Quick Solution for West Side Traffic Problems Is Unlikley
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25C Volume 11, Issue 51 Serving Lowell Area Readers Since 1893 Wednesday, November 4, 1987 Quick solution for west side traffic problems is unlikley Lowell residents hoping for a Kling explained that speeds traffic accident reports and other pins designating the accident solution to the traffic problems are primarily determined by the data with an expert from Lansing sites for the current year. The on West Main St. were disap- 85 percentile rule. That is. limits later this week. Their findings pins were most heavily clustered pointed by a presentation at Mon- are posted at the speed at which will determine whether or not at Lowell's only traffic light. COMPUTERIZED "PEANUTS" AT COUSINS day *s Lowell City Council meet- 85 percent of the traffic is travel- traffic signals are needed. Jones Kling and Jones will present ing. Sgt. Roger Kling of the ing at or under. Kling pointed said no decision would be made their findings at future meetings, Joann and Karin Hale, the Xousins" in Cousins* Card & Gift Michigan State Police told the out that if traffic typically moves until the review is complete, but but their comments on Monday Shoppc. have a new program for their computer Customers can audience that the twenty year old along at 45 miles per hour and he did suggest that it was doubt- didn't offer much hope for a sol- n now personalize greeting cards featuring the famous "Pcanuts traffic control order that dictates the speeed limit is posted at 25 ful a signal would be recom- ution. Councilman Charlie characters. The name of the person you're sending the card to can speeds on the busy stretch of M- miles per hour, nearly all drivers mended. Doyle may have summed the be cleverly written into the gaglines in the little balloons. The 21 is scheduled for review. Kling will continue to drive at 45 miles Both Jones and Kling situation up best during his com- Peanuts selection joins the "Birthday Times" and "Anniversary said a study is always done on a per hour. The bottom line to explained that traffic signals do ments at the end of the meeting. Times" cards that can be personalized on their computer. clear, dry day, and warned that Kling's comments is the fact that help in creating gaps in traffic "Hey, let's face it, Lowell's grow- Slop in loday for a "Peanuts card, and while you're there you'll because of the upcoming winter lowering West Main speed limits so motorists can more easily gain ing and traffic is just getting notice the store is bulging with new merchandise for the upcoming weather, it may be next spring won't necessarily lower speeds. access to the main road. But, heavier and heavier. 1 don't think holday season. before the survey is done. Kling Michael Jones, DistrictIVaffic both agreed that signals increase wrve seen anything yet!'*, also warned that the findings Engineer for the Michigan De- accidents by at least 25 percent. Doyle said. "The days when you LANDMARK (OR EYESORE) TO BE RAISED may not be compiled and a deci- partment of Transportation also Lowell Police Chief Barry Em- could jump in your car, go to the sion made for three months or addressed the Council and audi- mons backed the theory by show- store and be back in two minutes A dilapidated old home at the comer of Horatio and Main St. more beyond that. ence. Jones says he will review ing a map of the city with push are gone forever", he added. on the city's east side will soon be bulldozed into oblivion. The home was once used as a paper drop for the Lowell Jaycees, but for the past several years it has served mostly as an eyesore. For years the city has been attempting to have the building declared a Ledger purchases Buyers Guide 'hazardous structure" and demolished. Those efforts have finally paid off. Monday night the Lowell City Council approved a low Lowell Ledger Publisher Publication dates for both the typesetting and bindery depart- community ', Brown said. bid of $2,500 from O.E. Bieri and Sons to raze the eyesore some- Roger Brown has announced the Buyers Guide and Lowell ments. "Don't look for sweeping time in the near future. purchase of the Lowell Buyers Ledger will remaio the same. Brown feels the three busines- changes, because we're dealing Guide, Inc., a 16,000circulation The copy deadline for the Buyers ses are very compatible, and with businesses that have been OFF THE BLOTTER shopper published in Lowell for Guide is noon on Fridays. The share much in equipment needs, around a long, long time. But, I more than 30 years. Brown publication goes to press Friday personnel skills and technology. think Buyers Guide and Ledger The Lowell Medical Unit responded to 28 dispatches in the signed the deal with Buyers evening, is mailed Saturday 'The aquisition of the Buyers readers will see steady improve- month of October. Guide owner Elva Ayres on Oc- morning and should find its way Guide puts our entire operation ments over the coming months I? Injured in an accident Friday afternoon. Oct. 30, was Barbara tober 30, and took immediate into most mail boxes on Monday in a position to grow with the and years". Brown concluded. Gistinger, 44 of Lowell when the outside rear dual wheel came possession. morning. The Ledger's news off a semi trailer driven by Gary Willick, 31 and struck her car. Brown says that with only a deadline is Mondays at 5:00 The tire then bounced off her car and struck a parked car owned few exceptions, the Buyers p.m. and the advertising dead- by Stan Galbreath of Lowell. A second tire from the trailer left Guide will continue to be pub- line will remain at noon onlbes- Major renovation the axle and struck two other parked cars owned by Dave Skirvin lished as always, using the same days. The Ledger goes to press of Grand Rapids and Nancy Anderson of Lowell, causing property staff, phone number, etc. The Tuesday evenings, and is mailed damage to their vehicles also. The incident occurred on M-21 near competing East Kent Shopper's Wednesday morning for delivery at Wittenbach's Lafayette St. Guide, started by Brown in May in Lowell on Wednesday and in David Himebaugh. 28t of Lowell was involved in a property of this year, will be discontinued. outlying areas on Thursdays. damage accident on S. Pleasant St, when he backed from a private Brown stressed that many of the One change that will be drive into a vehicle driven by Scott Dros, 21 of Cedar Springs, combination advertising rates of- noticed in the Buyers Guide is \\ Wednesday» Oct. 28. fered through the East Kent the discontinuance of the "Com- Reported to Lowell Police was a hit and run property damage Shopper's Guide will still be av- munity Page". Brown explained accident, which occuired in the Family Fare lot on West Main ailable in the Buyers Guide. that the decision was made in an St.. Thurs., Oct. 22, involving a car owned by Richard Huver of For instance, display ads effort to keep costs in line so as Lowell. placed in both the Buyers Guide to hold advertising rates at their Injured in an accident, Sunday, Oct, 18, at Main and Hudson and the neighboring Ionia present levels. Thad Kraus, St. was Kyle Gildea, 17, of Lowell, when he made a left mm into County Shopper's Guide will be editor of the "Community Page" the path of a car driven by Douglas DeVries, 38. of Lowell. substantially discounted. has been employed by the No injuries were reported in an accident Sat., Oct. 17. when a Likewise, display ads from the Ledger, and will work full lime car driven by Jeffrey Cooley. 19, of Grand Rapids backed from Buyers Guide can be inserted in covering area news. a parking place in McDonalds lot on West Main St. into another the Lowell Ledger at $1.15 per The Ledger has been in con- parked vehicle owned by George Johnson of Grand Rapids. column inch, a full $1.00 off the tinuous publication since June of Daniel Darby, 18. of Saranac. struck the rear of a car driven open rate. A discount rate is also 1893. It was founded by F.M. by Dianne Gcarhart,42. of St. Johns on M-21 near Valley Vista available for display advertise- Johnson and sold to R.G. Jef- Drive, Sat., Oct. 17. No injuries were reported. ments placed in both the Buyers feries in 1930. The Jefferies fam- No injuries were reported Wed , Oct. 28, when a car driven by Guide and the south edition of ily published the Ledger until it Paul Blattner, 25, of Lowell struck a power pole on the comer of the Buyline, a 15,000 circulation was sold to Francis Smith in Valley Vista Drive and Sibley St. shopper published by the Green- 1968. In 1971 ownership of the Involved in a rear end collision on Main St. near Riverside Dr., ville Daily News. The south edi- Ledger reverted back to Harold Oct. 30 were Melen Morrison, 64, of Saranac when he struck the tion covers the Belding and Jefferies. Carol Sebastian pub- rear of a car driven by Gerald Bissell, 46, of Orleans. Ml. No one Greenville area, and fits together lished the paper for Jefferies was injured. nicely with the Buyers Guide's until it was sold to Brown in This building is hours away from being demolished.