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SUNDAY June 14, 2009 Art-filled The Observer & Eccentric Newspapers Volume 34 gardens £hA& Number 101 Neighbors, B6 §tf^ #*-V**>*B 75 CENTS online at hometownlifexom Festival events make charity a priority BY DARRELL CLEM What was the most impor• OBSERVER STAFF WRITER THE FESTIVAL BEGINS! tant thing your father ever • What: Canton Liberty Festival spaghetti dinner; Family Zone; entertain• taught you? Tell us in 100 Amid the carnival rides, parade, • When: Thursday-Saturday, June 18-20 ment; rides words or fewer and include concerts, fireworks and other crowd- a photo of yourself and your pleasing events that epitomize • • Where: Heritage Park • Notable: Catch the official Liberty Fest Dad. We will publish as Canton's rollicking Liberty Fest, it's • Highlights: Parade Saturday, 9 a.m., guide in the Thursday, June 18, Canton many tributes as we can on easy to forget how the celebration down Ford Road; pancake breakfast; Observer Father's Day. helps raise money for people in need. Dad or child or both must To be sure, residents love the live in Canton. hoopla, but this 18th annual festival — Local 2289 Charity Foundation will tragedy," Caruso said. Include your name and mostly centered in Heritage Park June again sponsor its spaghetti dinner 5- Firefighters have paid for fire vic• city and your father's name 18-20 — has an unwavering spirit of 9 p.m. Friday in the food pavilion off tims to stay in hotels, for funerals, and city. Include the year the community support. Heritage Park Drive. for home-based ramps for disabled photo was taken. As always, charitable groups will For just a few dollars, festival goers seniors, and they have donated to E-mail to bkadrich@ be there to raise money for worthy can pack away the pasta and take a organizations that fight diseases rang hometownlifexom or mail causes such as families left'homeless chance on a raffle for a 42-inch plas• ing from breast cancer to leukemia. to Brad Kadrich, Canton from fires, blind people who need ma TV and other prizes. Firefighters For the first time, the Plymouth- Observer, 615 W. Lafayette, leader dogs, battered women staying also will sell shirts and hats with their Canton Kiwanis Breakfast Club will Second Level, Detroit MI in a First Step shelter and Plymouth- logo. sponsor a "Hog Wild for Kids" event Liberty Festival visitors of all ages can enjoy 48226. E-mailed photos Canton third-graders who learn new "We try to hold the money for local featuring pulled-pork sandwiches, the annual spaghetti dinner, which benefits must be in JPEG format. words with donated dictionaries. people who are in need of financial noon to dusk Saturday in the park's the Canton Firefighter Charity Foundation Call (313) 222-8899 for ques• Township Fire Capt. Michael help due to an emergency or disaster Local 2289. It's one of several festival events tions. Caruso said the Canton Firefighters in their home, an injury or some other Please see FESTIVAL, A2 that work for charity. The Michigan House of Representatives recently unanimously passed a plan sponsored by state Rep. Dian Slavens, D-Canton, pro• hibiting doctors and other regulated health care professionals from reusing Eyes on needles and other medical the prize equipment intended to They might not be be used only rose-colored, but Angel Dieguez is a Slavens once on a happy graduate in single patient her Class of 2009 during a single procedure. specs while she waits "It is imperative thai for the Plymouth we hold doctors and other High School health care profession• commencement als accountable when they ceremony at Eastern engage in harmful and Michigan University, unethical medical practices," For a complete list said Slavens, a member of of grads and more the House Health Policy photos, please Committee who worked as a turn to Page, A5, health care provider for more and check out the than 20 years. "This plan photo.gallery on our will protect our residents by Web site at www. punishing those who break hometowniife.com the sacred Hippocratic Oath — to do no harm." The plan, which now BILL BRESLER j STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER heads to the Senate, is in response to a case involv• ing Dr. Robert Stokes, an East Grand Rapids derma• tologist who is serving more than 10 years in prison for Detroit cop pleads in assault on girlfriend widespread medical fraud. The Kent County Health Department sent letters BY DARRELL CLEM Numerous felony charges still could face other disciplinary to thousands of his former OBSERVER STAFF WRITER including torture, assault with actions after the case has been patients suggesting that intent to murder, assault with resolved in court, according to they be tested for blood- A suspended Detroit police intent to do great bodily harm, the Detroit Police Department. borne diseases such as HIV, officer accused of trying to kill felonious assault and felony fire• Steele was accused of attack• hepatitis B and hepatitis his estranged Canton girlfriend arm are expected to be dismissed ing his ex-girlfriend, Kimberly C, after witnesses testified pleaded no contest to a misde• at sentencing, Assistant Wayne Ann Golematis, when he went to that Stokes used unsanitary meanor charge of reckless use of County Prosecutor Maria Miller her home in Canton's Glengarry medical practices. a firearm. said Friday. subdivision in March. He was Violating the new provi• Gary Steele, 42, could face 90 Steele could have faced penal• jailed until he posted bond sions of the plan would be a days in jail and fines when he ties ranging up to life in prison in May, but Boykin had then BILL BRESLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER felony punishable by up to 10 is sentenced June 23 by Wayne if he had gone to trial and been ordered him to wear a tether. years in prison and a fine of Gary Steele, here talking with attorney David Lee, pleaded guilty County Circuit Judge Ulysses convicted as charged. up to $50,000. to a misdemeanor in an assault on his girlfriend. Boykin. Steele remains suspended and Please see PLEA, A3 Index •y makeover part of road plan APARTMENTS ...C2 AUTOMOTIVE ... C3 CAREER BUILDER ... Ci BY DARRELL CLEM latest round of local road projects Beck and Denton. CROSSWORD PUZZLE .. ... C2 OBSERVER STAfF WRITER made possible by a 0.25-mill tax • Concrete pavement-repair EDUCATION ...A4 allocation that was set aside start• patching is approved for certain HEALTHS FITNESS. .. B9-10 A road resurfacing project is ing in 2007. spots on Lilley between Cherry MILESTONES ... B5 expected to begin as early as July Tim Faas, municipal services Hill and Ford; Canton Center NEIGHBORS B6-7 along a one-mile, car-rattling director, called the Lilley Road Road at Hanford; and Warren OBITUARIES ... B5 stretch of Lilley between Cherry project "the big one" for 2009 and west of Haggerty. The latter proj• REAL ESTATE ... C2 Hill and Palmer. said the repairs should start some• ect, me larger of these three, will . SPORTS R1 The long-awaited repairs top time after the second week of July, encompass a500-foot stretch of the list of $960,923 in local road causing temporary road closings road, Faas said. • Chiropractic Spinal For Home projects approved Tuesday by that could force motorist to find • A partial concrete pavement • Low Back Pain • Disc Injuries Adjustments the Canton Township Board of alternate routes. repair project is expected to occur Delivery call: • Sciatica • Spinal Decompression Trustees — a decision welcomed The project comes as several along areas of Sheldon Road (866) 887-2737 • Headaches Therapy by residents like Steve Hurley, who other road projects already are between Cherry Hill and Ford, • Neck Pain • Spinal Disc Therapy is all too familiar with the rough- under way in Canton, resulting in and Morton "Baylor Road between • Shoulder/Arm Pain • Massage Therapy and-tumble ride along Lilley. the typical, seasonal traffic disrup• Warren and Joy. • Sports Injuries • State of the Art Digital X-ray • Computerized Surface EMG "I take it to work every day," he tions. Wayne County plans to provide • Auto Accident Injuries • Family Wellness Care . for Evaluating Nerve Function said, walking to his vehicle from Township officials Tuesday also assistance, such as inspecting, for • Pregnancy Care • Computerized Nutritional the Holiday Market near Lilley and approved lesser projects that are the projects. Some road repairs, • Spinal Decompression Assessment GAhNETT Cherry Hill. "Going the (40 mph) expected to result mostly in tempo• including the resurfacing of Lilley Therapy • Rehabilitative Care speed limit doesn't really seem like rary lane closings, starting some• south of Ford, had to be delayed • Workers Compensation a good idea. I think the work is time after the second week of July: for now until additional funding is Injuries necessary." • An asphalt pavement surface generated. Township officials agreed to hire repair project is slated for a rough 7277 N. Lilley Road • Canton, Ml 48187 8 S3174 1000? S Ajax Paving Industries, Inc., for the patch of Cherry Hill road between [email protected] j (313) 222-2238 734-981-6969 • www.gerou.com «2 (O Observer S Eccentric j Sunday, June 14,2009 online at hometownlifexom Sheldon. They're asking for "We give anywhere from FESTIVAL a $5 donation to help people $5,000 or more every year FROM PAGE Al who have vision and hearing to charity," President Ben impairments. Fontana said. "We have bought leaders The club's fund-raising north pavilion, near the soccer dogs for tiie Wind, and we activities have helped send fields. The group also will raf• bought a magnifying machine special needs children to fle off Wii-related items that for a woman who couldn't camp, provide money for provide a home video game read," Chew said.