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CLASS OF 2024 18A Local teachers THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER HONORS demonstrate for ITS NAMESAKES DURING PORTRAIT UNVEILING new contract before school board meeting
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JUNE 20, 2024 • Vol. 43, No. 13
BY K. MICHELLE MORAN
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FARMS — Dozens of residents visit The Helm at the Boll Life Center every day, and now they’ll be able to see the couple who made the Grosse Pointe Farmsbased senior center possible. A portrait of John and Marlene Boll was unveiled during an event June 5 at The Helm. The Bolls’ substantial gift in June 2012 got major fundraising rolling for renovations to transform a historical building at 158 Ridge Road into The Helm. John Boll Sr. died Aug. 24, 2022, at the age of 93,
FARMS — Well over 100 teachers — many carrying signs — stood outside Brownell Middle School in Grosse Pointe Farms before the June 12 Grosse Pointe Board of Education meeting in a show of unity as they seek contracts for the next school year. Jackie Shelson, co-president of the Grosse Pointe Education Association — the teachers’ union — said this was the last school board meeting before the end of the school year, and the teachers had yet to see the budget for the 2024 to 2025 school year. The school board was slated, at press time, to vote on the budget during its next meeting June 18, after the June 20 edition of the Grosse Pointe Times went to press. “This is just a show of solidarity,” Shelson said. “It’s the end of the school year, but we have yet to have a contract again. It’s important for Grosse Pointe to retain these amazing people, and you get that with a fair and equitable contract.”
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LEFT: Longtime Helm supporter Marlene Boll, of Grosse Pointe Shores, receives a special photo album from Helm Executive Director Krista Siddall during a June 5 portrait unveiling at The Helm in Grosse Pointe Farms. ABOVE: This portrait of local philanthropists John and Marlene Boll will be displayed at The Helm at the Boll Life Center, a senior center whose renovations were made possible by a substantial donation from the Bolls. Photos by K. Michelle Moran
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