Program uses yoga and Author profiles local self-reflection to resolve TV celebrities rHIIETOWN food issues -HUM* HF i March 30,2008 75 cents WINNERS OF STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE www.hometownlife.com BILL BRESLER I STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, who lives in Canton, wilt speak at the Canton Economic Club's Wednesday luncheon. BY TONY BRUSCATO OBSERVER STAFF WRITER Plymouth-Canton Schools is among a consortium of six area Economic school districts which will share a federal grant of $570,000 to be partially spent on an emergency alert system which will enable Club returns them to contact parents and school staff simultaneously and within minutes of an emergency situation, such as a lockdown or after 5-year evacuation. According to Bob Hayes, director of student services for Plymouth-Canton Schools, nearly COURTESY OF UNITED STAFFS BOWLING CONGRESS $100,000 of the total will be used hiatus for the new communications tool, More than 7,000 bowling teams will participate in the women's championships of the United States Bowling Congress. BY TIFFANY L PARKS which will allow the school dis• OBSERVER STAFF WRITER tricts to call parents and second• ary contacts in case of a district- After an extended hiatus, the wide emergency, power outages, Canton Economic Club has got• notification of snow days and ten its revitalization off to a run• reminders about parent-teacher ning start with Ron Gettelfinger. conferences. The United Auto Workers "If there's an emergency, we can president will be the featured have the information out immedi• guest speaker at the club's semi• ately^" said_H.ayfiS. -Not only-will annual luncheon on Wednesday it stop a lot of the incoming phone at Summit on the Park. calls to the district, but alleviate the fears of parents." "Most of us are tied and wed• to get local ded to the auto industry so to Plymouth-Canton will share have the president of the UAW the Readiness and Emergency meet with us is awesome " said BY TIFFANY L. PARKS women will spend money on Management for Schools Grant Township Supervisor Tom Yack, OBSERVER STAFF WRITER hotels, food and entertain• from the U.S. Department of who has led the resurgence of the ment.** Education with Northville, Walled club. "Every once and a while, I A livery shopping district + To kick start the 88-day Lake, Huron Valley, South Lyon think back to something we did 45,000 women = cha-ching. tournament, which will take and West Bloomfield. The grant before and sometimes the memo• The women's champion• place at Super Bowl on Ford will cover the cost of the emer• ries are good and sometimes they ships of the United States Road just east of Canton gency notification system for the remainder of this school year and are bad. With this, I had really Bowling Congress is coming to Center, Leadership Canton all of next year. District officials good thoughts about what we the township and Leadership has created the Pins on Parade believe PCCS will be able to renew did." Canton is ready. program. the grant to continue the service "We have been told this Sixteen decorated, oversized The club was previously under beyond the 2008-09 school year. the umbrella of the Canton tournament will have a $40 fiberglass bowling pins will be Community Foundation and, at million impact on the area," planted along Ford Road inter• A number of districts through• one time, had a formal structure. said Leadership Canton mem-, sections starting in early April. out the state are already using a It eventually evolved into a casual ber Joyce Silagy. "We could get "We are trying to give the Artist Tom Messing of Ypsilanti stands with the bowling similar notification system. 6*00 new people everyday for pin he painted for Connection Church, as part of "On a particular snow day we Please see CLUB, A8 nearly three months. These Please see BOWLING, A8 Leadership Canton's Pins on Parade program. sent over 3,000 calls to our staff, parents and students in just two minutes," said Judy Considine, South Redford Schools spokes• woman. "We've also used it to send out reminder calls to parents Roadhouse cones to the rescue of patrons holding gift cards from Corral about parent-teacher conferences and PTO meetings. The system BY TIFFANY L. PARKS Ford Road. also allows us to make calls to parents if their child has been OBSERVER STAFF WRITER In bringing a card to Texas marked absent." Roadhouse, the amount will be I Eric Hughes is encouraging a verified and for every $5 on the Kerri Huckestein of Redford move from the corral to the road- card, $5 Roadhouse vouchers will Township, a South Redford house. be issued. Hughes said customers schools parent, said the notifica• In response to the closure of can redeem up to $10 at a time. tion system has been invaluable. Canton's Texas Corral Grill & "A lot of people are ticked off "When we had an unexpected Saloon, Hughes, the managing that they made gift card purchas• snow day a lot of parents thought partner of Texas Roadhouse in es and that these places aren't the band booster spaghetti dinner Westiand, is offering diners a around," Hughes said, adding that furid-raiser would also be can• chance to redeem Texas Corral he's already gotten cards from celed," said Huckestein. "We did gift cards at his eatery. Texas Corral. a fan-out using the notification The nearest Texas Corral is Canton resident Ken Glantz system and the dinner was a huge success. It would have been nearly about two hours from Canton. bought a $50 gift card from the impossible to contact all those "People have told us they are Corral a week before it closed. people by phone." happy we are able to do some• "Somebody should have told thing for them," Hughes said. me they were leaving " he said, Plymouth-Canton officials are The Westiand restaurant, before taking down the Westiand hopeful of having the new commu• 36750 Ford Road, along with Roadhouse's number. nications system, which can also the Texas Roadhouse location in For more information, call send messages via e-mail, opera• TOM H AWL FY I STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Taylor are accepting gift cards (734) 729-4570. tional before the end of the school from Texas Corral, Mountain Canton's Eric Hughes, one of three managers at Texas Roadhouse on Ford Road in Westiand, will year. 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"Mom-to-Mom Sale" will be starts at 6 p.m. The cost to play is sium: on Saturday, April 12 from 9 $50. Rebuys and add-ons are $40 The PCMB Winter Senior Indian festival a^-noon in the church gym , for the first hour. Prize money will Ensembles - Winter Guard A, Community members are and classrooms. More than 70 be paid out to top eight players. Winter Guard World, Winter encouraged to attend the tables and racks full of great After all payouts, all additional DraraUne will all perform at Canton Senior Center's Visakhi finds for babies, toddlers and money win be used by the Rotary the special performance. The Event on Wednesday, April kids will be available, as well Club for service in the commumty. Winter Ensembles are com• 2,2008 from 12:30-2 p.m. as several "large item rooms" For more information, contact prised bf students of Plymouth- in the Summit on the Park s full of strollers, cribs, car seatSj Ken Beardsly at (734) 844-1901. Canton Education Park and the Maple RoomJ located at 46000 exersaucers, large toys, etc. music program. All three teams Summit Parkway. This new Admission is $1.