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INKSTER - PLYMOUTH
INKSTER - PLYMOUTH

Chicken Sunday

For the 66th year, members of the
Plymouth Rotary Club and student vol-
unteers along with local civic group
members celebrated "Chicken Sunday"
last weekend with the preparation of
more than 8,000 dinners in a single
afternoon. Volunteers began loading
the pits constructed in the parking lot
behind The Gathering with charcoal in
the early morning while volunteers
began to load and shuck the 10,000 or
so ears of corn. Final checks of the
mechanical equipment used for trans-
porting the cooked chickens from the
grills to the packaging area took place
as the club members began to arrive
for their assigned duties. Volunteers
assembled thousands of boxes to hold
the dinners as customers began to line
up as early as 11 a.m. The chickens,
seasoned with the famous "secret
spices" were completely sold out by
afternoon, a spokesman said. All funds
generated from the Rotary Chicken
Barbeque, which began the famous
Plymouth Fall Festival, are used for
community projects and local scholar-
ships.

Inkster

resident

is lottery

winner

When Derrick Harrell
stopped for gas in Portage on his
way home to Inkster, he had no
idea his life was about to change.
Harrell, 46, said he usually
plays Powerball once a week,
and he matched the five white
balls -- 06-24-35-37-44 -- in the
Aug. 24 lottery drawing to win
the million-dollar prize. He pur-
chased the ticket at the Meijer
gas station, located at 8994
Shaver Road in Portage.
“The day after the drawing, I
checked the winning numbers
online and saw that I'd matched
five,” said Harrell. “When I real-
ized the prize for matching five
white balls was $1 million, I was
in shock. Winning big still feels
unreal.” He recently claimed his
prize at the Michigan Lottery
headquarters and said that with
his winnings, he plans to help his
family and then save the rest.
Carlysle

is closed

Motorists in Inkster will find
large detour signs on Carlysle
Street from Isabelle to Hamilton.
Workers will be repairing and
replacing sections using open
cut construction for excavation
and partial excavation during
the work on Carlysle Street
which requires the road closure.
Work is expected to be complet-
ed by Sept. 30. The street should
be open to traffic at that time,
officials said.
Detour signs posted in the
area will direct vehicles south to
Annapolis Avenue for the section
of road that will be closed for the
duration of the work.