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By Darrin Moore ach year in July, ElbaMar Boat Club hosts their massive threeday party that is open to the public. If you are a visitor who attends with your own circle of friends and go into the big circus tent to drink and dance the night away to the great live music, you might not notice the enchanting magic which makes Elba-Mar one of the most delightful and respected boat clubs in the region.

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‘LISTENING IN ON THE ISLAND’ Flag at Island Entrance Enjoyed by All Thanks to Local Resident Tom Sinclair Tom Sinclair, who graduated from Grosse Ile H.S. in 1963 and moved back twelve years ago, would drive down Parkway and admire the Grosse Ile signboard, the planted area, and the G.I. Garden Club’s flowery area, but felt there was something missing. He had flown a flag in honor of his son who served in the Air Force and felt the township should have a flag at our entrance, so he contacted supervisor Brian Loftus and Art Koester, now

By Pamela A. Frucci deceased, who was very active with the Kiwanis Club. Tom was also close to Dale Abduhl, then commander of the VFW. All three gentlemen were supportive of the idea. With Tom leading the way, he found a tree company which dug up the donated flag pole from the VFW hall on Macomb Street and relocated it at the entranceway.

The VFW buys the flags from the Kiwanis Club which paid for the light on the flag and which offers to mount flags on patriotic holidays for residents for $40. Order a flag at grosseilekiwanis.org Now, thanks to the guy who pursued the idea, we show our patriotism with an American flag mounted in 2010.

Grosse Ile Family Donates Time and Talent to Destitute in the Dominican Republic Theresa McCarthy, who works as a dental hygienist at Dr. Long’s Lifelong Family Dentistry on Macomb, her husband Mark, and sixteen year-old son Garrison went on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic from June 17-27th with the Hope International Ministries. The leader of the ministries is the pastor who married Mark and Theresa twenty years ago but retired and started up the non-denominational humanitarian organization.

The McCarthys joined 260 team members and set up medical clinics in five different communities.

The clinics included medical doctors, dentists, dental hygienists, chiropractors, and pharmacists.

The team treated 2,900 patients, many of whom had never seen a doctor or dentist before. But besides the medical team, 70% had to be non-medical to facilitate the humanitarian side of the organization.

While Theresa spent long hot hours (95 degree weather with high humidity) working on cleaning teeth of patients both young and old (50 patients from 2 to 70), her husband Mark helped construct two churches, and Garrison ran basketball clinics for the young people. Theresa is grateful to her boss Dr. Long for donating much of the equipment she used which luckily made the trip back with her.

All the participants in the mission trip paid their own way.

The team not only worked on long lines of patients at the clinic, but each morning they had

to load all the equipment at 5 a.m. on a bus for the two-hour trip into the mountains. The mission is hoping the Dominican Republic comes through with their commitment to donate land to build a hospital where equipment could be stored rather that manually loaded and unloaded each day.

Although the work was done in uncomfortable heat, they were treated to a resort-like accommodations after work. Theresa is planning to go back in 2019.

Houseboat a Former Home on Grosse Ile in 1952 In the August 1952 Ile Camera can be found an article about a floating home sketched by Tommy Woodward, the artist who provided delightful sketches of homes and sites around the island for the Ile Camera from 1948-53. Fifty of his pen and ink drawings have been featured in the book published by the G.I. Historical Society in the soon-to-be-republished Grosse Ile Then and Now: An Island Sketchbook and Tour Guide. This former sailing ship, which came all the way from Washington D.C. through the inland waterway, the Hudson River, and the Erie Canal became the home of Eric Schmidt who docked it on the west shore of Grosse Ile just south of Ferry Road.

It had all the comforts of home even though it was built as a working vessel in 1863. Schmidt was quoted as saying: “She was the oldest ship in America outside of a museum.” Although we don’t know when this boat was retired, the practice of making a home in boats moored along our shores continues to this day.

Island Resident Dedicated to Compassion in Nursing Michelle Churches has lived on Grosse Ile since 200 but grew up in Ecorse where the library and librarian left an indelible impression upon the development of her humanitarian side. That’s why when she was working on her Masters of Science and Nursing from Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA, she chose as her public health project to revamp the Ecorse Library. It had been closed for years. She felt the community needed a library with attractive grounds for residents to enjoy the reading experience. She worked with the local garden club and got a loan for landscape material which she bought from Westcroft Gardens. Another main influence in her life was hearing a talk by Jean Watson, a professor at the University of Colorado in which she spoke locally about “Caritas,” which translates into the kind of compassionate love that

offers charity; like giving loving care to patients.

Michelle has been a public nurse for over thirty years and could see compassion missing in some of the care given to patients. Now that she has moved up in the ranks working at the University of Michigan’s Office of Clinical Affairs, she visits nursing facilities and checks if the various hospitals are offering Caritas and helps them find ways to be more compassionate. “We’re all social beings and need connection,” Michelle explains. “Compassion always works in dealing with patients.”

Corrections on Last Month’s EPA Relocation Story

By Pam Frucci Few things are more aggravating than when misinformation ends up in an article I’ve written, but as a lifelong reporter, I realize that no matter how fastidious one is, misinformation still finds its way in occasionally and corrections are sometimes necessary. Thanks to feedback from Jeff Lippert, the Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the EPA office on Grosse Ile, here’s the straight scoop correcting the information printed in the July issue of the Grand: EPA Move to Ann Arbor Still Up in the Air. The move is not up in the air but is solid and was settled over a year ago. Official notice of the move to Ann Arbor was given to our local EPA on June 22, 2017. The decision to move the EPA office to Ann Arbor was made not by the Trump administration but in 2016 by the Obama administration. The EPA does indeed own the building into which they’re moving in Ann Arbor and the EPA workers would not be working out of trailers but rather in modular office space that is being built for them. The EPA never has access to boats or planes being headquartered at an airport or near water. Being located in Ann Arbor will avoid the delays caused by the drawbridges and train traffic. The move will save an estimated $600,000.

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WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE? Hopefully, by the time this article reaches you, our water delivery problems will be resolved. Almost everyone on the island has been affected by one or more watermain failures over the past several weeks, and we are investigating the causes and attempting to find solutions. As most of you are aware, we rely on our municipal water system for human consumption, washing and

By Brian Loftus bathing, and firefighting capabilities. Any interruption in the expected delivery of this water causes problems, from inconvenience to safety concerns, and your Township Department of Public Services works diligently to ensure we provide the water you rely on.

I’d like to share some fun facts about our water delivery system, mostly invisible because most of it is below ground and therefore unseen.

We purchase treated, pressurized water from the Great Lakes Water Authority, whose organization and history would be a lengthy story itself. Numerous high capacity watermains radiate from the treatment plants, and we are served by mains in the vicinity of Jefferson Avenue.

A 16” main, made of cast iron and installed in 1940, runs under the Trenton Channel near the Toll Bridge from Riverview to Grosse Ile. Pressure is reduced and controlled by a Pressure Reducing Valve (or PRV, replaced in 2015) and then connected our water system. Farther south, near the Parkway Bridge, is a newer (1980) 24” ductile iron main, also delivering water to the island through a PRV. These are our sources of water from the GLWA; two for redundancy, again, to ensure you have reliable water delivery. Usually.

The unseen infrastructure that is our water system is truly impressive, with over 75 miles of watermains maintained by our DPS, half of which is over 50 years-old with some of it being installed in the 1920s. The mains range in size from 6” cast iron, the oldest, through 24” ductile iron.

Our most recent improvements have been replacing iron pipes with high

WE HAVE A MIX OF LARGE AND SMALL, OLD AND NEW, AND IT USUALLY SERVES US WELL. density polyethylene (HDPE). We completed nearly two miles of mains along East River Road in 2015 and are currently installing HDPE mains along West River Road. These HDPE watermains―somewhat flexible and impervious to corrosion―should serve the community for centuries.

You can research lots of other interesting (although maybe not exciting) information in the water quality report you recently received.

So what is causing the failures?

We have been advised of pressure spikes in the watermains that supply our Island, and Riverview has also suffered some failures (although Trenton has not). Remember the PRVs I mentioned earlier? They serve an additional purpose besides reducing water pressure in the mains; they also balance the pressure between water entering from the north and the south delivery mains. We had plans to replace the PRV on the 24” main in the near future, and we are accelerating that replacement as we suspect that valve is no longer able to control pressure surges. We are also working with GLWA to determine the causes of the surges in their lines, which hopefully they will be able to control.

So we have a mix of large and small, old and new, and it usually serves us well. Unfortunately, it is currently giving us fits and it will be a few months to replace the south PRV. Until we get this solved, I recommend keeping some stored water available ― perhaps some bottled water for drinking and cooking along with a bucket or tub for bathing or toilet flushing. I hope you found this informative, but unfortunately I cannot say we have found a solution at this time.

Unrelated update: the settlement negotiations over the McLouth/DSC property sale continue, and therefore the public comment period and public hearing have been postponed. You will be advised when a settlement is reached and the process continues.

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ELBA-MAR CONTINUED from page 1 Nestled between Grosse Ile and the southernmost tip of Elba Island, Elba-Mar might not be the fanciest boat club on the river, or its biggest, but what makes it special is its people and their dedication to making it a fun and friendly place to be.

What’s the magic? “This week is a perfect example,” Lady Kim LeBlanc tells us. “The volunteers make all of this happen! For example; Fred Keier is a Past Commodore, but he’s been here working all day, every day this week to make this happen.”

Lady Kim’s husband, Neal, is the current Rear Commodore and is the head of the event.

“No Rear Commodore could do all of this on his own,” Neal explains. “There are roughly twenty different chairmen in charge of certain important parts of making this week such a success. These are mostly long-standing members who bring in their crews to get it done. And they’ve been doing

this for a long time.”

All that member involvement and hard work pays off big time. Thousands of people make their way to the little club to have a ball each year, and the club’s coffers are richly rewarded for throwing these perennial super parties. While membership dues are the lion’s share of budget revenues, Elba-Mar Days is the year’s biggest fundraiser for the club.

The club has no debt and turns a profit annually; and that solvency is what enables Elba-Mar to continuously update their facilities while keeping their prices down.

Past Commodore Craig Koteles adds, “We have not raised the membership dues since at least the year 2000, but in the past few years we have added a new stove and oven, a new walk-in freezer, a walk-in beer cooler, and we now have twelve new beer taps so we can offer a wider variety of draughts!”

Plus, the club’s auxiliary gives away two $1000 college scholarships each year on the Sunday of the Elba-Mar Days, which is the designated family day. This year’s scholarship

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winners are Christie Miller and Olivia Begin.

Neal and Kim LeBlanc, who moved to the island from Farmington Hills one year ago, have been members at ElbaMar for five years. “We were looking down here twenty years ago, actually, and we decided that when we became emptynesters we’d move down here.

We knew we wanted to be on Grosse Ile. When we came to check out Elba-Mar, John White was the Commodore at the time. We felt really comfortable immediately.

Everyone was really nice. They let us just walk around and check it out on our own. We thought, ‘this is pretty cool,’” Neal fondly recalls. Kim chimes in happily, “It’s just a really friendly club. It’s laid back. It’s not uptight. It’s just a nice place to hang out.”

“We’re the friendliest club on the river! -That’s our motto.

The other clubs are great, we have lots of respect for them, and we have lots of friends there too, but we consider Elba-Mar ‘a beer and a shot’ kind of club. That’s what we were looking for,” Neal summarily adds. “Plus there was a greater likelihood of us getting a permanent well (a dock or slip) for our boat sooner.” There was a time when

getting a well for your boat at Elba-Mar was impossible. “The club originally was fishing club.

There were trees all along the banks and you simply hitched your boat to one of them,” Neal explains. Now one hundred seventy wells are tucked into the horseshoe-shaped marina and it is still difficult to get one of those.

Elba-Mar has reciprocal membership with the Ford Yacht Club and the Grosse Ile Yacht Club, which means that members of any of the clubs may go to the other clubs as welcomed guests for club events and to dine. “But lots of people buy a social membership here too, so they don’t have to sign in as guests when they come,” Kim points out. “Plus, it’s only $375 per year and it comes with a $100 script card which can be used for purchases at the club.” About three to six new members join every month on average, but last month they attracted thirteen new members. “We currently have five hundred twenty-five full-time and social members,” Koteles discloses. It is also the club that stays afloat because each full-time member

is required to work twenty-five hours over the course of the year in some capacity at the club. Many serve their hours during Elba-Mar Days, but many go above and beyond.

Unlike many other clubs, leadership is long-term commitment at Elba-Mar. “At a lot of clubs you can go in and just run for fleet captain or vice commodore and then not do anything else the next year. For us it’s a five year commitment,” Neal explains. “It’s a long haul. It’s fun, but it’s a lot of work. When you sign up to ‘go through the flags’, the first year you are the Fleet Captain, who is responsible for the all bus trips, all the parties, and club runs. It’s a very busy year. The second year, you’re the Rear Commodore, who is responsible for the yard, but their big gig is Elba-Mar Days. The third year is the Vice Commodore, who is responsible for ‘the house’; the bar and restaurant. The fourth year, you are the Commodore, who is responsible for overseeing everything. But the Commodore is also our representation at all the other SEE ELBA-MAR, page 11

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ELBA-MAR CONTINUED from page 10 clubs’ balls, which could be as many as thirty events. And then in the fifth year, you serve on the board of directors as Past Commodore.” It’s a real stewardship of the club, ensuring that institutional knowledge isn’t lost as people move in and out of leadership, and it is what keeps the club in ship-shape.

“I can’t say enough good things about this club and its people,” Commodore Tim Ames tells us. “My wife, Lady Julie, and I have been members for twelve years now and we have made many everlasting friendships at this club and others nearby. We love to welcome new members and enjoy seeing everyone having a good time.” He is responsible for booking entertainment in addition to all the many other hats he wears as the club’s Big Kahuna. “All summer long we provide live entertainment on Saturday nights, and there’s lots going on in the off-season too.”

“. . . WE CONSIDER ELBA-MAR ‘A BEER AND A SHOT’ KIND OF CLUB.” “Dave Machuga, who is in his second year as the club’s executive chef, has done a terrific job of increasing the quality of food,” Ames affirms. Last year’s Commodore Koteles continues, “Dave’s a great guy. He’s really easy to talk to and work with. He loves coming out and talking to the people, which is something we haven’t had in long time. He wants to know if something is wrong so that he can fix it right away. Dave actually owns and runs our kitchen (the primary equipment, of course, belongs to the club) and having the owner right there is what works best for our club. It’s really hard to do what Dave does because you can never know how many people will show up for dinner. Some nights it seems everyone shows up all at once. Dave is handling it really well and hitting his stride. I love his cannelloni! He makes the noodles himself.”

Elba-Mar’s staff is small but effective.

Lady Traci Koteles is the office manager and has been ably serving in that role for twelve years. “And everybody loves Big Daddy!” Commodore Ames exclaims warmly. Big Daddy, whose real name is Rick St. Onge, is the affable man who has been the club’s chief in the garage for over twenty years. “At most clubs, you are responsible for getting your own boat in and out of the water at the start and end of the season. But here at Elba-Mar, Big Daddy does it for you.” He doesn’t do it SEE ELBA-MAR, page 26

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St. James Chapel’s 150th Would Have Thrilled Former Slave and Founder Lisette Dennison Forth

By Pamela Frucci Back in the 40s and 50s, there were only two churches on the island; the Catholic church and the St. James Episcopal Church which held a rededication ceremony of its chapel on Sunday, July 15th to commemorate the very day it was consecrated 150 years ago by the Episcopalian bishop.

Under a large sheltering tent on the grounds of the church, 185 interested attendees heard messages from both Rev.Wendell Gibbs, the bishop of the Episcopal Church of Michigan, and a sermon by Rev. Shannon MacVeanBrown. The Rev. MacVean-Brown

SO TO COMMEMORATE HER CULINARY EXPERTISE, A CATERER DISHED OUT BUCKWHEAT PANCAKES AND ALL THE FIXINGS had flown in from Indianapolis. As the Rev. Phil Dinwiddie remarked to the congregation, Lisette Dennison Forth, the former slave and then a freed servant of the John Biddle family, would have been thrilled to witness the occasion of the main speakers both being black. She had donated her life savings of $1,500, matched by a

like amount from the Biddle family, to build a chapel where the rich and poor could sit together. She had experienced having to sit in the back of church services while the Biddles could sit up front.

Lisette traveled with the Biddles to Europe and her buckwheat pancakes were reportedly a huge hit with the

people of Paris; so to commemorate her culinary expertise, a caterer dished out buckwheat pancakes and all the fixings following the service.

All in all, that Sun., July 15 was day to celebrate the enduring legacy Lisette Dennison Forth left behind. She’s been recognized by the Women’s Hall of Fame in Lansing and several proclamations have been presented to the church honoring her as being the first African American woman to own land in Michigan when she bought 48 acres of farmland in Pontiac in 1825.

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By Susan Palmer trouble (but they will look really cute while doing it). Cats are notorious for magically scooting through the open door in a nano-second (it’s really that whole worm-hole thing I wrote about in the April edition). We need to be prepared for “just in case.” Should your little monkey decide to go on a “walkabout,” we need a break-away collar and identification tag with kitty’s name and your telephone number on it to help kitty be brought back home. The “break-away” is crucial so kitty doesn’t get caught on a branch or fence,or even the teeth of an aggressive animal. The tag and collar shouldn’t cost more than $20 and both are available at most specialty pet stores.

If your tabby won’t tolerate a collar―my Aslan used to bury his in the litter box―a micro-chip is the answer! I have seen clinics offer to implant one for as little as $25 per pet. I checked with several local veterinarians and most charge around $50 for the implant and a lifetime membership with the company that handles your animal’s information.

For those who can afford it, the peace of mind is well worth the investment.

Sometimes, somehow, in total disrespect for your best efforts, your treasured tabby will try, and likely succeed at least once, to escape your safe, loving home. Should your cat disappear outdoors, here are some tips to help guide Fluffy home again: n Place a used litter box outside near your house so the scent can guide Fluffy home. For those who are serious, scatter some cat poop around your property, also to guide.

n Always notify neighbors, police and shelters. Facebook has several organizations just for finding lost pets.

If possible, always post flyers and a picture. n Put a bowl of cat food on the porch or outside by the door. The stinkier, the better; such as tuna cat food or sardines. Always put out fresh water. n Place a cat bed and cat toys outside, so there is something familiar and comforting, with kitty’s scent on it. n Put out a pillow case or an article of clothing with your scent on it. n Leave the garage door propped open in case kitty returns and needs a safe place. n Sit outside and read out loud in your “regular” voice. Do not read loudly or yell. Cats associate your loud voice with scolding for bad behavior. And don’t read something scary. That’s just mean. n When searching for your lost feline, always use a flashlight, even in daylight. The light will reflect off of kitty’s eyes revealing it’s hiding place. n Remember that your kitty’s curiosity can lead them into trouble.

Check with your neighbors and politely ask them to open their sheds and out-buildings to see if they have your little explorer accidentally locked inside.

Last month I wrote about losing our fur-babies to God. There’s pain for us, but also peace and comfort knowing that our loved ones are no longer in pain. But when we lose one to the outside world, with its many threats and unknowns, there is no comfort, just hope and fear and lots of tears.

I’ve rescued cats for many years, but now―it seems that on an almost daily basis―they rescue me. They bring me joy, they comfort me, and I find them a great amusement and a devilishly cute distraction. I pray one never escapes our safe, loving home.

I pray one never escapes our safe, loving home. Each of mine, who are never supposed to go outdoors, has a collar and name tag. I couldn’t afford the micro-chipping, but I do want them to be safe!

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Island Sailor Wins Mackinac Race Again

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rosse Ile’s Joe Sosnowski is a sailor, and like all sailors he enjoys the tilting deck beneath his feet and the wind in his face. He also enjoys the feel of of gold medals in his hand like the one he earned as a crewman on the Comfortably Numb sailboat that recently won its class in the annual Port Huron-to-Mackinac race.

For Sosnowski, whose tax-advisory business is on Meridian Road on Grosse Ile, the Mackinac victory

By Hank Minckiewicz aboard “Numb” was the third in a row and sixth in the past 18 years. Sosnowski, a mainsail trimmer, was one of nine crew members on the winning boat owned by Mark and Gail Miller.

Sosnowski was joined aboard by Mark Miller, Case Delang, Steve Beck, Jim Neumann, Doug Netzloff, Greg Muliett, Mike Hurley and John Beckius. Sosnowski is the only Downriver crew member of Comfortably Numb which sails out of the Bayview Yacht Club.

Although Sosnowski owns his own boat and sails it out of the Ford Yacht Club on Grosse Ile, his ties to Comfortably Numb are long and deep.

“People ask why I don’t race for Ford Yacht Club,” said Sosnowski, “and I tell them, ‘Ford Yacht Club taught me how to sail, but Mark Miller and Comfortably Numb taught me how to race. Because of that, I’ll race with them as long as they want me’.”

Sosnowski came to sailing later in life than most. One of his business clients needed a crew member for his boat and recruited greenhorn Sosnowski for the job. He was quickly hooked.

“I bought the guy’s boat a year later,” Sosnowski say with a short laugh. And he’s been sailing ever since.

The Port Huron-to-Mackinac race is the highlight of the season for many sailors and Sosnowski says it is a fun race because you never can tell about conditions. A year ago, with strong and favorable winds on every turn, Comfortably Numb made its fastest ever run to Mackinac. This year, it was just the opposite. “It was the slowest race ever,” Sosnowski said. “It was almost unbearable. They delayed the start several times because there was just no wind at all. At one point our plotting software estimated out arrival

time at Mackinac as August 21.”

Sosnowski said during much of the race the boat’s speedometer read zero and the only way the crew could tell they were still moving was to watch the water and see small bits of debris moving past the hull. Maintaining at least a little forward momentum even

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But after those super calm conditions for much of the race, the fleet got an unexpected blow at the end. “We were expecting 6 to 10 knot winds and we wound up getting 16 to 18,” Sosnowski said. In those windy conditions some boats took their sails down as a safety precaution, but Comfortably Numb used the wind to race for the finish. “There’s an old saying ‘put up the sheets and let god take ‘em down,’” said Sosnowski. “That’s kind of the approach we take; no fear.”

Sosnowski said Comfortably Numb is well known in sailing circles as a fun boat, but based on its long history of winning, it’s fun reputation gets along nicely with its competitive side.

Sosnowski said that for him, the partying and the winning are really just side benefits to sailing.

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By Darrin Moore “Civilizations grow great when old men plant trees in the shade of which they know they will never sit,” an old proverb presciently explains. Surely the planting of trees is more of a result than a causation of great civilizations, and often our time is better spent tending old trees than planting new ones. However, the proverb’s meaning is clear; pay it forward, leave the world better than you found it, do good things today that will grow into something great in the future.

Civil societies are not natural.

They don’t just emerge like weeds.

Civilizations are man-made, and therefore require citizens who are artisans in the craft of civilizationmaking. Civilizations require constant maintenance, steady stewardship, and fierce defenders else they crumble and the jungle then reemerges and savagery is loosed upon the world in something approaching a war of all against all until a strong man’s regime seizes power to impose order. Many today take civil society for granted.

Indeed, the more durable and lasting a social order is, the more likely its civilians will assume their social order is practically permanent and its benefits are as plentiful as the air we breathe.

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Decadence, hubris, and boredom set in when civilizations become affluent and flabby. The pillars of civil society are left undefended, and before we know it, barbarians are being bred within the gates because society hasn’t imbued them with the winnowed wisdom of our ancestors and the hard lessons of history which outfit men with moral imaginations, the habits of restraint, and loyal reverence for the intricately constructed grand edifice of civilization.

C.S. Lewis opined how the folly of the time was for humankind to believe that once it had climbed high up the ladder of civilization it could kick the ladder out from under itself and remain at its lofty height. Worse, when a people no longer revere civilization’s long climb from the swamp to the stars, they come to believe they can refashion a new, better society out of whole cloth. Armed with self-flattering good intentions, utopian visions, and the power of the state, social engineers confidently take on the task tearing

down what has been painstakingly built up, replacing what worked reasonably well for ages with what sounds good now. The result is often disastrous and a whole new set of problems are initiated which devastate the very people their schemes ostensibly aimed to help. Typically the social engineers are blind to the humbling knowledge that their schemes have already been tried under similar guises again and again in the not-too-distant past, and they are unrepentant when their means end again in ruin. Tragically the lesson that civilization is a thin crust over a volcano will be repeated until it is learned.

We must care for the poor, for example, but rather than merely looking at what causes poverty and trying to eradicate it, we ought to realize that poverty is the natural, default condition of mankind. Far from alleviating it, even more poverty and failure is created when we simply subsidize it. We ought to focus on what causes the creation of genuine wealth and empower people with the skills to generate it for themselves. In his book Enough, Juan Williams found that “the good news is that there is a formula for getting out of poverty today.” The four magical steps, he says, are finishing high school, taking and holding a job, getting married, and not having children out of wedlock. The poverty rate for those who follow the formula is a tiny 5.8 percent.

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By Darrin Moore “So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.” -So said William James, the father of American psychology. Two Grosse Ile elementary teachers have made it their mission to give our little eaglets the wings to soar skillfully into their futures. Lindsey Parsons and Michele Barringer have teamed up to institute a summer reading program that hopes to encourage summer reading by making reading fun for “young fives” (pre-kindergarten) through fifth graders.

“We want to give parents tools to help their children develop their reading skills during the summer,” Mrs. Parsons explains. Parents were given list of books that are age-appropriate and the kids were given ‘Show Off Sheets’ on which they could write down their goals and accomplishments for the summer. “Their goals can be anything; a list of books they intend to read, the number of minutes they aim to read each day or hours each week. We just want to make reading fun for them.” In hopes that they’ll play now and read later, hundreds of previously donated children’s books were laid out on the picnic tables at the playground outside Parke Lane Elementary and the kids were encouraged to “give one and take one.” Some three dozen children were brought to this first event and Mrs. Parsons and Mrs. Barringer hope even more will attend the next one on Wednesday, August 15th at 5p.m.

“What I Did This Summer” Writing Contest The Grosse Ile Grand will award $50 cash prizes to one youth and one adult author who compose the best short essay about their 2018 summer.

Submissions should be no longer than 600 words and must be emailed to the editor by Tuesday, September 14th. The winners’ essays will be published in the October issue. Even if your summer wasn’t particularly interesting, you can win the contest if you can write about it in such a way that is fun and interesting to read. Send your story to darrin@gobigmultimedia.com

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By Jackie Shannon If you’ve ever wanted to e lulu i kou’alaina ma kahi wai’au’au (that’s Hawaiian for shake your grass skirt by a swimming pool), you’ve missed your chance! -This year, at least. The Grosse Ile Recreation Department hosted a Luau at Water’s Edge Pool, which, on July 19th, was turned into an afterhours tropical paradise.

There were forty some guests that were given the island treatment,

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Grosse Ile Bakery, Sweet In All Ways

By Gail Albin If you are a first-time reader of Albin Account, you are welcome here. I write with older citizens in mind or for people who may have older relatives or friends to assist. A few times we moved or were transferred where we knew no one. I learned that I had to get out and get involved to find new friends.

My late husband Leon did not want to move from Troy to Grosse Ile in 1999.

He had recovered from a minor stroke.

He was blessed with a wonderful friend, John Loomis who with wife Evelyn, lived on the same court. They met often to have discussions, report highlights of the game, and discuss world problems. We had a daughter and son in law who lived near Grosse Ile. Leon eventually decided the move was a good idea. After we moved and got settled, Leon had time on his hands and missed seeing John and other pals.

I soon heard about older men meeting in the early morning at the Grosse Ile Bakery. Probably the next day he went over there and was happy after that. He went at 0600 every day except Sunday.

All ages meet there and visit with one another while enjoying a vast variety of wonderful baked goods. Many women also meet there. It is common to see a lot of bikes out front when school is out.

Leon would often speak fondly of his new friends. One man, Bill Morse even wrote a newspaper, one sheet, both sides. He named it the Bakery Boy Bugle. Bill is a very witty writer.

He recalls that it was an “occasional” paper. He started The BBB Sept 1997 and ended in Aug 2009. He wrote 24 issues. The Grosse Ile Bakery is operated by “Freddy and Mrs. Freddy” from Cambodia. The friendly and hard -working couple took over running the G.I. Bakery in 2004. They have two sons, ages 11 and 2. The glass display cases of their fresh baked goods show great variety. Mrs. Freddy states that previously Cambodia bake shops never sold donuts, now they do. The address is 7767 Macomb St. Where friends and neighbors meet for coffee in the morning and ice cream after the game.

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From Gym Teacher to Administrator

By Sarah Hemsworth Mr. Justin Trombka is leaving the Grosse Ile Middle School to take on his new role as Assistant Principal at Stevenson Middle School in the Wayne-Westland school district. Trombka taught as a gym teacher for eight years here on Grosse Ile and three years prior at a charter high school in Detroit. Trombka is known for making workouts enjoyable and his classes fun by infusing them with excitement and energy.

“My favorite part about Grosse Ile is the community. It really is the epitome of a ‘family environment’ and it felt like home. The staff really cares about doing what is best for the kids and are going to continue to be innovative leaders in learning,” said Trombka. “I am definitely going to miss the kids, many of whom I have seen grow up through teaching and coaching; but I know they are in good hands.” Trombka was also the seventh grade health teacher, as well as the Middle School Football and High School Varsity Baseball Coach.

“It has always been a goal of mine to become an administrator. Originally, my aspirations were to become an Athletic Director, but after working on developing curriculum and school initiatives, my direction changed.” Although he will be missed, Trombka will be a great addition to his new school.

On Your Mark, Get Set, Park!

By Jackie Shannon The Grosse Ile High School track is under construction for the second phase of the 2016 Bond Project. According to Linda Drzyzga, the Business Manager for Grosse Ile Township Schools (GITS), “When the bond passed in May of 2016, it included four major categories: functional improvements, school safety, technology and athletics.

The track was included as part of both the athletic and safety pieces as there were several locations on the old track which were deteriorating.” The track’s asphalt base was tearing and sinking, causing soft spots; a tripping hazard for the students and community members who use it. Since the track was six years beyond its projected life span, the District chose to replace it rather than trying to limp it along any longer. The “deterioration became quite costly to continuously repair,” Drzyzga maintained. The new state-of-art track will expand the opportunities for Grosse Ile to host additional District and Regional MHSAA events.

Also, according to Drzyzga, “The high school parking lot was highlighted as part of the safety and functional improvement piece.” Like many of our roads in Michigan, the asphalt in the parking lot simply had too many potholes, and needed repaving. The construction manager for this project is George W. Auch Company, the architectural firm is French & Associates, and the earthworks were handled by Nagle Paving Company.

The track has been closed the entire summer for renovations, and is expected to be open for public use by the end of August, while the GIHS student parking lot, which was repaved earlier in the summer, is already open for parking.

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Tell me about your summer vacation plans or experience Our family is taking a trip over Labor Day to Neebish Island in the Upper Peninsula. We are traveling with four other families, so it should be an adventure.

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I’m going to Alaska with my grandparents for two weeks. I’m also attending day camp at Centennial Farm and learning Spanish with my dad.

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Growing up we got one day at the Illinois State Fair, visiting uncles who took hogs to show, visiting Happy Hollow the carnival area, the life size Butter Cow and seeing our own 4-H projects on display that won State Fair honors.

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Our summer plans include camping with friends at Hocking Hills campground in Ohio. A visit to Jellystone Park in Silver Lake, Michigan and capped off with a boat trip to Cedar Point.

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Enjoy one of our fun parades. It is always a special celebration, small town America at its best.

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I live on a fantasy island, where is better for a vacation. But we may go to L.A. to visit our grandson.

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My summer plans include camping with my cousins, 4th of July fireworks, and bike rides with my dad.

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I am going to a Virtuoso Travel Convention in Las Vegas. It should be informative and very hot in August.

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I am visiting my college roommate in Rochester, New York for a week.

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My wife and I are building a Tiki Bar in our backyard and preparing to celebrate my 40th birthday.

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By David Dyer Some call it Ping Pong, others call it Table Tennis, but in remembrance and honor of the late John Conroy we just call it “Pong.” Yes it was John who did all the necessary legwork required in bringing this wonderful family game to our Centennial Farms some seven years ago.

“Pong” has become a part of the annual Downriver Senior Olympic Games. This year all of the games were held in Flat Rock, with the ( L to R) Manoo Boonsiri, Jessie exception of “Pong.” Those games Molina, Viktor Brown, Diane Mathias, took place at the Centennial Farms Jack Frucci, Fred Karn and (not on Grosse Ile. pictured) Larry Davis.

Just as in all Olympic Games, Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals were awarded to the winners by age group.

Grosse Ile’s senior Olympians were among more than 500 participants in the 33rd Annual Downriver Senior Olympics

33rd Annual Downriver Olympics Draws Hundreds

By Hank Minckiewicz Over five hundred competitors over the age of fifty from eighteen area communities competed in the 33rd installment of the Downriver Senior Olympics. Over the course of four days, the seniors competed in everything from baking and spelling to golf and pickleball and everything in between. In all, there were nearly thirty events, most held in the host community of Flat Rock. Woodhaven, Riverview, Trenton, Lincoln Park, Taylor, Grosse Ile and Wyandotte stepped in to host some of the specialty sports like bocce ball, billiards and shuffleboard.

The competition began with opening ceremonies at Flat Rock High School on July 23rd, followed by a champions breakfast. On July 27th, following four days of competition, there was the Unity Awards Banquet at the Flat Rock Community Center. 475 total medals

were handed out to the senior athletes.

Each of the eighteen communities represented earned at least two medals, but Brownstown Township paced the field with 102 medals, 45 of which were gold.

Grosse Ile, which hosted the ping pong competition, was well represented on the victory podium.

Martha Butler nearly swept the baking competition, and the names of Jack Frucci, Robert Shaw and Jim Carson littered the medal winner list in numerous competitions. Also claiming hardware for Grosse Ile were Fred Karn, Donna Patrosh, Stan Farrell, John Bevak, Diane Mathias, Dan Valascho, Edward Anikewich, Viktor Brown, Manoo Boonsiri, Jesse Molina, Buck Corless, Danayanti Chambers, Jan Randazzo, Betsey O’Donnell, Tom Patrosh, Kent Minor and Carl Krohn.

Next year’s event will be hosted by the city of Southgate.

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9th Annual Rodgers Family “Free” Garage Sale I first met the lovely Bethann Rodgers at my first auto-immune meeting in the year 2013. The only requirement for admission to this group is an autoimmune disease such as multiple sclerosis.

My Parkinson’s qualified me. We meet whenever we can and talk to each

By David L. Dyer other about what is going on in our lives. At that first meeting I learned about the “Free Garage Sales.”

A few years prior, the Rodgers Family which includes her husband Steve and their children Annie and Tommy went on a family vacation to Kenya, Africa where they learned firsthand how orphaned girls were treated and discovered that when they became young teenagers they were either married off or destined to a life of poverty.

Annie asked her mom “How can we help them?” Together they came up with the garage sale idea; where items would be received from the community and given away at no cost. Donations of any amount would be expected and appreciated.

All donations go towards paying the $2,000 price tag of sending one orphaned girl to a Christian Boarding School, Grades k-12 in Kenya. They also hope to raise funds to send the girls through college or postsecondary opportunities as their God given abilities allow.

I asked Bethann if I could assist, and of course she welcomed my offer.

I told her of the many items my wife Janet and I have stored away through the years for that garage sale that never happened. I suggested we make $4,000 our goal that year in hopes of sending two little girls to school in Kenya. I wrote an article for our local paper at the time, the Ile Camera, explaining what we were seeking and promoting the event.

The first day we collected over $3,000 and Bethann was beaming with delight. She had no intention of continuing the sale on Sunday. I told her the only way we could come close to our goal of $4000 we’d have to open for a couple of hours on Sunday. She agreed to do so and called it “God’s Day.” After all the donations were totaled, we had collected exactly $4,000. This did wonders for my personal belief in God. My late brother, Wayne, was so touched by our accomplishments he matched what we had collected and sent his check for $4,000. Soon four little girls were on their way to a Christian boarding school in Kenya.

So once again, as I enter my sixth year with this project, I ask you Grosse Ile to give from your heart.

This year’s “sale” will be on the weekend of August 18th. Items may be dropped off on the porch at 26225 West River Road during the week of 13-18 August. If you cannot stop by and would like to contribute to this worthy charity, monetary donations would be most welcome and may be sent to Steve and Bethann Rodgers at the same address.

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Like an impressive wall of trophies, Big Daddy’s wall of whiskey bottles stands as a testament to the tremendous service he renders his members. “We call his garage ‘ElbaMar South’. It’s a popular place. Big Daddy enjoys the company of his members and many of them often end their days by spending time with him.”

We returned to the party again early Saturday night, sat at the bar, and scoped out the club from inside the restaurant. John Malecki, who this year ably serves as Vice Commodore, arrives in a bright Hawaiian shirt that matches his Lady’s, and there are lots of laughs and hugs and kisses for all the members milling about in the dining area. The place is bustling with happy energy, good cheer and camaraderie, and John stops by to welcome us newcomers too. If you are getting the feeling that this boat club is more like a loving family than a stuffy fraternal organization, you’re picking up on the very vibe that makes Elba-Mar such a jewel of the Great Lakes and the ‘friendliest club on the river’.

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Is there anyone who doesn’t love Maurice Salad? Maybe not, or it wouldn’t still be on the menu at Macy’s, formerly Marshall Field’s, formerly J. L. Hudson’s.

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By Evelyn Cairns the salad debuted.

Here’s the beloved recipe from the cookbook: MAURICE DRESSING 2 teaspoons white vinegar 1½ teaspoons fresh lemon juice 1½ teaspoons onion juice 1½ teaspoons sugar 1½ teaspoons Dijon mustard ¼ teaspoon dry mustard 1 cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley 1 hard-boiled egg, diced Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Combine and whisk well the first 6 ingredients. Whisk in the mayonnaise, parsley and egg, and add salt and pepper. Set aside.

In a large bowl, combine 1 pound each of julienned ham, turkey breast and Swiss cheese and ½ cup slivered sweet gherkins, then fold in the dressing.

Shred 1 head lettuce, arrange on salad plates and top with meat and cheese mixture. Garnish with pimiento-stuffed olives.

••• In my archives, I have more than a dozen Maurice dressing recipes contributed in response to a request for the popular salad topping, and no two were exactly alike. I had first called Hudson’s to ask for the recipe, but was told by a food-department manager that “Hudson’s has never given the recipe to the public.”

One of the recipe contributors said hers was the “real thing,” given to her mother by the chef at Hudson’s.

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Melva Bonis of James Drive shares the recipe for the Maurice dressing she’s been using for many years, but doesn’t remember where she got it.

Don’t let the dill pickle juice scare you. The dressing is delicious ... you may like it even better than Maurice’s!

MELVA’S YEARS-OLD MAURICE DRESSING 2 cups mayonnaise 2 tablespoons salad oil ½ cup finely diced dill pickle ½ cup finely diced sweet pickle ½ cup dill pickle juice ½ teaspoon minced onion ½ teaspoon minced dried parsley Mix ingredients and serve over 1½ heads of shredded lettuce and 12 ounces each of julienned ham, chicken breast and Swiss cheese.

Garnish with sliced sweet pickles.

••• As a culinary-professional employee of Marshall Field’s before its acquisition by Macy’s, I taught cooking classes and demonstrated recipes using specialty products (including Maurice Dressing) sold in the department store’s Marketplace.

I was provided with a treasure chest of recipes to demonstrate, among them Maurice Pasta Salad and Maurice Cole Slaw.

Although the Marketplace is gone, the iconic dressing is available in the restaurant and costs $12.95 for a 12-ounce bottle.

I recently bought a bottle and made the pasta salad once again, but do cut the recipe in half unless you plan to serve 6 or 8. Ask at the deli counter for the ounces of meat and cheese you will need.

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his story never took place, but―you never know―it might someday. Harry is a real person and so is the place called Downriver, and there are surely some real monsters in the Detroit River. At the start of our story Harry is a thirteen year-old boy who lives on the sunrise shore of a little island named ‘big island’ in French, Grosse Ile, which it rests at the mouth of the Detroit River just before it pours into the penultimate (which means; the second to the last) of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie. The island is about eight miles long and almost a mile and a half wide at its fattest point, which happens to be the very place where Harry lives with his mother on East River Road.

Not only is it peculiar that a small island is named ‘big island’, the name of the island is spelled and pronounced a little funny because it has French heritage just like the City of Detroit does. Although we don’t pronounce Detroit ‘Day-TWAH’ like a Frenchman would, Grosse Ile is pronounced ‘ɡrōs-EEL’ instead of ‘gross-IYL’, like you would if it had an ‘s’ in it like ‘isle’. It can be kind of confusing if you’re not from the area, but people catch on fast enough. Plus, if someone pronounces it ‘GrossEE IYL’, it’s a surefire way to know that they are strangers to the area; and being able to tell the difference between strangers and locals can sometimes be lifesaving, as our hero Harry will soon find out. But the real reason those French settlers named our little island ‘Big Island’ is simply because it is the largest of all the fourteen islands

which make up the archipelago (which means; a constellation of islands that are nearby one another) in the Detroit River downstream from Detroit’s downtown.

Grosse Ile is shaped much like another great island, Manhattan, in New York, which also sits at the end of a great river. But unlike Manhattan, Grosse Ile has far more trees than people. There are many spacious homes on Grosse Ile in which a little less than eleven thousand souls live, but the island is also home to millions of trees that grow around those houses and within its many enchanting forests. Manhattan is only a little more than twice the size of Grosse Ile, but one million, seven hundred thousand souls are crammed onto it, and aside from inside one great park, there are precious few trees growing on it.

The archipelago’s other islands are all much smaller, and they too have names which don’t seem to fit their description.

For example, nestled at the southwest end of Grosse Ile is

Round Island, which isn’t round at all, but has two very straight sides and rather looks like an upside-down ice-cream cone.

Also there are a Crystal Island where no crystals have ever been found, a Stony Island which is mostly mud, a Sugar Island on

which no sugar cane or sugar beets are grown, a Calf Island where there are no cows, a Fox Island where there are no foxes, a Turkey Island where there are no turkeys, and a Fighting Island which didn’t host a fight until eighteen years after it had been discovered and named. At the southeast end of the ‘big island’

is Hickory Island where there are almost no hickory trees, and if you want to drive to it, you have to cross Meso Island where there are almost no residents who like Meso soup. There is also a Powder House Island, which is so small you couldn’t even fit a full-sized house on it. You could fit a lighthouse on it, however, and that’s just what they did. But there had to be a reason why they called it Powder House Island, and since this tale tells of Harry’s exciting adventures and the secret places, specters, treasures, heroes and villains that he discovers or encounters on these islands, you’ll find out the reason at some point.

Now, not all the islands’ names make no sense.

There is a Swan Island where majestic swans can often be seen. And there is a Bois Blanc Island which means ‘white woods’ in French. Its name makes sense because of how many beautiful white birch and beech trees grow upon it. Birches and beeches are really cool because their bark looks like they are shedding

their paper skin. To pronounce Bois Blanc properly in French, you’d have to say ‘boo-WAH buh-LONK’ with the ‘boo’ and ‘buh’ said so softly that they hardly register as syllables. As the years passed, the locals gave up on pronouncing it correctly and just called the island Bob Lo, which also makes sense since surely lots of men named have Bob laid low and hidden out there. You see, there was once a very popular amusement park on Bob Lo Island and you had to take a very happy boat to reach it. The story of that happy park and that happy boat do not have a happy ending in real life or in this tall tale. And, come to think of it, you should be warned that lots of bad and scary things are going to happen in this story, none of them real, but really scary just the same.

This story, however, doesn’t just hop from island to island as Harry and the other characters bravely battle monsters and villains; it goes to other worlds and even to other times. For example, there is another island which hasn’t yet been mentioned that lies on the eastern edge of Grosse Ile called Elba Island, and that is also the name of the mountainous island off the Tuscan coast in Italy to which the great little monster Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled (which means; sent to as punishment) way back in 1814. In this story, Harry will travel back in time and encounter that very interesting-but-tragic person on Elba Island. You’ll never know what to expect from each chapter of this tumultuous novel, but you will learn lots of little valuable life-lessons along the way, and you’ll be blown away by the ending. (to be continued . . . )

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Even our entire wholesale industry has grown accustomed to vendors selling direct and diverting as much as they can away from the stores and wholesalers. But vendors worry. What happens when Macy’s fails? Over seven hundred distribution portals; gone. There aren’t enough indie stores like mine to make up for the loss of those corporate stores, so vendors are trying to build their own, stand-alone brands. It then becomes a vicious circle. The tsunami of digital options is unrelenting, with new entries on television nearly every week. They’re easy to use, there’s no muss or fuss, and products come direct to your door. I am not oblivious to the appeal. Amazon continues to decimate the local retail

sector with their broadband assault across so many realms. Meanwhile, other competitors are right in front of our noses.

A disconnect has occurred with consumers and their local economies.

Not enough people insist on buying locally, and every dollar diverted away weakens the vitally supportive web of menswear stores (in this case). I have made it my mission to sound the alarm about the repercussions when vendors chip away at the pillars on which they’ve built their brands by entering into direct competition with their retail partners.

I admire Tommy Bahama’s operations. Their stores are beautiful, are always immaculately maintained, and they remove any problematic products immediately. Their restaurants are nice and serve good food. Their website is attractive and efficient. I would be hard-pressed to find a better partner company. After twenty-four years, they are still my number one.

Imagine the loss to Tommy Bahama when Carson’s closed its stores nationwide. Conversely, if Tommy Bahama fails, it is a serious problem for me. I need them to flourish. So as a partner with a big stake in the result, I urge strategies which preserve their viability beyond the lure of direct-toconsumer sales. Weakening the web of independent retail networks through direct-selling, will, in the long run, hurt everyone involved; the manufactures, the retailers, and the customers.

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WEEKLY EVENTS EVERY TUESDAY Classic Car Show outside Water’s Edge 5:30pm7:30pm We Kayak Grosse Ile. Each week the group leaves from the soft kayak launch at Water’s Edge Marina. Launches are at 6:00 p.m., weather permitting, but a 5:30 p.m. arrival to stage kayaks for the launch is recommended.

EVERY SUNDAY Grosse Ile Nature & Land Conservancy hosts an open house at Gibraltar Bay, 28820 E. River Road, where you can take your own nature walk and meet the conservancy’s members.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 9 Toppermost will be performing outside Smokies On the Water at 7pm. Bring your lawn chair and enjoy refreshments from Smokies’ staff.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 Bibles and Beers at 6:30-8:30pm at Grosse Ille Presbyterian Church. Calling all Jesus fans and craft beer lovers! Why not combine those two passions and join us at Bible and Beers for scripture and suds.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11-12 6th Annual Dunbar Bay Pirate Party on Stoney Island. Deck out your mighty ships and dinghys and don your best pirate swag for fun and prizes!

Noodle races, cannonball contest. You can also join in The Great Dinghy Battle of Dunbar! Bring your water cannons.

FRIDAY AUGUST 17 Ford Yacht Club 61st Annual Regatta hosts Killer Flamingos at 9m FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AUGUST 17 & 18 The island-wide garage sale will take place from 9am until 4pm each day. Register by Friday, August 10, 2018 at www.grosseile.com or for more information call Margie Gape at 734-676-4422 ext: 210 or email her at Margie@grosseile.com SATURDAY AUGUST 18 Ford Yacht Club 61st Annual Regatta hosts Howlin’ Mercy at 4pm Atomic Radio at 9pm SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 Concerts on the Commons presents Pairadocs Trio, a musical group comprised of an artist accompanied by two doctors from 7-8pm.

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 & AUGUST 22 Draft Skates for Grosse Ile Youth Hockey at Trenton’s Kennedy Ice Arena. These are instructional leagues. All skill levels are welcome and everyone makes the team. Tuesday at 6pm the 6U and 8U Mite House teams will skate and at 7pm the 10U Squirt House team will skate. On Wednesday at 6pm the 12U Peewee House team will skate and at 7pm the 14U Bantam House team will skate. www.grosseilehockey.com WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 Glow Roll 7-9 pm Starting at the Grosse Ile Yacht Club

SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 Sacred Heart Catholic Church Blood Drive from 8am-2pm.

Meagan Wozny & Aaron Plegue (she sings, he plays the sax) at Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 7pm

Concerts on the Commons presents Double Date – NEW! Two couples singing songs of the 50’s & 60’s in barbershop harmony. Bring a picnic blanket, lawn chair–the whole family–and enjoy music performed at the gazebo from 7–8pm. In case of rain, go to St. Thomas Lutheran Church at 9393 Church Road.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 Wisteria will be performing outside Smokies on the Water at 7pm

THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 Category 5 will be performing outside Smokies On the Water at 7pm

4th Friday Flicks. Free movies on the lawn outside Fifth Third Bank on Macomb at 6pm-11. Bring your own chairs, blankets, bug spray, and popcorn.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 Varsity Football Home Opener against Gabriel Richard at 7pm

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 Concerts on the Commons presents Bill Bynum & Company at 7pm. Songwriter and singer of songs: rock, country and bluegrass.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 Varsity Football home game against Airport TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 First Day of School (half day) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Annual Grosse Ile Lighthouse Tour 12-4pm limited to 80 people. Once a year our fabled lighthouse is open to guided tours which leave from Grosse Ile Depot Museum.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Glow Roll 7-9 pm starting at Macomb/Lyons Park * The 4th Annual Tour De Ile scheduled for September 30, 2018 has been cancelled due to the infrastructure. It will return in 2019.

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Since 1988, the fight to end polio has been directed by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), and spearheaded by Rotary International in union with UNICEF, the CDC, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, governments of

By Dr. Michael Concessi, the world, and the a Grosse Ile resident support of others.

The light at the end of the tunnel is now in sight.

Few diseases frightened parents more in the first half of the 20th century than the highly-infectious, crippling, and sometimes fatal disease of poliomyelitis or polio. It would strike most commonly during the warm summer months, sweeping through towns in epidemics, and once infected, it had no specific cure. Although most people recovered quickly from polio, some suffered temporary or permanent paralysis and even death.

Thousands that developed paralysis of the breathing muscles were placed in the infamous “iron lung,” a metal coffin-like apparatus that aided respiration.

The poliovirus enters the body through the mouth and spreads through contact with the feces of an infected person. It may also be spread by food or water containing human feces in unsanitary conditions or to a lesser degree through saliva from a sneeze or cough. You can get infected with poliovirus if you have feces on your hands and touch your mouth.

Also, you can get infected if you put objects in your mouth such as toys that are contaminated with feces.

For this reason, children under 5 are particularly vulnerable to the disease and why early on, the disease was known as “infantile paralysis.”

Although children, and especially infants under 5, were among the

worst affected, adults were also often afflicted. One of the most well-known individuals was future president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who contracted polio in 1921 at the age of 39 and was left partially paralyzed as a result.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reported that most people who get infected with poliovirus, about 72%, will not have any visible symptoms. About 25% will have flu-like symptoms that usually last 2 to 5 days, then go away on their own. Paralysis (total loss of movement of extremities) or weakness in the arms, legs, or both, occurs in about .5% of people with poliovirus infection and may be temporary or permanent.

Among those with paralysis, 2% to 5% of children and 15% to 30% of adults died when their breathing muscles became involved.

In the early 1950’s, Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine to help prevent against poliomyelitis.

A nationwide inoculation campaign began in 1955 and by 1957, the first year after the vaccine became widely available, new cases of polio dropped dramatically. In 1962, an oral vaccine developed by Dr. Albert Sabin became available, allowing for greater distribution of the polio vaccine.

By 1994, the Americas were certified polio-free. In 2002 the European region and in 2000 the Western Pacific region was certified polio-free. In 2014, Southeast Asia was also certified polio-free. To date, Rotary International and its partners of GEPI have immunized over 2.5 billion children in 122 countries worldwide.

When the partnership began in 1988, there were more than 350,000 cases of polio worldwide. By 2017, that number would drop to 22 worldwide with just Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria still uncertified polio-free.

The light at the end of the tunnel is now in sight and we are so close to having polio eradicated globally. Soon, polio should be like that of smallpox, a thing of the past.

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Yes, Virginia, You Can Dunk Santa Claus

By Jackie Shannon HO-HO-HOLD ON TO YOUR SUNHAT! On July 25, Santa spent the evening at Grosse Ile Recreation Department’s Christmas in July celebration at the Water’s Edge Recreation Complex. Seems Old Saint Nick likes to chillax, poolside,

with over one hundred residents and guests of all ages singing Christmas carols and 80’s music, cooking hot dogs, throwing summer snowballs (water balloons), and taking a soak in the dunk tank. YOW! Besides dunking Santa, there were many Christmas related activities for all to enjoy, including ornamentmaking, a giant mailbox for sending letters to Santa, and a sidewalk-chalk coloring contest where the winner for the best chalk drawing of a Christmas Tree won, not a stocking, but a bucket full of candy! If you listen carefully, you can still hear her parents singing “All I Want For Christmas…Brush Your Two Front Teeth!”

Of course, where there’s Santa, there’s food, and Mr. Claus grilled up over 125 holiday hot dogs for the hungry crowd. There were Christmas cookies and a sundae bar, too, all located adjacent to the kiddie pool, where there was plenty of holiday cheer, and splashing; lots and lots of splashing.

A svelte summertime Santa chillaxes by the pool with a few honorary elves.

In the larger lap pool a number of swimmers were cooling off in the shallow end, some solo, some with their parents. Meanwhile, in the deep end, a random game of pool tag broke out; the lifeguards checking it

once, and checking it twice (actually checking it all the time!) to be sure no one got on the naughty list.

We HO-HO-HOPE to see you at next year’s celebration. Merry Christmas in July!

Jack Tucker signs to play golf at Wayne State University

By Hank Minckiewicz It’s a relatively short drive from Grosse Ile to Wayne State University. Short drives are something that 2018 Grad Jack Tucker in not used to.

Tucker, a four-time all-league golfer, recently signed a letter of intent to play the game for the Wayne State University Wariors.

“He will contribute to our team in many ways,” said WSU coach Mike Horn. “We are thrilled he is a Warrior.”

Tucker played golf for three years at Grosse Ile and was named AllGrosse Ile’s Jack Tucker signs a letter of intent to Huron League in each of attend Wayne State University. those seasons. He then played a year for Bishop Gates Academy in Florida and again won all-league honors.

He was coached by Zach Parker, Charlie Butler and Paul Hasse.

Tucker also played a year of football at Grosse Ile and was part of a Huron League championship team.

“Jack comes to (our) program with lots of tournament experience. He is in great shape and has worked hard on his physicality and his golf game,” Horn said.

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