No.17
NEWS YOU CAN USE, NEWS YOU CAN TRUST
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April 27 – May 3, 2017
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Members of the Wayne
Memorial Theatrical Guild
will present Disney and
Cameron MacKintosh's Mary
Poppins at 7 p.m. May 4-6 at
Stockmeyer Auditorium.
See page 3.
The state of the communi-
ty in both Northville
Township and the city is trav-
eling along the information
highway according to lead-
ers from the school district,
city and township.
See page 5.
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More than 16 local organi-
zations and 100 guests
attended the inaugural
Community Night at
Romulus Elementary School
earlier thismonth.
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For home delivery of The Eagle call 734-467-1900.
Westland City Council-
man Kevin Coleman.33,
announcedhis candidacy for
the job of mayor during a
press conference last week.
See page 3.
Canton Township will
once again focus a spotlight
on arts and culture during
the 7th annual Canton Acts
of Culture Week beginning
tomorrow.
See page 4.
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The City of Inkster will
celebrate the heritage of the
community with the Ball
Moulin Rouge planned to
begin with a meet and greet
at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 6.
See page 4.
The Plymouth-Canton
Community
Literacy
Council, a group that pro-
vides free one-on-one tutors
in the Plymouth-Canton
community is seeking volun-
teer tutors in the area.
See page 2.
Members of the Belleville
City Council have approved
a topographic study of the
failing 200-foot seawall at
Doane's Landing.
See page 5.
A second doctor and his wife
have been arrested by federal
authorities and charged with
conspiring to perform genital
mutilation on minor girls. The
mutilations were allegedly per-
formed
by
44-year-old
Northville resident, Dr. Jumana
Nagarwala, in a Livonia clinic
owned by Dr. Fakhruddin Attar,
53. His wife, Farida Attar, 50,
was also charged and accused
of being present during surgical
mutilations of two 7-year-old
girls, according to the criminal
complaint filed in federal court
last week.
The procedures allegedly
took place Feb. 3 at the Burhani
Medical Clinic in Livoniawhere
two mothers from Minnesota
brought their daughters, each 7-
years-old, specifically for the
procedure practiced as part of a
religious ritual. The complaint
alleges that Farida Attar held
the hands of the children as
Nagarwala removed portions of
their genitals.
Nagarwala was arrested
April 12 as she was about to
depart to Africa to visit a daugh-
ter and remanded to jail by U.S.
Magistrate Judge Mona
Majzoub who called her “a dan-
ger to the community.”
Nagarwala faces 5 years impris-
onment on the mutilation
charge which is considered a
criminal sex act. She faces
another 5-year sentence for
transportation of an individual
with intent to engage in crimi-
nal sexual activity.
Nagarwala has been placed
on leave from her job as an
emergency room doctor at the
Henry Ford Health System.
None of the alleged crimes took
place in aHenryFord facility.
Attar admitted to authorities
that he allowed Nagarwala to
use his clinic after hours to treat
children ages 6-9 for “problems
with their genitals” and that she
saw these patients on Friday
evenings or Saturdays when the
clinicwas closed.
Investigators found no
billings or documentation for
the
procedures
which
Nagarwala's attorney, Shannon
Smith, told Majzoub were
“cleansings” done with a gauze-
wrapped “scraper.” According
to the criminal complaint, other
children have told authorities
that Nagarwala performed geni-
talmutilations on them.
The procedures were
described as part of a religious
custom practiced in the
Dawoodi Bohra Indian-Muslim
sect. Authorities said that they
have obtained phone records
showing that Attar made 50
phone calls to members of the
same sect in Minnesota in a
three-monthperiod.
Authorities also noted that
intercepted communications
between Farida Attar and a
member of the same religious
group in Michigan. In one
Wayne County Health
Department officials are warn-
ing area residents of a possible
exposure to measles at a
Northville restaurant.
Officials issued the warning
last Friday to those who ate at or
visited the Early Bird Café at 333
East Main St. during the hours of
7:30 to 11 a.m. They may have
been exposed to the virus.
According to a news release
from the county, the concern is
not with the food or sanitation at
the restaurant, but rather a cus-
tomer with measles who was at
the restaurant during those
hours.
A case of measles, the first in
the state this year, was confirmed
inMacomb County by health offi-
cials last week. Warnings about
exposure to the disease were
also issued in Washtenaw and
Livingston counties by health
department officials.
Measles is spread through a
contagious person's coughing
and sneezing. Symptoms include
fever, cough, runny nose and red
eyes and usually present about
one to two weeks after exposure
to an infected person, according
to health officials. About three to
five days after symptoms begin, a
rash starts on the face and
spreads down the trunk, arms
and legs and can last four to
seven days, according to health
experts.
“Measles can be serious lead-
ing to pneumonia or inflamma-
tion of the brain,” a news release
from the health department stat-
ed.
Inoculations against the virus
are given in two doses of the
Measles, Mumps and Rubella
vaccine, usually started with a
first dose after a child's first
birthday. A booster inoculation is
given when children are 4-6
years old. The vaccine is 93 per-
cent effective in one dose,
according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and 97 percent effective in
two doses.
“Measles is so contagious that
if one person has it, 90 percent of
the people close to that person
who are not immune will also
become infected,” according to
theCDC.
For more information on the
illness, visit cdc.gov/measles.
Measles can be serious
leading to pneumonia or
inflammation of the brain.
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More than 100 area art
lovers took time to welcome
the installation of reproduc-
tions of art masterworks in
Plymouth last Thursday
evening.
Awelcome reception for the
works took place at the
Plymouth Arts and Recreation
Complex in downtown
Plymouth where guests were
entertained by a harpist and
flutist from the Michigan
Philharmonic and the adult
guitar students at the
DowntownMusicAcademy.
Jillian Reese, the Detroit
Institute of Arts program coor-
dinator, spoke to the audience
about the program, funded by a
grant from the Knight
Foundation, which brings
replicas of great art to local
communities as part of the
Inside/Out program. The crowd
was welcomed to the event by a
joint address from Plymouth
Mayor Dan Dwyer and
Plymouth
Township
Supervisor Kurt Heise, who
both spoke highly of the pro-
gramand the impact the instal-
lations would have in the quali-
ty of life in the community.
The City of Wayne also cele-
brated the installation of 10
reproductions in the communi-
ty during a reception at
Helium Studios April 13. The
Inside/Out programinWayne is
a cooperative effort of the
WayneMainStreet effort.
The installations placed at
multiple locations throughout
the participating cities. For
maps of the Plymouth loca-
tions, visit
-
mouth.orr or call the
Downtown Development
Authority at (734) 455-1453. In
Wayne, call (734) 629-2822 or
visit the Wayne Main Street
Facebook page.
Both cities have plans for
multiple events celebrating the
installations including bike
tours, walking tours and con-
certs.
Art show
Inside/out works
on local display
The Detroit Institute of Arts installation at the Plymouth Arts and
Recreation Complex of Indian Summer by Francis Jasper
Cropsey draws admiring glances from crowds.
Cotopaxi, one of the most famous of Frederick Edwin Church's
works, is on display outside the State Wayne Theatre on
Michigan Avenue in Wayne.
Portrait of Sophia, Princess
Palatine by Gerrit van
Honthorst, above, can be
viewed at Pocket Park off
Michigan Avenue in Wayne
while Leisure Hours by John
Everett Millais is outside E.G.
Nicks on Forest Street in
Plymouth.
See
Arrest,
page 5
The procedures were described
as part of a religious custom
practiced in the Dawoodi Bohra
Indian-Muslim sect.
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2 more charged in sex mutilations of girls
County warns area of measles threat
