Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 17, 1952
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Another curb will be bent around the base of a tree when workmen widening S. Fourth Ave. reach the elm (left) in front of the YWCA. Sidestepping construction something like the example at right (on Eighth St. between W. Liberty and W. Washington Sts.) will be necessary -- thanks to the City Council's spare-that-tree action last night. The Public Works Department had ruled that the tree in front of the YWCA must go to preserve a straight cub line. But the Council, which has intervened previously in behalf of ill-placed trees, ruled that the elm shall live and the curb shall bend.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 17, 1955
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AMONG CITY EMPLOYES TO BE CITED: Leslie G. Bird of 2081 E. Ellsworth Rd., Pittsfield township, is one of 119 city employes to be awarded service buttons and pins at 7:30 p.m. today at a special meeting of the City Council at City Hall. The veteran motor sweeper operator, shown here making a broom for a motor sweeper at the Municipal Garage, has worked for the city for nearly 38 years. Bird, 68, works at the garage when the weather is bad, too cold or rainy.