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Judge Adds to Probation of Driver, 90 .com i an Cruj^he big Check out our new Summer homes make ;end Weekly Real Estate them feel fine -INSERTED SECTION section HOMETOWNUFE - SECTION D READY REFERENCE Newspaper classified sections are available at the Reference Desk Your hometown newspaper August 17,2006 serving Westiand for 42 years 75 cents WINNERS OF OVER 100 STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS SINCE 2001 www.hometownlife.com Judge adds *. ••'* •' ^-ris A * to probation 4 •••- rt&'i-—- ^ftflA m>JU*i-*& ,_• V 1 • * _ . »_*- . lb. - Si ._ >^« of driver, 90 BY DARRELL CLEM STAFF WRiTER A 90-year-old Livonia man will remain on probation for hitting and killing an 82-year-old woman with his car in the Westiand Meijer parking lot George Kosmyna, who surrendered his driver's license after the June 2,2005, accident will be on probation for another year following a decision Tuesday by Wayne County Circuit Judge Margie Braxton. Kosmyna avoided jail time for killing Josephine Gregory, but his case will be reviewed each year. Authorities have said he will likely never drive again. Gregory died nine days after Kosmyna veered wildly in the Meijer parking lot, striking two shoppers. One survived. Gregory's daughter, Anita Gillman, flew in with her hus­ band from their home on Long Island, N.Y., to address the judge. "He had no business behind the wheel of a car," Gillman said after Tuesday's hearing. "If the state of Michigan would­ n't take his driver's license away, his children should have." Gillman, who has filed a civil lawsuit against Kosmyna, said the state should have a better system for identifying older drivers who are potential killers when they're behind the wheel. Reached at his home, Kosmyna recalled losing control of his car. "It went this way and that way, and before I knew it I was •J»»A*wai sliding around in the parking lot," he said. "It's like a mystery that something like that happened." Kosmyna said that his wife is in a wheelchair and that he PHOTOS BY TOM HAWLEY | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER never drove more than 15 miles from their home. He said he Senior athlete Mel Tockstein works on his biceps curl repetitions at the Westiand Friendship Center in preparation for next week's Western Wayne County has a difficult time getting around because those who help Senior Olympics. him "are far and few/' "I'm sicker than a dog right now," he said. Gillman offered little sympathy in the negligent homicide ' case, saying Kosmyna took away her mother - a vibrant woman who remained independent at age 82. Gillman recalled how she would take her mother for rides. the gold "She used to love to get in my car with me, put the top down and go cruising," Gillman said. "She traveled a lot, and she had her wits about her. She ran her own home. Even in medals when he participates in the hospital on her death bed, she was independent and giv­ the Western Wayne Senior ing orders." Seniors prepare to work out Olympics, Aug. 21-25. Gregory spent some months with her daughter in New Northville and Northville York, but she didn't want to give up her home on Canyon Township will host this year's Drive in Westiand. at 2nd annual Olympics Senior Olympics, with numer­ ''When she was staying with us, we had to nail her down BY DARRELL CLEM 20 mph, he uses weight ous competitions planned in not to do the cooking and cleaning," Gillman said. "We would STAFF WRITER machines to exercise his shoul­ Northville Millennium Park. go shopping together. We were buddies." ders, arms, chest, stomach and Other contests will be held in "She adored my husband, too," the daughter said. "This is a Mel Tockstein might not be legs, pushing and pulling a Canton, Livonia, Plymouth, big loss to us, and this man has shown no remorse." Superman, but he can move 25 cumulative 25 tons during his Redford and Westiand, among Gillman recalled how she and her husband, Steve, would tons of weight by himself. routine. other communities. send money to her mother to pay for home chores, such as Not bad for a man of 63. "Some people think I'm Tockstein played sports in lawn-mowing. Tockstein, a Westiand resi­ crazy," Tockstein said, doing high school and in the U.S. Air "She would keep the money and do it herselfj" Gillman said. dent works out two or three sit-ups with two 20-pourtd free Force, but he had slacked off The daughter has never been satisfied with the outcome of times a week inside the city's weights resting on his chest. over the years until he retired Kosmyna's case. "Do I feel any better? No, not really," she said. senior citizen Friendship Crazy? Nah. four years ago as an electrical Mel Tockstein does situps with an 'All he got as far as I'm concerned is a.slap on the hand. He Center. After riding a station­ And don't be surprised if additional 40 pounds of weight on his took away a part of my life." ary bike for 40-60 minutes at Tockstein brings home some PLEASE SEE OLYMPICS, A5 chest. ddemHhometownlife.com I (734) 953-2150 School aid bill is mixed news for local district BY SUE MASON for declining enrollment and disappointed with the leadership in percent increase in health care, while salary increases to a "very, very mod­ STAFF WRITER $150,000 to bolster its middle school Lansing because they have failed to retirement costs will be 17-74 percent est" 1.5 percent. math and science programs. solve the structural problems as they of payroll. The latter cost is higher "That's far below the state average At first blush, the state school aid But the not-so-good news is that . relate to the budget," said than Social Security and represents a and several of our neighboring school bill that's been sent to Gov. Jennifer the district will be $2 million short, or Superintendent Greg Baracy. "They 36-percent increase in cost since districts," Baracy said. "We have no Granholm is good news for the $148 per student, when it comes to have taken no action to solve the 2003-2004, Gary Martin, deputy step increases this year, we were able Wayne-Westland Community covering increases in health care, problem. They don't like to hear us superintendent of administration and to negotiate a freeze, so those won't Schools. retirement and energy costs and express that, but they take actions business services, recently said. go up. A step increase is usually 6 per­ In all, the district will get $3.1 mil­ salaries and the projected loss of 109 that hurt us. The;money for our stu­ Like everyone else, the district is cent." lion, or $232 per student, in new students. dents would be more if they stopped feeling the pinch of higher energy The shortfall is even larger when money this year - a $2.8 million "We're grateful for the $210, but raiding the School Aid Fund." costs, projecting an almost $500,000 increase in state school aid, $150,000 we're still extremely frustrated and The district is facing at least an 8 increase, but has been able to hold PLEASE SEE DISTRICT, A5 ) The Observer & Eccentric LOVE FASHION? INDEX Coming Sunday For Home Newspapers APARTMENTS B7 Delivery call: BELIEFS & VALUES A16 in Health Volume 42 Think AUTOMOTIVE C3 (866) 887-2737 Number 24 CLASSIFIED B5-C6 School is about CROSSWORD B6 to begin and its Joss B11 • time for MOVIES £22 children to get OBITUARIES A16 / their OPINION A10-11 vaccinations. REAL ESTATE B5 Learn what you SERVICE GUIDE B9 *^K ^ SPORTS B1 need to know A2 (W) Observer & Eccentric | Thursday, August 17,2006 LOCAL NEWS ivwwJiometownHfe.com Car show, cruise return to Hines Park Band performance t]he Oddfellow Hall, 344 *'"**' - BY SUE MASON Elizabeth St. at Ann Arbor ' STAFF WRITER The public is invited to see Trail. The markets are being the 63-member Wayne sponsored by the The focus may be on Woodward Avenue Memorial High School Westland/Plymouth Grange and this weekend's WdodjwaV d Dream Marching Band's first public 389. The 10-foot by 10-foot Cruise, but Joseph Langa, is looking to performance for the sp^ce (no electricity available) Hines Park, where the Rolling Thunder 2006/2007 season at 5 p.m. is $20 for Friday or Sunday Car Club will host the Hines Park Car Saturday, Aug. 19, on the high only, $25 for Saturday only and Show and Cruise on Saturday, Aug. 26. school football field. $60 for all three days, if regis­ tered by Aug. 18. Cost increases Thirty cars have pre-registered for the i * The band will be perform event and Langa is anticipating a larger music from the blockbuster $5 after that date. number of cars registering the day of the movie King Kong under the Send name, address, phone direction q/Matthew Diroff show and cruise that he hopes will become '** number, items to be sold and the grand finale of the car cruise season. ^' -, and Assistant Director Martha days needed with a money "Before they put their cars away for the Ware who also is the Color order payable to Grange No. winter, I want to help wean them off of Guard instructor. 839, to 5692 N. Globe, their cruise high of the summer," said This performance is free of Westland, MI 48185. Langa, a Redford resident.
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