Parade Organizer Wants More Parks, Slower Growth Lifestyle Changes Work Better Than Diets in We Are Under Way with Coverage of the 2004 Election
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Your hometown tews pa pa r serving Canloft for 29 yaara WlHHEftS OF OVER CANTON 100 STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS SINCE 2001 June 27,2004 75 cents VOLUME 29 NUMBER 103 www.hometownlife.com ©2004 HOMETOWN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Summer's here Poolside beckons during warm months. INSERTED SECTION Canton will get indoor skate park indoor park for skateboarding intend to create a high-end park Pain's parks in Kentucky, Lansing Plymouth resident buys former and inline skating to the corridor. with specialty surfaces, the big and Grand Rapids. "We're only developing the ramp and a street course that will Supervisor Tom Yack is • Dekhockey facility to rebuild as indoor facility now," Rymph said. offer curves and embankments. delighted with plans to build a His plans include building an Unlimited flow is important in skate park and to occupy the skateboarding and inline skating park outdoor park at the facility in the the design, which will allow vacant Dekhockey building. future. skateboarders and inline skaters 'Whenever private enterprise BY JOANNE MALIS2EWSKI Rigoni will serve as manager of "He (Rigoni) has a very success- to co-exist at the new facility. provides a service we might have STAFF WRITER Simplicity Sk8 Park, a position ful store. It's been there for five The design team will work to provide, it's great new. We he was asked to take by years," Rymph said. "I realized with Rigoni to provide for "the were ready to plan one for the Canton's Michigan Avenue Plymouth resident Dave Rymph, that I needed a day manager. My needs of skaters and the commu- softball center, but then we got Big sounds sports corridor will get a new who bought the former 16,000- kids shopped at Bradd's store." nity" Porrato said. wind of their plans." Park hosts Summer neighbor when a skateboard and square-foot Dekhockey building Team Pain Enterprises of "Skateboarding is an individual While some of Canton's parks Music Games. inline skating park opens in the at 45109 Michigan Avenue. "I've Florida — that built ramps for sport. It offers each person an have inline skating areas, there is PAGE CI former Michigan Dekhockey been wanting to open a skate ESPN X-Games — will design opportunity for his own style. no bona fide skateboarding cen- facility in late July. park," the Plymouth resident and build the Canton park. "It They will learn to use the facility ter for the community's teens and "It will be designed and run by said. "My kids love to skate. will be like sculpture almost," with other skaters." adults who climb aboard. skaters," said Bradd Rigoni, We've taken vacations to skate- Tito Porrato said. "It will be like a Canton will be the only com- "Everybody wins with this proj- owner of Simplicity Board Sports board parks." professional golf course designed munity with a privately owned ect," Yack said. in Canton. "It will feature the Finding the facility was the by professional golfers." skatepark In the southwestern midwest's largest half-pipe, a problem. Now, after three years Those who will design Wayne County suburbs, said [email protected] ramp that will be 80 feet wide." of looking, Rymph will bring an Canton's park are skaters who Rymph, who has visited Team (734)459-2700, Ext. 13 Parade organizer wants more parks, slower growth Lifestyle changes work better than diets in We are under way with coverage of the 2004 election. Each issue we will highlight one of the 10 Republican and s shedding excess pounds. Democratic candidates vying for one of the four, four-year! PA6EC8 seats on the Canton Township Board of Trustees. The 10 > candidates will be on the Aug. 3 primary ballot. ;•< BY JACK GLADDEN STAFF WRITER Fred Bolden, a 12- ^ year-Canton resident ^ and the father of the res- urrected Liberty Fest The family of the late parade, says if he's elect*- Brian Darow, a Canton CANTON ELECTION ed to the Canton Board; police officer who fell of Trustees in November from his roof while he'd like to use his voice and concerns to bring " decorating for Candy Band front line musicians, Paula Messner, known on stage,'Almond Joy,' Daniela Burckhardt as 'Skittles' and Anita Kelly as 'KitKat' forth new ideas to the township government. Christmas Dec. 1, perform at Tuesdays are Terrific in Heritage Park. Each performance is geared for preschool and elementary school children. Candy Band An advocate of slower growth, the 49-year- 2003, received a new is a musical group of moms who add a rocking twist to favorite kiddie tunes. old computer system analyst says he'd like to Ford Expedition June see some of the land slotted for parks to be used 24 through the collec- for more specific needs, such as more youth tive efforts of Ford baseball fields and skateboard parks. Motor Company, Saxophonist engineer new CD On the other end of the age spectrum, Bolden Boulevard & Trumbull says he's like to start working with senior citi- ' Towing and the Thin zens who, he says, are being Blue Line of Michigan. BY JOANNE MALISZEWSKI "ripped off in several ways." Darow's death left his STAFF WRITER "Anyone who does (repair) wife, Joan, as the sole work for seniors would have to supporter of the family. What does mechanical engineering be registered in our (the town- Darow, a 16-year veter- and a saxophone have in common? ship's) database," he said. "And an officer was a The answer is simple: Justin Young they need better prices for pre- staunch supporter of of Canton. scriptions drugs." the Thin Blue Line of "He is so talented," said his dad, While he acknowledged Michigan, which is an Jim. "Everything is so hard in music. that's not exactly a township Bolden organization that I have seen him play a ballad and issue, Bolden said it should be assists officers and tears are coming to people's eyes." possible to do bulk prescription purchases their families when offi- And he will say that's not just a working through the Senior Alliance. cers are injured, dis- father crooning about his son, an "We could do it," he said. "If you have 3,000 - abled or killed. engineer with North America Yazaki seniors taking a specific type of drug a day, we His fellow officers and a successful saxophonist. Young could do bulk purchasing for them." remembered Darrow at has played professional saxophone He also said he thought township trustees 11 a.m. June 23. Darow since he was 16. He graduated from should hold regular meetings with their con- was known as a family University Liggett on a music schol- stituents. man, an outdoors man, arship. "I'd like to get the trustees out to schools, a handyman and big "At the beginning, the sax was hard maybe once a month, all the trustees at one hockey fan. to play. When I first brought it home, time to listen to their constituents," he said.. "All the selfless deeds I couldn't even remeberthe notes," Justin Young, up and coming saxophone star, plays in his recording studio his family built in He said for the future of Canton he sees" the Brian Darow performed the 23-year-old resident said. the basement. population stabilizing and becoming more of a for his fellow law That is history. Today, Young per- bedroom community than a destination loca- enforcement officers forms in his own band, Justin Young his first professional gig with Right after graduation, Young tion. and their families over and Friends, as well as in his father's Kaleidoscope. "It opened up a new headed to Yazaki where he is on the "I'd like to grow some better family pro- the years, now favor- band, Kaleidoscope. He and his fami- light on playing. I thought, Wow, this design team for the 2007 KA grams," he said. "Bigger and better venues for ably returns to his fam- ly, including mom, Linda (his mar- is cool.'" DaimlerChrysler Jeep Liberty's lift- families." ily in their time of keting guru), produced his CD Young was hooked. But college was gate and headliner. His mom also He said he'd like to see some sort of family- need," said Scott Rendevous, for which he wrote the on the horizon. "I always liked play- works for Yazaki, but with the Yazaki oriented entertainment area somewhere along Reinacher, president of music. He has already sold some 800 ing with Legos and I wanted to be an Learning Center. Michigan Avenue. The Thin Blue Line. CDs. engineer," he said. "I like designing "It was fun," Young said, recalling things." PLEASE SEE SAXOPHONE, A3 PLEASE SEE BOLDEN, A3 Coming Thursday in your Canton Observer Sports, cleaning bear the brunt of P-C school cuts BY TONY BRUSCAT0 the move still comes with a price. tors for another year, despite the In order to come up with STAFF WRITER The board laid off 20 custodians fact their salaries have come under $400,000 in cuts from the high and a plant engineer at Isbister scrutiny. The board gave Ryan school athletic budget, athletic Magic fingers The layoffs of nearly two dozen Elementary as the district goes to a another year to come up with a directors will take a 9 percent pay Blues Traveler keyboardist employees and an increased pay- modified cleaning schedule in reorganization plan to reduce the cut, totaling $23,000. Ben Wilson honed his talent in The largest portion of the cuts to-participate fee for high school school buildings, which will save athletic budget, a time frame he his hometown of Ann Arbor.