Guinness World Record Results Pending for Canton

WIN COOL PRIZES Subscribers, see page 4 of the Christmas in July special section inside today's newspaper Horvath resigns from P-CCS board By Joanne Maliszewski d on ’t have any hard feelings Barrett accept for his ma n y years of co m m i t H orvath’s letter said he wa s Staff Writer for anyone on the board.” ed Horvath’s m e n t to Plymouth-Canton Co m resigning with “profound re T h e Canton resident wa s resignation munity Schools. We wish hi m gret,” adding that his expertise Veteran Plymouth-Canton first elected to the P- C C S shortly after the luck in his ne w job and future w a s not education, “but the Board of Education mem be r B oa rd of Education in 1994. At letter wa s pro endeavors,” Barrett said. business of education and its M a r k Horvath resigned from the time, he credited his elec vided Monday M o r e than a mo n t h ago, operational success ” his post Monday, effective tion to the support of parents morning, said Horvath changed jobs and is District officials we r e brief immediately. at Miller Elementary, wh e r e Horvath Nick Brandon, working for a nu m b e r of in in their reactions to Horvath’s “I don ’t think I can continue his children attended, and the district spokes dependent testing labs as a resignation that followed a to do a good job without reli school district’s bargaining man. metallurgist. He has a long sometime contentious dis- able data and I a m not getting units. “T he Board of Education resume of operations experi it,” Horvath said Tbesday. “I School board President John wishes to thank Mr. Horvath ence in industry. See HORVATH, Page A5 Easing water rate hikes goal of talks B y Darrell Cl e m Staff Writer A i m i n g for long-term relief f r o m steadily increasing wa ter rates, Canton leaders are continuing talks with Detroit KIMBERLY P. MITCHELL | MICHIGAN.COM INCREDIBLE SCIENCE MACHINE officials to possibly bu y or Steve Price of Ca n t o n gets a hu g after the Incredible Science Mach i n e Steve Price of Canton and his Rube Goldberg machine-building team lease part of a Detroit Wat er event Saturday at the Michigan Science Center. will ha v e to wait to learn if they set a Guinness Wo r l d Record. and Sewerage Department water-storage facility on Ca n ton’s north side. The plan would allow Can ton to better ma n a g e its ow n water flow, ease peak-hour Guinness world record results spikes in usage and, ideally, soften the blow of future rate hikes. "It’s still not a done deal, pending for Canton ma n ’s team (but) it sounds encouraging,” township Supervisor Phil La- Joy said Tbesday. "W e ’re still By Darrell Cl e m T h e project, sponsored by Zeal Credit Union, un working on it. I think we ’re Staff Writer folded before a live audience at the Michigan Science going to do something.” Center after the global team, organized by Price, spent His re m a r k s ca m e after he A te a m of chain-reaction experts led by Steve Price days building the machine. It wa s enjoyable, but a little had a conversation Tbesday of Canton shattered the U.S. record Saturday for using nerve-wracking. with William Wolfson, D W S D the most dominoes to assemble a vast Rube Goldberg “T h e fun part really outweighed the nervousness,” general counsel, to continue machine. Price said. talks that beg an last year after Price’s 16 - m e m b e r te a m has to wait, however, to learn Ideally, Price and other builders would like to partici a D W S D team, including Di if the Guinness Wor ld Record wa s broken for building pate in a television sh o w that each year features a co m rector Sue.McCormick, in the most steps into their Incredible Science Machine. petition for the biggest and best Ru b e Goldberg chain- dicated an interest in reaching " W e wo n ’t hear about that for a long time,” Price said, reaction machines. It’s a dream, one that’s not imp os an agreement. because Guinness officials have to review video evi sible. T he plan would help Canton dence and eyewitness accounts. "I think all of us would do this full-time in a heartbeat and allow Detroit to save mo n Price’s te a m built eno ug h steps in the Incredible Sci if we we r e paid to do it,” he said. ey by having Canton manage a ence Machine to topple the 300-step Guinness record set It’s not available yet, but Price said Saturday’s chain small portion of the vast sys in 2012 by the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers reaction, whi ch involved so m e 500,000 objects, will at tem, no w overseen by a new, Rube Goldberg Team. s o m e point will be available at www.youtube.com/he- regional Great Lakes Water P roblem is, not all of the steps wo r k e d during the veshS. Authority. chain-reaction event Saturday at the Michigan Science Tonya Matthews, the Michigan Science Center’s Canton resident James Center in Detroit - and official results on the world rec president and CE O , has said she hopes the Incredible Fausone, an attorney who ord are in the hands of Guinness officials. Science Ma c h i n e effort "will spark an interest in this chairs the Detroit Boa rd of Regardless, Price - wh o will be a mechanical engi great field” and inspire others to pursue similar goals in Water Commissioners, said neering senior this fall at Michigan State University - science, technology, engineering and math, or ST E M , T uesday that talks between said the experience is one he will never forget, mu c h projects. Canton and D W S D “remain on like his appearances in 2013 on America’s Got Talent. For mo r e on Price’s work, go to track.” "It wa s amazing,” Price said. "T h e best part wa s hav www.You'Ribe.com/TheSpriceiy. "It’s taking a little longer ing m y first opportunity to wo r k with all these great than we expected,” Fausone builders and create something like this.” [email protected] \ Twitter: @CantonObsen/er \ 734-972-0919 said, adding that the shift to a regional water authority has dominated much of D W S D ’s time. Fausone said a real estate appraisal of the Canton-based Shakespeare a bo o n for Canton Village Theater D W S D site near Joy and Mo r ton Taylor roads has occurred, By Joanne Maliszewski INSIDE along with certain engineering studies. Fausone described Staff Writer More on the Michigan himself as "optimistic” that an Shakespeare Festival, B9 Jennifer Idbin likens the agreement can be reached arrival of the Michigan Sha ke that could ease future water speare Festival at Canton’s "This raises the bar,” Tobin rate hikes. Village Theater to the thrill of said. "W e have had the Detroit "I think that’s certainly the Christmas. S y m p h o n y Orchestra here. We plan,” he said. "Ev e r y b o d y ’s "I don ’t kn o w wh e n I’ve are providing the highest expectation is that if you had been mo r e excited,” said Tb- quality for discerning patrons. (more) capacity, that would bin, Canton arts coordinator. It is also for our groups wh o keep a da m p e r on rate in Early this week, me m b e r s perform here. Th e y will be creases." of the Shakespeare company rubbing elbows with those at Moreover, Fausone said were moving sets and props the top of their gam e. ” regional control of the Detroit- into the local performing arts In its 21st season, the based water system could center at Ridge and Cherry Shakespeare Festival features eventually, gradually help to Hill roads in anticipation of a productions of William Shake lower costs not just in Canton, three-week run of perfor speare’s A Midsummer Night's but across the region. mances from July 29 through Dream and Henry IV, as well T h e latest developments Aug. 16. as Richard Brinsley Sheri- c o m e after Canton residents A n d it’s a first for the Vil Alan Ball as Bottom and Janet Haley as Titania in “A Midsummer's Night lage Theater and Canton. See THEATER, Page A5 Dream" — "What angel wakes m e from m y flowery bed?" 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