had never heard about Cornwall
and was close to full sensory over-
load at the quantity and quality of
Christmas décor on display while
we continued our verbal sparring.
Seriously, the woman's eyes were
glazed over after only two or three
hours of choosing Christmas deco-
rations for her home.
Owner Jerry Visel and his wife,
Karen, have graciously agreed
again this year to loan all the sup-
plies and decorations for the home
Sean and I are doing.
Sean and I have argued about
everything. So far we have moved
It's A Wonderful Life from the
kitchen to the basement and back
to the dining room, we have put
Home Alone in two different spots
and can't find a place for Elf that
doesn't clash with A Christmas
Carol. We can't decide where to put
The Nightmare Before Christmas
and The Grinch Who Stole
Christmas. We may abandon them
both in favor of another movie, if
we can think of one. We are battling
over the placement of A Christmas
Story and the leg lamp which does-
n't belong in the kitchen, Sean. It
just doesn't. So there.
We've fought over which tree
gets the gorgeous white angels that
Cornwell has this year and are not
speaking since he insisted on tak-
ing the big silver bells I needed for
my tree in the living room to put on
his stupid dumb banister. Like who
cares anyway? I mean it's just a
banister, Sean. Not like it's one of
MY trees or anything.
We were both short-tempered
when we went to Cornwall after we
argued for an hour over whether
the tree for Christmas Past should
be flocked or green and he wanted
to put elves where I wanted the
huge silver pinecones. The home-
owner got a headache and Karen
Visel just walked away from our
impersonation of theBickersons.
Dawn McCallister, of Designers
Choice, is helping us with the home
this year, too, but she's already told
us if we keep sniping at each other,
she's going to stuff garland in our
mouths and florist tape our jaws
shut. Hey, she's just thewomanwho
could do it, too. She's been design-
ing home interiors for 35 years and
creates rooms that make
Architectural Digest editors swoon.
When she scolds, we listen.
The point is that each of the dec-
orators goes through the same rig-
ors designing and then executing
their concepts for these houses.
These homeowners are incredibly
inconvenienced and harassed as
we move their furniture and bring
in trucksful of bulbs, trees, garland
and gimcracks. We disrupt their
routines, their homes and their
lives and every one of them is as
gracious and kind as if we were
guests in their homes. They are
truly a special bunchof people.
Each of the decorators lifts,
totes, stretches, wraps, strings and
winds until their fingers are raw
and their families are strangers.
They use thousands of dollars in
supplies and hundreds of hours of
labor to ensure this tour is really
special.
People like these and the Visels
at Cornwall who go through the
incredibly time consuming task of
inventorying, packaging and then
restocking the ornaments, trees,
ribbons and other supplies we use,
deserve a special kind of thanks.
Especially fromthat stupid cow.
Tickets for the tour are now on
sale at Gardenviews in Northville
and Razzamatazz in Plymouth and
are $20 in advance and $25 on the
day of the tour which will be Nov. 18
and 19. Information and tickets are
available at The Northville
Community Foundation, (248) 374-
0200.
History of dam recounted
To the editor:
TheWayne Eagle of Oct. 27, 2011
featured an article about the City of
Wayne receiving from the National
Oceanic
Atmospheric
Administration a grant in the
amount of $1 million to remove the
dam on the Rouge River at Wayne
Road. The article quoted Jim
Ridgeway of the NOAA as stating
he was not sure why the dam was
built there. This is good news for
the City of Wayne, allowing them to
remove the dam to allow water to
flowbetter on theRougeRiver.
I would like to give a short histo-
ry lesson on why the dam was con-
structed on the Rouge River. Today,
as busy as most people are, they
have little time to look at the past
history of their community, when,
in fact, looking back they may see
why things are as they are today.
The year was 1914 when the
Village of Wayne constructed the
dam on the Rouge River, so they
could construct a domestic water
supply for the community; this
water supply would allow running
water into the homes and business-
es of Wayne, along with improving
the fire fighting capabilities of the
WayneFireDepartment.
The dam, a pump house and a
reservoir were constructed under
the direction of Charles Goudy,
who was the superintendent of the
Wayne DPW and the fire chief of
the Wayne Fire Department. The
reservoir and the pump house
were constructed in the area of
what we know today as Goudy
Park. The newwater supply system
was complete with 8-inch water
mains, 80 fire hydrants around the
community and could pump
150,000 gallons of water in 24 hours
in a time of emergency. This was a
great improvement for the commu-
nity, allowing residents to get water
in their homes without a well and
to allow the fire department fire
hydrants to connect to in time of a
fire. This system was used by the
Village of Wayne until 1938, when
the Detroit Water Board took over
the domesticwater supply in south-
east Michigan. So there really was
a reason for the dam on the Rouge
River, and you now know how
GoudyPark its name.
It was named after Charles
Goudy for his work with the Village
of Wayne and his son, Hank Goudy,
who was Wayne's second fire chief
and served on the Wayne Fire
Department for 42 years.
At the time of the water works
being installed in Goudy Park, the
area was called Water Works Park,
as the Wayne DPW had its grange
in this area along with the Water
Works and Charles Goudy worked
tomake the area a park by the river
for the residents of Wayne. In the
winter months, residents were
allowed to ice skate on the reser-
voirwhen it froze over.
Water Works Park had its name
changed to Goudy Park in 1938, the
year Charles Goudy passed away
and the year Hank Goudy took over
his father's job as fire chief.
RichardL. Story,
MuseumManager
WayneHistorical Museum
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November 10, 2011
Donna J. Wilson-Thrasher
Sunrise: Dec. 19, 1932
Sunset: Oct. 31, 2011
Donna J. Wilson-Thrasher
died Oct. 31, 2011.
Among those left to cherish
her memory are her longtime
companion, William
Thrasher, three daughters,
Regina Watkins, Linda (Karl)
Hunt and Yvonne (Percy)
Herron; grandchildren,
Calvin (Pamela) Salters,
Khafra (Tasha) Chapple,
Sonya Chapple, Karen
(Glynn) Taylor, Retisa Herron,
and a host of great-grand-
children.
Her son, Fountain Wilson,
and a grandson, Melvin
Chapple, preceded her in
death.
Funeral services were at the
Penn Funeral Home in
Inkster with Pastor Leon
Walker, Sr. officiating.
Interment was at Knollwood
Memorial Park in Canton
Township.
Pamela Lohr Ruppel
Pamela Lohr Ruppel, 65, of
Westland, Michigan passed
away unexpectedly in her
home on Nov. 01, 2011. She
was born on April 12, 1946 in
Detroit, to the late John and
Edith (Lohr) Ruppel of
Wayne.
She graduated from Wayne
Memorial High School and
attended college at Northern
Michigan University and
Schoolcraft Community
College. In 2007, Pam
retired from the Wayne-
Westland school system after
more than 30 years of serv-
ice. She was a member of the
First Congregational Church
of Wayne.
During retirement, she
enjoyed spending quality
time with her family and her
many friends. She loved to
read and was always adding
to her collection of frog mem-
orabilia.
She is survived by her broth-
er, John (Chris ) Ruppel of
Midland; her sister Kay (Ron)
Bolenbaugh of Rockwood;
her nephews John (Lisa) of
Bedford, NH and their chil-
dren, Zachery and Nicole,
Ken (Dawn) Ruppel of
Columbus, OH, Andy
Bolenbaugh of Flat Rock and
his daughter, Samantha, and
her good friend, Robin
McDougall of Livonia.
A memorial service will take
place at 2 p.m. Saturday,
Dec. 3, 2011, at the First
Congregational Church of
Wayne, (2 Towne Square,
Wayne, MI 48184 ). The Rev.
Daniel Vellinga will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, memorial
donations are suggested for
The American Diabetes
Association or the National
Breast Cancer Foundation.
Cremation services were
entrusted to the Uht Funeral
Home in Westland.
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