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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 en Chick 345 E 9 Mile Rd ffles & Wa Ferndale $ 99 248-291-6160 6 $10 advance $15 door Online at Ticketfly.com yro, ger, G p Bur r s & Po & Bee WE CATER! Frie Fries Partial proceeds being 99 9 Gift Certificates $ $ 9 Stop in for a donated to Gilda’s Club 7 6 Smoothie! Open Mon-Sat 6am-11:30pm Closed Sunday www.thepolishmuslims.com Join us on facebook 2 Hamtramck Review Phone (313) 874-2100 Friday, December 8, 2017 Study gets underway to 2017: A year of adventures close to home bring historic baseball Continued from front page nal articles, reviewing my winter walkers every year, “hardware” and “soft - future columns. stadium back to use own thoughts over the a great sign that people ware” comes from British In other columns I went Continued from front page past 12 months, seeking are buying into Ham - urbanist Charles Landry, deeper into the “soft - multi-purpose facility. ning, architectural draw - answers to those ques - tramck as a place where who wrote influential ware” of city life, investi - That includes having ings and renderings, and tions. I thought it would foot transit can be the books “The Creative City: gating both its heart and be a good exercise to re - number one option. 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The city has a tors” and “The Art of City In “Walkable radicaliza - there and other sport ac- for creative design and adding fresh comments classic, yet simple early Making.” More on him in tivities, such as cricket. sustainability within a Continued on page 6 that might bring greater 20th century grid plan, a “SmithGroupJJR brings historic landscape and clarity to my words. design that makes it easy great expertise to the structure,” said Ham - I began my column for pedestrians to navi - project, especially as it tramck City Planner called “Strolling into gate any course of their relates to programming Melanie Markowicz in a memories” like this: choice.” for multiple recreational press release. “One of the top destina - This column included a uses, urban park plan - tions for my walks, which summary of events I call adventures close to (Paczki Day, the Paczki home, is my own memory. 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