Ambulance Changed • Northville Residents Who Call Police from Its Plymouth Facilities
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... :l I' :~ ! J l' I 'I'J i" I a J U I -\ o.? .-"... j:) - ~ '"' (/ '< 3:: • 1-" • PubUuUon Numb4tr USPS 396&80 .-Vol.114,No.44,Three Sections,44Pages, Plus Supplements WEDNESDAY, MAY11,1983-NORTHVILLE,MICHIGAN RTYCENTS Ambulance changed • Northville residents who call police from its Plymouth facilities. He said bulance workers distributed flyers for emergency medical assistance are CEMS representatives toured the advertising Novi Ambulance service In now being served by Community quarters at the Wayne County Child townlast week. One flyer Includeda $10 Emergency Medicalservice (CEMS). Development Center (a former fire off coupon while another urged people Novi Ambulance, which formerly hall) that were vacated by Novl Am- to call NoviAmbulance directly instead provided the service, vacated its sub- bulance. of caning police emergency dispat- sidized Northville premises Tuesday, City and township paid for renova- chers. May 3, only hours after the city council tions to the building and paid utility The latter states that CEMS service voted to join with the township, Novl bUls for Novi Ambulance, but do not Is more expensive than Novl Am- and Farmington In a regional contract plan to subsidize the rent-free quarters bulance, using the rates bid by the two with the Botsford Hospital-based forCEMS. firms when competing for the regional • CEMS. Novl Ambulance has not abandoned Only Farmington was served by Northville operation, however. Am- Continuedon 2 CEMS before last week, but Novi Am- bulance notified the other three com- R h - · inunitiesearly May 3 it would not res- pond to police calls unless the com- OC ester mayor V1Slts munities agreed to assume liability for 'I unpaid ~bulance bills, according to 7'.T theadmmlstrators. 1 th Vl-lIe l-n c'V'change.4 Northville's joint city-township. ,or agreeement with Novi Ambulance ex- pired In March, though Novl Am- Rochester Mayor Tom Werth will be Werth and his wifeJoan willbe joined • bulance president John Early had in- fUlingin for NorthvilleMayor Paul Ver- in Northville by Rochester City at- dicated he would continue service until nonnext Monday,and vice versa. torney Arthur Coxand bis wifePat. notified that it was nolonger needed. The mayors will trade cities for a The delegation from Northville will "Fortunately Community was ready Government Day observance during be taken on a tour of Meadow Brook to go (Tuesday morning>," said MichiganWeek,May 14-21. Hall, the l00-room Tudor mansion on township business manager David While In Rochester, Vernon and his the campus of Oakland University bullt Lelko last week. "We started routing wife Norma will be accompanied by ci- in 1926by Matilda Dodge, widow of calls to them almost immediately." ty council member J. Burton DeRusha automobile pioneer John Dodge. The The service agreement is not yet and his wife Bobbie, council member visitors will be viewing its famed. completed, and Lelko said Community Carolann Ayers and DPW chief Ted marble-arched ballroom, antique is providin~ Northville ambulances Mapes. needlepointdraperies and 24 fireplaces. They also willtour the Leader Dogfor • the Blind school - both Rochester highlights. NASA tentative agreement Rochester, with a populatlon of about 7,200 is someWhat larger than' Nor- thville with a population of 5,698. An approv.ed::hy sch.ool board. - eastern suburb of Pontiac reached vIa I Rochester Road off 1-75by those travel- Ing northbound, the community is the By MICHELEMcELMURRY agreed upon for the first year, the se- homeofOakland U~versity: \ cond and third year salary and fringe The Detroit Symphony Orchestr.a is a For the first time In its seven-year benefit areas have been left open for major attraction at the Meadow Brook history, the Northville Association of negotiations. Music Festival, held.from late June to • SchoolAdministrators has signed a ten- Though she voted in favor of approv- early September each year. tative three-year agreement prior to Ingthe N.A.S.A.agreement, board vice Wer~ will be greeted by Mayor Pro the expiration of Its current contract president Karen Wilkinsonsaid she bad Tern G. Dewey Gardner, council June 30, reservations about approving the con- member Paul Folino and City Manager Plagued by a historY of late set- tract with the salary openers. Steven Walters and his wife Marty as tlements, the N.A.S.A pre-ratified a "I'm really frustrated by contracts well as Michigan Week chairman Anne new agreement last Thursday by an seLUedsalary-wise for one-year," she Brueck and her husband Bob. overwhelming majority of its said. "I don't like salary openers." Walters said Monday night the Wer- members. ths plan to room in this area Sunday However, she added, "the only light I Northvllle Board of Education unanimously approved the tentative at the end of the tunnel Is that we are ContinUedon2 ::. contract at its Mondaynight meeting. selUed for the first time prior to the ex- Asslsta. Superintendent Burton piration date." '. -J.' .-', ' .' -. Knighton t..,d the board the administra- Superintendent George Bell, who sat tUuent 'e:v:ents ' tion began Informal talks with the In on the N.A.S.A. contract talks, told ''" ' , ;:PS~'" ..', ' , building administrators' union In mid- the board he "was very pleased with atcU" . " March. A tentative agreement was the professional tone of the negotia- t';,;;'"," -: •. , .~(UI:day reached March 3. tlons.; ';;:~';'" t' .' , ••A",' • He noted the new three-year agree- "I think in ratifying this contract, ~,}'~~villePubncScboOlstudentswUI ment is without language changes ex- they have shown a desire to change ;,~e Micbfgan Week~ wIth art cept In the areas of salary and fringe what has gone on before," he said. "I \fSplt~~'OO\yntown ~ an entertain- don't see the salary open as a pro- ~ ~program In th&, town square benefits. A 21k percent, salary Increase across the board was approved for the blem." , I :§8.ti1l'day~tbegaragesale. " first year, with a 21kpercent tax shelter Since organizing Into a union In the ~~~t ~ Wi!l dfsplay,~-:an ~ Birthday bouquet annUitypayment from the individual's spring of 1976,NASA has been troubl- :~FJ t ,I2-19 , in .;m~~,., ~n~~~ • > ; annual salary made to the annulty of ed by rocky negotiations. Its first con- ~do~to~. '''', ~', the employee's' choice, effective tract which covered the period from i\'~1eIl\Clltary,.Junior blgh and blgh February 1,1984. 1976to 1978,was not agreed upon unW }~: stUdents will, entertain with Wearing her special Happy Birthday outfit, throughout the downtown for The Record The only other compensation change November 1977with negotiationstaking P;l!JSi~ and physical education depart. Is the addition of vision care coverage more than a year. :tl}~~,thows In~ square fro~ 10a.m. Erin Moore was celebrating her fourth birth- photographer who was taking pictures for a , Jo.,n.m, thlsSah •....t.... -,<' • ~, 'j' I day Monday in town. She obligingly smelled story on beautification on page 6. Record should the district enter !fnto a vision The pattern of late settlements has ,<~.0; ':ieU<V: ~/' '" ':', ,. care program. been characteristic ofnegotiations with 'llie trs I, one of the thousands of tulips bloom~ng photo by John Galloway. ,A tul?:t>eho ;anif I. The newagreement covers the period N.A.S.A.over the past six years, with ~ tiOni.. '...,.;....Jf from July I, 1983,toJune 30,1986.While agreements taking up to a year or more . ~ht.;i;~ .' , I. ---J eL- salary and fringe benefits have been oftable bargaining. ! "'<~~-,.,-, I AA UW p~oject -!;1, : .~"., -; Gallle of Northville debuts " There's a new game in town - "Nor- locally as a benefit for Its scholarship who Is presldent-elect of the Michigan e:hvllle. " fund. Division and a dual member of Called Wheeler-Dealer, the Game o( The branch has 600 copies of the Plymouth and NorthVillebranches, and Northville, It strongly resembles game, designed to be plaYe4by two to game chairpersons Carole Lower and Monopolyand is making Its debut at the six players. The rules stress playing Jean Hansen. CityGarage Sale this Saturday. fast and loose with money and proper- The women say they had a special Il you play your cards right, you ty. The money Involved Is much more assist from Walter Ellis of Bookstallon could end up owning MacKinnon's or than a Monopolyplayer ever dreamed the Main who aided with reducing and Northville Charley'S. of- players start with $100,000. designinglocal merchants'logos. The properties aren't the Boardwalk The game sells for $10 with the The AAUWdonated one spot to the or Park Place but Genlttl's and Village amount InclUdinga $5 a donationfor the NorthvillePublic Library. Sweets N' Treats. scholarship fund. Merchants whose squares players The game Is patterned after Monopo- The game Is the Inventl?n of a willland on as the dice Is thrown are, In • ly, but properties around the board Michigan man, Mike Kuzma of Allen addition to Genlttl's, Sweets N' Treats, bear names of local businesses. A Park, whohas been seiling It toJaycees MacKinnon's and Northville Charley's, player can go around the comer, lan- and other organizations as fundralsers. are MarqUis Boutique, One-Ten West ding on Allen Terrace or In the Mill MoneyIs raised to cover printing costs Salon, O'Sheenan's Tavern, NorthVille Race Village. by seiling spaces on the board to local Camera Shop, Guernsey Dairy, Rather than buying houses and businesses. Prices ranged from $100to Manufacturers Bank, Bookstop, hotels, the players learn to Invest wise- $150 for the popular Boardwalk·type Canterbury Cleaners, Gltflddler, ,. ly Inthe "Commodities Exchange." spots. "They sold right away," Ward Casterline Funeral Home, Inc., Uptown . "It's a remembrance of Northville recalls. Shops,Schrader's, CUstardTime, Good \~~:, ': • ., ,J and will be a great Father's Day gift," Time Party Store, Del's Shoes and ~, I says an enthusiastic Jay Ward, presl· "It was so easy to sell," the AAUW Clothing, Black's Hardware, Fashion Jf,k dent of the Northvllle-Novi Branch of sponsors report.