Compulsive gambling: Will casinos aggravate problem?, A9 Hometown IfVlMt ;SI( AllllSh MIIMIIHN Putting you In touch Thursday with your world August 26, 1999 -Serving the WestlandCdmmur^^ 35 years *•«*- VOLUME 35 NUMBER 24 WESTLAND, MICHIGAN • 70 PAGES • http://observer-eccentric,com SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS © 1909 HomoToivn CommunicationsN'ctwofk, Inc. IN THE PAPER Angry: Ricky, and Rec- Interest cia TODAY Am olsch of Ypsi­ lanti, in race LOCAL formerly of West - land, Council information: We were scant provide a forum for West- among land City Council candi­ many who • A low turnout is predict­ dates to answer a variety ed in the Sept. 14 Westland of election questions./A6 protest­ ed out­ City Council primary. Observers say the race has side sparked interest in some Allan circles. COMMUNITY LIFE War- nick 's BYDARRELI/CLEM Dropping in: Impact Stu­ dental Sr.UT WRItfcK office on [email protected] omecomrn.net dent Union isn't looking School: Westland voters are expected to turn to replace the family; craft in out in low numbers for a Sept. 14 coun­ rather it's looking to pro­ Livonia. cil primary, despite an election season that comes as city leaders"grapple with vide comfort and support far-reaching issues. '••:• for teens looking for a ; plate to drop in and hang See candidate chart, A6 out/El STMT PHOT«> BVTOM 1£A\»U:Y An estimated 10 percent to 11 per­ cent of the city's 57,978 registered vot­ Doing that: Got an errand ers will cast ballots, City Clerk Patricia that needs to be done? Gibbons said Tuesday. Have a party that needs targets "That's what I can gather based on previous primaries." she said. some planning? Then you BY MARIE CHESTNEY The picketers were protesting court the murder. The city's first council primary since STAFF WRITER need Judy Basile and her [email protected] testimony given during the last The second man was former Red- 1991 will narrow the field of candidates "I Can Do That!" ser- decade by Warnick in three cases ford resident Anthony Otero, who from 10 to eight. The winners will com- An Ypsilanti man once charged involving teeth or bite marks. now lives in Davison. Accompanied l>ete for four council seats at stake in vice./BX with first-degree murder in Westland Two men who had once been by his parents. Antonio and. Flva the Nov. 2 general olectiqn. was one of about .30 picketers who charged with murder on the basis of Otero of Flushing, Otero-said. War­ Primary voters will choose from marched outside the office of a Livo­ Warnick's expert testimony, but who nick determined that bite marks on electee! incumbents Glenn Anderson nia dentist Monday, Many of the later had charges dropped against . the body of a dead woman were made and Charles "Trav" Griffin, council, AT HOME picketers carried signs reading "We them, were among the picketers. by Otero's teeth. appointee David Cox and hopefuls .<-: :.. ••:.• . ....-^:i£ii=-Jis*£Sft want justice." One was Amolsch. Accompanied by "We sent the same dental impres­ James Chuck, Debra Fowlkes. James Dr. Allan Warnick was not inside his wife and two teenage children, sions to another dentist and on the Godhout, David James, Michael Making the grade: Items his Schoolcraft Road office Monday to Amolsch told how his life fell apart basis of that, it .never got to trial," Kehrer, Michael Rintz and, in her used in dorm decor these respond to accusations of "false testi­ after he was charged with first- Otero said. ninth campaign, Dorothy Smith. mony" from the picketers. Neither degree murder in the,death of his for­ Picketers also included family and Individual voters can choose up. to days get high marks for did he call the Observer, as requested mer girlfriend, Jane Fray, killed in friends of Jeffrey Moldmvan of War­ four candidates when they cast ballots. style./DB by a reporter. her Westland Meadows mobile home ren, now imprisoned in Lapeer. War- Tins election season comes as city Later Monday, Wayne County's in 1994. nick's testimony helped convict leaders try to reach a consensus on Department of Corporation Counsel "It didn't go to/trial, but I spent 10 Moldowail.of kidnapping, assault •issues such as whether to build a new issued a statement saying that the months in jail," Amolsch said. "I lost with intent to commit murder and City Hall and a multimillion-dollar Michigan Court of Appeals twice had my job, I lost my kids. It took me two counts of criminal sexual conduct recreation center. .ruled that Warnick, "as a matter of months to get them back. I had no ni an incident involving a woman in In election coverage inside today's Jazz: The Ford Montreux law, did not act wrongfully toward" home, and no mo'ney." Observer, candidates also share prion.- Detroit Jazz Festival cele­ the Ypsilanti man, Ricky Amolsch. No one has ever been convicted in Please see PROTEST, A4 brates two decades of Please see INTEREST, A4 musical diversity./El Festival: Arts, Beats & greens ers new Eats in downtown.Ponti- ac, Labor Day weekend, BY DARRELL CLEM traffic congestion could endanger chil­ stretching from Cherry Hill to School STAFF WRITER dren. Lane. '•' draws new local Ar.-i AT---- 'r [email protected] "That concerns me as a mother of a The company has reached an agree­ Westland talent. /El Riding a wave of redevelopment in 6-year-old," said resident Carrie ment to buy properties from current Westland, Walgreen Co. wants to Gabany, a School Lane resident. owners such as Lloyd Moore. 90, who •••.". •>••*.. .1¾ ;•'.;>•• i. ;'>-''= '•:.,':•""; .•?'-•« n.*-VT*i, demolish six structures and build a Council members appeared receptive built a corner gas station in 1946 and a new drugstore oh the northeast corner to Walgreen Co.'s plans, but an official family home two years later. REAL ESTATE of Cherry Hill and Wayne roads. vote isn't expected for a few weeks. Walgreen Co. wants to open a Company representatives unveiled "This is going to be,millions of dollars 13,700-sqnare-foot drugstore. The essentials: Home buy­ their latest plan Monday amid sharply invested in Westland," company attor­ "This is a good opportunity to ers look for a lot of things, opposing views from 25 people who ney Scan Kavanagh said. improve the area and increase the but these are most impor­ attended a Westland City Council Walgreen officials announced a pro-' Westland tax base." Lloyd Moore's son. study session. posaFto tear down five houses - two of Gale, said. Proposed Walgreens tant., ^ireporters hailed the plan as a them vacant - and a closed radiator Resident Loreita Hansclun a mother shop. They want to redevelopa 1.5-acre /of two, said she favors demoiishing Walgreens. has its eye;tin .'. '• much-needeel boost to a-djlapidated thesite&ho.'.h fibo.ve • ••'• " corner,, but critics voiced fears that site on the east side of Wayne Road, ;:• &:• Please see WALGflEENS, A3 I: iiii managing • Obituaries A2 • Classified Index ........._ Hugh Gallagher is the new managing editor for • editor for 13 years, supervising serve him well in the months and years to come." Real Estate 7 7:F5^ the Observer Newspapers. He replaces Susan copy desk activities for nine "Hugh has been part of the Observer Group man­ .Rosick, who was appointed publisher of the Observer years and the feature sections for agement'team for several years as an assistant man­ Crossword .... _...„ Newspapers in June." the last four.years. Those feature aging editor. His promotion to managing.editor --. the Jobs 1 As managing editor, Gallagher will coordinate sections include Taste, Aits & top spot in the'editorial department' - r> well- Hpme& Service H7 newsroom operations in three offices (Livonia, Farm- Leisure, Entertainment, At deserved. ' ingtori and Plymouth) and supervise the seven com­ Home and Real Estate. "Re sure to read Hugh's personal column in today's . J2 Automotive munity editors in Canton, Farmihgton, Garden City, Rosiek said Gallagher's "pas­ Westland Observer on Page A12. His deep respect for • Opinion A1^13 Livonia; Plymouth, Redford and Westland. sion for community journalism, leaders and.community journalism is told in his own • Calendar B4 A graduate of Wayne State University, Gallagher his keen intellect along with his words." • Sports CI has more than,25 years of newspaper experience. At many years of newspaper .experi­ the.Observer, he has been an assistant managing Hugh Gallagher ence and strong work ethic will : • Real Estate F1 '• '. ••.' '• •'. ,~~ ~~~~~ ~PhmsF~s7e EOITOR7'A4' Mowing 'em down Strike: Lisa Gervais from Five, HOW TO REACH US Star Janito­ rial Equip­ Newsroom: 734-953-2104 ment and : r. Newsroom Fax: 734-5917279 BY «/UME BROWN Child/Shape a World." The school has Supply hiiil\ £m<i/7; jbrowndoe.tiomecomm.net STAFF WRtlKH ; some 190 students in preschool jbrowftffao.hpmccomm.net fives' after Kightlinc/Sports: 734-053-2104 through eighth grade. making a "It's really nice that St. Matthew's is Rcadet Coi))mM Lino:734-953 2042 God and teaching have gone hand ir* strike at the hand for some 50 yearn nt St. Matthew able to'offer that kind of foundation." Classified Advertising: 734-591-09O0 Lutheran School in Westland. 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