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No. 32
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August 9 - 15, 2012
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The Kelly Miller Circus,
including clowns, wild ani-
mals, acrobats and trapeze
artists will visit Attwood Park
in Wayne for two shows this
Saturday. Tickets are still
available.
See page 4.
The Romulus library will
offer two free computer class-
es this month, Powerpoint II
from 9 to 10 a.m. and Excel II
from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday,
Aug. 24.
See page 5.
A 79-year-old Plymouth
man is facing two felony
counts in the death of a
Garden City motorcyclist and
the injuries sustained by his
wife in a collision July 24.
See page 3.
The Northville Art House
August exhibit, Thoughts With
Thread, opened with a bomb-
ing last week as a group of
artistic volunteers “yarn
bombed” the facility.
See page 3.
The Salvation Army
Plymouth Corps is partnering
with VanBuren and Plymouth-
Canton school districts in
effort to fill a bus with school
supplies onSaturday, Aug. 25.
See page 5.
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Former Chief Judge Sylvia
James will remain off the
bench at the 22nd District
Court in Inkster until her 6-
year term expires Dec. 31 by
order of the Michigan
SupremeCourt.
See page 4.
For home delivery of The Eagle call 734-467-1900.
Tomo Duhanaj, the owner
of Bray's Hamburger's in
Westland, remains in federal
custody facing deportation fol-
lowing an FBI raid on the
FordRoad restaurant July 25.
See page 4.
Rescue divers from Van Buren Township
and Wayne County recovered the bodies of a
Wayne man and a Canton Township woman
who drowned inBellevilleLake thisweekend.
Divers recovered the body of Eric Wayne
Rose, 28, from Wayne early Sunday morning in
8 feet of water about 850 feet from the beach at
Belleville Lake, according to police reports.
The body of Heather Nicole Hill, 20, was recov-
ered by divers about 30 feet from that of Rose
onSunday afternoon.
According to Van Buren Police Capt. Greg
Laurain, police dispatchers received a call on
the 911 line at 9:56 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4. The
caller told the dispatchers that he believed two
of his friends were missing and might have
drowned inBellevilleLake.
According to police reports, the man told the
dispatcher that the three had walked to a sand-
bar in the lake from the beach at Van Buren
Park. He said that they all got into a boat
anchored at the sand bar where they stayed
until about 9:40 p.m. when they started to walk
back to the beach. During the return walk on
the sand bar, the man told police that they all
became disoriented in the dark and his two
friends began towalk away fromthe beach.
The reporting witness told police he heard
that his friends were in trouble but that he was
unable to locate them in the dark. He told
police that he went to a nearby party store
where hemade the emergency 911 call.
Van Buren Police Dive Teammembers, with
the assistance of the Wayne County Dive Team,
immediately began to search for the pair.
Thunderstorms in the area forced them to call
off the effort at 12:30 a.m. Sunday, but efforts
were resumed as soon as weather conditions
permitted, according to police reports.
Again this year, Canton will
present the seventh Canton
Color Tour Summer free Jazz
Series concerts from 7-9 p.m.
everyFriday throughAug. 24.
See page 3.
Divers retrieve 2 bodies from lake
A 9-year-old girl with juvenile diabetes is
raisingmoney to support a cure for her ailment
through a motorcycle ride to the Mackinac
Bridge.
Ally Frederick, daughter of longtime
Romulus residents Jerry and Suzanne
Frederick, has been battling Type 1 diabetes
since November 2011. She has set out to raise
$2,000 by mid-August to donate to the Juvenile
DiabetesResearchFoundation (JDRF)..
At midnight Aug. 17, three Romulus motor-
cycle riders will be among thousands to leave
Rockford in suburban Grand Rapids on a 230-
mile journey to St. Ignace in the Upper
Peninsula in the 26th anniversary of a journey
known as theMidnight Ride.
Bob McCraight, the Romulus building direc-
tor, will join Bill and Danielle Gibson of
Romulus on their annual journey to the
Mackinac Bridge and beyond. McCraight is a
former neighbor of Ally Gibson's mother. The
Gibsons alsohave a diabetic daughter.
The trio has invited other area bikers to join
them on the ride. Frederick's uncle Richard
Hoth, a former Romulus resident now living in
Boyne City, will travel to Rockford for the start
andmake the tripwith some friends.
The Midnight Ride is hosted by the Gold
Wing Road Riders Association Chapter G and
supporting chapters. The group started the
ride in 1986, deciding it was too hot to ride dur-
A telephone inquiry to
Northville police last week led to
the arrest of a volunteer firefight-
er suspected of impersonating a
police officer.
The caller told the Northville
police dispatcher that she want-
ed to verify the identification of
an officer who had stopped her
near her home in Northville
Township in what she was led to
believe was an undercover
police vehicle.
She described the car as a sil-
ver Dodge Magnum with red
flashing lights in the windows.
She stated she left her Northville
home in the area of Parkside
Drive and Glacier and looped
back around the block to make
sure her garage door was closed.
When she returned to her street,
the driver of the Dodge Magnum
motioned her to pull over and
roll down her car window. She
said the driver never actually
identified himself as a police offi-
cer and spoke with a British
accent.
He allegedly questioned her
about her presence in the area
and told her that she appeared
suspicious driving around the
neighborhood. He also told her,
she said, that there had been
break-ins in the area and he was
questioning her in reference to
those crimes.
She said that upon reflection
after the encounter she became
curious and her suspicions
prompted her call to the police
dispatcher.
The driver of the Dodge
Magnum was later identified as
an on-call firefighter with the
Northville City Fire Department.
A police sergeant recalled that
he had spoken to a subject
matching the description of the
Dodge driver when the man
applied for a reserve police offi-
cer position with the Northville
Township Police Department.
The sergeant still had the man's
application on file and went to
the address provided at about 10
a.m. The police officer left a busi-
ness card asking the individual to
call himat the police station.
She said that upon reflection after the encounter
she became curious and her suspicions
prompted her call to the police dispatcher.
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Fire fighter faces charges in fake traffic stop
See
Ride,
page 2
Funny
business
Carlee and Charlie from the
Kel ly Mi l ler Circus were in
Wayne last week visiting area
buildings as a preview of the
Aug. 11 visit to Attwood Park.
The pair showed up to the
delight of the members of the
Wayne
County
Home
Schoolers who were meeting at
the Wayne Community
Recreation Center. The clowns
will be joining the wild animal
acts, acrobats, trapeze artists
and many others for the 2 and
5:30 p.m. shows at the park.
The circus is being sponsored
by The City of Wayne and
admission is $6 for children 12
and younger and $10 for adults.
Tickets are avai lable at the
Wayne Community Center, the
Wayne Chamber of Commerce,
Wayne City Hall, The Avenue
Bar and Grill and Tim Horton's
of Wayne. More photos, page 4.
Photos by Sean Rhaesa
Midnight ride
9-year-old joins
cyclists charity trek
See
Fake,
page 2
Ally Frederick, 9, tries out the motorcycle owned by Romulus Building Director Bob McCraight
which he will ride in the event to help children with diabetes. Fellow Midnight Ride participants Bill
and Danielle Gibson of Romulus are ready for the charity event.