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Belle Isle: Past, present and future

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Lone survivor ofFlight 255 speaks25 years laterBy Scott HeldThe News-Herald

ROMULUS Twenty-five years after the worstaviation disaster in statehistory, the sole survivorof Northwest Flight 255 issharing her story.

Cecelia Crocker, neeCichan, was 4 years oldwhen the airliner wentdown shortly after takeoffnear Detroit MetropolitanAirport on a Sunday nightin 1987.

The remaining 149 pas-sengers, including her par-ents and brother, along withsix crewmembers and twopeople on the ground, allperished in the crash.

She now is one of 14 peo-ple who have been interviewed for the documentary SoleSurvivor, which sought out people who are the only onesto live through major air crashes.

Crocker was interviewed a year ago and, for the firsttime since the crash, told documentary filmmaker KyDickens that she thinks about it all the time but does notfear flying.

She shunned the media, she said for the film, because:I feel it would be very individual about me. This SoleSurvivor project is more about a group, and thats why Imwilling to get involved and be part of something bigger.

The film is scheduled to be completed next month, but arelease date has not been set, according to its website.

Crocker, who graduated from the University of Alabamaand now lives on the East Coast, still has scars from theburns she suffered in the crash.

Its kind of hard not to think about it when I look in themirror, she told Dickens.A single Associated Press photo of the girl was released

a few months after the crash, showing her with bandageson her arms and a bow on her head while she was beingtreated at the University of Michigan Medical Center in

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Brothers freed on bond after decades behind barsBy Jackie Harrison-MartinThe News-Herald

DETROIT On a rather overcastand gloomy day, two Flat Rock broth-ers were released from prison now that

clouds of doubt hover over their first-degree murder convictions handeddown 25 years ago.

Raymond and Thomas Highers,both 46, hugged family membersand friends as they were freed on a$10,000/10 percent bond Monday.

The brothers were convicted in 1988for the shooting death of 65-year-oldRobert Karey. The murder took placeJune 26, 1987.

They will be granted new trials.Wayne County Circuit Judge

Lawrence Talon set several conditionson their bonds, including that alcoholis barred from their aunts house inRoseville, where they will be staying.

The brothers also must submit torandom drug screenings and go todrug or alcohol abuse meetings three

times a week.Talon also ordered them to be on

tethers that must be worn from 10 p.m.to 6 a.m. Thomas Highers addressedthe judge in a nearly three-hour bondhearing.

The judge said he does not believe thebrothers are the same people they were25 years ago and also does not believethey are a danger to the community.

They were released from theDickerson Detention Center in Detroit.

Photos by E.L. Conley

Pow Wow wows crowdA group participates in a traditional Native Americandance at the annual American Indian Movement ofMichigans Pow Wow Saturday afternoon at Council PointPark in Lincoln Park. About 400 people showed up thisyear, said Helen Wolfe, one of the events organizers,including Jeff Day (right), curator of the Lincoln ParkHistorical Society. The event is meant to be a celebrationof Native American culture as well as an educationalopportunity for those interested in learning more.

Photo by Vaughn Gurganian/Journal Register News Service

Belle Isle has found itself a pawn in a chess matchbetween the state and the city of Detroit. And until that is resolved and regardless of where those resources come from and who puts themto use there are some who say the region could be looking at the slow demiseof Belle Isle. This is an unfortunate reality, despite the valiant efforts of park employees, anarmy of volunteers and a regional and statewide population that agrees on the ends, butnot the means. Please see Page 8-A for complete coverage.

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