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Renovations at Summit
on the Park now under way
effort to eliminate Iodine Deficiency
Disorder, supports Michigan Motts
Children's Hospital, sends meals to the
underprivileged and to those in disaster
areas; provides area scholarships and is
involved inmany other efforts to help chil-
dren around the world and in the local
community.
For those who don't get up that early,
there are still plenty of opportunities to
help support local altruistic efforts.
The A.M. Rotary Club will serve their
famous Spaghetti Dinner beginning about
4 p.m. Saturday in the huge white tent
behind E.G. Nick's restaurant on Forest
Street.
This year, the dinners will include
spaghetti with marinara sauce and Italian
meatballs, a tossed salad with Italian
dressing, a dinner roll with butter, a cook-
ie and a 16-ounce bottle of spring water
for $9, or $10 Saturday. Proceeds from the
dinner will be used to provide scholar-
ships for Plymouth-Canton area young-
sters who have overcome major chal-
lenges in order to graduate from high
school; musical equipment for the music
program at Starkweather Academy;
books and equipment for the first real
school in Jirapa, Ghana Africa just start-
ing construction with funds from the
Rotary Club of Plymouth A.M.; a happier
holiday for nearly 150 seniors at the
Annual Senior Christmas Dinner and
Rotary Shelter Boxes for Emergency
Relief wherever and whenever disasters
strike.
Then of course, comes the Rotary
ChickenBarbeque onSundaywhich is the
event that started the festival about 60
years ago. This is the event that put the
Fall Festival on the map and involves
nearly 700 volunteers from local high
schools and all the Rotary members who
servemore than 10,000 chicken dinners in
one day.
This year the price of the dinners,
which include a half a barbeque chicken,
chips, a roll and butter, an ear of corn, a
cookie and a beverage, will cost $11 if pur-
chased from a Rotary Club member in
advance or at the ticket booths located on
Main Street. Tickets purchased for the
meals Sundaywill be priced at $13.
They support another long list of com-
munity causes, too, like the eradication of
polio through the Rotary Foundation,
along with wells for clean water in
Honduras and other countries, many local
causes including scholarships for high
schools students, and a list that includes
First Step, United Way and just about
every other local charitable group.
OK, you get the idea, right?
The Lou LaRiche Main Stage will be
packed with entertainment, for the
crowds, too. Magician Chris Linn, spon-
sored by The Friends of the Plymouth
District Library, will perform. Linn,
known as America's Magical Funnyman, is
part comedian and part magician. He will
performfromnoonuntil 3:30.
The stage has a full roster of entertain-
ment including free concerts Friday and
Saturday nights. The party lot behind E.G.
Nick's on Forest Street will also feature
well-known musical entertainment begin-
ning at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday with
the $3 cover charge going to help the local
VietnamVeterans' group.
“This event brings the entire communi-
ty together like nothing else does. It
involves everybody and the good that
comes from it just can't be measured,” Joy
said. “I'mproud to be involved.”
More information about events at the
Plymouth Fall Festival can be found in the
program included in this edition of The
Eagle.
Festival
FROM PAGE 1
Regular users of the pool at the Summit
on the Park recreation center will
undoubtedly miss the facility during the
expected five-week closure now under
way.
The 20-year-old aquatics center at the
facility will undergo a $700,000 renovation
involving the pools, locker rooms, sauna
and steam room. The summit, with the
exception of the Aquatic Center, will re-
open at 6 a.m. Sept. 12. The Aquatic
Center should reopen at 7 a.m. Oct. 11,
according to representatives from the
facility.
Planned renovations include improve-
ments to the aquatics locker rooms and
showers to ensure more privacy; painting
of the steel support structure and ceiling
and repairs to tiles; resurfacing of the
water slide and replacement of the aquat-
ics area filters with smaller, more efficient
models.
The new filters are expected to save on
utility costs at the facility which experi-
ences more than half a million visitors
annually and currently has 6,000 mem-
bers, many of whom will have five weeks
added to their memberships to compen-
sate for the disruption during the renova-
tion work. Regular swim lessons will not
be offered during the five-week shut down
and the next session is scheduled to begin
Oct. 11; however, Summit Swim School
participants will not be charged for
September and October. Summit Swim
School programs will resume the week of
Oct. 11, aswell.
During the renovation, the center
leisure pool; the 25-yard lap pool; the
water slide area and the sauna and steam
room, along with the locker rooms will be
closed to the public.
The fitness locker rooms will be open
during the renovations.
Questions or concerns can be directed
to the Summit Front Desk at (734) 394-
5460. For more information, visit
Going up
The large building under construction on Ann Arbor Road, that will block a street view
of Plymouth Township Hall, is an LA Fitness facility and owners were able to finally pro-
ceed with construction following a warning by Judge Brian Sullivan of the Wayne
County Circuit Court last August that township officials' breech of a court-approved
consent agreement regarding the construction was "indefensible." The township with-
held and delayed permits for more than three years, resulting in a lawsuit by develop-
ers. The township faced sanctions and penalties by the court if non-compliance with
the consent judgment continued. The developer was able to begin construction a few
weeks ago following the judge's intervention.
Magician Chris Linn
