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Center hosts appreciation day
Member Appreciation Day will be cele-
brated from 5:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. next
Wednesday, Dec. 29 at theWayne Community
Center. The day will feature a drawing for
the holiday gift basket, healthy snacks and
beverages and free visits to the recreation
and exercise club.
For information, call (734) 721-7400.
Daddy-Daughter Dance tickets on sale
The Plymouth Recreation Department is
sponsoring the first Daddy-Daughter dance
from6:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 4.
Tickets for the event are $10 and include
music by a DJ from Dramatic Dimensions,
light refreshments and snacks and souvenir
photos and packages will be available to
order at an additional cost.
Semi-formal, dressy attire is recommend-
ed.
Space is limited so advance tickets must
be purchased. Nowalk-inswill be admitted.
For more information or to purchase tick-
ets, call (734) 455-6620.
Theater celebrates anniversary
Next Thursday, the State Wayne Theater
will celebrate the 65th anniversary of the
facility with 65 cent pop and popcorn.
Admission on Thursdays before 8 p.m. is
$2.99 for adults and $1.99 for children and
seniors.
For information, call (734) 721-7400.
After school programs offered
Registration for the after school recre-
ation programs sponsored by the City of
Wayne Parks and Recreation Department is
now open, too. Activities include basketball,
floor hockey, dodge ball and several others.
The activities are open to third and fourth
grade students at Hoover, Schweitzer,
Roosevelt, and Taft-Galloway elementary
schools.
For information or registration, call (734)
721-7400.
NorthvilleNite tickets available
Tickets for the family New Year's Eve
party, Northville Nite, are now on sale at the
NorthvilleParks andRecreation office.
The event, which will include carnival
games, music, food, crafts and board games
will begin at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 31.
Chamber speaker announced
The Greater Romulus Chamber of
Commerce will host David Goodwin,
Goodwin, Lademan & Associates, as the
guest speaker at the Chamber Business
Luncheon beginning at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 17 at
the Cirrus Room, Romulus Athletic Center,
35765Northline, Romulus.
Goodwin's topic will be Obama Care
Update andYour Group Insurance. The cost
of the luncheon is $15 members/$18 non-
members. Registration starts at 11:30 a.m.
and lunch will be served at noon.
Reservations can be made by calling the
chamber at (734) 893-0694 or by email at
info@romuluschamber.com. Seating is limit-
ed.
Euchre Tournaments set
Buckminister's Pub in downtown
Northville hosts a Euchre Tournament to
benefit the New Hope Center for Grief
Support every thirdTuesday of themonth.
The cost is $15 to play and includes pizza
and chances on cashprizes.
Formore information, call Buckminister's,
(248) 942-3317.
Chamber is on a roll
The Annual Bowling Night with the
Romulus Chamber of Commerce is planned
from 8:30-11:30 p.m. Jan. 28. Registration will
begin at 7:30 p.m. at Lodge Lanes, on the
south I-94 serviceDrive inBelleville.
The cost for three games of 9-pin, no tap is
$40 per couple or $20 per person. There will
be door prizes a 50/50 raffle, a basket raffle
and a cashbar.
The event is limited to the first 144
bowlers andusually sells out quickly.
For tickets or information, call (734) 893-
0694.
Pool party planned
The City of Wayne Parks and Recreation
Department is sponsoring a pool reopening
party all dayFeb. 1.
Therewill be free open swimming and the
instructors will be on hand to meet the pub-
lic. Free water fitness classes and other fea-
tures are also planned for the day.
There will be no membership rate
increase to fund the pool.
For information, call (734) 721-7400.
Wayne to host Winterfest
Winterfest will take place all day Feb. 4 at
theWayneCommunityCenter
Where activities including the Northpole
Classic (a golf fundraiser), a dance/gymnas-
tics/cheer mini-show, dinner theatre, open
skating, and Poolooza: the grand re-opening
Splash Bash Party of the pool including free
water fitness classes, open swimming, meet
and greet swimming instructors, prize draw-
ings, andmore.
Details are available by contacting the
Wayne Parks and Recreation Department at
(734) 721-7400.
Snowman photos sought
The City of Plymouth Recreation
Department is accepting entries into the
Snowman Photo Contest until 4:30 p.m.
March 2. Judging will take place the week of
March 5 and the winner announced March
12.
Children are encouraged to build a snow-
man, dress him up and take a photo to email
to lbosniuk@ci.plymouth.mi.us.
Photos can also be mailed to the
Recreation Department, 525 Farmer in
Plymouth.
Formore information, call (734) 455-6620.
The Friends of the Rouge group needs
volunteers to help look for stoneflies in
theRougeRiver onSaturday Jan. 28, 2012.
The search begins at the University of
Michigan-Dearborn at 9 a.m. No search-
ing is done in Dearborn; volunteers car-
pool out in 10-12 teams to Rouge streams
located around metropolitan Detroit.
Volunteers must pre-register by Jan. 20, at
www.therouge.org or by calling (313) 792-
9621.
Winter stoneflies hatch fromstreams in
winter and are sensitive to pollution, mak-
ing them good indicators of water quality.
Friends of the Rouge volunteers have
been looking for stoneflies every winter
since 2002. Last year, 95 volunteers partic-
ipated but very few stoneflies were found.
The lack of stoneflies was attributed to
extreme cold during and around the date
of the hunt. The search date was moved
to aweek later in hopes of findingmore of
the sensitive creatures.
Volunteers must dress for the weather
and be prepared to be out in the cold for
several hours, a spokesperson said. Only
trained team leaders go in the water; vol-
unteers search through samples on the
bank. Children 5 years and older are wel-
come when accompanied by a participat-
ing adult. Groups of up to six people can
be accommodated.
The Annual Winter Stonefly Search is
part of a long-termmonitoring
program coordinated by Friends of the
Rouge. It is supportedby the
Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family
Foundation and conducted in partnership
with Wayne County Department of Public
Services and the Alliance of Rouge
Communities. A report on the results
from the Fall Bug Hunt on Oct. 15, 2011
was just completed.
Friends of the Rouge is a 501c3 non-
profit organization dedicated to promot-
ing restoration and stewardship of the
Rouge River ecosystem through educa-
tion, citizen involvement and other collab-
orative efforts, for the purpose of improv-
ing the quality of life for the people,
plants, and animals of thewatershed. The
RougeRiver covers
466 square miles in three counties and
42 communities in the metropolitan
Detroit area. Additional information at
www.therouge.org.
Rouge volunteers sought