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Library renovations move into final chapter
Cemetery Walk is success
Body found on school playground
The PlymouthDistrict Library
repair project will move into the
final stage of construction during
the next fewmonths.
Barrier-free access to the
library will change temporarily
as the limestone caps around the
ramp and porch are replaced,
explained Susan Stoney, commu-
nity relations specialist at the
downtown Plymouth facility. The
handicap ramp is scheduled to
close for two weeks starting
today, Oct. 22 and barrier free
access will be available through
the staff entry door, behind the
fire station and city hall.
Handicap parking will be
relocated to marked spaces
behind the fire station, Stoney
said, and this entry was heavily
used in the summer months
when the ramp was unavailable
for use.
“Library staff and volunteers
will be posted at the barrier-free
entry to assist library users com-
ing into the building. The steps
to the main parking lot entrance
will remain open during this
phase of the construction,” she
said in a prepared release.
Within a week of the ramp
construction work, work will
begin on the vestibule of the
library parking lot entrance and
the front entrance will remain
open. Work will take place each
night after the library is closed
and an air curtain will be
installed just inside the front
doors to battle the extreme tem-
peratures of winter and summer.
This curtain will keep the cold
air out of the library in thewinter
and the hot air out in the sum-
mer, resulting in energy savings
for the library.
The floor of the vestibule will
be replaced and a decorative tile
wall will be installed at the entry-
way which is expected to be com-
plete in lateDecember.
The projects will be paid for
using the library building
reserve account, Stoney said, and
no added taxes will be used or
needed for the projects.
She said project updates will
be available on the main level
Building Repair display, the
Building Repair Project blog,
found on the library website ply-
mouthlibrary.org and on the
library Facebook page
book.com/plymouthdistrictli-
brary.
The library is located at 223
South Main St. For more infor-
mation, call (734) 453-0750.
Visitors didn't let the chilly
temperatures stop them from the
annual Northville Historical
Society Cemetery Walk this year
which concentrated on the
Cabbagetownhistory of the area.
Tillie Van Sickle of the society
said that she and Pat Allen and
LindaLast completed the histori-
cal research for the event this
year. Actors for the historical
walk included John and Cindy
Bullington, Chuck Burke, Juliana
Cerra, Russ Doré, Ed Gabrys,
Kurt Kinde, Peggy McMichael,
Dan and Ethan Puschell, Nancy
Schuster, Al Smitley, Bob
Sochacki, andMarji Terakedis.
Allen and Last also headed up
the walk with Greg "TinMan"
Weidenbach, Ed "TinDad"
Weidenbach, Julian "Frisco"
Zendejas, of the Eclipse baseball
team, Katy Pentiuk, and the
Rotary Interact students, Van
Sickle said.
She added that special thanks
were due archivist Carri Lee,
Linda McKenzie, Knightsbridge
Antique Mall and to Richard
Allen, whohandled ticket sales.
Refreshments were served at
the Art House, kept open for the
event byAbbeyWright.
Full support
Members of the Plymouth Township Fire Department will
be sporting bright pink shirts during Breast Cancer
Awareness Month in support of breast cancer research.
The firefighters, from left, Chris Haller, Capt. Dan Phillips,
Chuck Mann, Doug Pickert, Township Supervisor Shannon
Price, and firefighters James Harrell and Sean McCreedy
hope the pink shirts will remind women older than 40 to
get a mammogram. Early detection has proven to save
lives, according to national research.
Plymouth police are awaiting results of
an autopsy by the Wayne County Medical
Examiner to determine the cause of
death of a man found outside Smith
Elementary School Monday morning. The
school is located onMcKinley Street.
Police said that preliminary findings
do not indicate foul play in the death of
the man, a Plymouth resident in his 40s.
The body was discovered on the play-
ground by a school employee at about 8:20
a.m., about 35 minutes before classes
were scheduled to begin at the school.
The employee immediately called police
and responding officers and EMTs used
emergency blankets to screen the body
from arriving students and parents.
School officials had the students wait
inside as they arrived and guided both
children and parents away from any view
of the body.
Only the yellow caution tape was visi-
ble to those arriving at the school, officials
said. Police immediately determined
there was no danger to the public. The
body was removed in time for the chil-
dren to participate in an outdoor recess
and return to a normal day, they added.
Police left the scene at about 10 a.m.
Parents were notified of the incident at
the school through amass email and robo-
calls.
Police had not released the name of
the deceased at press time.
