Off to Vegas , *** •pen with a A Livonia church with a Out of m ore than 700 entries, Rock Roll Oxford's Ronald Tate is our & W gf Pick the Pros winner attitude IwRo® BELIEFS & VALUES, PAGE C9 PAGE A10 Your hometown newspaper serving Plymouth and Plymouth Township for 119 ye ars PLYMOUTH THURSDAY February 17 2005 75 cents Volume 119 Number 51 w w w .hom etoivnlife.com © 2 0 0 5 HomeTown Communications Network Grant change could stall senior buses BY TONY BRUSCATO However, Fink — and hun­ ‘ Wayne County, at its grant City could STAFF WRITER dreds of other seniors who training workshop, use the transportation system announced that we are limit­ For 64-year-old Jacqueline in Plymouth and Plymouth ed m the grant application to m o s t o f Fmk of Plymouth, being able Township — are concerned 15 percent for city services,’ to get around town on the about federal funding regula­ said City Manager Paul Plymouth Council on Aging tions that could mean an end Smcock “The county says the funding from senior bus is a godsend to most of the city’s $ 72,0 0 0 federal government wants “Sometimes I ride it five in Community Development more brick-and-mortar proj­ days a week,’ said Fmk “I Block Grant money Most of ects use it for shopping and den­ that money is used to fund We have a very successful tist appointments The bus is the city’s portion of the public service project but TOM HOFFMEYER I STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER prompt, and it gets us to $130,000 annual cost of the Dave Rath and Jacqueline Fmk board the senior transportation bus, which is p r o g r a m where we want to go ” senior bus program PLEASE SEE BUSES, A5 the only means of transportation for many local seniors TOM HOFFMEYER I STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Susan Schaefer and Jay Densmore of Plymouth Furniture Refimshmg, in c , stand next to the dresser Susan brought in for Jay to reftnish where he found some hidden treasures tucked away inside Thanks for n the memories Local wom an gets more than she bargained for Molly Wallace of Plymouth (right) rehearses a scene from 'Ram in the Hollows/ a Sean O'Leary play that hits the stage at Cherry Village Theater in Canton next in late father's furniture weekend Wallace won the part in an audition late last year BY TONY BRUSCATO STAFF WRITER N After her father died m November at the age of 92, Susan Schaefer of Plymouth Township wanted to Taking to a bigger stage chensh the memories of the man she described as “incredible, very simple, and who had an incredible belief m God ’ BY BRAD KADRICH with her peers in productions in the Cherry Hill Village To her surprise, Schaefer received more memories STAFF WRITER like Anme and Cinderella Theater production of the Sean than she bargained for after taking her father’s bed­ Now, about to step onto the O’Leary play, R a m in the room furniture to be restored at Plymouth Furniture Thirteen-year-old Molly stage with professionals for the Hollows Set in West Virginia in Refimshmg, Inc, on Main Street in Plymouth Young actress, Wallace stood watching as veter­ first time, Molly summed up her 1972, the play depicts a flooding ‘ It was furniture my parents used as long as I can an actors went about their feelings m a word disaster along Buffalo Creek, remember, and her parents before that,” said emerging business rehearsing for this “Intimidated,’Molly said “I’d and follows the reactions of two Schaefer “So, I brought it there to be refurbished to weekend’s performance of been doing a lot of kids’ theater, brothers and their family deal­ its natural glory artist highlight Pound at the Cherry Hill Village and it was laid-back and fun ing with the crisis ‘ (Owner) Jay (Densmore) explained to me it was Theater This is a lot more serious It’s a The play is being directed by probably from the late 1800s, so I picked out a stain Molly, a veteran of smaller lot different than what I’m used Hal O Leary, father of the play­ and off I went,” she said “When I got home, there Cherry Hill stages with the Whistle Stop to ’ wright and founder/artistic was a message from him on my answering machine, Players and Ever After Molly begins a four-perform­ telling me 'Susan, please call me I found something ' productions Productions, was used to acting ance run Feb 24 as Kit Hulkill PLEASE SEE STAGE, A6 m your dad’s dresser that belongs to you ’” When she arrived home, Schaefer immediately called Densmore, who said he’d rather show her in person “But, it’s good news,” he promised After arriving at Densmore’s refimghmg shop, the two went to the back room Former teacher’s aide charged with having sex with boy “He pulled something out of his drawer a|td said he d found it,” remembered Schaefer, ‘and he gave me BY KEVIN BROWN the 35th District Each carries a maximum Eble was freed on $1,000 a bowling patch STAFF WRITER Court on sentence of 15 years in jail bond She faces a preliminary ‘That was a big deal to me because my father was Monday entered She also faces a maximum exam on the charges at 9 a m proud of his bowling, and even bowled a 300 (perfect A 35-year old Canton woman a not guilty plea two-year sentence on a fourth- Friday, Feb 25, in 35th District game) once,” she said “The patch was from 1953 in and former Fiegel Elementary on behalf of degree misdemeanor charge Court m Canton recognition for being league champions That was School para professional Susanne Eble stemming from contact with the Frank Ruggirello, Plymouth- very important to him, so consequently it was impor­ (teacher s aide) has been charged She faces three hoy Canton schools spokesman, said tant to me ’ by authorities with having sexual counts of crimi­ By Michigan law, sexual inter­ Eble worked for the school dis­ Densmore, using his flare for presentation, was intercourse with a 14-year-old nal sexual con­ course between an adult and a trict four years, but stopped having just as much fun surprising Schaefer as she boy she met outside of school duct, third 14-year-old is illegal, even if con­ Magistrate Erie 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