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August 2011

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Wildcats Football Wins Showdown

After making it to the Division 1 state championship last fall, the Plymouth Wildcats football team opened the 2011 season Saturday with a 47-13 win over Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central.

The match was a part of the Big Day Prep Showdown at Eastern Michigan University, a three-day event run by the nonprofit Detroit Sports.

Senior running back Dante Fox started the team on the right track, running 59 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the first possession.

"That got me hyped up," Fox said after the game Saturday. "I was dreaming about it all night. I could't sleep because I was thinking about the game. The one thing I wanted to do was, on my first run, score to set the tone for the team."

Plymouth held Catholic Central scoreless until the fourth quarter.

The Wildcats' next game is Thursday at Howell High School.

As Read on: http://canton-mi.patch.com/articles/wildcats-football-wins-showdown#photo-7514574

Crowds expected for inaugural Hines Drive cruise

Don Nicholson has done his share of car shows and cruises, but he has to admit that he's “blown away by the day” by the response to next Sunday's inaugural Cruisin' Hines Drive.

“I've been told that this will be the Dream Cruise of Wayne County,” the Westland resident said of the Aug. 28 event. “I've had more hits to print the registration form on the website that there should be 5,000 cars bumper to bumper from Ann Arbor Trail to Outer Drive.”

Hines Park will be closed Sunday, Aug. 28 to “normal” traffic from Westland to Dearborn, and that section of roadway will be limited to classic cars and hot rods. A classic is any car that is 25 years and older, while a hot rod is anything that is modified, said Nicholson, the cruise organizer.

The event is drawing interest from in and around the metropolitan area as well as outstate and out of state. Inquires have come from Lansing, London, Ontario and Ohio.
“People seem to really like it because it's the only cruise where you'll see just classic cars and hot rods,” Nicholson said.

Nicholson is asking cruisers to download the registration form at www.DonNicholson.net and fill it out in advance to make registration move faster at the Nankin Mills pavilion on cruise day. All cars will have to enter and register at the Ann Arbor Trail entrance. There is no charge for registration.

Spectators will enter at Merriman, Telegraph and Warrendale. All three of the pavilions in those areas will be free to spectators during the cruise. Vendors will set up in those areas, and several car clubs have rented locations “to do their thing,” said Nicholson.

“The bike path will be open so people can still ride their bikes,” said Nicholson. “There will be cars along the route so we ask people to be kinds to the cars, if they're on their bikes.”

There will be parades of one brand or model of car in single file on the hour and Henry's Field in the Nankin Mills area is reserved for all pre-1931 vehicles. The Motorsports Hall of Fame will have Kenny Bernstein's top fuel funny car on display and the original Monkeemobile and Ghostbuster car will also be there.

The Six Foot Poles will perform from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the band stand in the Nankin Mills area. It's sponsored by Gordon Chevrolet. WOMC will be doing live remote feeds from the same stage from 2 to 6 p.m.

“Six Foot Poles was the cruise band for Cruisin' Michigan Avenue and for my Wayne Skills Center car show,” said Nicholson. “I think they've become the official car show and cruise band.”

Mixed in with the vendors will be charitable groups like the Wayne Rotary Club, which will be doing fundraising for Fallen Soldiers. They're being sponsored by Tennyson Chevrolet.

Nicholson wants to see the public come down and watch what he says will be a “moving car show.” He would love to see 15,000 cars come for the cruise, While he doesn't think he'll see that for the inaugural event, he “would like to make Hines Drive into one big traffic jam.”

“The park lends itself to this; it's so natural,” he said. “I wish I had done this sooner.”

As read on: http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20110821/NEWS16/108210472/Crowds-expected-inaugural-Hines-Drive-cruise

THIS Friday and Saturday the Victory Demo Truck is HERE!

Tuesday's Earthquake in Virginia was felt all the way in Michigan

WASHINGTON -- A 5.9-magnitude earthquake rattled a wide swath of the eastern US Tuesday, forcing at least partial evacuations of the US Capitol building and White House in Washington, D.C. as well as the Pentagon in Virginia.



The earthquake's epicenter was 87 miles (140km) southwest of the capital near Mineral, Va., the US Geological Survey said. It struck at 1:51pm ET at a depth of 3.7 miles (5.6km). There were no tsunami warnings issued after the quake.

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The earthquake, which was originally reported as a 5.8-magnitude, could also be felt as far away as New York City, Michigan and Toronto, reports said.

Flights out of John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty airports were halted after their control towers were evacuated by the Federal Aviation Administration as a precaution, a Port Authority spokesman told The Wall Street Journal. FOX News Channel reported that New York's LaGuardia Airport remained functioning.

Cell phone service in and around Washington, D.C., was reportedly disrupted after the tremor. The rattling was strong enough that pictures hanging in the Capitol building reportedly fell from the walls, FOX News Channel reported.

The quake was also reportedly felt on Martha's Vineyard, the island off Massachusetts where President Barack Obama is vacationing with his family.

Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, posted on Twitter a description of the strength of the quake as felt from his building at the university.

"I thought the Pavilion would collapse -- seriously," he wrote. "At first I thought it was an explosion. Pavilion IV on Lawn was swaying. Cracks here and there, broken window panes."

"My first thought was that a plane had crashed into the Lawn," he wrote. "It was that violent. But it went on too long."

New York City Hall was also evacuated, the New York Post reported.

The Wall Street Journal reported lamps shaking, computer monitors bouncing and other furniture moving for roughly 10 seconds at its headquarters on Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan.

The Journal reported that there have been no reported disruptions to New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority service as a result of the earthquake. Washington residents, however, were reporting delays to DC public transportation as well as Amtrak service.

Also in New York, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. had just opened a press conference to speak about the dismissal of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex assault case when the quake hit. Officials flanking the top prosecutor appeared to lose their footing and, along with members of the press, began to evacuate the briefing room.

Aftershocks were reportedly felt in New York City and Boston shortly after the initial quake.

Officials could not immediately confirm reports that two Virginia nuclear plants were undamaged, but taken offline, after the earthquake.

The quake epicenter is reportedly just 13 miles (21km) from the North Anna nuclear facility, on shores of Lake Anna, in central Virginia.

As read on: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/earthquake-rattles-virginia,-tremors-felt-in-michigan_20110823_dk

The Nissan LEAF IS Here today!!

The Nissan LEAF will be on display TODAY, Tuesday, August 23 at
Dick Scott Nissan
42175 Michigan Ave, Canton, MI 48188
734-495-1000
www.DickScottNissan.com

Come by for this
ALL DAY Nissan LEAF Event*
From 10am - 6pm!

Come see the Nissan Leaf in-person! You will have an opportunity to explore it from the inside out and see all the LEAF has to offer!

Despite Storm, Crowds Still Come Out to Woodward

Fans of the Woodward Dream Cruise weren't deterred by the strong storms that rolled through Saturday afternoon, as hundreds of cruise fans packed the sides of Woodward Avenue Saturday night, watching the increasing number of cars still cruising despite the official closure of the Dream Cruise.

Birmingham Police Sgt. Michael Albrecht, the officer in charge of Cruise shutdown for Birmingham, said he called nine of his regular officers back in after the storms cleared up. Combined with the 12 auxillary officers, the police will continue to patrol Woodward Avenue on foot and bike.

Albrecht said Birmingham police aren't encouraging anyone to go home, despite the closure of the Cruise after massive power outages struck Royal Oak, Berkley, Beverly Hills and parts of Birmingham after the storm. By 9:30 p.m., 950 DTE customers in Birmingham were still without power, though most were clustered in the southwestern corner of the city. Most of the homes without power borders Beverly Hills, where the majority of the outages occured.

Glen and Laurie Heuer and Barbara and Frank Carlesimo, all from Sterling Heights, were parked in their chairs in the 555 triangle around 7 p.m. Saturday. As Chevrolet packed away their classic and new car displays behind them, the Heuers and Carlesimos were ready to watch the cruisers rain or shine.

"We arrived right after the storm, but we come every year," said Laurie Heuer.

As for whether they would be out cruising Woodward, Barbara Carlesimos said they could only wish.

"We'd love to have one of our (classic car)," she said. "We haven't won the lottery yet."

Another group of die-hard Cruise fans were the members of the Seaholm High School swim team, who were still selling water to passing cruisers for $1 to raise funds for their team. Caroline Filips, wearing a star costume, said they ran under cover when the storm hit but came right back out afterward.

The folks from Advanced Screen Printing, with a T-shirt booth south of Lincoln Avenue, also said they weren't deterred by the closure of the Cruise.

"We'll be out until 10," said Jodi Williamson, who was working the booth.

Though a large portion of the Saturday night cruisers were hotrods, Tom Thomas from Lake Orion, who was watching from the back of his pick-up with his wife Kathy, said the rain drove many of the classics away.

As read on: http://birmingham.patch.com/articles/despite-storm-crowds-still-come-out-to-woodward

Chrysler Debuts 'No Payments for 90 Days' Program

Chrysler has launched a new "no payments for 90 days" promotion to make room for NEW Inventory.

The program will end on September 6 and covers all 2011 and 2012 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram Truck models financed through Ally Financial.

Other special deals announced on Wednesday include zero-percent financing for 36 months or $2,000 cash back on the 2011 Dodge Charger.

Customers who purchase a 2011 Chrysler 300 or 300C may be eligible for financing as low as zero-percent for 36 months or $2,000 cash back.

Deals are also in place on certain 2012 models, including the 2012 Chrysler 200. Qualified customers who purchase a 2012 Chrysler 200 may get $500 cash back, while 2012 Jeep Liberty buyers may get $1,000 cash back. The $500 cash-back incentive also covers the 2012 Dodge Avenger and 2012 Dodge Journey.

2012 Ram Truck buyers may be eligible for $500 cash back plus an additional $1,000 in "bonus cash."

Health Care Training/American Red Cross

Where: 20319 Middlebelt Rd, Livonia, MI 48152
Date: Daily
Time: 9:00am–4:00pm
Next on: Tomorrow, August 18, 2011

The American Red Cross, a non-profit organization, is currently offering Nurse Assistant, Home Health Aide and Patient Care Tech Training Classes at multiple classroom sites. All of our proceeds after expenses, go to Chapter services, such as Emergency Services in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, St. Clair and Monroe Counties.

The addresses are as follows:

1. Livonia 20319 Middlebelt Rd. Livonia, MI 48152.

2. Macomb 13260 11 Mile Rd. Warren, MI, 48089

3. Waterford 5144 Highland Rd. Waterford, Mi 48327

4. Riverview 20950 Grange Rd. Riverview, MI 48193

5. Detroit – Palms Building 2111 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI, 48201

6. Port Huron 615 Pine Street, Port Huron Michigan 48060

For further information, as well as class dates and times, please contact the American Red Cross at (313) 576-4130 or (313) 576-4120.

Website: http://www.semredcross.org
Phone: 313-576-4120

As read on: http://northville.patch.com/events/health-care-trainingamerican-red-cross

Help stock the Family Impact Center food pantry!

Botsford Named Among Top 100 Community Value Hospitals

An award that puts Botsford Hospital among the nation's top 100 medical facilities reflects both the quality and cost-effectiveness of care the hospital provides.

Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Walters said the Community Value 100 and Community Value Five-Star awards came as a surprise to hospital officials. While some awards require applications, this one was given by an independent company that uses publicly accessible data to evaluate the country's more than 6,000 hospitals.

"I think it demonstrates that we have a high quality of care," Walters said. "If you stick to evidence-based medicine, it really drives that quality."

He defined "evidence-based medicine" with an example: When someone comes into the emergency department with a bad headache, there are guidelines, supported by research, that show some of those patients need a CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan, and some do not. Rather than doing the expensive scan on every patient with a headache, Botsford relies on those guidelines.

That approach helped earn Botsford the prestigious award, but it's also part of the national health care debate.

"A lot of what we're talking about with health care reform across the country has to do with evidence-based protocols," Walters said. "... If you follow the evidence, you are most likely to have good outcomes.

"If we're going to control costs of medical care across the country, this is the model we're going to have to look at," he added.

While hospitals are measured by many rankings, Walters said the Community Value awards issued by Cleverley & Associates, a private company that provides objective information to hospitals and organizations serving the health care industry, are unique.

"It focuses on our efficiencies," Walters said. "It really demonstrates the value we provide to the community we serve."

The awards are a direct tribute to Botsford physicians and the quality of care they provide, Walters said. As a teaching hospital, Botsford also has a natural emphasis on staying abreast of the latest trends in medicine, he added.

"From a physician's standpoint, we're particularly proud of it because it demonstrates the quality of care we give here," he said.

Learn more about Botsford Hospital at botsford.org. Learn more about the Community Value awards at cleverleyassociates.com.

As read on: http://farmington-mi.patch.com/articles/botsford-named-among-top-100-community-value-hospitals?ncid=M255

Covering the Changing American Dream: Patch Launches "Dispatches"

Patch is excited to inaugurate a new series for Readers: "Dispatches: The Changing American Dream."

Every day, the national media is full of stories about how American families, businesses, and neighbors are adjusting to these trying times. There are so many changes happening so fast that it's dizzying: national debates about unemployment, foreclosures, debt, religion, government and private enterprise all touch on fundamental ways in which we see ourselves and our communities. Patch wants to explore that conversation on a daily basis so everyone can better understand how our neighbors are adjusting to the challenges and opportunities that surround us.

No one thinks there is one American Dream, but a multitude of American Dreams that a multitude of people are working toward. Looking out across nearly 900 Patch sites, you can see businesses holding their breath deciding whether to expand; college graduates returning home because they can't find jobs and senior citizens bringing boarders into their homes to help pay their bills. We also see bold new volunteer efforts, inspiring stories of local businesses that succeed because they innovated, and locals who've taken these trying times as a signal to engage more, not less, in their government.

At the purely local level, Patch wants to know where we, as Plymouth neighbors, fit along these fault lines.

Nationally, there's a debate about which government-building efforts are "shovel-ready." Locally, we know that the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools is feeling the pinch and downtown business owners are trying to make the most of a down economy.

"Dispatches" will be built upon the compelling vignettes and snapshots unearthed across all of the Patch sites.

And, of course, they want your help: Tell them what issues and what stories in Plymouth go to the heart of your American Dream.

What issues and stories in Plymouth define your American Dream? Tell Patch in the comments section of this original post on Patch.com!

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As Read on: http://plymouth-mi.patch.com/articles/covering-the-american-dream-patch-launches-dispatches?ncid=M255

2011 Woodward Dream Cruise is THIS SATURDAY, August 20!

It's the day classic car owners wait for every year and it is happening THIS SATURDAY, August 20th, 2011 from 9am-9pm!

There’s also plenty of activity coming up, with a Corvette parade down Woodward starting at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, a Chevrolet Centennial parade down Woodward from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday and a variety of activities on the eve of the official Dream Cruise from Ferndale, Royal Oak, Berkley and Pontiac, among other locations.

Click Here to see a complete map and more details!!

WAYNE COUNTY HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE/ELECTRONIC WASTE DROP-OFF DAY IN TAYLOR

Wayne County will be conducting a Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Waste Drop-off event on Saturday, August 27th from 8:00am to 2:00pm in Taylor. The event will be held at Southland Mall - 23000 Eureka Road.

This event is your opportunity to rid your garage, basement, shed, etc., of items such as paints, stains, fertilizer, lawn & garden chemicals, antifreeze, gasoline, etc. In addition, electronic waste will be accepted including computers, monitors, printers, scanners, cell phones & telephones, fax machines, televisions, game consoles, microwave ovens, stereos, etc.

Additional information is available at the City of Livonia website www.ci.livonia.mi.us under Departments-DPW Public Service-Household Hazardous Waste

Where to Cheer on 3-Day for the Cure Walkers

Thousands of men and women will come together to trek 60 miles through southeast Michigan this weekend for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure.

Each walker has raised money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure to fund breast cancer research and community education, screening and treatment programs.

The walk begins in Novi on Friday morning and ends in Dearborn Sunday evening.

Friends and family are highly encouraged to attend the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as cheer on the walkers at designated cheering stations throughout the 60 miles.

Here's where you can go to support these walkers:

Opening Ceremony

Friday, 6:30 a.m.
Suburban Collection Showplace
46100 Grand River Avenue
Novi

Cheering Stations

Friday

Northville
Mile 6.2
7:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Main Street between Center Street and Griswold (south side)

Livonia
Mile 18.5
11:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Kmart
33400 W. Seven Mile Road

Saturday

Livonia
Mile 4.9
7:30 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Newburgh Road
Between Schoolcraft and Amrhein Roads (west side)

Plymouth
Mile 10.2
9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Kellogg Park
Ann Arbor Trail and Main Street

Livonia
Mile 17.4
11:30 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Newburgh Plaza
16818 Newburgh Road

Sunday

Livonia
Mile 6.2
8:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Franklin High School
31000 Joy Road

Dearborn Heights
Mile 10.8
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Boy Scout Recreation Area
Hines Drive (east of Telegraph Road)

Closing Ceremony

Sunday, 4:30 p.m.
Ford World Headquarters
1 American Road
Dearborn

You can also follow the walkers on Susan G. Komen's interactive route map.

As read on: http://farmington-mi.patch.com/articles/where-to-cheer-on-3-day-for-the-cure-walkers?ncid=M255

A PAIR: Margaret Dunning of Plymouth, Mich., is 101 and her Packard 740 roadster is 81

WHEN Margaret Dunning was 10 years old, she lost control while driving the family’s Overland touring car and careered into a barn, fracturing several boards.

“I hit it, and it didn’t move,” Ms. Dunning, who turned 101 last month, said.

“That car had a mind of its own,” she said. “And I’m not a very tall person, so I had trouble getting onto the brakes with enough power to hold that engine down. It just got away from me.”

Soon enough, though, she was back at it, rumbling around the back roads of Redford Township, just west of Detroit, where her family owned a sprawling dairy and potato farm. By then she had already been driving for two years.

Before the barn incident, Ms. Dunning’s father had often let his young daughter steer while he operated the other controls. One day he let her do it all, but not without a stern lecture.

“Do you know what you’re controlling here?” she recalled him asking. “Do you know the power that you’re controlling?”

“He explained to me how, for some jobs, it was better to use multiple horses,” she said. “But the minute you lose control, you’ve got wild horses to deal with.

“And that’s how he taught me about horsepower,” Ms. Dunning added. “And it stuck with me.”

After that, Ms. Dunning, an only child, drove everything on the farm that was drivable, she said, including a Maxwell truck and eventually, tractors.

When she was 12 her father died, and his Model T Ford became hers.

Once her politically connected mother, who had arthritic feet and could not drive cars, finagled a driver’s license for the 12-year-old Margaret, she drove her mother everywhere. Her mother drove the farm’s four teams of horses.

“If you had just a little knowledge and some baling wire and bob pins, you could keep the thing going,” she said of the Model T. “It was the little car that made America.”

She cherished her time in the car alone, reaching into the wind for roadside stalks of fragrant sweet clover. “I’d see a few friends or race past a blind pig,” she said, using the euphemism for Prohibition-era drinking establishments. “Before I could get home, people would be calling saying, ‘I think I just saw Margaret, with quite a dust pile behind her.’ ”

In those days there was something else in the air: the excitement spawned by a burgeoning auto industry. Henry Ford not only led that wave, but to the Dunnings he was a friend and neighbor who lived minutes away.

“Dad would come in and say, ‘Well, Henry’s outside and I’ve asked him to stay for dinner,’ ” she said. “Mom had made huckleberry pie and offered Henry some.

“He said that was his favorite pie — I think he was being polite, but he was marvelous just like that.”

She added, “He always wore a hat with a sizable brim and a black band, and he’d push it off his face when he talked to you, and looked you right in the eye.”

Ms. Dunning, who never married, attended a private high school in Wellesley, Mass., before enrolling at the University of Michigan, intending to study business.

“When I was little, Mom asked me what I thought I wanted to do for a living,” she said. “I told her ‘to buy and sell.’ I think that surprised her.”

She dropped out of college during the Depression to help at her mother’s real estate business and later had successful turns in banking and retail.

All along she supported her beloved town of Plymouth, where she has lived in the same home since she was 13. In the 1940s she and her mother donated property to establish what is now the Dunning-Hough Library. She has also donated more than $1 million to the Plymouth Historical Museum.

Her love affair with vehicles never waned. She drove a truck as a Red Cross volunteer and has owned a parade of classic and antique cars. At her home, she also keeps a 1931 Ford Model A, a 1966 Cadillac DeVille that she often drives to car meets, a 1975 Cadillac Eldorado convertible and her everyday car, a 2003 DeVille. A battered Model T steering wheel is her garage doorstop.

But her real love is a cream-color 1930 Packard 740 roadster, which she has owned since 1949. She plans to show the Packard at the Concours d’Élégance of America in Plymouth on July 31 .

“I saw a for-sale picture and I was a goner right then and there,” Ms. Dunning said. “The guy said his wife had told him they had to get a closed car if they were going to have children. It was raining that day in Detroit when it came in, I remember it well. It sat in a carrier all by itself.”

Ms. Dunning cannot recall how much she paid for the Packard, and said it was unclear how many miles were on its in-line 8-cylinder engine. The Packard had not exactly been pampered, she said, before it was fully restored by a friend.

“It had been through the boot camp at some Army places during the Second World War,” she explained. “In those days soldiers wanted something to drive from camp to their new city, and they loaded them with other soldiers and ran the dickens out of them.”

Since it was restored, the Packard has mostly been a show car, although Ms. Dunning used to drive it more often than the three or four times a year that she takes it out now. “It’s always been a car that I’ve kept separate from other cars,” she said, adding that she has owned other Packards.

“They’re just made out of such fine material,” she said. “I love the engineering that went into it. There’s just a lot of very, very fine workmanship.”

Packard, an upscale brand produced from 1899 to 1958, ushered in several innovative designs, including the modern steering wheel. Ms. Dunning’s roadster was built in Detroit in an Albert Kahn-designed factory complex, now abandoned, that covered 3.5 million square feet and once employed 40,000 workers. In addition to the luxury vehicles, the factory turned out engines for World War II fighter planes.

Ms. Dunning still changes the oil herself, but mostly relies on a small maintenance team that includes a 90-year-old friend. “His hands are just magic,” she said.

Her car has black fenders and a red leather interior with a cigarette lighter, map light and glove compartments on each side of the dashboard. The windshield pushes outward, and there is a rumble seat and storage compartment in back. The transmission is a 4-speed — manual shift, of course.

All these years Ms. Dunning has kept her Packard’s original key with its elaborate crest. For her recent birthday, some friends duplicated the prized key.

“I was thrilled to death to have another one,” she said. “If I had ever lost the one I had, the locksmith would be out here for a week, and I still would not have that crest,” she said.

Ms. Dunning, who belongs to several car clubs, including the Michigan Region Classic Car Club of America, said the Packard has never given her much trouble, although there were times she had to deal with vapor lock, when the gasoline gets hot and evaporates before making it through the carburetor.

“You wait until the car cools off, restart it and off you go,” she said.

“I’ve never run out of gas with it,” she said with a chuckle. “That’s the famous thing to do with old cars. You’re so busy trying to keep everything else in shape, you forget about the gas.”

She said she was looking forward to the concours because she had not shown the car in years. “And it’s just such a pleasure to revive old memories, people I haven’t seen in such a long time.”

Having experienced the horse-and -buggy and Model T days, Ms. Dunning is amazed by the technology and styling of contemporary cars, she said. She is considering buying another vehicle, but she does not know what yet. “It’s just so much easier to drive now because of power steering and brakes,” she explained.

“With the older cars you have to use what I call arm-strong steering. But cars like the Packard make it all worthwhile. I love that car a great deal. I mean, I honestly do love it.”

As read on: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/automobiles/packard-81-is-a-youngster-to-its-driver.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1312812879-x59MV9wHbGw1pWQprTQZfw

Kellogg Park FREE Concert Tonight!

The Downtown Plymouth Summer concert series tonight at 7 p.m. when the Those Delta Rhythm Kings perform on the Kellogg Park stage. Come listen to the best of Jump Blues and Swing music for your dancing - and listening - pleasure.

This week’s Plymouth Downtown Development Authority concert is sponsored by the UBS Financial. The Summer Concert Series Sponsor is Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan.

Find the entire concert schedule and information on all downtown Plymouth events at facebook.com/plymouthdda and on the Web at www.downtownplymouth.org.

As read on: http://mi-plymouth.civicplus.com/list.aspx?MID=1704

Cargill Recalls Ground Turkey Blamed For Salmonella Outbreak

DETROIT -- Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of turkey after a government hunt for the source of a salmonella outbreak that has killed one person in California and sickened dozens more.


The Agriculture Department and the Minnesota-based company announced Wednesday evening that Cargill is recalling fresh and frozen ground turkey products produced at the company's Springdale, Ark., plant from Feb. 20 through Aug. 2 due to possible contamination from the strain of salmonella linked to 76 illnesses and the one death.


According to food safety attorney Bill Marler, who publishes a database of outbreak statistics, the ground turkey recall is one of the largest meat recalls ever.


All of the packages recalled include the code "Est. P-963," according to Cargill, though packages were labeled under many different brands. Many of the recalled meats are under the label Honeysuckle White. Other brands include Riverside Ground Turkey, Natural Lean Ground Turkey, Fit & Active Lean Ground Turkey, Spartan Ground Turkey and Shady Brook Farms Ground Turkey Burgers. The recall also includes ground turkey products packaged under the HEB, Safeway, Kroger, Randall's, Tom Thumb and Giant Eagle grocery store brands.


The recall also includes some ground turkey that isn't labeled at all, according to Cargill.


Illnesses in the outbreak date back to March and have been reported in 26 states coast to coast. Just before the recall announcement Wednesday, CDC epidemiologist Christopher Braden said he thought health authorities were closing in on the suspect. He said some leftover turkey in a package at a victim's house was confirmed to contain the strain of salmonella linked to the outbreak.


In announcing the recall, Cargill officials said all ground turkey production has been suspended at the Springdale plant until the company is able to determine the source of the contamination. "Given our concern for what has happened, and our desire to do what is right for our consumers and customers, we are voluntarily removing our ground turkey products from the marketplace," said Steve Willardsen, president of Cargill's turkey processing business.


The Minnesota-based company said it was initiating the recall after its own internal investigation, an Agriculture Department investigation and the information about the illnesses released by the CDC this week.


A chart on the CDC's website shows cases have occurred every month since early March, with spikes in May and early June. The latest reported cases were in mid-July, although the CDC said some recent cases may not have been reported yet. The CDC said the strain is resistant to many commonly prescribed antibiotics, which can make treatment more difficult.


The states reporting the highest number sickened are Michigan and Ohio, with 10 each. Texas has reported nine illnesses; Illinois, seven; California, six; and Pennsylvania, five.


Twenty states have one to three reported illnesses linked to the outbreak, according to the CDC. They are Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin. The CDC estimates that 50 million Americans each year get sick from food poisoning, including about 3,000 who die. Salmonella causes most of these cases, and federal health officials say they've made virtually no progress against it.


Government officials say that even contaminated ground turkey is safe to eat if it is cooked to 165 degrees. But it's also important that raw meat be handled properly before it is cooked and that people wash their hands with soap for at least 20 seconds before and after handling the meat. Turkey and other meats should also be properly refrigerated or frozen and leftovers heated.

WAYNE COUNTY ELECTRONIC WASTE ONLY DISPOSAL EVENT IN NORTHVILLE

Wayne County will be conducting an Electronic Waste Only Drop-off event this Saturday, August 6th from 9:00am to 1:00pm in Northville. The event will be held at the Northville DPW Yard - 650 Doheny Drive (Take Seven Mile west to Northville Rd. Right on Northville Rd, Doheny Dr will be on the right)

Electronic waste to be collected includes computers, monitors, keyboards & mice, printers & fax machines, scanners, cell phones & telephones, televisions, VCR's and DVD players, game consoles, stereos & speakers, microwave ovens, X-Mas lights, computer parts & miscellaneous cables, etc.

For questions contact the Wayne County Department of Environment at (734) 326-3936