Plymouth District Library 2 7 3 S M am Street Band finishes in nation's Top 10 - Local news, A3 Plymouth, Mich 48 1 70 Your hometown newspaper serving Plymouth and Plymouth Township for 117 years Aspiring dancers performing in the Nutcracker Ballet B1 November 21,2002 75 cents Volume 117 Number 25 www.observerandeccentnc.com ©2002 Hometown Communications Network ■ Cheer club The holiday season is here and so is the Plymouth Canton Observer Cheer Club intact we re opening the club a week or so early this year because the need is always greater during tough times Please join us by bringing donations of new toys and canned or boxed food to our office at 794 S Wain in BY TONY BRUSCATO Plymouth during business STAFF WRITER hours The items will be collected A laundry list of suggestions were until Friday Dec 13 when we extended by nearly 150 people who showed up for the first of three vision meetings held by Plymouth-Canton Schools to address the future needs of the district “It will boil down to what we want the O n s ta g e most,” said Ken Jacobs, the district’s Kyle Trent as Grandpa listens in on Alice played by Laura Williams, as she talks with her sister Essie portrayed by Ashleigh Rotondo in the Plymouth executive director of support services will turn them over to the Canton Park Players production of You Can't Take It With You, during a dress rehearsal Monday at Salem High School Performances are set for “We’re going to come out of this with a good folks at the Salvation tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8 p m m the Gloria Logan Auditorium for Performing Arts Tickets cost $8 Cali (734) 416-7723 master plan, with a prioritized list that Army They II distribute the should service us for the next 10 years ’ items to needy people in Some of the ideas presented to the Plymouth Canton and steering committee included the con­ Northville struction of a pool at Plymouth High When you bring your School, repairing or replacing leaky donations by our office we II roofs and windows at buildings ask you to leave your name throughout the district, equitable and and hometown That s BY TONY BRUSCATO federal lawsuit alleging hous­ to cleanse Old Village of the dential neighborhood updated facilities for all school build­ because we like to print STAFF WRITER ing discrimination against the disabled,” said Gregory Bator, Neighbors have complained ings, the construction of separate cafe­ donor names in the paper closed-head-mjury patients the attorney for Timothy about being accosted by Broe terias and gyms for elementary schools, while the Cheer Club drive is Claiming the city of who live in three housing Broe residents, vulgarity, fighting and the upgrading of heating, cooling on Plymouth “allowed its citizens facilities on Farmer Street City officials ticketed the and public nuisance issues at and ventilation systems Of course you may remain to carry out a modern day The city caved in to the three Broe-supported living the homes The steering committee presented the anonymous if you prefer witch-hunt against the dis­ discriminatory demands and homes at 338,347 and 378 ‘The tickets issued against goals of the three public sessions, which Happy Holidays' Please abled, Broe Rehabilitation cries for revenge from a Farmer, claiming they are keep our Cheer Club in mmd Services of Farmington filed a blood thirsty public who want businesses being run m a resi­ PLEASE SEE LAWSUIT, A2 PLEASE SEE SCHOOLS, A2 Bird Elementary officials this week announced the creation of the Bird Elementary Scholarship Trustee's actions violated which will go to former Bird students who exemplify the balanced growth maca demia and personal and social competence that Bird ethics policy, report says Elementary fosters and to promote the value of a Bird BY BRAD KADR1CH The committee, comprised of the education to current and STAFF WRITER township board with the exception of prospective Bird students Munfakh, settled that question by by establishing a group of The long-awaited report by attorney accepting the report and using it as a role models Michael Schwartz into allegations “charging document” m the inquiry into The non renewable schol Plymouth Township Trustee Abe whether Munfakh’s involvement with arships will be available in Munfakh violated the township s ethics adding Salem Township to the Detroit amounts ranging from $250 policy finally came in, leaving the town­ water system constitutes a violation of to $500 To be eligible ship’s ethics committee with just one the ethics policy The committee took the recipients must question ■ Be a current Canton or What to do with it PLEASE SEE REPORT, A5 Salem high school senior who attended Bird for at least three years ■ Hold a cumulative GPA of 3 25 or better ■ Have involvement in Locals respond to the Penn's extracurricular activities such as sports music the ater dance and/or commu first try at first-run films mty service ■ Get two letters of rec BY TONY BRUSCATO community,” said Cook “It were sold out ommendation from a STAFF WRITER was nice to see the place “More than 1,500 people teacher coach counselor packed again ” bought tickets for the three employer or other non fam Penn Theatre co-owner It was the first weekend days,” said Cook, who ily members Ron Cook said there was for a first-run movie at the noted that translates into ■ Write a one to two “clapping and cheers” downtown Plymouth the­ about $8,500 ‘That com­ PAUL HURSCHMANN j OBSERVER page essay on How My when he welcomed the ater in 20 years, and pares to about 600 when Experiences at Bird full-house crowd last patrons responded In fact, we were showing the sec­ Elementary helped Prepare Friday night to the first Cook said there were a few ond-run movies Documentary maker Me for Success showing of “Harry Potter show times m which there “Heck, on Monday, when Anne Mane Graham-Hudak of Canton stands next to a poster from a German festival where ■ Have proof of accept and the Chamber of were lines of people wait­ before we were closed Uncle Jessie White performed while they filmed a documentary on the Blues musician The ance to an accredited col Secrets * ing to purchase tickets because we could barely trailer was shown at DetroitDocs film festival at the Hastings Street Ballroom iast week­ lege vocational or technical “It was amazing the sup­ And the 7 p m shows on end For more on the story, see Page C4 in today's Observer school port we received from the both Friday and Saturday PLEASE SEE PENN, A2 ■ Agree to meet with current Bird Elementary students in June about their educational expert — 1 ence CONTACT US INDEX B o o k in g a h e a d 1 Application deadline is Newsroom (734)4592700 Apartments E9 Jobs E11 Focus on Wine Newsroom fax - (734) 459 4224 Arts B1 Movies B6 Monday March 10 Classifieds 1800 579 SELL In Sundays Taste section Interested students should Home delivery (734)5910500 Automotive F6 Obituaries A7 Classified E,F Real Estate E6 Choose zmfandel for your contact their high 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Thursday November 21 2002 CONTINUED FROM A1 www observerandeccentric com 'We don't manage our said Cardwell “Zoning is what SCHOOLS LAWSUIT keeps corporations from build­ Cops taking their operating funds well enough ing a Quick Lube m the middle FROM PAGE A1 FROM PAGE A1 of a residential neighborhood to be spending more money * This federal lawsuit is sim­ message to residents include these three facilities are a ply a red herring intended to ■ Addressing future needs of on a bond. Ten years from twisted contortion of the city’s divert attention away from the community zomng ordinances,” said Bator Broe Rehabilitations failure to BYBRADKADRICH Township Police Chief Tbm ■ Meeting the needs of the now our district will be “There’s a claim by the city abide by local ordinances STAFF WRITER Tidenngton said “We thought educational community for the there are home occupations There has been an effort by we’d try going to them next 5-10 years bankrupt and run by the being conducted, and nothing representatives o f Broe So far, the only way Busch’s and Kroger were gra­ ■ Reducing or minimizing is further from the truth Rehabilitation to spin a zomng Plymouth Township residents cious enough to give us space ” operational costs state if we continue the “There’s a violation of the violation citation as an issue of can get their hands on some of Literature will be available ■ Providing for equity of pro­ federal Fair Housing discrimination against individ­ the services their police on police programs such as grams and facilities for the edu­ current spending track/ Amendments act, a violation of uals with disabilities This is department offers is to make parental drug testing kits, cational community the Americans with Disabilities simply false ” the trip to township hall vacation watch forms, crime The steering committee, with Je ff Phillips Act and a violation of the 14th Co-counsel Daniel Gwinn That will change, at least prevention, identity/fraud the help o f IM P Architecture in Plymouth resident Amendment What these tick­ said, “We didn’t start this fight, briefly, next month thefts, Internet protection, Bloomfield Hills, which has ets are seeking to do is say the city did The city caved m The Plymouth Township home security checklists, and already completed a facilities there is no place for the dis­ to the hysteria and panic at city Police Department, m cooper­ child identification kits study for the district, will gather at Eastern Michigan University abled, no place for assisted liv­ commission meetings about ation with a pair of local gro­ The police will be at Kroger, the information from die three because we don’t have enough ing, m the city of Plymouth Broe, and it’s wrong It’s sin­ cery stores, offers “Shop with located at 44525 Ann Arbor vision meetings The committee facilities, and we’re being And that’s wrong ” gling out the disabled We all Cops” twice next month Road, from 1-4 p m Sunday, is then expected to make a rec­ squeezed out,” said Maslyk.