$25,000 raffle under way
Tickets for the second annual
NorthvilleEducational Foundation $25,000
CashFor CollegeRaffle are nowavailable.
Tickets are priced at $50 each, or three
for $100. Proceeds from the raffle benefit
the Northville Educational Foundation
and the 7,300 students in the district. If
ticket sales total less than $50,000, the
prize will revert to a 50/50 drawing with a
minimumof a $1000 prize.
The drawing will take place at about
7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, at downtown the
Northville Tree Lighting Ceremony in the
town square just after the Holiday Lighted
Parade. Ticket holders need not be present
towin.
Tickets will be sold until the start of the
parade Nov. 17, or until all 1500 tickets are
sold, whichever comes first). Purchasers
must be 18 or older.
Tickets can be purchased online at
or in person at the
Northville Educational Foundation office
at 501WestMainSt. inNorthville.
Library Storytimes begin
Storytimes are planned for September
and October at the Belleville District
Library.
Family Storytimes will take place at
6:30 p.m. Mondays for children ages 4-10;
Fall Tuesday "Toddler Times" are planned
for 11 a.m. for children ages 2-4 and Fall
Thursday "Toddler Times" will take place
at 11 a.m.
The Belleville Area District Library is
located at 167FourthSt. Formore informa-
tion, call (734) 699-3291.
Chicken Supper served
The Willow United Methodist Church
will serve a chicken supper beginning at 5
p.m. until sold outWednesday, Oct. 11.
The cost for the meal is $10 per person,
meals for children 12 and younger are
pieced at $5.
The menu includes fired chicken,
mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuits and
gravy, cole saw, dessert, coffee, or tea or
milk.
The church is located 36925 Willow
Road inNewBoston.
Carryout service begins at 4:30 p.m.
For more information, call (734) 654-
9020.
Family Story Time planned
The Romulus Public Library will host
Family Story Time at 6:30 p.m. on
Thursdays throughOct. 19.
Story Time will include aspects of
Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and
Math (STEAM) depending on the weekly
meeting theme.
For more information on the free event,
call (734)942-7589 or visit
brary.org.
The library is located at 11121 Wayne
Road inRomulus.
NorthvilleCemeteryWalk set
The Leaders and Legends of Northville
will be discussed during the Northville
Cemetery Walk 2017 set for 2-5 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 8 at Rural Hill Cemetery.
The cemetery is located off Seven Mile
Road between Center and Rogers streets.
Visitors are asked to park in the lot at the
front of the cemetery.
Tickets are priced at $10 formembers of
the historical society or $15 for non-mem-
bers if purchased in advance. Tickets will
be $18 is purchased the day of thewalk.
Tickets can be purchased at Mill Race
Village, Knightsbridge or online at
or by phone at
(248) 348-1845.
SecondMonday BookClubmeets
The Second Monday Book Club will
meet at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Romulus Public
Library in themeeting room
The book thismonth is TheOcean at the
End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman and
copies are nowavailable at the library.
The meeting is free and open to all
adults 18 and older.
The Romulus Public Library is located
at 11121WayneRoad inRomulus.
For more information, call (734) 942-
7589.
Legends raffle tickets on sale
Tickets for the Inkster Legends Annual
Christmas Giveaway are now on sale for
$10.
The annual raffle funds holiday gro-
ceries and gifts for 100 less fortunate
Inkster families.
This year the annual raffle will include
a grand prize of two tickets to see the
Houston Rockets vs. the Detroit Pistons at
Little Caesars Arena Jan. 6, 2018. First
prize is a weekend stay at the Sheraton
Hotel with breakfast and second prize will
be four tickets toTheHenryFordmuseum.
Third prize is a birthday party blast for 15
people at the Romulus Athletic Center and
fourth prize is two racks of lamb from
Fairway Meats in Detroit. Fifth prize is a
one-dayweekend stay at theMarriott Hotel
and sixth prize is a Garmin GPS
Navigation system. Seventh, Eighth and
Ninth prizes are dinner for two at Urban
Soul, dinner for two at They Say and din-
ner for two at Red Lobster. Bonus prize
this year is a $25 gift certificate at Famous
Ford Garage restaurant in Dearborn and
the bonus grand prize is a family package
for four people to see the world-famous
Harlem Globetrotters at Little Caesars
Arena.
The drawing for the raffle will take
place at 6 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Sheraton
Hotel inRomulus.
For more information go to
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tact us.
For raffle tickets contact Fred Smiley at
(734) 890-2478, Daniel Orr (313) 715-6700 or
Larry Spencer (313) 520-8144.
Photographers tomeet
Members of the only 3D photography
club in Michigan will meet from 7 to 9:30
p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11 at the Livonia
Civic Park Senior Center, 15218
Farmington Road, just south of Five Mile
Road.
The program will be a presentation of
the very best stereo images from the recent
Ohio International Stereo Exhibition.
After a refreshment break, there will be a
3D Flowers and Gardens competition
among clubmembers.
The meetings are free to attend and
open to the public. Stereo cameras, 3D
movies, and educational videos are avail-
able formembers to borrowor rent.
For more information, visit
, or call (248) 398-3591.
League of Women Voters plans auction
The League of Women Voters of
Northwest Wayne County will host the
annual auction beginning with viewing at
11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at the Alexander
BlueHouse at GreenmeadHistorical Park,
20501 Newburg Road, Livonia. The auc-
tion is open to the public and there is no
cover charge. Items to be auctioned
include local business gift certificates, holi-
day and household items, jewelry, home-
made baked goods and event tickets. The
auction starts at 11:30 and continues until
1:30.
Proceeds from the auction will be used
to fund League non-partisan election activ-
ities including candidate forums and voter
guides.
The League of Women Voters is a non-
partisan organization whose purpose is to
promote political responsibility through
informed and active participation of citi-
zens in government.
It never supports or opposes any candi-
date or political party. For more informa-
tion, call (734)-421-4420.
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Calendar of events
for facility repairs andmaintenance to the
school buildings, which are, on average, 50
years old. SinkingFundmoneywill also be
used for technological updates, security
camera updates, lighting, carpet, tile, boil-
ers, water tanks, roofs, parking lots, athlet-
ic football/soccer/track facilities and other
repairs. These funds cannot be used for
salaries.
Additional Town Hall meetings about
the millage issues are planned for 9 a.m.
and again at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19 at
Romulus High School; 5:30 Tuesday, Oct.
24 at Wick Elementary School; 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 1 at Barth Elementary
and 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 at Romulus
Elementary School.
Residents are urged, officials said, to
attend themeetings and ask questions and
voice their concerns regarding the upcom-
ingmillage vote.
debris from the site of the fire into black,
50-gallon sealed drums. The drums were
clearly labeled as containing PCB, (poly-
chlorinated biphenyls), a probable human
carcinogen which cannot by law be manu-
factured in theUnitedStates.
Describing the sub-station as an “older
dying system,” Stowe told commissioners
trees cause 70 percent of power outages.
He said that crews would be working to
replace all the damaged equipment on the
grid during the next six months and DTE
is considering a future re-build of the
facility that would modernize and replace
all components and increase electrical
capacity in the area.
Commissioner Joe Valenti asked if
DTE “…was just patching and old infra-
structure with a bigger patch.” Stowe
responded, “No, there's a lot of new stuff
there.”
“I thought it was good to see the region-
al director and engineer come to meet
with us, but I felt the answers were pretty
thin,” Valenti said after themeeting.
In a later interview, Stowe and Diol
had only scant information regarding any
possibility of contamination or danger to
residents and referred questions to their
corporate communications department.
Sources close to the issue reported that
DTEwas also very concerned about possi-
ble contamination and collected 55 soil
samples outside the fenced grid-area for
analysis to be performed by a testing com-
pany.
In a later prepared statement, DTE
spokesperson Randi Berris said, “DTE
Energy follows all federal and state envi-
ronmental regulations. The EPA has been
involved since the day of the fire in
Plymouth and has been satisfied with all
our samples and the data we have provid-
ed.”
The statement added, “Because it takes
time to receive the analytics back from the
samples we tested, it's a federal require-
ment to label the drums as “PCB.” That is
out of an abundance of caution and does
not mean that any PCBs are actually pres-
ent. And in fact, there was no detectable
PCBs once the testing was complete. The
cleanup crew was wearing the protective
gear because they were working in dirt
and soot - not because of any concern
about contaminants.
“Working with EPA, DEQ and the City
of Plymouth, we checked the storm drains
multiple times and saw no impact from
the oil.”
Northville-Plymouth Fire Chief Steve
Ott said that during the fire the Wayne
CountyHaz-Mat teamconducted air-moni-
toring samples in the residential area and
therewere no signs of PCBs.
Ott said the 15-sets of firefighter
turnout gear were given toDTE for testing
even though there were no signs of visible
contamination, oil or residue.
“Out of an abundance of caution and at
the fire department's request, we collected
and ran samples on the fire department
gear-everything came back non-detect for
PCBs. Testing of the transformer that
caught fire did not show detectable PCB
content,” Berris said. Stowe said DTE
received the official results of the after the
cleanup occurred.
“The fire was not a PCB hazard and
multiple soil samples proved the PCB lev-
els to be under 50 PPM, the EPA thresh-
old.”
DTE
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