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QUOTE "Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of 25* yourself." —Pascal he <0hel*iftt per copy ONE HUNDRED-SEVENTEENTH YEAR—No. 2 Plus CHELSEA, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1987 24j>gges This Week Supplement Millage Proposals Passed By School District Voters A proposition to raise the special The five-year renewal of the 20.5 margin. Chelsea voters passed it education millage 1.5 mills passed by mill operating base for the district 615-474, or 56 percent. 141 votes in the Chelsea School passed, 760-327, with six invalid votes. "To my knowledge, it's the first District's annual election Monday. The one mill maintenance millage time Chelsea voters have ever ap­ It was the closest vote among three passed, 813-278, with two invalid votes. proved a county-wide millage pro­ millage propositions as the two That money, approximately $185,000 posal," said Chelsea Assistant renewal requests passed by wide in 1987-88, is used for maintenance, Superintendent Fred Mills. margins. repair and improvement of school Washtenaw Intermediate School Ann Feeney was also returned to facilities. District, a centralized county agency, the Board of Education for a four-year The new special education millage is largely responsible for educating term with 991 votes. There were 19 proposal, to raise the millage to 3.5 the county's handicapped students. miscellaneous write-in votes. mills, was on the ballot in all Money from special education Feeney, a 10-year veteran and Washtenaw county school elections millage is allocated according to a former president of the board, was and had to be passed by a majority of formula worked out by special educa­ running unopposed. She takes the county voters in order to go into ef­ tion directors and district place of board president Art Dils, who fect. With nearly all the votes counted superintendents, Mills said. decided not to seek re-election. New by Tuesday morning, the proposition With the special education increase, board officers will be elected in July. had passed 10,782 to 6,866, a 61 percent Chelsea School District has a total levy of 40.02 mills. MONROE SALYER was driving this truck when it Salyer was dead at the scene. Salyer was a bus mechanic ran off Waterloo Rd. and crashed into a tree Sunday night, for the Chelsea School District. Landfill Rates Raised Monroe Salyer Killed lb Halt Mounting Trash In an effort to cut down on the Cutting the amount of garbage com­ amount of garbage being taken to the gram here and at other Washtenaw ing into the landfill will help to extend communities. In Waterloo Rd. Crash Chelsea landfill, the village has raised the life of the landfill, now projected "It would really surprise me if we its rates for commercial haulers by 50 to be about five years. percent. didn't get the grant money," said A 37-year-old Chelsea man was'kill­ when the accident occurred. A "They went through three hand­ However, the village can't afford to ed Sunday night when his pick-up Village council voted to raise the Washtenaw County Director of Public witness, who was eastbound, was held fire extinguishers before the cut revenues too much because it Works Jack Durbin. truck failed to negotiate a curve on forced off the road as Salyer's vehicle Chelsea Fire Department got there," rates from $4 to $6 per cubic yard, depends on the money to maintain the Waterloo Rd., hit a tree and caught partly in anticipation that the Ann Ar­ "Right now it looks very positive. crossed the centerline and passed in Rider said. landfill. We probably wouldn't get the money fire. front of her. The witness said Salyer's Rider said there were reports that bor landfill will also raise its rates because it is experiencing the same Once the landfill closes, the village until August, then we could start the A _JJ„~ *._ 117., „Ui„_> ,,... /">,.,,„•.,, truck was traveling at. a high rate of Salyer had left a party shortly before ~„„,.,..„„, :„„„J;„I.,V1.. )i will have a limited number of options ^lugiaui uiuuculaiGijr. ncvmuiug IU nafliiLciiair V/UUIILJ speed. the crash. Blood samples were taken kind of garbage influx. about how to dispose of local garbage. Sheriff's Department Deputy Harley Rates for village commercial Work is scheduled to begin this Rider said that the vehicle ap­ to determine if alcohol was a factor in "I think the Department of Natural month on phase two of the landfill, Rider, Monroe Sayler's 1972 truck was parently caught fire on impact. the accident. businesses who haul their own gar­ Resources would be very hesitant to airborne when it hit a two-foot bage to the landfill remains at $4.25 which amounts to building another Sheriff's Department Deputy Stan Salyer had been a mechanic at the let us expand the landfill unless they cell at a cost of about $35,000, Weber diameter tree at the bottom of a Yates was first on the scene, Rider Chelsea School District's bus garage per cubic yard. s were sure all the other alternatives, 15-foot embankment and burst into According to the village administra­ said. said. for 11 years. like recycling, were explored," said "We originally put a liner (thick flames at 9:22 p.m. near Lingane Rd. tion, the landfill received 47 percent Weber. Salyer was pinned in the wreckage more garbage in March this year than plastic) in only about two-thirds of pnA "riroHahl v iimnlH hav<* HioH ___1 _ C! _1 1 The village is currently awaiting the landfill," Weber said. \T ul a year ago (3r761 cubic yards vs. 5,546 word from Washtenaw county about without the fire," Rider said. Bil cubic yards) and 27 percent more in "That was to keep storm water v arauon iwie ^cnooi state grant money that might be from collecting. We kept the area we April this year than a year ago 4,591 available to begin a recycling pro­ Salyer, of 19420 Waterloo Rd. was cubic yards vs. 5,843 cubic yards). It were using as small as possible." westbound heading toward his home said that most of the increase was due Sessions Start Soon to commercial haulers who are com? Now that school is out, local church­ Chelsea Church of Christ Bible ing from areas, such as southeastern Proposed Gravel Pit Drive Through es are offering a variety of activities school will meet in the early evening Jackson county, where landfills have for children. Camping trips, field from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The school is open been closed. There are only two other Mnil landfills in Washtenaw coun­ •*- * -•L'C^m'W*'' "L^rV^-XU trips, and vacation Bible schools lead to all ages up to adult. For more infor­ the list. mation, call 475-8458. ty—Salem township and Ann Arbor. Draws Civil Complaint Imaginative themes for the Bible Galilean Baptist church at Portage "I've gotten calls from Homer and To Be Moved schools include a re-enactment of life Lake is holding their Bible school in from the Lansing area," said Village The drive-by mail chutes at the in a Palestinian village, cartoon the morning, 9:30 to noon. For more Manager Fritz Weber. Chelsea Post Office have been remov­ characters, and lessons on the impor­ informatin call 426-4328. Against Waterloo Twp. ed and replaced with standard mail tance of water. The next week, June 22 to 26, Dexter Police Chief A Waterloo township man has filed Brothers Gravel Co. and Waterloo boxes at the front of the building. Losing no time after public school Gospel church is offering their Bible a civil complaint against the township township. The complaint, Flintoft The drive-by mail chutes are being lets out, three area churches are school which features costumed Gets Raise and a Battle Creek company to stop says, has a provision that will not repainted. In 2-3 weeks they will be starting their Bible schools next week, characters such as Cookie Monster, the development of a gravel pit near allow Wahl to begin mining gravel un­ relocated to the east driveway of June 15-19, including Zion Lutheran, McGruff the crime dog, Garfield, Chelsea Village Council approved a his Clear Lake Rd. home. til after a June 19 hearing in Jackson. the Chelsea State Bank branch office Chelsea Church of Christ, and Raggedy Ann, and clowns Jingles and new contract for chief of police The gravel pit, which has already According to Wahl, gravel was last at M-52 and Old US-12. Galilean Baptist church. Jangles. Each day will have a dif­ Lenard McDougall at their regular been approved by the township plan­ taken from the site in 1958 for the con­ In addition, the existing collection The theme of Zion Lutheran's Bible ferent theme such as ice cream day or meeting June 2. ning commission, would be on land struction of 1-94, before Norman's box at Polly's Market will be discon­ school is "Jesus Teaches Us." All balloon day when helium balloons are McDougall's salary, which was not owned by Clare Wahl, 5250 Clear Lake home was constructed. He said he has tinued, according to William Brenner, children from the ages of three until released. Daily activities include raised last year, is $33,000, retroactive Rd. Wahl, a dairy farmer, wants to had several chances to sell gravel superintendent of postal operations. they reach the eighth grade are athletics, crafts, Bible lessons, and to April 2.

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