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FAGBB00 TO • jiMi? iW, mm mm Wlfifell-WESTLAIM A GANNETT COMPANY Holiday GIFT IDEAS SUBSCRIBERS - FIND YOUR COPY INSIDE PRICE: $1 • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012 •; hometownlife.com Photo contest Enter your favorite District to offer schools of holiday photo in a contest for a chance, to win a $20 gift card to a department store. Upload a picture of your house in lights, a visit choice for pilot TAG program with Santa or anything related to the holidays. Share the link with ' By Sue Mason tary School in Canton and Adams The board voted 7-0 to approve er. According to Sallah, the group friends and see if you Observer Staff Writer and Marshall Upper Elementa• the program. extended a lot of energy and time come out on top! You ry Schools in Westland with lim• "Our goal is to have one class• and did research, with an empha• and your Facebook Just four days after the school ited space available for nonresi• room at each grade level, it's a sis on best practices. One com• friends are allowed one board approved a talented and dent students who are residents great opportunity to offer this to ponent will be the testing which vote per day. To find the gifted pilot program, the Wayne- of Wayne County. our students and those who live will look for a students' high lev• contest, go to our web• Westland Community Schools The district will accept the outside the district," said Paul el of ability, creativity and task site, Hometownlife.com, has announced that it will accept applications, nomination forms Sallah, deputy superintendent commitment to identify them as and look on the right- nonresident schools of choice and parent inventory forms Fri• for instruction. "It makes sense talented and gifted. hand side in our Don't applications for the 2013-14 day, Dec. 14, through Friday, Feb. to offer a program that students "Our obligation is to remain Miss module. Clicking school year. 1. Prospective students will qual• can't get in another district." competitive in a difficult day and on the photo of the The pilot program to be offered ify after being tested between Wayne-Westland teachers and age," said Sallah. "We have to Christmas presents will at the elementary level for sixth- Dec. 14 and March 1 and notified administrators have spent almost Please see SCHOOLS, A2 take you to the contest grade at Walker-Winter Elemen• during May 2013. a year put the program togeth• page. The voting ends Dec. 30. Good luck! 2 charged 'Be Proud' workshop in August Westland Youth As• sistance Program and the Taylor Teen Health shooting at Center is hosting a "Be Proud! Be Responsible!" workshop 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, Wayne bar • at the Dorsey Center, 32715 Dorsey, south of By LeAnne Rogers Palmer, Westland. Observer Staff Writer . The workshop is a pregnancy and HIV/AIDS Two men are facing multiple prevention program felony charges'stemming from that is fun and inter- * an August shooting at a Wayne active for youth ages bar that injured one patron. 12-18. All participants Devon Davis, 21, of Lansing will receive a free snack and his cousin Nathaniel Davis, in the morning, a free 23, of Melvindale, have both been lunch and prizes. charged with assault with intent For more information, to murder, assault with intent call (734) 467-7904. PHOTOS BY TOM BEAUDOIN to do great bodily harm and two Santa gives third-grader Trenton Mielke of Plymouth a coloring book during his visit to the St. Nick Feast at counts of felonious assault. Dev• : : St. Damian School in Westland. > '/ • ".¾¾'-/v.'S<: ' ^'V.'-:v-;---^^''.' •'' on Davis is also charged with fel• ony firearm. Kids Night Out "We're very happy to have made the arrests. We worked Do some last minute on this for a long time," said shopping and drop the St. Damian students Wayne Police Detective Kevin kids off at the Wayne Schmidtke. "This was a big prior• Community Center, ity for us." 4635 Howe at Annapolis in Wayne, 6-10 p.m. share the holiday spirit Please see CHARGED, A2 Saturday, Dec. 15. Have your kids bring a bathing suit, towel and By Sue Mason lots of energy. Activities Observer Staff Writer ' include swimming, arts Rezoning and crafts, games, pizza The sounds of the Christmas and pop. Resident cost is season filled the multiple pur• $13, nonresident is $16. pose room at St. Damian School turn eyesore For more information, in Westland Friday as students, call (734) 728-2900. staff and even Santa Claus gath• ered for a St. Nick Feast. into retail center The get-together included a turkey and ham meal, an orna- . By LeAnne Rogers ment exchange and a chance to Observer Staff Writer INDEX chat with the Big Guy. Business A8 "This is wonderful to see the Bruce Thompson has worked ....B10 Crossword Puzzle community come together like for the City of Westland for near• Entertainment B6 ly 18 years and for that entire Food B8 this," said the Rev. Jim Lopez, associate pastor, who joined in time the former gas station on Homes B10 Warren Road has been vacant. Jobs B11 the festivities. "We're not a big Obituaries .....B5 school, but look at what we're "Every year it was an eyesore. Opinion A12 . able to teach one another." We thought something would Services B10 The students have been "giv• happen there," said Thompson, Sports B1 Westland's director of planning Wheels B12 ing back and giving support to the community," according First-graders Andy Toloday and Leah Katers, both of Livonia, wait for and building. * © The Observer & Eccentric to Kelly DeLaRosa. The honor the potatoes to be put on their plates. Now the property, on the north Volume 48 • Number 59 society has been conducting a side of Warren Road east of Mid• food drive. There's also a giving the weekend," she said. keys and five hams and made dlebelt, is actually being cleaned . tree filled with hats and mit• "The kids were asked to mashed potatoes and gravy, up and redeveloped for new Home Delivery: retail use. The council recently (866) 887-2737 tens and "our first- and third- donate things they like for the corn dressing, apple sauce and grade students recently went ' food drive," said DeLaRosa. cookies for the crowd. approved a rezoning of the prop• Return Address: ' to Gleaners food bank to help "It's good to learn to give back ' "I'm glad to see everything . erty from commercial business 4, 41304 Concept Dr. package lunches for other chil• steaming," said Denise McGee which specifically allows gas sta- Plymouth HI 48170 at a young age." dren to take home so that they The dinner was prepared by , Please seer REZONING, A2 may have something to eat over parents who cooked up six tur• Please see FEAST, A2 P . — — — — NOW OPEN! i $2.00 invite you to stop in ana try our new esiarjnsnmi OFF $5.00 We invitGREAeT yo casuau to lsto foop din an andd drink try ous ra net GREAw establishmentT prices! !| Large Stuffed I Lunch Specials-11-4 Daily | Chicago Pizza j 1/2 lb. 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Individu• The cost is $30 for resi• ful interplay between als age 17 or over (age 16 dents and $60 for non-res• marimbas that is Musi- with permission slip) can idents. The visits are good ca Batteria (a marimba is donate. now through March 31st. like a xylophone) at 7 p.m. The library is on Cen• For more information,' Dec. 18. The concert will tral City Parkway, north call (734) 721-7400. be in us in the Faust Area of Ford Road. of the library. There's no toastmasters charge. Christmas Party The Westland Easytalk- The library is on Cen• Tickets are on sale for ers Toastmasters Club is tral City Parkway, north the Wayne Golden Hour now meeting at the West- 1 'of Ford Road. Christmas Party Gold• land Friendship Center, PHOTOS BY TOM BEAUDOIN en Hour Christmas Par• 1119 N. Newburgh, south * Parents prepared the food and then worked the buffet line, serving it to St Damian students. Kids Night Out ty which will start at 11:30 of Ford Road, Westland. •1 Do some last minute a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20,. Toastmasters is a world received an ornament in shopping and drop the at the Wayne Communi• leader dedicated to help• FEAST the exchange. Some were . kids off at the Wayne . ty Center, 4635 Howe at ing people develop their Continued from page A1 handmade, some were . Community Center, 4635 Annapolis in Wayne.. public speaking and lead- bought.