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Canton, Livonia Optimistic About Merging Dispatch This business is beautiful - Strictly Business, B5 Sit in on a big THURSDAY band rehearsal April 2 with Ed Nuccilli 2009 CANTON Si Plural Circle Filter, B9 The Observers Eccentric Newspapers Volume 34 OBSERVER Number 80 75 CENTS online at hometownlife.com CONNECTION Canton, Livonia Giving Circle Giving Hope Women's Giving Circle will host an educational optimistic about evening focusing on women's heart health at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, at the Plymouth Arts Council. The event, which will feature Oakwood Health System cardiologist Peter Mancini II, merging dispatch M.D., is open to all women in the community. BY TONY BRUSCATO The American Heart OBSERVER STAFF WRITER WHAT DO YOU THINK? Association states that cardio• What is your opinion about vascular disease is the leading Canton Township and Canton and Livonia exploring the killer of women over the age Livonia are moving forward possibility of sharing dispatch of 25, claiming nearly twice as with discussions on the con• many women in the United States solidation of police and fire services to save money? E-mail than all types of cancer, includ• department dispatch centers. your thoughts to editor Kurt ing breast cancer. Dr. Mancini Canton Executive Director Kuban at kkuban@hornetowntife. will discuss the risk factors and John Santomauro said the next com or post a comment on our explain how women can play an step is for consultant Plante & Web site hometownlife.com. active role in achieving and main• Moran to develop a feasibility taining their heart's health. study on consolidation. The event will begin with light, "They are doing the major• comes with the two depart• heart-healthy refreshments. ity of the consolidation stud• ments working together, Dr. Mancini's presentation will ies, right now, in the state," which allows for the same be followed by a question and Santomauro said. "They are amount of work to be done, answer period, desserts and cof• gathering some preliminary but overall would cost less," fee. The evening should conclude information for us for the Stevenson said. "The reality by 9 p.m. There is no charge to purpose of submitting a grant of today's world is that we no attend, but reservations are rec• request through various fund• longer can do business as we ommended and space is limited. ing sources to hopefully fund always have, so we need to The Plymouth Arts Council is the consolidation study." look at partnerships. located at 774 N. Sheldon Road, Santomauro said there "We would be doing a dis• Plymouth. To make your res• is money available through service to our communities if ervation, contact the Canton Wayne County for studies on we didn't look to combine ser• Community Foundation at ¢734) consolidation of services. vices where we can," he added. 495-1200 or e-mail givinghopew- "Our purpose is to evaluate "Regionalization of services is [email protected]. the efficiency of the merger of driving the bus right now, and Giving Hope Women's Giving dispatch and the cost-effec• this is one of those projects." Circle provides grantmaking ini• tiveness," Santomauro said. Canton Finance Director tiatives that address the needs of "At the end of the day, if we Rick Eva said it costs the women and families in Plymouth end up with a cost-effective township about $1.1 million and Canton, creates an endow• way to deliver dispatch service annually to pay salaries and ment fund for the future, and and both communities are benefits for the township's builds a community of women phi• BILL BRESLER j STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER assured the dispatch center is dispatch center, which has 18 lanthropists. There are currently accountable in delivering ser• dispatchers. "f-;' 63 women in the Giving Circle and vices, we certainly will move One immediate common new members are always welcome. in that direction." goal for the two communities, Amish workers began to assemble a historic silo this week in Cherry Hill Village next to the Cady- Livonia Police Chief Bob which helped spur the discus• Boyer Barn. The silo, which is made of cast concrete plates that fit together and reinforced by Stevenson said he's excited sions, is the fact the Livonia Dog park fund-raiser steel bands, was recently moved from an old farm near Ford and Ridge roads and is one of the last about the possibilities. The Friends of the Canton Dog remaining in the township. For more photos and a story, please see page A8. "Such as the synergy that Please see DISPATCH, A4 Park need your help. The group will host its "Dining to Donate" fund-raiser at Applebee's, located at 43500 Ford Road in Canton. The restaurant will donate 15 Township will use federal money to make buildings energy-efficient percent of your bill on April 6-8 to the proposed three-acre dog park in Cherry Hill Village. BY TONY BRUSCATO Tim Faas, township municipal services 100 panels on top of the Summit. Just present your server with an OBSERVER STAFF WRITER director, said following a Monday meet• "The water that goes into the boil• official flier, which are available ing to decide where the money will be ers will be preheated so that the boil• at Summit on the Park, and your Canton Township officials received spent. "That totaled $10.4 million." ers won't have to heat the water as donation will help make the dog word late last week the township was With less than a tenth of that to spend, much," King said. "Not only to heat the park a reality. awarded $754,000 in federal stimulus Faas said the township will whittle the building, but the water for the three For more information, call (734) money for energy-efficiency projects. list down to several main areas. swimming pools, hot tub, showers and 394-5310. And by Monday afternoon, they had an "Energy-efficiency retrofits at our kitchen areas." idea where to spend it. buildings is one," Faas said. "We had King said the plan will also help The Energy Efficiency and targeted $1.23 million in projects, so capture heat that escapes through the Conservation Block Grant Program our staff is going through and priori• roof. Connection Church in Canton provides grants to local and state gov• tizing them. They include a solar proj• "We will use that heat to assist us in will hold its Spring Mom to Mom ernments to fund projects that improve ect for the Summit on the Park, park• preheating the water, which — in turn Sale on Saturday, April 4, from energy efficiency by reducing energy ing lot lighting around township facili• — will keep us for using the heaters 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Table rentals use and fossil fuel emissions. Canton's ties, high bay lighting — big spaces as much," he said. "Everything we can are sold to capacity with more share came from $76.6 million in that need to be lighted — and heating do to preheat that water helps us save Canton will use federal stimulus than 75 moms selling their kids' EECBG money given to Michigan. and cooling controls in our facilities." energy in the long run." money to make township buildings clothes, toys, baby equipment, Township officials originally submit• Gregg King, facilities coordinator, Faas said he confirmed Monday with more energy efficient, including a etc. There is a $1 admission. ted 26 projects totaling $41 million for said some of the money will be used the Department of the Environment solar energy heating and humidity Connection Church is located at funding with stimulus money. for a solar energy heating and humid• the stimulus money is a 100-percent control project at Summit on the 3855 Sheldon Road in Canton, "We had five areas on our list of 26 ity control project for the Summit on grant, with no matching money from Park. More than 100 panels will be just North of Michigan Avenue. projects that we planned to focus on," the Park, which will include more than the township required. placed on top of the Summit. Index APARTMENTS ,C3 Police don't believe exhumed AUTOMOTIVE .C5 CAREER BUILDER .C4 CROSSWORD PUZZLE .... .C2 FILTER .B9 is missing Canton teen FOOD S WINE B12 OBITUARIES .B6 PUBLIC SAFETY .A4 BY TONY BRUSCATO person who did the re-creation, is that Convenience you expect REAL ESTATE .C2 OBSERVER STAFF WRITER it appears the person exhumed showed SPORTS R1 characteristics of being older than Kim STRICTLY BUSINESS B5 It appears it's back to square one for Larrow" Robinson said. "We believe it's Canton Township police detectives in a 27- not Kim, but that's not scientifically veri• For Home year-old disappearance case of a teen girl. fied by DNA. Delivery call: Detective Kenneth Robinson said noth• "The investigation is still ongoing, and ing definitive came out of last month's we continue to follow up on any leads we (866) 887-2737 exhumation of the body of an unidenti• come across," he added. 'We haven't got• fied young woman whose body washed up ten any new leads from the public. We're along the Lake Erie shoreline in Monroe still going through the process because COMMUNITY Kim Larrow in 1981. Canton police were hopeful of you never know what piece is the one that disappeared in learning if the body — wearing only a puts it all together." 1981 at the age plaid shirt and a cord wrapped around her Robinson said Larrow had been living GANNETT of 15. She was neck — was that of 15-year-old Kim Marie with her father in Dundee before she went last seen alive Larrow, a recurring runaway who was last missing.
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