---.-~. II rosse Pointe ews VOL. 47-No 8 Grosse POinte, Michigan, Thursday, February 20, 1986 30 cents 42 Pages for your mformatlOn Local marinas brace for spring floods By Peter A. Salinas These problems, of course, are As the water level rises, It can high to a wmter low on the lakes and could Jack some of the pIlmgs Was it the ant or the grasshop- not confmed to the GPYC harbor. force the Ice up higher, yankmg The lake didn't go down last nght out of the foundatIOns It IS a per that survived because it pre- Morgens NIelsen, of the MiChI- fyi pll10gs from their foundations For wmter " senous problem for mumcipahtles pared for the onset of winter? Well, gan Department of Natural that reason the yacht club has been For boaters, mUnicIpalIties and and pnvate mannas " it Willbe the prepared lakefront re- taking several precautIOns Resources, says rlSIng water pnvate manna owners, the lake's The GYPC's answer has been Sident who will survive the onset of Schriever saId the club has In- levels on Lake St Clair have been, level Will lIkely reduce bankbooks the Impellers to prevent the dock sprmg thiS year stalled a number of impellers ThIS and Will lIkely contmue to be, a "Most marmas have fixed docks With spr10g comes the meltmg of costly problem damage and the contlngencl' plan She'll outshine equipment circulates warmer that are anchored," Nielsen said to con~truct rIsers, but Nielsen Ice, and predictions are that thiS water from the bottom of the har- "Twenty of the last 20 years we "Most of these Will more than lIke- the stars year, the melt WIll bnng floods says there ISanother alternatIve - bor to the surface, keeping the up- have had above-average ram and ly be under water though costly Grosse POinters can root for along the eastern shores of Lake per layers from freezing. snowfall," Nielsen said "Sea- "When the Ice sheet breaks up In "Mannas could completely re- "The Courage to Care," come St Clair "This WIll prevent the pIlings sonally, we go through a summer the spnng, the Ice shelf nses up March when the Academy Experts are predicting the from being Jacked from theIr toun- <Continued on Page 15'\) awards will be handed out The average increase in the lake's level dations," he said. short film, which was nominat- Will be SIXto eight mches At times The club has a plan to construct ed for an Oscar, was produced the level will hkely be hIgher still. dock rIsers which Will he atop the by Sister Carol RIttner, a What thiS means for private and eXisting structures This Will make Mercy College teacher. There's mumcipal harbors can be put mto many of the docks under water a local connection Dr. Eman- one word - trouble. usable. uel Tanay, the psychiatrist Fred G. Schriever, secretary "We have already raised the who IS a noted expert m foren- and reSIdent harbor engineer at electrical hnes IB IOches," sic medicine and a Park resi- the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, has Schnever said "ThIS was done on dent, appears in the film a keen Interest in hiS club's harbor, a permanent basis, because we Sister Rittner was quoted In a and has been helping to formulate Just don't know what IS gomg to recent newspaper artIcle des- contmgency plans in the event high happen (to the lake levell " cnbing the OUtfIt she will wear water predIctIOns hold true Water levels are already dan- to the star-studded awards cere- "If the water comes up SIX to gerously close to the docks In mony m Los Angeles: her green eIght mches, we will have 50 to 60 many cases just two or three in- suit, white gloves and SIster of docks under water," Schriever ches separate the top of the Ice Mercy cross. And her diamond- said. from the wood and cement studded sense of humor. There are many problems that "One of our biggest concerns is Willplague boaters because of high what will happen to our parkmg Uplifting experience water levels. Aside from having lot," Schriever said. "We can put one's docks under several mches of UP nsers and ralSe the uhhty hnes, Co-workers are usually fun water, rismg water levels can but there IS httle we can do it the people, and they're always raise havoc before the lake tha ws water floods the parkmg lot" ready to make an embarrass10g experience even more so. Seems Woods paramedic Jim Vowell was the recipient of a Yacht club forced half-dozen hot Valent1Oe's Day balloons while at work. The helium-filled lovelies car- ried such sweet messages as, "I to build breakwater only have eyes for you," "Just By Nancy Parmenter because ." and one had a tic- bor sets the boats to rocking, with tac-toe board WIth X's for kisses An extensive breakwater project the result that sometimes the and hearts instead of O's. Heard planned by the Crescent Sail Yacht masts hit and even entangle and Jim was as red as the balloons. Club points up the destructive break Perhaps the women at the potential of current hIgh water The Farms sank a barge at the PnolO bj Peler A Sal f1as desk were just jealous, but they levels in Lake St. Clair opening to the Pier Park harbor in If predictions of water levels six to eight inches higher than they are already on Lake St. Clair hold were dying to let us know about FearlOg damage or even an effort to reduce surge The Lit- true, Fred Schriever, resident harbor engineer for the Grosse Pointe Yacht ClUb, would be standing the delivery destruction of their clubhouse, tle Club 10stalled banks of auto- in water on this dock. This spring and summer many local marinas may be facing flooded dock areas They wouldn't give us their Crescent members Will undertake (Continued on Page 15A) and possible costly improvements. names, Jim, but we'll squeal constructIOn of a 330-foot long just a bit and gIve their mitlals crescent-shaped breakwater pro- - S.A.G., J L.W. and R.B jecting 7S feet into the lake beyond Remember Jim, p,aybacks the building. It will be built of steel School taxes too high, TAG says are sweet - jus~ hke those interlocking seawall filled with balloons sand and broken concrete and is to By Mike Andrzejczyk last year, cuttmg the number from not really appreciated by~most-stu~ shouJd_the s;ystem be put through be completetl by mid-May. Taxes, poor management and 10 to 6 That will also discourage dents and parents," according to the extra expense of another elec- Grosse Pointe "It's my job to keep this place ever-increasing costs are among voters, the release says the organization tion and wholesale lay-off and re- from floating away," saId club the reasons CIted by the Tax- The March 10 electIOn will be TAG claims the educatIon of call of teachers, they ask hospitality Rear Commodore Charles Todd payer's Advisory Group, TAG, for held before the new, pOSSIbly many children ISbeing diminished Changmg of polling places was Premier violimst Shlomo III. He declined to put a price tag its opposition to the school higher, property valuatIOns are Mintz didn't have to spend hiS on the project. because they are bemg educated in done as a way of cutting expenses system's request for renewal known, according to the group schools tha tare 50 percent to 60 and to SImplify the polling system, evenings alone m his hotel room As is usual for the club, March 10 of almost three-quarters Homeowners won't know what percent empty Gast says Instead of askmg peo- while he was In DetrOit to play members have contrIbuted their of Its opera ling millage their tax rates Will be untll the last Peter Gast, co-chairman of the pie to remember whIch elemen- with the DettOlt Symphony Or- expertise to the proJect. Com- TAG met last week at Barnes minute and, consequently won't be chestra Feb 6, 7 and B He was modore Maynard Rupp drew the pro-millage Citizens for Continued tary school distnct they hve. there Elementary School and voted able to properly vote, TAG says. Excellence, says he "IS glad we IS only one pollmg place for each the dinner guest of Farms resI- plans and Todd IS in charge of unammously to oppose the re- The amount the system spends dents John and Arlene Hen- governmental relations with the agree on some thmgs" when ask- city Dunng ItS telephone cam- newal, according to a press release on each child is too hIgh and will ed about TAG's oPPosItion palgn and m ItS lIterature, pro-mll- drie on FrIday night, after his Farms CIty council and the state from the group The group feels probably continue to mcrease, concert at Orchestra Hall Department of Natural Resources, "We agree thiS IS a top-flight lage forces are telhng people about the system has made no real effort TAG says. Despite declm10g en- school system" the new pollIng places, first enact- The Hendnes dIdn't know both of which must approve the to control soaring educational rollment, the school systems bud- Mmtz personally, but had fol- plan. Gast repeats, however, that the ed for last year's school board elec- costs despite dechrung enrollment get generally increases $2 million proper place for discussion of the tions lowed hiS career for a long time.