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It’s been ting its proper respect Nothing big, though. a fun ride, and we hope this year in Ham - For the city council, City to stick around for at tramck, thanks to the Manager Kathy Angerer least another 10 years, 22nd Annual Prayer has canceled work ses - serving as the city’s “of - Breakfast being held sions that have taken ficial newspaper of at the Community Cen - place an hour before the record.” ter at 11350 Charest. regular council meetings The paper’s beginning Once again overseen for the last three years. was a challenge. Mike by The Concerned The work sessions Wilcox started up the Women of Hamtramck, were created by former paper after the city’s the keynote speaker is City Manager Katrina longtime weekly newspa - Pastor Wallace R. Powell. per The Citizen went out Mills, Jr. of the New Prior to that, work ses - The first Yemeni-American woman, Jihan Aiyash, to serve on the Hamtramck of business. Ebenezer Baptist sions were held here and School Board was sworn into office recently. Her brother, Abraham Aiyash, holds Wilcox was no stranger Church. there, usually just for a Koran as Jihan takes the oath of office. to the community. He had at one time owned The date, as a re - special issues. bers on how government city was under the super - process of coming out of The Citizen and sold it to minder, is this Monday, Powell started up the works and to allow time vision of the state Treas - being under the control of two businessmen who Jan. 21, from 9 to 11 work sessions in an ef - for them to vent. That ury Department. a state-appointed emer - fort to train councilmem - kept it going for two a.m. There is a re - was at the time when the The city was in the Continued on page 2 quested donation of years before folding. $20 for adults, $10 for The Citizen went out of children. If you have business in its 75th an - 10 people in your niversary year. Appar - party, you qualify for a ently, time was up for group discount of that old gray lady. $190 per table. The Review seemed to Checks will be ac - energize the community, cepted, and should be and many folks were made out to: Con - happy to have a local cerned Women of Turning words into action paper back in business. Hamtramck. After a few months, The breakfast will By Walter Wasacz front smashed in. At my Wilcox sold the paper to consist of a buffet fea - I was sitting in a chair side window I looked local real estate broker turing all the usual writing and listening to down to see a utility John Ulaj. morning favorites, from music when I heard a truck on its side, pressed Ulaj, a real estate bro - eggs to, yes, pan - crash and a shake in the against the house. ker, is certainly no cakes. wall facing the street. Outside I found a crowd stranger to the commu - It should be noted Through an upstairs already gathering at my nity, having grown up A recent accident at Gallagher and Edwin under - that the donation cov - window I saw a car on corner, that’s Edwin and here and gone through scores the need to “calm” down our streets to end the opposite curb with its Continued on page 2 Continued on page 3 speeding. Continued on page 3 We specialize in all phases of en Chick Air Conditioning, Freon Charge, ffles Try Our & Wa 99 Famous Plumbing, Heating, Sewer $6 Ribs Cleaning & Excavation. Proudly r, ro, Serving 10% OFF urge Gy Hamtramck B er Pop Labor on Any & Be ries & Since 1965. WE CATER! Fries F 9 Plumbing, Heating, 99 9 Sto • Licensed & Air Conditioning or $ $ p in for a Gift Certificates 7 Smoot Sewer Cleaning Job 6 hie! Fast Same Day Insured Open Mon-Sat 6am-11:30pm • Residential & Installation or Repair Closed Sunday ffer. Service Commercial Not to be combined with any other o www.HeaneyPlumbing.com Service • Installation • Repairs 2 Hamtramck Review Phone (313) 874-2100 Friday, January 18, 2019 A new year and a new start in Turning words into action city council and school board Continued from front page Gallagher, with police, fire how do we, as a commu - vent irony so rich as that. Continued from front page and emergency medical nity, take positive action The good news is that gency financial manager. backward and is a dis - start at 7 p.m. vehicles arriving within to calm the streets and public spectacles even Initially, there were service to community,” Over at the school minutes of the accident. make them safer for on a microscopic neigh - some councilmembers said Councilmember Ian board, new member The driver of the SUV everyone? borhood level have the who protested the work Perrotta. Jihan Aiyash was sworn was sitting on the side - Including people in potential to get public at - sessions, saying the pub - "Moreover, meetings in at the January board walk, his back to the wall their own homes, like I tention and positive reac - lic was being shut out of are broadcast only to meeting. of my house, talking on a was, comfortably settled tion, some of it by their discussions despite those who have Com - She beat incumbent phone. in after 11 on a late De - officials that can do the fact that work ses - cast, that broadcast only Ataur Khan in last No - The other driver was cember night? something about it. sions were always open airs live, and the quality vember’s General Elec - calmly explaining to peo - Let's think hard on In November I met with to the public. is so bad that after re - tion in a write-in ple, including an EMT this. the Hamtramck Board of The meetings were questing upgrades to the campaign. Khan initially tech, that he didn’t need Houses being hit by Education and the held in a much smaller equipment since 2017 I decided not to seek re- medical attention. Both motor vehicle crashes schools superintendent room than the regular started bringing in my election, which left an men appeared to be OK, constitutes a crisis of Tom Niczay. I left the council chambers, but own gear to broadcast open seat on the board. but their vehicles were bad road behavior that meeting believing all get there was rarely any meetings on Facebook. That left Board Presi - wrecked and not dri - needs, at the very least, the urgency of the mes - issue of people not being We could easily broad - dent Maggie Srodek the vable. persuadable modifica - sage: slowing down the able to get in. cast work sessions from only candidate running The truck had appar - tion. Drivers must be streets is a top priority to Flash forward to now, the conference room for for re-election – at least ently flipped while travel - hyper-aware of their envi - maintain the safety of and Angerer told The Re - under $100." initially. ing northbound on ronment as they travel the local student popula - view the reason she can - Councilmember Anam Khan had second Gallagher. The other car through Hamtramck. We tion and its families. celed the work meetings Miah – who has been thoughts about seeking had been heading west - need to help them with Earlier this week I met was there is no longer a steadfastly opposed to re-election but missed bound on Edwin and this awareness.