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""i’ ^ 71 ;*y ■ ^.v*r v* frV'J • '/ «*’’* -■>•>*» frv V » 2 & per copy 16 Pgg^s This Week M orning Fire T o Village Bakery Fire believed to have been ig­ way Rd, west of Chelsea. They cupied by Elliott, the other by nited in defective electrical wir­ purchased the business late last Dan and Carolyn Khight. Mrs. ing in the wall behind the sales year and opened it under their Knight was taken to Chelsea counter caused heavy damage to ) own p ro p rie to rsh ip on D ec. 1, ju s t Community Hospital, given the Village Bakery, 103 W. Middle six weeks ago. emergency treatment for smoke St., early last Friday morning, A badly shaken Mrs. Muncer inhalation and released shortly It could have been a' lot worse, told a reporter that the loss, a fte rw a rd . said Doug Eder, Chelsea village which she declined,to estim ate in The Knights and Elliott have fireman who drove the first of dollars, is covered by insurance found shelter in the homes of fo u r tru c k s to a r r iv e on th e scen e. and promised that the bakery friends uqtil their apartments “If we had been just a few definitely will be reopened “just can be ventilated and ridden of minutes later, that whole block of as soon as we possibly can do it.” the smoke smell. old buildings would have burned. “I don’t have any idea how long Smoke also crept into adjacent We were called and got there in it will take, but we will stay.in business places, but the extent Of time to keep the damage inside business,” Mrs. Mnnper said. “I the damage, if any, could not be the bakery. It was a good save.” hope everybody in town will come immediately determined. Credit for the f|re departm ent’s out and help us celebrate the Eder, who is investigator early arrival belongs to John grand reopening when it hap­ for the fire department, said Elliott, a resident in one of two pens. We’re just very grateful there is no existing program Of apartments upstairs over the that the fire wasn’t worse, and periodic fire hazard inspection in bakery. He smelled smoke, dash­ thank thefire department for its the village and suggested it m ight ed downstairs and ran to the quick response.” be a good idea. “We have a great village police office across Main Tenants in the two apartments many very old buildings irr* St. to turn in the alarm. above the bakery were forced to Chelsea, and I suspect there is Police called the fire depart­ vacate temporarily because of defective wiring in a lot of them, ment at 5:04 a.m., and the first heavy smoke which seeped into as well as other fire hazards,” he truck arrived two, minutes after­ their living quarters. One is oc­ (Continued on page five) ward. The fire station fortunately is located just a few hundred feet from the bakery. “I could see a glow inside when Methodist Home I drove up,” Eder said. “The fire was burning and spreading. We kicked in the door and started spraying fog (water under high Building Plan OKd pressure). We had it under con­ trol in 10 minutes. If we had been five minutes later, we might have lost the whole block. It was going that fast.” The Chelsea United Methodist The expansion program in­ In all, four pieces of fire equip­ Retirem ent Home plan for an $8;6 volves construction of a new ment and 20 men responded. million expansion program took a nursing care building and exten­ Firemen remained on the scene major step forward last week; sive remodeling of existing the morning to be sqre , The com prehensive,: Health facilities at the Methodist Retire- ; ^mbldbHn§["6fnbbf’s fe- Planning Council or Southeastern ment honie located at the west « mained inside the walls and Michigancell­ gave the proposal its en d oi Middle St. ing. - ■ 1 '• unanimous approval following a When completed in two phases Structural damage was, confin­ meeting with Methodist Home of­ over a period of 43 months, the ed to the section of the bakery ficials. program would result in a net ad- behind and above the counter. “ T h e re w as no d e b a te , no a r g u ­ , dition of 58 nursing-care beds and Also burned were appliances in­ ment, very few questions asked,” four home-for-the-aged spaces, cluding a cash register, micro- said Elmer J. Benson, executive while also upgrading utility, of­ wave oven and mixing machine. director of the corporation which fice and general support ser­ Counter display cases were badly operates the Chelsea facility and v ices. damaged and will probably have a sim ilar one in Detroit, The key element is the increase to be replaced. Also lost was a “lam extremely pleased. They in nursing-care capability, so quantity of baked goods prepared accepted our plan with en­ that residents who enter the for the day’s customers. thusiasm. It was a very positive home initially as elderly but self- The Village Bakery is owned by m e e tin g .” reliant persons can later move in­ John and Phyllis Muncer of Con­ One more major hurdle re­ to situations which require more mains before contracts can be let • care according to their age and and the construction program slate of health. Fire Dept, in begun, hopefully this summer. Many residents now housed in The Michigan Department of home-for-the-aged accommoda­ Questionable Public Health must also endorse tions are in need of nursing-home the program. care, but space is not available. The health department usually, A JOB WELL DONE: Chelsea firemen Keith O’Neil (left) and could have been much worse. The business has.been shut down tem­ Work Activity Result is that the home has not porarily while repairs are being made but Wftl reopen as soon as but not always, accepts the been able to admit any new Larry Gaken come out of the smoke-filled Village Bakery for a recommendations of regional breath of fresh air after having helped to quell a bad blaze which possible, according to owners John gnd Phyllis Muncer. The Chelsea fire department’s n u rsin g -c a re p a tie n ts sin ce 1976. monthly report for December health planning councils which Funds for the $8.6 million worth records, among other things, that report to them. of contruction are either in hand members “spent a total of 40 The southeast council will for­ or in sight, and financing will not eer-Car Crashes Driver Killed in man-hours installing a wench” on ward its stam p of approval to the be a problem, Benson said. Not one of their trucks. health department, which in turn least of the benefits of the pro­ W ebster’s Dictionary defines a has promised a decision by early gram would be a badly needed “wench” as a “lewd woman.” March. “I am hopeful that we boost to the local building in­ Head-on Crash Obviously, the word was sup­ will get a favorable ruling (from dustry, which has been stagnant posed to be “winch,” which is a the health department) sooner in recent years. Stephen D. Young, 34, of Can­ “All of a sudden my car was hit. -jrhe deer hunting season' is Dusk and dawn are the most By the tim e I got straightened out lifting and towing device. than that, perhaps within a Another major boost to the ton near Detroit died early last month,” Benson said. “That oyer, and so is the deer mating likely times for deer-car colli­ and looked up, he was going Typographical errors are all local economy would be the addi­ Sunday morning in University would clear the way for us to get Reason, but the animals are still sions, because those are the across the median.” too common in the newspaper tion of 40 full-time jobs when the Hospital, Ann Arbor, following a going on this badly needed expan­ active and on the move, and are periods when deer are moving to It was dark at the time, traffic business, and it’s kind of comfort­ program is carried out, Benson still being hit by cars. ' and from bedding and feeding Friday evening traffic accident ing to know that other people sion program. We will move just said. The Methodist Home on 1-94 ju s t e a s t of Z eeb R d . in te r­ was heavy, and the pavement The sheriff's department areas, which often are separated (Continued on page two) make them, too. as soon as we can. (Continued on page eight) ^C helsea sub-station is averaging by a road. Deer do most of their ch an g e . * 6 n e deer-car collision accident eating at night and rest most of That Young survived for 36 report a day, and there were four the day if undisturbed. > hours was something of a Within 12 hours last Sunday night However, they can be spooked miracle. His car was demolished and early Monday morning. from their beds by small game by the im pact of a collision with a Two of those four occurred on hunters, hikers, dogs and other semi-trailer truck, and he had to M-52, one on North Territorial sources of disturbance, and often be cut and pried out of the Rd.

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