A neighborhood originally built during
WorldWar II to house bomber plant work-
ers was honored with a national award
this year.
The renovation efforts at the
Norwayne Historic District in Westland
received an honorable mention during
the recent U.S. Conference of Mayors
meeting in San Francisco when the 2015
national City Livability Awards were pre-
sented.
The neighborhood, originally built to
house about 2,000 workers at the Willow
Run B-24 plant, had residential units, an
elementary school, a fire house, a church,
amunicipal building and even small busi-
nesses when it was constructed as part of
theArsenal forDemocracy program.
The neighborhood had fallen into
decline and in 2009, Westland Mayor
William Wild named the area as a target
of revitalization for the city. The efforts
were rewarded in 2013 when the commu-
nity received national historical designa-
tion and was named to the Register of
National HistoricPlaces.
Federal Neighborhood Stabilization
and Community Development Block
Grant funding was used for renovation of
homes in the area, the demolition of some
buildings and houses, the addition of
green space, improvements to roads, side-
walks, water and sewer upgrades and the
improvement of parks in the historic
neighborhood. The vacant elementary
school in the neighborhood is being reno-
vated into the Jefferson Barns
Community Vitality Center andwill house
a library, the Norwayne boxing facility, a
volunteer library andNankinTransit.
“The successes of the revitalization
efforts are due to the collaboration among
government, schools, churches, nonprofit
organizations and community residents,”
Westland Mayor William Wild said. “Our
focus has been improving the quality of
life for our residents and that is why we
have focused on economic development,
enhancing parks and recreation as well
as implementing programs that improve
the health and well-being of our resi-
dents.”
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CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CANTON
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Spotlight Players seeking cast for The Producers
Spotlight Players will cast The
Producers, the opening musical
in the 2015-2016 main season, at
6:30 p.m. July 20 and 21 at the
Village Theater in Canton
Township.
A cult classic and the epitome
of in-your-face and equal-oppor-
tunity-offender humor, The
Producers, was originally written
and directed by Mel Brooks, star-
ring Gene Wilder and Zero
Mostel. The play is now a big
Broadway musical- premiering
with stars Matthew Broderick
and Nathan Lane -winning a
record-breaking 12 Tony Awards
and touring internationally.
Characters Leo Bloom and
Max Bialystock devise a get-rich
quick scheme that is sure to
make them millions. All the
down-on-his-luck producer and
the mild-mannered accountant
need to do is produce a sure-fire
Broadway flop. Swindling little
old ladies out of millions of back-
ing-dollars and finding the worst
script ever written is only the
beginning of this fiasco when
something goes terribly wrong:
the show turns out to be a scintil-
lating success.
The Producers takes the
main stage for six performances
Sept. 18-20 and 25-27, with Friday
and Saturday performances at 8
p.m. and Sunday performances
at 2 p.m.
Spotlight Players is looking
for a wide array of cast members
ages 15 and older. Actors younger
than 18 must have the parental
permission form signed. Actors
should bring a completed audi-
tion form with a non-returnable
photographattached.
Auditions will consist of
selected songs from The
Producers, cold readings from
the script and a short choreo-
graphed dance. Performers
should wear comfortable clothes
and shoes inwhich to audition.
All performers in the show
must become Spotlight Members
($35). More information about
auditions can be found at
-2016-season/the-producers/.
The past met the future last
week in the recently upgraded
cardiac catheterization laborato-
ry at OakwoodHospitalWayne.
Mansoor Naini, MD, FACC,
performed in the first procedure
in the new lab last week. Naini
also performed the first proce-
dure in the laboratory at the
Wayne hospital 15 years ago
when the catheterization equip-
ment was first installed.
The hospital spent about $1.2
million in adding a second lab
which includes an upgrade of
the equipment in order to
improve efficiencies, reduce
operating costs, enhance patient
care and address any overflowof
cardiac cases.
“This will be a significant
improvement,”
said
Chandrakant Pujara, MD, FACC,
an Oakwood-affiliated cardiolo-
gist with offices in Wayne and
Canton Township. “This will pro-
vide us better service and better
imagery than our old equip-
ment-whichwas 15 years old.”
The renovation brought all
new-state of the art equipment
into the lab, including new light-
ing, storage units, and C arm
with multi-directional table. The
old monitors were replaced with
a high definition panel that
includes four screens to give sur-
geons a better look at the heart
and its surrounding area. Pujara
said the upgraded imaging
equipment will help improve
patient outcomes.
“When you're doing an inter-
vention, it is essential to accu-
rately gage the size of the
lesion,” he said. “This new
equipment will allow us to pro-
vide the very best in patient
care.”
All the needed equipment
will now be stored within the
lab, whichwill help improve effi-
ciencies and reduce costs. The
upgrade will soon allow cardiol-
ogists to provide a new service to
patients, too: Electrophysiology
(EP) ablation, which is a process
where electrophysiology equip-
ment is used to scar small areas
of the heart to treat abnormal
heart rhythms.
“Oakwood has a long history
of providing the highest level of
care to the community,” said
Mohamad Kabbani, MD, an
interventional cardiologist with
offices in Canton and Dearborn.
Kabbani is the director of the
catheterization laboratory at
Oakwood Hospital - Wayne.
“These new improvements will
allow us to further enhance the
carewe provide.”
Oakwood Wayne opens new cardiac laboratory
Norwayne revitalization effort wins recognition
Sandy Taylor, left, administration, Tessa Buhovecky RN, Hope Engle
RN, Kristie Wilkes RN, Nicholas Mroz RN, Jay Bonnell, administra-
tion, Danny Polocoser RCIS, Paula Dillon RN Cath Lab Coordinator,
Tiffany Sleprowkowski RN, and Cathy Slaughter RN, charge nurse,
celebrated the opening of the new Cath Lab at Oakwood Hospital.
