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L ib ra ry „ S. Main Srreet ^ Plymouth. Mich 48i704 !t% HomeTown COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK | 3 l^mouth ®)b 0 e n re r Your hometown newspaper serving Plymouth and Plymouth Township for 115 years Sunday, August 19, 2001 hom etownnewspapers.net 7 5 0 Volume 115 Number 102 Plymouth Michigan ©2001 HomeTown Communications Network‘d” T H E WEEK Board allows tower antennas ■ Whether residents in the Lake Pointe subdivision like retains the right to extend the lease for AHEAD four successive five-year periods, once ■ 'The tower is an icon for it or not, Nextel reached agreement with the Plymouth the township. We recognize Township board this week to attach up to a dozen anten the initial 10 years expire New digs? The Plymouth The agreement allows the company that.’ nas to the landmark water tower. to install a maximum of 12 antennas Township offices are gen on the tower, plus build a house-like Randall Reeves erally criticized for being B Y K u r t K u b a n with the township to attach up to a structure next to it, which will shelter —Nextel spokesman S t a f f Wr it e r dozen antennas on the Lake Pointe support equipment According to Nex too sm all and too scat [email protected] water tower In return, the company tel spokesman Randall Reeves, the tered, The Plymouth will pay the township $1,650 per antennas will help the company pro try,” Reeves said One of Plymouth Township’s most Nextel engineers are in the process Observer takes a peek recognizable landmarks is about to month for the space vide better service to area customers The 10-year lease agreement calls for "We intend to use 12 antennas of determining whether to place the inside and looks at take on some added baggage antennas on top of the tower, or Wireless telecommunications the monthly rent to increase by 4 per That’s what our technology calls for, options in Thursday's provider Nextel reached an agreement cent each year The company also and 18 about standard for our indus- Please see A N TEN N A S,^ p a p e r r Cost rises MONDAY i : » Dinner and a meeting: The for having Plymouth City Commis sion meets in its final '^On the Road" meeting, this trash time at Kiwanis Park at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend as the Kiwanis picked up Club, celebrating the com pletion of renovation to B y K iJR T K u b a n the park, will be provid S t a f f Wr it e r [email protected] ing dinner, hot dogs with Plymouth Township residents who chips and the like. use the township’s trash pick-up ser vice will see a slight increase on their bills beginning Oct 1 The township board of trustees voted Tuesday to increase quarterly solid WEDNESDAY waste bills by $2, bnngmg the total to $29 Final notes: Marc Thomas Jim Anulewicz, director of public and M ax the Moose close services, said the increase is necessary because Republic Waste, the town out the Plymouth Com ship’s trash hauler, recently raised the munity Arts Council's rate it charges the township The I Music in the Park series PHOTOS BY DONALD J ALLEY annual increase was negotiated in the Eating up: Tern Bloom and Terry G? imme are attending their second Restaurant Crawl in five year contiact the township signed with a noon concert. Lower Town Plymouth on Wednesday evening The Lower Town Grill was one of nine restau with the company back in 2000 rant^ participating Anulewicz s?id the small increases will continue during the next several years ‘The charge to residents will go up every time an increase is passed on to On the crawl the township,” he said THURSDAY Despite the increase, Anulewicz said the $116 residents will now be paying Finalists on display: The on an annual basis is still $16 less Plymouth Township Food lovers f i n d O ld V illage to th eir lik in g than they were paying in 1998 when Board of Trustees gathers the township used Waste Management BY BRAD KADBICH as its trash hauler at township hall to inter Staff writer “This is still a reduction from a cou view four finalists for the [email protected] ple years ago,” Anulewicz said Trustee Abe Munfakh opposed the vacant police chief's posi hen he heard about the first Old Vil rate increase, because he has received tion, Lt. Bob Smith, who lage Restaurant Crawl sponsored by calls from residents angry with Repub the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce Food lovers: has filled in since Larry last year, Ming Cheng wanted to get his restau lic Waste’s service Colleen and “We are not getting a good service Carey left in July, is one Wrant involved, but was a couple of days late Chris Meyer When the event came back around this year, from them I’ve heard many com of the finalists. The meet Cheng made sure Shelle/s on Starkweather was enjoy the plaints about them switching pick-up ing starts at 6 p.m. in the mix, and he was glad he did buffets a t times, which has angered residents,” Shelley’s laid out their best thing, a Philly their first he said cheesesteak sample, along with chicken, fish and resta u ra n t Anulewicz admits there have been some problems with fluctuating pick onion rings craw l on INDEX “It was worth the money,” said Cheng, who up times, particularly on Wednesdays, has owned Shelley’s for 18 years “It’s great W ednesday but he said he has assurances from the Apartments/EU M alls/C 6 advertising ” The p a ir company it will work on stabilizing its A r ts / C l M ovies/C4 That’s pretty much how everyone viewed it as were am ong schedule Automotive/69 New H om es/El the second-annual crawl drew 130 people to nine 130 people “The one area that continues to be a Classified/E,G,H 0bituaries/A6 different participating restaurants Everything w ho bought problem is the Wednesday pick-up We are hoping to see a substantial change Classified Real Estate/El from pizza and fish to ribs and chicken wings tickets for were available throughout Old Village The company has told us they are lnd e x/E5 Service Gutde/G8 “It’s really a great event,” said Fran Toney, the the second- working on modifying the pick-up Crossword S p o rts/B l chamber’s executive director “The people I a n n u a l O ld times We’re waiting to see what hap Puzzle/E7 T a ste /D l talked to were absolutely excited People were Village pens after this modification We will Jo b s/G l Travel/C8 telling me they didn’t know there so many R e sta u ra n t continue to monitor the situation,” he restaurants m Old Village ” C raw l said To avoid m issing th e hau ler, Please see CRAWL, A 3 Anulewicz said residents should have trash on the curb by 7 a m Exp e rt: 150-year-old Beech tree 'looks w o n d erfu l’ despite d elays bytontbruscato obstinate than he expected, but the tree remains in Staff w riter good shape tbruscato@oe homecomm.net “The tree looks wonderful If it wasn’t, the top of It’s been about a month since work began toward the tree, the farthest from the water source, would moving the 150-year-old copper beech tree to make change color and start dropping its leaves like it way for a five-story condominium complex on the was fall,” he said “Ih at would show the tree was Wilcox property stressed out and not coping with the situation ” And, even if all goes well, it’s still going to take Williams said that despite the recent hot weather another two weeks before the tree is moved to its spell, the tree was getting enough water from the final resting place underground water shelf connected to the root sys Bryan Williams, of Worldwide Tree Moving in tem, as well as from the water being fed to the root Shelby Township, said the preliminary work is tak system above ground level “It may look like we’re not doing anything, but in ing longer than he anticipated However, he STAFF PHOTO BY PAUL HUH8CHMAMK reality we just want to make sure we’re doing it expects no problems to go along with the delays in Move delayed: A view of the Copper Beech moving the Plymouth landmark right to keep the tree from going into shock,” Wilhams said tree on the Wilcox property, as it appeared “It may take us another week or so to get the The relocation will entail sliding the 32-foot sleds underneath the tree, but we’re not pushing recently The move could still he as much as diameter root ball and 80-foot-high tree more than two weeks away. it,” said Williams “A lot will depend on the weath 100 feet Williams estimates it weighs nearly a er We want to be very careful ” half-million pounds 6 53174 10008 5 Williams admits the project is being a bit more To placeja ciassifleci i 11 \ A2(P) The Observer & Eccentric! SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2001 C harter school settles in after m oving w eek PLYMOUTH PIPELINE bytonybruscato Claudia Williamson *It’s really ■ m really had to enrollment maxed out at 530 stA FF W r it e r beautiful to see it up and ready ” students That compares with [email protected] Vice president of marketing make due last year In last year’s K-5 enrollment of 324 Skating lessons This was moving week for Jeff Poole said the new school is the portables, and at students The City of Plymouth Recreation Division offers Saturday Canton Charter Academy 50,000 square feet and includes tim es It was a real Because of the portable class basic skating skills lessons beginning the week of Sept 17 at the Teachers transferred their class additional classrooms, a gym, rooms last year, there were only Plymouth Cultural Center Ice Arena rooms from the portable trailers offices and a recreation field a d v e n tu re / two sections of third, fourth and Lessons will also be available in seven-week sessions on Mon to a permanent, $5 milhon home Wilhamson said schools run by Claudia Williamson fifth grades

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