No. 13
NEWS YOU CAN USE, NEWS YOU CAN TRUST
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March 29 – April 5, 2017
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The Healthy Wayne
Community coalition will
sponsor the 2nd Annual
Healthy Wayne Community
Walk beginning at noon April
5.
See page 5.
Northville Public Schools
officials will host a
Community Engagement
Session for families, staff and
community members to help
formulate a plan for upgrad-
ing educational facilities.
See page 3.
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The City of Romulus may
take strides to increase
transparency this year by tel-
evising g public hearings in
addition to city council meet-
ings.
See page 3.
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For home delivery of The Eagle call 734-467-1900.
State Rep. Robert
Kosowski (D-Westland) has
been honored as the
Michigan Municipal League
2017Legislator of theYear.
See page 5.
Renowned photographer
Monte Nagler will be the
guest speaker at the next
Three Cities Art Club meet-
ing set for 7-9 p.m. April 3 at
CantonTownshipHall.
See page 2.
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Wayne County Commis-
sioner Glenn S. Anderson
will be hosting a CoffeeHour
event in Inkster with elected
officials from the State of
Michigan.
See page 4.
Plymouth Township is
offering professional train-
ing in CPR - Cardio-
Pulmonary Resuscitation,
and AED - Automated
External Defibrillator use
andBasicLifeSupport.
See page 4.
Residents of Harbour
Pointe in Belleville will soon
receive a letter detailing
plans for $2 million in street
repairs in their subdivision,
if they are willing to pay for
it.
See page 2.
Members of the Canton
Township Board of Trustees pro-
hibited the opening and reopen-
ing of separate massage parlors
last week.
Members of the board refused
the appeal of the owner of Mulan
Massage to reopen a location in a
small strip mall near Ford and
Canton Center roads. The facility
opened in 2015, but was closed in
January when Canton Township
Police and Oakland County
Sheriffs deputies executed a
search warrant at the operation
and discovered women illegally
housed at the site overnight and
that some of the women working
at the massage parlor did not
have state-required licenses.
Oakland County Sheriff's Det.
Sgt. Christopher Cole wrote to
Canton Township Clerk Michael
Siegrist, outlining the violations
foundduring the January raid.
Officials also denied the peti-
tion of Rebalance Wellness to
open a new massage parlor-type
business near Ford and Lilley
roads as it would be locatedwith-
in 1,000 feet of another massage
parlor and local residences.
The owner of Mulan Massage,
Tom Liu, told the board mem-
bers that he did not intentionally
violate any ordinances and asked
officials for another chance. Liu
owns four other massage parlors
in West Bloomfield, Novi,
Brighton and Highland. He told
the board he operates the mas-
sage parlors in an effort to raise
capital to open a business manu-
facturing buildingmaterials.
He said that the masseuses at
his facilities earn about $30 per
hour and that many of them are
immigrants from China. He con-
tended that the women at his
facility did not need to be state-
licensed.
Cole said in his Jan. 31 letter
that Mulan Massage had “been
under investigation for the past
year.”
The owner of Rebalance
Wellness, Zixuan Wan, did not
include three letters of support
with her application for a license
and her planned location would
violate local ordinances, accord-
ing to Deputy Police Director
ChadBaugh.
Her application was denied
by a 5-2 vote, with trustees
Steven Sneideman and Anne
Marie Graham-Hudak voting in
favor of granting her a license to
operate, despite the ordinance
violations.
Both business owners can re-
apply for licenses next year.
Those who owe fines to area
district courts have until April
28 to save additional fees and
court costs on the infractions.
Courts in Inkster, Wayne and
Plymouth are offering an
amnesty program for all delin-
quent civil infraction tickets.
The program is beneficial to
both the courts and those who
may owe fines, according to a
prepared release, as unpaid
tickets can accumulate addition-
al default fees, late fees andwar-
rant fees, increasing the amount
of the fines. The amnesty pro-
gram allows defendants to pay
the fines at the original amount
of the tickets in addition to a $45
driver license clearance fee,
where applicable. The amnesty
program allows the courts to
clear up any backlog of unpaid
case files without utilizing court
personnel time and adding col-
lection costs.
Those who owe fines can also
avoid possible arrest by resolv-
ing the outstanding infractions.
The amnesty program
requires defendants to pay the
fines in person at the court
building in the community
where the infraction took place.
At the 35th District Court, that
covers Plymouth, Canton and
Northville. No mail or online
credit card payment will be
accepted for the qualifying civil
infractions including traffic tick-
ets.
Individuals with failure to
appear arrest warrants for these
types of civil infractions will
have those warrants canceled
and can come to court without
Westland City Council
President James Godbout, the
top vote getter in both the 2015
and 2011 elections, is facing a
recall effort.
Members of the Wayne
County Election Commission
approved language submitted by
long-time city resident Steve
Boron last Thursday. The lan-
guage states that the reason for
the recall is Godbout's vote to
approve a water rate increase
while being delinquent on his
own residential water bill.
Boron originally submitted
three petitions with separate
reasons for a recall vote, but
election laws dictate that only
one petition canbe approved.
Approval of the petition lan-
guage is not a validation of the
charges as a basis for a recall, it
is only a ruling on the clarity of
the language, according to the
Elections Commissionwebsite.
Boron said he was prompted
to begin the recall proceedings
by Godbout's support and votes
on multiple issues. He said that
he felt in several instances that
Godbout, who chairs every
meeting as council president,
was condescending to citizens
who spoke up or who asked
questions at themeetings.
“I don't believe he has the
best interests of the residents at
heart,” Boron, an electrician at
FordMotor Co., said. “This is not
a personal thing.” He cited mul-
tiple instances where he felt
Godbout's votes on issues were
not in agreement with his opin-
ions on the matters being con-
sidered.
Godbout, who has spent more
than 17 years on the Westland
City Council, said that he cer-
tainly recognized Boron's right
Approval of the petition
language is not
a validation of the charges...
”
See
Recall,
page 5
See
Amnesty,
page 6
Canton denies permits for massage parlors
Local courts offer ‘amnesty’ program for fines
Council president facing recall effort
Exploring economics in virtual and
augmented reality gave a Romulus 12-
year-old the chance to become a national
winner in real life.
Matthew Williams, a seventh grader at
Barth Elementary School, has claimed
third place among middle school students
in the SIFMA Foundation Fall 2016
InvestWrite® competition. He was pre-
sented with a new laptop during an offi-
cial ceremony at the school Wednesday.
The program challenges thousands of stu-
dents across the country to consider an
investing scenario and make recommen-
dations that incorporate short- and long-
terminvestment goals.
“Matthew Williams' innovative invest-
ment analysis of companies utilizing aug-
mented and virtual reality earned him the
SIFMA Foundation 'InvestWrite Genius'
title this year,” said Melanie Mortimer,
president of the SIFMA Foundation. “We
commendMatthew and his teacher, Lewis
Smith III, for this achievement. Helping
students better understand our economy,
our markets, the role of investors, and
how to make good investments will pay
dividends for the students, their educa-
tion, and the economy.” Smith was pre-
sented with a $200 check for his efforts in
promoting the program.
The essay challenged Williams to
research augmented and virtual reality
and apply concepts learned in The Stock
Market Game™, to make a portfolio rec-
ommendation based on what would be a
good long-term investment-in reality.
Williams focused on Intel, including in his
essay, “In its third quarter, Intel had 9.1
percent year-over-year revenue growth
and 21 percent year-over-year net income
expansion. These results have outper-
formed some of its competitors. INTC is
currently trading at $35 per share, which
has tripled within three years. This
expansion of growth far surpasses its com-
petitors in similar industries and shows
that Intel is a solid long-term invest-
ment…. My question to you is, are you
Write stuff
Investment essay
is contest winner
See
Winner,
page 3
Melanie Mortimer, president, SIFMA Foundation congratulates winner Matthew Williams,
his parents Tracy Walton and John Williams, and his teacher, far left, at Barth
Elementary, Lewis Smith III.
Matthew Williams
