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VOLUME 33 NUMBER 58 WESTIAND, MICHIGAN • 56 PAGES • http://observer-eccentric.com SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS ' O 18*7 Hometown Conunuole«ttoaj Network, Inc. IN THE PAPER Walgreens makes some see red TODAY Residents who live on School Street, just way it is. If I had thought 18 years ago side my property," said Prieur. "I north of Cherry Hill and east of Wayne Road, that I would be living next to a busi would hear traffic from a new drive-up don't want a Walgreens drugstore built on ness, I never would have settled here." prescription window until late at night, Like her neighbors, Prieur doesn't garbage and delivery trucks at all Holiday greetings: Before their corner. Thus far, the Westiand planning care if a business tears down two old hours, and no doubt lighting would be setting out on his world commission has denied Walgreens' request. houses on Wayne Road and builds shining in my back yard all night. I wide gift delivery, Jolly BY TONY BRUSCATO It's not the fact the giant retailer along the major thoroughfare. But the already can hear noise from Kmart, STAFF WRITER wants to build along Wayne Road, just thought of the development company and that's about a block away." Old St. Nicholas took the buying two houses along School Street It's turning out to be a battle north of Cherry Hill. It's the idea the Rezoning denial time to write a letter offer development company wants to tear and putting the Walgreens in her between a Westiand residential neigh neighborhood is upsetting. Especially Thus far the Westiand planning com ing his thoughts and tips borhood and the nation's No. 1 drug down two adjoining houses, which would put the store right in their since the store would abut her property mission has denied Walgreens' request for the holiday. /A10 store chain. line. to rezone some of the needed property Residents who live on School Street, neighborhood. "I like living in this neighborhood," "If they build the store with the cur "because the site plan didn't meet ordi just north of Cherry Hill and east of rent plans, I will have a 6-foot wall nance standards and criteria for rezon- Wayne Road, don't want a Walgreens said Virginia Prieur, 62, about her School Street residence. UI like it the along the back property line for about drugstore built on their corner. 70 feet, and another brick wall along- Please see WALGREENS, A2 COUNTY NEWS Rising trend: Michigan Merrymaking Chief's State Police say air bag theft is on the rise. /A8 Dancing at Dorsey: career all Kyle Hop kins COMMUNITY LIFE (right) in family dances It's magic: Interested in with his BY TONY BRUSCATO visiting dark magical buddy STAFF WRITER lands? One way is Steven A third generation firefighter has through Magic: The Gath Heathcote, been selected by the Westiand Civil both 9 Service Commission to become the ering, a trading card city's next fire chief. years old, Mark Neal will succeed retiring fire game that has cornered while the Chief Michael Reddy, who is leaving 70 percent of the games other kids Jan. 16 after 2lV» years with the market since coming out sing "Jin department. gle Bells" "I wanted to someday become fire in 1992./BX chief, and then it happened ... it's at the great," said Neal. "It's the culmination Holiday cheer: The Livo Dorsey of where I wanted to be. It's beep a Center rewarding and gratifying career." nia Woodcarvers have Christmas Firefighting is in the blood of.the helped bring Christmas to Party last Neal family. Neal's father and grand the lobby of the St. Mary father each spent nearly 30 years with week in the Detroit fire department. And a Hospital-Child Care Cen Westiand; fourth generation - son Scott - is cur ter decorating a tree with rently a firefighter in Westiand. A career in firefighting nearly didn't handcarved, handpainted happen for Neal. ornaments./B7 ._...... "I was majoring in pre-dental at Eastern Michigan University when my dad started talking to me about fire A fighting," recalled Neal. "He kept AT HOME Please see CHIEF, A2 Special surroundings: Canton residents filled. City man their gardens with color and variety./OS to face trial ENTERTAINMENT in shooting
Band of the Year: An BY VALERIE OLANDKR amalgamation of rocka STAFF WRITER billy, swing, blues, R&B Two Eastern Michigan University students will stand trial in Wayne and rock V roll, the County Circuit Court for a drive-by Twistin* Tarantulas play shooting Dec. 7 in Canton, seriously constantly, and the clubs injuring a Livonia man. Testimony at a preliminary exam are standing room Monday in 35th District Court in Ply only./El mouth claimed Timothy Scott, 26, of Westiand, and Edward Bolden, 19, of Detroit, ambushed a Ford F150 truck at the Holiday Estates Mobile Home REAL ESTATE Park. Scott is charged with assault with intent to commit murder and Bolden is Warm memories: The holi charged with assault with intent to days are a nice time to murder and felony firearm. Scott is look back at the wonder Refreshments: Bobby Bean, 13, really suspected of driving the car while enjoyed the pizza and soda pop that Bolden is suspected of opening fire ful stories from holidays were served to the kids. Children with a 12-gauge shotgun. past./PX A enjoyed refreshments, received gifts Scott's attorney, Wright Blake, said and sang Christmas carols at the the victims "taunted racial epithets Dorsey Center Christmas party for and were drunk." What a doll: Each child got to pick out one gift, like "To say they played a passive role in INDEX children. Westiand police officers also this is untrue. They came at him at a Maryah Lapointe reaching for this Bean Bag Baby joined in the fun, singing carols with high rate of speed . . . (Scott) didn't try • Classified Index P4 doll, after changing her mind about a Barbie doll. the children. Real Estate F4 Please see SHOOTING, A2 Crossword F6 Jobs Fll Home & Service G4 Missing 13-year-old girls found in Westiand ^ Autos _: G6 [ Calendar A4 BY TEDD SCHNEIDER ager of Forest Lane Apartments on Wayne Road, on Dec. 8. I Opinion A10-11 STAFF WRITER south of Warren, in Westiand. The Plymouth girl The two girls were seen walking along Plymouth used to live at the complex with her mother, said Road near the Unisys plant by a Central teacher that I Sports CI Jennifer McCraw was reunited with her aunt and manager Dale Kendall. afternoon. They were supposed to be in detention for I Real Estate FI uncle Sunday evening, two weeks after she apparent Kendall believes the girls were slaying in vacant cutting a class but never showed up at the school, ly ran away from their Canton home with a friend houses under construction, just cast of the complex, according to school officials and Patricia Surrett. from Central Middle School in Plymouth. and also spending time at an apartment where n The Surretts said Friday that McCraw hadn't con The friend, a 13-vear-old Plymouth girl, was turned teen-aged boy lives. "I went back there (the houses) tacted them at ail since Dec, 8. The Plymouth girl's HOW TO REACH US over to police and released to her mother Sunday arid saw footprints and other indications that some mother said she received a brief phone call from her night. She will move out of state to live with another one was there," he said. daughter on Dec. 11. She declined to reveal the Newsroom: 313-953-2104 relative, according to Plymouth Township Police. Kendall first spotted the girls Thursday in the nature of the conversation. "We couldn't be more pleased they're safe," Rob Newsroom Fax: 313-591-7279 parking lot. He recognized the Plymouth girl, he said, Classmates and school staff were concerned about Surrett, McCraw's uncle, said Monday. "We have no but didn't realize they were runaways. the girls' absence and the Surretts hired a private E-mail: newsroomeotontlrto.com idea (what prompted her disappearance) but we're On Friday, he saw a poster with McCraw's picture investigator, Jerry Borycz of Statewide Investigation NlghWne/Sports: 313-953-2104 working to get a handle on it." at an area convenience store. Service. Reader Comment Line: 313-953-2042 McCraw, 13, was taken temporarily to an area Ho saw the girls again about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, he~ Borycz said the family was concerned because shelter for runaways while the family works with Classified Advertising: 313-6910900 said, and took them to the office, where he called there wfls no real indication of any problems with counselors, Surrett said. Ho expects her to return to police and the Surretts. McCraw. The girls didn't take clothes or money and Display Advertising: 313-691-2300 school when the holiday recess ends Jan. 6. Patricia Surrett, Jennifer's aunt and legal may have decided to leave on the spur of the moment, Home Delivery: 313-591-0500 The two girls were discovered by the resident man guardian, first reported her missing to Canton Police he said. ___ ( td««.tij»«i A2(W) The Observer & Eccentric/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997
Chief from page Al Walgreens from page Al telling me "This year, we'll handle more that fire- than 7,000 runs, with about ing," said planner Bruce Thomp son. fighting was 6,000 of them emergency medi- ( a great pro cal runs. Because of that, every Thompson also noted objec fession, and one in the department is now a tions from approximately 15 when I licensed paramedic." people against the plan, as well began look* AB for the future, Neal sees as the traffic impact on the ingat it seri the expansion of non-emergency neighborhood, and the fact there ously, it services. are already two pharmacies - became very The fire department is a ser Checker SavMor Drugs and interesting. vice organization," Neal said. Kmart - already serving the I began tak "We can improve on emergency neighborhood. ing the tests Mark Neal medical runs, but we need to "We have to look at how a and finally provide related services in pre third drugstore would impact got hired in ventative medicine ... like immu the existing businesses," said January 1977. I'm proud to fol nizations and flu shots for Thompson. low in my father's footsteps. seniors. We have fire preven That's the same thought of "To me, this job has great ben tion, but nothing in the way of Checker Drugs owner Doug efits because you're always help medical prevention." Booker. ing people," said Neal. "Whether The fourth generation Neal, "I'm not afraid of competition, it be medical or fire emergencies, son Scott, is proud of his father. but I don't want to be taken hazardous spills or helping after "I'm very excited to be able to advantage of," said Booker. storms, it's a very gratifying work with my dad," said Scott "They've got a lot of money job." Neal, 27, himself a 5Vyear vet behind them to build and com While being gratifying, Neal eran of the Westland fire depart pete. said the job can be mentally ment. "I'm as proud of him as he "With three pharmacies in the exhausting. was for me when I first joined area, at least one is sure to have There are a number of events the department. It's a thrill for hard times," Booker said. "Why over the years that I just can't me to work with him, not only as trade one store for another? They should be looking at prop forget," said Neal. "Like the two fire chief, but just as my dad." *v; • «v mat PHOTO BT JW JAGDJTU) young girls who were killed at The younger Neal may be fol erty in a place that needs a Newburgh and Marquette near lowing in the footsteps of his pharmacy. This corner is Too close: Virginia Prieur stands $nthe west edge of her property anq^ffagates just John Glenn High School. And, father, already. already too congested." how close the drugstore will be to her home. Her home is at left, andtSkhi' the first fatality that I ever "When I was growing up, I was Steve Murphy is president of right is one of two that will be tork down to accommodate the proposedWk Erickson Development in Rock- ...-VA.il responded to was someone I science-oriented, I wanted to be j-.^ev^f.nfi ford, 111., which already has built knew from a previous job. It can an engineer," said Scott. "In my tition is. Residents can see what would take to sell my house," who Kas aTpurchaSi-j n'*?» e ^ weigh on you, but you have to third year at Eastern Michigan a Walgreens drugstore in West- 4 land. we've already built. Would they said Prieur. "If a/business like with WalgreBif8 ;i0 keep going." University my father persuaded rather have a 24-hqur gas sta Walgreens moves in, who will goes through. Neal has worked with Reddy me to take the tests to become a "Look at what we did at our location at Middlebelt and War tion or fast food chain which want to buy it then?" "I like.this^neig^borhood," said the past three years and believes fireman. The department called would bring more traffic?" "This is a quiet neighborhood, Hanschur **They had to do a lot he's gained valuable experience. me one day, and I decided to ren," said Murphy. "We cleaned up that neighborhood. We're The next step is for Murphy to I dor^t know why anyone would of convincing to get me to move, "I really hate to see him go," delay school and take the job. take his case to the zoning board want to disrupt it," said Cornell but they came up with the said Neal. *Chief Reddy is the "It's a decision I'll never for trying to become a good neigh bor." of appeals to gain a variance in Vartush, 60, who has lived on money." greatest manager I have ever get," said Scott, who has just the plans. If that goes well, the School Street for 27 years. "Why Murphy tells the Observer his seen. He's done so much with earned his first promotion, to Murphy hints the drugstore chain is ready to do battle. site plans will be presented to do we need another drugstore?" development company is plan the department, bringing us into sergeant. the city council for its approval. "I don't want it," said Richard ning four Walgreens stores in the future. He was the one who And would he like his dad's job Competition planned Meanwhile, residents of School Thrushman, who has lived in the Westland. started Advanced Life Support someday? "I would like to climb "We're coming in hard and Street say they will continue to neighborhood for nine years. "I "We looked into the old Kroger in Westland, which kick-started the ladder as high as I can," strong," said Murphy. "It's not voice their opposition to a busi store at Wayne and. Ford roads, other communities into doing Scott said. "It would be nice to ike the neighborhood the way it up to the city to try and control ness which they believe is s. We'll have too much traffic if but it wasn't available." said the same thing." someday make chief, like he has. competition. We're seeking the Neal describes the firefighting He'd be a hard act to follow," encroaching upon their neigh ! heyfput a Walgreens there." Murphy. "Our plans include two best corner for our demograph borhood. 0¾¾ person who doesn't mind other Walgreens to be built business as becoming more Neal will take over as West- ics, no matter where the compe- diverse in recent years. land's fire chief during a ceremo "They asked me earlier what it is hdj&eowner Charles Hanschu, along Ford Road." t-t "Back in 1963 we handled ny to be held Jan. 16, at Redd/s .. n about a thousand fire runs, and retirement party to be held at no medical runs," recalled Neal. the Hellenic Cultural Center. from page Al to kill anyone and didn't intend stop, but there is no evidence to in trie lower back with a 12- "I heard a gunshot and the to hurt anyone," he said. show he was the. passenger at jgaugje shotgun. The bullet truck shaked," McVeigh testi •SYNOPSIS OF MINUTE Bolden's attorney, Cyril Pessi- the time of the shooting." [pierced the rear passenger com fied. BOARD OF EDUCATION na, said the evidence is circum Tom Esch, 20, of Livonia partment of the truck and went "Tom said he was hit, but at Livonia Public Schools stantial. "He may have been pas remains in Saint Joseph Hospi through the front passenger first I didn't believe him because 15125 Farmington Road senger at the time ofvthfr traffic tal in Ann Arbor after being shot seat.iwhere he was seated. he was so calm about it." J \ December 1, 1997 i The 1995 graduate of Franklin Under cross fcxamtnattj&rrby *The following is a summary, in synopsis form, of the Board of Education's High School is expected to fully Blake, McVeigh cteniedrmaking regular meeting of December 1, 1997; the full text of the minutes is on file READER SERVICE TINES recover, according to Patrick any contact with the two sus . in the Office of the Superintendent, 15125 Farmington Road. Livonia, and McVeigh, the driver of the F150. pects, nor yelling racial slurs. in the principal's officeof each school, and is available on request. •• 1 '•>': i\ However, Esch is in severe pain Rob Brent testified that some • President Kokenakes convened the meeting at 7 p.m., in the Board Room, due to the bullet searing his one made a comment on the tele ,' 15125 Farmington Road, Livonia. Present: Frank Kokenakes, Danici Observer Newsroom E-Mait liver, he said. phone earlier in the day to the • Lessard, Joanne Morgan, Patrick Nalley, Dianne Nay, James Watters. I Readers can submit story suggestions, reactions to stories, letters to ' Absent: Kenneth Timmons. McVeigh, 20, and Esch were girls questioning "why they were the editor or make general comments to any member of our news going to the home of a girl, hanging out with black people." . Team Effort Award Presented: The Board of Education presented the staff through E-Mail via the Internet ai the following address: Team Effort Award to John Covert, Tom Morawa, and Robert Upton whom another friend, Robert He didn't know whta-jnade the \ in recognition for their work on the Rouge Rescue project. Mr. Covert newsroom @oeon\ine. com. Brenl, met through an America statement S|rjce-'thier|e were • stated that as many as 200-300 CHS students spend a day helping to Online chat room. The suspects seven or eight people.a,t;«| house \ clean the river every ypar. HomeUne: 313-9^3-2020 are friends of the girl who lived where the calls?we«ji made. ' Audience Communication: Dawn Welting Stark, 27525 Lyndon, and in the trailer park. Cantbri OffiieryScott Hilden Tom King, 16262 Wayne, addressed the Board regarding Dr. Coller's a Open houses and new developments in your area. * McVeigh testified that he and said he spottecf thSQeeing'.-Thun- \ suspension. 8 Free real estate seminar information. Eschwent to the trailer park derbird On'Mfichi^rFAVenue, , Consent Agenda: Motion by Watters and Lessard that the following $ Current mortgage rates. after speaking to the girl and near Lilley. The suspect's car • consent agenda items* be approved as recommended by the her friend several times that day \ superintendent: TV. Minutes & Synopsis of the Regular Meeting of was heading east. The men were • November 17, 1997; VIA Approval of general fund check nos. 290301 Classified After Hours: 313 -591 -0900 by telephone. They were invited apprehended at the 1-275 over for a party, he said. , through 291168 in the amount of $4,239,729.91; Approval of general fund B Place classified ads at your convenience. entrance ramp. Hilden said wire transfers in the amount of $1,567,277.02; VLB Approval of the low The first time they and two three slugs from a 12-gauge ; bid of $56,362 from Red Holman GMC for a 1998 model C7H042 truck in other friends went to the trailer shotgun were found inside the ' accordance with the specifications; VI.C Authorized the director of Circulation Department: 313-591-0500 park the girls were not home. operations to enter into an agreement with CMS Marketing to be its first car. • retail open access electric service provider; VI.D Adopt the following a If you have a question about home delivery or if you did not The girls later called McVeigh Officer Chad Baugh found the \ amended budgets for the 1997-98 school year: General Operating, Special receive your paper, please call one of our customer service repre on his^ellular phone to tell them shotgun iriJtw/o pieces biv Michi they had returned from an EMU Education Debt, Milk and Lunch, Scholarship, Building Technology, sentatives during the following hours: gan Avejuie, \g&t of Hag'ge.rty. ; Building and Site, Special Maintenance, Capital Projects-Sinking Fund, party.^Only McVeigh and Esch "It lqqked^ikCiFhB&been ••• Athletic, Funded Projects, and Health and Welfare Fund; VI.E Approve Sunday: 8 a.m - Noon returned to the trailer park. Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. thrown from a^yehjcle. It was on ^he purchase of 44 Chisholm 10/10 Databook LCD panels with video McVeigh testified that he saw the south,,side ofthe road and capability and 30 Epson ELP3500 Data/Video projects from Data I Image Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday: a bja£k Thunderbird following ; Systems, Inc. for $170,476. Ayes: Kokenakes, Lessard, Morgan, Nalley, 8:30 a.m - 5:30p.m. the barrel was fivje-.lo"seven Nay, Watters. Nays: None. . them inside the complex and yards ahead of the stock of the Presentation-Adams Elementary School Improvement Plan: they decided to leave, rather shotgun," Baugh testified. Principal Sandra Feuerstein, along with presenters Sue Kempf, Fax Line: 313-953-2288 than go to the girl's trailer. Casey Conway, Lynn Ross, Pat Downarowicz, John Farkas, DeAnn --— f — y- „ , — Urso, Gail Spencer, and Kim Kozan presented the Adams' School « You can use a MasterCard or Visa Improvement Plan, which included their mission statement, MEAP to access the following information scores, and core curriculum. from our classified ads. This service Gift-Ca«8 PTA: Motion by Nalley and Nay that the Board accept the is available by noon Wednesday and gracious gift of $3,500 from the Cass Elementary PTA for the purchase of Saturday: 15 AlphaSmart 2000 keyboards, cases, and other accessories. Ayes: ItemNo.9$22: . Kokenakes, Lessard, Morgan, Nalley, Nay, Watters. Nays: None. Vehicles: used trucks, vans and all Gift-Hayes PTA: Motion by Lessard and Watters that the Board accept the gracious gift of $6,000 from the Hayes PTA for the purchase of books makes of automobiles. Cost: $39.95 iaiid math manipulatives. Ayes: Kokenakes, Lessard, Morgan, Nalley, Nay, Walters. Nays': None. .: O&B On*iAne:313^591 -0903 Elementary Textbook Putchase; Motion by Nay and Morgan that the Board of Education authorize the purchase of the following textbooks for » You can access On-Llne with just Alternative. Classrooms'. for the Academically Talented (ACAT) about any communications software /mathematics kindergarten through sixth grade: Grades K-4, ACAT - PC or Macintosh. On-Llne users can: Program: Investigations in Number;Data, and Space. 1998, Dale Seymour • Send and receiveunlimited e-mail Publications, Scott ForeBtnan > Addison. Wesley for $6,433; and Xfcs Problem Solver. Creative Publications for $320; Grades 5-6, ACAT • Access all features of the Internet—Telnet. Gopher, www and more. Program: Connected Mathematics. Grades 6-8, 1998, Dale Seymour • Read electronic editions of the the Observer & Eccentric newspapers. Publications, Scott Foresman, - Addison Wesley for $8,185. Ayes: • Chat with users across (own or across the country. Kokenakes, Lessard, Morgan, Nalley, Nay, Watters. Nays: None. 8 To begin your On-Llne exploration, call 313-591-0903 with your Teacher Tenure: Motion by Wattert and Lessard that the Board of computer modem. At the login prompt, type: new. At the password Education accept the. recommendation of the superintendent and grant prompt, press ypur enter key. At the key prompt, type: 9508. tenure status to Lea (Gonzalez) Kluk, effective 2/7/98. Ayes: Kokenakes, Lessard, Morgan, Nalley, Nay, Watters. Nays: None. Resignation: The Board accepted the resignation of Diane Michael- On-line Hotline: 3U-953-2266 Bene, effective 12/19/97. • If you need help, call the On-Line Hotline at the number above. <>NW Report! from the Superintendent: Dr. Watson read a letter from the In cpurtl Attorney Cyril Pessina confers tilth ^.,^. ant Sands of America, Inc. congratulating Principal Michael Fenchel, Edward Bolden. Defendant Tim Scott is at right. Franklin High School, for supporting the students of the.Livonia Franklin Photo Reprints: 313-591-0500 H.S, Marching Band and making a very serious statement about the importance of music education in bur schools; received a letter from the f Order reprints of pictures that have been taken by our staff pho- Michigan Reading Association recognizing Harriet 8awyer for accepting tbgraphersr : • a leadership position as president of the Wayne County Reading Council; •frovidt tht publication date, pa$t number, and description of the and received ftlette r from a parent recognizing Buchanan teacher, Susan picture, which musthaye been published within the past 6 months. 6tt, for her ability to see the good in her child; recognized Jay Young, fl0eatlan&#b0erwr %,. director of Community Services, for his profile in the. 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YOUR GUIDE TO EVENTS IN AND AROUND WESTLAND the club to sponsor Little League baseball teams, the AT THE CHAMBER Educational experience Salvation Army, School for LIBRARY EVENTS the Blind. (313)422-5025 or (313) 729-8681. BOOK DISCUSSION B0WLINQ OUTINQ The book discussion group The Westland Chamber OEMS' BINGO meets 7-9 p.m. the third will be hosting the Winter- The 13th Congressional Tuesday of the month in feat Bowling Outing from District Democratic Party the community meeting 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, sponsors bingo games at room of the Public Library as part of Westland Win- 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, in the of Westland. Join the group terfest '98. (313) 326-7222. M.J. Hall, 35412 Michigan by signing up at the Recep Ave., next to Farmer Jack, tion Desk. Participants are in Wayne. (313)421-1517. expected to have read the RECREATION BINGO AND SNACKS books and to be prepared to The VFW Post 3323, West- discuss them. RECREATION AND FUN land, serves snacks and Upcoming books for discus A recreational get-together hosts bingo at 1 p.m. every sion include: for teens and adults who Sunday in the post hall, Jan. 10 - Caleb Carr, "The are disabled will be the sec 1055 S. Wayne Road at Alienist." ond Friday of each month Avondale. Doors open 9 Feb. 17 - John Dunning, at the Westland Bailey a.m. (313) 326-3323. "Booked to Die." Center. (313) 722-7620. SHAMROCK BINGO March 17, Laurie King, FIGURE SKATING There will be bingo at 11 "The Beekeeper's Appren The Westland Figure Skat a.m. Wednesdays at the tice." ing Club is forming an Knights of Columbus Hall, April 21, Michael Connelly, Adult Introductory Preci 35100 Van Born, east of "The Poet." sion Team. The team is for Wayne Road, Wayne. Doors May 19, Margaret Atwood, those who want to have fun open 9 a.m. Food available. "Alias Grace." with other skating adults Proceeds go to charity. TRAINING and get good exercise. (313)728-3020. ; Training sessions are held Practices are 6-6:50 a.m. Saturdays. All levels are SMOKELESS BINGO 10:30 a.m. each Saturday "Smokeless" bingo meets at, to train library patrons on welcome. For information, call (313) 722-1091. 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday, at the use of the public access Sts. Simon and Jude catalogs. The computers VOLLEYBALL Fire station tour: McKinley Cooperative Preschoolers line up in front of a fire engine Parish Hall, 32500 Palmer, are the modern-day equiva Open volleyball is offered at a Westland fire station. east of Venoy, Westland. lent of the traditional card for those age 18 and older Offered are three jackpots ; catalog. These training ses 6:30-8 p.m. the second and of $400, $300 and $200. sions take about 15-20 fourth Friday of each minutes. Library staff will month at the Salvation NO SMOKE •teach the fundamentals Army, 2300 Venoy, West- Preschoolers tour fire station "No smoking" bingo will be land. All skill levels play 1 p.m. every Tuesday at 'regarding use of the public the Friendship Center, ;access catalogs and will be just for fun. There is no The classes of 4-year-olds from The children were introduced to The children also saw the area charge. Baby-sitting is pro 1119 N. Newburgh Road, ;available for questions. McKinley Cooperative Preschool in some of the paramedics and fire where the ambulance and fire Westland. Residents from ;Thi8 training is free and no vided. For information, call Westland recently visited a West- fighters. engines are kept. (313) 722-3660. Westgate Towers, Taylor 'registration is required. land fire station. They showed the children where They climbed into the back of an Towers, Greenwood Tow •DECK THE HALLS The preschoolers were accompa the emergency calls come in and ambulance to look at the medical ers, Liberty Park, Presby -Deck the halls on Satur nied by their parents and their where they "live" while they're at equipment and they sat in the cab of terian Village and Carolon days in December. Each SCHOOLS teacher, Carol Miles. the fire station. the fire engine. Condos, etc., are eligible for Saturday at 2 p.m. will fea PRESCHOOL PROGRAM transportation to bingo if ture a seasonal craft for The Wayne-Westland Com they have a minimum of •children that is sure to munity Schools has ongo required to have a student GRANDMA'S ATTIC SALE on the first Sunday of each School District's Dyer five players. (313) 722- •light up your house with ing registration for the in the school. Price is $3 for Grandma's Attic Sale will month at the league hall, Senior Adult Center has 7632. holiday cheer. In the Chil- preschool programs at Stot- students, $5 for adults. be at the Senior Resources on Wayne Road, two blocks activities Monday-Thurs ^dren's Activity Room. No JAYCEES tlemyer Early Childhood Checks should be made Department (Friendship south of Ford, for people 50 day at the center, on Mar Westland Jaycees host ^registration required. Dec. and Family Development payable to Franklin PTSA Center), 1119 Newburgh and older. Cost is $5 for quette between Wayne and 27, New Year calendar. bingo games at 6:30 p.m. Center, on Marquette and sent to 31000 Joy, Road, Westland, daily from members and $7 for non- Newburgh roads. Mondays, every Tuesday in Joy WINTER BREAK SPECIAL between Wayne and Wild- Livonia 48150. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Also members. The meal Senior Chorus at 1:30 p.m.; Manor, 28999 Joy, West- Children ages 4 to 10 are wood. Programs include an TUTORIAL PROGRAM included in this sale are includes beer, beverages, Tuesdays, arts, crafts and land. Three jackpots pay invited to make a collective Early Intervention Pro A free tutoring program for hundreds of ceramic molds dancing to Big Band music, needlework at 9:30 a.m.; ing $250, $300 and $300, craft project to keep in the gram, Head Start, students is offered at the and hundreds of pieces of and door prizes. (313) 728- Wednesdays, Kitchen progressive. Call the Children's Services area of Kids/Plus Preschool, a Pre- Salvation Army Wayne- greenware and a kiln. For 5010. Band, 10 a.m.; bingo at 1 Jaycee Information Hotline the library. The program Primary Impaired program Westland Corps Communi information, call 722-7632. DANCE FUN p.m.; Thursdays, ceramics, at (313) 480-4984. •will be at 2 p.m. Monday, and Sparkey Preschool. ty Center, 2300 Venoy, TRAVEL GROUP Westland Shopping Center arts, crafts at 9:30 a.m.; a £>ec. 29, in the Children's Registration is ongoing Hawaiian dance exercise PUP TENT BINGO Westland. The program is The Travel Group meets hosts a senior citizen dance The MOC pup tent 18 "Activity Room. No registra from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for students in Wayne, 12:45 p.m. every Friday in 11 a.m. the first Monday of class will be held at 1 p.m. tion required. Call (313) 595-2660 for every Wednesday in the bingo will be held 6:30 p.m. Westland and Romulus. It the Westland Friendship each month in the lower Tuesdays at the VFW Post information. will meet 3:30-6 p.m. Mon Center, 1119 N. Newburgh, level auditorium, Wayne Senior Resources Depart *REAKY FRIDAY ment (Friendship Center), Hall, 1055 S. Wayne, West- Friday, Jan. 2, wackiness CHURCH PRESCHOOL day, Wednesday and unless a trip or program is and Warren roads. Coffee land. A snack bar is avail Thursday. For information planned. Programs include and refreshments will be 1119 Newburgh, Hall A. ;will take over the Chil The Westland Free Instructor is Kammo Oris. able. Doors open at 2 p.m. dren's Services Area. If you Methodist Preschool has on participating or volun speakers, films, celebration served at 12:30 p.m. The (313)326-3323. teering, call Shabaura of birthdays and weekly dance will end 2 p.m. The Sign up at the front desk or can find 10 things in the openings for 3- and 4-year- call (313) 722-7632. department that seem olds in the morning and Cobb, (313) 722-3660. door prizes. There is a $3 dance is held on the first freaky on that day, you'll afternoon sessions. The membership fee for resi Monday, with the exception get a prize. The event goes younger pupils attend dents, $12.50 for non-resi of holidays. CLUBS IN Tuesdays and Thursdays dents. (313)722-7632. on all day Jan. 2 in the HISTORY ON SENIOR DANCE VOLUNTEERS ACTION Children'* Services Area. with the other pupils CARD GROUP Senior dances will be noon attending Mondays and BOY SCOUTS VFW AUXILIARY CREATION STATION VIEW The Friday Variety Card to 4 p.m. the first Sunday A few good young men ages Wednesdays. A Friday Membership in the Veter {Jet crafty at the Creation WESTLAND MUSEUM Group at the Westland of every month at the 11-18 are needed to work ' ans of Foreign Wars of the Station on the first Satur enrichment class is also The Westland Historical Friendship Center meets at Wayne Ford Civic League, with Boy Scout Troop No. available. The preschool is United States, Ladies Aux day of January and Febru Museum is open 1-4 p.m. 2 p.m. Players enjoy 1651 N. Wayne Road, 865 7:30-9 p.m. Tuesdays iliary Grand River Post ary. Designed for ages 4-10 at 1421 S. Venoy, West- Saturdays at 857 N. Wayne euchre, pinochle, bridge, Westland. There will be at Hamilton Elementary land. (313) 728-3559. 1519, is open. Relationship years. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Road, between Marquette Uno, rummy and poker. dinner, a live band, beer School, corner of Avondale to a veteran of combat on Jan. 3, and Feb. 7, in the YWCA READINESS and Cherry Hill. (313) 326- Light refreshments are and pop. Members $5, non- and Schuman in Westland. foreign soil will insure eli Children's Activity Room. The YWCA of Western 1110. served. Call (313) 722-7632 members $7. (313) 728- Monthly campouts will be gibility. Make reservations No registration required. Wayne County Early FRIENDS MEET for information or just 5010. featured. For information, by calling membership show up to play cards. The READ TO YOUR CHILD Childhood School Readi Friends of the Westland WORK REFERRAL call (313) 729-1283. recruiter Dolores M. Grif ness Program is available Friendship Center is at Feb. 14 is "Read to Your Historical Museum meet 7 Information Center Inc. PET-A-PET fin, (313) 427-2791. Meet Child Day." Come to the to 4- and 6-year-old chil p.m. on the second Tues 1119 N. Newburgh Road. refers workers to seniors ings are the first Thursday, dren; The YWCA is at The Pet-A-Pet Club, which Children's Services Area days of January, March, DYER CLUB who need help. The pro offers pet visits to nursing of each month at 27555 Tand read with your child 26279 Michigan Ave., May, July, September and The Dyer Seniors" Center gram is for people interest Grantland, Livonia. Cur- Inkster. (313) 561-4110. home residents, needs spe !for 10 minutes. For sharing November at the Westland Travel Club meets the first ed in providing transporta cial pets and people. Pets rent Post 1519 Ladies Aux ;the gift of reading with CHARTER SCHOOL Meeting House, 37091 and third Thursdays of tion, yardwork, housework, undergo a slight screening iliary members include your child you will both The Academy of Detroit- Marquette between New- each month in the center, etc. Workers can specify and need proof of shots to individuals from Westland, deceive a small prize. The Westland, an burgh and Wayne roads. on Marquette between the type of work they are participate. Local sites Livonia, Redford, Detroit event goes oh all day in the entrepreneurial and busi Information, president Jim Wayne Road and New willing to do and the com include Camelot Hall Con and surrounding areas. Franklin, (313) 721-0136. burgh. Children's Services Area. ness charter school, serves munities they want to valescent Center (Debbr'e WEEKENDERS kindergarten through sev Everyone is welcome. serve. Chore Worker Pro FR*N0S Of USRARY MONTHLY MEAL McDermott, 427-3791,10 The Weekenders family The Friends of the William enth grade. The school The Wayne Ford Civic gram, (313) 422-1052. a.m. the second Saturday emphasizes a basic educa DYER CENTER campers meet the second ;P. Faust Public Library League schedules its senior of the month), Garden City Wednesday of the month in tion with business and FOR SENIORS meal 11:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Wayne-Westland Rehab (Stacy Suida, (313) meet monthly 7 p.m. the entrepreneurial skills. The Franklin High School, on second Tuesday of each 422-2438, second Thursday Joy east of Merriman. (313) school offers a foreign lan of the month at 3 p.m.) and fcionth at the library, 6123 guage class, music and art, 531-2993. Central City Parkway. Roosevelt-McGrath School a dress code and a comput » >»*>..> ..••LT . X,-JL 11.-? ,r. .11. i /-^ .-.•.•". . :•-.- .?• • .-.).1.1 • • , ' , V._ FORM FREE CLASSES (313) 326-6123: Meetings tiifefr^, (Lynn Eichbrecht, (313) er lab with Internet. Call 591-3347, the last Wednes- The Showman's Dog Train last about one hour and are (313) 722-1465 or (248) day of the month). Informa ing Organization sponsors open to the public. The The Observer Newspapers welcome Calendar items. Items should be from non-profit community 569-7787. group$ or individuals announcing a community program or event. Please type or print the infortion is available from Ruth free junior showmanship friends also hold a Friends classes for dog owners ages UTTLE LAMBS mation below and mail your item to The Calendar, Westland Observer, 36251 Schoolcraft, Curry, (313) 5350410, or Shop Book Sale during reg Daisy Doran, (313) 565- 7-17 at the AMVETS Hall ular library hours at the Little Lambs Preschool, on Livonia, ML 48150, or by fax to 313-591-7279. Deadline for Calendar items is noon Friday on Merriman near Avon- Farmington Road in Livo for the following Thursday's paper. Call 953-2104 if you have any questions, 1981. There is a $5 mem library. bership charge. dale at 8:30 p.m. the first ANNUAL MOTNN nia, has openings in the EvOnt: and second Tuesdays of The annual meeting of the Monday-Wedne8day''Friday each month through Friends will be held on afternoon session for 3- to Date and Time: September. Call (313) 729- Tuesday, Jan, 13, in the 6-year-olds. For informa BINGO 7580. tion, call (248) 471-2077. - Location: Community Meeting Room. OEMS' BINGO HOST LIONS Election of officers will be FRANKLIN PTS A The Metro Wayne Demo The Franklin High PTSA is Telephone: The Westland Host Lions held at this meeting. This cratic Club sponsors bingo Club meets 6:30 p.m. the meeting is open to the pub seeking new members. games at 6:30 p.m. every Membership is open to Additional Info.: second and fourth Tuesdny lic and all are invited to Thursday at the Joy Manor of the month in Mary's attend. Only Friends mem-, those who care about the Bingo Ha\l, on the south schools and cpmmuftity, Family Restaurant. Infor ben may vote in this elec side of J6y, east of Middle- mation, (313) 326-2607. tion. and members aren't Use additional sheet ifnreetiary belt. Proceeds are used by The Observer & Eccentric/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997 *A6 Knollenberg rips global warming agreement BY TIM RICHARD like China, India and Mexico. "It AFL-CIO is connected to my the budget), and the Appalachi STAFF WRITKR gives them a license to.pollute at • 'If you believe in view." an Regional Commission. ; In a word - yes or no - should will. Multi-national corporations global warming, this He cited University of Michi The feeling is bipartisan tfie U.S. Senate ratify the global would go there - and also get gan research - still incomplete - "John Dingell (D-Trenton, and treaty won't get you dean of the Michigan congres farming agreement? cheaper labor." there. It won't clean on pumping carbon dioxide, the ;"I need two words: hell no," But it was the European chief emission, into a tented sional delegation) and I see eye replied U.S. Rep. Joe Knollen Union, rather than Asia, that the environment, and it area. "We know carbon dioxide to eye. Dingell was there." Knol berg, R-Bloomfield Township, was trying hardest to stick the will be devastating to helps trees. There are'more lenberg said. who spent a week in Kyoto, U.S. with the job of scaling back the American worker trees in the country than at the Next-door congressman Japan, observing the negotia emissions to 1990 levels, Knol time of the Pilgrims. Sander Levin, a Democrat, tions. lenberg said in an interview this because the cost of "Some scientists are saying, already is battling EPA air qual The third-terni congressman week in his Farmington Hills energy will rise.' 'Let's study this before we jump ity standards, saying, "In my from the 11th District which district office. off the cliff.' view, EPA's new standards includes Redford and part of He said Time magazine was Joe Knollenberg "If you believe in global warm would have a negative impact on Livonia gave the usual reasons correct in reporting that the EU —congressman ing, this treaty won't get you the nation's economy and the of harm to American industry, will have the easiest time meet there," Knollenberg went on. "It economic well-being of south but he had some close-up com ing emissions targets. Reason: won't clean the environment, eastern Michigan." ments about the United Nations- "The collapse of East Germany press. I went to a press confer and it will be devastating to the The Kyoto Protocol, as it's sponsored conference itself. in 1990 forced many inefficient, ence the second day. The press American worker because the known: "I have never been in the gun- pollution-belching factories and "The president won't send it was enviro-laden," he said, quot cost of energy will rise." • Was agreed to by 150 sights of so many countries. The power plants out of business, (the treaty) to the Senate," Knol ing a question about alleged Knollenberg and 13 other U.S. nations Dec. 11. deck was stacked against us. cutting Europe's emissions as a lenberg predicted. "He'll use the strong poll support for an energy representatives were appointed • Requires the U.S. to cut And it was a long time ago. side benefit." regulatory process, the EPA tax in the U.S. "Not in my dis by Speaker Newt Gingrich, R- emission of greenhouse gases to 7 percent below 1990 levels; the "The Green Movement (anti- Great Britain's job is easier (Environmental Protection trict," Knollenberg said. Ga. Knollenberg is a ranking EU must cut emissions by 8 per industry environmentalists) was because Prime Minister Mar Agency)." Participants took it for a fact, member of the House Appropria cent and Japan by 6 percent; 35 in charge. The U.S. was dead garet Thatcher broke the coal What about Vice President Al engraved in granite, that the tions subcommittee on energy other countries also have quotas. before we got to Kyoto. miners' union in 1985, and the Gore's speech in Kyoto favoring world is being dangerously and water. • Allows industrialized "We heard. The U.S. has an nation switched to natural gas. of a global warming treaty? warmed by energy emissions. That panel oversees the nations to trade "emissions quo obligation' (from the Danes and France will have little trouble "Gore made a speech, got back "No one questioned it. It's a fact Department of Energy, nuclear tas" among themselves. Dutch> and 'America has a bur because it's reliant on nuclear on Air Force 2 and left. He (to them). weapons and reactors, nuclear den to pick up and carry the rest energy - and Knollenberg thinks would say he jump-started the "But the debate (in the U.S.) wastes, the Army Corps of Engi • Asks but doesn't require of the world." that's the way to go, even though reaction. There was actually a will center on the science. The neers, energy research and developing nations to cut emis development, the Tennessee Val sions. "it exempts 80 percent of the nuclear power plants and mixed reaction to Gore. Big Three (auto makers) and the ley Authority (now zeroed out of world's (developing! nations" research have been halted here. "There was heavy, heavy utilities can't be all wrong. The County lease ear proposal $n hold for now starts friday: BY KEN ABRAMCZYK STAFF WRITER res open 9 am! Wayne County commissioners will not lease or purchase coun- tV vehicles, al least not for the Ume being. ' Commissioner Bernard Park er, D-Detroit, had introduced an balloon ordinance that would delete a section in an ordinance that pro hibits county elected officials from purchasing, leasing or operating a county vehicle to complete his or her duties. Commissioners referred the item Thursday to the Committee on Roads. Airports and Public . Services, which is expected to study the proposal in January. Parker's resolution would change an ordinance introduced by Commissioner Thaddeus •McCotter. R-Livonia. and approved by commissioners in October 19*93 that prohibited the use of county-owned vehicles by elected officials. The ordi nance itself regulated the pur- ' chase, lease and operation of county vehicles. Parker believes his ordinance will save the county money through car leases. "Right now the commissioners obtain up to $350 per month for mileage." Parker said last week. "I think it would be cheaper for us to lease the vehicles at $300 a month." McCotter expects costs to lease vehicles may fall between $300 and $350 a month per com missioner. While the money may be already budgeted for commis sioners, it is general fund money and taxpayers' money. McCotter * said. "It's gr.'ed and it's wrong," McCotter said. Patterson said he would even ask County Executive Ed McNa- mara to veto it. if the item was ever approved by the commis sion. Even though Patterson has the largest district in square miles of any commissioner, he «aTd he would not use a lease vehicle funded by taxpayers. '> Patterson said he only requests and receives reim bursement for miles in his dis and accessories trict that he drives to Sumpter >or Huron townships, and not for "driving within Canton or to com- for men, women, •mission meetings. ! Patterson believes the com and kids missioners who earlier expressed interest in changing •the ordinance, now are for total savings of hackpedaling. I "You can see them trying to get it back in committee." Pat terson said. "You heard (Com missioner Robert) Blackwell say that he didn't introduce it." OH (Blackwell had responded earli er that day to a published report incorrectly indicating he intro duced the ordinance.) Vice Chair Kay Beard. 1)- AVestland. said she isn't opposed •to some county employees using !cnrs if their duties require them 'to have transportation, but she W-'doesn't believe the county com §1 missioners should use them. i&i "I don't think the commission ••*•>'•: ers need (county'cars." 1, I Commissioner Edward iPlawecki Sr . D-Doarhorn get a good look at parisian K* J Heights, also is opposed to any 0 llease cars for commissioners. "1 Sorry, we can't make price adjustments on previously purchased merchandise. Clin always make a claim for my CALL 1-800-424-8185 TO ORDER ANYTIME. T.0.0. USERS CALL 1-800-322-705? Mon -Fr. 8 30 am to 4 30 pm CT SPECIAL HOURS: Laurel Park Place open Sun 11 -7. Mon -Tues 9 10 Wed 8-5 30. closed Thurs., Fn. I mileage," Plawecki said 9-9. Sat. 10-9 FOR INFORMATION call 953- 7500 CHARGE IT: Parisian Credit Card. MasterCard. 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£ a<- i The Observer & Eccentric/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997 (A7-ReWGc)*A9 Area light shows sure to brighten holiday weeks Looking for a little inexpen sive holiday family fun? Check out the holiday light displays along Hines Drive, at the Detroit Zoo and at Domino's Farms in Ann Arbor while there's still time, Billed as the country's largest drive-through light show, Wayne County's LightFest runs through Thursday, Jan. 1, along Hines Drive, between Merriman and Warren roads. The display features over head bridge displays, deer "leap ing" over cars on Hines Drive, and a four-story poinsettia wreath with candles, said Kathy Lewand, administrative assis tant for Wayne County parks. For $5 per car, motorists can enjoy a mix of new and old dis plays, featuring more than 800,000 lights on more than 35 displays. About 7,000 vehicles visited the LightFest this past weekend, Lewand said, She did n't have an total number for the entire event. "Attendance is good," Lewand Holiday glow: Domino's Farms has over one million lights this year and added six At the zoo: Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo illuminates said. "It started out slow and we new displays, some with animation and more than 30 light displays through Sunday, Jan. 4, except on Christmas Eve, were concerned.' But it has Christmas, New Year's Eve and New Years Day. picked up considerably and we're pleased with the turnout. It's something people enjoy." This is the fifth year of the annual Wild Lights celebration to entertain each night, as well The Christmas Light Display include a drive around the pet This year Wayne County has event, which started.with rough at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, as a hospitality tent w,ith at Domino's Farms in Ann Arbor ting farm, added Moran. Visi two new wetlands-themed ly 25 light displays. The number featuring more than 50 animat refreshments. has attracted more than a mil tors will drive through most of exhibits, in conjunction with the has grown by approximately two ed animal displays with 350,000 Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo lion people and raised nearly the light display before entering newly opened Crosswinds Marsh a year, and includes displays lights. illuminates through Sunday, $500,000 for charity over the the building for indoor attrac in Sumpter Township, including depicting the Nativity, Be sure to dress warmly as the Jan. 4, except on Christmas Eve, past five years. tions. a giant heron and animated Hanukkah, and Kwanza. half-mile walk usually takes Christmas, New Year's Eve and Last year 70 charities shared Moran says inside visitors will frogs leaping from lily pad to lily about 45 minutes. New Year's Day. The lights will more than $70,000, said Ashley see 20, 14-foot designer-decorat pad. For additional information, call (313) 261-1990. Wild Lights visitors will also be on Monday through Thursday Moran, director of the non-profit ed trees, a "Christmas Around Much of the money for new be able to visit the new Edward and Sunday from 5:30-8 p.m. group Spirit of Christmas, which the World" creche exhibit, a displays was donated by Friends Zoo lights Mardigian Sr. River Otter exhib Friday and Saturday, the dis sponsors the event. miniature electric train, orna of Wayne County Parks, with Heading east on 1-696, you can it and the reptile house. play will be on until 9 p.m. Domino's Farms has over one ment-making for children, and a others sponsored by companies still stop and take a walk on the There will also be singing Admission is $3 for adults and million lights this year and gingerbread house gift shop. like Blue Care Network, NBD wild side, by enjoying the fourth groups and costume characters $2 for children 2-12. Children added six new displays, some The focus of our exhibit is chil Bank and AAA Michigan. under the age of 2 are admitted with animation and more than dren, because Christmas is for free. 30 light displays, said Moran. kids, said Moran. Organizers Proceeds from Wild Lights The holiday event costs $5 per are looking to broaden the goes to the Detroit Zoological car Monday through Thursday, event's appeal to make it an area Rivers to host legislative forum Society to help fund educational and $7 on the weekend. Buses event, not just an Ann Arbor programs and for exhibit renova are asked to pay $50. All the experience. Can a federal court nullify an Powers from 10 a.m. to noon sor at the Wayne State Universi tions. proceeds will benefit children The Christmas Light Display Act of Congress by finding it to Saturday, Jan. 10. The educa ty Law School to discuss the In 1994, Wild Lights attracted and charities around metro at Domino's Farms runs through be unconstitutional even though tional forum will take place at issue. After the panel discussion, 25,000 people. This year, zoo Detroit. Wednesday, Dec. 31, with the it was passed overwhelmingly? Wayne County Regional Educa the audience can participate in officials are expecting nearly Last year the event had 42,000 displays aglow from 6-10 p.m. Can the President send troops tional Services Agency, 33500 the discussion with questions 60,000 people through the turn cars drive through, with 80,000 Take U.S. 23 to Exit 41. then a overseas without the permission Van Born, in Wayne. and comments. stiles. people visiting the indoor dis half-mile east. Follow the signs of Congress? Rivers has invited Roderick Western Wayne County resi For more information on Wild play. This year it is expected to to Domino's Farms on Earhart Can an administrative agency Hill, a professor at the Universi dents of the 13th District are Lights, call (248) 541-5835. draw 50,000 cars and 100,000 Road, north of Plymouth Road.- enforce rules which were not ty of Michigan Law School, for invited to attend. people. voted on by Congress? mer Congressman William Brod- Domino's Farms The route was expanded to For the answers to these ques head and Robert Sedler, profes tions and more, please join U.S.' Rep. Lynn Rivers, D-13th Dis trict, for a discussion she is sponsoring on the Separation of
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\UX CO ROM, 8BC18,8PK, C0BUNOLI (f W wmmiwammmmmw 13mM00UBElT,UVOMA 313427-0102 A DIFFERENT KIND of COMPANY. A DIFFERENT KIND of CAR V-»KMI«\ FAXM.-.K :Fr r313427-776 •)« S.il |l)f..rij<.rd$iiOd6 « wvwccrwfcrtwwn The Observer & Eccentric/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997 (A8-ReWGc)*A7 Madonna offers summer Air bag thefts on the rise: state police program for'98 grads For 10 minutes of work, $150 'Street thieves can quickly steal an air bag, easi anti-theft precautions, Liddane is good money. recommends. •'Always 'remove ' Beginning in June, 15 to 20 year college students," That's what Lt. Bill Darnell of ly conceal it and turn it into instant cash as long keys and lock doors. Park in high school graduates, who Classes will be held three the Michigan State Police west as there are people out there willing to pay and well-lighted areas. Avoid park received their diploma during days a week from 9 a.m. to 3 ern Wayne County Auto Theft not ask questions.' ing near Dumpsters or large the 1997-98 school year and p.m. Students will attend two Unit, referring to air bag theft — vans or trucks and other obsta are eligible for financial aid at classes, English 101 and Com a crime law enforcement and Lt. Bill Darnell cles that decrease visibility and the college level, will have an puter Science 208. The courses provide cover for thieves." insurance industry officials say _^ -Michigan State Police early opportunity to complete will incorporate writing and is becoming one of the most cost The HEAT tip line is a power $ix college credit hours at math/computer skills to assist ly and widespread trends in ful tool to help la.v enforcement. Madonna University in Livo future academic success. auto-related crime. HEAT rewards tip line callers shop, purchasing air bags from every steering wheel with an air nia. Darnell, who was part of the up to $1,000 if their tip leads to anyone off the street for $150 to bag is a $100 to $200 enticement Tuition and registration fees Students can get a "head investigative team that confis the arrest and binding over tot- $200 and then reselling them for for some thief." for these courses will be pro start" on what college profes cated over 1,000 suspected trial of a suspected car thief; up $400 to $500 to distributors, who Jerry Hinton, manager of vided through privately funded sors expect and can meet other stolen air bags estimated at a to $10,000 if the tip results in then resell them to auto body claims investigation for AAA of grants for those in need of first-year students. street value of more than $1 mil the arrest and binding over for and automotive repair shops for Michigan agrees. "So-called rep financial assistance. Lunch will be included with lion from a Detroit area used trial of suspected theft ring $600 to $700," Darnell said. utable auto and auto body repair the program and one lunch auto parts dealer, attributing members and/or chop shop oper shops are buying used air bags ; The 1997-98 high school period each week will be desig the increase to convenience and William Liddane, director of ators. HEAT also rewards which in many cases are stolen graduates must be student nated "Lunch and Learn Ses a ready market. Help Eliminate Auto Thefts, said $2,000 for information leading to and then billing insurance com applicants interested in attend sion" which will cover such top "They only weigh about three this activity makes virtually the issuance of a warrant for a panies for new replacements." ing Madonna University in the ics as time management, self pounds," said Darnell. "Street every car a potential target. carjacking suspect. J998 fall term and demon integrity and study skills. thieves can quickly steal an air HEAT is a statewide auto theft Motorists not only face higher Since its inception in 1985. strate an economic need. All Lunch costs are being funded bag, easily conceal it and turn it prevention program that oper insurance premiums, but the HEAT has recovered 2.:190 vehi participants must be admitted through contributions, as well. into instant cash as long as ates a confidential toll-free tip question of whether the used air cles valued at $27 million. Dur to Madonna University prior to there are people out there will reward line (1-800-242-HEAT) bags will be safe. "Are these ing that period, the 'HEAT tip acceptance to the Summer "The purpose of this program ing to pay and not ask ques for reporting auto theft related used air bags the correct replace line has received 5.2(>M calls [Start Program. is to help students feel comfort tions." crimes. ment per manufacturers' specifi leading to the arrest of 1.978 "Citizens need to be vigilant — cations and will they perform able in a college setting and to And, according to Darnell, suspects. HEAT has awarded even when they think their cars properly once installed?" Hinton • "We are proud to offer eco acclimate thern to the campus that's what's happening. $1.7 million lo tip callers since are not the type thieves are asked. nomically disadvantaged stu scene during the summer "They act as a kind of pawn 1985. dents a jump start on their months," said Sr. Nancy Jam interested in. because behind Citizens must practice basic education. This is Madonna roz. University's second year pro For more information, stu viding this program." said Sis dents may contact their high ter Nancy Marie Jamroz, school counseling office, or call Patterson seeks check on commission travel .Madonna University vice presi Madonna University's Office of dent for student life. Multicultural Affairs at (7341 BY KEN ABRAMCZYK "There seems to be an attitude Thursday to the General Gov emission standards that would. "It is a great opportunity for 432-5541 or Admissions Office STAFF WRITER among some commissioners that ernment and Ways and Means increase regulatory and opera these students as they will par (734)432-5339. At least one Wayne County once they get an office allocation, committees. It is expected to be tional costs of manufacturing ticipate in learning seminars Madonna University awards commissioner wants travel and it's their money and not the tax discussed in .January. plants and industry. as well as develop a learning associate's, bachelor's and mas trade missions defined and payers." Patterson said. Patterson also introduced a That resolution was referred community with other first- ter's degrees. "clear objectives" outlined for Patterson wants an audit com resolution calling for the com to the commission's Committee commissioners. pleted of* travel accounts, expen mission to oppose the Kyoto Pro on {Environment. Sewers and Bruce Patterson. R-Canton. ditures and documentation to be tocol because adoption of it Drains for study. introduced an ordinance Thurs reviewed by the commission's would be what Patterson called day that calls for a plan to out Ways and Means Committee. "catastrophic" to Wayne County Madonna sets March 2 line objectives of commissioner's The resolution was referred and the state of Michigan due to trips before the commission approves any travel or trade deadline for scholarships missions. He also wants an over sight system created, and trans actions covered. Madonna University in Livo African heritage; Lions/Lione ss nia is accepting scholarship Club Scholarship, awarded to "I'm just trying to put a proce dure and a plan in place to make hristmas applications through Monday. hearing impaired students; March 2. from admitted stu Livonia Jaycees Scholarship, us more accountable," said dents for the 1998-99 academic awarded to junior or senior stu Bruce Patterson, R-Canton. "It's year. dents; and the Joyce and Don what they do in private busi AFTER CHRISTMAS Scholarship applications may Massey Scholarship. ness. They need to cost-justify be obtained at the University this process." 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mmm The Observer & Eccentric/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997 (A9-ReWQc)*All Appeals court on FOIA Commission OKs Judicial panel says revealing auditor general budget BY'KEN AJBRAMCZYK more attorneys to bring that STAFF WRITER department total to five. gun ownership doesn't invade privacy Vice Chair Kay Beard. D- Auditor General Brendan Dunleavy received an early Westland, requested Chair man Ricardo Solomon. D- BY TIM RICHARD pistol. A copy is sent to State obtained some of the records by records, motor vehicle owner Christmas gift Thursday Detroit, suspend.the rules STAFF WRITER Police headquarters for a central filing FOIA requests with county ship, driver's licenses! private from the Wayne County and the commission take file. clerks. "About one-third com security guards, civil service Commission. The state Court of Appeals has immediate action. Prior to Nov. 1, 1995, the plied," he said. supervisory and managerial per The auditor general — ordered Michigan State Police to Commissioner Thaddeus forms were kept on index cards Complying were Macomb, sonnel, registered voters, dog along with the commission lift the veil of secrecy from pistol McCotter. R-Livonia. said Since then, they have been Kent and Washtenaw counties. owners and campaign contribu counsel — received $240,559 records for Redford resident outcounty residents per stored in a computer. Mager He said Livingston. Isabella tions. after commissioners voted Fred Mager. ceived commission budget as insisted it is a simple matter to and Midland counties refused. Courts have even held that the 14-0 to amend the county The court scoffed at the State "perks," and the separate run a copy of the computer tape. Wayne and Oakland counties city of Pontiac had to reveal the commission's budget. Police's claim that opening line item would help define Mager supports a bill by Rep. sent him lists of names (11,000 identity of Silverdome stadium The transfer of 0.2 percent records under the Freedom of that. Alan Cropsey, R-DeWitt. to elim from Oakland alone I but blacked boxholders, Bambery noted. from various county depart Information Act would be an "It is a clear delineation of "unwarranted invasion of per inate the 83 county gun boards' out the addresses, making the ments means Dunleavy can discretion in issuing permits to records useless for his purpose. add six more employees to who is spending what." sonal privacy." For 'criminal mind' McCotter said. "We conclude that the owner carry concealed weapons (CCWs, the auditor general's office to in police jargon). "I want to Defending MSP, assistant provide staffing levels need "Right now we don't spend ship of a gun does not reveal School precedent the attorney general money intimate or embarrassing details expose the records of the repre attorney general Thomas ed to audit each county sentatives and senators that One reason Michigan State Quasarano said records of law department every two years on ourselves." McCotter said of an individual's private life." "This will clearly show that." the panel said in a 3-0 decision don't support the Cropsey bill;" Police cited in refusing his FOIA enforcement personnel's names as the revised county charter Mager said. request was that the list would and addresses are exempt under mandates After commissioners Dec. 15. denied a motion to send the He said gun owners can take contain three million names. FOIA; that many police officers Voters approved charter "Defendants (State Police and amendment to committee, some credit for the 1996 defeats Mager said that in Florida, a obtain CCW permits; but that changes in November 1996 FOIA officer John McCarthy l do they approved the line item of Reps. Jim Ryan. R-Redford. larger state, the total list was th? records don't segregate to strengthen the offices of not point to - and we are amendment, 8-6. Beard. and Eric Bush. R Battle Creek - 259,000 names. names of police from others. the auditor general and com unaware of - any customs, McCotter, Bruce Patterson. defeats that helped Democrats He said he sent the Indiana Quasarano said uncovering mission counsel. mores, or ordinary views of the R-Canton, and Edward regain control of the Michigan State Police a check and got the the identities of permit holders Dunleavy's budget was the community that would lead to Plawecki Sr.. D-Dearborn House. same kind of list promptly in the would reveal "the places and center of much discussion the conclusion that gun owner Heights, approved those Also on his bad list is Rep. mail. locations of firearms," handguns during budget approval in ship is an intimate or embar items. rassing detail of an individual's Frank Fitzgerald, R-Grand Mager started his suit early in owned and possessed by private October. He received a sepa Ledge, who has announced he's 1996. But his case got a major homeowners, gun collectors, rate budget at that time, but Commissioners then private life " amended the budget. 14-0 It concluded: "We reverse the seeking the GOP nomination for boost last July when the Michi antique gun collectors, private also pushed for appropria attorney general. gan Supreme Court defined pri detectives and security guards, tions through budget trans Beard was pleased that trial court's grant of summary the amendment was disposition in favor of defen vacy under FOIA. The high jewelry dealers and businessper- fers to add staff. court said. "Information is of a sons generally, gun dealer Dunleavy believes he can approved. dants and remand for the trial 'Politics involved' "One year ago. voters court (Ingham Circuit Judge personal nature if it reveals inti inventories, gun and hunting have a greater ability to per "I'm not a hunter." Mager mate or embarrassing details of club members, prosecuting form oversight of major con amended the charter to Peter Houk) to enter summary strengthen the auditor gen disposition in favor of plaintiff said. "I carried a rifle in 1967 in an individual's private life." attorneys and law enforcement struction projects, including the boonies (Vietnam*. I'm a cer The Supreme Court decision - officers who register their pistols the expansion of Detroit era! and commission coun (Mager i with respect to the sel." Beard said, "iCommis information sought." tified instructor and a political cited in Monday's Court of as a safeguard in the event of MetYo Airport and county Appeals decision - came in the theft, and others." parks construction projects. sioners i pushed to get this It was signed by Judges action force." cases of Bradley vs. Saranac Opening the records, he said, done to allow an increase in Michael J Kelly. Maureen Pulte For eight years -Mager has The Commission counsel Board of Education and Lansing would open "a Pandora's box by staffing." Reillv and Kathleen Jansen. delivered for Bob's Pizza in department will add two Detroit, a job that "pays well" Area School Administrators vs. creating a virtual shopping list but exposes him to some danger. Lansing School District. for anyone bent on the theft of Will state appeal? He wounded one man who tried In those combined cases, firearms. . . and whatever else • The state has 21 days to to rob him. The man was facing teacher Christine Bradley and the criminal mind might evoke." * appeal to the Supreme Court. a court appearance the following the Lansing principals sought to In contrast, he said, revealing DOWNSIZED AND DISCOUNTED? Thi' odds are against the state, Monday morning on armed rob block release to parents of their holders of hunting and fishing however, because: li The Court bery charges. personnel records, especially dis licenses "does not open the doors • Need Five People • Focused and Teachable of Appeals opinion was unani Mager is a member of Brass ciplinary records, The high court of one's home to the public at • Duplicatable Support System • Expert Training mous; 2) the Supreme Couijt Roots, Michigan Gun Owners ruled the records were public large." already has ruled on what con and the Council of Responsible property and couldn't be exempt The Court of Appeals dis No Experience Necessary! stitutes an unwarranted inva Gun Owners. "I undertook this ed from a FOIA request. agreed, noting that case law DRS. ELIZEBETH &• GLENN SISK on my own," he said, without Mager's attorney is Daniel G. allows a union to obtain names sion of personal privacy: and 3) Gil! Sew 313-254-9057 the high court must grant leave help or approval from the Bambery of DeWitt. Fighting the and addresses of security In appeal. groups. "privacy" argument. Bambery's guards, and a newspaper to BODY WISE' INTERNATIONA!.. INC . obtain "mug" shots of defendants INDEPENDENT CONSULTANTS Mager sought a record known "There's politics involved. brief said the state routinely awaiting trial from the-Oakluncl as "MSP Form Kill. Safety That's the main reason they issues the same kind of informa Sheriffs Department. Inspection Certificate." It is (State Police* don't want this out tion Mager was seeking on hunt issued when local police depart of the bag." he said. ing licenses, fishing licenses, ments perform safety checks of a Mager said he already has marriage licenses, divorce c%pint <>t mstmns presents
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he Empire State Building, one of the None of this is particularly surprising, most recognizable icons of American cul given the diversity of American culture and Tture, is traditionally bathed in colored the freedom we enjoy to protest that which lights to celebrate various holidays and goes against our personal convictions. events. During the Christmas season, the Still, there is a message in Mallory Blair lights are red and green. Greitzer's successful campaign to balance the A couple of years ago, on a December night, red and green Christmas lights on the Empire a 7-year-old Jewish girl noticed that the lights State Building with the blue and white lights on the building were blue. She wondered if the of Hanukkah. She didn't ask that the Christ lights were in honor of Hanukkah, the Jewish mas lights be turned OFF, but that the Festival of Lights. Well, no, she learned upon Hanukkah lights also be turned ON. Good for inquiring, the blue lights were displayed on her, and good for Leona Helmsley for listen Dec. 12 of that year to recognize the birthday ing, even if the symbolic gesture is only for of Frank Sinatra, "old blue eyes." one night. That was OK, but the girl, Mallory Blair A country as rich in cultures and traditions Greitzer, thought that Hanukkah deserved to as the United States should focus on celebrat be honored on America's most famous (if no ing and learning from each and every one of longer tallest) edifice. She began a campaign them, not pitting one culture against another to try to make it so. or trying to stifle those traditions that do not have equal significance for every single indi It took two years (and a letter to Leona STAFF PHOTO BY BRYAN MITCHELL Helmsley, whose management company oper vidual. What better time of year to recognize ates the building), but this year on Dec. 23, this than in December. All aglow: It's a picturesque holiday scene as the new St. Constantine and Helen the first night of Hanukkah, the .lights on the This year isn't unique, but it is unusual, in Greek Orthodox Church in Westland glows through snow-laden b?*anches on a Empire State Building were blue and white, that three celebrations - Hanukkah, Christ recent evening. honoring the Jewish Festival of Lights for the mas and Kwanzaa - overlap almost exactly. first time in history. Tonight, Christmas Eve, Hanukkah, the eight-day Festival of Lights they revert to the red and green Christmas that begins on the 25th day of the lunar LETTERS colors. A menorah will be displayed in the month of Kislev, began this year at sundown lobby of the building during Hanukkah and a on Dec. 23; the traditional "12 days of Christ crescent and star will be on display for USA mas" last from Christmas Eve on Dec. 24 Do it right work to pass a restructuring plan. Muslim Day. through Jan. 6; and the African-American This can't be delayed because too many jobs ne of the toughest issues facing the Michi There is no great moral to this story, but Kwanzaa begins on Dec. 26 and continues are at stake and too much of Michigan's future gan Legislature is electric deregulation, this is the time of year that is often referred to through Jan. 1. O is at risk. We need action now to power Michi an issue so steeped in technical jargon that in the American Jewish community as "The The histories are different, the symbols are gan's future. most people prefer to ignore it. December Dilemma" - a time when Christmas different, the customs are different. But all Jeffrey Clevenger symbols are omnipresent while other religious these holidays share one common element: But ignoring this vital issue would be a president and CEO beliefs and observances seem to be given short They are joyous occasions celebrating various huge mistake. Michigan manufacturers - SMS Group Inc. shrift. It is also a time when the message of religious and cultural traditions. They are, including my company, SMS Group - are Troy and Saginaw "Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Men" is indeed, "happy holidays." That is their mes high-energy users, heavily relying on power to occasionally interrupted with protests about sage, and that is our message to all of you. run our businesses and make the products that we sell around the world. We not only religious symbols on public property or in the Happy Holidays! Work together classroom. need but demand a reliable energy source. That's why I am personally concerned that etting educational policy in Michigan is a deregulation be pursued in an orderly, fair Shuge responsibility that involves a large and comprehensive manner, ensuring us the number of people - not just legislators like best, most reliable energy sources possible. myself. One of the groups with the most Editorial's message timeless As a business person, I have monitored this knowledge and insight is teachers. issue closely, because the outcome will have a Recently, I conducted a special "listen-in" significant impact on my company's ability to hearing in Brownstown with the chair of the (Editor's note: Exactly 100years ago this year, exists as certainly as love and generosity and Senate Education Committee, Sen. Joanne what may well be the most famous editorial in devotion exist, and you know that they compete, grow and create new jobs. I also sit on the board of the Michigan Manufacturers Emmons, R-Big Rapids. The purpose was to history first appeared in the New York Sun. abound and give to your life its highest beauty give teachers a chance to speak out on con Written by Francis Pharcellus Church, the edi Association and have worked hard to bring all and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world cerns they may have with the current school torial was a response to a letter from an 8- if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as parties to the table to collectively seek a solu system, as well as to offer changes. year-old girl, Virginia O'Hanlon. It is as mean dreary as if there were no Virginias.There tion that ensures a reliable source of energy The teachers' responses were extremely ingful today as it was then.) would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no well into our future. helpful and positive. romance to make tolerable this existence. We Make no mistake about it, restructuring is The "listen-in" meeting originated from sur should have no enjoyment, except in sense and coming to Michigan one way or the other. kear Editor: veys sent out to educators across the district sight. The eternal light with which childhood Washington has put the industry next in line asking for input on ways to make life in the I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends fills the world would be extinguished. for restructuring, following the deregulation of the airlines, trucking, natural gas and classroom more productive and effective for say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says "If you Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as teachers and students. see it in the Sun it's so." well not believe in fairies! You might get your telecommunications. As a state, we can sit back, do nothing and For many teachers, it was the first time Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa papa to hire men to watch all the chimneys on they had been asked to speak out publicly on Claus? Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even let Washington set a "one size fits all" national education in Michigan. Through the surveys if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, policy that will probably fail to address Michi and the "listen-in" meeting, we received many what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa gan's unique needs as a peninsula state. That Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They thoughtful, intelligent responses from teach Claus, but that is no sign that there is no could endanger our state's jobs, businesses, have been affected by the skepticism of a ers . Santa Claus. The most real things in the and fail to ensure that our future electricity skeptical age. They do not believe except they Educators responded to a wide variety of world are those that neither children nor men needs are met. see. They think that nothing can be which is subjects, including class size, parental involve not comprehensible by their little minds. All can see.... Or our state lawmakers can tackle the issue by crafting a forward-thinking approach that ment, technology upgrades, safer schools, minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or No Santa Claus! Thank God, he lives, and inclusion of special needs students, atten children's, are little. In this great universe of he lives forever. A thousand years from now, provides a smooth transition to a more com petitive marketplace while protecting jobs and dance, testing and funding. ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intel Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years The comments made will serve as the basis from now, he will continue to make glad the businesses. lect, as compared with the boundless world for legislation to improve our educational sys heart of childhood. Handling restructuring at the state level about him, as measured by the intelligence tem. Already, a series of bills have been capable of grasping the whole of truth and offers another benefit. Our lawmakers can set tle the matter before the end of this year and worked on in the Michigan Senate which knowledge. Reprinted from the New York Sun, address the issue of safety and discipline in Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He Sept. 21, 1897 put Michigan's public policy on the cutting edge. That's where we need to be to help keep the classroom. our economy healthy and strong. Whatever changes are needed will only be That will also let business and electricity made after careful and deliberate considera providers begin to plan for the future, rather tion with all parties involved. Santa writes to youngsters than waiting to see what happens in Washing Working together, we can make education ton. The demand for electricity is rising in in Michigan - especially in Wayne County - better than ever. kear Kids, of yogurt instead of eggnog and cookies. She Michigan, yet no new generating plants are under construction. Sen. Loren Bennett thinks I need to lose weight! R-Canton I just finished reading all those thousands Just one more thing. Ask your parents if Our legislators should make electricity of letters you send me every year. I can't they can make sure there's enough room in restructuring one of their top priorities and respond ih person to every one of them, but the driveway to park the sleigh. Last year, the nice folks at the Observer said they'd pub Vixen and Dasher got tangled up in some lish my letter to all of you, so here it is. Christmas lights on one of those steep roofs, I can't promise that every single one of you and they're a little bit spooked about landing will get every present you asked for, but I'll do on the rooftop now. They'll get over it, but this Jlfestlanft SHmmrer the best I can. if you get to bed early and get a year I'm trying to keep the landing spots flat LEONARD POGER, COMMUNITY EDITOR. 313953-2107 good night's sleep, I'll try to be quiet and not and low. SUSAN ROSIEK, MANAGING EDITOR. 313-953 2149 wake you up. Take care now, and I'll see you tonight. You HUGHGALLAGHER, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR. 3139532118 PEG KNOESPEL, ADVERTISING MANAGER. 313-953 2177 Meanwhile, you could do a few things for won't see me, but tomorrow morning you'll LARRY QEIOER, CIRCULATION MANAGER. 313 953 2234 me, if you would. If you have a fire in the fire know I've been there. BANKS M. DISHMON, JR, PUBLISHER, 313-953-2100 place tonight, please ask your mom or dad to Love, STEVEN K. POPE, VICE-PRESIDENT/GENERAL MANAGER. 313-953 2252 put it out before he or she goes to bed. I come Santa RICK RCORELU, MARKETING DIRECTOR. 313-953-2150 down that chimney pretty fast,.and it gets HOMETOWN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, INC. mighty hot in there. PHIUP POWER, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD RICHARD AQINIAN, PRESIDENT If you have any extra pet food around, the reindeer would appreciate a dish of food and OUR MISSION: "Because we publish community newspapers, we think about community journalism maybe a bowl of water. Any kind of dog food or in a fundamentally different way than our bigger competition. They consider themselves to be cat food is fine. They don't like fish food very independent front the stories and communities (hey cover, swooping in to write the unusual or much. • ''-:..•: sensational and then dashing off to cover something else. We regard ourselves as both accurate Speaking of food, I really like those snacks journalists and as caring citizens of the communities where we work." you leave for me. But Mrs. Claus told me to — Philip Power ask if you'd leave skim milk or maybe a carton mm mmmmmmmmmmmimw mm^m mm mm*
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POINTS OF VIEW Miracle of Hanukkah offers modern lessons
wo thousand years ago. the great clear that the defilement of the oil cally correct, to harmonize with the feeding contaminated "oil" to its religious leaders of the Jewish was not accidental, but intentional character of the ruling class and the "\Jenorah." This tendency expresses Tpeople described the miracle of and systematic. A question begs to be novel ideas of the period. Such an itself in many ways: in the worship of Hanukkah in astoundingly concise asked. If the purpose of the Greeks approach, as planned by the Greeks, materialism and material success; in terms: During the occupation of the was to extinguish the light of the would gradually do away with the the presentation of one man-made Holy Land by the Greeks the latter Menorah and prevent its rekindling, permanence1 and immutability of such ideology after the other as the entered the inner sanctum of the why did they merely defile the oil; well-known Jewish religious practices panacea of all human ills; in the idol Jerusalem Holy Temple and defded they could have poured it all out? as the Sabbath, circumcision, and atry of science and technology; in the all the oils. (Jewish law recognizes Choosing their words with exquis other commandments. tendency to measure everything by states of "spiritual impurity" and ite care, the great Talmudic sages In a word, the Greeks did not aim the yardstick of human reason. "spiritual defilement." The olive oil were clueing us in as to the true at the suppression of the Torah, but Such attitudes do not necessarily used for the daily lighting of the Tem objectives of the Greeks, not to pre RABBI Y.M. KAGAN at its acceptance as the G-d given rule out "religious experience," but ple candelabrum, or Menorah in vent the rekindling of the Menorah, word, as G-d's Torah. either confine it to a narrow domain Hebrew was required to be utterly but rather that it should be rekindled perfect and beautiful literary cre Similarly, the Greeks were not or worse still, produce a sort of pseu- ; pure.) When the Hasmoneans defeated with defiled oil. ation, a work of poetry, wisdom, pro adverse to the moral and ethical val do-religiosity, where consecration and them, one small jug of oil was found Like oil from an olive, we can found philosophy, etc. - provided it ues contained in Torah, but they pro commitment are sacrificed to conve which evidently had not been touched extract from the above the essential was considered as a human creation - hibited the so-called "supera-rational" nience and compromise. by the Greeks. (The touch of an idol- meaning of Hanukkah, as follows: like their own mythology (for sure a precepts - such as keeping kosher - Hanukkah teaches Israel and us worshipping pagan would defile the One of the most common words in human invention - with the deities which, more than any other, distin that the sanctity and purity of Jewish oil and render it unfit for Temple Jewish religious parlance is the represented in human shapes and guish the Jewish way of life and make life must, can, and will be preserved use. I The little jug contained enough "Torah." This Hebrew word, meaning forms, with human characteristics it specifically Jewish, holy and pure. at all costs. oil only for one day. The Menorah was literally "the Teaching," refers to the and passions.) As such, the essential Hanukkah reminds us that the rekindled and the oil miraculously overall body of G-dly wisdom given to core principles of the Torah could be greatest danger to the Jewish way of Rabbi Y.M. Kagan is with the lasted eight days, until new oil could the Jews, beginning with the Bible. and ought to be changed and modified life lies not in the threat of extin Lubavitch Foundation in Farmington be prepared. The Greeks were willing to recog from time to time, so as to be politi guishing its light completely, but Hills. From the text of the Talmud it is nize the Torah, or even accept it as a rather in the tendency to defile it by Messiah's magic found on the road with strangers
he bus pulled out of New York It was the first Christmas in what '• home. She had to work Christmas began to feel peacefully present with City's Port Authority 10 minutes was then for me 24 Christmases in | Eve and hated that her daughter Christ. It is a feeling I would later Tlate. It was a cold, wind-swept which I did not awake in my child would spend Christmas on a bus. but < identify as Immanuel: God with us. Christmas morning with no traces of hood home. I must confess a part of she had no other choice. What I will never forget about that snow to cover the litter-strewn city. me felt free and very adult. Another trip is that for the first time I saw The streets were virtually empty, a part, however, felt very alone. Christ We spoke of past Christmases, our Christmas as being transcendent of rare sight at any time of the year in mas dinner was a hamburger and best and our worst. We weren't sure time and place. Christmas was not New York. some cardboard-like French fries in where this one would fall, but we only in family, trees and presents. It the bus station in Albany. The wait '• knew it wouldn't be the best. was also in strangers, aloneness and The bus. too, was nearly empty. An ress was cheerful. She was in her late | memory. While circumstances may i elderly couple in the front who would 40s or early 50s and widowed, she ! It was a 12-hour bus trip. Some vary and one may say this Christmas later get off in Westchester County; a told me. Her only child was a son who was better than that, the real power REV. RICHARD MARTZOLF where on the journey I realized I was young man, military looking, who could not get home for Christmas. I both connected to and now disconnect- of Christmas is not in the circum immediately fell asleep; a middle- That is why she decided to work. 1 ed from my family in a new way. I stances. It is the inner experience of aged woman and her young daughter, Everyone who comes in today will be • Rather than alone and for ; would, in fact, spend only one more the God who is with us. who did not seem to belong on a Grey my family, she said. lorn, I began to feel peace Christinas Day in the home of my Peace to all. the angels proclaim. hound bus at 8:10 a.m. on Christmas. fully present with Christ. It birth While something was lost on For unto you is born a Messiah. The driver made no acknowledge She gave me a big hug when I left is a feeling I would later ; that trip, something new began to Peace to all. ment of my entry. He, in fact, made and wished me a Merry Christmas. It i emerge. As I stared at the miles of identify as Immanuel: God 1 no sound until another driver relieved was a genuine, motherly hug. with us. frozen upstate New York farmland, I The Rev. Richard Martzolf is the him in Rochester. Even the little girl Between Albany and Rochester, I i began to feel a unique sense of my pastor of Christ the King Lutheran was remarkably quiet for the entire struck up a conversation with the ; own identity. Church on Farmington Road in Livo trip. middle-aged woman. She too was nia. He is a Livonia resident and a headed for Buffalo and her family Rather than alone and forlorn. I former newspaper reporter. Traditions ofyuletide endure
hen I was growing up, way back in the pre-television days of the '40s and '50s, Wayne County Wants You Wthe favored entertainment for my par ents and their circle of friends was to get togeth er and sing Christmas carols. IT you are a: Each Christmastime, they would gather at a different house, sing for an hour or so, have a Minority-owned drink, sing again and finally break for a buffet Women-owned supper. County-based And everybody had favorites. My mother's Small Business was the dramatic tale told in "The Coventry or Carol." Mine was and still is "Lo, How a Rose Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) E're Blooming," calling up such intense associa PHILIP POWER tions of the burning faith of the Middle Ages. I suppose all this is politically incorrect, but 1 Who could resist that soaring tenor line from don't much care. It's a lovely celebration of the Wayne County wants you to become a "The. First Noel"? season. It's consistent with my family's culture. prime or sub-contractor for county projects. One family in the group was German in ori And if some people don't want to sing Christmas gin, so at the end of the evening we always sang carols, they can come after 6:30. a verse of "Silent Night" in German, "Stille In fact, it turns out that a lot of the people Nacht, heilige Nacht" ringing in our ears as we most happily singing at our party this year were WAYNE COUNTY... walked through the snow to the car. Jewish. Everybody knew the words; most knew the How did they learn the carols? Just the same parts. way I did - in elementary school back in the Why? Because they were taught to every kid '40s and '50s. in elementary school. Back when I was in But that mechanism certainly isn't available school, we always had Christmas trees and the to our kids. Getting Creche, complete with animals and Wise Men. Does that mean that Scott and Nathan, our Nobody thought much about whether kids children, will never enjoy Christmas carols in «-,', ^ '> > who were not Christian were made to feel the way my parents did and I do? Or that the uncomfortable by the practice. Most people only way they will learn them is through the back then sim ply assumed that Christian obser pre-masticated Christmasy pop culture propa vances of Christmas were the appropriate gated by radio and TV? expression of the dominant culture of America. No. It means that Kathy and I will have to And if Jewish kids who celebrated Hanukkah or teach them, include them in our caroling par black kids who followed Kwanzaa felt left out or ties, talk with them about how much the carols put down, that was just too bad. and our tradition mean to us as a family. It Of course, it was precisely that unthinking means that we will urge our church to include assumption of a dominant religious culture that carol singing as a regular part of Sunday school led to the wholesale application of the First It means that the ways hy which the particu Amendment to state-supported schools and to lar culture of our family will be carried on from the consequent elimination of religious practices generation to generation will be up to us to auch as Christmas carols from the school cur build and develop as a family. We won't be ;»hlr riculum. to rely on the all-too-easy assumption of my par And although some may regret the way the ents' day that the schools are going to do it loi First Amendment has now been interpreted so ns. as to ban entirely all forms of religious practice It's harder. But it's better. Because it requires us to go to the conscious effort of iden from the schools, that may be a satisfactory &"£*£ tradeoff in a diverse America that seeks to tifying those parts of our family culture that we respect all forms of religious commitment. feel are of such value as to take the time and 1 found myself reflecting on this over the trouble to pass them on to our children For information on registration, certification weekend because my wife. Kathy, and I have Including singing "Stille Nacht, heilige ond compliance regulations call or write: resurrected the old practice of my parents" gen Nacht" at the end of caroling parties. • eration and make our big annual holiday party Phil Power is chairman of HamcTou n Commit Ronald G Miller, deputy director a Christmas sing We invil* lots of friends. nications Network Inc. He welcomes your corn Wayne County Human Relations Division Christian and not. with the clear understanding meats, either by voice mad at (,'i 13) 953-20-17. Kvt 600 Randolph, 5* floor • Detroit, Ml 48226 • 313-224-5021 thnt we will bo singing carols from 5-6:30 p.m.. 1880, or by e-mail at pfynwer1fiocanhnr.com whim w«' stop and have cocktails and nibbles. 1 " 3.%. 12A(S)(6C-F){4C*)(12A.R,W,Q) The Observer & Eccentric/THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997
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COMMON SENSORS ENTH STS DISCOVER
JACQUE MARTIN DOWNS Teen moms NTHE^CARDS benefit from STAFF PHOTO BY BRYAN MITCHELL • Interested in visiting dark magical lands? One giving time way is through Magic: The Gathering, a trading card amuel is just 1 year old. His lit game that has cornered 70 tle eyes show unconditional love ercent of the games mar- Sfor his mommy as she holds him Set since coming out in tightly. But when he's placed into the 1992. arms of the child care worker, his dancing eyes stop dancing as he real izes that he's being transferred from BY CHRISTINA FUOCO loving arms to a stranger. STAFF WRITER His mom has just turned 15, is not married, and has a quasi*boyfriend in As a wizard, Shelby Lincoln has no the wings. Her tempestuous relation mercy. She is grinning, having just ship with her mom and a non-rela drained the life from her friend and tionship with her stepdad make life fellow wizard Garrett Brink. miserable, but she knows that finding "I always beat him," Lincoln said a place of her own is out of the ques enthusiastically with the emphasis on tion. "always." Samuel's family worries that she's Lincoln and Brink, both Canton going to ask for child support; she Township residents, are visiting dark, worries that he's going to disappear. magical lands where wizards roam, Finishing high school seems "iffy" at fight off each other's spells and hope to this point... her future looks dim. end their rivals' lives. Samuel and all of the babies like Their fascination is with Magic: The him belong to the adolescent mothers Gathering, a trading card game so hot and fathers who participate in our that kids - and adults - will pay program known as Young Mother's upward of $160 for a card that's out of Assistance Program (Y-MAP). Our print. The alternative rock festival Lol- lapalooza even had a booth devoted to most recent Y-MAP function involved STAFF PHOTO BY Bnx BUSIER our prevention team putting on our Magic at its stop at Pine Knob last annual holiday monthly support summer. There's a $1 million pro tour, Dueling wizards: Female players like Shelby Lincoln, who challenges fellow Canton resident Garrett group and party for the teen parents and the finals were televised on ESPN Brink to a game of Magic: The Gathering, are few and far between, according to league organizers. and their babies. This particular 2 this fall. For players like the Canton Township youths, the Black Lotus card (top photo, center), is a very might's presentation was on alcohol, Since Bo Milbank of Westland rare card that makes it possible for a player to win in the opening hand. advertising and how large companies picked up Magic three to four years lure teens into drinking. ago, the game has "continued burning its way through the current games. It's in Canton Township said that market cards. The game's never the same." powerful and choosing which cards to Our speaker masterfully captured ing has upped the status of Magic. use in your deck to make it most effec the 85 teens' attention as he enthusi kind of taking over the market." "It's put a lot of companies out of "It's picked up considerably especial Game of strategy tive. . astically conveyed the point that ly after the commercials started air The object of Magic is to reduce your "We like to say that Magic is a com every teen is being sucked in by the business; 70 percent of the market for games was being eaten by Wizards of ing," said Freese, standing in front of a opponent's score from 20 to 0 by strate bination of the strategy of chess, the alcohol industry to buy alcoholic bev wall of shelves holding different boxes gically playing cards that among other bluffing ability of poker and just the erages. the Coast (the makers of Magic)," said Milbank, who runs a Friday night of Magic cards. things cast spells and attack. luck of the draw," Wrobleski said. We are very proud of our Y-MAP gaming league at the Bailey Recreation Freese himself is an avid player hav Cards are sold in decks, which cost A child's version of the game called program because it services a popula Center in Westland. "Companies like ing been introduced to it two years ago. about $8.95. Players build their decks Portal spells out the game using a tion of unmarried teens who don't get TSR have actually filed for bankruptcy. "I enjoy the challenge and all the dif by purchasing multiple decks or any of paper game board. a lot of support. Unmarried teen Since 1992, over one billion cards have ferent cards," the 21-year-old music the 2,731 individual cards from deal They have portals for little kids and moms aren't a crowd who have made been sold. These guys are rich beyond student from Belleville said. "There's ers. They must have a minimum of 40 ignorant people," said Lincoln, as she smart choices. They know it, their their wildest dreams at this point." tons of different expansion sets, and cards to play Magic, although Freese pulls it out to teach the basics of the parents know it and their babies are a there's thousands and thousands of and Milbank suggest 60. product of those choices. Jason Freese of Rider's Hobby Shop game. Players begin by shuffling their While Shelby and Garrett played a Our job is to advocate for the Variety: decks and drawing seven cards. They game, Lincoln's mother, Pam, babies. This includes helping the par alternate taking turns. Each turn is explained why her daughter enjoys ent by steering him or her toward Mike Wrob- made up of a series of actions, such as Magic. resources he or she is in need of (food, leski, owner playing cards and attacking their oppo housing, baby formula, diapers). It "Shelby likes imagination and fanta ofMerri- nent. sy things. Sh,e reads a lot of fantasy includes teaching them parenting The cards are of five different back skills, about the hazards of substance Seven Coins books," said Pam Lincoln of her daugh in Livonia, grounds - white, blue, black, red or ter, a student at Plymouth's East Mid abuse and abuse and advocating for green - each of which is a spell. The them to finish school. dle School. Garrett attends Lowell shows off the remaining colorless cards are either Middle School. All of this is done to ensure that Black Lotus artifacts (another type of spell) or According to Milbank, Shelby Lin they will be the best parents they can card as well lands. coln is in the minority. be. It's to the taxpayer's advantage, as the decks, Mike Wrobleski of Merri-Seven "We see usually male (players)," Mil- too, because we hope to keep these Coins in Livonia, explained that there single parents clear of substance priced at bank said. "We do have a couple of gals $8.95, and are also five different branches or who show up; a lot of teen-agers. It's abuse, off the welfare rolls and give lands of Magic - forest, island, moun hard to have an average player. We their children a jump-start to begin some of the tain, plains and swamps. Lands create have a lot of high school kids, college preschool and kindergarten with the 2,731 indi the energy (mana) needed to play kids, adults in their 40s. It runs the same skills as their peers. vidual cards spells. full spectrum. A time to give thanks players can The basic strategy of Magic lies in "My wife calls it the 'Geek Fest' and buy for choosing when to play your cards and I'm the 'Lord of the Geeks.' Truthfully, We are particularly grateful this when to use your creatures to attack holiday season to all the unsung Magic: The there are some ge^ks there, but for the your opponent or protect yourself. most part it's non- geeks who have heroes who contributed gifts to the Gathering. More complex strategies involve com young mothers. bining your cards to make them more Please see MAGIC, B2 The Newburg United Methodist ST AFT PHOTO BY BRYAN MITCHELL Church in Livonia donated their church for our support group meeting. Their members (from children to adults) participated in a drive to give sleepers, and books to the "newborn Guide has the answers American Academy babe" which were ultimately given to the teens and babies. of Pediatrics We also appreciate all of the Hegira staff who contributed gifts (Livonia THE OFficiAL, COMPUTE HOME REFERENC Counseling, Northville Counseling, to parental questions Romulus Help Center, Westland Counseling, Next Step, Oakdale BY DIANE GALE ANDRKASSI Released last month, the book is a quick ref Treatment Facility, Hegira House, SPECIAL WRITER erence guide, allowing the reader to flip to Psychiatric Intervention Center and GUIDE Most parents would love to have thousands of pedia specific areas according to symptoms. Hegira's fiscal and administration). tricians at their fingertips, available to answer ques "It covers a lot of health issues that parents We thank the Canton Target Store tions about their child's growth problems, allergic worry about," said Blum, who is immediate for the donated Christmas tree, Sears reactions, coordination deficiencies and countless past president of the Michigan chapter of the Portrait Studio for the coupons for other concerns. AAP. ffiYOUR photographs, a Euchre Club and a Blum also works on its national commit group of Moms of Toddlers donations, The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Symptoms" offers caregivers insights into the tees and is newsletter editor of the "Michigan Schellhase, Rekiel and Mitcham of Pediatric Update" and a clinical associate Livonia for their sleepers and books 100 most common childhood symptoms. Topics include fears, frequently ill children, attention deficit hyperac professor at Wayne State University's and an individual donation of toys School of Medicine, CHILD'S and personal hygiene products. tivity disorder, irritability, posture defects and temper tantrums as well as learning, speech and vision prob The AAP is an organization of more than But mostly, as a prevention direc 53,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric tor, I am most proud of the prevention lems. "I think it will be a very good book for working par medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical team. The dedication of these young specialists dedicated to the health, safety ladies is extraordinary. Every mem ents when their child wakes up and they don't know SYMPTOMS and well-being of infants, children and ber of the team participates to make whether to go to work or to the doctor's office," said H,K young adults. "< ',, ROUGH A»OU;SCKN<:K the support group evenings fun. Each Dr. George L. Blum, a pediatrician who shares his The book is designed to give parents reas " 1 I'STK V1KD * * I' K P - » V S Tf P Southfield practice with his son, Robert, Dr. Celeste i surance about common health problems and '•"<•• «>£>! * i ' '' m IMI Please see SENSORS, B2 Lopez and Dr. Penny Coin. "They will get very good U una M <, tl%)k ,,,,,^ advice from this book." Please see GUIDE, B2 T 7 0 \
iMMMMMMtttfl mmmmmmmm B2(W0c) The Observer & Eccentric/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997 Volunteerism nets nonprofits grants frpm Ameritech Eight nonprofits are on the state who participated in the Stevenson and Redford Thurston Habitat for Humanity. Arjgelqj Hospice Home Care it serves. Last year, the company receiving end of contributions program this year. High schools. Two organizations have bene Inc. is thq beneficiary of Elaine contributed more than $25 mil froh) the Ameritech Foundation, "The program's goals are . Ameritech engineer Robert fited from the work of Al Calille Stewartwf Westlanct's volun^ lion to 2,000 nonprofit organiza recognizing their employees' vol threefold - to recognize Desoff of Plymouth was recog of Plymouth. Cub Scout Pack teensmfand a recipient of a tions and Ameritech Pioneers - untarism. Ameritech employees who volun nized for his efforts with the 1532 has enjoyed his help with foundation grant. Waite is a 25,000 employees and retirees Tjfve foundation has contribut teer their time to community MacTechnics Ann Arbor Com its Pinewood Derby, overnight human resource specialist at throughout the Midwest - volun ed^ total of $189,000 in grants service, to provide an incentive puters Users Group Inc., where campouts and other activities. Ameritech and volunteers in teered 332,500 hours of commu to -X?U:eligible nonprofit organi for other Ameritech employees to he serves as the newsletter edi And the Plymouth Family patient qare at the Angela Hos- nity service. zations in Michigan through an donate their time, and to link tor and on the community ser YMCA receives pro bono legal pice>Honjje. She also helps train "The heart of any corporation employee program designed to the Ameritech Foundation's vice project team in addition to counsel from Calille, an volunteers for the agency's can be measured by how enthu increase support for volun grant making with employee being an all-around volunteer. Ameritech attorney. bereavertent team and coordi siastically its people give back to teerism arui community service. involvement," said Lisa Benefiting from Thomas Sharon Waite of Redford, an nates the Angela Hospice Choir. their communities," Hamway The Ameritech Pioneer Pro Hamway, director of corporate Napolitano's volunteerism was Ameritech engineer, has been- And Joseph Dluzniewski of said. "Day in and day out, the gram for Employee Volun contributions for Ameritech in the Southeast Michigan devote her time to the Huron Livonia has been giving his time men and. women of Ameritech teerism and Community Service, Michigan. Returned Peace Corps Volun Forest Camp Cherith Inc. She is to the Metro West District of the increase the size of Ameritech's now in its third year, provides Kathleen Tell of Livonia land teers Inc. A Livonia resident and a vice-president and member of Boy Scouts. A customer service heart through cheerful giving. contributions of up to $1,000 to ed a grant for the Girl Scouts for Ameritech software engineer, its Board of Directors and tech specialist, he has served as an "They have a long-standing organizations for w,hich her volunteerism. Tell, who Napolitano currently is its trea nology committee. She also has assistant pack leader and in desire to strengthen their com Ameritech employees have vol works in product management surer. The group works with been involved in weekend pro organizing trips for the Boy munities and empower their unteered eight hours a month at Ameritech, has been a troop other organizations on such jects, hands-on events and Scouts. neighbors, and they willingly for at least six months in 19.97.. leader for 11 years for senior things as World Medical Relief, served as a tent counselor at the Ameritech has a tradition of offer their time and talent to There were 201 employees in the scout troops at Novi, Livonia Motor City Blight Busters and camp. giving back to the communities make a difference."
from'page Bl other interests outside Magic." "They can build a deck anyway that when their kids get into it, good and stuff. His buddies were they want; all the standard rules there's someone to answer ques all slapping him on the back." Taking it seriously for Magic are dissolved for that tions. The game is not totally "The big guy," Wrobleski, Merri-Seven is one of eight or night," he said. "You're not self-evident. Parents like that pulled out a Eureka card which Leagues cater to fans 10 "arena stores" in the area allowed to have more than four option because they don't want allows the player to play all the which hold monthly tourna of any particular card, but on to learn the game." permanent cards in his or her ments under the auspices of our night, if you want to run 25 Wrobleski and Moore said they hand. Magic: The Gathering leagues are held in at least two loca Wizards of the Coast. Wrobleski lightning bolts, you can do it." get a lot of "gun slingers" who "Because of the way the kid tions in this area: and-his store's assistant manag On Friday, Dec. 19, Milbank come in to the store, thinking was playing, instead of having • Bo Milbank hosts The Battlefield, a gaming night'for ers-Ramon Moore, serve as hosted a tournament where they can beat them at Magic. seven cards in my hand, I had Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fanta judges. players had to use "Christmas* One high school student strutted 20-21 cards in my hand," he sy and Necromunda, 6-10 p.m. Fridays at the Melvin G. Bai The new season begins in decks." All the decks had to into Merri-Seven with an said. "I attacked him with just ley Recreation Center, 36651 Ford Road (half mile west of early January when Merri-Seven include red and green cards or entourage and said he wanted to enough stuff, so he couldn't Wayne Road, behind City Hall), Westland. will move to Merriman and Five any other artifact with a Christ play Ramon. He wasn't avail defend himself. No matter how The cost is $3 per night. Those ages 12 and older are admit Mije roads. It costs $3-$5 for the mas motif to it. able, so Wrobleski offered to he did it, he was going to lose. ted. For more information, call (734) 722-7620. season. Besides selling the cards, play. He looked down there and it • Merri-Seven Coins hosts a Magic league, held under the "If you join the arena here you which Wrobleski and Moore "I had one absolutely silly looked like he had a tear in his auspices of Wizards of the Coast, the makers of Magic. The can go to any other arena in the have done since 1993, and judg deck, but it was for jokes and eye. next season begins in January when Merri-Seven Coins will country," Wrobleski said. "It's ing tournaments, the duo teach one that was a tournament level "He picked up his cards and move from 19159 Merriman Road to its new location at Merri being played all over the world." es adults and children how to deck," he said. "I asked him walked out. His little entourage man and Five Mile roads. Occasionally, Milbank will play. which deck he wanted to play. had their heads down following The $3-5 cost allows players to participate in tournaments hold a "tournament illegal," "There's a lot of parents who He picks the silly deck. To make him. As he was walking out the in any arena store in the United States. For more information, a long story short, he got me door, I asked him, 'You want to where the rules are "consider come in here with their children call (24«) 474-5373. ably different" than'arena play, who want to get involved," Wrob down to seven or eight points. play my good deck next?' I didn't at the Bailey Center. leski said. "They like to know He thought he was doing really see him for about a month." —L ; •••
Guide from page Bl Think Trim has tips for the holidays pc^ibly calm them down, if Previous AAP books include tobacco and alcohol problems, The holidays have arrived ... (3) Don't be fooled by the gift but plan time to exercise. ihJMM*e overreacting to some "Caring for Your Baby and learning and behavioral disor so has the parties, gifts of food wrap. Many holiday foods are Remember any exercise is better thing that really isn't serious. Young Child" and "Caring for ders, issues concerning disabled and even more parties. around all year long. The red than no exercise and you can £pr, it could alert them to Your School Age Child," which children, sports medicine, nutri If you're like most Americans, and green foil-wrapped chocolate even make exercise a part of sorftething that they hadn't combined have more than 1 mil tion, child-health financing, pub you will gain 7-10 pounds this Santa tastes the same as the your holiday celebration with tHotlght about," Blum said refer lion copies in print. Both books lic education, professional edu holiday season. So should you chocolate pumpkin you ate a few family and friends. Take a long ring^ to warnings listed on each were selected by Child magazine cation and advocacy for pediatri succumb to the temptations of months ago. walk in the neighborhood to see page, highlighting syjfnptoms as one of the best parenting cians. the season and vow to diet in the (4) Choose healthy alterna all the holiday decorations tKJro should be taken seriously books of the year. "These are all things that we New Year? tives. This is the perfect time of (6) Start now. Think of how ailcjjwarrant calling a doctor for "The American Academy of "No," says Lorraine Stefano, year to redo that old family much further along you'll be in m learn from our academy and our Pl^ information. Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's readings," Blum said. "Doctors founder and director of Think recipe by making some healthy Jan. 1. ^EKe second part of the book is Symptoms" is available at Bor are always studying. We're Trim. You can enjoy the holidays substitutions. For more information about anJftlustrated first aid manual, ders Book Stores and other always trying to get better at without gaining weight and she (5);Stay active. With the holi the Think Trim program, call wbaph covers lifesaving tech- major outlets for $25. what we do and we try to keep has a few healthy tips to help days} schedules become busier, (248) 589-3283. n£4ves and how to treat less "It's a comprehensive book you out. serjpus situations such as bites, and, if someone is buying one one step ahead of the parent who reads a lot, too." (1) Go through the buffet line stings, cuts and scrapes. Safety book for the care of their child, twice. Start by going through issues concerning playpens, this certainly would be the book During 30 years of practicing the line without your plate. Look Sensors from page Bl b^Jrooms and what to do in poi to get," Blum said. "I think it's a medicine, Blum said the most over the entire buffet and make soning situations also are very good book for parents of common question he hears is some choices. Then go through of them shows a tireless commit They, too, are holiday heroes. addressed. children of different age groups." from mothers asking if their with your plate, remembering ment which does not go unno If you have a question or com i^Kost all of the publications of The AAP was founded in 1930 newborns are healthy. you can have some but not all. ticed by the teens. So if you ever ment for Jacque Martin Downs, th>CAmerican Academy of Pedi- by 35 pediatricians who met in "That's the most important (2) Stuff your turkey, not your- run into Jan Yuergens, Connie a prevention specialist and the atj^ts are well-written and well- Detroit in response to the need thing we can tell the parent of a self. Stuffing is truly only for Moore, Ty Madge, Sherri Fick or director of Hegira Prevention received," Blum said. "They're a for an independent pediatric new baby, but unfortunately we turkeys. Sample some of the hol Sue Beck, give them a pat on the Programs, write her at The gooct source of information and forum to address children's can't tell that to everybody," iday food but remember modera back. They work relentlessly to Observer Newspapers, 36251 quite accurate." needs. The group tackles drug, Blum said. tion is the key. get these teens back on track. Schoolcraft, Livonia 48150. Join the 3-2-1-SOLD! club.
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WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS Shepherd-Gaudreau Mokanyk-Jensen Miller-Whitmore Fred Shepherd of Livonia William Theodore Mokanyk of Michael William Miller of announces the ongagement of Greensburg, Ind., and Julie Livonia and Rachel Suzanne his daughter, Alison Kathleen, Elizabeth Jensen of Plymouth Whitmpre of Plymouth were to Jon Paul Gaudreau, the son were married July 4 at Old St. married Oct. 25 at Our Lady of of Ray and Barb Gaudreau of Patrick's Catholic Church in Orchard Lake Church by the Livonia. Ann Arbor by the Rev. Terrence Rev. John Sullivan. The bride-to-be, the daughter Dumas. The bride is the daughter of of the late Kathleen Shepherd, The bride is the daughter of David and Irene Whitmore of is a 1993 graduate of Livonia John and Arlene Jensen of Ply Plymouth. The groom is the son Ch urchill High School and is mouth. The groom is the son of of Regis and Kathy Miller of pursuing a degree in chemical John and JoAnn Mokanyk of Livonia. engineering at Michigan State Greensburg, Ind. The bride is a graduate of Ply University. She will graduate in The bride received a bache mouth Salem High School, May 1998. lor's degree from Indiana Uni Michigan State University and Her fiance also is a 1993 grad versity and a secondary teach Madonna University. She is cur uate of Livonia Churchill High ing certification from Eastern rently employed with a Detroit School and a 1997 graduate of Michigan University. She is cur law firm. the Center for Creative Studies. rently teaching at Northville The groom is a graduate of He is employed as a designer for High School. Wayne Memorial High School Chrysler Corp. in Auburn Hills. The groom earned a bachelor's Darren Mokanyk served as the and Michigan State University. A May 1998 wedding is degree from Indiana University. best man with Erik Jensen, He is currently employed with planned in St. Aidan Catholic Church in Livonia. He is employed by National Spe Chris Chapman, Ryan Schutte, Isuzu Motors of America. Darrow, Scot Steiber, Jerry ciality Services. Travis Snyder, Kevin Foster and The bride asked Jan Hartford Smart, Terry Desselles. Bob The bride asked Katie Ran- Mike Greiwe as groomsmen. to serve as her matron of honor, Graskewicz and Dave Bilesinio Carlisle-Harrison dlett to serve as her matron of The couple received guests at with Jennifer Graskewicz, Jen as groomsmen. Michael Bilesinto Jim and Cyndi Carlisle of honor with Julie Rohrig, Chris the Mayflower Meeting Housein nifer Mankarious, Marcie Bilesi- was the ring bearer. Livonia announce the engage tine Kelly, Erin Flanagan, Plymouth before leaving on a mo, Lea Anna Brunsman and The couple received guests af ment of their daughter, Karin Tammy Ho and Claire Goff as honeymoon trip to Grand Cay Elizabeth Kuehnle as brides the Forest Lake Country Club Anne, to Stephen Russell Harri bridesmaids. man. maids. Toni Bilesimo was the before leaving on a honeymoon son, the son of Greg and Judy flower girl. trip to California and Maui. Harrison of Livonia. Glenn Moore served as best They are making their home in The bride-to-be is a 1994 grad Fournler-Stark man, with Mark Miller. Dave Livonia. uate of Livonia Stevenson High George and Nita Fournier of School. She expects to graduate South Deerfield, Mass., Beardsley-Porter from Grand Valley State Univer announce the engagement of sity in April with a major in psy their daughter, Leslie Karen, to Ken and Mary Beardsley of chology/special education and a Douglas Thompson Stark, the Canton announce the engage minor in elementary education. son of Tony and Loretta Stark ment of their daughter, Kelly Her fiance also is a 1994 grad of Livonia. Threse, to John Randal Porter, uate of Livonia Stevenson High The bride-to-be is a graduate the son of Frank and JoAnn School and a 1997 graduate of of Michigan State University Porter, also of Canton. Grand Valley State University with a bachelor's degree in exer The bride-to-be is a graduate with a degree in biomedical sci cise physiology. She is employed of Plymouth Canton High School ences. He is interviewing for by Diagnostic Ultrasound Corp. and Sally Esser Beauty School. acceptance to medical school. as a territory manager. She currently works as a cosme A July wedding is planned at Her fiance also is a graduate tologist at Shear Madness in Memorial Church of Christ in of Michigan State University Livonia. Livonia. with a bachelor's degree in Her fiance is a graduate of building construction manage Westland John Glenn High ment. He is employed by the School. He currently works at City of Royal Oak as a firefight Elite Communications as a VideoMagic holds seminar er and as a real estate appraiser supervisor of the Prime Star by Heritage Appraisal Services Division. Merchants specializing in more information, call Salloum in Livonia. A February wedding is Church in Canton. weddings can get help educating at(734)591-1652. A November wedding is being planned. planned at St. Thomas A' Becket brides about shopping for a par ticular service through a semi nar being organized by Mark Salloum of VideoMagic Produc tions in Livonia. hea sous /o Choose Salloum is organizing "How to Shop for Your Wedding Day, two two-hour seminars on Feb. 8 at uniuersitij of mictnaan the Dearborn Inn..It is designed to educate couples about what they should look for in a good 7A>a///> ( >are DJ, photographer, Baker, bridal dress and the like. In addition, couples will have an opportunity to speak with participating businesses one-on- one to answer questions or book /nst/ranct* services. Each seminar will have seat For your convenience we accept ing for 40 couples. There will be most major insurance plans, short lectures of about 10 min utes by individual businesses, including. followed by the "open house." M-CARE Businesses interested in par Blue Care Network ticipating in the seminar can secure an exclusive place in the Blue Cross / Blue Shield seminar with a $50 deposit, of Michigan payable to VideoMagic Produc tions, is due by Dec. 31. For Aetna Managed Care OmmCare (no: JUI'JNP r CRAFTS ! tvmgston LPirtvi Selectcare ta\,3 :stle <.- Oct l Listings for the Crafts Calendar should be submitted in writing m Medicaid no later than noon Friday for the • Medicare next Thursday's issue. They can be mailed to Sue Mason at ^sl thousand little ways • And Others Call to make 36251 Schoolcraft, Livonia sure your health plan is 48150. or by fax at (313) 591- accepted 7279. For more information, call (313) 953-2131. to show we care SCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE Applications are being accepted Many sites offer extended hours, including for the spring craft show March A reassuring .smile. A good cur. A kind voice. 7 at Schoolcraft College, 18600 daring has always lx:cn essential to curing, Saturdays. ( A* /V //> {)(>uf Haggerty Road, Livonia. The fee and that is especially true when it conies to our \ ciy/ihttrhfKxi is $90 for a 12-by-12- foot space. We have all the services you n^\x\ to stay young patients. We care about children so we $55 for a 10-by-10-foot space and health)' Many locations offer laUiratory tests Call I 800-211 8181 for $40 for a 8-by-9-foot space or an know how to care for them. At the I'niversity 8-by-4-foot hallway space. There and X-rays. too. information about hours and of Michigan Health denters, we Mievc the only is an additional $15 fee for elec providers tricity. Applications must be way to know your child and understand all of If you ever neeil ,i socialist, you're already received by Jan. 9 to be eligible his or her health needs is to lie in your neighlior- linked with the l-M Medical ("enter ami our for the first jury round. To Canton receive an application, call the hood It's the easiest way to help your child the hundreds of c\|vrts -i Joseph G Jender M 0 & Assoc. department of marketing and most. Here's what else makes us ideal for your 8524 Canton Center Road development at (734) 462-4417. finding the right doctor close to vour home is whole family: MADONNA UNIVERSITY simple, and making an ap|*>intmciu is easy Madonna University is accept • We have plenty of pediatricians. otVgyns, .lust call the numlvr Mow and we will help Farmington Hills ing applications from crafters for family practice physicians and general you select a physician and even schedule vour Middlebelt Pedialncs its 13th annual spring arts and crafts showcase 10a.m. to 4:30 internists in vour eonimunitv. first appointment. 21000 Middlehelt Roiid p.m. March 28 in the Activities Center on campus, Schoolcraft and I^evan, Livonia. Booth space Livonia measuring 9 feet by 6 feet with UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN • Livonia Internet Medicif two chairs and one G-by-8-foot table is $50. Booths with elec 17316 Farmington Road tricity are limited and are an 1 Health Centers additional $5 Exhibitors may purchase up to three spaces. 1 - 8 0 () - 2 I 1 - 8 1 8 1 Plymouth Crafters will receive a $5 dis • Plymouth He.ilth Center count is their forms are received hy Feb. 1. For more information, /H'K-UI/'H' tiorld-riaw /nuill/i var-v s/iouidn't />c >//(/ on
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•t^a^mmjmmmtmmtmKmmmti The Observer & Eccentric/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997 (B5-ReWGc)*Bt Woodcarvers' talents brighten up child care center
BY SUE MASON include 6-inch-tall wooden sol were Sister Van de Vyver's idea, STAFF WRITER diers and the head of Santa sur executed by Pietrzak. It sure does look like Christ round by a Christmas tree, the She wanted the room to mas in the lobby of the St. Mary winner of an ornament contest resemble a neighborhood. The Hospital Child Care Center, and the group holds, according windows, painted in different the elves doing the work are the Pietrzak. pastel colors, flank doors leading Livonia Woodcarvers. "We use the whole club for to the different child care rooms A Christmas in the center's this," he said. "And the orna that surround the play are on lobby is filled with the carvers' ment doesn't have to be just three sides. * handiwork, close to 200 hand Christmas stuff. We have one Pietrzak made the shakes and made and handpainted wooden guy who's going carve some little took about two weeks to make ornaments members have been cars for the tree." the awnings that were installed making for two years. The ornaments are only small just before the center's grand "I knew it would be a two-year part of what the group has done opening in July 1996. project," said Tony Pietrzak, toy for the center. The front of the They really help make it nice, chairman for the 200-member reception counter in the lobby not institutional," said Sister club. "When the center opened a showcases their talents. Sister Van de Vyver. year ago, we wanted to do some Van de Vyver came up with the The center is one of several thing nice and we came up with idea to make the center appeal organizations that benefits from the idea of the handmade orna ing to both adults and children. the woodcarvers' talents. Mem ments." The interlocking blocks are bers have been making wooden "We're extremely grateful," done in different colors of stain toys to give to children placed said center director Sister Joyce as are the numbers which are with Spectrum Human Services Marie Van de Vyver. "We've also puzzles. The number one is and for young patients at Chil been able to have someone to go in one color, two is in two pieces dren's Hospital of Southeast to for help. They're a real and two colors and three in three Michigan for about 10 years. resource." pieces and three colors. At the hospital, the toys are The club members provided "It took a lot of interaction given to children or placed in about 65 ornaments last year, with Sister Joyce to get some waiting rooms to be played with and: Pietrzak expects at least thing appropriate for the lobby," while children wait for treat that many more to add to the Pietrzak said. "Any ideas she ments. In addition to wooden PHOTO BY JEMT HCKDOZA tree this year. comes up with, I help. If I can't cars and trucks, the woodcarvers Holiday cheer: Thanks to Livonia Woodcarvers like Tony Pietrzak (from left) the Club members begin working do it, I find someone who can." have come up with a brightly painted children's rocker made Christmas tree in the lobby of the St. Mary Hospital Child Care Center is filled on the ornaments in October. "We wanted it to be child-like with handmade wooden ornaments, eye-catching for 19-month-old Sarah Bates of Pietrzak buys the lumber, which but something adults could to look like an airplane. is trimmed down and patterns relate to," Sister Van de Vyver And like Santa Claus, Livonia and center director Sister Joyce Van de Vyver. applied by members with craft added. "We wanted it to be taste Pietrzak has made a list of saws. The blocks of wood are ful and appealing to adults and things to make for the center. sary. something. ter, especially the specialty then given to members to be children alike." The future projects includes cra "I had cancer three times and I The guild members do a lot of items we wouldn't be able to carved and painted. The shake-style awnings over dles, a rocking horse, small busi beat it three times," he said. nice things for people. They purchase or obtain in any other Additions to the tree this year windows facing on the indoor ness-style signs for the doors This is my chance to give some enjoy doing it, especially this." way," added Sister Van de play area, the sky room, also and more ornaments, if neces- thing back, my chance to return This is a big help to the cen Vyver.
And then there were ... Museum celebrates Kwanzaa The Museum of African Ameri principles by which African a first come-first served basis. can History will observe Kwan Americans should live - Umoja The workshops, activities and zaa daily Friday, Dec. 26, (unity), Kujichagulia (self-deter performances throughout the through Thursday, Jan. 1. mination), Ujima (collective day will correlate with the day's An African American holiday, work and responsibility), Uja- featured principle. Kwanzaa is celebrated to reaf maa, (cooperative economics), For children, there will be firm the commitment to family, Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativi workshops where they will make community and the black strug ty) and Imani (faith). Each day, a collage in celebration of gle. one of the seven principles Detroit, create self-portraits and The Kwanzaa celebration will (Nguzo Saba) is featured to clari design spirit bottles and African fy its significance. start at noon each day with a masks with Detroit artists Adri- Kwanzaa ritual, followed by a At the museum, the Kwanzaa enne Edmonson, and Donald dance performance. From 1-3 daily ritual will consist of the Calloway. The workshops will p.m., visitors will be treated to a lighting of the candles, clarifica emphasize creativity, purpose range of Kwanzaa performances, tion of the day's principle and and self-determination. activities and workshops offered the pouring of libations. Repre throughout the building. sentatives and families from the The museum will be open 9:30; The tradition of Kwanzaa was community, such as Gregory a.m. to 5 p.m., including Mon-; created out of the philosophy of Guice of the Southern Christian day, Dec. 29. Kwanzaa activities Kawaida by Dr. Maulana Karen- Leadership Conference, Dr. are free of charge with museum ga, a black studies professor and Robert Bland of Lewis College of admission - $3 for adults and $2 Five generations: Marie Flowers of Allen Park decided to sit down with a few black activist. It was first cele Business, Nkenge Abi of the for children. of her relatives this past summer, all five generations. Joining the great-great- brated by his family and friends Shrine of the Black Madonna The Museum of African Ameri grandmother (from left) was great-grandfather Brian Mastaw of Northville, on Dec. 26, 1966. and Baba Ademiwole, will lead can History is at the corner of grandmother Janet Mastaw of Red ford, mother Michelle Frush of Red ford Derived from Kwanzaa, a the ceremony. Warren and Brush streets in and her infant son, William. Swahili word meaning "first The ritual will take place in Detroit. For more information, fruits of the harvest," Kwanzaa the Dr. Charles H. Wright The call the museum at (313) 833- celebrates the minimum set of ater. Seating will be available on 9800. ADDRESS DIRECTOR Find these sites on the World Wide Web - Brought to you by the services of O&E On-l_ino! To get your business On-Line!, call 313-953-2038
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Listings for the Religion Calen Tuesdays and others courses in p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, at ing and stretching exercises that and Lisieux (France) from April Road, Livonia. Family members, dar should be submitted in writ 4T, meditation and unity basics. Salem National Evangelical have been practiced by the Chi 24-May 7. The price is $2,895 those with cancer and friends ing no later than noon Friday for For more information, call (248) Lutheran. Church, 32430 Ann nese since the 11th century. For per person in a double room. A are invited to share, encourage the next Thursday's issue. They 449-8900 or at its Web site, Arbor Trail, Westland. For more more information, call (248) 332- single supplement is $280. For and support one another in a lov can be mailed to Sue Mason at http://www.cotw.com. information, call the church at 1281. more information, call Carlson ing, hopeful God'focused envi 36251 Schoolcraft, Livonia DIVORCECARE (313) 422-5550. BIBLE STUDY Wagonlit Travel in Plymouth at ronment. For more information, 48150, or by fax at'(313) 591- DivorceGare, a special video ROSE BOWL PARTY The Ladies Bible Study of (313)455-5810. call the church at (3J.8) 422- 7279. For more information, call seminar and support group, has Merriman Road Baptist • Detroit First Church of the HISPANIC CHURCH 1826. ':•/££ ..•'-, (313)953-2131. begun a 13-week session, 7:15- Church's Men Who Make a Dif Nazarene, will host a morning The Hispanic Pentecostal LITURGY ON TAPE' f^ ( CHRISTMAS WORSHIP 9:15 p.m. Sundays at St. Michael ference will host a Rose Bowl Bible study 9:30-11:15 a.m. Church conducts worship ser The Divine Liti/rgy'$St. John Christ Our Savior Lutheran Lutheran Church, 7000 Sheldon Party on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, Tuesdays, beginning Jan. 6, at vices at 2 p.m. Sundays at the Chry8ostom is available On Church will have its family ser Road, Canton Township. The at the church, 2055 Merriman the church, 21260 Haggerty Open Door Church, 33105 W. videotape for a cost of $$, plus vice at 5 p.m. Christmas Eve, series features nationally recog Road, Garden City. The party Road, Northville. Women of the Seven Mile Road, Livonia. The $3 postage, from Holy Transfigu Dec. 24, at the Canton campus, nized experts covering such top starts 30 minutes before the Word, which will meet in the Rev. G. Diaz officiates. For more ration Orthodox Church/86075 46001 Warren Road, and at 7 ics as "Facing Your Anger," "Fac kickoff. Participants will enjoy lower level, will use the "Joy of information, call (248) 471-5282. W. Seven Mile, Livonia 48152. p.m. at the Livonia campus, ing Your Loneliness," "Depres the entire Rose Bowl game on a Living" interdenominational FROM THE HEART The tapes make a great gift for a 14175 Farmington Road. The 11 sion," "New Relationships," and big screen television while series with lessons on the books Ward Evangelical Presbyteri shut-in or those unable to attend of I-1I Corinthians. The teachers p.m. candlelight service will also "Forgiveness." Child care is munching a variety of snacks. an Church offers From the Heart the liturgy. The tapes also can be Tho party is open to all. For will be Nona Kelly of West be at the Livonia campus. Wor available. Call (313) 459-3333 Cancer Support Group at 7 p.m. given to those people who are more information, call the Bloomfield and Debbie Stottele shipers will be given a votive for more information. the second and fourth Mondays either seeking or expressing an church at (734) 421-0472. of Novi. The semester registra candle to raise during the of the month in Rooms B2 and 4 interest in the Orthodox faith. singing of "Silent Night." The BETHANY SUBURBAN WEST tion fee will be $12 which covers CHRISTIAN SCIENCE at the church, 17000 Farmington Choir of Christ Our Savior, The radio series, "What is This Bethany Suburban West, a necessary materials. Child care "Handbell Choir and instrumen Christian Science and Who Are Catholic organization which pro will be provided. For more infor talists will unfold the story mation, call (248) 348-7600. O These Christian Scientists?" is vides spiritual, social and sup Children have many special through song, scripture and being broadcast at 1:30 p.m. port assistance divorced and sep prayer. A pre-service concert of Sundays of WQBH-AM 1400. arated Christians, will have a NEW BEGINNINGS needs... and because parents organ, handbell and instrumen The topic will be "Just what is a dance at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, New Beginnings, a grief sup don't always have a lot of time, tal music will begin at 10:30 p.m. Christian Science practitioner?" Jan. 3, at St. Robert Bellarmine port group held year-round at St. the Observer & Eccentric has Christmas Day, Dec. 25, wor on Dec. 28. Church, West Chicago and Matthew's United Methodist created this unique directory io ship with Communion will begin Inkster roads, Redford. The cost "The Christian Science Sen €hurch, 30900 W. Six Mile Road, make life just a little easier. at 10 a.m. at the. Livonia cam tinel-Radio Edition" also can be is $8 and includes refreshments. east of Merriman Road, Livonia, pus. It will feature uplifting heard at 9:30 a.m. Sundays on For more information, call Roase continues with its monthly For more music with the choir and instru WAAM-AM 1600. The conversa at (734) 464-3325. speaker series on Thursday, Jan. mentalist. tional program discusses current The group also meets on Sun 8, with "Moving On." There are information about For more information, call the public topics as well as shares days for breakfast and Mass - 10 no fees. Anyone may attend any advertising church office at (734) 522-6830. healing through prayer from a.m. at the Redford Inn, Five or all sessions as they feel the • St. John's Lutheran Church people all over the world. Mile Road west of Beech Daly need. For more information, call Call June at: of Red ford will have Christmas Road, Redford, and at 11:15 a.m. TEAMKlD the church office at (313) 422- Day worship with Holy Commu at St. Aidan's Church, Farming- 6038, Marilyn Wilkinson at (248) 313-953-2099 nion at 10 a.m. at the church, TeamKid, a unique club which ton Road north of Six Mile Road, blends activity with interactive 360-7903, or Rosemarv Kline at 13542 Mercedes, east of Inkster Livonia - call Val at (734) 729- (313)462-3770. Road and south of 1-96. For more learning, discipleship and Bible 1974; for coffee and conversation information, call the church at memory, meets 5:45-8 p.m. Sun at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at Archie's PARENTING TODAY (313)538-2600. days at Merriman Road Baptist Restaurant, Plymouth Road Having trouble communicating • The Episcopal Church of the Church, 2055 Merriman Road, east of Merriman, Livonia, and with your kids? Find out how to Holy Spirit will have a service Garden City. The program is for for pinochle at 7 p.m. every other really talk to your children by '97 with the Holy Eucharist at 10:30 children in grades 1-6 and pro Friday - call Rose at (734) 464- attending the Active Parenting /*H4 •- a.m. Christmas Day at the vides practical Biblical answers 3325. Today classes offered at St. church, 9083 Newburgh Road, in a fun andnnteresting setting. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Livonia. For more information, For more information, call the 27475 Five Mile Road, Livonia. church office at (313) 421-0472. 0UEST SPEAKER The 6-week course will be offered call the church at (734) 591- Journalist Jack Lessenberry 0211. MAKE A DIFFERENCE 6:30-9 p.m., beginning Thursday, will speak on the issues of race Jan. 8. ENTERTAINMENT BOOK Men Who Make a Difference, a in America at 9:45 a.m. Sunday, small group of Christian men The cost of the course is $15 Unldren's St. Aidan Youth Group is rais Jan. 4, at St Paul's Presbvterian dedicated to the biblical princi (spouses are free) and includes a ing funds in December by selling Church, 27475 Five Mile Road. parent's guides. Preregistration the Entertainment Ultimate ples of building a "Godly Man," Livonia. meets at 7:30 p.m. Mondays at is preferred. Child care will be Book which contains discounts Less en berry is a member of Merriman Road Baptist Church, available for a nominal fee, but Directory •on dining, travel, shopping, the journalism faculty at Wayne 2055 Merriman Road, Garden only open to those who call and movies, special events and State University and Madonna City. The group is open to men of request it at least one week sports. The books cost $40 with a University. He also is a consul all denominations who wish to before the first meeting. portion of the proceeds going to tant, editorial adviser and free Activities diligently seek the face of Jesus. For more information or to help fund youth conferences and lance writer for many, national For more information, call (313) register, call the church at (734) workshops. For more informa and regional publications, 421-0472. 422-1470. tion, call (3131 425-5950 or (248) including Vanity Fair, Esquire MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER j FREE j 474-1396. NEW YEAR'S EVE George. New York Times and • St. Matthew United Ward Presbyterian Church Boston Globe. He received and Worldwide Marriage |ONE FREE ADMISSION WITH ONE PAI0| Methodist Church is also selling will celebrate New Year's Eve Emmy Award for a "Frontline" Encounter offers a weekend experience for married couples to incoc orcv/i«L nwuiu«i M«I mccoi t. , \~\ 1 III tjcH*^? the 1998 Entertainment book . with an evening of fellowship, documentary on Dr. Jack I MON. TUE. WE0& FRI 1:00 PM-300 PM; }__..«....„«,_ — __ — «._«.. The cost is at $40 with $8 going beginning at 9 p.m. with a Kevorkian. Locally, he is a con improve their communication I SATURDAYS SUNDAY 2:00 PM-5:00PM l| ^ m New Si Mark to the church's Mission Commit sacred Christian concert, featur tributing editor and columnist skills, learn the value of intima IEXPIRESJAN.5.1998.RENTALSEXTRAI * fjfrf MontCSSOri cy and renew their love for each tee. 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West in Village Oaks Elemen p.m. Chimes will ring in the New Michigan win offer beginning «A*A BASKETBALL AMERICA^ Year and close the service just and continuing Tai Chi classes 7- PERSONAL ENRICHMENT tary School, 23333 Willowbrook ^¾^ Sports Com&l&x ^J'S.Jt%y> (between Haggerty and Meadow- after midnight. For more infor 9 p.m. Mondays and Wednes The Rev. Gerald Flannery of ** brook roads), Novi. The church mation, call (734) 422-1826. days, beginning Jan. 5, at New- St. Aidan's Parish in Livonia is %YOUTH LEAGUES *¥ k
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With a flare for the dramatic, the Schoolcraft Col Melson caught the pass and wheeled inside for the lege men's basketball team pulled out a miracle 75-74 MEN'S COLLEGE HOOPS winning two _ just beating the buzzer. victory over Kellogg Community College Saturday David Jarrett (Westland John Glenn) added 15 night at home. seconds to go. points for the winners. Emeko Okonkwo (Pioneer) BRAD EMONS Kevin Melson's basket with no time remaining gave the Ocelots, now 10-2 overall, the win. Melson then split a pair of free throws with nine contributed 11, while Eddins had eight. The 6-foot-6 forward from Detroit Communication seconds to play, pulling SC to within one, 74-73. Terry Curtis and Larry Daily chipped in with 18 & Media Arts, led Schoolcraft and all scorers with a SC, however, had two fouls to give in order to put and 15, respectively. game-high 32 points. Kellogg in the bonus situation. The Ocelots fouled Kellogg (8-6 overall) hit 12 three-pointers on the SC men's hoops Melson, who ranks third in the country in scoring quickly at seven and five seconds. With just five seconds remaining, Jones missed the night. at 28 points per game, was 14 of 18 from the floor NORTHWOOD 97, MADONNA 65: The Fighting Cru and six of eight from the free throw line. He also front end of a one-and-one. is something to grabbed eight rebounds. SC's Jimar Eddins grabbed the rebound, but a side saders fell to 1-12 on the season Saturday with a road Schoolcraft trailed 40-34 at halftime and by as line pass was batted out of bounds in the Ocelots' loss to Northwood. talk about, but many as 11 against the hot-shooting Bruins in the front-court with only .45 seconds left. Damon Coleman scored 28 points and grabbed six second half before staging a furious comeback. Ocelot coach Carlos Briggs called timeout to set up rebounds to lead Northwood (7-1) to the win. Cat-quick point-guard Mario Montgomery (Detroit) a final shot and his set-play worked to perfection For Madonna. Mark Hayes had 23 points, Narvin against Kellogg's man-to-man defense. does school care ? came off the bench to spark the defense. Russaw 13 and Nick Hurley (Plymouth Canton) had He also hit a key three-pointer during the surge. Isolating two players on the perimeter and sending s much as I love holiday shop SC took a five-point lead with just over two min Derek McKelvey to the earner for a possible three- eight points. ping at the last minute, I cer utes remaining; but Kellogg rallied back to gain a point try, Eddins lobbed The ball into Melson, who Poor shooting had a hand in Madonna's setback. The A tainly had my fill late Saturday two-point advantage, 74-72, on a basket by point- found himself isolated one-on-one in the post against Crusaders shot just 40.4 percent for the game while afternoon at crowded Twelve Oaks guard Antonio Jones (23 points) with just under 30 a Kellogg defender. Northwood made better than 50 percent of its shots. Mall. Venturing south on 1-275, I decided to pull off the Seven Mile exit ramp and catch the second-half of the Schoolcraft-Kellogg Community Col Brzezinski thrives lege men's basketball game. Turned out to be the best bargain of the day and a great stocking stuffer. I was more than curious to get my first look at the Ocelots, who have once again for BC been turning a few heads under first- year coach Carlos Briggs, a former Schoolcraft Ail-American player. And after what I witnessed Satur Livonian makes All-Big East team day night, I'll be back for more. Schoolcraft pulled out a ming-bog- BY BRAD EMONS "Things just got out of control," gling 75-74 victory on Kevin Melson's STAFF WRITER Brzezinski said. "He was a good coach, basket at the buzzer. The 1996 football season for Boston but he trusted the players too much. Briggs, who led SC to its best sea College offensive lineman Doug With Henning, the players always son ever in 1984 (since then there Brzezinski was nothing short of a dis pushed the envelope. have been 13 straight losing seasons), aster. "Guys were just dogging it and going called timeout with just .45 seconds It was more through the motions the weight room, remaining (after the ball had been like a scene from and some weren't even showing up. A knocked out of bounds) to set up a des the movie "Titan- lot of guys, who were used to being cod peration play. tic." He was dled in high school, claimed they were The 6-foot-6 Melson, who has got to treading water. hurt and were getting out of practice be one of the midwest's top JUCO But the 6-foot- and not playing when they could have. players, showed his Scottie Pippen- 4, 305-pound left "There was a lot of stress and it was like qualities by scoring the game- tackle from Red- a bad situation. Things were tough all winner on a layup off an inbounds ford Catholic the way around. And it was no person pass from Jimar Eddins at the buzzer. Central survived in particular." Needless to say, Schoolcraft men's the year of tur After a 4-7 season in '96, BC went basketball, off to its best 8tart in Doug Brzezinski with Tom O'Brien, the offensive coordi moil to earn All- All-Big East pick school history (10-2), could be Big East honors in nator at Virginia as its new head Observerland's best kept secret. 1997. coach. His offensive coordinator and But it's not the way the Ocelots won Although BC finished 4-7 for the sec offensive line coach was Jeff Jagedzins- it, but the way they played which ond straight year, Brzezinski was one ki from East Carolina. impressed me more than anything of four Eagles named to the All-Big The two new coaches ditched Hen- else. East's first team. ning's one-back set. And the offensive Briggs, who led the nation in scor "It was a relief more than a sur line gave up only 21 sacks after allow ing during his days at SC, averaging prise," said Brzezinski, a senior from ing 53 the year before. 30 points-plus before going on to star Livonia with one year of eligibility "Doug and the whole offensive line at Baylor, has the Ocelots playing remaining. "Last year was a horrible progressed," O'Brien said. "Our center, unselfish hoops, for sure. year for me. I got benched in the Pitt Damien Woody, and Doug are both He runs a disciplined offense and game. There were a lot of problems built about the same. Both very good Block of granite: Redford Catholic Central High product and his players seem to have a commit within the team." players, with pro potential. They give Livonia native Doug Brzezinski starred this year for Boston Col ment toward defense. These were just not small problems, us a formidable middle. lege Eagles. Melson, who does it inside and out but BIG problems for BC, which was "Doug has a very good work ethic. Off side, is certainly a diamond in the the field he worked to better himself rocked by a gambling scandal where Brzezinski, a former soccer player who Virginia, a top 25 team, which turned rough after sitting out his first year at three Eagle players bet against their and we'll do what we can, as coaches, SC with an injury. to make sure we can better him on the didn't play football until the ninth out to be Brzezinski's top game. own team. grade. "Under Henning, we had five "Coach O'Brien had been in the The word is leaking out. Division I "It was kind of blown out of propor field. coaches are migrating to Six Mile and "He never gets flustered, but what I'd different ways of blocking. Things got Marines, and he said don't look for any tion by the media," Brzezinski said. confusing. We went back to a more sympathy," Brzezinski said. "He knows Haggerty in droves to see this kid. "College athletes all over bet, but this like to see — and we've talked about it Briggs, a fourth-round pick of the during the off-season — is him get a basic set. It was a lot more physical. It what it takes. I like it a whole lot bet whole thing was idiotic. These guys was a lot better, more fun. It just made ter. Things are getting better now." San Antonio Spurs who later played were calling their bookies from the little more fiery on the field. We'd like professionally in the Philippines, him to be a leader on this team and more sense." This year the Eagles racked up near hotel." And the discipline was also Mach's ly 5,000 yards in total offense with an came to SC's battered program in The national media scrutiny which show a lot of enthusiasm his senior August with virtually no players (with year. And he has the talent to be some style. even balance of rushing and passing. followed turned out to be a huge dis "He (O'Brien) addressed the prob A three-year starter, Brzezinski, a the exception of holdovers Melson, traction and the school's football pro type of All-American player." Garden City's Pete Males and Jose The blocking schemes stressed fun lems right away, he stressed team Sociology major, is looking forward to gram had been sullied. unity right away." Brzezinski said. his final season in a BC uniform. Bru) just two weeks prior to the start Dan Henning, former San Diego damentals and the approach was much of the first semester. the same when Brzezinski played for "Nobody was putting up with any guff. But there was a time when he felt Chargers head coach and Detroit Lions He threw two or three guy's off the bewildered. Briggs, who is widely known offensive coordinator, stepped down fol Tom Mach at CC. (Brzezinski was a throughout Detroit basketball circles, junior starter on CC's 1992 state cham team right away. It was all business. The BC coach that recruited hi-m out lowing the probe after three seasons as There was no gray area." of high school, Tom Coughlin, left left his full-time high school teaching BC's head coach. (Henning is now the pionship team.) job in Texas to become a part-time "I liked our offense a lot more This fall, the Eagles lost several close shortly after Brzezinski signed his offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Big East games, including a double coach at SC. Bills.) because it was simplified," said He held three tryout sessions, find overtime loss to Miami. They beat West Please see BRZEZINSKI, C3 ing starters Emeko Okonkwo and Jimar Eddins, both from Ann Arbor Pioneer; along with back-up point- guard Mario Montgomery. Metro rivals deadlock Throw in Westland John Glenn's athletic David Jarrett late into the mix (he signed just a week prior to Sliding through: Redford classes) and you have a remarkable Catholic Central's Dave Turner transformation of a perennialy pitiful (right) tries to flip the puck junior college basketball program. around Birmingham Brother And he has quickly transformed the Rice's Mike Healy, who lirws Ocelots into an Eastern Conference contender — unheard of in these up to place the check, during parts. Saturday's Michigan Metro Ironically, Western Conference High School Hockey League teams in the Michigan Community battle played Saturday after College Athletic Association used put noon at the Plymouth Tbwn- SC on the schedule for a sure win. ship Compuware Arena. CC, But after beating Kellogg, Grand Rapids (twice) and Lansing, SC is the defending state Class A becoming a team to be reckoned with. champion, rallied from a 3-0 And if SC had not lost two close deficit to earn a 4-4 tie with games in a New Jersey tournament, the Warriors. See high school they'd be mind-boggling 12-0 at this hockey roundup on page C3. point. Briggs has a plan and is just getting started. He keeps close tabs on his players academically, and does his homework recruiting and scouting despite having only one paid assistant coach, (Andy Coleman). Of course, keeping his players cligi-
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Stevenson surprises field ble is the true test, especially at in that gym following the miracle SC, which annually promotes its finish. BYC.J.RISAK league's two heavyweights years the Rocks' disqualifica Student Athletic Support System It was, however, good to see a . STAFF WRITER • BOYS SWIMMING were the 200-yard breaststroke tions in the 200 backstroke program, but in reality is no pair of faculty members in atten-' relay (won by Livonia relay cost them a meet title. more than a public relations dance (but I won't mention their ; Some things don't change. sham. • Some things do. Franklin's Chris Supplee, Erik "Only we got DQ'ed in the first names to protect the innocent) points, with Salem second (224) Koppin, Dave Bosman and And it's a shame the men's I just hope Briggs is around ' In reference to the Western and two-time defending Relays relay this time. Lakes Activities Association Jody Gomez) and the 400-yard basketball program faces so long enough to see this thing champ Plymouth Canton third individual medley relay (won "(Stevenson) swam real well many obstacles, especially from through. He's brought excite Relays swim meet, hosjted by (212). Northville was fourth and didn't run into as many Plymouth Salem last Saturday, by Canton's Aaron Reeder, an administration that cares lit ment and an awakening to a (184). Kurtis Hornick, John Cook and problems as we did." tle about athletics in general. sleeping program. what didn't change was that "It was a fun meet," said Salem — winner of the last five Mike Dempsey). The Spartans' other relay Believe me, athletics at School It's something former SC coach Stevenson coach Doug Buckler, There was one other signifi wins came in the 200 butterfly craft College is a necessary evil. Glen Donahue envisioned doing WLAA league titles — could admitting that finishing first not find a way to win the cant occurance that impacted (Steve Domjn, Brad Feathers, The coaches win in spite of the before he left to take an assis Relays championship. It added to the enjoyment. "It's on the meet and its final Sgriccia and Keith Falk); the school's indifference. tant's job two years ago at Cen been awhile since we won it. If athletics were important, marked the third-straight year results: North Farmington. The 500 crescendo freestyle (George tral Michigan. "We went into the meet with then they'd have a full-time ath the Rocks have failed to claim Raiders — one of the league's Earhart, Jacob Varty, Malik SC returns to action this Sat the crown, in large part due to the attitude that we can't win top teams — were no-shows, for letic director in place and not a and Falk); and the 200 medley registered nurse with a masters urday and Sunday for its holiday their own mistakes. it, so let's just have fun and do reasons as yet undetermined. tournament. what we can." (Bublitz, VanTiem, Domin and degree overseeing the program. • What did change? Well, "This is the first time it's ever Brad Buckler). It would sure be nice to see there's a new power in town: There were a couple of rea happened, so 1 don't know what It's too bad President Richard Salem won the 400 free (Dan W. McDowell, Dean of Instruc some support this weekend — Livonia Stevenson. sons Buckler doubted his team the consequences will be," said administrative, that is. could emerge on top. First and Kelly, Dan Jones, Mike Kilgore tion Lou Reibling, VP Conway It isn't a major surprise that Salem coach Chuck Olson. Anyway, shopping can take a foremost, there was Salem, "That's up to the administra and Brian Mertens); 200 back Jeffress or a Trustee or two the Spartans emerged as the couldn't have seen the jubilation permanent break. Relays champion. Once Salem which was expected to be even tors." (Aaron Shelton, Brent Mellis, ;put itself into a hole by getting better this year than last. Without doubt, the opening Matt Casillas and Nick Cor- disqualified in the first relay, Also, the Spartans were a event was the difference in the den); diving (Chris Cameron the 400-yard medley — an tired team, swimming their meet. When Salem was dis and Mike Belvitch); and 200 Madonna women's team trips event the Rocks had finished third meet of the week. "1 qualified, the team that took free (Corden, Tim Buchanan, first in, but were DQ'ed for a haven't had three meets in one over first place in the 400 med Jones, Locke).
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HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY ROUNDUP SUBURBAN HOCKEY STANDINGS
SUBURBAN HIGH SCHOOL 3-4/7; Matt Grant (Churchill), HOCKEY LEAGUE STANDINGS 1-6/7. CC, Churchill icers fit to be tied (as of Dec. 22) NORTH DIVISION: 1. Clark ston, 5-0-0/10; 2. (tie) Royal SOUTH DIVISION: 1. Livonia Oak. 4-0-0/8; Waterford Mott. Redford Catholic Central's "After a good first period we Pioneer. "It's disappointing any time you give Stevenson, 7-0-0/14 points; 2, 4-2-0/8; 4. Birmingham, 3-1- hockey team is idle until Jan. 10 kind of fell apart," St. John said. The Warriors, 4-0-3 overall, up a goal like that because we put an Livonia Churchill, 4-0-1/9; 3. 0/6; 5. (tie) Bloomfield Hills and you can't fault coach Gordie "Rice played much better hockey. are idle until Jan. 7. Saturday's emphasis on penalty killing," Churchill Dearborn, 2-2-1/5; 4. Northville, Andover, 2-2-1/5. Waterford St. John for thinking the Sham We didn't carry out our assign game was the first the Warriors coach Jeff Hatiey said. 2-4-0/4; 5. (tie) Livonia Kettering, 2-3-1/5; Troy, 2-3 rocks started their holiday break have played at full strength, Churchill led 2-1 after one period on ments and took stupid penalties. Franklin, 1-2-1/3; Walled Lake after the first period of Satur according to Brown. goals by Brandon Martoia (from Matt 0/5; 8. Bloomfield Hills Lahser,. It showed us what we have to do Central. 1-3-1/3; 7. Redford day's game against Birmingham "We have two weeks off to lick Grant and Antti Kervmen) and Anton 1-4-0/2; 9. Southfield, 0-6-0/0. to be good." Union and Walled Lake West Brother Rice. our wounds," Brown said. "We're Sutovsky (from B.J. Tehan and Kervl- Overall records: Royal Oak, 7 Nathan Lewarne and Ian ern, 1-4-0/2 each. The Shamrocks jumped to a 3- Devlin had the other CC goals. a little knicked up and need time nen). 0^0; Clarkston, 5-1-1; Mott, 5-2 Overall records: St evensong 7- 0 lead after one period only to David Moss, Greg Berger and away from the rink. I believe the The Chargers also led 3-2 after two 0; Troy, 5-3-1; Birmingham, 4-3 3-1; Churchill, 4-1*2: Franklin, 4-. allow Rice to score three unan Jim Melton picked up one assist holidays are time for family any periods as Sutovsky notched his second 0; Andover. 3-4-1; Kettering. 2- 3-1; Dearborn, 4-4-1; Northville^ swered goals in the third and each. way. Believe me, I played a few goal of the game from Martoia at 4:46. 5-1; Lahser, 1-6-0; Southfield, 0- 3-4-0; W.L. Western. 3-5; Red earn a 4-4 tie before a small Rice freshman defenseman times on Chrismas Night in the I Each team had three penalties. &0. ford Union. 2-7; W.L Central, 1- afternoon crowd at Compuware Andy Mechigian assisted on (International Hockey League). Greg Sliwka went all the way in goal Leading scorers: Bret Postal 6-2. Arena in Plymouth. three of the Rice goals. Kevin for Churchilf. (Clarkston), 6-9/15; Anthony "It's a good way to end 1997 on Leading scorers: Ryan Sinks "It was a holiday type crowd," LeFere, who missed some games The Chargers return to action Jan. 3 Facione (Clarkston). 10-4/14; a positive note. It's not the way (Stevenson), 7 goals-7 St. John said. "Everyone was out early with a shoulder injury, vs. Royal Oak before a big South Divi Darin Egerer (Birmingham), 9 you want to start out that game assists/14 points; Darin shopping." scored one goal. Chris Cassidy sion showdown with unbeaten Steven but we fought back and it was a Fawkes (Stevenson), 5-8/13; 3/12; Fern Kidder (Troy). 8- assisted on two goals. son. If that's the case, someone good learning experience for our Jeff Lang (Stevenson), 7-5/12; 3/11; Rob Adham (Troy), 7- should have purhcased a hat for Mechigian has been seeing as younger players." "We're going to work hard over John May (Stevenson), 6-5/11; 4/11; Scott Epstein (Andover). Rice's Joe Kustra, whose hat much ice time as veteran The third period collapse isn't Christmas, it will be like training camp Bill Marshall (Stevenson), 4- 7-4/11; joe Tigay (Andover), 5- trick sparked the rally. defensemen Eric Bryant, Ryan going to ruin St. John's Christ again. Hatiey said. "Stevenson is 7/11; Brandon Martoia 6/11; Damien Lewis (Royal CC's Tony Keshishian was Dettloff and Dan Pszenyczny. mas, either. undefeated and has a very talented (Churchill), 3-7/10; Kevin Oak), 6-4/10; Mike Beether equally impressive, scoring two "Mechigian's learning on the "If we continue to improve as team with a lot of skilled players. Boone (Northville), 5-4/9; Matt (Mott), 5-5/10; Nick Luxon goals with an assist. fly, doing a good job," Rice coach we have in the first month, we'll They're going to be tough to beat. York (Dearborn), 6-3/9; Joel (Royal Oak). 37/10; Tim Atkins "It was a night for the K men," Mike Brown said. "We've been be tough in March," St. John They beat a tough Dearborn team by six Halliday (RU), 6-2/8; Justin (Royal Oak), 6-3/9; Josh Del St. John said. "It was Tony's best throwing him right to the said. goals, a team we tied. Robinson (Western), 6-2/8; Dan Dotto (Birmingham), 4-5/9; game by far and that Rice kid is wolves." CHURCHILL 3. DEARBORN 3: Matt "But we were in this spot two years Cieslak (Stevenson), 3-5/8; Adam Leech (Clarkson). 3-6/9; a good player." Rickey Marnon was the CC York scored three times Saturday for ago. We tied Birmingham and came Mike Radakovich (Stevenson), Bill Kulush (Clarkston), 3-6/9. The tie left the Shamrocks at netminder. Rick Bartley started host Dearborn, including the game-tying back over Christmas and ran the 3-0-2 overall. The defending in goal for the Warriors before goal with 6:45 remaining. table.'' Class A state champions haven't being relieved by last year's No. Churchill is now 4-1-2 overall and 4-0- lost since a mid-season game last 1 netminder Aaron Smith. 1 m the South Division of the Suburban year against Bloomfield Hills Bartley was coming off a 3-0 Hjgh School Hockey League. Cranbrook. shutout victory over Ann Arbor Dearborn is 4-41 and 2-2-1 Whalers have eye on 1st place
The Plymouth Whalers moved Massachusetts, he recorded nine to within two points of first place • OHL HOCKEY goals and 34 assists for Sudbury in its division Saturday with a 2- in his rookie year. Mara has P205/75FM4 B 1 home victory over North Bay. urday at Windsor and Monday, eight goals and 18 assists this P205/75R-15 B Kevin Holdridge and Harold Dec. 29, at home against Erie. year for the Wolves. P215/75R-15 B Druken scored for the Whalers P225/75R-15 B Left wing Smith is a 19-year- and Julian Smith added a pair of Whalers transaction old Brighton native. He had assists. Plymouth improved to 43 The Whalers made a major eight goals and five assists for points, just two behind London trade Dec. 19 that involved four in the Ontario Hockey League's teams and 12 players. Windsor this year. West Division. Plymouth acquired defense- "Mara is one of, if not, the best Holdridge opened scoring in man Paul Mara from Sudbury defensemen in the Canadian 4*150 the first period as Troy and and left wing Rick Smith from Hockey League," Whalers Asso TiR£ SrOA% IS fO- S.Llrt'&A'.O'. AjtK'toJ'iCW/ Julian Smith assisted. Druken's Windsor. In exchange, defense- ciate Coach Greg Stefan said. game-winner came at the 7:05 men Luc Rioux and Mark Rid- "There's no doubt in my mind he RAD1ALS mark of the second period on a out, right wing Andy Burnham LT215/75R-15C will add to our already strong P235/75R-15XL power play. and 1998 second-round draft P235/75R-15B P265/75R-15 B LT235/75R-15 C North Bay's lone goal was also choice were dealt. defensive unit. With the addition of Mara and Smith, we believe P225/70R-14B 30-950R-15 C via the power play, at 9:17 of the In Mara, the Whalers acquire P225/70R-15 B second period. a former OHL all-star defense- we have an opportunity for a 31-1050R-15C The Whalers <20-9-3) play Sat- man. A 6-foot 4-inch native of successful playoff bid."
King thumps Borgess, 70-57 FO4R $20••wT fi£ bKWS S CC'< i,i.i'M'* WCj.tt'OiE0s t^r PO4*25R .wkm'^J^mT.ft£ $M&rtN S '0*1 «..US*K»'Cr. CW3-.50N C-V World renowned musician court at 7:30 p.m. Saturday to MICHELIN Kasuku Mafia, the self-pro • PREP HOOPS play Detroit Finney in a holi BECAUSE SO MUCH IS RJD4NO ON YOUR TIRES.* claimed "Greatest One Man day tournament at Ferndale Band In The Land," performed ing three baskets from three- High School. at Monday's boys basketball "They're very good and that's game at Redford Bishop point range. Keenan Weir had why we played them," Borgess Borgess. 18 points and Kefentse Booth coach Roosevelt Barnes said of The Blues would have been scored 10. - an appropriate theme for his Sam Hoskins led Borgess King. "They were far more post-game routine as the host with 15 points. Teammate aggressive than we were. I'm Spartans lost a non-league Aaron Jessup added 14. disappointed." game to Detroit Martin Luther King, fresh off a 48-46 loss to Despite an 0-2 start to the King, 70-57. Detroit Northwestern, season, the Spartans remain King turned the game into a improved to 2-3 overall. optimistic. "The guys played harder," rout by outscoring Borgess 17- Remember, they were 7-8 at King coach Benny White said. 6 in the second quarter and 21- one point before winning 12 "We didn't have any keys to 11 in the third for a 55-31 lead. straight en route to the Class The Spartans made the final winning, stopping anybody. C state title. margin respectable, outscoring "We had a humiliating loss the Crusaders, 26-15, in the the last game and the guys "It don't matter where you fourth quarter. took the resolve to come out start, it's where you finish," King's James Thues led all and fight today." assistant coach Chuck Gregory scorers with 25 points, includ- The Spartans return to the said.
Spartans win Delta tourney COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Surprises aren't something volleyball coaches generally VOLLEYBALL Brzezinski from Cl like. But Livonia Stevenson's den. Stevenson beat the NCAA National Letter-of-Intent Kelly Graham got one she did Eagles in three games. 4-15. to take the head coaching posi n't mind Saturday — namely, 15-6, 15-7. tion with, the NFL expansion a Delta College Invitational The Spartans faced Sagi Jacksonville Jaguars. championship. naw Heritage in the finals "I was still committed to the "It was really a surprise," and prevailed 17-15, 15-11. school and I said tn myself that I she said. "We're usually all The Stevenson coach said had to stick it out," he said. "But over the place in our first the tournament victory will it (1996) was like a nightmare. It match. help her team gain momen reminded of a book I read, "Heart "It's like going in blind. You of Darkness." I thought about tum for the rest of the season. never know what's going to transferring." "It's definitely a plus," Gra happen." He is now home for the holi ham said. A total of 10 schools compet days with his family, including A number of Spartans ed in the tournament. Teams brother Nick, a junior tight end were divided into two pools of played well at the Delta Col who caught touchdown pass in five. lege Invitational. CC* 23-6 state Class AA cham The Spartans swept nil four Stephanie Dulz recorded 60 pionship win over Ann Arbor pool matches to garner the top kills, 17 solo blocks and nine Huron. spot for the championship aces. Lindsey Pfeifer notched But he would rather be away rounds. 13 kills and seven aces. at a bowl game. Stevenson started with a Sarah Wittrnck finished "I get nervous sitting around 15-8, 15-5 romp over All with 26 assists and eight aces at home. I always have to be Saints Central of Bay City. Czech Republic exchange stu doing something." said Brzezins The Spartans then beat Bay dent Ircnn Bicnnkova added ki, who works out regularly at C?ity John Glenn (15-5, 15-5), 21 assists, eight kills and five Gold's Gym on Eight Mile Road. St. Charles (15-8, 15-12) and serving aces. A big year could put Brzezins Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Becky Peterson connected ki high in the NFL draft, but he Seminary (15-8, 15-4). on 43 of 44 serves, including isn't thinking about the pros just Livonia moved on to the four aces. Katie LeBlanc yet srmifimil to face the other totaled 15 kills and seven He's just trying to keep the pool's sfcnrul plnce tram, Lin- blocks. Boston College ship from sinking and steering it back on course. mm^m wm rnmmm
8A(0F)(4B*)(4C.R,W,Q) The Observer & Eccentric/YWVRSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997 TWO THUMBS UP! OVIES ifEn Most kids would help others if they had 'royal' power Kids - what would you do if were a prince Roni's brother on the team I could help them would also take my powers, put you were a princess or prince, Kvan, who is 7, "would have a win the championship." them in a ball and put it all over and had the power to do any train drive me wherever I'd want Her sister, Krin wrote. "If I was me to get rid of my chicken pox." thing? Would you try to help oth to go and for all the children to a princess and had tier powers to Their sister, Melanie Lynn ers, or buy a lot of toys? have rides on it." do anything, r*would get new Street, who is .'} "would dance "ABSOLUTELY Readers who responded to our ' If Stephanie Kasmicski of lungs for my grandma becau.se with Cinderella like this: question won an activity book Rochester, age 5, was a princess she can't breathe very good, Kor (Melanie twirls around with her INCREDIBLE!" from "Anastasia," Fox's first full she would "help people, and get my other grandma 1 would get hands over her head like a balle fmav icwurr. (B-iuw n. nnitVDU) length animated feature film, presents for the whole world so new knees because hers hurt all rina as dictated to her mom). now playing at metro Detroit no one would be sad or left out." the time. For my two grandpas i Lily Ciicig of Kochester. age 9 movie theaters. They also "If I had the power of a would get them new hearts "would give money to hospitals, received a T-shirt. princess I would make myself a because they both had heart and 1 would give delicious lunch "If I were a princess I'd want member of the W.B.A. team for attacks. For my sister I would es to Meals on Wheels." all the children in the world to Detroit," wrote Amie King of make her the captain of the new "Anastasia" is a great mystery get as many dolls as they want Redford. "I play basketball for Detroit W.li.A. team because she of the 20th century. The year was ed," wrote 5-year-old Veronica my school team and the loves basketball so much. For my 19 1(i and a young princess (Roni) Allen of Livonia. If he R.T.J.A.A. and the A.A.U. If I was mom and dad 1 would get them a named Anastasia lived in a bigger house because ours is get world of elegant palaces. Her ting to be too small." family, the Romanovs, was cele GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEE If Kristina Klusek, age 4 of brating it> .'JOOth anniversary as RFSTPTi^TlTRF fast Act OR <&•«>.> BFsrsippoimNGAcroR BFST DIRECTOR Canton "would take care of kids." the ruling dynasts in Russia. llknu) Pjiiionlloonsou Anthony HofliiK StncnSpkJbag Her sister Melissa who is 7 But a dark shadow was descend would "buy toys for the poor and ing over the palace. The fire of make sure everyone was taken revolution began to rage across care of, and make sure everyone the country, ultimately destroy FREEMAN AND HOPKINS ARE was happy." ing most of the Romanov family. ^, .Ronoui fd\ noDicnou MBE\K , SHOO-INS FOR ACADEMY AWARD Matthew H. Street of South- Anastasia escapes. A magical NOMINATIONS." field, age 5 "would go to Toys 'R' mix of action, adventure, comedy, TERRY IAWSON, DETROIT FREE PRESS Us when I wanted to, go to romance and music, "Anastasia" mmcMmBtim grannie's when I wanted to. and is an animated motion picture by get a cookie when I wanted." Twentieth Century Fox about Morris, his brother, who is 7 the lost Russian princess, the "would give lots of toys to the fabled last surviving member of ttsnm poor children, if 1 were a prince. 1 the Romanov family
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OF THE YEAR. BEST ACTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Mat! Damon Robin Williams Ben AHIeck, Mall Damon Joe Mingrnstrni. TUJi.^1-1- -i'JM'JjL ]0A kN x[ "Astonishing and Thrilling Entertainment! Malt Damon delivers I tie vcar's best |ierfiirin;ini'e while Ktiliin Willi.iins j^ives [he finest |)erfiMiii;iiue of his carver. W'hal a vvoniteiliil gift lui ('lirislmas (it anv time of the \ear —'(Jooil \\ill llimling' ^ives movies
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