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The Newspaper with Its Heart in The Plymouth-Canton, MI Community 50 $ Vol. 21 No. 12 © P C C C I n c . 7 U 9 9 4 N 223 S. Main Street Plymouth, Mich. 48170 ! Agenda Mixed messages s Gov. E ngler gets w arm w elcom e from firm ; hot hello from teachers 'G. BY JOHN HORN T h i s W e e k Gov. John Engler’s 10-day re-election tour stop in Plymouth Township ended • The PCEP and Middle on a violent note Thursday when a School orchestras will per Garden City teacher was arrested after he form tonight— more on allegedly punched out the window of a pg. 5. vehicle leaving the lot. Jim Walsh, 66, allegedly knocked out T h e W e e k e n d the window of a pickup truck cap as the vehicle exited the lot of Vico Products on On Friday, the Plymouth Ann Arbor Road. Plymouth Township Investigator Symphony Orchestra will This protester was Steven Mann said Walsh has been arrested during Gov. hold a pops concert and released pending the issue of a warrant John Engler’s stop in fund-raising auction at Fdx He is expected to be charged with mali Plymouth Township Hills — more on pg. 5. cious destruction of property. Thursday. The man, The driver was attempting to make a a Garden City teach right turn onto Ann Arbor Road from N e x t W e e k : er, was taken into Vico’s lot following the governor’s custody after alleged speech. • On Tuesday, the last super ly smashing out a According to one witness, however, window of a pickup intendent interview will be the driver had come close to protesters truck after its driver held; on Wednesday, the who had lined the driveway, and Walsh heckled theteachers. school board will make its may have simply been protecting himself. (Crier photo by John pick— more on pg. 3.. The group, approximately 20 area Horn) teachers and Michigan Education Association members, had been shouting I n d e x : at certain cars leaving the lot. Words Friends & Neighbors..... pg.5 between the driver and Walsh were exchanged. Lawmakers, teachers at odds Business.......................pg. 6 As the victim turned onto Ann Arbor Deaths.............................pg. 8 Road, Walsh punched the truck’s cap, over new anti-strike legislation Happenings....... pgs. 1 0 ,2 3 shattering a bubbled plastic back win dow. Sports...........................pg. 24 BY CRAIG FARRAND fine against the school district All fines Walsh, along with approximately 25 The president of the Plymouth-Canton go back into the education fund. Opinion ..................... pg. 30 members of an anti-Engler contingency, teachers union says there isn’t a lot of “So each of my teachers would be were present to protest Engler’s appear breathing room in the new teacher strike assessed a per diem fine, but only seven ance. legislation awaiting Gov. John Engler’s board members would be penalized,” “I didn’t want Engler to get this close signature. Portelli said. “Don’t you think there’s Spring brings out buyers, but to home without letting him know some Calling the strike penalty provisions of something wrong with that configura one doesn’t care for him here,” Walsh how do higher interest rates the bill “too severe,” Plymouth-CantOn tion?” said! In addition, Portelli also took excep affect the market? — See Education Association President Charles The group — which sported signs Portelli, said he could actually live with tion to language that calls for a school pg-1 1 - reading “Engler doesn’t care about work the anti-strike concept, “if the penalties district’s “last best offer” to be imposed ers” and “I am the MEA” — is less than configuration was fair.” if, after 30 days, both sides have declared pleased with the prospect of the governor The legislation — HB 5128 — carries an impasse. signing new teacher strike legislation into a $250-per-teacher-per-day penalty if “What’s forcing (the school board) to law. they strike, plus $5,000 per day fine go beyond its first offer?” Portelli asked. The legislation — HB 5128 — is against the respective teachers union. “If we make it through mediation, that awaiting Engler’s signature. (See story at In the event of a teacher lockout, the first offer becomes the last offer. right) bill calls for fines of $250-per-day-per- “And where’s the bargaining?” •Your Please see pg. A school-board trustee and $5,000 per day Please see pg. 4 Crier Carrier is collecting now [JJ Are you a good cook? original or family recipes into the contest for this month. G e t r e a d y Can you turn the groceries — better yet as they choose, the only provision being His or her profits the leftovers — into a culinary master that each individual recipe must be sent in with their own entry form. depend on your courtesy. f o r f i r s t piece? If you are a good cook, and think that According to Crier Cook-off Organizer • For home delivery it’s high time that everyone knew it, you’ll Karen Ochman, the competition will have information, call C r i e r f o o d have your chance as The Crier kicks off its three categories. first Cook-off. “Competitors should send in recipes for (313)453-6900 c o o k o f f Participants can enter as many of their Please see pg. 6 Page 2 THE COMMUNITY CRIER: April 27,1994 C harge dropped against M o rrell A criminal complaint against Salem $200,000. LAST Township Builder Russ Morrell was- United States District Court’s Eastern Saturday, May 14th dropped following a probable cause hear District heard the complaint Tune in for WSDP Radio Auction ing last week. The count was dismissed last Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Morrell had been charged with bank and Morrell’s bond canceled. PLYMOUTH-CANTON’S RADIO STATION fraud for allegedly falsifying federal According to U.S. District Court CHANCE income tax returns in order to obtain bank records, Morrell has no other charges loans and lines of credit exceeding pending at this time. ? TO SAVE I In today's. C rier, 1 look: fo r an TAG program to move SALES TAX insert from : to Miller school in fall BY CRAIG FARRAND TAG Advisory Council in attendance at INCREASE The Plymouth-Canton school board the meeting. stuck by its guns Monday night, confirm To a person, each of them either plead Country ing the move of the district’s Talented ed with the board not to move the pro and Gifted (TAG) program from Allen gram or complained that they had not Elementary School. been consulted on the move in advance. BUY NOW Charm What did change, though, was the pro The issue of moving the TAG program gram’s destination: Instead of moving to first arose last spring when the board, $22$, M ain Street Gallimore elementary, as had been decid faced with severe budget cuts and iffy P ly m o u th millage prospects, actually considered over 500 NEW SI USED ed a year ago, it will now move to Miller {313) 455-8884 ; elementary in September. closing the program. The final vote on the move was 6-1, Instead, the board said it was possible CARS & TRUCKS with Trustee Jack Farrow dissenting, say to keep the program open if cost-savings ing his no vote was a protest “of the in transportation and other areas were rather poor job we did of communicating found by moving it elsewhere. As a result, several parents in atten Ready for delivery with these people.” “These people” were the nearly three dance said that was the only reason that dozen TAG parents and members of the Please see pg. 15 Before M ay 1st J O H N F . W E W I L L B E V O S I I I Money matters City zeroes in on ’94- ’95 budget ATTORNEY OPEN BY JOHN HORN biggest financial solutions,” Walters 313-455-4250 As he wrestles with a 1994-95 city said. budget of approximately $5 million, City Other cost-cutting measures have PLYMOUTH Manager Steven Walters looks for ways included scaling hack funding of the main Saturday to trim without compromising services or street cruise and computerizing the city’s increase property taxes. general accounting and record keeping. $ A pril 30th Walters said the city needs to find In seeking to promote city services to alternatives to in improve the revenue outside communities, Walters said the flow without burdening the taxpayers. commission is in the early stages of 10 a m to 4 p.m. “We have to find a way to increase developing a vehicle maintenance service revenue other than raising property program with Plymouth Township. TO INSURE YOUR The taxes,” Walters said. It would be offered through the Community Crier Some of those ways include raising Department of Public Works and its VEHICLES USPS-340-150 non-property tax revenue like raising fees garage. The city could sell the services, Published weekly at and selling city services outside the com which the township does not currently 821 Penniman Ave., DELIVERY Plymouth, MI munity. have, and the two would share costs. 48170. C a rrier Such fees, like those involving “It is a revenue source to us and we IN TIME TO delivered: $20 per Plymouth’s Parks and Recreation ' can do that without raising taxes,” year.