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The annual Stratford Festival >fSr- i has something for all tastes. j a m" ?'/ Your hometown newspaper serving Plymouth and Plymouth Township for 118 years Winners of more than . a j PLYMOUTH 100 state and nationalwVA^^ awards since 2001^ J S « fO r i THURSDAY April 1 2004 75 cents V o l u m e 118 N u m b e r 63 www.hometownl1fe.com © 2 0 0 4 H o m e T o w n C ommunications N e t w o r k in a $ 5 0 0 staff among district's See page D3 for details BY TONY BRUSCATO it won’t change the formula for the district could save more than High school athletes current­ would save $300,000 STAFF WRITER funding student enrollment $480,000 by performing what ly pay a $125 fee to participate However, George Shea, whose However, Superintendent Jim he termed ‘ modified cleaning” m in as many sports as they daughter is a junior, told board More than three dozen lay­ Ryan said its still difficult to the district’s buildings choose “Some people have sug­ members he’s not in favor of offs, less extensive cleaning of find cuts and reductions total­ “It’s better than every other gested that students pay per that option school buildings and cuts m ing more than $2 6 million that day cleaning and we think we sport, rather than a one-time “I know all the cuts are diffi­ middle and high school athlet­ wont have a dramatic impact can reduce costs,” said Ryan fee,” he said “They’ve also dis­ cult, but as a father I want my ics are among the list of budget on the district, employees and Ryan is looking at another cussed ticket price increases at kids to be safe and I want cut? and reductions being dis­ students $200,000 cut from the athletic athletic events as a possibility someone there to take care of cussed by the Plymouth-Canton Tuesday night, Ryan present­ department budget, which for more revenue ” them, he said I strongly urge Board of Education to balance a ed the board with $2 2 million could be addressed in a number Ryan is also looking at reor­ j ou to keep nurses at the park ” projected $8 6 million budget in reductions that include 40 of ways ganization of high school ath­ The list of cuts also includes Plymouth-Canton deficit for the next school year layoffs, including 16 custodians, We ve asked the middle letics, and has put all three high limiting the number oi hours Congress students The administration believes four high school nurses and the schools to look at the restruc­ school athletic directors on the media centers in elementary were working hard an earlier projected deficit of security director at the high turing of sports and to see if notice for possible layoff school buildings are open, sav­ this week preparing $9 2 million will be reduced by school complex there is a pay-to-participate Slashing the jobs of four of ing the distnct an estimated for the April 7 Activity $650,000 as the state indicates According to Ryan’s figures, opportunity there,’ Ryan said the five high school nurses $225,000 Night extravaganza The night, which Rise to Donors the top fo r p o tty runs from 7-9 p.m, is Plymouth man an opportunity for BY TONY BRUSCATO incoming eighth- makes good as STAFF WRITER graders and their par­ ents to get informa­ What started with a $10,000 dona­ tion on things that are hospital's top dog tion last year by Dianne Qumn, offered at the high organizer of Plymouth’s summertime school level Tours of BY BRAD KADRICH festival Art m the Park, has ended all three high schools STAFF WRITER with a $25,000 contribution by E&E will be available Manufactunng in Plymouth beginning at 6 pm , When Gary Ley was a pre-med stu­ And, in between, enough money and at Salem dent at the University of Michigan, has been collected from businesses, information on all part of his sophomore year was spent organizations and even private con­ sports and learning about hospital administra­ tributions to build a public bathroom ciubs/organizations tion in downtown Plymouth w ill also be on hand When he figured out he really was­ “I would assume that within a The evening will fea­ n’t ready to be a doctor, he decided month we should be digging m the ture live performanc­ the administrative part of the medical ground,” said Mayor Pro Tem Dan es from the perform­ field would be a good compromise Dwyer, who has pushed the project ance-based groups Turns out it was a wise career since being elected to the city com­ such as cheerleading, move Ley, a Plymouth Township res­ mission five years ago “It hasn’t been chorus, band, the ident since his senior year m high easy, but there is a lot of credit to a orchestra, poetry school, landed in the emergency lot of people for seeing it through ” slam and the improv room at Garden City Hospital, begin­ The commission voted in club More than 20 ning a meteoric rise through the hos­ September to go ahead with the proj­ prizes, including a new pital hierarchy to his current spot as ect, provided the estimated $154,000 DVD recorder, will be the hospital’s president and chief needed to construct the bathroom raffled off executive officer was committed through private Coaches, advisers Not bad for a kid from Chicago donations Dwyer met with Patrick and current student who had to badger his way into the O’Neill, president-elect of the participants will be university’s public health school Plymouth Community Chamber of available forques- “I interviewed early in my senior Commerce, Wednesday and counted tions, and snacks and year, and then went back constantly $160,000 m committed funding beverages will be pro­ Dwyer expects the commission to vided PLEASE SEE LEY , A5 Gary Ley of Plymouth Township has been Garden City Hospital s chief executive officer since 1988 vote on awarding the contract to EG H Contractor Inc of Plymouth at Monday’s city commission meeting Area leaders will tell “Right from the beginning, residents how their (Chamber Executive Director) Fran community shapes up Toney and I said it wouldn’t happen at the annual Good Sam aritan returns lost ring unless we got a lot of people involved, Plymouth "State of and many different people and com­ the Community" BY TONY BRUSCATO on a happy ending thought maybe it fell off into panies stepped up,’ said Dwyer “I’ve breakfast sponsored STAFF WRITER “I never thought I would the garbage.” said Terry Ryan got to credit the Plymouth at 7:30 a.m see it again,’ said Ryan, who “So, I went back to get the Downtown Development Authority, Wednesday, April 7, at Jennifer Ryan figured when wears the half-carat nng on trash and took it home to ’when they committed the $50,000 Station 885 she lost the engagement ring her pinkie finger “I cned and look through it ” the ball started to roll ’ Plymouth Township given by her high school I was depressed I tried to The daylong search of Dwyer has committed $1,000 to Supervisor Steve sweetheart 38 years ago, she’d think back to where I was everywhere they went that the project, which will be constructed Mann, Plymouth never see it again that day, but we couldn t find day, including stops in the to the rear of The Gathering* and next Mayor Stella Greene, But, with the help of a it” city of Plymouth, failed to net the Penn Theatre Wayne County friend who urged Ryan to The drama began March 1 the nng At the urging of her Others donating to the project Commissioner Lyn report the lost ring to police, when Ryan and her husband, best friend, Ellen Jones, include the Kiwams, Lions and Bankes and Patti a daughter-in-law who insist­ Terry, went to the Plymouth Jennifer called Plymouth Rotary clubs, the Community Band, Brand, executive ed she trust a patron saint, Township post office to mail police downtown retail merchants, New director of business and the good Samaritan who their sons wedding invita­ “I figured why bother them, Terry and Jennifer Ryan thought Liberty Bank, UBS Financial, services for just happened to look down tions I wasn’t ever going to see it her ring, which she wears on her Compan’s, Raymond James, Johnson Plymouth-Canton on the ground, the Plymouth “We were hand-stamping pinkie, was gone forever Controls, Visteon, and Ferns, Baker schools, will be the Township woman stumbled the envelopes, and she PLEASE SEE R IN G , A5 Watts featured speakers Tickets are $12 Station 885 is at 885 Starkweather in Old MRS FIELDS COOKIES Village. 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