October 18, 1982

>• I • I. !»• *V«^^V> qvpwp^inpp •PliiPPMHi Volume 18 Number 33 Monday/October 18,1982 . Westland. Michigan 28 Pages Twenty*f4ve'cents 19fi2 SoberbID Vo[t.me3nrttK>e < orpc/-»t:oa All fUj^l-i RtvWvr<J assessments * By Doug Funke The special-assessMentrdUs recom lighting assessment has ranged from Artley said he's troubled that the the assessments for all other properties staff writer mended by the cityaammlstraUon $9.40 to $77.76 per home annually. The projected Increases in all the assess In that district. would generate a total of $3,388,000 new range will be from $10.05 to ment districts aren't equal. On the other end of the spectrum, 118 Westland homeowners will pay more over the next five years, an increase of $102.50 if City Council concurs with the Increases In the 88 lighting districts properties in a district which were as for street-lighting services in their 31 percent over the $2,583,000 pro administration's recommendation. range from nothing to 48 percent. sessed $25.48 each of the last five years neighborhoods through a higher, spe duced the past five years. Council didn't take action on the pro will be assessed at $37.80 annually for cial-assessment tax. Robert Matzo, Westland's city asses posed assessments after a public hear For instance, 45 properties In a dis the next five years, according to the That much Is certain.^ _ sor, provided the figures.- ing last-week. Too many questions re trict which were assessed $67.74 each recornmendaUpjii-^ What isn't finalized is exactly how Special-assessment rolls to fund all mained unanswered, according to of'the last five years for street lighting A likely reasonlorlhe large hike in much the increase will be. RESIDENTS who spent three residential street-lighting costs in Council President Thomas Artley. will be assessed $67.72 annually for the that case, Matzo said, is the estimate hours at last Monday's City Council Westland are adopted for five-year pe next five years, as recommended by the previous five years in the,district meeting talking about the proposed riods. Lighting costs for major roads in "COUNCIL HAS a little problem the administration. was too low and Is now being adjusted street lighting assessment may be 9 the city are paid from the general fund. with some of the administration's fig In that specific case, Matzo said, a interested to know that Thomas For the last five years, the special ures on this stuff," Artley said. church was added to the roll, reducing Please turn to Page 2 Edison's bright idea became a 'Catch reality 103 years ago on Oct. 21, 1879 when he invented the device, ALTHOUGH ALL new yields a KM voter registrations were yet to be processed, Westland City Clerk Diane Rohraf f has reported that the - registration deadline for the "Nov. 2 surprise election passed without a significant increase in the 46,000 voters in the city. Randy Wright, a Westland resident and fishing enthusiast, has caught Residents in the Wayne-Westland many a fine speciman in his. time. :'r.V-:-," VM School District who missed that Nothing, though, compared with deadline still have until Nov. 8 to what he reeled In last week while fish register for a special school election ing from shore at Nahkin^Lake, Ann scheduled for Dec. 7. Arbor Trail and Hines Drive. WHILE YOU'RE waiting He caught a hand grendade. For for the arrival of the Great tunately, it was a dummy and in no, Pumpkin, head on over to the danger of exploding. However, neither '-:A:; Wayne-Westland YMCA, §27 Wayne1 Wright nor his companion, Steve Road at Bayview. The Fatally Y is Patterson, knew that at the time. I sponsoring a Haunted House from 6- "I was just casting lures out and felt 11 p.m. Oct. 22-30. Admission is $1 I had something,*' said Wright, 17. "I for children and $2 for adults. thought something hit It. I saw a wick. I ,: Refreshments will be available. reeled in and thought it was a gre ^8885^¾¾^^4.11¾ •*•••••• *if ••'''-" -^ J X ' > ^\'^v-f:''iv>;-\ 'v;.| Proceeds will be shared by the Y nade." and the Indian Guides, a youth It was. group. Wright then started yelling in excite ment, not because he was scared, be YOUNG AUTHORS said,'but because the catch was so unu interested in seeing how they stack sual. "I couldn't believe it," Wright up against their counterparts are said. invited to participate in Lawrence Neither could Patterson. Institute of Technology's High •He thought I had a big snag," Wright School Writing Contest. said. , Entry deadline Is Nov. 19. After calming down, Wright said he Winners~wfin>e notified byJan. 14, took" toe grenade off the hook, put It In .10837 . his knapsack ahd went home.:. Submissions may be in the form Westland police were called from of poetry, short stories or essays and there and a squad car was dispatched first, second and third-place prizes to pick up the grenade. of $50, $20 and $10 will be awarded Sgt. William Hochsteln, who's dealt in each category. with explosives in both the military All entries must include a and police work, said he immediately statement by a member of the recognized the grenade was a dud. contestant's high-school English "It was bored out In the bottom and faculty confirming the originality of had no firing pin," Hochsteln said. BILL BRESLER/«t8ff photoofapfw the student's work. He speculated that whoever tossed it October's glory Contact Ann Moloney in LIT's in the lake just wanted to get rid of it. humanities departmental 365-0200 > - -Wright said he continues to fish Nan Mother- Nature paints with her brightest colors in October, and Livonia. From left are Scott Harrington, Doug Zaklowski, Chris with specif ic questions, . kin Lake, where he's caught bass, blue-, roadside produce markets show off her work at its beet. This Cagle, manager of the market, and John Zilli in the truck. gill and pike — in addition to the gre bumper crop of pumpkins was unloaded at Cagle's Produce in JEANNINE GWIZDAK of nade. Westland has received an honorary award from Beverly Enterprises, a nationwide operator of nursing homes. Jeannine is majoring in Building study recommends closing 2 schools therapeutic recreation at Central Michigan University. fill those:vacancies will probably.delay closed most portable classrooms and "We would have done it anyway, but the board's review of the report until mittee also found that space was avail Scholarships and honorary - By 8an'dra Armbruster able at nearby schools for Tinkham stu awards were based strictly on editor moved students Into regular class parents' remarks caused us to move early 1983. rooms. that up on our priority list," she said. Before deciding whether to agree dents, that bussing could be eliminated, scholastic performance. that the neighborhood could be re It may be January or February be Csereszyne noted that Kettering has with the committee's recommenda JUST A REMINDER that the. advantage of being more efficient tions to close Tinkham and Washington, turned to the original boundaries be fore the Wayne-Westland board of edu "There was a perception of isolation fore Tinkham was built and that the educational classes are offered on a cation discusses a committee report re from the regular school building," said and allows for more effective teaching. the board will hold special public hear regular basis for retirees and all ings throughout the district. The neighborhood school concept could be commending the closure of Tinkham Dr. Georgina Cseresznye, an executive maintained. persons 55 years of age or older by and Washington elementary schools. assistant to the superintendent who ALTHOUGH THE committee's re schools will not be closed until June Westland's Department on Aging. worked with the committee. ^ port was completed last March, the 1984. The report-called for placing Tink ham area students in Kettering, Hamil Offerings include woodcarving, However, the committee's work, board didn't receive copies of the rec Cseresznye described the committee quilting, arts & crafts, drama, She said other parent concerns about ommendations until August after report as "very comprehensive." Every ton and P.D. Graham elementary which extended from December 1980 schools. sewing, ceramics, exercise, dance, until last March, is already having an the placement of severely mentally in- statlsUcs had been checked by John building in the school district, which in The committee listed the following current events and cooking. effect on the district's operation. paired students in Norris School Baracy, assistant superintendent for cludes part of Canton Township, was Classes are conducted at the prompted administrators to place them business. Cseresznye said the success studied, she said. drawbacks to closing . Tinkham: Whittier Community and Senior instead in a wing of Kettering Elemen ful recall of four school board mem The closings are being considered be $910,000 is still owed on the building, Based on concern of the parents on there are no sidewalks on Schuman or Center, 28550 Ann Arbor Trail, and the committee, the school district has tary. bers and coming election on Dec. 7 to cause of declining enrollments. The dis the Senidr Friendship Center, 37095 trict was down 642 students this year on the north side of Palmer going to Marquette. from last year. The officials count was P.D. Graham School. , . Stop by or call the folks at the taken on the fourth Friday of school Friendship Center, 722-7632, for year. > IF WASHINGTON School Is closed, information about what's According to the building utilization the committee recommends that happening.

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