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October 20, 2011
Mayoral candidate sentenced to 1-year probation
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Inkster City Councilman and
mayoral candidate Courtney
Owens, 36, will serve one year of
probation and perform 150 hours
of community service after facing
felony charges in 36th District
Court.
District Court Judge Bruce
Morrow sentenced Owens, now
serving his fourth year as a city
councilman from the third district,
last Thursday, following Owens’
guilty plea. He was arrested by
Michigan State Police last May and
originally charged with speeding
and assaulting, resisting and
obstructing an officer.
Police said Owens was riding a
motorcycle northbound on Inkster
Road near Annapolis on May 6
when Michigan State Police troop-
ers attempted to stop him for
exceeding the speed limit. Rather
than stopping for the patrol car,
Owens reportedly accelerated,
leading officers on a high speed
chase through several residential
neighborhoods.
When troopers stopped him
near Gulley and Princeton in
Dearborn Heights, Owens scuffled
with the troopers who subsequent-
ly arrested him. After a night in
jail, he was released on a $2,500
bond.
Owens told the court that he
had borrowed the motorcycle and
could not hear the police sirens
over the noise of the bike and that
he had not yet adjusted themirrors
so he did not know he was being
pursued.
He pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to one
count fleeing and eluding, and one
count resisting and obstructing a
police officer, offenses punishable
by up to five years inprison.
He faces incumbent Mayor
Hilliard Hampton in the Nov. 8
election.
Helen Edith Cottrell's family has planted
a flowering vine near her favorite spot on the
front porch of her daughter's South Carolina
home, hoping it will attract the humming-
birdsMrs. Cottrell so enjoyedwatching.
Mrs. Cottrell, 86, died Oct. 5, surrounded
by her family at home in Iva, SC, of
Alzheimer's Disease, just weeks short of her
87thbirthday.
Mrs. Cottrell was born in Detroit on Oct.
28, 1924, the second of three daughters of
Louis B. and Rachel (Lockwood) McCready.
Her family moved to Gladwin when she was
5 ½ and she attended a one-room school-
house with 30 other children. After gradua-
tion fromGladwin High School, she married
Delbert Cottrell, just out of the Army. Mr.
Cottrell was Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's
chauffeur during his deployment inEurope.
The young couple moved first to Romulus
and then to Wayne where she worked in the
kitchen at Annapolis Hospital for many
years while raising their four children,
Annie, Dan, Peggy andDebbie.
Following her husband's death from lung
cancer in 1979, and her retirement from the
hospital, she moved to the Greenwood
Senior Center with her lifelong friend, Jo
Leavenworth, who had also been widowed.
The two shared many years of friendship,
travel and hobbies before Mrs.
Leavenworth's death in 2004. Mrs. Cottrell
then moved to South Carolina to be with her
d a u g h t e r,
Deb, where
she spent her
final years.
One of
Mrs. Cottrell's
pastimes was
watching the
h umm i n g -
birds hover at
feeders near
the porch at
her daughter's
home. She
also spent time campingwithher family.
Among her survivors are her children,
Annie Henning, Peggy Pond, Deb Nowicki
and Dan Cotrell; her grandchildren, Del,
Marty, Angel, Mitzi, Ginger, Puffer, Robbie,
Danny, DeeDee, Dawn, Tracy, Craig, Aleece,
Sam and Phil; her great-grandchildren,
Jordan, Hailey, Casey, Rachel, Megan,
Phoebe, Brett, Marisa, Marty, Aubrey, Aspen,
Rachel, Ashley, Cori, Michael, Jack, Logan,
Brittany, Landon, Danielle, Lindsey, Mary
Kay, Jacob, Hunter, Hannah and Justin, and
her great-great grandchildren, Caleb, Abby
andBryson.
The family is planning a memorial serv-
ice for a later date.
Final arrangements were entrusted to the
Woodlawn-Sosebee Funeral Home and
CremationServices inSouthCarolina.
Area mourns Helen Cottrell
Art show draws crowds
Visitors to Westland Mall got more than they
were shopping for last weekend when the Rotary
Club of Westland presented the three Cities Art
Club exhibit.
The paint off which took place from 2-4 p.m.
Saturday featured artists Sharon Dillenbeck,
Marilyn Meredith, Deana Salhaney and Elizabeth
Gullikson all painting the same still life in four dif-
ferent mediums and four different techniques.
"People really enjoyed that," event chairman Allen
Brooks said.
Westland Mayor William Wild, Westland Rotary
Club President Mary Vellardita and Carol Rutz of
the Westland Shopping Center presented the
awards to the winning works of art, which they
selected.
Brooks noted that hewas proud to have received
themall award for one of his photographs.
Marilyn Meredith, president of the Three cities Art
Club, presents the mall award to Allen Brooks as
Mayor William Wild and Carol Rutz of the Westland
Shopping Center look on.
Kim Shaughnessy painted
Chelsea Cagle's face with the
Michigan State logo during the
Art in the Mall show last week-
end at Westland Shopping
Center. Cagle is the manager of
Gloworks Toys in the mall.
Westland Mayor William Wild
took some time picking out his
favorite works during the exhibi-
tion.
Helen Cottrell