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March 2,2003 Taste, B1. 75 cents V o l u m e 117 N u m b e r 5 4 www.hometownlife.com © 2 0 0 3 H o m e t o w n C ommunications N e t w o r k Hall x facelift ■ Irish workshop The Plymouth Historical Museum hosts an Irish Genealogy Workshop 10 am to 3 p m Saturday March 8 unlikely Key speaker will be profes sional genealogist and Irish genealogy specialist Elizabeth BY TONY BRUSCATO Kelley Kerstens Cost is $25 STAFF WRITER which includes lunch and all handout materials Plymouth City Hall, constructed m For reservations or more 1961, is in dire need of updates and information call (734) 455 renovations Except for a few essential 8940 updates, though, it’s doubtful the building will get a total makeover, estimated to cost $4 million Plymouth area residents City commissioners will receive a having trouble collecting 50-page master plan Monday, outlin­ _________ ______............................O G R AP H ER their unemployment benefits ing changes recommended by checks can turn to the state Victoria Li from left Ryan Fisher Kortney Sieloff and Sierra Anderson all 4 play in the preschool kitchen at their Hulsmg Elementary classroom recently Redstone Architects of Southfield and House of Representatives Wade Trim of Taylor The three con­ My office is determined to ceptual updates presented in the help everyone receive the report range in cost from $3 7 million money they are entitled to to $4 3 million said State Rep John Stewart In this day of dwindling revenue (R Plymouth) Due to a new Best-kept secret sharing money from the state, and automated application sys even fewer federal dollars, City tem people have been hav Manager Paul Smcock said it’s dear ing difficulties receiving their Preschoolers are the focus of increasingly popular programs the city will budget and identify unemployment checks One immediate needs, but the rest of the of my mam jobs as a state plan will be mothballed until better representative is to facilitate BY TONY BRUSCATO The secret will be let out of the bag wanted Ryan m the class this year financial times the expediting of state serv STAFF WRITER Tuesday, as Giles will hold an informa­ “They realty prepare them for “The report has a lot of good evalu ices to my constituents tional session at Canton High School kindergarten, where a lot of schools are ation of the building and the infra­ Constituents can cal! The child development programs m outlining the district s three programs more like day care,” Fisher said “They structure, as it stands today, which is Stewarts office at (517)373 the Plymouth-Canton school district — Kiddie Kampus, PLUS and Stay and focus on learning and getting along good for the short term,” Smcock s; 3816 serve nearly 450 preschoolers Play — and have enrollment and cost with other kids, and they do a lot of “In the long term, if the financial c However, those who run the program information for parents hands-on activities and field trips ” ditions of the country and state turn ■ Monsters run believe it's still one of the districts At Hulsmg Elementary, where the Giles said the PLUS program is around, we may be able to look at Winter break at the best-kept secrets PLUS (Pupils Learning Useful Skills) designed to get at-nsk kids ready for implementing some of the concepts Plymouth District Library A couple of the programs have been program for 4-year-olds is taught, kindergarten they ve identified had lots of youngsters feel around for 30 years, but I still think they Ryan Fisher said she likes the half-day ‘Since the program is federally- and “We’re going to use the information mg a bit monstrous are a well-kept secret,” said Martha Giles, sessions because I get to play with state-funded, students have qualifying on what we’re gomg to need for the As part of its winter break early childhood coordinator for the toys ’ factors to get in the program, which is short term,” he added “Such as, the activities library officials Plymouth-Canton Schools “Next Her mother, Andrea Fisher of free,” Giles said “Things like low birth boiler has a couple of years left on it, screened the animated fea (school) year, we’ll open more classrooms Canton Township, said the PLUS pro­ so we’ve got to come up with a ture film Monsters Inc to a and be able to serve dose to 500 kids ” gram helped her son last year, and she PLEASE SEE PRESCHOOLERS, A7 PLEASE SEE CITY HALL, A6 New symphony director McNamara comes home impressed with program for cancer treatment packed house of children W ednesday BY BRAD KADRICH It continued a busy week STAFF WRITER BY TONY BRUSCATO “I feel very good,” he said “So far I for the library which started STAFF WRITER don’t feel any of the side effects they with a run on books movies Angel Bakos had already heard a lot suggested I might get After a little nau­ and DVDs before last week about Plymouth and its symphony from Former Wayne County Executive Ed sea, I was back to normal ’ ends big snow storm her friend, the late Ralph Lorenz McNamara began treatment for mantle Mary Alice Worrell, a spokesperson Traffic through here has When the symphony came looking for cell lymphoma cancer at the University for the National Cancer Institute’s remained pretty steady all a new executive director, Bakos was of Michigan Hospital this week regional office m Detroit, said ntuxan is week said the library s interested, especially when she discov­ McNamara, who earlier this month an antibody that’s used to treat non- Susan Stoney ered the symphony’s leadership is look­ traveled to New York to begin a 31-week Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer For information on library ing to expand its education programs experimental treatment program at “Rituxan targets the cancer cells, and programs call (734) 453 0750 The mutual interest helped Bakos, the Sloan-Kettenng Cancer Center, left doesn’t have the same side effects as owner of a West Bloomfield public rela­ Manhattan after 12 days without being chemotherapy,” said Worrell “The more ■ Citizens Academy tions firm, land the job She was hired treated common side effects are nausea and Plymouth residents will get recently as the new executive director, “The serum for the treatment became tiredness It has real good success m a birds eye view about the replacing Darlene Dreyer, who left last contaminated,” said McNamara, “and fighting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma” inner workings of the city fall to spend more time with her family there was going to be a lot of red tape McNamara said he’ll receive treat­ during the first Citizens m New Jersey before they could resume the program ” ments every three weeks, for the next 18 Academy scheduled for “What realty intrigued me is all the Ten of the 11 patients who were treat­ weeks, m Ann Arbor March 19 May 5 work the symphony does m the schools,” ed by radioimmunotherapy — which “I’m quite optimistic,” McNamara The academy includes said Bakos, whose firm specializes m calls for a radioactive solution to be said “Mantle cell cancer is fairly new, a meeting with city commis public relations, marketing and work cli­ injected directly into the body to seek high-intensity disease But, the swelling sioners and the Downtown mate effectiveness “What they’re doing out cancer cells — have seen their can­ around my neck is down, and I’m not Development Authority sep here is classical outreach, sending musi­ cers go into remission McNamara, 76, sweating like I was, so something is arate nights talking with law cians into classrooms These are the was hopeful the experimental treatment happemng in my body enforcement officers parks kinds of things that brought me into would do the same for him “I walked a mile at the mall this and recreation officials and community involvement ” Instead, the Plymouth Tbwnship resi­ (Wednesday) morning, and I took out members of the fire depart Bakos was particularly impressed with dent began treatments this week at the the garbage,” McNamara said “I’m doing ment as well as hearing programs such as the Instrumentorship PAUL HURSCHMANN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER University of Michigan, where on all the things people do m retirement ’ from the city clerk treasurer Plymouth Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Monday he spent nearly 16 hours for his finance director and building PLEASE SEE BAKOS, A6 Angel Bakos ' first treatment of ntuxan tbruscatofoe homecomm net | (734) 459 2700 d epartm en t 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