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September 20, 2012
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Back in time
Victorian Festival will fill downtown Northville streets
Literacy program to offer diabetes education in Inkster
The 24th Annual Victorian
Festival will begin at 6:30 tomorrow
evening with the traditional parade
through downtown in dress of the
1800s.
Marchers will parade from the
front of the post office through the
downtown area and end up back at
the front of the starting point. The
event will continue throughout the
weekend with entertainment and
activities for all ages which will fill
the downtown streets, with both
Main andCenter closed to traffic.
The Varsity Lincoln Saloon will
be open beginning at 5:30 Friday
and the Shawn Riley Band will
performfrom7-10 p.m.
The Ryde Park Carnival will be
open with children's rides from 5-
10 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. there will
be a vintage baseball game played
at FordField.
At 11 a.m. Saturday, the
Enchanted Fairy Park will open
and entertainment at the Toll
Brothers Town Square Stage will
begin at Noon with the Matrix
Magic Midway Show. A ventrilo-
quist will open the St. Mary Mercy
Hospital Stage and Main and
Center streets at noon and the
Amazing Clark Escape Artist will
appear from 2-3:30 p.m. following
by a family juggling show and a
Punchand Judy puppet show.
There will be food and games
booth lining the streets from11 a.m.
until 10 p.m., a Dulcimer player, a
barnyard animal show and petting
farm, a craft market, stiltwalker
and strolling fire eaters, sword
swallowers and a balloon arts.
From 1-4 p.m. the parks and
Recreation Department is sponsor-
ing a cake walk and the Varsity
Lincoln Saloon will have
Annabelle Road entertaining from
7-10 p.m.
The festival included tethered
hot air balloon rides at Ford Field
from 6:30 until duck and special
events throughout the historic
buildings atMill Race village.
Sunday begins with entertain-
ment at both the stages including
the Matrix Magic Midway Show,
ventriloquist and Punch and Judy
puppets.
At 10 a.m. there will be a
Victorian Church Service at the
saloon, hosted by First Baptist
Church. The Saturday events and
attractions continue throughout
town with another vintage baseball
game at 1 p.m. at Ford Field. There
will be another cakewalk from 1-3
p.m. and Mill Race Village will
have a used book sale from noon
until 3:30 p.m. and a Victorian Tea
Room open at the Cady Inn from
noon until 3:30 p.m. There will also
be children's games and at1:45 and
3:15, a Theodore Roosevelt imper-
sonator will speak. The high school
choral groups will entertain and at
3:30 p.m. the duck race will take
place.
The festival is hosted by the
Northville Chamber of Commerce
with the assistance of a long list of
community sponsors anddonors.
There are hundreds of Inkster
residents currently in danger of
blindness, kidney failure and the
loss of their limbs due to a silent
and deadly disease they probably
don't know they have.
The Josie OdumMorris Literacy
Project and the National Kidney
Foundation of Michigan hope to
change that with a new introduc-
tion to diabetes literacy program
available to Inkster residents.
The new program, called Read
Your Way to Health provides one-
to-one training for individuals who
may be at risk of being a diabetic or
who have recently been diagnosed
as having diabetes.
A spokesman from the literacy
project explained that the forums
and training will take place on sev-
eral dates and in various places in
October throughout Inkster and
that anyone who would like more
information should contact the pro-
gram coordinator, Sandra Abbott,
at (734) 692-2485.
Diabetes Mellitus or Type II
Diabetes is a disease in which the
body is either no longer making a
hormone called insulin or the
insulin that is made is not working
as it should, Abbott explained. Pre-
diabetes is a condition where peo-
ple have higher than normal blood
sugar levels, but not yet high
enough to be diagnosed with dia-
betes. People with pre-diabetes are
also at high risk of developing dia-
betes.
Either way, high amounts of glu-
cose (a form of sugar) builds in the
bloodstream and cause problems
from damage to the eyes, kidneys,
blood vessels and nerves. For this
reason, diabetes is the primary
cause of new cases of adult blind-
ness, kidney failure, and non-trau-
matic lower-limb amputation, she
said.
Some of the symptoms that may
be indicators of having diabetes
are increased urination for no rea-
son, craving for sweets and using
excessive sugar and loss of body
weight, just to name a few. Other
factors that may influence the
chance of being diagnosed as a dia-
betic is heredity such as either of
your parents, first aunts or uncles,
or grandparents having diabetes,
she said.
This is a serious disease affect-
ing African Americans, particularly
African American women and the
best way to fight this disease is
througheducation.
The literacy program starts in
mid-October and due to high
response, seats are limited. To reg-
ister or to learn if this training pro-
gram is suited for you, contact
Abbott, the Josie Odum Morris
Literacy Program coordinator, at
(734) 692-2485.