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INKSTER - WAYNE
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Neighborhood road work causes local detours

Inkster officials have remind- using Inkster Road to bypass and Inkster Road. Eastwood the area may cause cloudy or unchanged in the area and regu-
ed local motorists that Phase I of Avondale, accessing it from Street between Inkster Road and brown water in homes. If this lar mail delivery will continue,
construction on Avondale Street either Henry Ruff or Cherry Hill Northwood and Center between occurs, residents are advised to officials said.
is under way in the city. in the city. Avondale and Northwood will all run water through the faucets While there will be absolutely
Currently, only east bound Emergency vehicles will have be reconstructed as part of the until it clears. no parking on the street, resi-
local traffic is permitted on access to the work zone as neces- project which includes complete Construction vehicles will not dents are urged to park in their
Avondale as workers continue sary, officials said. road reconstruction, including be allowed on the residential driveways or on a nearby side
the road reconstruction and Avondale is being reconstruct- storm sewer and water main side streets during the project street. All residents will have
repair. Avondale is closed from ed between Henry Ruff and replacement. which is expected to be complete access to their home except dur-
Henry Ruff to Inkster Road. Eastern while Northwood will be Officials explained that the in November. ing the time concrete is being
Suggested detour routes include reconstructed between Avondale replacement of water mains in Trash collection will remain poured, officials said.

Path to

success

Westland Mayor William R. Wild
and Wayne Mayor John Rhaesa
joined Superintendent of Wayne-
Westland Community Schools
John Dignan, many district offi-
cials and Congresswoman
Rashida Tlaib to celebrate the
securing of $850,000 in federal
funding received on behalf of
SEMCA Michigan Works Wayne
American Job Center. The fund-
ing will allow Wayne-Westland
Community Schools to provide
paid work-based internships and
job shadowing opportunities for
students. The Wayne-Westland
Pathways to the Workforce will
launch this summer, officials said.

Wayne council OK’s Ford Motor Co. expansion plan

Members of the Wayne City to the south of the paint shop of the current building and ”
Council have unanimously and one to the final assembly another seven-bay addition to
approved a site plan for addi- building, were necessitated by another section. He assured the members
tions to the Ford Motor Co. the launch of the new Ford He assured the members of of the council that the additions would
Michigan Assembly Plant in the Ranger which require, he said, the council that the additions
city. added components as the vehi- would match the current con- match the current construction of the building .
During a regular meeting of cles go through the assembly struction of the building includ-
the city council earlier this line. ing exterior siding and paint.
month, Dave Shoemaker from He said the new models of the The 5-million square-foot,
Ford Motor Co. Land Ranger and the Bronco, both Michigan Assembly Plant first “This is part of normal opera- quarter delivery of steel was
Development presented the site produced at the Wayne plant, opened at the 369-acre site on tions,” Shoemaker told the coun- expected.”
plan for the expansion of two have added complexities and Michigan Avenue in the city in cil members. He said he expect- Mayor John Rhaesa thanked
areas of the existing plant to the model variants in the wheelbase 1957 and currently employs ed construction of the additions Shoemaker for appearing at the
city council members. He of the vehicles which necessitat- about 3,550 workers, according to be complete by the end of the meeting and said he felt it “is
explained that the additions, one ed a 12-bay addition to one area to the company website. year and that a “late second great to see you guys doing well.”