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PLYMOUTH - WESTLAND
PLYMOUTH - WESTLAND

City cable channel features mayoral candidates

Westland voters will choose are Ali Awadi, Kevin Coleman, pages for information.
two candidates to vie for the Jim Godbout, Anthony Jones, ” Community Media/WLND
office of mayor during the Aug. 8 Mike Londeau and Ronald Five candidates accepted and their extended an opportunity to the
primary election in the city. One Sassak. Each hopes to win the speeches are available alphabetically six mayoral candidates to speak
of those candidates will be the nonpartisan four-year mayoral to directly to Westland residents
first new mayor of the city in position which pays about on the community cable channel. for up to eight minutes. Five can-
nearly two decades following the $121,574 annually. didates accepted and their
resignation of long-time Mayor Awadi, 54, holds a doctoral speeches are available alphabet-
William Wild who took a job in degree in public administration the city council for 23 years and Londeau, 44, is currently serv- ically on the community cable
the private sector. and works as a consultant. He is as president for 13 years. He ing as interim mayor and was channel. Each candidate will
Voters will select two candi- a former police chief. works as vice president of appointed by city council in also have their speeches aired
dates from six who will appear Coleman, 40, is serving his Midwest Recycling. January. He is a former city separately on the WLND/City of
on the ballot and those two will third term in Lansing as a state Jones, 56, works as a truck councilman and chaired the Westland YouTube channel with
move on to the November gener- representative. He is a former driver. He also has a background downtown development authori- closed captioning capability at:
al election. Westland City Council member. in coaching and refereeing hock- ty. https://www.youtube.com/@wlnd-
Hoping to win voters' favor Godbout, 68, has served on ey games. Sassak had no social media cityofwestlandmunicip.../videos

Hitting the high notes

Members of the Plymouth Canton Educational Park
Choir recently participated in the Music in the Parks
Festival at Cedar Point and took home eight first place
awards as well as three individual awards. The individ-
ual awards were presented to the Plymouth-Canton dis-
trict soloist, student conductor and best conductor. The
choirs competed against other high school choirs from
across the country. Each of the Plymouth Canton
choirs swept their category performing two selections
for two judges and received the highest scores and
rankings. Lauren Hummer received a medal for Best
Student Conductor, Malek Benedict-Blue received a
medal for Best Student Soloist and the Plymouth
Canton Madrigal Singers achieved Best Overall Choir
with the highest point total of 198.5/200 of any choir in
the two day competition. All Plymouth Canton
Educational Park Choirs are directed by teacher
Jennifer Neumann.

Commission members are sought

Plymouth Township is accepting applica- and their families, increase visibility of vet-
tions from residents interested in serving on erans and veterans' issues, inform the veter-
the newly created Veterans' Commission. an community of available services, pro-
The commission will have nine members grams, and resources, and advocate for
and will be initially led by organizing chair- issues important to veterans and their fami-
person Jen Buckley, who is veteran and a lies, officials said. Requirements to serve
current township trustee. include Plymouth Township residency.
The commission was established in an A form to submit interest in the commis-
effort to help foster greater understanding sion is available at https://cms5.revize.com/.../
and appreciation for the veteran community CToP_Board-Commission.

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