1BRAR INSIDE 4 RECORD RACK FENCE 7 qmc DIRECTORY TV OBITUARIES 6i PIGSKIN CARTOONS 17 PAW PAW JOURNAL.... 4 Rotary Scramble REBATE CROSSWORD POLICE REPORTS 13 Did you get your FOOD & FUN 7 PRESS BOX 9 PICKS HOME & GARDEN 7 ROLLING BACK 4 is this Sunday Page 10 KARI'^ KOIIIMN 4 9 Page 14 $25? LEGAL NEWS ...12 WANT AD .. n FOR COLOMA HARTFORD WATERVUET TRI-CITY RECORD Sept. 10,1986 Vol. 102-No. 37 RED ARROW EDITION OF THE WATERVUEUiECORD Watervliet girl assaulted Watervliet Commissioners attacker sought in area INVESTIGATION CONTINUES vote to condemn old school An investigation by state and local police continues in con- By Ed Trainor nection with a reported sexual preference to light a fire, good The Watervliet City Com- assault on a 16-year-old Water- luck!" Moore added that she mission accepted the recom- vliet girl. The girl was forced into has owned the building since mendation of its City Planning an automobile near Church November of 1985 and that the I I III FT-••:•••• - Committee and voted to com- lawns have been maintained Street and St. Joseph about mence condemnation CONDEMNED...The old Watervliet Junior High School building at the and the roof patched to inhibit 12:30 a.m. Monday, September proceedings against a vacant corner of Red Arrow and M-140 may be condemned even though the 1. The driver took her to an area leaking. school building on Red Arrow current owner claims the building is structurally sound. City Com- east of the city near County Line In other business. Com- missioners voted Monday night to commence condemnation Highway and Main Street down- Road where she was assaulted missioners approved the ap- proceedings due to lack of progress of renovation proceedings. town. pointment by Mayor Ed Cam- before she could escape the car The two-story structure was and run to a nearby house. formerly the Watervliet Jr. High ^eSee v/CITi 1Y1 on page -2 State Police Detective Sgt. School building. City Com- Jerry Clark of the St. Joseph missioners voted 3 to 2 for con- Post believes the assailant may demnation. Voting in favor of Sewage treatment plant supt. be either a current or previous the action Monday night were resident of the area. "This guy commissioners Bob Bayman, was familiar with the area," Bob Flaherty and Sharon Jen- resigns; attacks Sewer Board Clark said. The man (s described nings. Voting against the as white, about 5'10" and around motion were Lloyd Richcreek By Karl Bayer 140-160 lbs. He is of a slender Have you seen this man? and Greg Forrester. Com- James Carpenter, superin- His resignation letter was read would get better. He also told build with hazel green or blue- or model. A composite sketch of missioner Walter Duday was tendent of the Paw Paw Lake at the Watervliet Township the Board he too would have to green eyes. He may have a mark the suspect has been made absent. Sewage Treatment Plant, has Board meeting Monday night. resign if relations with the or scar on his right cheek near available. Information regarding Prior to the vote, discussion resigned that post effective His resignation was also an- Sewer Board didn't Improve. the mouth. He drove a brownish the incident may be called in to centered on the lack of progress Sept. 5 and charged the chair- nounced at the Watervliet City two-door car of unknown make the State Police at 429-1 111. toward rehabilitation and man and the treasurer of the Commission meeting Monday Sewer Board Chairman development of the property Joint Sewer Treatment Board night. Henrietta Frazier told the which had been rezoned to ac- with gross incompetence and Watervliet Township Board Record that a motion to release commodate the current owner. malfeasance. members expressed surprise at Carpenter's letter to the public Bob Bayman speaking for the the announced resignation. had died for lack of support at Watervliet planners reject majority said, "What ever hap- Carpenter has been superin- Sewer Board representative Bob the Sewer Board meeting Mon- pened to those plans? This has tendent of the treatment plant Jackson presented Carpenter's day night. She said Mr. Jackson gone on long enough." Com- for nearly 9 years. The treatment resignation. When queried was not authorized to release golf course condo project missioner Flaherty agreed, "One plant is jointly owned and about it, Jackson replied the letter to the Township nothing had been said about the Board. She said the Sewer By Ed Trainor of these days that thing is going operated by Watervliet and on the now dead-end street was existing conflict because the Board discussed sending a let- The Watervliet Township to fall down," he said. Com- Coloma townships and the likely to decrease property Sewer Board hoped things ter to the local governments of Planning Commission voted 3-0 missioners Richcreek and cities of Coloma and Watervliet. values according to Grover Get- the treatment plant and that the against a rezoning request for Forrester argued that the city tig, one of those who signed the Sewer Board did not know the parts of the Paw Paw Lake Golf could not bear the financial bur- petition. "I understand that letter had been released until course Tuesday night. Planners den of actual demolition costs. profit is the American way and I about 10:30 p.m. She said, "The rejected revised site plans for "There is no money In this don't think you are building letter should not have been the proposed eighteervunit con- year's budget. That is a plain Norma Somers appointed those units just because you and simple fact. I don't care who made public." . dominium project after two Mrs. Frazier declined to petitions signed by eight like to look at condominiums. knows it," Richcreek said. But the reopening of Central In a phone call after the comment on the allegations in families were Introduced at the to Coloma School Board the letter, saying, "I don't think I public hearing. Twenty-three Avenue would come at great ex- meeting, property owner Carol pense to me. That Is part of the By Marlon Leedy a committee of Bill Smith, as should comment on the letter area residents attended the 7:30 Moore, 8189 Verlynda Drive, character of my home. It's a Norma Somers was appointed since it is being published in the p.m. hearing at the Watervliet Watervliet, said she was sur- chairman, Charles Nelson and quiet place to live." by unanimous vote of the mem- Bob Ginter and was named last paper. I don't know what I'll have District Library. prised at the action and has not The second petition objected bers of the Board of Education month by Jean Chandler, the to do now." One petition focused on a been contacted on the matter. to other specifics of the condo of the Coloma Community Board president. new plan to reopen Central She said her plans to proposal. Specifically It noted rehabilitate the building were school system Monday night. Somers was selected as the Carpenter's letter or Avenue off Paw Paw Avenue and extend it through the golf cour- the Intrusion on a right-of-way to still pending with the immediate She replaces Ann DeZwarte candidate for the office by the resignation, in its entirety, se to the lakefront. It cited main- five homes located on the Point, improvement of re-roofing the whose resignation became ef- committee after Its members follows: tenance of the current street an area alongside the course building tentatively set for this fective at the end of August. reviewed seven-page question- To the Paw Paw Lake Joint and its proposed extension as a which overlooks Paw Paw Lake. fall. "The economics of my Somers was one of eight can- naires and written resumes from Sewage Board: major concern. The introduction Those residents use a private project (motel and recreation didates who applied for the ap- each candidate. The question- This letter is to formally con- center) need further study to pointment. She was selected by naires were prepared by the See RESIGN on page 2 of increased traffic past homes See CONDO on page 14 determine their probabilities for committee. Smith reported all success. We are still resear- the candidates had excellent ching the investment and qualifications. studying options. The building Somers will hold the office is structurally sound but needs until the annual school election Hartford Council tables sewer project bid major work inside to repair In June. At that time a candidate By Phyliss Buechner whether to accept or reject the plaster and ceiling damage that will be elected to a four-year Maurice Rushlow from of a problem with a two-inch gas occurred while the building sat term on the Board, as that date main located in the street and bid was tabled until the Sep- Wightman and Associates, tember 22 Council meeting. vacant for eight years. There coincides with the end of the engineers for the Haver Street that he had contacted Con- Two bids were received for was no heat in the building term of office of DeZwarte. Sewer reconstruction, gave an sumers Power Company about handicapped ramps the City is during that time, and in Somers, who lives at 7031 update on the project at the City the possibility of them installing on sidewalks. Iden- Michigan one should expect North Maple Street in Coloma meeting Monday night. He said relocating this service line; but deterioration under those cir- Township, is a former high at the time of the Hartford City tical bids were submitted by only one bid was received and it Marvin Schmalfeldt and Tod Ef- cumstances." school and junior high school was higher than they had an- Council meeting Monday, Sep- Moore said there are no teacher from the city of Marshall tember 8, he had not received a ting.