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Beloved longtime Italian restaurant to say ‘ciao’ BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com
WOODS — An Italian restaurant that’s been feeding decades of happy diners is closing its doors at the end of the month. Ferlito’s Restaurant at 20745 Mack Ave. will be serving its final dine-in customers on Sunday, June 29. The restaurant isn’t open on Mondays. “A lot of emotion went into it,” owner and chef Joshua Mowen said of the decision to close. Mowen purchased Ferlito’s from the Ferlito family in 2015. Prior to taking over the eatery, Mowen started working there as a teenager — first as a dishwasher, then as a prep cook. He considered a career in engineering as he started college, but pivoted to the culinary arts, where he found his real passion. “I grew up eating (here) too,” said Mowen, who grew up in the Harper Woods
Ferlito’s Restaurant owner Joshua Mowen stands behind the front counter of the Grosse Pointe Woods eatery.
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Photo by K. Michelle Moran
YOUNG SWISS MUSICIANS TO PERFORM FOR COMMUNITY BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com
FARMS — The community is invited to see a performance by up-and-coming international talents — and the price of admission couldn’t be more appealing. The concert band Rhine Talents —
made up of high school and college-age musicians from Switzerland — will be playing a free show at 7 p.m. July 9 in the Brownell Middle School auditorium. The concert is part of an exchange program organized by the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. This is the first time the band — which
has 65 members — will be performing in the Pointes, although they have played concerts in other Michigan cities, said Libby Robinson, a parent volunteer who is chairing the visit by the students. “I’m finding homes for them while they’re here,” Robinson said of the musicians, who will be in the Pointes for three
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