing record must be which she retired. Share a memory She will be deeply missed received at this address on or before the [email protected]. Your picture will appear in an close of the record. In addition to being a devot• with the family at by her friends and family and The hearing will be held pursuant to ed teacher and mother, Mrs. lynchfuneraldirectors.com. her faithful pet poodle, Coco. upcoming issue. Section 32514 of the cited statute. The hearing will not be a court-type proceed• ing; witnesses will not be sworn, and there will be no cross examination. Public hearings are primarily informa• tional and are held to encourage the expression of views and presentation of facts. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will, upon written request, provide a copy of the Department's decision on this application. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY WENDY FITZNER, CHIEF PERMIT CONSOLIDATION UNIT LAND AND WATER MANAGEMENT DIVISION 517-373-9244 NOTE: Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for effective participa• tion in this meeting should call the tele• phone number listed above on week in advance to request mobility, visual, hear• ing, or other assistance.
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Lakeshore closed home in the 800 block of A 10:57 a.m. Friday, Dec. 19, Nottingham in Grosse Pointe public works crews closed Park. southbound Lakeshore at Officers tracked the suspects Vernier due to dangerous road in the fresh snow, which led to a conditions. vehicle parked a couple of blocks away. McKinley at 3:58 p.m. Friday, Park man registered a .246 —Brad Lindberg City of Grosse Pointe Dec. 19. percent blood alcohol level Grosse Pointe Shores Quick response Numerous 911 calls report• while attending a basketball If you have any information Wanted for drug ed the man operating a vehi• game at 8 p.m. Thursday, Second alarm about these or other crimes,A t 6:20 a.m. Saturday, Dec. cle recklessly in the block, Dec. 18 at Grosse Pointe call the Grosse Pointe Shores20, officers, responded to a lar• During a traffic stop at knocking into a fence and South High School. Three Shores officers and a public safety department atcen y in progress. 12:20 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, brick wall of a house. Police took the man home fire truck answered a second (313) 881-5500. The suspects were attemt- police learned that the 20- "All this damage was to his mother. alarm for a garage fire in the ping to steal the wheels from a year-old male driver from caused by (the man) attempt• 21000 block of Van K Drive at 2007 Chevy Impala parked at a Grosse Pointe Woods was ing to back his vehicle out of 4:04 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20. Grosse Pointe Park resident's home in the 1300 wanted in Grosse Pointe the driveway in a reckless Impala stolen block of Buckingham in Grosse Park on drug charges. manner," said a public safety Thieves Pointe Park. City police impounded the officer. An unattended 2008 Stuck in snow A red SUV type vehicle was man's 2001 Lincoln Police found suspected Chevrolet Impala four-door scared away oberserved leaving the scene. Continental and delivered marijuana in the vehicle. Due was stolen while being Several motorist were At 5:45 a.m. Tuesday Dec. 16, Grosse Pointe Park officers him to Park headquar• to the man's "agitated" state, warmed up in a driveway in stranded and stuck in heavy Grosse Pointe Park officers re• pursued the vehicle that was ters. he was taken to a local hospi• the 400 block of McKinley at snow at about 7:30 a.m. sponded to an attempted wheel eventually lost in the area of — Brad Lindberg tal for observation. 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16. Saturday, Dec. 20. theft from a 2009 Dodge Connor and Vernor in Detroit. Wayne County road crews Challenger parked at a home in If you have any informa• informed Shores officials that the 800 block of Barrington. Tires taken tion about these or other B&E Voyager stolen they'd be in the village later The suspects were scared off crimes, call the City of Grosse that day to plow turnarounds by the resident. The wheels Overnight on Friday, Dec. 19, Pointe public safety depart• A $300 Xbox 360 Pro was A 2000 silver-colored on Lakeshore. were intact. four wheels were stolen off a ment at (313) 886-3200. stolen from a house in the Chrysler Voyager was stolen The resident described the 2009 Chevrolet Malibu parked 300 block of Hillcrest some• while parked overnight suspects at two black males at a resident's home in the 500 time between Friday, Dec. 13 Tuesday, Dec. 16, in the 400 Sledding injury wearing dark doming and dri• block of Barrington in Grosse and 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 19. block of Touraine. ving a Buick Skylark. Pointe Park. Grosse Pointe Farms There are no suspects. — Brad Lindberg A 14-year-old boy was in• —Bob St John jured while sledding on Stolen items Disorderly If you have any informa• Vernier Hill by a piece of met• If you have any information Drunk at game tion about these or other al protruding from the ground. Overnight on Tuesday, Dec. about these or other crimes, A 46-year-old Farms man crimes, call the Grosse Pointe Police said the boy suffered 16, the two driver's side tires call the Grosse Pointe Park was arrested for disorderly A drunken and disorderly Farms public safety depart•a 4-inch scrape to his but• were stolen from a 2007 Ford public safety department at conduct in the 400 block of 19-year-old Grosse Pointe ment at (313) 885-2100. tocks. Fusion parked at a resident's (313) 822-6200.
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CITY OF HARPER WOODS CITY OF HARPER WOODS WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN SYNOPSIS: REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING SYNOPSIS: REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING NOVEMBER 5, 2008 DECEMBER 1,2008 The regular City Council meeting was called to order by Mayor Kenneth A. Poynter at 7:30 P.M. The regular City Council meeting was called to order by Mayor Kenneth A. Poynter at 7:30 P.M. ROLL CALL: All Councilpersons were present. MOTIONS PASSED ROLL CALL: All Councilpersons were present. 1) To receive, approve and file the minutes of the regular City Council meeting held October 20, 2008 and furthermore, receive and file the minutes of the Library Board meeting held October 16,2008. MOTIONS PASSED 2) To open the Public Hearing on the 2009 Budget. 1) To receive, approve and file the minutes of the regular City Council meeting held November 17, 2008 3) To close the Public Hearing on the 2009 Budget. and furthermore, receive and file the minutes of the Library Board meeting held November 20, 2008 4) That the agenda of the regular City Council meeting having been acted upon, the meeting and the Board of Trustees Employees Retirement System meeting held November 24, 2008. ' is hereby adjourned at 7:58 p.m. 2) That the agenda of the regular City Council meeting having been acted upon, the meeting is hereby adjourned at 7:50 p.m. RESOLUTION PASSED 1) To approve the following items on the Consent Agenda: (1) Approve the Accounts Payable listing for RESOLUTION PASSED Check Numbers 85505 through 85617 in the amount of $658,622.36 as submitted by the City Manager 1) To approve the following items on the Consent Agenda: (1) Approve the Accounts Payable listing for and Finance Director, and further, authorize the Mayor and City Clerk to sign the listing. (2) Approve Check Numbers 85807 through 85938 in the amount of $491,055.39 as submitted by the City Manager payment to Anderson, Eckstein & Westrick, Inc. in the amount of $23,472.85 for professional services and Finance Director, and further, authorize the Mayor and City Clerk to sign the listing. (2) Approve during the month of October 2008 for the following projects: High School, #180-091; Johnston Park payment to Wayne County in the amount of $5,504.69 for services performed on the tax rolls. (3) Tennis Courts, #180-096; Johnston Park Tennis Courts Redesign, #180-096R; 2007 Sewer Cleaning & Approve payment to Statewide Security Transport in the amount of $6,347.01 for prisoner lodging and TV Inspection, #180-100; Kelly Road Sidewalk - CDBG, #180-102; 2008 Concrete Pavement Repair, maintenance for the month of October 2008. (4) Approve payment to Anderson, Eckstein & Westrick, #180-105; EB Harper, Vernier to 8 Mile, #180-106,2008 Pavement Joint & Crack Sealing, #180-108 and. Inc. in the amount of $25,387.05 for professional services during the month of October 2008 for the the DPW Garage Hoist, #180-112. (3) Approve payment to Wayne County Department of Public Health following projects: High School project, #180-091; 2007 Sewer Cleaning Project, #180-100; Kelly Road in the amount of $10,045.00 for inspection services in the Cross Connection Control Program for the Sidewalk, #180-102; 2008 Concrete Pavement Repair, #180-105; EB Harper, Vernier to 8 Mile, #180-106; period January through September 2008. (4) Approve payment to Statewide Security Transport in the 2008 Pavement Joint & Crack Sealing, #180-108; EB Harper, Manchester to Vernier, #180-109 and the amount of $5,952.99 for prisoner lodging and maintenance for the month of September 2008, SRF Project, #180-113. (5) Approve a one-time adjustment of 3.5% to the Longevity Allowance for 2008 2) To adopt the Tax Levy Resolution. for city department managers and administrators, except the City Manager. 3) To approve the Budget Adoption and Appropriation Resolution. 4) That m accordance with Chapter 27, Article V, Sections 27-120 and 27-15 of the Code of Ordinances, a 2) That the Uniform Video Service Local Franchise Agreement received on November 10, 2008, from rate of $185.00 per residential equivalent unit is hereby established for the storm water utility charge Comcast of Grosse Pointe, Inc. is not acceptable as it is not complete and to concur with the City to be billed December 1, 2008. Manager's November 20,2008, correspondence advising them of this. 5) Approve payment to Scodeller Construction Inc. in the amount of $33,041.12 for Progress Payment No. 3) To approve payment to C & V Cement Co., LLC in the amount of $58,686.30 for the completion of the 6 on the 2005-2007 Pavement Joint & Crack Sealing Project, #180-089/094/104. 2008 Sidewalk Replacement Program. 6} To adopt the resolution on Condemnation of Dwelling and Abatement of Public Nuisance recommended by the City Attorney to proceed with condemnation of the property at 20625 Anita. Kenneth A, Poynter, Mayor Mickey D. Todd, City Clerk Kenneth A. Poynter, Mayor. Mickey D. Todd, City Clerk Published: GPN: 12/25/2008 Published: GPN: 12/25/2008 16A GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008
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Local seniors benefit from German service program through Services for Older Citizens.
ByKathyRyan home for the first time? StaffWHter "It's been interesting and definitely fun," said Meurer, When young men graduate with agreement from his co• from high school in Germany, horts. they don't go directly to col• The three had not met before lege. Instead, they are required coming to Grosse Pointe, but to provide nine months of ser• have become fast friends. vice before heading off to uni• While they share work duties versity or apprenticeship pro• during the day, they also enjoy grams. after work hours together. While military service is the All are fluent in English. usual option, they may select German schools, they said, re• community service abroad, at quire students to take at least either a child care or a senior two foreign languages, begin• citizen center. ning with one in elementary For the past five years, school. English is a very popu• Services for Older Citizens has lar choice. been participating as a com• Hessman had a slight edge munity service abroad option — his mother is German; his through World Horizons. This father, an American citizen. August, SOC welcomed Billy The three young men have Sommer, 21, of Cottbus, become jacks-of-all-trades Germany, Patrick Hessman, 18 while working at SOC. In addi• of Gottingen, and Dennis tion to' helping prepare and de• Meurer, 20, of Frankfurt to the liver Meals on Wheels, they area. They are living with host rake leaves for seniors, shovel families. snow, answer phones in the The trio and SOC staffers SOC office, pick up items do• said they couldn't be more nated to SOC, computer proc- pleased with the arrangement. cessing and, as Maier put it, "We appreciate all the help "just about anything else that these young people give us," needs to be done." said Sharon Maier, director of Sommer is living with the SOC. "It's a great learning ex• Wolking family of Grosse Definitely jacks-of-aU-trades, the young German students do whatever needs to be done. Billy Sommer, Dennis Meurer and perience for all of us." Patrick Hessman recently traded in their rakes for snow shovels as they assist area seniors through Services for Older Citizens, And how is living away from See PROGRAM, page 2B
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The holidays will find cense. When he returns to the trio spends time like most PROGRAM: Hessman in warmer climates, Germany, he plans to study young people their age — visiting his maternal grandpar• aerospace logistics. watching sports, going to Students ents in Phoenix, where he says The three men have visited movies, hanging out and doing Puts you in the know... he will spend most of his time, Chicago and New York and things with their host families. for where to go for this weeks having fun "in the pool." trips are planned to California When they return to hottest specials, products & service. When his community service and Miami. Germany next summer, anoth• Continued from page IB is up, he plans to attend college They attended a conference er group will take their place. and major in mechanical engi• at Crystal Mountain this fall "We love having them," said Pointe Park. He is the third stu• neering. and sure to their Alpine her• Maier. "When I look at all that dent the family has hosted and He's now living with itage, they joked about the size they do, I'm not sure we could Mary Wolking hopes he won't Detroiter Ken Bresnan in what of Michigan's mountains. run this agency without them. be the last. affectionately has come to be "We kept looking for the We have grown so accustomed "We find it a good experi• called "the man cave." mountain," said Meurer. "All to having them here. Not only ence for everyone," she said. "I'm really enjoying my time we could see were hills." do they help in the office, but "We really enjoy teaching our here," Hessman said. "I had And mountains aren't the our seniors love having them culture and we always look for• not had that much contact with only thing they compare. True here, having lunch with them, ward to it." seniors, so working at SOC has to their gender, the talk to turns and having them go on outings The family plans to take been a very interesting experi• to cars. with them. Sommer, an avid snow board• ence. We have senior centers in "There are lots of things that "It's a great multi-cultural, er, to northern Michigan over Germany, but not like SOC." are similar between Grosse multi-generational experience I wanted to take this opportunity to wish the holidays for some slope Meurer is living with Paul Pointe and home," said for all of us. I can't tell you the
y my shoppy R§view readers an d ^ time while his family visits and Mary Hulswit of the City of Sommer. "But there are a lot of times our seniors have said from Germany. Grosse Pointe and handles sev• differences, too. We don't have that it's just like having their a wonderful Holiday Season and a New Ye" "I'll be showing them around eral duties at SOC. Oftentimes that many SUV's at home and grandsons with them. that ts filled with the peace and joy of true Detroit, and we hope to go to he can be found in the kitchen, there are no pickup trucks." "You can't put a dollar value community as we pull together in the year to Canada," Sommer said. as he has a food handler's li• When not working at SOC, on that." corne^ Thank you for your patronage and Ood Bless you and your families richly SENIOR SCENE By Peggy Muelle Good memories of old Detroit I recently volunteered to read go up to Jefferson on my own. of us would buy the favorite. the ladies wore. to kindergarten children at There were often sales ladies at Each had enough money to buy Sanders provided both gusta• Guyton Elementary School on Woolworths pitching some one record a month, so of tory and aesthetic experiences. Philip, south of Jefferson near item. I listened to them spell• course, each was required by This combination was best . the Detroit River. bound and memorized their the group to buy different seen in the marshmallow sun• It's been an enjoyable experi- spiels and delivered them to my records. daes with chocolate ice cream. ence.and brought back memo• family, who always seemed to The two movie houses made Cream puff hot fudge sundaes fir ries of the years I lived in that enjoy them. me a lifelong fan, feeding my were to die for. Each week neighborhood and graduated One was of a look-alike dia• desire for drama. My mother Sanders offered a special price Just in time for the coid weather from Guyton. mond ring that had "51 cuts on would give me a quarter for the of 12 cents for a sundae. I return to those years often the top and 51 cuts on the bot• Lakewood to see two movies. But the magic was not limit• FUR SALE!!!! because they were my happiest tom and priced at only 50 One was always a Western, fol• ed to Jefferson Avenue. We and full of childhood wonders. cents." Another featured a lady lowed by a cartoon and some• lived only a few blocks from Interested in selling your furs OR would you like to trade your My family moved there when I with a great line of chatter who times a newsreel about hap• Fox Creek. Nobody swam fur for a newer one?? Samira's offers new and gently used furs was 10 from a house off was pitching products guaran• penings in foreign lands which there because we were told the at affordable prices! Hurry in and receive an additional 10% off Kercheval, a street with only teed to increase hair volume. we all found quite remarkable. creek had a vicious current. these already low prices - Sale ends December 31. the usual scattering of dull, but And there was the wonderful The Laurel and Hardy come• Since most of those living on 313-886-5043 • 21207 Mack Avenue in theWoods necessary stores. jewelry that I could buy for only dies were the ones I remem• the west side of Alter had a boat Samira's - Consignment shopping at its' best!! That first evening after the a quarter. I could always stock bered best. There was money well, the boats probably did lit• move, my mother, sister and I up on stationery items. I loved left from that quarter to buy tle for the quality of the water. wandered onto Jefferson to see paper, pencils, erasers and sim• candy. In the wintertime, the creek what was what. Marvelous ilar products. Perhaps this was As a teen, my friends and I came into its own. It wandered sights greeted us: Sanders, a forecast of my writing and would go to see Cinderella, through many turns before Woolworth, Grinnells, a editing future? which we thought was much reaching the Detroit River. Chinese restaurant, Grinnell's was wonderful to more sophisticated, and saw all When the creek froze, it was Winkelman's, two movie hous• us kids. We'd pile into one of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers great for ice skating. No one es and lights everywhere. the enclosed cubicles and listen movies, the wonderful come• was responsible for checking Ho, ho ho! Merry Christen. Whenever life got boring I'd to all the latest records and one dies and the beautiful clothing whether the ice was sufficiently Santa's coming early Uiis yeas and he's bunging you a gift from Jen O'Shea of Green Spa. For the entire month of frozen for skating, so you were December a ONE-HOUR MASSAGE is ONLY *$50. 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GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008 FACES & PLACES A honeymoon gift at children's home By Ann L Fouty about the political system in Bud Ozar was serving as the Features Editor the United States. administrative assistant to the The Meru Children's "We shared in their excite• bishop in Kenya with the job of Sunsets, long walks on the ment about (president-elect) funding church-organized pro• Horns began about 50 beach and romantic dinners Obama," Lisa said. jects in Meru. Sue was work• years ago with the are ingredients for a honey• Married on May 31 in the ing as a teacher and counselor moon. Anna Scripps Whitcomb at a small village school near• mission to care for Lisa and Jason Doughtery of Conservatory on Belle Isle, the by. The Doughterys were orphaned infants and Grosse Pointe Park spent their two were searching for an ad• hooked up with the Meru five-week honeymoon in venture for their honeymoon, Children's Home. toddlers in the middle Kenya, Africa, away from she said. The Meru Children's Home ofKenya. room service and Egyptian cot• "We both love to travel and began about 50 years ago with ton sheets. Instead they re• we knew if we didn't go now the mission to care for or• ceived gifts of appreciation, ad- we probably never would," phaned infants and toddlers in Sr. Mary Rita is the head of the three sisters and told the Doughertys she has become a beggar. Since the killing and ri• TWr ots last January and February, the country has experienced shortages of all basic necessi• ties, especially maize and beans, which are the staple foods. Every day Sr. Mary Rita gets in her old truck to make the rounds of churches and busi• nesses begging for a day's food ration. There are days all she gets are green bananas to give the children. "We traveled around the world thinking that we would meet people very different from ourselves but that did not happen," Lisa said. "The chil• dren were no different from the children we work with here. They were lovable and giving. They loved to laugh. A child at the Meru Children's Home where the Doughterys They loved to play. They loved volunteered. attention. 'Africa is in our hearts now. Lady of Fatima Parish. On the books, lab kits, towels, beds, We learned from the people we check's memo line indicate the mattresses, blankets or food, met that it is possible to be hap• fund's use. For example, etc. py in the face of poverty. People were grateful for simple meals, for the privilege of go• ing to school and for the com• A pany of strangers. We strive to LCOHOLICS carry that gratefulness with us in our daily lives." A To make a donation to the NONYMOUS Meru Children's Home, a per• PHOTOS COURTESY OF LISA DOUGHTERY sonal check can be sent to The 24 H H L Jason and Lisa Doughtery took the Grosse Pointe News along on their honeymoon to Kenya, Diocese of Meru, c/o Helena OUR OT INE Africa. For a week, they volunteered at the Meru Children's Home on the northeastern slope of Daley, 4226 Fulton Place Mount Kenya. North, Royal Oak, MI 48073. (313) 831-5550 Checks can be made out to Our venture"and greater'under• said Lisa, who is a school social the middle of Kenya. 'Usually standing. worker with Wyandotte Public the family or village will take in The couple camped .in na• Schools. an orphaned child. Periodically NATIONAL Why not surprise someone with Michigan's tional parks and spent a few 'As a social studies teacher, a child would be abandoned 4 Finest Coney Island Chili Sauce? days in Morijo, a Maasai village Jason wanted to see the birth• and police or medical workers That's right, you can now order learning the culture. The new- place of humanity. We both will bring the infant to the lyweds topped off their trip wanted to be able to see the an• home. 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"We helped feed the in• starting our lives together with with a 20-by-20-foot garden, fants and toddlers and orga• a huge adventure." * Lisa said. nized games for the older kids. The Doughterys began their Today, the Meru Children's Grosse Pointe War Memorial's 24hr We taught them what little we plans to volunteer by contact• Home has 80 to 100 children Comcast knew about basketball. We ing Bud and Sue Ozar of where the Nazareth Sisters Channels Television helped peel green bananas for Grosse Pointe Park. from the Diocese of Meru are For the stew." The Ozars have volunteered in charge and do it all through 5 and 915 Whole As a Warren Woods Tower with Lay Mission Helpers, who donations. Community High School social studies through the Catholic Church They feed and care for the teacher, Jason answered the place volunteers in developing children without any support high schoolers' questions countries. from government. December 29 to January 4 Featured Guests & Topics 8:30 am Vitality Plus (Aerobics) Who's in the Kitchen? 9:00 am Musical Storytime Mongolian Pork Tenderloin 9:30 am Pointes of Horticulture 10:00 am Who's in the Kitchen? 10:30 am Things to Do at the War Memorial Things to Do at the War Memorial 11:00 am Out of the Ordinary War Memorial Tours, Water Color painting, Zoo names new CEO African Dance and High School Musical 11:30 am Tech Pointe* Ida B. Tomlin has been ap• Tomlin served as CEO and Museums. 12:00 pm Economic Club of Detroit Out of the Ordinary pointed chief operating officer vice president of human re• "Ida brings years of success• 1:00 pm The SOC Show Dean Kiprini-—Sacred Journey of the Detroit Zoological sources at the Detroit Science ful experience, excellent skills 1:30 pm Great Lakes Log & David Griffin—Healing Journeys Society. Center for seven years and as and a stellar work ethic," said 2:00 pro The John Prost Show She is responsible for direct• assistant director and head of Detroit Zoological Society 2:30.pm TJhe Legal Insider 3:00 pm Things to Do at the War Memorial Tech Pointes ing numerous operations of public programs at Cranbrook Executive Director/CEO Ron Web Sites the Detroit Zoo and Belle Isle Institute of Science in Kagan. "Her leadership and 3:30 pm Art and Design Bloomfield Hills, also for seven 4:00 pm Vitality Plus (Tone) Nature Zoo, including facility management expertise will 4:30 pm Musical Storytime Economic Club of Detroit management, security, volun• years before that. strengthen us in many ways." 5:00 pm in a Heartbeat Kenneth Lewis, Chairman, President & CEO, teers, education, guest rela• She also serves on the Tomlin received a master's 5:30 pm The SOC Show Bank of America tions, concession and retail boards of the Boys & Girls degree in public administration 6:00 pm The Legal Insider services, membership, market• Republic, University Cultural from University of Michigan, 6:30 pm Who's in the Kitchen The SOC Show ing, communications, commu• Center Association, Dearborn and a bachelor's de• 7:00 pm Vitality Plus (Step/Kick Boxing) Karen Wintringham, HAP nity and government relations International Gospel Music gree in communications/media, 7:30 pm Things to Do at the War Memorial Making Sense of Medicare and human resources. Hall of Fame & Museum and from Fitchburg State College in foOO^min a Heartbeat Prior to joining the zoo, Association of Midwest Fitchburg, Mass. 8:30 pm Tech Pointes Great Lakes Log
9j00iipmiArt and Design Patrick Livingston 9:30 pm Pointes of Horticulture Summer Dreams, The Story of Bob-Lo Island 10:00 pm The John Prost Show lp^OJffm Great Lakes Log The John Prost Show Chinatown artifacts sought for exhibit 11:00 pm Out of the Ordinary Major John Turner - Salvation Army 11:30 pm Tech Pointes Davie Sampson, Richard Drewery & Shawn The Detroit Historical festive celebrations of the or costumes Midnight Economic Club of Detroit Inge - Mariners Inn Society is looking for artifacts Chinese New Year for more • Goods from Chinese busi• 1:00 am The SOC Show for an exhibit opening this than 90 years. nesses 1:30 am Great Lakes Log The Legal Insider April about Detroit's Political, economic and social • Chinese or Western cloth• 2:00 am The John Prost Show Chip Berschback - Private Practice Chinatown. factors aided in the eventual ing worn by residents of 2:30 am Teeh Pointes 3:00 am Art and Design The exhibit will present the demise of Detroit's Chinatown. Detroit's Chinatown Art and Design 3:30 am Pointes of Horticulture Stephen Schudtich - Work: Detroit untold and often forgotten sto• The society is seeking the fol• • Event pamphlets 4:00 am The John Prost Show ries of residents of Detroit's lowing items related to • La Choy recipe booklets 4:30 am Great Lakes Log original Chinatown on Third Detroit's Chinatown • Newspaper articles 5:00 am Out of the Ordinary A DVD Copy of any Avenue and Porter Street dur• • World War II propaganda • Photographs, letters and 5:30 am The Legal Insider WMTV ing World War U. posters postcards 6:00 am Things to Do at the War Memorial program can be obtained for Residents in the area worked • Fliers or posters promot• For more information on 6j3JLam.Art and Design to send aid to China during its ing the boycott of Japanese how to donate or loan artifacts 7:00 am Vitality Plus (Tone) $20 war with Japan in the 1930s, goods for this upcoming exhibit, con• 7:30 am Musical Storytime Schedule subject to change without notice. drawing the support of icons • 19th century laundry tact Chelsea Zuzindlak at (313) 8:00 am In a Heartbeat For further information cull, 313-881-7511 like Madame Chiang Kai-shek. equipment 833-0242 or via e-mail at They were admired for their • Chinese New Year decor [email protected]. 4B GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008 WOR
GRACE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 1175 Lakepointe at Kercheval Grosse Pointe Park 822-3823 CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE WEDNESDAY DEC. 24th at 7pm December 28,2008 Christ the King Sunday - Worship 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Service Lutheran Church Tuesday-Thrift Shop 10:30-3:30 Grosse Pointe "The Day l Finally Saw Peace First Church of Christ, Scientist Mack at Lochmoor Wednesday - Amazing Grace Seniors on Earth, Good Will" 282 Chalfonte Ave. 884-5090 Congreganorul Church every second Wednesday at Guest Speaker: Rev.Mark Belletini 10:00 a.m. FAMILY WORSHIP The Tompkins Center at (crib room available) Childcare will be provided Sunday Service -11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. 8:15 & 10:45 a.m. - Worship Service Windmill Pointe Park 11:00 - 3:00 10:15 a.m. Church School 17150 MAUMEE Wednesday Testimony Meeting 9:30 a.m.-Sunday School 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. COME JOIN US & Bible Classes CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE 881-0420 on 12/24 at 7:30pm Pastor: Marguerite (Margo) Allen Supervised Nursery Provided Visit us at www.gpuc.us AFFILIATED WITH THE UCC AND ABC AH are warmly welcome at both services www.christthekinggp.org Free Childcare provided FIRST ENGLISH EVANGELICAL 240 CHALFONTE AT LOTHROP Historic JHarmars' (EifHrrif Questions? 884-2426 Randy S. Boelter, Pastor LUTHERAN CHURCH Rev. Dr. M. Jacob Kaufman, Pastor A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE 800 Vernier Road (Comerofwajgemod) www.gpcong.org Traditional Anglican Worship (313)884-5040 gpcong@sbcglobal. net Since 1842 Grosse Pointe Baptist Church Sunday, December 28 - The First Sunday after Christmas 8:15 am - Traditional Worship 884-3075 Helping people make Christ 8:30 a.m. - The Holy Communion 9:30 am - Contemporary Worship w/ Grosse Pointe the center of their lives 11:00 a.m. - The Festival Service of Lessons and Carols for Christmas Holy Communion UNITED METHODIST with the Holy Communion Sunday Worship - 11:00 am 9:30 am Sunday School CHURCH Regular Services of Holy Communion Sunday School - 9:30 am for Age 2 - Adult 11:00 am- Traditional Worship A Friendly Church for All Ages • Sundays at 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. 211 Moross Rd. Thursdays at 12:10 p.m. Nursery Available Check out our complete list of ministries at 4 Grosse Pointe Farms On Hart Plaza at the Tunnel. Free Secured Parking in Ford Underground 886-2363 Garage with entrance in the median strip of Jefferson at Woodward. www.gpbc.org Rev. Walter A. Schmidt, Pastor CHRISTMAS EVE WORSHIP Rev. Gerald Elsholz, Associate Pastor (313)-259-2206 4:00 p.m. Family Service 21336 Mack Avenue Grosse Pointe Woods "Go Make Disciples" - WWW.marinerschurchofdetroit.org 9:00 p.m. Candlelight Service Phone: (313) 881-3343 10:00 p.m. College Reception Jefferson Sivenue 11:00 p.m. Candlelight Service December 24 • Christmas Eve Worship at 11:30 a.m. (followed by light lunch) Tresbyterian Church St. Michael's SUNDAY WORSHIP 9:30 a.m. Worship 5:00 p.m. Living Family Creche Service, Serving Christ in Detroit for over 154 years Episcopal Church 7:30 & 10 p.m. each with Holy Communion CHURCH SCHOOL Sunday, December 28, 2008 Welcomes you 9:45 am. Church School -4 yrs. - 5th Grade GROSSE POINTE December 28 - One worship service at 10 a,m, and your family 10:45 am Church School - Middle & Senior High MEMORIAL CHURCH 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:00 am Adult Church School "A tight by the lakeshore' January 4 - Worship Service at 9 & 11a.m. Meditation" "All Things New" Nursery & Toddler Care Provided Established 1865 Sunday Services The Presbyterian Church (USA) with Holy Communion Scripture: Ezekiel 36:22-28 Rev. Judith A. May A STEPHEN MINISTRY ami Crib & Toddler Care 8:45 a.m. -12:15 p.m. 8:00 a.m. Rev. Pamela Beedle-Gee-Associate Pastor LOGOS Congregation Peter C. Smith, Preaching Holy Eucharist 16 Lakeshore Drive "Young Children and Worship" Program Church School: Crib - 8th Grade Grosse Pointe Farms for Preschool through, 2#d grade at 9 a,m. serwees, 10:15 a.m. Presbyterian Church 313-882-5330 Qhristian Eduation.foL.all ages 10:10 a,m, Parking Lot 8625 E. Jefferson at Burns, Detroit www.gpmcfturch.org 313-822-3456 Church School A place of grace, a place of Behind Church Visit our website: www.japc.org. classes begin wBlcome, a place foryou . »L Paul |iv, ^uttferan (Dpircfi September 7 Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. Pre-school through High School Christian Education for all - 9:15 am. Old St Warv's Catholic Church 375 Lothrop at Chalfonte* 881*6670 Wednesday Bible Study - 6:30 p.m. J Greektown-Detroit 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, December 24, 2008 Christmas Eve Choral Eucharist Ftev. James Rizer, Pastor 4 pm Worship with Communion Rev. Elizabeth Arakelian, Assoc. Pastor I Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7pm Worship with Communion Nursery care provided fc, Masses at 5:30 p.m. 11pm Worship with Communion K and 12:00 Midnight Pre-Service Music at 10:30p.m. 20475 Sunningdale Park Sunday, December 28, 2008 Grosse Pointe Woods Christmas Day (Mack and Vernier) First Sunday of Christmas 313-884-4820 December 25, 2008 Masses at 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Worship www.stmichaelsgpw.org i«f. 10:00 a.m. (Latin) and 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 31, 2008 [email protected] Weekend Masses (New Year's Eve) Saturday: 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 8:30 a.m. 6 pm Potluck 7 pm Worship 10:00 a.m. (Latin) 12:00 p.m.
"Plenty of Free Parking Available next to the Daily Mass: Church and In Greektown Garage" Monday - Saturday at 12:15 p.m. /7\ SAINT JAMES Ambrose Catholic LUTHERAN CHURCH You and your family are invited Episcopal Church Woodward Avenue and 1-75 (exit 50) to celebrate Christmas in historic FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY NEXT TO COMERICA PARK St. James Lutheran Church "on the Hill" Saturday, December 27, 2008 www.stjohnsdetroit.org MASS AT 4:00 P.M. i .Ll.! (313)962-7358 Christmas Eve Sunday, December 28, 2008 MASSES AT 8:30 A.M. & 11:15 A.M. Christmas Eve - December 24 December 24 4:00pm - 5:00 p.m. Children's Eucharist NEW YEAR'S DAY Children's 10:45 p.m. Musical Prelude Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of Qod Pageant Service 11:00 p.m. Festival Holy Eucharist Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:30pm - MASS AT 4:00 P.M. Carol Prelude Christmas Day Thursday, January 1, 2009 December 25 MASS AT 10.-00 A,M. Service 11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist 9:00pm - FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY OF Candlelight Festive CoriimtiniW' OUR LORD Eve of First Sunday After Christmas Christmas Day - 11am in the Chapel Saturday January 3, 2009 December 27 MASS AT 4:00 P.M. 5:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist Sunday, January 4, 2009 Saturday - December 27, 2008 MASSES AT 8:30 A.M. & 11:1S A.M. Feast of St. John the Evangelist First Sunday After Christmas 4pm - Christmas Lessons and Carols 10:15 sum. Holy Eucharist FEAST OF THE BAPTISM OF in honor of the 150th Anniversary of OUR LORD the founding of the parish New Year's Eve Saturday January 10, 2009 * December 31 MASS AT 4:00 P.M. - Confirmation 12:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist Sunday, January 11, 2009 Saturday - December 28, 2008 MASSES AT 8:30 A.M. & 11:15 A.M. 7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist 7:30 am - Morning Prayer, St. Ambrose Catholic Church is located at 15020 Hampton Road between Wayburn 8:00 am Communion The Revd Gerald A. Spice, Pastor and Maryland one block north of Jefferson, 10:00 am Holy Communion with Baptisms Sandra Smith, Minister of Family Life just west of the Qrosse Pointe Park City Halt Kurt Heyer, Minister of Music (313) 822-2814 •www.stambrosechurch.net Nothing can compare with Christmas Services 170 McMillan Road - Grosse Pointe Farms in an historic downtown Church; (313)884-0511 with traditional liturgy and hymns, and the faith and doctrine to match! GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25,2008 FEATURES
Scopel - ding is planned. Dobies is a 1996 graduate of Broderick earned a Bachelor Warren Cousino High School Nader of Arts degree in public admin• and a 2000 graduate of Bryan and Irene Scopel of istration from Miami Michigan State University's •v. Grosse Pointe Park have an• University and is pursuing a James Madison College with a • «t nounced the engagement of Master of Public Health de• degree in international rela• Christine Marie Broderick their daughter, Lindsey gree with a focus in health pol• tions. She earned a Master of and Andrew Carl Ertley Scopel, to Jim Nader, son of icy from George Washington Business Administration in Fred and Rita Nader of University. She is a policy ana• 2008 from Madonna Bloomfleld Hills. A September lyst with the National University. She is a marketing wedding is planned. Partnership for Women & research manager for Lindsey Scopel Scopel is 2001 graduate of Families in Washington, D.C. Steelcase. and Jim Nader Jammie Dobies Grosse Pointe South High Ertley earned a Bachelor of ZurSchmiede graduated and Aaron ZurSchmiede School and a 2005 graduate of Science in botany from Miami from Grosse Pointe South Grand Valley State University. University and a law degree High School in 1996 and She is a project manager with from George Washington earned a finance degree from Team Detroit. University. He is an attorney Grand Valley State University Nader is a 1989 graduate of with the Washington, D.C. of• in 2001. He is the vice presi• North Farmington High fice of Hogan & Hartson. dent of Federal Screw Works. School and a 1994 graduate of the University of Michigan. He is director of North American Wynne - Sales, CMS Worldwide. Dobies - Zimmerman ZurSchmiede Jim and Cathy Wynne of Kyle Zimmerman Christopher David Nianouris Angeline Paletti of Warren Grosse Pointe Shores have an• and Ashley Wynne and Heather Rene Breedlove Broderick - and James Dobies of Warren nounced the engagement of have announced the engage• their daughter, Ashley Wynne, with U of M's Campus middle childhood education Ertley ment of their daughter, to Kyle Zimmerman, son of Crusade for Christ. from the University of Dayton Cynthia and Jeffrey Jammie Dobies of Grand Joel and Pamela Zimmerman in 2004. She is a seventh-grade Broderick of Grosse Pointe Rapids to Aaron ZurSchmiede of West Bloomfield. A May English and history teacher in Woods have announced the of Big Rapids, son of Cynthia wedding is planned. Breedlove - Miamisburg, Ohio. Ryan Paul Stepanski and engagement of their daughter, ZurSchmiede of Grosse Pointe Wynne is a 2004 Grosse Nianouris earned a Bachelor Fiona Rose Spezia. Christine Marie Broderick, to Farms and Robert Pointe North High School Nianouris of Business Administration Andrew Carl Ertley, son of ZurSchmiede of Grosse Pointe graduate and a 2008 graduate Terry and Nancy Breedlove from Ohio University in 2001. Spezia, to Ryan Paul Carol and Eric Ertley of Farms. A June wedding is of the University of Michigan, of Northville, formerly of He is a real estate developer. Stepanski, son of Paul and Hartville, Ohio. A May wed- planned. earning a Bachelor of Arts de• Grosse Pointe Woods, have an• Jackie Stepanski of Grosse gree in communication stud• nounced the engagement of Pointe Park. ies. She is on staff with U of their daughter, Heather Rene Spezia is a 2006 graduate of PASTOR'S CORNER By Rev. Tim Tyler M's Campus Crusade for Breedlove, to Christopher Spezia - Grosse Pointe South High Christ. David Nianouris, son of David School and is a student at the Zimmerman graduated and Susan Nianouris of Stepanski University of Michigan. A Christmas display from West Bloomfleld High Centerville, Ohio. A July wed• Gary and Gerrie Spezia of Stepanski is a 2006 graduate School in 2004 and earned a ding is planned. Grosse Pointe Farms have an• of Grosse Pointe South High It seems that the Christmas season has shifted from that won• Bachelor of Arts degree in psy• Breedlove earned a nounced the engagement of School and is a student at derful time of year that we display Christ to one of having to de• chology from the U of M and is Bachelor of Science degree in their daughter, Fiona Rose Eastern Michigan University. fend him. The fights over public displays of faith and a pluralism that seems to reject Christianity for the sake of the secular seems un• fair in this season. Even saying "Merry Christmas" has come un• "Participants find a comfortable Stay and Play der attack. For most of us, defending Christ is now the posture of environment with no shame, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Christmas instead of displaying him. blame or judgment, just open 22915 Greater Mack, St. Clair Let me speak a word of encouragement to all. acceptance, networking and Shores, hosts a free "Stay and First Peter 3:15 states that we are to, "In your hearts honor St. Ambrose 18745 Old Homestead, Harper learning fromeac h other." Play" from noon to 1:45 p.m. Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense St. Ambrose Catholic Woods, is open from 11 a.m. to For more information, call every Thursday, beginning Jan. to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; 2 p.m, Tuesday, Dec. 30. (313) 885-4841 or visit Church, 15020 Hampton, 8. To register call (586) 7777 yet do it with gentleness and respect." Grosse Pointe Park, holds a Reservations are suggested and christchurchgp.org. 0215. *We are therefore supposed to have a reasoned defense for the Mass at 8:30 and 11:15 a.m. may be made by calling (313) hope we have in Christ. We should be ready at all times to defend Thursday, Dec. 25. 521-1894. the Gospel and our faith, but he then qualifies his statement by The Feast of the Holy Family The cost is $20. saying this defense must display the character of Christ. Peter will be observed at 4 p.m. says we should defend the faith with an attitude of "gentleness Saturday, Dec. 27, and 8:30 and and respect." This can sometimes be hard to do with the increas• 11:15 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 28. First English ing hostility and general disrespect toward Christians. The Solemnity of Mary, the Nevertheless a defense of Christ is no defense if it is not done with Mother of God will be observed A New Year's Eve service be• the display of Christ's spirit in our reasoning. during the 4 p.m. Wednesday, gins at 7 p.m. at First English Bassett Consider that Jesus did not get elected. His authority is not Dec. 31 Mass and at 10 a.m. Evangelical Lutheran Church, Donald and Frances Bassett based on polling data or popular interests. Jesus is the King of all Thursday, Jan. 1. 800 Vernier, Grosse Pointe of Port Sanilac observed their Kings and Lord of Lords. His name is above all other names. He Woods, 30th wedding anniversary on does not need our defense or anyone's acceptance to reign over For more information, call the Oct. 28,2008. all the Earth. He will forever reign on high and judge all the Earth. St John's church office at (313) 884-5040. The couple married in St. We do not need to defend his ways but he does command us to James Lutheran Church in display his love to all people at all times. St. John's Episcopal Church, Grosse Pointe Farms. So yes, be a workman rightly dividing his word and have a 50 E. Fisher, Detroit, observes Christ Church Prior to retiring, Bassett was readied and reasoned defense of the Gospel, but there is no quick• the 150th anniversary of the the principal of Maire er way to lose your witness than to defend Christ out of your flesh. Feast of St. John the Evangelist A free support group, Career Elementary School and Pierce If we do, we become no different than any other opinion. We must at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27. On Transition Support Ministry, for Middle School; and Frances display Christ at all times no matter what the outcome or abuse. that date in 1858, 25 people those who have lost their jobs is was an elementary school The only way to achieve this is to be filled with his spirit and as signed documents to incorpo• offered at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday teacher with the Grosse Pointe Peter says, "In your hearts honor Christ as holy." rate St. John's Episcopal Dec. 31, at Christ Church Public School System. No matter how frustrated you get, no matter how angry you Church in Detroit The congre• Grosse Pointe, 61 Grosse Pointe Their family includes three feel, no matter how unfair it seems, you don't need to defend gation later built a 125-seat Blvd., Grosse Pointe Farms. daughters: Anne Hasenbusch, Jesus; you need to display him. At all times, in every situation, our chapel. "Career Transition Support her husband, Ronald, and position is to display the character of Christ So set Christ as Lord Ministry is designed for those sons, Ronnie and Zachary of of your heart and display his nature during this Christmas season. who are experiencing or have Grosse Pointe Park; Patrice Be a light that shines in the dark, a star to follow, a gift to give. Be StSabbas gone through a significant Bono and daughters, Megan Jesus on display. change in their careers," said and Samantha of Oxford; and The Rev. Tim Tyler is minister of Christ Community Church in The Russian Tea House at St. Martha Williams, R.N., who Nannette Remus and sons Kyle RosevUle. Sabbas Orthodox Church, serves as coordinator. and Brendan of Atlanta, Ga. Donald and Frances Bassett
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When the cake is egg yolks, then sugar and nuts. Meanwhile, prepare the fill• done and still warm, spread Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold ing by beating together the topping (recipe below) and into mixture, then fold in beat• heavy cream with 2 table• place under broiler until- en cream. Line casserole or This Christmas I'm baking a spoons sugar and vanilla until browned. Watch carefully. glass dish with lady fingers. light and simple cake from stiff peaks just begin to form. Topping: Pour in mixture. Chill 10 to 12 scratch. Don't over-beat the cream. 3/4 cup brown sugar hours. Serves 10 to 12. With no more work than a Cover and store in the refriger• 4 tablespoons cream cake from a box, this spongy ator until ready to use. 1/8 lb. butter cake is filled with strawberry Use a long, serrated knife to 1 can moist coconut jam and fresh whipped cream. cut the cooled cake in half Mix ingredients together My favorite part is the flavor. horizontally to create two thoroughly and spread on Light and creamy but not too layers. Place the bottom half warm cake. sweet is this Christmas treat. of the cake on a raised cake Christmas Sponge Cake plate. Spread jam over the 1 cup self-rising flour cake all the way to the edge. 1 teaspoon baking powder Spread half of the whipped 1 stick butter, softened cream (I oyer, the jam to 1 cup sugar the edge of the cake. 4 eggs Carefully place the top (lid) of 2 tablespoons milk the cake over the whipped Filling cream layer. 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GIRLS BASKETBALL Ristovski's abilities help Lady Knights
By Bob St John sistently competitive, but this game in the pros and more Sports Editor year's team might go down in than 40 points per game while the record books as one of the playing at Lousiana State University Liggett School's best-ever. University. fans are being entertained It all starts with freshman In her first game, Ristovski watching the girls' basketball phenom Madison Ristovski, scored 31 points and she fol• team blow out opponents. who plays like NBA Hall-of- lowed that with a 49-point per• The Lady Knights have Famer "Pistol" Pete Maravich, formance. struggled for years to be con• who averaged 24.2 points per Last week, she scored 31 points in the host Lady Knights' 59-36 win over Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart and 31 points in a 49-47 loss to Detroit University Prep. So far, Ristovski's scoring av• erage is 35.5 points per game and she isn't selfish as she is averaging several assists, re• bounds and steals per game, as well. "Madison is a tremendous high school basketball player, even though she is only a freshman, and she is creating PHOTOS BY RENATO JAMETT open shots for her teamates be• Freshman Madison Ristovski is the best player to suit up for the Lady Knights in more than a cause she is getting double- decade. and triple-teamed every trip down the court," ULS first-year jump shots. Amicucci scored bounding led to the deficit. on the clock. head coach Adam Beck said. eight points, while Waldmeir, The Lady Knights picked up The Panthers, scored the fi• The Lady Knights were in a Peterson and Vatsis had six the intensity in the third peri• nal five points of the game to battle against Sacred Heart, points apiece. od, outscoring the Panthers 13- win, sending University Ligget leading by only eight points, Junior Kathryn Sheehy 8 to trail 33-30. School to its first loss of the 30-22, at the half. rounded out the scoring with The game remained close season. They put together a 15-0 run two points as the Lady Knights throughou* the fourth quarter Vatsis scored 11 points and in the third period to extend won their third straight game and with a little more than a grabbed seven rebounds, while the lead to 47-22 and the team by double digits. minute left, the Lady Knights Waldmeir had seven rebounds cruised in the final quarter to a The Lady Knights fell be• had a 47-44 lead and had pos• and blocked a shot. third straight victory. hind University Prep 23-13 session of the ball. ULS stands 3-1 overall and Seniors Megan Amicucci, midway through the second The rally was without doesn't play again until Charlotte Waldmeir, Kristin quarter and trailed 25-17 at Ristovski, who fouled out Tuesday, Jan. 6, when it plays Senior Charlotte Waldmeir grabbed seven rebounds in a los- Peterson and Catherine Vatsis the half. shortly after her three-point at Michigan Collegiate High each hit open medium-range Cold shooting and poor re• play tied it at 41 with 3:48 left School.
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BOYS HOCKEY North dismantles South in city battle
By Bob St. John and scored a short handed Sports Editor goal that went over North goalkeeper senior Eric Grosse Pointe North broke a Rohrkemper's right shoulder. five-game losing streak to city The home team got the goal rival Grosse Pointe South last back when junior Matt weekend, winning 5-2 on Lucchese scored a powerplay home ice. tally late in the first period, tip• A standing-room only crowd ping in a slap shot from the watched the Norsemen domi• point by senior Brandon nate every phase of the game, Davenport. including shots on goal which Senior Nick Ffartman turned into a 44-15 advantage. scored an unassisted goal at "We really played a great all- the 8:38 mark of the second around game," North head period to give the home team a coach Scott Lock said. "The 2-1 lead and Lucchese tallied guys were very focused again at the 2:43 mark, mak• tonight and that is contributed ing it 3-1. to working hard in practice. The Blue Devils scored a "Even though we were dom• momentum-building goal with inating the game, it was closer only 25.4 seconds left in the than I wanted until the finally second period when senior got some breathing room in Kelly O'Donnell-Daudlin beat that third period." Rohrkemper on a wrap• "North has a good, fast team around shot. and we made them look even Through two periods of play, fast," South head coach Bob the Norsemen fired 32 shots Bopp said. "We looked slow on South 'Dream Team' goalie and played very defensive. Trevor Sattelmeier. "In the game vs. them in Senior Justin Kovacs scored February, we will have to play a big powerplay goal at the much more aggressive." 8:32 mark of the third period Five minutes into the open• to make it 4-2 and that would ing period, the Blue D be more than enough as took a 1-0 lead when si Rohrkemper came up with Brian Auty went in all i several kev saves down the
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stretch to help the Norsemen week and lost another 5-2 de• beat their rival. cision to host Trenton, ranked Junior Alex Tomovski added in the top 10 in the state. an empty-net goal with 1:01 O'Donnell-Daudlin scored left to account for the final 57 seconds into the game with scoring. Knight drawing an assist. The Norsemen's defensive Trenton scored the next two group held the Blue Devils in goals to take a 2-1 lead, but check, including senior Matt sophomore Eric Marshall Sterr and junior Mile Knight, scored his first-ever varsity who have been hot of late. goal to tie it 2-2 in the second "We're playing some great period. hockey right now and every• It was all Trenton in the final one is working hard," Lock period as it scored three unan• said. "That again was evident swered goals to send the Blue when we played Brother Rice Devils with a loss. the other night. Our kids "We played Trenton tough, looked very good against a thanks to a great effort," Bopp good team." said. "I with we played North Earlier in the week, North as tough as we did Trenton." traveled to Birmingham Grosse Pointe North im• Brother Rice and crushed the proved to 7-0 overall and 3-0 in Warriors 7-1 behind senior the Michigan Interscholastic Jimmy Tocco's hat trick. Hockey League, while Grosse Hartman had two goals, Pointe South dropped to 2-4-1 while senior John Neveux and overall. Davenport had a goal apiece. Coming up for the "Beating Brother Rice in Norsemen is an away game their building is a huge confi• Saturday, Jan. 3, against Novi dence builder for us," Lock Detroit Catholic Central at said. "We can't get overconfi• Compuware Ice Arena. dent because every game on Next for the Blue Devils is our schedule is tough and the Alpena Tournament everyone gives us their best ef• Monday and Tuesday, Dec- 28 fort." and 29, followed by an away North senior Justin Kovacs scored a power play goal and as• Senior Michael Rahaim game Saturday, Jan. 3, against sisted on an empty net goal in the third period of the earned the win in net. Warren DeLaSalle at Great Grosse Pointe South senior Brian Auty scored the game's first Norsemen's win over South. South played earlier in the Lakes Sports Arena. goal in the Blue Devils' 5-2 loss to North.
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BOYS SWIMMING Blue Devils too much for EAnse Creuse ByBobSt.John Sports Editor
Grosse Pointe South's boys swim team had little trouble beating UAnse Creuse last week. The visiting Blue Devils took the petal off the metal in the end and won 122-66 to im• prove to 1-1 overall. " Senior David Cockell won HBM__ the 200-yard freestyle with a - n. time of 1:55.56. He was fol• •A lowed by teammates Matt Schmidt, Mac Day and Henry Fildes, who turned in times of 1:58.65, 2:05.51 and 2:08.11, respectively. Junior Michael Shook easily won the 200-yard individual medley with junior Wayne Brackett taking second. They had times of 2:06.07 (state qualifying) and 2:15.19. The Blue Devils finished first and second, as well as third and fourth in the 50-yard Senior David Cockell was all smiles after winning a couple of freestyle. events in the Blue Devils' blowout victory over EAnse Creuse. Senior Fares Ksebati and ju• nior Brad Kaminski finished third and fourth at 1:00.46 and Cockell won with a time of first and second with times of 1:04.58, which was an exhibi• 1:46.57, which was a little 25.27 and 25.81, while sopho• tion swim. more than four seconds ahead more Chris Smith and senior Sophomore Ryan Graham of LAnse Creuse's top relay Mike Bellovich took fourth and earned a first place, posting a team. fifth with times of 26.55 and time of 55.40 to win the 100- The Blue Devils swept the 28.11, which was an exhibition yard freestyle. 100-yard backstroke with race. Head coach Eric Gunderson Shook, sophomore Craig Yr*t ft r* Senior All-State diver Jordan watched Fildes, junior Pete Campbell and freshman Joe Long missed his second Basile and junior David Meza Zampardo taking first, second straight meet, but that didn't finish second, third and fourth. and third with times of 57.99 stop the Blue Devils from earn• They had times ranging from (state qualifying), 1:01.55 and ing first-place points as junior 55.40 to 1:01.32. 1:07.14. Kyle Eschenburg won with Senior Patrick Wagner was Gunderson's swimmers and 1 181.88 points. second in the 500-yard divers are done competing for Senior Kevin Macconnachie freestyle, posting a time of three weeks, but they will was second with 152.13points. 5:30.68. Day was third and practice nearly every day. Cockell took his second top sophomore John Dennehy was Their next meet is Tuesday, placement, winning the 100- fourth with times of 5:46.41 Jan. 6, at home against yard butterfly with a time of and 6:02.00. Macomb Area Conference Red 1 57.97. Junior Joe Hessburg In the second relay event, Division foe Utica Eisenhower. was second with a time of the 200-yard freestyle, They also swim against state PHOTOS BY DANA-KAISER 1:00.11, while Kaminski and Kaminski, sophomore power Novi Detroit Catholic Junior Kyle Eschenburg won the diving event to help Grosse Pointe South breeze by EAnse freshman Luke Hessburg were Brandon Dunaway, Fildes and Central Thursday, Jan. 8. Creuse.
GIRLS BASKETBALL Lady Blue Devils run by non-league foe Port Huron
By Bob St. John fourth quarters. points and eight rebounds and Sports Editor Against the Big Reds, junior Chloe Srebernak Richards' squad jumped out to chipped in with five points, sev• Grosse Pointe South's girls a double-digit first-quarter lead en steals and five assists for the basketball team blitzed host and poured in 49 points in the Lady Blue Devils, which im• Every Thursday, we provide the Pointes with complete coverage Port Huron last week, winning first half. The 49 points were a proved to 5-0. »f the 76-44. season-high for a half and the With Richards' up-tempo people, organizations, businesses, sales and events in our ciiiiinsiii.ity. "We finally game out and 76 points are a season high for style of play, all of the girls are had a good first quarter and the Lady Blue Devils. getting a chance to play and half," head coach Kevin It was 61-28 after three quar• contribute. Richards said. "We did a good ters and the Lady Blue Devils Next up for South is an away job with our break, but we put it on cruise control in the fi• game at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 26, need to do a better job in the nal stanza. against Detroit Pershing at We make it easy for Pointers to stay half court on defense if we are Sophomore Aisha Rodney Detroit Renaissance. informed about their schools and going to be really good." had a game-high 20 points to Richards' squad is a partici• The Lady Blue Devils have go with 11 rebounds, while se• pant in the PSL Holiday local sports, health, family events, struggled in the first half of nior Clare Conway had 17 Classic which fields some of their past few games, but points and five steals. the top teams in the Tri-County real estate, business, restaurants, played outstanding third and Junior Kate Pangori had 10 area. gardening, antiques, home maintenance and more. Our readers benefit from our GIRLS HOCKEY advertising and the eastside's best classifieds, and the local Hull, Boyle net hat tricks award winning real estate section YourHome. By Bob St. John oral Sports Editor Our subscribers save each week and have the paper delivered in III Grosse Pointe South's girls hockey team had an easy time their mail. of it last week, beating Plymouth-Canton-Salem 8-0. The game was called after two periods due to the mercy rule. Junior Emma Hull and fresh• man Claire Boyle each had a hat trick to help the host Lady Blue Devils improve to 6-0 in Grosse Pointe News the Michigan Metro Girls High School Hockey League. "It was nice to see Clair and Emma get the hat tricks since they haven't been getting too many goals despite playing Mail to: Subscriprions ^ hard every shift," head coach Uieo Bill Fox said. "We didn't have too many problems scoring Q % Kercheval Ave j goals and now we're practice PHOTO BY BOB BRUCE several times during the break JtaenriKL Grosse Pointe, MI 48236 3Vi and get ready for some tougher Grosse Pointe South senior Erin Shook has been a steady of• •Mast* games in January." fensive contributor to the undefeated Lady Blue Devils. 313-343-5577 In the six games, the Lady f tb tmmi price! • $37 J for 52 issues Blue Devils have outscored they return from break, the and host Birmingham Detroit their opponents 37-9. When Lady Blue Devils travel to PCS Country Day. 3/8/07 GROSSE POINTE iMEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008 SPORTS University Liggett school
BOYS BASKETBALL Knights hustle, but fall in close defeat By Bob St John The host Knights hung chance to pull this out." SportsEditor tough, thanks to a patient of• The Knights fell behind 53- fense and a defense that didn't 43 with six minutes left in the University Liggett School give up many second shots, game, but stormed back. boys basketball team came despite getting only 15 re• Junior point guard Mark within a whisker of upsetting bounds in a 62-58 defeat. Ghafari had a three-point play a very talented Detroit "The guys executed until the and a three-pointer to help Midtown Academy squad last end and had a chance to send ULS cut the deficit to 61-58 week. the game to overtime," ULS with 32 seconds left. The Magic of the head coach Sidney Johnson They forced a turnover, but Southeastern Athletic said. "We almost got it done. missed a potential Conference had won their pre• Our kids worked hard at both three-pointer and vious games by more than 30 ends of the court and I'm pie of other posse; points. proud of their effort. Wfe had a to force OT, bu1
PHOTOS BY RENATO JAMETT Freshman Eddie Thomas played with poise during crucial moments of the Knights' close loss to Midtown Academy.
doomed those opportunities. Andrew Malaski had 10. the ball over 10 times them• "Our kids can play with any Freshman Eddie Thomas selves. team if we play our game," finished with nine points, fol• In other action last week, Johnson said. "This was a nice lowed by sophomore Dominic ULS played another close, effort by all of our kids, but it's Jamett with eight and junior tough game, but lost 54-48 at still a loss any way you look at Joe Shannon had two. Detroit University Prep High it. A win would have been bet• , The Knights let other oppor• School, dropping to 1-3 over• ter." tunities go by the wayside, all. Ghafari led three Knights in making only 7-of-14 free- Coming up for the Knights double figures, netting 18 throw attempts and they is a home game Tuesday, Jan. Junior Mark Ghafari, left, is turnmg into a true team leader for head coach Sidney Johnson anpointsd , while senior Jeremiah forced the Magic into 21 6, against Michigan Collgiate his University Liggett School boys basketball team. Manning had 12 and senior turnovers while only turning High School.
BOYS HOCKEY CO-ED SWIMMING Knights \ictorioiis
By Bob St. John tice during the break and try to SportsEditor snap out of this funk when we again, now 3-0 get back to school." The holiday break can't Senior Kyle Keith scored the By Bob St. John Captain Chris Brownell is come at a better time for the Knights' first goal and junior SportsEditor winning the 200-yard individ• University Liggett School boys Rory Deane tallied late in the ual medley and 500-freestyle hockey team. third period to round out the The University Liggett and he has been a part of win• The host Knights lost a tough scoring. Junior Dan Zukas School co-ed swim team ran its ning relays team with Skippy 4-2 decision to visiting St. Clair recorded an assist on each unbeaten streak to three last Faber, Jake Osborn and Stavros last week, dropping them to 2- goal. week, defeating Hazel Park 94- Bricolas. 8 overall. "We play some good hockey 76 and Warren Fitzgerald 98- Faber won the 200-freestyle "I think the kids are over in each game, but then we look 68. against Fitzgerald. Teammates thinking and trying too hard," lethargic and give up too many "Our increased numbers Mary Nehra and Michael first-year head coach Rob odd-men rushes that lead to have paid off because we have Leahy, both sophomores, fin• Mclntyre said. "They're frus• goals," Mclntyre said. some depth this year compared ished second and third to help trated, but they're not giving Mclntyre is rotating three PHOTOS BY RENATO JAMETT to years past," head coach Meg the Knights sweep the event up and they're playing hard. goalies, Vernell Johnson, Chris Senior Kyle Keith scored the Knights' first goal in a tough 4-2 Painter said. "We're excited and earn big points. "We have some time to prac• Ralstrom and Joe Davenport. defeat to visiting St Clair. and gaining confidence.'' ULS improved to 3-0 overall.
GIRLS HOCKEY Lady Knights lose showdown, 3-2 After January 18th, By Bob St. John 30-40% off will be 100% over. Sports Editor
University Liggett School's girls hockey team lost its first division showdown of the sea• son last week, falling 3-2 to Farmington Hills Mercy. The Marlins, picked by many to win the Michigan Metro Girls High School Hockey League Division 2, rallied with three unanswered goals to knock off the host Lady Knights and build a four-point cushion in the Jackson standings heading into the Reg $350 holiday break. Now $195 "This is disappointing be• cause we let the game get away," ULS head coach Laura Owczarski said. "We had control of the game and let Mercy back in it and steal it from us. "The girls needed to play a Discontinued Styles Sale little better in our own zone PHOTO BY RENATO JAMETT From Dec. 26 to Jan.18, enjoy 30-40% savings on all and that was the difference in Junior Morgan Ellis, No. 10, gets a shot on goal, but it was stopped as the Lady Knights lost 3-2 discontinued shoe's and belts. the game." to Farmington Hills Mercy. Somerset Collection (Level 1, South). (2-i8) 316-2888 Junior Paige Counsman had the home team rocking "They did a much better job in went into the net, it would id as Janaya Gripper for the and rolling, scoring two first- the final two periods." have gone straight down, not Lady Knights and Alessi Nehr period unassisted goals. Maura Malone scored twice into the air. for the Marlins made several "I told our girls Counsman in the second period to tie it, "It's a bad break for us and key saves in the final period. Men Edmonds had a nose for scoring goals although the first goal was a good one for Mercy." University Liggett School Leave an Impression;" and they didn't do a very good disputed. Karen Malloure scored ear• dropped to 2-2 in the
ceOMANen Edmonds Snos Corporate. Offer valla i&iB^oa-l/iB/M. Not woo Wan any other offer. job of stopping her in the "The puck hit the crossbar ly in the third period to win it Michigan Metro Girls High Otter not valid on alfenadmorisa.com. Sato Hmltpd » mwitoiy- ' opening period," Mercy head and went high in the air," forthe Marlins. School Hockey League and 3- coach Pat Gregory said. Owczarski said. "If the puck Both goalkeepers were sol• 3 overall. GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008 SPORTS Grosse Pointe North
GIRLS BASKETBALL Lady Norsemen dominante in victory
ByJohnMcTaggart "But, while they were playing, bounds, 8.5 steals and five as• Special Writer basketball practice was going sists a game during the team's on. We really didn't even have state championship drive. The banner will hang in the enough girls to have a real, full- Braker played about half the gymnasium forever. speed practice. So, it was more game against Utica, and The memories of Grosse of a conditioning session for Bennett says he plans to repeat Pointe North's 2008 girls bas• the girls who were there. I think Braker's limited minutes for ketball state championship will this put us a little bit behind." the next few contests. be the subject of conversation The Norsemen are roughly Limited minutes or not, around town for decades to two weeks behind where they Braker only makes the team come. Folks will smile at the hoped to be at this point in the better when she's on the floor. nfSfodfy and feel a sense of campaign, although the coach A team that returns four pride each time the subject says the has found their "bas• starters and a total of eight let• come up. ketball legs," and are playing ter winners from last year's Teammates, parents, stu• much better than the opening team. dents, the community - each week or two of the season. That said, this is not last will share a common bond - a "I hoped to play as well as we year's basketball team. state title. are now in the beginning of the "We take the same approach However, the championship, year," Bennett said, "but it did• this year as we do every year," the run, the season that ended n't work out that way. We're Bennett explained. "We want to the way every team dreams it getting better though. We're be a hard-working team and will - with a victory in the title improving." have a good work ethic. We game-is over. The lapses could be seen on want to play together and have "We're not the same team," both ends of the floor to start excellent teamwork. We want North head coach Gary the year. Players were missing to be fun and exciting to watch. Bennett explained. "This is a their spots on defense and of• These are the goals we have different team, and it's really fensive execution was just a every year. That doesn't not fair to burden this team touch off. change." with expectations like that." A 52-23 thumping of Utica Repeating as state champion That said, this year's squad is last week is an excellent indica• takes more, experts would pretty good nonetheless, and, tion, however, that the squad agree, than just talent and skill. despite getting a late start on appears to be getting it togeth• Many things have to come to• the season thanks to a deep er. gether in order for any team to postseason run in girls volley• are playing better, espe• hoist the title trophy. You need ball, the Norsemen certainly cially against Utica," Bennett good fortune as well as ability, have the potential to be among said. "We got to our spots de• and even with that - there are the top teams in the state. fensively and we're looking no guarantees. But, Bennett admits, they're more comfortable on offense. North is an excellent team, not there yet. It's going to take some time few would argue that point. "I really wouldn't consider us though. It really is." And, by the time it all shakes among the top teams in the The return of junior standout out, it's likely they will be state right now," the coach said. Ariel Braker to the lineup is among the top teams in the "I think we can be among those bound to help the cause. state. However, to expect an• teams, but right now, we're just Braker injured her knee last other state crown is an unfair not there yet." May during an AAU game and burden to place on this year's North is of to a pedestrian 2-3 has needed six months to re• team, Bennett is right. start, but much of this can be turn to the floor. But, don't be surprised if explained by volleyball and The state's top player aver• these girls and their longtime basketball seasons overlapping aged 14.3 points, 9.7 rebounds, coach put together a real and effecting practice time for seven steals, five assists and charge come the playoffs. And the hoops squad. three blocks during the regular who knows, if the ball bounces "We have a number of girls season, but stepped up her their way a few times, they cer• PHOTO BY RENATO JAMETT who play volleyball and they game in the postseason, con• tainly have the ability to do it Senior Olivia Stander's defensive intensity has picked up, which will make a huge difference in had a great year," Bennett said. tributing 19 points, 18 re• again. the long run.
4^ & !* £ *> GIRLS HOCKEY Goalie nets first shutout By Bob St. John tough two-goal games to both Kailey Sickmiller and senior Sports Editor teams tied for first in the Kelly Seago also tallied a goal. Michigan Metro Girls High North stands 3-5 overall and Grosse Pointe North's girls School Hockey League, will have three weeks off be• hockey team evened its league Grosse Pointe South and Ann fore resuming its schedule record at 3-3 after splitting two Arbor. Wednesday, Jan. 7, against games last week. In each of those games, the Farmington Hils Mercy at The Lady Norsemen lost 5-3 Lady Norsemen had their Eddie Edgar Arena. at Ann Arbor, but came back to chances to win, but couldn't "We have had some success blank Birmingham Detroit get the big goal. against Mercy in the past, but Country Day 8-0 behind the They had no trouble scoring this game is at their place and first-ever shutout for goalkeep• against Country Day, playing they're playing some good er Emma Huellmantel. its first season as a girls varsity hockey thanks to an offense 'It was nice to see her get the sport. that can score some goals," shutout," head coach Scott Senior Lauren Walsh and Dockett said. Dockett said. "It's nice to head sophomore Taylor Moody Mercy is in first place in the into the break with a win." scored two goals apiece, while Michigan Metro Girls High In the first half of the season, junior Nikki Capizzo, senior School Hockey League the Lady Norsemen have lost Alexa Quinlan, sophomore Division 2 standings.
BOYS SWIMMING Norsemen start season with lopsided victories The Grosse Pointe North boys swimming and diving team started its season last week with a 114-72 win over Anchor Bay. Senior Michael Lane was a double winner, taking the 200- and 100-yard freestyles. Other individual winners were Stephen VanBeek in the 200-yard individual medley, Andrew Paige in the 100-yard butterfly, Matt Peyser in the 100-yard backstroke and Christian Mellos in the 100- yard breaststroke. In addition for the Norsemen, the 200-yard med• ley relay team of Lane, Mellos, Contact us for professional assistance at Paige and VanBeek posted a Division 2 state-qualifying time. Head coach Mike O'Connor's team also compet• PHOTO BY RENATO JAMETT ed at Utica Henry Ford n last Grosse Pointe North boys swimming and diving head coach week, winning 12-65, improv• Mike O'Connor's team is off to a 2-0 start Grosse Pointe News ing to 2-0 overall. Paige had another good Single event winners were the 100-backstroke and Mellos 96 Kercheval Ave. Grosse Pointe Farms meet, winning the 50-freestyle Lane in the 200-IM, Max Hunt in the 100-breaststroke. and 100-butterfly. in the 100-freestyle, Peyser in —Bob St John 6 GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 2008 PHONE: (313) 882-6900 EXT. 1 WEB: GR0SSEP0INTENEWS.COM PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TObAY!
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(313)407- diate possession. Ap• 1st month's rent plus 4285 month, plus utilities. cludes utilties. Upper: 2 rooms, 2 baths, living 5177 pliances, updated security deposit, 15116 Mack Avenue, 8620 Village, bedroom, large kitch• room, natural fireplace, kitchen. Storage shed. $1,175/ month. 20461 LAKESHORE Grosse Pointe Park, end unit, new kitchen, 1146 Maryland, large en, hardwood floors; formal dining room, EAST English Village, $725/ month. 586-924- Hollywood. Detached (313)821-5105 upper flat, 3 bedrooms, $850/ includes utilties. kitchen with applian• Chandler Park/ Grayton 0547 garage, central air. Ask paint, all appliances. 2 area, spacious 2 bed• bedroom, washer/ dry• Grosse Pointe study, enclosed porch, (313)885-2020, Clau• ces, den, sunroom, 705 HOUSES FOR RENT for Paul, (313)460-8863 room upper flat, appli• er. $800. (313)885- Woods fireplace, off- street dia/ Chuck window treatments, POINTES/HARPER WOODS parking, laundry room, garage. Private, quiet. ances, garage. Also 2 706 HOUSES FOR RENT 4752 Office space for lease appliances. $825, 248- 915 Neff, 2 bedroom, References. $1,250. bedroom at Kelly/ Mo• 1221 Fairholme. Prime DETROIT/WAYNE COUNTY 714 LIVING QUARTERS individual offices. 515-7849 $750 includes: applian• (313)821-4140 ross. For appointment location in the heart of TO SHARE Starting at $400/mo., 2 bedroom house, ces, water, air. No call (248)730-5985 Grosse Pointe Woods. includes all utilities $525/ month. 2 bed• family, Grosse 1ST month free! 870 pets. (313)824-9174 806, lower or Immaculate 4 bed• LOVELY 313-268-2000 NEFF- EAST English village. room apartments, Pointe City. Single Nottingham, 4 unit upper. From $875. room, 2 1/2 baths. BEACONSFIELD- Upper flat, 2 bedroom. $450/ month. Good mother/ 3 children, HARPER WOODS building. 2 bedrooms, Sharp 2 bedroom, new Hardwood floors, 2 car South/ Jefferson. Refin- $600 plus security, condition. Available im• looking for respectful REDUCED hardwood floors, appli• kitchen, air, applian• attached garage. ished floors. New appli• 5041 Bishop. (313)510- mediately. Brian, 313- person, to rent their Suites (1,600 sq.ft.) ances, $600. (586)212- ces, garage. Fresh de• Fenced corner lot. ances, updated bath• 4470 319-8700. lower studio apart• One furnished 0759 cor, laundry. No pets. $2,200, plus mainte• room, laundry. $540. ment. No smoking. individual offices John, 313-510-8835 nance and utilities. 2 or 3 bedrooms, Ca• (586)772-0041 UNIVERSITY- clean, 2 $450. Private entrance. Rent/Lease to Own 2 bedroom upper, big one bedroom up• year lease. 586-792- dieux, Moross, Radnor, 3990 313-268-5091 Roger, 313-886-1763 Maryland. Air, applian• BEAUTIFUL 2 BecT WINDMILL Pointe per. $500 includes util• shown daily. $425- ces. No pets. Parking. room lower near Vil• Drive, 2,000 sq. ft. ities. 313-268-4377 $625. 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Available air, basement, garage, CONVENIENTLY 702-208-4984 Grosse Pointe Woods, occupan• 716 OFFICE/COMMERCIAL 7907, (248)763-1584 IMMEDIATE February and March. new driveway. $635, all cated 2 bedroom car• 3 bedroom, remodeled. cy. CourviSle three bed• FOR RENT appliances included. riage house, living Central air, $1,800. 586-536-5079 State and federal housing room colonial, natural 15005 Jefferson, $140- No smoking. No pets. room, dining room, 1 (313)343-0622 723 VACATION RENTALS laws prohibit discrimination fireplace. Fenced back $400. Secure, profes• {313)418-1738 car garage, $795/ that is based on race, color, yard. $950/ Section 8 sional offices with fa- MICHIGAN month plus utilities. religion, national origin, 2050 Roslyn- available sex, disability, age Ok! (313)882-6017 Cilities. (313)410-4339 Mountain 316 Hillcrest, 2 bed- Prime location. 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