No. 21
NEWS YOU CAN USE, NEWS YOU CAN TRUST
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May 24 – 30, 2018
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About 100 students visited
Beaumont Hospital, Wayne
and the Canton Emergency
Center for a Canton
Chamber of Commerce
Healthcare event last week.
See page 2.
Professor
James
Buccellato of Northern
Arizona University spoke to
a large audience at a
Northville Historical Society
forum last week about early
organized crime in the
Detroit area.
See page 3.
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The City of Romulus will
have a balanced budget next
year, but they'll have to bor-
row from their fund balance
to get it.
See page 4.
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The 4th Annual Family
Resource Fair drew crowds
outside the Jefferson-Barns
Community Vitality Center
ofWestland recently.
See page 3.
Canton
Township
Trustees have placed the
question of a dedicated 1.5
mill tax dedicated to road
repairs in the community on
theupcomingAugust ballot.
See page 2.
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Inkster residents 60 and
older have been invited to a
free Senior Appreciation
dinner from 5-7 p.m.
Wednesday, June 13 at
BurtonManor inLivonia.
See page 6.
Plymouth
Township
Trustees and Plymouth City
Commissioners have unani-
mously adopted a 72-page
cooperative recreation plan
for the two communities.
See page 7.
Seven Belleville High
School students were award-
ed more than $32,500 in
scholarship funding from the
Rotary Club of Belleville last
week.
See page 5.
Last week, Plymouth
Township resident John (Jack)
Dempsey made his opinions
clear to the members of the
Michigan Public Service
Commission (PSC) set to review
the five-year distribution invest-
ment andmaintenance plans for
DTE Electric, Consumers
Energy and Indiana Michigan
Power.
Dempsey said he hopes his
May 11 letter addressed to the
executive secretary of the com-
mission will challenge DTE to
modernize its infrastructure and
alleviate the numerous distribu-
tion-related outages in the com-
munity. Plymouth residents
have repeatedly lost electric
power during the past month,
said to have been caused by a
spring storm. Dempsey said he
is also concerned about the cir-
cumstances in which a Detroit
woman died after coming into
contact with a downed electric
line.
The PSC order provides a
means for public comment and
Dempsey, a retired attorney who
formerly served as a Michigan
assistant attorney general and
currently serves as a Plymouth
Township trustee took the
opportunity to respond.
Dempsey stressed that he was
commenting as a private citizen
although he has 30 years in law-
with a specialty in energy legis-
lation.
He criticized the “enhanced tree trimming”
plan cited by DTE which
did not include the local substation.
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Plymouth official blasts DTE plan
The City of Romulus will
have a balanced budget next
year, but they'll have to borrow
from their fund balance to get
it.
Members of the city council
unanimously approved the
2018-2019 fiscal year budget last
week; it goes into effect in July.
“Of all the years of my budg-
et involvement, either on the
legislative or administrative
side, this has by far been the
toughest one,” said Romulus
Mayor LeRoy Burcroff. “It's
been a lot of work. But we've
got a good team going through
this.”
The good news for residents
is that the millage rate will stay
essentially the same. The budg-
et, in its current form, shows
expenses of about $22.4 million
and revenues of about $18.9
million, necessitating an appro-
priation of about $3.5 million
from the city fund balance.
With the reduction, the city will
still have about $4 million in
reserves.
Burcroff said a number of
factors fed into the situation,
including the 34th District
Court construction project. The
city sold bonds to fund the $17
million courthouse, but those
bonds will be repaid through
the fees assessed by the court,
See
Letter
page 7
See
Budget,
page 4
It's been a lot of work.
But we've got a good team going through this.
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Memorial Day celebrations planned
Don Howard
Staff Writer
Again this year, the Van Buren Township Public Safety Honor Guard will open the Memorial Day program at the Yankee Air Museum.
Photo by Al Hudson, Yankee Air Museum.
For nearly 150 years, Americans have
gathered in late spring to honor the sacri-
fice of those who have given their lives in
service to their country. What began with
dozens of informal commemorations of
those killed in the Civil War has grown to
become one of the nation's most solemn
and hallowed holidays. Memorial Day is
observed on the last Monday of May, hon-
oring the men and women who died while
serving in the U.S. military. Originally
known as Decoration Day, it originated in
the years following the Civil War and
became an official federal holiday in 1971.
Locally, several communities have
planned parades and celebrations of the
day.
Belleville:
The Yankee Air Museum will host the
annual programdedicated to honoring the
military men and women who were killed
serving the United States beginning at 9
a.m. Monday. The short event will begin
with the Presentation of Colors by the Van
Buren Public Safety Honor Guard &
Rifles. The keynote address will be given
by Yankee Air Museum B-25 pilot and
retired United States Marine Tony
Buttacavoli.
The Yankee Air Museum is located at
47884 D Street, Belleville, on the grounds
of historic Willow Run Airport. There will
be no charge to attend the service.
Canton Township
The Canton Fire Department's Honor
Guard will be hosting a Memorial Day
service at 10 a.m. Monday. The event will
take place at the Veteran's Memorial
Center located in Heritage Park (directly
behind the Canton Administration
Building), 1150 S. Canton Center Road, in
Canton.
Representatives from the United States
Marine Corps will be present for a cere-
monial wreath posting at the 1st Battalion
24th Marine Division Memorial. A roll call
will also take place for the "Fallen 22"
Marines that were deployed for duty in
2006-07 to Iraq, giving their lives for their
country.
The public is invited to attend this
memorial service honoring the Marines
and all servicemembers.
City of Inkster
The 49th Annual Memorial Day Parade
in the City of Inkster will begin at noon
May 28.
The parade will begin on Hamlin Drive
(west of Inkster Road) at Michigan Avenue
continuing eastbound onMichiganAvenue
to Bayhan and travel south to eastbound
Trowbridge to Inkster City Hall at 26215
Trowbridge.
This year the Bivins Bonner Post #285
will unveil the VeteransMemorial in a cer-
emony honoring those who have made the
ultimate sacrifice. Additional information
is available at Inkster City Hall Clerk's
Office (313) 563-9770 or Parade
Coordinator Councilwoman Sandra
Watley at (313) 562-7103.
City of NorthvilleNorthville
Hosted by VFW Post 4012, the
Memorial Day Parade in downtown
Northville will step off at 10 a.m. on
Griswold at Northville Downs. The parade
will proceed west on Main Street to
Hutton, to Dunlap, to south on Center to
Cady, west on Cady, stopping at Oakwood
Cemetery, then proceeding to First,
Fairbrook and ending at noon at the
Veterans' Memorial at Rural Hill
Cemetery.
City of Plymouth
The Memorial Day Parade will begin at
9 a.m. on May 28 and will march up Main
Street ending at Veteran's Park at Main
andChurch streets. Therewill be a special
programat the parkhonoring veterans.
City of Romulus
The City of Romulus will host a
Memorial Day Veteran's Ceremony at 11:30
a.m. at Romulus Historical Park. The park
is located at 11120Hunt St. inRomulus.
Wayne-Westland
The Wayne-Westland Veterans Parade
Council has canceled the Memorial Day
Parade this year.
A member of the parade council said
the cancellation was due to a lack of par-
ticipation.
She said that more than 200 invitations
to participate had been mailed but only 15
responses hadbeen received.
Romulus council OKs balanced budget
