Senior Center Opening Delayed TODAY a $930,000 Addition to Westland's Senior Citi but Kozorosky-Yviacek Said the Addi Early As February
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/m Happy Thanksgiving! HomeTown niMHI'MI :^TI»M» WIUKDIIK* Thursday o November 27,1997 Mlfe0tkm& dDbsenrer Putting You In Touch With Your World' VOLUME 33 NUMBER 50 WESTLANO, MICHIGAN • 76 PAGES • http://observer-eccentric.com SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS O )997 HomeTown Communications Network, Inc. IN THE PAPER Senior center opening delayed TODAY A $930,000 addition to Westland's senior citi But Kozorosky-YViacek said the addi early as February. zen Friendship Center has missed a November tion will be worth the wait when it is The city is building the addition with grand opening. Instead, the new 4,620-square- unveiled early next year. a federal loan that will be repaid over foot addition is expected to he unveiled early "It's going to be absolutely gorgeous," the next 10 years from Community CABLE GUIDE she said. "The community and the Development Block Grant funds, West- next year. seniors will be very proud of it." land housing/community development BY DARRELL CLEM "I'm hoping it will open in late Jan The addition is being built onto the director James Gilbert has said. Cable Guide: WDIV-TV 8TAFFWRITBB uary or early February," Friendship front of the Friendship Center, located Westland receives about $1.2 million Channel 4 will televise Center director Sylvia Kozorosky- at 1119 N. Newburgh, just north of a year in federal CDBG dollars, and he A $930,000 addition to Westland's Marquette. It will include a large said during a groundbreaking in June senior citizen Friendship Center has Wiacek said Monday. America's Thanksgiving The building's new portion marks, a multi-purpose room that can be parti that the city is "borrowing against the missed a November grand opening tioned into as many as four smaller future" to build the addition. Day Parade at 9 a.m. originally planned by city officials.'' 36 percent increase in size for the Friendship Center, which currently has rooms. The Friendship Center has 2,500 from Detroit. Today's Instead, the new 4,620-square-foot The addition also will house five members who pay several dollars a addition, which will include a computer 12,568 square feet of space. Cable TV listings incor A grand opening delay has been computers, and Kozorosky-YViacek is year to participate in senior citizen pro- room for seniors, is expected to be hoping that seniors will be able to take rectly list the 9 a.m. to unveiled early next year. blamed on problems such as construc noon time period as the tion materials arriving late. on-site computer training classes as Please see CENTER, A2 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Seeing Santa Kettle COMMUNITY LIFE Singing: With parents drive looking for wholesome activities for their chil to begin f dren, Susan Patterson *- &v may have the answer. The BY DARRELL CLEM ' * music director at Garden ^j^jt*».. STAFF WRITER City Presbyterian Church The Westland-based Salvation Army has decided to start the will launch its holiday fund-raiser Fri day amid hopes of raising $110,000 Braisselle Music School this season. Choir. /Bl The money will be used to buy food *m o- baskets and toys for needy families during the holiday season and to help- provide emergency food, shelter and AT HOME ••••.-• .-«•.•Vv clothing year-round, "Capt. MaricWetsh1 said. 'M* Salvation Army volunteers also will- Season's greetings: Visit visit nursing homes and low-incomfe-. a variety of charming res senior citizens to deliver holiday gifts! idences in Livonia on the and cheer, he said. lilfe The Salvation Army, based at 2300 Christmas Walk present '^fex - Venoy Road south of Palmer, hopes to ed by the Friends for the ^ • ••„*£*-- raise $110,000 between Friday and Development of Green- Dec 24. That marks a 10 percent increase mead./DS over last year's $100,000 goal, which was" surpassed by $3,060. I••'. Volunteers who want to ring bells ENTERTAINMENT and collect donations in the familiar STATF PHOTOS BT JEM JAGDFZLD Salvation Army red kettles may call A pause for Claus: Above, fans of Santa Claus 722-3660. Theater: After a three-year The holiday fund-raiser also is get gather outside Westland Center Saturday await ting a big boost from area businesses experiment of doing other ing his arrival. Everyone smiles and waves as he that have formed partnerships with versions, Meadow Brook arrives. Below, Santa greets the crowd at the the Salvation Army. Consider: '.-'. Theatre is bringing back shopping center as the holiday shopping season • North Brothers Ford plans to QOI; begins. At right, Holiday Bear gives out hugs. lect food and cash donations from Charles Nolte's adapta employees and customers. The busi tion of "A Christmas Santa will hear holiday wishes daily at the mall. ness hopes to collect 10 pickup trucki Carol."/El loads of food. >!• • Ford Motor Co. has allowed voluh: teers to .raise money during afternoon shift changes at its Wayne plant. That REAL ESTATE kind of opportunity really assists us,? Welsh said. "We can raise more motley there in a shift change than all day; at Third-generation builder: some stores." Dan MacLeish will be • The new Westland Sears store will be added to the list of other local busi inducted into the Build nesses allowing the Salvation Army to ing Industry Association accept donations at their doors. \ -; of Southeastern Michigan • Organizations such as Westland Civitans, Westland Rotary and the Hall ofFame./fl Light and Life Free Methodist Chureh plan to contribute bell-ringers for the season. \\\ SPECIAL SECTION ~~ " Please see KETTLE, A6 Gift giving: Our holiday gift guide, included in today's newspaper, gives Fund-raiser to help with cancer patient's bills ideas for the upcoming BY RICHARD PEARL grown inward instead, the 29-year-old That includes her large extended of old-fashioned Santa Clauses made gift-giving season. STAFF WRITER mother of two might not be here today. family, whose members are holding a by a cousin, Linda Sugars, and a collec Funny how things work out, says As it is, she's alive and doing whatev 1950s-'608-'703 dinner-dance Saturday tion of Precious Moments figurines Christine Carroll. er she is able for children Amanda, 6, night to help knock down some of the Owned by Christine's mother, Pat INDEX For one thing, if she and husband and Craig, 2. $5,000-plu8 in medical bills that the George of Wyandotte. •;•; Kevin hadn't sold their house in Febru But the chemotherapy and surgery sale of their house and Kevin's insur "We're a big family and very close-, ary, they'd be worse off financially than she's needed to fight her cancer have ance doesn't cover. very caring," says Sugars, a Detroit • Obituaries A12 made the 29-year-old Westland woman The 6:30 p.m. fund-raiser Nov. 29 at legal secretary from Columbus, Mfcte • Classified Index F4 they are now. For another, if Kevin hadn't taken violently ill, taken her hair and wiped the VFW Hall, 27345 Schoolcraft in "When one's down, the others cornfc Real Estate F4 his new job when he did, they might out the family finances.' Redford, is open to the public, with around to help." Crossword F5 not have had any medical insurance. Still, Christine feels lucky: "I think prizes for best costume. Revenue In the past, for example, she and somebody is watching over me," she should come from ticket sales - $60 per Christine have worked at another Jobs G3 And third, if the lump that popped out under her chin last June had says. couple, $30 per individual - and raffles Home & Service H4 ~ Please see FUND-RAISER, A2 Autos J2 • Opinion A14-15 • Sports CI Junior Miss winner named • Calendar C5 • Real Estate Fl Stephanie Mead of Westland danced away with the Memorial. Wayne-Westland Junior Miss title and $4,100 in Amy McKerracher, a senior at John Glenn, was scholarship money Saturday night. named first runner-up and also won the talent award HOW TO REACH US Mead, a senior at John Glenn High School, won the for a total of $2,600 in scholarship money. title, the spirit award, the audience participation Mary Croftg, a senior at John Glenn, was named award, the presence and composure award and the second runner-up and also won the interview and Newsroom: 313-953-2104 fitness award. scholastic awards for $3,000 in scholarship money. Newsroom Fax: 313-591-7279 Mead said her first thought was "I'm going to col Other scholarship winners included Katrina E-mail: newsroom OoeonHiw.com lege," referring to the scholarship money. Zacharc2uk, winner of the bowlathon fund-raiser All the participants had fun preparing for tho scholarship of $200. Amanda Roberts also won a Nlghtilne/Sports: 313-953-2104 event, Mead said. "Every week was fun. We all $100 bowlathon scholarship. Participants held a PHOTO BY JttXY MfiflXMU Reader Comment Line: 313-953-2042 worked as a good team," she said. "I'd do it all over bowlathon fund-raiser in October. WI n ne re: Second runner-up Mary Crofts, Classified Advertising: 313-5910900 again." Mead, a member of the National Honor Society, the More than 20 contestants participated in the 1997: Plymouth-Canton Ballet Company, SADD, DARE, winner Stephanie Mead, ahd first runner* Display Advertising: 313-591-2300 98 Junior Miss Scholarship Program, held Saturday up Amy McKerracher arc all smiles at the Home Delivery: 313-5914500 night at the Stockmeyor Auditorium near Wayne Please see JUNIOR, A4 program, . A2(W) The Observer & Eccentric/ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1997 Lights on Town hall meeting from page Al Center Christmas enthusiasts of all ages are U.S.