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P-C pioneer Garvel Bentley dead at 85 BY W. EDWARD WENDOVER Former colleagues and students from said. “He remembered you.” Carvel Bentley, the former principal old PHS recalled Bentley fondly. “When I ran for the Board of of old Plymouth High School from 1951 Roland Thomas, president of the Education for the first time,” Thomas to 1969 died Thursday. Plymouth-Canton Board of Education, remembered. “I met him and his wife He was 85 and lived to see the district remembers Bentley from his high school coming out of the voting precinct. He name one of its two new elementary days. said ‘Hang in there. You’re not going :o schools after him at the end of March. “He was principal of Plymouth High win today but come back and run the next During his 43 years with the School when I came to Plymouth from time.’” Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, Ohio,” Thomas said. “It was 1961,1 was “That was at 9 a.m., I lost that da/,” -V/~Bentley was a science teacher, coached a senior that year.” Thomas laughed. “But he was right, I tennis, football and track, and, in 1935, Thomas said that Bentley made him made it to the board.” 6 founded and ran the high school co-op feel like a student, not like a number. program. “He knew the students by name,” he Please see p g . 10 S> CARVEL BENTLEY The Newspaper with Its Heart in The Plymouth-Canton, MI Community T h e Plymouth District Library 223 S^Main Sirg; 50* C om m unity C rier Vol. 20 No. 15 © P C C C I n c . May 12, 1993 Did Bell PAC funds g f i i i i i i affect lawmakers’ role in area code? Former and current officeholders received campaign funds during talks on boundaries BY MATT HELMS one of the most bitter election years in and W. EDWARD WENDOVER local history. Copyright 1993, PCCC,inc. But one former local official, Georgina While Michigan Bell was busy hold Goss, who was a one-year state represen ing meetings on the boundaries of the tative unseated by Vorva in a redistricted new 810 area code, its legislative arm area, vehemently denied that she, or other was handing out money to candidates whose constituencies would be directly Please see pg. 17 impacted, a review of Michigan cam paign finance records shows. Questions about ties between approval State reveals of the new boundary lines for the 810 area code and B ell’s political contribu improvements tions were raised by State Rep. Jerry Vorva (R-20th District), the Republican for Mettetal whose Plymouth-Northville-Livonia dis BY ALEX LUNDBERG trict is splintered by the new area code. Three days before a rescheduled Bell’s original area code boundary meeting with local officials over the generally followed Eight Mile Road, but future of Mettetal Airport, the split off a piece of Livonia and then cut Michigan Department of up through Novi and Oakland County. Transportation has revealed its plans The telephone company says it moved to upgrade the facility and to create a the line in July 1992 to cut southward local advisory board to oversee its through Livonia, Northville and Salem development. ■ townships, because “it affected fewer In a letter from the MDOT, people.” Aviation Safety Specialist John Bell officials said that proposed area Wagner wrote that under state owner code boundaries were reviewed by local ship “the character of the airport shall H ot tunes politicians in the summer of 1992 after a remain unchanged.” citizens committee studied the new area 'However, the letter also said that IL S . Sen. DonaM Rfegle to o k a page from President Bill Clinton Saturday dur the reason that properties were being ing a fund-raising Bike-a-thon against child abuse in Canton and took a code’s implementation process. purchased in the area of the airport m o m en t to h am it u p with a fake saxophone during the celebrity bike ride por Vorva was one of several local politi tions erf the festivities. (Crier photo by Eriq Lukasik) cians to replace incumbent politicians in Pleas© see p g . 2 the 1-275 Corridor last summer during bsentee voters will face two school proposals - pg. 3 • Dumpsite cleanup under way - pg. 3 Page 2 THE COMMUNITY CRIER: May 12,1993 In some editions of today's Crier, In some editions look for an insert from: of today's Crier, Rash of car thefts strike township look for an insert from: Plymouth Township received three driveway, he noticed his 1992 GMC ;s? Maria's Italian Bakery P e n n im a n Deli reports of auto theft and two reports of Jimmy missing. * 115 Haggerty Canton 820 Penniman Ave., Plymouth attempted auto theft just last week. According to Investigator Steve Mann, On May 5, a man reported that his the Jimmy was found, unoccupied and J, 981-1200 453-3570 1990 Caprice was stolen from the running, in Westland later that same " ? Signature Inn located on Ann Arbor morning. *■ Road, near 1275. Yet another call came in that night. The next day, a resident at 11475 This time from a resident at 39834 T h e J--------- ----- V! Cedar Lane near Birchwood, called Birchwood, near Aspen. Police responded RENT IT HERE police after the car alarm on his 1989 to the call and found the 1989 Chevy S10 s C om m unity Crier Bonneville went off at 3:45 a.m. parked on Parkview, near Birchwood. USPS-340- 1 50 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO Published weekly at Then at 3:55 a.m., police got a call A few hours later, about 8 a.m., anoth 821 Penniman Ave., from a resident at 11315 Aspen, near er call came in from resident at 11370 Plymouth, MI Parkview. The man said in the report that Parkview. The resident’s 1991 Safari was he woke up after hearing a car alarm from missing and police found glass at the year. Mail deliver^: fi$ another street. When he looked out at his scene. $30 per year. Mailed » 2nd class circtila- ’ tion rates, postage paid at Plymouth, MI 48170. Call (313) 453-6900 for delivery. State reveals plans for Mettetal The Crier’s advertisers strive to hon estly present commercial messages to Continued from pg. 1 south (keeping the present length) and our readers. If, for any reason, you find problems with a Crier ad, please call was to “protect the approaches of the updating the airport’s “ancient” run our office at 453-6900. airport.” way lighting system. Crier advertising is published in In addition, the state plans to The letter also said that the bureau accordance with those policies spelled upgrade the existing safety system — would update the airport’s master plan. out on the current rate card, which is specifically, the installation of an The new master plan would provide available during business hours from approach path indicator — with the “more specific recommendations and ‘our office at 821 Penniman Ave., Federal Aviation Administration guidelines” concerning the state’s Plymouth. The publisher, solely, makes itil PLYMOUTH final acceptance of a specific advertise RENTAL CENTER expressing a “willingness” to fund the plans for die airport. ment (not an advertising representative) improvements. Yesterday’s scheduled meeting of and only publication of the ad signifies • the Mettetal Airport Advisory such acceptance. Other steps being considered are the beautification of the airport Committee was postponed until Postmaster, send change of address 981-0240 Thursday when Bill Gehman, director notice to The Community Crier, 821 grounds and property, upgrading of the Penniman Ave., Plymouth, MI 48170. ,/. 41889 FORD ROAD • CANTON public parking area, renovation of the of the Michigan Aeronautics 1/4 MILE WEST OF 1-275 hangars, shifting the runway to the Commission, could attend. C a n to n '?(****' G a rd e n s Greenhouse QUALITY BEDDING PLANTS WE GROW OUR OWN!! COUPON DWARF MARIGOLDS GERANIUMS ...........................................from *1$■< 2 9 pot FREE MANY DIFFERENT VARIETIES GERANIUM OR $ 7 9 9 LARGE TOMATO # fla t DOUBLE ROSEBUD IMPATIENS ..... ...................... $2 "p o t $n» PLANT Reg. 9 HARD TO FIND! WE HAVE THEM!! 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