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Local Elected Officials Don't Like Education Bill on Any Governmental Pro­ by BRAD KADRICH Students at Heart mmrnmmmmmmm LEARN WHAT EMPLOYERS W I N F R E E Costume designer THINK OF YOUR RESUME dresses actors in SEE CLASSIFIEDS-SECTION C TICKETS GO TO HOMETOWNUFE.COM TO ENTER authentic style SUNDAY Canton Cup players May 29,2011 PLYMOUTH refused to let The Observer & Eccentric Newspapers Mother Nature Volume 124 get them down Number 82 O b s e r v e r S p o r ts , B1 $1.00 hometownlife fi com a G a n n e t t c o m p a n y PIPELINE District eyes next steps in solving budget crunch Party time Organizers of the 2011 BY BRAD KADRICH “We’re going to have to go back to • Saving some $945,000 in the cus­ some legislative help. For instance, Plymouth-Canton Senior OBSERVER STAFF WRITER the staff and figure it out,” said James todial budget, perhaps with the elimi­ new legislation requires employees to Party are looking for senior Larson-Shidler, the district’s assistant nation of some 21 jobs. pick up any health-care cost increases parent volunteers for efforts After making its latest round of superintendent for business services. • Cutting out noontime busing for once their contracts expire. There’s now through the night of the cuts in an effort to reduce a pro­ “We’re still looking at everything.” kindergarten students, a move that is also legislation being debated that June 12 party. jected $18 million deficit in the Trustees did approve some $7 mil­ projected to save some $488,000. would force public employees to pay Parents are needed to work 2011-12 school budget, the Plymouth- lion in cuts Tuesday, among them: Decisions board members could 20 percent of their health care begin­ the party, in two shifts: 8:30 Canton Community Schools Board of • Cutting 17 elementary school have made but didn’t included not ning Jan. 1,2012 (Plymouth-Canton p.m. to 12:30 a.m. and 11:30 Education remains some $10 million teaching positions because of a drop closing Fiegel, which also means staffers currently don’t pay anything). p.m. to 3:30 a.m. Organizers short. in elementary enrollment. The move is Starkweather Education Center Larson-Shidler said that move alone also seek volunteers to help The board’s decision Tuesday not expected to save $1.2 million. remains open (another $183,000). would save the district some $5 mil­ complete the decorations. to close Fiegel Elementary School, a • Budgeting for 150 schools-of- Trustees also didn’t increase class lion. For anyone willing to donate, move that would have saved an esti­ choice students, which brings in just sizes, which means most of some 80 He also said a new law prohibits they're looking for gift cards mated $1.4 million, and to leave class over $1 million in revenue. Still to be teachers the district expected to cut districts negotiating new contracts of any kind, food and paper sizes where they are (a $4 million deci­ decided is whether they’ll be children will remain employed. That’s a $4 mil­ from paying anything above the pre­ products. sion) left administrators scrambling of district employees or whether to lion move. Also saved was WSDP 88.1- vious year, including step increases The party is 9 p.m. to to replace not only that money, but to allow students from contiguous school FM, the student-run radio station. 3 a.m. Sunday, June 12, at find the other $5 million or so to cut. districts. Administrators are counting on Please see BUDGET, A3 Salem High School. For more information, contact Kris Hruska at pceps- [email protected] or call (734)306-5296. Father's Day run M e m o r i a l Join the Plymouth YMCA as it celebrates its 50th anniver­ sary for a Father’s Day tradi­ tion at the 32nd Father's Day Run Sunday, June 19. The morning of fun and fit­ m u s i n g s 5 ness will kick off at 7:30 a.m. with the Plymouth Fife and Drum Corps and the national anthem by Plymouth attorney John C. Stewart. 60-plus years later, combat ^ The Father's Day Run offers an event for every vet explores memories of w ar age. Kids quarter-mile Fun Runs, 7:30 a.m.: one-mile walk, one-mile run at 8 a.m., BY MATT JACHMAN OBSERVER STAFF WRITER PAYING TRIBUTE 5K Walk, 5K Run, 8:15 a.m., What: Plymouth Memorial Day 10K, 8:45 a.m. The unique It was May 1945, and the Morse Dental Group, 17th Parade commander of the 11th Panzer When: 8:30 a.m. Monday, May 30 MDG Triple, 10.3 miles, offers Division was goose-stepping Where: Parade steps off at the start times to run all three past his defeated troops, a last races. Registration is now bit of pomp before his surrender corner of Main and Wing: ceremony open at www.active.com or in Czechoslovakia to represen­ at Veterans Memorial Park in front fora printable registration tatives of the U.S. Army’s 90th of Central Middle School form and more race informa­ Division. Who: Sponsored by Plymouth tion please visit www.ymca- Pfc. Henry Malec of Detroit, Lions, American Legion posts 391 detroit.org/plymouth. 19, had had enough. and 112, the Plymouth Vietnam Volunteers are needed. As the assembled German Veterans and the Plymouth VFW. Contact Cindy Morency at soldiers looked at their general, cmorencyfymcametrode- Wend von Wietersheim, with troit.org. Proceeds sup­ awe, Malec’s thoughts turned to The general continued walking port the Plymouth YMCA the frozen bodies of American between the columns of military "Strong Kids" scholarship soldiers he had seen on his way vehicles in order to make his campaign. to the front in France, to the formal surrender. “He couldn’t comrade who died from a shrap­ do the goose step from that Emergency food nel wound, resting his head on point, you see,” said Malec. No Malec’s shoulder as the blood one reacted, he added. “There Plymouth and Northville flowed from his back, and to weis not a peep out of anyone, are now participating in The others he’d known who had died German or American. Complete, Emergency Food Assistance confronting Nazism. total silence.” Program, a supplemental “That’s flashing through my The story is one of many food program for all income- mind,” Malec, now a chiroprac­ Malec, now 85 and a Plymouth eligible Wayne county resi­ tor in Plymouth, recalled during resident, has of his time in dents. a recent interview. “I couldn’t the Army in Europe, where he Distributions will be the take it. I jumped off the tank. I fought to defeat Nazi Germany, third Thursday of each ran up to him. I stopped him.” was himself wounded and saw month from 10 a.m. to noon The general, who towered over comrades die, and later guarded at St. Kenneth Catholic even the strapping American pri­ some of the top Nazis, many BILL BRESLER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Church, with the next distri­ vate, was flabbergasted. “I took bution scheduled for June 16. World War II veteran Dr. Henry Malec on the front porch of his home in Plymouth. his gun,” Malec said. Please see MEMORIAL, A5 All recipients must be pre­ registered to become certi­ fied for eligibility, meeting both income and residency requirements. Recipients not currently Local elected officials don't like education bill on any governmental pro­ BY BRAD KADRICH students at heart. includes Plymouth-Canton, Northville decades, the governor and leaders in gram will need to provide OBSERVER STAFF WRITER Heise voted against it when the orig­ and Wayne-Westland Schools. “I was the Legislature are setting our schools documentation such as inal House bill contained a 3.5-percent also opposed to the mandate for all­ and our children up to fail. That is proof of income and resi­ Republican Kurt Heise of Plymouth cut in the per-pupil foundation allow­ day kindergarten, which is going to unacceptable. As a mother and a dence and proof of the num­ Township and Democrat Dian Slavens ance for public schools. Even though be an additional unfunded expense to grandmother, I implore them to aban­ ber of household members. of Canton vote from opposite sides of the cut was reduced to 1.8 percent in those districts.” don these cuts and invest in a better Bridge Card holders will the political aisle in the state House of the final bill, which included a $100 Slavens said she’s “extremely disap­ future for our children and a stronger automatically be qualified Representatives. But Thursday, they per-pupil incentive for districts meet­ pointed and frustrated” the governor economy for Michigan.” to participate but must still found an issue on which they could ing four of five established criteria, and legislative leaders went ahead The all-day kindergarten mandate register. agree. Heise still voted against it with what she called “an undeniably would take rffect in the 2012-13 For more information, con­ Neither one likes Gov. Rick Snyder’s “Advocates would say the $100 flawed plan” she believes cuts vital school year. Currently, school districts tact the Plymouth Community budget to fund public education. incentive reduces the per-pupil cut funding to schools. which offer half-day kindergarten, United Way office at (734) While the bill passed the House with and, although that was certainly help­ “(The bill) endangers our children’s as Plymouth-Canton does, still get 453-6879, Ext.
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