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HARPER WOODS I ST. CLAIR SHORES I GROSSE POINTES I EASTPOINTE ROSEVILLE I FRASER r. I A C7 CO I )( 1 AW 1 1 V7 www.freep.com Detroit Free Press Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006 Editor: Mary Francis Masson, 313-222-6159, YOUR WEEKLY COMMUNITY (Gettiiiff their win Visit www.freep.com for more local news and to post your views c-t 'h I (9 i i -rum r- i Go back to the golden days of TV The golden days of Detroit television will be back for a night Wednesday at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Gordon Castelnero, author of "TV Land -Detroit," will talk about the most popular and best-remembered shows from the days before cable.

Lunch with Soupy. Cartoons with Jingles. Movies with Bill Kennedy. News with John Kelly. Opinion with Lou Gordon.

Horror flicks with the Ghoul. Castelnero, a radio producer and documentary filmmaker from Livonia, talked with the talent and the people behind shows like these for his book. The free program, set to start at 7:30 p.m., is sponsored by the Grosse Pointe Historical Society. By Free Press staff MARY SCHROtOER, Detroit Fret Press Richard Shetler 35, and his son, Richard Shetler III, 9, both of Grosse Pointe Woods, scrub the tail section of an F-14A Tomcat at the air museum on the grounds of Selfridge Air National Guard Base. Cub Scout Pack 290 of Mason Elementary in Grosse Pointe Woods adopted the plane and, aided by adults, committed to washing it twice a year.

Grosse Pointe Woods Cub Scouts adopt a fighter jet at Selfridge Military Air Museum BY KIM NORTH SHINE FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER To adopt a plane The Selfridge Military Air Museum is an indoor and outdoor display of military artifacts and planes and history. The museum may have one or two bigger planes still available for adoption, possibly the C-130A Hercules model and C131, to a group that will be responsible for cleaning it twice a year. The museum is open to the general public p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, April through October, Memorial Day and Independence Day. It may be visited by appointment at any other time.

It is located on Selfridge ANG Base, north of Mt. Clemens. The normal M-59 and Jefferson entrance is closed through December due to construction, but alternate entry gates will be open. Call 586-307-6768 ore-mail air.museummiself.ang.af.mil for information, including about the Adopt-A-Plane program. through the Adopt-A-Plane program at Selfridge Military Air Museum in Macomb County.

The Oct. 1 trip was the first of what will be two washings a year, one in the fall and one in the spring. "It was like washing a car, except it's an F-14," said Joe jet with hand mitts and brushes to do battle with a slippery surface that was almost 62 feet long and in need of a good cleaning. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, about 25 boys from Grosse Pointe Woods' Mason Elementary School's Cub Scout Pack 290 got the unusual opportunity to wash a plane The littlest Cub Scouts went first, washing the fuselage and wheels of a giant fighter jet. Up next were the older scouts, some more apprehensive than others, as they climbed 16 feet to the top of the i I' Hi' i See CUBS, 4 5 QUESTIONS WITH Grosse Pointe Park arborist true to his roots Make a spooky Halloween snack with Yak trees directly, trimming them, Trees were a part of man's youth By KIM NORTH SHINE FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER fl injecting them.

1 1 7t i An urban forest-4 'l pr manapps thfi PAGE 2 urban forest as a whole," including taking care of all city-owned trees, from I. Brian Colter 4 real busy, I would have to say, because of Dutch elm disease. That's still around, and we took down a lot of trees this year because of emerald ash borer. In summer, it's dead trees and consulting, answering phones. In fall, we plant trees.

We're about to plant 115 trees. In the winter is when we trim our trees. We try to trim 1,500 a year, roughly 20 of our population. In the spring, that's another tree-planting time of year. What is it about trees? I grew up in a family that used to go on a lot of outdoor adventures.

I always liked trees. I spent five years up in Alaska working for the Fish and Wildlife Service, sleeping in a tent. I started working with a local tree company when I was 18 in Dearborn. Have you ever killed a tree by accident? No, but people do all the time. One thing I see a lot of is people piling up mulch around the bottom of a tree because they're trying to help it.

The mulch is pressed up against the tree and then they wonder why the tree dies. It's because anything above that root collar will rot if it remains moist. WTiat's a common and big mistake you see with people and their handling of trees? Because we've been losing so many ash trees to emerald ash borer, some person has been planting little phantom trees on city easements in the middle of the night. The problem is, the trees are really small; they're seedlings, about a foot tall. They're going to be run over by lawn mowers.

They're silver maples, so they're not a desirable species for easements. This person with the best intentions is trying to reforest the area and plants them in the worst spots. If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? That's kind of like what's my favorite tree. It fluctuates. It used to be red bud.

But you know, oak trees, they're a symbol of strength, so I like those, but I'd have to say now it's the bristlecone pine. They're ugly, little scrawny trees, but they live to be thousands of years old. KIM NORTH SHINE can be reached at 313-223-4557 or at kghine freepress.com. Brian Colter loves trees, but too often, as urban forester for the City of Grosse Pointe Park, he sees people love their trees too much. "They have good intentions," Colter said.

"But they do the wrong things to their trees and love them to death." Colter, a Northville resident and father to Zachary, 9, and Jane, 6, also is the city's arborist. "I suffer a little bit from an identity crisis. You could say I'm an urban forester, although I am an arborist, too. An arborist is more a person who goes out and tends to maintaining them, removing hazardous and sick ones, planting new ones and preventing the spread of tree killers such as Dutch elm disease and emerald ash borer. Colter, 39, became the city's forester and arborist in 1995.

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