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WAYNE - WESTLAND
WAYNE - WESTLAND

FIRST place

Robotics team travels

to Texas competition

A group of students from programmed. The Wayne
John Glenn and Wayne Westland team won the
Memorial high schools in the Michigan All-Star Rookie award,
Wayne-Westland Community following their initial foray into
School District were recently science, technology, engineering,
selected to participate in one of and math (STEM) projects via
the most esteemed national Deloitte's national Smart
youth robotics competitions, the Factory Believers program.
2023 FIRST Robotics Not only did the students
Championship. This year, the place 65th out of the top 80
competition took place in teams in the world for their
Houston, TX and was attended innovative robotic invention, but
by more than 35,000 students, they also received an award for
coaches, and supporters from 43 team diversity, a testament to the Atlas team members from both John Glenn and Wayne Memorial high schools traveled to Texas to com-
countries. importance of programs like pete in the 2023 FIRST Robotics Championship.
Atlas, the name of the Wayne Deloitte's Smart Factory
Westland district joint team con- Believers program, which gives The program, which started served communities in the national level at the FIRST
sisting of 11 students, with addi- students from diverse back- as part of the philanthropy mis- United States. Inspired by their Championship. The district was
tional staff members and coach- grounds an important pathway sion of Deloitte's Smart Factory work with the Smart Rover, one of the first to take part in the
es, competed against 600 teams to explore a career in STEM, @ Wichita, provides new STEM these students have taken their program, and Deloitte helped
in special playing fields using explained a spokesman from education kits called the Smart STEM skills to the next level, support the team travel to
robots they designed, built, and Deloitte. Rover to students in under- enabling them to compete at the Houston.
Off-duty officer arrested Farmers’ Market will open

A new farmers' market is Nankin Mills, 33175 Ann Arbor
A 26-year veteran police offi- according to the prepared Both men were reportedly intox- expected to open at the Trail through Sept. 30. The offi-
cer was arrested last week in response. icated. Nankin Mills Interpretive cial announcement of the new
Wyandotte after he allegedly According to police reports, Wyandotte police would only Center in Westland this month. market claims shoppers will be
threatened to shoot a man in the the officer was with a friend at confirm that there had been an The new market, a coopera- able to purchase fresh and
face. the Dotte Pub on Oak Street in altercation at the bar and that as tive effort of the Wayne County affordable locally produced
The 52-year-old officer spent Wyandotte last Saturday when a result two men had been Parks Department and the foods. The Eastern Market
20 years with the Detroit Police an altercation of some type arrested. No further information Eastern Market Corporation, is Corporation operates the
Department before joining the occurred. When told to leave or was provided and both the men expected to open from 9 a.m. Detroit Farmers Market every
Westland department six years the police would be called, the arrested have been released until 1 p.m. Saturday, May 13 Saturday in downtown Detroit.
ago. According to a statement off-duty Westland officer from jail. and operate on a bi-weekly The new venture will not
from the Westland department, responded that he "was the A spokesperson for the Wayne basis, according to a prepared conflict with the ongoing
the officer has been off work for police" witnesses claimed. He County Prosecutor's Office said a statement from the parks Westland Farmers Market
some time and his return was threatened to shoot a man in the warrant request in connection to department. which takes place from 3 until
not anticipated. There will be an face before his friend reportedly an incident at a bar in The market will continue 7 p.m. Thursdays at 1901
internal police department took his loaded gun which was Wyandotte had been received every other Saturday at Carlson St. officials said.
investigation of the incident, secured on the small of his back. and is under review.
Chief

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regarding the situation, Jedrusik
said he notified both the deputy
mayor and city attorney in
February when he became
aware of the videos which he
said were edited and released by
his ex-wife. He said that he and
his former spouse are currently
involved in ongoing civil litiga-
tion and post-divorce matters. “I
realize the motive was to embar-
rass me,” he said.
The videotapes appear to
include encounters by uni-
formed officers other than
Jedrusik. In one instance an
apparently intoxicated man is
told to stand on his head or he is
going to jail. The man replies
that he has suffered a closed-
head injury and is unable to
comply. The officer then asks the
man if he can spin on his head
“like break dancing.” The man is
eventually placed in a police
vehicle when he cannot comply
with the officer's request. While
in the vehicle, the man is told to
sing the officer a song or tell him
a joke and he will be taken
home.
In another recorded incident,
a man who appears to be intoxi-
cated, is told he can go home
after he moves a large boulder.
Another taped segment shows an
obviously intoxicated woman
attempting to clean herself after
she has lowered her pants to
relieve herself.
“I apologize to the citizens of
Westland, the individuals on the
videos and the department for
my actions. However, due to the
civil litigation, I am not able to
comment further,” Jedrusik's
prepared statement concluded.

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