Francis Combe lived the end of the Lorraine steel industry in particular basins Thionville the Fensch and Orne. After 24 years of service and computer Sollac Unimétal where he was responsible for the computerization of the group offices production lines, he knew that his arrival in a service meant layoffs, but he attended as a delegate to a lack of staff responsiveness to change: however, the installation of a screen for a service engendered in the general dismissal of three people.
Francis Combe Sollac left in 1987 to start his own company, Adhesive System. The company specialized in the cutting of adhesive used to decorate vehicles, shop windows, billboards, light boxes or signage. It will have up to fifteen employees.
In-adhesive system everyone earned the same salary. Almost reached the end of his career, Francis Combe sell his business to the company Signalest who was part of Girod-Lacroix.
Today it is Deputy Mayor of Thionville in charge of the eight villages part of Thionville.
In 1967, two villages merged with Thionville: Veymerange and Elange.
In 1970, six other villages are the same: Garches, Koeking, Oeutrange, Volkrange, Beuvange, Metzange.
At that time, Francis was already living in Garches, there was arrived in 1957. Previously he lived with his seven brothers and sister, the youngest in the city Oury-South, a neighborhood straddling the communes of Fameck and Florange.
Francis was the eldest and never the last to participate in fights around the garage Camisani between children of the city and those Florange - Centre.
in Garches, Combe family settled in an old farmhouse in the village center, a large house with a garden and a real backyard: the Muscovy ducks, chickens, roosters, rabbits and even all year two pigs.
In the fifties, the country was undergoing reconstruction: Mayor Garche had made land available to a cooperative group, Beaver. These fifty-three houses are still at the entrance of the village.
The collective work was finished and once the houses were drawn. This was the condition for everyone involved at the same level of commitment to the construction of each home.
The new inhabitants were not of the village and their integration Garche was quite laborious, a side of the Beaver and the other elders Garche. The differences are filled gradually and it even came to the Beavers that people who participated in the active life of the village: Bruno Magini presided for 43 years the football club, Esperance Sportive de Garches, seconded by another resident of Beaver, Stephen Zawadzki.
Together, they created the festival committee Garche - Koeking. Upon their death, people wanted the stadium named after them Garche in memory of their commitment to the village. The Mayor of the previous municipality refused.
Francis Combe was Councillor from 1977 to 1989.
Expelled from the Socialist Party to be joined in dissent, he left politics and he envisioned a peaceful retreat to look after her grandchildren and doing some traveling with his wife. But this refusal to name the stadium would rekindle the flame and push it to publish a "Diary" to address the problems of villages. He does not need less than a week to spread itself every issue in the eight villages part of Thionville.
the last election, Bertrand Mertz, the new Socialist mayor, has offered to be on his list and Francis Combe has agreed to two conditions: because not much had been made for villages, ensuring provision an annual budget to catch up the last 40 years and the second condition, he was named Vice President in charge of the villages in order to achieve this budget.
Today 4 councilors assist him in his work, Nathalie Swol Oeutrange does the village, Josy-Anne Oestreicher and Koeking Garches, Cavaliere Giocondo Volkrange deals, and Beuvange Metzange and Jean-Luc Gonella of Veymerange and Elange.
Thuillet Gilles is the technical support to the city resolve the demands from different villages. He is assisted in his task by Marie-Julie Salliard.
the past two years, much has been achieved and Village Consultative Councils are being established. They will consist of volunteers involved in life in their neighborhood. It's a way to stay abreast of current projects.
from left to right: Garche, Oeutrange, beuvange, Volrange, Elange, Veymerange
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