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PLYMOUTH - WAYNE
PLYMOUTH - WAYNE

Making strides

Bottle and can returns help fund cancer drive

Julie Brown me, my daughter or my grand- Cancer events have gone virtual.
Special Writer daughter get breast cancer.” She She notes attendance of some
took action as a fundraiser, 25,000 in past years at Detroit.
Jill Lezotte-Kates has a including collecting the return- This year, fundraising took a hit
unique approach to help fund able cans and bottles. as a result of in-person Detroit
Making Strides Against Breast She has returned $3,437 in and Ann Arbor events being can-
Cancer through Avon. bottles and cans with total contri- celed.
“My mother is a survivor. I butions for 2020 at $5,152. To make a donation, go to:
want there to be a cure,” said The pandemic means that http://main.acsevents.org/goto/JM
Lezotte-Kates, a Westland Making Strides Against Breast LKates
Rotarian and Wayne resident. In
addition to helping the cause
through her Avon sales, she has
returned a small mountain of
cans and bottles as part of her
fundraising too.
Avon is the National
Presenting Sponsor for Making
Strides Against Breast Cancer.
Lezotte-Kates' mother lost her
mother and a sister to breast can-
cer, and also has two additional
sisters, while a brother and a Jill Lezotte-Kates, of Wayne, right, and Miranda Freed, bag and sort
niece are survivors. the mountains of cans and bottles they have collected to help
Lezotte-Kates said her fervent Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Lezotte-Kates and Freed also
wish is for a cure “when and if support the effort through their Avon sales.
Fire hydrants to be flushed and winterized

Plymouth residents may expe- will continue into the middle of Officials cautioned that it is eral minutes to flush out the resi- will remain safe to drink at all
rience some intermittent low November, according to officials. possible residents in some areas dential plumbing. Discoloration times throughout this annual
water pressure for the next week The Plymouth Department of may experience lower water that may occur is due to natural maintenance. More information
or so as city workers continue to Municipal Services crews will be pressure and/or discolored water minerals in the water being is available from the Plymouth
flush and winterize lower all fire flushing and winterizing all fire for a brief time. If either of these stirred up in the hydrant flushing Municipal Services Department,
hydrants. hydrants throughout the city over circumstances occurs, officials process, they said. (734) 453-7737 or dms@plymouth-
The work began Oct. 12 and the next few weeks. advise running cold water for sev- Officials said that tap water mi.gov.
COVID-19 strikes police and city hall employees

Three officers from the tested for the virus, police offi- ther notice according to city offi- infected staff member was not in those services in the city clerk's
Wayne Police Department have cials said. cials. The other 18 employees at regular contact with the public office, officials said. A sanitizing
tested positive for COVID-19, Last week, officials said that city hall have all been tested for but officials are requesting all and disinfecting is planned for
according to an official posting two employees at Wayne City the virus and all those results those who visited city hall dur- the building.
from the department. The offi- Hall had recently also tested were negative, according to an ing the past week to monitor The public can use the drop
cers who tested positive last positive for COVID-19, necessi- official notice from the city. That themselves for COVID-19 symp- boxes outside the doors for bal-
worked Oct. 29 and anyone who tating the closure of the build- testing, however, took place toms. City hall is only open for lots and bill payments.
had direct contact with a Wayne ing. before the second employee election matters only and only COVID-19 testing sites can be
Police Department officer Only election matters will be became ill and was confirmed to one person will be allowed found here: https://www.michi-
recently should consider getting handled at the building until fur- have COVID last week. The inside the building at a time for gan.gov/.