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UNPUIGCED BLACKOUT 2003

"The power will be back on tomorrow. This is just mass consumption at its finest... The lines are a testament to the

American culture and the fear which is a byproduct of the 9-11 aftermath." — W i l l i a m K a t z

S a m ' s C l u b e m p l o y e e W i l l i a m K a t z w h e e l s a c a i i o f s u p p l i e s for F a r m i n g t o n H i l l s r e s i d e n t E l a i n e B o u y e r F r i d a y m o r n i n g .

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Cities react to outage with remarkable calm B y P h i l F o l e y STAFF WRITER

Galm. That was the most astounding

feature of the Great Blackout of 2003 in Novi and nearby com­munities.

While mixing togeiher a soup of high temperatures, high humidity and darkness tends to create a brew guaranteed to aggravate ulcers at police and fire stations, law enforcement and emergency service works in Novi and surrounding areas reported a drop in workload over the week­

end. Sitting in a darkened office late

Friday, Walled Lake Police Capt. John Woychowski noted, "We've only had one small fender ben-deL When die lights are working, we usually get one an hour."

Farther down Pontiac Trail, Wixom Police Chief Clarence Goodline said he had walked nearly two-thirds of a mile south of die Maradion gas station on

South Wixom Road chatting wiih motorists wailing in line for gas widiout finding anyone with an unkind word to say.

"It's Post-911. People think differently," offered N o v i Mayor Pro Tem Michelle Bononi . Noting that police and fire calls were down substantially. Ci ty Manager Rich He lwig said Novi 's citizens were "just superb."

Helwig noted that city Police Chief Doug Shaeffer had Novi 's Emergency Operations Center up and,mnning five minutes after ihe blaclcout hit the city.

Over the weekend city officials held eighl meetings in the Center, with Bononi standing in for Mayor RiChard Clark and Assistant C i t y Manager Clay Pearson standing in for Helwig . As luck would have it, both the mayor and city manager were out of town when the lights went out.

"It was tough without electric­ity," said Bononi. She said city officials had considered estab­lishing a curfew, but decided against it.

The city's biggest initial con-

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Freddy and Jason weren't the only dynamic duo pairing up last weekend. When die cidzens of Novi needed it most, die city of Novi and the Novi Communi^ School district combined their efforts to provide what they Called comfort stations where people could obtain free bottled water, cool off in front of large, industrial fans and use port-a-

Johns during the 2003 Wackoui. The stations were located ai

Novi Middle School and Village Oaks Elementary School starting on Thursday night and were open 24 hours a day until power was restored to die city. According to Nov i Community Relations Manager Sheryl Walsh, when die power outage occurred, city offi­cials gathered at the emergency operations center at the Novi Police Department for some brainstorming.

"When we go into emergency mode, it's to maintain the safety of our community," she said. "We looked up what the needs would be for our community. Obviously with the heat, water was a major issue, sewer facilities were an issue and we started looking at

ways dial we could provide ihose services to community members diat needed it."

It was obvious diat large facil­ities were needed to provide diose services, so J im Koster, Novi Schools assistant superin­tendent o f business and finance, was called in to help. "He came over to brainstorm at the emer­gency operations center w id i us," Walsh said. "We brainstormed where we could get generators from and what services we could provide. We looked at east end and west end locations, and we were also able to secure the Nov i

Civic Center widi a generator also."

Ultimately, Vi l lage Oaks Elementary School was chosen as die east end location and Novi Middle School was chosen as the west end location. Walsh explained diat Novi 's large senior citizen population was die one Uiat city officials wonied about the most. "You worry about die heat in dieir homes," she said. "Also, i f people called the police station in need of transportation, we could arrange that for some­body who needs to get to a com­fort station."

Word got out lo Nov i citizens about the comfort stations through flyers that were created

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They came for ihe necessities of life — water, ice, food, batteries, gasoline, disposable propane tanks or maybe even a place to Slay.

Businesses in the Northville/Novi area made Ihe best of a bad situation Aug. 15 after die worst power outage in the nation's history tested people's patience and ingenuity.

Although bottled water was. available at fire stations and schools in the area, many resi­dents came to the community well near the Waterwheel Healdi Club on South Main Street in Northville to fill dieir plastic con­tainers.

Ann Sanders and her daughter, Kris Dennard, came all die way from Detroit. "I've been coming here for 27 years," Sanders said. "We need a well like this in Detroit."

Andrea Stupi of Livonia was also diere to collect die needed liquid. "I knew about diis well, but diis is the first time I've needed it," she said.

Water from the well is safe to drink, according to Shan Allen, city of Northville. "It's tested every diree mondis," she said on Monday.

David Cole, owner of Great Harvest Bread Company on Main Street in Northville, brought his bread out on the sidewalk to attract customers Aug. 15.

"Whatever we don't sell, we're

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Intii the abyss

7:30 ; i .m.

Wiicii i icii IVir work liiis iriom-ing. i Wisn'l sure wiiat I was liciid-ing inui. i wattticd die news liic nigiil iviore, ami il appcareci tiie [XiwiT outage was. tor the most part. IVom west Oakland County :ill die w;i)' lo Ihc cast coast. A [iockcl in Liiiisiiig IkuI bt;cn alTcctcd as well.

•SI) .1()-milc dri\c down :i two-laiicr. .M.'iO, to l-')4 caslliound is business ;is usual. With the excep­tion of a backcd-up oil'-nuiip in Ann Arbor, the rest (if Ihe rirle to .VIM cast lo Bock Road is nonnal.

l iu l tlicii it changes. •Ilio trallic signiils arc oul. and

vehicles ;irc parlicukidy cautious at each inlcrscclion. Tr.ifHc is very light, hul it seems like cver)'biHly and Ibcir dogs iirc oul walking its 1 cdiiic iiitii diiwritijwn ,\iirdivillc. The parking lol is nearly cinply; there arc no c:u"s on the streets; antl Ihc only iiotice:iblc sounds are a siren here or there.

My colleagues - Chris l):ivis. editor of the Northville Record: .S:im I'-gglcsion. sports writer for the Record and die News; and Jennifer Walker, iidvcitising execu­tive for tlic Ncv\'s - arc outside talk­ing. Wc head inside to figure oul our giiiiK- plan for ihc day.

One of the first orders of busi­ness is lo unplug our computers, copiers, cic. so when llic power eventually dews come li:ick on, an ciccirical surge won't blow oul any equipment.

V\'e have one plioiie hiiulline available, liverj'lhiiig else is dead. My publisher, Grace Perry, had reaclied nie on the drive in on my cell phone antl said dial any writer who needs to access our server to wrilc stories should come lo our Howell office.

'Iliat's line, hul our stories aren't in Howell. For my stall'. No\'i is where it's happening, and it can't lie covered via llie phone. Wilh nearly eveiy business closed, my plan for us is a simple one: "Grab your ciimera. notepad and pen. get in your car and head into the cily. 1-veiy single person you meel Kxlay is going to have ;i stoiy to lell. Get :is iiKiny as you c;in."

I head lionli on Novi Road wilh die intenlions of Main .Street being my lirsl Uirget, but a .small crowd of :ilioul a dozen outside die Walgreen pharmacy ;it Ten Mileciin ' l help but catch my allenlion. 1 swing my car inlo die p:irkiiig lot, hop oul and begin talking lo folks.

"Tliis is bringing out die best in ever)'body," says Ron Dnitla.

He's on a bicycle, as ;ire his 9-ye;ir-old daughter, Theresa, itiid 12-ye;ir-old son, Ben. Tliey're liedaling around town, curious to see what's happening. Like lliousaiuls. |X'r-haps millions, of olhcr individuals, Ron isn't working Ixvause the auio comptiny lb;il employs him is jxnv-cHess.

Ron informs mc thai our liKal Wiilgreens is letting ciislonicrs in one al a lime lo purcli:ise b;isic necessities.

"They're even giving oul bottled water lo everyone who's wailing," he says. "And they jusl gave a sen­ior citizen liiediciilion for free."

Like mosl. the Dr.iflas ;u-e mak­ing Ihe best oul of ; i b;id silualioii. In their Jaiiiestown Green subdivi­sion home the night befon;, dtey welcomed over dieir new neigli-boni.

"MaylK' by Suiid;iy nighl, or as late as lie.xt week." is a response lh;it 1 Iind myself repeating over and over tliis d;iy. ' llie light sprin­kles of rain dial liegin to fall offer more relief and comfort di;in my answer. I'm sure.

A bil north on Novi Ro;id I nolicc llie dcKirs lo one of my favorite Cilleries, Red. Hot & Blue, iire wide o|x.'ii ;iiid ihcre ;ire ;i few vehicles out front, la'l's .see what's happening here.

It's pretty d;uk inside, but there's enough n;itur;il light coming through for ;issist;inl general man­ager l.yiidii Rcxlriguez and her friend l':ilrick Moiilie lo play a game of iwo-pcrson eucliic in one of the from booths.

Miinager Becky l-'inkle is ne;irby lakiiig care of a few (xlds and ends, but she sixin heads oul llie dtxir lo go home for die d;iy. When Lynda lells me dial Becky lives in Uriglilon, 1 quickly suggest sonie-bcxly aiii outside liefore she drives away ;ind infonn her dial Brighloii, according lo radio repons. is a "gridlock" right now Ix-cause everyone is going there lo gel gas and fcxKl.

Most of llie resl of llic employ­ees know alxiut the decision lo slay

"They jusl moved here from Norway, and diey don't have any­diing yet," says Ron. "Wc gave diem a radio, flashlight and some candles. They came over and wc grilled OUL"

Ron and his kids had jast came over from the Civic Centei; where he says more botded water is being given oui. and he had heard dial one or two of die schools were set up as water distribution sites as well.

"Hey. you'ns in tiw Iicws busi­ness." a man ivIth a foicign accent says to me. "llave you heard ivhen the power is coming back on7'

closed after the outage, says Lynda. "We iced ex'erj'thing down,

unplugged die ice bin and turned evefydiing off," she .says. "We been dirough a few of these (outages), and we usually wait a litde longer before closing."

Lynda says that when she could­n't get a hold o f DetrtMt Edi.son to find out what was going on, she figured it was a litde mons serious dian usual. And without power io run their vents and fans, there's no way to run a restaurant

"EveiytJiing seems to be holding out good," she says of tficir fteezer. "We've been staying out of dieie.

Tlie fro7.en stuff is solid, .so I'm nol wonied aboul lhal. Bui ourwqlk-in.. ..we're obviously going lo lose faxi - our whole dessert axiler, and half llie stuff lliat gol caught in our roti.sscrie smoker."

Lynda didn'l know whal was going lo liapixMi .Saturday, when Red, Hoi & Blue had "lon.s" of par­lies to caler.

"There's not enough food," she says. "1 jusl hope diey undcrslaiid. If the power gix;s back on, we'll be here cotiking and trying lo catch up."

Ill a nonnal power outing, she says dicy'd al leasl be able lo go to a grix:ery store and buy food lo pull i l off, but that's obviously oul of the question widi this ouuige.

Her plan is to conlacl diose cus­tomers if iind when the power is restored lo sec if dicy slill wanl die service. With diree caterings and four pick-ups, she estimates dicy could lose at least .$6,000 in busi-ne.ss.

Anolher niimiigcr, Mike Boyle, comes in and jokingly itsks if dicy could al least open die bar and drown some of llieir miseries.

'The taps won't work," dead­pans Lynda, "and the beer would be Wium."

So v'^hars another outage?

10:55 a . in .

That's whal lime my waich says, bui die tall, four-sided City of Novi clock al die comer of Miiin and Miu-ket slrcels is frozen al 4:07. Silting right by the clock are Paiti Nelson and Lany Puflfcr, about die only individuals 1 see downtown right now. Tliey're bodi general managers al die Mesquile Creek rcslaurant and diey're waiung in case iuiy employees come in lo work.

"Our kitchen man.iger showed up and left," .says Paid.

Larry, who lives in Clarkslon, .says die power was sull on at his house when he left diis morning. But he and Paid arc no .smingers to outages.

"We're pretty used to losing power in this development," she says. "Yesterday, one of die guys al die Post Bar was on his cellphone talking lo Bcveriy Hills and his power went oul, so we knew it was .somediing else."

Mesquile Creek had a few cus­tomers at dial time, and die deci­sion was soon made lo shut it down. Again, without ventilation, even grilling is out of the question.

"Our cooler is still pretty cool," says Paid. "The walk-in is at about 35 degrees and die freezer is still below freezing. We haven't opened eidier of diem. The odier refrigerat­ed areas, what I've seen, eveiydiing else will have to be dumped."

Strange as it may seem, diis out­age could tum out to be less severe dian die most recent one the folks at diis restaurant endured. This past April , they weie forced to bring in a huge semi-sized freezer that was used for a couple of weeks. Still, Path realizes it could be woise.

"When die power went out yes­terday, fliere were two ladies caught in Uiat glass elevator light around die comer," she says. "The fire dqMItment had to come over and get tfiem out - and one of the

women wiis pregnant!"

"Tension is h igh"

12:17 p . m .

Al l ' s quiet heading east on Grand River, passing dirough Meadbowbook and heading toward Hiiggerty. Traffic is unbelievably light in an area dial's nonnally a driver's,nighlmare. 1 head noflh on

only open because Sam's Club and Wal-Mart have such a .strong com-miunenl to civic responsibility, and providing water, ice, ballenes and propane to cusiomen, is dieir duty.

There haven'i been .my physical altercations yet, says William, but some members were yelling at each odier when it appeared die ice might be sold out. Foilunaiely, a •"• couple more pallets of bags wcr6 located.

Hag|eIiy j n d noticfeq»uieia.few..Hy.-^#;i^»WI5ie«|iBeS"are ^ t?* vehicles ai the Sam's Club store. : American culiureand the fear •- ~'"

which is a byproduct of die 9-11 When 1 pull into die parking lot, I .see a long line of people widi blue shopping carts and a wide variety of colored umbrellas held up over dicir heads.

In die lobby of die store, general manager Mike Kuhlmaii is direct­ing traffic. He opened al 7 a.m., and al dial lime a gcncnilor was supplying a minimal amount of lighting. But Mike says diat gener­ator went out iibout .an hour ago. Now his crew is wheeling pallets of bottled water and ice lo die siore-I'ronl bccau.se il's loo dark inside for customers to move around.

"I've got about 20 pallets of bot­tled water," Mike says, noting diat each carried aboul 35 cases. "And we've already gone dirough six pallets of ice. We've gol enough water, but 1 guess diey'll go lo Gaionidc or whatever diey need after diat."

A nciirby employee shmgs his shoulders iind chimes in, "Call me silly, bui only a few people have bought pop or beer."

Mike guesstimates dial widi the exception of a party store down ihe street, they are probably one of die only stores open. And die owner o f dial party store hiid come Io Sam's Club earlier to buy .some things.

Outside, employee William Katz is pulling a large dolly slacked with ice and groceries for customer Elaine Bouyer. The Farminglon Hills woman, like everyone else in line, came lo slock up, nol knowing how long die power outage would last.

William, however, knows. "The power will be back on

tomorrow," he says. "This is just mass consumption at its finest. It's a testament lo die unknown. The lights are on in Brighton and SouUi Lyon."

He says dial when die power went out die day before, customers

l i y ' the l i ne o n v r . io ' ^oad s t r e t c h e d ;p; ' ir . i ;a s i g h t t o get i n t o f i f A,1ioco s t a t i o n at - ' . ' /^•" ' iWIIle.

aflemiadi," William dieorized. "Tension is high."

Novi (Ghost)Town Center

12:45 p . m .

I call my wife on die cell. She's complaining dial her paycheck hiis n't come in die mail. I try to explain to her dial she has no idea

the buddings, but the ouiage forced-'- • workere to do some dimgs die old-fashioned wiiy

"We had to use all manual labor 10 unload widi rollers,' says A l , . . noting dial dieir normal conveyor '-' bells couldn't be used.

He's only made 20 stops today, ' -cotnpared to 120 nomially A l feels "• dial drivers are a "lilde'more cocky"!3 here - in'.t hurry,'' but He-does sa3("'" the traffic iiisb&ii-pi^lfy-gooa. • "

"I've been with UPS 18 years,'' • says A l , "but I've never seen aiiy-thing like diis."

The vifaiting game ,n

1:00 p . m .

After his UPS imcked pulls away, 1 realize that I should've ^' snapped Al ' s picture. 1 follow him ''^ around die buildings to die east side of Novi Town Cenler where I see a woman sitting in a camp

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were demanding dial tfiey be let in to buy goods.

"It's crazy," says William. "One individual said he had read all the statutes and that we R A D to allow him to puIchase a genefator. We only had eight or lO geneiatoIs."

William figures dieir stoie was

how insignificant dial inconven­ience is at diis point in time. There arc people worried about surviving for die next couple of days.

Eidier I'm not dial convincing or die transmission is breaking up, but I hear my wife say she's taking die kids to Lake Michigan to soak up die sun and play on die beach. I hang up, looked up at die dark clouds forming in die sky and die long line growing outside Sam's Club, feeling about as strange as can be.

I head back west on Grand River and tum into die soudiside enlnmce to Novi Town Center Desolate. That's about die best word to describe it.

I do spot a familiar brown-and-gold United Parcel Service delivery truck slowly winding dirough die lot. "WhaC I diink to myself, "could diis guy possibly be doing today?" He stops and I pull over to ask him just diat.

"Well, diey told me just to drive around and see who's open," says AI Ostroskie. "It's pretty slow."

He'd made stops at die afore­mentioned Sam's O u b and a Rite Aid , but that was about i t

"I 'm doing some extra pickups, and i f die power goes up, we'll tell people to call in and we'll service diem."

Al ' s route is along Grand River in Novi, and he wortcs out of die UPShubatl-96andMIddlebeIt whete 180 of their tmcks hit die roads daily. They've got dieir own generators for die gas pumps and

chair reading a book. Besides a guy picking up mish in die parking lot, she's die only odier person in sight, 'i

"What are you doing," I ask her.;^ "Waiting for die power to come "^

back on," replies Lacey Schlagel, 1 manager of die Linen-n-Things ~l store.

Wi l l diere be a mad msh for washclodis and bedspreads when diat happens, I wonder. '

Lacey has been on duty since 6 ••' a.m., and she's not scheduled to be relieved of her post until 8 p.m. '--The store employs about 20, and one odier reported for work today.

"Most of diem live in die area and diey knew," says Lacey

Another employee had stayed on"-' duly overnight for security.

The shopping plaza has been "^ pretty quiet, says Lacey, but it was •"' active dlis moming.

'Then it was obvious dial diere was no power and eveiybody left," ~i she says. '5

Lacey is armed with boided water, a sandwich and a cellphone ' \ dial has already died. However, she-": notes diat diere is a pay phone neaiby diat works. She'about halfway dirough a novel, "I^ona Range." '^

"It's not very good," she says of die book, "bui I'm stuck widi it now."

Could she (or would she want ^ to) finish it before the power went . back on? .

"We're c^itiIIiIstic," she says.

Brighton or bust

1:15 p .m.

I'PuUing out of Novi Town Cenler afid heading noIdi on Novi Road, I spot a young couple pulling several ttrighi red gas cans oui of a car tnink in die Denny's restaurant plirking lot. This wil l be interesting, Ipiink. K"How you folks doin'? I'm widi

dfe Novi News, and I'm just oul taking to people and seeing whal's going on," I said. "Care to talk atxiut what happened?"

vThe husband, a large fellow dressed in white,shorts and T-shirt, looks at his wife for a second, l i ighs, and says, "Sure, why nol."

^'.His name is Sean Williams and hers is Daveatta. Their 2-year-old sq)i, Mark, is in die back seat of her

I Turns out Sean took off from their Souddield home when he heard on die radio dial gasoline was available in Brighton. He did-n.'t quite make it.

; " M y car just stopped on die free­way," he says. "I had to push it up die ramp." ; And i l being a fairly laige Buick,

I ;doubt dial was an easy task even for someone as big as Sean.

' He called his wife to help oul. S l e picked him up and diey went t^;Brighton, filled several gas cans af.die B P station on Grand River and brought diem back to Sean's car.

^-"We sat in our car 35 minutes ajjd people were running out of gas inilhe line," says Sean.

>;Hts initial plans were to get gas ahd dien head to Howell to buy a ^aerator. He wasn't exacdy sure ctf.die store's name at first, but vwjtfun a few seconds we had it fig­ured out I ' l l spare diat owner die embarrassment of listing his store's name here.

^''We called diem last night, and die generators were $550," says Sean. "Then, when we called diem diis morning, die price was $1,800!"

"We've got a sump pump ai home," explains Daveatta, "and our basement will be flooded."

When radio stations began announcing diat Brighton and Flint are locations to purchase food and

J gas, you could iJInost hear the.,. masses . b e ^ g . t p dips^^rg^, ^

"* "insane is.not the word,'! Scan ,; says pfiBrigjiton.'?Fand£^oniuin."

"So," l said to diem, "now diat you've got your gas, are you head­ing back home?'

"No," says Daveatta, "we're going to go back to Brighton to eat.

G o back! Are you nuts, I 'm diinking.

"We've got food at home," she says, "but we don'i have any way of preparing it. And we've got to eat.

" A l l I want to know is when are we getting our lights back on," Daveatta adds. "I don't care about die TV, die radio.. .none of dial. I jilst want my lights back on."

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I On the road again

; 1:35 p .m. I - Yes, homeowners were having a

tear of a time stitiggling widi die biackout. But what about travelers? i f you were lucky enough dial your fight landed before 4:07, diat still tfdn't mean you were out of die vfoods. j Even at one of die best hotels in

tfie slate, die Hotel Baroneite, accommodations weren't die nor-njid five stars for guests. •"We died io take die best lemons

aHd make die best lemonade we could," says Lenny Wdliams, die h&tel manager

About 90 of his 153 rooms were occupied Thursday night. After 10 p.m., some of die guests had made die decision to head west toward Chicago in search of a hotel widi power For diose dial stayed, including die Michigan Mi lk Producers contingency, it wasn't all diai bad.

Lenny says diey got luclg' and found a pizza parlor in Wixom dial had power, so diey went out and brought back pizzas for all die guests. And diey used glowsticks to provide a Uttie bit of light in dieir rooms.

"We fed eveiyone breakfast diis morning," says l x n n y "They had dieir meeting, and as diey were leaving, diey dianked us forgoing die extra mile to make sure evefy­diing was O K for diem."

The hotel is equipped widi an emefgency generator dial provides power for die EXIT lights, passen­ger elevators and computer sys­tems. But diat is litde comfort to one man who exiting die hotel lobby as I'm wrapping up my interview widi ljenny. The man's daughter is getting married Saturday, widi her reception ai die Hotel Baronetie.

''Sir, l assure you dial when die power comes back on, we will do evefything wc can for you," says Lenny.

The man waUcs aWay, shaking his head - not fof lack of confi­

dence in Lenny .ind his staff, by any means, but just at his own bad luck. "My daughter is getting mar­ried tomorrow," lie's probably diinking, "and we get hit by die worst blackout in die history of North America."

Jo l (e r ' swi ld

1:50 p . m .

Spirits are much higher a few hundreds away al die Verizon Wireless oudel where I notice an unusually high number of vehicles parked. 1 pull up just as a worker is closing one of dieir overiiead doors and motions for me to go around to die fronl door.

Large windows let plenty of light inlo die front of die store, but about halfway back it's a litde darker, l l doesn't seem lo phase die four employees silting at a small table playing cards. In fact, diey seem lo be having a preily good time after dieir corporate office told diem to stay open.

"Actually, we're selling a boat­load o f cigarette adapters, or vehi­cle power chargers as diey're now called," says Joyce Jalbert, store manager.

She says nearly everybody's home phone is out, and many peo­ple widi cellphones can't charge iheir phones using a regular wall oudet, hence die boom in "vpc" sales.

But widiout cash registers, employees have to manually charge customers die $29.99 plus tax or charge it io dieir Verizon accounts i f diey have one.

The 10-person crew opened up at 9:30 a.m., just like a nonnal workday. However, Verizon's call centers, like die one on Northwestern Highway in Soudifield, aren't open.

As Joyce, David Cain, Chris Yee and Phil Coward play cards, Chris Putt does some pretty fancy pick­ing on an acoustic guitar. "This staff is well prepared. And by diat 1 mean diey also have Monopoly, Cranium and Scrabble board giunes to help get diem dirough die long day. When I lell diem die folks over at Red, Hot & Blue are also playing cards, die Verizon gang laughsMdoffersachallenge., ; ,, • ' 'Wp!^ lai)gipStoHg'?",?ilJ!Sji,

Joyce. "We'll be aWghl."

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'You took charge and we felt so safe.' I can't tell you what dial's wordi," says Colleen.

lyghl before 1 slop by, die power al Waltonwood has come back on for die 150 fesidenis occupying 141 rooms.

Luckily, wheii die power went out Thuisday, die staff had already prepared dinner. A l l diey needed lo do was switch to piiper producls and let dieir backup batteries power dieir lights.

Novi police, like Diane M.xGregor, slop by frequently to make sure eveiydiing is fine widi die seniors.

"The conimunity is .so support­ive," says Colleen. "We have every resource imaginable available to

" . . . ta lc ing ca re o f bus ine s s "

2:20 p . m .

1 leave and drive around die perimeter of T\velve Oaks M a l l . Lighls are on inside here and diere, but diere is no noticeable move­ment. Pulling out on to soudibound Novi Road, I can see westbound I-96 irafiic moving al a snail's pace while easlbound traffic is very light.

Fire Station #1 on Grand River is my next slop. The fire fighters are sure to have some stories to lell diere. As 1 pull up, two of them ran over to an emergency vehicle and speed off.

"We're just taking care o f busi­ness as it comes," says L l . Brad McFaul. "We've had a few set­backs widi phones, and our genera­tor burned up. But we pul in a tem-poraiy one. Fortunately, we haven't had anydiing major."

Brad says drivers have been "very good" about working dieir way dirough intersections. The worst tiiriewas right when die

, powesrTOiiJflijil,,as„rush hoyf.hit i , , , , and traffic increased.

Novi Road and Gnuid River Avenue.

"By die time 1 go lo a gas sta­tion, Ihey're out of gas," says tlie Livonia gal. "Most people don't have enough gas lo gel back on die freeway."

She's hying lo make her way back up lo Central Michigan UniveIsity. Slie liad come down from M l . Pleasani Thursday for some shopping and gol caught in die blackout.

"It look me an hour and a half lo gel from M l . Pleasant to Novi, iuid dien anodier hour and a half to gel from Novi to Garden City yester­day," she says. "I've got a quarter tank of gas left, but I don't wanl lo waste i l . The freeway is buniper-lo-bumper and uxiffic's only going five miles per hour"

Aldiough die pumps have been blocked off widi lape dial wraps around die four-pump square, numerous cars .ire piirked dierc in anticipation of die power coming back on sooii. Maybe the fact dial

No news is good news lo Ilieiii, and lo me, iicliially. Tliaiikl'ully, tliis is a crisis willi no tragedies lo report .so far.

1 wind my way dowii 10 Mile lo Novi Road, up lo Gnmd River and over to Haggerly. Lines are starting to foriii al bolli eniraiices lo llie Shell station here. Power is slowly beiiig restored in spots throughout llie cily. Tlie long line at Sani's Club is now gone.

A l Meadowbrook Coiiinioiis, die city's .senior citizen center, things are looking on die briglil side - literally. Tlie power lias conie back on and llie staff appears lo be breiilliiiig a collec­tive sigh of iclief.

Kadiy Ciawl'oid, special recre­ation coordinalor, and Marcia Stevens, property managcL caii'i say enough about liow llieir com-muiiily came togeiher during die outiige. Bolli of Ihem spent die nighl al llie faeilily, sleeping on couch cushions.

"They see a familiar face and Ihey feel beller knowing we're

ed and il's gelling niuggier..As I drive wesI, things slowly slait feel­ing "nonnal" once again. 1 mm souili on Beck and see dial dieic are lots of eai-s in die Kroger lot. They must be o|x;n. and 1 haven't really Ciilen iinylliiiig today I'll gnib a sandwich al dieir deli.

Well, die ileli section is all bui wiped oul and die bins where sal­ads, fniil imys, cheeses, elc. are di.splayed lue einply

Buck lo die car and weslward on Grand River. 1 don'l Wiinl lo gel on the lieeway. Il miglil be moving fine; i l might nol he. Either way, I'd r.ilhcr travel a suiface sUfel and see wliiii's liapiwning.

I'm iinlici[)aliiig heavy trallic on Gniiid River as I gel into Brighloii, but il never malerializes. Wixom, New Hudson, South Lyon. . . nodi­ing iippears unusual. 1 filially make It lo die VG's grocciy store a! Grand River iiiid Old U.S. 23 in Brighton. Their deli obviously took a hit diat day, but 1 can still grab a sandwich and some chips. A l llie checkout counier, 1 ask die citshieL

I let diem know dial my cell­phone is on Verizon's system, and mine is one of die few on my staff dial is actually working. They're veiy glad to hear dial, but dien indicate to me diat none of dieir own Verizon phones are working in die store. When it rains, it pours, eh?

Uh-ten-shun!!

2:05 p . m .

Things aren't as laid-back over at Waltonwood, die retirement community mn widi miliiaiy preci­sion by its administrator. Colleen G . DeBard. When die ouiage hit, she says she put into action a plan dial's been ranning non-stop ever since. •

She brought her crew inlo a room, told diem what she needed diem to do, and diey adjusted quickly to die crisis at hand.

"First tiling we did was went oul and bought all die water we could find," she says. "Widiin an hour, we were fully stocked."

C:olleen kept a staff of 20 woric-ing overnight, armed widi flash­lights to keep constant check on residents' rooms. A l 7 a.m., a ftesh new leam look over

'This moming die residents .said.

Brad says die chief and assistant chief pul in some long hours Thureday and Friday and finally went home to get some rest. Eveiydiing has been going smoodi-ly. Many of dIe calls have been for alaims going off due io baiteiy fail­ure.

"We were concerned about low water pressure, but diere have been no problems," says Brad. "So far, we haven't had lo use any."

The only water being used is botded, and fire fighters are rationing diat out to cidzens who stop by. That includes a brodierand sister who are diere when l come in. Aldiough diey won't reveal dieir names, diey appear to be in dieir 40s and do say diey live nearby

" M y modier died and her funeral is supposed to be lomonow in Oak Park," says die woman, obviously upset but not hysterical. "We can't make a phone call lo see what's going on. Our cell phone is dead too."

Half empty or ha l f fu l l ?

2:25 p . m .

Twenty minutes. That's how long a 21-year-old Livonia wom<in has been parked at die Mobil gas station on die soudiwest comer of

Street and Grand River is now functioning makes diem diink it wil l be sooner llian later.

n i c black Jeep behind die C M U student is being driven, or parked, by Talelhia Home, a 26-year-old womiin from Soudifield trying to make it to Brighton for gas.

"At fu^t, I diought it was temor-ism," she says. "I was very afraid.'.'

Her two male passengers, who: don't wanl to give dieir names, are more angry diiin seized aboul die outage.

The one in die front seat hits die dashboard and points his finger. 'They .should never let diis happen again."

T ime to regroup

2:50 p . m .

l decide lo head back to my Nordiville office jusl to check andt see i f anydiing is happening Ihere, M y cellphone worked for contact­ing my wife, but it's not getting dirough to my reporters, publisher or colleague. Downtown is still desolate, save for die same few guys who've been sitting on a pirk bench talking probably since 1 left diis moming.

Nobody is in our ofiice, and il's incredibly sluify inside. I use die resmxim, grab a Coke and a small bag of roasled peanuts and head back lo my car for anodjer tour of die city.

Constniclion at die high school is quiet, but I ' l l bet somediing is shakin' by City Hall. As 1 drive by die Civic Cenler, an employee stops me and asks if I'm diere for die free botded water diey're giving out.

"No, just heading to die police station," I reply.

"You want some water any­way?" she asks.

"I'm good. Thanks!" In die lobby of die station, I lell

one of die receptionists who 1 am and diat I'd like to speak to L l . Tim McNamata i f he's available. She calls him on die phone, hands i l lo me and Tim says lo come back out­side and walk down to die Training Cenler, which diey've converted inlo a central command cenler.

There's a big fan in die doorway, blowing warm air into the cenler. Sheryl Walsh, die city's public rela­tions head, greets me as Tim comes walking over. 1 relay to her my day and all die good diings I've wit-nes.sed and, oddly, how much I've been enjoying covering diis crisis.

Sheryl takes me over to meel Chief Doug Shaeffer and Kim Capello, city councilman, who are silting al a table talking. We talk very briefly, but the bottom line is this - dungs are going snioodily.

here," says Kalhy. A small generator and a

portable toilet were brought over, and police and fire personnel check in frequently.

"You just can't imagine liow great il's been," says Marcia. "Tlie city effort combined lias jusl been amazing. Tliey brought fans... they jusl wanted to make sure we had everything we needed."

Walcr was brouglil lo each resi­dent and senior van drivers helped out this nioniing by delivering water to tlic ranch apartmeiit homes on ihc complex. For lunch dlis afternoon, everyone griiied oul in die courtyard.

A few of llie 192 residents at die three-story facility have spe­cial needs, and the odier residents pitched in to help out and were very understanding, says Katliy.

"Last nighl," she explained, "we took out all the ice cream and ate it!

Hey, no c u t s !

4:00 p . m .

I head north to 12 Mi le iind turn left, figuring I ' l l slowly wind my way westbound toward Howell. A l Novi Road, there's an incredibly long line sirelcliiiig north wailing lo get into Ihe Amoco station. There's a smaller line wailing on llie 12 Mile side to gel in and refuel. Employees are out in llie lot directing traffic and a Novi police officer is standing al die 12 Mile entrance keeping an eye on Ihiiigs.

I park al an auto shop across the street and walk over widi my camera to snap some shots. Everyone appears to be in good spirits, thankful dial they're able to gel some gas, even i f there is a $20 limit.

A l die cast side enliance, where the line is really long, an Asian man in a white mid-size ciu" lakes culs and wheels in fronl of every­one, which sets one o f the atten­dants into a fury. He starts wiiving his arms, shouting and pointing for the driver to lurn around, get back out onto Novi Road and go to die back of the line.

Other attendants conie over to help oul, but die driver concedes and does a U-lum before things gel any uglier. Not being a profes­sional photographer by any stretch of die imagination, I'm happy wilh my shot lhal captured lhal whole incident. Time to move on.

I just want a sandwich

4:25 p . m .

By now die clouds have dissipal-

"How's it been going today?" Slie rolls her eyes, glares and me

and says, "You wouldn't believe i l . "

Winding down

5:00 p . m .

1 rekix in my car, niuncliing awiiy imd lislening lo die latest on WJR. Dclroil Miiyor Kwiuiie Kilpiilrick gives an updale on city services, and everydiing sounds like it's going good. Power is slow­ly being restored to the region. The Dream Cniise is still on. Trafiic accideiils are, inciedibly, down from normal. ,,

I've got anodier hour before I have lo be to Howell High School for my Softball game. I'll slop al my fiivorile cigar store iuid chew die fat widi tile pippn^r. . t j<;;si i„, ; idways got two cents lo .spend,. whedier anybody wimts to heai'il or nol. His hike on diis blackout will be interesting. •

"Man, look at dio.se idiots wail­ing 10 get giis," he siiys, pointing oul liis front window lo Ihe slalion across die street. "Can you believe it? It's been like dial on and oil'all day"

1 go inlo die humidor and pick oul a nice Nicaraguan slogie - an E l Rey Del Mundo. I pay for i l , clip i l , lighl i l iind scUle inlo a chiur widi a copy of Hour iiiiigazine lo flip dirough.

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The owner quickly lets nie know dial his power did abrief hiccup yesterday and dial was i l . Never losl it. . "We never do," he says. "Brighton never loses power eidier."

1 don't rcil ly know if that's liuc or not, but lie's on a roll and I'll let' him ran widi it.

"Last nighl, I cranked up die air conditioner and my wife and 1 hopped in the hot tub," he gloals. "Why should 1 con-serve my power for Detroit? What do I care about dieni'?"

M y 'gar is staniiig lo lo,se ils appeal, and not from die taste eidier It's time to leave. I make it to die bidl field jusl in time lo slip on a pair of borrowed spikes and drill die first pilch over die center-field fence. To paraphrase Colleen, G. DeBard, 1 can't tell you how good diat fell.

1 guess I've experienced a wide spectrum of humanity today, and the majority of it was good and encouraging. People were doing dieir best lo make a bad situation beltcn I did feel a bil like an out­sider peering in, but for die mosl part I liked what 1 saw.

Text aitd photos by Cal Stoite. editor of the Novi Neyys. He can i>e reached at (248) 349-1700. ext. 113 or at cstonc@lit.liomecoinm.net.

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Cities react to outage witli remarJiable calm cont inued f ro in front page

n ' l i i was walL-r. i.iiM.' I2(i oilier coniinunilii.-s in .Soullii-.isl MiLli icai i . . \ov i gels ils ualer Iriini llie Dei ro i l Wuicr and .Sewer Dcparliiii-nl. .\1imiles aller llic- |iiiv.er Tailed. Novi Dep.irtiiienl of I'uhlic Works einpUiyecs began observing a drop ill waler pressure.

.Slit-ryl Walsh. \ o \ i ' s Luinimi-iiily ri.'l,itinus MiaiuigiT. saiil llie I l ly opened (.niiilnri sialioiis al the Civic Cciilcr. N o \ i .Middle School and Village Oaks i-!k-jiR-i;lary .Sclnn)!. ollcring lioi-ik'd w.ilcr. ' ihc ci ly 's Dcparlniciil ol I'arks, Rccrcaiion ami l-(ircsliy began delivering ihc lirsl of 11.0011 bullies ol walcrs lo llic iiimrnrl sialinns as well as si-ninr ci i i /c i is ' Ikhiics anuMiil llu- cily.

Chiii i i i ig l .u. a (Icncral Moliirs L-ngiik-cr. his wile. Vicky, and ihcir iwo cliililrcii were among the irickk- ol people who slojipcd hy llic Civic Center lo pick up walcr "Il's still hcaralilc." said Cbimii ig, adtliiig that he was planning on taking his lainily to :i p.irk for llic clay.

"Wc kind of enjoy the lights being out." said Vicky. She said luM laniily cooked on their gas grill Thursday and slept in llic liascmciil to escape Ihc lic;il.

Iiiiliiilly cily i i l ik ' ials in Novi purchased two pallets of bottled walcr al llic .Sam's Club on llaggcny Koad. bill lalcr m the day iiiailc anaiigciiicnls lo buy walcr as necessary from Absopurc in I 'lynioulli. Walsh added that residents on Novi's west side could also go lo the Coiiimiinily .Sports Park al the eoriicr of II) Mile and N;ipicr roacls. where the well thai sup­plies Ihe reslrooni laeilities was kept running wii l i ii geiieraioi.

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In Wi.xdiii. the w:iler situation uas coasidcnibly k-ss siressliil. .•\ssistam C i l y Manager Tony .Nowieki s;iid thai as soon as eily

employees noied a drop in water pressure coming from Detroit, they closed a scries of valves, isolating the cily, and turned on lw(i of the city's si.\ community wells.

So, while ,Melro Detroit lelevi-sion stations were Id l ing .Soutlicasl Michigan residents to boil their water, Wi.xoin city (dl"i-cials were reassuring llieir resi­dents that the water was perfect­ly safe. Nowieki said Ihc city would most likely rely on its own

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wells until at least mid-week, jusl 10 be on ihc s:d'c side.

In addilioii to having six coin-iiuiiiily wells as back up to the Deiroil Walcr and Sewer Departnicnt .System, Nowiek i said die cily has I..*) mil l ion gal­lons of walcr storage for lire pro­tection.

Wi.\oin Act ing Fire Chief Jeffrey Yuchas/. said his biggest concern over the weekend was thai the lights would come back on. only lo get knocked oul again hy a locally severe tluniderstonii.

Yuchas/ said he lirsl realized there w;is a problem about 4:20 p.m. when a tninsl'ormer blew on I.(Hill Lake Koad. That was fol­lowed in rapid succession by radio calls from the Highland and l.yon townships Tire chiefs reporting blackouls and retjuest-ing iralTic control assistance from the Oakland Counly Sheriffs Offiee. followed by the (lakland Counly I'jiiergency (ipeialioiis Center reporting lhal I'ontiae was in the dark as well,

lie said two of his paramedics were pressed into service to help cvaciKilc palienis from I'ontiac's Norlh ()aklaiul Medical CentcL ;ukI the deparinieni sel up a gcn-eialor al die home of a child on a respiralor lUil olher lhan that, it was fairly iincvenlful.

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In Walled Lake, Woychowski said he thought the rea.son people were so calm was that the black­out was so wide spread. He said his llrsl indication of ihc cxlenl of the blackout was when he noticed that all of Ihe F M sla-lions on Ihc radio dial had gone off ihc air.

Moments later Walled Lake P D went off Ihe air as well . Woychowski noted that while the cellphone lower thai serves as llie deparlment's communicalions niasl has an emergency genera­tor, die generalor powered ihe cellphone equipnicnl. but nol the police deparimem's iransrniller.

Forlunaiely, one o f Walled Lake's police officers is a former elecirician and he was able lo jury-rig power lo Ihe transmiller in about 20 minutes.

Novi also found itself wiih a communications problem Thursdiiy nighl. Wilh the lighls oul, mosl residents had neither

television or radio service al home, making Ihe city's cable .syslem virlually useless.

Walsh said Ihe eily went door-to-door aboul 8:30 p.m., handing out stacks of flyers-to homeown­ers association presidents. Some residents, however, complained later that flyers ended up in their mailboxes where Ihcy d idn ' l Ihink lo look because mail serv­ice was suspended.

Bononi, who once lived Ihrough a Ihree-day blackoul in New England, said Novi was for-lunale lhal die event was as brief as i l was. "If i l had gone on longer, figuring oul how lo feed people would have been a real challenge," she said.

Friday aflernoon found shop­pers al the Meijer slore on Grand River ;il Wixom Road looking for waler and hatleries in an eerie iwi l igh l . Although the meal, dairy and frozen food .sections were closed, ihere was s l i l l enough power from Ihe slore's emergency generators lo keep all of the cash registers running. One clerk said the 24-hour store closed for a couple of hours

aboul 3 a.m., but other than that things were relafivcly normal.

Across Ihe street, Cynthia Hunter, the manager al the Mobi l gas slalion, was wrapping con-iruciion tape around Ihc light-poles at the entrances to her sta­tion before heading off to check on another slalion manager She said people kept driving up lo Ihe darkened slalion, knocking on the door and then gelling a liule irate when she told them she couldn't sell gas.

Hunter said she "heard a boom" Thursday afiemooii and then everything went dark. "Thank God, no one was al ihe pumps."

While no major incidents were reported in N o v i , Wixom or Walled Lake during the blackoul, officials in all three communities are planning staff meetings lo discuss improving Iheir emer­gency response.

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Jiving to die Gleaners [Community pood Bank] later tonight," Cole ^ i d . <• "A lot of people are stopping just to socialize and ask questions. We're becoming' elecu-icily jxpetts," he said. He planned to stay open until about 4 p.m.

Hiller's Market on Cenler Street in Northville was one of die few markets open diroughout die 24-Hour blackout widi die use of gen­erators.

"We were really busy early in die moming. We opened an hour early because diere were people standing outside die door. We just couldn't tum diem away." said Doug Nicd, a manager at the market, on Aug. 15.

"We've had lots of calls about water, Jn fact, we sold about eight pallets of botded water," Nied said.

Water, ice, batteries and ready-to-eat foods were top requests from consumers.

\ "We Ian out of ice Friday morn­ing, but we have had a few extra deliveries of botded water," Nied s^d. "Lunch meats, hot dogs and barbecued foods were popular. People were buying food for a meal, not for a week."

Brook'side Hardware on Novi Road between Eight Mi le and Nine Mile roads was dark but open dur­ing the ouiage.

"We sold out of all our genera­tors,'oil lamps, propane tanks and flashlights diat we had batteries for," said, Mike Caverly, assistant mandgei-of Brookside Hardware.

"We couldn't pump propane for customers since die pump requires electricity," he added. Managers closed die store close about 8:45 p jTi. bodi Aug. 14 and Aug. 15 as darkness set. '

•Adrian Forester, a resident of Nordiville, shopped for ballenes in die darfc'at.Bfookside.

j " A lot of people iireset up for diis [type of emeigency],'. he said. "I

could go to my cabin if I needed to, but it's nine hours away in die Calskill Mountains in New York."

Cash and checks were die order of die day at area retail establish­ments, as credit card purchases also required electricity.

All-weadier radios were anodier hoi seller at Brookside Hardware as well as siphon pumps so people could transfer gasoline from car lo car or from car to generalor.

Larry AdJnson, slore manager at Daminan H.vdware on Novi Road, placed a sign on die door slating what die slore was out of to save customers dine.

"We don't normally prepare for ouLigcs. Our slwk is adequate for minor oulages. Bui longer oulages catch eveiybody off guard," he said Aug. 15.

"I just talked to the main ofiice in Madison Heights. They said if diey had any supplies on hand dial diey were critical that diey'd bring diem on a truck lomonow," AUdnson said. "Mosl of the calls we've received have been about batteries," he added,

"Just look at our flashlight sec-' don," said Gail Ward, assistant manager at Damman. "It was full die odier day."

The power came back on aboul 1:15 p.m. .Aug. 15, went off for a few seconds, dien back on again at die Novi Courtyard by Marriott hotel next to Novi Town Center .

The computers were up, but management sdll had lo tum people away Residents of Livonia who came lo die fronl desk looking for a room were told die holel wasn't accepung cusiomers because rooms hadn't been able to be cleaned due 10 die power outage.

The 7-11 store on Meadowbrook Road soudi of Ten Mi le Road was a popular place and remained open diroughout most of die outage even diough die building had no power

"Wc had to shut the store TliuIsday night when it got dark but opened at 7 a.m. on Friday," said Debbie Jamieson, manager

"We've been really busy And we have C batteries left," said Rick Canzano, slorcowneL who said die store became loo crowded at one point.

"We had so many people who wanted to get in, we had lo close die slore. It becomes a safety issue," he said.

The financial toll on businesses was substandal, even diough die 7-11 sold all of die water die store had

on had at $22 a case, "We've got $4,000 worth of

melted ice creimi and spoiled milk plus at least a $2,000 loss in sales so far," Canzano said.

"We're using a solar-powered calculator for our sales," he noted. "It's not going lo be a break-even situalion."

Canzano said ice, batteries, cof­fee and cold beverages were in demimd.

"I wish we had a magic ice machine and a magic coffee machine that operated wilhout elec­tricity," he said. "People came in late in die moming looking for cof­fee, which is usually an early-morn­ing diing. I diink a lol of people were hung over," Canzano said.

"And people kept coming in and asking, 'Can we get a Slurpee?'"

Overall, shoppers were surprised and glad dial the convenience slore was open.

"People have been so gralefid," Canzano said.

Gasoline was a hoi ticket in ilic area Aug. 15, loo, as cars lined up ai area pumps. Molorisis crowdctl imo die Mimilhon slalion al ihc corner of Ten Mile and Meadowbrook roads die afiemoon of Aug. 15 even diough Ihere was no power.

"People .saw die power conic on across die slreet at farmer Jack and came over, but we don'l have any power yet," said Kevin Sovel. owner of die bu.sy slalion.

"And i l lakes aboul 2() niinules for the computers to start working once the power comes on," he added.

'They see llic line, so they keep coming."

Drivers were also lined up around die comer at Ihc Mobi l gas sladon at Eighl Mile and Tafi roads about 5 p.m. Aug. 15.

Power was reslored to die Novi Ice Arena aboul 4 p.m. Aug. 15, bin after 24 hours, a lol of mclling look place. "Our ice has been exiremely affected. We're trying lo take care

of ll nghl now,' said an arena spiikespeisoii lale lhal afiemoon.

Many lesuuirants were limited in wli:it they coiilil serve or closctl due lo :i eonlaiiiiiialcd w;iler supply. The McDomild's RestauianI al Twelve ();iks Mall was slill closed llie morning of Aug. l(i. The one on llaggeny Koad bclwccn Higlil Mile and Nine Mile had only cerlain bev-cnigcs ;iv:iil:ible, and no coffee.

.lames Uiiy, a cook al The .Shilling Gate icsiauranl/bar in dowiilown Northville, was seen working on his geiicniior the morn­ing of Aug. I.'i.

"We'\e already wrilleii off llic fonil. We're jusl making sure our cleclrie:il syslem slill works so we can keep llie lighls on for cleaning." Ray said.

'I he Meijer I'lianiiaey al die cor­ner of Mgbl Mile and llaggcrty ro:ids didn'l have to close at all dur­ing die oulaue. And, business was brisk Aug. 15.

"VVe beard we were die only

pharmacy open in miles. Il's crazy-busy," said Doug Tobbe.

"We probably have Iriplc the usuiil number of cusiomers," he said.

The location was obviously undersuifl'cd.

"I've been liying to pull slafl" from other stores, bui you can'I gel in touch wilh diem. 1 would love for some people lo come in," he said.

Bollled walcr and'icc no doubl remained high-priorily ilcnis unlil die ciiy of Deiroil lifled the boil

, alert on lap waler several days after Ihc outage. And wilh rumors dial some merclianis were charging $20 a bag for ice, icsidenis were cer­lainly glad when Ihe wjiler supply rcluriied lo normal.

Pam Fleming is a staff writer for llie Novi News and the Northville Record. She can he reached al (248) 349-1700, e.\l. 105. or by e-mail al pJlcniing<s>ht.homecoiwiuiel.

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. . i i . i i our plans will he for ; !• -rls leal hot." said Rech.

. irallv whiii everybody is l.\er\hoily should liy to

i, some Inillled w:iter. I I mil thai up Inward

i' . -n II s very congested so wc I .1 siiai'jiu north on U.S. 2?

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P o l i c e R e p o r t

Home burglarized A 47-year-old Novi inim told

Officer Kristie Gnienwald at 3:33 p.m. Aug. 11 lliat his Miquelon Street residence wa.s burglarized while he was at work. He said more llian $170 damage was done. There are suspects.

Identity s to len

A 32-year-old Novi inan told Officer Kristie Grucnwald Aug. 11 lliat while doing a credit report check he discovered that someone had used his idenliiy to open an •Ameritech account between May 20

• and June 20 1997, generating a bill of $738.76.

Windwil l tossed

A 46-ycar-old Novi woman told Oflicer Kevin Giltnorc Aug. 11 tliat someone took a deconidvc windmill from die yard of her Arizona Street

'home and threw it tlIrough a sionn window. She estimated damage at $100.

Identity Stolen II

A 25 year-old Novi man told Officer Kristie Gmcnwald Aug. 12 that someone used his identity to open an Ameritech account in Detroit, generating a bill of $3,942.86.

Shoplifter bagged

Officer Kristie Grucnwald charged a 23-year-old woman with iBtail theft after loss prevention offi­cers at Marshall Fields told her the

wotnan tried to take $423 worth of merchandise from the store without paying for it. They also told Officer Grucnwald that they recovered $71.50 wonh of items taken from New York & Company and $12 worth of items taken from Bath & Bodyworks. Investigators later learned the woman was being sought on a Livingston County war­rant charging her with failure to appciir for an earlier misdemeanor wamiiil.

IVIailbox mashed

A 54-year-old Novi woman reported Aug. 12 that someone snliished the mailbox at her home near 10 Mile Road and Cidemiill Street. She estimated the damage at $75.

driving into custody after he discov­ered the man was being sought by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office on an unspecified wairant. The man was released to sheriff's deputies.

Garage v a n d a l i z e d A 42-year-old Novi man told

Officer Steven Balog Aug. 17 tliat .someone threw a brick ai the garage door of his residence near Meadowbrook and 10 Mile roads. He estimated damage at $500.

Erratic driver

Oflicer Jason Meier stopped a 1993 Ford Explorer on 1-96 near Novi Road after he observed it driv­ing emiiically at 2:26 a.m. Aug. 12. He Chiu-ged ihe 18-year-old woman driving with operating under the infiuence of liquor .after she failed field sobriety tests and registered a blood alcohol content of .117. She was later released after posting a $100 bond.

Warrant arrest

Officer Craig Felix stopped a Plymouth Breeze at 11:27 p.m. Aug. 13 after he clocked it traveling 58 mph in a 40 mph zone on Eight Mile Road near Meadowbrook. He took the 63-year-old Deu-oit man

A l c o h o l arrest

Officer Jonatlian Patton charged a 26-year-old Walled Lake woman with operating under the influence of liquor following a traffic stop near Taft and 10 Mile Roads at 1:53 a.m. Aug. 14. The womtm reported­ly registered a blood alcohol content of .19. She was later relejised after posting a $100 bond.

S l o w d o w n

Officer Jeremy Stempien stopped a 1998 Ford Contour at 2:04 a.m. Aug. 14 on Novi Road near Galway after he clocked it unveling 55 mph in a 40 mph zone. He charged the 22-year-old Canton woman driving with operating under the infiuence of liquor after she failed field sobri­ety tests and registered a blood alco­hol content o f .18. She was later released after posting a $100 bond.

Not funny

A 24-year-old Novi man told Oflicer Andrew Hudechek lhat his

2003 Jeep Liberty had been stolen from his home near Hidden Cove and Longpoint Streets. While Officer Hudechek was taking his report, one of the man's friends called lo say he'd taken the vehicle as a joke and was returning it.

Mar i juana bust

Officer Brian Tillman charged a 23-year-old New Hudson man wilh violation ofthe conUx)lled substance act and opcrafing under the influ­ence of liquor following a traffic stop on Novi Road near Flint Street at 12:31 a.m. Aug. 13. According to reports, the man failed field sobriety tests and ilien registered a blood alcohol content of .127. Officer Tillman said he recovered a small amount of marijuana and a roach clip from under the drivere seat dur­ing a search of the car.

B l ink ing l ight

Officer Jason Meier slopped a 2000 Chevnjlet Impala after it ran a blinking red light on Meadowbrook at 9 Mile Road at 5:54 a.m. Aug. 13. He charged the driver, a 24-year-old Livonia woman, with operating under the influence of liquor after she failed field sobriety tests and registered a blood alcohol content of .198. She was later released after posting a $70 bond.

Deck theft

An 89-ycar-old Novi man told Officer Louis Bigliardi Aug. 13 that someone stole two resin end tables and a clay pot, worth $60, from the

deck of his Edgewood Drive home.

A few

Tlie driver of a 2000 Jeep told Officer Leonard Lowen following a miffic slop on Mejidowbrook near 1-96 that he'd had "a few" iit JW's Bar. The 24-ycar-old Famiington Hills man was charged with operat­ing under tlie influence of liquor after he failed field sobriety tests and registered a blood alcohol content of . 15. He was later released after post­ing a .$100 bond.

Too fast

Officer Brian Tillman charged a 24-year-old South Lyon man witli operating under the influence of liquor after he reportedly clocked the man's Pontiac Grand Prix travel­ing 51 mph on a section of Novi Road posted for 40 mph. According to reports, the man registered a blood alcohol content of .16 after failing field sobriety tests. He was later released on a $ 100 bond.

Car damaged

A 48-year-old Walled Lake woman told Officer Diane MacGregor Aug. 16 that someone attempted to burglarize her car while it was parked overnight at tlIe Hotel Baronette on Novi. Road. Aug. 14. She said the door frame was dented and the window seal tom.

Erratic driving II

Officer Erick Zinser slopped a

1993 Ford Focus on Haggerty near Grand River at 1:45 a.m. Aug. 17 iifier he observed it driving enratical-ly. The driver, a 24-year-old Livonia woman, told him she'd had two or three beers al The Post. Officer Zinser charged her wilti operating under the influence of liquor after she failed field sobriety tests and registered a blood alcohol content of .169.

Lights out

Officer Briiin TilliTian stopped a Dodge Dunrngo at 2:22 a.m. Aug. 17 after he spotted driving east on Grand River Avenue from Market Street with no lights on. He charged the 22-year-old Brighton man driv­ing with operating under the influ­ence of liquor after he failed field sobriety tests and registered a blood alcohol content of .14.

F a i l e d tes t

Officer Jason Meier stopped a 1998 Cadillac Seville on 1-96 near Beck Road al 3:13 a.m Aug. 17. He charged the driver, a 21-year-old Commerce Township man with operating under die influence of liquor after the man failed field sobriety tests and registered a blood alcohol content of .13.

Tools t aken

A 33-year-old Novi man told Officer Steven Balog Aug. 17 that someone broke into the garage of . his LeBost Street residence overnight and took $390 wonh of power tools.

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C i t y C o u n c i l B r i e f s

A really expensive shovel

il's big. It's yciiow. And it was sil­ting on the front sicp of Novi's Civic Center Aug. I i . Tlie city's IX'pailnieiit of l^ublic Worics was showing of its latest ;icquisiiion, a GehJ CTL-m skidslccr. F.t|uipped wilh low-inipacl tracks, die $4y,(X)0 machine w;is purchased to help keep die cily's drain;ige dilches clear, but DI'W Director 13enny McCusker lold city council members it's ala-ady iicen used on projects at tlie Ice Arena and on a number of road repair projects, " l i d(x:s die work of four or live men." lie lold council members. Huill in .South Dakota , die machine was purchased Ux'ally at .Micliigiui Skidslccr Loaders.

New Bridge

Residents on the soulheasl side of Sh:iW(X)d Liike will sewn be able lo drive ihe full length of Shawood iirive without turning iirouiid. Novi City Council voted Aug. 11 to approve spending $191,425.30 to replace Ihe 64-yc;u--old Shawood Bridge Culvert. Davis Conslmction oul of Lansing was the low bidder on tiie project, which w;ls originally eslinialed al $2(X),0(X). Tlie biidge iias been closed for more lh;ui a ye;ir.

Ir ish eyes are smi l in '

The sounds of penny whistles ringing dirough the sliecLs of Novi's

Main Street developmeni took a step closer to reality Aug. i i as die city commission voled 5-0 to gnmt a Section Nine Facade Waiver lo Cypicss Partners L L C , a Waterford Township firm planning to U-jn.s-fomi a jxirtion of the one-time Vic's Markel building into Gus O'Connors, an Irish Pub. Last mondi planning commission mem­bers voled to recommend approval of llie waiver which would idlow the developers to exceed die u.se of wo(xi trim by five percent.

"1 fully support this, said City Council Member David Landry. "Tills coniplemcnis die building. It gives it ,in individual Icxik." Mayor Pro-Tem Michelle Bononi said she was concerned that the word "gro­cery" on one of die buildings signs my confuse passing motorists. City Planner Barb McBeth assured her dial de.spite the facade waive, the project still needs lo go dirough sign ordinance review.

A SAD affair

Novi's Special Asse.ssnient Dismcl pr(x;css, which makes it possible for the cily's older neigh-boriicxxls lo replace wells and .septic .sysiems widi city water and .sewer or bring private roads up to city slan-d:u-ds, has tended lo le:ive residcnls frushaied over die ye;u^. Now llie city is taking slops locul the aiiiouni of lime needed lo create a Special Assessment r:)islricl by 30 percent.

Chief Operating Officer Craig Claver told council members dial a major component of the dme sav­ings would be cutdng the number of steps in creating a district from 10 to seven. Council member K i m Capello said he'd like to see die process sheamiined even more. The issue was referecd to die council's ordinance review committee.

Pay Increase

City council voted 5-0 to make il a little easier for die city manager and city clerk to pick up die lunch tab. Declaring City Manager Rick Helwig and City Clerk Maryanne Cornelius "two extraordinary peo­ple who have .served die city well," Council Member Mav Sanghvi called on his fellow commission members to grant die pair a 7-per­cent pay incHKLse. He argued dial was necessary lo "keep pace widi die neighbors." Council Member David Landry countered diat while he agreed die two "are doing an out-slaIiding job," a 3.75-percent pay increase would be in line widi odier city contracts. He also called on die council to put an additional $3,000 in Helwig's deferred compensation plan. Mayor Pro-Tem Michelle Bononi successfully argued that Cornelius should be given a 6.6-pcr-ccnl pay hike to make her compen­sation package commensurdte widi die city manager's.

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The Novi Public Library is open Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m. lo 5 p.m. The library is closed on Sunday during the sum­mer. We are lociitcd al 45245 W. 10 Mile Road, just east of Taft Road. For more information, call (248) 349-0720

M i d d l e s c h o o l book d i scuss ion

Our book discussion group for teens in grades 7-9 meets for food, fun, and ii lively discussion of '"file Transall Saga" by Gary Paulsen on Tuesday, Augusi 26, from 4-4:45 p.m. No registration is necessary.

Labor Day

The library will be closed Monday, Seplembcr I, for Labor Day.

M a s t e r i n g the mouse for s e n i o r s

A hands-on class designed to introduce seniors lo using the computer mouse wil l be held Thursday, September 4, from 10-11 a.m. We will complete a self-guided online tutorial, learning and practicing all of the basic functions of the mouse. If you've never used a mouse, this class is definitely for you! PIca.sc register in advance for all Internet classes in person or by calling the library.

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Thur sday 8/21 9 a.m.-l I a.m Computer-Intro to Windows 9:30 a.m Travel Meeting 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m Sundry Shop Open 12 Lunch 12:15 Bridge* I p.m.-3 p.m computer-Internet N O line dance with Carolyn New York C i l y l V i p

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M o n d a y 8/25

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Tuesday 8/26

9 a.m.-12 p.m Massage Therapy 9 a.m Panera bread 9:30 a.m Line Dance*" No crafts IOa.m .Asian Pacific II a.m Depression, Sharon R . N . noon Lunch 12:30 p.m Bingo held in Activities room I pju-2pim. .CompKa-Oass StratSxd'nlp

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B u s i n e s s S h o r t s

Wood promoted Pianie & Moran, P L L C niuiied

Krisdne Wood, CPA, of Novi, an associaic in the firm's Soudifield office. Wood previously served as a stiilT member widi die firm. Wood special- K . W o o d izes in muiiici-p.'ditics and constIuction in die finn's Audit Practice.

Wood, who joined Plaiile & Monin in 1998, has a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Michigan and is a member of llie M A C P A (Michigan

I Association of Certified Public ; Accountants) and the AICPA • (American Institute of Cenilicd • Public Accountants).

; Sept . lvorkshops s la ted

Staff members of Oakland County Planning & Economic Development Services in Poniiac

, invite business owiien, and enlre-. preneurs who need assisliuice to ; attend several seminars in I September ofiercd by die Oakland

County Business Center II "How to Start a Business," will ; lake place from 9 a.m. to noon I Sept. 4. The fee is .$30 and includes i Ihe book "Starting a Business in I Oakland County" published by

Oakland County Planning & Economic Development Services.

Staff from die law fimi Carter & i Associates, R C , will present a i workshop titled' "Choosing the 1 Best Legal Entity — Sole j Proprietorship, Limited Liability I Company, Partnership or - Corporation" from 9 a.m. to noon I Sept. 10 at die Oakland County ', complex. i Each legal enuty offers unique I advantages and disadvantages, i Leam die key consideradons for j each and their effects on the busi-j ness operation at diis workshop. ! The fee for diis seminar is also

$30 per person, which includes all materials.

"How to Write a Business Plan," a workshop for small business owners developing a plan to serve as dieir roadmap .to success, is scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 18 at the Oakland County com­plex. TTie fee for diis seminar is $40, which includes all materials.

"Markedng 101" from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 25 will provide advice on techniques and niarkeung prin­ciples to help business owners pro­mote dieir products, services or ideas to the most promising cus­tomers. The fee for diis workshop is $40, which includes materials and refreshments.

A l l workshops take place at Ihe Oakland County complex, 1200 N . Telegraph, in Poniiac. Call (248) 858-0783.

R o c k w e l l sa les increase Rockwell Medical

Technologies, Inc., of Wixom, a leading nianufaeturer of products for patients who must undergo hemodialysis, leporled a 35 per­cent increase in its second quarter 2003 sales over the same quarter last year Sales totaled $3,454,000 for die quarter.

The company's net loss for the second quarter declined lo $93,230, an $285,000 iiiiprove-nient over last year's figures.

Rockwell's products are used lo clcan.se the blootl of patients with end-stage renal di.sease ;md replace nutrients in die bloodsheain. There are about 350,000 dialysis patienls in the U.S., and die incidence of end-siagc renal disease luw increased 6-8 percent each year over the hist decade.

Jewe l ry show c o m e s to West Oaks

Jarcd, The Galleria of Jewelry, at 27795 Novi Road at West Oaks II Mall in Novi, invites die public to a trunk show of Le Viiin designs from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Aug. 25.

TTie I x Vian jewelry dynasty dates back to the 15th cenluiy and is well known for its meticulous craftsmanship and brealhtiikiiig designs.

New York designer Eddie Lc Vian is a fillli-generation jeweler whose Persian ancestors were enUTJsied widi the priceless jewels of King Nadir Since dien, Le Vian has continued to use the finest gemstones available in die worid.

The show travels to Great Lakes Crossing Mall in Auburn Hills Aug. 26 and Utica Park Place Mall in Utica Aug. 27.

Guidant se lec t s L e a n Learning Center

The Ixan Learning Center of Novi and its partner, Achievement Dynamics of Palm Beach Gardens, Ra . , have been selected by die Guidant Corporation to provide educational services and on-site training and consuldng.

The fimis will provide services for the Guidant (iardiac Rliydim Miuiagement manufacturing facili-ues in St. Paul, Minn.; Clonmel, freland; and Dorado, Puerto Rico.

Guidant wil l send select person­nel to die Lean Learning Center for instrucdon in die rules of lean, using techniques such as discovery simulations, ca.se studies, personal planning and joumaling.

Achievement Dynamics will go on-site at die Guidance Cardiac Rliydim Management facilities to help die finii develop and imple­ment dieir lean production operat­ing system, including planning, in-plant training, specialist develop­ment and execuuve coaching for lean sysiems intemalization.

Central Park Estates

Pholo by Pam Fleming

P a r t n e r s ln t t ie ne\w C e n t r a l P a r k E s t a t e s l u x u r y a p a r t m e n t c o m p l e x gatherefJ o u t s i d e at t h e A u g . 13 g r a n d o p e n i n g o f t he c o m p l e x ' s n e w c l u b h o u s e . F r o m left: T o d d S m i t h , B l a i r B o w m a n , D e n n i s Haney , Pe te r S c o d e l l e r , A d r i a n o P a c l o c c o , a n d D e a n lVlasc iu l l l .

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Local developers took die wraps off the newest upscale apartment complex in Novi , Central Park Estates, with die grand opening of die complex's new clubhouse Aug. 13.

Located at 47305 Central Park Boulevard on die east side of Beck Road just soudi of Grand River Ave., die more dian $40 million project features 254 units. i

"We have over 100 residentji already and have a waiting lisi," .said property owner Blair Bowman, who also owns the Novi Expo Center

The complex includes one-, two-diree-bedroom apartments, plus a dinsc-bcdroom unit widi a den.

Construction began about 18 mondis ago by general contractor and partner Muki Building Co. of Plymouth.

Bowman said Novi needed a complex like Cenh-a! Park Estates.

'There is very little of diis type of high-end luxury apartments in diis area. And widi its proximity to Providence Hospital and die road improvements expected at Beck Road and 1-96, diis is a prime loca­tion," Bowman said.

"This project was designed for someone who's looking for an ele­

gant lifestyle," he said. Mondily n;ntal fees range from

about $1,200 for a one-bedroom apartment to $2,100 for a three-bed­room. Corporate rates are also avail­able.

Adriano Paciocco of Mul l i Building explained his involvement in llie project.

"My company Uied to buy die property, but Blair didn't want to sell. So, we decided on a joint ven­ture," Paciocco said..

"We've been able to put one of the premier complexes up in die city. We diink it kind of mirrors odier projects in Novi," said Todd Smidi, another partner in die ven­ture. "We wanted to be at die upper end as far as die quality of die com­plex."

entrance; gas fireplaces; fiill-sizcd washer ;uid diyer; viiulted ceilings; cemniic-tiled bathrooms; views of ponds and woodlands; patios and balconies; high-speed Interncl access; kitchen wilh snack bar, microwave, frost-free refrigerator and self-cleaning oveii; and individ-

• ual climate control. Floor plans and approximate

square foolage start wilh the Manhattan, a one-bedroom, one badi unit widi 1,065 square feet. Tile Empire features two bedrooms, two baths and 1,080 square feet. The Broadway features two bed­rooms, two baths Willi 1.190 square feet.

The Carnegie offers two bed­rooms, two badis with 1,460 squaie feet. The Times Square unit lias two bedroom, two baths and 1,250 Amenities at die gated communi- ,

ty include a heated swimming pool, square feet. The Madison provides

hou.se widi a concierge, billiards room and 24-hour access to die fit­ness center which offere locker and shower rooms, whiripools, sauna and tmming bed. A mas.sage diera-pist is also on staff.

A pool-side cafe will be pnavided soon on die lower level of die club­house.

Tenants wi l l also have 24-hour access lo the children's play room and a conference center The chil­dren's room includes a TV, V C R , D V D and books. The multi-media business center provides Inlernet access, fax and copy services.

A multi-piirpose banquet center has a kitchen facility, and diere is ;dso a community room and kitchen.

Apartments include an attached garage widi remote control; private

square feet. The 5th Avenue widi two bed­

rooms, two and a half baths, ranges from 1,385 lo 1,455 .square feel. The Liberty is a ihrec-bedroofii unit widi two and ;i half ballis at 1,425 square feel. The Pla/a offers three bed­rooms and two and ii half baths at 1,700 sc|um-e feel. The Grand Central wilh three bedrooms and three b;itlis provides 1,425 square feet.

The Astoria unit has three bed­rooms and two and a half badis widi 1,590 .squ.irc feci. Addilion;d floor plans are also available.

For more ini'orniiUion about Central P:irk Estates in Novi, call (248) 449-5270 or cheek out tlieir Web siie «u www.centialpark-estates.coni.

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Jim .MaiK-tUi, general managiTol llic iK'w .Mcadiiwiinxii. I'iiiiKi in \ o \ i , lias sdnic sciiinii ailvici; for lltoso wild treasure tlieir plniKi-^'iii))iis: "iJiMi't lose \ Dili nK-iiinrJes lo ink."

i i f c\plainc'<l liial many |X'i>|)lc dnii'l iL-;iIi/c llial piiolds piinlcd (ill inexpensive- phutogiapiiie p;iper Ironi lnw-FVM'liili(in eolcif printers ean aetually lade overtime.

"i'iiey will liiilc 111 the |Kiiiit of h-eeoiiiiiiji iiiireeiiyni/iihic tiiid can aetually lade piellN iniiekly, deiviul-iii;.; Ill' the (|ii.ilily ot ihe ink ami paivr. We're guiiij! m have a 'iiieni-iiry jtiip' Ix-eaiise 111 phouis that were printed (in ink jet |iiinters." ,\laiietla said.

Thai's why precimis laiiiily phii-liiLiraphs shiiukl he priiiled mi high-(|ii;ilily phiildjtiapliie pajier using a liigh-resiiliiliiin prinlet.

"These pluiliis will lasi KKI years iir lunger." Maiietl;i stiid.

.Meaddwhnidk I'luitd. Ideated al 2.1. IX) .\lea(ldwhr(i(ik iiii the luirlh-easl ediTier dl .\iea(i(nvlird(ik anil Ten .Mile mads, Idrnierly lunrsed Timeless I'IkiIh Imaging, wliieh Weill dill d l hiisiiiess ahdiil a year ag(i.

"I was invoKed wilh Timeless I'hdid anil was hired Ui siav when il

changed ownership and was renamed Mciidowhrook I'hoto," .Vhinelta s;iid.

The new business is (iiie of the llrst 1(1 nationally ccrlillcd digital print processors in the nation.

"We're also ;i iiicmbor of the Indepeiidcnt Pholo Imagers Association," Manetta said.

The foriner onc-hoiir pholo shop has expanded to ineliide an in-slore studio. The shop six'ciali/cs in pa.ss-[•xiil and iniinigration photographs Ibr ;idiilts and children, including inlants.

"Taking pass|ion photos is a very c.iactiiig process." Manetta added, "liven Kinko's lelcrs people lo us."

I'alroiis may lie ahic to obtain pass|Kii1s photos while they wail, de|X'nding on how busy tlic lab is ;il ihe lime.

Meadovvbrodk I'hoto can also print [Xislers and enlargenieiils Iroin 4-1 inches wide up to l(K) feet long.

Recently, the shop look pictures of all of the Novi rirefighters for llieir identilieatioii cards as well iis ;i hirge coinpdsite pholo thai will hang ;il the lire station on Markel Street in the Main ,Streel Novi iire;i.

"We also do lamin;itiiig, embroi­dery and photo transfer of images on clothing, mugs tiiid niousepads," Manetta stiid.

I'alrons can bring in photograph­ic ll l i i i and h;i\'e Meadowbrook Pholo staff digiti/.e it so that it can be stored on a regular compmler disk or (.'1). Kxi.

"Tliat's been a prelty popular service lately." Maiielt;i said.

Although the store is open Monday thriiiigh I'riday from 10 a.m. to'? p.m. and .SaUirday from 10 a.m. 1(1 4 p.m. and has ;i 24-h(iur

drop box on the front of die store, most customers prefer lo use llic business' online service at litlp://ineadowbrookpholo.coin.

Other scn'ices the shop provides include event and ponrail photogra­phy. "We'll even shoot pictures for class reunions on site," Manetta said. "We sliixit a lot of portniits of areti business people."

.Since Meadciwbrcxik Photo litis a lab as well ;ts a studio, luniaround time for photos is fast.

"We'll cveiil do digital prints while you wail, depending on tlie (|uantity and whal's going on ihal day," Miinetla said.

The store also has a gcxxl work­ing relationship witli Meadowbrtxik Art Center just iirouiid the comer al 4l2(X)Ten Mile Road in Novi.

"Wc try to work with Ihe conimii-nily on dilTerenl fundraising activi­ties, t(K)," Manetta said.

Meadowbrook Photo is also one of tlie first labs in the eoLiniry to offer online digital pholo print pro­cessing, Manelta noted.

"We ship photos all over die U.S.. to U.S. p(Kse.ssions, niililary bases tiiid ships vvoridwide. Did you know lhal every U.S. mililary .ship luis a zip eiKle'.'" he added. "We're always nioiiiloring our online rec|uests." Manetta said.

Manetta also suggests lo lho.se wilh digital cameras to set tlie reso­lution on dicir cameras to "high" rather than the "low" setting.

"If you .set it on low resokiiioii. you can ud<e more picluies. bui llie i|n;ilily is lidl iie;irly as good. Doii'l he lienny wise bill pound fixilish." he .said. "High resoliilion pielures are ihe lx;si."

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At the tuinual nationwide cnnvcntion for Home video Studios, Nonn iind Patty Sopliica have rccendy been awarded two awanis for "Tlic Best Photo Keepsake Video" tuid "Masl Improvixl Studio for 2002-03". Presented by H V S l of Indiiinaixilis. ind. the unining fealured workshops on a host of subjects nslatcd to tile video pro­duction business. Of pariiculaj- iin|xinimcc was iui eight-hour workshop on Final Cut Pro video editing software dial Patty Sopliiea calls the "lic.irl of our video prtxiuction studio."

Located in Novi, Final Cut Video offcR a wide variety of video services to individuals aiid businesses. "This training," says Sopliiea, "enables us to do better work, faster for our customers. It's i«illy ctilting edge software, iuid the NVSI iniiiiing was intcn.se and superb!"

Jiisoii Sluan of Video ConsulianLs, Inc. (Irvine, Ctilif) who served iis the instructor in Las Vcgtis, calls tills newest rclciisc of Final Cut Pro, "the absolute fine.st softwiut for video edidng available anywhere for the Macintosh system today." Tlic powerl'ul program gives die video editor (like the Sophiea's) the ability to do "nondcstmciive, nonlinear video editing-just like Ihe big T v studios do-in a small business environment." According to Patty Sopliiea, " I've been working with Final Cut Pro and the diffeiiencc between television sta­tion quality and our final product is indistinguishable". In fact, a lot o f T v stations are using the software in their. edit bays.

The Sophiea's si;uled Final Cut video Services in tiie spring of 2000 to offer unique and affordable Custom video .services thai arc hard to Iind in the nietro|X)lilan Dehoitarea."We love working with families most," says Patty. "It's just a thrill to .sec llieir faces when lliey view their finished video."

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Gov. Jennifer Gianholni recent­ly signed a stale hudgei agreement which she believes is perhaps the mosl pro-education budget in the history of this stale. According to www.Michigan.gov, ihe budget signing means that K-12 school aid wi l l be protected in full , Michigan will begin to bridge the digital divide for middle school students, high .school students wil l be able to rely on Merit scholar--ships and ihc youngest children wil l gel a head start on their edu­cation because early childhood education will be preserved.

Granholm signed the state budget agreement which stales lhat the .$6,700 basic foundation granl for students will stay in tact. The biggest hit, however, lhat the Novi Community School District look is in the adult education pro­gram, which took a 75-percent cut.

Despite lhat, Emnielt Lippe, Superintendent for the Nov i Comniunily School District, is

happy with the new development. "Wc have been counting on the

$6,700 all year,"'he said. "Early on we were told lhat both the house and the Governor would be supporting the $6,700. So, the bill lhat she signed just recently for­malizes what we have been told all along and promised. 1 was glad to sec i l happen and il goes right ill wilh whiit was projected in our budget. While we certainly would like to sec an increase wc certain­ly are happy that there hasn't been a decrease for this coming year."

Brian Whislon, director of gov­ernmental services for Oakland Schools is pleased as well. He explained lhat wilh the signing of the budget agreenieiit, Ihe school funding is going to be the same from the previous year. "1 think the biggest thing is wc prolecled some things we thought wc were going to lose," he said. "Our fund­ing is going lo be the same as from the previous year. So, from that perspective wc didn't lose any ground. Bui I think specifical­ly to Novi , they were at risk of losing some of their hold harm­less money, which would have been roughly $50 a student Ihcy could have lost. But they didn't. That would have been a big chunk."

The hold harmless millagc brings the $6,700 up to roughly $8,000 per student, which the Novi Community School District could have easily lost. "That is a

substantial part of our budget," Lippe .said. "Thai's a per student allocation lhal comes from our state. Without lhat, if we didn't have the $6,700, we would just nol be able lo exist because that's the major portion of our revenue."

Another aspccl of the budget agreement lhat Granholm signed provides funding for school dis­tricts in Michigan lo participate, if they so choose lo, in a program that wi l l put cither a laptop com­puter or a Palm Pilot in every sixth graders hand this fall. The opportunity wi l l be there for that, but all llie districts will have lo dclcrniitie i f they can afford to do i l or not. There is $39 million in the budget for il and il's going to be a lease program I'or most likely four years - and districts wil l have lo pay some portion of the cost.

The agreement also affects the Merit Scholarship Award. Under the current law, jiigh school stu-denls can receive up to $2,500, which is p;iid out over two years in college, for a combination of M E A P tests and A C T scores. Thai's going to stay the same as opposed to making i l a $500 scholarship which is biiseil on nnaiicial need.

Ramez Khuri /.v ii staff writer for the Novi News. He can he reached al (248) M9-1700. e.\l. 110 or by e-mail at rkliuri@ht.hoineconmi.iiet.

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Tentative teacher con t r ac t agreement r eached

A tentative teacher contract agreement has been reached between the Novi Community School District and all o f its teachers. Accordi i lg , to Bob Schram, executive" director o f human resources, a full bargain­ing teams meeting look place on Aug. 13 wilh the teachers associ­ation and both sides seem happy with the agreement.

"I 'm not at liberty to divulge any o f the terms because it's going through the gratification

process with the teachers associa­tion and obviously wilh the board of education loo," Schram .said. "But we expect school lo open exactly the way it always has and all of the staff are very excited lo be back to school and lo have a good school year."

The next step for ihe agreement is to go through a gi'alifieation process by the teachers and then approval by the Board of Education on Sept. 4.

"Given the circumstances lhal we had to bargain under this-year, we're very happy wilh Ihe agree­ment," Schram said.

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Walled Lake .Schools is hosting the .Niilional Conference for C'oiiiiiiiinily and Justice (NC'CM) to present ;i three-part dialogue scries. "Oiffcrent IVople...Common (iroiind. " from .' :. 0 P.I11.-9 p.m.. Oct. l . l 20 and 21 at Walled L;ike Central High School.

Alee Bender. Twin lieacli I'.leiiieiitary principal and chair of the district diversity initiatives.

said Ihc dialogue sessions arc intended to examine personal beliefs and improve inter-group relations throughout our commu­nity. Parcnt.s, conimiinity mem­bers, .staff nienibcrs and ihosc interested in open, honcsl dia­logue nil diversity issues are encouraged lo attend. The .ses­sions will be facilitated by con­sultants from N C C J .

"Above all else, the "Differenl People,„Comnion Ground" dia­logues give people from dilTcrenl licrsjiccliies :ind backgrounds ihe opportunity to see and uiidersl;ind thill pieces of the human experience are common hi us all, an import;inl step in tlie process of building a more inclusive and respectful coni-nuinity," Bender said,

1-or nmrc information and to R.SVP. please contact Alec Bender, by calling (248) 95<i-42?,2. The cost of the lliree-parl scries is,SID including dinner, S'ou will be asked lo complcie :i brief registration lorni prior to the llrsi session.

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Thursday, Augusl 21,2003-NOVI NEWS 13A

Civil War band heads to Jackson

I 5 th Mic l i igan Reg iment to per form t i i is weel<end B y P a m F l e m i n g STAFF WRITER

If you're a Civ i l War bulT and enjoy music, consider making a trip to Cascade Falls in Jackson, Mich , , (his weekend.

One of the largest C iv i l War rcenactmcnts in ihc Midwest is planned, with about 2,000 reenac-lers attending.

The free event begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Several local members of the 5th Michigan Regiment Band wil l perform in conjunction with two mock bailies planned there.

The battles w i l l include the Battle of Stone River on Saturday and the Attack at Chickasaw Bluff Sunday.

Carol Smith of Brighton, presi­dent of ihe band and former long-lime resident of Nov i , said band members traveled to Campbellsville; Ky. , July 26-27, for the National C i v i l War Band Festival.

"Fourteen C i v i l War period bands were ihere from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Maryland, California, Texas, New Mexico, Illinois, Alabama, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Michigan," she Siiid.

A t the evenl in Jackson, 'They ' l l have a drill with ihe sol­diers, a North and South encamp­ment, and a civilians camp. Another area, Special Impressions, will have a person portraying President Abraham Lincoln and another portraying Gen. Ulysses Grant. Another

group called Suiters w i l l have items to sell. There will be aboui 50 to 55 Suiters selling ilieir wares," Smith said.

A nursing station, known as ihe Sanitary, will also be on hand in Jackson. Food vendors arc also scheduled for both days. A dance is pliinncd on Saturday night, and dancers must be dressed in period attire. A church service is sei for '•y.T.O a.m. Sunday.

"A Civi l War band should have about 18 musicians," Smith added.

"Some of the bands had as few as five, but one had 25 musi­cians."

Two host bands were on hand at the Campbellsville event in July — the Old Town Brass Band from Huntsvillc, Ala. , and the Saxton Cornet Band from Lexington, Ky.

"Lasl November we were asked to apply for Ihis particular event. They only look 12 bands. Each band played lwo concerts, and there was also a mass band con­cert the evening of July 26," Smith said.

The National C i v i l War Band Festival is scheduled every three years al the same location. Campbell.sville University hosted the event.

Smith said she and her hus­band, Guy, have been involved in the band for many years.

"Guy and 1 goi involved in lhe band 1979 when we lived in Novi . Guy directs the band and plays bass saxhorn, which is compara­ble to the tuba. There are three types of saxhorns — an upright, a frontal and an over-the-shoulder," Smith said.

"Guy has an upright and an over-the-shoulder, and they're both antiques. The over-the-shoulder one has been traced to a C i v i l War musician from Wisconsin," she said.

Photo courtesy Carol Smiih

IWembers o f t h e 5 t h lWichigan R e g i m e n t B a n d ln C a m p b e l l s v l l l e , K y . , r e c e n t l y for t h e N a t l o n a l C l v l l W a r B a n d F e s t l v a l i n c l u d e d front row, f r o m left: lWicl<ey Se l le r , C a r o l Bauer , D a v e Z le l l t e , L i n d a K u r t t l , C a r o l S m i t h , p r e s iden t o f t h e b a n d , a n d M a r y IMcFar land . S e c o n d row, f rom left, are J a s o n VIe tz , D a n R o s s i , IMary D a v i d s o n , G u y S m i t h , G o r d o n S e l l e r , G e n e K r a m e r a n d R o n n i e Kadyl(owsl<l . T h i r d row, f r o m left: J e r r y B a u e r , D o u g M a c Q u e e n , C a r o l e M a c Q u e e n , D i c k H e d m a n , A n n G a b h a r t a n d J o h n K u r t t l . F o u r t h row, f r o m left: D o n M c F a r l a n d , B o b A n d e r s o n a n d J e n n i e R o s s .

"1 am one of the support per­sonnel, and 1 dress in the ladies period aitire. I wear seven layers of clothing," she said. "1 have 17 different outfits."

Participants musl be dressed in period clothing to be a band mem­ber

'They even have to wear period eyeglasses and carry pocket watches — no wristwatches," she said.

"We have three components. A color guard is also part of each band. They carry the rifles, lhe national flag of the Civ i l War and

ihe brigade flag." The Fifth Michigan Regiment

Band has 32 members from Michigan and Ohio.

Members from this area include Jerry and Carol Bauer of Novi ; Gene Kramer of Northville; Linda and John K u m i of Novi; Judy and Doug McQueen of Novi; Mickey and Gordon Seller of Wixom; Dave and Deborah Zielke of Walled Lake and Robert Anderson of Novi .

"The band is patterned after a unit that actually came oui of this area. They were mustered into

service Aug. 28, 1861, at what is now Historic Fort Wayne in Delroil," Smith said.

"We have a love of history and particularly music of this period. We would like to help educate peo­ple about Ihe Civ i l War," she said.

"There were more songs writ-len during the Civ i l War than any other war in our history," Smiih added.

Bands wi l l present about five concerts each day in Jackson this weekend. C D s and audiotapes wi l l also be available for sale. "Jackson's our biggest seller Our

two new CDs were released July 3. Now we have four CDs."

"It's a free family ouling. and we're a very compatible group. Guy reorchestrates all the music from our group. There's a lol of sharing that goes on."

For more informalion, visil lhe 5th Michigan Regiment Band Web siie at www.mi5th.org.

Pam Fleming is a slajf writer for the Novi News.- She can be reached at (248) 349-1700, ext. 105, or by e-mail at pfleming@ht.homecomm.net.

W e a r t f d t t h a n f c s f r o m t h e

" B o t s f o r d W e s l t h C a r e C o n t i n u u m t o o u r h e r o e s :

T h e e m p l o y e e s , p a t i e n t s , f a m i l i e s , c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s , b u s i n e s s p a r t n e r s a n d o t h e r s w h o h e l p e d u s m e e t t h e

c h a l l e n g e o f t h e p o w e r o u t a g e . W e a r e g r a t e f u l f o r y o u r r e s o u r c e f u l n e s s , c o m m i t m e n t a n d g o o d w i l l .

A special thank-you to: \

..."Botsford General Hospital's plant technicians who shitted seamlessly to generator power when the lights went out, ensuring that patients' critical needs were met; ^r)en)b6rs of

the nursing staff who worlced lon^ hours under difficult conditions; ^ t h e Sodexho Food Service and Environmental staff whose jobs were made even more difficult with no running

wst&r; ^ t h e mothers of five babies born at the hospital while the power was off; ^ t h e lab,

pharmacy and x-ray staffs who made their systems work, even in the heat...

...the Central Services employees who normally sterilize equipment but prepared and delivered patient food trays and all other employees who offered to step in where needed;

^ t h e staff of "Botsford Commons Assisted Living and the "Botsford Continuing Health Center who made residents as comfortable as possible while mana in^ to find the resources for a community barbecue feast; ^ou r patients' families who not only stopped

in to provide love and support but also cheerfully followed our request to visit briefly and not strain the limited resources,..

...paramedics from the Communrly EMS facilfly In Zanesville, Ohio, who arrived with ambulances, bottled water and extra pairs of trained hands to help with the area emergency; ^ t h e Mational Guard Unit from Grayling that arrived Friday afternoon with "a water-buffalo trailer" holding 500 gallons of _ ^ much-needed H 2 O ; ^vendors, such as McKesson Medical-Surgical, that swiftly responded to our unusual requests and special needs

without regard for "normal business hours"; ^ t h e Emergency Department staff who made sure that all members of the community continued to have access to health care services; our neighborhood Target store that donated 60 cases of bottled water; ^ and countless others who helped to malce a difference.'

T h e p o w e r o u t a g e p u t B o t s f o r d H e a l t h C a r e C o n t i n u u m t o t h e tes t , and w e s t o o d u p t o t h i s

c h a l l e n g e . W e a r e r e a d y t o h a n d l e e n n e r g e n c i e s a n d d i s a s t e r s f o r t h e c o m m u n i t y 2 4 h o u r s a d a y , T\ 1^ (J

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7:43 DINSER DR 4 DELMONT DR 7:43 25107 BIRCHWOODS OR 745 25438 BIRCHWOODS DR 7:45 BIRCHWOODS DR4WIX0MRD 7:49 STREAMW000DR4FIELDST0NE0 7:52 25698 SHORELINE DR 7:54 25599 HILLSDALE DR 7:55 25574 DOGWOOD LN 7:59 49235 BRAEBURN LN BUS 88 7:46 HICKORY GROVE LN 4 COURT 7:47 HICKORY GROVE LN 8 RUSSET 7:47 HIGH MEADOW DR 4 HICKORY GRO 7:48 HIGH MEADOW OR 4 GREENING DR 7:49 HARVEST DR 8 GREENING DR 7:53 SADDLE CREEK CLUBHOUSE 7:55 NOVI RO 8 LITTLE FALLS BLVD BUS 91 7:31 BECK RD 8 CENTRAL PARK BLVD 7:40 MARTINST4LINHARTST 7:41 MARTIN ST 4 13 MILERD 7:43 290 SHAMROCK HILL ST 7:44 SHAMROCK HILL ST 4 CROWN DR 7:45 28805 OLD NOVI RO 7:48 44244 12 MILERD 7:54 46153 GRAND RIVER AVE 7:55 TAFT RD& ANDES HILLS CT 8US93 7:34 22743 MEADOWBROOK RD 7:35 41463 GLYMECT 7:36 22859 PENTON RISE CT 7:37 22475 MEADOWBROOKRD 7:39 INGRAM RD 4 CARRIAGE HILL DR 7:42 41249 COVENTRY RO 7:43 WHITCOMB RD 4 BEACON RD 7:44 21636 PHILLIP DR 7:45 21922 SIEGAL DR 7:46 22070 CASCADE DR 7:48 MERIDIAN LN 4 S HEATHERBRAE BUS 94 7:43 PARK FOREST CT 4 CHESTNUT TR 7:45 VILLAGE LAKE RD 4 SHADOW PIN 7.45 HEATHERBROOK LN 4 HEATHERBRA 7:46 HEATHERBROOK LN 4 DEERFIELD 7:47 OAKWOOD DR S DEERFIELD RD 7:48 SHERIDAN DR 4 OAKWOOD DR 7:50 CRANBROOKE DR 4 WOOLSEY DR 7:51 40400 VILLAGE OAKS RD 7:53 40724 VILLAGE OAKS RD 7:53 22859 BROOKFOREST RD BUS 97

. -7<46^db/vi-. u. O..-23607 WINTERGREEN;eiR 7:47 23784 WINTERGREEN CIR 7:48 WINTERGREEN CIR 8 UTHUM DR 7:49 . .• WINDRIDGE LN 8 WILLINGHAM DR 7:50 WINDRIDGE LN 4 ASHFORD CIR 7:50 45848 ASHFORD CIR 7:51 WINDRIDGE LN& REMINGTON LN 7:52 WESTMONT DR 4 JASLYN LN 7:53 ADDINGTON LN 4 JASLYN LN 7:54 45603 ADDINGTON LN 7:55 DEVONSHIRE DR 4 ELIZABETH LN 7:55 BRENTWOOD CT 4 DEVONSilJRE DR 7:56 24025 DEVONSHIRE DR 7:57 ADDINGTON LN 4 DEVONSHIRE DR BUS 99 7:38 REINDEER DR 4 ANTLER DR 7:39 22227 ANTLER DR 7.40 ANTLER DR 4 FAWN TRL 7:41 MEADOWBROOK RO 4 MISSION LN 7:44 GLEN HAVEN E 4 SROOUETRD 7:45 PELLSTON DR & GLEN HAVEN E 7:46 ROSCOMMON DR& GLEN HAVEN W 7:48 .' 20980 WOODLAND GLN 7:49 VERANDA DR 4 EMILY CT 7:50 ASHBURY DR 4 CHASE DR 7:52 43169 ASHBURY DR 7:53 ASHBURY DR 4 RIVERBRIDGE CT 7:54 ASHBURY DR 4 WINDMILL CT

Woifl W o o d s E l e m e n t a r y BUS 2 8:06 24263 WEATHERVANE CT 8:08 CHILDREN'S WORLD 8:11 ELIZABETH LN 4 DEVONSHIRE OR 8:12 ADDINGTON LN & ELIZABETH LN 8:12 ADDINGTON LN 4 DEVONSHIRE DR 8:13 KIMBERLYCT 4 DEVONSHIRE DR 814 24012 DEVONSHIRE DR 8:15 DEVONSHIRE DR 4 BRENTWOOD CT 8:18 24860 GLENDA AVE 8:20 24443 GLENDA AVE 8:21 45310 TEN MILERD ' 8:22 24400 TAFT RD 8:22 24620 TAFT RO 8:23 24744 TAFT RO 8:24 24816 TAFT RD BUS 3 8:06 24245 THATCHER CT 8:07 24406 THATCHER DR 8:08 THATCHER DR 4 CAVENDISH AVE 8:09 24388 CAVENDISH AVE W 8:11 JAMESTOWNE RD 4 YORKSHIRE DR 8:12 44815 YORKSHIRE DR 8:13 44976 YORKSHIRE DR 8:14 24823 JAMESTOWNERD 8:15 JAMESTOWNE RD & HUNTINGTON R 8:16 CHRISTINA LN 4 CONCORD 8:17 24556 CHRISTINA LN 8:18 CHILDRENSARK • 8:19 44740 10 MILERD BUS 8 8:14 .WESTMONT DR 4 REMINGTON LN 8:15 WINDRIDGE LN 4 REMINGTON LN 8:16 45884 ASHFORD CIR 8:17 .WINDRIDGE LN&ASHRDRD CIR 8:18 .WILLINGHAMDR 4 LATHUM DR 8:19 WESTMONT DR & WILLINGHAM DR 820 JASLYN LN& ADDINGTON LN 821 ...45596 ADDINGTON LN Busg 8:05 HICKORY GROVE LN & HICKORY G 8:06 .23634 HICKORY GROVE LN 8.D7 44337 WINTHROPDR 8:07 23400 GREENING DR

8:08 GREENING DR 4 HIGH MEADOW DR 8:09 23824 GREENING DR 8:10 HARVEST DR 4 GREENING DR 8:10 CORTLAND BLVD 4 HICKORY GROV 8:13 23675 NOVI RD 8:14 CITATION 4 SAGEBRUSH 8:18 23326 PORTAGE WAY 8:19 LONG POINTE WAY 4 LITTLE RAP 8:20 COVESIDE CIR 4 LONG POINTE W 8:21 LONG POINTE WAY 4 LITTLE FALLS BUS 81 8:09 26560 TAFT RD 8:10 44855 GRAND RIVER 8:13 25875 CLARK AVE 8:15 44225 SETTLERS CREEK CT 8:16 25610 CLARK AVE 8:17 CURKAVE4DURS0NST 8:18 CLARK AVE 4 STASSEN AVE 8:19 25863 TRESTLE 8:20 TRESTLE 4 CREEK XING 8:21 11 MILE RD 4 CLARK AVE 8:21 44480 11 MILE RD 8:23 4530011 MILE RD BUS 83 8:10 25941 PETROS 8:11 25623 BUCKMINSTER DR 8:12 25365 BUCKMINSTER DR 8:'13 25211 BUCKMINSTER DR 8:14 44490 SUSSEX 8:15 44660 MANSFIELD DR 8:17 YORKSHIRE OR 4 MANSFIELD DR 8:18 25278 SULLIVAN LN 8:19 WILLIAMS DR 8 SULLIVAN LN 8:20 25675 SULLIVAN LN

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BUS 4 8:15 41436 CHAHMANST 8:16 23000 BALCOMBE ST 8:17 GILBAR DR 4 ENNISHORE-DR 8:18 23034 ENNISHORE OR 8:21 23980 MEADOWBROOK RD BUS 7

• 8:06 CHASE DR 4 REINDEER DR 8:07 21909 CHASE DR ' 8:08 CHASE DR 4 TRENT CT 8:09 DUNDEE DR 4 CHASE DR 8:10 WHEATON LN 8 DUNDEE DR 8:12 CHASE DR 4 WHEATON LN 8:14 FAWN TRL 4 ANTLER DR 8:15. 41528 FAWN TRL

'Mm-^ *ilim-iM.Hi«..MANTL^g DR 8:17.. : 41479 REINDEERDR 8:18... REINDEERDR4ANTLER DR BUS 12 8:13 41800 MANOR PARK DR 8:14 41940 MANOR PARK DR 8:16 24324 KINGS POINTE 8:17 24500 KINGS POINTE 8:17 24744 KINGS POINTE OR 8:18 41866 RIDGE ROE 8:19 PARK RIDGE RD 4 HAMPTON HILL 8:20 HAMPTON HILL RD 4 HAMPTON CT 8:21 24328 PINE CREST ST 8:21 S LOGANBERRY RIDGE 4 KNOLLWO BUS 13 8:12 PATHWAYS 8:15 MCMAHON CIR 4 W LE BOST DR 8:16 W LE BOST DR 4 MOORINGSIDE D 8:17 23990 ELE BOST OR 8:17 23895 ELE BOSTDR 8:18 23764 LE BOSTDRE 8:19 ...23619LE BOSTDRE 8:20 23526 ELE BOSTDR 8:20 WLE BOSTDR 4 HOLLYDALE 8:21 23320 WLE BOSTDR 8:22 23392 WLE BOSTDR BUS 79 8:13 POTOMAC 8 CONGRESS 8:17 LE BOST CT 4 SCARBOROUGH 8:18 CLERMONT LN 4 SCARBOROUGH 8:19 41033 SCARBOROUGH LN 8:20 SCARBOROUGH 4 BETHANY WAY 8:21 24647 BETHANY WAY 8:22 CAMBORNE PL 4 BETHANY WAY 8:23 BETHANY WAY 4 BORDER HILL ST BUS 89 8:10 23141 MEADOWBROOKRD 8:11 22743 MEADOWBROOK RD 8:12 41483 GLYME CT 8:13 22871 PENTON RISE CT 8:16 '.BROCKSHIRE ST 4 SUDBURY CT 8:16 BROCKSHIRE ST 4 CHESTERFIELD 8:17 41836 HEMPSHIRE ST 8:18 21883 PICADILLY CIR 8:19 22114 PICADILLY CIR 8:20 PICADILLY CIR 4 CHASE DR BUS 92 8:10... 24200 HAMPTON HILL RD 8:11 24272 HAMPTON HILLRD 8:12 PARK RIDGE RD 4 PARK RIDGE C 8:13 42463 PARK RIDGE RD 8:14 42559 PARK RIDGE RO 8:15 CHERRY HILL RD 4 APPLECREST 8:16 : 24789 APPLECREST DR 8:17 APPLECREST DR & HIGHLANDS DR 8:18 HIGHLANDS DR 4 CHERRY HILL R 8:18 CHERRY HILLRD 4 UPUND HILL 8:19 24727 UPLAND HILL DR 8:20 42141 RIDGE RD 8:21 41896 CHERRY HILLRD 8:22 KINGS POINTE 4 CHERRY HILLR BUS 93 8:13 24468 OLDE ORCHARD 8:14 24722 OLDE ORCHARD 8:16 24470 WILLOWBROOK DR 8:18 WILLOWBROOK DR 4 BRENDA LN 8:18 24749 JOSEPH DR 8:20 24702 BASHIAN DR 8:21 24467 BASHIAN DR 8:22 GROWING PLACE (AM ONLY) 8:23 10 MILERD 4 CORAL LN BUS 96 8:03 MISSION LN & MEADOWBROOK RD 8:05 20871 GUN HAVEN E

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8:06 BROQUETRD 4 GLEN HAVEN CIR 8:07 PELLSTON DR 4 GLEN HAVEN CIR 8:08 ROSCOMMON DR 4 GLEN HAVEN CI 8:09 20828 GLEN HAVEN W 8:10 20955 WOODUND GLN 8:12 HANNAH CT 8 VERANDA DR 8:14 42894 ASHBURY DR 8:15 43090 ASHBURY DR 8:16 WESTCHESTER CT 4 ASHBURY DR 8:17 RIVERBRIDGECT 4 ASHBURY DR 8:18 WINDMILL CT 4 ASHBURY DR

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BUSI . . . .COMBINED PARKVIEW & DEERFIELD 8:12 MAIN STREET CLUBHOUSE 8:14 FOUNTAIN PARK CLUBHOUSE 8:22 JR BLVD 4 GORNADA ST 8:24 LOWERY ST & RUSTON BLVD 8:25 GORNADA ST 4 RUSTON BLVD 8:32 LINCOLN 4 HARRISON MAILBOXES BUS 2 8:36 47590 EDINBOROUGH LN 8:37 ANDOVER DR 4 FOREST PARK DR 8:39 LYNWOOD DR 4 CEDARWOODDR 8:40 HEARTWOOD ST 4 BURNTWOODCT 8:41 23842 WOODHAM RD 8:44 WARRINGTON DR 4 LYNWOOD DR 8:45 47643 GREENWICH DR 8:45 GREENWICH DR 8 HOLYOKE LN 8:47 WELLESLEY CT 4 NANTUCKET DR 8:49 HOLYOKE LN& SALEM CT 8:50 ROCHESTER DR 4 NANTUCKET DR 8:51 WOODHAM RD 4 RED PINE CT 8:52 WOODHAM RD 8 MOCKINGBIRD CT 8:53 24308 WOODHAM RD 8:54 47911 10 MILERD BUS3 8:35 48600 11 MILE RD 8:37 BIRCHWOODS DR 8 BIRCHWOODS CT 8:38 25153 BIRCHWOODS DR 8:39 DELMONT DR 4 WOODWORTH DR 8:40 WOODWORTH DR 4 NOTTINGHAM DR 8:41 NOniNGHAMDR 4 PEBBLE LN 8:42 N0niNGHAMDR4KENTCT 8:43 48807 THORNBURY DR 8:45 BLOOMING DAY CHILDCARE 8:47 25013 ACORN TR 8:49 25370 WIXOM RD BUS 8 8:35 47288 WHITE PINES DR 8:36 23361 WHITEHALL DR 8:37 BROADMOOR PARKLN 4 ARGYLE 8:38 NORTHUMBERUND 4 BROADMOOR 8:39 47137 NORTHUMBERLAND ST 8:39 47034 NORTHUMBERLAND ST 8:40 BROADMOOR PARK LN 4 BROADMOO 8:41 TRAFALGAR CT& BAKER ST 8:44 23550 WINTERGREEN CIR 8:45 23676 WINTERGREEN CIR 8:47 23946 WINTERGREEN CIR BUS 9 8:37 ENCHANTED DR 4 CIDER MILL RD 8:38 24599 REDWING OR 8:39 24466 REDWING DR 8:40 24379 BRAMBLEWOOD DR 8:41 BRAMBLEWOOD DR & ROBIN CT 8:44 SCARLET DRS 4 SCARLET CT 8.45 47245 SCARLET DRS 8:46 47362 SCARLET DRN 8:48 47233 GLAMORGAN 8:50 STRATH HAVEN DR 4 SIERRA DR BUS 61 8:41 SIMMONS 8, BONNIE BROOK DR 8:42 BONNIE BROOK DR 4 SURFSIDE R 8:43 SURFSIDE RD 4 SIMMONS 8:44 24472 RIVERVIEW LN 8:45 RIVERVIEW 4 CIDER MILL RD 8:45 45802 ClOER MILL RD 8:46 24922 FAIRWAY HILLS DR 8:47 24748 FAIRWAY HILLS DR 8:48 FAIRWAY HILLS DR 4 SURFSIDE 8:49 24270 FAIRWAY HILLS DR 8:53 NOVI CHRISTIAN DAYCARE BUS 86 . . .COMBINED PARKVIEW & DEERFiELD 8:19 BECK RD 4 CENTRAL PARK BLVD 8:23 46241 12 MILE RD 8:24 TAFTRD412MILERD 8:25 44244 1 2 MILE RD 8:26 :. .28055 DIXON RD 8:27 28095 DIXON RD 8:30 43842 121/2 MILERD 8:32 MARTINST4LINHARTST 8:33 WAINWRIGHT ST & MARTIN ST 8:33 13 MILE RD 8 MARTIN ST 8:35 2325 AUSTIN DR 8:38 180 PLEASANT COVEDR 8:41 12 MILERD 8. CARLTON WAY DR BUS 88 8:29 25599 HILLSDALE DR 8:30 25518 DOGWOOD DR 8:32 25698 SHORELINE DR 8:34 SHORELINE DR 4 ISUND UKED 8:35 26426 ISLAND LAKE DR 8:37 26618 GLENWOOD DR 8:38 49871 LEYLAND CIR 8:39 49804 LEYLAND CIR 8:40 LEYLAND CIR 4 GLENWOOD DR 8:41 TIMBER TR 4 GLENWOOD DR 8:41 ANCHORAGE CT 4 CRESTWOOD DR 8:48 25711 ABBEY DR 8:48 ABBEY DR 4 WOODRUFF DR 8:49 25737 LOCHMOOR LN 8:50 MULBERRY LN 4 GROVEUND 8:51 GLENMOOR 4 MULBERRY LN 8:52 GROVELAND & GLENMOOR: 8:53 .LOCHMOOR LN & GLENMODfi: 8:54 4630011 MILERD BUS 92 8:35 CHILDREN'S WORLD 8:36 24375 HOMESTEAD 8:37 24278 ROMA RIDGE DR 8:38 ROMA RIDGE DR 4 VENICE DR 8:40 SARAH FLYNN DR 4 CRESTVIEW 8:40 24706 SARAH aYNN DR 8:41 ,.24874 SARAH aYNNDR

8:42 24761 PICARA DR 8:41 24546 PICARA OR 8:''5 24670 NAPLES DR 8:46 24703 VENICE 8:47 24595 VENICE DR 8:51 25714 BECK RD

V i l l a g e O a k s ElBmi^ntary BUS 7 8:31 40655 10 MILERD 8:33 24829 WILLOWBROOK DR 8:36 NlUN DR 4 BURTON DR 8:35 23835 NILAN DR 8:37 SQUIRE RD 4 WESTMINSTER CIR 8:40 39526 WESTMINSTER CIR 8:42 SHOREBROOK OFFICE 8:43 STONEHENGE BLVD 4 TUSCANY CT 8:44 HAGGERTY RD 4 KARTARLN BUS 13 8:40 MILLCTW4MILLCTE 8:41 SUNRISE BLVD 8 MILL RD LN 8:42 40352 LADENE LN 8:43 40O35 SANDPOINT WAY 8:44 SANDPOINT WAY iZISETTEDR 8:44 LADENE LN 8 WHISPERING LN 8:45 .....SUNFLOWER DR 4 LADENE LN 8:46 21820 SUNFLOWER DR 8:48 22448 SUNRISE BLVD 8:49 9MILERD4CROSSWINDS 8:50 22081 SOLOMON BLVD BUS 89 8:36 LODGE CT 4 PAVILLION DR 8:37 PAVILLION DR& GROVE CT 8:42 RAINBOW RASCALS 8:44 40600 8 MILE RD 8:45 LLEWELYN RD& LLEWELYN CT 8:47 PATHWAYS 8:48 22630 MEADOWBROOK RD 8:49 23132 MEADOWBROOKRD BUS 93 8:39 COVENTRY RD 4 CARRIAGE HILL 8:40 41299 COVENTRY RD 8:41 INGRAM RD 4 CARRIAGE HILL DR 8:43 41239 TODD LN 8:44 TODD LN 4 PHILLIP DR 8:45 41066 MARKS DR 8:46 21811 SIEGAL DR 8:47 41320 SINGH BLVD 8:48 22071 CASCADE DR 8:50 22278 CASCADE DR 8:51 21921 S HEATHERBRAE WAY 8:52 21955 MERIDIAN LN

'ie:53MH-;-..:iu-.iW. 1..22298 S HEATHERBRAE.WAY BUS96 8:38 21709 SUNRISE BLVD 8:39 21620 CLOVER LN 8:41 22040 ARBOR LN 8:41 22077 GREENTREE LN 8:42 GREENTREE LN 4 CLOVER LN 8.43 22021 CLOVER LN 8:44 22059 SHADYBROOK DR 8:45 21806 SHADYBROOK DR

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BUSI 6:58 HICKORY GROVE LN 4 CT 7:00 HIGH MEADOW 4 HICKORY GROVE 7:00 HIGH MEADOW 4 GREENING 7:01 HARVEST DR 4 GREENING DR 7:04 23875 NOVI RD 7:05 ...23675 NOVI RD 7:05 NOVI RD 4 ALGONQUIN DR 7:06 CITATION 4 NOVI RD 7:07 NOVI RD 8 LITTLE FALLS BLVD BUS 2 7:15 BRAMBLEWOOD DR 4 ROBIN CT 7:15 VENICE DR 4 ROMA RIDGE DR 7:16 VENICE DR 4 CRESTVIEW 7:17 PICARA DR 4 CRESTVIEW 7:18 CRESTVIEW 8 FAIRWAY HILLS 7:20 24969 SARAH FLYNN DR 7:21 ClOER MILL RD 4 REDWING DR BUS 3 7:11 CHASE DR 4 WHEATON LN 7:11 CHASE DR 4 DUNDEE DR 7:12 CHASE DR 4 OXFORD CT 7:13 CHASE DR 4 ASHBURY DR 7:14 WESTCHESTER CT 4 ASHBURY 7:15 43271 ASHBURY DR 7:16 ASHBURY DR 4 WINDMILL CT BUS 4 7:06 COnONWOOD 4 CHIPMUNK TR 7:09 TAMARAST4ASPEN 7:09 ; . . .TAMARA ST 4 BORCHART RD 7:11 41635 CHATTMAN ST 7:12 22890 ENNISHORE DR 7:13 23041 GILBAR DR 7:14 23034 BALCOMBE ST 7:16 22483 ENNISHORE DR BUS 6 7:04 24388 CAVENDISH AVE W 7:05 24465 THATCHER DR 7:06 24294 THATCHER CT 7:09 CHRISTINA LN 4 CONCORD 7:10 44490 SUSSEX 7:11 MANSFIELD 4 YORKSHIRE 7:11 45225 YORKSHIRE DR 7:13 YORKSHIRE 4 HUNTINGTON 7:14 24243 JAMESTOWNERD 7:15 4474010 MILERD 7:16 24442 GLENDA AVE BUS 7 7:04 REINDEER DR& ANTLER DR 7:05 ANUERDR 4 REINDEER DR 7;06 - . . . . . . » . , . . . , . . ^^ I l . §Rf la4 i

'7:08 '.T......MEADOWBROOK4MISSION 7:10 20926 GLEN HAVEN CIR E 7:11 ONAWAYDR 4 GLEN HAVEN E 7:12 PELLSTON 4 GLEN HAVEN CIR 7:13 GLEN HAVEN E & GLEN HAVEN W 7:15 20955 WOODLAND GLN 7:17 .VERANDA DR 4 EMILY CT BUSS

7:10 LYNWOOD 4 WARRINGTON

7:11 LYNWOOD 4 NANTUCKET 7:11 GREENWICH 4 HOLYOKE 7:13 NANTUCKET 4 CIDER MILL 7:14 WELLESLEY CT 4 NANTUCKET 7:15 HOLYOKE 4 NANTUCKET 7:16 SANDPIPER 4 ROCHESTER 7:17 WOODHAM 4 RED PINECT 7:18 24357 WOODHAM RD 7:18 24272 WOODHAM RD 7:20 47911 10 MILERD 7:22 SCARLET DRS 8 BUTLER 7:22 SCARLET DRN 4 BUTLER BUS 9 7:07 BROCKSHIRE & SUDBURY 7:08 BROCKSHIRE 4 HEMPSHIRE 7:09 21802 PICADILLY CIR 7:11 22253 CHASE DR 7:12 21805 CHASE DR 7:13 21580 TRENT CT 7:15 22102 CHASE DR BUS 11 7:03 FOOTPATH 4 EMERALD FOREST 7:03 EMERALD FOREST 4 FREEMONT 7:04 FREEMONT 4 DAVENPORT AVE 7:05 FALMOUTH 4 WHITE PUINS 7:06 WHITE PLAINS8 PORTSMOUTH 7:07 PORTSMOUTH 4 DOVER 7:09 SIMMONS 4 FAIRWAY HILLS 7:11 SIMMONS 4 SURFSIDE RD 7:12 CIDER MILL RD 8 RIVERVIEW 7:16 24333 HOMESTEAD BUS 12 7:02 WMALOTTDR 8 WLE BOSTDR 7:03 WLE BOST DR 4 HOLLYDALE 7:04 MALOTTDR 4 ELE BOSTDR 7:05 E LEBOST'dR 4 LE BOSTDR 7:07 40755 10 MILE RD 7:08 RIPPLE CREEK RD 4 ROCK HILL 7:12 39434 SQUIRE RD 7:13 39873 SQUIRE RD 7:14 NILAN OR 4 BURTON DR 7:16 10 MILE RD 4 LE BOSTDR BUS 79 7:06 LE BOST CT 4 SCARBOROUGH 7:07 41087 SCARBOROUGH 7:08 BRENDA LN 4 BETHANY WAY 7:09 24427 BETHANY WAY 7:10 BORDER HILL ST 4 BETHANY WAY 7:12 41820 MANOR PARK DR BUS 81 7:05 BECK RD 4 CENTRAL PARK BLVD '7:14 125LINHARTST

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i sA NOV! NEWS-Thursday, August 21, 2003

P a r t of H o m e T o w n C o m m u n i c a t i o n s Networl<^^

Cat Sione EDITOR

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Jeanne Towar VR EDITORIAL Dick Aglnian PRESIDENT Phillip Power CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

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o r d i n a n c e l i g t i t

I'oitr ycar.s. 'I'hat's liow long il 's been since Ihe N o v i Pliiniiing Cotimiission fir.si pro­posed an ordinance to promote conittiercial developnient along firand River Avenue.

OITicial ly Icnown as the (iateway F'ast Zoning District, city c o u n c i l is expected l o Ihially take up the long-awaited and debated ordinance when they gather Aug , 25.

Council held a llrst reading ol' Ihe proposed ordinance ~ which is intended to encourage tni.\ed-use developnient along Grand R ive r Ave . between Meadowbrook Road and the •i'owii Center development at Novi Road - at its A u g . 11 tiieeting. and i l appears final word on the suliject is still quite a ways off.

As C o u n c i l Member David Landry argued, "It's time lo change ihe zoning and .see what the market supports."

Indeed, restrictions like the one ibat would l imit most buildings in Ihe district to two Hoors and 2.'i feet tall just don't make sense.

Grand River is our ci ty 's "main drag." according to a .study prepared for the city last year by Finkbeiner Pettis and Strout, Ltd. It is an important link between the state's capitol and its largest city.

New businesses tire nol only needed in the district to make the downtown vision a reality, they're going to be needed to relieve some of the lax base burden - 70 percent of which is currently being carried by ihe citizens o f N o v i .

There are developers, like Joe Al to of B looml lc ld Hi l l s , who have tenants who would like io move into projects that could be built along Grand River, but developers don't know what's going to happen next.

Nov i ' s earlier allempts to Create a downtown for itself, mosl notably M a i n Street and Town Center, have been less than rousing successes. Il is time lo pull the trigger on the Gateway East ordinance, make it user-friendly, and transform Grand River into the jewel it should be.

Opinion

Ptioto by John Heider

Relief N o v ! r e s i d e n t R i c h W h i l e g r a b s a c a s e o f b o t t l e d wa t e r fo r h i s h o u s e h o l d of f o u r F r i d a y m o r n i n g at N o v i M i d d l e S c h o o l f r o m C i t y of N o v i e m p l o y e e C h u c k F r i t z . W i t h water ou t in m o s t o f the a rea , N o v i w a s d i s t r i bu t -i n g b o t t l e d w a t e r at the m i d d l e s c h o o l . V i l l a g e Oal<s E l e m e n t a r y a n d c i ty h a l l .

R i s n v i E i ^ j T G i v e m e a g o o d b l a c k o u t a n y d a y Ma rnmnitaH -i lief en wnii not in fniii->h C * Per reader request, we have compiled a list so you can get in touch

with your local and regional senators and representatives. Their acces-sibility allows you as readers to voice your concerns directly and allows tfiem to better represent their districts. If you feel we have missed anyone, contact us at (248) 349-1700, ext. 113.

United States Senate

Carl Levin (D-Detroit) 269 Russell Senate Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 (202)224-6221 senator2@levin.senate.gov Local office: 124 W. Allegan Suite 1810 Lansing, Ml 48933 (517) 377-1508 FAX: (517) 377-1506

Debbie Stabeiiow (0-Lansing) 702 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 (202) 224-4822 senator@stabenow.senate.gov Local office: 280 East Saginaw East Lansing, Ml 48823 (517) 203-1760

Uniteil States Congress

11th District Thaddeus McColter (R-Livonia) 415 Cannon HOB Washington D.C. 20515-8171 (202)225-8171 FAX: (202) 225-2667 Local office: 17197 N. Laurel Park Drive Suite 161

Livonia, Ml 48152

Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-Northville Twp.) PO box 30013 Lansing, Ml 48909 (517) 335-7858

State Senate

15th District Mancy Cassis (R-Novi) PO Box 30036 Lansing, Ml 48909-7536 (517) 373-1758 senncassis®

senate.michigan.gov

StptgHpM$<? Of Rep?

38th District Craig OeRoche (R-Novi) S0887 House Office Building PO Box 30014 Lansing, Ml 48909-7514 (517)373-0827 FAX: (517) 373-5873 craigderoche@house.mi.gov

39th District MarcShulman (R-West Bloomfield) 351 Capitol Building PO Box 30014 Lansing, Ml 48909-7514

(517) 373-1799 FAX: (517) 373-5777 msfiulman@house.mi.gov

Oaidand County

Executive L. Brooks Patterson County Service Center Building #34 East 1200 N. Telegraph Road Pontiac, Ml 48341 (248) 858-0484

7th Commission Christine Long 1342 E. Commerce Road Commerce Twp., Ml 48382 (248) 366-2666 longc@co.oakland.mi.us

8th Commission Jeff Potter 1099 Stable Lane South Lyon, Ml 48178 (248) 437-7597 potterj@co.oal(land.mi,us

9th Commission Hugh D. Crawford 46275 11 Mile Road Novi, Ml 48374 (248) 349-5079 hughcrawford@msn,com

Townstiips

Novi Raymond Schovers, supervisor PO Box 924 Northville, Ml 48167 (248) 348-0365

Commerce - Charter Thomas K. Zoner, supervisor 2840 Fisher Avenue Commerce Twp., Ml 48390 (248) 624-0110 FAX: (248) 624-5834

Cities

Novi 45175 West Ten Mile Road Novi, Ml 48375-3024 (248) 347-0460 FAX: (248) 347-0577

Walled Lake 1499 E. West Maple Road P0B0X99 Walled Lake, Ml 48390-0099 (248) 624-4847 FAX: (248) 624-1616

Wixom 49045 Pontiac Trail Wixom, Ml 48393-2567 (248)624-4557 FAX (248) 624-0863

.Shtxit me now. but Ihis power outage was die best thing that's ever happened - for me, profes­sionally, since coming to tiie Novi News,

Yes, I know tiiose of you who suflercd dirough long lines waiting for csscnUals, or stumbled around at night witii llashlighLs are a-ady lo hurl an Absopuii; 12-ouncer at my liCiid (even if il is your last bot­tle), hut hear me oui.

I saw il from a dilTercnl per­spective.

When the power went out at 4:07 p.m. Tliursday, I was in my downtown Northville office wriling an e-mail. Tlic lights nickered and Uicn, poof! Luckily, my computer has a bat­tery backup. I finished my mes­sage, .sent it, iind hit Shut Down.

A check through die rest of the ollice and a look ouLside made it obvious lhat it wasn't just an isolated incident. By dien it was 4:.10. I htid planned on checking out a little early lo lake my kids to a church program iJiat night, so I grabbed my stuff :ind headed out.

My car was brutally hot inside, so 1 immedi­ately cranked liic windows down and die radio up as i lieaded up Randaii to Eight Mile. It was at dial intersection Uiat I heard die newsman on Nalionid Public Radio announce that New York

C a l S t o n e

had been hit by a major [xiwer outage ;md lhat Detroit was reporting likewise.

His voice -1 diink his niune is Cory Flintoff-didn't have dial gravely .serious tone (like Walter Cronkile's) dial would make a listener diink dic outages were anything more .serious (i.e. len-orist

attacks) than mechanical fail­ures, but that's exactly what 1 at first assumed they were. Tho.sc "evil-doers" had struck again! And what a brilliant move on one of die hottest days of tlic year. Knock out our power! Take away our one of our most treasured commodities - air conditioning! How dare they? George W. will surely make diem pay for diis, I thought.

I began looking at die date to .see if August 14, 2003 led to a sick joke like 9-1 i did. Nothing diere dial I couid figure out. Maybe diey just picked a day out of die hat to catch us olT guard again. Who knows how

diose maniacs diink anyway. Onward up Taft Road to Grand River and over

to Beck. The traffic signals were out and the veiiicles were starting to line up to get on 1-96 westbound. That's nol dial unusual, but die eerie feeling in the air certainly was. Radio repons were now saying dial power was out in several

other areas as well. Tliis didn't look good. 1 called my wife on die cellphone, and she was

stunned al die news. "Are you kidding?!" That's all siie kept saying. At home in Charlotte, every­thing was status quo. It was hotter dian hot, so .she had the A / C cranking away and die kids were jumping iiround in dieir litde pool.

As 1'was driving on'96,''l looked on dieside su-eeis to see if there w.xs any indicadon of power being on. But it wasn't until Brigbion dial 1 saw a stoplight working. It was about dien dial I heard on tlie radio dial diere were no indications

(diat diis had been a ten-orist attack. Whew! J was­n't lOO-pcrceiit convinced bccau.se I was won­dering what C O U L D cau.se an outage diis mas­sive and widespread. A lighuiing strike to a power plant was mendoned, but dial seems unlikely.

Regardless, I condnued my two-hour Uiek homeward, switching back and forth from NPR to WJR, die latter offering a localized vereion of die former.

Aldiough 1 had a half-lank of gas, more dian enough for Friday's roundtrip to work and back, I decided 1 better fill 'er up - just in case...

Want to know how die day after went? Turn to page 2.

Cal Stone i.s llie editor ofthe Novi News. He can be reached at (248) 349-1700, ext. 113 or by e-ntail at cstone@ltl.homecontm.itet.

Feel s e c u r e ?

Our beloved country is less secure due to President Bush's policies since 9 / i i Ihan i l has ever been. That President Bush deliber­ately lied to Congress and the American pub­lic regarding Iraq's nuclear program and other weapons of mass destruction is a fact, not the grumbling of political opposition. It is extremely dangerous to have our foreign pol­icy predicated on lies and distortion.

veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity ( v l P S ) is a group of 30 retired mem­bers of the C I A , D I A , Army Inteiiigence, .ind N S A who are speaking out about the way the Bush adminish-ation has corrupted the intelli­gence process. In an open letter to President Bush on July 14, v I P S called for vice President Dick Cheney's resignation for lead­ing a "campaign of deceit". The vice president repeatedly used forged evidence (i.e., that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger for use in nuclear weapons, and had restarted its nuclear program) to convince Congress and the American public that war was necessary. President Bush included diis fraudulent claim in his State of the Union speech.

The mission of the intelligence system is to gaUier evidence and report it objectively and truthfully. Professionals in die intelligence community are furious to see carefully gadi-ercd data twisted to fit the goals of a political agenda. The C I A was under tremendous pres­sure to "find" diat Iraq was linked to al-Qaida and the events of 9/1 l . In the absence of evi­dence lo support this claim, die C I A . to its credit, steadfasdy reported the true facts. The

administration, however, used bogus informa­tion lo make a case that diere was a iink.

The president cannot make rational, weii-informcd policy decisions based on distorted intelligence. v IPS warns that the nation is in grave danger as long as this practice persists. Many American and Iraqi lives have been lost. Americans deserve to be told Ihe truth.

Flo Smith Wolverine Lake

situation from City administration so 1 could respond to the calls that I received from our residents.

Thank you for a job well done.

Lou Csordas Novi City Council

N o v i ' s t e a m effort

Last week during the blackout and the waler shutdown the city employees Came through widi flying colors again. I visited die Command Center a couple times over the blackout period and was very comforted by the activity and actions being taken by the department managers and their staff.

The police and fire chiefs, city senior man­agement and many city staff members were implemendng programs such as the reverse 911-notification system, cooling centers and clean water supplies for die residents of Novi . Most o f the employees working for our bene­fit were also out of power and water but still stayed on to ensure that you and l at least had die opportunity to obtain water and comfort stations. Chief Schaeffer advised me that Novi residents were provided over 30,000 bottles of water. Quite a feat under the cir­cumstance.

I also appreciated the constant update of die

J u s t r e p o r t t h e n e w s

Since a political endorsement seeks to influence an election, i f The Novi News intends to endorse candidates in the November 2003 local election, as a sub­scriber, it is my opinion dial The Novi News should properly maintain its distance from any political forum piher than its own cover­age.

While Candidates who seek election to apo­litical office must be prepared to answer ques­tions from individuals, groups of people and die media, when a business or organization intends to endorse candidates, and actively participates in selecting questions supposed­ly from "die people, " without such persons identified, conceivably die potential exists for such questions to be "stacked" in favor of one candidate over anodier.

I believe that die Novi community would be best served by die Novi News sdcking to its appropriate business of objectively report­ing die news.

Laura J. Lorenzo Novi

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Thursday, AugusI 21, 2003-NOVI NEWS 17A

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It's one of those subjects that's hard to get a crisp handle on, but sprawl is insidious, serious and perverse all al the same time.

It's insidious because it's ail over the place, from mushrooming Livingston County to .TrgumcnLs over "big foot" houses in Birmingham to the eventual fate of farms and fields and forests throughout Michigan. It's serious becau.se it strikes directly lo the question of just what kind of state do we want our children and grandchildren to inhabit. A n d it's oddly perverse because there is growing evidence lhat the deteriora­tion of urban areas like Detroit and Pontiac and even inner suburbs like Redford Township is directly related to sprawl.

Which is why two recent news events deserve greater media attention than they got.

First, Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieflje proposed a couple weeks ago that the city partner with sur­rounding communities to buy land or development rights so as to cre­ate a gfeenbelt against over-devel-opment. "There are a lot of open spaces around us and i f they're all gobbled up, we've lost something big. Once it's paved over, it's gone forever," said Hieftje.

Hieftje's plan is to ask local voters to redirect an existing 0.5 mill property tax now aimed at parkland acquisition to buy out­right or purchase the development rights for something like 10,000 acres in and around-the city. A 0.5 mill property tax on a $300,000 house amounts to about $60 in taxes per yean If the proposal is approved on the November ballot, Hieftje estimates that it would generate up to $30 million, which could be bulkedup byanodienSSO-million in matching funds.

Now the "People's Rcpubiic of Ann Arbor" is not generally

known for common sense fore-sigiit. But Mayor Hieftje is a smart guy with a practical back­ground in commercial real estate. His proposal deserves a lot of attention if only because it offers a specific way to establish green-belts around cities that do a lot to make them more livable.

The second event was the release this week of the long-await­ed report of the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council, the prod­uct of a 26-meni-ber bipartisan group chaired by former Al ly . General Fiank Kelley and former Gov. Will iam M i l l i k e n . The Council was creat­ed by Gov. Jennifer

Granholm to study and identify trends, causes and consequences of urban sprawl and provide rec-omincndalions to minimize the negative effects of current and projected land use patterns on Michigan's environment and economy.

The final report runs tnore than 100 pages, which possibly helps explain why it received such little coverage (even reporters' lips got tired?). But it does provide a com­prehensive framing for some dis­turbing fads. At the present rate of developtnent, for example, Michigan is losing something like 10 acres of farinland per hour And developed areas in our state will increase by 178 percent if current land use patterns are main­tained until 2040.

The report calls for "one coor­dinated set of statewide land use goals" and cooperation in land use planning between local govern­ment units. It points out that one poorly understood consequence of die Michigan's Home Rule Act is that i l gives virtually unlimited power to local , governments .ito. adopt whatever zoning and land use planning policies they want, irrespective of what's going on

next door Tlie report calls for offering subsidies to fanners to stay on their land and i'or targeting state funding for roads, sewers and utilities on existing centers of commerce and development. There are literally scores of rec-ommendations.

O f course, not everybody is happy with all this. The Homebuilders Association of Washtenaw County says the Ann Arbor plan would drive up hous­ing costs between $3,000 and $4,000 because it would limit the supply of land to be developed. And Tom Bray, a very smart but very conservative columnists for The Detroit News, points out that "built or developed areas lake up a mere 9 percent of Michigan land" and that fully 28 percent of Michigan land is government-owned. Bray adds that 18 thillion acres of Michigan's 36 million is forest land and dial the amount of forest land actually expanded by 2 million acres in the past 20 years, in part because uneconomic farm­land has been abandoned.

The problem with this line of thinking, of course, is that the adverse consequences of sprawl arc concentrated in the rapidly developing pockets of Michigan, not on the forests in the U P Mayor Hieftje has a point that when a field is paved over, it's likely to be paved over forever And Gov. Granholm is far-seeing enough to connect the decline of urban areas with the flight of peo­ple and development to suburbs and exurbs farther and farther away from population centers.

Debate over land use policies has been virtually non-existent in Michigan for decades. It's been in that policy vacuum that a fair num­ber of bad things have taken place. Bodi Mayor Hieftje and the Land Use Leadership Council deserve a lot of credit for putting the subject squarely on the agenda.

Phil Power i.^ Ihe Chairman of the Board of the compatiy that owns this newspaper. He wotild be pleased to get your reactions to this coltimn either al (734) 953-2047 or at ppower@hontecomnt.nel.

D o w n t o w n w i l l c r e a t e i t s e l f "// wishes were horses, beg­

gars would ride." - James Halliwell, Nursery

Rhymes of England 1844

When I was a senior in high .school, my coach, a wise man, took me aside and gently sug­gested that I might want lo Con­sider a different sport for my college years and beyorid since there wasn't a College small enough in Amer ica to be inter­ested in a 175-pound strong side defensive tackle.

A n d with that my dreams of N F L glory were crushed.

O K , there was that and the fact that I was a fourth-string player in a Class C schooi, which meant our whole school was smaller than some urban schools' marching bands.

Warming the bench, I could fantasize about the N F L all 1 wanted to, but it just wasn't gonna happen. Some things just are what they are.

For years now N o v i ' s c i ty fathers, and mothers, on vari­ous Commis.sions, councils and boards have been wringing their hands over the fact that N o v i has no identifiable downtown.

The cold hard fact is, N o v i is more L o s Angeles without earthquakes than it is Manhattan without skyscrapers. It is, for good or i l l , quintessential subur­bia.

Northville and Mi l ford were mi l l towns formed around spots where streams could be har­nessed. Places like South Lyon and Brighton were essentially market towns, a half day's ride from the farthest farm. If you look at the towns and hamlets established across the state in the 19th century, they are basi­cally a day's horse ride apart

More than 300 years ago, the French created what would become the state's largest city -not because o f a downtown development authority study, but

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because they saw they could conlrol the fur trade o f the entire Upper Great Lakes from a single fort.

Other cities where formed because they had a good harbor or some medieval bishop decid­ed to build a cathedral.

Even though Wixom's raison d'etre for being a municipality was Ford Moto r Company's desire for the lower insurance rates lhal having a c i iy fire department would bring, it had more buildings and more claim to being a city in 1959 than the cluster of dots around the corner of Grand River Avenue and Novi Road lhal was labeled Novi Centre.

Then as now, Nov i was al its core a place on the way to some­where else. There is no shame in that. It's j u s i a fact on the ground. Just as Genoa Township was once a dark spot between the thriving towns of Brighton and Howell, Novi was once a dark .spot between Brighton and

Farmington where the largest buildings were barns and horses and Holsteins outnumbered • people.

Chicago may once have been known as hog butcher to the wor id ; and Detroit may be the Motorcity, even though only one of the B i g Three is head­quartered there

and mosl cars are built some­where else; but in N o v i , it's the M a l l that started it a l l .

People didn't come lo Novi for the quaint downtown. If that's what they wanted, they would have stayed in Femdale.

They came for space and Novi had buckets of it at the time. Schools were important to them, so they built good ones and that attracted even more people.

Now Novi can't even say it's on the cutting edge. Metro Detroit is racing westward along Grand River to slam into the eastward expansion o f Greater Lansing. There are those in the real estate community that say

by mid-century, the Grand River/I-96 corridor wi l l be one megalopolis. You can see it now in Genoa where big box stores line the avenue, jiacked up by beige subdivisions sitting on the bones of farms.

Today Nov i is in- f i l l . That's not lo say i l ' s future is

casi in stone. There's a lo l io be done. However, trying to be something it's nol isn't one of them.

The c i ty needs to sharply focus on two things — econom­ic development and quality of life.

N o v i has tons of restaurants, but busboys generally can't afford the kinds of homes Novi is building. The city needs lo focus way more energy on attracting and holding high-tech, high-paying businesses and a lot less on trying to artificially cre­ate something that generates more nostalgia than demand.

High-tech, high-value indus­try and business takes part of the burden of homeowners of creat­ing the kinds of ihings that w i l l improve the quality of their lives.

With each acre that gets swal­lowed up by new homes and strip malls, there's one less open space for kids to play ball, one less place for couples to walk their dogs at sunset.

The city needs lo spend less energy on trying to force grow a downtown and more on creating public places that w i l l keep Novi the kind o f place that families want to raise their kids in.

A good place to start is con­necting the dots on the city's pathway system. The city is essentially a grid of square mile blocks, and there just isn't a good reason for nearly all of Ihem to have a pathway sur­rounding them.

If N o v i really needs a down--town, it w i l l create i tself

Being a good place to raise kids and do business is a good enough reason to exist all on its own.

Phil Foley is a staff writer for the Novi News. He can be reached at (248) 349-1700, ext. 108, or by e-mail at pfoley@ht.homecomm.net.

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i l in ing a serious incdicai con-ciilioii is dil l icull cimupii wiliiout ihc irauiiKi of losing one's hair.

Hill slylisis al .Salciii Head West in Novi will help hrighlen ihe Uses 111' young people sulTering Irom hair loss wilh a i.ocics ol' Love eveni fniiii lii 7 p.m. Aug. 25.

Locks 1)1' Love is a mmprolll Drgaiii/aliiin lhal j)rovides hair­pieces Id children under age 18 w'ilh medical hair loss, 'i'he orgaii-i/.alioii has provided liiiire Ihan l.(KK) hairpieces lo children since I9')7.

.Salon I lead Wesl al 4.\l'50 Ten .Mile nil ihe norih side ol' the slrecl jusl wesl 111' ,N'iivi Koad will otTcr Tree liairciils. slyles and color lo Ihose willing lo donale al leasl 10 inches of hair in .Salon Head Wesl's i-'irsl Annual Locl;s of Love Hair Drive.

•ihose unahle lo schedule an apiioiiiliiieiil during Ihe drive can make oilier arraiigeiiienls. Walk-ins will also he aceepied during Ihe drive.

Slylisis ai ihe Novi salon hecaiiie involved wilh Lock.s of Love when some girls from Delroil County l)ay School approached owners Jeff and Carolyim Wesl ahoul scheduling a block of lime to have ilicir haircut for the cause.

I'he students had heen growing their hair for the orgaiii/.alion for a long time and wanted to have their hair cut on the same day to he ahle lo lend support and praise lo each other, accoiding lo the Wests.

One student decided she want­ed 10 make ; i di/'I'eretice in Ihe world following the terrorist attacks on Sept, 11. 2001. accord­ing to the stylists. Another student made the decision lo donate her hair after she learned her uncle had heen diagnosed with leukemia.

Madalyn Kallz, l.'i, whose sis­ter, Natalie K a i l / , is the salon oqordinator at .Salon Head West, liad her hair cut for the Locks of

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Love hair drive last week. "She wtinled to gel her hair cut

hefoie school started on Moiidiiy." Natalie Kallz said.

The sophomore at Novi High .Sciiool, will) competes in cross country ;ind track, was ready for ;i new look.

"I've had long hair for a while, and a couple of my frieiitis had Iheir hair ctil for Locks of Love. Il's worth it. I don't need my hair," Madalyn K a i l / said.

Hair to he doiialed can he penned or color-lrcated, hut i l must be in good condition.

Jeff Wesl said that the salon's stylists have supported research funding for other serious medical condilions. such ;i.s nnilliplc scle­rosis, muscular dyslrophy and breast ciuicer.

"I've been in business here in Novi for ]5 ye;irs, iiiid I've never turned down a charity," he said. "This is the kind of thing that I like to do for the comniunily."

"And wc have a fair amount of appointments so far for our i-ocks of Love drive. We dermitely want 10 make this an annual event," West .said.

A few people, like Madalyn Kal lz . have already donated their hair for the drive. "I've already got si.\ or eight ponytails in lite back," West said.

He noted that real-hair wigs range from S2,()00 to .$4,000 a piece, so Locks of Love pro\'ides ;i valuable service to those who have lost their hair due to a med­ical condition,

"What an inexpensive gifl lo

give, and what a pricelcs.s gift lo get," West said.

So, are shorter lengths iriore in style right now'.'

" A l l lengths arc strong. But we're definileiy seeing bigger hair," Wesl said.

For more information on Locks of Love, visit the organization's Web site at www.iocksofiove.org or call their toll-free information hotline at (888) 896-1.588.

For more information about donating to S:ilon Head West's Aug. 25 Locks of Love Hair Drive, call (248) .347-.3740.

I\im Fleming is a staff wiiler for the Novi I^ews. She can he 'reached at (24H) 349-1700. e.xt. 105 or by c-inail at l!iJlenting@ltl.homecr,mm.nel.

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The City of Novi will receive sealed bids for Asphalt Park Pathiways according to the specifications of the City of Novi Bid packages are avail­able al the Office of the Purchasing Director.

Sealed bids will be received until 3:00 P.M. prevailing Eastern Time, Wednesday, September 3,2063, at which time proposals will be opened and read. Bids shall be addressed as follows:

CITY OF NOVI CAROL J . KALINOVIK, PURCHASING DIRECTOR

45175 W.Ten Mile Rd. Novi, Ml 48375-3024

All bids must be signed by a legally authorized agent of the bidding firm. ENVELOPES MUST BE PLAINLY MARKED

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Leam about the opportunities of home education, view our C D -R O M curriculum, and inquire about other A O P resources.

P H O N E : (800)682-7391 ore-mail Events@aop.com.

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Soiithwestem Oakland Cable Commission Annual Open House

D A T E : Tuesday, Aug. 26 T I M E : 6 p.m.-9 p.m. L O C A T I O N : 33300 Nine Mi le

Rd.just east of Farmington Rd., Famiington, M i c h .

D E T A I L S : Join us lor food, fun, and beverages.

Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce golf outing

D A T E : Monday, Scpi. 8 T I M E : 9 a.m.. shotgun start L O C A T I O N : Beacon Hi l l Go l f

Club and Banquet Center, 6011 Majestic Oaks, Commerce Township.

D E T A I L S : $85/Golfer, awards, advanced prepaid reservations required.

P H O N E : Chamber of Commerce office, 248-624-2892.

Cancer Charity Golf Classic: Doug Schaeffer, Honofafy Chair, Police Chief of Novi, Cancer Suivlvor

D A T E : Thursday, Sept. 18. T I M E : 11:30 a.m. registration,

12:30 p.m. shotgun start L O C A T I O N : Links of Novi ,

50395 Ten M i l e Rd., Novi . D E T A I L S : golf packages avail­

able. Charity benefits Beaumont Pediatric Unit and Breast Cancer Research and Michael and Rose Assarian Cancer Center and Prostate Research.

P H O N E : (248) 252-8212

Resource Recovery and Recycling Authority of Southwest Oakland County Recycling Collectlon-Novl

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P H O N E : For more informa- i tion, call Recycling Coordinator, ; Kathy Center, (248) 208-2270. ;

Oakland Chamber Netimirk Business Caid Exchange

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D A T E : every Tuesday night T I M E : 5 p.m.-8 p.m. L O C A T I O N : Assarian Cancer ,

Center, 47601 Grand River, Novi . D E T A I L S : variety of activities

for the adult community to come and enjoy a unique mix of class­es brought to you by the Providence Center for the Healing Arts. Aug. 26 - Modem Japanese Calligraphy, Ceramics. Some activities may include a supplies fee (no more than $10).

PHONE:248-465-5483.

Providence Center for tiie Healing Arts-Alt Show

D A T E : ongoing until Aug.31 T I M E : Monday thru Friday, 8

a.m.-5:30 p.m. L O C A T I O N : Assarian Cancer

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D E T A I L S : "Echo of a Ripple", a show of original paintings and three-dimensional artwork by cancer survivor Tomoko Ogawa.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that George VI/. Auch Company Is requesting a Temporary Use Permit to allow placement ol a tent at the future Catholic Central High School site on Sunday, September 7, 2003 for the groundbreaking ceremony.

A public hearing can be requested by any property owner of a struc­ture located within 300 feet of the boundary of the property being con­sidered for temporary use permit.

This request will be considered at 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, August 27 2003 at the Novi Civic Center, 45175 W. Ten Mile Road. All written comments should be directed to the City of Novi Building Department and must be received prior to August 27, 2003.

SARAH MARCHIONI TEfi/IPORARY USE PERMIT SECRETARY

(8-21 -03 NN 78959) (248) 347-0415

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f>JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Tohme Brothers LLC is requesting a Temporary Use Permit to allow outdoor seating at 39765 Grand River (Jimmy Johns - Pheasant Run Plaza) trom August 27,2003 until August 27, 2004.

A public hearing can be requested by any property owner of a struc-lure located within 300 feet of ihe boundary of the property being con­sidered for temporary use permit.

This request will be considered at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 at the Novi Civic Center, 45175 W. Ten Mile Road. All written comments should be directed to the City of Novi Building Department and must be received prior to August 27,2003.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Simone Contracting, Inc. Is requesting a Temporary Use f^rniit to allow placement of a construction trailer at 27495 Huron Circle (Waltonwood - Phase II) from the date of the meeting until November 27, 2003.

A public hearing can be requested by any property owner of a struc­ture located within 30O feet of the boundary of the property being con­sidered for temporary use permit.

This request will be considered at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 at the Novi Civic Center, 45175 W. Ten Mile Road. Ail written comments should be directed to the City of Novi Buiiding Department and must be received prior to August 27,2003.

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Thursday, August 21,2003-NOVI NEWS I M '

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s a l e s J e r r y G o r e n t r i e s t o m a k e a s a l e l a s t T h u r s d a y a f t e r n o o n to A u d r e y J o s e p h , r ight , d u r i n g the r e c e n t g a r a g e s a l e at t h e N o v i S e n i o r C e n t e r at N o v i M e a d o w s . R e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i t o r s t o the c e n t e r w e r e a b l e t o rent a t ab le to s e l l the i r e x t r a s .

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Pontiac Trail, Wi.xom (Parking is behind the church)

D E T A I L S : You are welcome to come for encouragement, help, hope and prayer as you face life's problems, issues and Irustralions. Drop in for five minutes or longer.

P H O N E : Nancy & Susan (248) 926-8332 or by e-mail at harvest-fellowship@comcast.iiet

Adoption Playgroup D A T E : first and third Fridays

of the month T I M E : 10 a.m. L O C A T I O N : Holy Family

Catholic Church (on Meadowbrook Rd. between 10 Mile Rd. and Grand River Rd.)

D E T A I L S : We are a not Ibr profit, non-denominational group that brings adoptive families together. Our twice a iiionth meetings provide families with the opportunity lo share play and conversation. During the sum­mer, we meet at specially desig­nated tiines and locations.

P H O N E : For more information contact Michelle Pergcau (248) 887-4955 or Sandra Noonaii (248) 960-3257.

American Businesswomen's Association

DATE: third Mondays T I M E : .6:30 p.m. .

* L O C A T I O N : Wyndham Garden Hotel in Novi

DETAILS: American Business Women's Association (ABWA) brings together working women of diverse occupations and pro­vide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow professionally and personally through networking support, edu­cation, leadership, & national .

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recognition. Meetings arc $16, which includes lull dinner. Future dales for the Novi Oaks Charter Chapter include August 18, September 15 and October 20.

P H O N E : Chris Struwe at (248) 269-2035 or e-mail Chnstina.struwe@liunlinglon.com Business referrals

D A T E : every Wed. ongoing L O C A T I O N : Novi Civic

Center, 45175 10 Mile Rd. T I M E : 7 - 8:30 ii.m. D E T A I L S : Meeting of local

protessioiials and business look­ing to increase word-ol-mouth relerral business, various classifi­cations open and eager to bring you qualified business leads.

P H O N E : (734) 462-6460

Breast Cancer Support Group DATES; second iiiid loitrlh

Tuesdays ol Ihe month L O C A T I O N : Huron Valley-

Sinai Hospital, Commerce, Classroom C on the ground fioor of the hospital.

T I M E : 10 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. D E T A I L S : There is no need to

call ahead and register. P H O N E : II you have any ques­

tions, call (248) 937-5017.

Send calendar iteiits to Cal Stone, Novi News, 104 W. Mam, Northville, MI 48168 ore-mail to cstone@ht.homecoinm.net.

M c C o t t e r t o a t tend DeRoche event

State Rep. Craig DeRoche says Congressman Thad McColter. w i l l nttend a^meet-., ing of ihe DeRoche Breakfast Club. McColter wi l l discuss President George W. Bush's tax agenda. DeRoche wil l give a legislative update on ' Lansing activities.

"Jobs, the economy and taxes are major issues in our community," said DeRoche, R-Novi, "I am eager to hear Congressman McCotler'sper-specu\e on what President Bush and the Congress are doing lo energize the eeono-., my"

TlIe discussion takes place: at 7.30 a.m. on Friday, Aug . 22 at the Novi Expo Center, McKenzie Room. The event lb free; however those wish­ing to order a breakfast buffet may do so for$ 15.- Please R . S . V R to Shanna Wycoff at (517) 373-0827.

This conunues a scries of breakfast meeungs .DeRosche. is sponsoring at the Novi Expo Center to gIve local res-ideiiLs an opportunity to talk about government activities

F o o d f o r T h o u g h t

It's Sunday morning, 36 hours after power has been restored to our restaurant, Di.mlond Jim Brady's Bistro. I 'm whipped. Our sh-df is drag­ging and our digging out from this mess.has just begun. The whole situa­tion has been mentally C h e f B r a d y draining and I have to keep i l together for every­one else's sake. This is one lime it stinks to be the boss.

The ordeal started innocently enough last Thursday. M y hus­band, Tom, and 1 vacillated on whether or nol to make the hour drive to M l . Clemens (where we keep our I6-fool 1963 Century woody) after working the lunch shift. We decided that it was too hot to go out on the water iiiid opted instead to see a movie, "Sea Biscuit." The lights went out moments after purchasing our tickets. Knowing lhat there was enough time lo make show­time at another theater, we rushed to the car and subsequent­ly joined in the traffic gridlock.

We headed lo the restaurant, finding it pitch black, hot and stuffy. Because of the lime o f day between shifts, only a few cus­tomers and staff were present. As the realization sunk in that this was not going lo be a short-term loss of power, our "shut down" procedure began. A l l of the free­standing refrigeration units were emptied and their contents jam-packed in the large walk-in Cool­ers. The fuller, the better. By fill­ing every square inch of space with cold food, Ihe temperature stiiys lower for a longer amount of lime. Then the extremely per­ishable items, fresh fish and meats, were put in the freezer, with the hopes that its below-zero chill factor would keep them safely.

Finally, the ice machines were emptied and buckets and buCkets

of ice placed in the walk-in unites and freezer. Nobody, under the penally of death, was allowed lo open ihem until power was restored. When ihal time came we'd check internal tem­peratures and make the determi­nation on whether the food had kept ils integrity. Throughout the ordeal, external temperature gauges were monitored closely. Thankfully, beer, wine and liquor are nol perishable under these circumsiances. With the food safely stored, Ihe kitchen was washed and cleaned, via fiash-lighls, and everyone headed home to settle in for the wait.

Tom and I live in the country and lose power on a fairly regular basis. After several storms ihal have forced us io camp in our own home, we bit the bullet and purchased a generator. Experience has taught us to keep enough gas on hand to keep i l running for several days. And, our cooking fuel of choice is nat­ural gas, so our lives were unin­terrupted except for a fuzzy T v screen. Lucky us!

No need to worry about the food in our refrigerator al home. I've had lots of questions regard­ing what food should be kepi, and what food should be thrown out after a disaster such as this. As a rule of thumb, any protein products and dairy that have been in the "danger zone" (over 41 degrees) for more than four hours should be pitched. The bacterial growth al this temperature is rapid.. It is nol worth gelling sick over. Poultry producis are espe­cially susceptible, as are ground iTieals. Cooking won't k i l l many bacterium, so don't rely on it as an alternative lo Ihe garbage can!

When power was finally restored, the real headaches start­ed. We had lost a full day and a half of business - amounting to big days. Thursday's begin the weekend fesiivifies for many and Friday's "pay the rent". N o l only is this lough for us, as that busi­ness can never be recovered, but for our staff too. They also lake

the hit from being closed. Our common goal was to get

back up and running. This wasn't lo be without some glitches though. The bar imd pop compres­sor blew and lite office PC is toast. The week's payroll is somewhere in computer outer space. Because wc lost water pressure, of our ice machines needed lo be purged and reset. The kitchen's reorgani­zation would lake hours and, to boot, an off-premise catering job for 100 people which included an extensive menu, had to be propped from scratch in jusl a few short hours.

We couldn't use the water, so the stockpots became boiling water pots. Thankfully, our local Milford party store reserved hun­dreds of pounds o f ice for us and Costco had bottled waler and pop. Bottom line — we pulled it off! Il cost us big time, both mon-etarily and emotionally, but we did it. As I've said a million .limes, our staff is the best! It would nol have happened with­out their teamwork.

The upcoming weeks, maybe months, wi l l be spent getting back to nonnal. Although insur­ance will cover mechanical and perishable losses, the paperwork and documentation to substanti­ate such is a headache in and o f . i iself And, as bad as it all was, it only lasted for a short time. Think about the millions of peo­ple who live like this day in and day out, who don't have the lux­ury of air conditioning, plumbing or safe food and water sources. Maybe, as President Bush said, "This is a wake-up Call." But not because of our country's antique power system, as he was refer­ring to, but because we are some very, very lucky people.

Mary Brady is a certified exec­utive chef and co-owner of Diamond Jim Brady's Bistro in the Novi Town Center. If you have culinary questions or com­ments for chef Mary Brady, you can contact her via e-mail at dJbistro@aol.com.

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The ultra-higii Iccli. $20 million expansion ol' Comcast Corporalion'.s .Scio Township iraining and call ccntei' near Ann Arbor, tlic lirst of ils kind for Coincasl, has been completed by Oliver/Hatcher Constniclion of Wixom.

The design/build system of construction was used for the 68.000 square foot expansion, which ineorporalcs the latest informalion technology, training and conference innovations as well as employee reercalion, fii-ness and sircss-rclicving ameni-lies.

"Our design-build system allowed us to complete the vital portions of the building in a short time frame io accommodate Comcast's rapid growth and need for this I'acility," said Paul 1-Jatchcr, president of Oliver/Hatcher Construction.

Consiructioii innovations include an in-lloor channel sys­tem for 280 miles of communica­tion cabling, saving some $200,000 in construction cosl.

Both ihccxicriorand inlerior of the facility have the look of a high lech machine, wilh silver duct­work and venlilation tuiics inside and allraclivc, baked-on enamel aluminum panels covering all four exterior sides.

A total of 338 siaie-of-the-ari work stations have six-computers and can house up to four techni­cians each. They handle service calls on a 24-7 basis from high­speed internet subscribers of Comcast, the largest T V cable company in Michigan and Ihc US.

The exhaustive array of com­munication devices allow a tech­nician to duplicate exjict problem situations of callers and correct virtually all of ihem on the lirsl call.

Three Iraining rooms can accommodate up to 60 technician trainees, each wiih iheir own com-puicr capable of referencing all aspects of ihc Comcast systems.

To unwind from their inlense cerebral work, employees can shoot basketball hoops, play foos ball and pinball and work out in Ihe fitness room before and after work hours.

The design/build process allowed Oliver/Hatcher to assem­ble the outstanding team of tech­nical, archilcctural, human dynamics and ' construction experts needed and to direct the overall sequencing of the project.

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Cal Stone Edilor-Novi Netws 104W. Main Street Northville MI48167

PH: (248)349-1700, ext113 FAX: (248) 349-9832

Include a telephone number and contact nanfle so we can contact you for additional infor­mation.

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Magic carpet? Nope — it's McNabb M i l f o r d r e t a i l e r c o m p l e t e s r e n o v a t i o n s t o s h o w r o o m ; r e a i j y t o s h o w i ts s t u f f t o c u s t o m e r s

Start looking for a fresh look lo a familiar face. A local land­mark. The Donald E. McNabb Company, is updating its image with a newly--rcnovated interior, right down lo the freshly-paved parking lot.

Even the name w i l l be changed, to Donald E. McNabb Flooring Company, to reflect a hcvv, inbrcfetail and (idiisiimer-friendly direction, says Pete Siaib, retail sales manager It's also designed lo emphasize the selection and variety of floor coverings available. Cusiomers will find more than carpeting in their newly-remodeled show­room.

Many people think of McNabb's in Mil ford as a ware­house company with great deals by Ihc roll from the auto shows. While that still remains true, customers are often pleasantly surprised at the incredible selection of high-quality l loor coverings, including designer wools by Glen Eden or Axminslen And, o f course, spe­cial and custom orders are wel­come.

They have all the styles you love, from tough kid-proof car­pets io durable commercial of high-end luxury carpeting in every price range and colon

"We do everything from rental apartments lo high-end homes. I've done $100 jobs and $50,000 jobs," said Pete Staib. "In any price range, we' l l find a carpet."

McNabb's carries all o f the latest trends in carpeting. In addition to carpels from al l the major suppliers, including Shaw, Mohawk and Coronet, you ' l l also find quality wood fioors, ceramics, laminates and vinyls.

In wood • floors, they offer Mannington and Mohawk and various specialty woods from bamboo to exotic hardwoods. In vinyl , they carry a wide selec­tion of Mannington, offering customers even more flooring

D E T A I L S

Visit their newly renovated and retail friendly showroom at 31250 South Milford Road in Milford. As part of their transformation, look for a new logo and freshly-updated exterjor.as wgll..CDnvenienl. shbpping hbiirs mke ifeaSy for busy customers to do their shopping after hours, evenings or even weekends. Hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 12 noon to 5 p.m. Call (248) 437-8146 or 1-800-544-2016.

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wi l l be even more pleasurable in the newly-designed show­room, where you can look through a wide variety o f car­pets. Attractive displays and ddcor make the showroom even more inviting. The interior is light and airy with a contempo­rary twist. Inside y o u ' l l see exposed red brick walls, light oak trims and trendy track lighting.

When it comes to your home's decor, flooring plays an important part in brightening any room. It's a feature that can make an immediate impact in any room. And right now, there's no better time to pur­chase your carpet - for a limit­ed iime there's great financing deals, including zero down and no interest for 12 monlhs.

There are hundreds of rolls in stock to choose from, plus, of course, the auto show carpets. In addition to their wide selec­tion, Staib says their quality installation is backed by a life­time warranty, which guaran­tees you ' l l be happy with their workmanship.

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"We have quality installers, and we back all of our work with our warranty For the installation, we don't use sub contractors. We have a reliable staff that we can count on, day in and day out," he added.

McNabb's is a family owned company, which backs their sales and service with a local reputation of over 52 years in business. Their knowledgeable sales staff can point you in the right direction to get you the beautiful floor covering you Iieed. They'l l help you find the right flooring and the best value for your home.

The D .E . McNabb Flooring Company is located at the rap­idly growing area of 1-96 and Milford Roads, providing easy access to communities through­out both Oakland and Livingston counties and more. They're just minutes away from

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wherever you live. If your selection is in stock in the ware­house, you can take the carpet with you, with installation to follow soon after.

D . E . McNabb Flooring is

part of the South Lyon Chamber of Commerce and received the South Lyon Herald's People's Choice award for carpet compa­ny in 2002.

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wuicns Clawing their way to the top

B y S a m Eggles ton SPORTS WRITER

In all fealiiy, Novi Wi ldca i boys' cross country coach Bob Smith should be salivating.

Over what? Wel l , his squad. The Wildcats are bringing 35

runners to the program in 2003, compared to the 25 that graced the roster last yeaL C o m i n g back for the Wildcats are a slew of talented runners —• including a harrier that could easily be considered one of the most pre­mier runners in Michigan.

"The guys had a real nice summer," Smi th said o f his team's condition and prepara­tion for the season. "I know they were al l out there running and i t 's really exciting. I can't believe what a close field it is ."

Statistically speaking, junior Mark Moore is the top-runner on the squad this year and his performance at the state meet last year marks him as one o f ihe top runners in the state for 2O03.

But, the other Wildcats aren't about to let him get away with being the default leader for the squad.

Juniors A m o l Huprikar and Spencer Ornes w i l l be nipping at his heels as they look to keep a pack time of under a minute for Smith and their fellow 'Cats to admire. Seniors Er ic Tingwal l and Scott Bergeson wi l l be right up there as wel l .

This year, N o v i has seen one of the most remarkable improvements over a summer by one o f their nmoers in senior-Eric Joseph.

"Last year, his PR (personal record) was a 16:2f," Smith noted. "This year, he came out with a 16:07. He's really taken his game to the next level and he's eying a potential All-State status."

Joseph came out of the gates in full stride and doesn't look like he plans on slowing down any — which is just going to push his squad to better them­selves even more.

"Mos t schools end up with one or two guys in the front," Smith said. "We're going to have four or five in the front."

The captains on the team this year are Moore , Joseph, Preketes, T ingwa l l and Bergeson. They w i l l be leading

a squad of young runners as they get in the hunt for some major Kensington Valley Conference competition.

The seniors on the team include Bergeson, Chris Brandis, Brad Dobryden, Joseph, Preketes, Darin Styles and Tingwall while the juniors are Huprikar, Moore , Justin Namm, Ornes, Nate Quay and Brad Spis ich . Sophomores include Peter Andrews, Dan Bruder, Steve Fannon, A r t u n K i r c a l i , Brad Larson, K e v i n Lee,' Riley Lokar, Andrew Macek , Chris Machisak, Brenden Nevil le , Andrew Park and Matt Thomas. Incoming freshman are Mike Beard, Pat Carro l l , Jorden Dagslet, Ricky Manza, Alex Prasad, Abhishek Rao, Ak i r a Shinomiya, Ben Vallcrand, Scott Wagner and . M i k e Wheat.

"We are a very young team," Smith noted. "Young, but we're very experienced. This Is a sea­soned team and I think we're going to have an iihpact."

The Wildcats are hoping to be in the hunt for the K V C title this year as they are nearly i every season. Their biggest foes, without a doubt, come in the form of Mavericks.

"The consensus across the state is that the state meet is Mil ford ' s io lose," Smith said. "It's really true, because on paper they are awesome."

But that doesn't mean NovI can't beat them.

"We scare the bejabb'ers Out of them," Smith said. "They have to be ready when we run against them. For a long time, we were looking over our shoulders at who is coming up behind us, but now they are looking over theirs. They are tough, but you never know who is going to win."

The Wildcats are going to be eyeing a conference title from the word go.

" I f we stay healthy, we have the potential to be knocking on the door for first place," Smith said. "We have to stay healthy, and that's the key."

Sam Eggleston ' is the sports writer for the Northville Record and the Novi News. He can be reached at (248) 349-1700, ext. 104 or at seggleston@ht.homeconm.net.

Aug. 20 Northville 4:30 p.m. Sept. 4 ' . Howell 4:30 p.m. SEPT. 9 L A K E L A N D 4:30 P . M .

Sept. 16 Brighton HS 4:30 p.m. S E P T 23 S O U T H L Y O N 4:30 P . M .

Sept. 30 Hartland 4:30 p.m.

OCT. 7 M I L F O R D 4:30 P . M .

Oct. 11 Gabriel Richard Invite 2:25 p.m.

Oct. 20 KVC Championships 4:00 p.m.

Oct. 25 MHSAA Regional TBA

Nov.1 MHSAA Finals © M . I . S . TBA

Note: Bold dates indicate home contests.

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Aug. 28 , Northville 4 p.m.

Sept. 9 Ann Arbor Huron 4 p.m.

SEPT. 10 HOWELL 4 P . M .

Sept. 13 Holly Doubles Invite 8:30 a.m.

Sept. 15 Lakeland , 4 p.m.

SEPT. 17 BRIGHTON 4 P . M .

Sept. 22 South Lyon , 4 p.m.

SEPT. 24 HARTLAND 4 P . M .

Sept. 29 Milford 4 p.m.

OCT. 1 PINCKNEY 4 P . M .

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Aug. 18 Liz Hallman 8:15 a.m.

A U G . 28 NORTHVILLE 4 P . M .

SEPT. 3 ANN ARBOR HUlHON 4 P . M .

Sept. 6 Holly/Powers Invite 8 a.m.

SEPT. 10 HOWELL 4 P . M .

SEPT. 15 LAKELAND 4 P . M .

Sept. 17 Brighton 4 p.m.

SEPT. 22 SOUTH LYON 4 P . M .

Sept.24 Hartland 4 p.m.

Sept. 35 Ann Arbor Pioneer 4 p.m.

SEPT. 29 IVIILFORD 4 P . M .

Oct.1 Pinckney 4 p.m.

Oct. 4 . KVC Championships TBA

Oct 7 KVC Championships (Rain) TBA

Oct. 10 M H S A A Regional TBA

Oct. 17-18 MHSAA Finals T B A

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Novi S t a r t i n g season off in positive fashion

B y Sam Eggleston SPORTS WRITER

One thing that has to make a coach's job that much easier is when he has a talented crew of seniors and juniors to pick from for his varsity squad.

That was the case for Novi's Jim Hanson this year as he went through the process o f selecting the varsity squad for the 2003 Wildcats girls' tennis team.

The squad, which consists of seven seniors, seven juniors and two sophomores, looks as though it has exacdy what it takes to win. In fact, Hanson and ihe gang test­ed that theory early as they went on to participate in the Novi/Farmington Hi l l s Mercy/Grosse Pointe North Triangular Tournament Monday.

The tournament, which fea­tured some of the toughest com­petition around in the perennial powerhouses of Mercy and Gross6 Pointe Nofth, gave the Wildcats something the measure themselves by Most teams would have been satisfied just to score points against such potent oppo­nents, but the WIIdcats knew that they were not only better than the opposition they played, but they were the best team there.

The 'Cats proved that wiiJi a convincing 14 points to take fifsi ii] the triangular tournament while Fannington Hil ls MercSf

scored nine points and Grosse Pointe earned one in their efforts.

The Novi squad had plenty of talent to work with as they are once again loaded to the gills with the likes of seniors Ashley Glover, Lauren Carosio, Anna Switzer, Colene Brockman and Laura Vaughn. Two other seniors that are in the mix this year in Pratyusha Devarakonda and Megan Hsu. Juniors on the squad dlis year include Emily Holt, who has been a staple with Novi , Amanda Cassidy, Kaylan Pustover, Lauren Thomas, Becky Thomson, Tiffany L i n and Stephanie Park. The two sopho­mores on the team are the return­ing Diana TIcu and newcomer Ayano Nakamura.

In the triangular tourney the 'Cats participated in , the one sin­gles flight found the ever-persis-tant Glover beating Lauren Still of Grosse Pointe 6-3, 6-1 but falling to MaIy Atallah of Mercy in a hard-fought match 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 to take second place. Carosio had the same results as she topped Grosse Pointe's Elizabeth Bea l s6 -0 ,6 - lbu t f e I16 - l , 6 - l t o Mercy's Kal i Blanchard to take second;

A t third singles, Switzer got the best of both of her opponents, topping Lara Zade of Grosse Pointe 7-6 (1). 6-2 before beating Sarah Rudzinski 6-3, 6-3. Fourth singles found Nakamura topping

Mercy's Kerry Muldowney 6-2, 6-3 before she beat Katie Hanloh 6-2,6-1 for the top spot.

In doubles action. Holt and Brockman won first flight honors as the topped Mercy 7-5,6-2 and then, beat North 6-1, 6-1 while their teammates Ticu and Vaughn combined to beat North 6-2, 6-2 and Mercy 7-5,6-1 for first place. Third doubles found Cassidy and I^stover topping North 6-3, 6-3 before edging Mercy 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 for the flight victory, while Thomson and Thomas beat North 6-3, 6-1 and then blasted Mercy 6-1,6-1 for the win. Five doubles found L i n and Park edging out Mercy 3-6,6-4,6-3 before falling to North 6-2, 6-3, while Devarakonda and Hsu lost to Mercy 6-2, 7-6 (1) in sixth dou­bles action.

The Wildcats are no doubt looking to head into the Kensington Valley Conference this year with their eyes on the tide. But, in years past and this year too, Hanson wil l make sure the girls are focused on each upcoming meet and not looking ahead at what might be or what is Coming up In the near fiIture.

Sam Eggleston is the sports writer for the Northville Record and the Novi News. He can be Ttached at (248) 349-1700, ext. 104 or at seggleston@ht.homecomm.net.

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The Novi Wildcats soccer team is gearing up for what might prove to be an interesting and exciting season under tlie guid-•incc of coach Brian O'Leary.

Tlieir first conlcst of the season, al least Ihe one that counts towards the records, wil l be when Ihe 'Cats take on the Churchill Chargers in Livonia tomon-ow at 7 p.m.

1 have 10 say that 1 am going to throw caution to the wind and declare the Wildcats winners in this particular contest. Livonia isn't known for top-notch soccer talent, though they do produce tlieir fair share of competitive teams. It's just that I watched the 'Cats practice the other day and I have to say lhal I Ihink Novi is going to prove to be too much for the Chargers to handle.

Though tlie offense is going to find the Chargers' defense a foe worth playing againsl, I think the Novi defense is, quite simply, going lo dominate. A n d when a team has trouble finding the back of the net, it makes for a long night for their own defense as the ball ends up in their zone nearly Ule entire time.

Our defensive corps is led by Brad Simpson at defender and A . J . Glubzinski at goalie. Even taking the defensive squad out of the picture for Ihe time being and I am confident Glubzinski is going lo earn his first of many shutouts on the yean At practice, ihis kid was going airborne just to stop some casual kicks. He's serious about not getting the ball in the net and I am confident he'll come through for NoVi.

Simpson, on the other hand, and his crew of defenders might nol even lei the ball get close to Ihe net. They are the kind of players lhal are quick to take the ball away and don't like giving up much ground. I can't see Churchill really being able to put loo much together against this defensive pressure, and that's one of the major reasons I am picking Novi to win.

Though the offense is going to get the glory of this particular victory, the defense, in my opin­ion, is going to win the game.

Being that this is my very firsl prediction of the season, I am hoping the Wildcat soccer team isn't going to let me down. They are quick-footed but slightly undersized compared to most teams out there, but l don'l think they are going to let any variable in size change the outcome of this contest.

I am definitely .sticking lo my guns and calling out Novi all the way O'Leary isn't about to allow a loss on the firsl game of the 2003 season, and I'm going to give Ihem that extra push by put­ting them on the .spot with this prediction.

So, Wildcat soccer players, dcn't let me down and earn that win.

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Sam Eggleston is the sports writer for the Northville Record and the Novi News. He can be ' reached al (248) 349-1700, ext. 104 or at seggleston @lit. ltontecomm.net.

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il 's never easy lo walcii seniors graduale — especially when seven of llie nine who did were siarlers on your leam.

Novi boys' sot'cer coach Brian (l'I.eary walchcd seven of his slartcrs lii l Ihe road for higher cducalion in May and niiw turns lo his .squall lo see jusl who is planning on stepping up and fill­ing those shoes.

•'()ur uvii higgesi weaknesses are our l;ick of high school game experience and our size." O'Leary said. "()iir sirenglhs are our skills anil (iiir allilelrcism."

Tlic Wikicals d<j have four sen­iors lhal know exactly whal il lakes lo win. Defender Brad .Simpson hc:iiUiiic.s a lough defen­sive corps lhal includes fellow senior Chris l-ox, Midfielder Jon .Sierra will he loiiking lo lead his crew as will forward M a l l Nickels.

•flic VViUlcals will start three Juniiirs in ilcfciuler Niel Kocan, mitllicidcr Jiison Sierra and goalie A.J . (Jiub/inski and the re.sl of the siarliiig crew will be sophomores, .'viarc Clieccobelli wi l l be al I'or-ward. while A.W. Slanek and M a l l Crawford will lake position up al liiidlickl. Trey l.ove is ihe lone siaiTiiig sophomore al defense. 'Ihe lirsl Iwo subs for llie squad are :ilso sophomores in midlicld-crAlelciidcr Todd Janner and for­ward Mall Simpson.

Kouiiding out Ihe team are jun­ior forwiird Jeremy Brodsky and senior forward Steve Dailey as well as midfielders Miroki Yamada. who is a sophomore. Junior Col in Cody and .senior niidrieklers Kyan Slec and Colin Cloldsmilh.

On Ihe defensive side of the ball will be sophomore Dan Beal. junior Ivan DeLaCruz and senior Jeff Lee. Backing up Glubzinski's sicady hands between the posts will be junior Jason Ballanlync.

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win the K V C , " O'Leary said. "The league is gelling beller and beller every year L;isl ye;ir. we split with Brighton, South Lyon and Howell. So, no longer is it a Iwo-ieam league."

The Wildcals will open their season up against Livonia Churchill Friday when they visit llie Chargers al 7 p.m. in a non-conl'ercncc malch-up. The next game following Churchill wi l l be

against Plymoutli Canton August 26 at 7 p m . al Novi — a game where the Wildcats wi l l be play­ing "an excellent team," accord­ing to O'Leary.

Slim Eggleslon is the sporls writer for the Northville Record and Ihe Novi News. He can be reached at (248) 349-1700. e.xl. 104 or at seggleslon@ht.lwmecomm.net.

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T h e N o v i W i l d c a t s w e r e b u s y w o r k i n g o n t h e i r g o o d f o o t w o r k a b i l i t i e s a s t h e y p r e p p e d f o r t a k i n g on L i v o n i a C h u r c h i l l in t h e i r f i r s t g a m e o f the s e a s o n ( s e e p a g e 8 1 fo r re le t -e d s to ry ) .

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Il's hard nol lo look al last ye;ir and compare lor ;iny stpiad starling up Ihis fall, but for ihe Novi Wlklcals golf leam. il 's probably even harder lhan most.

The 'Cats, who are the defend­ing 'stale champions this year, come ink) 2(KW nol only loaded to Ihe gill.s wilh ; i uilenled crew of seniors and a nice mix of juniors, bui come in wilh ;i greal philoso­phy.

"The thing 1 look at about last year is ihe experience more than jinylliiiig el.se," golf coach Brad Uuss said. "No matter how good your team is, you can never predict winning a slate championship. So many ihiiigs have lo go absolutely pcrfecl for you, especially with it licing a Iwo day loumamenl."

And ihe top reluming scjuad for the Wildcat linkstcrs is well aware

lhal last year they only won Ihe lille by one stroke — a fact they not only remember, but lake lo hean. They are well aware of what il lakes to win, and how little the difference is from first to second place.

"It's amazing," Huss .said. "The best you can do is give yourself a good opportunity If you make the best of i l , then greal. If you don'l, Ihen you work on the things you in:idc mistakes wilh and go from there."

A name thai everyone in the high .school golfing community and Ian base is going to remember is lhal of Brandon Cigna. The sen­ior was a selection to the All-State squad as a junior and added to his talent by playing all summer through various tournaments. Cigna comes in as the captain of Ihc golf squiid this year and could make Ihe difference in many matches for the Wildcals.

"He's obvious a real catalyst for Ihis team," Huss noted. "I 'm confident that wc can always rely on Brandon lo do what is needed and to gel the job done. This is his game, and he's good at i l . "

Joining Cigna wi l l be fellow senior Eric Aytes — a four-year starter for Novi's golf leam.

"He qualified for the state meet as an individual his freshman year," Hu.ss said. "He's real solid, and a kid that you Can count on to shoot in the 70s al a touraanient."

Mark Eberline is back as well for the 'Cats. Last season, Eberline snuck in his score as the fourth man during the second day of the state meet — a score lhal helped the 'Cats secure the title.

Brett Jaussi is back loo, but ihis -year is looking to step out of the sixth-man liosition on the squad and right into a major scoring role. His score counted 14 times last season, but he was just short

of bein^ a member of the ' state finals crew.

R.J. Makoski will be breaking inlo Ihc line-up this year as a jun­ior. Last year's squad was so tal-enicd. Makoski found himself sit­ting idly while the olhcrs went off to play in varsity matches. He's not going lo let that happen again as he has worked on his game throughout the off-season and came oul strong for Novi al their Traverse City Tournament wi lh the .second-best score on the second day.

"I 'm really excited about the team this year as well as Ihe line­up," Huss said. "Wc have a lot of potential, and I'm looking for­ward to seeing what these kids can do."

Vying for the sixth-man spot on llie squad for each match as well as other positions i f they were to open arc a slew of top players. Seniors James Peurach,

JcSsfe^La'chman, Terry WelsH'dHd" A v i Sridharan are al l eager and ready to make their scores count. Junior M i k e Martinez wi l l al.so be looking to get some playing time.

"1 am expecting to use all of this kids this year," Huss said. "That's why I 'm keeping so many seniors."

The Kensington Valley Conference isn't going lo be loaded with pushovers this year. In fact, Huss noted that this is one of the toughest years of competition he's seen in the K V C .

"1 think in the top-IO teams in the state, the K V C has three of them," he said. "Brighton and Mil ford arc absolutely loaded, and then, of course, there's us. 1 don't think Brighton is as deep as we are, but their top four is going to be able to get real low,"

Huss even noted that Hartland

" i ^ d Howell w i l l be -looking to make some noise in conference, play as wel l .

A team can often judge itself by the schedule it keeps — i f

• that's the case, then Novi should be impressed with it's golf team.

"I think we have an outstand­ing schedule," Huss said. "We have 16 dates, which is all we are allowed to have, and wi l l be playing some tough courses and in some tough tournaments. I honestly think we have one of, if not the toughest schedule in the state."

The Wildcats golf team, no doubt, is planning on bettering themselves by playing the best competition.

• Sam Eggleston is the sports writer for the Northville Record and the Novi News. He can be reached at (248) 349-1700, ext. 104 or at segglcston@hi.honiecoiiiin.net.

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The defending state-champion Novi Wildcats took a little trip up

: to Traverse City to showcase their talents against some of the top teams in Michigan last week.

The squad, which is coached by Brad Huss. look 10th out o f 24

. teams which included the sutc champions at Division I. Division l l and Division l l l as well as what Huss thought was a field that Con­sisted of the top-10 teams in the state.

"Jl's the besl touraament in the

state, outside of the state meet," he said. "The kids played well . Wc went up against the Cream of the crop and finished lOth. I'm proud of that, especially the way it was a totally different experi­ence for them."

The change in venues and c l i ­mate must not have bothered the Wildcats too much. On the first day, playing a tough course called The Wolverine, the Novi linksters collected a total of 310 as Brandon Cigna led the charge with a 73 — one over par. Mark Eberline. Brett Jaussi and M i k e Martinez each scored a 79 in the

contest. The second day found the

Wildcats taking on an even tougher course at High Pointe. There, the greens were much faster and there was much more in the way of difficult courses.

"It made The Wolverine look easy," Huss said.

Cigna led the Wildcats once again, this time shooting a 75 on the day while R. J. Makosk i col­lected a 79, Jaussi shot an 82 and Er ic Aytes recorded an 84.

Cigna earned a place on ihe tournament team after finishing fifth overall.

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'Cats learning new program By S a m Eggles ton .SPORTS WRITER

With a new prograni and a new coach leading llie squad, the Novi Wildcals giris' basketball team is going lo tie lociking for one thing — iiiipiovenienl.

From the start of the sea.son to tlie end of il , finil-year giris' head coach Hill Kelp .said lhal he only cxpecis to see iiiarkcd iinprovemcnl from his si|uad — everything in between is just icing on the cake.

"Wilh eveiylhing being new iind a new syslem and new Icnninology. il's going to slow down what wc arc trying lo do," Kelp said. "Basically, we're starling from scratch. It's going 10 be kind of tough widi evdylhing being new. We want Ihem to leam what they can and have a good experience."

As a coiicli. Kelp is kxiking lo .see his girls grow.

" M y main goal is jusl to get bet­ter as the season goes on," he said, and then iiddcd lh;il he would undcr­slaiid Ihc choppy waters of the early weeks. "1 don't want us to struggle eariy and 1 really hope we don'l, hut we will lijivc lo gel beller and belter ;is wc adapt. 1 thought we would snuggle in Ihc summer, but wc did­n't. .So, now I'd like to build olT tlie fmindalioii of the summer and keep lliat going."

The squad has senior leadership lo Imn lo in Iheir three seniors, liccky G:tsiorck, Alison Greulich and Kim Ziirczynski are Ihe te;mi's ciiptiiiiis Uiis year.

"1 really Ihink Becky is going to he a good leader," Kelp noted. ".She's kind of my connection to tlie leam. When the power went out, we organized a little fan oul .ind she look conhol of that."

Kelp said lhal he expects his cap­tains to be leaders for the team at all limes.

"They have to be Iciiders on and olV the court," lie said. "They need lo set examples of how we conduct ourselves no mailer what tlie situa­lion is or where we iire at."

l l i e Irio of captains will be lead­ing a young but experienced team onto the hardwood' each week.

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Jessica Haggerly, Kelly Hebert, Julie Longo, Julia Lyskawa and Becky Reicliel are the juniors on the team while Rachel Folino, Jessie Gasiorek, Hope Monis .ind Nicole Sicplien are sophomores who made the varsity .squad.

With tlie experience that some of lhc.se giris have. Kelp .said Iliat the captains' jobs have become a lot easier.

"A couple of diese juniore could easily be captains," he said. "Haggcrty is a phenomenal kid that helps put Ihis teiun togetlier and get everyone lo work logclhcr M y cap­tains are great and do whiit diey are suppo.sed to do, but il's easier for tlicm because the whole leam is doing what it should be doing."

The Wildcats may nol have much in tlie way of height, but they rise to die 5-foot-11 mark on four occa­sions throughout Ihe team.

"Il's nol so much llie height, but we have .some decent body size iis well," Kelp noted. "Wc need to tum lhal into some toughness."

And toughness was something tlic Wildcals found they are going lo need. In a quad-scrimmage, the Novi giris were out-mu.sclcd by a very tough Waterford Mol l squad.

'They arc doing whal tlIcy want­ed against us because diey were so strong," Kelp said. "Wc definitely didn't look as good as 1 would have liked, but that's the whole point of practicing. We find Ihc things we need to work on and wc improve on ilieni."

And die Wildcats would like lo improve all Ihc way into the

• DisUicls. "Anything can happen in the

DisU-icts," Kelp siiid. "Wc play most of the teams, if not all of them, dur­ing the reguliU' season. We'll know what diey have and what wc need to do to beat diem. Bui , we have a lol of games to play between now and then."

.SflHi Eggleslon is the .sports writer for the Nonliville Record and the Novi News. He can he reached al (248) 349-1700, ext. 104 or at seg­gleston© hi. homecomm. net.

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Thursday, August 21. 2a03-NOVI NEWS 8B

4B NOVI NEWS-Thursday, August 21. 2003

Wildcats lose two days to blackout B y Sam Eggles ton SPORTS WRITER

l.c'i's just slari o i l hy snyin^ thill last year was last year. It w;is 2()()2 and this is 2(K).'? — is tiial clear?

Gdod. now wc can move on. Thi; Novi Wildcats Ibotball

team is well aware o l lu iw danger­ous it is for a prograni to live in the past. Yeah, they made the playolTs and cul a swath all llie way to the eventual state champi­ons and, yeah, (hey heat the Kensington Valley Conference champs not jusi once, but twice.

Hut, this year is totally dilfer­cnt.

ThiTC is (uie way you can look al last year — it wa.s a great way for sonic of this year's players to get sonic invaluable e.xpericnce. Returning from lasl season's team ;ire sophomores Ryan Prltdiard and Rob Carter as well as twins Josh and J:irrell Woods.

" A l l of thcni had starts for us," Novi coach Tab Kellepourey said.

.Senior linebacker and fullback Josh Buck is back loo, while Trenton .Sisson returns bul linds himself sliding onto the defensive line instead of al linebacker where he excelled lasl season.

"lie's going to help shore up the defensive lino because we needed some c|uality athletes to replace the ones wc lost I to grad­uation)," Ki'llcpourcy said.

Kerry Krcutzbeig is back too. this time reprising his role al safe­ly but also sliding out to Ihe wide receiver position to catch some mean throws from starling ijiKir-icrback Mike Hart, who had plen­ty of reps hist season.

"Mike has an opportunity to take an offense and do some won­derful things wilh it," Kellepourey noted. "We have kids lh;il can calch and we have kids lliat c;m block. We have some phenomenal runningbacks who can handle the ball."

In years p;isl, Kelle|>ourey and the 'Cats have used their bread and butter offense wilh lhe oplioii. This year, even wilh Mart's impressive passing capability, things may not change too niucb.

"If we decide lo run the option, Mike can run i l , " Kellepourey said. "He can do it well too. and the other side of the option is throwing the hall. We arc still going to run the option at Novi , and we alwiiys wi l l . Mike runs that well, so we won't hesitate to u.sc it,"

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•fhe SVildcils will have plenty of targets to throw to. Chris Scot! is a wide-bodies target that is ((iiilc capable of li;iii]ing in p:is.ses. Joey I'ralto will be looking to pull down some halls when he gets that cIkiucc too.

"Joey h;is been catching real well." Kellepourey said.

'I'revor Hoover is also looking good at the receiver position, and the Wildcats are looking lo utilize a freshman hy the name of David CanKige in imilliple positions, l-verything tVoni ruiiningback to iiuiirierback lo wide receiver

"He's really showing himself well," Kellepourey siiid. "He has good iihility to take the hall and carry it."

Other players that have caught Kellepoiirey's eye this season have been Adam Ikadcau. Drew-HoUnian and Kevin Cislo. wlui w;is rumored lo h:ive been chal­lenging Hart lor the starling quar-tcrhack position, .Shauii Coslello ha.s been making his mark in camp as well.

The Wildcats :iie ;ilso e.xciled aboul their kicking game. .Senior Mark Aiigellocei h:is been work­ing on his kicking all siinimcrand

returns as the team's punter and Held-goal kicker.

"He's really kioking lhe heck oul of lhal ball," Kellepourey noted. "He's slriking lhe ball wi-ll ,"

J.W. Woods returns on offense to showcase his running :ibility as one of the team's lop tailbacks,

"He could possibly get some defensive lime as wel l ," Kellepourey s.iid, "He's the front-side of our option play. He's a strong kid tind a very line football player as well."

With Pritchard returning at cen­ter, the Novi Wildcats are filling in the spaces around him. Chad Thurman is back on the offensive line and he and Prilchard wil l be gelling e.xira siippon from Kyle Margrave and mark Kominski , who are some big boys diat aren't afraid to push Iheir weight around under the guidance of offensive line eo:ich John Osborne. Steve Jabori also had some good show­ing in camp and may be finding himself wilh some playing lime on cilher the defensive or offen­sive lines.

"Wc should have a good ability to run the offense and have Mike

throw the ball well al quarler-back," Kellepourey said. "We're confident in Mike's ability and he has high expecialions for the kids around him."

The Wildcats are still far away from where they would like to be.

"We've got a lol of work to do before we take on Chelsea," Kellepourey said. "They are a tough program and aren't going to get pushed around. We have lo be al tlie top of our game when we play them."

And missing two days from power outage doesn't help the sit­uation any.

"That made a tremendous dif­ference," Kellepourey said. "We looked like a totally differenl team on Monday. That three day weekend really exhausted lhe team, and it showed. We have to get back to where wc were before the power went out, and start gel­ling ready to play Chelsea."

Sam Eggleston is lhe sporls writer for lhe Norllwille Record and the Novi News. He can he reached al (248) 349-1700. ext. 104 or at scggleston@ht.homecomin.nel.

F O O T B A L L F E V E R

J u n i o r V a r s i t y

Aug.28 Chelsea 6:30 p.m. SEPT. 4 HOWELL 6:30 P.IVI.

Sept. 11 Lakeland 6:30 p.m. SEPT. 18 BRIGHTON 6:30 P.IVI.

Sept. 25 South Lyon 6:30 p.m. OCT. 2 HARTLAND 6:30 P.IVI.

Oct. 9 Milford 6:30 p.m. OCT 16 PINCKNEY 6:30 P.IVI.

Oct. 23 Northville 6:30 p.m.

Vars i ty

AUG. 29 CHELSEA 6:55 P.iVi.

Sept. 5 Howell 6:55 p.m. SEPT. 12 LAKELAND 6:55 P.IVI.

Sept. 19 Brighton 6:55 p.m. SEPT 26 SOUTH LYON 6:55 P.IVI.

Oct. 3 Hartland 6:55 p.m. OCT 10 IVIiLFORD 6:55 P.IVI.

Oct. 17 Pinckney 6:55 p.m. OCT 24 NORTHVILLE 6:55 P . M .

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There's no place like home

S W I M M I N G A N D D I V I N G

B y S a m Egg le s ton SPORTS WRITER

They say lhal home is where you hang your hat — or in the case of the Novi Wildcats girls' swimming and diving leani, where they hang their swimsuiis.

The Wildcats wil l find them­selves without a permanent home for 2003 as they have a complete schedule of road games and each and every practices is slated to be held al Northville High School lhanks to their pool being redone for the 2004 ses­sion.

"It's tough," Larry Tehan said of no home-pool advantage. "It's definitely tough to always be at someone else's school. Even our practices wi l l be prelly laie in the evening, but I 'm not complain­ing. Northville has been very accommodating so far, and il 's been nice to have their coopera­tion."

The Wildcats don't seem to mind though. The determined crew returns some top talent lo compete i n the Kensington Valley Conference this year in the form of swimmers like Christine Elrod, Erica Hartland, Brittany Broadfuher, Janine Ranonwitz, Christina Thompson, Lauren Wil lson, Rachel Moblo, Laurel Lynch and Andrea Morabito.

Wilh 60 girls on the squad this season and only four practice days under their bell, Tehan said il was very early to lell where his team was al and who would rise to prove themselves the top com­petitors on the team. B u l , it isn't too early to have some goals.

"Our very first team goal is to make sure we can have a com­plete practice schedule," Tehan said. "As for long-lerm goals, without being loo specific, we want to gel as many people in the slate meet as possible and score points in the state meet. We also want lo maintain our high level o f competition in the K V C . "

The Wildcats w i l l be dealing with a few other adjustments Ihis year as wel l . Long-fime co-head coach B i l l McCord 'won ' t be pacing the pool as the swim coach this year as he has liiken lime off for family considera­tions. In his stead w i l l be Er in

Worden, a former high school swimmer from Livonia and cur­rent iiri teacher, as wel l as veter­an Ken Stark — who many peo­ple may remember as the head coach at Livonia Churchi l l for the past 14 years.

"His experience is very, very helpful," Tehan said. "It's been a half a dozen years or so since I've done a swimming workout or a season plan. Ken stepped into the role and has a work out plan set for the swimmers and already has their season projec­tions put together."

Tehan noted lhal no mailer lhe goals thai the team has set for itself or the experience they have at the coaching positions, it wil l all come down to how they perform. The Kensington Valley Conference isn't the kind of league where a squad would want to have an off year — not the Novi is going lo have one.

"We have no intentions of this being an off year or a down year for us," Tehan said. "We've had a good, solid program for many, many years and we expect our coaches and girls lo step lo lhe challenges in front of us."

And there wi l l be plenty of challenges in the K V C .

"1 think we really started to see it lasl year," Tehan said. " A l l of the teams in the conference are getting stronger and the pro­grams have been in place for a couple of years al some of the newer schools. The conference is getting tougher and more competitive, and 1 think we have lo be tougher and more compet­itive to slay near the lop."

In the end though, Tehan said it isn't your opponent in the lane next lo you that you are compei-ing against as much as the oppo­nent within.

"The bottom line in swim­ming and diving is that you have to be prepared to compete against yourself," he said. "You have lo compete against other teams and other individuals, but you also have lo compete against yourself."

Sam Eggleston is the .sports writer for lhe Norlliville Record and the Novi News. He can be

' reached at (248) 349-1700,' e.xl /()4 _ or ., . . . r i " ' segg'lMin^ lit.bomecomm.net.

Aug, 27 Walled Lake Westem 7 p.m.

Sept. 4 Walled Lake Central 7 p.m.

Sept. 6 Griffin Relays 9 a.m.

Sept, 9 Churcliill 7 p.m.

Sept. 13 Laker Swim Invite 9 p.m.

Sept. 16 Fenton 6 p.m.

Sept. 18 Howell 6 p.m.

Sept. 30 Northville 7 p.m.

Oct. 2 Brighton 7 p.m.

Oct. 4 Oakland County 1 p.m.

Oct. 9 South Lyon 6 p.m.

Oct. 21 Salem HS 7 p.m.

Oct. 30 Pinckney 6 p.m.

Nov. 7 KVC Championships 4 p.m.

Nov. 8 KVC Championships 1 p.m.

Nov. 14 River Rat Challenge rioon

Nov. 15 River Rat Challenge noon

Nov 18 MHSAA Diving Regional TBA

Nov 22 IVIHSAA Finals TBA

There are no swimming and diving home games for the 2003

schedule due to work being done on the school's pool.

No power, no practice

By Sam Eggleston SPORTS WRffER

There's not a lot a school can do when die power fails on them — even when the majority of die scheduled aetivides are outside.

The Novi Wildcats athletics practices were brought to a screeching halt for two days after die blackout that swept across Soudieast Michigan as well as multiple other states Thursday.

"Foolball, in particular, found diemselves behind lhe eighl ball," Novi alliletics direction Curt Ellis said. "Everyone feels Uiat diey lost some lime, bul foolball is in a pinch widi the way their preseason iimilations work."

The Wildcats foolball squad also had a scrimmage scheduled for Saturday, but due lo die water hazard issued by the city water suppliers even after the power was relumed, it had lo be canceled.

A n d besides die water and

power issues that came lo be for die Novi School District, dierc were other concerns as well.

"Our ability to respond in case an adilctc needed attention was threatened," Ellis noled. "Our phones don'l work when the power is out and tliough most coaches ciirry cell phones at diis lime and place, diose too wen; unreliable widi die power oul.

Come Monday though, the Novi athletes were back in aedon trying lo make up for precious lost dme even iliough the water adviso­ry was still ongoing.

"We talked aboul die opdons, and dien asked die kids to bring dieir own (water)," Ellis said. "From a pracdcal slandpoinl, we knew we wouldn'l be the only entity looking for water And, from a comfort stand-point, i l was nice for die parents lo know thai die water source from which their son or daughter was drinking from was safe."

M o r e t o ' C a t s t h a n j u s t w i n s a n d l o s s e s

By S a m Eggleston SPORTS WRITER

It's never easy to compete in die Kensington Valley Conference, but that's an exceptionally true siatc-inenl when it conies to cross coun­try.

Tlie Novi Wildcats giris' cross counhy team, coached by Nomi Norgren, is well aware of dial par­ticular fact, and they plan on mak­ing it even tougher widi some impressive competition of their own.

"We should be O K , " Norgren said. "Brighton and Milford are teams diree and four from the stale finals from last year and diey are reluming virtually everyone to dieir teams."

But that doesn'l mean the Wildcats won't be able to compete.

"I make i l very clear lo the girls that we're out there in the toughest conference in die stale," Norgren noled. "Wc aren't running against tlie litde sisters of die poor, and if we want to be any good we have to go oul there and do, somediing against (hose people." ., „. !

When it comes to team goals for

the Wildcats, their coach is well aware of die most important ones.

"Hopefully you win everydiing." he said widi a slight laugli. "But, we want to have something we can prove, and dial's our ability to con­tinue improving. Are we getting belter? Il wil l i ^ ^ ^ ^ m m m be document­ed i f we ai« or s e s c r o s s

nol, and we A n i m l v u better be. We C O U H I l M shouldberun SClieifUle, ning a lol bet- _ . ter at die end P 8 B 6 D I of die season dian we will be in die beginning."

For Norgren, being a coach is about more dian just wins or losses.

"I would like to win as much as anybody, as 1 am an exhemcly competitive person," he said. "More importanUy dian any win, we want to improve as individuals and as a team. We want to be good citizens and want lo behave like we should."

Norgren has always pushed the idea dial sports brings about more than just victories and defeats. They help mold individuals and put

diem on a certain padi in life. Norgren is die first lo admit dial he wants lo see his adilctes be better people thanks to sports.

"I drive it and foster i l , " he said. "It is vitally more important to me dian i f we ever won anydiing."

Bul Noigren isn't saying he does­n't want to win. In fact, it's quite die opposite. After losing a slew of tal­ented mnners like Nina .Schmitt and Tae Kono, he is looking to die abili-des of his 20O3 crew to lead die green and while to victory.

The team currently has four sen­iors, all of whom Norgren expects lo lead as any captain on anodier squad would. They are Elaine Williams, Samhitha Muralidhar, Alison Gilchrist and Jessica Harbin. They will lead a team of 40 odier Wildcats Oirough die trials and tribuladons lhal make an adi-ledc season. The juniors on die team are Kalalin Zerio, Alana Syrian, Sarah Schmitt, Palli Ramos, Carla Mariiilo, Kadieryn Koss, Cynthia Kazanis, Lauren Kava, Julie Johnston, Michelle Buelow, Laura Brunner, Sara Bielski and Lauren Bartlett. Sophomores for 2003 arc Meghan

Bannatz, Emily Barton, Melanie Burchard, Katie Flanagan, Erin Haynes, Erica Howard, Madalyn Kaltz, All ison Lofgren, Elena Lyons, Lauren Periin, Denise Rowe, Shannon Wagner, Samandia While and Rose Xie . The freshman class consisls of Darya Zorina, Julie Thomson, Danielle Styles, Megan Stec, Alexandra Sisson, Leah Rice, Natalie Morris, Andrea Kramer, Kaiherine Harris and Amanda Barbosa.

Widi diose kind of numbers on die squad diis year, Norgren is quick 10 say dial he hasn't die slightest idea of who will step up and who won't when i l comes lo ; underclassmen.

"It's way too early to tell about die freshmen," he said. "But 1 do expect dial the sophomore class : will contribute nicely this year."

Norgren noted that coaching diese giris is never a problem — in fact, he said sojnediing quite differ- . enl.

"I claim dial 1 have die nicest group of kids anywhere, and diat holds hue as for as I'm concerned", he said.""Each and everyone'6r' diese kids are just wonderful"

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U L T l M A T E T A N & F A S H I O N 3035 S. Commerce Rd.

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8B NOVI NEWS-Tiiursday, August 2 i , 2003

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Novi Varsity Football

Aug. 29 Chelsea

Sept. 5 Howell Sept. 12 Lakeland

Sept, 19 Brigtiton

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Sept. 26 South Lyon 6:55 p.in.

Ocl3 6:55 p.m,

Oct. 10 Milford 6:55 p.m.

Oct. 17 P'mkne^ 6:55 p.m.

Oct 24 Northville 6:55 p.m.

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Aug. 28 Chelsea

Sept. 4 Howell

Sept. 11 Lakeland

Sept. 18 Brighton

Sept. 25 South Lyon

Oct. 2 Hartland

Oct. 9 Milford

Oct. 16 Pinckney

Oct. 23 Northville

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Aug. 28 Chelsea

Sept. 4 Howell

Sept. 11 Lakeland

Sept. 18 Bfighion

Sept. 25 South Lyon

Oct. 2 Hartland

Oct. 9 Milford

Oct. 16 Pinckney

Oct. 23 TBA

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