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GROSSE POINTE NEWS, DECEMBER 4, 2008<br />
NEWS<br />
Yesterday's headlines<br />
50 years ago this week<br />
• VOTERS APPROVE<br />
SCHOOL TAX: Electors of the<br />
Grosse Pointe School District<br />
approved a five-year extension<br />
of the nine-mill school tax levy<br />
by a 5 -to-1 majority.<br />
• WOODS HOME FIRE:<br />
Grosse Pointe Woods firemen<br />
battled a three-hour fireat a<br />
$50,000 home on E. Doyle<br />
Place, bringing it under control<br />
within an hour.<br />
The fire, which originated in<br />
the basement, is believed to<br />
have been caused by spontaneous<br />
combustion of piled up<br />
materials in a section of the<br />
basement. Damage to the<br />
house was estimated at<br />
$25,000.<br />
• POLIO CASES UP: The<br />
11th and quite possibly last<br />
case of polio this season was<br />
reported in the Grosse Pointe-<br />
Harper Woods Health District<br />
• TRAFFIC WOES CON<br />
TINUE: Traffic problems in the<br />
northwest end of Grosse<br />
Pointe Woods continue to<br />
plague residents and the<br />
Woods City Council.<br />
After using barriers and oneway<br />
streets over the past four<br />
years, council decided to remove<br />
all restrictions, ^except a<br />
one-way sign on Brys, as it<br />
tries to find a permanent solution<br />
to traffic problems.<br />
Residents of Roslyn however,<br />
say the interim solution isn't<br />
working. One resident says as<br />
many as 4,000 cars use the<br />
street each day.<br />
• PARK FAMILY ROBBED<br />
IN HOME: A Grosse Pointe<br />
Park family answered a knock<br />
on the door and found themselves<br />
face-to-face with three<br />
robbers who ransacked their<br />
WmdrniU Pointe Drive home.<br />
The residents were ordered<br />
to lie on the floor while the robbers<br />
made several trips to and<br />
from the house carrying televisions,<br />
jewelry and cash. The<br />
residents were unharmed.<br />
• SOUTH GOLFER IS SU<br />
PER: Grosse Pointe South<br />
High School senior Jud Kotas<br />
was named to the 1983 Boys'<br />
All-State All-Class "Super<br />
Team."<br />
Kotas ended the golf season<br />
with a 75.0 tournament average<br />
which included three<br />
medalist honors out of the four<br />
tournaments in which he participated.<br />
JO years ago this week<br />
last week.<br />
• PARKING HOLIDAY IN<br />
The 11th victim was a 2-yearold<br />
Grosse Pointe Farms girl. quent the many stores in<br />
WOODS: Shoppers who fre<br />
The total number of cases in Grosse Pointe Woods will be<br />
the district last year was seven. receiving a special Christmas<br />
gift: a break from having to<br />
feed the parking meter.<br />
Members of the Mack<br />
Avenue Business Association<br />
will place coverings over the<br />
25 years ago this week<br />
parking meters on Mack declaring<br />
there will be no need to<br />
put money in the meters.<br />
• PARK PASSES TOWER<br />
RULES: The Grosse Pointe<br />
Park City Council passed ordinances<br />
controlling the placement<br />
of radio towers in the city<br />
— even though there aren't any<br />
commercial antenna towers<br />
now in the city.<br />
Recent controversies in other<br />
Grosse Pointe communities<br />
over the placement of towers,<br />
usually to service cellular telephones,<br />
persuaded the council<br />
to consider passing its own ordinance.<br />
• FALSE IDENTITIES: A<br />
Grosse Pointe Woods public<br />
safety officer pulled over a ve-<br />
Santa arrives<br />
FROM<br />
THE DEC. 4, 1958 ISSUE OF THE GROSSE POINTE NEWS<br />
Snow flurries heralded the arrival of Santa Claus in The Village. In a traditional "White Christmas" atmosphere he greeted the children<br />
beneath the snow encrusted branches of a 35-foot-tree, located on the corner of Kercheval and St. Clair. He then took part in a<br />
tree-lighting ceremony that officially opened Christmas Street.<br />
hide for running a stop sign.<br />
As the driver, a Woods resident,<br />
went through his wallet,<br />
the officer noticed what appeared<br />
to be a driver's license.<br />
When the suspect produced<br />
another license, the officer<br />
asked about the one he had<br />
seen in the suspect's wallet.<br />
The suspect said it was another<br />
license. The officer asked to<br />
see it as well.<br />
The one license indicated the<br />
suspect was 17; the other, 21.<br />
The officer cited the suspect for<br />
carrying false identification.<br />
Five years ago this week<br />
• EMERALD RIBBONS<br />
FOR ASHES: In the tradition<br />
of yellow ribbons displayed in<br />
support of miliary r^^oriHel,<br />
some of the Pointes' most visible<br />
ash trees have been<br />
marked with emerald bows<br />
symbolizing their vulnerability<br />
to disease.<br />
The Grosse Pointe Shores<br />
Improvement Foundation is<br />
hoping to raise awareness in<br />
the <strong>community</strong> of the ash borer<br />
and its deadly aftermath.<br />
• GIRLS ON FILM: Two<br />
unknown female teenagers<br />
were recorded on a security<br />
video breaking into secondfloor<br />
lockers at a high school<br />
in Grosse Pointe Farms. An administrator<br />
thinks the girls<br />
were on campus from another<br />
school in connection with a<br />
basketball game.<br />
• SNEAKY BOSS: A<br />
woman hiding among bushes<br />
in the 800 block of St. Clair<br />
told police she was "checking<br />
on the arrival time of her employees."<br />
City of Grosse Pointe<br />
officers accepted her explanation.<br />
— Karen Fontanive<br />
Happy Holidays<br />
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