- $ .- ... ~-----------~~-- rosse Pointe ews VOL. 47-No. 18 Grosse POinte, Michigan, Thursday, May 1, 1986 30 cents 44 Pages for your information First group home set to open this summer understood there's nothmg the CI- home, she saId, and at least one Ing the house The school board, By Pat Paholsky Woods to find a hou~e m the ty can do " person when the reSIdent!> are at however, deCIded to keep the house Pomtes The group had enough After more than SIX years of Letters notIfyIng resIdents of the school or work as an mcentIve for future superm- money from !>IXyear'> of fundraJ~ look 109 to open the first group agency's mtent wIll be mailed thIs Buymg the home IS the latest In tendents Il1gfor a down payment on a hou~e home for mentally retarded adults week, Mogos saId She saId resI- an effort begun m 1980 by ARC to The orgal1lzatlOn was !>etto be- up to $100,UUO fyi In one of the Pomtes, a local orga- dents Within 1,500feet on each side fmd a home for mentally retarded gIn house-huntmg m 1981 when ARC Pre~ldent Frank EVdnskl l1JZatlOnIStrymg agam The ASbO- of the house and 500 feet m front adults At that hme, the group ap- plans by the Department of Men- a Farm~ reSident, ~ald applIcatIOn clatIOn for Retarded CItizens and behmd wIll receIve notIces proached the board of educatIOn tal Health to place SIXmentally re- to operate a group home at the (ARC) of Grosse Pomte-Harper Local approval is not requIred. about the school-owned house on tarded adults In a house on Bed- Lakepomte addreb~ ha'> been Let US pmy Woods bought a house at 615 Lake- according to a 1976state law P A Gro!>se Pomte Boulevard used as ford resulted In a la"" SUItthat suc- made "If thE'Yapprove the applJ Sally Reynolds, director of pomte 10 the Park for $91,000 on 393-398states no special zoning or a resIdence for the superIntendent ceeded m stopping the venture catIon and the home meet~ all the Children's Theater which WII! March 24 approval IS reqUIred when SIXor Then superintendent Wilham Then last year ARC teamed up requJrement~, the Department of present "Ohver" May 10, 16and Plans are to place SIXmentally fewer persons lIve In a lIcensed Coats announced plan!>to lease the With the Group Home Advisory Mental Health \~JII ledl>e It from 17, stumbled across an effectlve retarded adults m the home, ac- home m a resIdentIal area The distrIct and there was talk of sell- Council of Grosse Pomte-Harper us" prayer The group's late::>t cordmg to a spokespel ::>onflU an ::>tdlelaw ::>Ul>ei::>eue:>a Pdlk WH- production has a number of agency of the Department of Men- mg ordmance which prohibIts adult roles and after everyone tal Health Demse Mogos, actmg more than two unrelated adults was cast and the company was director of pubhc affaIrs for from lIvmg together in a house well mto rehearsal, one of the Wayne Community LIVing Ser- There will be an Information adult male actors had to drop Vices, said It'S her best guess that center set up at Trombly School out for medical reasons the group home would be 10 opera- Monday, May 12, from 5 to 8 pm, "Our prayer Will be amen," tion this summer Four of the SIX for reSidents to come at their con- the resourceful director told the residents placed m the home Will vemence, Mogos saId. It WIll be cast, "like ah-men and men will be Grosse Pomters who are cur- hosted by the Group Home AdVI- appear" And wouldn't you rently liVing With their parents, sory CouncIl of Grosse POlnte- know it, a man did appear 10 the she said Harper Woods, Wayne Commum- form of one of the children's fa- The initial response by reSidents ty Llvmg Services and Commum- thers He stepped fight mto the In the area raises the specter of the ty Admll1lstrative SerVices, Inc , role, averting another mmor legal battle waged 10 1981when the the private, non-profit agency that criSIS in the annals of the thea- Department of Mental Health Wll! operate the home. trical group. bought a house on Bedford Resi- Mogos said her agency prOVides Break a leg, Dad I dents then - on a legal techmcalI- funds to the operating agency, ty - were successful m preventing selects the people who will hve In the home from opening TheIr le- the home and provides the ser- gal fight cost them more than vices These include an interdis- Acting ;s full $10,000. clphnary team consisting of a so- About 70 residents met Saturday Cial worker, speech therapist, of ups and downs at Windmill Pointe Park to diSCUSS nurse, psychologIst, dIetician and Another story from rehear- their options. Some spoke of taking occupatIOnal therapist - all of sals of "Oliver," the nl;lxt legal actIOn and a few spoke mfa- whom WII! make regular VISItSto productIOn of Children's vor of the home, City Manager the house Direct staff wIll prOVide Theater John Crawford said "In general, 24-hour care There will be two Young Kim Ramsey, who is the meeting went very well. They people on staff when residents are cast as one of Fagin's gang, a member of the workhouse and a singer, watched her father Jim, also 10 the play, being No incidents reported directed by Sally Reynolds. He was told to move upstage and Pho 0 by F'f.ler A Sd m~s when he drew a blank look, Kim first weekend of curfew This house at 615 Lakepointe was bought by the Association of Retarded Citizens for a group home. showed her father what was up and what was down. "Don't By Nancy Parmenter and your friend ISfrom the Farms, worry, Mrs Reynolds, I'll work It was all quiet on the Hill thiS you can't even go to the city park with him," KIm said. weekend. The warm, summer-like together. " Even fathers, who always temperatures brought about 30 ReSIdent Dee Szmrecsanyl of the Drinking water is safe, know best, need a helping hand youths out to congregate m the re- South High Mothers Club IS (\Iso now and then Sidential Radnor-Hall area Just off lookmg for alternatives to a cur- Kercheval, but they 'dispersed few She was a member of the , . Without Incident," according to po- committee that set up a teen cen- health department says hce ter at the Neighborhood Club last Deadeye Dick, The Farms police beefed up year By Nancy Parmenter would expect the DNR to contact Boaters have complamed for years their presence With additional foot "It was deCided by the commit- The Farms wlll be able to treat the local health department," he about the poor water Circulation of for shame patrol, WhIChWll! be continued for tee that the kids weren't mterest- its harbor for aquatic weeds thIS said waleI' mSlde the harbor, accord 109 It's a sure sIgn of spring when an unspecified period, said Pohce ed," Szmrecsanyl SaId. "We re- sprll1g after all A qUick study last So far, the Wayne County Health to Farms Clerk Richard Solak the BB guns come out of wraps Chief Robert Ferber. luctantly concluded that the kids week by the state Department of Department has not heard from Lehner was mcllned lo agree . I Apparently a lot ofFarmslolks "The parents are the ones to be would rather drink and party Now Public Heath determmed that the DNR "I don't know If the DNR would expect very lIttle to get out think they're Frank Buck in the complimented," Ferber said we'd lIke to try It again" 2,4-D, copper sulfate and other knew there was a beach there," of the harbor," he saId "That's wilderness - and it's taking a "They've taken responsible ac- Although students were lI1volved chemICals used to retard weed said the department's Tom Mc- probably one reason they have toll on property and wl1dlife. tIOns to keep their children off the in the planmng for the teen center, growth Wll! not enter the water Nulty "If they did, they would weeds 10 there, because ot ItS poor Farms police logged four BB streets " Szmrecsanyl saId they dIdn't sup- supply for Grosse POll1te Farms, notify us " circulatIOn" port It Now she has student 10- mcidents in just one day last Meanwhlle, parents and offiCials Grosse POinte and Highland Park The county health department The DNR dId not order a health week. Three Grosse Pointe men are orgamzing to respond to the terest among a support group look- Richard Lehner of the health de- samples the water at the PIer Park ing for activltles that don't focus on department review of the case 10 their 205 took down their trus- youth complamt that they have partment said his maps do not on a weekly baSIS throughout the when It first granted the permlt ty DaiSies and bagged 'em a nothmg to do Mark Weber, direc- drugs or alcohol show the exact locatIOn of the summer Normally they mOnItor "What has Impressed me most IS last year No review was done robin, yes sir. An officer confIS- tor of the War Memorial, said Mon- water mtake m relation to the har- fecal coliform, but If they are when the second permIt \\ as cated the guns and the bIrd and day that he has been talkmg to the Ideas (the students have sug- bor, but he estimated that the aware of specific chemicals, they gested)," she said "They want granted thl~ year WIthout a re- charged the men with dlscharg- John Bruce, director of the NeIgh- 36-ll1ch Il1take lIes 2,300 feet off- can run a test for them, McNulty View, It IS ImpOSSible to knO\\ mg a weapon mside the city borhood Club, and Farms councll- fun, unstructured activIties The shore said problem IS that kids who are off whether the chemIcals \\ ould 1lJ- hmits.