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dents. Currently, there have been questions
raised about the accuracy of response times
in both the city and township. Response
times are now reported as the time any offi-
cer arrives at the scene, whether or not he or
she is able to offer any firefighting or med-
ical emergency help.
Cox confirmed the Main Street station in
the city is not open all the time and the
Starkweather Street station is mainly uti-
lized as a garage. Issues regarding response
times have been on the agenda at the last
two Fire Advisory Board meetings as prob-
lems are beingworked out.
This month, Cox talked about possible
causes for the longer response times saying it
is a possibility that Emergency Medical
Service units could be on the scene and the
dispatcher is delayed in making a mechani-
cal keyboard entry, called a time stamp.
Some of the longest response times were
said to be 6 to 8minutes.
According to Cox, four city police officers
have gone through fire fighter training.
However, he says his officers who are almost
always first on the scene, are not being dis-
patched as fire fighters and as far as he
knows there are no future plans to have
police do anything but police work. Cox said
they have specific police tasks when they
arrive at fire scene, “like traffic control.”
Cox said all the city police vehicles now
carry Automated External Defibrillators,
AEDs, but none of the cruisers are stocked
with fire gear or equipment.
“If it was to happen, and I can't see it hap-
pening, there would have to be established
duties,” Cox said of thePSOplan.
Itmay have beenBlackFriday, but the SalvationArmy bell
ringers were hoping that shoppers only saw the red of their
kettles last week.
Volunteer bell ringers were in good holiday spirit as shop-
pers scurried about, braving the cold, wind and snow flurries,
laughing and joking as the annual Red Kettle campaign of
theSalvationArmy officially began.
Paul Benson and his sister, Morgan, were stationed in
front of Starbucks in downtown Plymouth with their friend,
Megan McLaughlin. Benson, a Plymouth financial planner
said he “strategized his choice of the Starbucks” location
because he said he knew there would be, “a lot of cash sales
and available change.” Apparently it was good choice as
Benson andMcLaughlin saidpeoplewere really digging in to
help theRedKettle campaign.
Down the street at the Greek Islands restaurant, First
Presbyterian Church volunteers Kenrda Hollingsworth and
Rich Felcher were on duty at the mid-day shift, alternating
with other church volunteers in two-hour shifts. The two,
who were huddled in a corner away from the wind, said
donations had been steady at their location, but Felcher
thought themajority of the shopperswere at themalls.
The Salvation Army's annual Red Kettle Campaign runs
through Dec. 24. The Plymouth Salvation Army Church, part
of an international, Universal Christian Church provides
emergency assistance, family counseling and adult and youth
services.
Jess andSam.
Murder At The Penniman Deli is the first
in the series of Michigan Prepositional
Novels that Wendover has planned. Next in
the series is Murder By Lansing Kool-Aid
and thenMurder of Crows.
The book is priced at $16.49 plus shipping
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Excepted fromMurder At The PennimanDeli
Almost everyone in Plymouth, Michigan knew
where they hid the cash overnight at The
PennimanDeli.
If they hadn't themselves received cold coins
back as change for an early morning cup of coffee
or bagel, they had read about the Deli's “cold
cash.”
Geneva Guenther's “Dear Martha” gossip notes
in town's newspaper, The Plymouth Mail, had
tipped off the non-Deli population. Geneva -- 86
years young -- could see the Deli front door from
her post at the newspaper's reception desk across
Penniman Avenue. She firmly believed everybody
was as honest andheartfelt as they shouldbe.
So she didn't see a problem with mentioning
the “cold cash” in her column. (Plymouth Police
Chief Carl Berry viewed the newspaper's “security
breach” far less charitably and had not-so-gently
“splained” the issue to Geneva and Mail Editor
Hank Meijer behind the closed door in Hank's
office.)
But Deli owner Russ Webster shrugged it off -
he just kept on keeping the cash drawer right
inside the cooler door. After all, it only had fifty
bucks and whoever had broken into the Deli sev-
eral weeks ago hadn't bothered with its cash. (If
the Deli needed more change, it banked just
across the street atNBD - next to the newspaper.)
Somuch for theDeli's “cool secret.”
On Monday mornings the coins were at their
coldest.
The Penniman Deli was closed on Sundays
(except during the many town festivals), and the
quarters got their maximum chilling from
Saturday's 6 p.m. closing ...
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Salvation Army begins Red Kettle campaign
Paul Johnson, his sister, Morgan Benson and friend Megan
McLauglin did well with their bell ringing efforts last Friday.
First Presbyterian Church volunteers Kendra Hollingsworh
and Rich Felcher tried to stay warm and out of the wind while
they rang Salvation Army Red Kettle bells.