--.---.-_..- ....---.--.._---------~~'-------- ~ ~ -rosse Pointe ews 46 Pages VOL. 47-No. 43 Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Thursday, October 23, 1986 35 Cents for your information Recycling in Pointes fyi feasible, study says By Nancy Parmenter geted communities, which include The five Grosse Pointes and Allen Park, Livonia, Plymouth, Harper Woodsare ideal for a recy- Romulus, Brownstown and Can- A good guy chng project. Glass, tin and news- ton, as well as the cities already paper could be convenient and mentioned, have the characteris- Twelve-year-old Erik profitable enough to be collected bcs of communities elsewhere in Mathews, a seventh-grader at for recycling in the six communi- the nation where recycling has Brownell Middle School,almost ties, according to a new study con- proven workable. caused the whole family to miss tracted by the Wayne COWltyPlan- "They have sufficient population the opening kickoff at the Mich- 111ng Department. and population density to make a igan-M1chigan State game Oct. The study was conducted last program cost-effective," the re- 11in Ann Arbor. It seems Erik spring and swnmer and issued last port states. "Their citizenries tend was hurrying to finish deliver- week. Officials from the six munic- to be on the higher end of the s0- ing The Detroit News to the 35 ipalities and other communities in- cioeconomic scale, which, ex- or so people on his route, when cluded m the study have not yet perience suggests, is conducive to he noticed newspapers were pil- received their copies, although high participation." ing up on the front porch of a some were briefed at a presenta- A suggested program would Ridge Road customer. bon two weeks ago. schedule recycling curbside pick- He took the time to find out The study, which was paid for up on the same day as garbage col- why. through a grant from the Clean lection. Residents would bag or tie With the help of a neighbor Michigan Fund, recommends that and some tight maneuvering the county move ahead on recy- through a milk chute, 81-year- chng glass, tin and newspaper, as ~ . citiZenries old Isabel Roney was rescued well as office paper in two county tend to be on the after spending two days alone, buildings, The county solid waste unable to get up from the floor committee is to meet Thursday to higher end of the after a fall. begin formulating a strategy to im- "Erik is a very intelligent and plement the program, according to socioecoIWmic scale thoughtful little boy," she said. Maury Roach, county planning which • . • is con- "I appreciate what he did." director. Erik saw the kickoff in Ann There is no requirement that lo- ducive to high par- Arbor - and had time to spare. cal communities walt for the He is the son of Chuck and county plan, Roach said. "Commu- ticipation.' Judy Mathews, of Hillcrest nities can run with it themselves," Lane. he said. "I think we would en- newspapers, rinse and flatten tin Photo by Bert Emanuele courage that. The more local com- cans and rinse and remove the munities are involved with their caps from glass containers. Fulfill your fantasy Computer revolution, that is. These first-graders at St. Paul own solid waste disposal, the bet- Local governments would or- ... this Saturday night by School are Introduced to computers right away, and after less ter. Ideally, (self-determination) is ganize pickup times, storage sites, turning back the hands of time. Revolution! than a month, 80me of them can do simple programming. what we'd hope would happen." public education programs and ad- Daylight Savings Time comes Christina Rashid and Elizabeth Morao, both 6, work together. Roach said he expects planning ministration. The project could be to an end at 2 a.m. Sunday, so Story and more photos are on Page 13A. to move right ahead at the county done in conjunction With the in- don't forget to reset your clocks level, with implementation strat- cinerator authority or - with before you go to bed Saturday egy in place before the holidays. It proper contractual agreement - night, or Sunday morning, as would take longer than that to ac- separately. the case may be. tually get a program functioning. The report recommends that the The Pointes and Harper Woods state provide technical assistance lt means one whole extra hour are uniquely suited for a recycling and, possibly, funding and that the ofsleep for the sensible and one Stanhope Road residents project, according to the report. county offer organizational help. whole e~tra hour of partying for From a practical standpoint, they The report sees "no serious com- the nonsensible. are joined In a municipal inciner- patibility problems" with current complain of road - again ator authority, which could be used waste management systems, On Gertrude Proefke to handle the project. the legal side, contracts can be The incinerator authority could rebe ....thlted. ott tkoloo 18chiUcal ... will bf> 90 ye.ralM IiIarCb also be a problem inlbat the memo' aide,.rfreeeiit' ~Jf-~" 3and siJJceibe winterll inFlori- - ,Council to- meet Nov. 10 ministrator Chester E. Petersen. maintenance after two to three her communities are bound by con- t~t tl m\llU-ma~rlal ~urbeide da,her~mUy~Uautc~. By Margie Reins Smith tract to send their entire waste recycling program wHl not nega- brates her birUtday with her. So Petersen reported on Monday. years. More than 60 Stanhope Road "Streets are not financed by prop- The cost of chip and seal is ap- stream to the Pointes-Clinton facil- tively affect the energy value of they surprised her with an un- ity in Clinton Township. It is prob- birthday party Saturday. residents returned for the second erty tax money," he said. "All proximately $2.10per square yard, solid waste, as such a program ex- time to attend Monday evening's street capital improvements are compared to $6.12per square yard ably only if the recycling could be tracts non-combustibles alone, Grosse Pointe Woods city council financed from the city's share of for asphalt, Petersen said. seen as easing the looming capac- with paper fiber, thereby often not About 40 family members ity crunch that the project could came from Florida, Seattle, meeting. MIchigan tax on gasoline and oth- Grosse Pointe Woods has been lowering the heat value of the re- er state revenue-sharing monies." using chip and seal applications move ahead in the recommended maining waste. The critical issue, Washington, D.C., Alabama, form. It would likely mean Wisconsin, Petoskey, Jackson, Residents are dissatisfied with Stanhope's existing asphalt sur- since 1980,with only mmor eom- then, is plant sizing, whereby the recent chip and seal applica- face was repaired by leveling ir- plaints about dust and loose ag- renegotiating the current contract recyclables are needed to fulfill the Grand Itapids, Warren and New between the municipalities and the Baltimore. The gathering in- tion used to resurface Stanhope be- regularities and filling pot holes, gregate. Petersen presented a list contractual waste flow needs ofan tween Mack and Harper cracks and joints. Then the total of local streets that have received authority. incinerator. " cluded ber son and two daugh- It cWTentlycosts the six commu- ters, two brothers and nearly all surface was sealed with a chip and chip and seal applications since The six east side communities At the Oct. 6 counCIl meeting, seal application, he said. "The de- 1980. nities from $47(Harper Woods) to were selected for participation in of her 12 grandchildren and 13 $136(Grosse Pointe City) per ton grea t-grandchildren. they complained about the noise, cision to use a specific type of re- About a dozen residents spoke the study on the basis of a letter the safety, the appearance, the paIr is made by a team of city en- concerning their continued dis- to collect and dispose of municipal sent out by the county planning Daughter Leona Kolb, with loose stones and the standing wa- gineers, myself and the director of satisfaction with the Stanhope sur- residential waste. The report esti- department. Those communities whom she lives in the Woods ter on their street. They wanted to public works," Petersen said. face. One resident pressed the mates the cost of recycling at $55 that responded to the letter were when she's not in Florida, said know why their street was not Average life expectancy of chip council for a decision. to $99per ton for the city of Dear- included. her mother is very active. She repaired with the same surface as and seal, according to Petersen, is The counCil refused to make a born Heights, one of three target still drives and she'll play any nearby Allard Road. At that meet- SIX to eight years with minimum dec1sion Monday and arranged to communities studied in depth. game of cards - you name it- ing, the council asked for reports maintenance The average life ex- meet with SIXto eight elected Stan- The report recommends curb- Missing: Ofle bridge, pinochle, rummy, pok- from the director of public safety, pectency of asphalt resurfacing is hope residents as a committee of slde collection as being the most er. the city engineer and from City Ad- 10to 12years, with some minimum the whole on Nov. 10. convenient and workable, The tar- parking offer In lieu of gifts, each family member was asked to make a The City of Grosse Pointe is still commitment to the honoree, hoping that its last offer to buy the such as taking her to lunch or Flood plain Kroger parking lot in the Village visiting or writing her a letter. shopping area is alive, but City Manager Thomas Kressbach said committee Monday that he hadn't heard any- We apologize thing .