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THE WEEK Wayne-Ford tops accident list -'! .-- y • The Wayne-Ford inter "rr- AHEAD section kept its long-stand ing No* 1 ranking for acci lO worst Intersections dents, and the overall the In Westland MONDAY number of roadway crash A comparison of accidents . : es In Westland climbed in 1997 and 1996 : from 2,094 to 2,247. : Input on DDA: Westland Wayne/ Ford residents wilt have an More drivers collided 110 at Wayne and Ford Wayne/Cherry HiU .,¾ opportunity at 5:30p.m. roads than at any other Sfonday to voice their Westland intersection Warren/New burgh in 1997, a newly- opinions on efforts to ,released study shows. Ford/Newburgh -¾¾ spruce up two of the city's The Wayne-Ford Wayne/Warren major corridors during a intersection kept its long-standing No. i 1 ranking for accidents even though Wayne/Hunter -.* public meeting at the the number of crashes dipped from Westland public library. 110 in 1996 to 90 last year, Westland Wayne/Cowan .¾ police Sgtt Peter Brokas said. Warren/Central City Parkway He attributed the decrease to closer TUESDAY police scrutiny of drivers making Cherry Hill/Mer riman improper left turns out of commercial driveways hear the intersection..-;; Merrimari/Ann Arbor Trail Child safety: Parents are invited to attend a free Please seo ACCIDENT, A2 Workshop on "Teaching Personal Safety to.Chil dren" 6:30-9:30p.m. Tues It's all about education day, by Youth Living Cen Teacher of ters, 30000 HiveleyRoad, year: Nomi Inkster. For more infor* nated by over mation, call (734) 728- Schweitzer 3400. Elementary colleague Carol Oster- WEDNESDAY ling, Patricia Canton officials will allow for a $1.3- Colligan, million special assessment district to From Beethoven to was chosen build a road and drag water and sewer- by a commit to a planned corporate park that neigh-! Mozart: The Arianna bors the Holliday Park Nature Pre-; String Quartet will per tee of judges ..serve. '.' - '•-;'.; that Burton Katzman Development Com form the music of Mozart reviewed 236 pany and other property owners wilt and Beethoven noon candidates pay back the $1.3 million through an Wednesday in the Forum forihe assessment on tax bills oyer the next lOyears. Building Recital Hdtlat Teacher of The township board unanimously Schoolcraft College, .the Year agreed to the, SAD Tuesday despite* 18600 Hqggerty,between award. Now opposition from residents of Canton-,' she will be Plymouth, Livonia, arid Westland and Five Mile and Six Mile, Honored- representatives from the Holliday Livonia. The concert is Nature Preserve Association and along with Friends of the Rouge River free. Westland's "If Canton agrees to bankroll this^ top father, then we lose most of it, if not all," said mother and Jack Smiley of Westland, who sits or/ THURSDAY highschool the board of directors for the Friends 01 » t senior - dur the Rouge River. I Canton resident Dave Thomas told! Off to see Onvtfqhn Glenn ing the board members, "Nothing will replace; mayor's what took nature hundreds of years to High School's production State of the make. I think it's time to save the few of "Oz" opens at 7p.m. City address natural areas we have left," t Thursday at John Glenn atlpMi A group of preservationists has been! attempting to get Wayne County Parks; Auditorium. Tickets at Aprilsat and Recreation to extend the 530-acr© the door are $4 for stu the Hellenic Holliday Nature Preserve by buying a dents and $7 for adults. Cultural portion of the Koppernick property. ; Center on "Once (Koppernick Corporate Park) Joy Road. goes through it will be totally enclosed On142nd Street: Churchill by 'progress,' if you will," said Doug High School presents the DiMeglio of Canton. The Koppernick Corporate Park is 1930s Broadway musical planned for an area that extends "42nd Street" at 7:30 p.m. between 1-275 and the C&O railroad tracks, between Koppernick and War Thursday in the Carli ren. The Holliday Park is to the east of Auditorium, 8900 New- the railroad tracks in the city of West- burgh Road, Livonia. land. The Tonquish Creek, which feeds into the Rouge River, also runs at the southern edge of the property. Chuck DiMaggio of Burton Katzman INDEX said current plans are to build two office/warehouse buildings approxi • Obituaries A7 mately 66,000 and 91,000 square-feet in size on property nearest 1-275. • Classified Index E4 This is ike third in a four-part series on the nice. They don't have plans for the proper Real Estate El Salute to Excellence winners. Colligan has now reached a milestone in her ty closest to the nature preserve, he Crossword E6 After finishing her spelling assignment, 9- 11th year of teaching by being named Teacher said. year-old Stephani Rowley quietly left her desk Jobs HI of the Year as part of Westland Mayor Robert "We initiated discussion with the and began writing on a chalkboard in a rear cor Thomas' 1998 Salute to Excellence Awards. county to buy the property before we Home A Service J2 ner of teacher Patricia Colligan's classroom. SALUTETO EXCELLENCE Nominated by Schweitzer colleague Carol were even made aware of the (Holliday Autos J4 "I like my teacher," she wrote, not realizing Osterling, Colligan was chosen by a committee Nature Preserve) group," said DiMag • Taste Bl she was being observed as she passed a few of judges that reviewed 236 candidates. Now gio. spare moments near the end of another school day at • Health* Fitness B4 she will be honored - along withWestland's top father, Burton Katzman last met with Schweitzer Elementary School. mother and high school senior - during the mayor's State Wayne County Parks arid Recreation • Arts A Leisure CI Turning away from the chalkboard/Stephani smiled of the City address at 7 p.m. April 8 at the Hellenic Cul March 13, he said. DiMaggio said a • Sports & Recreation Dl when asked to explain why she likes her teacher. tural Center on Joy Road. price has yet to be mentioned, although "Because she teaches us about things like the Titanic, "This is humbling," Colligan, 60, said during an after- Canton Supervisor Tom Yack estimat the planets, the body system; the community we live in, school interview in her Westland classroom, where she ed 50 acres to cost about $6 million. HOW TO REACH US the judges and the government," she said. "Plus she's '•' ' Pleas© see ttACHfcR,A4 Thomas suggested Burton Katzman Pleasoseo WSTKtet, A4 Newsroom: 734-W3-2KM Newsroom Fax: 73+W1-7279 E-mail: Mwarvom 0 o*onHn«.com Lowell's future could involve use by Livonia Nlghtllne/Sports: 734-M3-2104 Reader Comment Line: 7344U-2042 A lease that's been a "good deal" for both the Livo* ern portion of the Livonia district. residents to approve a bond issue to build a new mid* Classified Advertising: 734-M14900 nia and Plymouth-Canton school districts for nearly "There's been no proposal yet, it's too early to talk, die school in Canton. Plymouth-Canton currently Display Advert Isirg: 734-891-2300 20 years could come to an end in the year 2000 if ele and we've made no recommendations to the board houses 730 middle school students at Lowell mentary school enrollment continues to climb in yet," said Watson, stressing that all discussion is pre The lease expires in 1999, but the Livonia Board of Home Delivery: 734-S91-0600' southwest Livonia, mature. Education will extend it for at least one more year, to The old Lowell Middle School, now leased from "This could surface next fall, as we look at the 2000, Watson said. •':;'•! Livonia Public Schools by Plymouth-Canton Commu numbers and our finances." "This is next year's problem for Livonia to con$id< nity Schools for $90,000 a year, could resurface as . At this point, Plymouth-Canton officials are assum er," Watson said. Livonia's fifth middle school if attendance numbers ing the worst - that Livonia will not renew its lease Dave Watson, Livonia's director of operations, said show a need for another middle school, said Superin of the Westland school when the lease expires in Aug. new housing developments in the southwest corner of tendent Ken Watson. 1,2000. Livonia most likely will lead to more students. > The school is in the city of Westland, in the south- District officials are now debating whether to ask 6 53174 ...."• '•...'. Pleas© see LOWELL, Ai ..iL_:Y ) U. ^-. Aiv i'j L-, **£* '/'iA&'az -k ,-t:!i • mmm •^^WJ The Observer & Eccentric! SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1998 Accident frompageAl r Overall, the number of road signals on Ford Road. "Ittui •• way crashes in Westland "That made Ford Road traffic % cjimbed from 2,094 to 2,247 dur back up more," Brokas saidj "but ing the two-year period. we believe1 it will level out when ) "People have too much to do in the motorists get used to it." a' car," Brokas said."They're Moreover, the severity of Ford- \Jsing cell phones and fiddling Newburgh crashes appeared to ground with CD players.