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May 28, 2015
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NOTICE!!
WESTWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
BUDGET HEARING
A Public Hearing on its proposed budget will be held by the Board of Education of
the Westwood Community School District on:
Thursday, June 11, 2015
at 7:00 p.m.
In the
Equilla F. Bradford
Administrative Center
3335 S. Beech Daly Road
Dearborn Heights, Michigan 48125
THE PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE RATE PROPOSED
TO BE LEVIED TO SUPPORT THE PROPOSED BUDGET
WILL BE A SUBJECT OF THIS HEARING.
Copies of the proposed budget will be available for review in the Westwood
Administrative Office Center between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on June
11, 2015.
Cheryl Bell-Everett, Secretary
Westwood Board of Education
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CANTON
ACCESS TO PUBLIC MEETINGS
The Charter Township of Canton will provide necessary, reasonable auxiliary aids and services to individuals with disabilities at
the meeting/hearing upon a two week notice to the Charter Township of Canton. These services include signers for the hearing
impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being considered at the meeting. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary
aids or services should contact the Charter Township of Canton by writing or calling the following:
Gwyn Belcher, ADA Coordinator
Charter Township of Canton, 1150 S. Canton Center Road
Canton, MI 48188
(734) 394-5260
Published: May 28, 2015
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Canton honors township public service department
Chalk ‘artists’ are sought
Canton Township celebrated
National Public Works Week
recently by recognizing the
employees in the public works
division of the township.
The special week was institut-
ed as a public education cam-
paign by the American Public
Works Association in 1960, and is
observed each year during the
third full week ofMay.
According to Tim Faas, direc-
tor of Canton's Municipal
Services Department, this year
the celebration theme was
“CommunityBeginsHere”which
fits well with the new depart-
ment brand “Community Starts
withUs.”
“Often the first contact a new
resident, or business, has with
Canton is with the staff of the
Municipal
Services
Department,” said Faas. “We
want to ensure the customer has
a great experience starting out in
Canton.”
The designated week is
designed to call attention to the
importance of public works in
the community and enhance the
prestige of the often-unsung
heroes of our society- the profes-
sionals who serve the public
good every day with quiet dedi-
cation, he added.
The Canton Public Works
Division is part of the Municipal
Services Department in the
township and is broken into five
sections; Fleet Maintenance,
Water Distribution, Sanitary
Sewer Collection, Environmental
Services and Customer Service.
All sections work closely together
to help provide and maintain the
infrastructure and services that
keep our community functioning
in an operablemanner, Fass said.
The Fleet Maintenance facili-
ty is located behind Canton Fire
Station One, which is right next
to the administration building.
Fleet is responsible for themain-
tenance and repair of more than
170 township owned vehicles and
equipment such as police cars,
fire trucks and rescue vehicles,
cars and trucks, heavy equip-
ment, mowers and golf carts.
Water Distribution, Sanitary
Sewer Collection, Environmental
Services andCustomer Service.
TheWater Section is in charge
of operating and maintaining the
township water distribution sys-
tem. With 23,000 customers, the
system has five main pressure
reducing valves with connections
to the Detroit Water and
Sewerage Department transmis-
sion mains which provide water
primarily from the Springwells
water treatment plant. The
Canton water distribution system
contains about 420 miles of
pipeline, 4,500 fire hydrants and
4,400 gate valves.
The
Sanitary
Sewer
Collection Section is responsible
for operating and maintaining
the township sewer system that
provides 20,804 residential and
2,394 commercial customers with
a reliable waste water disposal
system. The system consists of
four sanitary sewer lift stations,
8,339 manholes, 1 mile of sani-
tary sewer force main, and 338
miles of gravity sanitary sewer
main.
The Environmental Services
Section is in charge of the solid
waste collection program as well
as carrying out stormwater best
management practices. This sec-
tion is involved in inspecting of
35 miles of creeks and streams in
the Lower and Middle Rouge
River sub-watersheds for illegal
connections, log jams and stream
bank erosion.
This section also receives
grant money to retro-fit, upgrade
andmaintain stormwater quality
pondswithinCanton.
The Customer Service Section
handles all customer complaints
and works with the cross-connec-
tion control program to ensure
the Canton water system is not
contaminated. This section also
oversees installation and repair
of water meters, and coordinates
water service turn-on and shut-
off requests for commercial and
residential customers.
In addition to the five sections
that make up the Public Works
Division, Canton recognized the
Engineering Services Division
which works closely with Public
Works to help maintain the com-
munity
infrastructure.
Engineering Services is located
on the second floor of the Canton
Administration Building. This
section ensures that the commu-
nity engineering design and con-
struction standards are met on
all projects.
Engineering Services reviews
and inspects utilities, drainage
infrastructure, arranges special
assessment districts, road paving,
flood plains and wetlands, and
reviews outside agency permits.
They are also in charge of the
annual Sidewalk Replacement
Program.
The Northville Art House Chalk
Festival is the newest addition to the
Arts andActsFestival.
The Northville Art House and
friends of the Northville Art House will
provide each registered artist/group
one box of artist's chalk to create their
works of art from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
June 20 during the festival.
Pre-Registration is now under way.
Artists need to secure a chalk square in
advance. Participants will be given a 12-
color box of chalk and a sidewalk
square assignment at the registration
tent located at the corner of Main and
Center streets beginning at 10 a.m.
There is a $5 registration/supply fee.
Prizes will be awarded in all age
groups.
Visit
/
special-events/chalk-festival/ to register.
The Northville Art House is located
at 215 W. Cady St. in Northville. For
more information, call (248) 344-0497.
intraosseous vascular access, a difficult
procedure used for the administration
ofmedication to patients in extreme res-
piratory failure.
At this point in time, Werth
explained, Teper had only about two
minutes to survive.
Muller placed a catheter needle just
below her kneecap into the bone of her
leg to allow life-saving medication to go
directly to her heart. At the same time
Firefighter A.J. Spolsky ventilated her
lungs and started intubation with a bal-
loon while Firefighter Will Caruso
applied a defibrillator pad to her chest,
administering electrical shock therapy.
Firefighter Kyle Lewis and Firefighter
Mike Mandziuk took turns performing
chest compressions filling her lungs and
keeping her blood flowing to her brain
and other organs.
The life saving team worked with
precision of an orchestra, Werth said,
doing everything possible to induce
Teper's heart to start beating again.
Dispatchersworking the phones from
several miles away communicated with
the medical team and located Teper's
sister and were able to pass on impor-
tant and critical medical information to
the paramedics working to save Teper's
life.
Teper's parents, Art and Maureen
Teper, were with her last Thursday as
the men and women who saved her life
received official recognition for their
efforts from township officials, along
with their gratitude. Maureen Teper
said the minutes waiting for her daugh-
ter's heart to start beating again must
have seemed like an eternity to the men
working to save her life in that parking
lot.
Teper and her family were all smiles
last week as Werth introduced and con-
gratulated each of the professionals
responsible for saving her life.
"I sincerely commend the public safe-
ty personnel involved in this incident
who exhibited quick thinking, teamwork
and professionalism of the highest qual-
ity," saidWerth.
Heroes
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Congratulations
The Canton Police Department welcomed new police officers, Kenneth Montone,
left, and Kenneth Kleszcz, right, to the department last week. Both new officers
took their oaths of office with friends and family present and were congratulated
by Deputy Chief Scott Hilden, center. All new police officers in Canton are
required to successfully complete a 16-week instructor-led field training program,
prior to working on their own. This program is designed to orientate and develop
recruit officers, maximizing their potential and providing them with the tools nec-
essary to successfully make the transition into their new position as a Canton
police officer, a spokesman said.
