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Interactive garage sale map Find great sales in BOYS HOLORS r—A£J your neighborhood SPORTS, B2 ' SMs www.hometownlife.com Farmers Market The City of West- land is accepting • farmers market ven dor applications for the 2012 season. ^ Pick up an appli cation at the Bailey Recreation Center, City Hall or visit • PRICE: $1 • THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012 ' • hometownlife.com www.cityofwest- land.com. The Westland • Farmers Market is the ultimate site for farmers, grow ers and producers to sell their own products directly City to the public. The market will take place every 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, May 29 through Oct. 23, in the park ing lot of Westland may City Hall at 36601 Ford Road. For more infor mation, call (734) 722-7620. Special parking Westland resident Eric Kehoe wrote the songs, plays all the instruments and provides the vocals on an Expectant mothers album he is recording at home. chief and senior citizens will have their own By LeAnne Rogers place to park at West- land City Hall. One-man band releases first album ' Observer Staff Writer The city has desig If plans go ahead for Westland and nated three parking Wayne to share the services of Fire spots on the west Chief Michael Reddy, it will likely be the side of building as By LeAnne Rogers Observer Staff Writer start of a merger of the two fire depart "reserved parking" ments. for senior citizens As a band member, Eric What form that consolidation would and expectant moth Kehoe played the bass gui • take isn't yet known but the goals are to ers. tar, but he's a one-man band make the fire departments economical "These preferred in recording an album to be ly sustainable, improve services to resi parking spaces were released this summer. dents and maintain staffing. created in response Along with the bass, the At a budget meeting to repeated requests Westland resident, 25, plays Wednesday, Westland • from visitors City Hall guitar, piano and drums. He council members agreed to make parking with has also been providing the in concept to move for a closer proximity to vocals for original songs he ward with negotiating City Hall entrances has been recording at his an intergovernmental for seniors citizens mother's home using Apple's agreement to share the and expectant moth Logic Pro software. Kehoe services of Reddy, who ers," said Mayor Wil starts by recording the drums, would retire as Westland liam Wild. Fire Chief Mi then uses headphones as he fire chief and then serve chael Reddy The spaces have records the other instruments Computer software is helping Eric Kehoe of Westland write, record in the dual capacity as a a sign designating and the vocals. ' and produce an album of original songs that will be available online. contractor. Current Wayne Fire Chief them for moms-to-be "When I was 13 or 14,1 start Mel Moore would also retire effective • and seniors. ed doing music—it's some "This has always kind of to pay for the professional June30. thing that I will always do," been on my list of things to mixing and distribution of his said Kehoe, who participat-' do. I'm out of school and I album, which will be released Immediate savings of $250,000 ed in'choir and concert band don't have a full-time job so it as an MP3 download. As proposed, Wayne would pay while a student at Lutheran seemed like a good time to do "Now there are download $50,000 of the chief's $115,000 annu Armed West High School. He cites it, "said Kehoe. "It was incred cards. They are business card al salary. Mayor William Wild said that Forces Day Neil Young and the Shins as '• ible. I'd recommend it to any size and have links to the there would be an immediate savings of being among his musical influ one who has a chance to do download. It's such an inter nearly $250,000 for the two cities. See and talk to ences. ' it. You go to help people, but esting time to be a musician," Bom departments currently have fire re-enactors from After his 2005 graduation, you learn more than they do. said Kehoe. "You don't need a fighters whose positions are funded five different wars Kehoe attended Grand Valley I helps you see what is impor label. This album is structured through federal grants which will expire in American history State University and while liv tant in life." as a nonprofit." in2013—nine in Westland and six in at the fifth annual ing in Grand Rapids played bass Living in an African farming Wayne. Reddy would be tasked with Armed Forces Day in a band called Valen Tiger. community two hours from Grad school plans looking a" t bom departments and finding Celebration 11 a.m. "We go on tours around the the nearest other Peace Corps A week before the online cost savings to avoid those layoffs. to 4 p.m. Saturday, country. They are still doing it. volunteer, Kehoe had a bit of a f undraising wrapped up, "I've talked with Chief Reddy many May 5, at the West- It was folk rock with '60s and break from playing music. • Kehoe had exceeded his $1,000 times. I'm very impressed with him. land Historic Village 70s influences," said Kehoe, Park on Wayne Road "When I was in Africa, I had goal with donations from 55 He's the chief who can take this for who received a degree in Eng a lot of time to write and wrote people. "Probably 60 percent ward," said Wayne City Manager Rob between Marquette lish and sociology in 2010. and Cherry Hill. most of the songs on the album are people I know, but 40 per ert English. "The long-term goal is to while I was there. Consciously cent I don't know. It's cool," sustain the departments. As we go down There will be Peace Corps member or subconsciously, that came said Kehoe. this road with a fire authority, it will presentations on the Kehoe then pursued anoth through," said Kehoe, who Currently staying with his assure the stability of the fire depart lives of American er of his goals and in June 2011 works as a substitute teacher. , mother Karen, Kehoe isn't ments and more important, improve soldiers and a live began seven months teaching Using the Kickstarter non making a career of music— services." weapons demonstra English in Tanzania as a mem profit web site, Kehoe was tion. New this year, ber of the Peace Corps. able to raise his goal of $1,000 Please see MUSICIAN, A2 Please see CHIEF, A2 the 5th Michigan Regimental Band, a Civil War era group, will perform. Donations are wel come but admission Mayor to Norwayne citizens: 'You're doing a great job' is free, and refresh ments will be sold on By LeAnne Rogers one-week free trial member site. The Westland Observer Staff Writer ships at the Wayne Communi Historical Commis ty Center. "Norwayne folks are sion and Historical A conversation with West- probably the closest (geograph Society are hosting land Mayor William Wild was ically) to the Wayne Community the event. on the meeting agenda as the Center," said Wild. "We're pretty Norwayne Community Citizens excited about this." Council met Monday. Updates were provided on sev Not on the agenda was a vis eral topics including the need it by U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D- for additional groups to sign INDEX ' Detroit, who popped in to chat up to work a day weekly at the Business A7 Norwayne Community Garden, Crossword Puzzle ....B12 with the group assembled at the Entertainment B5 Dorsey Center. the need for Norwayne proj Food B9 An invitation had been extend ects in the area west of Venoy, Homes ...B12 ed to Wild to attend the meeting recycling, a June 3 cleanup day Jobs B13 for an update on projects tack planned by Ekklesia Church, Sat Obituaries B4' led by the citizens council over urday events hosted by the citi Opinion A10 the past two years since they zens council and housing stabili Services B12 zation efforts. ; Sports B1 were formed. Wild also took Wheels B14 the opportunity to talk with the BILL BRESLER I STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER "You're doing a great job. You group about some upcoming city Westland Mayor William Wild (far right) meets with the Norwayne Com should be proud,'" said Wild, who © The Observer & Eccentric initiatives including the pend munity Citizens Council at the Dorsey Center. noted his parents lived in Nor Volume 47 • Number 93 ing merger of the Westland and wayne when he was born. Wayne Parks and Recreation begins July 1, the council has er area in southeast Michigan Westland received nearly $2 Heme Delivery: departments. agreed to move forward with the would have that many parks," million in federal Neighbor (866) 887-2737 With the scheduled retirement merger proposal. said Wild, who noted operating hood Stabilization Program mon of Westland Parks and Recre "The retirement of Bob losses at the Bailey Center aver ey, Wild said, with nearly, all the Return Address: 41304 Concept Dr. ation Director Robert Kosows- Kosowski gave us an opportunity age $800,000 annually. funds spent in Norwayne. NSP Plymouth HI 48170 ki later this year and a proposed to look at it differently. We would is aimed at acquiring abandoned closing of the Bailey Recre have 37 parks total available (if Community Center' ation Center when the fiscal year the departments merge).