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The Wayne Ripple Effect, a group of vol-
unteers working to promote the city, is now
sponsoring The Wayne 500, Race to Main
Street.
The effort is an attempt to advance to the
Select Level of the Michigan Main Street
DowntownRevitalization Program. The state
program provides $200,000 in services and 5
years of support for the revitalization of the
downtown area for those communities who
are selected.
Wayne is currently one of 22 Associate
Level Main Street communities and which
three of those will be chosen to advance to
the Select Level. According to organizers,
Wayne has already met all the necessary
state criteria with the exception of demon-
strating the ability to fund the program. The
minimum budget recommended by the Main
Street Programguidelines is $75,000. To date,
organizers said, the Wayne effort has raised
$7,000 through fundraisers and has a com-
mitment of $10,000 from the Downtown
Development Authority. The Wayne Rotary
Club has also pledged a matching donation
of $10,000.
Organizers said the Wayne Ripple Effect
is now asking supporters to consider donat-
ing $100 to the effort.
“If 500 friends of downtown Wayne give
$100 we will meet our goal,” the group said.
For those who cannot give $100, even on an
installment plan, any amount will help,
organizers said.
The group decided on the Wayne 500
Race toMain Street theme to celebrate a his-
torical moment in Wayne history when Ray
Harroun, a Wayne resident, won the very
first Indy 500 race in 1911. Following that vic-
tory, Harroun started his own automobile
company in Wayne and a street on the south
side of the railroad tracks in the community
is named for him.
The group has set a Nov. 15 deadline for
collecting the $50,000 needed to fund the pro-
gram.
For more information, email questions to
waynerippleeffect@gmail.com.
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Man to face trial in assault of 72-year-old
2 hired, 1 promoted, on
Westland police force
Ripple Effect begins The Wayne 500-Race to Main Street
Starfish names new board member
Ryan Curtis Curcio will stand
trial in the sexual assault and rob-
bery of a 72-year-old Romulus
woman.
Curcio, 25, also of Romulus, was
arrested by Romulus Police officers
Sept. 17, one week following the
rape and robbery. Wayne County
Prosecutor Kym Worthy alleged in a
complaint that Curcio, while armed
with a sharp metal object, entered
the elderly woman's home without
permission at about 5:45 a.m. Sept.
10. The woman was sexually assault-
ed and robbed of personal posses-
sions before the intruder left her
Riverbridgehome.
Curcio was held in the Romulus
Police Department while awaiting
formal charges from the prosecutor's
office which were filed Sept. 20. He
was arraigned at the 34th District
Court inRomulus the same day.
According to Romulus police, a
citizen provided vital information in
the case. Romulus police detectives
executed multiple search warrants
including one at the suspect's resi-
dence where detectives seized evi-
dence crucial to the case.
Romulus Police Capt. Derran
Shelby said the quick apprehension
and arrest was the result of the col-
laborative efforts of the Romulus
PoliceDepartment, federal and state
violent crimes task force officers,
alongwith theMichiganStatePolice.
Curciohas been chargedwithone
count of home invasion first degree;
one count of armed robbery; two
counts of criminal sexual conduct
first degree; one count of criminal
sexual conduct fourth degree; larce-
ny in a building and interfering with
an electronic communicationdevice.
Westland streets just got a little safer with
the addition of two new police officers to the
force.
New officers Chaim Kozak and John
Mamrot took their oaths of service last week
during the same meeting in which the pro-
motion of Ofc. Paul White to sergeant was
made official.
Kozak is a lifelong resident of Westland
and a graduate of the Michigan Technical
Academy. He was a Westland Police
Explorer for two years prior to enlisting in
theUnited StatesMarine Corps when hewas
17. As a Marine, he served for one tour in
Afghanistan and one tour in Iraq. While
deployed in Iraq in 2006, a truck in which he
was riding ran over a roadside bomb. Kozak
was severely and completed more than a
year of intense rehabilitation.
Kozak was awarded a Purple Heart just
prior to his honorable discharge from the
service in 2007.
Kozak is a graduate of Schoolcraft College
where he earned his associates degree in
criminal justice. He previously worked as a
police officer in Kentucky and in Sumpter
Township.
Mamrot grew up in Fraser and is a gradu-
ate of Fraser High School. He earned his
associates degree from Macomb Community
College and attended the Macomb Police
Academy.
He previously worked for the Hamtramck
Police Department where he was a Field
Training Officer assigned to the patrol divi-
sion. His father, Donald Mamrot, is a Fraser
Police officer.
White served with the Detroit Police
Department for five years before joining the
Westland force 15 years ago. He is currently a
member of the Westland SWAT team and
Honor Guard and serves as a department
sniper and aFieldTrainingOfficer.
“I would like to welcome these two talent-
ed new officers into our community. We look
forward to their dedication as they serve and
protect our residents and are thankful for the
experience that they bring toWestland,” said
Mayor William Wild. “I would also like to
congratulate newly-promoted sergeant Paul
White, and thank him for his continued dedi-
cation andprofessionalism.”
Chaim Kozak
John Mamrot
Paul White
Marcia Nunn - an attorney who worked
for over 30 years in the Office of the General
Counsel at Ford Motor Co.- has been named
to the Starfish Family Services Board of
Directors. Starfish, based in Inkster, is a non-
profit organization dedicated to creating
brighter futures for the children of at-risk
families. Nunn is a resident of Northville
and as a business lawyer, held a variety of
positions and at retirement was General
Counsel of Automotive Components
Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Ford. Nunn
has served on the Board of Trustees of Alma
College since 2004, where she has been
involved in many committee and leadership
roles.