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February 26, 2015
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Wayne council closes community pool
Art House sets exhibit
Tipping Point offers one-weekend special engagement
Despite the pleas of some avid
users and supporters, the pool at
the Wayne Community Center is
nowclosed.
Members of the Wayne City
Council voted 4-3 to immediately
close the pool at the meeting last
week. The closing is one of sever-
al cuts the council members have
been attempting to make to bal-
ance the implement $600,000
budget deficit the city is facing
for the current fiscal year. An
even more serious deficit is pre-
dicted by financial analysts for
next year in the city.
Closing the community center
pool is estimated to save the city
about $70,000 in operating
expense annually. The ice arena,
which was operating at a
$200,000 annual deficit was pre-
viously shut downby the council.
Supporters of the pool spoke
at the meeting and suggested a
better marketing effort might
turn the losses at the facility
around. In 2013, according to
Councilwoman SusanRowe, only
1,212 memberships were effec-
tive at the center and only 732 of
those were from Wayne. The
remaining 527 were Westland
residents.
“We have not solved the prob-
lem,” Rowe said. “All of us are
paying for it. Those numbers
don't validate continually putting
money into keeping the pool
open,” said Rowe. “I'm sorry. I
was elected to be fiscally respon-
sible and do the best I can with
the information in front ofme.”
Councilman Skip Monit sug-
gested the city wait before mak-
ing the decision noting that there
were differences in the opera-
tional numbers provided by
financial consultant Tim
McCurley of Plante Moran and
interim Parks and Recreation
Director JuanBradford.
“If we have waited 12 years,
maybe we can wait for more
input,”Monit said.
The closing of the pool was
opposed by council members Al
Damitio, David James and Monit
who cast the dissenting votes.
There was no discussion of
the rebate of membership fees to
those who have joined the
Community Center for one-year
terms. Wayne and the City of
Westland had been in discus-
sions regarding a joint Parks and
Recreation Department and the
first steps had included allowing
Westland residents to join the
Wayne facility.
The Northville Art House will
present “the mystery lesson” -
paintings by Kate Paul during
March. The solo artist show will
open with an artist reception
from 6-9 p.m. March 6 and con-
tinue through Saturday, March
28.
The opening reception is
sponsored by Bandoni Creative
and the show was curated by
TookGallagher.
“To live in the mad world of
man-made incantations and
hocus pocus gives me not any
special knowledge to understand
the mystery of life. The knowl-
edge is knowing that I don't know
and cannot know the magic that
surrounds me. The lessons
learned are of experimenting
with color, paint, and images that
define me. The mystery lesson is
the comedy of errors and
insights that lead me to play on,”
Paul said about her paintings.
Paul was born in upstate New
York and raised in northern
England. Her career has
involved photography, graphics,
and work as a scenic painter
which led her to Los Angeles,
where she met her life compan-
ion at a scenery shop working in
films, theater and television.
Together they relocated to
Seattle, WA, where Paul started
her own commission painting
business in 1992.
Paul relocated to Michigan in
1995, where she has been work-
ing as a decorative artist for the
design trade as well concentrat-
ing onher own artwork.
Her mural work can be found
in many private residences and
in public venues, including
Gilda's Club in Royal Oak and
The Royal Oak Public Library.
She also works with projects for
Suite Dreams, an organization
that creates pleasing environ-
ments for children inneed.
Paul's artwork is shown in
many local galleries and exhibi-
tions. Her biggest accomplish-
ment to date, she said, is being
an ovarian cancer survivor since
2010.
For additional information, e-
mail Exhibits@Northville
ArtHouse or go to NorthvilleArt
House.org or call (248) 344-0497.
Northville Art House is locat-
ed at 215 W. Cady Street in
Northville. Admission to the art
house is free.
Love, Loss and What I Wore, a
play by Nora and Delia Ephron,
plays for just one weekend at
TippingPoint Theatre.
In this comedy by chick-flick
favorites, sisters Nora and Delia
Ephron, clothing is used as a
vehicle to access some of the
most vulnerable moments in a
woman's life. Shopping for under-
garments is transformed from a
mortifying experience to a sym-
bol of womanhood, a birthday
outfit becomes a story of accept-
ance, and a bathrobe comes to
embody the relationship between
mother and daughter. Through a
collection of monologues, the all-
female cast of “What I Wore”
reminds audiences that what we
wear flourishes more than our
outfit; it accessorizes life's most
pivotalmoments of love and loss.
Directed by Lynn Wilde
Concannon and starring: Julia
Glander, Katie Huber-Welty,
Denise
Jenkins,
Laura
Mandernack and Julie Yolles,
Love, Loss and What I Wore will
be performed one weekend only
at 8 p.m. March 13, 14 and 15.
There is a 2 p.m. matinee on
Sunday, March 15.
The theatre is located at 361 E.
Cady St. in Northville. All tickets
are $35 and are available now by
calling the box office at (248) 347-
0003. Box Office hours are 10 a.m.
- 5 p.m.; Tuesday - Friday and 90
minutes prior to performances.
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