Who's there? One of the surviving members of a family of screech owls who nested for a time on Pemberton Drive in Grosse Pointe Park.
Pointers plan to swim Lake St. Clair for cystic fibrosis awareness
Weather permitting, Grosse Pointer Ric Geyer and nine friends will go for a swim in Lake St. Clair Tuesday.
Not a biggie, you say. Well, they are planning to swim from the Old Club on Harsen’s Island and end up near the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club.
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Grosse Pointers made DSO concerts at the Ford House a huge success
When the management team at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House paired with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to sponsor a pair of summer concerts on the lawn, they hoped they would attract enough paying customers to break even.
They figured they needed to sell about 3,000 tickets for that to happen. The results are now in. More than 5,000 folks turned out on those lovely July evenings, including 1,500 who bought tickets at the gate. The DSO and the Ford House will split $70,000 in net profits, according to Ford House staff.
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A sailor's friends bid farewell to a Grosse Pointe institution
If ever there was the perfect image of a self-made man who got joy out of life, it was Bill McCourt, whose name graced a shoe store in the Village, a building he built at the southwest corner of Kercheval and Notre Dame.
His father, Arthur, died when he was 8. His mother, Mary, had tuberculosis so Bill grew up in an orphanage, quit school as a teenager to support his mother and sister, served as a radar man in the Navy in World War II and went ashore at Iwo Jima – and took pictures.
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That face, those eyes, they have the power to hypnotize. Which is why the Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society offers Aries, a beagle pup, for adoption by the right home.
Grosse Pointe's best friends, available for love or (not much) money
Meet Aries, a 12-week-old female beagle pup. She is the first in a series of adoptable pets provided by the Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society (GPAAS) that will run as a Pet of the Week feature here on your community news and information website.
If you are not familiar with GPAAS, it has been placing pets through Saturday adoption sessions since 1997. Their aim is to make sure any adoptable animal finds a home. They don’t run a shelter. They have dozens of volunteers who foster the animals and bring them to the Saturday adoption sessions at the Neighborhood Club at 17150 Waterloo in Grosse Pointe City from noon to 3 p.m. The next adoption session will be July 24. Tthey are held every couple of weeks.
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Pet Adoption
The time is 12-3pm on Saturday July 24