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Homdlawn I:IIW*HH|(: HOLIDAY PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Closings: The-William R An essential component to a healthy lifestyle Faust Public Library of Westland will close Sun BY KlMBERLY A. MORTSON day and Monday for the STAFF WRITER [email protected] Students enjoy Memorial Day obser aintaining a healthy body vance. On Monday, West- weight throughout the period land City Hall and the prior to and during puberty can variety, choice 18th District Court will be a challenge for younjj people^AVith the advent of the Internet, other tech in PE classes close. Emergency police nology related entertainment and an average decline in physical activity by and fire service will be BY HEATHER NEEDHAM school-age children, the result has led STAFF WRITER provided. Trash pickup to a significant number of sedentary will be delayed one day. adolescent. Exercise is an important part of Nationally the prevalerice for over the educational experience in the weight youth is increasing. Experts Wayne-Westland schools. Swimmers: The Bailey have determined that a natural predic High school students need one Center outdoor pool is tor of adult obesity is childhood obesity full year to graduate, and elemen — underscoring the importance of tary students spend 50 minutes opening this weekend. maintaining a sensible, well-balanced per week in physical education, or Hours for Sunday and diet and routine exercise program. gym classes. Monday will be noon to According to the American Heart Asso- Elementary students spend an gyUipn,:inactivity contribute*.to risk . oqi—1 amount HOW TO REACH US STKfT PHOTOS BT TO* RA1IW Newsroom: 734-953-2104 Musical moments Newsroom Fax; 734-591-7279 E-mail: bjachmfcntot.bonwcomfn,fw t Fun day: Patchin Elementary Nightline/Sports, 734-953-2104 School kindergartners through Reader Comment Line,734-953-204 2 second-graders enjoy the fun Classified Advertising, 734-591-0900 during the performance by Guy ' Display Advertising; 734-591-2300 Louis Thursday. Louis, of Home Delivery,734-591-050 0 Chautauqua Express, talks about the Native Americans with the students. ; 8TAFT FWJTO BY BUTAN MlTCHtll On the job: A Consumers Energy worker inspects the accident scene. .„.1 > » / mmwmmmmmm wm •w •• mm OH A2(W) The Observer & Eccentric/ SUNDAY, MAY 30,1999 views at BV MAAll CHE8TNKY . These are the qualities spotlighted by offices at 15125 Farmington Road. extra dollars in the school budget, how STAFF Warna See related chart, Pafr A4 ~Riphe*tney#oe.homecomin.ii from page Al from page Al lifestyle such as'parents, teach rajilt say what the outcome (for range of activities trying to exer track and field. Track and field lated non-aerobic activities for cal activity. Wiyne-Westland) will be." cise various muscle groups," physical education. Such an alarming statistic has ers, and physicians to frequently day is held in May. reinforce the difference exercise Camp said. About five weeks worth of high "New findings show that the been corroborated by a study All physical education instruc risk factors associated with car from the University of Michigan can make in ones life in the long school physical education is run. The example these individu tors in Wayne-Westland must be The district does not have any devoted to health studies, where diovascular disease in adults, that shows Michigart children certified in PE by the state. high blood pressure, obesity, are heavier than the rest' of the als foster is that maintaining a programs that specifically target students learn about smoking* productive lifestyle from as early ^ifter ihe final school bell overweight or obese children, drug abuse and first aid. high cholesterol levels and nation and tends to have more 'insulin resistance, might be miti young people who are overweight as elementary school can lead to rin^s, students have other ' though 8o;ne schools occasionally A $108 million bond passed in an overall reduction in illness, cliances to help stay in shape. sponsor jump roping marathons 1998 will help the district buy • gated by slowing the rate of and obese.-A similar study by 1 weight gain during childhood the Michigan Department of time off from work and signifi . Both the Wayne and Westland for charities such as the Ameri the most up-to-date equipment cant financial Savings. p&rks and recreation depart can Heart Association. physical education equipment, and adolescence," as reported in Public Health reported Michigan ments offer after-school pro Camp said. "Circulation: Journal of the adults were the heaviest in the The gradual paring down of grams at the middle schools. American Heart Association" by nation and had the seventh high the physical education compo Middle and high school gym nent in an elementary and sec 'Incorporated into every physi students participate in seasonal Alan R. Sinaiko, M.D., and pro est incidence of high blood pres At the elementary level, there fessor of Pediatrics at the Uni sure. ondary education program could cal education class are physical sports such as football, softball, have been no complaints about have serious ramifications on the fitness activities such as sit-ups, basketball and volleyball. 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On 12 Mile at Orchard Lake Rd. i 4X -Qjjg-\ Farmington Hills or make general comments to any member of our news staff through E-Mail OakvVOOd OAKWOOD HEALTHCARB CEHTER - GARD8N CITY SOBOO HJRD'ROAD • GARDEN CITY, UI 48138 THE N€WSPAPHRS ItMCmml fM«>Mr* ^4- s *•• •» i—L ~**~ WVBMHim wmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wmmmmmmmmmm The Observer & Eccentric/ SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1999 (W)A» 8TAFT P8OT08 BY TOM HAWUEY Message shared: Seventh-graders Lateria Tate (left) and Lauren Flory listen as Wayne Memorial High School counselor Jim Couillard explains possible warning signs that youngsters are using drugs. Students learn to avoid drugs ? other troubles BY DARRELL CLEM STAFF WRITER [email protected] Learning: Students Corey Pokorney and Nikki Fillicetti interview Cheryl Vallance, a sub stance abuse program coordinator. Pokorney tapes the interview so other classes can benefit. A few Marshall Middle School students tried to suppress gig from it. At right, Danny Turcotte listens. gles as they listened to a grown Vallance and other profession grant for the program. seems to be a major factor in Couil- up talk about drug-testing of als involved in substance abuse "We learned about how one drug problems. 1 a r d urine. prevention agreed to be inter woman's son was killed in an Also Thursday, Wayne Memor said it's Certain words just sound viewed by youngsters in student accident," Danny Turcotte, 13, ial High School counselor Jim unfortu- funny to seventh-graders. teacher Jason Mabee's class. said. Couillard warned Mabee's class n a t e But these Westland students Students developed their own Students made audiotapes of to carefully choose friends. that listened attentively as Cheryl questions and, working in pairs, their interviews so that other "If you hang around with kids s q m e Vallance told how substance questioned a police officer, a classes can listen, arid they plan that use drugs," he said, "the young abuse can destroy young chil high school counselor, substance to tie red ribbons on cars in the chances are you're going to use sters dren. abuse professionals and a repre school parking lot to draw atten them, too." think "The youngest person I've sentative of MADD (Mothers tion to anti-drunken driving Couillard also provided some drugs are "cool" because of what dealt with is 8 years old," she Against Drunk Driving), among efforts. disturbing statistics for children they see on television and in said. others. Thursday morning, students of alcoholics. He said a woman is music videos. Suddenly her words didn't "I wouldn't drive drunk, Corey Pokorney and Nikki Fil five times more likely to marry Students said they learned seem funny anymore. myself," Jackie Vermette, 12, licetti got Vallance to tell how an alcoholic if her father suffered that, even if they avoid destruc Vallance, substance abuse pro said. alcohol has affected her life. She drinking problems. tive behaviors, they have to be gram coordinator for Westside Mabee, a University of Michi said her father was only 31 when Couillard said youngsters start watchful of others. Mental Health of Dearborn gan graduate student, said he he died of alcoholism. behaving differently when they Heights, is one of several people thought students would learn In her job, Vallance said she start using drugs or alcohol. "You might not drink and helping a group of Marshall stu more if they talked directly with has encountered substance "We even look at what kind of drive anoSstill get hit and killed dents learn the dangers of drugs people involved in substance abusers ranging in age from 8 to music they listen to and the by somebody else." Vermette Jackie Vermette and alcohol. abuse prevention. He received a 69. She said low self-esteem clothes they're wearing," he said. said. Power of words message received in school district GOLF SPECIAL BY MARIE CHESTNEY STAFF WRITER LIVONIA SCHOOLS [email protected] Wayne County Golf Weeks before the school shootings in Colorado, three Franklin High seniors began using "purple At Emerson, a custodian even searched the roof hands" to stem the tide of youthful violence. of the school to determine it was safe after a note was found on a restroom wall, Kuenzel said. As a school leadership project, Abby Wojtowicz, 54 HOLES OF EXCITEMENT! Karen Koleczko and Alaina Whitefoot went to "Kids are finding out about the power of words," nearby elementary schools to tell students how to Kuenzel said. "Words generate action, even if noth solve conflicts and to get them to "take the pledge." ing is planned." The pledge? "I pledge not to use my hands or Uniformed Livonia police officers now show up Donald Ross's words to hurt myself or other people." occasionally at the three high schools. Armed, school-paid plainclothes police officers ^¾^ WARREN The "purple hands"? After taking the pledge, stu will continue to patrol the three high schools until dents traced their hands on a big piece of paper in the end of the school year (June 10). VALLEY purple crayon.. The paper was then hung on the classroom wall, giving students a constant "Students know not to joke about this," said Dan^- GOLF CLUB reminder that they have resolved to solve conflicts Cieslak, a Stevenson High senior, after one peacefully and not resort to violence. Stevenson senior was arrested for posting a threat and ening note on a school wall. "We started this before the recent violence Introducing... v occurred," said Abby Wojtowicz. "A lot of students Stevenson senior Bridget Dickson said the dis have questions and worries. The little kids don't trict did the right thing in putting a plainclothes Metro Detroit's understand, and it gives them the chance to talk police officer in the school. Newest Challenge about this." However, both Cieslak and Dickson said stu x dents have to be the eyes and ears of their school INKSTER So far, the seniors have traveled to Cooper, building and notify the principal if something omi Grant, Nankin Mills, Hayes and McKinley elemen nous is heard or seen. tary schools. Future trips are planned for Cleve VALLEY land and Garfield. Livonia Goodfellows donated "If someone were to talk threats here, we would $400 to buy such start-up supplies as T-shirts and take it seriously," Cieslak said. "Dr. (Dale) Coller GOLF CLUB posters. told us, 'If you hear anything, come to me.' " The 1998-99 school year ends with schools across September plans the country concerned about the very thing that With the elimination next year of the security brought these three seniors to the elementary officer at Bentley Center, school security will be schools. high on the mind of student adviser Barbara Neu Widespread problem mann-Scott when school reopens in September. She recently stated her concerns to school In fact, John Kuenzel ends his first year as Livo administrators in a letter. nia Public Schools' director of secondary instructor "In view of recent violent acts in schools across hoping he never experiences in the school build* the nation, it appears the safety of students and ings he manages the kind of stress he's seen in the staff should be a major concern of administrative last few weeks. leaders in a school community." "My job is not fun right now," Kuenzel said. "It's On June 7, the Livonia Board of Education will something that's all over the country." name a new principal for the center, and that per Since the Columbine shootings, school officials son will take over the job now performed by Securi and police have investigated written threats and ty Officer Mike Wood, said Superintendent Ken threatening rumors at Churchill, Franklin and Watson. r Stevenson as well as Emerson Middle School. "One of his responsibilities will be huilding con jam • •.TVGOU cvu» i One hundred students were questioned at trol," Watson said. ^ ^^^¾^— Franklin for one rumor alone, and it turned out If the new principal decides a security officer is that investigators "could not find anyone who still needed at Bentley, the principal could recom could definitely say who had made the threat," mend the job be reinstated, Watson said. //SSSSSSM Kuenzel said. f l 1 M* " .ftUOll* I• f CAll Hospice home care services now available \ ,0 I 1 C^ *VAtlD iKOMS I Community Hospice & Home provided hospice care to patients diagnostic, treatment, monitor Cnre Services Inc. of Westland with a limited life expectancy. ing, rehabilitation and psychoso and Plymouth will now offer Responding to community need, cial support through skilled \ '^SSss^j i^KSJSS^S I home care services. Maureen CHHCS will now provide care to nursing, home health aides, Butrico, executive director of patients who are homebound medical social work and physi CHHCS, made the announce and recovering or disabled by ill cal, occupational or speech ther ment last week. ness or injury or are chronically apy. For information, call (73-1) For 18 years the agency has ill. Home care services include 522-4244. .-*v*. A4(W) The Observer & Eccentric/ SUNDAY,' MAY 30, 1999 LIVONIA SCHOOLS FLECTION Voters will choose two school Wlurt two Issues would you lifco to What la the Wtfeat challenge In pub How can the district try to ensure the board members for the Livonia •oo addressed or change* would you lic education today? safety of students In school? School District June 14. The five candidates in the like to see happen during your term race were given the following on the school board? questions and a limit of 75 words to answer them. .*•-• KAMMIQAN B I believe that we must strive for excellence. We B The biggest challenge in public education today is a The safety of our children is paramount. We must ReeJdence: GolMew Street, Livonia must continually look for ways to improve our effective the quandary of maintaining and improving services to ensure the safety of each and every child in our build Occupation: owns, operates Early ness while maintaining fiscal integrity. We must con students with the uncertainty of funds available from ings as we maintain an environment that is conducive A dventures home child care. tinue "to place emphasis on smaller class sizes. We the state. We must be fiscally responsible as well as to learning. We must teach the children conflict resolu Background: Secretary of Taylor must ensurd that every Livonia student has access to remain competitive with other school districts. We tion techniques during elementary school through uti; School PTA; active in local, state, the latest technology and is thoroughly versed in the must provide our students with the educational tools lization of the SAFE specialists. We must have suffi-, national child care organizations; cient counseling staff available to the students at the member, Ward Presbyterian Church usage of computers and the Internet. We must provide that will enable them to compete globally in the tech Pergonal: Married to Randy, two increased counseling support in the high schools so nology-driven new millennium. high school level and must have strict enforcement of children that no student feejs isolated or indifferent. the district's student discipline code of conduct. KJWTKWaAlKA • I would like to see better uniformity and further B Public schools are required by law to provide, educa B The district must make certain that its programs and Residence: Ronnie Street, Livonia reduction in class size in all elementary grades and see tional services to the most diverse population of students policies that are intended to establish and maintain safe Occupation: former nurse, instruc the realization of a series of the district's special pro in the community it serves. These students have widely conditions in our schools are comprehensive, up-to-date, tor. jects that include the restoration of grades 5 and 6 varying backgrounds, capabilities and needs that affect understood and enforced. Consultation with other public Background: board member, instrumental music, the construction of athletic out their ability to learn and interact appropriately with oth services agencies/departments such as police, fire, build Michigan PTA; board member. building additions at our three high schools and the ers. Public education's biggest challenge is to develop and ings and safety, health and other school districts will help Hoover, Holmes, Stevenson PTAs; ensure the programs and policies are thorough and cur Sunday School teacher board and city reaching agreement on the future of provide programs that can motivate each student to Personal: Married to Cart, three chil Bentley Center. Hopefully all these issues will be of learn to their maximum potential and conduct them rent. Requirements must be appropriately communicated dren long, successful duration. selves with respect and appreciation for each other, their to staff, students and parents and others. Enforcement schools... must be continuous and consistent. • To compete in the international marketplace ,the FRANK KOWENAKI* • The biggest challenge for the Livonia Schools will be • The district is proactive in safeguarding its stu district needs to enhance its close-working relationship' dents. Our supervisor of Public Safety oversees securi Residence: Mayfield Street, Livonia with business to form more partnerships in order to inte to heighten student preparation for the demands of a Occupation: attorney, Brashear, global economy in the international marketplace. The ty and board policies prohibiting gang affiliation, pos Tangora & Spence grate academic and vocational education. With a session of weapons, inciting violence or property renewed commitment to career awareness and planning, Michigan State Board of Education once estimated that Background: school board member 80 percent of the jobs that will exist after the year 2000 destruction are strictly enforced. The district main 1995-99; Livonia Zoning Board of students can gain work experience and critical thinking do not exist today. The district must provide technologi tains Internet restrictions and has approved a pilot Appeals; chairman, Uvonia YMCA skills which are-so important for enjoyability. Further, police liaison program for the high schools. The sec advisory board of directors cally enhanced education. Th% formation of more busi the successful negotiation of contracts with the district's ondary counselors are assigned to students for better Personal: Married to Janet, two chil employees and bargaining units is of paramount impor ness-school partnerships will be invaluable to meet this dren challenge. monitoring and the elementary SAFE specialists assist tance for an effective budget process. school social workers with student oversight. LARRY MAKER • We need to develop more programs and enhance B We need to continue to have more parental • The school district cannot do this alone. We must Residence: MacKenzie Street, the ones we have to serve all the needs of the communi involvement and be able to help parents take a good take responsibility for the safety of our children in the Westland ty. We need more programs for kids with disabilities, overview of the needs of their child and to be able to get schools. I think that the Livonia School District is Occupation: mortgage broker for our kids who are gifted who need more of a chal more parents to work with the schools in order to meet doing all the right things. Dr. (Ken) Watson and his Background: developed program for lenge than their peers and for all the children in the child's needs. The schools need strong parental staff have increased communications with the Livo- autistic students at Perrinville build between. This would include vocational training. Our involvement and with everyone's busy schedule, this is nia/Westland Police departments. We have our Student ing; Michigan Foster Care Review Assistance Family Education in place at the elemen Board; PTA; soccer coach community has a big need for tradespeople. definitely a challenge for the schools. Personal; Married to Carmen, two tary, level and the Student Assistance Program in place children at the middle and high school levels. WEVIH WHITEHEAD • Immediately following the election, I will ask Mayor B Public education faces its greatest challenge in the B Livonia Public Schools is already taking measures Residence: Minton Street, Livonia Kirksey and other community education and business guise of choice. Our legislators will examine various bills to ensure safety to our students and staff, in proactive Occupation: marketing analyst, leaders, as well as toachers, school administrators, par designed to support private education, at the cost of public and reactive preparation, for events that threaten safe Plastipak Packaging ents and students tojum i.. 'he formation of a communi school programs. Private schools are not required to offer ty. As a community of supportive families we must iden Background: president of Garfield ty coalition that will develop specific programs for fami affordable tuition for all. Special needs children don't make tify, discount and disable the cultural entropy to aimless PTA for three years; music teacher good business sense to an institution structured for prof-, acts of meanness and violence. It is equally essential to Personal: Married to Laurie, two lies to gather and utilize their collective strengths for the children ' good of our schools and the community. It's time to rede itability. Public funding must remain in public schools. The validate positive acts of children, both monumental and fine positive family role models and values and how they pursuit of excellence, through district improvements, will everyday, random acta of kindness that constantly blos clearly affect our children's education. establish benchmarks, making competition a non-factor. som, but end up overshadowed in negativity. / **S) .-. iKr- i . - . >••' '•?*;> _> :: Kr [. Stuff you don't need anymore. Stuff that's been piling up in the garage, r the basement or the attic. Get rid of it with with a classified ad in your hometown newspaper. We're so sure you'll be able to Sell your stuff >'•?<•. • • , ••V,- •• • . , |J!with three ads, that if you don't, we'll run your ad three more times free. H That's right— Sell it in three or we}ll run it for free— three more times! How can you beat that? You can't! • » * • - So, what you do is this: Tell us you want our special three-ad deal, then if, heaven ^--i . • • forbid!, your stuff is still sitting around after the first three have run, callus and lei us know and we'll run your ad absolutley fre_e in the next three editions of your ©baeruer <§r lEfcenttfc NEWSPAPERS wrr** HOMETOWN CLASSIFIEDS Part ot Ho^TownCofT»THjnte«lfofl« Netvwfc1* Offer Wayne County will take over agencies and other programs. Start programs receive assis Wayne County has yet another Gray. Wayne County's director Head Start from Wayne Coun County officials announced tance with education, health, way to enhance many lives and of children and family eervices, ty Regional Educational Ser the change at a press confer nutrition and literacy concerns. communities." the office that will oversee vices Agency starting Sept. 1. ence Tuesday. Ten percent of enrollees must County officials said Head operations for the county. Wayne County will serve When RESA officials decided be diagnosed with disabilities. Start not only serves its young "When you add in parents more than 3,700 low-income, 3- they did not want to operate County Executive Edward clients, but assists the families and other family members, our and 4-year-olds. The U.S. the program any longer last McNamara called the switch a of children. program actually will assist a opens Department of Health and year, the federal government "momentous occasion" for the "If a Head Start parent needs total of 10,000 people." - Human Services notified sent out a notice asking any county and for thousands of a service such as health care, Gray stressed that Head Canoeing began this weekend Wayne County that it was qualified organization to bid on children and family members or employment or. even housing Start will,not just be a on the Rouge River near New- awarded $20.6 million with $16 running the programs. Wayne that Head Start serves. assistance, Head Start staffers preschool or day__care center. burgh Lake. million in federal funds, the County was selected from a "Having the responsibility are trained to either provide "School systems'love Head The Wayne County Parks balance in in-kind services pool of nearly 12 parties. for this vital, early childhood that service or refer them to Start because it helps children from schools, social service development program means the right agency," said Carolyn canoe concession opened Satur Children attending Head Please HEAD START, A7 day, and will be open today and Monday. Next week the conces sion starts a five-day schedule each week, Thursdays through Mondays, from noon until 8 p.m. The Wayne County Parks Livery is located on Hines Drive between Joy Road and Stark Road in Livonia. Canoe rates are $10 per canoe for the maxi mum two-hour rental for each canoe route, $15 per canoe for both routes and $4 for each additional half hour. There is a $20 deposit required for each canoe rented. Two canoe routes will be available. _ The first route starts at New- burgh Lake and finishes at Nankin Lake, both of which are impoundments of the middle branch of the Rouge River. Parks officials estimate the travel time at 90 minutes. Canoeists will be transported from the canoe livery (Nankin Lake) to Newburgh Lake and will row back to the livery- Rest rooms and a picnic area will be available at the halfway point ofthe journey. The second route runs from • Nankin Lake to Merriman Road. This route is approxi mately 11/2 miles and travel time is 90 minutes. Canoeists will be transported back to the launch area, east of the Nankin Lake Dam, picked up and trans ported back to their vehicle at the completion of the journey. "We have made great strides in our efforts to clean up the Rouge River," said Wayne County Executive Edward McNamara. "Canoeing is an excellent way for people to enjoy it." Learn about wetlands wildlife Nature lovers of all-ages can learn about creatures of the wet lands at Scoping Out Wetland Wildlife from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 5, at Crosswinds Marsh in Sumpter Township. "Participants will learn about the birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians that inhabit the marsh. In addition, they can learn to make aqua scopes to observe underwater creatures. Materials for the scopes will be provided. All are encouraged to dress for the outdoors and bring boots as the area may be muddy. Suitable for ages 6 and up, the cost is $2 per person and advance "registration is required. This program has been made possible through the parks prop erty tax. Participants will meet at the screened pavilion at Crosswinds Marsh, which is located at the corner of Haggerty and Will Car- leton/Oakville Waltz Road in Sumpter Township. For information, call (734) 261-1990. 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"Will it Services for Catherine Helmick, garet Stratton; brothers, Dutchie Services for Richard Doletzky, a driver for a car rental busi Kokenakes, an incumbent happen?" he asked. "Probably 72, of Westland were May 28 in Coleman, William Coleman and 67-, of Wayne were May 29 in ness. trustee and attorney, would con not." Uht Funeral Home. Robert Coleman; sister, Joan Our Saviour Lutheran Church Surviving are his sons, the tinue to carry oyer the $20 mil History, Whitehead said, Mrs. Helmick, who died May Merritt; nine grandchildren; and with burial at Glen Eden Rev. Paul and Kevin; daughter, lion in the district's rainy day should not dictate the district's 25 in Livonia, was born Oct. 14, two great-grandchildren! Lutheran Memorial Park in Deborah and Catherine (Timo fund to cover any "shortfall.'' future. "Where our children suc 1926, in Perth Amboy, N.J. She Mrs. Helmick was preceded in Livonia. Arrangements were thy) Schramm; brother, Freder Whitehead, a marketing ana* ceed is where our teachers do was a homemaker. death by her husband, Robert. from Uht Funeral Home. ick of Westland; sister, Mary lyat, would take the extra-money their best." Surviving are her sons, Mr. Doletzky, who died May Bliss; and one grandson. question to those closest to the Galka saw benefits to both William and Robert (Melissa) of 26 in Ganden City, was born classroom ways, the kindergarten through "I'd go back to the staff and sixth-grade elementary schools ask, 'What do you need?'" Livonia has now, and to the With $20 million in its rainy sixth- through eighth-grade mid Leak from page Al day fund, and $10 million socked dle schools used in many school away from the Durant settle districts. police Sgt. Peter Brokas said. southwest corner of Warren and escape," Carignan said. "It was • Employees of First ment, the district already is in Developmental^ speaking, Employees of First Federal on Wayne, Carignan said. leaking." financial Utopia, said Galka, a there's a big gap between sixth- the northwest corner of the Problems started when the Authorities cordoned off the Federal on the north registered nurse. and eighth-graders, so that's a intersection left the building and Westland woman, driving east area until Consumers Power west corner of the All five candidates oppose pri minus, she said. On the plus stood by in a Westland Center on Warren, tried to turn into workers could find a shut-off Intersection left the vate school vouchers, or private side, sixth-graders in middle parking lot area. First Federal's parking lot and valve to stop the gas leak, Carig school tuition tax credits, a pro school would get more special "We had to evacuate," finan crossed into the path of a west nan said. building and stood by in posal that is expected to surface ized teaching in math and sci cial service representative Jackie bound motorist, a 19-year-old Brokas said the Westland a Westland Center park in the November 2000 general ence, she said. Plant said Friday. "We went to a Plymouth man, Brokas said. woman was ticketed for a civil ing lot area. election. If credits were approved Egan praised the district for parking lot of the mall, and the During the crash, the woman's infraction of failing to yield to by voters, families could take keeping sixth-graders in elemen police put up their yellow tape. car apparently hit a curb and the other driver. their child's state grant to a pri tary school. "Parents said 'No,' They came over to us around flipped over on its top, Brokas Plant said the evacuation was vate school instead of a public they didn't want it," she said. 4:10 and told us to go on home. said, and the man's vehicle a little scary for First Federal school, as now specified by the At first, Naser said he opposed So we just went home and came veered toward the bank parking employees, and authorities con sparks and a natural gas leak? It state's Constitution. the switch. Then he began to see back in today." lot and "struck a gas meter." ceded that the incident could could have been a lot worse," Livonia Public Schools this the benefits, and has since Authorities also evacuated "It severed the gas line which have been much worse. Brokas said. past year investigated putting changed his mind. "Kids are several businesses near the allowed the natural gas to "A car rolling over causing the sixth grade in middle school growing much faster; it's a but decided not to do it. Still, it's smaller world because of technol a question that could resurface, ogy. We should educate them as so the idea was put to the candi quickly as we can. They would from page Al : Battle dates- Do you support it? learn more responsibility in mid Kokenakes called it an "expen die school. It would help them sive idea" that was not support mature more quickly." "I'm just glad to get it behind us," Thomas He said he would make the same decision tification in the opinion that she rendered said of the two-year ordeal. "I wish Chuck "if I had it to do all over again." that it would be extremely difficult to get the well in whatever he decides to do. Boak has called it unfair that Westland Court of Appeals to rule that she had abused "I'm not going to hold any grudges or ill officials escaped prosecution in Skene's suit her discretion." LIVONIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS feelings," the mayor added. "He obviously because of an immunity issue that he said 15125 FARMINGTON ROAD went through the system, and this is the way wouldn't apply to average people. Thomas, meanwhile, commended Har- LIVONIA, MI 48154 it ends up." "It's just difficult to get around the immu wood's decision' and said he is glad to have Thomas still maintained that he acted nity issue, I guess," he said Wednesday. "We long-awaited closure in Skene's case. The Livonia Public Schools Board of Education, Livonia, Michigan hereby properly in firing Skene - a dismissal that would have to show that the trial judge invites the submission of sealed bids for: the mayor has attributed to poor job perfor abused her discretion in dismissing the case. "I think the judge made the right deci CAFETERIA TABLE * BENCH REPLACEMENT mance. And there was, in my opinion, sufficient jus sion," he said. - AT (4) LOCATIONS IN LIVONIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT Bid forms and specifications may be obtained at the office of the Board of Education in the Purchasing Department Monday through Friday from CITY OF GARDEN CITY CITY OF GARDEN CITY 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Ail questions regarding this bid may be directed to Ray Irvine, Assistant JUNE 14,1999 JUNE 14,1999 Maintenance Supervisor at (734) 523-9160. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Mayor and Council will hold a Public PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Mayor and Council will hold a Public Hearing on June 14, 1999, at 7:10 p.m., in the Council Chambers, at the Bids will be received until 10:00 A.M. on the 15th of June, 1999 at the Hearing on June 14, 1999, at 7:20 p.m., in the Council Chambers, at the Civic Center, 6000 Middlebelt Road, Garden City, Michigan on the following Board of Education Maintenance Department, 15125 Farrnington Road, Civic Center, 6000 Middlebelt Road, Garden City, Michigan on the following proposed ordinance: Livonia, Michigan. At this time and place all bids wilt be publicly opened proposed ordinance: and read. Vendors are encouraged to attend. 4* To solicit public comments pertaining to the Five Year Capital * To solicit public comments pertaining to the FY 1999-2000 Improvement Plan - FY 2000-2004 Bid security in the amount of 5% of the total proposal, in the form of Bid Budget and Tax Levy. All persons interested in the above are hereby invited to attend this Public Bond or Certified Check must accompany each bid. Performance bond and All persons interested in the above are here invited to attend this Public Hearing and be heard. payment bond may be required of the successful bidders. Hearing and be heard. The plan is available for public inspection at the City Clerk's Office, 6000 The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids in The budget is available for public inspection at the City Clerk's Office. 6000 Middlebelt, Garden City, Michigan, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to whole or in part in the interest of uniformity, design, equipment, delivery Middlebelt, Garden City, Michigan, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. time or preference, to waive any informalities and to award to other than ALLYSON M. BETTIS the low bidder, with rationale to support such a decision. ALLYSON M. BETTIS Treasurer/City Clerk Treasurer/City Clerk LIVONIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS Posted: May 25, 1999 Posted: May 25, 1999 Publiihfrd: M»y30, 1999 BOARD OF EDUCATION Publioh M»y30, 1999 ' Pub!i»h: May 23 ind 30,1999 "I sold my piano right away!" Anna D. of Bloomfield Hills We're pleased to introduce a few of the many folks who are also singing our praises. M. P. of Farrnington Hills advertised two cars— "I was amazed with the response from The Observer & Eccentric. My husband couldn't believe the calts we received—you don't need to put in a lot of detail, your items mILseWl" Marc C. of Northville advertised his open house— "I had several people show up and received three offers. I closed the deal within three days" Karen A. of Franklin was looking for a live-in housekeeper— "I was very pleased with the response. I was reluctant to place the ad, but I'm so glad I did. I received more than 30 calls and have several good candidates." 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Last year the number of ness initiative aimed at stopping miles per hour over 59 mph a Trustees gave college Presi salary at $114,066. credit hours increased by 2.32 speeders. vehicle travels, according to the dent Dick McDowell high Board members said percent, or about 2.9 percent "During the Greyhound Blitz, Michigan Office of Highway 'marks again for his job for the McDowell's strengths include per student, Watson said. which extends through June 1, Safety Planning. For vehicles 1998-99 school year. his fiscal management skills. Continuing education class 403 officers will patrol inter- traveling 10 miles per hour Trustees said McDowell's The college remains debt-free enrollment increased by 12 states, highways, city streets above or below the average enthusiasm and commitment and has managed to keep percent. "I thought it was very and rural,roadways, looking for speed, crash involvement rates to excellence "continue to be tuition cost competitive. The- ambitious on his part to estab people who speed," said Execu are almost six times those fop remarkable." increase in grant revenue is lish an objective in this area," tive Lt. Maggie Cesnick, project vehicles traveling within 10 "He hasn't wavered in his indicative of the college's Watson said. "It's crucial for director of Drive Michigan Safe miles per hour of the average ability to move the college for efforts to 'tap' any and all us financially, and I've never ly in Wayne County. "With that speed. ward," said Patricia Watson, available state and federal seen anyone do this." many officers on the road, speed Cesnick said speeding 45 mph board chairwoman. dollars." The board will receive a list ers should expect to be stopped instead of 35 nVph pares less McDowell, now in his 18th Trustees also said McDowell of objectives from McDowell and ticketed." than two minutes off the arrival year at the college, exhibits maintains an "open, direct by the next meeting in late The Greyhound Blitz will time. Increasing speed from 55 "strong financial, marketing and honest" working relation June, Watson said. One con focus its efforts in Wayne Coun mph to 65 mph saves slightly and planning skills," accord ship with the board. cern raised was the college's ty on Six, Seven and Eight Mile more than four minutes on a trip ing to a statement issued by "He continues to develop relationship with the K-12 dis High marks; Schoolcraft Roads, 1-275, 1-75, 1-96 and 1-94. of 25 miles. the seven members of the innovative programs which tricts, but overall McDowell College President Dick Officers will target speeders on Drive* Michigan Safely is a board after they conducted his are not typically attempted by received accolades from the McDowell, now in his Ford Road, Inkster Road, Merri- statewide traffic enforcement evaluation in a closed session. community colleges," Watson board. 18th year at-the college, man Road, Michigan Avenue, and public awareness program After that session McDowell said. "We're pleased to have him then received a contract Watson said enrollment had at the college," Watson said. , received a 3.25 percent Middlebelt Road, Telegraph coordinated by the Michigan raise and contract exten Road, Wayne Road and other Office of Highway Safety Plan extension through 2002 with a declined in recent years at roads. ' ning under a grant from Ihe pay raise for the 1999-2000 other community colleges, but sion through 2002. The Blitz is designed to moti National Highway Traffic Strre ty vate motorists to adopt safe driv Administration. ing hahits. Speed is a factor in Head Start from page A5 become emotionally arid socially Southgate, Starfish Family Ser ready to learn." vices in Inkster and Wayne- Head Start also helps parents Metropolitan Community Ser to become more self-sufficient, vices Agency in Ecorse. officials say. They, with the gov Head Start programs will con erning board and administrative tinue to be located in 16 Wayne staff, set policy for their own County communities, including Head Start programs. Parents the western Wayne communities also can earn a GED degree or of Canton, Garden City, Livonia, child development associate e Plymouth, Redford and West- certification by being involved land. with Head Start. With 30,000 eligible children Wayne County will contract in Wayne County, one of the with three nonprofit agencies to county's goals is to increase operate the Head Start program: enrollment. Downriver Guidance Clinic in By Mark Slavens, P.C. Attoriiwey IU Law INTENTIONAL WRONGS . Apart from seeking to mover these torts (such as assault and damages resulting from another battery) may also constitute crimi person's ne^li^ence. injured par nal activity, aggrieved parties ties may also seek to hold wrong seeking to legally address these doers liable for their intentional wrongs in civil court do so with acts, which typically include libel the intention of being compensat and slander of reputations, assault ed, for their injuries. Recent cases and battery, false imprisonment, have brought nanonal attention to or intentionally indicting mental the fact that a person can be found distress. In all such cases, the not guilty of an act in criminal wrongdoer intentionally causes court, but still be- found responsi injury. And, while certain type of ble in civil court. HINT; Toil of rnrwirrinm in pn fl^mf""^"-'"^1,' «* •>'•" • "' ltf "l|"LI"'ft in a wrongful death case brought by a surviving spouse. 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There was the additional attraction of hav^ The St. Joe's Health Education Center Pip.Am Golf irtg senior PGA touring professional Larry Laoretti Classic is getting ready to score another fund-raising as special guest% hple-in-one for the Interactive Health Education Cen "Bringing in a touring professional to do a clinic ... ter at the Saint Joseph Mercy Canton Health Build well, if you like golf, it's like going into a candy ing. store," said Yack, who admits to shooting ari inconsis The second-year event, scheduled for Wednesday, tent 88. June 16, at the Pheasant Run Golf Club, is well on Hole sponsorships at $500, with recognition at the its way to reaching the $180,000 goal. Like last year, designated tee and listing in the dinner program, are all proceeds will benefit the center. still available. Also, the event's "Novice Golf Clinic" The golf classic raised; $160,000 last year, $30,000 is open to participants at $150 per person. more than its target/said Tins Kashat Hipp, special Ticket price for the clinic includes l'/» hours of events manager for St= CITY OF GARDEN CITY d. Lawn Sprinkler System Repair rx. To award the annual supply of mason sand to R.D. Shelby Trucking REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING e. Electric Sewer Snake Co. at $8.65 per ton. 6. Approval of the Rezoning of Lots 1699 & 1700, located at 2210 x To award the annual contract of Type I Barricades and lights to MAY 17, 1999 Areola & 2070 Areola. Poco Sales, Inc. The Mayor and Council of the City of Garden City met in Regular Session on 7. MML Resolution. XI. To award the bid of a trailered arrow panel to Poco Sales, Inc. in the May 17, 199¾ at 7:30 p.m.. in the Council Chambers of the Civic Center, 6000 8. Shotka Lot Split amount of $4,600. • Middlebelt Road, Garden City, Michigan. 9. Emergency Ordinance for Police Department XII. To award the bide of concrete forms to Metal Form Corporation. REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING 10. Budget Workshops XIII. To award the annual supply of clay pipe, PVC pipe and mastic to Present were Mayor Pro-Tern Dodge, Councilmember Lynch, Wiacek, Briscoe, • Item 05-99-05-99-238 moved by Lynch; supported by Waynick: US. Filter. ~ and Waynick. Absent and excused were Mayor Barker and Councilmember WHEREAS, The citizens of Garden City benefit from highly-developed AYES: Unanimous ABSENT: Mayor Barker and Councilmember Kaledas Kaledas. Emergency Medical Service system, and • Item 05-99-242 moved by Briscoe; supported by Wiacek: RESOLVED: To Also present were Acting City Manager Kocsis, Treasurer/City Clerk Bettis, WHEREAS, The American College of Emergency Physicians, the Wayne approve Consent Agenda "B" for the Buildings and Grounds supplies: City Attorney Salamone, Department of Public Services Director Barnes, and County Medical Control Authority and others have set aside a week this I. To award the bid for one (1) Three Wheel Riding Mower in the Streets, Sewer and Water Supervisor Morton. month to recognize members of the emergency care system, and amount of $4,670.00 to W.F. Miller Company. The Mayor Pro-Tern with the approval of Council added to the "A" Agenda, WHEREAS, Garden City firefighter-paramedics care for about 2000 ill or II. To award the bid for paint and paint accessories supplier to Garden Item #8- To remove from the table the Shotka Lot Split; to the"B" Agenda, injured citizens each year, and City Ace Hardware as they are the sole bidder. Item #8 - Shotka Lot Split, Item #9 - Emergency Ordinance for the Police in. To award the bid for general hardware supplier to Garden City Ace WHEREAS, The City of Garden City Fire Department has provided Hardware as they are the sole bidder. Department, and Item #10, Additional Budget Workshops and to delete Item emergency medical and rescue services since 1965, now responding with D-9. IV. To award the bid for Lawn Sprinkler System Repair to Heritage highly skilled paramedic* who can provide the highest possible level of Irrigation in the amount of $3,320.00 as they were the sole bidder. The Mayor Pro-Tern announced it was time for Public Discussion for prehospital emergency care for the citizens of Garden City.and V To award the bid for one (1) Electric Sewer Snake and options in the Hems not on the agenda. f ' WHEREAS, The City of Garden City plays a key part'in an integrated amount of $2,551'.06 to Grainger Industrial. AYES: Unanimous • Anthony Manetta, of Garden City, having comprehensive public Emergency Medical Service system that includes dispatchers, firefighters, ABSENT Mayor Barker and Councilmember Kaledas comments at a Planning Meeting. paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians, police officers, physicians, • Item 05-99-243 moved by Lynch; supported by Briscoe: • Neil Pike, of Garden City, asked questions regarding the use of nurses allied health professionals, EMS coordinators and elected officials, Christmas decorations and fundtrrg, hardship policy for ambulance whose support is crucial to the system. Whereas, the Michigan Municipal League has served as a advocate of the partner with Michigan municipalities for one hundred years; and billing charges, and road work warranty. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the week of May 16-22, 1999 • Mike Bachko, of Garden City, discussed communications betwetn be proclaimed Emergency Medical Services Week in Garden City as it has Whereas, the Michigan Municipal League's mission has been to "...through Council and the public. been designated across the country. Let this proclamation serve as testament cooperative gflfort to strengthen the quality of municipal government and • Item 05-99-235 moved by Lynch; supported by Briscoe; RESOLVED; fo to our appreciation for the hard work and dedication demonstrated by our administration by previding technical assistance and information to local approve the minutes from the meeting of May 10, 1999. AYES: Unanimous Garden City Fire Paramedics, by the emergency nurses, physicians and allied officials regarding municipal issues...*; and ABSENT: Mayor Barker and Councilmember Kaledas health professionals at Garden City and Annapolis Hospitals, and by all Whereas, the City of Garden City has joined in partnership with the The Mayor Pro-Tern announced it was time to receive communications from members of the Emergency Medical Services system. AYES: Unanimous Michigan Municipal League since 1051: and Boards and/or Commissions. ABSENT: Mayor Barker and Councilmember Kaledas Now, Therefore Be It Resolved and Proclaimed, That the Mayor and City No communications from Boards^nd/or Commissions were received. • Item 05-99-239 moved by Briscoe; supported by Wiacek: RESOLVED: To Council of the City of Garden City congratulates, honors and pays' tribute to the Michigan League for its service and dedication on the noteworthy • Item 05-99-236 moved by Briscoe; supported by Wiacek: RESOLVED: To grant permission to the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters to solicit in Garden City, June 18th, 19th and 20th, 1999, subject to valid hold harmless occasion of its 100th year anniversary on May 23, 1999. AYES. Unanimous approve the* Accounts Payable, as listed. AYES: Unanimous ABSENT: Mayor ABSENT Mayor Barker and Councilmember Kaledas Barker and Councilmember Kaledas agreement by each participant. AYES: Unanimous ABSENT: Mayor Barker and Councilmember Kaledas • Item 05-99-207 moved by Waynick; supported by Kaledas: RESOLVED: To • Item 05-99-237 moved by Waynick; supported by Lynch: RESOLVED: To • moved by Waynick; supported by Lynch; Council requested the approve the lot split for .006-02-0685-002 described as the South 124.5 ft of remove from the table Item 05-99-207,, the Shotka lot split. AYES; Lots 685 and 685 Folker's Garden City «4 (vacant property on Shotka south Unanimous ABSENT: Mayor Barker and Councilmember Kaledas advertisement read, "Congratulations to the Graduating Class of 1999 from the City of Garden City, Mayor, Council, and StalT'. RESOLVED: To authorize of Elmwood on the west side). AYES: Councilmember Waynick NAYS: Mayor The Council as a Whole discussed the following items: a purchase of advertisement in the Garden City High School Publication in Pro-Tern Dodge, Couniclmembers Lynch, Wiacek, and Briscoe. ABSENT: 1. EMS Week Proclamation. the amount of $100.00. AYES: Unanimous ABSENT: Mayor Barker and Mayor Barker and Councilmember Kaledas Motion fails. 2. 13th Annual Dollars Against Diabetes Campaign. Councilmember Kaledas • Item 05-99-244 moml by Briscoe; supported hy Waynick 3. Purchase of High School Advertisement. • Item 05-99-241 moved by Lynch; supported by Briscoe:'RESOLVED: To • Mike Bachko, of Garden City, asked questions regarding age of 4. DPS Purchases - Streets/Water. approve Consent Agenda "A": existing heater and warranty * a. Fill Sand b. Corrugated Storm Sewer Pipe I. To award the annual supply of fill sand to Hayes Excavating Co. at RESOLVED: To adopt Emergency Ordinance E-99-004 to waive fhe c. Removal of Excavated Material $5.65 ton. purchasing requirements to acquire water heater equipment and installation d. Asphaltic Mixes and Tac Coat II." To award the annual supply of corrugated storm sewer pipe to II, S. not to exceed $3,600.00 for the Police Department AYES: Mayor pro-trm e. Lime Stone St Crushed. Concrete Filter. Dodge. Councilmembers Lynch. Briscoe, and Waynick NAYS: Councilmember f. Bagged Cement & Mortar III. To award the nnnunl contract of excavated material removal to R & Wiacek ABSENT: Mayor Barker and Councilmember Kaledas Motion pass«d. g. 60 40 Gravel E Trucking. • Item 05-99-245 moved by Waynick; supported by Lynch: RESOLVED: To * h. Catch basin Brick and Block IV. To award the annual supply of asphaltic mixes to Barrett Paving adopt additional budget workshop dates as follows i. Mason Sand Materials at $21.00 per ton for 1100, $22.00 per ton for 1200 and • Monday, May 24, 1999, 6:0O p.m., at City Hall Conference Room, wrap j. Type I Barricades $21.00 per 6 gallon of tac coat. up session for Boards/Commissions. k. Trailercd Arrow Panel V. To award the annual supply of lime stone and crushed concrete to • Wednesday, May 26, 1999, 7:30 p.m., at Mnplcwood Center, water fund 1. Concrete Forms Angela's Crushed Concrete. and CI P. AYES: Unanimous ABSENT Mayor Barker and m. Clay Pipe, PVC Pipe and Mastic VI. To award the annual supply of bngged cement and mortar to Councilmember Kaledas National Block at $15.50 bag cement and $4.40 bag mortar 5. DPS Purchases • Buildings/Grounds The meeting was then adjourned. a. Three Wheel Riding Mower 'VH. To award the annual supply of 6040 gravpl to Jnckie's Transport b. Paint A Paint Accessories Supplier Inc. at $11.30 per ton. ALLYSON M. BETTIS c. General Hardware Supplier VIII. To award the annual supply of catch basin brick and block to US Treasurer/City Clerk Filter at $0.99 per block. '' l\iMi Page 1, Section B Keely Wy^onik. Erjitor 734 953 2105. kwygonik'*?oe.homecomm.net on the web: http://obscrvercccentric.com Sunday, Moy 30. 1999 HOME SENSE Unloading spuds: Trucklqdds of up id 80,000 pounds of potatoes roll into storage bins at the Better Made potato chip factory in LOIS THIELEKE Detroit, Most pota toes are processed into chips the same Be bold, invite day. 'herb' into your One potato, two potato: After being home and life washed, millions of erbs are a wonderful fat-free, potatoes lose their salt-free way to add flavor and skins in automatic H zest to your meals. Be creative peelers. Peeler and bold with new seasonings in your blades are con favorite dishes. stantly cleaned and Many herbs can be purchased fresh sharpened. Next year-round. If you have a choice, use STORY BY MHU SKGGLUND •PHOTOS BYBRYAN-MITCHELL fresh herbs. One tablespoon of fresh stop is the slicer. Kerbs is equal to one-th\rd to one-half teaspoon crushed or dried herbs. Dried herbs have more concentrat ed flavor than fresh. If you are unfa- . miliar with the flavor of a certain From starf to .herb use a small amount, you can always add more later. Herbs are generally added toward chips are fetter Made- the end of the cooking time. For soups ' • : ' "'j".''.' '•••'.•• • :'.• '"•'•'.'" or stews, add herbs the last 45 min I thought I'd died and done to potato chip»heaven. utes of cooking. Extended cooking First, there was that "^ohderful aroma: wafting, down Gratiot destroys the taste of many herbs. For Avenue in Detrdit that ijold me I was nearing the Better Made cold foods, add herbs several hours potato chip factory. j before serving to allow flavors to Then/there was the fight of that glorious sea of bpuncing blend. blonde chips rushing along the conveyer belt on their way to being packaged,, '"'••'•"•,'! ,'; • Strong flavors POTATO Finally;, there was the taste of a perfectly There are strong or dominate fla CHIP shaped/warm, crisp chip ... ahh, heaven. vored herbs. These flavors really HEAVEN "When you're driving down the. freeway'(t-94)' stand out so handle them with care. about 6:05 a.m„ you can smell the chips. It's actu Bay, cardamom, curry, ginger, hot ally a very good smell," said Chris Moceri, vice president of Cross pepper, mustard, pepper, rosemary $ Petere Co., which makes Better Made potato chips. and sage are all strong flavors. Moceri is the grandson of Cross Moceri, who founded the com Here are some ways to try some of pany in 1930 (the company moved to its present location in 1940) these herbs: with partner Peter Cipriano. • Bay - beets, carrots, potatoes, toma Cipriano was a chip-loving milkman and Moceri already had toes, fish, meats experience working in a potato chip company. Both men wanted Chip heaven; Sorters pick out "bad" chips before they reach the • Cardamom - poached apples, cur to make a better potato chip, hence the brand name, Better ries, rice pilaf, stews, sweet pota bagging process. The chips, still Warm from being fried, have toes • Curry -- chutney, chicken, fish, soups, mayonnaise- • Ginger - beets, carrots, squash, Potato Chip History meats • 1M3 - Potato chips are created. Railroad mag- • Mustard - chicken, pot roast, snap ' oate Comrnodore'Comelius Vanderjjj.lt, dining at a beans, Brussels sprouts resort in Saratoga Springs. N.Y.-. didn't like trie • Rosemary - turnips, potatoes, beef fried potatoes he ordered for dinner. He sent them and pork roasts, oranges back to the kitchen, complaining they were too - • Sage - peas, Brussels sprouts, -, thick. • • •• • chowders, meats TaKing offense, chef George Crum sliced more i * potatoes paper thin, fried them to a crisp in boiling Medium flavors oil; and salted them. Vanderbilt loved the "crunch potato slices." and 'Saratoga Chips" became a Medium flavored herbs are basil, restaurant fad with the resort's socialite patrons. celety seed and leaves, cumin, dill, • 1SS0 -William Tappenden of Cleveland starts fennel, French tarragon, garlic, mar delivering his homemade chips to neighborhood joram, mint, oregano, winter and stores in a horse-drawn wagon. Orders increase. summer savory and thyme. and his barn becomes the first potato chip factory. • Basil - potatoes, spinach, eggs, • 192S - Chip-maker Laura Scodder of Montgomery pasta, fish Park, Calif., invents the first potato chip bag by • Celery seed - tomatoes, cabbage, Ironing sheets of wax paper into bags. She fills the bags with chips and irons them shut. Before this, meat stock retailers kept chips in cracker barrels or glass dis- • Cumini - sauerkraut, beans and rice, plays. ..••,. tomato sauce . 11*37- The National Potato Chip institute (now • Dill - broccoli, potatoes, fish, cheese the Snack Food Association) is founded to educate dishes retailers and consumers on the proper use of pota • Fennel - bread, salad, squash, rice to chips. They can't be used like soap chips to • Tarragon - lima beans, cauliflower, wash clothes. They are not good poured into a fish, meats bowl with sugar and cream. • Marjoram - carrots, spinach, pota aif43 - During World War If, production of potato toes, fish chips continues but ingredients are firmly rationed. • 194* - Fifteen-year-old Dorthea Fagnano of •t-Oregano - beans, potatoes, toma- Yonkers. N.V.-, is crowned the first Potato Chip toes^ salad dressings Queen for her "Potato Chips a la Gorton" casserole • Savory - peas, stews, meats, lentil made with potato chips, carrots, onions and, soup cheese. • Thyme- lima beans,'beets, carrots, • 1*4* - The Vincent Lopez Oichestra and the Mar chicken tin Sisters record a song for the National Potato Chip Institute titled "Potato Chips," which aired Delicate flavors along with tunes like "Rum and Coca Cola" and Delicate flavored herbs are used in "The Popcorn Polka." larger quantity or combined with • 1*70 - Potato chip sales reach $1 million. other herbs. These include burnet, • 1*7S- Chip industry takes a beating as prices for gas, used to fire their cookers, soar. Pot ato prices chervil, chives and parsley. . .. also go through the roof after a bad growing sea • Bumet - salads (has a delicate son. cucumber flavor) • 1**4 - Thicker, ridged chips made especially for • Chervil - omelets, chicken, veal dipping are introduced. • Chrves - salads, potatoes* salmon • 1*96 - Low- and no-fat potato chips sales • Parsley - Use on almost anything increase. '.'..• .When using herbs with meats, work (nf The Observer & Eccentric/ SUNDAY, MAY 30,1999 from page Bl Better from page Bl sprinkle half of mixture over half 2 cups coarsely crushed pota Made. the starch. Afterward, the slices In the spring and summer, Otto, Johnny, Virgie, Billy, etc.) of dough. Fold over. Sprinkle to chips. But that's history. The real are blown dry and ready to be Better Made gets their potatoes to Better Made for free; bags of remaining mixture on one-half of story remains the process by fried. The oil (90,000 pounds a from Florida and other southern broken chips. folded dough. Fold again. Roll out Sautd onion and green pepper in which potato chips are made, the week!) is pumped into the fryer states. For the rest of year, it's Later, she and her future hus to one-quarter inch thickness. butter or margarine three minutes potato's journey from field to bag through overhead tubing from Michigan spuds. band would pick up a fresh bag Brush with egg white and sprinkle or until tender. Remove from heat. ofchips. huge heated vats in an adjoining Although most of Better of chips and head out to Detroit with salt and cayenne. Cut in Combine sauteed onion and green room. Made's potato chips fry up a nice City Airport for some munching strips 1/2-inch by 6 inches. Bake at pepper, pimiento, soups, milk, Spuds to chips "We use nothing but cotton pale yellow, a few fry up brown. and kissing. 450°F until crisp and golden lemon juice and tuna; mix well. Everything starts when a truck seed oil. It's the most expensive But don't dare call them "burnt" "They were the best," Cartier brown. Place 1 cup crushed potato chips in carrying 45,000 to 85,000 pounds now because of the draught in Those dark brown chips, called said about the chips. fThey were bottom of lightly buttered 11/2- wonderful. They're nice people. -of potatoes arrives at Better Texas, but we refuse to change "rainbows," result from a more quart casserole; add tuna mixture. sugary potato, not overfrying. We've always bought Better Made and backs onto a lift. The our formula," said Moceri. CHIP-COATED OVEN-FRIED Sprinkle remaining 1 cup of potato After a short fry, the chips are Rainbows have their own devot Made chips. I used to like the CHICKEN ' chips on top. Bake at 350"F for 30 lift raises up the entire truck at salted and whisked along a ed following. curlier ones." minutes. Makes six servings. an angle, allowing the potatoes vibrating conveyer belt under Bob Marracino, general man Chips produced from Memorial 11/2 cups finely crushed Day through December have the potato chips to tumble into a conveyor, which . sharp eyes of a chip inspector to ager, said chip-lovers in his BARBECUED CHIP BUROERS shakes off excess dirt. the final bagging process. home state of New Jersey prefer best taste, said Moceri. However, 1 teaspoon salt (may elimi The conveyor then feeds the The entire frying process, from a browner chip. Not so in Michi peek taste occurs in August, nate) 1 pound ground beef potatoes into storage vats that peeler to salting, takes seven gan. "They tell me to bring it when Michigan potatoes are har 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 can evaporated milk hold up to 50,000 pounds. From minutes, said Moceri. A truck- back and fry it. For Michigan, vested. load of potatoes can be trans it's a snow-white chip. They Moceri doesn't like chips with Bash of paprika 1 package onion soup mix the vats, it's a short ride on a hopper to the water-filled formed into chips in just 25 min judge by color." dark brown spots, from bruised 2 to 3 pound fryer (cut in 1/2 cup crushed potato chips "destoner." All stones and field utes. —— No matter what the color, it potatoes, or chips tinged with pieces) Barbecue sauce for basting debris are then removed. takes a lot of potatoes to produce green, the result of the sun Lot£ of potatoes a bag of chips. One hundred directly hitting the potato's skin 2 eggs, slightly beaten From the destoner, the pota- Combine all ingredients and , toes head to the peeler, where Better Made processes 200,000 pounds of potatoes produces just while in the field. .1/4 cup milk shape into 1-inch thick patties. they're stripped of their skins by pounds of potatoes a day, or 40 21 pounds ofchips. "I like a chip with a little 1/4 cup butter or margarine Place on grill about 2 inches from 23 abrasive rollers. Once peeled, million pounds a year. The pota color," he said. In other words, flame. Baste with barbecue sauce. the "bad" potatoes are picked off toes are specially grown vari Best chips he likes the rainbows. Combine crushed potato chips, Curly or flat, light yellow or salt, pepper, and paprika. Com- by inspectors. eties, like Atlantic's or Snow- Redford resident Margaret MAGIC POTATO CHIP COOKIES Next comes the revolving dens. "More solid, less sugar, Cartier, 80, who grew up near toasty brown, the perfect chip is birie eggs and milk! Dip chicken • which keeps them nice and Gratiot, remembers bringing always in the eye and mouth of first in egg and milk mixture, then slicer, followed by a wash in a 11/3 cups sweetened con rotating drum to remove most of white," said Moceri. many of her 11 siblings (Archie, the beholder. in chip mixture. densed milk Melt butter in baking dish. Add 2 cups shredded coconut chicken (do not stack) and bake at 1/2 cup peanut butter Stir-fry combines veggies, pork 325°F for 45 minutes or until ten 1 cup crumbled potato chips Herb frontpage Bl AP — A serving of Vegetable Hot cooked rice (optional) der. Pork Stir-Fry contains only Mix condensed milk and peanut Freeze pork for 30 to 45 minules about 6 grams of fat. for ease in slicing; cut across grain butter. Add the coconut and potato Besides flavoring foods, many TUNA CASSEROLE The fragrance of fresh of herbs VEGETABLE PORK STIR-FRY into 1/4-inch strips. chips. Drop the mixture by spoon herbs have medicinal value. Eat in the house is wonderful. Water 1 pound lean boneless center- . 3 tablespoons chopped Combine 2 tablespoons soy fuls on greased baking pan. Bake ing "rosemary, basil and parsley the soil when the pot begins to cut pork loin onions at 375°F for about 15 minutes. may reduce lung cancer. Ginger dry out, you may want to fertil sauce, garlic, ginger, vinegar, 1 3 tablespoons chopped green fights nausea and motion sick ize your herbs once a month. 2 teaspoons vegetable oil teaspoon cornstarch and pepper; pepper ness. Because it fights inflamma 2 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce mix well and pour over pork. SAVORY CHIPPER LOAF The advantages of having 1 clove garlic, minced 1 tablespoon melted butter or tion, ginger helps arthritis Cover and marinate in refrigerator 2 pounds ground beef patients. It may also help thin "herb" in your life continue to 1 tablespoon grated fresh gin margarine 4 hours or overnight. Pour oil the blood preventing blood clots. add up. They^ give food flavor, ger root aroundtop and sides of preheated legg, slightly beaten require little space or care, and 2 tablespoons diced pimiento 2 teaspoons wine vinegar wok; heat for about 2 minutes at 1/4 cup minced onion Sage, dill, anise and fennel their health benefits cannot be 1 can cream of chicken soup 1 teaspoon cornstarch medium-high. Add marinated pork 1/4 teaspoon pepper help prevent intestinal gas and denied. 1 can cream of celery soup aid digestion. The menthol in 1/4 teaspoon pepper (undrairied) to wok; stir-fry for 3 (can substitute cream of 1 can condensed vegetable peppermint can be a soothing Lois M. Thieleke of Birming 2 carrots, peeled and cut minutes. spinach or cream of soup muscle relaxant. ham is an Extension Home diagonally into 1/2-inch Add carrots and red pepper; stir- asparagus soup) 2 cups crushed potato chips Economist for the Michigan State pieces fry for 2 minutes. 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The Observer & Eccentric/ SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1999 »3 Use fresh herbs to bring out the flavor of foods *, BY MELANIE POLK SPECIAL WHITER CRACKED WHEAT AND 1/2 teaspoon salt When health experts recom BASIL PILAF Freshly ground pepper to mend that we eat more plant . taste foods, they don't mean just 1 cup cracked wheat or but- gur Prepare cracked wheat or bul- fruits, vegetables and grains. gur according to package direc Herbs are also an important 1 tablespoon oil tions. source of phytochemicals, those 1 large onion, finely substances in plants that are chopped In heavy frying pan, heat oil. not vitamins or minerals, but 2 garlic cloves, chopped Add onion and cook, stirring, possess a wealth of health-pro over medium heat until tender. tective benefits. * 11/2 cups.thiniy sliced ' Stir in garlic and mushrooms Herbs have always been mushrooms and cook until mushrooms are prized for a variety of healing 1 large tomato, seeded and tender, about 2 minutes. properties, and in recent years diced, or lTbs. each Stir in tomato, cracked wheat, cancer prevention has been tomato puree and water added to the list of potential basil, almonds, Salt, and pepper 8 tablespoons chopped benefits. The compounds that to taste; stir until mixed and fresh basil produce flavor in rosemary and heated through. sage, for example, possess 4 tablespoons sliced Nutrition information: Each strong antioxidants which help almonds of the 6 servings contains 172 fight cancer. Chives, along with calories and 6 grams of fat. garlic and onions, belong to the Allium family and are rich in in a glass of water, stems down part-anise, part-parsley taste sulfides and other cancer-protec like flowers to keep them a little makes a delicious addition to tive substances. Using herbs to longer. cottage cheese or green beans. bring out the flavor in recipes is In cooking, use two to three The mild, sweet onion taste of also a great way to reduce your times the quantity of fresh herbs chives is perfect for salads or use of fat for flavoring. when substituting for dried potatoes. Fennel's flavor is a herbs, since their flavor is much nutty .anise/celery blend that is When purchasing fresh herbs, more subtle. Most cooking calls excellent in soups, salads and look for unblemished leaves and for herb leaves, but cut stems breads. Marjoram, with a mild avoid those, that are wilted, AMERICAN iHSTrtlTE K* CtJKSM BXSEASCH usually have the strongest fla oregano taste, can be used with bruised or discolored. Store stur Savory side dish: Cracked wheat and basil pilaf is a delicious way to enjoy basil. vor. Robust herbs retain their lamb, eggplant or squash. Mint dy herbs like rosemary, thyme, flavor even if cooked for a long is a cool, sweet addition to tea, sorrel, marjoram or sage time, but fine herbs should be yogurt, fruit, carrots or peas, wrapped in paper towels inside added to dishes just before serv while sage's lemony zest is M;i\ 22-June 12 a plastic bag in the refrigerator. Melanie Polk is Director of ing. pleasant in breads, potatoes and More delicate herbs, including Nutrition Education for the Basil's mildly peppery flavor is pork dishes. 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The next meeting is from racy Green of Plymouth initiated a thyroid THYROIDISM 2-5 p.m. Sunday June 6 at Island support group after her circle of friends THYROIDISM Lake State Park (exit 151 off 1-9.6 Tand acquaintances consisted of several near Kensington Lake). For a women who were also being treated for thyroid Dry, coarse hair Hair loss newsletter or information call, (248) disorders and whose symptoms sounded all too 349-4972. familiar to her. Loss of eyebrow hair Bulging eyes "A neighbor and one of my best friends also Health inside/out have thyroid problems," said Green. "I thought there were probably a number of other people Puffy face Sweating Henry Ford OptimEyes will host a out there who could benefit from knowing their Health Inside & Out program from 9 problems weren't in their head as a lot of us Enlarged thyroid Enlarged thyroid a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Westland have been told at one time or another." Supervision Center, 35184 Central (Goiter) (Goiter) City Parkway. Free blood pressure Green's support group, numbering approxi checks, body fat analysis, "Brown bag mately 30 members, some traveling from as far Slow'heartbeat Rapid heartbeat ging your medications: Ask the Phar as Rochester Hills, Hartland and Ann Arbor, macist," and guest speakers from meets monthly at the Plymouth District Library. Each session includes a discussion Henry Ford will discuss dermatology •^'/^ARTHRITljS^y; DIFFICULTY and nutrition. from a guest speaker such as an endocrinologist, nutritionist or chiropractor. The next meeting is ••^vctiiD :''C->: SLEEPING scheduled at 7 p.m. Monday, June 7, at the library. ;irrrOLERAN BY KIMBERLY A. MORTSON disorders and suggested to her physi According to Knoll Pharmaceutical hypothyroidism and has been strug STAFF WRITER cian that he test her hormone levels Company, the manufacturer of a thy Then *** MWaraJ w*y» you ens reach kmortson9oe.homeconim.net.. gling to maintain regular hormone the Qbmarwr tUttih k FltnimOgTlt while he was drawing blood for a cho roid medication, "This is called levels through oral medications. A Sunday MdionprevttMitiniMroiM . Approximately 14 million Ameri lesterol screening. autoimmune condition, which simply bloftti test confirmed high levels of to&oMto yo o to oA? iMftFvwrtfe^ cans, predominantly women, suffer "My thyroid was so underactive the means that your immune system is TSH and low levels of thyroid hor - fctftxmMtfett kictodinf liadkftt DMabodk from an under (hypothyroidism) or •doctor said he was surprised I wasn't attacking your own cells. In an mones after Kremer gave birth to her (wpwwtwg <*t*tat»x gWHittfr Maiteri in a coma," said Green. autoimmune condition, the.immune third child. tftwmn*k*r» {tK&otofimmta/amrhiMm over active (hyperthyroidism) thy i* tib* wdkmi Md* mod tiadftti Bri** roid. The disorder can be challenging Green's blood work also indicated system continues to act just like it's Twas getting more and more tired (a»ik>I*rfv*neMKriMrf#wHiw to diagnose based on the wide variety an elevated cholesterol level..In the fighting something foreign and it pro and I noticed my thyroid gland was of symptoms, sufferers report. past she also experienced depression, duces protector cells against the thy swollen. It even bothered me to wear We •honrriewmg 'tmMvtfhp ii»Jtt to The thyroid gland, which governs dry skin, low blood pressure, muscle roid cells." a turtle neck. No matter how loose it our metabolism, affects every cell in tightening and hair loss. The final was it felt like it was choking me." the body and collaboratively works to diagnosis was Hashimoto's Disease Not atone An important detail in Green and maintain the body's functions. Vari — a condition in which the immune Peggy Kremer of Plymouth said Kramer's treatment has been the ' eJkULtJMi* ances in hormone production can system attacks the thyroid gland. several physicians she saw were also pursuit of a physician who will take • have significant ramifications on a Routinely, infections are fought by quick to blame her busy lifestyle and their symptoms and their treatment jmrmmi ."K: •••> person's energy level,, heart rate, a person's immune system as it the stress associated with raising seriously. • WWffVtlSt organ function, weight and vision. makes the distinction between the three children on her physical prob "Don't give up even if you're frus Tracy Green of Plymouth was diag body's own cells and those carried by lems that included extreme fatigue, trated," said Kremer. "Find someone nosed with hypothyroidism (underac viruses and bacteria. thinning hair, muscle aches, digestive that you're comfortable with and that tive thyroid) four months after the Antibodies and protector cells are problems, depression and anxiety. will listen to you. Some doctors are birth of her third child. distributed throughout the body to "Some people have more physical too quick to write a prescription and . "1 was having a hard time function battle these foreign cells before they problems relating to their thyroid ... send you on your way. It's a way you ing and I was tired all the time," said wear down the immune system. mine are more mentally terrible," can challenge your doctors if you're Green. "My doctor told me it was Hashimoto's disease causes your said Kremer. "The whole last year not getting the answers you want. I stress." .•„•',. . immune system to send protector has been really bad." think the peace of mind in knowing The 36-year-old said ironically she cells to your thyroid as it inadver The 36-year-old Plymouth resident what's going on with you helps more recently read an article about thyroid tently identifies them as foreign cells. says she was diagnosed in 1998 with than anything." The Observer & Eccentric! SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1999 MEDICAL NEWS V MEDICAL DATEROOK M %'i /f«m* for Medical Datebook emotional support to help Items for Medical Newgnutkentems , Medical Information Ser Physical 8996 Middlebelt Road, in the •u are welcome from all hospitals,wome n lead fuller lives during are welcome from all professionvices, materials JManagement Medicine and Mid-Plaza, between Joy and Ply physicians, companies and restheir mid-life years. als active-in the Observer-area and Patient Support Services. In Rehabilitation, mouth Road. For information idents active In the Observer- medical community. Items CWLOCPR his new position, DeRubeis and Home call (734) 524-9500. Twentyi»r- area medical ^community. should be sent to: Medical assists hospital management in Health. In cent off purchase through June. Items should be sent to: MediOffered monthly at 6 p.m. Newsmakers, c/o The Observerdevelopin g plans and programs addition to the 30. -*• cal Datebook, c/o The ObservInfant/child resuscitation and Newspapers, 36251 School to insure financial viability for development m er Newspapers, 36251 Schoolobstructed airway techniques craft, Livonia 48150, e-mail St. Mary Hospital. and implemen Accreditation I craft, Livonia 48150. kmort- are.taught in the three hour [email protected] or Johnson's responsibilities tation of specif- »•..• St. Mary Hospital has [email protected] or class, approved by the Ameri faxed to (734) 591-7279. include over ic services to **™* achieved accreditation by the faxed to (734) 591-7279. can Heart Association. 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SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1999 uters in space offer convenient, portable links to Earth y he first leave five ThinkPads on the in his Houston office ah IBM copy the old Timex watch com Statjon, the exterior camera is is happening Up there in sjiace, thing you International Space Station for ThinkPad that served aboard the mercial: "Takes a licking and ; plugged into a ThinkPad and the visit the Kennedy Space center notice about use next year by the crew that Russian Mir space station, When keeps, on ticking." operation is monitored by the Web site at www.-kac/. nasa. gov hatching a wiireyentuaUy move in and con Mir had an accident a couple of The laptops in spade have Shuttle crew inside Discovery on This weekend, I'll be talking space launch stantly staff the orbiting extra years ago, the laptop was in tne actually replaced the typical the laptop screen. about the use of ipmputers in from the terrestrial base camp. portion of the cargo bay that was cockpit-mounted "rack" comput "These laptops" just make space on my PC[ Talk Radio Kennedy Space Aboard the Discovery shuttle seriously damaged, The bay was ers that we used to see on our. everything more efficient," said Show on TalkRadio 1270, Center at Cape vehicle right now, the crew is so damaged that there was a spacecraft. The ThinkPads are Klausman. "They're all net WXYT. . Canaveral, Fla. using nine ThinkPads. If you leak and the ThinkPad was used by the crew for all sorts of worked together and hooked up^ Thanks to the people at a com is that as soon watch the TV coverage of the exposed to a the vacuum of functions, from managing com by the communications system pany called AltiTalk, you can as the huge Sat mission, you'll always see one of space. When Mir vyas eventually, mand and control systems to' to the NASA system back on now listen to my radio show on urn rocket the laptops floati^j around in repaired,'the laptop was sending e-mail back to their fam AWfl? earth. the Internet at www. pcmike. •' WENDLAND ignites, it blasts zero gravity. "Actually, to keep retrieved and brought back to ilies on earth and NASA engi .-"When the crew sleeps, the com. I tape-recorded the Thurs off the pad a lot them from bumping into them, earth. neers in Houston. laptops are awake" They're as day launch, ajicj you'll be able to faster than it they often have to Velcro them to The only "damage was The In one of the more unusual much a part of the mission as hear that incredible blast off appears on television. the walls," IBM's James Sciales backlight fqt the screen; SvijioJi applications, when the robotic the radio and telemetry sys-., noise yourself, • The second thing you notice is told me on my visit to the popped in the vacuum. It was space "arm" is extended from terns." You can reach Wendland the noise of the rockets/ It's awe-. Kennedy Space Center. fixed and the laptop still works. I Discovery to do some welding If you want to learn more through his Web site at Some. It hits you like a wave and Klausman, the engineer, has told the IBM folks they ought to work on the international Space about the mission and see what www.pcnjiike.com i$ so loud that, I swear, the bones in my chest rattled for a good 30 seconds. Very cool. • On TV, the powerful cameras zoom in and follow the rocket as ft climbs into the sky. It seems to. lake forever to disappear from View. In person, it doesn't "climb." That's too lame a word. It leaps into the clouds and is gone from the naked eye in just a ; fc'ouple of seconds. Really, as I patched the launch of Discovery from America's Space Port Thursday/1 thought that it was like a bottle rocket. That's how fast it goes when you see it up plose and personal. ""Up close is about three miles away. That's as hear as the NASA officials will let anyone be Jo the launch pad. Three miles is still in the official blast zone, which, we were told, means ihere's a bit of danger. 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Nozero, a saxophonist with 40 Orchestra names years in the music business, never star? warm learned to play the. Italian folk songs of his father's native country. But he did new conductor lice Elinor Bartlett would have. learn to love music. probably gasped in horror over Nozero is bringing his jazz-quartet the graphic language and sexu an Washburn said it may be A and guest trumpeter Johnny Trudell to al dascriptiana in Julia Grice's sus hard to believe, but her decision the Father's Day Brunch at Schoolcraft pense novel "Jagged Light." * College in Livonia. The brunch is a N to leave sunny California for a In 1905,-Bartlett, a founding mem conductor/music director position benefit for the July 18 Michigan Jazz ber of Detroit Women Writers, was Festival which has been moved this with the Plymouth Symphony Orches writing flowery poem* about the par* tra was an easy one. Shell be unpack year from the Botsford Inn to School eon eojni&fT to ion. craft College. ing boxes of music scores the first Ninety-nine year* to the day, the week of August in time for the first "My father was a natural player. Detroit Women Writers will kkk off a There was always music around the rehearsal for the 1999-2000 season. ycer-iong celebration of then* 100th "I'm really excited about the new house," said Nozero. "He taught me the anniversary with a literary evening. basic reasons for being a musician. He position," said Washburn during an Tbe Birmingham Village Players and interview from her home in Pacifica. taught me about expression. That it's a Cranbrook Writer* Guild will present way to express your feelings." "The skill of this orchestra puts it up both works along with selections by The first jazz record he heard, by -to a semi-professional or professional Margaret Hillert, Elisabeth Kane Century of ° orchestra. When I was here to audi BuueHi, Naomi Long Madgett, Kath Benny Goodman, hooked Nozero for tion in November, I talked with the leenRipley Leo, Joyce Carol Oates, Voti^^lMrvit: / life. Before long, he orchestra and they think of them was listening to Art Linda Nemec Foster, Ruth Ryan Lan- Women Writers celebrate Father's Day selves as a family." gan and S.K Wolfe of Iivoma. Pepper and Charlie their fQOth anniversary with the Brunch Parker, and finally Bob Carington's job is to pot the release of an anthology and the literary What: A fund-raising his own career took authors of the Detroit Women Writers gourmet brunch evening "Authors on Stage* featuring the music off. In the early recently published anthology "Centu yearsYhe toured ry of Voices" on stage and "make it of the Larry Nozero Quartet with guest with a number of entertaining." As director of the Birm were combed for material. Current Detroit Women Writers because not trumpeter Johnny legendary jazz ingham Village Players production members were asked to submit selec only. does, it represent an aspect of Trudell. musicians includ with his wife, tions as well. Then the work began for Detroit history and the Detroit Wom- When: Noon to 3 ing Stan Kenton, Jerri, Caring ens Press Club but whets your p.m. Sunday. June "Authors On co-editors Vosburg Hall, Corinne Dizzy Gillespie, ton realized bis Abatt, Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli, Tut appetite for the book and shows the 20 (brunch served Stage" noon to 1 p.m.). Ella -Fitzgerald, biggest chal tle Marzolf and Doris'Scharfenberg. broad spectrum of what women in Where: Upper and Henry Manci- What: Cranbrook lenge was- to :"It's-What people are writing," said this area, have done, in the past centu J Waterman, ni. Nozero's own Writers Guild and the trim the selec Vosburg Hall, Cranbrook Writers ry," said Abatt. "All the writers who Schoolcraft College, group was the first Birmingham Village tions chosen for Guild president and a Bloomfield started this were professional people. 18600 Haggerty. American quartet Players present "Authors ton Hills resident; "It's what people are It was exciting to really seeing the (between Six and to play thd Mon- works from the Seven Mile Roads). Detroit Women JStage" on Satr thinking: It's what women thought. book go together — poetry and treaux Jazz Festi PHOTO BY CATHERINE BYW> IJvonia. Waters recently urday, June. 5. They take a different slant pa the romance and murder and essays, and val in Switzerland New Ideas: Nan Washburn Tickets: $25. call published anthology, the : book world. They give us a glimpseof what how are we going to put all'this (248) 474-2720 or when it originated has been appointed as the 'Century of Voices." »te*4* Ha'-ilimiiKlt^t^ihlts>i*cl^t AJA4>^-*then? ' * A •-...; '.-. (734> 459-2454. No 19 years ago. In When: § p.m. ^jrtghe^r'; YY; iwn when it Wome^ today enjoy thelfreedom to tickets will oesofd music director /conductor of Saturday, June 5. Talk about the' book first came up 1997, he was at the door. 'Wh*»: Village wtite abe^s) fabjects never dreamed while; the Detroit Women Writers inducted into the the Plymouth Symphony ; Proceeds help -Players' Theater. 752 '''i&^tnjd&irf} about 100 years ago. As the Detroit Were celebrating their 75th ahhiyer- Legends of Jazz Orchestra. _ , through ^: a Women Writers-celebrate their lOOth offset costs of the Chestnut, > sary. A history had been assembled admission-free International Hall Birmingham? relief cpfiister of anniversary with the recent release of then, and Kathleen Ripley Leo was of Fame. In Decem Washburn, who prefers the term Michigan Jaz2 Tickets: $25, $50 emotions frpm an anthology "Century of Voices," looking 25 years down the road to the Festival to be heid ber he was a fea community-based orchestra to com (sponsor), $100 laughter t© there's plenty to*be thankful for next milestone. . . '•»" Sunday, July 18 at tured guest with munity orchestra, will ease her way (patron)^. $150 surprise; ; "The Detroit Women writers started Schoolcraft College. the Birmingham into the position. There'll be no dras (benefactoi^-Gatl "Therei's History • ; (248) 646-0658. out before women got the vote," said tic changes in the orchestra led by evferythihg The Detroit Women Writers was Ripley Leo, who just completed a two- Please see JAZZ, C2 conductor/music director Russell Reed Proceeds to benefit the Cranbrook from ,tough started by i3 women, most of whom year term as Detroit Women Writers fof the last 12 years. Reed retired in Writers Guild and the hard-hittifcg were members' of the Women's Inter- president. "We asked do we want April to pursue his love of travel, golf Birmingham Village stuff to fun nattorial Press Union, on June 5, ; these voices to go into oblivion so we and woodworking. Players. things. :Frbin 1900. Bartlett, whose pseudonym was Started looking at an anthology. We "The first year is a little challenging soup to'nuts, Birch Arnold, was typical of its mem used money from an earlier book, because Ineed to get to know.the ;;..;.•";• *•;•':'. thereVa Jpt'of bership. A columnist for the Detroit Voices on Writing Fiction,' to seed it; •\ orchestra and they need to get to variety," said Carington of Bloomfield Jour/jo/ as well as a novelist, poet MSU and Wayne State presses were know me and then we can begin Village. rWe'r^^^ maWngtb^m into lit and librettist for at least one comic interested, but their timetable didn't working on increasing performance tle one acts. From JuSa Grice's hard opera/Barlett's fiwt novel, "Until Day I'-- ? mesh with the 100th anniversary" skill," said Washburn. hitting 'Jagged Light' to a poem by Breaks,* was published in 1877. Since the beginning, the Detroit The announcement of Washburn as the 'first president (Bartlett) that's • "With 'Authors on Stage' we went Women Writers has had only 500 new conductor/music director signals very old-fashioned and charniing. We for quality and dramatic impact with. ;: ; members. Their annual writers con an exciting time for the Plymouth try to mix tne evening up* -Y ''Ai '' ';-. the idea of bringing good literature to ference, held in October, brings Symphony Orchestra as well. One of people,''said Vosburg Hall. together aspiring and professional the reasons Washburn was chosen for Evolution of a prcjett; i^ ^ Abatt arid members of the Cran writers with New York editors and the position is because of her innova ; Originally^ "Cehttiryof Voices" was brook Writers GuildVchose the selec agents not to mention established tive programming. Winner of 13 intended to chroni < \ ci* The Observer & Eccentric/ SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1999 Jazz from page CI Professionals, students perform Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra music is free." Funding and plans to do more appear Midge Ellis plans to keep it Ellis expects staging, sound ances with community orches at the Ferndale Jazz Fest '99 that way, but she's worried and lighting to cost .around tras in the 1999-2000 season. In because the fifth annual Michi $2,000 per stage. Add to that fact, his latest CD "Warm" was BY KEELY WYGONIK • 'It's wonderful for kids, it's more fun to have a gan Jazz Festival will cost more fees for set-up, security and the STAFF WRITER recorded with full orchestra. to produce than in the past due more than 170 musicians. Half [email protected] Jam session than to be In the street and get In Nozero began recording his to the change of venue. She's of the total cost for musicians When Dave Coleman was 9 trouble. Music stimulates their brain big time.' own music 15 years ago. For hoping the Father's Day Brunch will be paid for by the Music Per decades before that, he was a will raise part of the estimated years old he saw Louis Arm formance Trust Funds through strong on TV. studio musician with Motown. $22,000 to $25,000 it will take to the U.S. Recording Companies, Dave Coleman "He was on stage having so. After 40 years in the business, produce the festival. as arranged by Local No. 5, Ferndale High School much fun. I decided that's what I Nozero is still proud of his roots. "It's a great event for people to American Federation of Musi wanted to do," said Coleman. "I "I was a little kid in the early take their fathers to and hear cians. Figures aren't in yet from learned how to play trumpet." "50s in Detroit listening to the music they grew up with and the Clarenceville Jazz Series ' Now assistant music director Kenny Burrell and Yusef Lateef love," said Ellis of Livonia who is held this spring, but the fund- at Ferndale High School, Cole The festival offers an opportu stimulates their brain big time." on the street corners," said Noze helping coordinate the brunch raising concerts, which featured man, who also teaches at nity to hear local youngsters and ro, a faculty member in the and festival. "Some people will tributes to jazz greats, will help Coolidge Middle School, is pass professionals such as drummer The Ferndale JazzJ Combo, Wayne State University Jazz buy a table of eight so the whole with some of the cost. Proceeds ing the tradition of jazz onto the Miguel Gutierrez and his group, which"consists of five members Studies Program since 1982. family can go." from the Father's Day Brunch next generation. Truth. of the jazz band, has been invit "Jazz music for me is a viable During the festival there will and a Givingthanksfprjazz . ed to perform at the 1999 Mon- thing even though we don't haye be four stages with continuous Brunch in November help pay On Saturday, June 5, his For the students, it's a chance treux Detroit Jazz Festival. the music (recording) industry music, the same as at the Bots- for printing fliers and other bands will be among the 13 pro to shine. "The kids love to per any more in Detroit. During ford Inn. Both the upper and expenses. Major backers, includ fessional, high school and middle form at the end of the year when those days at Motown we were lower level of the Waterman ing the Lear Corporation,, have school jazz bands playing at Jazz they're at their best," said Cole Here's the JazzFest Schedule making a'lot of music." Center, Forum Recital Hall, and already promised support, but Fest '99, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. in man. 11-11:30 a.m — Best Middle Even though Nozero enjoys an outdoor stage in the heart of Ellis is still looking for sponsors. the Ferndale High School Court Rosemary Spatafora is among School Jazz yard, 881 Pinecrest, between* the parents helping with the fes 11:40 a.m. \o 12:20 p.m. — playing club dates (he'll be at La the campus will treat jazz fans to "We're trying to raise more Coolidge and Livernois, south of tival. Her son Jeff is a sopho SouthfleldLathrup Jazz^Quintet Bistecca Italian Grille in Livonia the music of Bess Bonier, George money," said Ellis. "It's going to on June 7), he thrives on per Benson, Matt Michaels with 9 Mile Road. All day admission more at Ferndale High School 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. — Best be a great event. The American is $5 adults, $3 seniors and stu and plays alto sax. forming in the jazz festivals Jack Brokensha, SCool JAzz and Harvest Restaurant will be open Vocal Jazz Ensemble , because they're usually day/or Prime, the Janet Tenaj Trio, and dents, children under 6 free. "It's fun for the public to hear 1:10-1:50 p.m. — Keith Gam for gourmet dining, the food will Bring lawn chairs and blankets the music, and jazz is becoming weekend-long events which spot Big Bands such as the Brookside be absolutely fantastic. A food ble light a variety of styles. This Jazz Ensemble, Eddie Nuccilli, to sit on. Call (248) 547-1700 so popular," she said. "Mr. Cole 2-2:40 p.m. — Tim Flarity Trio court will be located near the Ext. 5115 for information. man wanted the kids to hear year, in addition to the Michigan and the Larry Teal Saxophone outdoors stage." 2:50-3:30 p.m. — Berkley High Jazz Festival, Nozero will play Octet. New this year is Sheila The event evolved from a con other jazz bands play to expand Ellis hopes jazz lovers attend School Jazz Band nt the Birmingham Jazz Festival Landis. cert to a longer concert to an all their exposure. It's exciting and 3:40-4:20 p.m. — "Truth" fea the Father's Day Brunch Sun day come and go as you please gratifying to see kids get recogni and the Ford Montreaux Jazz "We're moving it mainly to turing Miguel Gutierrez day, June 20. jazz festival. Food and beverages tion." Festival in Detroit. house a bigger audience," said 4:30-5:10 p.m. — Detroit High "A lot of people have a concep will be offered for sale in the "The festivals are important to Ellis. "We'just plain ran out of For Coleman it's all about jazz, School of Performing Arts tion of jazz that it calls for a cel courtyard throughout the day. and exposing as many people as us musicians and also the jazz room. Schoolcraft College is 5:20-6 p.m. — The Jamie lar and smoke-filled rooms," said "Last year was incredible," he can to this American art form. folks that we have venues to be accessible. There's unlimited Hughes Quintet Ellis. "Jazz belongs on the con said Coleman about the festival "We can't take credit for classical together," said Nozero. "It's diffi parking. At Botsford the crowd 6:10-6:50 p.m. — Pine Quest cert stage. Those of us who love which drew professional and stu music or polkas," he said. "But cult. Jazz musicjs not often well ran around 5,000. We feel we'll it we're aging and if we don't get 7-7:40 p.m. — Ferndale High represented in area venues. The get more than that at School dent jazz groups. "My only regret when it comes to>jazz that's ours the word out to the young peo is that there were only 150 peo that's American. It's wonderful School Jazz, Enseriible Michigan Jazz Festival helps craft." ple, jazz is going to die." 7:50-8:30 p.m. — Ferndale keep the music exposed plus the ple there. We're hoping to get as for kids, it's more fun to have a many people as possible this jam session than to be in the High Vocal Ensemble year." street and get in trouble. Music 8:40-9:20 p.m. — Staff/alumni from page CI Expressions from page CI work. Rousing his fellow Jews the opera world. earth. from the depths of despair, Sam Prayers do get answered. Shortly after immigrating concerts. The baby boomer seg position as music director will president. "She's very creative son rallies the Hebrews to resist from Moldavia, Mishura found a ment of the population of which allow her to experiment with and exciting with programming Gift from the Gods their oppressors. home at the Jewish Community I'm a member isn't in the habit marketing ideas such as sub and has a track record of doing Samson, endowed with the In many ways, Mishura's life Center where she practiced her of attending symphony concerts. scription parties where she'll that and for building orchestras. strength of 10,000 men, over could be translated into an opera singing. People would gather I'd like to see programming talk about the repertoire and the She also has an interest in devel comes the onslaught of the with a happy ending, a tale and listen. Soon, she had a list of that's very accessible to anyone season. Her duties seem over- • oping programs with schools, Philistine army, but falls prey to whereby the heroine with the students to whom she taught •who has not gone to a symphony whelming for a part time posi and that's near and dear to my the most seductive Philistine gift from the Gods actually gets voice. Then, Mishura began to 'concert. In between selections I'd tion, but Washburn is up to the heart." maiden, Delilah. to live her lifelong dream. sing in choruses and at syna-_ like to talk to the audience about challenge. Her unlimited enthu Those were the qualifications Eventually, Delilah learns of "I have been so stubborn," said gogues. the composer and work. It's an siasm and energy was just one of Linda Alvarado and the rest of the secret source of Samson's Mishura, who immigrated seven A stint as a waitress at DePak- educational component set in a the reasons Washburn was Soe- the search committee were look-' strength. Soon, Samson suffers years ago from Moldavia as a ma's Restaurant in Livonia casual atmosphere." nen's choice. Besides her position ing for among the more than 150 the ultimate "bad hair day," political refugee. She was forced brought her in contact with a Washburn believes children with the Plymouth Symphony, applicants. Over the last year, loses his self-esteem (along with to flee as anti-Russian, anti- many of her future colleagues in especially love contemporary Washburn will be flying back to seven finalists were selected to his hair) and the respect of his Semitic sentiment swept the local opera community. music. Pacifica to conduct Orchestra either rehearse with the orches fellow Hebrews. through the former Soviet repub DePalma's, at the time, was "My experience has been if Sonoma part time. She is cur tra or conduct a concert in the Meanwhile, amid a Bacchanal lic, where Mishura spent seven sponsoring opera concerts on children hear a Hadyn sympho rently conductor of Orchestra thorough search for the position. orgy, the Philistines revel in years as the leading mezzo- Wednesdays. ny or a contemporary symphony, Sonoma and the Channel Island Two were then chosen for the their victory. soprano at the Moldavia Opera, Mishura recalls those days they will love the contemporary Symphony in Southern Calif. board's review. Washburn's Weakened and ridiculed, Sam- a 4,00.0-seat house. fondly. That's also when she met more," said Washburn. "If you Washburn will also continue demeanor and experience won r son prays to God to restore his '"There was no way I wanted to her current husband, whose listen to the music behind chil guest conducting as she has in out. Washburn, who has a mas strength. His prayer is do anything else. I had a dream sense of promotion transformed dren's programs and cartoons the past for the University of ter's in performance from the answered. Samson regains his like everyone else. I just couldn't her career — and her life. today, it's very contemporary. Michigan Philharmonic Orches New England Conservatory of strength, pushes over the pillars have imagined how hard it "I think that I've had two The music fer Jurassic Park, for tra, Richmond Symphony (Va.), Music, was a professional flutist holding up the temple where the would be." lives," she said. "One in Russia example, it's contemporary, very Sacramento Symphony Orches- for several years before begin Philistines are celebrating *and Despite a profession where an and the other since coming to colorful." . tra, and other community ning conducting studies in 1984. buries his people's enemies. impressive vocal range amid the America. orchestras. She was conductor of the San The morality tale on the upper-scale octaves is as leg "I've learned that you must be Multiple duties "Nan Washburn's a tremen Francisco State Oniversity Sym rewards of persistence isn't lost endary as diva-like snits, Mishu faithful to your art." In-addition to handling the dously talented music director/ phony Orchestra and the Sym on Mishura, who has overcome ra is not only exceptionally tal And that's .commitment in any conducting duties, Washburn's conductor," said Soenen, board phonic Band, and music director great odds in her rapid rise in ented but uncommonly down-to- language. of the Camellia Symphony Orchestra in Sacramento. She r ~nii AiJn ADiriJfw/?cn^r»rAt •"" I also co-founded the Women's 5th Annual GRAND OPENING SPECIAL Philharmonic. I THE NEWEST, LARGEST & MOST ELEGANT I "Nan has a reputation among CHINESE BUFFET IN TOWN musicians as eliciting their skills I to the highest levels because she I ^ China senses what they're thinking," lest Bloomfield said Alvarado. "She also has ^S^A\\ You Can EaSWfet * exhibited a great interest in Luncheon All Day _ community development. She I Buffet & Daily _ CRAB$Q95_ *- DinnerSunday* • has a real zeal for integrating Service DINNER community and the arts." ART FESTIVAL I Mon.-Sat. Buffet | ONLY 11-3:30 EXPIRES Service ' 8 6-30-99 $3.95 | If you have an interesting idea I $5.95 for a story involving the visual or performing arts, call arts ~t I | I reporter Linda Ann Chomin, 30242 PLYMOUTHRD. UVONTA • (734) 421-4613 * ± * Between Mktttetott S Merrirrun 2 Efcmoutt I {734) 953-2145 or send e-mail to' •cross from Wonderland M»ll In • [email protected] Woodland Squsre'Sporta Authority Shopping Center •—•- ' ---^ ^ PRETTY TILE, UGLY GROUT? 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Open "Stars of Spring-; June 5-6, 12-13, June 4 - "Maestros' Touch" art from every Sunday through December,, at "The Loneliness Factor"; June 19-20, students of Eric Mesko and Vito Farmers' Market at Kerrytown, 315 26-27/"Through the Looking Glass: Vatdez. 2661 Michigan Ave., Detroit; Detroit, Ann Arbor. The Current Night Sky. 1109 Geddes (313) 965-9192. ART ON THE AVENUE Avenue, Ann Arbor; (734) 764-0478. More than 120 artists, a classic car U OF M MUSEUM OF ART CJ A. L i. K K. Y show, music and a children's area at Through July 3 - "Seeing it Through: EXHIBITS this 13th annual event, June 5-6 in Faculty Artists from the School of <03>T-QOir*0> Dearborn's West Village. Art & Design," 525 South State. Ann ART OVER THE INTERSTATE Arbor; (734) 764-0395. ALFRED BERKOWITZ GALLERY A fine arts & crafts fair in Charlotte Through June 27 - Glass: Its M. Rothstein Park over 1-696 in Oak O PERA Substance & Attributes by Michigan- Park. May 31, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Artists. University of Michigan- CANTON FINE ART & CRAFT SHOW MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen. Dearborn; More than 90 artists featured at the Samson and Delilah, June 5-6. 9. 11- (313) 593-5058. 8th annual show, June 19-20. 13, matinee and evening perfor BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD ART Heritage Park, Canton Township. mances. 1526 Broadway. Detroit; CENTER (313) 237-SING. Through June 25 - The 52nd annual NEW MUSIC SOCIETY Watercolor Society exhibition. 1516 AUOITIONS 'The State of the Tibetan Nation: A / G A. L L JF O JR. South Cranbrook Road, Birmingham. Madrigal Opera by Philip Class.' June BIRMINGHAM UNITARIAN CHURCH ARTI & T S «& 3-6, 1515 Broadway, Detroit; (313) SCMOX^ARSHIFS Through June 13 - Solo'ex hi bit ion of 965-1515. retrospective works by Lillian CALL FOR ENTRIES Mitchell. 651 N. Woodward, The Plymouth Community Arts' G A. JL L E R Y Bloomfield Hills; (248) 626-5022. Council is seeking artists to partici EXHIBITS BOOKBEAT pate in their Sept. 11-12 show at Through June 30 - Children's author Central Middle High School in (OPENINGS) and illustrator Wong Herbert Yee. Plymouth. For an application call A.C.J. GALLERY Arty swim: The paintings of Michigan artist Dave Patritto are featured at 26010 Greenfield, Oak Park; (248) (734) 416-4278. June 4 - "Numeric Expressions," Wylarid Gallery, 280 Merrill*Birmingham, (248) 723-9220. 968-1190. DANCE AUDITIONS works of artists Suzanne Andersen. Jeanne Bieri, Mark Esse, Sherry CARY GALLERY Michigan Theater and Dance Troupe Moore and Alan Watson through July New paintings by Mary Aro. 226 holds auditions for 16-year-old and 24. 35 East Grand River, Detroit; • Walnut Blvd., Rochester; (248) 651- older dancers on Saturdays through — CRANBROOK CHAMBER MUSIC NORTH CONGREGATIONAL (313) 961-4336. 3656. Augusl. Appointment only. Call (248) WORKSHOPS CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ' ACADEMY CHURCH GALERIE BLU 552-5001. Through May 30 - Annua! student Adults, June 14-18; High school/col June 6, 3 p.nrf., pianist Kazimierz CRANBROOK RETREAT FOR June 4 - Artist Jef Bourgeau's "Tahiti Auditions for the Marygrove College exhibition. 201 East Kirby. Detroit; lege, June 21-25. Entrance based on 8rzozowski performs music of WRITERS Show' through June 24. Opening 30th annua) Summer School for the taped audition. Deadline for applica Chopin. Liszt and Rachmaninoff. reception June 4, 7-10 p.m. 7 N. (313) 872-3118. Performing Arts Festival of Dance Workshops in fiction, poetry, screen- tion is May 14. 1221 N. Woodward, 36520 W. Twelve Mile, Farmington Saginaw. Pontiac; (248) 454-7797. CREATIVE RESOURCE FINE ART _are June 6, 1 p.m. The festival Is writing, essay, and other genres. Bloomfield Hills; (248) 645-3678. Hill?; (248) 669-0272. SUSANNE HILBERRY GALLERY GALLERY June 20-Aug. 20. 8425 West Three sessions - July 9-13: July 9-11: SPRING VOCAL MUSIC CONCERT June 4 - Works of emerging New McNichols. Detroit: (313) 927-1306. DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS July 14-18. Register by May 15. Call Through June 13 - Exhibition of June 3, 7 p.m. Vocal concert with York artist Melissa McGill through Ukrainian-born artist Anatoly Dverin. DOCUMENT USA Classes for adults, educators and (248) 645-3664. music teacher of the year Robert A. July 17. 555 South Old Woodward. 162 North Old Woodward. The Museum of Contemporary Art youth. Call for details, (313) 833- CRANBROOK WRITERS GUILD Martin, Southfield Lathrup Senir High Birmingham; (248) 642.8250. Birmingham; (248)647-3688. seeks artists to participate in an 4249. 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Sixth annual "Writers on Stage" hon School, 19301 W. 12 Mile. Lathrup . ROBERT KIDD GALLERY archival exhibit. Deadline is Aug. 1. 7 oring 100 years of Detroit women CUNNIFF STUDIO-GALLERY EISENHOWER DANCE ENSEMBLE Village; (248) 746-7294/ June 4 - Exhibition of new paintings North.Saginaw, Pontiac; (248) 334- writers. June 5. 8 p.m. Village Exhibition of Works by Henry James Classes for age 3 and up. All levels of UNISYS AFRICAN AMCRjCAN by Peter Gooch and John Michaels 6038. Players. Woodward and Chestnut. LaVergne. 11 South Broadway. Lake classes for recreational and. profes Birmingham; (248) 646-0658. and sculpture by Julius Schmidt Orion; (248) 693-3632. EISENHOWER DANCE AUDITIONS COMPOSERS' READINGS sional students, including modern, GLASS BEAD JEWELRY through June 29. Oenmg reception DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET Audition for the Eisenhower Dance Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents ballet, pointe, tap and jazz. 1541 W. WORKSHOPS June 4. 6-8 p.m. 107 Townsend. Through July 16 - "Containers of Ensemble on June 12, 1 p.m. at EDE Hamlin Road, between Crooks and the annua) Unisys African American Birmingham; (248) 642-3909. Paint Creek Center for the Arts Memory.' 300 River Place. Detroit; Center for Dance, 1541 W. Hamlin in Uvernots. Rochester Hills: (248) 852- Emerging Composer's Readings 1- LAWRENCE STREET GALLERY offers glass bead workshops through (313) 393-1770. Rochester. Call (248) 370-3024. 5850. 3:30 p.m. Sunday. May 30 at June 4 - 'Have a Cuppa" clay compe June. 407 Pine Street. Rochester; ELAINE L. JACOB GALLERY EXHIBITORS NEEDED Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward Ave.. tition incorporating a cup and saucer GEIGER CLASSIC BALLET - (248) 651-4110. "A Fair to Remember" on Oct 16-17 Detroit. Admission free, open seat theme through July 9. Opening recep Through June 4 - 'Self Portraits" by ACADEMY ' JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER at St. George Orthodox Church, 2160 ing, call (313) 576-5167 for informa tion June 4, 7-10 p.m. 6 N. Saginaw. Susanna Coffey, Daniel Leary and Newly refurbished dance studio open June 3, 7:30 p.m. lecture "Becoming East Maple, Troy is seeking tion. Reception follows readings. Pontiac: (248) 334-6716. Susan Hauptman. 480 \M. Hancock. ing for new enrollment. 782 Denison Modern: American Jewish Women in exhibitors for an arts and crafts LIVONIA ARTS COMMISSION Detroit; (313) 993-7813. Court, Bloomfield Hills. (248) 334- the 20th Century," Jimmy Prentis show. Call (248) 932-5636. June 1 - Watercolor exhibit by Marge— ELIZABETH STONE GALLERY 1300. FOR KIDS Morris Building, 15110 West Ten Masek in the Fine Arts Gallery: P.J. Through June 30 - "Tenth * FRANKLIN ARTS COUNCIL KAMMUELLER DANCE CLASSES Mile, Oak Park; (248) 967-4030. CAMP BORDERS Anniversary Celebration." featuring Applications available for artists Advanced and professional classical Freer presents mixed media works m Jhe'Farmington Hills location pre nine Michigan artists. 536 N. Ord interested in exhibition fine arts or ballet program, 9:30 a.m. Monday- - the Livonia City Hall Lobby through sents sing-a-long with 8ob Miller June ivr XJ s E u IVI s Woodv.ard. Birmingham; (248) 647- crafts at Franklin's juried "Art on the Friday; intermediate level Tuesday, June 30. 33000 Civic Center Drive. 6. 2 p.m. 30995 Orchard Lake Road; 7O40. Green," held Sept. 6. Send applica Thursday & Fridays at 11:30 a.m. CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF ART Livonia; (734) 466-2540. (248) 737-0110. FORD GALLERY ART DEPARTMENT tion and slides to: Franklin Arts 5526 W. Drake, West 8loomfield. June 4 through Aug. 13 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLAYTON ACADEMY OF DANCE Through June 30 - MFA thesis exhibi Council, P.O. Box 250683, Franklin, (248) 932-8699. "Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony June 4 - Masami Teraoka's 'The Summer school in ballet, jazz, tap, Lovers combines woodblock with pop tipns featuring Harnil Ma. 114 Ford Ml 48025. Call (248) 851-5438. METRO DANCE and Survival on the Utopian Island." hip-hop and ballroom dance. July 12- art through June 26. Opening recep Hall. Ypsilanti: (734) 487-1268. KIWANIS KAVALIERS Preschool and adult classes, 541 S. June 4, opening celebration with August 19 in Troy; ('248) 828-4080. tion June 4, 7-10 p.m. 7 North Canadian drum & bugle corps seeks Mill, Plymouth. (734) 207-8970. Latin music. 7 p.m. Concert and lec JRAINEY GAUERY EXHIBIT MUSEUM OF NATURAL Saginaw. Pontiac; (248) 334-6038 performers ages 14-21 for summer MACOMB CENTER FOR THE PER ture series throughout the summer. Through May 31 - "Icons of the HISTORY NETWORK tour. Call (416) 241-2968. FORMING ARTS 1221 N. Woodward. Bloomfield Hills. Vanguard' b> Sengor Reid. 1440 June 19-20, June 26-27, "Don't Duck. METROPOLITAN SINGERS OF Tfiree summer workshops: Drama For workshop registration and infor June 4 - "Incomplete Notebooks." Gratiot. Detroit; (313) 2592257. Look Up!" planetarium show designed SOUTHF1ELD Workshop for Youth. July 19-23. mation call (248) 645-3361. functional art created by Cranbrook ARNOLD KLEIN GALLERY for youngsters up to second grade. An adult choir of mixed voices is Register by June 25; Annual Show CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF Academy of Art alumni and students 1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor: Through June 19 - 'In Honor of looking for new singers, especially Choir Workshop, July 25-31, register SCIENCE through August 21. Opening recep (734) 764-0478. Water.' a group exhibit. 32782 men, to sing blues, pops, hit tunes by May 28: 15th Annual Piano May 29 through Sept. 6 "Scream tion June 4. 7-10 p.m. 7 North GET UP AND MOVE CAMP Woodward Avenue. Royal Oak: (248) and folk tunes. Choir meets Workshop, Aug. 1-6, register by June Machines: The Science of Roller Saginaw. Pontiac: (248) 334-3911. July 6-27 at the Southfield Centre for 647 7709. Mondays, 7:30 p.m.,"Birney Middle 1. Call (810) 286-2017. Coasters." 1221 N. Woodward. SOUTHFIELD CENTER FOR THE the Arts for children 4-10 years old. DAVID KLEIN GALLERY School vocal room. 27000 Evergreen PAINT CREEK CENTER Bloomfield Hills: 1-877 60- ARTS Tues. and Thurs. 10-11:30 a.m. Summer semester runs July 19 CRANBrook. June 1 - Group exhibition of art cre Through June 12 - Features works by Rd., Southfield. Dance, music, arts and crafts; (248) through August 20. Classes for ated by the Colored Pencil Society of Vivian Spring ford and New York "MUSIC MAN" AUDITIONS^ 661-6640. DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS preschoolers to adults. 407 Pine America through June 25. 26000 painter Philip Smith. 163 Townsend. Dinner theatre performances Oct 29- JINGLE BEL, INC. Through June 6 - Wisdom and Street, Rochester; For a brochure, Evergreen. Southfield: (248) 424- Birmingham: (248) 433-3700. 30. Auditions June 13, 12-2 p.m. Perfection: Lotus Blossoms in Asian call (248) 651-4110,. Summer camps in the performing and G.R N'NAMDI GALLERY Franklin Community Church, 26425 9022. Art; through June 27 - "Walker Evans Al Loving "Elegant Ideas." an exhibit PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY ARTS fine arts for children ages 3-12. WSU COMMUNITY ARTS GALLERY Wellington, Franklin;.(248) 626- Simple Secrets: Photographs from COUNCIL Rochester/Avon Recreation of geometric abstractions. 161 6606, voice mail #30. -^ftfne 3 - The. only U.S. showing of Authority, 1551 East Auburn Road: the Collection of Marian and Townsend^Birmingham; .2481 642- Classes & workshops for all ages. "Contemporary Japanese Crafts" "OUR TOWN" CALL FOR ARTISTS Benjamin A. Hill: 6200 Woodward 2700. (248) 375-9027. curated by Shiraishi Masami of the • Michigan artists invited to submit . Live mode! session 9:30 a.m.-noon,' Avenue. Detroit: (313) 833-7900. MUSEUM DAY CAMPS QAKLAND COUNTY GALLERIA work for jurying in the 1999 "Our every third Tuesday of the month. Tokyo National Museum of Modern The Rochester Hills Museum at Van ; Through June 18 - "Please Touch'." • Town Art Exhibit and Sale," held Oct. 774 N. Sheldon Road. For schedule, Hoosen Farm sponsors "Summer on an unasual exhibit for all your senses call (734) 416-4278. »»,JV- 13-17. All work must be submitted the Farm Day Camps" (ages 9-11) VISUAL ART ASSOCIATION OF 1200 North Telegraph. Pontiac: on slides by July 30. For application: from July 12-16 and July 26-30. and LIVONIA <248> 858-0415, The Community House, 380 S. Bates "Archaeology Day Camp" (ages 12- PARK WEST GALLERY Street, Birmingham, Ml 48009; Classes*in watercolor, figurative 15) from June 23-25. 1005 Van An'exhibition and saie of works b> (248) 594-6403 drawing and.painting: workshops in Hoosen Road, Rochester Hills: (248) Salvatore Daii. 29469 Northwestern. REVOLUTION GALLERY batik.'watercolor monotypes begin 656-4663. Seeks artists to design the gallery's ning June 1, Jefferson Center, Room Southfield: 248» 354-2343 ROYAL OAK GOES BUGGY outdoor public billboarU Proposals 16. 9501 Henry Ruff/Livonia; (734) POSA GALLERY Children's insect art show and spe"- must be received by Sept. 30. 23257 455-9517. Through June 3 - Featured artist cial events through the month of Woodward, Ferndale; (248) 541- Rose Huotan. Summit Mali. June. Downtown Royal /Oak galleries 3444. 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Choir, Ann Arbor Youth Chorale, tion with Plymouth-Canton ager Betsy Mullally at (24«) 380- CHILDREN'S THEATER and the Boychoir of Ann Arbor. Community Education and the 3145 for tickets, or information The Southeast Michigan Arts Soloists include soprano Julia arts council. The cost is $4, regis on the other fund-raising activi Conservatory presents their The Bruxholm, alto Sally Carpenter, tration is required. ties. atre Performance Ensemble in tenor Robert Bracey, and bass- Make your own personalized The groups will also receive 5- "Jack and the Beanstalk* Fri baritone Stephen Bryant. outdoor stepping stones (at least percent of your total purchase at days-Sundays, June 4-6 and 11- As an 80th birthday present to three) with ceramic tile pieces Busch's food Mores in Livonia . 13 at 5701 N. Canton Center and Donald Bryant in 1998, John and cement 12:30-4:30 p.m. Sat and Plymouth 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Maben Road, Canton. Hours are and Cheryl MacKrell commis urday, June 19. Students will Saturday, June 6. When you've 7 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, and 2 sioned him to compose a break the tiles, design a mosaic, completed your shopping bring p.m. and 4 p.m. Sundays. Tickets requiem. Written for the moth mix cement and pour into a rect your receipt to the SCool are $6, $5 for conservatory stu ers of Donald and Lela Bryant angular form. Additional embel JAzz/PRirhe box in Busch's cafe '. dents or groups of 10 or more. and the MacKrells, the work lishments in the wet cement are area. ' For information or to reserve combines the Latin text of.the possible. If students have mate To supplement the college's tickets, call (734) 453-7590, ext. Mass for the Dead and an rials (marbles, shells, ceramic support, the musicians are also 200. English libretto provided by tiles, etc.) to incorporate, please selling their CDs and cassette A representative of DK Pub Bryant's eldest son Travis. The bring it. Wear old clothes and tapes, "From Russia With Jazz," lishing will offer a selection of composition celebrates the mem gloves. Bring kneepads if you for $15, $10 tapes. books for all ages before and Heat of Passion: Cheryl Conlin brings her paintings to ory of family and the cycle of life. have them. The cost is $46, all VOLUNTEER OfPORTUMfTY after each performance. Art on the Avenue. , Bryant is director emeritus of materials provided. The Detroit Institute of Arts is the University Musical Society's For information about either ART ON THE AVENUE looking for Gallery Service vol Choral Union which is led for 20 Redford Township artist art activity, call the arts council unteers to greet and assist visi- . years. Cheryl Conlin has been painting at (734)416-4278. tors in the museum galleries. up a storm since January. She. show last October at the Wyland mandant's Q-uarters. 21950 OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN FUND-fiAlSING ACTIVITIES Make a difference in assuring brings her 45 new paintings to Gallery in Birmingham. Michigan Avenue. The Plymouth Community SCool JAzz and PRime, the galleries remain open during Art on the Avenue 10 a.m. to 6 In addition to 120 artists, the Arts Council is offering botanical Schoolcraft College's vocal jazz museum hours. Afternoon week- ' p.m. Saturday, June 5 and 11 WORLD PREMIERE imagery lecture and a garden groups, are trying to raise end volunteers are especially : Art on the Avenue features Donald Bryant's new a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 5 in stepping stone workshop in June $14,000 for their performances needed. entertainment and a display of "Requiem for Our Mothers" will Dearborn's West Village on Mon at the Joanne Winkleman Hulce at the Montreaux Jazz Festival The next training session is classic cars by the Ford-Mercury be performed 7:30 p.m. Satur roe between Michigan Avenue Center for the Arts, 774 N. Shel in Switzerland, and the North 1:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 5, Restorers Club. For more infor day, June 5 at the Chapel of and Garrison. * mation, call (313) 943-3095. don at Junction. Plymouth. Sea Jazz Festival and World in the Holley Room at the • Holy Trinity, Concordia College, Detroit Institute of Arts docent Choral Symposium in The Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Conlin's paintings range from Children can create their own 4090 Geddes Road, Ann Arbor. Surrealism to Impressionism. Linda Wells discusses how and Netherlands in July. Woodward Avenue. art or have their face painted in Tickets are $25 reserved, $10 She had her first one-woman an activities area near the Com- why artists chose to incorporate The groups perform at the For more information, call ; general admission, $5 students. plants in the images they creat- "Summer Music Shakedown" (313)833-0247. Poison singer happy to be back with group BV CHRISTINA FUOCO explained. Poison, best known to go get sober and clean." Michaels expects that a new STAFF WRITER for its hits "Every Rose Has Its Deville did just that. Instead Poison record will be out in early [email protected] Thorn" and "Talk Dirty to Me," of releasing "Crack a Smile," 2000. Right now, Poison is con Poison lead singer Bret "never ever broke up." Poison's former label. Capitol centrating on touring. Michaels can't express how "excit "What we did was. at the end Records, opted to put out "Great "It's really our 'Nothing But a ed he is to be back on tour with of '92. we went our separate est Hits 1986-1996," an album Good Time' tour for us. There's his band's core line-up. ways. We had just been doing it that eventually turned gold, sell no pressure. It's simply going out "I said this before and I'll say way too long," he said of the two- ing more than 500,OQO copies. to tour to have a great time, to it again. I am totally psyched," year tour. Michaels doesn't seem too both write songs, and to just get Michaels said. The most impor Two years ago. Poison ered about the shelving of together and play." tant reason is having C.C. back reformed with guitarist BJues- "Crack a Smile." Poison, Ratt. Great White and in the band along with Rikki and Saraceno, who replaced axemen "Once C.C. wanted to come L.A. Guns perform at 6 p.m. Bobby. It just feels right. Rikki. Richie Kotzen and Deville. to back in the band and work Sunday. May 30, at Pine Knob Bobby and myself have grown up record "Crack a Smile." During everything out, we knew that ^fusic Theatre, 1-75 and together since we were in junior the recording process, tragedy that was the right thing for us to Sashabaw Road. Independence high. ... It's just such a great struck, bringing Deville and do. We wrote some new stuff and Township. Tickets are $20 pavil feeling having C.C. back and Michaels together. it really sounds great." ion, $12.50 lawn for the all-ages have him coming back clean and "I got in a car wreck, a pretty show. Call (248) 377-0100. sober." severe car wreck. 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If your Cool and collected: The Sharper Image's dad is typical, you'll probably be get Palm V electronic organizer fits in the palm ting him something he would never of your hand and tracks schedules, to-do buy for himself, and that's a good thing. Does he have a money clip? lists, e-mail messages and more, $449. How about one of those fine writing instrumen£s~(code words for pens over $50), or a new tie tack for all those ties you've given him? What about a - High-tech new watch? They're a great gift for dads since they have gadget appeal but are, essentially, jewelry. For a spe cial touch, choose something you can have engraved. Dad might be more gadgets sentimental than he lets on. If those ideas don't appeal to you, stop by your jewelers and poke around a little bit. Chances are, the sales clerks will have a slew of Father's Day gift possi bilities to show you. enhance Shower power: For singing in the shower, the CD Shower Companion has an Dear Jewelry Lady, AM/FM radio with 10 preset buttons as well as a waterproof compact disc play Cartier put out a cigar-band ring er, $189 with a $9.95 optional AC adapter, The Sharper Image, The Somerset Col approximately 20 years ago. Would college days lection in Troy. you know where I could purchase one in this area? Cigar Aficionado BY LARRY RUEHLEN two AA batteries. beamed to other Palm platform searched by keyword or date. STAFF WRITER Sharper Image also offers a way for devices using the unit's infra-red port. Available at major retail computer For parents of children who like hi- students to organize their schedules, Another nifty gadget for students stores including Staples and Comp Dear Cigar Aficionado, tech gadgets, graduation gift ideas addresses, to-do-lists, expense comes from A. T. Cross Pens, which USA, the CrossPad retails for about With all the new smoke shops abound. accounts and e-mail messages. The recently introduced the first portable $299. around town and plethora of cigar To begin with, what college-bound device, which fits in the palm of the digital notepad. For students who like to sing in the smoking these days, you would think student wouldn't like a wireless hand, is called the Palm V and retails The CrossPad bridges the gap shower, Sharper Image suggests their The Jewelry Lady would have the phone with distinctive style. Nokia for $449. The sleek, battery-operated between paper and personal computer new waterproof compact disc player answer at her fingertips. But, alas, has teamed up with AirTouch Cellu organizer also allows students to by allowing users to write in ink on a with AM/FM radio. her search was to no avail. Worse yet, lar to offer phones in radical colors for exchange information with home per standard pad and then' upload hand The CD Shower Companion runs on jewelers at Cartier at The Somerset students." ' sonal computers. written notes directly on to a comput four G batteries in the shower or with Collection informed her there was no Each lightweight model has 75 An optional modem, for $169, adds er. a $9.95 optional AC adapter. It comes such ring currently available. On the memory locations, up to 2 hours and e-mail capabilities. The Palm V's re Once transferred to a computer, with a countertop stand and hanging other hand, Cartier would be delight 45 minutes of talking time or 40 chargeable batteries last up to a handwritten notes can be filed, reor hooks and a wall-mount bracket for ed to special order the ring. (The Jew hours of standby time, dedicated voice month, and information can also be- ganized, faxed, e-mail^ #nd even the shower. elry'Lady's search, including one on mail key for one-touch retrieval and Radio features include 10 preset the Internet, also failed to yield infor caller identification capabilities. buttons and the ability to play broad mation .about finding a similar ring. Retail price of the phones is $129, but cast television stations. The retail So, if there are jewelers out there who Air Touch often runs promotions that price is $189. can help the Cigar Aficionado, please are tied to service contracts so inter Small dorm rooms often prevent contact The Jewelry Lady.) ested parties should call 1-800-AIR- students from taking their hpme TOUCH to find the best deal. stereos with them to college. But most students simply want something that Dear Jewelry Lady, The Sharper Image at The Somer set Collection in Troy has several sounds good, is compact and looks like I have some costume jewelry that is high-tech products well-suited for it belongs in the next millennium. older than me, 39, and I would like to high school graduates who plan to Fisher has come up with such a find out its worth, and where to sell continue their studies. product, the Fisher Slim Stereo, it I also have pieces of religious jew Just about every college-bound stu which is available for $199 at Sharper elry that I would be interested in hav dent should have, for example, a capa Image. Only 19 inches wide, 14 inches ing appraised. Can you help? ble micro-cassette recorder. Sharper high and 3 inches thick, the stereo Faux but Beautiful Image offers a Sony version for $75. It mounts on a wall, looks good and is/equipped with an especially sensi delivers quality CD and AM/FM radio tive, voice-activated microphone sound. Dear Faux, capable of capturing lectures from Cellular style: Lightweight, sleek and colorful, these cellular It also has a SUREWAKE alarm, Costume jewelry is an entirely dif long distances for up to 19 hours on phones by Nokia and AirTouch Cellular retail for $129. which is designed to rouse even the ferent animal than fine jewelry, and sleepiest student in time for exams. The Jewelry Lady is not as knowl edgeable about it as she is about fine and precious baubles. However, she does know that unless costume jewel- Somerset hosts first Art With A Heart event 1-y has antique or collectible value, it won't be worth much. Most antique The Somerset Collection in Troy was built for shop tal of Michigan. raised money to have a tree planted in Israel in dealers buy and sell it - how else ping, but it's about to become an art gallery, too. Among local students who submitted artwork are honor of Haley's father. Although Haley has difficulty would they get new stock? - and there Art work created by more than 150 children from 11-year-old Birmingham student Courtney Young. talking about her loss, her painting of a giH sitting are several antique dealers in the 65 metropolitan Detroit schools will be displayed and Courtney's mother and brother stayed at a Ronald underneath a newly planted tree is clearly an expres metropolitan Detroit area. Visit at available for purchase through a silent auction June McDonald House in Minneapolis when their brother sion of her feelings. least three dealers for an appraisal. 5 and 6 at the Somerset Collection North to benefit was undergoing treatment for a serious illness. Their Art With A Heart will culminate in a free, carnival- They may offer to buy your jewelry or the Ronald McDonald House of Detroit. sibling did not survive, and, since Courtney was style celebration from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. June 6 in the to sell it oft consignment. If your reli The mall's first Art With A Heart event recognizes never able to meet her uncle, she decided to create a North Grand Court of The Somerset Collection. • gious jewelry is 14K gold, go through the 20th anniversary of the Ronald McDonald House painting for Art With A Heart in his honor. Also, three pieces from the art exhibit have been the same process with jewelry stores of Detroit, a home away from home for families of Walled Lake Elementary School student Haley selected for reproduction on an outdoor mural at the that carry estate jewelry. -«? sick children. About 1,000 families annually stay at Mitchell, who recently lost her father, also conveyed Ronald McDonald House. the house on Beaubien Street near Children's Hospi personal feelings in her painting. Haley's classmates -By Special Editor Nicole Stafford • Consider pink jewelry, too Retail, style and special store events are listed available, 11 a.m.-5 p,m, Cosmetic's Department. For Think pink, says The Jewelry Lady. in this calendar. Please send information to: Malls & an appointment, call (248) 644-6900. Basic black is boring, especially com Mainstreets, c/o Observer & Eccentric Newspapers, ADDED ATTRACTIONS LINDA MMMAN APPEARANCE pared to the colorful pastels making 805 East Maple, Birmingham, MI 48009. Fax: (248) Meet jewelry designer Linda Bergman and view her their way down fashion runways this 644-1314. Information must be received by 5 p.m. View Armani's Fall/Winter 1999 collection for latest collection, featuring Tahitian, South Sea and season. Pink gems, like pink tourma Monday for publication the following Sunday. cultuTed pearls at Neiman Marcus, The Somerset line and pink pearls, are in vogue this TUESDAY, JUNE 1 women at Neimah Marcus, The Somerset Collection in Troy, 10 a.m.-4.p.m. with informal modeling 11 Collection in Troy, 11 a.m.^ p.m., Designer Jewelry, season but so is, you guessed it, pink •Hi MAM FOR FALL first floor. gold. Generally called rose gold in the a.m.-3 p.m., Galleria, third floor The Fall 1999 special order collection of Bill Blass FRIDAY,JUNE 4 SATURDAY, JUNE 5 United States, pink gold is quite pop will be presented at Saks Fifth Avenue, The Somer ular in Europe, but growing in popu JINNE MAAft TRUNK SHOW tOCKHOP set Collection in Troy, through June 2,10 a.m.-5 Wonderland Mall in Livonia holds a sock hop with larity as a precious metal of choice p.m., Designer Salon, second floor. Scott Gregory, 6525 Telegraph Road in Bloomfield here. 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That's the beauty of small (for wet landings), red parka, sand lives in Rochester Hills.) cruise ship travel. waterproof pantB, sunblock, life When we came back inside, vests and other assorted winter BY CHRIS LliXESAND our free red parkas were dis gear and went to the Zodiac SPECIAL WRITER tributed. Red is easy to see loading site. The Zodiacs arrived Dec. 19: It was 64 degrees in against the landscape so our on the beach and deposited us Detroit. Hardly felt like Christ expedition staff can keep track of into the wondrous world of Gen- mas was coming! I headed for the wanderers. Even though it too, Macaroni and Chinstrap Detroit Metro for my 3-hour is the austral summer, tempera penguins. They were every flight to Miami. I was met at the tures are expected to be 30-40 where. : I,didn't know where to gate by a Clipper Cruise Line degrees and there is always a point the cameras (video and representative and directed to a ' wind-chill. regular)! I hoped my 36 rolls of courtesy lounge with refresh The captain had a Christmas film would be enough (it was). ments until my 8-houj\Ameriean Ev'e welcome dinner, which The penguins were nesting for Airlines flight to_ Buenos Aires, " allowed us to get dressed up in the most part. Some "chicks had Argentina. our Christmas finest. been born; some were still in Dec. 20: We landed about In the evening, we watched their eggs. The harsh reality of. Adorable couple: Chin- the first two parts of the BBC nature came to light when we A ptillly dtyi Chris Lillesand, in pink swimsuit, and her 10:45 AM and boarded buses for crui^rnci^^einjpy a Christmas Day swim in heated the hotel. The English-speaking strap penguins get their series "Life in the Freezer," com learned that the penguin chicks: r: i; guides gave us an OverView tour name from a little black plete with popcorn. that weren't born within the! water&~?M^'' ' ' of the city as we drove. line that runs under their Dec. 25, Christmas Day: We week were not going to survive. , The official city tour was in the chin. are finally in the Antarctica. Chinstrap penguins are very afternoon. Sundays are pretty The Antarctica peninsula where •, abundant in this area and breed and reach 12-15 feet long. Their hot, I mean hot. I had water quiet in Buenos Aires so we were we spend the majority of eur farther north than the rest of the blubber is at least jB.inches thick. shoes on and I stepped too far able to tour around without through the Plexiglas partition time used to be an extension of penguins. The Ghinstraps are so /When they crawl, you can see into the hot water and it was much traffic. at Ushuaia Airport. They were the Andes Mountains! Scien named because of the little black the ripples of blubber; the whole scalding. . We found the right all making rolling wave motions tists have found fossils 200 mil line that runs under their chins,' length of their bodies. spot to sit and gently swirled the Dec. 21:. We drove.to Susan like a chinstrap. nah ranch. The owners were with their arms while laughing lion years old which/lends When we got back to the Clip waters together to form a quite very welcoming as we toured uncontrollably. It wasn't clear to weight to the theory that Aus The Gentobs are identified by per, we cleaned up for our lovely spa scenario. I truly their Estancia (home), admired me what their actions meant tralia, Africa, South America, the white patch on their heads Christmas brunch. expected to have a blue body their 50 horses, watched their until around 10 p.m. as we India, New Zealand, and Antarc and their brigjht coral bill. Pen . The captain moved the Clipper from .the cold and chattering equestrian skills during carre'ra entered the Drake Passage. I tica once made up a single land- guin diets are 50 percent krill. down four miles, While we were teeth during and after this expe de sortijas (a gaucho h,orse dis will just summarize that portion mass referred to as Gondwana , and 50 percent fish. The four eating our cookies, to Pendulum rience, but I never felt cold! The play where two teams gallop at of the trip this way. Take plenty land. Ten million years later, Macaroni penguins that we saw Cove, still on Deception Island. water was lovely. I would say full tilt, under a goal post, and of anti-motion medication and Gondwanaland began breaking were actually out of their natu-- Actually, the harbor is the col about 20 people got in, guys and try to pass a pin through a small don't look out the window. up into the continents and ral element. They weren't sup lapsed cone of the volcano. girls, and actually sat and com ring hanging from the arch), and Dec. 23: A lost day in bed. islands that we recognize today. posed to be this far south; but There used to be a Chilean muned for quite a while! Clipper ate their authentic Argentinean Dec.24: Finally! Normalcy. I The Drake Passage opened, and lucky for lis they were. Maca research station here but the vol provided us with towels and delicacies, .. made it upstairs for the lecture Antarctica became its own conti ronies weigh about 8.8 pounds. cano destroyed "it in 1967. We when we returned to the Clipper, nent. Forty five million years hot apple cider was waiting for " Dec. 22: We were up bright on Antarctica explorers and mar As we walked along the rocky came here to do what Jason veled at their fortitude. Here I ago, Antarctica began to cool terrain, we were careful to (expedition staff) ca.lls STTTD us. Those brave souls who swam and early for our flight to Ushua- dramatically. got a Clipper diploma. ia, the worlds southern most was on a cruise ship and I could adhere to the 15-foot rule. We (stupid touristy things to do). It city. After a rainy tour of the hardly stand! The Captain soon The Antarctica Treaty governs weren't, if possible, to come with has become*a tourist tradition to The Clipper crew provided us Rational Park, we embarked the announced the sighting of fin the Antarctica. This treaty in 15 feet of the penguins. If don one's swimming suit and sit with the most wonderful home Clipper Adventurer. Our back whales (also known as states that the land can only be they, however, decided to come in the Antarctica waters in that spun Christmas show after din thoughts went back to the previ razorback whales. The second used for peaceful purposes, it near us, it was OK. And many smalKdefined_area where the hot ner. What a unique way to ous passengers that we had seen largest whale, these were about can't be claimed by any country, did. What a thrill that was. ' - meets the cold.' And when I say spend the holidays. scientific research can take place Farther down our path we but-is^under the auspices of each could hear the most amazing Hub of activi respective government, nuclear cacophony of sounds, like musi ty: Some Tell us about your Up North explosions can not occur, and the cal belchifig. A group of ele treaty will be reviewed in 30 phant seals were grouped togeth Gentoo pen Every summer, regular as the season's turn, residents of south years. That time frame has er, sunbathing. They are like guins sing east Michigan head Up North for recreation, relaxation and inspi occurred (1991), and the treaty pack animals, trying to keep ration. --' v^y* while others has been renewed. Some coun warm and commune with each nest We'd like to know where you go when you go Up North. Tell us tries claim to have ownership, other. One of our lecturers about your favorite Up North spot. Is it a beach house on Lake but it's not true, nor valid.. called them blubber seals and it •^•••#^~>. Michigan, a resort around Traverse City, a cabin in the deep was easy to see, why. -Elephant woods, a river cottage near Lake Huron, a bed and breakfast on Antarctica's winter population is around 1,200 people; abo'ut a .seals are the world's largest seal; Mackinac Jsland or a hideaway in the UP? Do you enjoy boating The bulls can weigh up to 3 tons on the Great Lakes", golfing on the designer courses, hiking the third are scientists and the rest rugged trails, biking the back roads, antique hunting, fudge eat are support personnel. 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Editor 734 953 2123, demons "Oc.homecomm.hot on the woh: http , observer eccentric.com Sunday May 30. 1999 Third goal: Livo OBSERVER nia Stevenson's Julie Murray SPORTS (right) finds the SCENE mark against Livonia Churchill sophomore goal Kithas becomes Titan keeper Jennifer j AU-Observer first-team forward Gabon with just George Kithas, who scored 27 goals eight seconds left and added eight assists last season in the first half to for Livonia Churchill, has signed a NCAA letter-of-intent to play men's give the Spartans soccer at the University of Detroit- a 3-0 advantage. Mercy. The two teams Kithas, who had 40 career goals played a scoreless and 19 assists, is now of five fresh second half as men to sign with the Titans. Stevenson The All-Stater will be joned by mid fielders Aaron Byrd (Bloomfield Hills advanced to the Lahser),and Kyle Presley (Kalamazoo regional with a 3- Central), along with defenders Rich 0 district final tri Brown (Anchor Bay) and Joe Iding umph. [Lansing Catholic Central). Titan "coach Morris Lupeneo also added midfielder-defender Jordan Schwager of Brampton, Ontario May- field, a transfer from Grand View (Iowa) College. "This is* one of the best recruiting classes we've had," Lupenec said. Theyjmprove our team at every posi tion. STAJT PHOTO BY BRYAN MITCHELL "With these new players joining, With what we have coming back, I expect our team to be back among the thallengers in the MCC (Midwestern Collegiate Conference) this season." Spartans win 4th district in row Youth soccer champions BYBRADEMONS reboun'd with just under two minutes Kimble said. "Cheryl has shut down SPORTS WRITER • GIRLS SOCCER to play. some of the state's best players — The under-10 Michigan. Hawks, [email protected] Senior Julie Murray then made it 3-0 Anne Morrell (Plymouth Canton), coached by Michele Brach, won four The back of one T-shirt said: "One able to get into our game plan fortu with just eight seconds left off a corner Brigid Bowdell (Northville) and now straight games to captured the under- kick after Phillips stopped the first Conklin. She thrives on the challenge. 11 girls divison at the Midland Moth more time in '99." nately." And the way two-time defending shot from crossing the line. "It frees up Andrea, who is solid as a ers Day Tournament The Spartans first goal was scored by "During a five or six-minute span we rock, in the back to play our system. state champion Livonia Stevenson per sophomore Dana White off a corner The Hawks defeated the Perrys- didn't work our hardest and it cost us," "Our second goal was to put pressure burg, Ohio Yellow Jackets, 2-0, in the formed in Friday's Division I district kick from senior captain Sarah Wit- girls .soccer final, the Spartans are far Campau said. "Otherwise we did a on their backs and we felt if we did championship final after outscoring trock. pretty good job of limiting their oppor their first three opponents by a com from ready to relinquish their crown. that, we'd have opportunities to score." "We've talked and talked about cor tunities. But Stevenson is a team that Although Gusick is still recovering bined 14-1. The Spartans improved to 12-4-1 ner kicks all year," Churchill coach is phenomenal shape. And with their- Members of the Hawks, who also overall with a 3-0 triumph over rival from a sore ankle, the Spartans don't Chad Campau said. "We lost to constant movement together, they're a lose much up front. captured the Sportsmanship Award Livonia Churchill in a match played Brighton on three corner kicks (3-2). tough team to beat." out of a possible 96 teamSj.include: under the warm afternoon sun at Livo "Even with Gusick banged up, she's The goal early is deflating, but off a Churchill, which bowed out at 9-6-1 still dangerous," Kimble said. "Megan Ashleigh Green, Qaitlin Murnahan, nia Franklin. corner kick it makes it even worse." Kelly Potfora, Rachel Bemman, Sh£y\ overall, didn't put many shots on Urbatshas been workhorsafor us the All three goals came in the first half, Churchill settled down after White's Stevenson goalkeeper Lesley Hooker. last three weeks. She just has a sound, Mannino, Keilie Walker, Katie one in the second minute of action and goal, but the Chargers found them Roberts, Jessica Barndt, Stephanie The Chargers' best chance at scoring hard-working game. theother two duMrig the final 1:09. selves on their heels. •'•"••• ' ' • •__ a* goal came in the waning seconds of "And with Fox and Sied back there, Crawford, Kelly Corless, Katie . *We wanted to try and get back to Sophomore goalkeeper Jennifer Trentacosta, Katie Walker/Nina the game when Melissa Sultana's shot and everybody else filling in their roles, where we've been the last two years, Gabon, who stopped several point- rang off the crossbar. this team still believes it can still make Doigan, Emily Esbrook and Kylie which is to be a sound team defensively Mitchell. blank shots, and freshman defender Otherwise, Stevenson's defense bot a run." and get on top of teams early," said Sarah Phillips, who'stopped four balls tled up the high-scoring Kersten Con- Stevenson now advances to Tues Stevenson coach Jim Kimble, who cra from going in herself, helped keep klin, who has 19 goals the Chargers. day's South Lyon regional where they Bartnick earns berth dled his fourth district championship Stevenson off the board until sopho "We had Cheryl Fox marking Con- will face the Dearborn district champ trophy in a row. "And today we were more Lindsay Gusick rammed home a klin and we let Andrea Sied sweep," Livonia Stevenson High freshman at 5:30 p.m. Matt Bartnick shot 75 to earn third place for Boys 15-16 in the Junior World Golf Cup regional tournament . May 22 at The Falls Golf Club in St. Louis, Mo. Ladywood run ends, 3-0 Bartnick earned one of three berths in the 36-player field, advancing June 29-30 for the U.S. Junior Golf Cup DIVISION II DISTRICT net -finals, a two-day event at the Palms Course at Disney World in Lake BYDANO'MEARA Buena Vista, Fla. STAFF WRITER The top finishers at Disney will rep [email protected] resent the U.S. against England at famed St. Andrew's in Scotland. Friday was the last-day of school for Farmington High seniors, but Jamie Jakacki saw to it her prep career didn't • GIRLS TRACK Domke-Kionka honorees end entirely. Jakacki scored a pair of goals- and BYC.J. RISAK Sharron Ryan and David Teets, helped extend Farmington's soccer sea SroRTSWMTEH both of Westland John Glenn, have son later Friday with a 3-0 victory over cjri4akOoe.homecomm.net been selected to receive the Irma host Livonia Ladywood in a girls dis-„ It's really not out of the ordi Kionka-Don Domke Summer Sports trict tournament final. Camp Scholarship. nary. Nothing too surprising; The Falcons (9-7-1), who won their Ryan, who competes' in track and Livonia Stevenson was the bet first district championship in 10 years, ter girls track team at the Class cross country, and Teets, who com advance to the. Division II regional at petes in track, cross country and A state regional. Plymouth Salem Ladywood and will play the Trenton- ruled the Western Lakes Activi wrestling, will each receive the maxi Gibraltar Carlson winner at 5:30 p.m. mum amount of $250 apiece. ties Association championships. Wednesday. ' Last season, the story was The scholarship is in memory of "I think everybody played as team Kiqnka, a life-l^ng supporter of nearly identical. The Spartans today; we were all together as one, won the regional, Salem won the women's athletics and former teacher said Jakacki, one of only four Seniors at Wayne and John Glenn high 4eaguev-Th* en ly-difJerence. this.. on the Farmington team. "Everybody season: The Rocks beat Stevenson schools, and Domke, former coach, was having a good game. athletic director and teacher at both in their dual meet. schools who left a legacy of promoting "Today was the last day of school, One surprise from Wednesday's educational athletics. and we had a big awards ceremony. meet, co-hbsted by Salem and Being a senior is really motivation, Plymouth Canton, was the point The scholarship, which also goes to because you know it's probably the last totals-: The Rocks won rather easi two Wayne High athletes, is a contin time and you want to make the most of ly, piling-up 140.5 points to run uing award to assist Wayne-Westland it." ner-up Stevenson's 108. Last sea girls and boys in their quest to be the port, the meet was decided by just very best they can be. The Falcons took charge of the game at the start and controlled the ball in two points. the Ladywood end for most of the first Walled Lake Western was a half, outshooting the Blazers (5-12-1) distant third (74.6), with West- Livonia Y soccer signup in the first 40 minutes, 8-1. land John Glenn fourth {69) and At 8:3fiLa.m. Tuesday, June 1, the Farmington held the scoreboard Walled Lake Central fifth (65).. Livonia Family YMCA begins open advantage, too, after Jakacki scored See statistical summary C3. registration for its fall 1999 and her first goal 9:40 into the game. "I thinkit was a combination of spring 2000 soccer leagues. Her initial shot was blocked by Lady two', things," said Salem coach Tepms are available for girls and. wood goalie Liz Obrecht. But the Mark Gregor after his team had boys of all abilities with birthdates rebound rolled left in front of the goal, collected tit* third-straight WLAA Aug. 1, 1984 through July 31, 1996 (3 and Jakacki followed up.by putting the title, and fifth in eight years."No. to 16). ball in the open net. i is, the athletes who really Fees range from $55 to $95 depend, "I was determined it was going to go extend themselves in the regional ing on membership and age groups. in," Jakacki said. have a hard time coming back in All age groups fill up quickly. Regis The Falcons had several other another big meet:a few dayu later. ter early to guarantee a spot. chances before the Blazers got their I think that's what happened to For more information, call (734) first shot'on goal with 8:50 remaining. Stevenson, 261-2161, Ext, 3324 or 3309. Ladywood finally had Farmington on .'•••"We experienced that two years the defensive for a short time, but ago. We won the regional, then To submit items for the Observer Farmington turned the play the other STAIt PHOTO It BlU BUtMJH we really struggled at the league Sports Scene, write to: Brad jSmons, way and took a 2-0 halftinie lead with meet. We were fortunate then 36261 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia, Mi. Jakacki's second goal. Valued possession: Livonia Lady wood's Jennie Bartkowiak (left) that we had enough depth to pull 48160; or send via fax to (734) 691- With two defenders on her and and Farmington's Kara Tiveadey battle for the ball during Fri 1 P)e«.e*>«wUA*ttU>3 7279. i day's Division II girls district championship. wmmmmmmmm+mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Please see WiTTOCT FINAL, D2 ( ~~?*m**»wmMmmmmmmmmm 02(&W) The Observer & Eccentric/ SUNDAY, MAY 30,1999 District soccer final from page Dl Obrecht rushing toward the said. "We weren't marking up "They changed a few things make a good run in the tourna the very end when it was obvi play, Jakacki chipped a hard, well, and they were beating us at halftime and moved around ment after losing 1-0 in over ous all they had a chance for sliding shot upward into the net totheball. some of their star players," time to eventual state champi was one goal. They're & good, with 5:38 left in the half. "We stepped up our game Farmington coach Bob Neff on Birmingham Groves in a dis hard-working team." Beth Kolacki gave the Fal after halftime. We settled down said. "That caused some differ trict final last year, had to play Logsdon echoed those words cons a 3-0 lead when she scored and smarted to play our game. ences in the way we matched well to overcome the Blazers, and is looking forward to the just 1:06 before the half ended. We just couldn't get the ball in up, but we were able to handle according to Neff, 2000 season. Farmington had a 3-on-2 the back of the net. it." "t was very pleased with the "We improved throughout the breakout with Emilie Ville- "Farmington is a good team. The Falcons didn't relax and kids' performance, and we'll see year," she saiid, "and I think monte (two assists), whose drib* They came out and did what settle back into a defensive what happens," he said. "Lady- next year we'll be a team to bling and passing from the mid- they had to do, and they took mode in the second half, howev wood is a very good team, and watch out for because we're field enabled the Falcons to advantage of our weaknesses," er.' we had to work hard to keep such a young team." control the ball, Jakacki and The second half was not only "We didn't change our offen control. •QABRIEL RICHARD 6, LUTHERAN Kolacki. scoreless but much more even. sive or defensive thinking," Neff "If we had gone out there and WE8TUNO 0; Emily Wilkinson scored Kolacki passed to Villemonte The Falcons had just one more said. "The kids were getting a not played hard, we could very two goals and assisted on two others ; r ^mmm^^m^j in the middle; Villemonte sent shot on goal, 4-3, but the Blaz little dry-mouthed because of easily have lost to them. The Thursday to lead Rlverview Gabriel :Mm'm^$fo*--i*&l the ball back to Kolacki on the ers stayed on the attack a lot the heat, so we were moving kids were up for it, and we're Richard into the division HI District 36 >" tend un>wittj«) #e» t^:3 wttft a right wing, and Kolacki's shot longer than the first half. people in and out to keep them very happy we were able to pull soccer finals. /•iwecxwitf;.,^:.^ •y-v'.x.^i •.• found the mark.*. Farmington junior goalie hydrated. But we didn't change it off. Lutheran Westland bowed out at 6- '•• •: tMtViMpito .••/* $f&*:* "We came out playing flat," Dana Wantin earned her sev our style of play." "Ladywood did not drop back 10-1 overall. Richard will play Allen Ladywood coach Jill Logsdon enth shutout of the season. The Falcons, who hope to or give up at any time, even at Park Cabrini in Saturday's title game. STATE OF MICHIGAN SPORTS ROUNDUP DEPARTMENT OF ENVIBtONMENTAL QUALITY PO BOX 30204 WAYNE STATE TRACK RECRUITS mouth Salem, Josh Burt of Livo Chicago. Holt; and Emily Valade of LANSING, MICHIGAN 48909 Wayne State University has nia Frankin and Joe Verellen of The Hawks, coached by Jim Brighton. ^ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING announced its list of high school Livonia Stevenson. *. Kimble and Amy Richters, went TENNIS FREE FOR ALL TAKE NOTICE, that the Land and Water Management Division of the athletes who have accepted ath 3-0-1 in the May 15-16 event and The Livonia Parks and Recre Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will hold a public hearing HAWKS WIN NIKE PREMIER CUP earned a trip to the Women's on Tuesday, June 15, 1999 at 7:00 p.m. at the Livonia Civic Center Library letic scholarships and signed The 1985 Michigan Hawks ation Department will be offer Meeting, Rooms A & B, 32777 Five Mile Road, Livonia, Michigan. The national letters of intent to run Global National Championship ing free 90-minute group lessois Under-14 team won the Nike in early June in Portland, Ore. purpose of this hearing is to secure the views of interested persons cross country for the school. for all ages and levels beginning concerning the following application for permit: .Premier Cup with a 1-0 victory That event features four United at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, June 19. Application for permit 99-10-0137 under Part 303, Wetland Included are three Observer- May 16 over the Busch Soccer States teams plus one each from A trio of two-week tennis Protection, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Act, 1994 land athletes: Nick Alien of Ply Club of St. Louis in suburban Canada, the United Kingdom, lessons (ages 6 and up), Monday PA 451, as amended, by Phoenix Land Development Corp, 3200 South Africa and Europe. through Thursday, are alio Northwestern Highway, Suite 146, Farmington Hills, Michigan, The Hawks took the Nike Pre available. Times and levels vary, 48334, to place approximately 36,00 cubic yards of clean, inert fill UAfi GOLRAND material in 6.66 acres of palustrihe forested and scrub-shrub habitat mier Cup with a 2-0 victory over while enrollment is limited. disturbed wetland area. The purpose of the project is for the "flWll Pf.MNOHRNO€ the-WinoY City Pride, a 2-1 win Regster at the Parks ar.d construction of a planned neighborhood community consisting of maai mm mm* $^m mmr i" ^m mm «H over the Milwaukee Kickers and Recreation office, 33000 Civic 1 9.55 acres of commercial and specialty retail and 11.85 acres of Gitp & Save _ NOW WITH a scoreless tie against Busch. Center Drive. . residential town homes. Four sites have been examined for $1.50 OFF XT I "ALL NEW LOOK" A corner kick from Lindsay For more information-, call migration potential. The project is located in TlS, R9E, Section 27, Sandtrap and f (734) 466-2410. City of Livonia, Wayne Gounty, Michigan. BUCKET OF BALLS ' Chipping Green Walker of Birmingham that was •Notjood with any other offer } The application may be reviewed in the Land and Water Management headed in by Katelin Spencer of IN-LINE HOCKEY CAMP i | 5MH* Brighton was the lone score of Division, DEQ, SE MI District, 38980 Seven Mile, Livonia, Michigan 48152, s 453-7280 The Livonia Parks and Recre 1 | N.TtirHorM g the final game. during normal office hours. The public hearing record will remain open for 5994 Gottradaon Rd ation-Department will offer 15 days alter the public hearing date. Any written comments to be iwzTi NA OPEN 7 DAYS. The U-14 Hawks have won three different future star in-line submitted for the public hearing record must be received at this address on £ I'ExlMS < K -1 three tournaments this year and roller hockey camps beginning or before the close of the record. Hi are the reigning state champions Monday, July 12. The hearing will be held pursuant to Section 30307 of the cited statute. The in Premier soccer. Enroll now because class size hearing will not be a court-type proceeding; witnesses will not be sworn, and there will be no cross examination. Public hearings are primarily informal In addition to Walker and is limited. arid are held to encourage the expression of views and presentation of facts. Correction Notice Spencer, team members include: For more information, call la oar NUry 30tli iatarf, wa «hr»rti*«d • MaatoHal Day Katie Ales of Novi; Laura Baker (734)466-2410. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will, upon written request, provide a copy of the Department's decision On this application. Sala wbks sktaraa' a TasBsa staVaysMa ralrlaaratof of Dearborn Heights; Anne Deck YOUTH SOCCER CAMP (BHHUI miDKXHW) for $379.92. T*a stttsraa* itam awl er of Troy; Nicole. Galas of Ster MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Four sessions of Future Star LES THOMAS brmmi aaata ara iaxorrart. ling Heights; Caitlin Gill of Soccer Camps (ages 5-12) will be , Permit Consolidation Unit Tha afTaraa* pradatf it aitvally a Roaar top-atoaat Rochester; Jori Gravelyn and offered beginning Monday, June Land and Water Management Division rafrlfarater far $$79.92. All ethar eJvartisatf" information Brenna Mulholland of Ann 28. 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LaBt year we were fairly close but lost to Stevenson at the regional, then came back and had a great league meet and won it." No. 2 had to do with the Detroit Cass Tech factor. At regional, Cass hurt the Rocks — whose strength has been in the sprints this season — more than the Spartans. Also, losing to their biggest WLAA rival moti vated the Rocks. "At regional, they wanted to qualify as many girls for state meet as possible. But not win ning it didn't shatter them," said Gregor. "They came out a very determined group at conference meet." MOftfM One thing that did separate I*-"5- . ; ',.-'-,' this Salem team from its previ JfclBAv Wt Tfcumfpi fllKajcf, ous two league champions was chanson v»; Ftmeft OWrict erprtpfen. firsts. The Rocks won three &30jMh *'& ib^oaatai^a^ #(^ events this time; they only won a par an| ^a^^BBV^^aa^paTT^Pvanaav vwawf _ total of two the last two years. flon. (vMur aAajnM^to tut at#» ini flnatt WvtHsrit)r, Jute 9 at fahtan Hfii Tiffany Grubaugh accounted -SsMM VI. MocnAafcf Wla AMovat for two of those wins, easily cap afetwneion) - turing the shot put (39-feet, 10- •Wit inches) and discus (13,7-11) STAFF PHOTO BY PAUL HL1UCHMA.YN titles. The junior standout, who also won both events at the Gliding over: Westland John Glenn's LaTasha Chandler won the 110-meter hurdles at *%3MM*M J regional, won the shot by more in 15.3 and was a member of two first-place sprint relay quartets. than five feet and^the discus by v». m rartumyw at Qm*oKr+p.m. better than 26 feet. She'll go into events. Two of the individual Chandler teammed to win both Alderman captured the 300 hur i JMM^ K fwrtw rVTnlQfKM ¥fc wins came from the meet's other . A-e wtryr n rwniii. u the Class A meet as a contender the 4x100 (51.5) and 4x200 dles (48.4) and Kristen Schilk, - Canton kf^/mtm *mm,-.xi for a state title in both. individual event double-winner: (1:47.9) relays. Terra Kubert, Alderman and a** J. {Ui. * The Rocks' third first came in Nicolette Jarnett, who won the Stevenson managed two victo Meredith Fox were first in the (Wirwwr advunc** to th* MfMon «f »*n* the 200-meter dash. Rachel 400 (1:01.3) and long jump (meet ries, getting one from Andrea •eratflnaj Saturday, Jwna 12 V», Sovtb 1 4x400 relay (4:14.6). Jones, who was edged at the fin record 18-1 .). Parker in the 1,600 (5:23.0) and LywdWrtctofiampJert.) ish in the 100 (she and winner •The Rockets' other wins were another from its 4x800 relay Churchill's Ashley Fillion was a winner in the 3,200 (12:04.3) .- mum umi Crystal Kuzma of Western were recorded by LaToya Chandler in team of Jennifer Hardacre, Katie r, km'.ifi. (A). Gm&n.CHjr v*. tataMah-Jatw Jtt^kiiMir i both clocked at 12.7), sprinted to the high jump (5-5) and LaTasha Sherron, Christy Tzilos and and Kari Cezat won the pole (8) WMttontfJMm fun, S OJW. ftltt CJNWlPliWfcS"' a first in 26.7. Chandler in the 100 hurdles Parker (10:04.1). vault for the Chargers (9-3), :' ';• Ma*** JHMI jfc Uvonat franttto v*. AT The team with the most firsts (15.3). Canton, Livonia Churchill and while Western got wins from B wirtWf, •H^-ju^i UvwiM CtiuitliM i|c. was John Glenn, winner of two- LaTasha Chandler, Jarrett, Western also had two wins Kuzma in the 100 and Lindsey Wm*M*nam>m*\- relays and four individual Felecia Barnett and LaTova apiece. The Chiefs' Crystal Janisse in the 800 (2^20.9). - - UMM|ieMuM>i fliMli Ap^i ox itAAta^y . 2:45 pjn, tWrttar «Mno«« to «• -Soutty- r ' , \ . gate Antfwion ratio** MmifMaJ Satur day; Am 12 Ya. 6ouO40U Andation aW WESTERN LAKES GIRLS TRACK MEET RESULTS trtet chartpton,) •' '.at mm tt (A) R«*K> CathoM: WESTERN LAKES 15-7; 6. Amy Oiscoll (PC), 1^6½ 7. Brynne Northville. 1:56.5. Drake (PS). 28.2; 6. Melissa Bottke (WLW). .CMiiM^(B) QtU0**»OkH6, lOajR. ACTTVmeS ASSOCIATION DeNeen (PS). 15-0; 8. April Aquinto (PS), 14- 28,6: 7. 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VlMl Dim Wifl'oUt *1 WVrwrikiAtfNH COM MMMMMilLMi mmtammmmmmm wm mmm «• 04(tW) The Observer & Eccentric/ SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1999 Cougars beat Glenn in wild one, 10-9 *y Please don't mistake this game for a pre Wednesday to beat error-prone Livonia Franklin (5-22) view of Tuesday's pre-diatrict tournament • PREP BASEBALL In a Western Lakes crossover. game. Jason Gizzi, Dave Crissman, Dennis Klnderman and ACT Joe Paletta each had two hits for the victorious Westland John Glenn drew Garden City and Chad Sansom had two singles. Vikings. for Tuesday's district qualifier and you' can Klnderman, who pitched the final five innings In be sure Thursday's wild affair was not to • REDFORO UNION 5, WAYNE 31 A thiee-run home NOW run by Scott Teasdale In the top of the seventh was all relief of starter MIke Higgins, earned the victory. establish bragging rights. the offense the Zebras could muster. Franklin starter David Word, who gave up five It did, however, extend Garden City's win Mike Hayes hit a solo homer for Redford Union In earned runs and 13 hits over five innings, took the ning streak to 11 fames with a 10-9 victory. the bottom of the third Wednesday to give his team a loss. Joe Ruggiero pitched the final two Innings. Special Garden City is 17-5 overall while John 2-0 lead. Franklin committed four errors. Glenn dropped to 13-16. The Panthers (234 overall) added three In the fifth Dave Scicluna had a pair of doubles and two RBI for Limited with the help of some Zebra misplays. the Patriots. Tony Sala and Ruggiero each contributed The host Cougars rallied in the bottom of Joel Halliday, Dive Martin and Mike Macek each two hits and one RBI. the seventh to score four times with two out had two singles and scored a run for RU while Mike On Tuesday, host Dearborn (24-4) squeezed home a ' Companion Crypts Starting Time and take the non-conference game — this Taylor singled and doubled and scored a run. The Pan pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth ining to turn at $5,000, Pre-Need after the Rockets had tallied three tie-break thers are 12-0 in the Michigan Mega Conference Mega back the Patriots, 4-3. Offer White Division. Saia, the starter, went seven innings in taking the ing runs in the top of the seventh. 4 • Pre-planning Discounts of Garden City's Robbie Minch followed a Teasdale had went 2-for-4 with a double in addition loss. - " strikeout and popup by beating out an infield to his home run. John Judd had two singles for Wayne, •REDFORD CC 7, DIVINE CHILD 0: Mark Cole threw $500 on Mausoleum Crypts 3-16 overall and $8 in the Mega White. a complete-game no-hitter as Redford Catholic Central single. Jerry Minch doubled his brother John Ferris was the losing pitcher despite not walk shut out Dearborn Divine Child 7-0 on Thu.rsday in a home and stopped at third on a. Ryan Krol ing a batter and striking out four. RU had 11 hits while Catholic League crossover game at CC. • Interest-Free Financing to 60 Months single. Wayne had seven! Cole walked five and struck out nine and also con Robbie Hudson tripled to tie the score at 9- • CHURCHILL 9, FARMINQTON 1: Justin Draughn tributed three singles to the Shamrocks' offensive • Low Down Payments 9, Angelo tWMichele walked and, with Ju3tin pitched a three-hitter over six innings Wednesday as attack. Livonia Churchill (13-15) defeated the visiting Falcons Bob Malek added a three-run homer and Casey Once exclusively for the wealthy and famous, today the advantages of Ockermairat the plate, a wild pitch let the winning run come home. (11-14) in a Western Lakes Activities Association Rogowski hit a solo shot as the top-ranked Shamrocks above-ground burial are well within the reach of all families. And now, crossover. . improved their record to 25-1 overall. John Glenn broke the 6-6 tie with a three- CC opened the scoring in the first inning after Cole with our special savings on crypt spaces - plus substantial pre-planning run rally in the top of the seventh. After a Draughn struck out five and walked one. Andy Shoe : maker came on in relief to pitch a scoreless seventh. singled, went to second on a walk to Rogowski and discounts and inferest free financing - the distinction and convenience of hit batsman, losing pitcher Brian Toth sin Offensively, trie Lightle went 3-for-4, while Rick scored on Chris Woodruffs double. mausoleum entombment are even more affordable. gled and a walk loaded the bases. Dave Mijal Strain and Josh Odom each addd two hits. Andy Black- The lead grew to 4-0 in the second when Malek's drove home two runs with a single and Brian more and Tim Greenleaf each knocked in a pair of runs. three-run homer with two outs followed a walk to Nick Mausoleum buriQl is clean, dry and ventilated, and you'll find that it Reed singled to score the third run. Pat Klein, the Farmington starter, pitched four DiBeila and a double by Mario O'Herrin. compares favorably with the cost of in-ground burial by eliminating lots, Jeff Mitchell started and went the first innings and took the loss. John Waisanen finished up. The Shamrocks built a 6-0 lead after a two-run sin vaults, monuments or memorials. , four innings before being relieved by Toth, Brad Barenie knocked in Farmington's lone run. gle by Adam Ctine .scored DiBeila, who had wafked, •JOHN JSLJENN 8, W.L WESTERN 4: Senior right-han and O'Herrin, who was hit by a pitch. . who did not throw the wild pitch. Rogowski's solo homer in the sixth finished the Jus! completed, our Chapel Mausoleum addition features a crypt wall der Dale Hayes raised his record to 7-3 with a 10- Joe Samborski got the victory in relief for strikeout, no walk performance Wednesday as West- scoring. • depicting a Michigan scene in cast bronze, skylights, beautiful stained Garden City. He pitched the last 4% innings, land John Glenn (13-15) turned back host Walled Lake •STEVENSON 3, SOUTHRELD CHRISTIAN 2: Brad glass, and the finest marble and granite. Crypt ownership provides allowing five hits and four runs. He struck Western (11-15). Buckler pitched three scoreless innings of relief Thurs year-round visitation, regardless of the weather, in a beautiful, out six and walked six. Hayes scattered six hits over seven innings. day as Livonia Stevenson (17-9) downed visiting South- Ryan Rattray hit a solo homer, while Hayes, Brian field Christian (15-6) in a non-leaguer. inspirational setting. Hudson went 3-for-5 with a triple and two Reed and Justin Fertdelet each collected two hits for Buckler, in relief of starter Mike Byberg, struck out RBI, Jerry Minch 2-for:4 with a double and an RBI and Robbie Minch 2-for-2 with two the Rockets. four and didn't allow a baserunner In picking up the To find out more oboutlhe benefits of Mike Pisha and Bryan Lindstrom clubbed back-to- victory. RBI. Garden City overcame a 6-2 deficit with Brian Campbell had two of Stevenson's three hits, TTTirosWunilfitombrnent ot Glen Eden, back homers for Western in the sixth inning. four runs in the fifth. •W.L. CENTRAL 10, FRANKLIN 6: On Wednesday, including a solo homer in a fourth inning. visit us, call 248-477-4460 or send In the For John Glenn, Reed had three singles visiting Walled Lake Central (10-21) racked up 14 hits Phil Szumlanski had the other Stevenson hit. coupon. But act now. 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The email rubber slow, jerky retrieve. Thia lively action' recently held its annual Don Jewell, 267; Pat Engebretson, 267; For some, it is a means of survival. on the surface of the water U irre-: meeting and the full spider jittered as it Gary Duarard, 279; and Aaron Staples, And when applied according to format, touched down on the sistible to a hungry blue gill. ; slate of officers was 267. 1 it means more bowlers having more fun, elected for the 1999- smooth, calm surface Hook and worm anglers can let their' 2000 season. The high average in the association with better attendance, new members ofthe lake. bait float to the bottom, then drag it was by Mitch Jabczenski with 237, not and better competition. After letting it rest through the nesting area. Anita Marvel was bad for a guy who uses a 14-pound ball. There are many variations of the named Director of the for a moment I began If the fish seem reluctant to bite,. Year.. There even were two occasions where UBL format; it has several different creeping it ever so drop your worm right in the. middle of association bowlers converted the options. slowly toward shore a nest. The male standing guard will With the Michigan dreaded 7-10 split, so don't say it can't The GDBA is probably going to be until suddenly it dis- immediately remove the intruder. Tear 4i State Tournament next be done. part of a local committee to work on this BILL appeared in a swirl of HARRISON season being held in drops tipped with a wiggler or a wax •The meeting and elections weren't project jointly with the national com PARKER water. worm are also deadly in the spring. —••— the Detroit area,*the the only highlights of the GDBA annual mittee. After setting the association plans to be gathering. involved, working toward a goal of get But it is also up to the proprietors to hook with a quick snap of my'wrist a Big fish, little fish ting 3,000 teams to compete in it — or, Guest speake/- Bob Jarlenski, presi pursue it, if they want to be more cre truculent battle ensued with a Fat, The smaller fish will bed in shallow as they dubbed it, "3000 in 2000". dent of Creative Marketing Specialists ative. Meanwhile, any league can feisty blue gill. (CMS), gave an uplifting talk on alter water (two to four feet) while the big choose, before the start of the new sea ger fish will be bedded in slightly deep The rest of the meeting was pretty native systems of sanctioned league son, to use this method. With warm weather infiltrating much routine, with league delegates in play. southeastern Michigan^ the water tem er water (four to eight feet). attendance being kept up-to-date on It is time to break away from the old perature on local inland lakes is rising Jarlenski, who lives in Fort Myers, traditional system and put new life into If you've had a notion to pick up the GDBA functions, events and financial and the best blue gill bite of the season sport of fly fishing, but haven't quite status. Fla., said that the traditional format league bowling. For more information, appears to be hitting stride. has flaws and also is not always com call (810) 773-6350, or e-mail Jarlenski taken the plunge, this spring fishery Sunday's meeting followed Saturday petitive or motivating to all league at [email protected]. Throughout the months of May and provides a great opportunity to give it night's Wayne-Westland Men's Bowling bowlers. June, depending on the arrival of a try. Association annual banquet and dance, •In case anyone missed the story that spring-like weather, shallow water His plan: the Ultimate Bowling ran a couple weeks ago in Matt Fiorito's It's also a great time to take a child in which awards were presented. along the shore of nearly all inland fishing. Action is often sizzling and you League (UBL) format, which he believes column: Five Detroit-area bowlers set lakes gets overrun with nesting (bed Bill Peacock got the President's can make any league, small or large, an all-time record for high series in a don't need any fancy, special equip-- Award for outstanding service and Wes ding) blue gills. The males show up ment. Any medium to light - or better more interesting and also will help three-game set, shooting a 3,970 in the first and each will fan out a circular Klocke took the Bud Mach Award for leagues to better retain their bowlers. Shammy Burt Tournament in Toledo. yet ultra light - spinning combo will director of the year. nest (bed) in the sand or gravel bot work. It follows closely the schedule used by The feat focused nationwide attention tom. The city championship at Vision most major professional and amateur on the Just Us Tree Service team of A long cane pole is even effective at Lanes in Westland was won by the Val's sports around the world: captain Earl Justice (792), Verlin Terry After making the nest the male this time of year as long as the angler waits around in anticipation,^ the Catering team with a 3,179 total by Divide leagues into two or more con (738), David Boyd (774), Steve Bradley usjng it can remain quiet and not Michael Kirby, Ronald*"Wagneri Sr., (761) and Carleton Chambers (805). arrival of a female, who will deposit spook the fish while getting bait into ferences, then sub-divide those into eggs in the nest then disappear back Donald and Claude Warrington. divisions, with the 32-week season Their score edged past Hurst Bowling the water. James Smith and Tony Loechle won Supplies'3,868 in 1994. into deeper water. The aggressive male divided into four quarters of eight then fertilizes the eggs and stands The lighter the line the better. Four- the doubles crown with 1,581, while Lee weeks eaeh in duration, featuring a Before that, the honor belonged to the pound test will work, but I prefer two- Salingue took singles with a 775. The watchful guard over the nest for the playoff at the end of each quarter. fabled 1958 Budweiser team of St. next few weeks. pound test so I don't spook the fish. all-events went to Ken Paczas (2,244). Thus is created a structure for a play Louis with a 3,858 — a team that con A friend of mine swears by one- The 17th annual 700 Singles Tourna off system at the end of the regular sea sisted of American Bowling Congress Heavy concentrations pound test, which isn't much more ment, with a field of 464 bowlers, was son. The same scheduling system as in hall of famers Dick Weber, Don Cartes, than sewing thread, and always catch won by Daniel G, Wilson. the past would be used, but now there Ray Bluth, Tom Hennessy and Pat Pat With so manyfish concentrated in es his fill. Red Holman Pontiac and D.B.T. would be several teams in contention all terson. Their record stood for nearly 36 the shallows they are especially vul nerable to anglers during this period. I prefer to tie my hook directly to the Awards & Graphics were event co-spon through the season. years. line, bypassing a snap swivel. This sors. The traditional league champions are •I attended the induction ceremonies Blue gill are the bread and butter allows me to offer my bait with a more, Bowler of the Month awards went to almost always the teams with the bet for the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame fish of most inland lakes in the state. natural presentation. • Mr. October, Michael Udall (Super ter bowlers: They are guaranteed a May 19 at Cobo Hall and had a chance Some lakes are so overrun with them" to see all the greats. Although the daily creel limit is 25! Bowl); November, William Paull (Town mathematical advantage, due to the that the fish are actually stunted and you don't have to fill your bucket each' 'n' Country); December, Brandon Cher length of the season. But I also was able to renew acquain never reach more than five or six inch time you go out. ; ry (Super Bowl); January, Robert tances with the legendary Eddie Luban- es in length. In other lakes, with a No one can dispute that the team that Don't overharvest the fish. You'll; Dorsey, (Westland Bowl); February, generally wins a scratch tourney has ski — one of only three bowlers ever healthy predator/prey ratio, gills can Robert Dobransky (Westland Bowl); inducted .into the state hall. The others reach in excess of 10 inches in length only hurt the fishery for years to come.; the best bowlers. This also holds true in Instead, keep just enough fish for a- and March, David Lethbridge (Super JO-percent, 80-percent and 90-percent are Marion Ladewig and George Young. and sometimes weigh over a pound. Bowl). meal or two and return the rest to! handicap leagues as well. Really, there are many more who The secret to catching spawning blue swim another day, especially, if you.' The association recorded 160 300 The UBL format is not for everyone, should qualify — if not now, then some gills is to be cautious in your approach.. catch a Tat, spawning female. I games, sixty-seven 299 games, twenty- but leagues suffering shrinkage from time soon. ••'.•'...' Gills are easily spooked while bedding one 298 games and forty-three 800 dropouts likely would benefit the most. At any rate, Lubanski promises to. in the shallows. Whether fishing from series this past season. This format.has been tried and tested give my readers a good pro bowling tip shore or from a boat, be exceptionally /Anglers and hunters are urged to- Association team high game was successfully in many parts of the coun soon. .— quiet and light-footed as you approach report your success. Questions and', 1,358 rolled on Feb. 5 at Town 'n' Coun the shoreline. comments are also encouraged. Send', Don't cast your shadow on the water information to: Outdoors, 8Q5 E.' either, as it will surely scare the fish. Maple, Birmingham, MI 48009. 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