Culinary coffee creations ri:Tiet3:.nl.sc.Dl November 8,2007 75 cents WINNERS OF STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE www.hometownlife.com BY DARRELL CLEM STAFF WRITER As a victorious Mayor William Wild took the stage Tuesday night to salute a fired- up crowd of supporters, a disc jockey crowned the moment by WESTLAND CITY COUNCIL mm mwm mm, mam-mms 5 blasting the song Wild Thing. Christine Cicirelli Bryant 4,412 Never mind that Wild, 39, Gary Buison z;i95 wasn't even born when the hit Howard Dunn 2,039 song by The Troggs topped </ James Godbout (i) 6,066 the U.S. music charts in 1966. S Bill Johns6n - appointed (i) 5,585 •/ Michael Kehrer (i) 6,218 It didn't matter. This was his •/ Dewey Reeves- appointed (i) 4,744 night to be No. 1. Mark Rodriguez 2,619 "For some reason, I like that song," Wild said, amid MAYOR mums m nm or * mwm urn cheers from a large crowd that Charles Pickering 2,368 jammed the Wayne-Ford Civic • William Wild -appointed (i); 7,947 League. CITY CLERK Wild, the city's mayoral mmimmu) appointee since January, was v Eileen DeHart (i) 8,123 elected to a two-year term by Bruce Paige 1,580 trouncing challenger Charles WAYNE COUNTY COMMM TOM HAWLEY ! STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Pickering — the current Dewey Reeves is congratulated by Lori Wilson (left) and other supporters after he was elected to a two-year term on the Westland City Council. Behind Westland City Council presi­ COLLEGE DISTRICT (OR WCC m Reeves is veteran Councilman James Godbout, who won a four-year. dent and former mayor — in TAX RENEWAL unofficial vote totals. Yes 2,081 ^Ho 4,5« With his wife, Sherri, at his li.-a-u' ...it* j- 1* ^. ^. side, Wild savored a landslide ta -^ t\ ^. s-j * -K victory as voters gave him 77 M a u ^ - percent of vote totals compared to Pickering;s 23 percent. In Even though Pickering esti­ BY DARRELLCLEM giving a large crowd the nod raw numbers, Wild garnered mated he knocked on tens of STAFF WRITER Look for this icon online. to celebrate inside the Wayne- 7,947 votes while Pickering thousands of doors in a tireless Ford Civic League. received 2,368. campaign, he didn't close the As three of his Westland City Reeves, who was appointed In all, only 10,397 of huge gap that separated him and Council colleagues seized early to the council along with Westland's 59,446 voters cast Wild in the August primary. leads in Tuesday's voting, only Share comments about the story. Johnson in January, held a ballots in Tuesday's election one incumbent, Dewey Reeves, microphone as his supporters — a 175 percent turnout. Please see MAYOR, A3 had the power to make a ner­ exhale as he took the lead to cheered. vous crowd hold its collective defeat her by a mere 332 votes "I'm your newly elected coun­ breath as he staged a corae- out of 10,397 ballots cast. cil member, Dewey Reeves," he from-behind victory. Only then did Reeves and said. Did he ever. council incumbents James With that, the party was on. Reeves and challenger Godbout, Michael Kehrer and Across town at the Willow TOM HAWLEV STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Christine Cicirelli Bryant Bill Johnson know that they Creek Apartments clubhouse, Tony Wager shares a laugh with James locked in a nail-biter contest had all swept to victory. Only Bryant indicated that she will Godbout, who earned a new four-year until absentee vote totals came then did a disc jockey crank term on council in Tuesday's election. in, allowing his supporters to up James Brown's I Feel Good, Please see COUNCIL, A3 BY DARRELLCLEM numbers, four years ago. DeHart, a former state rep­ STAFF WRITER DeHart gar­ "I feel absolutely ecstatic," resentative and Westland City nered 8,123 she said, smiling just before Council member, enjoyed the Westland City Clerk Eileen votes while she drove away from City Hall largest landslide of the night. DeHart scored a crushing vic­ Paige received to join victorious mayoral and She said she is eager to serve tory over challenger Bruce Paige 1,580 in his first council candidates who already residents for four more years in Tuesday's election, accumulat­ bid for public had started their celebration at and to continue working with ing more votes than any other office. the Wayne-Ford Civic League. her employees, calling them "a TOM HAWLEV j STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER candidate for city office. uenart DeHart, 60, Unlike them, DeHart and her team." Mayor William Wild, with his wife, Sherri, is congratulated by Sylvia. DeHart captured 83.7 per­ won her second staff had to work Tuesday night To his credit, Paige waged a Kozorosky-Wiacek, former senior director, after being elected as mayor. For cent of vote totals compared four-year term. She became until the last ballots had been more election day photos, see the gallery on the Westland home page at to Paige's 16.3 percent. In raw Westland's first elected clerk turned in and counted. Please see CLERK, A2 www.hometownlife.com. Brother, face trial for assaulting her ex BY DARRELL CLEM 19 at the Westland Meadows vehicle and then stood in front 11:55 p.m. Oct. 19, authorities Nicholas Pugh faces trial on a dangerous weapon. If con­ STAFF WRITER mobile home park and initially of it. Her brother, 19-year-old have said. charges of assault with intent victed, she could face penal­ left the victim paralyzed from Nicholas Pugh, is accused of Since then, Westland 18th to do great bodily harm (less ties ranging up to four years A Taylor woman and her the waist down, police said, but getting out of the van and beat­ District Judge C, Charles Bokos than murder) and assault in prison. brother will face trial in Wayne Sgt. Michael Harhold said the ing the victim with a metal has ordered the Pughs to stand with a dangerous weapon. If Not-guilty pleas have been County Circuit Court following victim has since regained use object. trial in Wayne County Circuit convicted, he could face penal­ placed on record for the Pughs allegations they attacked her of his body. The Pughs had gone to Court. His decision came after ties ranging up to 10 years in as they await the outcome of ex-boyfriend — the father of Amanda Pugh, 25, is accused Westland Meadows to pick the pair waived their right prison. their case. her 6-year-old child. of driving a van into the vic­ up Amanda Pugh's son when to a preliminary hearing last Amanda Pugh faces trial The attack happened Oct tim after he grabbed onto the the incident happened around Thursday in his courtroom on a charge of assault with dclem®hometown!ife com | (734)953 2110 3 The Observer & Eccentric Newspapers For Home APARTMENTS C7 Delivery call: AUTOMOTIVE CIO Volume 43 CROSSWORD PUZZLE C4 (866) 887-2737 Number 47 HOMETOWNLiFE Dl JOBS D7 OBITUARIES D4 OPINION A12 CO-OP SEWVaCEB PINK D6 lCflEDIT JNtOM '..Banking His Credit Union Wayl REAL ESTATE C4 SERVICE GUIDE C8 www.cscu.org ^Dfiore R1 Observer S Eccentric | Thursday. November 8.2007 A2 (W) www.hometownlife.com Surplus Eligible Westland residents The pickup time and location building manager for the date can pick up surplus federal for Westland residents south of of distribution. food next week. Michigan Avenue is 10 a.m. to 1 Greenwood Villa residents All residents north of p.m. Monday. Nov. 12, or the sec­ also pick up their food items at Michigan Avenue can pick up ond Monday of each month, at St. their complex. the commodities 10 a.m. to 2 James United Methodist Church, The November distribution p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, at the 30055 Annapolis, between will include bakery mix, peanut Dorsey Community Center, Henry Ruff and Middlebelt. Call butter and vegetable soup. The 32715 Dorsey Road, north of the church at (734) 729-1737 program is administered by the Michigan Avenue and south of Seniors living in Taylor Wayne County Office of Senior Palmer. Towers should contact their Services. Coffee hour Constituents who would Our Savior will host a "Power like to address an issue with of Praise" concert, featur­ State Sen. Glenn Anderson, Anderson but are unable to ing the Eastern Michigan D-Westland, will hold local attend can contact him by mail University Gospel Choir, 6-8 coffee hours in Westland and at P.O. Box 30036, Lansing, p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Redford Monday, Nov. 12. MI, 48933; by phone at (517) church, 29425 Annapolis, He will be at the Westland 373-1707, or by e-mail at Westland. Light refreshments Big Boy 9-10 a.m., then move SenatorAnderson ©senate. will be served. to Redford for a 10:30-11:30 michigan.gov. Tickets cost $10. For more a.m. coffee hour at the Redford information, call (734) 728- Community Center, 12121 3440 or visit www.theluther- Hemingway. The Lutheran Church of anchurchofoursavior.com. Municipal Clerks. alone. Her office also has routinely DeHart became the city's Going to the polls CLERK returned money to the city's first elected clerk four years ago FROM PAGE A1 general fund that had been after voters had approved a bal­ (Pictured above) Frances Masse, 88, walked budgeted for her department. lot measure to make the job an the four blocks to RD. Graham Elementary good-spirited campaign against In the last fiscal year alone, she elected position.