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n Tuesday, March 10, 2020, Grosse Ile Township School District residents will vote on a Building and Site Sinking Fund Millage proposal that was first approved in 2006, and renewed in 2010 and 2015. The Building and Site millage replacement proposal is a five year, one (1) mill request that will generate approximately $627, 500 annually. If approved, it will replace the current sinking fund levy which expires BILL this coming May, STEVENSON and will allow the Grosse Ile Grand school district to use revenue for repairs and upgrades at all school facilities.

Under Michigan law (MCL 380.1212), a sinking fund can only be used for “brick and mortar” issues that arise in school districts such as “construction repairs of school buildings, school security improvements, or for the acquisition or upgrading of technology.” Sinking funds cannot be used for employee salaries, benefits, or school district

ALL RESIDENTS OF GROSSE ILE TOWNSHIP WHO ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE AND WHO WILL BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ON ELECTION DAY CAN VOTE. operating expenses.

“A school district that levies a sinking fund tax under this section [of Michigan law] shall have an independent audit of its sinking fund conducted annually, including the uses of the sinking fund, and shall submit the audit report to the Department of Treasury.”

On the March ballot is a proposed request for 1.00 mill which includes the current 0.7439 sinking fund rate, plus .0061mills as a restoration of Grosse Ile Township Schools revenue lost as a result of the Headlee rollback required by the Michigan state constitution, and a .025 mills as an additional new millage. One mill is the equivalent of $1.00 per thousand dollars of taxable value. The proposal would restore the full 1.00 mill levy that was approved back in 2006.

In seeking the continuation of the Building and Site Sinking Fund, the Board of Education has identified four major areas that would be completed: improving student safety and security, updating facility interiors and exteriors, improving the student learning environment, and improving instructional technology.

Superintendent Joanne Lelekatch said, “During the last five years, sinking funds have helped finance projects which have included replacing roofs, improving HVAC systems, greater energy efficiency with the installation of LED lighting, and walkway concrete replacement. The Meridian project to correct the structural damage was also covered by sinking fund revenue.”

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FROM THE SUPERVISOR

Humbled and thankful for the unexpected coverage Let me begin by expressing my sincere thanks to Will Evans, publisher of the Grosse Ile Grand, for the front page story about yours truly.

Almost totally unexpected - a few weeks ago, Paula Neuman contacted me with a request for some personal background information with the advisory that she wanted to write a bio on BRIAN LOFTUS me for the paper; could I answer a few questions? I have known Paula for many years and consider her a journalist with integrity (unlike some of the irresponsible journalists I continue to rail against) so I had no problem opening up.

She had some more insightful questions during an interview but said she was ready to write.

A short time later, the Editor, Hank Minckiewicz, contacted me with a request for some pictures from my military days.

I stopped flying over 25 years ago so I was going to have to dig a bit but I sent him a few. I was truly surprised and humbled when I saw the finished product, Paula somehow managed to make me look good!

The picture was taken by my crew chief as I was departing on my last flight in an F-16, July 1994.

Shortly after that I left the 107th Fighter Squadron for staff duties and a promotion.

Ann and I are warming up in Key West at the moment, and overhead I get to see the fighter aircraft from the nearby naval air station - can’t believe I used to do that.

Now on to more important news.

Our first months with our new refuse removal contractor, Priority Waste, have gone relatively smoothly,

The contract for the repair of the ‘superstructure,’ the metal portions of the bridge, are currently being reviewed by the Michigan Department of Transportation, the department funding most of this portion of the repair project.

only a few missed pick ups that were quickly corrected.

Our DPS Commission worked diligently to replace our previous contractor who demonstrated by their bid on our contract that they were not interested in servicing Grosse Ile at a price we could afford.

One of the limitations with our new contract is the restriction in recycling, a restriction many are still adjusting to. It’s difficult to believe that there is no way to make glass recycling economically viable, but apparently that’s the status of today’s market.

We are looking into ways to return to recycling our glass products, although probably not the curbside service we had become accustomed to.

DPS Director Derek Thiel has researched a possible centralized collection of clear glass only, but at an additional cost. With these new cost restrictions and logistical problems I do not currently see this as a viable option, but we will continue our research

and hopefully a solution is out there. Please keep your ideas and suggestions coming. *Some good news – Grosse Ile has once again been named one of the safest communities, not only in Michigan but in the entire country.

Security Baron, a home security information company, has run the FBI crime statistics for the previous year and ranked Grosse Ile the second safest community in Michigan, behind Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula.

Additionally, we placed No. 43 in their nationwide ranking. As other ratings come in from other sources I hope to see us in first place again, but overall we can be proud of the performance of our Police Department and the fact that this community just does not condone criminal activity. *Some news on our bridges, sort of.

The contract for the repair of the ‘superstructure,’ the metal portions of the bridge, are currently being

reviewed by the Michigan Department of Transportation, the department funding most of this portion of the repair project.

This is referred to as “Phase 2” as it was originally planned to be accomplished after the repairs to the support piers, referred to as “Phase 1” or now “Phase 1A.” Where the planning for this project becomes ‘messy’ is in the funding sources. State DOT dollars are funding the superstructure repairs while federal dollars are expected to fund the repairs to the support piers during the summer of 2021.

As the federal dollars are programmed for next year, the repair cycle has been reversed from the original plan, hence Phase 2 before Phase 1A. County Commissioner Joe Palamara and I both raised concerns about this but, since we did not control the funding we had little input.

For what it’s worth, we have been informed that the repairs to the piers will not

require another extended closure of the bridge as most of the work can be completed from barges.

I have no developments on methodologies or contractors for Phase 1A, and I will release what I learn about Phase 2 when MDOT completes their review of the submitted bids. *Other developments – we received the testing results from the Great Lakes Water Authority on the water samples that were collected downstream from the collapsed loading area on the Detroit River.

All tests came back negative for contaminants, specifically the radioactive contaminants erroneously reported by news outlets. We took our own samples, had them independently tested and came up with the same results - our water is safe.

As you are reading this in February (FYI, winter property taxes due by the 14th) we are entering a busy planning period at Township Hall, with budgeting for our next fiscal year taking up much of my time and all of our Finance Director’s time.

I mentioned property taxes because we are certainly not collecting any more than absolutely necessary to provide the services you expect and the quality of life that made you (and me) decide to settle here.

Hopefully, that was a reassuring note after all the previous bridge news and I’ll wrap up my article with the caveat ‘more to come,’ especially with the Census.

Please contact me with your questions and concerns, as always you will get the best information I have, although it may not be the information you hoped for. Thanks for reading.

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Continued from page 1 Further, Lelekatch laments, “Unfortunately, the nature of school safety has changed in 2020. As part of our Active Shooter Response Training ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) we found that we need to change things, like many of our classroom doors open outward, making it difficult to barricade the classroom during a violent criminal incident. Or, other security cameras may need to be installed to improve our safety coverage.”

The sinking fund allows us to take care of critical facility needs not covered by our maintenance fund or operating budget. It also allows us to pay for projects or repairs instead of having to borrow money through long-term bonds.”

According to Business Manager Linda Drzyzga, “Per Grosse Ile Township, the average value for a home on Grosse Ile is $325,000.

Under Michigan law, the taxable value of your home is based on 50% of the market value. Currently, a home with a $162,500 taxable value is paying $120 per year to the current sinking fund at the 0.7439 mills rate, or $10.07 per month. Under the new sinking fund at 1.00 mill, the annual rate would be $162.50 or an additional $3.47 per month for a $41.62 annual increase.”

“There is a link to a sinking fund calculator on our website—the last item on our “District” page which takes you to your actual tax records and assessments at Grosse Ile Township to determine your exact amount based on your home.”

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Citizens need to update their voter registration if they have changed their name or address since the last time they voted. Voters can update their registration at any Secretary of State office or at the Grosse Ile Township Clerk’s office, 9601 Groh Road.

Additionally, since voter approval of Proposal 3 in November, 2018, registered voters do not need a reason to vote by absentee ballot. You can request an absentee ballot application from the Grosse Ile Township Clerk’s office, or by going online to www. michigan.gov/vote and clicking on Absentee Voting in the left hand column.

If you would like more information about the Building and Site Sinking Fund Millage Replacement, or a list of proposed building projects go to www. gischools.org.com and click on “2020 School Sinking Fund Election.” Or, call any Grosse Ile Township Schools’ principal. Or, call Superintendent Joanne C. Lelekatch at 734.362.2581 or email her at lelekaj@gischools.org.

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This story begins in the year 1990.

My wife, Janet and son, David-Scott and I had just recently moved to this Island.

On a Saturday morning I went to the post office to retrieve my mail. The post office was closed for business on Saturdays but the doors were open for box customers. When I entered the first thing I noticed was a credit card on a table in the lobby. I took the card home with me.

The name on the card was Pamela Frucci.

Janet told me Pamela was a member of our church, that being the Presbyterian Church. I was not a church goer in those days. I called Pamela and told her of my discovery and that I could deliver the card to her.

She seemed rather apprehensive in talking to a stranger and asked if I would put it in her mailbox. I did so and that was the end of that. Or so I thought.

Now forward to 2001. David-Scott was a high school freshman and Janet and I went to a basketball game in the gym. Prior to the game Jim Parker conducted the singing of Our National Anthem.

This was a very moving experience.

The National Anthem is very special to me in light of all of the death and destruction I witnessed in Vietnam.

After the game I told Jim Parker how his rendition touched me. I later learned that Jim was also the music director at the Presbyterian Church.

In 2010 I wrote my Vietnam story.

It was published in the Ile Camera.

A few days later I received a letter which stated in part that my story was a breath of fresh air and was worth the price of a year’s subscription to the Ile Camera. That letter was signed by Pamela Frucci.

I called Pamela and for the first time since that credit card incident 20 years earlier I was able to talk to her again.

I thanked her for her words and she invited me to attend their next Creative Writers Club meeting. I did so and I

joined the club. Pamela and I became the best of friends. She is a retired teacher and soon became a mentor to me. She often made grammatical corrections to my stories.

The next year - 2011 - Jim Parker was honored for his 35 years of service at the Presbyterian Church. After the 10:30 service in the fellowship hall Sue Hurst read a few letters honoring Jim for his service.

A few others had special tributes to Jim. I remembered that time in the high school gym 10 years earlier and wrote about it when I returned home that day.

The next Saturday during the Island Fest Parade I walked with the Presbyterian Church. Since I have Parkinson’s, I sort of brought up the rear. Sue Hurst dropped back and walked with me.

I told her my story and of the letter I had written to Jim Parker. She asked me to give her a copy and she would save a page in the scrapbook she was putting together.

The following Monday Pamela Frucci drove me home after our Creative Writers Club Meeting. When she pulled into my driveway I read to her the letter I had written to Jim Parker. I closed that letter with these words: “Whenever I hear the playing of Our National Anthem I think of Jim Parker, and whenever I think of Jim Parker I think of Our National Anthem.”

I looked up at Pam and she was in tears. She told me Our National Anthem was their wedding song. She went on to tell me words to this effect.

While she and Jack were at a National Teacher’s Convention in California, they stood next to each other during the singing of Our National Anthem.

Pamela immediately fell in love with Jack’s harmonizing and it didn’t take long for them to fall in love with each other. I believe that is when and where they met.

Then I thought, wouldn’t it be nice if Jim Parker would lead the church choir in the singing of Our National Anthem in honor of Pam and Jack’s 50th wedding anniversary which just happened to be in 2011.

I will close with these words: “Thank you Jim Parker for making that happen”

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McLouth cleanup advisory group members to be selected Feb. 13

Fifteen to 20 members of a community advisory group for the McLouth Steel Superfund cleanup are expected to be appointed Feb. 13 at the Westfield Activities Center.

The meeting, slated from 7 to 9 p.m., at 2700 Westfield Road, Trenton, is expected to be the last of three public workshops held by the U.S. PAULA Environmental NEUMAN Protection Grosse Ile Grand Agency to form the McLouth cleanup community advisory group or CAG. Anyone is welcome to attend.

Applications to become a member of the advisory group are available at semspub.epa.gov/work.

“It takes anywhere from three to six months to U.S. Rep Debbie Dingell spoke at the EPA form a community advisory group,” said Diane community advisory group orgizational meeting Russell, community involvement coordinator with the last month.

EPA. “There has to be some understanding of what a CAG is or isn’t.” n Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge The January public workshop on forming the CAG n Past Employees of McLouth Steel drew more than 50 people, approximately twice n Abutters (residents or property owners near the as many as the first workshop, which was held in cleanup site) November, she said. n Trenton Business Association Trenton Councilwoman Wendy Pate, a founder of n At-large Trenton, Riverview and Grosse Ile Trenton Visionaries and Stakeholders, said, “A CAG residents or businesses who can “represent a is meant to help educate residents about the cleanup, constituency that is not otherwise represented.” as well as provide feedback to those involved in the cleanup about citizens’ concerns and suggestions, The at-large seat holders are expected to be chosen so that better decisions can be made regarding the at the Feb. 13 meeting. The advisory group has no cleanup process. decision-making authority. Members should be “So far, participants have given input on the model prepared to “do background reading and preparation,” for choosing CAG members, in what organizations according to the EPA. or locations potential members can be found, ground The Trenton McLouth complex — 197 acres of rules for participation, and how to get information derelict buildings and 23 heavily polluted subsurface out to the public. The EPA coordinators took all our structures, including pits, basements and lagoons — suggestions and created the foundation for the CAG.” is directly across the Trenton Channel of the Detroit The group, once it’s convened after members are River from Grosse Ile. The site’s cleanup, already appointed, is expected to meet from 7 to 9 p.m. on the underway, has been included on the Superfund second Thursday of each month starting in March.

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The McLouth site now is owned by billionaire Members will represent: Manuel Moroun’s family company Crown n City of Trenton (by nomination) Enterprises Inc., and MSC Land Co. LLC, also a n City of Riverview (by nomination) Moroun business. n Grosse Ile Township (by nomination) The Trenton McLouth Steel plant, first opened n Trenton Brownfields Authority (by nomination) in 1949, was once celebrated as an industry leader. n Riverview Brownfields Authority (by nomination) The company brought in notable technological n Trenton Visionaries and Stakeholders (by advances in its early years. McLouth was the first nomination) plant in North America to use an oxygen process to n Grosse Ile Nature and Land Conservancy (by convert iron to steel, raising production and creating nomination) a superior product to meet the automotive industry’s n Grosse Ile Civic Association (by nomination) demands. n Friends of the Detroit River (by nomination) For decades, the plant employed thousands of n Downriver Walleye Federation workers, and from miles away, residents could see

Downriver’s eastern night skies turn a fiery orange when molten metal was poured.

Imported steel from Japan and Europe, depressed prices, changes in construction materials to plastics, and economic recession all took their toll on McLouth in the early 1980s, and a new owner eventually purchased the once thriving company, which was now in bankruptcy.

In 1995, McLouth filed again for bankruptcy and the property was transferred to multiple owners between 1996 and 2017, when Wayne County foreclosed on the site, leading to its purchase by the Moroun companies, and then to the Superfund cleanup agreement with MSC Land.

Moroun’s companies have proposed to redevelop the waterfront property, once the cleanup is complete, for an industrial project described in Wayne County documents as an intermodal shipping port. Many Downriver residents oppose that plan.

“This type of redevelopment will create a huge negative impact on our roads, air, waters and land that in turn will reduce home values in the region,” states a narrative on actionnetwork.org. “It also creates a safety hazard with frequent bridge closures and heavy truck and freight train traffic. No one wants to live near a shipping port. They are loud, noisy, dirty and harmful to the environment and roads and lead to a decline in overall quality of life in the surrounding areas.”

A petition opposing the redevelopment plan has more than 1,200 signatures to date.

Signers say they’d rather see a mixed-use redevelopment with some sort of access to the Detroit River.

In May, more than 50 Grosse Ile residents concerned about the redevelopment plan attended a township board meeting, where the board unanimously voted to approve a resolution voicing those concerns. The resolution was sent to the city of Trenton.

The advisory group’s purview is only the cleanup, not the redevelopment plan.

“While the CAG is not a policy-making body, the CAG can learn about these decisions being made about the levels of cleanup and development,” Pate said.

“With more knowledge about cleanup and the possibilities for moving forward at the old McLouth property, it is my hope that Trenton and the landowners can negotiate a development that benefits both parties by using a sustainability model that incorporates greenspace, community interaction, an eco-friendly footprint that protects our river’s ecosystem, and that provides a high quality place for people to live and work.”

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CULINARY CAPERS EVELYN CAIRNS

Grosse Ile Grand

Because February is National Chocolate Month, as well as National Cherry Month, I will share one of my three favorite recipes to celebrate the occasion: a chocolate cherry cake. My two other favorites are an intoxicatingly delicious Bacardi rum cake and a Jewish coffee cake with a brown sugar and walnut filling.

The chocolate cake was originally published in Culinary Capers two years ago, but because readers of the Southgate Star, the Riverview Register and the Wyandotte Warrior were not receiving those publications at that time, I’m repeating the recipe for them and others who may have missed it.

You won’t believe how easy it is to make this one-bowl wonder, which looks and tastes awesome when drizzled with a two-ingredient icing.

And do think about investing in a 12cup Bundt pan if you don’t already have one. If you worry that the cake might stick, just be sure to spray the pan well with a spray made for baking.

In the meantime, according to my indispensable substitution chart, a 9x15-inch cake pan would also accommodate 12 cups of batter. The chart doesn’t provide oven temperatures and baking times, however.

EASY CHOCOLATE CHERRY CAKE 2 cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon Dash salt ¾ cup cooking oil 2 eggs, lightly beaten 2 teaspoons vanilla 21-ounce can cherry pie filling 1 cup chocolate chips 1 cup chopped nuts Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, stir the flour, sugar baking soda, cinnamon, salt, oil, eggs and vanilla until well mixed. Then stir in the pie filling, chocolate chips and nuts, until combined. Pour into a 12-cup Bundt pan sprayed well with Pam for baking or Wilton Bake Easy. Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean. Turn out onto a rack or plate to

cool, then drizzle with an icing made by combining 1 cup confectioners’ sugar and 4 to 5 teaspoons milk.

••• For an even-easier February chocolate-and-cherry celebration, consider making the chocolate cake that became popular, by necessity, during the Great Depression and topping each serving with whipped cream or Cool Whip and a spoonful of cherry pie filling. The cake is also known as Mix-in-the-Pan Cake, Crazy Cake and Wacky Cake.

According to Wikipedia, it is made without butter, milk or eggs because those ingredients were scarce or very expensive after the 1929 stock-market crash.

Traditionally, the dry ingredients are placed in a cake pan and mixed with a fork before liquid ingredients are measured into three depressions made in the mixture, then stirred and baked.

That’s how I made it the first time, but I thought the cake was quite dry, and it stuck to the bottom of the pan.

So, the next time, I combined one of my own recipes and others I found online.

Instead of adding the liquid ingredients to three depressions in a pan, I opted for a more conventional method, which I have included, with better results.

DEPRESSION CAKE (Adapted) 1½ cups all-purpose flour 1 cup granulated sugar 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 tablespoon vinegar 6 tablespoons cooking oil Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray or lightly grease an 8x8-inch baking pan. Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt into a medium bowl. In a smaller bowl, combine the water, vanilla, vinegar and cooking oil. Stir into the dry ingredients, mixing well with a spoon, then pour into the baking pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cut into squares and top each serving with whipped cream or Cool Whip and a spoonful of cherry pie filling.

HAPPY CHOCOLATE AND CHERRY MONTH! (Contact me at evycairns@aol.com.)

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This Valentines Day think about hearts and chiropractic Are chocolates and flowers at the top of your Valentine’s Day gift list?

Mix it up this year. Encourage your special someone to seek natural chiropractic care. After all, chocolates can pack on the pounds and flowers wilt after about a week.

On the other hand, chiropractic may give you longer-lasting benefits. This form of natural care helps reduce nerve interference. It may help your special someone experience greater overall health and well-being.

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This year encourage your Valentine to see your chiropractor. He or she will enjoy gentle, all natural care and high levels of patient satisfaction.

THE MASTER SYSTEM We live our lives through our nervous systems. Enjoying a sunset, digesting dinner or warding off an infection depends upon our nervous system.

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Our culture is focused on blood, such as pulse, blood pressure and cholesterol. These largely result from nervous system directions. So even the smallest nervous system disturbance can dramatically affect the way your whole body works.

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Designer draws from many influences

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heryl Zemke overcame a childhood of being bullied to emerge as a woman of strength, which is manifested in her art.

She brings her talent to fiber work and painting, but Zemke, who lives in Riverview, is best known for her fashion design — another reflection of her art.

Her work in fashion has won her a slew of awards, including a first-place finish in the prestigious American Sewing Expo’s Passion for Fashion contest.

In 2014, she was chosen as one of 10 finalists for the Detroit Institute of Arts/Detroit Garment Guild Group’s design challenge —Samaurai: Beyond the Armor — and she was named

by StyleLine magazine as one of the top 10 “Designers to Watch” in the metropolitan area.

Decades of seemingly unrelated experiences have merged to bring Zemke to this point in her life as an artist and fashion designer, a career she dreamed of but never thought she’d have.

“When you look at all together, I needed all of it to do what I do today,” Zemke said. “Everything comes together, all in one. You just don’t know it at the time. God has a way of working in mysterious ways.”

She grew up in Lincoln Park as a shy girl with a speech impediment.

She was pulled out of classes throughout grade school for speech therapy, and classmates were cruel to her to the point where she often felt “terrified.”

“I was really bullied badly,” Zemke said. “The more people would bully me, the more I would go into a turtle shell.”

When she was in the middle of seventh grade, her family moved to Trenton.

“They had art classes, and they were going to pull me out of that for speech therapy, but my mom told them they couldn’t,” Zemke said. “So I had my first art class.”

She always knew art was her

lifeblood.

“When I was 4, my mother would sew and hand me scraps of fabric, and I would kind of create things,” Zemke said. “I’ve been artistic since Day One. If you’re an artist, you can’t not do it. It’s like your breath.”

After high school, she went to Lawrence Technological University to study architecture, following the advice of her father. During that time, she also worked for Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores part-time.

“The first few years in architecture is nothing but art,” Zemke said.

So far so good.

“But in the third year, you started learning about structures and heating and cooling and things like that,” she said. “They showed us collapsing buildings and bridges, and that terrified me.”

She took half a year off, and married Martin Zemke. Then she went to Wayne State University for classes in tailoring and textiles.

She enjoyed it, but felt she couldn’t afford to continue in the school’s fashion program. So she went back to

Lawrence Tech and earned a degree in marketing in 1989.

“I was always interested in fashion, but everyone kind of convinces you that you have to have lots of money and go to New York or Los Angeles,” Zemke said.

So with her degree in marketing, she hoped to become a fashion buyer for an upscale store.

“Nobody paid any interest in me,” she said.

The Zemkes moved to Florida for the next 10 years, where she earned an

associate’s degree in merchandising management from the International Academy of Design Technology, and got a job as a quality control specialist for the Home Shopping Network.

It was creating art, but it was work that used her marketing, fashion and sewing abilities, and that engaged her.

She met celebrities, including Ava Gabor and Donna Summers, and really liked the work, despite being bullied by some of the other women working in quality assurance.

“I remember crying for an entire weekend once,” Zemke said. “But it taught me something very valuable: You have to hold your own.”

When a new president took over HSN, hundreds of jobs were cut, including hers. When her husband got a job offer in Michigan, they moved back home.

“We were from there, and our son was not quite 3 then, and all the family was missing us,” Zemke said.

“I really didn’t feel like Florida was a place for a young kid. There were no kids around where we lived.”

So back in Michigan, Zemke went to work as a manager for Jo-Ann Fabrics in Allen Park, and started freelancing at her Riverview home, doing alterations and custom sewing for other people.

In 2002, she left the retail job and started her own business — C. Creations Custom Sewing and Design.

Besides fashion design and custom sewing, she began working as a costume designer for various theater groups and performances, including the renowned Grosse Ile Boar’s Head Festival.

“In 2009, I decided to take a trip to New York,” Zemke said. “I needed to know where I could shop for certain things. I paid for a fashion tour. It was almost like for the first time in my life, I was in the right place. I felt like I really belonged. I thought, ‘I can do this!’ New York woke me up, and said, ‘You can do this, what you’ve always dreamed about.’”

The tour paired her with a hotel roommate who had won her trip as a prize from the American Sewing Expo competition.

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Continued from page 10 running through the streets of New York together,” Zemke said. “She convinced me to enter the competition the next year. At that point, I could sew for anybody, but I didn’t know who I was or what I liked. I entered the contest at the very last second, and I got in. This was an 18-hour challenge similar to Project Runway consisting of 12 designers from around the nation, chosen to compete by the ASE jury. I took a third prize and the people’s choice award, and I was hooked.”

She went on to enter the contest for the next few years, always winning better and better awards until in 2012, she won first place.

In 2011, she organized successful fashion runway shows Downriver with proceeds going to charities.

Along the way, she became an active cultural partner with the Wyandotte-based Downriver Council for the Arts, teaching classes and volunteering on the group’s Gallery Committee. Her soldout fashion shows are held every year now at the DCA. In 2017, Zemke launched her own glossy publication, Dedicated Magazine, which focuses on fashion, art, culture and community.

She just released her 19th issue. The magazine can be downloaded for a fee, or a print copy can be ordered.

(Learn more by visiting dedicatedmag on Facebook.)

“Last year, I decided to curate an exhibit at the DCA that went along with my fashion show,” Zemke said. “We talked about fiber art, and I talked to friends (Michele Porter of Southgate and Emily Kokay of Trenton) about doing an installation together. We planned for three months, and created the tree, and then each of us created three individual pieces and

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planted them inside the tree. It took the three of us 30 hours just to install it. The name of the tree piece is Emergence, Transformation, Liberation.”

The massive tree, made with burlap, chicken wire, jute, stone, fiber and more, extended from floor to ceiling with roots across the floor

of the large DCA gallery in November 2019.

Zemke’s art pieces in the tree represented a caterpillar, a chrysalis and a butterfly —

symbols of her own journey in art and in life.

“The caterpillar represents you learning and absorbing everything,” she said. “He’s a solid, consumptive form.

The chrysalis form is made of twigs and colored pencils and thread spools and fibers.

You have everything you need in this stage. You just don’t know what to do with it. You have your skills, but what are you going to make?

“The last piece is a dress form that turns into a butterfly. It represents a hollow vessel. Now the art has to come through you, process inside of you and it has to go back out. You have to funnel it through you and back out and get ready for more to come.”

Creating the installation with two other women in different stages of life was a joy for Zemke.

“Being able to work with two other strong, intelligent, artistic women showed that we can work as a team and we’re more successful in the end,” she said. “I like to support women and their causes no matter what I do.”

Her fashion work and her art are inseparable now, and her influences — from her early study of architecture to Japanese pottery — are myriad.

“One year it was the story of ‘The Little Prince,’” she said. “I loved his relationship with The Rose. One year, I did a whole collection based on The Rose. I embroidered the poem around the edges of a garment, put tulle roses in the back of dresses, appliqued roses…

“When I get sunk into something, there’s not stopping me after that.”

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Big news for Downriver travelers

Allen Road to get some relief from long-wait train headaches Road projects designed to alleviate chronic traffic delays at the Canadian National (CN) rail crossing on Allen Road in Woodhaven are expected to please all drivers that travel through the area.

A tentative agreement has been reached to complete road and grade separation and reconstruction projects.

The goal is to eliminate train delays that have caused inconvenience for many drivers that use the route to get to their destination.

The grade separation at Allen Road will elevate the train crossing above the road, which will be lowered by more than 20 feet to allow motorists to pass freely under the bridge.

The projects are expected to take up to three years to complete with an estimated cost of up to $39, which will include road reconstruction work at both Allen and Van Horn roads as well as construction of a pump house and relocation of utility, water and sewer lines.

The proposals will be funded in federal, state and local revenue, plus 5 percent of the cost of the bridge

by CN Railroad. The expense will Jim Perry (right) of the DCC and other officials were on hand for the address a decades-long problem announcement that often causes delays for the entire Downriver region. The City corridor will positively impact the work because of the trains,” Swift of Woodhaven and the Wayne entire region.” said. “With the grade separation County Board of Commissioners Joining Odette at the announcement on Allen Road at Van Horn, that have approved an intergovernmental were U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, will provide an alternate route to agreement on the projects. The county Wayne County Executive Warren Beaumont Southshore Hospital for will need to bid and award the work Evans, State Sen. Stephanie Chang, our ambulance service. We certainly over the next nine months.

State Rep. Darrin Camilleri and other support the project and the hard work “This project will not only benefit officials from the region and Michigan by our neighboring mayors, federal, the City of Woodhaven, but will Department of Transportation. county and state officials.” benefit the entire region,” said Grosse Ile Supervisor Brian Loftus On average, more than 30,000 Woodhaven Mayor Patricia Odette said residents traveling from and to vehicles, including 2,140 commercial during a press conference at the his community would benefit as will trucks, traverse the Allen Road Downriver Economic Development drivers from all over the region. He crossing daily, typically competing Summit on February 3 at the said travelers have been in need of with nine trains using the CN Flat Downriver Campus of Wayne County such improvements for decades.

Rock Yard. While the average Community College District in Taylor.

Riverview Mayor Andrew stoppage caused by the trains is just “Residents and businesses have Swift, who was on hand for the over nine minutes, that amounts to been negatively impacted for years announcement, said that “although more than one hour in total per day, and the delays have brought our city Riverview itself doesn’t have a and it’s not uncommon for some and much of the region to a standstill regular issue with trains blocking stoppages to last 45 minutes or several times a day,” Odette said. our crossings for extended periods of more. In one instance in 2014, due to “It causes issues for our schools, time, our residents do.” mechanical failure trains blocked the emergency personnel and has “You never know how long it crossing for more than six hours. negatively affected the quality of all will take to go shopping, get to “There are a number of serious of our lives. Opening up that main your doctors appointment or get to train issues Downriver where railroads

block intersections for significant amounts of time,” Congresswoman Dingell said. “Recognizing this, (thenU.S. Rep.) John Dingell got federal money 15 years ago so communities could begin to address the problem.”

She said “the Allen Road crossing in Woodhaven is only a start in addressing the devastating delays for residents trying to get to the only level II trauma center (Beaumont HospitalTrenton) Downriver, for major automotive companies trying to get just-in-time deliveries and residents trying to get to and from work or school. This is just the beginning and we have much work ahead of us to address the other problematic crossings in the area.

County Executive Evans called the travel delays caused by trains “another long-standing problem that’s held back Wayne County and I’m pleased we were able to bring all levels of government together to finally broker a solution and help increase access to… one of our busiest commercial and industrial corridors.”

State Rep. Camilleri agreed, saying “our community will be safer and have more opportunities for economic development. I’m excited that the $12 million we secured in the state budget could be a catalyst to finally get this project started. This project is going to provide relief to the residents and businesses who’ve been hurt by the crippling delays.”

Officials thanked all of those involved in the collaborative effort.

The Downriver Economic Development Summit hosted by the Dingell, Detroit Regional Partnership and DTE featured dialogue about upcoming projects and opportunities affecting the region and local communities.

There were presentations by Dingell, Evans, the Southern Wayne County Regional Chamber, the Downriver Community Conference, the State Department of Treasury, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. The U.S. Economic Development Administration, the Windsor/Detroit Bridge Authority and others.

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Michael Zadoorian, a renowned Detroit area author, will address members of the Book Club of Grosse Ile at their annual dinner. The event will be held at the Grosse Ile Country Club on Feb. 21 at 6 p.m.

The evening will begin with cocktails followed by dinner and Mr. Zadoorian’s presentation afterwards.

He will speak about his recent publication Beautiful Music and then entertain questions about his book.

This novel, a 2019 Michigan Notable Book, was one of several in rotation among members of the book club, and it was very well received.

It’s a coming of age tale in which Danny Yzemski maneuvers through a dysfunctional home life, a turbulent high school and personal tragedy, all with the aid of rock and roll.

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To fight ‘invasive species’ area indies have a new weapon PETER ROSE

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aving been a part of a local and independent family retail business since 1972, my awareness of the arena in which I play has evolved as time has elapsed.

I have perspective that has some breadth and depth, having experienced retail effort in malls, strip centers and downtown environments. Change has been drastic.

External societal change is one thing. How we internalize change is fascinating to consider. After all: Change is not automatically bad.

Much change is good, and inevitable.

Fighting all change is silly, and fruitless.

But saying that does not change the fact that some change is bad. Some change needs to be resisted with as much force as can be mustered.

What has risen to the foreground for me is the awareness of how changes in regional spending choices have had such a deep and lasting effect on the well being of that region.

As a 17 year old person, it never occurred to me. As my company expanded during the 70s and 80s to have stores throughout the Detroit Metro, it never occurred to me.

Managing my business, or at least my role in that business, was all I focused on. As such, I was intent on keeping up with the fast changing of the retail landscape, not defensively, but from the perspective of being relevant and keeping my business moving forward. Growth is exciting.

But I didn’t see the forest for the trees; didn’t recognize that an army of varied invasive species had taken over the national, regional and local retail landscape, even as I watched pillar after pillar of local, often venerable brands we relied on crumble and fall.

I didn’t. I actually respected the national competition, and kept trying to compete, even as the angle of tilt of the field I was playing on kept increasing.

It came to be that nearly all of the businesses that had comprised the regional retail industry were gone.

Nearly all of the locals were gone, and then I suddenly understood what had happened. Then I realized the extent of the damage that was done to the communities that those local businesses had operated in, serving the needs so much better that the invaders could ever hope to.

And I suddenly felt revulsion and disgust.

The malls I used to enjoy visiting and comparing and passing judgement on were filled with pretty much 100 percent invasive species.

They came - very quickly - to mean nothing to me, other than something to be avoided at all costs. The truth dawned on me that I had watched a nearly complete takeover of my industry in less than 20 years.

I came to realize it. Most customers just saw new retail come, old retail go, and had no reason to consider what was happening, what had happened.

Most never did realize it and still haven’t connected those dots.

There are two named generations below mine out there now, considering their options, with no awareness of what used to be.

The national model is designed to siphon as much money as they can out of the local economies they invade, replacing authentic retail with places that resemble authentic, but are not.

Once most of the locals get ousted, the money that circulated around the cities they served is captured, sent out of the region and state, and devastating city after city, all across America. The loss of local, independent business destroys communities.

In 2007, I learned that support groups for local organizations that were trying to serve their local indie business communities existed, pushing back.

I began to understand that many cities were becoming ghost towns, but that there were some remarkable and electric examples of cities that were doing all the right things to ensure that they didn’t wither and die as change became permanent reality.

I decided to be the catalyst to create such an organization that championed all things local and independent, and did so with my wife and friends, and now, many more.

The rules are all about a determination to band together.

Businesses, non-profits, schools, residents. All of those elements of a community need to see those elements as totally interdependent. We all need each other to retain the character of our cities. Only if we see all of those elements acting in concert, together, can we avoid the decline, or even the end of our communities.

An organization that serves local independents now exists in Wyandotte -Love Wyandotte. It is a model that I believe will make a difference for everyone that lives around here, not just the businesses.

It serves Wyandotte, welcomes all, simply by reminding folks to look for the sign of Local and Independent, and do your business there.

Watch what happens.

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TELESCOPING THE TOWNSHIP

Grosse Ile Township, through the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and their administrator Andrea Sokockus, has hired a firm out of Detroit and New Orleans to “enhance’’ Macomb Street.

PAMELA A. FRUCCI

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Two reps from the company Spackman, Mossop, Michaels met on Jan. 29 to get feedback from Macomb Street businesses that morning and at 3:30 that afternoon met with 14 community-minded citizens that included members of the Grosse Ile Alliance for the Arts, a teacher, several parents, and a homeowner.

The reason they were on the Island is to come up with an overall plan to enhance Macomb Street and they jotted down ideas that flowed from the gathering at the Tasty Freeze on Macomb.

They’re interested in bringing public art to Macomb as well as adding what they heard from the group is to capture our history

Elizabeth Mossop

going back to the Macomb brothers who bought Grosse Ile from the Potowatomi Indians on July 6, 1776.

Some of the ideas they noted were

from parents who like the many activities for families that happen on our main street but said we lack places to park and a place for little kids who need a bathroom facility.

Having more “pocket parks” was a definite favorite.

The company is compiling notes from their first visit and will re-visit.

The ultimate goal is to make Macomb Street a “destination” not only for Island residents but off-Islanders!

DESTINATION: HIGHLANDS RESTAURANT TOP RENCEN I wrote recently about Shawn and Holly McCain, a Grosse Ile couple who amazingly have opened a new restaurant to replace the closed Coach once operating atop the RenCen, but unfortunately in telling their story all about them, I left out of the article how you could enjoy both the view from the tallest building in Michigan and their good food.

Here’s the missing information. All three restaurants they’re operating are called The Highlands and you can make reservations by calling their phone number (313) 877-9090.

The Fruccis get to take the elevator to the 71st floor of the Ren Cen on March 13 to enjoy dinner at the Highlands, thanks to a birthday gift from our three kids.

For Jack’s 90th birthday Jan 29, they got him (and me) dinner tickets to the Highlands, a limousine ride there and tickets to Fiddler on the Roof at the Fisher Theatre after dinner!

RECYCLERS FRUSTRATED WITH ITEMS NOT RECYCLED Many of us recyclers go way back when the Downriver Recycling Center was open off West Jefferson behind the DTE Energy plant. But that closed in 1991.

As the founder of the Recycling Center, we were able to find buyers for paper, metal, and glass. Now there’s a market for paper and metal, but not for glass.

We’re told by our current trash and recycling haulers, they no longer pick up glass in our blue recycling bins. To me it’s painful to dump glass jars and

wine bottles in the trash.

According to a source of information on recycling: The Container Recycling Institute headed

by Susan Collins out of Culver City, CA: Legislation introduced in Michigan would make long-needed updates to the state’s 41-year-old beverage container deposit law (The Bottle Bill) by placing a new 10 cent deposit on noncarbonated beverages including water, sports and energy drinks, juices, ready-to-drink iced tea and coffee, wine and liquor, and mixed drinks.

With the extensive growth of these product markets, they now comprise about 50 percent of all beverages consumed in Michigan. Michigan has long led the nation in recycling carbonated beverage containers due to its dime deposit (compared to a nickel in most states.) Only 10 states currently have bottle bills in place.

Have our state legislators pass House Bill 5306 and Senate Bill 701 which would extend the Bottle Bill to include non-carbonated presently throwaway bottles.

NOTE: Many years ago when I was working to pass the Bottle Bill in 1974, I wore a broken piece of a beer bottle thrown on the lawn at St. James Church.

My lapidary friend Walker Morrow polished it into a pendant I wore around my neck as a focal point to get people to vote for the Bottle Bill.

It passed back then and let’s hope it will be expanded to include all containers.

Right now only 9 percent of plastic containers are recycled. Some recycling agencies in Michigan, which have found no market for glass, have sold it to be ground into an aggregate for roads and landfill covering.

ST. JUDE’S IN NEVADA WILL ACCEPT ONCE-USED CHRISTMAS CARDS I just sent a package of the fronts of the colorful Christmas cards we get.

They are too pretty to recycle.

I have an address from the national organization of Presbyterian Women that promotes sending used cards to

St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, 100 St. Jude’s Street, Boulder City, NV 89005-1618.

In a craft class, the kids remake the cards and sell them for pin money.

WHAT TO DO WITH EXCESSIVE BOOKS If you’ve accumulated more books than you have room for in your home, there are three Little Free Library stands on the Island: at Water’s Edge, along the bike trail in front of the Public Safety Building and in front of Bishop’s Cottage that will accept books worthy of choosing and reading.

Then there’s a lending library at the Grosse Ile Hardware Store. Here’s another opportunity to share books you no longer want in your collection.

I read this clipping in the 2020 AARP magazine called “Pass on your books.”

1. Help people overseas: Books for Africa ships books to students in need and Operation Paperback send donations to soldiers overseas.

2. Promote Literacy: Better World Books sells your donated titles and helps fund literacy initiatives. The Prison Book Program sends reading materials to inmates.

3. Make some money: Some used books can be valuable. Use a comparison site such as BookFinder to learn more.

COME TO A FREE ORGAN CONCERT AT ST. JAMES FEB. 15 Minister of Music at St. James Church, Jim Johnson invites those who love organ music to attend their sixth free concert in the chapel on Sat., Feb. 15 at 7 p.m.

In partnership with the University of Michigan, students of James Kibbie (university organist,) and Kola Owalabi (organ, improvisation and sacred music) will present a program of organ music on the Charles M. Ruggles Chapel organ.

This organ is interesting in construction and tonality and challenges organists to use creative registration.

There is no charge for the concerts but a free will offering is accepted.

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ROTARY STROLLING DINNER Proceeds from a Valentine’s-themed strolling buffet dinner will benefit the nonprofit charity “It’s in Your Jeans,” which provides men’s cancer support in the area.

The Grosse Ile Rotary Club’s “Have a Heart Strolling Buffet” is set for 6:30 p.m. February 13 at Perdino’s of Grosse Ile, 8575 Macomb St, Admission is $30 per person. Tickets will be sold at the door. Dinner is included.

Rotary President John Burgan said Dr. Abed Asfour, a cardiologist with Beaumont, will share how heart disease “affects our daily lives and our wallets.”

For more information or to RSVP, visit the Grosse Ile Rotary Club Facebook page.

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The bands will play a benefit March 20 at 8 p.m. at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center Michael A. Guido Theater.

Over the last two decades, FiftyAmpFuse has become a favorite at festivals and concerts across the nation.

Hines Drive is comprised of the original members of Salem Witchcraft, one of Michigan’s most successful rock bands of the 70s and 80s. FiftyAmpFuse will also be performing “Godz of Vinyl,” a sophisticated live musical production synchronized to nostalgic video segments.

Tickets are only $25 at the box office (add $2.00 for online purchase) each and may be purchased by calling 313943-2354. A cash bar will be available.

COME AND ROCK The bands FiftyAmpFuse and Hines Drive are teaming up to raise funds for Veterans Matter, a program that helps veterans and their families transition from homelessness into permanent

SAVE THE DATE On Saturday, Feb. 22 the Grosse Ile Animal Shelter will hold its Mardi Paws event at the Grosse Ile Golf & Country Club.

The event, which will feature

costumes, the Sunny Side Street Band and a New Oleans-themed menu, will run from 6-11 p.m.

Call the shelter at 676-7157 for more information TAKE IT OUTSIDE High School Nature and Wildlife Photo Contest: The deadline Thursday, May 7, 2020 Open to all high school students. Sponsored by the Grosse Ile Nature and Land Conservancy. Enter at www.ginlc.org.

GROSSE ILE SENIOR CITIZENS CLUB Meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 11:30 p.m.

Refreshments followed by a short business meeting, programs, bingo. This is a social club for men and women 55 years and up living on Grosse Ile AAUW SCHOLARSHIPS The AAUW Wyandotte-Downriver Branch offers several scholarships annually to female undergraduate students at Baker College, Henry Ford

College, Lawrence Technological University and Wayne County Community College District.

Interested students can pick up an AAUW application at their school’s counseling office. Candidates must have earned a minimum of 12 credits, be a United States citizen and a resident of the Downriver area.

An essay is required. For more information, contact rjhart720@yahoo. com or visit downriver-mi.aauw.net.

YOGA Tuesdays at the Downriver Council for the Arts, 81 Chestnut, Wyandotte from 5:30-6:30 p.m, every Tuesday.

Suitable for all levels, this Hatha Yoga Flow will focus on linking breath to movement, deep stretching, building core strength and improving balance and overall well-being.

Bring your own yoga mat. Drop-in for $10 a class or $35 for (4 classes).

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HAPPENING Continued from page 28 or visit www.downriverarts.org.| 2020 ANNUAL METROPARKS PASSES Access to all 13 Metroparks for 2020.

Cost is $40. For seniors (62 and older), a 2020 annual pass will cost $29.

All you need is ID verification.

All senior passes must be purchased in person. Shop online or visit your favorite Metropark to purchase your 2020 annual pass today. www. metroparks.com.

AARP Wayne County Heritage Chapter #4676 meets the first Tuesday of the month at Downriver Wayne County Community College, 21000 Northline, Taylor, MI, usually in the Ray Mix Room at 1 p.m. (it may change due to the college schedule).

The meetings are open to everyone, regardless if you are an AARP member or not. We offer fellowship & education through our speakers. For more information, call 313-382-1378.

SERVICE WITH LOVE PROJECT A daily telephone reassurance program for homebound seniors; sign up to receive a phone call daily from a volunteer to keep you connected and brighten your day; to receive an application call 313-278-8455.

Farm Activity Room; aerobic walking to music.

YMCA AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM Kids attending the program and the Downriver Family YMCA will receive snacks, help with homework and the chance to explore literacy, STEM and arts enrichment programs; to learn more, contact Stefanie Patrico at spatrico@ ymcadetroit.org.

MANTRA MEDITATION From 5-6:15 p.m. the second and fourth Thursday of each month at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital – Multipurpose Room. Introduction and benefits of meditation. Learn mantra meditations and take a stress reduction break.

Everyone is welcome. Call 734-2466057 to RSVP.

VAN TRANSPORTATION Senior citizens, low income, disabled, essential errands. $5 on island, $6 offisland, round trips. Reservations at least 24 hours in advance, two to four days preferred. Call (734) 675-2364 or (734) 216-2905.

ISLAND WALKERS Mondays through Fridays from 6:45-7:45 a.m. year round at Centennial

OPEN PICKLEBALL FOR ADULTS On Tuesdays and Thursdays through May at Meridian Elementary School Gym from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

VOLUNTEERS The Township is always on the lookout for volunteers.

Helpers are needed for community events like the Fall Festival, Halloween Parade, Island Winterfest, Winter Olympics and the Easter event.

Volunteers are also needed as golf course rangers and workers at summer

events like Safety Town and youth camps.

And, as always, volunteers are needed to help plan, set up and clean up Island Fest.

To become involved call 734-6752364.

LIBRARY TEEN VOLUNTEERS Interested in volunteering at the library?

If you’re 14-17 yrs old, take a look through our volunteering information and fill out our application. Follow this link to the Teen Volunteer Application, fill it in and drop it off at the library’s circulation desk or email it to Amalia Ash: ataash@trenton.lib.mi.us.

Once the completed application and work permit is given to library staff, you will be contacted within five days for a volunteering opportunity. Please note that as we have a limited number of volunteer opportunities and changing library needs, we cannot guarantee a certain number of volunteer hours or immediate placement.

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Editor of The Detroit News picks and loves Grosse Ile PAMELA A. FRUCCI

Grosse Ile Grand

You would think when the future editor of The Detroit News was looking for a home for him and his wife Dorothy to raise their four children, they might zero in on one of our northern suburbs.

But they chose Grosse Ile for two reasons.

One was that editor Gary Miles was a pilot and landed at our municipal airport on a beautiful spring day in 2002 and not only enjoyed walking across the Groh Road for a cold drink at the bar, but noticed the water surrounding the Island filled with sailboats and other watercraft.

Then his wife - back then a reporter - came to the Island to do an interview and enjoyed the water and the woods. Having grown up and lived in Berkley, Gary had heard about Grosse Ile but never thought to live down here.

Gary, who graduated from MSU in 1987 with a degree in journalism and began his career as a reporter in Lansing, was hired by The Detroit News as a managing editor, but was promoted in 2019 as editor when the previous editor passed away.

The Miles have four kids, two boys and two girls aged four to 13, and Dorothy, formerly a reporter, decided what she really wanted to be is a doctor.

Somehow she managed to raise four kids and go to medical school at the University of Michigan. Quite an accomplishment! Now a doctor with a major in child psychology, Dorothy is about to begin her practice.

According to Gary, Grosse Ile has a lot of pluses, but what

Gary Miles

he’d like to see is more public access to our waterfront.

He even suggested turning Point Hennepin., at the far northern end of Grosse Ile, into a park. He said he thinks of Grosse Ile as an “Island sanctuary” and wants it kept “unique,” but also share it with others GROSSE ILE HAS SEVERAL CONNECTIONS WITH THE DETROIT NEWS It was in Heine Hoch’s living room that Pat Pittman and I, neighbors on South Pointe, were complaining there was nothing to do on Grosse Ile. This was 1945 and we were 13- and 14-years old.

Heine, then church editor of

The Detroit News, said “Why not start a newspaper?”

That’s when The Ile Camera, “by and for kids,” got its start and we were editors until we got into high school and got busier in our lives.

The Hochs took over and published The Ile Camera for 25 years as a community newspaper. The publication was bought by several corporations and was dropped in 2015 after 70 years. (Luckily, we now have two replacement papers!)

Then, I pattern this column “Listening in on the Island” after The Detroit News columnist: H.C.L. Jackson who wrote “Listening in on Detroit” on the back page of The Detroit

News for years. He lived on Grosse Ile and there’s even a street named after him!

will record it so I can send it to our granddaughter in New York city.

OUR CHILD’S KEYBOARD HAS BEEN ADOPTED I tried again in the January Grand to get a taker for our granddaughter’s no-longer-used keyboard. Only one response came from Kim Navarre, who wanted it for her four-year-old grandson.

According to Kim, he comes over for a visit, and plays around on her grand piano.

Kim’s daughter came the day she called me to pick up the keyboard and it’s now in their hands.

I’m hoping the little boy will learn a piece to play on it and

JACK FRUCCI CELEBRATES 90 YEARS Thanks to a lot of cooking, baking, and organizing on the part of our daughter and daughters-in-law, Jack enjoyed having 30 members of our family join him for a prebirthday party on Jan. 25 at our new home on East River.

Besides helping to organize the event, our daughter Marti put together a souvenir booklet with 90 greetings listing favorite memories from family and friends to present to him at the party.

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Grosse Ile nabs third-place D3 trophy at cheer invitational

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ourteen varsity teams competed in the Grosse Ile Competitive Cheerleading Invitational on Saturday, Feb. 1.

Among the teams competing there were Gibraltar Carlson and Southgate Anderson, two teams that have 13 state championships between them.

Anderson has won three Division 1 state titles and Carlson has won 10 Division 2 state titles, including the past two.

Not surprisingly, those team teams had the highest scores in the event.

Carlson scored 784.62 points and was the highest scoring team in the event. The Marauders won all three rounds. Anderson scored 767.00 points.

Host Grosse Ile scored 728.82 and finished third in Division 3.

The Red Devils scored 223.40 in the first round, 206.92 in the second round and 298.50 in the final round.

The event scoring went this way: Carlson 784.62, Anderson 767.00, Riverview 754.22, Wyandotte 754.02, Airport 743.08, Flat Rock 731.26, Grosse Ile 728.82, Lake Odessa Lakewood 718.62, Bedford 704.20, Clarenceville 675.00, Edsel Ford 608.34, Taylor 512.76, Dearborn 498.20 and Lincoln Park 381.78.

The Grosse Ile Invitational was and host Allen Park won the Division the Red Devils’ fifth competition of 2 title. The Jaguars had the highest the season. The team was fifth at the total score in the even with a 783.44 first Huron League Jamboree hosted At the all-class Wyandotte

by Flat Invitational Rock and on Jan. 25, 2019-2020 GROSSE ILE the Devils Grosse Ile COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING TEAM was fourth were fourth at behind Sarah Alderwish Alysa Mallon the second Division 1 Emma Alexander Victoria Murphy jamboree.

Wyandotte Marisa Barnard Ella Normandin The first (767.24), Angilina Davidson Marina Rensi Jamboree Division Isabella Davidson Andrea Rios scoring 2 Trenton Chloe Gaither Katelyn Saches was (731.84) and Hailey Gorman Ava Smith Jefferson, Division 1 Kelsey Holmes Sophie Snider Airport, Churchill Carolyn Kalata, Brianna Syrocki Riverview, (725.02).

Lina Mahmoud Haley Woods Flat Rock, Grosse Grosse Ile Ile’s total (684.98) was 701.50. and Huron. The second jamboree Grosse Ile is now gearing up for scoring was Jefferson, Airport, Flat Michigan High School Athletic Rock, Grosse Ile (689.76), Riverview Association districts. The Red Devils and Huron. will begin the state tournament this On Jan. 11 the Red Devils competed year at Onsted High School. Joining in the 15-team, three-division Allen the Red Devils there will be the host Park Invitational and brought home school, Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard, a first-place trophy. The Red Devils Brooklyn Columbia Central, Detroit scored 706.46 to win the Division University Prep Art and Design, 3 championship over Brooklyn Deatrot Voyageur Prep, Flat Rock, Columbia Central, Harper Woods Hillsdale, Ida, Clarenceville, Michigan Chandler Park and Beverly Hills Center, Jefferson, Summit Academy, Detroit Country Day. Tecumseh and Wixon St. Catherine.

Wyandotte won the Division 1 title

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Grosse Ile and old rival Riverview have played two close, exciting hockey games this season. Riverview won both - by scores of 2-0 and 3-2.

Now, if the Pirates can uphold their end of the bargain, the teams can meet again in what will be the biggest of the three meetings - in the Michigan High School Athletic Association state playoffs.

Grosse Ile looking forward to another meeting with old rival Bucs

Hosted by Gabriel Richard at Kennedy Arena, Trenton February 25 Riverview vs. Bedford 7 p.m.

February 26 Wyandotte vs. Carlson 6 p.m Richard vs. Monroe SMCC 8 p.m,

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The Red Devils and Bucs are both in the Division 3 regional tournament hosted by Gabriel Richard at Trenton’s Kennedy Arena.

Grosse Ile claimed a first-round bye in the seven-team draw and the Devils will play Riverview in the second round on Feb. 28 - IF - the Bucs can beat Temperance-Bedford in their firstround game on Feb. 25.

Gabriel Richard, Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central, Wyandotte and Carlson are the other four teams in the tournament.Wyandotte plays Carlson and Richard plays SMCC on Feb. 26.

The semifinal games are Feb. 28 and the finals will be March 4 at 7 p.m.

Grosse Ile - despite losing twice in the regular season to Riverview, has every reason to be confident heading into a potential third match against the Pirates.

Both losses were essentially onegoal games that could have been won by either team. Riverview scored an empty-net goal to claim the 2-0 win in the first meeting and on Jan. 22 the teams went to overtime tied at 2-2 before Riverview got a goal to win it.

In addition, Grosse Ile started the new year with a 5-2-1 record, elevating its overall mark to 11-6-1.

In the Jan. 22 loss to Riverview Patrick Karn and Evan Lemerand scored for the Red Devils. Karn, Brennen Karn, Dylan Pattenaude and Adam Kargenian had assists. Gavin Holmes had two goals for Riverview and Ryan Herzog had the other.

Since the start of the new year, Grosse Ile has beaten Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard 4-3, Carlson 1-0, Cheboygan 4-2, Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central 5-0 and Wyandotte

MHSAA Division 3 hockey regionals

February 28 Grosse Ile vs. Riverview-Bedford winner 6 p.m.

Wyandotte/Carlson vs. GR/ SMCC 8 p.m, March 4 Finals 7 p.m, 2-0.

The Red Devils have lost to Riverview and Ann Arbor Pioneer 2-0 and skated to a 3-3 tie with Wyandotte.

Grosse Ile heads toward the playoffs with a schedule that includes games against SMCC, Divine Child, Huron, Dearborn, Cabrini, Ann Arbor Richard and Woodhaven - all teams Grosse Ile has beaten this year with the exception of Woodhaven.

In a recent game, Grosse Ile scored a thrilling 2-1 overtime win over Wyandotte. The two teams had skated to a 3-all draw earlier in the season.

In the win, Grosse Ile got both goals from Pattenaude.

Senior Carter Pattenaude, who was injured and missed a good portion of the season, was back between the pipes and was the winning goalie. He had a fine game, stopping 36 of 37 Wyandotte shots on goal.

In one of their bigger offensive outbursts of the year, Grosse Ile dominated SMCC 5-0 on Jan. 25.

In that game, Grosse Ile got goals from five different players and Owen Bonham stopped all 28 shots he faced for the shutout victory.

Hunter Procter, Patrick Karn, Lemerand, Dylan Pattenaude and Luke Auger all scored for Grosse Ile. Lemerand and Brennan Karn each had two assists.

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TOM TIGANI Grosse Ile Grand

Things are looking up for the Grosse Ile High School girls’ basketball team after a rough start to the season.

The Red Devils had won three of their last four as of press time to put them at 3-6, including a 54-40 win over Milan Jan. 30.

“We’re starting to come together as a team,” Coach Bill Fleming said. “The first time we played Milan, they beat us by 12. Then we won by 14 and were up by 20 at the half. That’s a pretty big swing.”

Fleming credits his defense for the turnaround.

“We’re starting to play really tough against the tough teams,” he said. “We have some fierce defensive players that make it hard for other teams’ better players to have their usual night.”

Ami Yezman and Emmi Pinkowski typically draw the assignment of guarding those players, and Fleming said they’ve been more than up to the task, saying, “I wouldn’t want to play against them.”

In the win over Milan, Helana Formentin tied a school record and a Grosse Ile floor record with 39 points en route to one of the season’s brighter moments: she is now the Red Devils’ all-time leading scorer with 686 points.

Fleming was really pleased, however, that Formentin was joined in that game with scoring from five other players.

“Contributions from everyone is the key to our success,” he said. “Emma Johnson really has become our floor general and cut down on her turnovers.

She’s playing well.”

The Red Devils were set to face unbeaten Flat Rock on Feb. 3, a team that beat them 43-32 on Jan. 6.

“We played them tough,” Fleming said. “They’re a team that gets 10 points ahead, but we kept the margin close the whole game. We just couldn’t score in the fourth quarter.”

Grosse Ile then plays at Huron Feb. 6 and at Riverview on Feb. 10 before coming home Feb. 13

to face Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central.

“Those teams are pretty deep, and we will continue to struggle against teams with better depth,” Fleming said, “but we’ll be competitive against them, and it wouldn’t surprise me if we beat one or two of them.

“I really like how hard the girls have continued to work after our slow start. Now they’re having fun and working hard.”

With just a month left to go in the season, he’s looking for his team to make continued improvement.

“And our junior varsity and and freshman teams are doing good,” Fleming said, “so the future’s looking bright.”

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The last week of the month was a tough one for the Grosse Ile High School boys’ basketball team, with losses to Novi Christian Academy Jan. 28 (78-56) and to Carleton Airport High School on Jan. 31 (48-23).

“Both were ugly losses,” Coach Mohammed Elhaj said.

“We are not playing to our potential right now.”

The Red Devils came out “really flat” in both games, and both opponents ended up taking big leads. As a result, the Devils were 4-7 overall and 3-4 in Huron League play as of press time.

“We couldn’t knock down any shots,” Elhaj said. “It was very difficult for us to get

GI’s Sitek to head WBC

back in the games being down so much.”

He was especially disappointed because he believes his players are capable of playing better.

“We have guys that can really play this game so well,” Elhaj said. “We are just really slow at finding our rhythm and finding the best five guys who can play with each other.”

The second half of the season started Tuesday, Feb. 4, with a home game against Milan, and he’s hoping for — but not counting on — a return to form for his team.

“We beat Milan at their place (55-47 on Jan. 7),” Elhaj said, “but that doesn’t mean this next game will be easy.

They have beaten teams we’ve lost to already, so anything is

possible.”

He said players need to figure themselves out as soon as possible, “or the second half of the season will not look good for us.”

He remains optimistic, though.

“We are currently struggling, but I believe with this group we will come together and find a way to win,” Elhaj said, adding that team captains John Blanzy and Trey Swick are doing a great job leading the team on and off the court.

“We will fight for a top spot in the Huron League.”

The Red Devils hosted Flat Rock Feb. 7 before traveling to Huron High School Feb. 11 and Riverview on Valentine’s Day.

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