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Belleville to become ‘Booville’ for October
All-day music festival planned at library
Police collect 86 pounds of
medication during drug day
The City of Belleville has
become the City of Booville for
themonthof October.
Members of the city council
approved numerous activities for
the month to promote downtown
business.
Activities at the annual
Harvest Fest will include the clos-
ing of Fourth Street from 9 a.m.
until 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10.
The street will be closed from
Main to Charles Street for the
annual event.
The annual cemetery tour will
take place from noon until 3 p.m.
Oct. 17, and participants will be
transported from the Historic
Museum to the cemetery this year
due to the limited parking avail-
able.
The Rotary Club Pumpkin
Carving display will take place
from noon until 2 p.m. Oct. 17 at
Fourth
Street
Square.
Participants will bring their own
pumpkins, carved or uncarved,
which will then be lit and dis-
played on scaffolding along the
wall of the chamber of commerce
building.
The Booville Witches Ball will
take place in a tent at Fourth
Street Square from 7:30 until 10
p.m. Oct. 23. The event is spon-
sored by Egan's Pub and the
Belleville Chamber of Commerce.
The women-only event will con-
tinue after 10 when a pub crawl
for men is complete and they can
join the "witches."
The Cauldron Cook Off, also
sponsored by Egan's and the
chamber is planned for 6-8 p.m.
Oct. 24. Participants from New
Tech will cook up their favorite
dishes to be voted on by the pub-
lic using quarters or tickets. The
Belleville High School Jazz Band
will perform.
A1-mileBoovilleDash orDash
in Disguise is planned for 9 a.m.
Oct. 24 sponsored by the
Plymouth YMCA. The runners
and walkers start at Horizon Park
and travel to Five Points and back
to a tent at FourthStreet Square.
The Community Assistance
Fund (CAF5) will serve pancakes
from 8-11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24.
all proceeds from the breakfast
will be used to aid families in the
34thDistrict Court service area.
There are many other activi-
ties for all ages planned at the
library and museum during the
month-long celebration of all
things spooky. For information,
contact the Belleville Chamber of
Commerce, (734) 697-7151.
A full day of music and fun is
on tap for area families as the
Canton Public Library announces
an all-day, all-ages music festival
onSaturday, Oct. 17.
Families will start the day by
moving and grooving to the kindie
rock beats of Ms. Carissa at 10
a.m. Award-winning children's
entertainer Kevin Devine keeps
the beat going with his own brand
of rollicking, participatory music
from 11 a.m. until noon. After a
break for lunch and naps, the
party fires up again with the
Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic, a
premier youth troupe of musi-
cianswho present a diverse range
of music from American folk to
jazz to western swing along with
spirited vocals and step dancing.
The Bright Loritios take over the
stage at 3:15 p.m. with a multilin-
gual performance that involves
all five senses. The festival ends
with the return of Gustafer
Yellowgold, a nationally-recog-
nized multi-media show
described as equal parts pop rock
concert and hand-drawn cartoon
movie.
“The Family Music Festival
was developed to bring our com-
munity together for a common
goal: to celebrate, dance to and
enjoy a variety of fun, creative,
live music,” said programming
librarianNicholeWelz, the organ-
izer of the event. “The Canton
Public Library is thrilled to host
this for our families.”
While singing and dancing are
undeniably fun for kids, creativity,
learning and improved literacy
skills are the main outcomes.
Studies have established positive
correlations between musical
abilities and the acquisition of
written language, she said.
“In order to succeed, children
will need to be inventive,
resourceful and imaginative.
Having an appreciation for and
knowledge of music helps devel-
op the creativity needed to adapt
to changes in the world,” added
Welz. “We would like to foster
music appreciation by providing
a fun space to engage families in
creativity and learning.”
The Family Music Festival is
presented with the support of the
Friends of the Canton Public
Library and is open to the public.
Registration is not required. The
Canton Public Library is located
at 1200 S. Canton Center Road in
Canton. For more information
about this program, visit
.
Canton Police collected more than 86
pounds of unused prescription medica-
tion last week duringDrugTake-BackDay.
The drugs were dropped off at a spe-
cial box in the lobby of the Canton Police
Department on Sept. 26. The effort was
part of a semi-annual effort in cooperation
with the Drug Enforcement Agency to
keep unused and potentially dangerous
medications out of the hands of abusers
and out of the water supply. The national
effort, scheduled again in March of 2016,
allows the public to dispose of expired,
unused and unwanted prescription med-
ications. The drop-offs are anonymous
and no questions are asked about the
medications. Only pills are accepted, no
needles or liquids can be deposited dur-
ing thehours of the take-back event.
The initiative addresses a vital public
safety and public health issue, according
to a prepared release from the Drug
Enforcement Agency. . Unused medicines
in home cabinets are highly susceptible to
diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of
prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are
alarmingly high, as are the number of
accidental poisonings and overdoses due
to these drugs. Studies show that amajori-
ty of abused prescription drugs are
obtained from family and friends, includ-
ing from the home medicine Cabinet, the
release stated.
In addition, Americans are now
advised that their usual methods for dis-
posing of unusedmedicines-flushing them
down the toilet or throwing them in the
trash-both pose potential safety and
health hazards, officials from the national
agency concluded.
Public safety survey planned
The Canton Public Safety
Department wants to know how the
community thinks they are doing.
During the months of October and
November 2015, the department is
offering citizens the opportunity to rate
the township police, fire and emer-
gencymedical services.
The online survey can be accessed
from the home page of the website at
.
Included in the short survey is the
chance for residents to rate which area
of concern they feel is most important
for the police department to focus its
resources-either criminal activity, traf-
fic enforcement, or crime prevention.
Results of the survey will be avail-
able to the public in early 2016 via the
CantonFOCUS
newsletter, and various local and
socialmedia outlets.
Lt. Craig Wilsher urged public par-
ticipation in the survey as a tool for
improving public safety service in the
community.
