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NEWS YOU CAN USE, NEWS YOU CAN TRUST 75¢ July 7 - 13, 2011

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More than 140 visitors toured eight home gardens in Wayne recently, hosted by members of theWayne Garden Club. The group organizes the walks twice a year.

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Officials from the City of Detroit have joined the chorus of voices speaking out against the proposal to re-open the Romulus hazardouswaste site. See page 3.

The Michigan Philharm-onic has added three new trustees to the board of direc-tors, ReGina Coles-Shamber-ger, Dr. Jonathon Swift and AmmemarieCronin.

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The 3rd Annual Buy Michigan Now Festival is planned for Aug. 5-7 in down-townNorthville and will target more than 100 Michigan ven-dors.

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A 26-year-old woman suf-fered a serious head injury and a broken pelvis when the car in which she was riding crashed into a tree in Van BurenTownship.

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Jesus in the Park, a day of worship and fellowship out-doors has been planned for 9:15 a.m. until 7 p.m. July 30 at Inkster ParkOutdoors.

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Westland teens can get help finding a summer job and learn about personal finances through a new local program. The Wild About Youth - WORKS! Program is now underway.

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When the fountain in Kellogg Park is tinted a rather shocking color, more than 400 vendor booths line the entire downtown Plymouth area and a gigantic LEGO man is attracting a large crowd of children, it can mean only one thing. Art in the Park has returned for the 32nd year. Event founder Dianne Quinn said that after three decades, she is still as excited about the event as she was when it was only a few artists gathering in the park for some outdoor painting and draw-ing.

“I can't believe it has been 32 years,” she said. “I am more enthused about this year's show than Iwas the first one.”

Quinn and her daughter, Raychel Rork, who is president of Art in the Park, have again attract-ed more than 400 artists from across the country who will spend the weekend showing and selling theirwork during the festival. Again this year, more than 400 artists from across the country will have their work on display and for sale during the three-day weekend. Rork noted that this year, as in the past, artists have returned from throughout the state and are coming from California, Florida and New York with everything from paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, fiber, fine glass, woodwork, mixed media, photography, folk art and many othermediums.

“It seems like artists still want to come here because they know that Art in the Park will draw a crowd,”Rork said.

Also on hand to entertain the crowds all day Saturday and Sunday will be live music by Zamar, a modern jazz band from metro Detroit. The group has an eclectic style that fuses various genres of jazz with the influence of rock, funk, and classical music as well as the influence of various ethno-music stylistic features. On Friday, One Love, a reggae band, will performduring festival hours. Artistic talent apparently runs in the Dillenbeck family as two sisters will provide festival visitors with what has been described as the ultimate Van Gogh experience during the weekend, each with a

twist.

Rork noted that the sisters are among the most popular attrac-tions at the festival. Kristen Dillenbeck Anderson and her sis-ter, Erin Dillenbeck, will each reproduce a Van Gogh master-piece during the weekend, one in chalk on the pavement and the other adding live models painted into the artwork.

Dillenbeck Anderson is a grad-uate of Canton High School now practicing her art professionally in New York. The live model art she produces has become very popular, Rork said, and is in high demand at festivals throughout the country. For Art in the Park this year, Dillenbeck Anderson has chosen an oil on canvas work titled Café Terrace on the Place duForumArles atNight. The scene includes an empty café table and chairs in the fore-front which Dillenbeck Anderson will fill with a live model she paints into the large canvas. The display will be located at the cor-ner of Main Street and Ann Arbor Trail and the public is invited to view the progress of the painting frombeginning to end, Rork said. Dillenbeck Anderson's sister, Erin Dillenbeck will also be tak-ing on a work by Van Gogh this year. Her chalk reproduction of the famous StarryNight will be on the pavement at the corner of Main and Penniman. She will work with assistant students from D and M Art Studio in Canton, which is owned by the women's family. She, too, is a Canton High School graduate.

Art in the Park will be open from 10:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 8, from 9:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 8 and from 9:30 a.m. until 5:50 p.m. onSunday, July 10.

Visitors are encouraged to park at the ACH Plant, formerly the Visteon Plant, located at 14425 Sheldon Road, just off M-14 in Plymouth and take the free round trip shuttle service. The shuttle will run continuously all week-end. The drop off point will be Plymouth City Hall, in the heart of the art fair.

More information about the event is available at

www.artinthepark.com or call Plymouth City Hall at (734) 453-1234.

(More details on the attractions

and a complete list of Art in the Park exhibitors can be found in the Art in the Park program included in this edition of TheEagle.)

Canton Cares, a joint effort between the Canton Leisure Services Department and the Canton Community Foundation is continuing efforts to help tornado victims inMissouri.

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Art in the Park returns for 32nd year tomorrow

Artists Kristen Dillenbeck Anderson, above, and her sister, Erin Dillenbeck, will each bring their unique twist to classic reproductions of Van Gogh works at Art in the Park this year.

A day to ‘Let Freedom Ring’ celebrated

Connie Holzer, owner of Tom Holzer Ford, who loaned many of the vehi-cles used in the Northville Fourth of July parade, left, congratulates Conrad Dowel, in car, who received his Purple Heart after 57 years just before the event. In Plymouth, during the Good Morning America Parade, visitors enjoyed a large turtle balloon and unicyclists while Miss Liberty and Uncle Sam were among those who entertained Northville crowds.