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August 20, 2015
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Summit open house celebrates mascot’s birthday
‘Dinner Anywhere In The World’ raffle tickets on sale
Canton Leisure Services is
helping families begin fall and
the back-to-school season with
an open house from 5-7 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 26 at Summit
on the Park recreation center,
located at 46000 Summit
Parkway.
Bartlett T. Beaver will be cel-
ebrating his 2nd birthday with
games, treats, and activities dur-
ing the open house. The first 50
children in attendance will get
to decorate a birthday cupcake
and make a free craft and the
first 75 children to arrive at the
party will also will receive a
back-to-school goodie bag.
Bartlett the Beaver will also
be challenging young visitors to
match him in fitness and hewill
participate in a crazy new
Mascot Race at 6 p.m. Families
can also stick around for free
community open swimming
time and a Summer Beach
Bash from 7-9 p.m. at the
Summit Aquatic Center, where
the first 100 participants to
enter the Aquatic Center will
receive a free Summit Swim
School beach ball and swim les-
son registration coupon.
Information
regarding
upcoming Canton Leisure
Services fall classes, programs
and events will also be avail-
able along with special offers
anddiscounts.
“This event offers a perfect
opportunity for anyone interest-
ed in a Canton Leisure Services
program or activity to come and
see what we have to offer, ask
questions and meet many of the
leisure services staff,” said
Jennifer Provenzano, recre-
ation coordinator. “Join us for
some family-friendly fun as you
explore the variety of opportu-
nities we have available for
classes and programs for all
ages this fall andwinter.”
In addition to the opportuni-
ty to meet instructors and regis-
ter for programs, families and
individuals can take advantage
of a variety of deals just by stop-
ping by the OpenHouse, includ-
ing: special back-to-school
membership pricing. New
Summit on the Park members
whot register between Aug. 16 -
Sept. 6 will have their one-time
application fee waived (a $30
value); Discounted early-bird
registration pricing on fall
recreation programs and class-
es; entry into drawings for
Family Prize packs, including
family passes to upcoming
Canton events, like the Trick-or-
Treat Parade, Annual Tree
Lighting, Santa Breakfast and
Butterfly Ball; Health and well-
ness information regarding
Pathway to a Healthier
Michigan Grant opportunities
and face painting, a bounce
house provided by Awesome
Bounce and light refreshments.
For more information, call
(734) 394-5460 or visit
tonfun.org.
Where would you like to go
for dinner? Rome? Paris?
Madrid?
The winner of a raffle spon-
sored by the Plymouth Kiwanis
Foundation and the Kiwanis
Club of Colonial Plymouth can
make that a reality as the first
prize is dinner for two at any
restaurant in the world with
round-trip flights and a two-night
hotel stay included. Second prize
is dinner for two at any restau-
rant in the U.S. while the third
prize winner can choose any
restaurant in Michigan, with a
hotel stay included.
Tickets for the raffle are
priced at $10 and only 5,000 will
be sold for the drawing planned
for Sept. 12 during the Kiwanis
pancake breakfast at the
Plymouth Fall Festival.
Organizers said that 2,000 of the
available tickets have already
been sold. As an incentive, buy-
ers will receive a free 11th ticket
whenbuying 10.
Ticket sales are expected to
generate $50,000 and the prizes
are estimated to cost about
$15,000, making this the largest
fundraiser the group has
planned. Winners will be
allowed to take $7,500 in cash
rather than the first prize, $2,000
in lieu of second prize and $750
rather than the third prize.
Tickets are available from any
Kiwanis member and at the
Kiwanis popcorn wagon during
the Friday night concerts in
Kellogg Park. Among the organi-
zations supported by the
Plymouth Kiwanis Foundation
are: Special Olympics, the First
Step programs for victims of
domestic abuse, Kids Against
Hunger and the Aktion Club for
adultswithdisabilities.
mouth of the stream. The silt had migrated
to the area following the installation of a
new drainpipe. She said with the revised
plan, the storm water would run along and
near a path that is close to the pond.
She added that answers to her questions
about a proposed new amphitheater in the
sub-watershed area were “evasive…they
said that plans (for the amphitheater) were
off the table.”
Price said later that there is no plan to
build the amphitheater right now. “We're
going to do an open space and requirement
plan and find out,” he said.
Local environmentalists from Friends of
the Rouge have been sampling the creek
that flows through Plymouth Township Park
since 2003, Petrella said. The environmental
group is worried about the impact of the
new construction on the pristine waters in
the nearby creek and pond, especially after
identifying a rare species of fish called the
Least Darter.
“We currently know of no other location
where this sensitive darter can be found in
the watershed. All darters are sensitive to
changes in water quality and habitat,” she
said.
In an email communication addressed to
the MDEQ, to the attention of Yoon, Petrella
said, “Changes to the land around this
stream will impact water quality. Adding 4
acres of impervious surface will increase
the amount of runoff into the Rouge and
lead to increased temperature, sedimenta-
tion, nutrient enrichment and other pollu-
tants.
“In a degraded systemsuch as theRouge,
this creek is one of the remaining good qual-
ity areas. Not mitigating for this parking lot
could be the tipping point that would lead to
declining water quality and the loss of
another good quality stream in the Rouge.
The Rouge has so few good quality areas
that remain. There are many techniques to
mitigate the negative effects of impervious
surfaces on creeks that could be easily
incorporated. We would be happy to pro-
vide information about these techniques.”
“We're working with the MDEQ and
going to make some changes…We're trying
to work with everybody to make them
happy,”Richmond said.
Felrath said that the township would
workwith the state regarding the problems.
“We're working to insure we're in accor-
dance with their (MDEQ) requirements,” he
said. He would not comment on the impact
or cost factors.
The attention of the state followed a one-
day stop work order issued by Wayne
County Land Resource Management
Division two weeks ago. Officials from
MDEQ Southeast Michigan Industrial and
Storm Water unit initiated an investigation
of the parkwaterways, demanding the town-
ship meet post-construction requirements
for run-off water in work order as no soil
erosion permit had been issued. The work
order read, “You have been ordered to
cease and desist all earth disturbing activity
until such time as a SESC permit is
obtained.” Wayne County officials con-
firmed that the township allowed construc-
tion to begin in the sub-watershed area
without seeking or obtaining the proper per-
mits.
Within 48 hours, the contractor, Merlo
Construction, resumed work at the parking
lot, armed with an SESC permit that Price
said was previously applied for but delayed
because of a check the county failed to cash.
In what he described as a separate issue,
Price said that concrete at the site “has to
come out.”
“The bigmiddle section (of concrete) that
was just poured has to come out. The ready
mix company poured the wrong stuff…it's at
no cost to us or Merlo, but it has to be
replaced,” he said.
adult due to the evidence presented by
investigators. Her parents have repeat-
edly maintained that she suffers Post
Traumatic Stress and other mental trau-
ma due to mistreatment prior to her
adoption from a Polish orphanage 10
years ago and should be charged as a
juvenile.
Callahan, in sentencing Rivera, cited
the law which dictates that the sentence
for conspiring to commit murder must be
the same as if the act had been commit-
ted. Riverawill not be eligible for parole.
Rivera's attorney, Wright Blake, said
that his client continues to maintain his
innocence and that he was trying to help
Sikorski. Rivera will be back in court
next month chargedwith criminal sexual
conduct for having sexual relations with
a minor, charges filed when Sikorski ran
away from home in July of 2014 to be
withhim.
Rivera showed no emotion at his sen-
tencing, saying only, “I'm sorry for my
family, for them having to go through
this.”
Bartlett the Beaver will celebrate
his birthday with a party during
the Canton Leisure Services
Open House Aug. 26.
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