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Online every day at www.liometownlife.com Organ arrives on focus of Bookmark local community to view daily updates film, fund schedule raiser INSERTED SECTION Click and tickets • Printable coupons HealiiK6 75 cents 100 STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS SINCE 2001 www.hometownlife.com incorporate a lot of what we talk the classroom, research to put in context with read in 65 sites in BY SUE MASON this will confirm that," she said. STAFF WRITER The samples will be analyzed for select metals, including Testing for contaminants in arsenic, lead and mercury. Westland's Central City Park will Groundwater samples wffl be col enter a new phase Monday when lected at about eight feet below the Michigan Department of ground level at each location. Environmental Quality' Vens said the work should take \ Geological Services Unit begins about two weeks. Analysis of the •• boring to obtain soil and ground samples will take up to eight water samples. weeks. The laboratory will have Th.e soil borings will be done at an additional 30 days to do a 65 locations in and around the report on its findings. **'•:• park. They were ordered after "Once we get the results, we'll ; surface-level tests done in March know what the contaminants are found underground wastes. and will give the information to "Sixty-five is the base number the city to determine what their for getting an idea of what's going response will be," she said. on out there," said DEQ. project The park was partially closed manager Beth Vens. "This will last November after it became give a better picture of what the known that city and county offi city and county are dealing with." cials had. been aware of a lead TOM'HAWLEY [STAFF fflOTOGRAPHFR Vens said the locations of the contamination problem at the site Harper teifs first- and second-graders about S^rah Emma Edmonds as part of the Michigan History Museum fourth-graders set up borings was detenhined from the for several years. Elementary School in Westland. geophysical map of the 100-acre The park, owned by the county park, files and aerial photographs and leased to the city, was once that "show where the distur used as a dump. bances are." A majority of them Mayor William Wild took the will be in the areas of the baseball closing one step further, ordering diamonds, soccer field and it fenced offafter he became playscape. mayor in January. BY SUE MASON ing long black skirt and hat, the 10- said. "They have to do some research Several borings also are "delib "This initiates the next phase of STAFF WRITER year-old retold the story of Edmonds to put in context with what they read erately being done" outside the environmental testing at Central who cut her hair, bought a man's suit in the books." park to confirm mat the contami City Park," he said. "We look for What do Joe Louis, Sarah Emma and changed her name to Frank The assignment wasn't big, accord nation has not gone beyond the ward to cooperating with both Edmonds and Robert La Salle have Thompson in order to enlist in the ing to Muller, also a fourth-grade site. DEQ and Wayne County officials in common? Michigan Infantry Volunteers. It teacher at Edison. Students had to "The aerials show where the as this phase of testing begins." Ask fourth-graders at Edison took four tries, but once in, she show what was important to contamination stopped, the geo Elementary School in Westland and worked as a nurse and as a spy. Michigan either in a picture, map, physical showed it stopping there, [email protected] j (734} 953-2112 they'll give you a one-word answer - ""I thought she would be a cool dress or some form of information. Michigan. topic," said Samantha. "Mrs. (Judith) They had access to packages of infor The trio was among a cadre of his Muller pulled sticks and we got to mation on their topics, and if that torical figures that came to life when pick a topic. I chose her from the wasn't enough, they could use the students presented their Michigan story and her photograph." Internet. And considering the scope Historical Museum earlier this Students had about a month to put of the project, parental involvement month. together their projects as part of was expected, she said. They lined the walls of the gymna their study of Michigan history, said "At this age they need the parents sium, posters announcing who they teacher Tim Sullivan. to help and you can see that parents were, while they provided the histori The textbook gives a cursory intro did help," she added. "It's a sign they cal facts about the characters they duction to events and persons impor care" Editor's note: Five candidates - Bhagwan in dealing with the difficulties that portrayed. tant in the state's past, but the histor This is the sixth year the fourth- Dashairya, Skip Monit, Brian Mulligan, our school district feces," she said. "She was the only female member ical museum let students gain more graders have done the projects which Martha Pitsenbarger and T. Cortez Spann A Wayne resident, Pitsenbarger of the George B. McClellan veterans knowledge about important culminate in the historical museum Jr. - are campaigning for two four-year has a bachelor of science degree post," said Samantha Harper of Sarah Michigan figures and events and which is open to kindergartners terms on the Wayne-Westland Board of from Eastern Michigan Emma Edmonds, one of 400 women "puts an expert in the classroom," through fifth-graders. Education in the Tuesday, May 8, election. University and a master of social who succeeded in enlisting in the according to Sullivan. DeAndre Bathwell chose a person This is the fourth of five stories profiling work degree from the University military during the Civil War. "We try to incorporate a lot of what the candidates based on their responses of Michigan. She is a clinical Wearing a black jacket and match we talk about in the classroom," he PLEASE SEE MUSEUM, A6 to questions submitted to them by the social worker with Value Options Observer, . m Livonia. She currently is a voluntary A 12-year member of the probation officer with 29th . Wayne- District Court and is serving on ement case Westland school the city of Wayne's Save Our board, Martha Streets ballot question committee. A Westland woman has been sen Cramier-Oncza, who oversaw the fed • check after she received a $1,000 check Pitsenbarger She also has served on commit tenced to probation after pleading no eral Family Self-SufEciency Program at from Cramier-Oncza and coincidentaliy believes it is the tees for a new police station and a contest to a charge of embezzling Westland's Dorsey Community Center, went to the same bank teller the follow knowledge and community pool in Wayne. $1,000 in her job overseeing a city- had earlier denied any wrongdoing. ing day to cash it. experienced that Married, she and husband Jack based family assistance program. However, testimony in a February court According to the Wayne County she has amassed have three children - Sue, Patty Wayne County Circuit Court Judge hearing indicated that she deposited Prosecutor's Office, Cramier-Oncza's mat is needed and Anthony - and two grand Carole Youngblood Thursday sentenced $2,000 in FSS funds into her personal plea was accepted under a statute that Pitsenbarger now. children. Tonya Cramier-Oncza, 39, to three bank account and then turned over just says she took advantage of a vulnerable She is hoping According to Pitsenbarger, the years' probation and ordered to pay fees $1,000 to client Yolanda Parker. adult. voters agree. role of the school board in public and court costs totaling $1,080.' Parker testified her name had been She wasn't offered a sentence agree 'As a«ehool education is to set the policy According to court records, restitution forged on the $2,000 check. A bank ment in return for the plea and faced a board, we have which will provide an education was set at zero because the money in teller also testified that Cramier-Oncza sentence of probation up to 14 years in faced many diffi for students. question had been returned. came to the bank and claimed that prison. cult challenges, "Our policies have to reflect She had been accused of using a check Parker couldn't accompany her because She will have three years in which to but by working state mandates," she stated. "It is to embezzle the money that a struggling she was disabled, which she isn't. pay the $1,080, which includes $600 in together we have mother needed to buy. a car. Parker learned about the $2,000 court costs and $360 in supervision fees. been successful PLEASE SEE PITSENBARGER, A5 © The Observer Coming Thursday & Eccentric INDEX in Filter ! For Home Newspapers •?£ .?& %£ 'i si- CAMPBELL 2007 APARTMENTS E5 CHAR6ER in AUTOMOTIVE E6 Delivery call: iV $ . 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