.. --1.- * slsfeas* %s 81¾ - » Surgeon trains to treat mass casualties in Israel .^riSJ« J-»4. *"* * I*** BY DARRELL CLEM turning over $20,000 to city got help from others involved "I like those nights," said The money boosted the city's department's child fire-safety STAFF WRITER officials to improve a neighbor­ in the charitable Westland Bulson, owner of the Westland- adopt-a-park program and program; $2,000 for the police hood park, boost historic pres­ Jaycees and Rotary Club. based Men on the Move com­ helped pay for the $28,000 department's motorcycle It's not on his resume^ but ervation efforts, keep police With a few volunteers at his pany. project, Westland Parks & unit; $1,000 for the Westland longtime Westland community motorcycles on the street, buy side, Bulson was the front-line The largest single donation of Recreation Director Robert Goodfellows' "No Child volunteer Gary Bulson sure ' Christmas toys for needy chil­ spokesman Monday evening $13,000 came from the Rotary Kosowski said. Without A Christmas" cam­ seems like one of Santa's help­ dren and support child fire- when he brought the donations Club to help pay for a quar­ Bulson and volunteers also paign; $500 for the Westland ers. prevention education. to appreciative city leaders ter-mile walking path already made several donations on' Historic Village Park's pres- He certainly delivered the To be sure, Bulson didn't during a Westland City Council installed in Rotary Park, near behalf of the Jaycees, includ­ holiday gifts this month, raise the money by himself. He meeting. Marquette and Wayne. ing $3,000 for the city fire Please see HELPERS, A3 Amazing': Soldier in # "Passion, Ardor, Eagerness. And you say that these are they , Which will deliver me from the sins of my father." Adrian Massey remembers clearly where he was when he wrote his very first poem: fall 0 -;* 1999 while studying at the : * ' <n?j&' University of Groningen, the U.S. Army Capt. Adrian Massey JuO> (right) says that being in Iraq has And eight years after the fact, made his poetry darker and more he easily recalls the first few serious. Beside him is Sgt. Johnathan - *.'+*\ lines of that poem, Passion, Garrison, Stryker vehicle operator Ardor, Eagerness, written about and driver. "accepting the pain I carried growing up without my father." rience." "For the first time the grudge Massey^ journey to poetry was gone and I felt better," and the military started at wrote Massey in an e-mail from Wayne Memorial High School Iraq where he is serving a sec­ where school psychologist ond tour of duty with the U.S. William Gray and colleague PHOTOS BY TOM HAYJUY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Army. "That poem is the only Lynn Malinoff met him in 10th Lori MiUbauer lifts her daughter Sarah, a fifth-grader at Edison Elementary and a member of the Junior Girl Scouts, Troop 162 place a bagel with bird poem that has not been typed grade. seed on one of the spruce trees outside the Westland Bailey Center. into a Word document, but it is folded in a memento box on its 'INSPIRATION TO OTHERS' original paper." "He's an amazing young man An Army captain soon to and his poetry and success have be a major, Massey is now a been an inspiration to others," published poet with the release said Gray. "It's amazing the of his book, A Soldier's Poetic motivation people get from Response; A Slice of His Life him." by Robbie Dean Press in Ann According to Gray, Massey PD Graham first- Arbor. was led to believe he wasn't Students and scout troops grader Ashlyn The poetry covers a broad college material, so he and helped decorate the trees Kiedrowski (left) spectrum of subjects from a Malinoff helped get him in a Wednesday between Westland and second" tribute to fallen comrades and six-week program at Eastern City Hall and the Bailey grader Jason recalling the day when he was Michigan University. Students Recreation Center. Mayor, Hamilton who Is 6 years old that his mother told who passed were invited to William Wild and Santa also a cub scout, pack his father to leave to the Vinyl attend the university. Massey were on hand. Children also 765 pick out Joe Music Cafe in Ypsilanti and passed, but he faced a problem, had an opportunity to make the pine cones poems written for his brother, paying for his education. He their own Victorian scrap art dipped in bird Darren, and daughter, Anaya. looked over what was available ornament inside the Bailey seed to be hung "Poetry to me is a lifestyle, and went with the ROTC pro­ Center. The afternoon includ­ on the spruce it's the natural rhythm of who gram. ed a sing-along and refresh­ trees outside the we are," Massey said. "It's the ments. Bailey Center. expression of the human expe- Please see POET, A2 B-l-N-G-O: Woman dances BY DARREIL CLEM she filled an entire bingo card ever won was around $1,000." Lewis said. Bingo link. STAFF WRITER within the allotted 52 numbers She raked in her winnings Big Money Bingo has a pro­ Barmakzian said she only that had been called out during Saturday, Dec. 1, in the state­ gressive jackpot that starts plans to keep $5,000 of her Westland bingo devotee a Big Money Bingo game at the wide Big Money Bingo game. at $10,000 and grows each winnings for herself. She said Anayes Barmakzian didn't hold hall at Cherry Hill and Henry Michaleen Lewis, who helps day until it is won. The game she will give the rest to her back when she won $64,671 Ruff roads. By the rules, the run bingo games in places like begins at 49 balls drawn, and son, her daughter and her 10- while playing at the Cherry Hill game would have ended if she Inkster and Livonia, said Big the number of balls drawn ; raonth-old granddaughter. Bingo Hall in Inkster. or another player hadn't won Money Bingo players pay $3 grows by one each week until a "I want to save some money "I danced across the floor with the 52nd number. for a card that has three games winner is declared. so she can go to college," Anayes Barmakzian, sitting, holds a and cried at the same time," "I couldn't believe it," on it. For more on the game, go Barmakzian said. winning bingo card that paid $64,671. she said. Barmakzian said. "I never win "She won on the very last online to www.michigan.gov/cg At her left is another bingo player, Barmakzian, 53, won after this kind of money. 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REAL ESTATE D2 Garden City SPORTS 734.421.8000 Observer S Eccentric j Sunday, December 9,2007 A2 (w> LOCAL NEWS www.hometowntife.com AROUND WESTLAND Friends gather for Skate with Santa Westland Parks and Recreation cal guitarist Paul Vondiziano Department and must be who will regale listeners with Join Santa at 1 p.m. Saturday, receivedbyl0p.rn.pec.14.The - selections from classic masters BY BRAD KADR1CH oring them helps their memory "Hundreds of families will Dec. 15, at Westland's Mike Westland Parks and Recreation such as Bach at 7 p.m. Tuesday, STAFF WRITER live on." gather near a tree specially Modano ice Arena for "Skate Department is located at 36651 Dec. 11, at the Westland public The ceremony will include decorated with the names of with Santa." Admission is free Ford Road. If snow is present library. Stop by or call (734) 326- Members of the the dedication of atree deco­ children who have died too with donation of an unwrapped on the 21st another prize will be 6123 to reserve a seat Compassionate Friends know rated with ornaments with the soon," Lafferty said. toy to benefit Toys for Tots. The given. For more information, call the holidays are tough times for children's names, a candle-light For more information or to event will be followed by a fig­ (734) 722-7620. Concert, toy drive people who've lost loved ones, vigil, a reading of the children's register a child, call or e-mail ure-skating exhibition 3-4:50 The Westland Community especially children. names, poetry and songs. candle-lighting committee p.m. featuring performers of all Bowl with Santa Foundation is inviting the pub­ In an effort to help with The local ceremony includes members Gail Lafferty, tcfcan- ages who will march and double Grange No. 389 and Westland lic to a Christmas reception the grief, The Compassionate the candle-lighting at 7 P-m. [email protected] or (734) jump their way through Little parks will sponsor Bowl With featuring John Glenn High Friends, Western Wayne in conjunction with the world­ 981-4528 or Virginia Herrick, Drummer Boy, Jingle Bells, and Santa 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. School's Glenn Singers 6-8 p.m.