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LEFT: Student waitstaff collect orders from the cooks to deliver to diners seated in the classroom for the American Coney Island restaurant event at Ferry Elementary School March 16. BELOW: Ferry Elementary School third grader Ava Stepella takes an order in her role as server from Grosse Pointe Woods Mayor Arthur Bryant as Woods City Councilwoman Angela Coletti Brown looks on.
BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com
PARK — The office of a Grosse Pointe Park-based roofing company is a total loss after a fire that started in the building just before 1 a.m. March 8. Park Public Safety Director Bryan Jarrell said his officers got a call about a fire at the business — Heritage Roofing, at 15121 Charlevoix Ave. — at around 1 a.m. March 8 from the business owner, Ed Brown, who had been inside the building at the time. The four-alarm blaze triggered a response from neighboring public safety departments in Grosse Pointe City, Grosse Pointe Woods and Grosse Pointe Farms. Jarrell said there were no injuries. Officers were able to save O’Flaherty’s Pub, which was directly next door at 15119 Charlevoix. “It was due to the diligence and persistence of the officers on the scene that the fire did not
WOODS — The hot lunch spot in the Pointes March 16 wasn’t a sleek new restaurant in town — it was an elementary school classroom. Ferry Elementary School teacher James Fisher’s third/fourth
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