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GROSSE POINTE NEWS, JULY 30, 2009
NEWS
CITY OF GROSSE POINTE
Sunday parking free
Deck open
for shoppers
ByBradLindberg
Staff WMter
Peter Dame has been an assistant
city manager in suburban
Chicago and now manages,-
the City ; of Grosse
Poirite. If there's one thing
he's learned, it's this:
"Everybody loves free parking."
Accordingly, everybody
now can park for free on
Sundays in the Village municipal
parking garage.
The policy rebuffs a parking
consultant who said three
years ago the city should
charge for parking seven days
per week, day and night.
"Consultants aren't always
right," Dame said. "We sometimes
have to adjust to circumstances."
Those circumstances were
brought about by Trader
Joe's, located in Kercheval
Place next to the parking
structure on St. Clair. The
store since April has been giving
customers three hours of
free parking in the garage.
"This allows people visiting
the Village to visit multiple locations
in the Village and then
obtain free parking by shopping
at Trader Joe's," Dame
said. "It has greatly increased
the number of people parking
in the garage."
Yet, store officials said the
promotion put them at a disadvantage
because no where
else in the district on Sunday
were people required to pay
to park.
City officials leveled the
playing field this month at no
projected cost.
"Sundays are usually the
lowest revenue-producing
days of the month," Dame
said. "The use of the parking
structure has increased sufficiently
since the validation
system has begun to offset the
loss of revenues from Sunday
collections."
GROSSE POINTE SHORES
Kayak racks being considered
ByBradLindberg
Staff Writer
With summer half over, it's
doubtful that kayak racks will
be installed this year at Grosse
Pointe Shores' municipal
park.
Until racks are in place, residents
can bring their kayaks to
Osius Park and leave them on
site, according to City
Manager Brian Vick.
"The rack is a work in
progress," he said.
Progress is in the planning
stage. Planning is being governed
by the budget, which is
tight.
Vick hoped to install metal
racks of the type at Grosse
Pointe Farms Pier Park.
"We priced that out," he
said. "It was a couple thousand
dollars, something that wasn't
necessarily in the budget."
"Brian and I thought that
was a little high, especially at
this time," said Jim Cooke,
Shores park director. "We're
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Presenting checks
The Fontbonne Auxiliary of the St. John Hospital and Medical Center gave a $348,978.23 check to the hospital, left. The funds represent
the year's fundraising efforts which included the White Christmas Ball, Girls' Night Out, jewelry sale, bingo night and Le
Fontbonne Gift Shoppe sales. The check was presented to Vice President of Customer Services Deborah Condino by JoAnn Miller
far left, a member of Fontbonne's board of directors. The money will benefit the Lymphoma Clinic and Research Center, holistic
nursing and education, pediatrics, NICU, obstetrics, neurosdences and cardiology. Right, Miller presented a $ 15,000 check to Sr. Pat
Mullen, Nazareth administrator for the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph. Fontbonne Auxiliary's 2009-2011 officers are President
Aspa Raphtis of Grosse Pointe Woods, Vice President Cynthia Doherty of Grosse Pointe Farms, Recording Secretary Mary Ellen
Dakmak of Grosse Pointe Shores, Corresponding Secretary Sally Cytacki of Grosse Pointe Farms and Spiritual Advisor Sr.
Georgianna Simon, CSJ of Detroit.
Basketball camps start next month
Basketball skills are only part
of life's lessons Grosse Pointe
Farms youngsters will be
tipped off to next month at Pier
Park.
"Kids should learn to be competitive
at all ages," said Ray
Trincia, a retired Pennsylvania
school principal and coach who
teaches youth basketball clinics
at the park. "If children, get behind,
they can get lost because
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other kids are doing new things
and getting ahead."
One-week clinics are offered
to Farms residents through the
municipal recreation department
in separate age brackets:
• For children ages 7 to 9,
from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 3-7, with
registration due Monday, July
27.
• For children ages 10 to 12,
from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 10-14,
with registration due Monday,
inclia-devbalt nan-;
dling, shooting and playing
competitive games. There will
be contests for free throw
shooting, ball handling and
rope skipping,
Registration is $50 and includes
a T-shirt, pizza party
the last day of camp and a
certificate of completion.
Trincia teaches the sport's
fundamentals to youngsters
whether they aim to play
competitive or recreational
basketball. >- ;
"This will carry over into ;
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students having fun and
meeting other people,"
Trincia said. "It's another way
of advancing themselves and
learning social skills."
Trincia also teaches youth
volleyball clinics at the park
for children ages 10 to 13.
Classes are from 9:30 to 11:30
a.m. Aug. 3-7. Registration is
$50.
For more information, call
the park office at (313) 343-
2405.--
*•••••• : •••' • —Brddlmdberg
Presents
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August 6
5 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Arrive early for Music on The Plaza
on August 6th
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while Village merchants steal the show
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