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i'Wii'iiil! Counties Cities PAGE 3B Friday, November 22, 1996 1-810-691-2400 i 1 J' -J aT- I ft' w' i. WMm ill I jf 'I 9 I ii ii. S3 KIRTHMON F. DOZIERDetroit Free Press Smy. SheSssed 30t to 40 days of school last year at Redford High Scho Community college gets new life helping steer students to careers EditorS.

Renee Mitchell: Royal Oak Actress plans to sign cookbook It's a wonderful life at Decades. Karolyn Grimes, who played the part of Jimmy Stewart's daughter, Zuzu Bailey, in the 1946 movie, "It's a Wonderful Life," is perhaps best remembered for her line, "Every time you hear a bell ring, an angel gets its Grimes will be signing her new book, "Zuzu Bailey's It's a Wonderful life Cookbook," from 1-6 p.m. Saturday at Decades, a nostalgia products store at 1 10 W. Fourth, near Main. Grimes wrote the book with Franklin Dohanyos, the publicist for Decades.

On Thursday, the store celebrated its 13th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the movie. For more information, call Barry Shulman or Bill Kroutat 1-810-546-9289 from noon-7 p.m. or leave a message anytime. ByBradBennett Southfield Singles games are match play Where can the single person be sure to find a match? At the Match Game. Two singles-only events sponsored by the Singles Registry will take place this weekend.

First, there's the Singles Only Match Game Bowl and Dance on Friday. Then there's a Singles Only Match Game Triathlon on Saturday. When you preregister for both events, youH answer questions about yourself and the kind of person you'd like to meet Show up at Auburn Lanes, 27 S. Squirrel Road at 8 tonight, and youll be placed on a team of four women who bowl against four men. Only Match Game participants will be playing inside the bowling alley on Friday.

Dancing and karaoke will also be available. You must preregister. Bowling costs $8.75 with your own bowling shoes, or $10.25 with shoe rental. On Saturday, the Match Game moves to Bonnybrook Country Club. Participants will play pool, putt-.

Editor Victor Gabon: Warren Prosecutor seeks tapes of mayor The St Clair County Prosecutor's Office has subpoenaed a local news station's videotape of Mayor Mark Steenbergh's supposed business trip to San Diego last month. "We're evaluating after being contacwl by the station, Prosecutor Ehvood Brown said. "We've made no commitment about what we're going to do or if we're going to charge him." He said hisoffice will decide whether a contempt of court charge is warranted because Steenbergh did not attend much of abusiness conference during the trip, which his attorney told Judge Walter Jakubowski would be strictly business, not for pleasure or with family. i Steenbergh is out on personal bond in connection with a felony ethnic intimidation and assault charge stemming from a fight with a black teen in September. Brown is special prosecutor in the case.

Steenbergh has denied any wrong doing. By Kim North LakeStClair Budget increase sought for lake i' LakeStClairboattrafficis expected to increase next spring, and Macomb County Sheriff William Hackel wants the idepartment's Marine Division to grow with it i Hackel is seeking more money for 1997 that would allow him to add 1 a four th full-time deputy to the division and purchase equipment and a new patrol boat Hackel said Thursday that his request to the Michigan DepartmentofNatural Resources and the county board is a wish list A decision is expected in early spring. Much like the completion of I-6 brought more boaters to the lake, Hackel said he expects more boaters from northern Oakland County and Lapeer to use M-59 to putt will and men and in $10, the 8:30 of will A on golf and darts. Each participant play against a member of the opposite sex to compete for a trophy dinner for two at the Mona Lisa restaurant in Royal Oak. However, will score points against men, women will score points against women.

The male and female winners with the best scores in each category will win the trophy plus a dinner for two. Preregistration is 7 p.m. at the Bonnybrook Country Club on Telegraph, VS-mile south of 8 Mile Detroit Cost for the triathlon is or $5 for those who attended tonight's Bowl and Dance. For more information, call the Singles Registry at 1-810-569-5695 anytime. ByBradBennett Around the county SOinHFlElD: Stay alive at 55.

It's not speed limit, but a refresher course for drivers 50 and older from a.m.4:30 p.m. Saturday. The course will be at the Franklin Club Apartments, 28301 Franklin, south 12 Mile off Northwestern Highway. A continental breakfast be provided. For more information, call 1-810-353-2810 from 8:30 a.m.

and 4 p.m. PONTIAC: Sentencing for a Detroit man convicted in the 1991 slaying of Brinks armored car guard Richard Germany has been postponed until Wednesday. David Brintley, 29 who was to have been sentenced Wednesday for second-degree murder faces up to life in prison. jury this month convicted him of gunning down Germany, 27, also of Detroit, outside a Bingham Farms bankNov.14,1991. TROY: Know a suit who deserves a medal or at least another plaque the wall? Here's your chance: Through Dec 15, the Oakland Executives Association is accepting nominations for its Executive of the Year award, presented annually to three executives in manufacturing, retail and service industries who shine in corporate and community life.

Last year's winners were Richard Golden of D.O.C. Optics; Lawrence Wisne of Progressive Tool Industries; and Thomas Landry of AJ. Etkuj Construction Co. Send nominations to Robert Hagedorn, Oakland Executives Association, 901 Wilshire Drive, Suite 48084. 1 -810-469-4680 get their boats in the water.

The sheriff also said he is seeking to add 10 more reserve deputies, trained volunteers who assist deputies. Harrison Township Lancers bound for Hollywood About 200 members of the L'Anse Creuse High School Marching Band are Hollywood bound next week. The Marchine Lancers. accompanied by about 40 chaperones have been invited to take part in the Hollywood Christmas Parade on Dec. 1, the largest annual spectator event in Los Angeles, which attracts about one million onlookers.

The Lancers will be the first high school band representing Michigan to ever participate. Eightbands from California and bands from j. Colorado, North Dakota, Kansas, Illinois and Ohio also will participate. The parade will be aired for television audiences in 87 countries. But don't expect live coverage locally.

In Detroit itH air on Christmas morning, Dec. 25, at 9 a.m.onWDIV-TV (ChanneH). The band is seeking donations to help defray travel costs. To contribute, call Russell Robinson, banddirector, at 1-81O-78U400, ext. 7845, anytime.

Roseville Governor puts judge on bench Marco Santia lost an election for the 39th District Court in Roseville, but hell sit on the bench anyway. Santia, a private-practice attorney since 1973, lostthe Nov. 5 judicial race to Joseph Boedeker. But Gov. John Engler appointed Santia this week to fill a court opening created byjudge William Ward's retirement Santia, a former Roseville school board member, must get elected in November 1998 to serve the rest of the term, ending Dec.

31, 2000. ByMarcSelinger W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington," she said. Some people said that losing the college in favor of technical training was a step backwards, she said.

"But we knew this wasn't the difference between W.E.B. and Booker T. This was the dif ference in the work world." DuBois helped found the NAACP and empha- sized Mgher education. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black vocational- technical college in Alabama. The career academy, like the college before it is part of the Highland Park Public Schools.

It receives state per-pupil funding of $6,181 per student Admission is open to anyone ages 16-19 living in Wayne County. In addition to high school academic courses, the academy offers training in building construction trades, welding technology, cosmetology, nursing assistant, high-pressure boiler operation, computer repair and computer information systems. Victoria Ogletree, 16, was one of the first students to enroll this fall. She missed 30 to 40 days of school last year at Detroit's Redford High School. But she has attended more than 95 percent of her classes at the academy.

"This is more like I'm treated like an adult" she said. She expects to finish the cosmetology pro-' gram in January and return for her high school diploma. In January, the academy is expected to expand to 500 students. Students can earn a high school diploma or its equivalent a GED, along with the vocational programs, or they can enter the vocational program only. The focus is on job training, rather than a traditional diploma, Holman said, but students are encouraged to earn a diploma.

Like the career academy students, many of the students who attended Highland Park Community College needed a break, said Ameenah Oman, who remains the college's dean of students while the last nursing students finish their programs. About 80 percent of the college's students were single women and heads of households, she said. Closing the college opened an alternative for high school students, but it closed an alternative for those women, Oman said Thursday. "I'm wondering where they are now," she said. The change, she said, was both difficult and inevitable.

"We'd been toying around with changing ojir direction for a long time," she said. The job market had evolved and employers now want technical skills rather than two years of liberal arts education, she said. Replacing a college with a vocationaltechnical program is controversial in the black community, Oman said. "It sort of conjures up the difference between BY PEGGY WALSH-SARNECH Free Press Education Writer Twenty-five nursing students on Sunday will be the last to graduate from Highland Park Community College, but the 78-year-old stone building will get a second life as a school for young people who need a second chance. The college is closing, following what many critics said was at least a decade of mismanagement and debt Gov.

John Engler in 1995 used his line-item veto to knock Highland Park's funding from the state budget The state paid $4.2 million to retire the college debts and close it said Glenn Holman, director of the college's successor, the Highland Park Career Academy. The academy opened in September for 200 students such as Brenda Paul, who dropped out of Detroit's Northwestern High School after cutting too many classes and spending more time with her friends than on her studies. Paul, 17, expects to finish the career program in January, ready to find a job as a computer support technician, entering data. Computer work "is all I ever wanted to do, she said Thursday. She won't have her high school degree, just the job training.

She plans to come back in September, when she is 18, old enough to enter the high school equivalency degree program. In Detroit Editor Valarie Basheda: 1-313-222-5111 Outside Detroit Editor Richard Luna: 1-313-432-6500 Ford in 1910 to mass produce the ModelT, has been designated a national historic landmark. i ByJeffGerritt Detroit Task force plans to stop gunfire A City Council task force wants to bang. Each New Year's Eve when the clock strikes midnight gunshots go off citywide. In recentyears, bystanders have been killed by stray bullets.

Atacouncil meeting Thursday, the task force laid out three recommendations to prevent i shootings: Encourage local churches to ring their bells at midnight on New Year's Eve: have City Council allow fish to scale Flat Rock Dam, so steelhead and other fish can swim upstream as far as Belleville Dam, DNR officials said. Steelhead have not been able to swim upstream past the Flat Rock Dam since it was built 80 years ago by Henry Ford. By Dan Shine Highland Park ModelTPlaza breaks ground Agroundbreaking ceremony for the ModelTPlaza will take place at 9:30 a.m. Monday. The planned $13-million retail center at the corner of Woodward and Manchester will be anchored by a Farmer Jack Superstore and also will include aWalgreen's, McDonald's, KdsFootlockerandMurray'sAuto Parts.

Construction of the Farmer Jack is expected to be completed in fall 1997. Mayor Iinsey Porter and community development director Dennis Evans will welcome community and business leaders to the event The site, originally developed by Henry Detroit Duf field library marks 80 years Celebrate the 80th birthday of the Detroit Public Library's Duf field branch Saturday. Named for Divie Duf field, a Detroit Library Commissioner from 1904-1915 and 1920-1935, the Duf field branch opened Nov. 24, 1916. "We've been in continuous service since 1916," says Ming Louie, a Duf field branch librarian.

Carnegie libraries were constructed with funds donated by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Detroit originally had nine Carnegie-funded libraries. The open house noon-4 p.m. Saturday will feature a clown, a magician and three papier-mache heads on loan from The Parade Company. Thelibraryisat2507W.

Grand Blvd. For more information, call 1-313-224-6456, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Saturday. ByCaraCatallo DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY P4 1 i i i 1 1 Free Press file photo The Duf field branch library was built with funds donated by Andrew Carnegie in 1916. Flat Rock Ladder will lead to better fishing Fishing along the Huron River from the Flat Rock Dam to the Belleville Dam should improve with the opening of a fish ladder today.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources installed the apparatus, which slows water flow to 1 -1 flin witr mm members make public service announcements asking residents to stop the gunfire; and have local organizations educate residents on the dangers of recklessly discharging firearms. ByLekanOguntoyinbo 1 1.