No. 36
NEWS YOU CAN USE, NEWS YOU CAN TRUST
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Sept. 8 – 14, 2016
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Wayne Senior Services
will offer several programs
this month for seniors
including a presentation by
the Elder Law and Advocacy
Center of Neighborhood
Legal Services.
See page 5.
Momentum is building
among bicyclists from novice
to expert for the Rotary Club
of Northville third annual
Tour de Ville bicycle tour on
Saturday, Sept. 24
See page 3.
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When viewers tune into
the televised Thanksgiving
Day Parade this year, they
will be entertained by the
Romulus High School
MarchingBand.
See page 2.
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For home delivery of The Eagle call 734-467-1900.
The 7th Annual Veterans'
Summit will begin at 9 a.m.
and continue until noon
Tuesday Sept. 20 atWestland
City Hall, 36300 Warren
Road, between Wayne Road
andCentral CityParkway.
See page 5.
The Canton Public
Library has saved $279,000
with the early payoff of its
building construction bond,
originally not dueuntil 2020.
See page 4.
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An Inkster woman fell to
her knees when she got the
call that she'd been selected
as the winner of the
Michigan Lottery's $1 million
Play it AgainGiveaway.
See page 5.
The Plymouth Historical
Museumwill host a free look
at the new exhibition, First
Ladies-Fashion Setter from
6-8 p.m. Sept. 14.
See page 4.
Results of the M-STEP
(Michigan Student Test of
Educational Progress) tests
at Savage Elementary
School in Belleville showed
a sharpdecline this year.
See page 2.
Northville residents' concerns
about truck traffic, odors and
plans to expand a landfill in
neighboring Salem Township
have prompted the Northville
board of trustees to adopt a reso-
lution regarding a proposed new
dumping site at the Advanced
Disposal-ArborHills Landfill.
At a regular meeting of board
members last week, trustees
voted to approve a four-page res-
olution of position. The resolu-
tion stated the opposition of
Northville Township to any
expansion or adoption of a new
landfill, claiming it would pose
long-term environmental risks
for both Salem and Northville
townships due to inadequate dis-
posal capacity during the next 10
years.
Board members called the
proposal for a new landfill “fun-
damental unfairness at play” and
the trustees voted unanimously
to accept the resolution
addressed to the Washtenaw
County Solid Waste Planning
Committee. The resolution
implored the committee mem-
bers “...not to allow economics to
dictate further adverse impacts
to the residents of Northville
Township.” Trustees said they
plan to attend the next meeting
of the commission to make their
position clear.
“When a community places a
landfill within town-mile of a
bordering county, there is a fun-
damental unfairness at play,”
reads the resolution.
This weekend will cele-
brate the 61st annual
Plymouth Fall Festival which
will bring more than 20,000
people to town during the
weekend.
“The most important thing
of all about the Fall Festival is
that it is for the community.
That's what I would like every-
one to remember. This is a
community event to benefit all
these groups in the communi-
ty. That's thewhole point,” said
Eric Joy who is at the helm of
the event for the fourth year.
With amusement rides,
entertainment on the Kellogg
Park stage, and community
groups sponsoring multiple
events, wrangling the needs of
so many great causes might
seem daunting. Joy, however,
who spent eight years, working
on the festival before assum-
ing the leadership of the com-
mittee that organizes the
event, gives the credit for
organization to the civic
groups.
“These groups have almost
all done this themselves for
many years. They know what
they are doing. They know
what they need and after a few
years, you kind of know what
to expect that everyone will
need,” he said.
The weekend begins with
the Civitans Taste Fest from 6-
8 p.m. Friday at Station 885 in
Old Village followed by the
Plymouth Canton Little
League sponsored bingo
games at The Gathering. The
Optimists annual Pet Show
will begin at 9 a.m. on the
Kellogg Park stage Saturday
while the annual Pancake
Breakfast served by the
Kiwanis club continues in The
Gathering from 7-11 a.m. The
popular A.M. Rotary Club
Spaghetti Dinner will take
place beginning at 4 p.m. in
the big white tent behind E.G.
Nick's restaurant on Forest
Street. The tent is also the
place for the over 21 crowd to
enjoy Big Ray and the Motor
City Kings beginning at 8 p.m.
both Friday and Saturday. A $3
cover charge will benefit the
local VietnamVeteran's group.
An added attraction is the
addition of a display from the
Northville/Plymouth Fire
Department. Firefighters will
be on site with fire trucks and
equipment for the crowds.
Another change this year at
the Fall Festival is the location
of the shuttle service drop off
fromPraise Baptist Church on
North Territorial. The new
drop off will be on the corner
of Main and Church streets
near city hall.
The car show will be
expanded this year and take
up all of Forest Avenue and
the alcove area where there
Don Howard
Staff Writer
See
Landfill,
page 3
State Police arrested seven
people last Wednesday when
they discovered what appeared
to be a drug manufacturing
operation at a Westland home
where they had gone to arrest a
man for violating parole.
According to Michigan State
Police First Lt. Michael Shaw,
troopers raided a home in the
3500 block of Manila Street near
Palmer and Wayne roads in
Westland the morning of Aug.
31. State troopers had gone to
the home searching for an indi-
vidual wanted on a felony
parole absconderwarrant.
While searching for the
parole violator, officers
observed chemicals and what
appeared to be a methampheta-
mine cooking operation in the
basement of the house, Shaw
said.
Houses on either side of the
suspected methamphetamine
laboratory were evacuated by
police, Shaw said, as a precau-
tion against an explosion.
Methamphetamine chemicals
are extremely volatile and
troopers were concerned about
a possible explosion in the one-
pot laboratory where chemicals
were mixed and sealed in what
he described as weakened con-
tainers.
Teams of officers removed all
the items from the home and
performed air quality testing
inside and around the suspect
house and determined that
chemical residue was insuffi-
cient to present a danger to the
community. Officers did place a
notice on the house labeling it
as a hazardous waste site. Shaw
said the owner of the property is
responsible to clean up the
chemical waste that is found at
sites where methamphetamine
is processed. The owner of the
property was unknown at the
time of the raid.
Shaw said that nine individu-
als were in the home at the time
and a computer search showed
that six of themhad outstanding
felony warrants for their arrest.
Another individual arrived at
the scene during the raid, Shaw
said, and troopers discovered
that he, too, had an outstanding
felony arrest warrant from an
incident in Westland. He, too,
was arrested while three other
people are awaiting charging
decisions from the office of the
WayneCounty prosecutor.
In addition to the apparent
methamphetamine chemicals,
troopers removed one gram of
that drug, other narcotics, an
undetermined amount of cash
and a large number of guns.
Officers also discovered
three Wayne County Sheriff's
Department badges, which
were confiscated as evidence.
Shaw said that police would
attempt to discover the owner of
the property and notify them of
the hazardous chemical
residue.
Meth lab discovered during police raid
Traffic, odors prompt township action
Plymouth Fall Festival begins tomorrow
See
Festival,
page 5
Photo by Don Howard
