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Budget proposes closing Wayne Community Center By LeAnne Rogers pact on city revenues has been cost of $2.6 million. The annual S ta ff W r ite r a more than 40 percent drop in bond debt service is nearly property values since 2009. $644,000. A balanced budget for the Property taxes are the city’s “The biggest thing in the 2015-16 fiscal year that in­ main revenue source. budget is closing the communi­ cludes closing the Wayne Com­ With the community cen­ ty center and with that the munity Center has been sub­ ter’s ice arena and aquatic budget is $1.6 million short,” mitted to the city council. center already closed, shutting said City Manager David Mur- Council members accepted the building would reduce the phy. budget but requested alternate parks and recreation budget The city has been financial­ proposals, including one keep­ by $300,000 in operational ly surviving using various ing the community center costs. The budget includes reserve funds but only the open. The proposed budget, minimum utilities for main­ Other Postemployment Em­ with $14.7 million in revenues, taining parks and ball fields ployee Benefit Trust remains. will be discussed at two study and the closed community Those funds can only be used sessions at 7 p.m. Thursday, center. to cover retiree health care May 7, and Tuesday, May 12. and would be used to pay the The city went into the bud­ 'Biggest thing in budget' expected $1.9 million tab in get process with a projected Opened in 1974, the commu­ 2015-16. That would nearly SUBMITTED $2-3 million deficit for the nity center was built at a cost exhaust the fund but relieve The ice rink and aquatic center are already closed, and the proposed upcoming fiscal year which of $1.9 million. The aquatic 2015-16 budget is recommending the Wayne Community Center be shut begins July 1. The largest im­ center was built in 1996 at a See BUDGET, Page A2 down completely.

Sawed-off shotgun results in charges By LeAnne Rogers Staff W riter A Wayne man is facing weapons charges after police, checking on his welfare, found he had a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition. An employee at Transitional Health Services, 34330 Van Born, called police about 7:45 p.m. April 18 after becoming concerned about a man in a field north of the business. The man had been last seen walking east on Glover. The employee said after calling police that she had walked over to the field and found a gun. Once officers arrived, she took them to a JOHN HEIDER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER sawed-off shotgun that was The 2015 Life in Go! spring expo was held inside Schoolcraft's VisTaTech Center. unloaded in the field. An officer walked on Glov­ er and reported seeing a man matching the description pro­ vided by the caller walking towards him. The man told the officer the HUNDREDS STOP BY sawed-off shotgun belonged to him. He said the gun, given to him by his brother, had a dam­ aged barrel and he sawed it off to make it functional. O&E’S SPRING EXPO Feeling unwell, the man said he had set the shotgun By David Veselenak allow someone in a wheelchair to access Observer & Eccentric Spring Expo Mon­ down in the field, walked to a S ta ff W r ite r the tub. A ballroom dancing instructor, day at Schoolcraft College’s VisTaTech nearby home and sat on the Gornick said there are several people Center in Livonia. Dozens of booths and porch. Now that he was feel­ Spotting new ideas at Monday’s she knows who might be interested in several speakers offered advice in ing better, the man said he was Spring Expo is just what Plymouth an idea like that. many areas, including new technology returning to the retrieve the Township resident Kathie Gornick was “I come every year,” Gornick said. “I in pain relief, financial advice for re­ gun. Officers reported con­ looking to do. want to see anything that’s new.” tirement planning, Alzheimers and fiscating the gun and four Gornick was especially interested in Gornick was one of hundreds of 12-gauge shotgun shells. one company’s bathtub designed to people who attended the 12th annual See EXPO, Page A2 See SHOTGUN, Page A2

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By LeAnne Rogers addition on the opment. a 5,000-square foot unit that is also approved for a proposed S ta ff W r ite r southwest cor­ “I’m glad to bring this for­ part of a 20,000-square foot body art studio to be located at ner of the build­ ward. It will provide more multi-tenant industrial build­ 1939 N. Wayne Road, south of A site plan allowing con­ ing. The addi­ / •.. \ revenue in the DDA District,” ing. Ford. struction of additional seating tion will be built said Westland Planning/Build- The business does work “This is another new busi­ at a Westland restaurant were into an existing ing Director Bruce Thompson. including hot rod restoration, ness. It will fill the last vacant among expanding or new busi­ landscaped “The additional space will fit parts fabrication and sheet spot in the Westland Town ness plans receiving approval area. Thompson seamlessly on the building.” metal fabrication. Asked about Center,” said Thompson. “It’ a by the Westland City Council. Located in » Council approved a spe­ possible outside storage, busi­ compatible use (with nearby Texas Roadhouse, located the city’s Down­ cial land use for Mad Professor ness, owner Christopher Chy- businesses). It is also located in on Ford west of Central City town Development Authority Customs and Hot Rods, to be try said his work wasn’t the the DDA.” Parkway, received approval to District, the restaurant is located at 5747 Executive Dr. type that would be left outside. construct a 840-square foot zoned as a Planned Unit Devel­ The business will be located in » A special land use was See NEW, Page A2

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peared to be intoxicated. When the man left the ons charges - having a SHOTGUN When she checked on field, she said she short-barreled shotgun him a second time, she walked over to see if she and felony firearm. A Continued from Page A1 said he was crawling could find what he had not guilty plea was en­ around the field on his been looking for and saw tered. Bond was set at The employee told hands and knees appar­ the shotgun. $1,000. b s w eA CAHMITT r COMPANY O H police that she was out­ ently looking for some­ Matthew Gunnarsson, Published Sunday and Thursday by Observer & Eccentric Media side smoking when she thing. whose age wasn’t re­ [email protected] saw the man sitting next Concerned for his leased, was arraigned 734-883-9039 Community Office: to a large tree in the well-being, the employee April 20 in Wayne 29th Twitter: @LRogersObserver 29725 Hudson Drive • Novi, Ml 48377 • 866-887-2737 Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. field. She said he ap- said she called police. District Court on weap­ hometownlife.com

Editor: Sue Mason Sports: Ed Wright 734-674-2332 Email: [email protected] the budget includes elim­ cost-savings by consoli­ nity center.” Email: [email protected] BUDGET inating currently vacant dating services into the The council needs to Subscription Rates: Home Delivery: positions, including two community center. start looking at balanced Newsstand price: $1.00 (Sun. 8i Thurs.) Customer Service: 866-887-2737 Continued from Page A1 police officers. “I don’t throw out the budget that doesn’t count $8.00 EZ pay per month Mon.-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. “There is no ‘fat’ left idea lightly. I think we on voters approving new $49.00 six months After hours, leave voicemail the city’s $1.6 million in the budget to be can balance the budget funding or using reserve $98.00 per year Email: [email protected] general fund shortfall. trimmed away,” said and not close the commu­ funds, Hawley said. $77.00 six months mail delivery “We’re balancing the Murphy. nity center,” he said. The proposed budget $154.00 per year mail delivery budget with OPEB mon­ For the three munici­ does not include any To Advertise: ey, it’s really running out. Alternate budget pal budgets, Councilman revenue from a proposal Classified Advertising & Obituaries: 800-579-7355 This is the last year we Councilman Albert John Rhaesa said he had before voters on May 5 - Legal Notice Advertising: 586-826-7082 can do this,” said Mur­ Damitio proposed closing been looking for a budget a 3-mill proposal to cre­ Fax: 313-496-4968 Email: [email protected] phy. “I don’t consider it a city hall and the engi­ with expenditures below ate a 345 police and fire Print and Digital Advertising: balanced budget.” neering services build­ revenues. Mayor James retirement fund which Devin O'Brien, 313-378-6273 The problem is the ing, which houses the Hawley agreed. would generate over $1 Email: [email protected] city’s structural deficit. Department of Public “I would love to keep million or state Proposal Advertising Policy: The financial shortfall is Works, and relocating the community center 1, the roads proposal All advertising published in this newspaper is subject to the conditions stated projected to continue those operations into the open but do you keep the which is expected to in the applicable rate carrd, copies of which are available from the ad­ moving forward as reve­ community center. community center open provide an additional vertising department. We reserve the right not to accept an advertiser's order. Our ad-takers have no authority to bind this newspaper and only publication nues fail to meet expen­ “We need to develop and lay off cops?” said $160,000 in state shared of an ad constitutes acceptance of the advertiser's order. ditures. an alternate budget for Hawley. “The community revenue. Part of cost-cutting in options so we don’t have center is very expensive to close the community to operate, more than [email protected] center,” said Damitio, city hall. There is a cost 734-883-9039 adding there would be to relocate to the commu­ Twitter: @LRogersObserver

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WESTLAND COP CALLS Fraud told police April 23 that she vehicle was undamaged and it Larceny from a vehicle the catalytic converter. had been contacted by her was unclear if it had been left » A Westland woman told credit union that she owed locked. » A resident of the Skygate Hit and run police April 26 that she had $368 for an AT&T account. She Apartments, 6501 Yale, told A Trenton woman told po­ been contacted by her bank said she had never opened an Vandalism police April 22 that overnight lice that she was attending a about six unusual transactions AT&T account. On April 26, a resident in someone had broken the rear function at Beaver Creek, 1609 using her debit card. The the 32000 block of Harvard window of her vehicle and N. Wayne Road, April 19. When transactions, totaling nearly Larceny from a vehicle told police that someone had stolen the factory navigation she left, she said she noticed a $450, were made at a gas sta­ A resident in the 6600 block smashed the rear driver’s side radio. vehicle had struck the left tion in Canada during the early of Caribou told police April 26 window of his vehicle while it » On April 26, a resident of front end of her 2014 Ford morning hours. She said she that someone had stolen a digi­ was parked on the street. He the Riverbend Apartments, Focus, damaging it. had the card in her possession tal camera and an Apple digital said the vehicle had been 30947 Warren Road, told police and hadn’t given the number to storage/playback device from parked overnight and a friend that overnight someone had By LeAnne Rogers anyone. her vehicle while it was parked had noticed the smashed win­ sawed the exhaust pipe on his » Another Westland woman on the street overnight. The dow. 2002 Pontiac Grand Am to steal

Officers arrest man GARDEN CITY COP CALLS Larceny ported stolen earlier in the day He also told police he was Stolen license plate trying to enter cars from the 30000 block of Birch- on his way to Garden City Hos­ » A catalytic converter was wood in Westland might be the pital because he was experi­ A resident reported that the A Detroit man was ar­ reported stolen from a car in vehicle involved in the theft. encing complications from license plate had been stolen rested on larceny charges the 31000 block of Rush Ave­ » A resident in the 6500 sickle cell anemia. However, from a car parked in the 30000 early April 27 after two nue April 28. block of Gilman reported the he refused to have a Garden block of Dawson between noon Westland Police officers The owner called police catalytic converter stolen from City fire rescue take him April 24 and 3 p.m. April 25. spotted him trying to get after a neighbor told him that his car while it was parked in there. The man told police the plate inside locked vehicles. someone had just stolen some­ the street between 1 p.m. April had been on the car when he The offi­ thing from the bottom of his 25 and 11 a.m. April 26. The Shoplifting washed it while parked in the cers reported car which was parked in the man said he had not heard A man made off with an driveway on April 24. being on pa­ driveway of his fiance’s home. anything unusual during the unknown amount of merchan­ trol about The neighbor told police he night. dise from the Dollar General Attempted theft 2:20 a.m. in heard his dog barking and store, 5736 Middlebelt, April The owner of Down Home the 31000 went outside to check. He said Suspended License 26. Construction reported dam­ block of Co­ her heard a sawing noise and A 40-year-old Westland man A clerk told police the man aged to a Ford stake truck wan when went in front of his home and was cited for driving with a had been in the store for about between 6 p.m. April 23 and 8 they observ- Phillips saw a newer silver car, pos­ suspended license after he was five minutes and when he was a.m. April 24 while parked on ed a suspi­ sibly and Audi fleeing north on stopped on Middlebelt south of leaving she saw that his pants the 32000 block of Manor. cious person in a parking Moeller to Warren Road. The Warren Road April 27. were full of merchandise. The The owner told police that lot. The man went up to a neighbor was unable to get a Police had observed the clerk yelled at man, but he ran he found the ignition damaged parked vehicle and attempt­ license plate number. man cross the center line di­ out of the store and jumped and removed from the steering ed to open the door, the Police checked the car and viding through lanes on War­ into the front seat of a Ford column when he got into the officers noted, but it ap­ found a smeared hand and ren Road and the yellow line on Crown Victoria. vehicle, which had been peared he was unable to palm print on the driver’s win­ Middlebelt. The man initially A surveillance video locked. He also told police that open the door because it dow and driver’s side front told police it had happened showed the man leaving the four vehicles have been stolen was locked. fender. They were dusted for because he was nervous. He store with merchandise in the area within the last six Officers reported watch­ prints with negative results. later told police it had hap­ stuffed in his pants and down months. ing as the man began walk­ Police also reported that pened because he was answer­ his left leg. ing to toward a second vehi­ 2007 silver Audi had been re- ing his phone. By Sue Mason cle in the parking lot. The officers then approached the man, eventually identi­ fied as Christopher Phillips, WAYNE COP CALLS 21, of Detroit. Phillips was arraigned at Stolen vehicle Chevrolet Equinox. 34000 block of Winslow when 18 that his truck had been bro­ the Westland 18th District She said she was current someone entered his unlocked ken in to overnight. He also Court on larceny charges A Farmington Hills woman with the payments and had the car parked on the street. He said several cars had been and a not guilty plea was told police April 24 that she only set of keys. The vehicle said a complete set of Callaway ransacked and some scrap entered. Bond was set at stopped at the Village Bar, was valued at $15,000. golf clubs valued at $1,400 rims were stolen. $5,000/10 percent. A pretrial 35234 W. Michigan Ave., about were missing. hearing was set for Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. to have dinner. About Larceny from a vehicle By LeAnne Rogers May 7, also in 18th District two hours later, she said she On April 21, a Wayne man Larceny Court. went to leave and found that told police he spent the night at A resident in the 5000 block - By LeAnne Rogers someone had stolen her 2012 his girlfriend’s home in the of Treadwell told police April

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Day my husband was drafted into the NFL

By Courtney Conover ended for the day at the end of actually played against each Guest Columnist the third round. And I still other. wasn’t drafted. 9. As an NFL veteran who he NFL draft - not the 5. And what happened has gone through this process Super Bowl - is the NFL’s then? before, what would you tell Big Dance. I got up that morning be­ members of this year's draft Because the road to every cause I had to get ready to class? Super Bowl starts here. catch a flight back to Purdue This is only the beginning. Moves are made, teams are University (in Indiana). I was You have to work hard to win a built, and dreams are realized, sitting at the kitchen table, spot on your team. Being draft­ seemingly with one phone call. eating a bowl of cereal when ed doesn’t guarantee anything Quite simply, lives change. the phone rang. I wasn’t even - only an opportunity. Good And, yeah, money’s got a lot thinking that the call could be luck. to do with it. for me - it caught me com­ 10. It's been years since you But it’s deeper than that. pletely off guard. At this point played in the NFL, but you still Imagine if your heart’s - no, in the draft, it was no longer remain very much involved in life’s - desire is to do a partic­ televised. I was still half football at the youth level (as ular thing, something that less asleep. My mom hands me the a USA Football Heads Up am­ than 1 percent of the American phone, and it was a coach from bassador) and at the profes­ population get to experience. the Detroit Lions. sional level (as the secretary of And imagine if you were 6. How did that conversa­ the Detroit chapter of the NFL chosen. tion go? Alumni Association) - and you You’d celebrate, yes. But He introduced himself and continue to serve the commu­ then reality would set in, and told me that they had the sev­ nity through both venues. Why you’d realize immediately that enth pick in the fifth round and is this so important to you? you are faced with a tremen­ they were going to make me I want to lead by example dous amount of responsibility, SUBMITTED their selection. Then they put and demonstrate - particularly expectation, and, of course, Scott Conover was selected by the Detroit Lions in the fifth round of the me on hold for a couple of to our children (Scotty, 3, and pressure. 1991 NFL draft. minutes. When they returned, Kennedy, 1) - the importance My husband, Scott Conover, they informed me that they of giving back. I was very was selected by the Detroit had made it official and wel­ fortunate to have played in the Lions in the fifth round of the No, I really didn’t. You can’t your resume in front NFL comed me to the Detroit Lions NFL for as long as I did, and if 1991 NFL draft. He was 118th assume anything. I did have an team scouts and coaches. family. I can use that to better the out of a total of 334 players agent, and I worked out at the 4. Take me back to the day 7. Your life changed with lives of others and help them drafted that year. He went on NFL Combine - and I also com­ of the draft. What did you do? that phone call. When did it all deal with hardships and chal­ to experience a six-year career pleted a work-out in front of What was going through your sink in? lenges - or just put a smile on in the NFL, playing exclusively 18-20 teams. But you never head? It really sank in when I flew someone’s face - then why not? for the Detroit Lions and know. I sat in the living room with out to the Lions training facil­ There’s a quote from the late blocking for Hall of fame Run­ 2. Briefly explain the NFL my family and friends, un­ ity the next week to participate Frank Gansz, my special teams ning back Barry Sanders. Combine. certain and anxious, and in mini-camp. They picked me coach at the Detroit Lions, that And while Scott is actually It’s like an audition that’s watched the draft in real time up in a limo and drove me to I’ll never forget it: “What you the first member of his family sponsored by the NFL and held on television. My agent in­ the Pontiac Silverdome, where keep, you lose; but what you to make it to the NFL, he a few months before the draft. formed me that the Cleveland the Lions practiced and played give will grow.” wasn’t the last: His first cous­ Only 1,500 players total are Browns had the first pick in at the time. Head coach Wayne 11. Football has been very in, Frank Conover, was also invited to attend. the second round of the draft, Fontes and his staff greeted kind to you, but in a lot of drafted to the NFL (Cleveland 3. Most people first became and they were eyeing me and me at the door. And then I went ways, it has also been cruel: I Browns) in the eighth round of aware of sports agents two other players. That’s when into the locker room to find a know your body aches...A LOT. the very same draft. through the film Jerry McGuire, I got my hopes up. Even locker with my name on it. I Would you do it all again? More on that in a minute. but can you further explain the though that didn’t materialize, thought to myself, “Wow. This Yes. Absolutely. But first, here is my hus­ role an agent plays in the I remained hopeful because is real.” band’s draft day experience, in draft? Also, how did you find my agent told me that the way 8. How cool was it to have Wayne resident Courtney Conover is his own words... your agent? the draft was shaking out, I your closest cousin play in the a m om o f two, writer, and a certified 1. In the countless conversa­ My agent found me, so I could expect to be drafted NFL with you? How did you yoga instructor. When she's not on her tions we've had about the NFL didn’t have to look for one. An between the third and fifth guys keep from being too yoga m at, she's b lo g g in g a t draft, you say that you didn't agent showcases a player in rounds. So I detached myself competitive with each other? www.thebrowngirlwithlonghair.com expect to be drafted. But you the same way that an agent from the draft until the third It was easy: We played two an d oversharing on Facebook a t had to have had some idea would help actors, models and round. But because the 1991 different positions, in different h ttpMwww. facebook.com/ that this was coming. writers get work. They get draft was running so long, it NFL conferences, and never thebrowngirlwithlonghair.

Understanding repercussions of global warming

According to a report pub­ In Behind the Curve: Science Library are partnering to alle­ supplies last. Thank you to A to using swords and/or whips. lished on April 27, in Nature and the Politics of Global viate hunger in southeastern Z Comics for supplying us with Learn about the different types Climate Change, we are al­ Warming, Joshua Howe makes Michigan. Bring nonperish­ free comic books to distribute. of weapons and principles of ready in the midst of experi­ the argument that it is the able, in-date goods to the Cir­ First-Time Homebuyer theatrical combat. After the encing the repercussions of politicians and economists who culation Desk at the library Education Workshop, 10 a.m. demonstration, stick around to global warming. Extreme have the greatest ability to and receive $2 per item off of to 4 p.m. May 2 - This work­ touch and examine about 50 weather is occurring far more stop global warming, even your fines (up to $20 total, lost shop is conducted by the Com­ different types of weapons. often and is far more destruc­ more than scientists. or damaged items not eligible). munity Housing Network, a Part of our We Love TV pro­ tive than ever before. We are For decades, Bill McKibben Find a list of suggested items Michigan State Housing Devel­ gram series. seeing long has been trying valiantly to in the library or call 734-326- opment Authority (MSHDA) Skill Building Conference stretches of heat warn us of what’s to come, 6123. certified Homeownership for Local Writers, 10:30 a.m. to waves, droughts starting with The End of Na­ Friday Night Movie, 7 p.m. Education Counseling agency. 3:30 p.m. May 9 - The Westland and severe ture, over 20 years ago. In May 1 - Join us for the Friday Attending this workshop ful­ library is proud to host its storms that are Earth: Making Life on a Tough evening institution. Tonight’s fills certain requirements of third annual Skill Building happening four New Planet, McKibben ac­ movie is, Into the Woods. “A the MSHDA mortgage loan Conference for Local Writers. to five times knowledges that we’ve waited witch tasks a childless baker program. Register in advance This free program is open to more frequently too long to stop climate and his wife with procuring at [email protected] or by all area writers looking to im­ than they did a century ago. change, but we can still scale magical items from classic calling 248-824-7392. Space is prove their fiction, poetry and What this means is that we back, if we want to survive on fairy tales to reverse the curse limited. nonfiction skills, as well as are no longer in a position of this out of balance planet. put on their family tree" Academic Enrichment, provide a forum to learn about dominating the planet. We are All of these books and more (IMDB). Snacks and refresh­ 3:30-5 p.m. May 6, teens and the publishing industry. For running out of time to limit are available to be checked out ments are provided on a dona­ kids age range grade 5 and up more information or to sign up, future havoc. We either change at the Westland Public Library. tion basis. Doors open 6:30 p.m. - Bring your assignments for visit: westlandlibrary.org/ how we live our lives now, or Find out what can be done to Movie starts at 7 p.m. Rated R. free homework help and study events or contact Andy Schuck wait for the environment to help in small and large ways. This movie is not suggested for help. No advanced registration at andy.schuck@westlandli- painfully force us to change. The William P. Faust Public viewers under 18 years of age. needed, however, parents must brary.org. The potential to change exists, Library of Westland is open 9 Free Comic Book Day, 9 sign a waiver upon arrival in but there are still many barri­ a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Thurs- a.m. to 5 p.m. May 2 - Free order for child or teen to par­ Information Central was compiled by ers in place blocking us from day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Comic Book Day is a single ticipate. Andrea Perez. The William P. Faust totally avoiding climate chaos. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. on day, the first Saturday in May Sword Combat Demo, 7 Public L ibrary is a t 6123 C entral C ity Naomi Klein’s recent book, Sundays each year, when participating p.m. May 6 - Who isn’t a fan of Parkway, Westland. For more This Changes Everything, Highlighted Events comic book shops and their the sword-fighting and weap­ information, call 734-326-6123 or go beautifully illustrates where Food for Fines last day partners give away comic onry in Game of Thrones? online to westlandlibrary.org. the problems lie and what April 30 - Gleaners Communi­ books absolutely free. Come by Come watch the Ring of Steel action is needed. The overall ty Food Bank, St. Mary's Out­ the library today and pick up a Action Theatre Troupe per­ feeling given off is one of hope. reach, and the Westland Public free comic book to keep, while form a variety of fight scenes

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M akingiis case: Colbeck sees

alternative to M ay 5 road proposal

By Lonnie Huhman Michigan. House of Representa- Staff Writer Colbeck believes thrives last session, as well other options that are as the Proos Plan; prio- With a vote just days better than the proposiritizing the spending of away, state Sen. Patrick both short- and long- existing funds and mak­ Colbeck held a trans­ term. ing appropriations portation forum Monday “I think we can do changes; reducing state at Northville Township better,” he said of the government expenses in Hall to let voters know May 5 proposal. other areas; and all of the that there are other op­ He said there are a 1 above, tions in getting road of parts of the proposal The Bolger Plan would repair funded without that take away from th ensure 100 percent of the putting an extra tax bur­ main mission, fixing th taxes raised at the gas den. roads. He said there ar pump would go toward The forum was an 83 separate line items fixing roads. Prioritizing opportunity for residents that have to be imple- would require freezing to m eet with Colbeck, mented in the budget ii general fund budgets R-Canton, and road con­ order to make this funcwith projected increases struction industry lead­ ing proposal happen, except for K-12 educa- ers to get an inside view “It’s not straightfor- tion. Reducing expenses on the current state of ward,” Colbeck said, would be just that and Michigan’s roads, options In a nutshell, Proposhave government looking for funding road repairs 1 would increase the at the budget from top to including the May 5 Bal­ state sales tax to 7 per- bottom in an effort to lot Proposal 15-1 and cent from 6 percent, talfind money for roads, LONNIE HUHMAN ways to improve the the sales tax off fuel Colbeck said that the Sen. Patrick Colbeck, R-Canton, spoke at a public forum at Northville Township Hall on April 27 longevity of our roads. sales and increase fuel state has the opportunity about the alternatives he sees for road funding. He was joined by John taxes. This is expected to put $947 million to- Wyke, president, Joba raise $1.3 billion for ward fixing our roads in Construction Co.; Dan roads. year one (more than DeGraaf, executive di­ twice the $432 million rector, Michigan Con­ Alternatives to that would result from St. Damian claims Chess Club crete Association; and measure the ballot proposal, he Anil Sanne, director, There were at least 5 said) and to apply more Everlast Concrete Tech­ people on hand, and than $1.4 billion toward trophy in school rivalry nologies. many of them liked whsmaintaining our roads The panel was bal­ Colbeck had to say and for each subsequent year, anced a bit with DeGraff were generally not in He’s encouraging stating he thinks the favor of the proposal, everyone to take some proposal is in the state’s Gary Timco, of Plymoultime to explore these best interest to get the Township, was one sup- four alternative road roads fixed now while porter. He thought the funding ideas before the others, including forum was really good filling out the ballot on Wyke and Colbeck, ex­ and informative. May 5. pressed their concerns “I think he has the with the proposal. Sanne right ideas,” Timco said Ihuhman ®hometowniife.com \ spoke about new con­ of Colbeck’s alternative^//: 517-294-4215; Twitter: crete mixes lasting long­ The alternatives in- @Ihuhman er than what has been elude the Bolger Plan, a: traditionally used in passed by the state

f r j h o w (c) Basssl Photography * More! BASSEL ATALA The Chess Club rivalry between St. Edith School in Livonia and St. Damian School in Westland continues; this year the tournament was held at St. Damian on April 23. Twelve students from St. Edith and 13 students from St. Damian competed this year for the trophy. The results came in favor of St. Damian, 8-6. Next year, the tournament will be hosted at St. Edith.

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The journey hom e: Restored Sabre jet

returns to Yankee A ir M useum

to repair or build new MIAT students metal panels for the jet’s refurbish Cold skin, which on military aircraft is double-thick. War-era aircraft Most of the work was on the exterior. By Joanne Maliszewski “One group drew engi­ Staff Writer neering drawings, while another followed them,” Imagine driving down Vassell said. a road, minding your own MIAT instructor Neal business, when a large- Perkins supervised stu­ as-life U.S. Air Force dents on the jet’s electri­ plane joins traffic. cal components, includ­ “When people saw the ing navigational lights on plane, they just stopped. the wingtips. Some took photos and As the F-86L was video,” said Bob Cata­ pulled out of the former lano, who works in the La-Z-Boy factory, it was collections department of missing one important the Yankee Air Museum component -i- an engine. at Willow Run Airport. But according to rules PHOTOS BY BILL BRESLER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The journey for the and regulations under Pulled by a vintage tractor once used to pull planes at Detroit Metro Airport, the F-86L slowed traffic and drew interest from F-86L began last Tuesday which the museum oper­ passersby. morning at the MIAT ates, the F-86L won’t be College of Technology, allowed to fly, so an en­ 2955 S. Haggerty, in Can­ gine isn’t necessary for ton. The college, with its display. large warehouse-like “I hope they will be facility, has been home to careful with it,” Perkins the vintage 1950-1960s said as he watched the long-range interceptor F-86L gently pulled out of for more than the past the warehouse by an old six months. airport tractor that was At least 180 students, once used at Detroit who are studying avia­ Metro Airport. tion technology, rolled up The F-86L made it to their sleeves and the Yankee Air Museum breathed new life into the in procession. The route F-86L, which had been and the rules of the jour­ housed at the Yankee Air ney were established by Museum for some time. the Wayne County Weigh- “They were assigned master. “He comes in specific tasks. They did with a route and when the research on how to and how we are doing Yankee Air Museum curator Julie Osborne keeps close watch repair the plane,” MIAT this,” Catalano said. on clearance as the F-86L eases down the MIAT driveway. instructor Craig Vassell The plane made its said. way down the MIAT The students were driveway and turned left colors online.” bishing a T-33 Shooting required to follow Feder­ on to Haggerty. It then Because of the F-86L’s Star, a Lockheed jet al Aviation Administra­ crossed Michigan Ave­ association with the Na­ trainer aircraft. It has tion and structural repair nue and headed down tional Advisory Commit­ already been delivered to guidelines for the single­ Tyler to the museum. It tee for Aeronautics — the MIAT facility. seat military jet, which in took about IZ2 hours for NASA’s predecessor — it “We are able to give its belly once carried a the the plane to make it will be placed in a new our students hands-on set of 20 missiles that safely to the museum. section of the Yankee Air practical experience,” would be fired simulta­ The next step for the Museum dedicated to the said Kevin Burchett, neously. “When it came F-86L is a paint job, space program. MIAT president and in, it was pretty dam­ which will be completed Meanwhile, MIAT CEO. “This will be part of aged,” Vassell said. at the museum. “It won’t students are rolling up the legacy of their lives.” Panels on the plane be painted with the origi­ their sleeves on yet an­ were caved in, for ex­ nal configuration,” Cata­ other Yankee Air Mu­ jmaliszews@hometownlife. com Ralph Koehler attaches the hook that the tractor will use to ample, and students had lano said. “We found seum project — refur­ 248-396-6620 tow the airplane.

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A rbor Day: Growing goodness at G arfield

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A special Arbor Day celebration took root Friday afternoon at Livo­ nia’s Garfield Elemen­ tary School, where stu­ dents showed off their tree-themed artwork, sang songs, planted three new trees and even staged a parade to cele­ brate the beauty, unity, diversity and goodness of trees. Joined by members of the City of Livonia Tree Committee, Livonia May­ or Jack Kirksey and Livonia Public Schools LIVONIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS administrators and other Livonia Mayor Jack Kirksey addresses the students. At right is city leaders, the students Garfield Elementary Principal Bill Green. first held a festive as­ sembly before they pa­ raded outdoors, around people, in that they bring field received a tree to the school, and past the unity, represent diversity take home to plant. The three new trees on the with all of the different Tree Committee also JOHN HEIDER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER school grounds. types and they grow gave all LPS fourth grade Garfield Elementary School students helped out in the planting of four trees outside their Principal Bill Green strong roots. students a sapling to Livonia school on April 24. From left are: Jayden Ghostohk, Damon Watson, Landon Kozlowski, said trees are much like Each student at Gar­ plant. and Logan Hicks.

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By Linda Sparkman CATCH THE CART nections through them.” Family affair Correspondent Other places the pair Heavenly Hot Dogs and is scheduled to service The business has be­ The brightly colored Catering can be found: include several gradua­ come a real family affair, hot dog stand of Heav­ » 2-7 p.m. each Wednesday, tion parties, other city’s including help from their enly Hot Dogs and Cater­ June 3 th ro u g h Oct. 14, a t the farmers markets and sister Holly and their ing has become a famil­ Lathrup Village Farmers Canton’s Liberty Fest. father. iar sight around West- Market, 27400 Southfield To become a qualified “They both pitch in, land in recent years. It Road. food vendor, Tommy that’s why we’re able to will be back this season, » 3-7 p.m. each Thursday, studied for and got a food do two different markets but new faces are serv­ May 7 though Oct. 8, at the safety certification. at the same time,” Tom­ ing up the goods. Westland Farmers Market, “I am licensed ven­ my said. “A year ago, I never 1901 N. Carlson. 734-326- dor,” he said. “There’s a “We love it,” he said of would’ve thought, ‘I’m 7222. lot to know about safe the experience so far. “I going to own a hot dog handling of food. For always, always loved hot cart and I’m going run it instance, anything food- dogs as a kid. We would with my sister and I’m the trimmings, including related has to be six inch­ go anywhere for dinner going do all these chili and sauerkraut. es off the ground at any and my mom would ask events,” Tommy Ruark They also have pop and time.” me what I would want said. He and his sister chips available, plus In preparation for and I’d always say, ‘hot Heather hadn’t been LINDA SPARKMAN nachos can be specially opening this spring, Tom­ dogs.’” looking for a business, Tommy Ruark and his sister Heather are the new owners of requested. my painted the cart and “He probably dreams but when the opportunity the popular Heavenly Hot Dogs and Catering cart that's a “We can do other touched up small spots. of hot dogs at night,” came up, they jumped on fixture at the Westland Farmers Market meats, like brats and “It’s all ready for in­ Heather said. “Even on a it. Both are longtime other types,” Tommy spection by the health cruise we went on when Westland residents who said. “It just depends on department later this he was little, he’d always work part-time at Kmart dog stand last September H eather had ever owned the venue and what the month,” he said. want hot dogs for din­ and are studying busi­ from Rich and Betsy a business - or even seen customers decide.” “I was surprised how ner.” ness at Schoolcraft Col­ Mazurkiewicz, who the hot dog cart before - expensive it is to start a There’s plenty of sib­ lege. Tommy is a 20-year- owned the business for it wasn’t long until the Helping out business,” Heather said ling humor, like the fam­ old, full-time student the past eight years. transaction was complet­ Mazurkiewicz helped about her experience so ily picnic that was in­ getting ready to finish Late last summer, the ed. Tommy a lot with his far. “Not only the busi­ terrupted by customers his associate’s degree. Ruarks’ father got into a Now the stand is avail­ crash introduction into ness itself, you’ve got to who saw the cart and H eather is a 26-year-old discussion poolside with able for hire for parties, the business. pay for license, insur­ stopped to buy hot dogs. mother of two, working Rich Mazurkiewicz, who graduations, farmers “He still does,” Tom­ ance, inventory and other “We’re always laughing,” part time on her business mentioned he and his markets, community my said. “He took me to a expenses.” H eather said. degree. wife would like to sell events, festivals, picnics luncheon he catered to Expenses aren’t the “The cart brings us The brother-sister their business. Although and luncheons. They show me the ropes and I only hurdle, as things together,” Tommy said. team purchased the hot neither Tommy nor cater hot dogs with all can still call and ask him don’t always go smoothly “We just have fun. My a question and he’s just for the brother-sister friends come up and ready to help me out. team. support me, too. It’s real­ When we started the “One time we were ly nice to know we have Westland (Farmers) Mar­ doing the Farmington people who can help.” Do your homework before ket, he said he’d come winter market,” Tommy Tommy and Heather and help me out if I said. “I forgot the chili are focused on growing wasn’t comfortable yet. and I couldn’t get the their business and having “Our first and still flame to stay lit. It finally some fun with their fam­ donating to any charity favorite venue is the worked out, but we ily while they finish their Westland Farmers Mar­ couldn’t have chili dogs.” education. Future plans O ver the last few emails, I assume that any ket,” he added. “The “Now we have a include a website, a sec­ days, most of us Rick email I receive seeking a other vendors have been check-list of stuff to ond cart and securing an have seen pictures Bloom charitable contribution, great to us. They really bring,” Heather said. accounting degree. and video of the destruc­ unless it’s from an or­ welcomed us. Market “And I’m really big “I never thought I’d be tion in Nepal. It seems MONEY ganization that I’ve pre­ masters Brookellen about keeping extra doing this,” Tommy said. that we go from one natu­ MATTERS viously worked with, is Swope and Mary Vellar- things in the car,” Tom­ “But when you put your ral disaster or man-made bogus. I don’t click on dita are really helpful, my added. mind to anything, you catastrophe to another. natural or man-made any links, as the hackers too. 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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OUR VIEWS Not good stewards of were previously told. the School Aid Fund, which pro­ money If the city worked to improve vides incentives and scholar­ our home values, they would ships to attendees of communi­ Tim e to vote; We have all heard about generate more revenue from ties colleges and technical knowing politicians are lying by property taxes which we cannot schools; $40 million will go to the when we see their lips move. The vote against. Stop people from public school’s “At Risk” pro­ politicians in Wayne are moving parking cars all over their lawns. gram; $24.8 million will go to the their lips. Stop trashing the city with ille­ Recreation Improvement Fund; p r o p o s a l Their solution to get out of gal signs everywhere, making $111 million will be shifted to our debt crisis is to keep spend­ our town look like an urban ghet­ various local city governments; ing and then raise taxes because to. Go after the tax cheats who and $173 million will go into the they never have enough. We illegally get principal residence state’s general fund. Also, the needs your approved a tax increase for the exemptions or don’t pay for Earned Income Tax Credit will rec center but it is slowly closing permits and inspections. The be increased to 20 percent from in increments. We approved scofflaws who disobey traffic its current 6 percent, which will more taxes to maintain our pub­ signals and speed should be result in an estimated loss of s u p p o r t lic safety departments, but they paying for our traffic cops. Stop $261 million to the state’s trea­ cut staffing levels anyway. We buying properties and tearing sury. approved money for roads. After down buildings, leaving the land James A. Kidd Next week Michigan voters will be asked if the administration repaved their off the tax rolls for years. By the Livonia they support a request to increase the state sales streets, they told us the millage time they are sold again, any tax. Locally, Wayne residents will decide if they was not generating enough mon­ profit is eaten up by lost tax Another tax support a proposal to create a 345 police and fire ey for any more roads. Although revenue and maintenance as­ I am a student at Schoolcraft retirement fund. no one was in favor of paying for sessments. Stop the frivolous College in Livonia and am writ­ If you’re registered to vote, we hope you make streetlights, the council imposed spending on things that can wait ing regarding the upcoming sure to take some time to vote. Granted, if you’re taxes on us anyway through a for better times. special election May 5 to raise special assessment. reading this newspaper, research indicates you’re They want you to believe they the sales tax one cent for the Half of the city employees are working hard on our fi­ more likely to head to the polls, if you haven’t al­ state of Michigan. were let go but that did not bal­ nances but their labor is stalling As a student and a person who ready made your choice via absentee ballot. ance the budget either. We now to make cuts to services we are is living on a fixed income So perhaps your task should be to encourage pay full-time wages and give not getting. They have shown through Social Security, I feel others to vote May 5. benefits to the city hall employ­ that they are not good stewards that it is another tax that would The requests are an important issue, one that ees who seem to be giving us of our money. Don’t give them add to my expenses each year. If will hit you in the wallet. The city proposal, if ap­ part-time service. They claim more. it is only going to the deplorable proved, will be noticed when it’s time to pay prop­ they have “cut to the bone” and Howard Aldrich roads that we have in Michigan, erty taxes. The state sales tax increase will have are down to vital services but Wayne I am sure that some people an impact more regularly. Daily, if you’re out and let’s look at that. would vote for it, but I am not about all the time. Every time you buy toilet paper, The IT department costs us Too little of Prop 1 would sure that it is just for the roads. a pair of jeans or garden shovel, the total cost will $160,000 but the cable TV chan­ fund roads Betty Dills be a bit more. nel is still running notices about Via the various television and Livonia This is the second time Wayne has asked resi­ raking leaves and winterizing radio ads, we hear about how dents to approve a 345 police and retirement fund. fire hydrants. It took two years Proposal 1 is all about fixing our Burden for middle class The city is seeking approval of a five-year 3-mill to pull the 2012 Weed Control roads. As is the case with most I am grateful to the League of tax levy that would generate more than $1 million. notice from the city’s web page. things political, this isn’t exactly Women Voters for sponsoring Wayne currently is in the throes of a financial This year they declared it a dou­ true. the overview of the May 5 ballot crisis. Coupled with cuts in state funding, Wayne ble leap-year and gave us re­ The projected $1.95 billion proposal. I left the event with has lost more than $5 million in property tax reve­ duced animal license fees until this proposal would raise doesn’t more knowledge of the proposal, February 30. Council boasts they nue annually since the real estate market tanked come from just the increase of feeling a little less confused and would rather err on the side of our state sales tax from 6 per­ in 2008. It has been limping along using reserved with a decision on my vote. I will giving too much info vs. not cent to 7 percent (making it the not be voting for Proposal 1. funds to prop up the budget. That well is running enough. second highest in the country), Proposal 1 clearly has some dry and hard decisions need to be made to erase Does a city in a wage freeze but it also comes from raising positive features. My decision is the budget deficit. and hiring freeze need a Person­ our fuel tax from 19 cents per grounded in the fact that it will Established under state law, a 345 millage nel Director? gallon to 41.7 cents per gallon. cost us, the taxpayers, more would separately fund the police and fire pen­ Our Community Development While the proposal does remove money at a time when the state sions, costs currently paid from the city general Director is supposed to attract the sales tax from the purchase median wage is low. At one time, fund. By taking the legacy costs out of the general new business and retain old of gasoline and diesel fuel, the Michigan’s median wage was fund, money would be available to help maintain business. I can name over 20 consumer will see a net increase ranked fourth in the country. city services and reduce the deficit. businesses that have closed and/ of roughly 10 to 13 cents per Today we are 24th. Michigan has This is the second time the city has asked vot­ or moved out in the last decade. gallon at today’s prices. Also, lost many jobs to other states ers to establish a 345 retirem ent fund. In 2013 the Yet we still pay $60,000 annually yearly vehicle registration fees and other countries. request as well as a 7-mill tax levy was soundly for this position. will be increased. Proposal 1 would increase our rejected by residents. Voters were skeptical of Don’t forget, the state wants But the real problem with sales tax, auto registration fees the request, since council offered no plan B - what to raise the sale tax on the prem ­ Proposal 1 is how this projected and gasoline fees right off the would happen if the proposals failed. That plan B ise of fixing roads, the schools increase in tax revenue will be top. This places a financial bur­ is what is happening now - the closing of the ice are always asking for more spent. More than 30 percent of den on the middle-class resident rink and aquatic center and a proposal to close the funding, water rates are going the additional tax money raised who is already stretching their community center completely in the upcoming up 11 percent, gas prices are will not go to fixing our roads: budget. inching higher and it sounds like $116 million will go to fund mass budget year. Rosemary Doyle the county is worse off than we transit, $200 million will go to There appears to be a disconnect between resi­ Livonia dents and the council and there are those who would rather see the city file for bankruptcy or have the state appoint an emergency manager to solve the city’s problems. They would rather shirk the responsibility for righting their ship and let­ GUEST COLUMN ting someone who knows nothing about the com­ munity and its residents make the decision. On Thesday, voters need to decide what’s im­ portant to them. The city’s fate is in their hands Why the state’s Proposal 1 and we believe, the tax request deserves a YES vote. The sales tax increase is part of a series of bills that would raise money for road repairs, schools and local government, among other things. And will fail on May 5 while the , rocess was a bit convoluted to get there, the be :om line is Michigan’s roads need im­ provement, ar t is was the best idea legislators N o one would like to see governor will be forced to look could agree upon. Opponents claim there’s plenty more funding for Michi­ at such alternatives. gan’s infrastructure, of money available m Lansing and a new tax isn’t 6 .1 mean this respectfully: All school systems and support for of the organizations that would needed. To that we p< nt to the many legislators local governments than I. In like to see Proposition 1 pass, the who campaigned on such a platform. But session saying that, I have to look at school boards, local govern­ after session, we still haven’t jeen anyone point to what experience and ongoing ments, and road builders are this hidden stash of money for much-needed pro­ history have taught me in con­ itself. When it comes to “No pouring tons of precious dollars jects. cluding that the state’s Prop 1 taxation without representation into the campaign for a “yes” on Tax increases stink, for sure. But the improve­ will fail on May 5. These points is tyranny,” the Michigan citi­ Proposal 1.1 would expect them ments we’ll see through this ballot measures are well-reasoned, based on my zenry looks to the Legislature to do so for their constituent make it worth it. experience working with the itself to honestly debate taxation groups. As I said, my heart is Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday; how­ Michigan Legislature and as a issues and to allow for input with them. But the flaw that I ever, registered voters can still request an absen­ citizen activist over the past 40 from their constituents regard­ see is that while such organiza­ tee ballot. The city clerks’ offices in Wayne, West- years in our great state. These ing whatever taxation is being tions are passing resolutions land and Garden City will be open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. points are: proposed. This did not happen calling for a yes vote, there has Saturday to process requests. 1. All politics are local. While with Proposal 1. The Legislature, been very little follow up with the overall state of Michigan’s because it was such a political special communications to their road infrastructure is deplorable hot potato or for whatever rea­ members and constituents to and in great need of repair, the sons, has thrown it back into the urge them to get out to the polls fact remains, in the words of the laps of the voters. Voters do not to vote yes. At this point, it late U.S. House of Representa­ want to represent themselves would be a futile exercise as the tives Speaker Tip 0 ”Neill, “All regarding tax increase issues. election is just around the cor­ politics are local.” While citizens The subject taxes need to be ner. in a given city or township will explored and discussed by citi­ 7. The thousands of dollars of be more willing to impose a mill- zens with their elected repre­ funds spent by those who would age proposal for repair of roads sentatives in advance. This did like the proposal to pass could (like we did in Livonia), they are not happen. It was thrust on the have been more strategically less inclined to vote for an over­ voters by a reluctant legislature. used to have the lawmakers do all tax increase for roadways 4. As a local election official the job they were elected to do. outside of their immediate juris­ for many years, I have observed If Prop 1 fails, what then, more diction. Sure, many have to trav­ that the major demographic that funds from finite sources to get VOTE el from area to area, but it de­ turns out for special elections is the job done? pends on the state of the roads older citizens. They are motivat­ Inclosing, I hope that the on the routes they travel. De­ ed because they have the time to voters will do the right thing in mographics also play into this vote, and if an issue really af­ voting their wallets. But, in my equation. If they work locally, fects their fixed-income pocket- book, Proposition 1 will be singu­ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ they will support local roads. books, they will turn out at the larly rejected by the voters. 2. The changed voter demo­ polls. This will be the case on Then it’s back to all of the Plan graphics. More and more of our May 5 for Proposition 1. B, Plan C, Plan D ideas. Remem­ communities and actual voters 5. Voters will not be forced to ber, there is always a “third are older citizens and are gener­ a “take-it” or ’’leave it.” There way” to address the problem if ally opposed to any tax increase are always other choices to con­ we all get together to think out­ that will drastically impact their sider to address the issue. There side the box. fixed income status. Just look at are other alternatives, such as a the Headlee Amendment that combination of precious tax Joe Neussendorfer o f Livonia is an was approved by an aging voter dollars and private funds from a affiliate member of the American citizenry. That proposal, too, true public-private partnership Society o f Civil Engineers (ASCE), a O b s e r v e r dealt with property taxes and the of the users of our roadway sys­ 39-year member o f the Engineering A GANNETT COMPANY school funding issue. Millenials tem. Already there is a national Society o f Detroit (ESD) and a lifetime too will vote, if they vote, against movement of the big companies member o f the Detroit Economic Club. Sue Mason, Grace Perry, Proposition 1 because they sim­ that use our highways to put His email address is: Community Editor Director of ply do not have any discretion­ some “money in the game.” And, [email protected]. Susan Rosiek, Advertising ary income for increased taxes. if Proposition 1 is rejected by the Executive Editor 3. The legislative process voters, the Legislature and the

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County closes Hines Drive for Saturday in Park beginning May 2

Did you know the No. 1 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., people enjoy biking, running concern of cyclists, skat­ will be able to walk, run, and walking without road ers, runners and walkers skate or cycle safely on traffic.” is motor vehicle traffic? Hines Drive which will Parking is available at Wayne County Parks be closed to vehicular the Helms Haven Area of has the solution. On May traffic from Ann Arbor Hines Park at Hines 2, its popular Saturday in Trail in Westland to Out­ Drive, west of Outer the Park program re­ er Drive in Dearborn. Drive, and the Nankin turns for 2015. Visitors “Providing recreation­ Mills Picnic Area at will have the opportunity al activities in a safe Hines Drive, east of Ann to do their favorite activ­ environment is a priority Arbor Trail. ities in a vehicle-free of Wayne County Parks,” For more information, environment on a six- said Wayne County Exec­ call Wayne County Parks mile stretch of Hines utive Warren Evans. at 734-261-1990 or visit Drive. “Saturday in the Park is a www.parks.waynecoun- WAYNE COUNTY PARKS Each Saturday from 9 great way for families to ty.com. Cyclists will get to ride Hines Drive with the resumption of Saturday in the Park on May 2. They’re free! Stretch! Yoga Day at Mercy Center offers 16 classes Yoga enthusiasts can (3:15-4:30 p.m.) include explanation of all 16 fee and tea in the morn­ indulge their passion Tadasana or reflections classes, visit the YAGD ing. Saturday, May 2, during on the mountain, Vinyasa website at ww.yagd.org. The Mercy Center, training sessions at the flow, fun yoga tricks (all There is a small fee for located next to the Cos­ Mercy Center in Far­ levels) and restorative the classes. Bring your tick Center, is at 2865011 mington Hills. yoga. own lunch or eat at near­ Mile, Farmimgton Hills. The nonprofit Yoga For registration in­ by restaurants. The asso­ Association of Greater formation and a fuller ciation will provide cof­ Detroit is sponsoring the all-day event. Sixteen different yoga teachers, including four former presidents of the Yoga SPRING INTO ACTION! 1 Association, will offer 75-minute sessions. This is the 32nd year for the SMALL WAVE PETUNIAS spring yoga day. Local residents who FRUITS 10” Hanging Bas^et^ are instructors include reg. $29.99 Reg. $24.99 Lynda Herman of Gar­ den City, Juli Jeffrey of BUY 1 GET 1 $ 1 6 . 9 9 , Livonia, Doris Sheikh of Farmington Hills, Veron­ HALF OFF ica Zador and Stephen Blueberry, raspberry, George of West Bloom­ blackberry, grape field and Yvette Cobb of POTTERY EMPORIUM Birmingham. BUMPER CROP The first four sessions 3 0 (9:45-11 a.m.) include Organic Soil Builder % Kundalini Mind Kriya, 2 cu ft bag Reg. $16.99 your first yoga class, OFF Mantra and Mediation, 3 or more Over 30 each colors, and healing sounds. 1 3 . 9 9 The second sessions $ countless styles! DAVID MALHALAB MNS PHOTO / M NEWS SERVICE (11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Mix and Match with Lauren Montgomery, auction hostess, holds a Green include “let’s stretch,” Gardener’s Gold Organic Soil. Lantern #1 DC Comics, his first appearance in his own Kundalini yoga, yoga series. While that comic book sold for $575 during the alignment and yoga com­ Fruit Tree Class May 2, 1pm PLYMOUTH monthly coin and comic book auctions at Back to the Past munication. Comics, people can get one of 50 special free comic books The first afternoon NURSERY Saturday, May 2, as part of Free Comic Book Day. BTTP, sessions (1:45-3 p.m.) HOME « GARDEN SHOWPLACE located at 12670 Inkster Road, Redford, and A to Z Comics, include chair yoga, Yin 7 3 4 -4 5 3 -5 5 0 0 32647 Ford, Garden City, is among comic book stores Yang, pranayama www.plymouthnursery.net 9900 Ann Arbor Rd W throughout the country that will be giving away free (breathing and chanting) Mon-Fri 8-8 Sat 8-6 • Sun 9-5 7 Miles West of 1-275 * 1 1/2 Miles South of M-14 comic books to everyone who visit their stores. There also and deep breathe lessons. Offers Expire 5/6/15 Corner of Gotfredson Rd. will be other special activities. The final sessions RELIEVING

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HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS Tim Shaw Stevenson netters earn another crown football camp Tim Shaw’s annual Dream it! Do it! football By Ed Wright Chargers freshman Kaitlyn camp will be held Friday, Staff Writer Spartans follow up Livonia City Rogosch defeated Payne, 6-2, 6-1, at No. 1 singles while Chur- June 15, from 5:30-9:30 p.m. at the Clarenceville Livonia Stevenson’s girls chUl’s Triveni Arvikar swept football field, located on title with P-CEP championship Chelsea McWilliams at No. 2. tennis team delivered an excit­ the east side of Middle- Franklin evened the singles ing encore performance to last belt Rd. between Seven week’s Livonia City Tourna­ ships for the Spartans were the Fogle, who dropped just one of count at 2-2 thanks to victories and Eight Mile roads. ment championship when it No. 1 doubles duo of Arryn its three contests. by No. 3 Carla Yanez, who up­ piled up 22 points to win Sat­ Dochenetz and Sam Digiovan- Salem’s Chelsea Yu captured ended Madison White, 6-4, 6-1; Shaw is a former Clar­ urday’s eight-team P-CEP In­ ni, the No. 3 team of Lauren the No. 1 singles title by blank­ and No. 4 Yasmeen Freeman, enceville football star who had outstanding vitational. Larson and Sarah Morse, the ing Gabriel Richard’s Colleen who defeated Kayla Gruich, careers at Penn State The Spartans were fueled by No. 4 tandem of Caitlin McCa- O’Leary, 6-0,6-0, in the final. 6- 0,6-4. University and in the championships in four doubles mant and Clairessa Smith, and Churchill’s lone doubles NFL. flights - first, third, fourth and the No. 5 pairing of Allison Stevenson doubles point came from the No. 1 duo The camp is free for fifth - which accounted for 12 Malkowski and Alyssa Ayash. up Salem of Maggie Trinka and Lexi all kids entering fourth of their points. All four Stevenson singles The Spartans defeated Sa­ Fata, who defeated Kaity Swen­ Salem nipped Plymouth, players -Sam Cyrus, Jill lem, 6-3, in a KLAA Central through 12th grades. son and Ashlee Mahoney, 6-4, Registration begins at 18-17, for runner-up honors, Weiand, Danielle Marzec and Division match on Monday. 7- 5. the field at 4:45 p.m. on while Ann Arbor Gabriel Rich­ Molly Cormier - were trium­ Winners for Stevenson were Franklin’s doubles winners June 12. Participants can phant in two of their three ard took fourth with 14 points. Cormier, and the duos of Digio- were the No. 2 team of K-Jana pre-register at timshaw- matches. vanni-Dochenetz, Chimento- Malone and Snigda Thyagaraj; Also competing were Dear­ football.com. born (12), Franklin and Canton The Spartans’ No. 2 doubles Hay, Larson-Morse, Smith- the No. 3 pairing of Janki Patel The non-contact camp (nine points each), and Temper­ team of Maddie Chimento and McCamant and Ayash-Malkow- and Sophia Bastas; the No. 4 ance Bedford (seven). Natalie Hay also went 2-1. ski. team of Grace Mathews and offers football-specific and speed skiUs that will The Rocks captured first- Franklin’s top performers Emma Fogle; and the No. 5 be taught according to place points in the first three were No. 1 singles player Ken­ Patriots upend Churchill team of Haley Griffin and Es- position and grade level. singles flights to stay close to dall Payne, who went 2-1, and Franklin won four of the thlea Ochoa. Instructed by current the Spartans. the No. 4 doubles team of five doubles matches to double­ and former NFL and Winning flight champion­ Grace Mathews and Emma up Churchill, 6-3, last week. [email protected] coUege players as well as local coaches, athletes will be inspired to reach HIGH SCHOOL their goals in a positive SOFTBALL HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL environment. A sports trainer wiU be on site during the camp. Churchill, The first 150 regis­ trants accepted wiU get a T-Shirt. For more information, Franklin send an e-mail to john- [email protected]. split GCYAA football make-up registration Registration is stUl open and roster spots are tw inbill stUl avaUable for Garden City Youth Athletic Asso­ ciation flag and tackle Patriots win opener, football teams. 6-5; Chargers roll Visit gcyaafootbaU- .com for registration in nightcap, 11-1 forms and age require­ ments. Questions can be e-maUed to gcyaafoot- By Ed Wright [email protected]. Staff Writer Walk-in registration wUl be held 6-8 p.m. May The final moments of the 20 in the Garden City first game of Tuesday after­ High School gymnasium. noon’s rivalry softball dou­ Physicians from Infinity ble-header featuring Livo­ Prim ary Care wiU be nia neighbors Franklin and conducting physicals for Churchill could not have a discounted rate of $10 been more tense. during this two-hour The same cannot be said block. of the second game. Practice kicks off July When the dust had 29. cleared and sun had set on the make-up twinbill, the teams split the pair with the Blazers stop Patriots surviving to take ED WRIGHT the opener, 6-5, before the Stevenson's Jack Ferguson threw a complete-game two-hitter against Canton Monday afternoon. Chargers seized control Saddlelites early in the nightcap, win­ Jaclyn MuUen and ning 11-1. JUlian Jacobs each scored Trailing 6-5 in the opener, three goals Monday lead­ Churchill put its first two ing host Livonia Lady- batters on base in the sixth wood to a 12-8 girls la­ and lead-off hitter on in the crosse victory over vis­ seventh, but couldn’t finish iting Warren Regina. against Franklin senior The Blazers, who im­ JACK OF proved to 5-3 overall and pitcher Alaina Defrain, who was aided by some air-tight 5-0 in Division 2 of the defensive play by her team­ Catholic League, also got mates. goals from Dani Dwyer In the sixth, Elyse Baum­ (2), Nicole Reece, Shan­ gardner led off with a bunt non Mulcahy, Kristen single for Churchill before Karwan and Sydney PUut. Victoria Lupher walked. DIAMONDS Libby Matias and Oli­ Defrain then got the next via Beasley each tallied two hitters - Erin Carpenter three goals for the Sad­ and Rachel Mattison - to hit Stevenson senior pitcher Ferguson 2 -hits Canton dlelites (1-5,0-3 Division into fielder’s choice plays 2). before she struck out Mela­ By Ed Wright Ladywood junior goal­ nie Richardson swinging. Staff Writer ie Aliya Grandison made Churchill’s Regan Peyton nine saves. reached on an error to lead For a baseball team like Livonia Steven­ “We didn’t start out off the seventh. After the son, which has grown accustomed to seventh very strong in the first next batter hit into a field­ innings saturated with drama, Monday’s final half and did not take good er’s choice, Defrain notched frame against visiting Canton was about as shots,” said Ladywood a strike out, but Lauren St. boring as watching artificial turf grow. coach Kris Sanders, Pierre laced a two-out single And the Spartans can thank senior starting whose team led 6-4 at to put the tying run on sec­ pitcher Jack Ferguson for that. halftime. “We regrouped ond. The hard-throwing lefty limited the Chiefs and began winning to just two hits - a second-inning double by ground bails allowing us See SOFTBALL Page B4 Nick Durocher and a sixth-inning single from to spend more time on Cody Zidzik - to lead Stevenson to a 5-2 vic­ attack where we began tory in a KLAA cross-over clash. scoring goals, slowly Working with a rare three-run lead in the chipping away at the goal seventh, Ferguson issued a lead-off walk to differential to move Edward Zajdel before retiring the next three ahead. The team came Chiefs with a strike out and two ground outs. together and gave every­ Ferguson, who will extend his baseball ED WRIGHT thing they had to puU out career at Saginaw Valley State University Livonia Stevenson's Mark Pettersson beats a tag the win.” beginning next season, struck out seven and attempt by Canton infielder Justin Dolney during walked four. Monday's KLAA baseball game. “It’s always special to throw a complete Reporting game,” said Ferguson, who helped his team improve to 10-5 overall and 5-2 in the Ken­ or third time through the order,” he said. results sington Conference. “I threw a couple last All but a handful of the Spartans’ past year, but it still feels good. I felt strong at the several games were either decided with sev­ Local high school ath­ end. I threw 106 pitches my last game [Thurs­ enth-inning walk-offs or suspended in the letic coaches are encour­ day] and I was at 91 coming into the seventh latter stages with the game tied. aged to report results of today, so my pitch count was good.” “We’re still a young team, but it’s a very their team’s contests to Ferguson said he doesn’t necessarily have positive group who are buying into what Observer sports editor Ed a batter-by-batter strategy heading into we’re telling them,” said Stevenson head Wright, who can be games. coach Rick Berryman. “They never give up reached at 734-578-2767 ED WRIGHT “Once I get through the first round of hit­ and they’re very coachable.” or ewright@hometown- Churchill's Lauren St. Pierre's ters, then I’ll kind of have a game plan as far life.com. squares up a pitch Tuesday as how to go at them, but not until the second See STEVENSON, Page B2 against Franklin. B 2 (WGRL) 0 & E Media | Thursday, April BO, 2015 LOCAL SPORTS hometownlife.com

GIRLS SOCCER Trenton rules Ladywood soccer tourney

By Brad Emons Fraser on the ninth penal­ whose team is 8-3-1 over­ Huggins, Amy Babon and Riga lifts Blazers Bullard as No. 4 Lady­ Staff Writer ty shot to capture the all. “But overall I was Kennedi Bullard as Lady­ wood improved to 9-3-1 title. pleased with our effort all wood outshot the Spar­ On Thesday, Riga overall and 4-2 in Division How does a team not Both TVenton and Fra­ across the field. We have tans, 8-6. notched her 18th and 19th 1 of the Catholic League. allow a goal in three ser went 1-0-2 on the day a big week ahead of us In the final consolation goals of the season as host Ladywood outshot No. games and not win the in the eight-team tourna­ with three key league round match, Ladywood Ladywood downed Pon­ 6 Notre Dame Prep (5-4, tournament? ment followed by Dear­ matches.” downed Catholic League tiac Notre Dame Prep in a 3-3 Division 2 Catholic It happened Saturday born (2-1), Chelsea (1-2), Ladywood outshot Central Division foe Dear­ battle of Division 2 state- League) by a 15-7 margin. to host Livonia Ladywood, Ladywood (2-0-1), Divine Fraser, 9-4, but the Ram­ born Divine Child, 1-0, on ranked teams, 2-1. Holly Cusick made one which was derailed in its Child (0-1-2), Sterling blers advanced on PKs. Riga’s 17th goal of the Riga scored in the fifth save in goal for Lady­ own girls soccer tourney Heights Stevenson (1-1-1) In the consolation season off an assist from minute from Kennedi wood. opener by eventual tour­ and tournament host round, Ladywood defeat­ Taylor Bullard in the 46th Bullard, but Erica Wiest “We had to battle to­ nament champion Tren­ Livonia Stevenson (0-3). ed Stevenson, 3-0, on minute. countered for the Fight­ night from start to fin­ ton, 1-0, in a shootout “To not lose a game goals by senior Sam Riga Ladywood goalkeeper ing Irish in the 37th min­ ish,” Ladywood coach following a scoreless and not concede a goal in the 24th and 48th min­ Holly Cusick made five ute to make it 1-1 at half­ Ken Shingledecker said. deadlock in regulation and finish fifth in your utes, respectively. Clare saves on the day to post time. “It was a really nice ef­ play. own tournament is Kelley also added a goal her third, fourth and fifth Riga then scored the fort from our girls.” In the championship rough,” said Ladywood in the 46th minute. shutouts of the season. game-winner in the 66th final, Trenton defeated coach Ken Shingledecker, Assists went to Conner minute from Kennedi [email protected]

of the second when pitched the first 5% in­ Hawkeyes soar to hoops title STEVENSON Bazner drew a two-out nings, giving up five walk before scoring on runs on eight hits. Continued from Page B1 Durocher’s double up the Jack Ferguson and right-center field gap. Frank Carlin both ripped Berryman credited Stevenson countered four hits. Ferguson Ferguson and No. 9 hit­ with a pair of runs in the scored four runs while ter Mark Pettersson for bottom of the inning. Carlin drove in four. Monday’s solid victory. With runners on first and Other key contributors “Jack did an out­ second and one out, Pet­ were C.J. Weiss (2-for-4, standing job of mixing tersson and lead-off two runs, RBI) and C.J. his speeds and mixing batter Chris Tanderys Breen, who went 3-for-3 his pitches today,” Ber­ delivered back-to-back with two RBI. ryman noted. “I like to RBI singles, scoring C.J. Harrison’s David see kids who want to Breen and C.J. Weiss. Vinsky pitched a com­ finish a game like he did The Chiefs drew even plete-game four-hitter in today. He pitched well at 2-2 in the fourth when the second game. Breen, with the lead. Nick Romanauski drew a Gordon Ferguson, Devin “Mark has been lead-off walk, advanced Dunn and Bunton had slumping lately - 1 just to second on Andrew one hit each for Steven­ moved him from the No. Miller’s sacrifice bunt son. 6 spot in the lineup to No. and scored on a two-out 9 - but he had a couple error. Late setback The Hawkeyes basketball team recently won the 2015 Livonia Junior Athletic League really nice at-bats today The Spartans an­ Salem senior Tyler Varsity Gold Division with a 9-1 record. Pictured are (from left) Isaac Bai, Noah Fuller, Dylan and was our unlikely swered with a pair in Brooks launched a walk- Johnson, Mike Reed, Jeswin David, Dylan Pillai, Lucas Kyle, Riley Herrmann, Jake Rudd, hitting hero. He did a their half of the fourth to off two-run home run in Vince Wheeler, Devin Reynolds and Mitchell Regan. Not pictured are coaches Casey Reed, nice job today.” take the lead for good. the bottom of the sev­ Jeff Fuller and Raj Pillai. Canton starting pitch­ Nate Bunton walked and enth inning Friday to lift er Tyler Byers - a south­ scored when Pettersson’s the Rocks to a dramatic paw like Ferguson - hard-hit single eluded 4-3 victory over Steven­ THE WEEK AHEAD turned in a strong outing, the Canton right-fielder son in the first game of a scattering six hits and and allowed him to ad­ KLAA Central Division PREP BASEBALL Saturday, M ay 2 Observerland Relays at Churchill, 3 p.m. two walks while striking vance to third. Petterson double-header. Thursday, April 30 Franklin at Salem Tourney, TBA B O Y S G O L F South Lyon at Garden City, 4 p.m. Garden City at Stars Tourney, TBA Thursday, April 30 out five over five in­ came home on a Tan­ The second game of HVL at Baptist Park, 4:30 p.m. Churchill Invite at Rotary Park, 9 a.m. Canton at Franklin, 3 p.m. nings. derys sacrifice fly. the twinbill was suspend­ Luth. Westand at Oak. Christian, 4:30 p.m. GIRLS SOCCER Stevenson at Novi 3 p.m. Friday, M ay 1 Thursday, April 30 Friday, M ay 1 Scott Bazner pitched Stevenson tacked on ed due to darkness in the Wayne at Ypsi Lincoln (2), 4 p.m. John Glenn at Franklin, 7 p.m. Churchill at John Glenn, 3 p.m. a 1-2-3 sixth for Canton. an insurance run in the top of the sixth inning Fordson at Churchill, 4 p.m. Canton at Wayne, 5:30 p.m. Plymouth at Wayne, 3 p.m. “This is Tyler’s fourth fifth when Gordon Fer­ with the score dead­ Saturday, M ay 2 Southfield Christian at Clarenceville, 6 p.m. Dearborn Heights/Redford Tournament, Franklin, John Glenn at Big 16 Tourney, TBA Churchill at Plymouth, 7 p.m. 8:30 a.m . start and he’s improved guson’s infield single locked at 7-7. Lakeland at Churchill (2), 11 a.m. Novi at Stevenson, 7 p.m. Saturday, M ay 2 every time out,” said scored Frank Carlin, who Eric Scott earned the Stevenson at Lathrup Tourney, 9 a.m. Friday, M ay 1 Stevenson at Lakeland Invite, 9 a.m. Renaissance at Thurston (2), 11 a.m. W.L. Central at Churchill 5:30 p.m. GIRLS TENNIS Canton head coach Mark opened the inning with a victory for the Rocks Garden City at New Boston, 11 a.m. Marian at Ladywood, 6 p.m. Friday, M ay 1 Blomshield. “There are hit. with two innings of PREP SOFTBALL Wayne at Belleville, 5:30 p.m. John Glenn at Fordson, 4 p.m. Thursday, April 30 Saturday, M ay 2 Saturday, M ay 2 no morale victories in a scoreless relief. Dan Bos Churchill at W.L. Central (2), 4 p.m. Ladywood at Mercy, 4:30 p.m. Brighton Quad, TBA loss, but his perfor­ Split with Hawks suffered the loss after Luth. Westland at Oak. Christian, 4:30 p.m. TRACK & FIELD Wayne Quad, 9 a.m. mance was a positive. It On Saturday, the Spar­ giving up two runs and Inter-City at HVL, 4:30 p.m. John Glenn at Golden Triangle Meet, 11 GIRLS LACROSSE Friday, M ay 1 a.m . Saturday, M ay 2 looks like he’ll be ser­ tans split a double-head­ two hits over the final 2Zs Mercy at Ladywood (2), 4 p.m. Saturday, M ay 2 Ladywood Invitational 9 a.m. viceable for us down the er with visiting Farming- frames. road and be able to pitch ton Hills Harrison, tak­ Brooks started on the at a high level. ing the first game, 9-8, mound for Salem, giving “Their pitcher did a thanks to a two-run up three runs and five real nice job today. He’s eighth, before losing 11-0 hits in five innings. a hard thrower and expe­ in the nightcap. Jack Ferguson was rienced. He attacked the Danny Morris was the the lone Spartan with strike zone and had us winning pitcher in the two hits. Breen and Mor­ defensive at the plate first game after yielding ris clouted RBI doubles pretty much all day.” three hits and one run for Stevenson. Canton seized a short­ over the final two in­ lived 1-0 lead in the top nings. Nate Bunton [email protected]

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HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER Red-hot Garden City hangs 10 on Redford Union

Churchill wins, Clarenceville fourth consecutive shut-out Chargers win the game and stopped 21 of 25 victory for the Cougars, who Livonia Churchill regis­ shots. loses to Belleville, 8-0 im proved to 5-4-1 overall and tered a 2-1 victory over D ear­ Kyla Johnson, Sarah Cur­ 2-0 in the W estern Wayne born Heights Crestwood. ving Samantha Franco, Ashli By Ed Wright Athletic Conference. Hearns and Hida Xhilaj com­ Staff Writer Hope Pickens notched her Trojans foiled m unicated b etter throughout fourth shut-out, stopping the Belleville High School the gam e and played well Garden City inched over only shot she faced. handed visiting Clarenceville defensively, according to the .500 m ark on Monday Pacing the Garden City coach Amanda Moody. night with a 10-0 m ercy rule- an 8-0 loss in girls soccer offense were Skyler Clenden- Monday. Ry’Ver Alvin and Dawn shortened victory over host ing (two goals), Lindsay Yan- Longoria tried to push the ball Redford Union. Jordan See was in net for kasky (one goal, two assists), the first 20 minutes and made and played aggressively on ED WRIGHT The game was ended at Chelsea Booker (two assists), saves on 13 of 16 shots before the offensive side of the field, Garden City's Claire Konopatzki halftime due to the lopsided Claire Konopatzki (first goal moving to center mid. Jillian Moody added. scored her first varsity goal Monday score. of season) and Hayley Grif­ against Redford Union. The victory marked the Bunker assumed the goal­ fith, who had one helper. tending duties for the rest of

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL Trojans stay unbeaten in Pats, Chargers split exciting DH WWAC with shutout win By Ed Wright Staff Writer

Dan O'Meara In the semifinal game with Defense and pitching may Staff Writer Lakeview, the Trojans kept it win championships, but a close until the fifth inning. The heavy dose of both couldn’t Junior Ryan Menifee played Huskies scored three runs and push the Franklin or Churchill two pivotal roles in Livonia added four more in the sev­ baseball teams to a sweep of Clarenceville’s 2-0 victory over enth. The winners collected 12 Tliesday’s make-up double- visiting Redford Thurston in a hits - five for extra bases. header on the Chargers’ dia­ Western Wayne Athletic Con­ “The Huskies bunted and mond. ference baseball game Mon­ ran the hit-and-run very well,” In a twinbill dominated by day. Cotter said. “We had our incredible pitching and air­ Menifee was the winning chances, but base-running tight defense, Churchill pitcher, striking out 14 oppos­ mistakes and untimely errors earned a 2-1 walk-off victory ing batters, and scored the on routine balls in the field in game one before Franklin winning run after leading off killed us today. nailed down a 1-0 triumph in the bottom of the sixth inning “I really like our team and the nightcap. with a triple. we’re headed in the right direc­ The results left the Patriots “Ryan had a great game, to tion. This was our first loss in with a 12-5 overall m ark and say the least,” coach Craig the last four games, so we are 6-2 record in the KLAA Ken­ Cotter said. “He only threw 80 making progress.” sington Conference. pitches and pounded the strike Freshman Nick Bisaro Both team s’ starting pitch­ zone. He simply overpowered pitched five strong innings. He ers - Rob Copciac of Churchill ED WRIGHT everyone he faced. gave up five runs on nine hits and Adrian Reed of Franklin - Franklin's Tyler Camp slides into third base during the sixth inning “Everyone contributed. Our and struck out five. were lights-out good in the Tuesday afternoon. guys were patient at the plate “Nick is averaging over a opener, which wasn’t decided and got Thurston’s pitch count strikeout an inning,” Cotter until the bottom of the sev­ up. It was a great game to be a said. “He loves to compete.” enth when Joe Hattley singled three innings. part of.” In the East Detroit game, in pinch-runner Connor Paw- Cougars pitchers Jassen The Eagles threatened in the the Trojans scored four runs in lak with the game-winning Matuscak and Alex Centofanti top of the fifth. With two outs the fourth inning to take a 9-8 run. did not allow a base-runner. and runners on first and sec­ lead. The Shamrocks tied the Copciac opened the frame Matuscak tossed two innings, ond, right fielder Adam Sade game in the bottom of the with a single before getting striking out four, while Cento­ fielded a base hit and made a fourth. replaced by Pawlak. Mitch fanti struck out the side in the one-hop throw to cut down the Menifee preserved the tie in James then sacrificed the third. lead runner at the plate to keep the fifth with a pick-off move runner to second, setting up Offensively, the winners the game scoreless. to second base. Hattley’s heroics. were powered by Adam In the bottom of the sixth, “Ryan noticed the runner Churchill jumped in front Crunk (two hits, three runs), Menifee scored as a result of a was taking a huge lead and he 1-0 in the first when Steve Travis Kidd (two hits, five wild throw on a ball hit to spun and got him by five feet,” Szymanski singled, moved to RBI), Trent Wallace (two-run shortstop by Justin Kelley. Cotter said. second on James Rintala’s ED WRIGHT double, three runs), Dakoda Ronnie Topolewski walked Menifee struck out the next sacrifice bunt and scored on Churchill's Rob Copciac delivers a Daroeha (hit by pitch three and Matt Drain laid down a batter and got the final out on a Jon Hovermale’s single. pitch during Tuesday's times, three runs) and Ma­ bunt to move both runners. weak grounder to short. In control throughout, double-header against Franklin. tuscak, who had a hit and two Mitch Kubiak delivered a Kam Maclver started the Copciac didn’t allow more RBI. pinch-hit single to get an insur­ game; Zach Richards pitched than one Patriot to reach base ance run. long relief before Menifee until the sixth when Tyler first batter he faced reached Novi blanks Franklin “Mitch has been struggling entered the game to close it Camp singled with one out, on an error and moved up to The Wildcats scored all of at the plate, but I told him to be out. stole second and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt, but the game’s runs in the third ready,” Cotter said. “If we got The Trojans got on the board third on a high throw from the the Patriots ended the game inning of their 3-0 victory guys in scoring position, I first with a two-out double by catcher. Ryan Prohaska then with a 5-3 double-play with over visiting Franklin Mon­ wanted him to hit and he deliv­ Drain in the first inning. Kelley launched a double up the left- Chargers on first and second day afternoon. ered.” also had a two-run single in the center field gap to plate and one out. Bobby Mandrink was the The Trojans were 3-0 in the third. Camp. hard-luck loser for the Patri­ conference and were sched­ “Justin and Matt have been With the score deadlocked Warriors ground Eagles ots, yielding just four hits uled Wednesday to play Red­ really hitting the ball with at 1-1, Hovermale led off the twice over 6 innings. He walked two ford Union. authority over the last four bottom of the sixth with a Lutheran Westland’s bats and struck out three. In tournament play Sat­ games,” Cotter said. double, but Reed retired the were smoking during Sat­ “We had runners in scoring urday at St. Clair Shores Lake- Bisaro drove in two runs, next three batters on a pop­ urday’s double-header sweep position a few times, but we view, Clarenceville lost to the too. Kelley ended up with two up, ground-out and strike-out. of host Redford Thurston. couldn’t get the big two-out host Huskies, 9-0, and tied hits. Bobby Jaber had a hit, Copciac gave up just five The Warriors won the hit,” said Franklin head coach Eastpointe East Detroit, 9-9. walk and sacrifice fly. hits while striking out six. opener, 12-2, before taking the Matt Fournier. < Reed struck out three and nightcap, 10-2. Mitch Gonyaw ripped two was aided by a slick 1-2-3 Brandon Ruelle spearhead­ of the Patriots’ five hits. double-play in the third. ed the winners’ offense in Franklin committed three HIGH SCHOOL GOLF Recent junior-varsity call­ game one with a 4-for-4 effort errors. up Harrison M errill was that included three runs and On Saturday, the Patriots Franklin’s star in game two as three RBI. Nate Abbot earned split a double-header at Dear­ Franklin, Stevenson card wins he blanked the Chargers on the mound win with four in­ born Edsel Ford, dropping the just five hits over 5/3 innings. nings of solid work, striking opener, 7-6, before bouncing By Ed Wright Chiefs trump Chargers Jay Hopson picked up a out three with four walks. back to claim game two, 12-2. Staff Writer hard-earned save when he Evan Zagata pitched a perfect Ryan Prohaska (3-for-4, Donnie Trosper fired a 33 to took over for M errill in the fifth for LW. three RBI), Mandrink (2- Livonia Franklin defeated lead Canton to a 138-183 victory sixth with the bases loaded Drake Snyder went 2-for-5 for-3) and Adrian Reed (2- Wayne Memorial, 177-241, over Churchill in a match and one out. He struck out the with two RBI in the nightcap. for-3, RBI) led the Patriots. Tuesday afternoon. played at Fox Hills in Ply­ first two batters he faced to Gonyaw earned the win by Matt Wiebelhaus led the mouth Township. escape the jam. GC cruises pitching a solid first four Patriots with a nine-hole round Also scoring for Canton Hopson was also Houdini- On Friday, Garden City innings. Jay Hopson tossed a of 43. Also contributing to the were Brian Oldani (34), Chris esque in the seventh as the thrashed Hamtramck, 15-0, in perfect fifth. winners’ cause were Jacob Dooley (35) and Noah Lindl- Kenward (44), Will Hettel (45), bauer (36). Zach Nelson (45) and Jerem y Sam Spayd was low man for Haist (45). Trevor Van Vliet’s the Chargers with a 41. John 58 did not count toward the Doyle shot a 46, Petyon Elkins scoring. a 47 and Griffin Ahmet and COLLEGE BASEBALL John Hicks led the Zebras Logan Welch both 49 for Chur­ with a 58. Also scoring for chill. Chase Fallu shot a 53 for Northwestern Ohio takes twinbill from Madonna Wayne were Nick Jefferson Churchill. and Cameron Salt, both of By Brad Emons one run on five hits and a each had an RBI for the Rac­ whom shot 60; and Daniel Kos- GC victorious Staff Writer walk while striking out six. ers. ick (63). Zachery Boland fired Garden City defeated Dear­ Losing pitcher Adam Madonna closes out the born Fordson, 136-182, on Mon­ a 64 while Jacob Sterling card­ What started out as a prom­ Prashad (6-2) was charged regular season Wednesday ed a 68. day. ising weekend ended with two with four earned runs on six and Thursday at Ilitch Ball­ Leading the Cougars were losses Sunday for the third- hits and a walk in just 2/3 in­ park with a big four-game set Spartans prevail Jarid Latham, who shot a one- place Madonna University nings. Reliever Zack against first-place Davenport Livonia Stevenson defeated over-par 31, Joe Pummill (33), baseball team, which was Schmidtke fared no better (44-6,27-4), which is ranked South Lyon, 169-180, in a KLAA Juston Bastion (35), Connor swept by host University of allowing five earned runs on No. 7 in the latest NAIA Johnson and Austin New (37s), Central match Tuesday after­ Northwestern Ohio, 9-1 and eight hits and three walks Coaches poll. Both double- and Evan Breen, who turned in noon. 3-0. over the next 4% innings. headers start at 2 p.m. The Spartans were incred­ a 39. The Cougars’ fourth The No. 16-ranked Racers, Chase Dobbie colllected ibly consistent with all six straight victory improved who lost Saturday to MU, 5-4, the lone RBI for Madonna. M ADONNA 5, N'W ESTERN OHIO 4: On varsity players scoring be­ their record to 4-1 overall and Saturday, the Crusaders (34-11, 24-4) rallied for improved to 37-10 overall and In game two, Northwestern three runs in the top of the ninth inning to upset tween 41 and 44. 3-0 in the WWAC. 25-4 in the Wolverine-Hoosier starter Ryan Burns (7-1) went the Racers (35-10, 23-4). Jon McDonald paced the The victory was a milestone Athletic Conference and re­ the first five innings and com­ Levi Larmour's 2-run single in the top of the ninth winners with a 41, one shot for GC head coach Ron Pum­ put the Madonna ahead to stay. main in second place. bined on the shutout with Ryan Lambrecht went 2-for-5 with an RBI, while better than Alex Hunt’s 42. mill, who now has 200 wins Madonna, meanwhile, falls reliever Ryan Carter on a John Lauro and Taylor Grzelakowski also knocked in Hyder Mansour, Ben Zammit over his 25-year head-coaching runs for the victorious Crusaders. to 34-13 and 24-6. 4-hitter. Burns struck out five MU starting pitcher Evan Piechota (Livonia and Noah Papalardo all shot career. Rafael Lozada went 4-for-4 and walked one. Stevenson) allowed four earned runs on 11 hits an a 43’s. Kevin Collins turned in a “I would like to thank all the walk in seven innings. Patrick Wierimaa pitched a with two RBI in game one, Losing pitcher Alex scoreless eighth, while Bobby St. Pierre closed it out great players I have been priv­ 44. while Jose Cruz was 2-for-3 DeYonker (Livonia Franklin) in the ninth with his school-record 10th save, which Nick Stein led South Lyon ileged to coach,” Pummill said. with two RBI as the Racers gave up three earned runs on included a walk and a pair of strikeouts. with a 41. Also scoring for the “Their hard work and commit­ John Schreiber, who came on in relief of starter cruised to victory with a 15-hit five hits in five innings before Ryan Petrangelo in the ninth, suffered the loss as he ment to excellence has allowed gave up three earned runs, which included four Lions were Nate Copp (44), attack. giving way to Patrick Wieri- Evan Montieth (47) and CJ our program to be successful walks. Schreiber gave up just two runs on five hits Winning pitcher Ruben maa in the sixth. DeYonker and three walks. Hatton (48). and I appreciate them.” slipped to 5-3. Rafael Lozada hit a 2-run homer in a losing cause. Medina (7-2) went the first The second game was called because of rain. eight innings allowing just Zyler Cosby and Lozada [email protected]

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HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL Huron Valley derails Southfield Christian

Clarenceville upends Chargers 2-1 at own she yielded were tourney earned. Christensen Redford Thurston Livonia Churchill went 3-for-3 with an came within a two-run, RBI at the dish. By Ed Wright seventh-inning rally by Staff Writer Holt of going 3-0 at Trojans nudged Thurston Huron Valley Luther­ Saturday’s Churchill Clarenceville led an senior Julie St. John Invitational at Rotary Park. from start to finish was a two-way force Monday in its softball during Tuesday’s 14-0 The Chargers defeat­ gam e with Redford victory over Southfield ed Chelsea, 10-2, behind Thurston, but the 10-8 Christian. the robust hitting of victory was not certain On the mound, St. Madison Christensen, until the last out was John yielded just two who went 2-for-4 with a made. hits while striking out home run and six RBI. Senior pitcher Emily U. At the plate, she Victoria Lupher went 4-for-4 while Melanie Schwartz went the dis­ went 3-for-4 with a tri­ tance to lead the host ple and three RBI. Richardson was tough Trojans to their second The Hawks set the on the mound, limiting victory in six games. tone early with five Chelsea to five hits She limited the Ea­ first-inning runs while striking out eight. gles to five hits, struck against losing pitcher Churchill defeated Farmington, 9-0, as out 15 and walked three. Em m a Paryaski. Schwartz managed to In addition to St. Christensen tossed a overcome five errors John, Bethany Schaffer five-hitter, striking out by the Clarenceville (4-for-4, RBI) and Jessie seven. The offensive defense. Strauch (2-for-3, home stars for the Chargers “Emily carried us run, three RBI) had w ere Regan Peyton and was determined to productive days for the (3-for-3, two runs), Richardson (3-for-4, two win,” coach Joe De- winners. Caire said. “Our offense “Julie pitched well runs), Colleen McGo­ stranded a number of tonight, and really kept wan (2-for-2, two RBI) base runners (nine), and their hitters off bal­ and Elyse Baumgard­ our defense has to im­ ance,” said HVL head ner, who went 2-for-3 prove if we are going to coach Eric Ruth. “I was with three RBI. be successful.” very happy with how The Rams spoiled The offense was led we hit as a team tonight. Churchill’s perfect day with a pair of runs in by senior Mia Sampson, We need to keep making who had two hits, in­ solid contact with the the top of the seventh. cluding a triple, was hit ball.” Richardson was stellar by a pitch, scored two HVL im proved to 5-4 on the mound, scatter­ runs and drove in two overall and 3-1 in the ing eight hits and a walk runs. conference. while fanning five in seven frames. Only Kylee Hammond, ED W R IG H T three of the four runs Nicole Scott and Allison Franklin senior pitcher Alaina DeFrain delivers a pitch Tuesday afternoon at Churchill. Szostak had two hits apiece, too. Scott had three RBI, Hammond The Chargers erupted ribbies. ABSTRACT two and Szostak one. SOFTBALL for eight runs in the Madison Christensen WAYNE CITY COUNCIL MEETING NO. Szostak also scored two bottom of the first of the was stellar in the circle 2015-08 runs and Hammond Continued from Page B1 second game and never for the Chargers, scat­ April 21, 2015 one. looked back. tering six hits and yield­ A Special Meeting of the City Council was held Tuesday, Thurston third base- Alyssa M azur then hit Peyton produced two ing no earned runs over April 21, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wayne Activity & Banquet man Ivory Mamo was a sharp ground ball to hits and four RBI, St. the five-inning contest. Center, 35000 Sims Ave. MEMBERS PRESENT Hawley, 3-for-3 with two triples, freshman shortstop Pierre’s box-score line Franklin’s lone run Monit, Damitio, Rowe, Rhaesa, Miller. MEMBERS ABSENT: a single and a walk. She Ashley Kent who calmly included four twos - came in the first when James. The Council recessed to a Closed Session at 7:02 scored two runs. secured the ball and at-bats, runs, hits and Brooke Garbarino p.m.; the City Council reconvened at 7:51 p.m.; Adjourned fired a strike to first to at 7:51 p.m. RBI - while Lupher went knocked in Kent. end the game. 3-for-3 with a trio of Matthew K. Miller ewright@hometownlife. com Publish: April 30, 2015______City Clerk LOJ000240369

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HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD Franklin boys out-sprint Plymouth

Vaunado (C), 40.89; 3. Bryan Eastman (C), P a tr io t girls win; 42.87. 800 run : 1. Cohan (LC), 2:02.37; 2. Dobar (LC), 2:04.88; 3. Meakin (LC), 2:06.88. Churchill t e a m s 200 d ash : 1. Mallad (C), 23.2; 2. Davis (C), 23.61; 3. John Everitt (C), 24.84. 3.200 ru n : 1. Zachary Clark (C), 10:41.02; sweep Canton 2. Tyler Opdyke (LC), 10:42.21; 3. Josh Mussen (LC), 10:43.51. 1.600 relay: 1. Canton (Vaunado, By Ed Wright Thornhill, Isaac Pennock, Moraw), 3:38.36; 2. Canton, 3:50.48. Staff Writer

Fueled by point lead­ Chargers girls blaze ers Nathan Rodgers and winning trail Jeremy Sheppard, Livo­ Livonia Churchill’s nia Franklin’s boys track- girls track-and-field team and-field team streaked upped its KLAA South past Plymouth, 85-52, Division record to 4-0 on Tuesday afternoon. TUesday with an emphat­ Both Rodgers and ic 93.75-43.25 victory at Sheppard won an event, Canton. finished second in anoth­ Junior sprinter Chanel er and contributed to two Gardner continued her first-place relay perfor­ impressive run through mances. the spring by winning the Overall, 17 athletes 100 (12.76) while senior participated in the Patri­ teammate Odili Onwu- ots’ triumph. Franklin diwe took the 200 (27.52). improved to 2-1-1. LIVONIA CHURCHILL 93.75, CANTON 43.25 FRANKLIN 85, PLYMOUTH 52 S h o t p ut: 1. Emily Meier (C), 41-0; 2. S h o t p ut: 1. Michael Jordan (P), 48 feet, 8 Garbrielle Cater (LC), 36-6; 3. Elisabeth inches; 2. Matt Wayne (P), 41-2; 3. Joe Schenk (LC), 31-4.5. Alarcon (F), 40-1. D iscu s: 1. Meier (C), 126-3; 2. Carter (LC), D iscu s: 1. Jordan (P), 146-5; 2. Dan 122-2; 3. Melissa Fular (LC), 92-7. Domzalski (F), 125-11; 3. Wayne (P), 108-5.5. P o le v a u lt: 1. Olivia Ryktarsyk (LC), 11-1; P ole v a u lt: 1. Drew Niemiec (F), 10-6; 2. 2. Alexann Zahara (LC), 9-0; 3. Ashley Ethan Nordstrom (F), 10-0; 3. Kevin McGre­ Rebain (LC), 8-0. gor (P), 9-6. Lo n g ju m p : 1. Juliet Hope (LC), 16-0.5; 2. Lo n g ju m p : 1. Charles Keith (F), 18-7; 2. Emma Rimatzki (LC), 14-8.75; 3. Grace Jacob Kast (F), 18-2.5; 3. Filey (P), 18-1.5. Grimes (C), 14-4. H i g h j u m p : 1. Nathan Harris (P), 6-2; 2. H igh ju m p : 1. Hope (LC), 5-2; 2. Ryan Charles Keith (F),-5-6; 3. Cory Linsner (F), Sparks (C), 4-10; 3. Alexis Panizzoli (C), 4-6. 5-6. 3.200 relay: 1. Churchill (Alexis Lombar­ 3,200-m eter relay: 1. Plymouth, do, Raquel Zwick, Megan Gendjar, Gabrielle 9:10.90; 2. Franklin, 9:14.90. Swider), 10:56.92; 2. Canton, 11:12.09. 110 h u rd le s: 1. Jeremy Sheppard (F), 16.5; 100 h u rd le s: 1. Kourtney Strong (LC), 2. Ian H ogg (F), 17.2; 3. Jake Sarafian (P), 18.04; 2. Lauren Kucharczylf(LC), 19.0; 3. 19.6. Rachel Socha (C), 19.28. 100 d ash : 1. Brandon Smiley (F), 11.3; 2. 100 d ash : 1. Chanel Gardner (LC), 12.76; Nathan Rodgers (F), 11.4; 3. Victor Abraham 2. Odili Onwudiwe (LC), 13.30; 3. Jessica (P), 11.4. Krone (C), 13.42. 8 00 re lay: 1. Franklin (Sheppard, Smiley, 800 relay: 1. Canton (Marissa Gubacz, Matt Wirick, Keenan Jones), 1:35.9; 2. Imani Askew, Kelsea Kernosek, Krone), Plymouth, 1:39.20. 1:59.25. 1.600 run : 1. Matthew Pahl (P), 4:31.80; 2. 1.600 run : 1. Kathleen George (LC), Tony Floyd (F), 4:36.9; 3. Byrnes (P), 4:48.9. 5:35.06; 2. Christina Murphy (LC), 5:43.44; 4 00 re lay : 1. Franklin (Sheppard, Rodgers, 3. Allison Putz (C), 5:45.20. Wirick, Jacob Clark), 45.4; 2. Plymouth, 46.5. 400 relay: 1. Churchill (AnnaMarie 4 0 0 d a s h : 1. Jonny Dalton (P), 51.1; 2. Lumetta, Onwudiwe, Emma Rimatzki, Jones (F), 52.4; 3. Smiley (F), 53.4. Jessica Parks), 51.15; 2. Canton, 52.15. 300 h urdles: 1. Hogg (F), 44.7; 2. 400 d ash : 1. Sarah Plant (C), 1:01.8; 2. Sheppard (F), 45.9; 3. Linsner (F), 46.8. Nicole Gilbert (C), 1:04.59; 3. Sydney Good 800 ru n : 1. Byrnes (P), 2:09.9; 2. Macias (0,1:05.78. (P), 2:13.10; 3. Takuma Minami (F), 2:16.10. 300 h urdles: 1. Ryan Sparks (C), 53.48; 2. 200 d ash : 1. Rodgers (F), 23.7; 2. Clark (F), Mikaila Murphy (LC), 54.49; 3. Strong (LC), 24.3; 3. Jones (F), 24.6. Franklin's Drew Niemiec won the pole vault competition Tuesday against Plymouth. 55.65. 3,200 ru n : 1. Pahl (P), 10:09.8; 2. Floyd (F), 800 run : 1. Swider (LC), 2:28.65; 2. 10:49.2; 3. Nathan McCall (F), 11:13.7. Gendjar (LC), 2:30.07; 3. Samantha McGrath 1.600 re lay: 1. Franklin (Hogg, Wirick, 1,600 re lay : 1. Franklin (Hille, Jacobs, H igh ju m p : 1. Tim Dulin (LC), 5-8; 2. Brett Romain, Yetts, Smith), 1:33.9; 2. Canton, (C), 2:34.78. Rodgers, Jones), 3:38.8; 2. Plymouth, 13-11.5. Sh o t p ut: 1. Sophia Modes (F), 32-6; 2. Mavin, Wonch), 4:15.9; 2. Plymouth, 4:24.8. Lee (C), 5-8; 3. Alec MacDonald (C), 5-8. 1:34.5. 200 d ash: 1. Onwudiwe (LC), 27.52; 2. 3:40.80. Alexis Browning (F), 30-2; 3. Elise Wehmer 3,200 re lay : 1. Churchill (Jon Alessandrini, 1,600 run: 1. Dobar (LC), 4:44.52; 2. Matt Krone (C), 27.76; 3. Askew (C), 28.26. (P), 28-9. Brendan Meakin, Frank LaFave, Dobar), Cohan (LC), 4:46.41; 3. Michael Roberts (C), 3.200 run: 1. Kathleen George (LC), Franklin girls cage D iscu s: 1. Modes (F), 94-6; 2. Browning Churchill boys win 8:46.15; 2. Canton, 8:53.37. 4:46.70. 12:29.16; 2. Murphy (LC), 12:54.13; 3. Putz (F), 88-6; 3. Nadia Lengel (P), 83-9. 110 h u rd le s: 1. Dulin (LC), 16.7; 2. Jemal 4 0 0 re lay: 1. Churchill (Dulin, Lockett, (0,13:41.47. Wildcats 3.200 re lay: 1. Franklin (Ellary Marano, The Chargers surged Vaunado (C), 16.8; 3. Ryan Bragiel (tC), 17.4. Romain, Yetts), 43.3; 2. Canton. 1.600 re lay: 1. Churchill (Lumetta, Raquel Livonia Franklin’s Mandy Pokryfky, Paityn Santi, Katelyn to an 80-57 victory over 100 d ash : 1. Jacob Mallad (C), 11.57; 2. 400 d ash : 1. Jamal Allen (LC), 49.92; 2. Zwick, Gendjar, Swider), 4:26.24; 2. Canton, Kovach), 1F), 0:33.0; 2. Plymouth, 10:56.5. Darren Davis (C), 11.64; 3. Carrington Smith Caleb Moraw (C), 50.83; 3. Dirk Thornhill 4:31.28. girls team improved to 100 h u rd le s: 1. Aubrey Mavin (F), 16.2; 2. host Canton on TUesday. (LC), 11.66. (C), 51.55. 4-0 in the KLAA South Kirsty Mdnnes (P), 17.3; 3. Nadie Salamey Among the highlights 800 re lay: 1. Churchill (Dulin, Paul 300 h urdles: 1. Dulin (LC), 40.7; 2. (P), 17.4. Division with Tuesday’s 100 d ash : 1. Ryen Draper (P), 12.7; 2. for Churchill were Jamal 83-54 victory over Ply­ Bryah White (F), 12.9; 3. Victoria Richardson Allen’s victory in the CITY OF WESTLAND (F), 13.7. mouth. 800 re lay: 1. Plymouth, 1:47.2; 2. Franklin, 400-meter dash (49.92 SYNOPSIS OF MINUTES “A lot of kids really 2:00.8. seconds) and Dash Do- MTG. 8 4/20/15 stepped up today to get 1,600 run: 1. Natalie Douglas (F), 5:43.5; bar’s first-place effort in 2. Marano (F), 5:43.7; 3. Emma Radke (P), Presiding; President Godbout the points we needed to 6:09.0. the 1,600-meter run Present: Bryant, Coleman, Hammons, Johnson, Kehrer, Reeves win,” said Franklin head 400 re lay: 1. Franklin (Mavin, Jenna (4:44.52). Jacobs, Richardson, White), 53.1; 2. Ply­ 46: Appr. minutes of regular meeting held 4/6/15. coach Dave Bjorklund. mouth, 54.5. LIVONIA CHURCHILL 80, - Appr. USA Fireworks temp structures at various locations 6/23-7/7/15. “We definitely bounced 400 d ash : 1. Jewel Davis (P), 58.6; 2. C A N T O N 5 7 - Appr. North Bros./Ford/City of Westland 5K Run/Walk 5/16/15. W onch (F), 1:00.1; 3. Draper (P), 1:00.3. S h o t p u t: 1. Collin Caflisch (C), 45-11; 2. back after a disappoint­ 300 h urdles: 1 Mavin (F), 49.1; 2. Demarco McKinney (LC), 44-4; 3. Michael - Appr. WWFA Charity Boot Drive 4/23-25 Wayne & Ford Rds. ing city meet on Friday.” Mdnnes (P), 50.1; 3. Aleah Rogalski (P), Grabda (LC), 43-7. - Appr. Construct Contract for PD Renovations. 52.7. D iscu s: 1. McKinney (LC), 143-0; 2. Caflisch FRANKLIN 83, PLYMOUTH 54 - Appr. Settlement Agrmnt. w/Toter LLC for replacement of waste carts. 8 00 ru n : 1. Douglas (F), 2:33.8; 2. Foster (C), 138-2; 3. Austin Simpson (LC), 127-3. P o le v a u lt: 1. Kayla Janevski (P), 10-8; 2. (P), 2:36.5; 3. Camryn Zurawski (F), 2:38.9. P o le v a u lt: 1. Theodore Lang (C), 14-0; 2. - Appr. WC Subrecipient Agrmtn. for T. Gist Academy. Emily Caragay (P), 9-6; 3. Hailey Metz (P), 8-6. 200 d ash : 1. Davis (P), 25.7; 2. White (F), Ethan Burke (LC), 13-6; 3. Andrew Koenig- - Appr. Rental Agrmnt. w/Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency for rental of 3 26.6; 3. Wonch (F). 26.9. sknecht (C),13-0. H igh ju m p : 1. Julie Wonch (F), 5-2; 2. Kat classrooms at JBCVC. 3 .2 0 0 r u n : 1. Marano (F), 12:59.4; 2. Lo n g jum p : 1. Shakur Lockett (LC), Harris (P), 5-0; 3. Bailey Brown (P), 4-8. - Appr. 1 yr. MSB contract for Park Ranger services; amt; $60,000. Pokryfky (F), 13:02.3; 3. Domzalski (F), 20-7.5; 2. Lee Yetts (LC), 19-1; 3. Dash Dobar Lo n g ju m p : 1. Anna Lukens (P), 15-7; 2. 13:43.6. (LC), 19-0.5. - Appr. Official Payments Svcs. Agrmnt. for City’s credit card processor. Mikaela Hille (F), 15-0.5; 3. Hailey Foster (P), - Appr. & adopt Resolution authorizing 2015 General Obligation Capital Improvement Bonds for City’s water & sewer system. 47: Close Public Hearing on CDBG XLI. City of Livonia: Regular Meeting Synopsis: 4/01/2015 48: Appr. Rev. Site Plan for prop, seating addition for Texas Road House, 36750 Ford Rd. w/ Present: Toy, Scheel, Nash, Kritzman, Pastor, Meakin, Brosnan contingencies. Absent: None 49: Appr. Spec. Land Use for prop. Mad Professor Customs & Hot Rods, 5747 Executive Dr. Public Hearings Announced - Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 7PM with the subject of a request 50: Appr. Spec. Land Use for prop. Body Art Studio, 1939 N. Wayne Rd. to approve an Industrial Facilities Tax Exemption Certificate from McLaren Performance 51: Appr. prop. Land Div. PID #028-04-0043-002 & 028-02-0005-000, 5000 N. Hix Rd. Technologies, 33233 W. Eight Mile Road. 52: Appr. checklist: $2,436,127.32. Items were received and filed. Mtg. adj. at 8:15 p.m. #82-15 Approving the minutes of meeting on 03/16/15. Minutes available in the Clerk’s Office. #83-15 No further action on the request to adopt an ordinance prohibiting delivery of unsolicited papers/ads. James Godbout Eileen DeHart-Schoof, CMC Council President City Clerk #84-15 Request Law Department to draft a letter to media outlets regarding their business LO-0000240273 practices. Publish: April 30, 2015 #85-15 Accepting the bid of Corporate Dining Concepts for LCRC beverage and snack vending services. INVITATION TO BID #86-15 Accepting the bid of Advantage Marketing Solutions, LLC for ad solicitation for the “L” Magazine. BID NUMBER T5 DOCUMENT CAMERAS #87-15 Accepting the bid of Jacobsen-Great Lakes for one golf course greens mower for Fox FOR Creek Golf Course. LIVONIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS #88-15 Accepting the bid of Direct Fitness Solutions, LLC for exercise equipment for the Department of Parks and Recreation. The Livonia Public Schools Board of Education (“Owner”) will receive firm, sealed Bid #89-15 Accepting the bid of Star Trac, for exercise equipment for the Department of Parks Proposals for all labor, materials, equipment and all other services to complete the and Recreation. Technology Document Cameras bid package. #90-15 Accepting the bid of All Pro Exercise, for exercise equipment for the Department of Bid Documents can be obtained on or after April 27, 2015 from ARC (1009 W. Maple Road Parks and Recreation. Clawson, Michigan 48017, phone: 248.288.5600, website: www.e-arc.com/mi/clawson), and #91-15 Authorizing the Director of Finance and the Director of Public Works to prepare bid will only be available through electronic downloads. If hard copies of documents are needed, specification and bids for solid waste/recycling services. they will be printed at the bidder’s expense. Meeting adjourned at 7:30 p.m. Sealed bids labeled, “BID NO. T5 - Document Cameras” are due by 11:00 a.m. on the 14th Full text of the official minutes available in the Office of the City Clerk. day of May, 2015, at the Board of Education complex, 15125 Farmington Road, Livonia, Susan A. Hoff Michigan, at which time all bids will be publicly opened and read. Mailed bids should be sent Livonia City Clerk to the attention of Nick Armelagos, Administrator of Finance, Livonia Public Schools, 15125 Publish: April 30, 2015______LO-0000240300 3X4 Farmington Road, Livonia, Michigan, 48154. No bids will be accepted after the date and time specified. Oral, telephone, fax, or electronic mail bids are invalid and will not receive consideration. All vendors are invited to attend opening. Bid Proposals received after the due PUBLIC MEETING date will not be considered or accepted. Livonia Public Schools is not liable for any delivery or LIVONIA BOARD OF ETHICS postal delays. TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2015 There will be no Pre-Bid Meeting. Questions pertaining to this RFP should be 6:30 P.M. submitted by 12:00 noon May 6, 2015 to [email protected] or kevin. [email protected]. Livonia City Hall 4th Floor Conference Room The Board of Education reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, either in 33000 Civic Center Drive whole or in part: to award to other than the low bidder: to waive any irregularities and/ Livonia, MI 48154 or informalities: and in general to make awards in any manner deemed to be in the best BOARD MEMBERS: Richard W. McDowell, Chairperson interests of the district, including awarding by line item, with rationale to support such a Hon. Jam es R. McCann, Vice-Chairperson decision. Livonia Public Schools local preference resolution will be followed for all proposals. Audrey E. Greenleaf, Secretary All bidders must complete the following disclosure in compliance with MCL 380.1267 Jacob S. Ghannam and attach this information to the hid. The bid proposal will be accompanied by a sworn Lora Weingarden statement disclosing any familial relationship that exists between the owner or any employee of the bidder and any member of the Livonia Public Schools Board, the Livonia Telephone No. (734) 466-2520 Public Schools Superintendent or the Livonia Public Schools Director of Business Services, THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED AND ARE REQUESTED TO ATTEND: City Wayne RESA Board or the Superintendent of Wayne RESA. The District will not accept a bid Attorney proposal that does not include this sworn and notarized disclosure statement. THIS IS AN OPEN MEETING ZAND ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE WELCOME TO ZU1 bids must be accompanied by a sworn and notarized affidavit of compliance - Iran ATTEND. Economics Sanctions Act of 2012. No bid shall be accepted that does not include this sworn and notarized statement. 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NO PLACE LIKE HOME Court rejects fair housing claim on parking

Q: Do you think a fair housing violation occurs when a disabled unit owner seeks permission to park in a handicap parking space that is a limited common ele­ ment of another unit? A: Not necessarily, because the association may have not have had a right to take the assigned park­ ing of another unit owner. In a related case out of Virginia, the condominium at issue con­ tained under­ ground parking garages, and four of the spaces were identified as handicap parking RICHREALTY spaces. In 1995, The Greenwich Circle home's exterior is inviting. the developer conveyed each Robert parking space as a Meisner limited common element for the exclusive use of the unit owner of Canton home offers relaxed, each of the four condominium units. In 2007, a husband and wife contracted to buy a unit. Prior to closing, the couple received a easy lifestyle with a view parking diagram showing the four handicap spaces, and also showing the four spaces were limited com­ By Julie Brown mon elements assigned to individ­ Staff Writer ual unit owners. The couple viewed the parking space assigned Canton is a booming community, and to their unit, saw it was not a a home at 48566 Greenwich Circle in handicap space and would not the township shows why. meet their needs, (the husband The home was listed at $389,990 by suffering from severe osteoarthri­ RichRealty of Plymouth with Realtor tis), but did not inquire about David Fletcher, and has drawn an offer. handicap parking availability prior “It’s a m ajestic looking home,” to closing. Fletcher said. “Not much sells in there. Soon after closing, the husband People just move in and they stay.” notified the condominium man­ The home is south of Cherry Hill and ager that he could not park his van west of Beck Road, and in the Ply- in his parking space and that he mouth-Canton school district. It was required a larger parking space in built in 2001. a better location. The manager “You can see the golf course,” stated he could not do this since all Fletcher said of the nearby Pheasant of the spaces were individually Run course. “The property backs right owned, but that the new unit owner up to the pond area. It’s a really nice could trade spaces with another setting.” owner, provided they were willing The colonial home has four bed­ to do so. The manager offered to rooms and two and a half bathrooms. post a flier on a community bulle­ There’s a nice-sized patio for relax­ tin board to promote the husband’s ing. There are hardwood floors interest in wanting to trade park­ throughout the first and second story. RICHREALTY ing spaces. The m aster bedroom suite is good- The Canton home's kitchen features an island and granite counters. The husband filed fair housing sized, and the glamour bathroom is complaints. After this, one of the praised by RichRealty. handicap parking space owners The kitchen has granite counters with a newer washer and dryer also Taxes are lower in Canton Township expressed a willingness to license and a large island. It also has upgraded staying, Fletcher added. than Plymouth, too, he noted. “They get the use of his handicap space to kitchen cabinets, he said. There’s a three-car attached garage, all the benefits of the communities,” he the disabled husband, but the hus­ The stainless steel appliances in the as well as a family room, living room said of Canton residents. band rejected the offer because kitchen will stay, he said, and are only and dining room. Fletcher noted the extensive up­ the parking space owner demand­ about a year old. “There’s actually Fletcher agreed Canton is booming, grades include crown molding and ed the right to reclaim the parking three ovens in the kitchen. The kitchen noting the Plymouth-Canton schools wainscoting on the lower part of walls. space if the unit was sold, or if he is very large.” bring in buyers. “That’s just such a acquired a tenant who needed a There’s a second floor laundry room positive,” he said. [email protected] handicap parking space. The trial court granted judg­ ment to the association, finding no fair housing violation, and the HOMES SOLD/REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS-OAKLAND COUNTY association appealed, but the ap­ peals court upheld the result, not­ These are the area residential real 1949 Devonshire Rd $125,000 27340 Crestwood Dr $383,000 24487 Olde Orchard St $108,000 ing among other things that lim­ estate closings recorded the week 2110 Eagle Pointe $215,000 30380 Kincardine Rd $695,000 24730 Olde Orchard St $100,000 ited common elements, (including o f Dec. 1-5, 2014, at th e Oakland 6785 Halyard Rd $425,000 HIGHLAND 1795 Paramount St $98,000 handicap parking spaces) can only County Register of Deeds office. 3823 Quarton Rd $240,000 3390 Kingsway Dr $305,000 24636 Picara Dr $300,000 be reassigned if all property own­ Listed below are cities, addresses, 1806 S Hill Blvd $150,000 2624 Lynch $320,000 24906 Reeds Pointe Dr $440,000 ers affected by the reassignment 4113 Telegraph Rd # $70,000 and sales prices. 2145 Middle Rd $200,000 49667 Timber Trl $459,000 consent. A-214 170 N Milford Rd $87,000 39728 Village Wood Cir $84,000 Q: Can an association's letter BEVERLY HILLS 2555 Vhay Ln $764,000 3409 Taggett Lake Dr $225,000 24296 W arrington Ct $400,000 of intent between two associa­ 17560 Birwood Ave $315,000 COMMERCE TOWNSHIP 3819 Woodland Dr $230,000 41778 Webster Ct $185,000 16099 Buckingham Ave $220,000 682 Cranbourne St $136,000 2007 W oodridge Ct $175,000 SOUTH LYON tions be an enforceable con­ 22045 Valley Oaks Dr $525,000 8837 Edgewood Park Dr $675,000 LATHRUP VILLAGE 1369 Cartwright Ln $340,000 tract? 17295 W 14 Mile Rd $153,000 4973 Fairgrove Ln $302,000 18550 Lincoln Dr $155,000 864 Challenging Trl $175,000 A: Yes, provided it includes all 32840 Wentworth St $230,000 1703 Trace Hollow Dr $313,000 18544 Wiltshire Blvd $130,000 25725 Coach Ln $370,000 the material terms of agreement, 30335 Woodhaven Ln $365,000 1444 Vanstone Dr $105,000 MILFORD 412 Lyon Ct $138,000 and provided these terms are defi­ BINGHAM FARMS FARMINGTON 636 Crawford Farm Ln $390,000 776 Norchester St $199,000 nite. 23860 Overlook Cir $280,000 33702 James Ct $187,000 597 Dorchester Way $246,000 1121 Paddock Dr $227,000 In a case recently decided, a BIRMINGHAM 24010 Pickett Ave $116,000 1543 Fairfax Ct $490,000 SOUTHFIELD condominium association filed a 410 Bennaville Ave $265,000 33309 Shiawassee Rd $275,000 1151 Holden Ave $260,000 18255 Adrian St $181,000 lawsuit seeking a determination it 1525 Cole St $232,000 FARMINGTON HILLS 3951 Lone Tree Rd $140,000 25247 Catalina St $105,000 was the owner of several parking 2260 Derby Rd $280,000 33835 Brittany Dr $275,000 1475 Oak Hollow Dr $520,000 29766 Fall River Rd $130,000 spaces located between its units 1584 Dorchester Rd $620,000 37690 Burton Dr $265,000 334 S Houghton St $400,000 18780 Hilton Dr $105,000 and adjacent townhouses constitu­ 1592 E Lincoln St $175,000 36991 Driftwood $188,000 136 Turnberry Ct $278,000 17261 Madison St $195,000 ting part of a homeowner’s associa­ 1524 Fairway Dr $335,000 28363 Farmington Rd $167,000 NORTHVILLE 30780 Northgate Dr $165,000 tion. The condominium association 1048 Ridgedale Ave $418,000 30522 Fox Club Dr $394,000 21399 Bridle Run $200,000 28705 Pierce St $9,000 argued it believed it held title to 1145 S Eton St $250,000 26730 Greythorne Trl $189,000 41772 Broquet Dr $156,000 28705 Pierce St $31,000 411 S Old W oodw ard $260,000 22115 Haynes Ave $15,000 44428 Cottisford St $372,000 22505 Providence Dr # $67,000 the parking spaces for over 20 Ave Unit 823 23409 Haynes St $85,000 43750 Dorisa Ct $203,000 201 years, and that even though it did 2020 W Lincoln St $600,000 29868 High Valley Ct $290,000 42106 Roscommon St $119,000 20069 Secluded Ln $80,000 not hold actual title, it acquired 323 Wimbleton Dr $443,000 36601 Howard Rd $380,000 20970 Turnberry Blvd $1,650,000 30248 Southfield Rd # $34,000 title through adverse possession, BLOOMFIELD HILLS 36846 Kenmore Dr $340,000 842 Yorktown Ct $144,000 A181 and if not, that it had obtained an 1535 Lone Pine Rd $467,000 22801 Middlebelt Rd $118,000 NOVI 30058 Sparkleberry Dr $369,000 easement for their use. 2364 Mulberry Rd $200,000 23179 Middlebelt Rd $84,000 43100 12 Oaks Crescent $175,000 22041 Twyckingham $186,000 As trial approached, the parties 4961 Dryden Ln $440,000 34999 Pennington Dr $200,000 Dr # 6022 W ay entered into negotiations, and 726 Parkman Dr $634,000 30465 Ramblewood $245,000 24839 Acorn Trl $873,000 17521 Westland Ave $100,000 represented to the court that they 5490 Shadow Ln $355,000 Club Dr 43358 Ashbury Dr $370,000 24275 Woodland Dr $143,000 had come to an agreement in prin­ 1906 Sherwood Gin $550,000 21612 Rockwell St $169,000 28288 Carlton Way Dr $213,000 WHITE LAKE ciple, but needed more time to 2256 Sudbury Way $635,000 32492 Shady Ridge Dr $298,000 24356 Cavendish Ave E $485,000 8961 El Dorado Dr $318,000 memorialize the terms of the 3 Vaughan Xing $1,210,000 29731 Sierra Point Cir $188,000 20886 Dundee Dr $470,000 8830 Twin Lakes Dr $298,000 agreement, including a lease for 99 122 W Hickory Grove Rd $97,000 24132 Tana Ct $135,000 28989 Hearthstone Dr $312,000 years. The condominium associa­ BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP 28434 W ildwood Trl $205,000 185 Maudlin St $245,000 1382 Bramblebush Run $260,000 FRANKLIN 51291 Mayfair Ter $291,000 tion and the homeowner’s associa­ tion signed a letter of intent, but problems later developed, and the homeowner’s association asked the court to enforce the letter of in­ HOMES SOLD/REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS-WAYNE COUNTY tent. The trial court found an en­ forceable contract existed and had These are the area residential real 31170 Block St $66,000 15905 Stamford St $123,000 26215 Ivanhoe $150,000 to be enforced, and the appeals estate closings recorded the week 32544 James St $102,000 NORTHVILLE WESTLAND court upheld the decision. of Dec. 22-26, 2014, at the Wayne 350 N Leona Ave $80,000 17189 Briar Ridge Ct $606,000 32651 Benson Dr $137,000 LIVONIA 17527 Farmcrest Ln $377,000 35231 Bock St $116,000 County Register of Deeds office. Robert M. Meisner is a lawyer and the Listed below are cities, addresses, 34234 7 Mile Rd $180,000 15956 Morningside $164,000 31750 Conway Dr $118,000 18238 Deering St $42,000 author o f "Condo Living 2: An and sales prices. 682 Thayer Blvd $357,000 30744 Fernwood St $114,000 9874 E Clements Cir $122,000 20546 W oodbend Dr $455,000 7381 Garden St $96,000 Authoritative Guide to Buying, Selling and CANTON 33393 Fargo St $49,000 PLYMOUTH 2275 Minerva St $126,000 Operating a Condominium." He is also the 3983 Norwich Dr $132,000 32639 Five Mile Rd $89,000 11901 Howland Park Dr $489,000 34459 Nancy St $45,000 authorpf "Condominium Operation: 2041 Town Center Rd $87,000 31211 Grandon St $130,000 101 S Union St $230,000 38490 Sycamore Ct $115,000 Getting Started & Staying on the Right 6948 W illow Creek Dr $155,000 8878 Lamont St $199,000 11753 Sycamore Dr $127,000 Track, " second edition. Visit GARDEN CITY 28543 Lyndon St $142,000 13692 Westbrook Rd $388,000 [email protected]. This column 32615 Alvin St $63,000 33081 Myrna Ct $211,000 REDFORD shouldn't be construed as legal advice.

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APRIL CONCERT Contact: 734-721-1511 RUMMAGE SALE Time/Date: 3 p.m. Sunday, May RUMMAGE SALE 3 Time/Date: 7-8:30 p.m. Thurs­ Time/Date: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. day, A pril 30, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Location: Fort Street Presbyteri­ Friday, May 1, and 9 a.m. to Friday, May 1, 9:30 a.m. to noon, an Church, 631 Fort, Detroit noon Saturday, May 2 Saturday, May 2 Details: The Fort Street Chorale Location: Prince o f Peace Location: Holy Trinity Lutheran and Chamber Orchestra present Lutheran Church, 28000 New Church, 39020 Five Mile, Livonia Haydn's Mass in D minor and Market Road, one block east of Poulenc Organ Concerto in G Farmington Road, north of 12 Details: Admission for Thurs­ minor with David Wagner on Mile, Farmington Hills day's preview sale is $2. Bag sale the organ. Tickets are $20 ($3) and half-price sale are on Details: Includes baked goods, Saturday. Bags w ill be provided Contact: fortstreet.org; 313-961- clothing, household goods, 4533 furniture, small appliances, Contact: 734-464-0211 DEMENTIA SERIES linens, bedding, jewelry, toys, RUMMAGE SALE books and a boutique. $3 and $6 Time/Date: 6-8 p.m. Wednes­ Time/Date: 5-7 p.m. Thursday, bag sale Saturday day, May 27 April 30, 9 a.m. to noon Friday, Contact: 248-553-3380 Location: St. Colette Parish, May 1, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, WIDOWED May 2 17600 Newburgh, Livonia Time/Date: 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Location: Newburg United Details: "A g in g in Place Success­ May 17 M ethodist Church, 36500 Ann fully" looks at the cognitive Arbor Trail, between Newburgh symptoms of dementia-related Location: St. Kenneth Church, Nicholas Maccani, Sara Stawarz, Hannah Rawlings, Mackenzie Shick, and Julia Zurenko of St. and W ayne Road, Livonia diseases, tre atm e nt options and 14951 Haggerty, Plymouth Robert Bellarmine School show off their certificates for participating in a Catechism Bowl held staying in one's home. The Township Details: $2 admission per adult at St. Genevieve School. They attained second place overall. program is part of an ongoing Thursday only; Free admission Details: Mass, fellow ship, light .series, fea turin g a team o f Friday-Saturday. Saturday half- lunch. Helpers needed to assist dem entia care specialists and price sale. w ith the Mass and lunch. m inistry facilitators. Each session Contact: Pat at 734-895-6246 or Contact: 734-422-0149 is held at a diffe re n t church in Contact: Ethanie Defoe at [email protected]. w w w .oa.org for additional Liz a t 734-452-9149 the Northwest Wayne Vicariate 248-227-6617 and Jody Fleszar at SUPPORT information MAY WORLD LABYRINTH 734-658-2463 Contact: Nancy at 734-464-4436 Apostolic Christian Church » Ward Evangelical Presby­ ASCENSION SERVICE DAY Dunning Park Bible Chapel terian Church Time/Date: 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. KINDERGARTEN Time/Date: Noon to 3 p.m. Time/Date: 7 p.m. Thursday, ROUNDUP Time/Date: 9:30-11:30 a.m. first daily Time/Date: 6 p.m. dinner (op­ May 14 Saturday, May 2 and th ird Tuesdays tional); 7 p.m. worship; 8 p.m. Time/Date: 1 p.m. Friday, May 8 Location: 29667 Wentworth, Location: Lola Park Lutheran Location: Holy Cross Lutheran Location: 24800 W . Chicago small group discussion; 9 p.m. Location: St. Genevieve Catholic Livonia Church, 14750 Kinloch, Redford Church, 30650 Six Mile, Livonia Road, Redford Solid Rock Cafe (optional coffee/ School, 28933 Jamison, Livonia Details: Adult day care program desserts) Details: The service w ill be Details: W alk the church's Details: MOPS is a place where For registered families at the church's Woodhaven follow e d by a free ice cream Details: 11-circuit medieval-style laby­ Location: 40000 Six Mile, N orth­ moms can build friendships, Retirement Community. Funding or thoise interested in sending rinth. Staff will be on hand to ville Township social at 8 p.m. receive mothering support, available fro m TSA, A A A 1-C th e ir child to St. Genevieve facilitate group walks and Contact: 734-968-3523, 313-532- practical help and spiritual hope. Older Americans Act. Details: Celebrate Recovery School for kindergarten answer questions. Weather 8655 Contact: Am y a t 313-937-3084 helps men and women find jslaviero@stgene- perm itting, a canvas, three- Contact: 734-261-9000; Contact: or Kristen at 734-542-0767 freedom from hurts, habits and BOUTIQUE, LUNCH circuit labyrinth will be available www. wood ha ven-reti re- vieve.org; 734-425-4420 hangups (addictive and com­ Time/Date: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for younger children PET-FRIENDLY SERVICE ment.com LIVING ROSARY pulsive behaviors); child care is Wednesday, May 6 Time/Date: 1 p.m. Sunday Connection Church Time/Date: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Contact: Lunice Clay at 734-748- free. C ongregation Shaa- 3493 Location: May 20 Location: Dunk N Dogs, 27911 Time/Date: 7 p.m. Friday Contact: Child care, 248-374- rey Zedek, 27375 Bell, Southfield Five Mile, Livonia 3855 Sheldon, Canton Location: St. Michael the A rch­ Location: 7400; www.celebraterecovery- ONGOING All Creatures ULC Details: Ricki Lake, actress, talk angel Catholic Church, 11441 Details: Details: Celebrate Recovery is a .com and www.wardchurch.org/ show host and documentary film Hubbard, south of Plymouth CLASSES/STUDY sponsors th e service, w hich is Christ-centered recovery for all celebrate producer, is the guest speaker at Road, Livonia Men's Bible study conducted in an informal set­ hurts, habits and hang-ups. THRIFT STORE th e Lois Linden Nelson W oman's tin g . Pet blessings are available Details: In this candlelit service, Time/Date: Breakfast a t 7 a.m. Child care is available for free World, a fundraiser for the after the service. St. James Presbyterian a person or small group repre­ and study a t 8 a.m. Jonathan@Connec- Sisterhood of Congregation Contact: Location: 25350 W. Six Mile, sents a bead o f th e rosary and Contact: 313-563-0162 tionchurch.info or 248-787-5009 Shaarey Zedek. The boutique Location: Kirby's Coney Island, Redford leads the prayer that bead will offer a variety of gift items, 21200 Haggerty, Northville PRAYER Detroit World Outreach Contact: 313-534-7730 fo r represents including Judaica, from favorite Township St. Edith Church Time/Date: 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday additional information and new vendors. Boutique Contact: 734-261-1455 Contact: John Shulenberger at Time/Date: 7-8:30 p.m. Thurs­ Location: 23800 W. Chicago, Way of Life Christian Church admission is free. Lunch and 734-464-9491 day Redford; Room 202 MYSTERY PURSE 2-3:30 p.m: third speaker tickets start at $72 Time/Date: AUCTION Our Lady of Loretto Location: Parish office, 15089 Details: Addiction No More Saturday from October through Contact: 248-357-5544, Ext. 48; Time/Date: 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Time/Date: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Newburgh, Livonia offers support fo r addictive May llnwomansworld.org behavior problems May 2 Monday Details: Group meets for sing­ Location: 9401 General Drive, CARD PARTY Location: Faith Community Location: Six M ile and Beech ing, praying and short teaching. Contact: 313-255-2222, Ext. 244 Lilley Executive Plaza, Suite 100, Time/Date: 6:30-10 p.m. Friday, Wesleyan Church, 14560 Merri- Daly, Redford Township Fellowship w ith snacks follows » Farmington Hills Baptist Plymouth May 15 man, Livonia Details: Scripture study Contact: Parish office at 734- Church Details: Women's fellowship is 464-1223 Location: SS Simon and Jude Details: Purses are filled w ith Contact: 313-534-9000 Time/Date: 7-9 p.m. second designed for women with a Church, 32500 Palmer, Westland items ranging from lotions to FAITH COMMUNITY Contact: 734-464-1223 Tuesday of the month except question to know God more in Details: Play cards and games of candles to gardening items. St. Michael Lutheran Church January, July and August th e ir lives. Participants must be over age 16 WESLEYAN your choice. Includes door and Time/Date: 6-7 a.m. Monday- Location: 28301 M iddlebelt, Contact: 734-637-7618 to bid during this family-friendly Time/Date: 4-5 p.m. every table prizes, along with 50-50 Friday between 12 Mile and 13 Mile in event. Auction starts at $5 per Saturday TOUR draw ing, lig h t meal and snacks. Time/Date: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Farmington Hills purse. Gift for first 50 attendees Location: 14560 Merriman, Time/Date: 10:30 a.m. to noon Admission is $8 Saturday Details: Western Oakland and door prizes for moms. Livonia first Sunday o f th e m onth Contact: 734-722-1343 7000 N. Sheldon, Parkinson Support Group Includes light lunch, presenta­ Details: This inform al class Location: Location: The Solanus Casey Canton Contact: 248-433-1011 CONCERT tion by Shawn Taft from Family includes fellowship, discussion Center, a Capuchin ministry, at Time/Date: 7 p.m. Friday, May Services Alliance and Livonia and question and answers. All Details: Praying silently or » Merriman Road Baptist 1780 Mount Elliott, Detroit 15 Cares. Proceeds benefit Livonia ages welcome. Bibles available if aloud together; prayer requests Church Details: Led by Capuchin fria r Location: St. Michael Lutheran Cares and W om en o f Faith you don't have one welcomed. Time/Date: 1-3 p.m. second and Larry Webber, the director of Church, 7000 Sheldon, Canton Contact: Mary Cisney a t 248- Contact: pastor Tom Hazel­ Contact: 734-459-3333 for fourth Thursday the Solanus Casey Center, the Details: Mitch McVicker Concert 471-1322 w ood a t 734-765-5476 additional information Location: 2055 Merriman, tour focuses on the spirituality will support Kids Against Hun­ RUMMAGE SALE SINGLES Garden City and holiness of Father Solanus, a CLOTHING BANK humble Capuchin friar credited ger. Free w ill offering. A food Time/Date: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Details: Metro Fibromyalgia Time/Date: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. last Detroit World Outreach with miraculous cures and packaging event will be held Friday-Saturday, May 1-2 support group meets; donations 9:30 p.m. May 16 for Kids Saturday of the mbnth Time/Date: 4-6 p.m. Sunday valued for his wise and compas­ Location: Free Pentecostal Contact: www.metrofibro- Against Hunger Location: Canton Christian Location: 23800 W. Chicago, sionate counsel. No reservations group.com ; or call Ruthann w ith Holiness Church, 35245 Wallace, Fellowship, 8775 Ronda Drive, Redford, Room 304 are needed, although the center Contact: 734-459-3333; connec- questions at 734-981-2519 W estland Canton requests an advance phone call tingwithGod.org Details: Divorce Overcomers » Fireside Church of God for groups of five or more. No Details: No documentation group is designed for individuals cost for the tour, although needed going through divorce, those Time/Date: 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday donations are accepted. Contact: [email protected] who are divorced or separated. FAMILY MEAL Contact: The fa cilita to r at Location: 11771 Newburgh, Contact: 313-579-2100, Ext. 149; View Online 313-283-8200; [email protected] Livonia www.solanuscenter.org www.nometownlife.com Time/Date: 5-6 p.m. every Details: Fireside A d u lt Day WORSHIP Thursday First Presbyterian Church Ministry activity-based program Time/Date: 7-7:15 p.m., social » Adat Shalom Synagogue Location: Salvation Army, for dependent adults, specializ­ time; 7:30 p.m., announcements; Time/Date: 6 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. 27500 Shiawassee, Farmington ing in dementia care. Not a How to reach us: 7:30-8:30 p.m., program; 8:30-9 and 9 p.m. Saturday; 7:30 a.m. Hills drop-in center i -800-579-7355 • fax 313-496-4968 • www.mideathnodces.com p.m. ice cream social, Thursdays. and 8:30 a.m. Sunday; and 6 Details: Free meal Contact: 734-855-4056 or Location: 200 E. Main St., p.m. weekdays Contact: 248-477-1153, Ext. 12 734-464-0990; www.firesidecho- Deadlines: Friday. 4:00 p.m. for Sunday papers Northville Location: 29901 M iddlebelt, Tuesday. 4:00 p.m. for Thursday papers g.org; or em ail to adm@ fire- HEALING SERVICE Details: Single Place Ministry; Farmington Hills Holiday deadlines are subject to change. sidechog.org Time/Date: Arabic service, 3-4 cost is $5 Contact: 248-851-5100 p.m. first Tuesday of the month; » St. Andrew's Episcopal Contact: 248-349-0911 or visit Church » Bethlehem Lutheran English service, 3-4 p.m. th ird www.singleplace.org Church Tuesday of the month Time/Date: 10 a.m. to noon Steve's Family Restaurant Time/Date: 10 a.m. Sunday Location: The Antiochian Saturday 9 a.m. second and service 'Orthodox Basilica o f Saint Mary, Time/Date: Location: 16360 Hubbard, fourth Thursday 35300 W. Eight Mile, 18100 Merrim an, Livonia Livonia Location: Location: 15800 Middlebelt, 74 Farmington Hills Details: The service includes Details: A weekly drop-in Food m ile no rth o f Five Mile, Livonia pastor Terry Miller at prayers of petition and in­ Cupboard (nonperishable items) Contact: [email protected]; 248-478- tercession, hymns, Scripture Details: W idow ed men o f all is available 6520 readings and the anointing of ages may attend the Widowed Contact: 734-421-8451 KELLEY, Friends Men’s breakfast. This is » Congregation Bet Chave- the sick. O ffertory candles are » St. Thomas a' Becket HARRIETTE M. available for a free will offering an informal "peer" group where rim Long time resident of Livonia. Church in the vestibule of the church. men have an opportunity to Time/Date: Services are held 7 Age 76, April 26, 2015. W eigh-in is 6:15- meet w ith others. Time/Date: p.m. th e th ird Friday o f the Preceded in death by son Patrick Contact: Rev. George Shalhoub 6:55 p.m.; support group 7 p.m. Contact: 313-534-0399 m onth (Beverly). Survived by daughter at 734-422-0010 or email Stacey Thursday Elizabeth (James), sons Gregory Badeen a t [email protected] Location: At the shared facil­ SONG CIRCLE Location: 555 S. Lilley, Canton (Blake) and Kendall (Dipti), MOMS Congregation Beth Ahm ities of Cherry Hill United Meth­ Grandchildren Karlee, Anshul Details: Take O ff Pounds Sen­ odist Church, 321 S. Ridge, Noon to 12:30 p.m. and Kalina, sister Drusilla Christ Our Savior Lutheran Time/Date: sibly Canton Church every Shabbat (George) and fam ily and several Contact: Margaret at 734-838- Details: Reformed Jewish Time/Date: 9:30-11:30 a.m. Location: 5075 W . Maple, West step-grandchildren and great- 0322 Congregation with Rabbi Peter step-grandchildren. Harriette’s second Tuesday, September-May Bloom field » Unity of Livonia Gluck and Cantorial soloist cremains w ill be laid to rest near Location: 14175 Farmington Details: Sing zemirot (Shabbat Robin Liberatore her late father. The family will Time/Date: 7 p.m. Thursday Road, Livonia songs) and celebrate Kiddush host an open house remembrance Contact: www.Facebook.com/ fo llo w in g m orning services. Location: 28660 Five Mile, on May 16. In honor of Details: Mothers of Preschool­ betchaverim or email to be- Lyrics are provided in trans­ between M iddlebelt and Inkster, Harriette’s kind spirit, ers (MOPS) is aimed at mothers tchaveri [email protected] literation as w ell as the original Livonia please consider a memorial gift of infants through kindergart- Hebrew. Details: Overeaters Anonymous to: Suncoast Hospice: ners thehospicefoundation.org Contact: 248-737-1931 or email Contact: 248-559-7722;

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THURSDAY, HOMETOWN APRIL 30, 2015 ENTERTAINMENT LIFE.COM Plymouth Oratorio Society sings ‘new’ Vivaldi work By Sharon Dargay tified as a Galuppi composition Staff Writer at the time. “It’s pretty unusual centuries later to find out The Plymouth Oratorio there is more music by a fam­ Society will be the first choir ous composer that we never in Michigan to sing Vivaldi’s knew about. Dixit Dominus when it takes “The Vivaldi Institute, a the stage Sunday, May 3, at group that promotes the music First United Methodist Church of Vivaldi, had a musicologist of Plymouth. make a modern version of it “It will be kind of fun to be and they published it. The the first,” said Richard In­ music is available.” gram, POS director. “It’s fun to Gregg Powell, Michigan tell all my musician friends Sinfonietta business manager, we’re performing a new piece came upon the composition in a by Vivaldi. They chuckle. I little music shop in Italy while think this piece will end up on vacation. He told Ingram being a popular piece by him.” about the music, who listened Ingram contacted the com­ to a recording of the piece. pany that published the work and discovered POS will give Solo parts the piece its Michigan debut. “His Gloria is (Vivaldi’s) The concert will begin at 4 most famous,” Ingram said, p.m. at the church, 45201N. pointing out that D ixit D om ­ Territorial, a quarter mile west inus shares its attributes, in­ of Sheldon, Plymouth Town­ cluding a sense of excitement ship. Admission is free, al­ and interesting rhythm. “It’s though a free will offering will just fun to sing.” be taken. The Michigan Sinfo- Dixit Dominus is divided nietta Orchestra and organist into 11 movements and in­ Mary Ann Balduf will perform cludes several challenging with the choir. solos. “I thought it was something Mistaken identity that we could do well. For Vivaldi was an Italian com­ some of the organizations the poser, known for his violin solos are pretty hard. Luckily, concerto, The Four Seasons, we have a number of soloists in who wrote during the Baroque the organization.” music period. He lived from POS also will perform Mo­ 1678-1741. Dixit Dominus origi­ zart’s Solemn Vespers, which nally was attributed to Baldas- Ingram chose as a contrast to sare Galuppi, but a musicol­ the Vivaldi selection. ogist 10 years ago noticed the The Mozart piece is better piece was written in Vivaldi’s known and more lyrical, In­ style. gram said. “They decided that back in “The Vivaldi piece is defi­ that has chorus underscoring April at the church in prep­ our 30th year,” Ingram said. the 1750s somebody had or­ nitely from the Baroque peri­ it. It’s beautiful. We’ve got a aration for its annual concert “We’ll probably perform one of dered music by Galuppi from od. Mozart was a little later — good soprano.” in May. No auditions are re­ the big standards for chorus someone who also handed from 1780 or so. The Mozart The POS draws singers quired, although singers must and orchestra.” them this,” Ingram said, ex­ piece has beautiful melodies in from throughout southeastern be capable of reading and sing­ For more about POS, visit plaining that Vivaldi’s D ixit it and the most well-known Michigan to rehearse 7:30-9:15 ing classical music. plymouthoratoriosociety.org. D om inus was incorrectly iden­ movement is a soprano solo p.m. Monday from January- “We’re looking forward to

G ET O U T ! CALENDAR ANIMALS Location: 760 Penniman, Plymouth DETROIT ZOO Details: The Second Best Exotic Mari­ gold Hotel; admission $3 Time/Date: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily Contact: 734-453-0870; www.penn- Location: I-696 service drive and theatre.com Woodward, Royal Oak Details: Admission is $14 for adults HISTORY 15-61, $10 for senior citizens 62 and HISTORIC GREENMEAD older, and for children ages 2-14; 10 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, and children under 2 are free. Parking for Time/Date: cars and vans is $5. Detroit Zoological 1 p.m. Saturday, May 2 Society members get free admission Location: 20501 Newburgh at Eight and parking Mile, in Livonia Contact: 248-541-5717 Details: Storyteller Nancy Klein will tell the story of Peter Rabbit and lead ARTS AND CRAFTS children on an adventure through the LIBERTY STREET BREWING Village, following the footpath of Peter Rabbit. The event, aimed at ages 3-7, Time/Date: Through May 30 will include a sack lunch, beverage and Location: Upper Hall Gallery at the Peter Rabbit gift. All tickets sold in Brew Pub, 149 W . Liberty, Plymouth advance. Cost is $7 per child Details: Works by Lanny Henderson Contact: 248-477-7375 Contact: 734-207-9600 KELSEY MUSEUM NORTHVILLE ART HOUSE Time/Date: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday- Time/Date: Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday- Friday, and 1-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Friday, noon to 4 p.m. $aturday, May through May 3 1-16. Opening reception, 6-9 p.m. May Location: 434 State St., Ann Arbor 1 Classical Bells, a Livonia-based handbell ensemble, will perform May 8 at a fundraiser for Paul's Players, a Details: "Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods Location: 215 W. Cady, Northville community theater group. of Ancient Egypt" features approxi­ Details: 16th annual Student Art mately 40 artifacts, some never before Show features works by middle and displayed, along with archival pho­ high school students in Northville tographs and explanatory graphics Contact: 248-344-0497 Contact: 734-764-9304 Handbell concert to benefit PLYMOUTH HISTORICAL FILM MUSEUM AUDITION Time/Date: 1-4 p.m. Wednesday, scholarships for drama camp Time/Date: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Friday-Sunday May 10 Location: 155 S. Main, Plymouth By Sharon Dargay help defray costs. with the sight and sound” of Location: Jazz Cafe at Music Hall, 350 Details: "Creative Hands: Busy Hands" Madison Ave., Detroit Staff Writer The handbell choir, based at handbells when she was a runs through June 14. Admission is $5 St. Matthew’s United Method­ teen. She played piano for Details: Detroit filmmaker Colin for adults, $2 for ages 6-17 Livonia-based Paul’s Play­ ist Church in Livonia, will play many years — a good founda­ Duerr will meet with eligible actors to Contact: 734-455-8940 cast for the lead in a feature film, The YANKEE AIR MUSEUM ers will add a program for high a benefit concert for Paul’s tion for handbells — before First Grade G. Children who audition school students to its summer Players, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May giving bells a try in 1998 and for this role of a young serial killer Time/Date: Doors open at 4 p.m. camp lineup this year. 8, at St. Paul’s Presbyterian joining Classical Bells. should be bi-racial — African Amer­ Friday, May 8 “I’m excited about starting Church, 27475 Five Mile, Livo­ “Practice is a big part of it. ican and Caucasian — ages 6-10. Boys Location: Hangar 1, Bay 8 entrance at the new high school program,” nia. Tickets are $12 and include A lot of bell playing is muscle and girls can both audition, but if a the end of Kirk Profit Drive on the west said Pat Hutchison, founder a dessert buffet with sweets movement. A lot of times girl is chosen, she may require a side of W illow Run Airport, Ypsilanti. and director. She also runs from Livonia bakeries includ­ you’re putting a bell down haircut. Actors should request a page Details: The museum launches its flying drama camps for elementary ing Elite Sweets, Cantoro’s and picking up other bells,” of the script for preparation and send season. The public may watch flight she said. “It’s also about your tw o head shots and resumes to cast- operations of its historic World W ar II and middle school students, Market, and Heritage Bakery. [email protected] and stages an annual family- For tickets, call 248-347-4134 or brain. All of us are middle aircraft and book a ride on the B-17 Contact: www.thefirstgradeg.com Flying Fortress or B-25 Mitchell medium oriented summer musical. email paul- age. This is good for our bomber. The B-17 will follow a special “For the teen camp, we’ll [email protected]. brains.” LENORE MARWIL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL flight plan, flying over Memorial Park in only use 10 kids,” Hutchison Classical Bells, founded 31 Classical Bells has per­ Royal Oak, where a 70th Anniversary of said. “We’re trying not to years ago, will play a variety of formed with the Detroit Sym­ Time/Date: May 10-21 Victory in Europe (VE) Day will take charge the kids for that camp. music including classical, jazz, phony Orchestra and toured Location: Berman Center for the place. Rides on the B-17 are $450 and “Each will get 15 minutes pop, swing and inspirational. throughout the Upper Penin­ Performing Arts, 6600 W. Maple, West $400 on the B-25. They last approxi­ for their own musical play ... to “Most people think of hand­ sula last year. For more, visit Bloomfield mately 45 minutes with 30 minutes in tell about something that both­ bell choir as church music,” classicalbells.com. Details: Tickets are $12 per film or the air ers them.” said Rebecca Rowan, a mem­ Hutchison said auditions $360 for tw o patron passes which Contact: 734-483-4030, Ext. 236 Hutchison said an alumni of ber of both Paul’s Players and for F iddler on the R oof will be includes entrance to every film, along FARMINGTON COMMUNITY her theater program suggested Classical Bells. “We’re doing a open to all ages 5-8 p.m. June with the patron night reception on CHORUS May 17. Thirty films will be screened, the program, which has been nice arrangement of W hat a 8-10, at St. Paul’s Presbyterian including a portrait of musician Mar­ Time/Date: 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, dubbed “baggage and back­ Wonderful World, Over the Church. The Children’s Thea­ vin Hamlisch and Starfish Throwers, May 8-9 packs.” R ainbow with a ukulele player tre Camp for elementary which looks at three individuals who Location: Meads Mill Middle School, Teen camp scholarships and , and Ain’t Misbehaving. We’ve school students runs July feed families in need. Check online for 16700 Franklin Road, Northville. the staging of F iddler on the got a bluegrass one with an 13-17 and costs $65. The complete list of films and screening Details: The 70-member Chorus, direct­ Roof, this year’s summer mu­ accompaniment track. Broadway Bound camp for times ed by Steve Segraves, sings tunes from sical, will be costly. Hutchison “There will be a small group middle school students runs Contact: 248-661-1900; theberma- Broadway shows, such as Les Miser- figures the rights for Fiddler of singers from Paul’s Players June 15-19 and costs $125. The n.org ables, Sweeney Todd, Oklahoma and at approximately $2,000. doing selections, too,” she said, Teen Workshop runs June PENN THEATRE Phantom of the Opera. Tickets in ad­ vance for $12 or at the door for $15. “It’s an expensive summer adding that their theme is 15-19 and July 13-17. Time/Date: 7 p.m. Thursday April 30; Online ticket sales end May 5 we’re about to embark on,” bells. “It will add some fun.” Download a registration 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Contact: farmingtonchorus.com Hutchison said. She has enlist­ Rowan, who plays with two form from Paul’s Players on May 1-2; 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, ed the help of Classical Bells to bells in each hand, fell “in love Facebook. May 3; 7 p.m. Thursday, May 7

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TORTILLA BAKE SPICY CORN MUFFINS TABBOULEH WITH SOY-SILKEN DARK Servings: 12 Recipe from Silk EDAMAME & FETA CHOCOLATE PUDDING Makes 12 muffin 2 medium onions, chopped Recipe by Sunrich Naturals Recipe from United Soybean Board 1 green bell pepper, chopped Va cup yellow cornmeal Makes 6, 1114-cup servings Makes 6, ’/3-cup servings 'A cup m ild salsa 1 Va cup unbleached all-purpose 2 A cups water 1 package (12.3 ounces) silken 2 cans (15.5 ounces each) chili flo u r 1 Vi cups bulgur tofu, drained beans (do not drain) 2 teaspoons baking powder Vi cup lem on ju ice 2/3 cup d ark u nsw eetened cocoa 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce Vi teaspoon salt Vi cup prepared pesto p o w d e r 1 cup textured vegetable protein Vi teaspoon cumin 2 cups Sunrich Naturals Shelled 1 cup powdered sugar (TVP), dry (or soy-based 1 cup Silk Original or Ed am am e 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Unsweetened Soymilk "crumbles") 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved Whipped topping (optional 1 cup corn kernels 1 e g g Vi cup feta cheese, crumbled % cup water Place tofu, cocoa powder, pow­ 'U cup canola oil Vi cup green onions, thinly sliced 1 can (2.25 ounces) sliced black 1 tablespoon honey 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, dered sugar, and vanilla in food olives, drained 1 (7 ounce) can chipotle chilies in ch o pp ed processor. Puree for one minute, 1 tablespoon chili powder adobo sauce, drained Vi teaspoon black pepper scraping dow n sides as needed, or 18 (6-inch) corn tortillas 1 cup canned corn kernels, until very smooth. Divide equally 1 cup shredded Mexican-style or d rained In a medium saucepan, bring the into six dishes and to p w ith Cheddar cheese water to a boil; add uncooked Preheat oven to 400°F. Spray or whipped topping before serving, if Optional garnishes: sliced bulgur. Return to a boil, reduce grease a 12-cup muffin pan. desired. tomatoes, olives and avocado heat, cover, and simmer about 15 Whisk together cornmeal, flour, Tempting variations: minutes or until most of the liquid is Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat baking powder, salt, and cumin in a » Raspberry Chocolate Soy Pud­ absorbed. Remove from heat and 9-by-13-inch baking dish with cook­ large bowl. In a separate bowl, ding - Layer pudding with fresh transfer to a large bowl. ing spray. whisk together soymilk, egg, oil, raspberries and whipped topping. In a small bowl, whisk together Com bine onions, pepper, salsa, and honey. » Mexican-Style Chocolate Soy lemon juice and pesto. Add to chili beans, to m a to sauce, TVP, corn, Pour egg mixture over cornmeal Pudding - Stir in a pinch of ground water, olives and chili powder in bulgur along with edamame, cherry mixture and stir until ingredients cinnamon and cayenne pepper to large saucepan and bring to boil. tomatoes, feta cheese, green on­ are moistened. Do not overmix. taste, layer with whipped topping ions, parsley, and pepper. Toss to Reduce heat and simmer 10 min­ Remove chilies from can and and top with chocolate shavings. combine. Garnish with parsley utes, stirring occasionally. chop. Gently stir chilies and corn » Caramel Banana Chocolate Soy springs. Spread about one quarter of chili into batter. Pudding - Layer pudding with mixture on bottom of prepared Spoon into prepared pan and Nutrition per serving: 279 calories, banana slices and w h ipped topping; baking dish. Top with six tortillas, bake for 15-18 minutes until golden 13.5g protein, 32.5g carbohydrates, 8.5g drizzle with caramel sauce. overlapping or cutting to fit as brow n. fiber, 11.5g fat, 243mg sodium necessary. Top with another quarter Nutrition per serving: 160 calories, 6g protein, 31g carbohydrate, 2g dietary of chili mixture and a third of Nutrition per muffin: 152 calories, 3.5g protein, 14.5g carbohydrate, 2g fiber, 2.5g fat (Og sat fat), Omg cheese. Repeat for two more layers dietary fiber, 6g fat (O.Sg saturated fat), cholesterol, 20mg sodium each of tortillas, chili mixture and 15.5mg cholesterol, 300mg sodium cheese. (calculated using unsweetened soymilk) Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Garnish with tomatoes, olives and avocado, if desired. Nutrition information per serving: 240 calories; 12g protein; 36g carbohydrate; 8g dietary fiber; 6g fat; 494mg sodium

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