Grosse Pointe News - Local History Archives

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Business
Candler buys yarns, canvases
and patterns from all over the
world, as well as from local art.
ISts. She even makes some of
the knitting patterns herself
"I want to offer lots of
choices 10 knItt10g yarns and
knitting canvases and want in.
put from customers," Candler
said "I want to hsten to what
they want add then buy accord.
1Ogly"
Born m Detroit and raIsed In
Grosse Pomte Farms, Candler,
47, saId she learned how to
kmt from her mother, VIrginIa
McKInnon, when she was 4
years old,
"I can't remember what I
made," Candler saId "All I
remember is sittmg on a stool
10 the kitchen, knitting."
She stayed with the hobby
through her high school years
at Sacred Heart Academy (now
the Grosse Pointe Academy),
By Ronald J. Bernas
The Michigan Cancer Foundation board of
trustees announced that Dr. Vainutia Vaitkev.
icius, noted cancer speciahst, has been appointed
to 8U~ ~'" M~l ,iL",ijrennan lIS
the institution's president on July 1. Vaitkevicius
is a professor of medicine in the hematology-oncology
division of Wayne State University's
department of internal medicine. He
formerly served as chair of that department,
physician.in South HIgh School m
Gmsse Po1Ote Farms, has a
new name and owner
Recently purchased by Jean
Candlel of Grosse Pointe
Fdl ms, It reopened as "The
Wool & The Floss" on AprIl 22
Tlw name IS a takeoff on the
(;,'01 gt>ElIot novel, "The MIll
on t he Floss," Candler saId.
'1 wanted a name that would
de.,cllbe exactly what we offer,"
.,he p\.plamed.
A hdven for needlecrafter&,
1he "tore carries a large variety
of \ am:>, threads, canvases and
pdttern., for kmtt1Og, weavlOg
,md needlepoint proJects.
Non needlecrafters are wel.
corne to order custom. made
pi ouuct&, such as sweaters, and
1.lke crdlts classes at the shop.
Sixteen hundred square feet ill .e, The Wool. The FIe.
carries a large yartety 01 yCll'Dll, c:aDYaltMS cmd other Items for
needlecraft projects, only some of wh1c:h are Ihowa here.
Business People
Vaitkevicius
Bat at Human Services recently appointed Nanci Ballantyne to
the positIOn of dlrector of development anJ marketing. Ballantyne
\\ III be responsible for all fundraising, public relations and mar.
keullg fOl Barat, an agency offenng prevention and treatment servlce~
to dbused and neglected children and their families. BaHant\
lie W I" formerly the co-founder of Arts and Scraps, a Detroit
non plolil orgamzation which recycles discards 1oto low cost art
mdtendb for communIty arts and crafts programs. She lives in
Gm,