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www.hamtramckreview.com • e-mail [email protected] 3236 Caniff St. • Hamtramck 48212 — HAMTRAMCK'S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD — Election Study gets underway to bring investigation is ongoing historic baseball stadium back to use By Charles Sercombe It could be several By Charles Sercombe weeks before the state Hamtramck’s historic police wrap up their in - baseball stadium will vestigation into alleged now get a thorough re - election fraud. Quick Hits view on how to go about Michigan State Police restoring it. spokesman Lt. Mike The Hamtramck Po - The city recently hired lice Department has a Shaw told The Review re - SmithGroupJJR to con - cently the investigation timely reminder for duct the study, thanks to shoppers this holiday is still ongoing, and that a $50,000 grant from season: it will be up to a prose - the National Park Serv - Don’t leave valuables cutor, in this case the ice. out in the open inside state Attorney General’s The stadium, located your car while out shop - Office, to decide if there in Veterans Park, is ping or visiting the city. is enough evidence to Every week the de - listed with the National file charges. partment receives re - Register of Historic “This is going to be a ports of items being Places. very intensive investiga - stolen from inside cars. The stadium was built tion,” Shaw told The Re - in 1930 and was home In recent weeks that A study is now underway to determine what has to be done to restore the base - view over a month ago. to the Detroit Stars, has included guns. ball stadium in Veterans Memorial Park. The city is paying for the study through No arrests have been which was part of the Another item fre - a $50,000 grant from the National Parks Service. made so far. quently stolen from un - Negro National League. It is believed the inves - attended cars is That was back in the day out the pitch at the sta - used by high school ists, Friends of Historic tigation involves, at cellphones. In a posting when African-Americans dium. There is a photo of teams until about the Hamtramck Stadium, least in part, the illegal on the department’s were barred from playing this at the Hamtramck 1980s when it was working to raise money handling of absentee Facebook page, the list for Major League teams. Historical Museum. abandoned. Its historical to renovate the stadium ballots. also includes: wallets, Legendary players The stadium is one of significance was not and its grounds. That issue is no purses, laptop comput - such as Satchel Paige few surviving structures known until several The plan is to not only stranger to Hamtramck ers and GPS devices. and Turkey Stearnes that served the Negro years ago. bring back baseball, but elections. “It is best to take played here. Ty Cobb of League. There is a volunteer also turn the site into a Back in 2014 four them with you after you the Tigers even threw The stadium was later group of preservation - Continued on page 2 people, all Bangladeshi- park your vehicle. If for Americans, were some reason you can - charged with felony not,” the department counts of illegally han - advises, “please secure dling absentee ballots. them in your trunk. All four pled guilty to Thieves look for these the charges but none re - items to steal as they ceived prison sen - walk by your vehicle.” tences. At a city council meet - ing several weeks ago Quote of 2017: A year of adventures council candidate Nay - eem Choudhury talked the week … close to home about his father being Who said this, and what is it By Walter Wasacz self what are my motiva - pulled over by investiga - about? You can find the As 2017 winds down I tions, what outcomes do I tors and having items quote and the story it be - thought it would be fun to seek from this practice? longs to somewhere in the taken from his car. pages of this issue. think about some of the Am I succeeding in telling Choudhury’s business adventures and ideas a story that opens doors on Conant was also “This is only that made their way into for readers into new searched by investiga - putting a black this column this year. worlds? Isn't that what all tors. mark on our The annual Paczki Day Run is one of the many attrac - It’s also an opportunity writers should aim to do? Choudhury told coun - community.” tions Hamtramck offers that helps attract visitors to put a finer point on I went back to the origi - cilmembers that he will what I’m doing, to ask my - and people to move here. Continued on page 2 Continued on page 6

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cery stores, 20 dentists, Some facts about Hamtramck 51 restaurants,” and one newspaper, “The Citizen’s By Greg Kowalski As the first pages Hamtramck has no post Weekly” (not to be con - It’s a thin pamphlet notes Hamtramck then office and yet received fused with The Citizen). about 7 inches wide by 9 was Michigan’s sixth over 33,000 letters per Aside from the wealth inches long and only largest city, with a popu - day. It has no street car of information, what’s so seven pages thick, with lation of nearly 56,000 service of its own, yet it impressive about this orange covers. The title people who lived in has 3.8 miles of tracks publication done in what is simple as well – just 7,000 homes “of which within its confines. It has we consider today to be the word “Hamtramck.” 55 percent are one-family no bus service of its own, primitive times educa - Yet is says so much. dwellings, 40 percent yet is amply cared for by tionally is that it is done This little booklet was two-family dwellings and three lines running buses so professionally. These prepared in 1928 as a 5 percent distributed as often as two minutes seventh and eighth student project of the among three-, four-, and apart.” graders did a brilliant job ment had 65 members. five parochial schools (In - seventh and eighth grade five-family dwellings. Ap - The booklet includes a that would make any ed - At that time there were cluding Martini Lutheran Public Speaking Classes proximately 78 percent of “Financial” section. “The ucator today proud of three fire stations in the School), the Boy Scouts at the Junior High the people own their own assessed valuation of their achievement. School. It was “published homes…” the city is city -- one at Grayling and (158 Scouts in eight by the authority of the The thin booklet is $117,177,128. …There Jos. Campau, one on troops); Girl Scouts (108 You can see the booklet Board of Education and packed with facts like are 17 banks within the Caniff (the current sta - Scouts in four troops) at the Hamtramck Histor - printed in the High that about the city at that city and they show com - tion) and one by the and social organizations ical Museum, 9525 Jos. School Print Shop” of the time. For example, bined commercial and Dodge Main plant. There like Tau Beta and St. Campau. Hours are 11 Hamtramck Public “Hamtramck has no rail - savings deposits of also were 450 fire hy - Anne’s Community a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday Schools. Yet it is aston - road station and yet it is $13,000,000.” drants scattered around House. and Sunday and by ap - ishingly professional served probably by more Also noted is that the town. There is also a host of pointment. Call (313) looking and gives a re - railroads than any city of Police Department is The booklet also con - miscellaneous facts: 574-9758. Visits us on markable insight of Ham - a similar size. Ham - “composed of 95 mem - tains information about “There are 24 lawyers Facebook. tramck at time. tramck has no hotels. bers.” The Fire Depart - the public schools, the within the city, 175 gro -

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In Our Opinion Councilmember demands former city manager return Coming changes in police vacation payment department is a concern for all By Charles Sercombe but she spoke highly of unusual.” Last week we reported pointed emergency man - police officers, our The issue of former her, calling Reeder “my In a memo to the city that the city’s police offi - ager requires that the elected officials need to City Manager Katrina ride or die chick always.” council, Clark said cers and their bosses city adopt structural do a deep dive into the Powell and her vacation Reeder returned the Square eventually did have a new contract. changes for the depart - study in order to under - pay once again became payment after Gabor say she meant for Powell That contract is basi - ment outlined in a study stand the likely concerns an issue. brought it to light. to have vacation time cally a temporary one, in performed by the Center of officers and members At last week’s city Last week Miah in - paid out. the sense that since it for Public Safety Man - of the public. council meeting, a reso - sisted that Powell’s em - The Review asked for a expires in June, negotia - agement. Our elected officials lution proposed by Coun - ployment contract was copy of the memo, but tions will have to begin That study has been are our representatives on a longer one. available for review for in city hall despite their cilmember Anam Miah unclear on whether she Acting City Manager That job will be a top the last several months. limited role by city char - called for Powell to re - was warranted payment Kathy Angerer declined priority for the city’s next As we reported last ter on what actions they turn her nearly $10,000 for unused vacation to release it, saying it city manager. week, the study calls for can take. payment for unused va - time. The city attorney was protected under the It will be a challenge to sweeping changes about In the coming weeks cation time during the also had to grapple with attorney-client privilege. say the least. how the department we will explore the study two-and-a-half years she the contract language – During the regular It’s also something functions. We predict the further, but there are lim - was employed by the a contract that his law council meeting only that the city council and police officers’ union is its to what we can report city. firm supposedly re - Miah voted in favor of his mayor need to be famil - not going to be agree - because much of the The issue of paying out viewed and OK’d. resolution to send a let - iar with because there able to the changes. study was redacted – or unused vacation time City Attorney John ter requesting Powell to are some big changes Some in the commu - in other words blacked came up in September Clark said he had to ask return the payment. coming to the police de - nity may not even agree. out – supposedly be - when former city Treas - former state-appointed Miah was a vocal critic of partment. One of the While it will be the city cause of the sensitive urer John Gabor threat - emergency Manager Powell during her tenure final directives left be - manager’s job to negoti - nature of how the police ened legal action if he Cathy Square what her here and was behind the hind from the state-ap - ate a new contract with department operates. didn’t get compensated intention was in the con - vote to block extending like Powell’s assistant tract she signed with her employment con - did. Powell to become city tract. The catch to that pay - manager. Councilmember An - ment was in the contract Clark said that at first drea Karpinski, who sup - agreement for Gabor and Square refused to ad - ported Powell, Powell’s assistant. It dress the matter. In an questioned Miah’s mo - specifically prohibited interview last September tive in pressing for the Fundraising… Ham - If you can spare a few and mail it to: Ham - paying them for unused when the issue of vaca - payment. tramck Goodfellows bucks, you can still tramck Fire Department, vacation time. Despite tion payment first came “This is only putting a were out on the streets make a donation by mak - 2625 Caniff, Ham - that contract clause, up, Square told The Re - black mark on our com - last Friday selling a spe - ing out a check to the tramck, MI 48212. Powell saw to it that her view that her contract munity,” she said. cial issue of The Review Hamtramck Goodfellows assistant, DanNisha with Powell allowed com - Miah said his resolu - dedicated to their cause. Reeder, was paid pensation for unused va - tion was about a “princi - And their cause is to $2,461 for unused vaca - cation pay. ple of spending public make sure needy Ham - tion time. “Vacation is usually money wisely.” tramck residents get to Why Powell pushed for paid out,” Square told enjoy a holiday meal. the payment is not clear, The Review. “That’s not The money they raise will go toward food coupons that can be redeemed at A&C Market on Jos. Campau and Jacob, or at Sam’s Market at Com - Office Hours: mor and Fleming. Monday - Thursday So far, the group has 10am-6pm raised a few thousand Friday 10am-2pm dollars, but still has a Fire Chief Dan Hagen was out on Jos. Campau last Most Insurances Accepted way to go. Friday participating in the annual Goodfellows news - paper drive. Prohibition in Hamtramck: Gangsters, Family and Cosmetic Gunfights & Getaways Dentistry . • All porcelain crowns, rian St Flo B bridges and veneers. 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Krot, Public Relations 3020 Caniff, Hamtramck, MI 48212 Phone: 313-874-2100 Fax: 313-874-2101 www.hamtramckreview.com • email [email protected] Jurkiewicz & Wilk Funeral Home Publisher: John Ulaj • (248) 866-1110 • [email protected] MICHAEL A. WILK, DIRECTOR ROBERT A. WILK, DIRECTOR Editor: Charles Sercombe Office Manager: Jean Ingenthron Sales Manager: Dave Sweet Reporter/Copy Editor: Ian Perrotta 2396 Caniff at Brombach | 313-365-9600 This newspaper is not responsible for mistakes in advertising beyond the cost of the space involved. 6 Hamtramck Review Phone (313) 874-2100 Friday, December 8, 2017 2017: A year of adventures Metro news… close to home Continued from page 2 It’s said that whatever opportunities are often be able to remain in their ing capital improvements happens to Detroit, so geared toward affluent neighborhoods and to with grants of $965,000 tion,” which was inspired ent than the heart. Both goes Hamtramck. Our outsiders and metro De - enjoy the benefits of De - from the city of Detroit by seeing a demonstra - are elusive, but when the friends over at modeld - troiters who can afford to troit's new economic and $700,000 from IFF. tion in Pope Park in which heart is found, you know media.com have been re - take on the financial risk boom." Rehabilitation efforts people demanded that it immediately, don't you? the president release his The pain you feel when porting on fascinating of buying and rehabbing Built in 2006, the Mel - which include improve - taxes -- and by chance you lose it, inescapable. development projects for a home. But what about rose Square homes are ments on the roof, insu - running into Liza Bielby The heart is interpersonal the past several years. the long-time Detroiters just north of Grand lation, landscape, and Richard Newman of and shareable. But the With their permission, who wish to keep their Boulevard on Melrose exterior appearance, the Hinterlands, a local soul? If it is anywhere, or here is an edited version properties in good shape and Cameron streets. concrete repair, and exte - experimental theater everywhere, then where is of this week’s story: and avoid displacement? Vanguard has been work - rior lighting will continue group that produced a it? There is a real estate In October, the North ing to secure financial through July 2018. piece called “The Radical - “The word itself is ap - market is exploding in End's Vanguard Commu - support since 2015 and By Imani Mixon ization Process” -- my propriately amorphous. It Hamtramck and Detroit, nity Development Corpo - were able to start mak - thoughts landed here: can be replaced by the but this surge some - ration, an economic “On a larger plane of ex - word 'spirit' or 'ghost' times comes at the ex - equity and racial justice- perience it is life practice, and not lose much of its pense of low-income focused nonprofit, pre - Election investigation meaning everything I do, impact. homeowners. vented 24 low-income the activities in which I ex - “Is it in a blue house Here’s a story about family homes, collec - is ongoing perience and participate, with a red brick porch sur - one group addressing tively called Melrose the people I meet, grow rounded by green trees, the needs of the low in - Square, from going into Continued from front page with or separate from, are streets and sidewalks at come foreclosure. take the matter to fed - effect on voters partici - all part of this practical the intersection of Earlier this year, Forbes "Vanguard is so very eral court. He did not pating in the election. rhythm of city life: simply Fenelon and Commor, the ranked Detroit's real es - pleased to be able to living everyday, day after house in Emily's illustra - win a seat on council. About 300 absentee tate market as the most preserve these homes day, meeting each new ad - tion for this column? I The role of the state ballots were not returned undervalued in the na - for low-income families; venture head on. have walked past this police investigation has in the election, which is tion. The report cited the especially given that the “I believe community house countless times. caused some to specu - an unusually high num - love has to be practiced Sometimes it is just a city's low housing prices homes are located late that it had a chilling ber. to remain alive, too. How house; other times it trig - and the prospect of in - within the greater Down - can we love other people, gers a memory, and I creased development as town Detroit footprint," in interpersonal relation - leave this time and place reasons for Detroit's re - says Pamela Martin- Support Your Local ships, as friends and col - for other times and cent real estate boom. Turner, CEO of Vanguard. leagues, or in the place places. Discussions about De - "It is important for peo - Businesses - Get Out we choose to live, unless “That might be a defini - troit's ripe real estate ple of modest means to we are exercising our tion of the kind of soul we on the Hamtown! hearts and minds on the are talking about here, inside, making real mis - one found at the intersec - takes on the outside, tion of history and geogra - learning and growing from phy, science and spiritual internal and external ex - ecstasy.” perience alike?” At the end of that piece And in “Radiant land - I wrote there is much scapes,” which was pro - more to parse and ponder duced after a walk with about the soul of the city. artist Emily Wood, I wrote We will do the same for about our quest to find its heart. I'll continue the soul (or perhaps doing that next week in “souls,” plural, that are part 2 of my recap of City hidden in plain sight Life 2017. around the city) of Ham - Walter Wasacz is a na - 31800 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 200 tramck. I've edited down tive Hamtramckan, a Farmington Hills, MI 48334 the original column in this writer and consultant. His excerpt: column appears twice 248-866-1110 HUD Certified “But the soul is differ - monthly in the Review. John Ulaj Commercial Broker/Owner A HUD Certified Agent Certified Residential Coming events [email protected] Specialist Keg & Bottle Includes Merchant’s WEDNESDAYS, 7 p.m., every second Wednes - Liquor License Get It Sold in the Valued at $150,000 day of the month – The 3C7 and Midtown Block 11611 Jos Campau, D! Hamtramck. Great potentiLal - meets at 2339 Caniff PCS Senior Day Center. 4S Units 2nOd level This block club includes all residents and busi - Asking $349,000 Real Estate Corner 2234 Evaline • $82,000 nesses west of Jos. Campau and north of Hol - 2-unit brook. 3227 Yemans • $54,900 SATURDAY, December 9, 3-7 p.m. -- Queen of Single family, 2 bedroom Call Dave at 11394 Sobieski • $63,500 Apostles Girl Scout Reunion at Our Lady Queen 2 bedroom of Apostles Activities Center, 3851 Prescott Popular Night Club for Sale Includes Liquor License (back of church), light reception. All former Girl Comes with adjacent parking lot Scouts, leaders, and involved parents of Scouts (313) 874-2100 to 9819 Conant • Hamtramck from Queen of Apostles troops over the years Looking to buy single & are invited back for an evening of memory shar - multi-family dwellings - CASH! ing and fun; bring photos, badgebook, sash, etc. Place Your Ad! For more info, please call (313) 891-1520 SATURDAY, December 9, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. – Hamtramck’s Recycle Center is open at Caniff and McDougall. Drop off your recyclables for and Associates free. Diamond Realty SATURDAY, December 9, 2-4 p.m. -- Soup Leanne Zaliwski-Conger Kitchen at Holy Cross Parish, 2311 Pulaski at $$$$$ Fleming. All are welcome. Hamtramck Native/Specialist Looking to Associate Broker • Multi-Million Dollar Producer Sell Your Home Short Sale/REO Specialist for Top Dollar? Conant - Store front with residential 3 bedroom living space, basement, and Call me today 2 car garage!! $119,900...Call Leanne Conger for details before its gone! while the Hamtramck - Single Family Rochester Hills housing supply is 11608 Gallagher - $74,900 - NEW! 2905 Woodelm Dr. - $219,900 1953 Norwalk - $99,900 - NEW PRICE! Dryden Twp. still low. Hamtramck Multi-Family 4778 Bishop Rd. - $429,900 - SOLD! 3428 Holbrook - $159,900 - NEW PRICE! Metamora Twp. 1953 Norwalk St. Wayne County Food 2639 Evaline - $84,900 - SOLD! Single Family or Multi-family! 4064 Thornville Rd. - $224,900 - SOLD! Location, location, location!!! Assistance Program (TEFAP) 1953 Norwalk - $99,900 - NEW PRICE! Marlette 2 newer furnaces and central air units! 11333 Moran St. - $99,900 - PENDING! 6328 Marlette St - Marlette-$17,900 - HANDYMAN Call Leanne (586) 214-4663 for Hamtramck Residents Hamtramck Leases SPECIAL! NEW PRICE! $99,900 PRICE REDUCED! 11637 Sobieski - 2 BR $550/mo. water included Shelby Twp. Bring proof of income, and picture ID Hamtramck Vacant Lot 52482 Van Dyke Ave. - $235,000 2395 Commor - Vacant Land - $9,900 - NEW PRICE! Addison Twp. Vacant Land 5052 Scotch Settlement, Almont Twp. - 5 acres - $79,900 - NEW! 3152 Curtis Rd. - $695,000, 38 ACRES! 8625 Jos. Campau Parcel 1A Kovac Ln, Dryden Twp - 5.12. acres - $85,500 Imlay Twp. Parcel 1G Kovac Ln, Dryden Twp - 6.47 acres - $91,900 - PENDING! 4227 Cade Rd. - $139,900 - 11 ACRES! NEW! 11am-12pm Elandell Lane, Attica Twp., 2.5 acres - $34,900 Rochester Rd., Dryden Twp.- 3.62 acres - $34,899 Visit www.DiamondRealty-Associates.com Every 2nd Monday LOT 19 Master's Dr., Metamora Twp -$29,900 for more information of the Month Office (810) 375-2500 • Cell (586) 214-4663 [email protected] Friday, December 8, 2017 Hamtramck Review Phone (313) 874-2100 7

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