O ld W o r l d ri- elem ents, retro W hat's your beef? p- Swanky Super Cookbook promotes l o o k s h o t f / its nutrients f o r 2 0 0 6 i»i' Bowl parties ■’’7^ TASTE-PAGE B5 AT HOME PAGEBl ~ii I FILTER-INSERTED SECTION PLYMOUTH THURSDAY Your hometown newspaper January 12,2006 serving Plymouth and Plymouth Township for ® b 0 o r i r e r 120 years 75 cents WINNERS OF OVER 100 STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS SINCE 2001 wwwhometownlife com All aboard District talks to Township commits $1 million to underpass Livonia about renting BY BRAD KADRfCH STAFF WRITER Residents living to the south of businesses such as Busch’s Market closed school building on Sheldon Road should finally start planning alternate routes to BY TONY BRUSCATO school year begins get their shopping done STAFF WRITER However, when Livonia announced The Plymouth Township Board it was closing seven schools, of Trustees Ihesday night approved Students at Plymouth-Cantons Plymouth-Canton administrators a resolution — on the second try — Miller Elementary could be bused to a envisioned another possibility committing just over $1 million to Livonia school next year as a year It appears this school could help us the Sheldon Road underpass proj­ long, $4) 5 million renovation project enormously with where to put 500 ect, the $13 2 million gr^e separa­ beginning in June will force the students,’ said Barbara Church tion that’s been more than six years Canton Township school to be closed Rodenberg, assistant superintendent in the making for an entire school year of instruction, who noted 139 students It was the final financial piece m Plymouth-Canton administrators currently bused to Miller from Central the puzzle Wayne County officials are talking to Livonia Public Schools Park Estates will be m the Workman say they need to finally get the proj­ officials about the availability of attendance area next year ‘We’ve had ect off the ground First proposed Washington Elementary on Ann some discussions with the Livonia in 1999, the project has run into Arbor Road at Hix, which is scheduled business department ’ problems including changes m fed­ to be closed as part of I ivonu s Church said Washington eral regulations, issues with land Legacy Initiative to restructure grades Elementary wouldn’t be large enough acquisition and other delays because of falling enrollment to house all 500 general education City commissioners last month Last year, Superintendent Jim Ryan and Talented and Gifted program stu­ passed a similar motion commit­ onginally announced a preliminary dents ting $503,250 to the project CSXs plan that would house Miller s 660 Our proposal is to put the TAG I share is capped at 5 percent, or students at the new Workman classrooms at Workman Elementarj' some $600 000 County officials Elementary in Canton s Cherry Hill for one year and move the remaining have said the county would front S T - O P i j Village for one year alongside stu Miller students to Washington,’ she that mor-’y and then seek reim den+«i ass’gned To Workman The new bursemenl from the railroad 0T4 bu iding IS expected to open n According to Assistant Wayne August j jsi utiorc the 2006 07 PLEASE SEF RENTING, A4 County Executive Alan Helmkamp, the decisions will allow the project to begin in November The project is expected to close Sheldon Road for some 22 months Team swings golf manager gig Before the vote, Helmkamp acknowledged the delays but urged the board lo follow through on Us BY BRAD rfADRICH onginal commitment STAFF WRITER “It has a somewhat tortured his­ tory,” Helmkamp said of the proj­ Golfers wondering what it’s going to be ect “I see this as a time where we like to play Hilltop under new manage­ have to see where folks are at and ment only have to travel to Canton to find what direction we’re going to take out this” BILL BRESLER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Tlie Plymouth Township board Tuesday The approval came only after Plymouth Township board members Tuesday committed just over $1 million to the night approved a five-year lease agree­ lengthy discussion and included Sheldon Road underpass project construction on which Wayne County officials say ment with Fellows Creek Canton, Inc, one failed motion The major stick­ should start in November the same management team that runs ing point in the intergovernmental Fellows Creek Golf Club m Canton agreement was the payment sched­ about how the township would pay Curmi made a motion that did not Fellows Creek replaces American Golf, ule, which called for 25 percent up the bill IVustee Bob Doroshewitz include such a provision, which ran the township-owned course front and another 25 percent when wanted approval made contingent Doroshewitz cast the swing vote the last 10 years bids went out on the project on getting a bond issue approved The new managers promised to pay Trustees were also concerned by voters When trustee Charles PLEASE SEE U N D E R P A S S , A 4 attention to the desires of the people who play the course “We’re going to find out what they re looking for,’ said Fellows Creek’s Dennis Ross “We want to improve the course visually, and m the way it plays ’ Go with the flow: Foundation splashes Township trustees unanimously picked Fellows Creek over Glendale Golf Management, LLC, run by Plymouth resi­ The new managers at Plymouth Township's Hilltop cash for new fountain in Kellogg Park dent Jim Salagi Glendale had proposed a Golf Course will seek input from people who play five-year lease with an ‘almost automatic’ the course regularly while making improvements BY TONY BRUSCATO the two-story Victorian home across from Kellogg five-year extension that scared some of STAFF WRITER Park, set up a foundation before dying in June the trustees off 2000 While most of the provisions in the Based on 2005 revenue figures repos­ If all goes well, Kellogg Park in downtown ‘Jack wanted to do things to improve the quality proposals were similar, the amount of ed by American Golf, that would bring Plymouth will have a new fountain in the spring, of life in the community,” said Schrader revenue generated under each agreement the township at least $158,000 replacing one that toppled over and smashed into The Plymouth Community Youth Advisory was different According to Edwards, Amencan Golf several pieces nearly two years ago Commission held a design contest for the new foun­ Fellows Creek offered a percentage of under-reported their revenues He The Wilcox Foundation is giving the city up to tain golf and food income expects the lease to generate some $27,000 to purchase a fountain, which City ‘ The proposed fountain won’t have the bowl the Glendale’s proposal offered a percent­ $240,000 m the first year Manager Paul Sincock said will cost approximately previous fountain had,’ said Sincock “From a main­ age in the first year, then guaranteed The challenge will be increasing play at $40,000 That’s about half the ongmal estimates to tenance standpoint, it was a nightmare mmimums of $260,000-$280,000 over the course While both applicants agreed replace the downtown landmark that came crashing ‘The new one will have a ring around the outside the final four years the golf industry as a whole has suffered a down when a contractor tried to level it in May that will cascade water inward m a six- to eight-foot ‘ It comes down to guaranteed money 12-15 percent drop, they both said rounds 2004 arch, in addition to a center spray feature,” he said versus non-guaranteed money,” Treasurer at Hilltop are off 27 percent over the last “Jack (Wilcox) requested in his trust documents “It will have lighting and other amenities We’re very Ron Edwards said “(But) I don t think we three years that we have a fountain dedicated to family mem­ pleased the Wilcox Foundation stepped up to the need to go any further than five years ” ‘There are some tee surfaces that need bers,” said Win Schrader, one of three directors of plate to make the improvements ’ Fellows Creek will pay the township 50 work, some playability issues on some of the Wilcox Foundation ‘We have, essentially, Sincock said fund-raisers by the youth commis­ percent of the amount over $400,000 in the holes and it needs consistent mainte­ offered the city 75 percent of the cost of a new foun­ sion and other donations are expected to pay the gross revenue from greens fees and golf nance,’Ross said “We feel confident tain remainder of the fountain cost cart rentals, and an additional 5 percent when we put the program in effect, play Wilcox, a longtime Plymouth resident who lived tbrusc3to@hometownlife com I (734) 459 2700 of the food/beverage gross revenues will come back” © The Observer & Eccentnc INDEX ' I Coming Sunday For Home Newspapers Select C o m m u n i t y F i n a n c i a l Apartments F9 Delivery call: Beliefs & Values C6 on the r Volume 120 Automotive G5 Money Market Thinking forward Banking right (866) 887-2737 Number 41 Crossword F ll J obs G2 Jennifer (734) 453 1200 (877) 937 2328 toll free WWW cfcu org Movies D14 Gray's 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