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Crash in Farms kills 1 teen, injures a second BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com
woman might have played a part in some of those memories. Toni Urso-Salvador, of the Shores, portrayed Christmas Carol — one of Santa’s helpers — at the downtown Detroit Hudson’s store for about three or four years in the 1970s. At 82, she’s one of the last Christmas Carols still around. And the petite UrsoSalvador can still fit into her costume all these decades later, which is important, as she continues the Christmas Carol tradition each year by taking part in Grosse Pointe Shores’ Lighting of the Vil-
FARMS — A car crash claimed the life of one Grosse Pointe teen and left another injured. A report from police states that the single-vehicle crash took place at around 9:18 p.m. Nov. 17 on Ridge Road between Moran and Lewiston roads in Grosse Pointe Farms. Police said the vehicle was occupied by the driver, a 16-year-old from Grosse Pointe City, and a passenger, an 18-year-old from Grosse Pointe City. A witness told police the vehicle was traveling at “an extremely high rate of speed” when the driver lost control of the vehicle — a 2021 BMW X3 — and crashed into a streetlight and a tree on the north side of Ridge. Responding public safety officers were able to remove the driver rapidly and take him to Ascension St. John Hospital, where he was initially said to be in critical condition but later upgraded to stable condition. Police said they needed to use extrication tools to remove the passenger, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The passenger had just started his first year of college. Grosse Pointe City officials said both
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ABOVE AND RIGHT: Grosse Pointe Shores resident Toni Urso-Salvador — seen here portraying Christmas Carol for the Lighting of the Village in the Shores in November 2022 — continues to play the character each year during the holidays. File photos by Patricia O’Blenes
SHORES WOMAN KEEPS CHRISTMAS CAROL TRADITION GOING SHORES — An exhibition on display until the end of December at the Detroit Historical Museum has no doubt gotten Metro Detroiters of a certain age thinking back to their favorite holiday memories of the old Hudson’s department store downtown. What they might not know is that a Grosse Pointe Shores
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