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THURSDAY Owner motors toward Autorama - A3 February 25, r Plan your 2010 CANTON wedding with the The Observers Eccentric Newspapers P . help of our Volume 35 OBSERVER > 1 special Number 70 you can hatv it all... section 75 CENTS online at honnetownlife.com CANTON Providing an CONNECTION New gig Olympic 'Edge' Retired Canton Township Superxisor Tom Yack lias joined the Huron Valley Ambulance Canton arena becoming Board of Trustees. HVA has also elected the fol- a figure skating mecca lowing officers to its 2010 Board of Trustees: new Chair is John BY BRADKADRICH Worden, a retired fire chief OBSERVER STAFF WRITER and zoning administrator from Summit Township in Jackson Sure, ice dancers Charhe White, Meryl Davis, Scott County; new Vice Chair is Jacalyn Moir and Tessa Virtue figured prominently in Monday's Liebowitz, Vice final round of the Olympic ice dancing competition. President for Patient Care But, even thousands of miles away, it was their home ice in Canton that loomed in the background. Continuum at PHOTOS 8Y BILL BRFSLEF) | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Allegiance Health Moir and Virtue captured the Olympic ice danc- in Jackson; and Marine Cpl. Jacob H. Turbetf s casket is carried to the hearse. For more photos go to hometownlife.com. ing gold medal Monday, holding off the challenge of new Secretary/ White and Davis, Treasurer is who settled for silver. SKATING SUCCESSES Richard B. Lundy, Tanith Belbin and Ben Notables to skate at Canton's Yack consultant and Canton gives fallen Marine Agosto were in the Arctic Edge: bronze-medal position community leader • Canadian ice-dancers Scott after their free dance from Dexter. Monday, then fell to Moir and Tessa Virtue-2010 The remaining trustees are Dale a hero's welcome home fourth. Olympic gold medal: 2010 J. Berry, HVA President and CEO; The success of Canadian national champions T. Anthony Denton, chief operating those three teams • American ice dancers Charlie officer and senior associate direc- BY BRADKAORICH was woven with a tor for the Universit>' of Michigan OBSERVER STAFF WRITER White and Meryl Davis • 2010 common thread: The Hospitals and Health Centers; Olympic silver medalists: two- Arctic Edge Ice Arena Joseph Dulin, retired Principal, Lucy Smithers didn't know time U.S. national champions in Canton. The same Roberto Clemente Center, Ann Marine Cpl. Jacob Tbrbett, thread ties into the • Americans Tanith Belbin and Arbor; Kathleen Griffiths, hadn't ever met him or any- mutual success of the Benjamin Agosto • 2006 Olympic one who knew him and knew President and CEO of Chelsea arena, which opened silver medalists (the first nothing about Monday's Community Hospital; Terry Joiner, in 2001 and has been show of support for the fallen Arctic Edge skaters to win an MD, a pediatrician with Ypsilanti building an Olympic- Marine until reading the Olympic medal): they've since Pediatrics and Assistant Professor sized reputation ever local paper Sunday night. moved their training base to of Pediatrics and Communicable since. Diseases for the Universit>- of Yet there was Smithers, Pennsylvania. And it all comes as a Michigan Medical School; Thomas with her friend and fellow pretty big surprise to Manchester, an attorney with Westland resident Gerry those who were there at the beginning. Manchester and Associates, Spino, holding an American "There's no way you could have predicted this," said Ypsilanti; and William Wise, a flag while standing on Ford Craig O'Neill, the arena's general manager. "You have retired assistant professor from Road in a driving snowstorm gold- and silver-medal winning Olympic skaters here. Siena Heights University, Adrian. and paying her respects It's unbelievable what's transpired here." Huron Valley Ambulance is a to the 2007 Canton High What has transpired is the growth of an arena whose nationally accredited, nonprofit School graduate killed in origins were in hockey that didn't even have a figure community ambulance service Afghanistan. skating program when it opened morphing into one of covering W^ashtenaw, western "It's about patriotism," the pre-eminent arenas in the figure skating world, a Wayne and southwest Oakland said Smithers, who said the counties. weather never discouraged her from participating. "He Please see SKATING, AS gave his life for our country. March madness This was the least I could do The real March Madness starts for him." Friday, March 5, when Celtic Smithers and Spino were rockers Bill Grogan's Goat hit the among hundreds of support- stage at the Village Theater in ers who lined the roadways Canton. along Canton Center and It's the beginning of St. Paddys Ford Road Monday morning month, and this home-grown, as "Rirbett's body was escort- high-energ>' five-piece band takes ed from Willow Run Airport, traditional Celtic and folk tunes where it had been brought and reinvents them by adding their from Dover Air Force Base, own rock and roll fuel to the mix. Del., on its roundabout jour- With musical bau:kgrounds that ney to his final resting place. range from symphonic band music IXirbett will be buried at Alice Schneider's son, Charlie, is a Marine training at Camp Pendleton. to hardcore punk rock; solo Irish Arlington National Cemetery She joined hundreds of others along the route from Willow Run Airport to ballad singing to avant-garde jazz, in Arlington, Va., March 9- the L.J. Griffin Funeral Home in Canton. She is a resident of Garden City. the Goat's diversity makes for a A combat engineer, TXirbett musical mash-up that puts a new was felled by a single gun- Run in the snow to accom- "He's a veteran, and this is spin on Irish folk music. shot wound Feb. 13. For the pany TXirbett on his final trip our way of honoring his ser- EILEEN BUSS I USA TOOAY vice and his sacrifice," said The Goat hits the stage at 8 hundreds who lined the road home. The procession was Monday, it was their best escorted by both Van Buren Army Cpl. Bob Lamoreux, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada (center) won the gold p.m.; tickets are $10 at the door medal for ice dancing Monday at the Pacific Coliseum in chance to pay respects to a and Canton Township Police. who served in the infantry in or on-line. The Village Theater Vancouver. Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States young man who gave the ulti- The veterans' color guard Vietnam in 1968. "It's espe- is located at 50400 Cherry Hill (left) won silver and Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of the mate sacrifice for his country. feh a particular need to take cially important for Vietnam Road in Canton Township. Phone Russian Federation won the bronze. The gold and silver medahsts part in honoring the young (734) 394-5300 or (734) 394- Canton's veterans groups all train at Arctic Edge Ice Arena in Canton. 5460 for more information. made their way to Willow man. Please see MARINE, A7 M- „ FBI raids three local companies Warm up to our APARTMENTS C2 AUTOMOTIVE C4 "They did not disclose to us C*REEII BUILDER C3 BY DARRELLCLEM ing them with any and all infor- the nature of the investigation at Platinum \^/5A CROSSWORD PUZZLE C2 OBSERVER STAFF WRITER mation they are requesting. this point," Cromer said. FILTER B6 "They did collect some docu- TRAM, Inc., and Yazaki • Worldwide Acceptance OBITUARIES B7 An official for Plymouth- ments and were interested in officials' remarks came amid PUBLIC SAFETY A4 based TRAM, Inc., a subsidiary some electronic media, Rine - Points2U Rewards reports of an investigation REAL ESTATE C2 of automotive supplier Tokai added. "The investigation will be SPORTS 81 Rika, confirmed Wednesday ongoing." that also involved Denso • A local Credit Union you can Thist International America of STRICTLY BUSINESS B4 that FBI investigators seized Rine said he had no knowl- Southfield. documents Hiesday during edge of any improper activity Apply by phone or online today! a raid of the facility, and a whatsoever at the Plymouth Reached Wednesday after- Home Delivery; spokeswoman for Yazaki North facility. noon in Washington, D.C., (866) 887-2737 America of Canton also con- Shefali Cromer, Yazaki's spokeswoman Gina Talamona of Return Address: the U.S. Department of Justice 41304 Concept Drive firmed a similar raid there. manager of public relations and made only a brief statement Plymouth Ml 48170 The developments came as communications, confirmed COMMUNITY FBI officials in Washington, that federal authorities also about the investigation. D.C., confirmed an international searched that company's prem- "I'll confirm that the antitrust investigation. ises TXiesday. Department of Justice's anti- FINANCIAL "We were visited by the "Federal authorities did show trust division is investigating the Department of Justice yester- possibility of anti-competitive ""J up at our premises here at our (734)453-lZ00 wwvw.dcu.orj day and, yes, they did have a Canton location and issued cartel conduct by automotive GANNETT subpoena," TRAM's human search warrants," Cromer said. electronic component suppli- ers," Talamona said. "We are PLYMOUTH CANTON NORTHVILLE Novi resources director, Joe Rine, She also said federal authori- coordinating with the European said late Wednesday afternoon. ties visited Yazaki branches in Gedit cards sutqect to oedil apprcwdl "We are cooperating fully with «>ur savings federally ir«ured by NCUA. Equal Housing Lender. Lexington, Ky., and Columbus, C2009 Communrty Rrxar>oal 6 S3174 10007 8 their investigation and provid- Ohio. Please see RAID, A3 II A2 (C) Observer & Eccentric | Thursday. Febr^jary 25.2010 ABOUND MMTOK online at hometownlife.com "Around Canton" is designed to a previous working group is For more details, contact announce upcoming events taking asked to attend the meeting exhibit coordinator Carol place in the community.