Look inside for PHOTOGRAPHER A CAREER IN LOOKING FOR I THAT BIG BREAK IBE FULFILLING COMMUNITY LIFE, B6 CLASSIFIED. SECTION C PLYMOUTH OBSERVE! PRICE: $1 • SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2012 • hometownlife.com C l e r long lines on election day Salon Awesome's scare­ crow, Edward Scissors By Matt Jachman Voting by absentee ballot Hands, has been stolen Observer Staff Writer — are you eligible?, A3. from the Scarecrows in the Park display along A long, complicated stopping by her office Main Street outside Kel­ ballot and strong inter­ for absentee ballots. logg Park. est in the presidential Langmesser’s office race are likely to make had issued more than Scarecrow for long lines at polling 1,500 absentee ballots places on election day, as of Thursday after­ stolen Tuesday, Nov. 6. noon, already more than To ease the situation, Plymouth’s absentee The scarecrow spon­ the clerks in Plymouth total for the 2008 pres­ sored by decorated by and Plymouth Township idential election. She staffers at Salon Awe­ are urging eligible vot­ attributed the increased some has been taken ers to cast absentee bal­ interest in absentee vot­ from Kellogg Park. lots to avoid having to ing to the length of the Edward Scissors Hands, visit the precincts. ballot. with silver fingers, “I’ve had a lot of peo­ The clerk said she disappeared two days ple who said, ‘We usu­ expects absentees to ago. ally go to the polls,’” reach the 1,600 mark, Edward Scissors but are voting absen­ which would be more Hands was part of the tee this year due to the than 20 percent of the Scarecrows in the Park size of the ballot, Plym­ 7,468 city voters eligible that features 35 (now BILL BRESLER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER outh Clerk Linda Lang- 34) scarecrows facing Student volunteer Mike Schultz has a cervical collar fitted by Greg McCarty. messer said of residents Please see CLERKS, A3 Main Street from Kel­ logg Park sponsored by local companies and community groups that decorated the them. Graphic detail Anyone with in­ formation on Salon Awesome's Edward Scissors Hands can con­ tact Rachelle Dempster Interactive show portrays at Salon Awesome, (734) 927 0800. perils of poor decisions Town halls By Brad Kadrich That’s how powerful ative to driving. After Observer Staff Writer the message delivered being strapped down and State Sen. Pat­ by the two-man firefight­ watching the various rick Colbeck will be Early on in their pre­ er team from Stay Alive needles used and hear­ continuing his series sentation on the per­ from Education was. ing trauma procedures of town halls on the ils of poor decision mak­ Their “Street Smart” described, Marshall was statewide proposals for ing for youngsters, Street presentation, given to convinced. the Nov. 6 election. The Smart master of ceremo­ some 3,000 students in next town halls will be: nies Greg McCarty asked three different sessions Right response • Monday, Oct. 29, 9 the 1,000 students sitting Thursday, is designed to “That sucked,” he said a.m. at Senate Coney Is­ in the Gloria Logan Audi­ help prevent underage honestly after spend­ Dave Santia's 'The Art of Rock & Roll' live paintings land, 39430 Dun Rovin torium at Salem High drinking, drunken driv­ ing about 20 minutes on highlight Friday's Plymouth Community Chamber of Drive, Northville. School how many of them ing and illegal drug use, the gurney. “I’ve had sur­ Commerce annual dinner/auction at Laurel Manor. • Monday, Oct. 29, at frequently went with­ while encouraging seat gery before, but this (the 7 p.m. at the Summit on out seat belts, and senior belt use. demonstration) was a lot the Park, 46000 Summit Mitchell Marshall raised McCarty and his part­ worse. When they pulled Parkway, Canton. his hand. ner, Ronny Garcia, used those needles out... It was Chamber auction • Thursday, Nov. 1, By the time the 45- Marshall as a test sub­ scary. I couldn’t imagine at 7 p.m., at Northville minute presentation ject, strapping him to a going through something Township Hall, 44405 was over, Marshall was gurney to demonstrate like that.” has tropical them e Six Mile, Northville. swearing he’d never ride the consequences of mak­ For more informa­ without a seat belt again. ing poor decisions rel­ Please see GRAPHIC, A7 tion, contact Colbeck's By Matt Jachman for the evening. (Cocktail office at (517) 373-7350 Observer Staff Writer attire is also acceptable.) or senpcolbeckOsenate. Auction items will michigan.gov. 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' 4 , “I like the differences, Scott-and Alison Jones where every house wasn’t see allot to love in their cookie-cutter,” Alison “new’^house in Old Vil­ Jones said. lage. ‘ ' The house also has lath- They’re looking past and-plaster walls, singe- the carpeting that cov­ pane windows with sash ers hardwood floors, past weights (the Jones are the dry wall over original opting for greater ener­ plaster and the shingles gy efficiency in replacing over the cedar siding— them), decorative trim on and looking years down the edges of the roof and the road — to see the a stone foundation rather character, charm and sol­ than cinderblock or con­ id construction of a Plym­ crete block. outh house built more “I love the look, I just than a century ago. love it,” Alison Jones said “We went looking for of the stone walls in the an older house,” Alison basement. “It’s original.” Jones said during recent “Some poor guy had a tour of their house on to move all the stones at Starkweather. ‘We really some point, mortar them wanted a fixer-upper.” together,” Scott Jones said. The Joneses, who both Scott Jones said he has grew up in Plymouth, also respect for the common- were looking to buy in the sense building practic­ city. Character and living es of years ago. The roof, in Plymouth were at the for example, has no gut­ top of their list. PHOTOS BY BILL BRESLER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ters, but was designed to “We love the fact that The house on Starkweather has long been a two-family dwelling. Scott and Alison Jones plan to make it a single family shed water away from we can walk downtown,” home again. the house, and leakage she said. The Old Village hasn’t been an issue. shops and restaurants There were some initial a block or two away are problems, though, like also a draw, she said. squirrels in the attic and the raccoon in the crawl This old house space under an addition. City records date the Joneses’ house from 1900, Neighborhood but Mark Oppat, a long­ c o m e b a c k time Old Village resident and neighborhood histo­ Oppat said there have rian, says it’s probably a been a few prominent Old little older, maybe from Village home restorations around 1890, judging in recent years, includ­ from certain characteris­ ing a couple of others on tics, like the windows. Starkweather, and one The Joneses are among on North Holbrook of a the latest to join what house that may date from Oppat said is a long trend the early 1830s.