~ws Grosse Pointers collect food for Gleaners gry dnd need food However, for kItchen cupboards and Brown bag it thIS year's effort by covenng It feeding agencies Gleaners the 10th consecutive year, the pantries and use the grocery the cost of prmtmg the bags was founded and orgam7ed m Grosse Pomte News IS partlcl- bag for your donatIOn of non- Concerned about Aprll 1977 and ISproud to cele- (see inside) to patmg m a sprIngtIme food penshable canned goods Gleaners Commumty Food brate ItS 20th anmversary thiS your property drIve to benefit Gleaners You can take your bag full of Bank wlll dlstnbute the donat- year Grosse POinters have values? feed the needy Community Food Bank In food and drop It collection ed food to southeast Mlclugan generously supported the mis- The "KIds Helpmg KIds" gro bms at the Central Library or Local real estate Many beheve that the soup lutchens, homeless shel- sion of Gleaners over the years cery bag IS enclosed mSlde thIS any Grosse Pomte public ters, and church pantries professionals ThanksgIvmg and Christmas week's Grosse Pomte News We With food and dollar donatIOns school The dnve Willrun untIl Gleaners currently dlstnbutes hollddYS are the only times m hope you can do some heavy share their views the year when people go hun- Fnday, Mdrch 21 St John more than one mIllIOn pounds spring house c1eamng m your For more mformatlOn, call with you in Health System IS also helpmg of food every month to nonprof- (313) 923-3535 this week's Home secti 4 of 5 Pointes jointly WEEJ( AHEAD purchase new court Thursday, March 13 computer system A panel of area educators By Amy Andreou Miller led by Susan D Allen, Ph D , Ipating Pomtes would also be Staff Wnter assIstant supermtendent of connected Wlth each other for currIculum and mstructlOn Four out of five Grosse data and mformatlOn sharmg for the Grosse Pomte publIc Pomtes can't be wrong Not so, of people's cnmmal records, court dates, etc schools, Wllllead a panel ws- at least when It comes to com- CllSSlOnof gender Issues m puters, says Grosse Pomte "I WlIlbe thnlled to get tms the classroom on Thursday, Woods city leaders new computer," saId March 13, from 7 30 to 9 Grosse POinte }I'arms, City, Mackenzie, who s8.1d she has pm, as the Grosse Pomte Park and Shores are gomg m been reasE'archmg and request- War Memonal launches a together on a group purchase mg the purchase smce 1991 four-part serIes on current for a new computer system to For years, when MackenZie familY-OrIented Issues co- handle the data for each com- needed information about a sponsored by the AmerIcan mUlllty's mumclpal court person commg up for trial, she AsSOCiatIOn of Umverslty DelIvery and Installation of had to leave her office m the Women the computer system ISexpect- Farms mumclpal bwldmg and AdmISSion IS $20 for the ed the first week of Apnl. go to the Farms pollce statIOn serIes or $7 per program Because Grosse Pointe wmch has a LEIN computer Call (313) 881-7511 Woods decided not to partICI- 'We Will be better able to pate m the JOint purchase, the keep track of drunk drivers," The 24th annual western Photo by Thea L Walker pnce tag Increased about Mackell2le said open mIXed doubles tourna- It's that time $3,000 for each of the four The Farms sought the new ment contmues today other Pomtes computer system because It through Sunday, March 16, Kevin Crowther of Grosse Pointe Woods. left, representing Ed Maliszewski Car- "It wasn't cost effectIve for us has been Without any vendor to at the Grosse Pomte Hunt peting. talks to Charlie Fisher and his l-year-old daughter Lindsay. of Grosse to Jom the other Pomtes rep8.lT, upgrade, or otheTWlse Club, 655 Cook Road In Pointe Park as they stroll around the Grosse Pointe Board of Realtors' Home and because we already have a bet- support them smce the soft- Grosse Pomte Woods For Garden Expo on March 8 at the Grosse Pointe WarMemorial. The 10th annual event ter computer system m place ware company the Farms mformatlOn on tIckets and featured exhibitors on hand to answer questions about remodeling. landscaping, than the one the other Pomtes rehed on was sold m May 1994 match times, call (313) 882- security systems, and custom decorating. are upgradmg to The Woods 4100 The Farms current court sys- would be better served upgrad- tem was purchased III 1987 Ing our Own system," sald from HOTlzon SoftwarE' Monday, March 17 Gro~be Fomt" Woods councIl- Company The system was "Jp First phase of school technology man Bill Wl1son ported by HOrizon, essentially Happy St Patnck's Day The Woods, WIlson sald, IS a two-person vendor, until May also planmng to hire ill the 1994 FIrst DIstrict state Rep upgrade project nearing completion near future a fuU-time person Andrew RIchner beginS regu- By Shl1ley A. McShane To update the school board, At that tIme, the vendor sold your house You start on one to handle the City'S computer HOrizon to Manatron, Inc lar office hours With area Siaff Wrller technology coordmator JIm thmg and learn along the way system reSidents from 10 to 11 a m Anyone who has ever tackled Frantz dehvered a report to the that you need to do another When the purchase was com- Cost of the computer system plete, the new vendor contact- today m the JUry room at a home renovatIOn project on board on Monday, March 10 thmg and then another thmg " was based on case load, popilla- Grosse Pomte Woods cIty any scale - whether It'S refac- The first phase ISexpected to ed the Farms courts, and stat- He sllld that was especially tlon, and state equaliZed value ed that the Horizon system hall, 20025 Mack Plaza No mg kitchen cabmets or addmg be completed by the end of the true With some of the electnca1 of each communIty's property appomtment IS necessary on a family room - knows that school year, which means each woilld not receive support, and wmng m the older buildmgs, The Woods, wmch has the exp11llned Its mterest m pro- and everyone IS welcome to one task always begets anoth- room Will have five computers, some of which are about 70 er largest case load, lIkely would motmg Its own software stop by to vOIce concerns a TV-VCR, a CD ROM and years old and needed new elec- have p8.1d the highest pnce, Call 1-888-254-LAW1 for And by the time you are prmter Right now all the class- tncal panels and transformers The Farms court dId not Sign done, the project has grown had It partICIpated m purchas- on With the new vendor for a more mformatlon rooms for second- through "As a result, most of the con- mg the new system from ItS angInal estImated fifth-grades are completed and varIety of finanCial and pro- tmgency fund (for phase one of Here's the breakdown of cost The CIty of Grosse Pomte costs, tlmelme and propor- by mid Apnl the kmdergarten the proJect) has been used up," grammmg reasons, MackenZIe for the new computer system said CouncIl meets at 7 30 P m In tions and first-grade classrooms Wlll he saId '70 date we have spent GPC - $13,356, GPF - the cIty offices at 17147 So goes It Wlth the Grosse be fimshed, Frdntz said $4 1 mllhon and WIll have After MackenZIe reVIewed Maumee Pomte Pubhc School System's Teacher trammg also Wlll be $22,718, GPP - $23,933, and the alternatives of obtBlnmg spent another $600,000 by the GPS - $16,371 technology upgrade program, a completed by the end of the end of the school year That the source code, which would The Grosse POinte Woods five-year, $12 mIllion project school year, but Frantz saId It leaves us With $780,000 for the Then the annual mainte- allow other vendors to mllln- CIty CouncIl meets at 7 30 funded through a voter- WIllprobably take another year next three years for software nance cost WIll be divided as tam the software, and hmng a p m m the city offices at approved millage m 1994 that for all the teachers to be work- mamtenance and upgrades As follows City. $1,003, Farms third party to amend/repaIr 20025 Mack Plaza WlII put computers m every mg comfortably Wlth the new compared to the orlgmal bud- $5,023, Park. $9,445, and the software, the conclUSIOn classroom and network the technology get, the bIggest overrun was on Shores $16,371 was reached to pursue a Jomt Tuesday, March 18 pntlre dlstnct But along With progress mfrastructure It cost us The new computers WIll purchase for a new computer The first phase of the project there are also costs that have $600,000 more - or double - allow the Farms, City, Shores, systems With the other The Grosse Pomte Shores - the elementary schools - IS exceeded onglOal budget pro- the amount orIgmally antlcI- and Park to be connected Pomtes neanng completIOn The dls- Village CounCIl meets at 7 JectIOns, pnmarlly m the area pated It was a lot more than directly mto the Secretary of It has been developed by the p m In the VIllage offices at tnct has advertIsed specifica- of mfrastructure upgrades to we expected to wire these State and the Law tIOns for the second phase of State of Mlcmgan's Office of 795 Lakeshore accommodate the technology bUlldmgs" Enforcement InformatIOn Systems Management, the the project and bids are due at "We have had a fBlr number Frantz pomted out that Network (LEIN), said Lynn software WIll Illd the mumcI- the end of March CommIttees Thursday, March 20 of technical ghtches for a start- where thmgs are up and run- MackenZie, Grosse Pomte palltles m reportmg mforma have been formed to diSCUSSup of thIS sI7e," Frantz saId mng, they are runmng well.