No. 11
NEWS YOU CAN USE, NEWS YOU CAN TRUST
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March 17 – 23, 2016
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The Wayne Memorial
High School Junior Reserve
Officer Training Corp
(JROTC) Leadership Team
will compete in person at the
championship event in
Washington, DC.
See page 4.
Sister Robert Anne will
teach a cabaret class as a
fundraiser for Tipping Point
Theater this weekend with
songs fromNunsense.
See page 6.
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The City of Romulus has
received a $15,000 grant from
AAA Michigan to purchase a
Jaws of Life system as well
as three lifting airbags to use
at crash sites.
See page 2.
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For home delivery of The Eagle call 734-467-1900.
Development at the site
of the former Westland City
Hall and some adjoining
property will be controlled
by city officials who have
agreed tomarket the land.
See page 4.
During the past four
years, Giving Hope, Women's
Giving Circle, has collected
about $10,000 annually to
donate back to the communi-
ty to benefit women and chil-
dren.
See page 3.
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Students at the Burger
Baylor School in Inkster had
some very special visitors
last week when legislators
from around the state toured
the school.
See page 4.
After 13 years, an addi-
tional liquor license from 14
to 15 is being considered by
members of the Plymouth
City Commission for the
downtown area.
See page 5.
The plan for a new canoe
and kayak rental operation
on Belleville Lake was pre-
sented to themembers of the
city council during a regular
meeting last week.
See page 3.
Poltergeist?
Priests, plumbers and psychics
probe possible paranormal presence
Belleville
mayor joins
Canton staff
Inkster voters
OK charter
revisions
The new human resources
manager in Canton Township
has a wealth of municipal
experience.
Kerreen Conley, the cur-
rent mayor of the City of
Belleville, began her new job
with Canton this week replac-
ing Gwyn Belcher who
resigned the position in
January.
One of Conley's first tasks
will be helping to find a
replacement for Director of
Public Safety Todd Mutchler
who is leaving Canton to
become the Deputy Director
of Public Safety in Northville
Township.
Conley, chosen from more
than 113 candidates who
applied for the Canton posi-
tion, has 25 years of experi-
ence having worked as the
finance director in Ypsilanti
and as the city manager in
Belleville. Her mayoral posi-
tion there is part-time.
Her new duties will
include participation in nego-
tiations with township
unions.
Conley was elected to her
second four-year term as
Belleville mayor last
November.
Inkster voters have agreed
with Mayor Byron Nolen that it
is time for a change in the city
charter which was originally
adopted in 1964.
Voters were asked in a one-
sentence ballot question
whether they would support a
revision to the city charter. No
specific topics of any such revi-
sions were provided on the bal-
lot which voters approved with
3,636 yes votes as opposed to a
total of 1,034 no votes. A total of
4,867 votes were cast in the
March 8 balloting in Inkster.
“My faith in the residents of
Inkster is renewed. I look for-
ward to the recommendations
of the charter commission and
to see what revisions they may
recommend in our charter,”
Nolen said last week after the
voteswere counted.
During his State of the City
message this year Nolen sug-
gested the city would benefit a
move from the current city
manager formof government to
a strong mayor system. Nolen,
who is now part time, suggest-
ed a full-time mayor who
would manage the day-to-day
operations of the city as the
chief executive. In that system,
the mayor also hires and fires
department heads and is sub-
ject to a veto by a two-thirds
majority of the members of the
city council.
With the approval of the
measure by voters, there will
nowbe an electionMay 3 in the
city to choose nine members of
the
Charter
Revision
Commission from the current
roster of 15 candidates.
“I am anxious to see what
the recommendations are and
let the process take its course,”
Nolen said.
Despite the best efforts of
electricians, plumbers, cable
technicians and even priests,
no explanation has been found
for the mysterious occurrences
at Greek Islands Coney Island
indowntownPlymouth.
Until last week, when a visit
from Ghost Hunting Sisters, a
professional group of spiritual-
ists, and a pair of psychic read-
ers from Illuminate Your Spirit
in Plymouth, may have provid-
ed some answers to the myriad
of mysterious events at the
restaurant.
Owners George and Terri
Stefanakis, along with their
son, Stefan, certainly had their
doubts about the presence of
any supernatural entities in
the building. But after four
years of unexplainable phe-
nomena, they agreed to their
son's suggestion, and called in
experts in the field of other-
worldly happenings. After all,
Stefanakis, 28, said, they had
already tried just about every
other kind of professional pos-
sible to find the source of the
middle-of-the-night water leak-
ages, the unexplainable 5 a.m.
phone calls and the uncomfort-
able atmosphere often experi-
enced in the basement of the
former bank building, original-
ly constructed in the 1920s.
Prior to that time, the Coleman
building, built in 1893, stood at
the site, although historical
records are sketchy before
then when Penniman was
Sutton Street. Before the first
settlement recordings about
1824, the Tonquish Band of the
Potawatamee Indians appar-
ently roamed the area.
Plumbers called in repeat-
edly could find no reason for
the puddles and almost nightly
leaks in the dishwashing area
at the restaurant, electricians
have jokingly suggested the
place could be haunted
because there is no mechani-
cal reason that accounts for the
way the lights appear to oper-
ate independently of any
human control and, well, just
don't get Stefan Stefanakis
started on the number of long
conversations and extensive
work by the phone service
providers who cannot explain
the middle-of-the-night calls to
staff members, their significant
others and to Stefanakis at
home. One employee received
a 5 a.m. call from her own cell
phone, something that had her
provider as puzzled as shewas.
“On the security cameras,
you can see the phone buttons
light up as if somebody is mak-
ing a call, and sure enough, my
cell phone rings at 5 in the
morning,” Stefanakis said.
He made it very clear that
neither he nor his parents have
ever believed in ghosts, but
that the continued phone calls
and turning on of the water at
night made them more than a
little nervous.
“Then we get to the lights.
Whoever locks up at night,
turns off the television moni-
tors. We come in the next
morning, one TV is on. Over
and over and over. I turn the
lights off, turn the TVs off
myself, I know they are off. You
see they are off on the security
cameras. The next morning,
come in to open up, one TV is
on,” Stefanakis said.
Then there are the small
items that gomissing.
“It is unbelievable,”
Stefanakis said. “Look, we
have had 10 restaurants, things
go missing. Silverware gets
misplaced, but not like this.
First it will be gone, then in two
weeks, it is back.
“The small nozzles from the
pop machines which are
removed at night for cleaning.
They disappear. Gone. Then, a
week later, they are back in the
cleaning bucket where they
belong,” Stefanakis said.
The Stefanakis family went
so far as to have priests from
their church come to the
restaurant to bless the premis-
es, just as, they said, a “precau-
tion” after electricians,
plumbers, cable television
repairmen and phone techni-
cians could findnothing amiss.
That precaution seemed
advisable after the security
cameras caught what appears
to be something or someone,
invisible to the camera, tugging
and pulling on a 50-pound bag
of onions near where another
in the series of puddles is
appearing near the dishwash-
ing area.
“That one even made me
Lisa Ganocy of Canton, from Ghost Hunting Sisters, demon-
strates one of the electronic field readers used to detect spirit
activity.
Stefan Stefanakis, from left, Kelly McDonald of Ghost Hunting Sisters, Diane Galindo and Shelly
Paull, both of Illuminate Your Spirit in Plymouth, Lisa Ganocy, Terri Stefanakis and George
Stefanakis all await an answer to mysteries at Greek Islands.
Photos by Dave Willett
See
Psychics,
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