,I Pointers in Desert Stbrm nowI number more than 50 By Donna Walker Staff Writer tional Guard reservist. Ciaravino, 36, was College after graduating from Grosse Pointe Skip Kaal, a 1978 graduate of Grosse deployed to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 12 and is The Grosse Pointe War Memorial's list of North High School in 1982. Pointe North High School, also has been in local men and women who are serving in currently serving in a civilian hospital as a James F. Gatteno enlisted in the Army in the Navy for 11 years. Married, he is sta. Operation Desert Storm now comprises 52 nurse. A 1972 graduate of Grosse Pointe March 1990, and before that, served in the names. tioned aboard the USS Midway and has two North High School, he has a wife, Evelyn, Army Reserves. He was stationed in Ger- daughters. and five children, ages 12, 11, 8, 5 and 1. Over the past two weeks, 16 people were many before being deployed to Saudi Arabia Joseph Trane McCloud IS in the Marines, added to the list: Christopher DeLaere is serving in the Air about two weeks before Christmas. A medic, stationed aboard the USS Missouri. Norman J. Arends, M.D., is an Air Force Force. A 1982 graduate of Grosse Pointe he turned 21 on Feb. 21. Jason E. Power, 18, ISa 1990 graduate of reservist, currently serving at Scott Air South High School, he is married and has a Peter M. Hendrie, a graduate of Grosse Grosse Pointe South High School. He en- Force Base in lllinois. daughter, Elizabeth. Pomte South High School, is in the Navy, Anthony J. (Tony) Esperti, is serving in listed last July and was deployed to Saudi Lt. Dover M. Bell, U.S. Air Force, was statIoned aboard the USS McKee. He was Arabia on Feb. 3. He currently delivers sup- the Army. He was stationed in Germany be- deployed to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 18. stationed in Germany before being deployed fore being deployed to Saudi Arabia on Dec. plies and ammunition to the front lines. to Saudi Arabia in January. A 1984 gradu- Craig Higgins, a 1977 graduate of Grosse Becky Roberts, a 1982 graduate of Our 17. A 1985 graduate of Grosse Pointe South POInte South High School, has been in the ~te of Grosse Pointe South High School, he High School, he is 24 and has a wife, Chris. Lady Star of the Sea HIgh School, is serving Navy for approximately 11 years. He was in the AIr Force. IS 24 years old. He and hIS wife, Laurie, Eric Fordon, 27, has been in the Navy for have a 15.month-old son, Jim. previously stationed in San Diego and is about five years and is an underwater se- Vito Ciaravino is a Michigan Army Na- - now aboard the USB Anchorage. He has a dalist. He attended Macomb Community WIfeand two children in San Diego. See DESERT, page 20A A Community Newspaper .,.-..,,,,,, ~. ~~ c', I~' Grosse j , i:~ News Vol. 52, No.9 50 pages Grosse Pointe, Michigan Since 1940 February 28,1991 Fate of Farms man's killers won't be announced in public - or soon By John Minnis decide Miller's fate until after suggests the Juvemles should be AsSistant Editor the heanngs or presentencmg sentenced as adults The fates of the Juvemles who reports and recommendatIons Roberson asked Marc 'Hart, pleaded guIlty m the February are filed for the three other juve assistant prosecuting attorney, 1990 kIllIng of a Farms man WIll nIles mvolved in the case whether he planned to go not be revealed m open court Following the shooting death through the lengthy hearing pro- and apparently won't be deCIded of Gravel last year, Miller, then cess for the two juvemles who soon. 15, and Kermit Haynes, then 16, pleaded guIlty to second-degree During the closmg arguments pleaded guIlty to first-degree murder - Hobbs and Brown. Feb. 22 over whether one of the murder Two other juveniles who Hart saId he dId not. youths - Cortez MIller - will be were 16 at the time - WIllie But Hobbs and Brown's fates sentenced as an adult or juve- Hobbs and Gregory Brown - will not be deCIded until after nile, Detroit Recorder's Chief pleaded guilty to second-degree the two adults have been trIed, Judge Dalton A Roberson said murder. While Hobbs and Brown Hart saId he wIll not make hIS deCISIon were charged with first-degree Therefore, if Roberson waits to concermng MIller until all the murder, the prosecutor's office decide all the juveniles' fates at Juvemles' cases have been heard accepted the lesser plea in ex- the same time, then the deci- and added he will not announce change for theIr agreement to SIOns wIll not be made until af. his decision in open court. testl1Y agamst the two adults ter the trial of the adults. Roberson's statement was charged in the case. Furthermore, Roberson saId he made before alxJut 50 me,llds . The two adult,s - RICO Searcy. wIll not announce hIS decisIOns and relatives of the deceased - then 17, and Christopher Sims, in open court, as Hart had re- BenJamm Gravel - and his wife, then 18 - have not entered into quested. ~ther, Roberson saur-' - SUS4h Gravel, in a packed court- plea agreements and will be he would draft written decisions, Arabian knights room on the eighth floor of the tried in April on first-degree whlch will be sent to the prose- Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. murder charges. cutmg and defense attorneys. The Gravels' supporters ex- Grosse Pointe Woods resident Gregory C. Grove. who was promoted to sergeant in the Ma- Miller's sentencmg hearings Roberson's decisIOns whether rine Corps Feb. L stands in the desert in Saudi Arabia. The Grosse Pointe North graduate has pected - based on news reports that ended lfll;t week began In to sentence the youths as juve- been in the service since 1983. Father of a son. Grove wrote in January that he was near the - that Miller's fate would be de- July. Haynes is also gomg niles or adults are cruCIal. If sen- cided that day followmg the final Kuwait border. "Our commanders are taking good care of us. They see to it we get a shower through sentencin~ hearings. tenced as juveniles, they WIll be- every couple of weeks:' he wrote. More from the front is on page 21A. arguments in his sentencing The purpose of the hearings is to hearing. come wards of the Department of present arguments on whether a Social ServIces untIl they are 21 But Roberson said he will not preponderance of the eVIdence If MIller and Haynes are sen- Youths impersonate police officers tenced as adults for first-degree murder, then they face a manda- On two separate occasions from Grosse Pointe Shores The tory sentence of life In prIson youths were caught playmg cops red beacon light was found on Time to bag it for needy WIthout parole. The dIfficulty for m Grosse Pomte Woods recently. the rear floor of the youths' car Roberson is that he has no op- Around 10 p.m. Feb. 20 police and was confiscated Once again Grosse POinters tion but to choose between life m received calls that two youths On Feb. 17, four youths, ages are being asked to brown bag It prIson for the youths or only were attemptmg to pull cars 15 and 16, were reported to po- for the needy. » '/'1*"" .;. some five years In confinement .}-=-.. over by usmg a portable, red hce for trying to pull motonsts 1" .; ...}").-:~% «7/{ The OpportunIty to help feed .>,.-,......} ."-:- *4 < as wards of the DSS. There's no flashing emergency hght and by over by flashmg a badge. When ,...;4 ~ -=;; the needy is through the SIXth (.~/4.".A....-:;~ "" / ..... ~ ..;t:'< m-between sentence he can hand flashing their car's high beams Woods police located the youths, /4~ .{;. annual KIds Helping Kids , C f~y ..f....."'v down at motonsts. it was discovered they had an canned-food drive The Grosse Officers spotted the youths authentic police hat badge, Pomte public schools, the Grosse near Mack and Sunningdale and which one of the youths said he Pointe News and Republic Bank followed them north on Mack found. are sponsoring this year's cam- The youths were stopped at The badge was confiscated and paign with Gleaners Community Mack and Hawthorne. the youths' parents were noti- Food Bank. They were both 16-year-olds fied. The drIve will help Gleaners meet the prOjected 10 percent in- crease in food needs from Its Pointer of Interest more than 189 membel soup : kitchens, church pantries, emer- gency shelters and other feedmg agenCIes. The agencies prOVide Ronald G. Allen 155,000 meals a week to the area's hungry. By Pat Paholsky East LIverpool, OhIO, Editor "I tried out for several shows There WIll be food collectIOn The new dIrector of produc- and I wasn't very good," he saId receptacles at all schools Each tIOns for MichIgan Opera Thea- But the drama teacher needed a student will be given a grocery tre, Ronald G. Allen, was bItten stage manager and told Allen all bag, printed compliments of Re- by the theatrical bug when he he needed was a clipboard. pubhc Bank, to take home and was a hIgh school student In That was the beginning of a fill for the needy. career backstage m which he In addItIOn, the Grosse POInte has traveled throughout the News will msert a grocery bag country domg everythmg from in next week's Issue Readels gomg for coffee to puttmg on can either fill a bag of grocenes puppet shows for chlldren to teach them about opera, or use the coupon printed on the bag to buy a case of food fO!the Allen came to DetrOIt m Au- needy.