Dur10g the years, the dvers have furnished ther own equipment, which gets very costly. palgn during the Chnstmas and New Year's hohdays The dnnk that best captures the mood of a MeXcan fiesta w111wm ts creator a trip to Cancun, MeXCO- arranged-1.hrough the AAA Travel Agency - or $1,000 in cash Cash pnzes Wll be awarded for second through fourth-place fimshers the police departments. The dve team ha" assl "kj all uf Contestants creating a non-alcohohc drink Wth a MeXcan twst could earn $1,000 m AAA M~chlgan's 10th annual Zero- Proof MX-Off competition, With entries due by Sept 14th "A Holday South of the Bar der" S the theme for the contest, whch spotlights AAA MChgan's "Frst A Friend, Then A Host" alcohol awareness earn. "t's the first tme years someone has helped in any way," Sehoyan said While the non-profit group was recently formed so ~hat t could receive financial donatons, Sehoyan and his dive team have been rescumg motorsts and others out of the lake along the Po1Otes for quarter of a century. COMPLETE MCROFLMNG SERVCE.-_ - "'ΔΆ - p _ - w"'".p ".'OAA4l 4A NtMl4 Non-profit dive-rescue team created seed money donated / AugBy John Minns Assistant Editor The Grosse Pomte Fraternal Order of Pohee Associates donated $4,000 to help a non-profit dve-rescue team organzed by Leon Sehoyan of Grosse Pomte Shores. a Ghesqulere, 21, who begljll riding at the Hunt Club as a youth. " want to state that the formaton of this is no reflection on Michigan 35jt Photo by Dan JarviS W'lnnfng t'vvocz'vvard.ribbona at Jast- ".,-esk'sannual equestran CODJ euuod crt h POln.~ Hunt Ch.~.b. 34 See PONTER, page 15A 68 pages High-point rider Grosse Pointe, there has been a renewed need for the umon for several years, and the recent recogmtion by the board S the culmmation of a year's worth of work The associaton was formed partly because of an incident which arose over the synopses of administrator evaluations which were given to the board Those synopses reportedly were more negative than the evaluatons seen by the admlmstrators The admimstrators feel that by unitmg, they can prevent such incidents from happenmg again. 31, 3 p.m., for section A (news, obituanes, letters to the editor). 30, 3 pm., for sections B and C (community news and sports) and Fnday, Aug. for section A News stories: Thursday, Aug. Display ads: Friday, Aug 31, noon, for sections Band C, and Tuesday, Sept. t is advisable, however, to place ads by Friday, Aug. 31, 4 p.m Regular classified ads: Tuesday, Sept. 6 ssue are: Classified - bordered and measured ads and can. fices will be closed Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 0 City 5,901 5, Farms 10,551 10, Park 13,561 12, Shores 3,122 2, Woods 18,886 17,668 1, AU Pointes 52,021 48,961 3, ,~: Ghesquiere developments 3A Dive team gets gl.ft 4A Why Arabs back raq Obituarles Farms shootmg simulations Acclaim: Plymouth's new image? Boblo dock recaptured Two charged m bombing Eric Rentenhach 6A 9A 11A 13A 14A 16A 'Flatlmers' explores death.20a Nicholson in 'TuJO.Jah "Q' 21A Business They're all Optimu ts 22A 1 C A family affair.4c Classified ads Early deadlines 5C The of. populaton dropped 166 percent g mean fewer federal and state 19~e populaton drop m the from 58,708 m 1970 to at See CENSUS, page 15A b was half that experienced this year's count ' : Preliminar, Census Figures City Loss. Durmg the 20-year penod numbers enge e 52,021 people m 1980 to 48,961 lose a~~~ ~,ou don t want to from 1970 to 1990, the POlntes' One city that Will be lookm The drop n populaton wll yt ng. tlon to verify and chall th the Pomtes was 5 9 percent from s~s ~e ary e" ect of th? new cen. The dechne overall m b d t poif nt, he said of the grew 1 4 percent m the 1970s. The Shores' popul~tlon days from the time of:::ifi~~~ decade. Park ~n dollars in lost state and federal a~d state funds gomg to the During the '70s, the Cty lost Shores funds gen~ra and highway budgets 11 1 percent of ts populaton Woods The prehmmary 1990 census ~ou d be m excess of $20,000 - the Farms, 98 percent the Park, The figur~ ar~ relimin numbers showed all five Pointes Dot c~untmg federal Commumty 13 perr-ent, and the Woods 137 and the cities hav~ 15?' Wth fewer inhabitants than last ~ ~,~~:en~loc,~ Grant funds percen'. cordmg to the prelimmary 1990 figures released Monday contino t ng to Tom Kressbach, The 1970 census pegged the census S' ued a two-decade population de ~ r manager for Grosse Pointe five Pointes' population at City cline in the Pomtes which will' ~~, a quick estimate of his 58,708, which was 11.4 percent Farms -' cost cities tens of thousands of ~~~ s expected annual loss of fed- higher than the 1980 figure. The prehmmary 1990 census AccorJi decade. city bud o:~he already.tlght local n the Pointes n the previous The count n the Pointes, ac. 1 ~! ~::!imin~er census figures show loss in all Pointes Assistant Edtor.