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S t i l t © $ $ g r a n t e d t o H ill school .. .. BYD/&4NESS 7. Gov. James Blanchard has approved ■ a grant of $99,500 for the acquisition | and restoration of Cherry Hill School, |:at Ridge and Cherry Hill roads in £ Canton, but the money may riot be used if the Plymouth-Canton, School _ Board does not allow the school to be ' acquired by the township. £ “This is a tremendous compliment to Canton,” said Canton Supervisor James Poole. “This is fantastic. I would hope others would be a pleased ■ as l am.” Poole, however, said the money could not be used unless the school board agreed to. let the township acquire the school and design; te it a historic site. Poole said it w< uld be “sad” if the school board did not give up the school. In a letter thanking a suppc rter of the Cherry Hill School project Poole wrote, . “Unfortunately, the Can- ton/Plymouth School Board does not D ear S a n ta s I ouho* X UXtfvA support (the project) and if the money is received, we wil( be forced to return T h e JL- it to the state.” H - H i m i i HI ___ Superintendent of Schools Dr. John ? Hoben said the school board had not w i n n e r : I t - R e i u :____ been contacted about the grant, but \ - I U Q V i t y would be willing to deaf with the BETH CHAPMAN, 13, of Canton Canton board. “It seems to me that edged out 350 other entries, to win % - we’ll probably be looking for some The Crier’s Sixth Annual Coloring T - T e A ^ t e a r kind of a trade-off.” .Contest. Her striped Santa Express Along with the grant, $1 io50 in loca)^ earns a $40 gift certificate at an area 9 * W lffiihint C h ^ p m c u n funds has been raised fc r the' store. See pg. 17 for the start of our restoration project. ‘Dear Santa’ special section. A - *n UtrU H w t The Cherry Hill School rest( ration project was one of 85 Michigan Equity Fund grants awarded statewide. Seven / grants were approved in Wayne County.- According to the governor’s office, 332 local units of government , 1st budget for new library board applied for the grants, submitting 635 projects for review by the Department of Commerce. The projects asked for Conti on pg. 46 Bd. O K ’s library budget BY BRIAN LYSAGHT Other expenditures are $52,330 for retirement of The Plymouth District Library Board of bonded debt, $7,000 for capital improvemeni, Trustees approved its first ever Dunning (lough $I[2,920 to create an equipment reserve fund, and Library budget Monday. The 1986 budget totals. 1,713 for an Operating reserve fund. $490,307.' ’he library levy will raise $403,500 for thje- The document’s revenues are based mostly on a iibrary, according to budget estimates. State aid; t .8 mill library levy voters approved Nov. 5. City fin?s and rentals make up the rest of the revenues. and township taxpayers saw the levy for the first , yoters approved formation of the district and time on recently-issued wintei; tax bills. / ,,, t s,,,,. elected the nine-member board Sept. 10. Operating expenses total $374,344,‘'int;liwdg(7 $190,139 for salaries and benefits and $748,475Jo^'\! Board member Jack Bologna was absent from supplies -- books and materials. _ v •' the meeting Monday. ! f C ollision injures 4 BY BRIAN LYSAGHT His wife, Olga, 61, who was riding in Four people were injured Saturday the front passenger seat, suffered when a car struck a backhoe as city facial injuries. She was listed in fairly DPW crews worked along Sheldon good condition Tuesday. Road. Russel Nieman, 72, of 590 Farmer, Police said the backhoe was backing was listed in good condition Tuesday. up behind barricades in the right lane Another passenger, Betty Harding, 62, of Sheldon Road around 8 p.m.j when was treated and released from the the two vehicles struck. The DPW hospital. vehicle’s front-load bucket caused Witnesses told police Volinski’s car heavy damage to side of the car. I was in the left lane when it struck- the bucket of the DPW vehicle, which was ' All four of the injured were taken by climbing a curb. DPW workers toldj THE COMMUNITYambulance CRIER: Dtctmtwr II. 198$ PG. to St. Mary Hospital. police Volinski was. in or was close to Edward John Volinski, 66, of Farmer the right lane when the accident oc in Plymouth, the car’s driver refused curred. hospital treatment and was released. Cont. onpg. 7 JOHN VOLINSKI’S car after hitting a city DPW backhoe Saturday. M ichael P. C arpenter, D .D .S., P.C. 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If. for any reason, you find problems with a Crier ad, please call our office §1450-6900, Crier advertising is published in accordance with those policies spelled out on the current rate card, which is available during business hours from our office at 021 PennimanAve.. Plymouth. An advertiser’s final acceptance by the publisher • occurs only upon publication. Postmaster, send change of address notice to 821 Pmaimen A%*e. Plymouth, Ml ,4$170, , , e n u r.: *'l> •' m ned fo r M arch THU COMMUNITY CRIKR: December II. 1985 BY DAN NESS ■ firm from Farmington Hills. Aco Hardware, according to ij'lelson. homeowners associations of Mayfair The Canton Planning Commission As part of the development; pne- Space is also being reserved for a bank and W indsor Park, which border the Monday unanimously recommended quarter mile of unpaved Morton site, he said. The remainder of the proposed center, had also approved. that the Board of Trustees approve the Taylor Road would be paved, as center woulc) have specialty shops. development of a 113,545 square-foot construction j on the shopping center ■ Construction will begin in March if The plan calls for an [.-shaped shopping center to be built on the progressed, according ’ to developer the Board approves the plan. building, in post-m odern design, and a parking lot with m ore than 600 spaces. southeast corner of Joy and Morton David Nelson. “Overall, the plan exceeds our Taylor roads. The Board may consider the requirements,” said Director of The developers also own property on The shopping center, to be named development at its next meeting. Economic Growth David .Nicholson. the west side of M orton Taylor Road, “Coventry Commons East,” would be The shopping center’s biggest Nicholson said recommendations from and may build a shopping center on developed b y. .The ‘ Nelson/Ross retailers, would include an A and P the fire m arshall and his staff had been that site in the future, according to Companies, a real estate development supermarket, Arbor Drug store and met by the developers, and, the N e ls o n . w ants Poole adm onished - BY DAN NESS ment would affect all C-3 Zoned obtained a legal memo from the offices township, if it had no “ logical basis" Canton Clerk Linda Chuhran was to property, and was not a change o f , of ButZel, Long, Gust, Klein and Van for permitting bars, but not retail have' introduced a resolution to the Zoning for his mother’s property only. Zile June 14 which concluded that the Coni, on pg. 47 Board of Trustees last night “ad “I voted on Zoning,” he said. “ It monishing” Supervisor )ames Poole affects<me whole C-3 Zoning.” ‘ for voting Nov. 26 on a Zoning or Kathleen Poole owns less than one- dinance amendment that affects some half acre ol°property Zoned C-3. There property his mother owns. are approximately 395 acres of land The board considered an amend Zoned C-3 in Canton. The Community Crier’s deadlines for news and advertising will ment at the Nov. 26 board meeting to George Odish, Canton, is interested change for the holiday season. allow package liquor sales,, through in buying Kathleen Poole’s property T h e C rie r will publish on Wed., Dec. 18; Sat., Dec. 21; and Tue., party stores, in C-3 (highway oriented) and building a party store there, ac commercial districts. cording to township documents. 1 Dec. 31. Poole’s mother, Kathleen, owns a Trustee Loren Bennett said the DeadlinesfortheDec.l8issueare: piece of property Zoned C-3 in Canton,' Zoning amendement was too broad a • Proof ads - Fri., Dec.