August 21, 1989 O&E (W)3A

v,^" m Wk He?s the new yvave Veggies on grill for summer fun, IB Volume 25 Number 19 Monday, August 21,1989 . Wqstland, Michigan 64 Pages Fifty Cents ,.{ i. • r • ?i.: "' *f '*:* ' '•' ••'•• :••--'••! c.',^. ,;,->-; *' i~ r f|p\ I.; .i i ;-m *''; '.. ; , '; 'H ',.'. > r.'i i •' •'• ' '•-••£• —i—.. i. • • , —' ••• e>15J9Stjb'jrt>jnComrruMatlcrjCotporaioo. Ail Rlghu Reserved. 9 ra^<SlIl B ^M%0 ©0 lYIUrCICf IFI.HI •> By Tedd Schneider According to statements given to staff writer police, Valentine Kwiatkowski ad 'Some of the things mitted to hospital workers that he A Westland man and his adult shot his daughter in the head twice daughter were ordered Friday to said earlier don't at close range with a 32-caliber stand trial on attempted murder appear to be true. They handgun as she slept. charges as confusion grew over their possible motive for shooting a sec (the defendants) do When Anna Kwiatkowski was still ond daughter in the head as she have money and she alive 90 minutes later, they drove her to the hospital, where she often The Quo Vadls theater com-, napped in the family's Wildwood (the victim) wasn't a plex was evacuated late Sunday home. worked as a volunteer, police said. night after as electrical fire In a Valentine Kwiatkowski, 78, and financial burden.' The pair told hospital workers small storage room caused his daughter, Carol, 43, waived a they planned to kill Anna, who smoke to fill part of the building. preliminary examination in 18th Sgl. Jerry Wright weighs 360 pounds and suffers from It was the second fire In 10 days District Court. Arraignment in severe asthma, because her mount at the theater on Wayne Road Wayne County Circuit Court was set ing medical expenses had become a north of Warren Road. for 8:30 a.m. Sept. 5. financial burden to the family. the Westland fIre department Judge Gail McKnight denied a re firearm during the commissioned a But police told the court Friday that the family appeared to be better said Monday morning it Is still quest from defense attorneys to set felony. investigating the source of the bond for the defendants, who have off financially than it claimed. flre» which. was.; confine^ to a pleaded not guilty. Both are being IF CONVICTED, they face a max small storage room on the second held in the Wayne County Jail. imum penalty of life in prison. "SOME OF THE things said earli- floor. Both are charged with one count The victim was listed in fair con er don't appear to be true," Detec 'There was a lot of smoke but of assault with intent to commit dition Friday at St. Joseph Mercy tive Sgt. Jerry Wright told the judge. less,damage than the previous murder for the Aug. 6 shooting" of Hospital, Ann Arbor. She was moved "They (the defendants) do have mon fire," said the department. r Anna Kwiatkowski, 32. from intensive care to the intermedi ey and she (the victim) wasn't a fi Defendants Carol and Valentine Kwiatkowski address the TheAug. 10 blaze began In a Valentine Kwiatkowski faces an ate care ward earlier in the week, a nancial burden." judge, as defense attorney Gail Benson (rear) looks on during second floor room where a pop additional charge of possession of a hospital spokesman said. Please turn to Page 2 Friday's hearing. corn machine and popcorn were stored. The theater was etnpCy at the time. Employees were on duty but no one was hurt. In the Sunday night fire, no one. was injured as the theater was Economic growth head quits evacuated; and patrons . given tickets for a later show. By Tedd Schneider Mayor Charles Griffin is expected to announce "HE'S AN intelligent, articulate young man staff writer the changes at tonight's Westland City Council who knew how to deal with people and get the job meeting. done," Griffin said. Tim Schroeder, who helped usher in Westland's Griffin said last week he will fill the depart development boom of the late 1980s, is leaving his "I'm sorry to see him go but I'm glad to see him ment's number two job "as soon as possible, hope job as the city's economic development director. get the opportunity to advance," he said. fully within a month." Schroeder will resign the post this month for a Schroeder said his decision was based on re job with Laventhol and Horwath, a Southfleld- "We have too much going to go without a fully- ceiving an attractive offer for interesting work based accounting firm. Schroeder, 29, will be an staffed economic development department for and was also a matter of timing. "I think I've associate In the firm's real estate advisory ser long," Griffin said. accomplished a fair amount here in the last three vices department. .. - ., . The mayor said.Schroeder's move would be "a years and this was an opportunity may not be He will be replaced by the current economic loss'for the "city" and praised the outgoing official here a year from now," he said. development coordinator, Scott Veldhuis, effec as "the best economic development director in Tim Schroeder places tive next M<v •• Wayne County." Please turn to Page 2 leaving city post '-:'THE WAYNE'-'- Livonia man's trial WESTLANDTeen Development Committee has several programs in theworks for the beginning of the school set on drug charge year. The committee wlllsponsor A 23-year-old Livonia man was ALSO FACING the heroin pos a spaghetti dinner and bound over for trial Friday on session charge are AH Youssef, 21, workshop on "Fun, Fitness and charges stemming from a July 17 of Dearborn and Jamal Ahmad the Family" 6:30 p.m. Thursday, undercover drug bust at Westland Hazime, 19, of Dearborn Heights. Sept. 21, at Adams Junior High Center. Police said the three were ar School, Admission Is $$ and , rested at the mall, Wayne Road at Last month, two other men were advance registration (by Monday.r Warren Road, after discussing the bound over for trial in connection Sept., 18) Is necessary.. sale of eight ounces of heroin for with the case. Interested persons may call $32,000 with undercover officers Lisa Johnson, project director, at Hassen Kassen Abikhodr waived from the Western Wayne County 595-2110. to-reglster or get more Drug Enforcement Team. information. /! a preliminary examination in Also, Johnson wJll speak/to front of 18th District Judge Gail McKnight on one count of posses Two were arrested in the park groups of junior and senior high ing lot and one was arrested inside school students this fall on topics sion with intent to deliver more than 50 grams of heroin. the mallas shoppers passed by un ranging from self-esteem to goal- aware. setting. ':" •;•.••'.'••'-' Abikhodr, who pleaded innocent, After the arrests, police seized For parents, committee face3 a possible sentence of 5-20 five ounces of heroin and a late members have started a Parents years In prison if convicted of the model Toyota Supra. Helping Parents group. Tdptcs charge. applicable to each grade will be He will be arraigned in Wayne Police were led to the mall after discussed periodically throughout officers arrested a man in a Can County Circuit Court 8:30 a.m. the school year. Problem-solving ton Township apartment where Mond_ay.Sept.jl. sessions and small group -- ART EMANUELE/*ialf photogffiphe/- -they found four-ounee^of-cocaine.— discussions will also be held. Beverly Arsenaull of Garden City and eome of their country and western dancing McKnight approved a request The Teen Development daughter Diane Turner of Westland show off Committee has affiliated with steps. from defense attorney Charles The Western Wayne drug team Counterpoint Runaway Shelter, Howard to reduce Ablkhodr's bond Is supported financially by North- which provides a 24-hour crisis from $250,000 to $25,000, 10 per ville, Northville Township, Plym-; line and referral service. The'•• cent cash, provided the defendant outh and Belleville. Police depart hotline number U MS-500J. move back to his parent's house in ments supplying officers Include* The committee, a joint project Texas two- steppers Dearborn. He had been living with Canton Township, Westland, Gar-; of the school district, Michigan an older brother. den City, Livonia, Van Buren Department of Public Health and . Ablkhodr's parents attended the Township, the city of Wayne and Annapolis Hospital, Is looking for hearing. the Michigan State Police. additional grants to fund its Their dancing beats talking operation for another y«»ar. IHI» II«IIMIMII1»T| .yn '•IT'S JUST a matter of OyLoAnno Rogers ton-Eye Joe, which aren't line priorities for two Wayne- staff writer dances," she said. "With squares, what's inside Weatland school district board you need groups of eight people, members. "Shut up and dance" is the motto which we don't." After student editors presented of Country Class, a country west people To show that you can line dance . .4A Ute board with 1W9 yearbooks of ern dance group run by a mother to any music, as long as it has a Classifieds. C,E,F John Glenn and Wayne Memorial and daughter team. beat to count to, Turner said she Auto .... C High Schools last week, board "If we talk, all of us start laugh kind of feel discriminated against likes to use music by Bob Soger or Employment. E,F S U B U n B A" N member Kathleen Owrbagian ing and we goof up," said Westland because everything is all couples." Bruce Springsteen for demonstra admitted sbe didn't like her photo Index ...

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