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mmmmm • PI m Summit will focus on education, A2 kMtxTovvn e.rttxenw t^fin *TWim- • * • Putting you in tovtM Sunday with your world October 24,1999 Serving the Westland Community for 35 yejxrs ft VOUiMF 35 NUMOfF) 41 WESTLAND. MICHIGAN • 66 PAGES * http://obsfirverccccntric.com SEVENTY- FIVE CEMS C ItM HOOMTOWII CMtauAicattooa Network, •&• Wt'r* makta* a H«4 a* checking It twk» Are you affiliated with a Candidates take the high road group* or organization that is planning a qooi holiday • Politeness was the activity or program? if so, order of the day during the Observer Newspapers would like to hear frorp. a candidate forum you. Send us the informV Thursday, Council can tion about your activity or didates discussed a , program and we'll include possible new City Hall it in our upcoming holiday shopper, . and rec center, among other issues. SEND TO: ! BY DARRELL CLEM Special Projects Editor STAFF WRITER Ralph R. Ec'htinaw dclem^oe.homecomni.iiet Observer Newspapers 36251 Schoolcraft While electing council members Livonia, Ml 48150 Nov. 2, Westland voters will also help decide far-reaching issues Oft FAX TO: such as whether a new recreation Ralph at (734) 591-7279 complex'and city hall should be OR E-MAIL TO: built. rechtinaw ©oe.horhecomm.net Eight 'hopefuls vying for four imntlM council seats addressed thos,e by Pttday, Nov. S. issues and trior? TFi.i.r*»d.ay "d unlng a Jaycees-sponsored candidates ^^e-'!---HH» forum at the Wayne-Ford Civic League hall. About 50 people attended. A civil tone marked the only THE WEEK public candidates forum this Westland election year, providing more than two hours of discus sion as hopefuls refrained from Seeking votes: Westland City Council candidates gathered Thursday evening for a "Meet the Candi personal attacks. dates" night. They are (left to right) Glenn Anderson, David Cox. James Godhout, Charles "Trav" Grif AHEAD The lineup included elected fin, David James, Michael Kehrer, Michael Rintz and Dorothy Smith. The forum was presented by the Please see CANDIDATES, A3 Westland Jaycees. MONDAY J1T_ .iF,.„ J City Kali; Two VVtSlLUUU nfn QI City Council study ses ut id drips in sions are scheduled at Fark playscape BY MARIE CHKSTNKY City Hall. At 6:15p.m., STAFF WKITKR LIVONIA SCHOOLS offic ia Is w i 11 disc uss mchcstneyiStx-.homt-i'omm.iH't • Pay day Irum tin- stale for the 1999. whether Oak Village con target of vandalism money." Doyle-said. "Nineteen million 20(.)() school year carne Wednesday lor ^dollars' came in late for Livonia, The dominiums near Palmer Livonia Public Schools. That's the day state pushes this >. payment1 hack fur and Wildwood will need a BY DARRELL CLEM • 'They realty did a num the district got its first state- aid check. STAFF WRITER 1 ther and further every year." second rear door to meet dclem9oe.hoinecomm.aet ber on it/ despite having opened new books for the new- school year on July I Fortunately. Livonia doesn't have to borrow the money It. has a hefty rainy- safety standards. A 6:30 Graffiti-busting work crews today Lt. Marc Stobbe Slow-to-rume state payrai'iitf- and day fund, currently $20 million, to hope to finish cleaning obscenities — Westland police questions surrounding the financial p.m. session will include make up the shortfall. Liepa said from, the city's playscape, after van effect on the district of I he Year 2000 discussions about the !n 1999 the district received $99 mil dals last week defaced'it with spray romputer gl.iten are. t\so of the high-. Steve Dewald, court work program lion, or "72 percent, of its revenue from city's sign ordinance. paint. tights of the 1999 audit just completed, director, said Thursday. "I'm•hoping the state. Local sources plug in another "They spray-painted graffiti all by the district'.-- auditors. Planu- & to pick people that have done mali $38 million, or 27 percent. The dis over it,™ Westland police Lt. Marc Moran. School board: The Wayne- cious destruction of property or graf trict's total .income in 1999 was $139 Stobbe said. "They really did a num The audit or.- ^ave the district's fiti themselves/ million. Westland Board of Edu ber on it." ^ finance staff u stellar rating in its Court work crews were expected The 1999 audit contained para Playscape visitors reported van bookkeeping for the schoul year that cation will meet at 7 p.m. to work five hours Saturday and five graphs never before- seen on the school dalism early Monday morning after ended June M.i. in the school board offices hours Sunday. district's annual audit. These words taking children to the huge, wooden But they also raised eyebrows at the- Vandals hav.e targeted the concern the Year 2000 computer glitch, on Marquette east of New- play structure in Central City Park, state's new. strategy of making aid pay playscape before, but not as aggres which may cause computers worldwide on Carlson near Ford Road. ments to school districts later and later burgh. sively as last weekend, Stobbe said. to malfunction sometime after Jan 1. "They spray-painted plaques that each year The state aid act requires "We had something similar a. cou "Y2K la impos. '' ie to audit/ Doyle had kids' handprints and names on districts to receive 11 payments over ple of weeks ago/ he said, "but this said. "The district has begun remedia them. They probably got a couple the school year. THURSDAY time it was pretty massive destruc tion on all critical systems and believes hundred of them," Stobbe .said'. "And "Two of these installments - over 18 tion with the paint/ that all systems will be compliant b\ they spray-painted the planking and percent of state aid ~ were received Y2K: Westland Mayor Police can't pinpoint the exact Dec.31." ' decking with obscenities."' after the district's •• 1999- fiscal year time of the incident - only that it What's unknown. Doyle said, is how Robert Thomas and the City public services department was over," said auditor Tom Doyle occurred last weekend between Fri •the district will be affected by comput workers have cleaned off the Twro years ago, Livonia received its city's Y2K Committee day night and Monday morning. ers that .'in-ti-M'rtCl with Livonia's com plaques, but offenders involved in last payment for the year by -June 80. "We're looking for any., tips/ Sto jjutei's from outside the district. have scheduled aY2K Westland District Court's work pro said Randy Liepa. assistant superin bbe said. "It look* like there were at "There can be no assurance that (Year 2000) Town Hall gram were scheduled this weekend tendent for business Last year, the least two people. It-look* like two organizations and governmental agen 1 to use a "power-washer" to remove last payment arrived inJulv This meeting for 7 p. m. at the different forms of handwriting/ cies .with which the district interacts - graffiti from the playscape'* wood. year, A-upust '.... i nelu'di n £ "hah k^. vendors, major -t-ftK------ Friendship Center, 1119 "The (district) judges asked me to "This puts, a steam on rhe cus.b'flow. Ni Newburgh, Westland. take a crew of four to six people/ Please see PLAYSCAPE, A2 and some districts have t<. borrow Register by calling (734) Please set- AID, A2 722-7628, INDEX season •Arts CI Applications for help will be avail • Clarified Index £4 BY DARRELL CLEM gifts that will he packed at 6:30 p m police for their annual participation STAFF WRITER Dec. 17 at the senior citizen Friendship Newspaper sales will be coordinated able after Thanksgis ing at the city's Autos H6 dclemebe.hqm4Comin.net Center, 1119 N. Newburgh from VFW HarnsKelmr Post'332o, Dor*oy. Center, .'-52™ 1o Dorsey Ho.id Home 4 Service H5 A^local charity group, Westland Volunteers will return to the center iaSfi S Wayne Road and at the Westland Chamber of Com Job* Gl Goodfellows, is starting to seek volun at 8:30 a.m. Dec. IS to start''distribut "We can accommodate people 'who me roe, 3G900 Ff.rd Road show 'up the sartK: dav," Raehwal said. Councilman Gh'-nh Anderson. ,\ RenUln E9 teers to raise money to help needy fam ing the presents to needy families. ilies at Christmas Good.fe.Umvs volunteers are asked to (ii-io.dfe'lliiws volunteer, said Monday • Crossword E8 Goodfellow* members ne?d help to Westland City Council members donate Mi hour or tw'ivuf their tune that many families still are needs • Health 04 sell their holiday newspapers on city approved the Nov. 2.6-27 Good fellows' despite a thriving economy • Movie* C4 Streets from sunrise to sunset on Nov, fund-raiser on Monday the same .For more information about volun "There are even in great economic night GaodfeHows spokesman Jerry tunes . a lot of people m need.' be lN«wffot»«* m 26-2-7, President James Raehwal said. teering or heitig helped b.v <.rO'«lleilo\vs,' Money raised will be used to buy Smith honored local firefighters and c/iII (7:'»4) 722-015« >md • ObUMrim A4 • ReaiCaUto .... El * $»«*•_._. ... 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