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Romulus Cemetery Commission
members are seeking sponsors for
20 Cleveland Select Pear Trees to
add beauty to the historic Romulus
Memorial Cemetery.
Chairwoman Janet Lemmon
said the trees will be placed on the
Shook Road side of the cemetery.
The goal is to plant 20 trees this
year, in late September or early
October, and add 20 next year
along the back fence of the ceme-
tery.
“Next spring, the front of the
cemetery will be in full bloomwith
a beautiful sense of tranquility,”
Lemmon said. “Respect and digni-
ty is our main goal. Thank you to
everyone who supports this proj-
ect.”
Tree sponsorships are available
for $335 apiece. Each donor will
have his or her name placed on a
signnear the tree.
Those interested in sponsoring
a tree are asked to contact the City
Clerk's Office in City Hall, 11111
Wayne Road. The clerk's office can
be reached by phone at (734) 955-
4545.
Lemmon asked donors to pro-
vide their name and contact tele-
phone number. Members of the
Cemetery Commissioners will con-
tact the sponsors and take it from
there.
Lemmon said the Romulus
Memorial Cemetery is a key place
to telling the history of the city.
Located at Shook and Tobine
roads, the cemetery is the final
resting place of deceased armed
forces heroes, political figures,
public-safety officers, other well-
known families and 180 years of
Romulus residents.
The burial grounds date back to
1832, and the property is dedicated
as ahistorical landmark.
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OMULUS
Strong armed
Athletes compete in 4th annual
‘Strongest Person in Romulus’
Recount confirms election winners
Cemetery commission seeks tree ‘sponsors’
Newborn left at fire station
Four individuals have earned
free annual memberships to the
Romulus Athletic Center (RAC)
after winning the fourth annual
Strongest Person Competition on
Sept. 15.
Mychal Yharbrough, Rick
Perry, Nick Wellman and Robin
Schonscheck won the 2012 contest,
which saw individuals compete in
four events designed to measure
strength: the tire toss, tire flip, fire-
man's carry and truck pull.
The contest was open to all
RAC members. Points were
awarded to the top three finishers
in each event. Three of the four
categories came down to the truck
pull - the final event of the day.
The men's over-200-pound divi-
sion was locked in a four-way tie
between Yharbrough, his brother,
Antonio, two-time defending
champion Sherwood Harris and
Derrick McPherson. Anthony
Palmer's truck pull was the fastest,
while Mychal Yharbrough edged
out Harris for second place to win
the “strongest person” title by two
points, 15-13.
Yharbrough also finished first
in the fireman's carry, requiring
competitors to race while carrying
100 pounds of weights, and third in
the tire toss. Harris was first in the
tire toss and third in the fireman's
carry. McPhersonwon the tire flip.
Yharbrough, a 26-year-old
Romulus resident, said it felt good
to win the title, especially with his
wife and six children looking on
from the bleachers. He said he
works out “a lot,” although thiswas
his first time in the competition.
The men's under-200 division
also came down to the final event.
Wellman, a first-time competitor
from New Boston, defeated one of
his best friends, Dan Setser, in the
truck pull to earn the champi-
onship by four points, 26-22.
Wellman, 21, also won the tire flip
and fireman's carry, while Setser
finished first in the tire toss.
The women's masters for com-
petitors age 50 and older was the
third division that came down to
the final event. First-time entrant
Robin Schonscheck of Romulus
won the truck pull and unseated
two-time defending champion
Karen Huseti, 26-20. Schonscheck
also finished first in the tire flip
and the fireman's carry, while
Huseti was first in the tire toss.
Schonscheck admitted she
entered the competition because
her RAC membership was about
to expire and her goal was to win
the contest and earn a free mem-
bership. Raised on her family's 4-
acre farm in Romulus,
Schonscheck said she was a
tomboy who grew up with horses
and became strong from throwing
bails of hay and straw, carrying
buckets of water and performing
other chores.
“I didn't know what I was get-
ting into,” said Schonscheck, a
cashier at Romulus High School.
“I'm 55 years old. It's not like I'm
the biggest person in the world.
I've always known I was strong. I
just never had a reason to prove it
anyone, especially at my age. I was
so nervous. My friend told me 'you
know, youdon't have to do this.' But
I told her 'if I don't do it, I'll always
wonder if I couldhavewon.' This is
a great prize.”
Perry, who was runner-up the
year before, swept all four events
to claim the men's masters title.
The Taylor resident is the owner
of Romulus business R.J. Perry
Construction and has been an avid
workout enthusiast for years.
Perry finished first with 28
points - the most in any of the four
categories. Johnny Bradford was
runner-upwith 20 points.
Butch Thomas, the RAC trainer
who oversees the annual event,
said the competition and the
crowd were among the best in the
history of the contest.
For information on program-
ming or memberships at the
Romulus Athletic Center, visit the
website www.romulusathleticcen-
ter.comor call (734) 942-2223.
Nick Wellman winning the tire toss in the men's under 200 pound divi-
sion.
Linda Combs remains the win-
ner of the Aug. 7 primary election
for Van Buren Township supervi-
sor following a recount of the votes
by the Wayne County Elections
Office.
Incumbent Paul White request-
ed the recount of the original
totals which saw him receiving
1,059 votes to the 1,109 votes cast
for Combs.
The recount totals showed that
Combs received 1,112 votes to
White's total of 1,068. Larry Fix'
total votes increased by two in the
recount for a total of 542 and the
total for Tim Szetela remained at
429 votes.
White congratulated Combs on
her win and said that he would
now return to retirement and
enjoy spending timewithhiswife.
Combs said that she was not
surprised by the totals and
thanked the election office and the
township clerk for the work
involved in the recount effort.
Teenage parents of a newborn
baby girl left at the Van Buren Fire
Station on Hull Road have about
three weeks to petition the court to
regain custody of the infant.
Police dispatchers received a
call at 8:39 p.m. last Saturday, Sept.
22, from a man who said he
observed a baby being dropped off
at the fire station and no one was
answering the door. The caller
claimed to be unable to provide a
description of the person, the vehi-
cle they were driving or how he
knew it was a baby being left at the
door.
The dispatcher notified fire per-
sonnel at Fire Station No. 1 of the
call and when fire fighters
checked, they discovered a new-
born baby girl on the front step
wrapped in a towel. Huron Valley
Ambulance was called while fire
crew personnel performed a med-
ical evaluation of the newborn. The
baby appeared to be in stable con-
dition but was being treated for
hypothermia and respiratory
issues while on route to University
of Michigan Hospital. Doctors
there determined the infant was
just hours old and was in stable
condition but admitted her to the
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for
observation.
Police Investigators identified
911 caller as a 17-year-old who
admitted during an interview with
police that he andhis girlfriend are
the parents of the baby and that
they left her on the step of the Fire
Stationdoor that night.
Only after knocking on the fire
station door and receiving no
response did he call 911 to make
sure the baby was taken in. The
parents told police that they were
both afraid of reactions from their
parents causing them to leave the
baby at a safe location after birth.
Social Workers along with Child
Protective Services were immedi-
ately notified and are currently tak-
ing an active role in the incident.
Under the “Safe Delivery of
Newborns Law” that became effec-
tive Jan. 1, 2001, parents may sur-
render an infant to an emergency
service provider, a hospital, fire
department, police department or
call 911 from any location and
remain anonymous. By surrender-
ing the newborn, the parents are
releasing the infant to an agency to
be placed for adoption. Parents
will have 28 days to petition the
Circuit Court, Family Division to
regain custody of the newborn.
“We are glad that the parents
made the decision to surrender the
newborn to an emergency provider
giving the infant a safe havenwhile
allowing us and the proper agen-
cies to intervene in this matter,”
said Van Buren Police Capt. Greg
Laurain.