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"•"»• GOLD OVER r^RT LITH^1 $1600!! INSIDE CHELSEA DISTRICT LIBRARY #2 Adult Learners Institute ounds I in m worth GOLD & SILVER classes starting soon 221 S MAIN ST CHELSEA Ml 48118-1267 Sell Your Unwanted/ Page 4¾ • 8foken Jewelry Here jflel-C •' WE BUY Ml 1 COINS & CURRENCY (Chelsra ChelseaStandard ' A X\i\vc (Loins 1170 S. MAIN STREET • CHELSEA (734)433-9900 Minutes from Ann Arbor 1-94 Exit 159 hm Hentage VOL. 138, No. 31 THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 Weave the Web: Make sure to click on www.herttage.ccm around the dock for the most in-depth coverage of Washtenaw County. Our "Most Viewed" etory this week Is "Ride along By Sean Dalton • EIREWTEDVIDEO^ with Ann Aroor Police" Heritage Media UCLICKING ON • Checkout 1 Enercon, Services Incorporated has extended its recent growth to Chelsea "Right now, our main . with the addition of its 18th local client is Consumers office nationwide. Energy in Jackson - we Located on the second have a couple of people in floor of the Clocktower that office (working as con­ our video: building in the heart of sultants for the company)," • Sounds and Sights ' the downtown district^the Fleteher said, adding that opening proclamation Enercon Power division his office is currently worje- • Kitty Donohoe affiliated office will allow ihg to "build inroads with performs ^ the burgeoning employee- Novi-based ITC Holdings. owned organization reach ITC Holdings builds Heritage Media . into the Michigan market, and operates electric- ' Photo by Burrill Strong as well as markets in ity transmission systems "Pistol" Pete Mkttgard of the Twistin' Tarantulas plays his upright bass with Randy OhioJ*ennsylvania and .; across Michigan&Lower Gacki on drums. The group performed July 30 under trie social tent at the festival. Tnomter" Wisconsin. < Peninsula and portions of In roughly eight weeks, Click on the "jobs" tab Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, on the home page of dur the Chelsea location has Missouri and Kansas. website or go directly to grown to nine, employees Division Manager Thorn http://jobs.rierltage.com. and couldreach 20 in the. Beckett, who headed up near-future, according the sale of his company Sounds & Sights to Office Manager Laity • to Enercon two years ago, Join us on IWttter: Fletcher, who moved back put the potential for the Become a Chelsea to Chelsea from Florida Chelsea office in terms of Thinual event packs in the crowd Standard follower. Click after leaving the area in the "job growth, into perspective on the Twitter tab on 1960s. by talking about the compa­ By Erica McClain . years, the social tent was j_ the home page of our He previously worked ny's overall growth. ^MIJRELATED VIDEO smaller and known mostly website or go directly and Sean Dalton to http://twiner.com/ with Thorn Beckett, co- "Our original company Heritage Media ^Www.Herllage.com •* for frosty cups of beer, but founder of Beckett Laforue, worked only with power now the tent is a happen­ ChelaeaDexter. which operated jn Jackson plants and on environmen­ ing focal point for social­ before being purchased by ith an illumi­ out," said Craig Common, Join us on tal services," Beckett said. nated billboard co-organizer of Sounds & izing and a venue for some Enercon and integrated ' "Enercon wanted to expand of the hottest musical perJ Facobook: •-.. into its Power division. *~~ on Interstate Sights, into that area and made us •- 94, the addition Common said the fes- . formancesof the festival. Click on the Facebook Despite what some may their division for it when The tent, which was tab on the home page of initially think, Enercon of an art mar­ tival, formeriy'known as they finalized the purchase.. Wket and a cornucopia of Summerfest, has been located behind the our website car search for didjiot move to Chelsea "Sincethen our business musical talentpit is with­ Common Grill, is still a us on Fadebook, ' to serve the city's electric - 3 reworked each year to try has grown by about 50 per­ out a doubt that the Z" to improve and build up newer piece to the festival utility operation, although that Common says people Fletcher spoke highly of cent, and over the last four _ Sounds & Sights Festival on the last. years alone, Enercon has has grown considerably in Last yearrthe commit­ are "still trying to figure ' -his home city's power infra­ gone from 400 employees to . the past few years, tee added the social tent, out," but it's been rather structure and said that he over M00." • ~ - This yearwas no excep­ which Common said war- popular all the same, wouldn't be averse to serv­ That growth is impressive tion. wildly popular. In-prior ing thercity as a client if the . "It's been a great turn? PLEASE SEE S0UNDS/3-A need ever arose, PLEASE SEE ENERC0N/3-A The Marketplace: Local ads are just a hop away at theMlcehtral.com marketplace. While you are there, you can check out ail the special supplements of By Crystal Hayduk :•• out and both concurred that the merry-go-round Journal Register Co. Special Writer ,. ,, and the slide were noncompliant, out of code newspapers In Michigan. and deemed unsafe, so the city removed them Click on "marketplace* KarlaDemea and her 4*year-old twin daugh­ promptly," Mitchell said. onthehomepage-otour ters, Sofia and Natalia^ love Pierce Park with its Mitchell explained the safety report from the website or go directly , grassy expanse for running land its mature trees playground equipment experts. to www.marketpiace, -• for shade on hot days. But the girls' favorite "The merry-gorround did not have a governor, mlcentreJ.com/ROP/ things atthe. park are the slide and the merry- which monitors the s^d, and that could lead to CategorJes.a$px. go-round. Or at least they were - before the two a decapitation risk. Theabsenceof guard rails structures were removed in June with no warn­ and surfacing around the slide could lead to a r ing or explanation. : fallsrisk." , INDEX ^ ; "The monkey bars were taken out by a storm Public playground safety standards are pub­ last year, and the latest thing to go was the baby lished by the US, Consumer Product Safety Editorial Page 6-A , swing, "tfemea said of the park located on Main Commission and are available on the Web at Street just north of Old U.S. 12. "Wefclive near the www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PtfBS/325.pdf. Deaths PagfiJf)-A park and go there all the time. Even in winter Mitchell said that she hopes the remain­ Sports Pagel^B we went at least once a week, so I'm very frus­ ing structure and the bank of swings will be trated about this." ;" v repaired this fall with grant dollars. A commu-r Community Pagel-C Demea reported that in her guest to find out nity volunteer is drafting a new proposal to pur­ Calendar Page3-C what had happened to the equipment, she was Photo by Buff ill Strdrig ' * .: ; '. sue funding for the next grant cycle this fall. told by city officials that the play structures SouthElementary teacher Luman Strong Some interested parents have wondered were removed following complaints about safety plushes some of his third-grade students on abourthe possibility of obtaining fiinds from . fromthe-Friends of Timber Town. the merty-go-round at Pierce Park during a the Chelsea-Area Wellness Foundatibn>The News Up Hotline: 476-1371 When asked fof specific information about field trip in June. foundation's Executive Director Amy Heydlaufi* •> the removalof the equipmentahd if;Qiere are said that the wellness coalition develops a com- any plans for the park, John Hanifan, Chelsea's citymanager, released a written statement to She was told by the City of Chelsea that no funding for the plan. Ariyorie^ari contact the Heritage Media thatsaid,"They wereremoved funds were available to repair or replace the foundation to gain access to coalition leadership because they were not up to safety code, and it existing structures. to express concerns, and the best way todo that was cost prohibitive to make them safe to uie."' • Mitchell drafted agrant proposal to the is through MattPegouskie at 734-4334599. Friendsof Timber Towhtepresentative Amy Community Foundation of Chelsea, which was Although Carolyn Holland, mother to 5-year- Mitchell said that she had become increasingly old Marcos, understands that the equipment - concerned about the advancing age, and poten­ 'Through the grant writing process, two dif­ Printed on • tial safety problemsof Pierce Park's equipment. ferent playground inspectors checked things : " PLEASE SEE PAR&Z3-A V recycled paper Just 15 Minutes from Chelsea • Located right off 1-94 • No entrance fee ^tCoyd Legacy Assisted Living Center GANTON STARTING AT $2,895 PER MONTH RETIREMENT With medication administration in ALL levels of care CENTERS/INC. 5025 Ann Arbor Road, Jackson, Ml gantonretirement.com tall 517-764-2060 vi for your no obligationttour! \ •• •• 't:. PAGE2*A* www.herltag0.com THURSDAY, AUGUST 4,-2011 mumimwim Online learning increasingly replaces traditional summer school By Donna ladipaolo school in June. ' • r~" a very low grade," she for Saline schools. "Our history," he said. "We have tional face-to-face summer Special WnterV . , ' But for many, school said. "The Flex Advanced approach is JumpStart, and Oiad as high as 36 students school sessions. ^. continues in the summer. Online Math program the primary purpose is to in each grade level, and this "Manchester High School Editors note: Special Summer school is a way for was developed by AAPS take students that are in. year we are around 15 to 18 sind Manchester Middle Writer Donna ladipaolo students to make up credits teachers.

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