Plymouth District Library 223 S. Main Street ymou% ML 48170-168?:f P u l l o u t tournament ~eauie ana coupon, pg. i The The Newspaper with l^s Heart in The Piymouth-Canton, MI Community Community Crier Vol. 24 No. 26 © P C C C In c . July 30, 1997 Weekend brings national archery \-3 0 to come tourney to Canton As the Plymouth Whalers hosted a hockey BY SCOTT SPIELMAN Tournament director, Flaherty said. camp inside Compuware Archery is coming to town this weekend “W e’re going to have a hospitality A ren a, w ork ers outside and local businesses couldn’t be happier. booth set up in the main tent at Heritage put the finnishing touch Hotels, retailers and restaurants are Park. We’re going to pass out menus foi gearing up for the arrival of more than 500 local restaurants so visitors can know es on a n ew sign and archers, their families, friends and fans, exactly what restaurants fit their taste,” she message board facing according to Carleigh Flaherty, executive said. Beck Road. For the story director of the Other items the on the camp, please see Canton Chamber of § chamber will pass ou the Sports Pages, 27-28. Commerce. to make Canton more (Crier photo, R. Alwood “Everything is vi sitor-frieridly Jr.) coming along pretty include a dining well,” she said. guide and maps will “W e’re in the final banks with ATV. details o f preparation machines and place.4 now .” o f recreation listed. T h e C an ton “W e’ll show their Schools seek sanctions Chamber has been where other parks are working closely with where they can find the National Archery movie theaters, bowl against bond suit plaintiffs Association (NAA), ing alleys, anything Township officials, they may want to do,” BY BRYON MARTIN amount of money already,” he said. and Tom Green, the Flaherty said. Delays in the sale of their March 22 Also held up by the suit, he said, is the U.S. National Target Championship Some international competitors have bond have cost Piymouth-Canton Schools purchase of a site for the elementary school Please see pg. 3 time and more than $600,000 in lost inter to be built by the bond. “We have a very est, according to Superintendent Charles attractive site in Canton. Our lawyers are Little. working quietly with their lawyers.” Field of beans, buckshot Such losses moved Little and die P-C Both Vorva and Boak disagreed with District to file papers in Wayne County Little’s comments, saying that the if the BY SCOTT SPIELMAN agreement to farm the land. Out came the shotgun. Circuit Court Friday, charging plaintiff lawsuit were frivolous, it would have been It was like something out of an old west ern: a grizzled old fanner, shotgun in hand, Canton officials reacted quickly. Jerry V orva arid his lawyer Stephen Boak thrown out by District Court Judge Rashid, protecting his property. Supervisor Tom Yack enacted offered to with riling a frivolous lawsuit. w ho w ill consider the request A ug. 21. Except this farmer wasn’t fighting cattle pay Wilkins for his crops under the The request seeks sanctions against Further, Vorva called the $600,000 fig barons or outlaws. His shotgun was aimed Township’s Emergency Agreement Vorva and Boak, as well as reimbursement ure cited by Little and the district “very at tractors and developers. Purchasing Policy (EAPP). for all costs and attorney’s fees incurred by misleading. That’s typical of what they’ve Tractors and land movers were sitting on “My whole thought was to avoid any the board, estimated around $15,000, done,” so far. a 40 acre section of land at the comer of kind of violence and we didn’t want to hold according to the district. Of the district’s request for sanctions, Denton and Proctor ready to turn bean fields up a $1,5 million dollar project,” he said. According to Little, the district loses Boak said, “We’ve heard that before and into soccer fields. “We thought that he had an agreement with $11,400 in interest on the bonds every day we’ve not succumbed to thinly or non The only problem was, they didn’t tell the developer, we would just pay him now, the suit continues. “W e’ve lost a huge veiled threats.” Dennis Wilkins, who claims he has an and figure out who was responsible later.” P lease se e pg. 3 Safely series Northville director’s film to Plymouth man produces Whaler players will attend premiere in August videos on home safety PCA in the fall See Friends & Neighbors, pg 6 See Getting Down to Business pg.8 See Sports pgs. 27-28 Page 2 THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997 Welcome to Wayne County Food workers and supporters picket new, non-union Busch’s grocery store in Plymouth Twp.
BY BRYON MARTIN ity rights and no voice in the workplace.” Picketers from United Food and Both Gordon and the flyer also cited an Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 876 employee copay for medical benefits as a have brought a message to the Busch’s reason for unionization. Valuland at Five Mile and Sheldon Roads: Have conditions inspired workers to “you’re not in Washtenaw County any seek union representation at Busch’s in m ore.” Plymouth Township. Busch’s Spokesperson Union members and supporters have Peggy Conlin said no such requests have been picketing outside of the store, which been made. opened last month. Their picket signs and “If this were an internal thing we’d be flyers read, “Please Shop Union, Do Not right on top of it,” Conlin said. “Our associ Patronize Busch’s.” The flyers listed union ates are happy. Il’s not like they’re clamor ized markets in Plymouth, Canton, ing for representation.” Northville, Livonia Conlin said worker and Westland. ‘If this were aniriter salaries, weekend and Employees at evening premiums are Busch’s are not not thing we ’d competitive with union- organized. Their shop pay. non-union jobs Employees working threaten those of the 30 hours per week and 1,673 workers rep more make $7.25 per resented by the hour, and can earn $.50 UFCW at eight gro I t ’s n o t M ■ r e and $1.00 premiums for cery stores in The midnight and Sunday Plymouth-Canton- clamoring shifts, respectively. N o r th v ille UFCW workers at Community, Shopping Center according to Jerry Market, comparable to Gordon, organizing Busch’s, make $7.50 director for the per hour, with $.30 mid- UFCW. . night and $1.00 Sunday The absence of a union at Busch’s, premiums. Union workers also receive “undermines and jeopardizes good union employer-paid medical benefits, jobs,” Gordon said, because they claim a Busch’s medical benefits require an share of the market that could be served by employee copay Conlin said, and “is fantas Mary Miles and George Kosovac began picketing last Tuesday with others outside union stores. tic. W e’ve got as many plans as we do asso of Busch’s Valuland at the corner of Five Mile and Sheldon Roads. The United “But it’s not just economics. Knowing ciates. That’ s not a weak link.” Food and Commercial Workers protested Busch’s lack of a workers’ union(Crier that you have a job to go to, that it’s yours Conlin said that without a request for photo, R. Alwood, Jr.). and you can’t be treated unfairly,” are representation and considering Busch’s pay County. As such, it marks a move into an strong county. “It was a pretty passive pick among the UFCW’s advantages, he said. scale and benefits, she had only one guess area that has traditionally had a stronger et,” she said. “They just seemed to be out “It’s infinitely better in the sense of rights why the UFCW picketed. union presence than in Washtenaw, where there, earning their checks.” Conlin .and respect.” “W e’re new to the market.” B usch’s is based. summed up Busch’s response to the picket The UFCW flyers charge that workers at The Sheldon-Five Mile location is the Conlin said the picket seemed to be a by allusion: “If it ain’t broke...” Busch’s have, “no job protection, no senior first Busch’s grocery store in Wayne reminder that the store was in a union- Newburgh delays not all bad t h is p a p e r is The /ry PROUDLY Lessons from project could benefit others Community Crier V > X / p r i n t e d o n BY BRYON MARTIN project budget forced the change in tactics. 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(313) 453-6900 for delivery. dling and getting equipment out onto the Unless there are drastic improvements, it’s The Crier’s advertisers strive to hon lake bed. It’s very soft and squishy.” unlikely we will be done then,” he said. estly present commercial messages to New address? Beyond the murkiness of the lake bed our readers. If, for any reason, you find WELCOME WAGON* Mt. Clemens-based contractor John problems with a Crier ad, please call can help you Carlo, Inc., is planning and executing clean the project is complicated by a completi our office at (313) 453-6900. feel at home up of the lake, which has been drained of lack of precedence on how to proceed^ Grier advertising is published in Greeting new neighbors is a tradition with WELCOME water and fish so the contaminated soil bot “Nobody has done this before,” VanOmei accordance with those policies spelled WAGON - 'America's Neighborhood Tradition.' tom can be removed. Drainage was com said. I'd like to visit you. To soy 'H i' and present gifts and out on the current rate card, which is greetings from community-minded businesses. I'ii plete last month and workers are removing The clean-up is a national demonstratioi available during business hours from also present Invitations you can redeem for more the soil now. project: funded by a federal grant, the job i our office at -821 Penniman Ave., gifts. And it's all free. A WELCOME WAGON visit Is a special treat to help This process, however, has proven more being carefully documented for a paper thf Plymouth. The publisher, solely, makes you get settled and feeling more 'a t home.' A final acceptance of a specific advertise friendly get-together is easy to arrange. Just call me. difficult as the project has progressed, will be written upon completion for th ment (not an advertising representative) according to VanOmen. New approaches to benefit of similar endeavors in the future. and only publication of the ad signifies removing the mucky soil have been neces In that way, VanOmen said, problen such acceptance. sary. are productive. Postmaster, send change of address notice to The Community Crier, 821 in Plymouth In N.Canton In Plymouth Temporary roads had been built at the “From the standpoint of a study, pro Penniman Ave., Plymouth, MI 48170-1624. C oil JeanlneWira CaB Claudet C a ll Mary Moses: site to get heavy equipment out on the lake lems are good. The lessons learned he 313/459-4613 313/453-1918 313/459-5582 bed. This was quickly found to be costly won’t be repeated elsewhere.” mmmmmmmm and inefficient, VanOmen said. A fixed THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997 Page 3 End of an era: Julien’s torn down Rorabacher said. “You either worked on a ing downsizing from a gas and coffee The white-washed farm or you worked here. Bob put up with house to a convenience store do to a lot of guff from us improvements and building saw and held kids.” expansions on Ford Canton Road. T h i s W e e k more than half a century Firefighter Bill And maybe Grady, a life-long Julien’s closing sig • Today at noon in Kellogg o f Canton history Canton resident who naled an end to old Park, Mulligan Stew will • worked at Julien’s time “Mom and Pop” play a mix of Celtic, folk, B Y SCOTT SPIELM AN during the early 70s, stores, too. Julien’s party store was the sole inhabi Irish and country music. agreed. “Bob knew every tant of the southwest corner of Ford and Free. “It was a happen Canton Center roads for more than 50 one of his customers • Watercoior paintings are ing place back then. All of the Canton guys years. by name, no matter how busy he was,” would be cruising around in Plymouth and Rorabacher said. “In these days, that’s on sale now at the It will be remembered by many people Plymouth Community for many different reasons: it was a place to when they saw they \yerc running out of unheard of. It’s kind of sad to see it go, but congregate in the 70’s before driving some gas, they’d come all the way out to Bob’s,” with the way Canton is growing, it’s Arts Council’s Floral Art where to race muscle cars, a place to work, Grady said. inevitable.” Show, Monday through Julien sold the property in early March Julien agreed. “These are the types of an egg business Bob Julien ran out of the Friday untill August 31. to a developer for Rite Aid Pharmacy. It places you’ll only find out in the country,” back door, and a location for die hard-to- Refreshments are signaled an end to a business that had he said. “And that’s where I’m moving.” find Guernsey dairy products that Julien’s weathered many changes in fortune, includ served, too. Call the sold until the day in June when he closed Council at 455-4681 for the doors for good. Julien, his father and some ex-employ show times. ees were on hand Friday morning when a • Thursday, “Dinner Out” in crane tore down the white-washed building, Hamtramk with the reducing it to a neat pile of rubble that fit Northville Senior Citizens into two on-site dumpsters. Center: N’viile Parks & “A lot of people are going to miss it,” Rec. bus will leave MAGS Julien said. “It’s the end of an era, there’s no doubt,” at 4 p.m., home pick-up at said Mike Rorabacher, Canton fire chief. 3:30. Registration, (810) “It’s part of Canton’s history. It’s what 349-4140. Canton used to be.” Rorabacher worked for Julien’s in the T h i s w e e k e n d early 70s, when Julien’s was at its most prosperous and employed 11 people. • Friday and Saturday “It was the center of town back then,” Julien watches as the budding that was his store is torn down (Crier photo, Scott Spiehnan). Plymouth’s sidewalk sales run from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. C om m ittee, School B oard narrow ing architect proposals throughout downtown BY MATT HUCAL Persuing the elementary school project final selection August 12. Plymouth. A variety of the Four proposals from collaborating archi are Wakeley Associates and Coquillard- Sitting on the committee are: Dan City’s shops will be fea tectural firms are in the running for contracts Dundon-Peterson-Argenta. Coogan, Kari Amir, David Sutherland of tured. For info., call the to design the Plymouth-Canton School According to Birchler a these firms were Canton High School, PCEA President chamber at 453-1540. District’s new high school and elementary selected from 13 proposals originally sub Chuck Portelli. principals Patricia Patton of school. mitted. Canton High School and Peggie Brooks of N e x t W e e k According to John Birchler, executive A committee, made up of two teachers, Allen Elementary School, and administra director of business and operations for P-C two principals and two district administra tors Birchler and Dan Mengh:r.lj Director of schools, Fanning-Howey Associates, and tors, will hold a workshop August 11 to Maintenance and Operations. • Monday is the deadline for Roy G. French Associates in association choose firms for the jobs. The committee Both construction projects would be rental applications in the with Perkins and Will are the firms compet will present its choice to the school board, funded the $80 million March bond. Canton Historical Society ing for the high school job. who are tentatively scheduled to make their 3rd annual flea market sale, Saturday, Aug. 16. Flap over Canton field like old west $15 rents a 15’x15’ space. Call the society at (313) C ontinued from pg. 1 Superintendant Mike Gouinto allow the land not written. That’s when things turned a little tricky. as a soccer complex. “They’ve been taking my money and 981 -1475 for sale details. Funds approved through the EAPP still have telling me to farm the land. Now I’ve got I n d e x to go before the Township Board for r t e r , crops going, and I just want to make sure I get my money out of them," Wilkins said. approval, Yack said. Canton’s attorneys Friends & Neighbors.... pg.6 could find no legal lease that Wilkins had Yack said he was hoping to solve the for the land, and advised the Township not problem as expediently as possible, Business...... pg. 8 to pay. protecting his property. “I just wish all three parties, Denny, Happenings...... pg. 9 Phoenix developers, and the Township could Phoenix developments also said they had Deaths ...... pg. 24 no agreement with Wilkins. Wilkins said he was concerned that he all sit down in one room and figure this out Wilkins claimed he had a verbal agree would lose the crops and have nothing to in a friendly way. But I don’t think that’s Sports ..... pgs. 27-28 ment with Canton Parks and Rec. show because the agreement was verbal, and going to happen.” Opinions...... pgs. 30-31
C anton businesses prepare fo r crow d of archers and others
Continued from pg. 1 business for local merchants. cials are giving, the tournament will find a arrived already, she said, and could begin “The retailers and restaurants will defi permanent home in Canton. You know that businesses in nitely benefit from the tournament. It’s not “We’ll find out at the end of the week if practicing as early as tomorrow. P-C-N have to stay tech The tournament will begin with early just the competitors, but they’ll bring their they decide to return. If they do, it will be competitions Aug. 2. Official registration families and friends, and archery fans. for two years, and we think we can encour nologically current, but day is Sunday and a week of intensive com They’ll all need lunch throughout the week,’ age them to make Canton a long-term who can help you do petition starts Monday, according to Flaherty said. home,” Flaherty said. that? Fine! out in Business Flaherty. She also said she hopes with the extra “It’s been a major undertaking, but it cer to Business, pgs. 12-20 That’s a whole week’s worth of added effort local business and government offi tainly has been.fun.”...... Page *4 THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997 History ys lesson about ‘Squabble city rebuilding courthouse
BY RUSS FRANZEN house has on property values and development. duced a bill to allow boards of Supervisors to raise taxes tc A beacon of tragedy was visible for many miles as thick The district’s politicians fought over the courthouse pay for county buildings. This bill stopped for a few hour; smoke and an orange glow dominated the previously dark placement for a long time, which was silly, since there was in a committee chaired by Hart, but saw no obstacles on its mid-week sky. Soon, the building was nothing but embers already an existing, commonly-owned and perfectly good' way to passage in both houses. The process only took a few and ashes. courthouse site. days. As chairman of Board of Supervisors, Hart was now The courthouse was gone. The “Court House War,” as it became known, finally able to control the location of the courthouse. The community was left to decide whether to rebuild on ended when one township supervisor took the issue to the One year later, newly-elected Judge Alvin Hart helc the existing site or somewhere else. Prominent members of Michigan legislature and, while publicly holding one posi court in the newly built and newly financed Lower Village the district were involved in the decision-making process. tion, engineered a back room legislative end run that result Court House, even though the county owned the donated The stakes were high. There was prestige in having the ed in the courthouse being built is his area. courthouse in the Upper Village. courthouse in your town. Not to mention the effect a court- The story is true. The lesson of “Squabble City,” as Lapeer became It isn’t in The known, is how easy it is to ge Plymouth-Canton- It serves us well if caught up in the politics of the situa Northville tion and lost sight- ©Lthe reason we Community, it was sion-makers remember -yth.e have a district court in the TlfS5 set in Lapeer County, place. , LAPEER v the story of the Court lessons history sograemuslyi The district court is still the House War of 1836- “People’s Court,” where we car COUNTY O U fLD fN ob 47. The story holds teaches* Thm economic m ^em fight a speeding ticket or get reliei an important lesson from a mechanic who takes us for i as this community ride. But the person who cannoi decides the location associated fight a ticket because the court is toe of the rebuilt Dunbar far away to get to in a reasonable com thousecire'sM -i^^$?iff\ Davis Hall of Justice. amount of time has lost their access The Court House to justice. In short, equal justice War. was all about politics. Democrats owned most of the includes equal access. land in Lapeer’s Lower Village. After two years of political In this, as in any dispute, it is important to turn to a per shenanigans, they promised, in 1838, to build a courthouse son everyone, can trust to ignore the politics, look at at at their own expense and donate it to the county. They got sides and giye an objective opinion. The P-C-b the contract, but before the ink was dry, they changed their Community is lucky to have retired 35th District Judge minds and tried to stick taxpayers with the bill. James Garber to turn to (He has agreed to head up the cour The Whigs did what they could, but legal recourse was rebuilding effort). His presence in this crisis should alsc tough in a county where all the public officers were help take some of the pressure off 35th District Judges Johr Democrats and the local judge was in on the fix. All they MacDonald and Ronald Lowe, allowing diem to continue could hold onto was the state law saying the only way to operating the court and dispensing equal justice during the raise money for public buildings was by a direct vote of the search for a permanent'eourthouse. people. It serves us well if P-C-N decision-makers remember the The courthouse fire changed everything. The Whigs lessons history so graciously teaches. The economic stake; were allowed to build and donate their courthouse on land associated with rebuilding a courthouse are still high — in the Upper Village. high enough to produce some political slight of hand. The Democrats next real chance to change things came Sure, it’s unlucky, but the possibility will, at least, enliv in early 1846, when the major Lower Village landowner, en discussions at local coffee shops and watering holes and Capeer Township Supervisor and State Senator Alvin Hart, anywhere serious political issues are discussed. asked a fellow senator to introduce legislation requiring (Russ Franzen, of Plymouth Township, is author of court to be held in the Lower Village. The Whigs saw the Squabble City, the Story of the Court House War. He is legislation as Hart’s handiwork and organized to fighi it. also Court Administrator of the 34th District Court in COURT HOUSE- With the Whigs distracted, another of Hart’s pals intro Romulus.) Break leads Canton PD to young alleged thieves
BY SCOTT SPIELMAN Youth Liason officer, started talking to dence, he said. The youths allegedly took everything Canton Police arrested four 15-year old children in the subdivision to see if they The fourth suspect was caught in the from CDs and cellular phones to golf clubs, youths they believe are responsible for a knew what was going on, Steckel said. act of taking something from a car two Steckel said. Although some of the items string of larcenies in several Canton subdi days later, according stolen were recovered, much of it was not. visions last month. to Steckel. “They must have fenced it somewhere,” The youths confessed many more larce “A homeowner Steckel said, “but we’re still working on nies in Canton and Plymouth, including caught him in the act that part o f it.” Mayflower, Sunflower and Holiday Park and tackled him,” he The youths are being charged locally subdivisions as well as Stoneybrooke and said. under with larceny from a motor vehicle, Canton Crossings apartment complexes, Two of the sus according Tanner. according to Canton Police officer Mike pects lived in “It gives us more control over the case,” Steckel. Canton, one lived in Tanner said. “It’s easier on the victim and “It’s hard to say how many they may be Plymouth, and one in on thedefendent’s parents.” responsible for until we get all of the infor Westland, Steckel Due to vague descriptions, Steckel said mation together,” said Canton Sgt. Eddie said. All were about police are having a hard time finding homes Tanner. “We have one kid saying 30 or 40, 15 years old. for all of die stolen property. another saying 300. The problem with those The youths would “Someone may have told us that some numbers is that we’ve been tracking them, take turn sleeping at one stole a set of golf clubs. Well, we found and w e don’t have that m any.” each others houses four sets. We just don’t know which set “W e’ve been after these guys for a goes to who.” while,” Steckel said. “We just didn’t know The second boy gave Steckel yet another went to sleep, according to Steckel. Then Victims wishing to reclaim stolen prop they were juveniles.” name, and Steckel found all of the property they would wander around* allegedly steal erty can call Brenda Luke, Canton’s proper The break came when Steckel, Canton’s of the previous nights lareenys at the resi- ing items from unlocked cars. ty officer, at 397-5343. y -n w m**- ;t ?■ ■■■' ■ THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997 Page 5
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Steven Decker of Plymouth was “We would call people, state our case, and they’d say they named to the Dean’s List at Iowa State weren’t interested.” University. Potential investors were scared off by the rocky reputation of Decker is majoring in Meteorology. Michigan films, Guertin said. • “A lot of people say they are going to make movies but never The following students were named do. Once we started, and had something on tape to show them, the process was easier.” to the Dean’s list for the winter term Director Ken Guartin and producer Dave Baker-pose in front 1997 at the University of Michigan Then Guertin had to fill in cast and crew. The last roadblock of Emmy Award their company, Make Believe Productions, College of Engineering. From Canton: was finding the director of photography. won for a commercial. (Crier photo, Scott Spielman) Matthew Abbot, Uzmaa Balbale, With most of Michigan’s video production focused in the Michael Chappell, Jennifer Gawlik, commercial and industrial areas, Guertin had a hard time finding espionage and intrigue. The temptation in making a first movie is Daniel Grube, Andrew Hoisington, someone who could commit to a large block of time. something that can be shot cheaply, such as is sometimes done in Harry Lee, Marcus Sarkesian, Guertin then heard about Robin Browne of Bloomfield Hills, art film s. Bradley Sprecher, Rebecca who had earned acclaim as directory of photography in more “It wasn’t an easy sell. A lot of Michigan films don’t do well Steinhebel, Elaine Wisniewski, and than 70 productions, including James Bond movies, Gorillas in because the people making them are making them for them Nick Yang; from Northville: Joseph the Mist, Ghandi and A Passage to India. selves. They throw in violence and sex scenes. We think we can Allen, Kevin Becker, Aaron They’d found their Director of Photography. make movies people will enjoy without those things. Frankel, Amity Heckemeyer, “We got lucky. We went from thinking we weren’t going to “We want to make movies everyone will enjoy," Guertin said, M ichelle Lorenz, Steven Moore, be able to find one to sitting in a huge house, drinking english “not just writers or ourselves. This will please a much bigger Srinidhi Nagaraja, Maxwell coffee and talking about Sigourney Weaver and 007 within the audience than that.” Sprauer, and Benjamin span of three hours.” “The Incorporated” premieres at the Millennium Theater Zumbrunnen; and from Plymouth: Once the cast and crew were in place Guertin set aside 90 Center in Southfield Aug. 14 The first public showing is at 9:30 Theodore Betley, Benjamin Grover, days to film the movie, a tense, action drama about corporate p.m. Aaron Leanhardt, Jennifer Ma, Dawn Marrocco, Jennifer Munfakh, Alison Nemier, Christopher Pratt, Spanish teen gets taste of the States Mark Reed, Neelesh Varde, Angela BY SCOTT SPIELMAN mail some pictures and information about Z aetta. When Maria Vivancos Albentosa flies the family to Maria in Spain. • home next week, she’ll be taking more Too little time, as it turned out. The following students have been than a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. “It didn’t arrive there until a week named to the Dean’s List for the win Albentosa, 16, of Murcia, Spain, spent after she got here,” Holderack laughed. ter semester 1997 at the University of a month in Canton as part of a cultural “The poor thing didn’t know a thing Dayton. From Canton: Graig exchange program learning the differ about us until she got off the plane.” Bellomo; From Northville: Jill ences and simularities of America and This is not Albentosa’s first trip Heathcock, Elizabeth Rivard; and Spain. abroad, she said. She also spent a month from Plymouth: Kathleen Dankert “It’s basically the same,” she said. with a family in Ireland. Elizabeth Lemkuhl, and Amy “There are little differences. Little things “It’s the best way to learn a language. Stidw ell. like food. And most teenagers in Spain We have language school every day, but * don’t work. You can find teenagers in the teachers are British. There are 30 peo Jennifer Kuchera from Canton Spain that work, but it’s not the rule.” ple in the class and you can’t really prac-. and Amanda Humphrey from Other differences include living in an tice your English,” she said. “Also, there Plymouth have been named to the area as spread out as Metro Detroit com Marnie Holderack and her Spanish are things you can’t learn in school, like Dean’s list at Adrian College. pared to the smaller coastal town of house guest Maria Vivancos Albentosa. slang.” Kuchera is a junior majoring in Murcia. Maria spent a month in Canton and its Michigan has held some surprises for psychology. Humprey is a freshman “We walk everywhere in Murcia,” environs as part of a cultural exchange Albentosa. “Most people in Europe think majoring in art. Her work can be seen Albentosa said. “There’s no way you America is fast food. People only eat in The Crier, including the cover for program (Crier photo, Scott Spielman). could walk anywhere here. Everything is hamburgers and hot dogs. I was surprised the upcoming Fall Fest edition. Holderack has taken Maria every so far away.” that the diet is so good.” • where from canoeing in Ann Arbor to Albentosa has been staying with the Knowledge of simularities will be Marine Lance Cpl. James P. movies to Canada, and sampled all types Holderack family in Canton, part of the another thing Albentosa brings home with Altmann, son of Ruth A. Altmann of of ethnic foods, including chocolate chip Nasel Open Door Program for high her, she said. Canton, recently returned to Camp cookies. school students, according to Marnie “It’s good to see people around the Lejeune, N.C. after a six-month “It’s been a lot of fun,” Holderack Holderack. world are more the same than they are deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. said. “It’s a shame more families don’t “It’s a one-month cultural exchange. different,” she said. “People around the Altmann helped in the evacuation take advantage of the program.” She’s not here to go to school, just parti- world are basically the same, customs are of civilians from Albania after the U.S. Holderack said she learned of the pro ciapte in a normal family,” Holderack different and thinking is different, but the State Department decided that the civil gram late, and by the time the family had said. “Although I’m not sure you could people are basically die same.” unrest situation had worsened. filled out the questionaire and been call us a normal family,” she joked. accepted, there was barely time to express THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997 Page 7
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Plymouth Chamber of Commerce is offering Plymouth Gift Certificates — Chamber ’s volunteer of the year good at over 40 businesses and. eateries BY MATT HUCAL Main Street. elect, but he said that his work will more or around the area. They’re available at the Bob Seestadt was awarded the Plymouth “Bob’s come and helped us with less remain the same. chamber office year round. Community Chamber of Commerce everything we needed done,” chamber Among Seestadt’s accomplishments is Participating shops and retail stores: Volunteer of the Year award Thursday. Executive Director Fran Toney said. “He’s his work on Showcase Plymouth. He’s Art Perspectives, Blooms burry Lane, very positive, Carlson Travel/Wagonlit Travel, upbeat and always Christine’s Hallmark, Creative Framing W e ’sv?i smiling. When y p p t it iv t , and Gallery, Crystal Diamond Setters, Bob says he’ll do Days Gone By, Delta Diamond Setters, something, he does Opbeati^^iw&ys % Engraving Connection, Frame Works, it right. He’s an Francis Jewelers Gabriala’s, Georgia’s excellent chamber sm iling.. .an emellent Gift Gallery, Grunwald’s House of Fudge, member.” Hands On Leather, Healthways of The Livonia c n t l f i l U e rri& rflU cf. Plymouth, Minerva’s-Dunning’s, / resident has been Michigan Made, Inc., Native West- vice president of Unique American Southwest Art, Nawrot- Fr^n Toney the NBD bank on Pendlbton Shop, Pied Piper, Plymouth Sheldon and North helped make the annual business Beauty Supply, Plymouth Marketplace, Territorial roads exposition, which hosted about 600 people sideways, inc., Sunny J’s Lingerie & Bras, for four years, this year, a success in recent years. Tanfaster, Unique Accessories, Vanessa’s Seestadt said his The Volunteer-of-the-Year is also on the Flowers and Wild Wings Gallery. predecessor at Small Business Committee, and is co- Participating restaurants: Cafe Bon NBD suggested he chairing the chamber’s annual auction on Homme, Mayflower Hotel, McMahon’s get involved with November 7 at the Laurel Manor, Side Street Pub, Papa Ramano’s Tavern, president Bob Seestadt andl Peoples State Bank’s Margaret Slezak the chamber. He About his future chamber presidency, Station 885, The Plymouth Landing, at Seestadt’s award presentation. (Crier photo, R. Alwoodjr.) did, and it’s grown Seestadt said, “I’m really excited about Uncle Frank’s Chicago’s & Coneys and The special celebration was held in the from there. working with Fran Toney and the rest of Water Club Grill. early morning in the chamber office on Seestadt is the chamber’s president- thcrchamber board of directors.” THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997 Page 9
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CHAMBER GOLF OUTING CLASSIC MUSICAL Canton Chamber of Commerce annual golf outing, 8:30 a.m. Aug. 15, Fellows Creek Marquis Theatre children star in “Little Red Riding Hood” at Marquis Theatre, Golf Course. Cost, $500 foursome, $150 individual. Call 453-4040. Northville. $5.50. Performance dates: Tues.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. Aug, 5-8,12-15,19-22 / Sat. PLYMOUTH OPTIMIST CLUB MEETINGS 2:30 p.m. Aug. 9,16,23, Sept. 6,13,20/ Sun. 2:30 p.m. Sept. 7,14,21. Call (248) 349-8110. First and third Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at Mayflower Hotel. Includes dinner and FLORAL ART SHOW a speaker. Call Felix Rotter, 453-2375. Ply. Community Arts 60+ CLUB Council’s Floral Art Show Meet every first Monday of month, noon, First United Methodist Church, 4520! N. will feature six watercol Territorial Rd. Bring a dish to pass. Call Lola Schueder, 453-7999. orists. Show runs Aug. 31 3 CITIES ART CLUB from 9 a.m.-noon Mon., Meetings will be on the first Monday of the month. November meetings will be Tues., Thurs., Fri. and 9 announced. Call S. Argiroff at (313) 422-8106 for info. a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesdays. STU ROCKAFELLOW AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY POETRY READINGS Monthly meeting at 7 p.m.; third Tuesday of the month; second floor of Plymouth City Plymouth Coffee Bean Hall: Call 455-7652 for more info. Amateur radio classes Thursdays, 7-9 p.m., Ply. Company, 844 Penniman, Township Hall. Call 453-3840, ext. 223. Plymouth, hosts poetry YMCA CLASSES readings, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Plymouth YMCA is accepting registration for classes, such as adult line dancing, kids each Thursday night in sum French classes, drivers education and sports leagues. Call YMCA, 453-2904. mer, ran by Plymouth’s Rod PLYMOUTH DISTRICT LIBRARY WRITER’S CLUB Reinhart. Featured readers tomorrow are Reinhart and Steve Jones. Second and fourth Thursday of every month from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Writers of all experi SPIRITUAL CONCERT ence levels are welcome. Call 416-0418. Swen & Dean perform Aug, 5, 7 p.m. St. Michael Lutheran Church, Canton. Songs and CHRISTIAN RECOVERY stories. Free will offering (suggested $3 per person, $ 10 per family). Call 459-3333. Recovery in Christ offers assistance to people needing help with addictions or dealing LOCAL RESIDENT’S CONCERT with addicted family members. Group meets from 7:15-9 p.m. every Tuesday, room 212 Johnny Little, country singer, at Salem auditorium. Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m. Tickets $7, Repeat at Temple Baptist Church, 49555 N. Territorial, Plymouth. the Beat. 50% of sales to PCEP Choral and Performing Arts programs. Limited seating.
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545 W. Ann Arbor Rd. Commissioned design projects helped launch his in-home career, such as a CD-ROM An innovative business, called 990 Silver Rabbit, Inc., is run from his small home (East of Main St.) Plymouth advertising package Gordon did for the new Ford Escort ZX2. studio by 23-year-old Matt Gordon. (313)451-6866 • Fax (313) 451-0468 STORE “There is nothing better than working in your own surroundings,” Gordon says.' http://www.a1liedfiorists.com/vanessas The commission from the Ford account has helped finance Gordon’s in-home office, Brings You an Exciting Retirement Lifestyle EXPIRES allowing him to work from Northville. “Technology makes working in my studio more convenient and lets me set my own hours. I can work through the night, or take a break and ride.my bike if I want to. Every 8 /3 1 /9 7 “It was like being bom blind, and then having 20/20 vision.” Gordon says, “I went from living a college student’s life to leaning how competitive the dog-eat-dog business day is like summer vacation.” COMING MID 1998 world can be. It was scary.” In the illustration business computers give Gordon increased flexibility in changes to Examples of Gordon’s work are now featured in television commercials and in original designs or paintings, he says. * - Now A c c e p t i n g R eservations I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR WORLD magazines such as Rolling Stone and Gentlemen’s Quarterly. “I’m a painter at heart, but computers can take my paintings and animate them. By “My dad told me to be my own boss,” he says. “It is the best thing he’s ever taught scanning diem you can even make them into games,” he says. |...BUT I CAN INSURE IT me.” “In illustrations for publishing, computers are the wave of the future,” Gordon says. • Studio • Studio Deluxe “But I don’t think people should totally depend on them.” Clara Hill is someone you can count on -- and He explains that even though he still uses canvas and paints, he needs to make his • One Bedroom • Two Bedroom someone you should get to know better. She’s been Internet is designs‘computer ready’ for clients. “Having E-mail and a fax machine makes it possible for me to live in Northville and with A A A Michigan for 13 years and plays an active do business across the country, from California to New York City,” he says. INDEPENDENT LIVING role in The Community. best tool for During an exhibition at the Dancing Eye Gallery in Northville, Ford executives Call Clara for a free, no obligation quote. discovered his work. Continued on pg. 18 INDEPENDENCE PLUS A u t o • H o m e • Boat • Life • M em bership small business Luxury R etirem ent A partm ents w ith a G racious C atered L ifestyle Clara H ill Continued from pg. 13 Northville Rd. south of 5 Mile (810) 220-6106 AAA M ichigan company with offices in Canton and Livonia. (810)222-8801 Their main focus is to make computers easier 313-453-2600 Someone You Can C o u n t O n to use. T h e Elegant Retirem ent Com m unity in Plym outh Insurance underwritten by AJP.LA. family of companies “At Stardock, we make what we would want for ourselves.” Wardell says. “We design PC-Software, business applications, games, and every kind of software imaginable with a unique look and feel.” SWITCH TO LaRICHE CHEVROLET When starting a new business, Wardell says “Assume that you are going to fail, then BRADLEY WARDELL Business to Business Neighborhood if it takes off, you are in better shape to Banking at capitalize.” Cars, Trucks, Vans its Best!
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Chamber of Commerce PLYMOUTH helps business look ahead CULTURAL Businesses need look no further than their local CENTER Chamber of Commerce for advice on home to help their business find their niche in the approaching world of cyber-business.
BY MATT HUCAL Businesses around The Plymouth-Canton-Northville Community are separate, independent and unique. But they all have two things in common — they continually try to keep up with technological advances, and all are anchored in the community by their local Chamber of Commerce. As technology has moved forward at a steady pace, the chamber works to help businesses keep up with the changes as we approach the millennium. Implementation of new technologies has become a hot topic among chamber members, Canton Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Carleigh Flaharty said, adding “It has certainly become more and more the talk of the town.” Canton’s chamber has held luncheons on the business advantages offered by the World Wide Web. The main highlight of the web is the amount of people exposed to it around the globe. Anyone with access to the internet throughout the world can make a hit — the opening and viewing of a web page. Most businesses create their own web page to inform the public on what they offer and how to access what they offer. Flaharty said many who have been in The P-C-N business community for a long time aren’t familiar enough with it. They have raised many questions regarding its effectiveness. Younger business owners coming into the community are more apt to exploit technology such as the World Wide Web, Flaharty added. The exposure to it they’ve had over recent years from schooling and recreational use gives them an advantage. In-home businesses in the Plymouth community are those such as cleaning services, developers and builders not in need of storefront exposure. COVERING ALL YOUR NEEDS The main reason for in-home businesses joining the chamber, Plymouth Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Fran Toney said, is because of the networking and group health care. • Social Events She said the numerous meetings that take place each week at the chamber gives the community’s business leaders the opportunity to interact with each other. Toney sees technology growing within the Plymouth business community as much • Retirement Parties as Flaharty has seen in Canton. “It’s absolutely growing all the time,” Toney said. “A business such as ours couldn’t • Wedding Receptions service the community as well without even a fax machine, which we’ve had for a few years. Electrical technology is the only way we can keep up.” Toney said the chamber’s website receives an average of 16 hits a day. • Showers The chamber’s most recent business directory, which comes out every two years, has added fax numbers, web pages and e-mail addresses. This reflects the growth of technology in the business community. • Sports Banquets The Plymouth chamber is run by Toney and spends a great deal of time working with C on tin u ed o n pg. 20 • Business Meetings The Cultural Center provides the right setting for all types of functions. The large banquet room accommodates up PROFESSIONALLY PUTTING PEOPLE AND to 75 people. Resident catering, VCR & TV, slide projector COMMERCIAL PROPERTY TOGETHER and screen, coffee and tea service, hourly rates, Call Pat Pulkownik all available. a t DISCOUNT RATES AVAILABLE P THE « ■ AATRICIAN T I FOR ALL CHAMBER MEMBERS GROUP. INC. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL: (313) 459-9111 Confidential, Personal, 30 yr$. Consulting (313) 455-6620 in Commercial Real Estate . 525 Farmer.Street, Plymouth Ml 48170 PAULKOWNIC CCIM Certified C o m m e r c ia l Investment Member Located in the “heart” of the Plymouth community \
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1st 10 W ords $5.50 (313) 453-4250 Eacli A dditional W ord $.20 P ly m o u t h C lassifieds Deadline M on. 4pm Call 313-453-6900 Page 24 THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July30,1997 A room of their own Salem teacher aims to help kids with special needs BY BRYON MARTIN The bikes and the room are a; place to Challenge: an everyday word in Dave surpass those limits. Gerlach’s world. ‘Tve got students with Cerebral Palsy As a teacher, a coach and an athlete, who can’t ride a two-wheeler. But they get GerlaclTs days are spent helping others in here on these bikes and they fly,” he meet their challenges. says. “When we’ve got the radio on and He’s an adaptive physical education they’re all pedaling we’ve got to close the teacher classroom-office, stuck Sports door. But you can still here them out in the Illustrated cover over holes in the drop ceil hall,” Gerlach says as a smile of satisfaction ing tiles and hung posters of Michael crosses his face. Jordan and other athletes around the room. He knows the bikes help his students, But the goal isn’t decoration, it’s moti because he has about twenty in the room vation. right now. Most were donated after Gerlach “My ultimate reason for doing this is to ran a classified ad seeking unwanted exer create a room to benefit the special ed. cise bikes. Salem teacher Dave Gerlach sits on the Schwinn bikes his fundriaser has bought so kids,” he says. “It’s their room. They take “The response was good, but a lot of the far for special education students (Crier photo, Bryon Martin.) pride in it.” bikes are in rough shape. They’ve broken as He has mailed letters seeking donations in says. “Pm still young and crazy and I ware And according to Gerlach, pride can be the year went on,” he says. Gerlach worked $350 increments to various service clubs, to get things done. And this is something hard to come by for adaptive physical edu out a deal with Jerry’s Bicycles and Fitness car dealers and other businesses. Plymouth- that will help the kids. cation students. in Plymouth to buy more durable bikes. Canton Rotary Club, Jack Demmer, the “I don’t dp things half way. And right “A lot of these kids aren’t in very good “They’re sturdy. Replacement parts are Caton Senate and other intra-school groups now, this is half way.” shape. They’ve got poor coordination, low easy to get. They don’t have any fancy have responded. EDITOR’S NOTE: Those interested cardio-vascular ability and muscle tone,” computers on them and there are no spokes Gerlach’s goal hasn’t been reached yet, in contributing can contact Dave Geralch Gerlach says. These conditions are largely a for the kids to get their fingers stuck in,” he though. And the competitor in him won’t at Plymouth Salem High School. function of the limitations of their respec says. “They’re what we need.” rest until until he meets this challenge, he tive illnesses. But what Gerlach needs first is money. Community deaths Brad Gliha of Novi; sister, Sophie Hamric of Cleveland, OH; brother, George Burtrick of Indiana, PA; and granddaughter, Christine Gliha. Services were held at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Plymouth Obituaries with the Rev. Stan Tokarski officiating. Burial was at St. John Cemetery in For more information on listing a paid obituary notice in The Crier, Ypsilanti. Arrangements were made by Vermeulen Trust 100 Funeral contact your funeral director or call (313) 453-6900 Home in Plymouth. Mass offerings can be made or memorial contributions given to Canton Place Helping Hand Fun, 44505 Ford Road, Canton, MI 48187. DOLORES K. MacDONALD Dolores K. MacDonald, a Cantori resident, died July 21, 1997 at the age JAMES G. SCHOMBERGER o f 67. James G. Schomberger, a Plymouth resident, died July 21, 1997 at the Mrs. MacDonald was born Feb. 17, 1930 in Muskegon. She was the age o f 82. owner of Cookie Greetings of Bellevue, WA. Mr. Schomberger was bom May 6, 1915 in Delray, MI. He was a lab She is survived by her daughters, Anne D. (Alan) Thompson of Canton, technician at Parke Davis Company for 19 years. He came to the Laurie L. Sisco of Maple Valley, WA, Patti S. Kreager of Renton, WA; and Plymouth Community in 1918 from Delray. He was a member of Our six grandchildren. Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church. He was a gun smith — he owned A memorial service was held in Whidbey Island, WA. Local and operated his own gun shop and he also worked at the Plymouth Sports arrangments were made by Vermeulen Trust 100 Funeral Home in Shop for many years. Plymouth. Memorial contributions can be given to Arbor Hospice, 3S10 He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth J. of Plymouth; daughter, Packard Road Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI 48108. Christine (Randolph) Battersby of Belleville; sons, James of Plymouth, Robert (Nylene) of Commercy Township; grandchildren, Anthony and B E T T Y K O C H Holly Schomberger; sister, Rose Simon of Brownstown Township, MI. Betty Koch, a Plymouth resident, died July 7, 1997 in Cleveland, OH at Services were held at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church with the age of 82. the Rev. Fr. Stanley Tokarski officiating. Arrangements were made by the Mrs. Koch worked in the offices of Stahl Manufacturing in Detroit. She Schrader-Howell Funeral Home in Plymouth. Burial was at Riverside was the widow of Clayton Koch, co-owner of Koch’s Sausage Shop, Cemetery in Plymouth. Mass offerings can be made or memorial which was located at Ann Arbor Road and Haggerty in Plymouth for contributions given to the Father Lumkin “Feed the Poor.” many years: Mrs. Koch is survived by her sisters, Jo Schields and Edna Mae Cranford, both of Ohio. A memorial mass will be held for Mrs. Koch 9 a.m. Friday, August 8 at Joan R. Geyer, 86 Our Lady of Good Counsel in Plymouth. Friends will have an opportunity Joan R. Geyer, a Canton resident, died July 23, 1997. to meet the family at the church after the mass. Memorial contributions She is survived by her daughter-in-law, Patricia Shilakes of Canton; six can be given to The American Red Cross or to Our Lady of Good Counsel grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. in Plymouth. Services were held at Resurrection Catholic Church in Canton. Arrangements were made by The McCabe Funeral Home in Canton Chapel. MARY MARGARET GLIHA Mary Margaret Gliha, a Canton resident, died July 19, 1997 at the age Grace H. Owens, SO, homemaker, garment worker o f 70. Grace H. Owens, a Plymouth resident, died July 24,1997. Mrs. Gliha was bom April 8, 1927 in Clune, PA. She was a salesperson She is survived by her sisters, Jennie Frew of Plymouth, Georgia Daly of Plymouth, for a retail shoe store. Josephine Reid of Plymouth; brother, Joseph A. White of Plymouth; and several nieces She is survived by her daughters, Leisa (Michael) Card of Westland; and nephews. She is preceded in death by her husband, Willard. sons, Gregory (Jean) Gliha of Plymouth, Mark (Kathy) Gliha of Ypsilanti, Services and visitation were held in Wyoming, PA. Local arrangements were made by the Schrader-Howell Funeral Home in Plymouth. THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997 Page 25
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Experienced, " Real Estate • FuISeivte Auction Fim * Trim-Rider Exerciser-$40. Walking Lawn Reliable. Competitive Rates. All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to * Certified Appraiser • Sprinkfer-$20, Hose Reef-$10. Call Dave at (313)697-5548 Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 which makes it illegal Your Personal Handyman. to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination (313)495-9975______■ based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial sta ANN ARBOR ANTIQUES MARKET THE Bike for sale 1220 Trek Touring Bike. 21 Ail types of work. Repairs and tus or national origin or intention to make any such pref BRUSHER SHOW Shimanu Gears. New. $500. (248) 349- remodeling. "25 years experience. erence, limitation or discrimination." This newspaper wilt August 17 6am-4pm. 5055 Ann Arbor 0738______Lie. & Ins. (313)572-0859 not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate Saline Road, exit #175 off i-94 then south 2 Refrigerators-1 antique. Both in good Painting: Interior, Exterior, Decks, which is in violation of law. Our readers are hereby 3 miles. Over 300 dealers in quality Ceilings, Walls, Stairs. Free Estimates. informed that all dwelling advertised in this newspaper running condition Call (313) 840-4703 are available on an equal opportunity basis. antiques and select collectibles all under ______voice mail_____ . ______(810)831-4900 ______cover. Admission $5.00, 29th season. TONY’S TREE SERVICE Attention WMU Parents-Kalamazoo. 2 King Bedroom Platform Pier Unit. White bedroom, 1 1/2 Bath Townhouse. 1 mile ______The Original!!______Trimming, topping, removal and stumps. washed Oak. Matching TV unit and Chest from Campus $28,500. (313)453-8366 Table, 6 Chairs aid Buffet. Mahogany 25 years experience. Free estimates. of Drawers. Excellent condition. $1,650 40 Acres w /10X50 Trailer & ready to be and Walnut. (313)451-7624 ______(313)420-0550______(313)453-8366 , finished 27X27 Hip Roof Bam. 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C uriosities Cleaning/redecorating sale July 31st struction and sales. $50 mil + mfg. Co. JERRY’S PAINTING and August 1 st 9amto 4pm. 49235 Pine Cali Mr. Trapper (303) 759-3200 1983 Salem Graduate 12 years Hill Plymouth, Ridgewood Hill Sub. Wanted: New Clients experience in tilts area. Quality Work! Multi-family Garage Sale fills Thursday, Merchandise Broker has hundreds & All interior and exterior painting. Friday, Saturday, 9-6. 49359 Fox Drive hundreds of various items, such as ______(313)482-5408______computers, sneakers, kids/adult clothing, South, Off Ridge, near North Territorial. sunglasses, toys, etc. Below wholesale Braided Rugs, La-Z-Boy recliner, Linens, H ousecleaninq cost. Contact Dan Hutchinson '______Household. ______Tired, stressed? Can’t keep up the @ 313-396-1522 or 313-427-0220 Friday and Saturday, August 1 and 2, housework? We offer professional 9am-4pm. 40968 Jill Court, In Lakepointe cleaning services at reasonable rates. We Own a piece of Plymouth History. 15 C hildren’s R esale Subdivision, near 5 Mite Rd. and are bonded and insured. Have references. Buildings to choose from including the Penn Need extra CASH? Children’s Orchard Haggerty, lawnmower, bicycle, lots of baby Commercial or Residential. Theatre, Mayflower Hotel,Wilcox House, & pays cash for children's clothing, toys and ______stuff. ______Call 313-531-0439______Post Office. Stop in today or call for a com equipment in excellent condition. Call GARAGE SALE Plymouth Masonic Customized cleaning for your home or ■ plete list Gabrialas, 322 S. Main S t, 313/453-4811 for appointment.______Temple, 730 Penniman. office. Reliable, affordable. Call Karen® Plymouth, (313)455-8884. ______Saturday, August 2, 8-5.______(313) 451-6201 C h i l d C a r e ATTENTION CRIER READERS Garage Sale-Fri. Aug. 1st at 9am. 50675 House Cleaning- Mature woman, Mature woman with 4 yr. old will watch Are you without a carrier in your neighbor Chestwick Ct. Andover Lake Sub. honest and reliable seeking to clean the your children- your home or mine hood/ it is now possible to receive The South of N. Territorial, W/ Ridge. home you care about with quality. Non-smoker, references. Paper with Its heart in The Plymouth ______Lots of Everything!______Experienced with excellent references. Call Mrs. King (313)455-8898 Canton Community, by mail, at a SAV Commercial offices also cleaned. Hom e Im provem ent INGS. Call now! 313-453-6900 F o r R e n t ______(313)453-8717 ______1 yr/. $40.00 Kitchen and Bath Remodeling, siding, Looking for a non-smoking re. possible Professional Housecleaning Service. Or send your check or money order with additions, dormers, ail home female to share expenses in a 2 bedroom References Available. Call (313)397-4980 your name and address to The improvements SANTILLI BUILDERS apartment References req ,red. Susan House cleaning for working couples. 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C uriosities C uriosities C uriosities C uriosities Carriers needed to deliver The Crier each HAPPY BIRTHDAY GERRY VENDITTELLI! WHERE IS MARGARET SLEZAK? Now at married, worked as a writer for the old Wednesday in Plymouth, Plymouth Twp. I think your beard’s starting to. gray! Peoples State Bank. 455-1511. Plymouth Mail. Always busy! Among other and Canton. Call Maura at {313)453-6900. Mike Carne’s Real Birthday is today! He DEAR MARTHA ETAL: Happy to hear things, knits one hundred stocking caps a Looking for memories of the J.L. Hudson gets to celebrate on Spec Night! your voice on Sunday and glad you are year to be given to needy youngsters. It Co. on Woodward Avenue in Downtown MIKE WEAVER sings lo a n on me” at doing so well. Your old home town is still doesn’t seem possible that she is celebrat Detroit. Write to: Hudsons Memories, P.O. ______Peoples State Bank, 455-1511______hanging in there; reads being repaired, ing her ninetieth birthday, (90) August 8. Box 5315, Plymouth, Ml 48170-5315. Jim Manzo & Shelley Wojdacki both get water mains breaking, trains forever in Let’s surprise her and send her a birthday CANTON SHRUBTRIMMER: watch out for ______olde r th is week!______passing, building everywhere but many card. Elizabeth Hartwick c/o Tonquish ______those infectious bushes.______Karl is home! Yeah! Hope you’re feeling happy notes too. One happy note is: Liz Creek Manor, 1160 Sheridan, Plymouth, Ml, ADRIAN’S RIBS are great - and North ______lots better!______Hartwick is alive and well and lives at ______48170. Lovingly, Geneva. Harvey is a party —Beauregard. Danielle -sometimes I’m willing to share, Tonquish Creek Manor in one of the most MIRACULOUS INVOCATION TO WILL AT HEIDE’S hits 21! J & E showed but when it comes to cutting things in half. I desirable locations for a residence of its SAINT THERESE how to celebrate. But can he still deliver? wouldn’t even do that for my bosom buddy. kind anywhere, almost the middle of O glorious Saint Therese, whom Almighty ERICA MANSFIELD will be old Friday! 23! FABE-SO YOU HAD A BIRTHDAY LAST Plymouth, it makes me think when I reach God has raised up to aid and counsel ______Call Medicare!______WEEKEND! Edith, Let’s celebrate! i’ll take retirement age (joke) 1 don’t want to be mankind, l implore your Miraculous FALL FEST is coming. you out to dinner for free. We'll let Fabe stuck out in the country, I want to be where Intercession. So powerful are you in “BANK SERVICE AND TOASTERS go come too, if he behaves. Geneva the action is. 1 want to be able to go to the obtaining every need of body and sou! our together like milk and Graham crackers.” ~ Thanks for the yogurt. In a good pair of movies (walking distance), i want to go to Holy Mother Church proclaims you a Peoples State Bank, 455-1511. jeans, I can be seen from the side! Keliog Park for concerts and art shows, (on “Prodigy of Miracles...the Greatest Saint of Edwards sells backhanded cookies. “I think they should, raise the price to my own power.) I want to be able to look in Modem Times.” Now I fervently beseech STEPHEN IS A MAGNET! Catching Two $2.50." Steve Guile, a Penn Theatre fan. store windows, decorated for the changing you to answer my petition (m ention here) Tiger Balls and he's only been to two JESSE VARGA grows GREAT lettuce - seasons, i want to be where there are peo and to carry out your promises of s p e n d in g GAMES! thanks for the salad. -Beauregard ple of all ages. I want to see young moth Heaven doing good upon earth... o f le t t in g He’s got a better record than the team. ERNIE HUGHES has a new moniker and a ers walking their babies, with their older fait from Heaven a Show er of Roses. MARY MILLINGTON’S WISDOM teeth are sign to go with it. Call to find out what children. I want to see teen-agers, old peo Henceforth, dear Little Flower, I will fulfill the talk of the town. ______(313)414-0400______ple, -all ages and kinds, and that's what Liz you plea “to be made known everywhere: FALL FESTIVAL is Sept. 5, 6, & 7: ______Poor Mary R ! Waaahh!______wants too. Ninety years ago, July, and l will never cease to lead others to THE PLYMOUTH SYMPHONY has arrived! Oh to be in England now that Allen’s there. Elizabeth Beyer Hartwick was bom, the ______Jesus through you. Amen.______Downtown Plymouth at 819 Penniman Ave. What a wonderful tribute to the late Judge eldest child of Mr. & Mrs. Otto Beyer. They ST. JUDE’S NOVENA CHUCK LITTLE: are you sure that car was Dunber Davis in the articles regarding the lived in a farm house on the comer of May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, a FORMER school superintendent? loss of the Court Building by fire. It will Liberty and Lilley Road in Lower Town, glorified, loved and preserved throughout ______-Scott and ED______always be appreciated and never forgotten. Plymouth: Lower Town because the water the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of FRAN: who was that man bowing and Thank you Community Crier, Ed Wendover level was so low, upper Plymouth because Jesus, pray for us. St. Jude, worker of mir scraping at the Chamber office? (Usually and Staff. Martha Davis and Family. the water level was so high, many homes! acles, pray for us. St. Jude, help of the he’s scraping snow and ice off ATTENTION LOCAL ARTISTS Plym outh had to be built without basements. (Sort of hopeless, pray for us. Say this prayer 9 your sidewalk.) Coffee Bean Co. Is looking for local artist^, knocks that social status, bit into a cocked times a day. By foe 8th day your prayer will ELIZABETH HARTWICK WILL BE 90 to display their work. Contact Michael for hat, doesn’t it? “Old Village" indeed! I be answered. Say it for 9 days. It has YEARS YOUNG, August 8! Wouldn’t it be an appointment @ (313)454-0178 seem to have drifted. Npw to get back to never been known to fait. Publication must nice to remember her with a card! Liz Hartwick, bom, educated, be promised. Thank you St. Jude. Help Wanted *5*50 for the first 10 w ords, 20e each additional w ord. D eadline: M onday, 4 p.m . Call (313) 453-6900
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S p o r t s Plymouth laxers help Team s h o r t s Michigan win Summer Shootout ■ o The Plymouth Shooting Stars For four years the Eastern Michigan won the Three Versus Three Micro Lacrosse Association has been sending teams Soccer Tournament Under-9 Division to the annual Buffalo, NY “Great Summer in dramatic fashion on Saturday at Shoot-out,” considered one of the best tourna ments in the nation. Concordia College. Matt Czajkowski scored the game- And for four years they have tasted the fla vor of tradition and dominance against the winning with thirty seconds left in the hometown New York teams championship game against the South In the past, the best finish for any Lyon Sting, lifting the Shooting Stars Michigan team from any age group was third to a 2-1 victory. place in 1996 by the 13- and 14-year-old Last year, the Sting defeated the team. Shooting Stars in the finals, 1-0.. Well, there is a first time for everything. Czajkowski and teammates Many of the same teams from last year Johnathan Harlan, Andrew Koet and came to Buffalo again in 1997, including Brian Kirkendall, played five games Team Michigan. Coached by Stan Orzel, — four three-minute quarters — in inspired by the Red Wings and armed with a searing 90 degree heat on their march dream and determination, Team Michigan to victory recently earned a first-place finish at the tour nament. Salem boys golf tryouts Aug. 11- Team Michigan, which includes Plymouth 13 beginning at 10:30 a.m. at Hilltop residents Steve Fogoros and.Peter McGuire, Plymouth residents Steve Fogoros (third row, third from left) and Peter McGuire Golf Course 453-9800, located at the employed a mission-like attitude every day of (second row, second from right) recently won the Great Summer Shoot-out lacrosse comer of Ann Arbor Trail and Beck the tournament. tournament in New York with playing for Team Michigan. (Courtesy photo) It was obvious from the look in their eyes Road. For tee time and more informa one of two Hamburg, NY teams. Team managed to outplay the Knights and win, 8-7. and their tireless effort that they were not to tion, call Salem coach Rick Wilson at Michigan came on strong matching each The win put Team Michigan in third place be outplayed again by any New York team. 416-7762. opponent’s goal, and eventually winning, 5-3. going into the semi-final round against a team Many of the team members compete * Game 2 turned out to be a different story. from Canton, NY. With all the excitement against each other in ice hockey and lacrosse Compuware Sports Arena on Beck Orchard Park, NY’s stifling defense handed and determination you could expect from throughout the year, but come together for a Team Michigan its first loss, 7-4, of the tour such a,team a young warriors, they put up a Road in Plymouth is hosting couple of hard fought team efforts in the nament. remarkable fight. After all, a win against “Future’s ‘97,” a pre-season condi sports world. There was cause for concern at this point Canton would guarantee a second-place tro tioning and development mini-camp Lacrosse is certainly not a game for the because the schedule called for a back to back phy. A swarming defense and Fogoros’ excel every day this week. timid with continuos stick and body contact game with a fresh host team from Hamburg, lent work in net led to Team Michigan’s 5-1 The camp is designed exclusively combined with rough, hard checking. the Knights’ A team. With only 20 minutes to for marquee players of the Ontario, Game 1 was against the Knights B team Please see pg. 28 Western and American Hodkey. rest between games, Team Michigan still Leagues. Participants are considered to be high-ranking NHL prospects. The camp began Monday and con School of fish tinues until Friday. The public is, invit ed to watch the NHL’s future stars at Plymouth Christian Academy opens doors to Whalers no cost. BY BRIAN CORBETT Little’s said there was a “legal and technical issue around Six players from the Plymouth Whalers hockey team will be guardianship.” The City of Plymouth Recreation going to high school in The Plymouth-Canton Community after all. The P-C School District is the eighth largest in the state with more Department and the Plymouth Soccer Whalers Associate Coach Steve Spott said last week that the play than 15,000 students, and it’s also one of the fastest growing. A Club are looking for Youth Soccer ers will be attending Plymouth Christian Academy for the 1997-98 spring bond vote approved a third high school. C o a c h e s . Any adult interested in school year following their second failed attempt in as many years to As a result of Little’s decision, several Whalers attended a private coaching, please contact Steve attend The Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, home to the high school in Allen Park. But that commute was too long, Spott Anderson at the City of Plymouth Plymouth-Canton Community School District’s Canton and Salem says, and the Whalers hoped Little would approve their second Recreation Department at (313) 455- high schools. request two months ago to enroll the six players at the PCEP this fall. 6620. “We’re happy to be a part of their school,”, said Spott of the “I guess it’s too crowded for six more students,” Spott said. *• Plymouth Christian Academy. ■‘They basically welcomed us with Soon after that, the Whalers were informed about Plymouth Amanda Humphrey of Plymouth, open arms. It’s very appealing to us for many reasons, especially in Christian Academy. A brief negotiating period followed before the a freshman at Adrian College, was terms of ratio of teachers to students.” Whalers were admitted. “Being a Christian school, they wanted to named to the 1996-97 Michigan In addition to coaching, Spott, a former teacher and school board know how the boys would react,” Spott said. Intercollegiate Athletic Association member in his native Toronto, helps locate schools and housing for Spott said the Whalers are pleased with the arrangement with (MIAA) Academic Honor Roll. Whalers players, many of whom hail from Canada and Europe. Plymouth Christian. “(The players) play in the community, they live The cross country athlete achieved The Whalers are a member of the Ontario Hockey League, a top in the community, now they’ll go to school in the community. I like a minimum 3.5 grade point average, developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL.) OHL to think we won the gold medal with this school,” Spott said. (on a 4.0 scale) while earning a varsity players typically are 16 to 21-years-old and are unpaid. The Whalers But the Whalers aren’t the only ones to benefit from the agree letter. pay for each player’s education and provide housing through volun ment. According to Spott, Plymouth Christian will receive free ice • • tary host families. time at Compuware Sports Arena, and assistance with its varsity ath Women Drivers...Yes!, Visiting Billets have not been hard to find — nearly die entire team will be letic programs and fund-raising activities. Nurse Association’s (VNA), fo u r th living in The Plymouth-Canton Community for die 1997-98 season Not to mention to mention a few good role models, Spott says. annual golf invitational will return to — but a local high school has been. “We don’t want the boys just to be students. We want them involved the Meadowbrbok Country Club in Prior to the Whalers’ first season at Compuware Sports Arena in in the school as well, attending pep rallies. We want out boys to be Plymouth Township in 1996, the team’s request to send its high school good role models,” Spott said. Please see p g . 21 age players to the PCEP was denied by Superintendent Charles Little Plymouth Christian Academy Headmaster Gord Nichol could not because of the school district’s growing student population. be reached for comment. Page 28 THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997
On the Spott S p o r t s Whalers associate coach quickly moving up s h o r t s BRIAN CORBETT Bryan Marchment. on a local school board. Unlike so many college graduates, He played for the Toronto Marlboros in The combination of teacher and coach Steve Spott is actually working in the field 1984, and was named Rookie of the Year seemed to work much better than teacher Continued from pg. 20 of his major. in 1985 while playing for a Tier II club,.the and player because only two years later he Northville on Aug. 18. Sort-of. Henry Carr Crusaders. led the Markham Islanders to the Toronto Women Drivers...Yes! raises Spott, a Canton resident with a degree Small; but spunky, swift and a gifted Metropolitan Hockey League champi money for VNA’s Driving Care Home in education from Colgate University, is goal scorer on the right wing, Spott onship. Fund, a transportation assistance pro entering his second season as a Whalers received a full scholarship to play hockey at He became head coach of Seneca gram for women employed as home associate coach. . Colgate University in 1987. College in Toronto in 1995, and was named health aides. Jmnds are raised through “I always wanted to pursue coaching, He enjoyed his four years in the small, Coach of the Year after the Braves won corporate sponsorships, players’ fees it’s another form of teaching,” said Spott, out-state New York campus. “It was great. Ontario College Athletic Association in his and a silent auction. who was a teacher in the early 1990s. College hockey is a lot different than our first season. If he was still teaching — in a class league (the OHL). But it was great,” Spott Another coaching assignment and anoth The Canton Softball Center on room, that is — he just might be superin said. er championship came with the Markham tendent by now. Colgate was competitive during Spott’s Waxers Jr. A club, who continued the fran Michigan Avenue will be holding That’s how fast his ascent through the first three years, and peaked his senior sea chise’s tradition of excellence with a gold tournaments every weekend through coaching ranks has gone. son in 1990 with a trip to NCAA national medal in the Metro League Tournament. Sept. 21. In four years, Spott went from teaching championship game. It was there he coached future Whalers and coaching a Tier II Toronto hockey club When Colgate lost that game to the Randy Fitzgerald and Anthony Terzo. Canton Parks and Recreation to becoming an important member of one University of Wisconsin at Joe Louis Spott didn’t think he would have the Services is sponsoring junior tennis of the premier OHL coaching staffs. Arena, Spott also lost his dream. opportunity to tutor those two again until an camps throughout the summer at No small accomplishment for Spott, “My goal was always to make it to the offer to coach in Detroit came from Griffin Park. who was born in Toronto in 1968, the NHL, but when you’re not that big —- Whalers Head and General Manager Peter One camp remains, Aug. 4-7. The youngest of four children and the only boy. you’re a 5’8”, 5 ’9” forward — you have to DeBoer via their mutual friend, Adam two age groups are Little Swingers His parents were of German heritage, make sure you have you’re education Oates. from 4-6 years of age and Juniors thus, soccer not hockey was Spott’s intro behind you,” he said. Now, success is important — and Spott from 7-15 years of age. duction to sports. “Soccer was my Dad’s Spott did. He taught while playing for had had that — but this hockey teacher also Instruction is for those at from the first love. So I played soccer in the sum Newmarket of the American Hockey had quite a few lessons in networking. beginner to the intermediate level. mer. When I was young, we never played League and Richmond of the East Coast “The hockey community is a real small Call 397-5110 for more information. hockey in the summer,” he said. Hockey for two years before going to one. I did a lot of networking, kept in touch .But hockey’s swift pace fit well with Europe to play for a team in the with friends and got to know a lot of other The Plymouth Whalers 1997-98 Spott’s intense nature, and soon the coolest Netherlands. people,” Spott said. “But, ultimately, it regular season schedule will include game on earth was more interesting to ‘Then, that finished up and, basically, at comes down to winning and losing.” 33 home games and 33 away games. Spott than the most popular game in the that point/1 had to make a decision in my Spott definitely passes that test. Their Dec. 29 home matchup with world. life,” Spott said. But it wasn’t just Spott’s record that got Erie will be the OHL Game of the It was a textbook answer for this teacher. him the position with the Whalers, where - On one of his boyhood teams, the W eek. Toronto Young Nationals, Spott played While Spott returned home to Toronto he joined DeBoer and Associate Coach The Whalers open their season at with future NHL stars Brendan Shanahan, with the intention to coach the Young Greg Stefan. home Sept. 20 against London and Adam Graves, Glen Featherstone and Nationals in 1992, he^also taught and served His college and professional back finish their home season March 11 grounds are crucial to the Whalers drafting versus Windsor. and recruiting efforts, as well as the (ocker * room and on-ice atmosphere. “We’ve got a real good mix,” Spott said The Plymouth Recreation of the coaching staff. “Greg is former NHL Department continues registration goalie, so that commands immediate for its Summer Park Program. respect. Me, I’m a teacher and I’ve been to The five registration locations college, and Pete’s a lawyer. So we figure are Kiwanis Park (Auburn and we’ve got all the basis covered.” Junction streets), Jaycee Park That doesn’t mean there is no erudition (Harding and Joy), Garden Club left in to educate Spott on the coaching profession. He accepts the job’s insecurity, Park (Sutherland and Forest), the frustrating fact that he might learn more Rotary Park (Wing and Herald) and from a loss than a win and the challenge of Fire House Park (Holbrook and dealing with a classroom, er, lockeroom Spring). ; full of ambitious young men, much like Each location will provide a himself 10 years ago. schedule of supervised activities “Coaching for me nowadays, you have from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday 23 players so you have 23 different person through Friday. alities. You have' to find out what makes Arts and crafts, active games, each player tick. You can’t be a screamer or a yeller and just have one style. There’s street showers, bowling, miniature a lot of coaches who like to throw sticks golf and table games will accent and garbage cans between periods, but you tihe d aily program* can’t do that every night,” Spott said. Friday field trips are planned to Whalers Associate Coach Steve Spott talks to the team during a Whalers practice at He lost one of his dreams years ago when the Detroit Zoo, the Skatin’ Compuware Arena in Plymouth. (Crier photo, R. Alwood Jr.) he packed his equipment in his bag a left a Station, Rolling Hills Water Park, foreign country to go home to Toronto. Kensington Metro-Park and It wasn’t the end, it was another beginning. Local lax players win tourney Oakland County Wave Pool. Spott still has many dreams to rundown. A fun-filled field day is planned Continued from pg. 27 The next one is due in reality on Aug. 16 the for the final date on Aug. 15. win over Canton. day he marries his fiancee, Lisa, just a few And now it was on to the championship game. This was it: a chance to be number one. weeks before Whalers’ begin their quest for Call the Plymouth Recreation Game 5 started out with a goal from the Knights B team, one of the host teams. The Knights the Memorial Cup as Canadian Hockey Department at 455-6620 for more were not about to let a Michigan team walk away with the trophy they provided for the tourna League champions, information. ment. Team Michigan matched that goal and continued to answer each New York goal. “That’s all in our dreams, right now. The program is free and partici It was not until the final quarter that Team Michigan took the lead. After adding a second That’s our Stanley Cup,” he said. pants must be City of Plymouth goal they were able to hold on to the lead as the seconds ticked down, ending with a 6-4 win, As we all now after this summer, residents. earning Team Michigan a first-place finish in the tournament. dreams do come true — it just may take along time. ■at* . ••
THE COMMUNITY CRIER July 30,1997 Page 29 Camp 911 teaches Northville kids about safety CPR, lifesaving techniques focus o f two-day camp BY SCOTT SPIELMAN Skills at each station are taught by a different firefighter. The children learn from For two days last week, 20 children went camping at Northville Township’s Fire demonstrations, CPR dummies and even a brain molded from watermelon Jello. Station Number Two. “We make up two molds, and drop one on the ground inside a bike helmet, and one The station became an interactive classroom for children to learn fire safety, thanks to without a bike helmet to show how much helmets protect you. It’s a pretty effective the department’s Camp 911 program. image,” Dunny said. “Then later on we cut the brain up and eat it ” The two-day long camp was designed to provide a fiin atmosphere for children to learn The firefighters also give presentations about dangerous household items and the best basic fire safety, according to Northville Firefighter Tom Dunny. way to vacate a smokey, burning house. “We try and teach them everything from basic medical services, like the Heimlich On the second day of the camp, campers are tested on an obstacle course. maneuver and CPR, to bike safety,” Dunny said. “We set up stations that the kids have, to solve a problem at, like a man who needs a Held entirely at the fire station, campers break up into smaller groups and take turns at bandage, or maybe they’ll have to get someone to wear a bike helmet,” Dunny said. “Then stations representing the five steps of life saving: assesment, airway, rescue breathing, we time them. The two fastest kids get new bike helmets and smoke detectors.” CPR and bleeding control. The firefighters enjoy the program, and the kids responded well, Dunny said. “I think it’s a good idea,” said 10-year old Devon Rupley. “When I get older I want to start baby sitting. These are basic skills I can learn.” “It’s a lot of fun,” said 12-year old Ravi Pekati. “You don’t want to leave. It’s neat they way they introduce the techniques.” Kids leave the camp with a T-shirt, a first aid pack and some knowledge that they may not have had before, Dunny said. “We test them beforehand to see what they know. And when we test them when they’re done, they say: ‘Now I know,”’ Dunny said. “That’s the best part.” Parents wanting to sign their children up for the 911 camps can call the station at (810) 348-5807, or stop at the station to pick up an application. “W^’fe only supposed to have 20 kids per session, but we won’t turn any away,” Dunny said. “We'wanftG^^^r&g-jnfonnation out there.” Big draw for National N ight O ut BY MATT HUCAL nizations donating food for the cookouts. Few events in the world can claim to Plymouth Township has designated have 23 m illion participants. Allen Elementary at 11100 Haggerty Rd.. The Plymouth Township Police Farrand Elementary at 41400 Greenbriar Department, in conjunction with the Lane and West Middle School at 44401 W. Plymouth Rotary, are sponsoring “National Ann Arbor Trail as cookout sites. Night Out/Turn Off the Violence” Tuesday According to a release by the Plymouth from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Plymouth is one of Township Police, the event aims to height thousands communities across the country en crime and drug prevention awareness, joining in. generate support for and participation in Police have asked citizens to turn on out anti-crime programs, strengthen neighbor side lights and meet with officers, neigh hood spirit, improve police/community bors and local crime prevention coordina relations and deter crime. tors in outdoor activities. “Our role in this is to get more involved In some neighborhoods block parties, with the community,” Plymouth Township youth bike parades, flashlight walks and police officer and organizer of the local cookouts are scheduled, with private orga event Jamie Senkbeil said. EMS sessions for Canton Seniors
Canton senior citizens will have an opportunity to examine Canton’s proposed Emergency Medical System (EMS) billing plan at several information sessions in the next two months. Canton’s Director of Public Safety John Sauntomauro will attend several organized senior events to speak about the EMS billing proposal. “The information sessions will enable us to rest any concerns seniors or any resident may have about the user fee for EMS transports,” Sauntomauro said. August sessions are currently scheduled for: • 7:15 p.m. Aug. 5 St. John Neuman’s Catholic Church. • 3:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at Canton Place. • 2 p.m. Aug. 14 at Carriage Park • 11 a.m. Aug. 19 at Senator Loren Bennett’s Senior Safety Seminar & Luncheon at the BY DAN MARTIN . Brennan would be running the Schoolcraft Summit on the Park. Lord Stanley’s Cup visited Schoolcraft Camp, he enrolled Alyonka, who is a final For more information, call Director Sauntomauro’s office at 397-5350. College Wednesday, thanks to special ist in the ten-and-under category of the friendship between Detroit Red Wing Igor Junior Open. Larionov and Joe Brennan, director of the Larionov promised Alyonka’s tennis Geddes Road to close in August Schoolcraft Tennis Camp. campmates that when it was his turn to Geddes Road between Beck and Canton Center Roads will be closed to through traffic Larionov and Brennan met at the Sports have the cup he would share it with them. beginning August 4. Club of Bloomfield where Alyonka, He kept his word, and brought pizza, pop Workers will be replacing the exiting culvert and doing some bridge work. Local traffic Laranov’s ten-year-old daughter, was tak and the Stanley Cup to the Schoolcraft ten will have access either from Beck or Canton Center Roads. ing tennis lessons. Brennan took a personal nis courts. The project is expected to take 60 days. interest in Alyonka and became her person Larionov posed for pictures, signed al coach. When Larianov learned that autographs and talked with the crowd. *'*'¥• **•
Page 30 THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30, 1997 Community opinions Plymouth’s rolling stones Reinhart and companions a collection of poetic qualities I’ve always collected things— sorting for Arts. His voice, albeit strong, is and organizing in special places and comforting— his eyes rounding at the edges decorative containers. I can remember a to meet the wide smile that greets all who small collection of polished stones housed talk with him. The Abstract in a bird’s nest that my parents kept high on The Plymouth Poets have been hosting B y Stephanie Everitt-K irkbride one of the bookshelfs. A few agates, some poetry readings, contests and special obsidian and a few bits of coral from our evenings for five years, Irish Night and the travels northeast I’d take them out one at a Mystical Poetry Fest, included. Many of laughter and enthusiasm, while remaining “gentleness and depth” Reinhart says. In time, admiring their texture in my hand, these artists are widely published in serious in their need to write, to express fact, he has many good things to say sbout and the way they looked nestled in the southeast Michigan, as well as nationally. themselves. Reinhart says Ann is a his fellow poets. A sincere thank you is first carpet Ann E. Horvath helps compile student work wonderful mother, and a “literary mother of OH his ikt. Locally there is a group that reminds me for the McGuffin Literary Magazine of many aspiring poets.” Should you have Thursday free, please of this small collection of stones. Rod Schoolcraft College. Van Baldwin ill Reinhart’s eyes every one has a spark stop by the tribute to Allen Ginsberg at the Reinhart, Plymouth’s Poet in Residence, is organizes the poetry program forTue Guild to share, to kindle the creative fire. Carol Plymouth Coffee Bean Company. Partake the large river-softened stone. He has been House o f Afni Arbor: Was and Guthrie Neidhart have also of some poetry, tap into the local art pulse, polished by a wonderful flGGu of Ann and Van remind me of two pieces brought great life to the group. In Donna and happen upon a fine collection of rolling e x p e r ie n c e aTiu r e c o g n iz e d as an of granite: strong personalities, with flecks DeMeyer, a host for many of die summer stones. outstanding artist by the Michigan Council of color that glimmer in water. Both spread Thursday night readings, there is a First ammendment no guise for picket
EDITOR: I commend his thoughts that the first The Canton police should not have I, for one, treasure the peace and quiet of In reference to your July 16 article about amendment, calling for free speech, should allowed the rowdy group of strikers to my area, and want it kept that way. the strikers who disrupted a peaceful be limited to properties other than private disrupt a private residential setting. You seem to imply that anything is do Canton neighborhood with bull-horns, neighborhoods. This group promised “we’ll be back.” I able under the first amendment, but chanting, etc., I read with interest the article It’s hard to believe that anyone would hope the next time, they are not allowed disturbing the peace is against the law. of the previous week from Dana Anthony, a agree that disturbing the peace is allowable into a private sector for a repeat DOROTHY LOUKS Canton resident, objecting to such antics. under the guise of the first amendment. performance. That empty feeling It’s like the poster that former Plymouth- former Cheryl’s Closet/me and mr Jones on talking about “all those Canton School Superintendent Mike Hoben Ann Arbor Trail, the former Venture vacancies” downtown. had in his office: Outdoors on Penniman Avenue — are It overwhelms the W ith m alice It pictured a horse standing visible sites. Penniman “good ” news uncomfortably half over a fence and read And the landlord to the Main Street site, that the Plymouth tow ard none “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Jim McKeon, has employed a novel “what Symphony has moved There are three vacant storefronts in should go in here?” ask the public dowtown and that downtown Plymouth right now. campaign. (So far the overwhelming vote is Tom’s Oyster Bar has building for a complete overhaul and That’s three out of some 100 storefronts. for a food use of some type. There’s one started renovations. publicly looks for a tenant, does he make Yet the three sites—the former vote for a topless bar.) That’s the “damned if you do, damned if town look “empty”? Chameleon Gallery on Main Street, the But that resulting campaign PR has town you don’t” dilema. As McKeon readies his F amily gives perspective on Lorenz case
EDITOR: risk the possibility of Colorado’s very severe, mandatory It is a fact that sexual assault charges are very common We would like to respond to the recent article and 30-year sentance. His concern has always been his in contentious divorce and child custody cases. Many developments regarding our brother, Rick. The family is daughter and son who are still at home. By accepting a innocent men are serving jail rime for such charges. saddened by some remarks that have reached all of us. Unfortunately, in today’s court system you must prove There are always two sides to a story. In today’s a qw t system you must yourself innocent of these charges and it’s very difficult We know and love Rick and saw him interact with his for a father once he is accused. As an example, Colorado children and our own for many years. It hurts us to know prove yours elf innocent o f these law allowed Rick’s positive results to a voluntary lie people have jumped to conclusions about him. Rick is a detector test to be suppressed by the District Attorney, father of our children: a 28-year old son and an 18-year charges rtrtil it ’s verv difficult for Anyone who saw “Turning Point” on ABC TV July 24 old daughter living away from home; and a 15 year-old or “Dateline” on NBC July 28 (regarding suppressed daughter, and a 12-year old son at home. memory syndrome) know the pain Rick and our family is For the record, Rick accepted a plea bargain and was afatkeronc e he is accused. presently experiencing. The many kindnesses and prayers sentenced, July 25, to a maximum of 90 days in jail. This that friends have offered hearten the family, especially plea was offered after two and a half years of plea, he hopes to preserve his time and relationship with Rick and his children. prosecutorial delays and a mistrial that resulted during them. In June, the judge who heard the case awarded him We are grateful for these friends and prayers. jury selection in April. He reluctantly did this rather than full custody of them for the summer. STATON LORENZ THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997 Page 31
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NEWSPAPER More than money matters in courthouse location W I T H I T S ’ H E A R T I N 'T H E Every community in the 35th District has a claim on where the PLYMOUTH-CANTON new courthouse should be. COMMUNITY Canton, with 55 percent of the population of die district and a 821 Pennim an Ave„ police staff almost as bis as those of the other four commuities Off the cuff Plymouth, M I 48170-1624 combined, provides the majority of the case load for the court. By Scott Spielm an (313) 453-6900 Plymouth is of course more centrally located, and the site of the [email protected] old courthouse may prove more economically feasible than L o c a t e d in historic dow ntow n building elsewhere. The fact is that although the court is a business, and pays rent P lym outh’s ta lle st building I kind of like the possibility of building a new courthouse at and taxes like any other, it deals with criminals on a daily basis. Five Mile and Beck Roads, as suggested by Northville Township Although a location in northern Canton could be as little as two PUBLISHER: W. Edward Wendover Supervisor Karen Woodside. miles away from the old site, it is primarily a residential It’s easier to get to than the current site and not blocked by community, and people don’t like the idea of criminals traipsing GENERAL MANAGER: M ike C a m e railroad crossings. And, while not located centrally within the through their neighborhood. district, does provide the imposing view of the Scott Correctional Regardless of where it should go, or what I think, I hope the EDITOR: Bryon Martin Facility court advisory board considers every aspect of a new building, not .PHOTO EDITOR: Kerry Erdman, die court’s administrator, likened die courthouse just whose treasury will benefit from having the building in their Richard Alwood comm unity. SPORTS EDITOR: to an unwelcome relative: you may feel obligated but you don’t Brian Corbett necessarly want it around. REPORTER: Scott Spielman INTERN: M att H u ca l
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Bond suit wastes tim e, money J a c k A rm stron g ASST. ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Chuck Skene
Board candidate, bond committee member protests ongoing battle ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS: M ichelle T regem bo W ilson EDITOR: were recorded and the proposal would have passed. Which brings Danielle Gutherie As recent Board of Education candidate, member of the me to why I am writing this.letter. John Thomas
Citizens Election Committee for the 1997 bond proposal and a I believe the majority felt that this was a good proposal and BUSINESS MANAGER: concerned parent and citizen, I have been watching with interest wants to see it implemented as planned. This court battle is wasting Lisa A. Lepping BUSINESS ASSISTANT: die issues surrounding the current court litigation. valuable time and money and those who care need help to be kept Diane Giera As I have said, and will say again here, I think it is very abreast of the facts. CIRCULATION DIRECTOR: unfortunate that there were so many under votes in the March 22 With respect to time, the first thing that we need to remember is M aura C ady RECEPTIONIST: election. However, I still believe that had the votes been “yes” or that new students are still coming. The recent Canton census Geneva Guenther | “no,” they would have been split according to the numbers that reports that there are 4699 preschool students living in the district PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY by The Plymouth-C anton W orthy fight Community Crier, Inc. CARRIER DELIVERED $2.25 monthly, $27 yearly U.S, MAIL DELIVERED: $40 yearly in U.S JV. in bond suit M e m b e r: EDITOR: P rim ed on The recent election passed a bond issue for schools. I voted in R ecycled Paper the election. Seven hundred of my fellow residents of the school that are no yet registered for school. Future Plymouth-Canton district also cast their ballots. However, their votes didn’t count. graduating classes will be very large. The attempt to have the results overturned is termed a waste of The second thing we are losing is planning time and site work com m a • m oney. time. If this goes on too long the opening of the proposed schools COMMOTED 9 COMMUNITY § COMMUMCATOKS will be delayed. 345 Fleet St. T h e p With respect to money, this delay has already cost the district. If Plymouth, M I 48170-1656 $80 million worth of bonds could have been sold on June 1, 1997 (313) 453-6860 as planned, the district would be making $11,477 per day in
interest. This money was to have been used to offset other costs. PRESIDENT In addition, the district is responsible for attorney fees, W. Edward Wendover
stenographer costs, costs of copying deposition transcripts, GENERAL MANAGER: transportation costs for the software owner from California and M ike C a m e o f cM voters, including these 700. Board of Canvassers stipends. M ARKETING DIRECTOR: Everyone must do what he or she thinks is right and I have no Gerry Vendittelli If the bond issue had not passed, would not the other side be doubts that there is a group of people who think this is “the right wasting our money in a suit to accomplish the same ends? ART&PRO DUCTION DIRECTOR : thing.” All I ask is that we all keep in mind what the ultimate goal Rhonda Delonis It would seem to me that the purpose of the suit is not to change is, and that is to educate the kids of this community to the best of GRAPHIC ARTISTS: the outcome, but rather to insure that the result correctly reflects our abilities. Danielle Gutherie the will of all voters, including these 700. SU Z A N N E DERSHEM INTERN: If this is being frivolous and wasteful, then so be it. Linda Kochanek ALFRED McLOUGHLIN Page 32 THE COMMUNITY CRIER: July 30,1997
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