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News January 13,2005
2A Grosse Pointe News
yesterday's headlines
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50 years ago this week
B Tests conducted by the
Grosse Pointe Farms engineering
department determine
emissions of dark
smoke from chimneys at
Grosse Pointe High School
and Gabriel Richard School
are within legal limits.
Out-pouring of smoke
occurs for durations of five
minutes or less, which complies
with the municipal
smoke abatement ordinance.
• A St. Clair Shores man
complains to City of Grosse
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Pointe police about yearround
operation of the traffic
light at Jefferson and
University.
The man says the light
isn't necessary during winter,
when the nearby municipal
lakefront park isn't
being used.
Police Chief Thomas
Trombly says the light is
needed to interrupt the flow
of steady vehicle traffic.
Otherwise, drivers would
speed the long distance
between lights at Fisher to
Balfour in Grosse Pointe
Park.
• Grosse Pointe's Blue
Devils basketball team
moves to the top of the
Border Cities League with a
67-55 victory over Monroe
on the Trojans' home court.
Grosse Pointe, Fordson
and Highland Park are
ranked in that order behind
unbeaten Dearborn in the
State Class A ratings.
25 years ago this week
• A parking structure on
the Hill in Grosse Pointe
Farms comes several steps
closer to reality with
approval of three resolutions
aimed at getting the project
started by the Farms
Economic Development
Corp.
As proposed, the deck will
contain between 270 and
380 parking spaces, depending
on the results of a feasibility
study due for completion
with a few weeks.
• Business have them.
Large cities and labor
unions, too.
And Grosse Pointe Woods
Councilman Dan Grady
thinks a lobbyist in Lansing
would be a good idea to "see
the best interests" are heard
on behalf of the Pointed and
Harper Woods.
• Owners of the landmark
Grosse Pointe Academy
building on Lakeshore in
Grosse Pointe Farms are
getting ready for its 100
birthday in 1983 with a variety
of renovation projects
that will be supported, in
part, by this year's annual
giving campaign.
The historically designated
building was constructed
in 1883 by the Society of the
Sacred heart as a boarding
school for young ladies.
10 years ago this week
• Faculty, staff and students
at St. Paul Catholic
School in Grosse Pointe
Farms congratulate teacher
Evelyn McShane for being
one of 81 instructors nationwide
to attain the status of a
nationally board certified
teacher by the National
Board for Professional
Teaching Standards.
• The Grosse Pointe
Board of Education adopts a
new weapons policy in conjunction
with recent state
law.
The law mandates any
student caught on school
property with a weapon will
be expelled permanently
from the district, with
numerous avenues of
appeal.
"1 support this policy, but
it's not a very well-written
law," says board President
Carl Anderson. "It allows for
reinstatement for arson,
rape and possession of a gun
but does not allow reinstatement
from other things."
• Deciding how to utilize
space at the southeast cor-
25 years ago this week
Fire rips through St. Clair terrace
Men and equipment from three neighboring communities help City of
Grosse Pointe public safety officers fight a three-alarm fire at a terrace condominium
in the 400 block of St. Clair. Only one apartment is damaged
extensively by the fire, leaving a woman and her three children homeless.
Officials think the fire was started by careless smoking. (Photo by David
Kramer. From the Jan. 10, 1980 Grosse Pointe News.)
ner of Mack and Moross tops
Grosse Pointe Farms' list of
objectives for 1995.
Last year the Farms purchased
the 5.6 acres of land
for $3.7 million.
"Our biggest project is to
complete what we started
last year and use our planner
to find the best public
purpose for the property,"
says Gregg Berendt, mayor.
5 years ago this week
• After 35 years serving
the Grosse Pointes — 30
years in the City and before
that, five years with the
Shores — director of finance
Dennis Foran retires from
the City.
• An electrical fire with a
mind of its own proves hard
for. Grosse Pointe Woods
public safety officers to
extinguish.
The stubborn attic fire in
the 800 block of Moorland
requires three alarms and
assistance from firefighters
from Grosse Pointe Shores,
Farms and City, with the
Park at the readv.
• To Daryl and Wytrice
Harris of Detroit, Y2K
stands for Y2 Kids.
The Detroit couple are the
first parents of twins — a
boy and girl — born of the
new millennium at Bon
Secours Hospital.
The first baby born this
year in the Pointes also
occurs at Bon Secours. Tyler
'Jacob Litteral is delivered
by C-section on Jan. 1, at
1:19 a.m., to mother Mary
Litteral of St. Clair Shores.
— Brad Lindberg
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