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An outgrowth of the Watergate scandal on the national level, the act at first seemed to slow the flow of information rather than increase access to public records which was the intent of the law when it went into effect in April of 1977. Where in the past local and state officials had generally been good about supplying documents requested by news organizations, the implementation of the FOIA, as the act is commonly known, seemed to delay the flow of information, and in some cases gave public officials a prescribed means of denying requests thanks to a list of exemptions allowed in the new law.

At least that was my perception from a deadline business viewpoint, where previously a call to a local official produced whatever was generally needed to give the public a complete picture in a government-related story. The FOIA, for some officials, became more of a shield to withhold information, rather than encourage transparency.

sometimes into the thousands. The changes also provide that requesters can appeal administratively and initiate lawsuits if the fees seem excessive. Fines have also been increased for government officials who delay responses to FOIA requests for records, not uncommon in the past. And to bring the law into the modern age, electronic versions of records, if the technology exists, can now be requested.

So on balance, the public's interest has benefitted from adoption of the FOIA nearly four decades ago.

In the media world, the FOIA has become a routine part of the toolbox when attempting to supply information to the public, although generally readers remain unaware of what efforts go into bringing them the news. On occasion, the public gets an inside look at how the FOIA has helped shape the news.

Probably the most noted use of the open records law in recent years was reliance on the FOIA by the Detroit Free Press to gain access to the text messages of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, which allowed everyone a front row seat as the scandal in the city's administration unfolded.

On the face of it, the FOIA was well intended. The act was designed, according to its own language, to prove “public access to certain public records of public bodies,” along with outlining response times government officials had to meet, fees that could be levied, duties of public officials charged with supplying documents, exemptions for specific classes of records, and penalties and a course of relief if a request has been denied.

As I look back on our news efforts in recent weeks and months, the FOIA has allowed us to bring a more complete story on a number of important issues in the area covered by our monthly newsmagazines.

Among those efforts, we employed the FOIA to gain access to fees charged to Bloomfield Township by an investment advisory firm. In Commerce, the FOIA allowed us access to the list of candidates who applied for appointment to a township trustee position when officials suggested that final interviews would be conducted in a less than transparent fashion. And in recent weeks, use of the FOIA allowed us to bring a more complete picture about the situation surrounding a Bloomfield Hills varsity baseball coach/teacher who fled from the scene of a car accident during school hours, including police reports, e-mails between school officials and other records documenting his history of alcohol-related driving infractions.

The FOIA has been amended a number of times in the last nearly 40 years, sometimes for the better and sometimes not. And challenges to the law through the courts, for the most part by media organizations, have helped set precedent and expand the reach of the act over time.

What has been most heartening in our own experience in each of these incidents is the dramatic change in attitude on the part of local officials. In each instance, we found more of a willingness on the part of the government to treat the records as public documents, something that was lacking decades ago.

This year, effective July 1, further changes to the FOIA will take effect, thanks to the efforts of media organizations and the Michigan Press Association last year to have the legislature address some road blocks that existed with prior versions of the law. Although not perfect, the new changes lower the fees that can be charged for records – an impediment to the press and the general public in the past when records could run into the hundreds of dollars, and

Progress has definitely been made when it comes to public records, and for that we have the FOIA to thank.

But that was nearly 40 years ago and my take on the FOIA has changed considerably, as has the thinking of government officials who appear generally concerned about the appearance of transparency when it comes to supplying public documents when requested.

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I attended the (Commerce) Planning Commission open hearing regarding the new library and we were told that the (township) board was responsible for the decision to build in Dodge Park.

Also, we were told that John Hindo is on both the planning commission and the board of trustees and he will take our concerns back to the board, which we appreciate.

As some of the other speakers said, the train has left the station.

But my concerns have not changed and are still there. It seems around 10-12 Commerce Township residents at the meeting felt strongly enough about this to attend and speak as well.

Yes, I am aware the decision has been made. Yes, I am aware how much time and planning has already gone into this. But the more I learn about the planned building and building requirements for Dodge Park, the more concerned I am.

Susan Bayha Commerce Township

Need for new library In response to the two letters from writers who withheld their names (Westend/April), expressing their concerns regarding the community's need for a new library, I would like to offer a few facts for them to contemplate: Ten years ago, Commerce citizens voted for the funds to build a new library. The present building may look good, but there are multiple problems with the structure. Two examples of the problems are a leaking roof and substandard windows that have, in the past, leaked and caused damage to the library's materials.

One writer says West Bloomfield offers better services such as online renewal of materials: so does Commerce.

Walled Lake Schools have had to cut funding for libraries and no longer employs full-time media specialists in the schools. This may be one reason that, during final exams in January 2015, 250 students utilized Commerce Township Community Library during study time.

In 2014, a total of 159,005 books were checked out (if you divided this by the number of citizens in the community, it would be about 4.4 books per person). Downloads of eBooks and eAudiobooks totaled 24,541; adding in that figure increases the number of checkouts per Commerce citizens to 8.8 items per person.

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Reference librarians answered 74,997 questions, which is three questions for each person who enters the library.

Computer use totaled 26,338 sessions. While the letter writers may be affluent enough to have computers and Internet access in their own homes, not everyone has this luxury.

The computers and Internet access available at the library are essential for students, jobseekers and many other residents.

The Commerce Parks Committee and the library are working to make Dodge Park a place where citizens can enjoy the library setting in addition to walking their dogs, watching their children play, picnicking and otherwise enjoying the park's amenities.

Barbara Garbutt President, Commerce Library Advisory Board

Leash dogs in parks With the return of warm weather, the dog walkers are back.

We went to Richardson Park, in Commerce, on Sunday, April 12, to walk our two small leashed dogs.

Richardson Park does have a sign posted about leashed dogs.

Unfortunately, we met two different families, each with two unleashed larger dogs, letting their dogs run freely.

Common courtesy says dogs should be leashed if they are not on the owner’s personal property.

I am requesting all dog owners to leash their dogs when they take their dog to a public park.

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FACES Andrew Madvin est Bloomfield native Andrew Madvin has been a student and instructor of glass blowing for nearly two decades, yet it wasn't until he was in high school that he discovered his passion for creating art.

"I remember being excited to take a jewelry course in high school. I found I enjoyed working with my hands and designing. I started there, and got a scholarship to the Center for Creative Studies, and discovered glass," he said. "I got a late start in the arts. We weren't really a family of artists. For me, it was the combination of building things, starting with nothing and ending up with something, and the process and techniques of the craft.

I live to experiment, in more of a playful way than an intellectual way."

In addition to his studies at CCS in Detroit, Madvin studied at the Pilchuck Glass School at the California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland, California. In 2000, he opened Axiom Glass Studio in Detroit's Russell Industrial Center. The space allows for a full welding studio, woodworking studio, metal fabrication studio, his glass furnace and two galleries.

Like baking a cake or a batch of cookies, all of his works start with raw materials. In the case of glass blowing, Madvin seeks out the highest quality for clarity and malleability so he can bend and shape it while heating and cooling.

"My furnace melts about 400 pounds (of glass) at a time. It's a good size furnace," he said. "Basically, it is glass blowing. You dip the rod in and extract the hot glass. You're working with molten glass, and there's a lot of heat and light coming from the fire. There's a constant movement to the glass. That's one of those qualities of the glass that I was attracted to."

Madvin's works include glass sculpture, bowls and his series of bold and unique "Thorn Vessels." The vessels utilize clear, glass thorns that both elevate the brightly colored bowls, and add stability to them. Light reflected from the thorns reflect into the vessels and give them the appearance that they are glowing.

"My latest direction has been using cast glass," he said. "It's a more methodical process. It involves making a mold, and you can achieve more architectural glass, with more angles and lines. But it's hot glass, not hot casting."

In addition to the offerings at his gallery, Madvin's work has been exhibited throughout North America, at studios, shows and fairs. His work can also be seen at the Detroit Institute of Arts gift store.

"I've been doing art festivals since I graduated," he said. "It's a good way for an artist to focus on what they want, and it brings clientele. It's a good way to develop ideas."

While Madvin said his own parents didn't expose him to art at an early age, his work served to influence his younger brother, Robert, who also went on to study glass at CCS. The brothers share space at the Axiom studio.

Robert, who went on to study at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, incorporates influences from the island into his own glass sculptures, called Pochacu, meaning rock or stone.

"Definitely, my kids will be exposed to art at an early age," he said of his two daughters, ages 3 years and 10 months.

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NEW DRINKING WATER THREAT NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE ON SHORES OF LAKE HURON?

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lans by a Canadian power utility to bury nuclear waste along the eastern shore of Lake Huron has raised concerns about the possibility that radioactive materials could enter the Great Lakes and contaminate the world’s largest source of freshwater and the drinking supply for about 40 million people, including those in southeast Michigan and the majority of the residents in Oakland County.

Located in Kincardine, Ontario, about 120 miles northeast of Detroit, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is a 2,300-acre facility that serves as the world’s largest nuclear power station, housing a total of eight nuclear reactors. Bruce Power, a privately held Canadian company, holds a long-term lease with Ontario Power Generation, which is wholly-owned by the Ontario government to operate the plant. Radioactive nuclear waste produced at the station has been kept in aboveground storage buildings at the site’s Western Waste Management facility for more than four decades. Now, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is planning to construct a deep geological repository to store the waste about a half-mile from the shores of Lake Huron, about 40 miles across the lake to the Michigan shoreline, near Port Hope.

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Ontario Power Generation’s proposed underground repository is currently being considered by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which serves as that country’s regulator of nuclear facilities, and is responsible for licensing and overseeing nuclear projects. As part of the review process, an environmental assessment is being conducted by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, which oversees a joint review panel which took over 900 comments on the proposed facility. The comment period and record for the panel was closed in November of 2014 and the panel is expected to release its environmental evaluation report to the assessment agency by May 6.

Ontario Power officials say the facility will go a long way toward safely storing nuclear waste for the foreseeable future, as it will be located in rock formations that have remained stable for more than 450 million years. Most of the low-level waste, they say, will decay in 300 years, while a small amount will be radioactive for more than 100,000 years.

Officials with Ontario Power say geologists, engineers, hydrologists and others have studied the project for many years, and that studies show no significant adverse impact to the environment or public will occur.

Despite assurances by the utility, at least 133 resolutions have been passed by communities in Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana and Ontario opposing the proposed nuclear repository, with the vast majority opposing any permanent underground waste repository anywhere in the Great Lakes Basin. A resolution opposing the facility was passed by the Michigan Senate in 2014, and similar resolutions have been introduced in Congress.

In Oakland County, the majority of residents receive drinking water from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department’s (DWSD) system, while others not hooked into Detroit’s system are served by local municipal or individual wells. For Oakland County customers hooked into the system, water comes from two main sources.

Customers north of 14 Mile Road receive their water from the utility’s Lake Huron Water Treatment Plant, near Port Huron, while those south of 14 Mile Road get water from the DWSD’s Springwells and Northeast treatment plants, which draw water through intakes at Belle Isle. However, in practical terms, all of the water for the Detroit system’s water processing plants starts in Lake Huron and then flows southward into the St. Clair River and then into Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River and eventually into Lake Erie to the south.

Gregory Eno, a spokesman for the DWSD, said in April that he wasn’t aware of the proposed nuclear waste repository near Lake Huron. He said on April 20 that the department had no comment.

In October 2014, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners approved articles of incorporation to create the Great Lakes Water Authority, which will operate and manage all

water and sewer lines in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties suburbs that are currently part of the DWSD. Deputy Oakland County Executive Robert J. Daddow will represent Oakland County on the authority’s board.

Daddow said he was unable to comment on any matters involving the authority due to a federal court order.

Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner Jim Nash said he is aware of the proposed repository. He opposed it more than four years ago as an Oakland County commissioner while working with the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG). “SEMCOG passed a resolution opposing it,” he said. “We have at least 20 percent of the world’s freshwater in the Great Lakes, and we can’t afford to have it leaking into it. If we are going to store this stuff, we have to store it so that it doesn’t have any potential to effect the Great Lakes.”

While the opposition to the proposed facility has been strong, scientists with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) who reviewed Bruce Power’s plans for the deep geological repository concluded that the utility’s findings appeared to be accurate. In fact, additional studies have indicated that geological rock formations in the Great Lakes Basin could provide safe storage for all levels of radioactive waste. Meanwhile, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and U.S. Department of Energy have yet to find a permanent disposal site for spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste in this country.

Although nuclear regulators in Canada have not made a decision on the proposed facility, the proposed project on the shores of Lake Huron raise questions about the possibility of future plans for a similar facility in Michigan.

“What we try to do at the DEQ is assess risk,” said DEQ spokesman Brad Wurfel, who said Ontario Power Generation asked the DEQ several years ago to review their plans for the proposed facility. “We recognize that there is some measure of risk in anything, and we look at what we can do to minimize risk. We felt upon our review, that the folks in Canada had

Would a similar facility be permitted near the Great Lakes in Michigan?

Unlikely.

addressed the appropriate risk factors in the proposed construction.”

So, would a similar facility be permitted near the Great Lakes in Michigan? Unlikely, according to Wurfel.

“Do you know what we put in the ground around our shoreline? We have dozens of different deep injection wells around the state, so it’s not that we haven’t taken advantage of our wells, but not of this kind. I’m not sure we would permit something like that,” Wurfel said.

“We have injection wells for hazardous waste all around the state, but that’s (nuclear) never been proposed.”

In Romulus, hazardous waste was pumped into a well nearly a mile deep into the ground in 2006. State inspectors later discovered leaks in the well mechanism located above the ground, and closed the wells after about 10 months. However, the wells were again permitted by the DEQ and re-opened.

“There are hazardous waste wells, like the one in Romulus,” Wurfel said. “That is some pretty bad stuff, and that’s in a formation that is never going to allow it to escape. Michigan has great geology for having the ability to use its formations.”

Hal Fitch, office chief of the DEQ’s Oil, Gas and Minerals Division, who was one of the experts who reviewed Ontario Power’s plans for the DEQ, said the rock formations at Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula, where the storage facility is being proposed, have much the same geological formations as lower Michigan.

“Their (environmental impact study) concluded that there wasn’t any significant risk of leakage or fluid movement or escape of any kind into ground water or surface water into Lake Huron,” he said. “And we didn’t find anything to dispute that.”

Ontario Power Generation says it completed a four-year program of scientific investigations, analyses and studies to assess the ability of the proposed deep geologic repository to safely isolate and contain low and intermediate level waste. The results were compiled into an environmental impact study. According to Ontario Power Generation, studies of pore water extracted from about 2,231 feet, or more than 1,700 feet below the bottom of Lake Huron in the area, haven’t moved for more than a million years. The utility also said that much of the waste is already stored above ground on an interim basis, and that the repository would provide a safer location for the long term.

The proposed project includes the construction of surface and underground facilities over five to seven years. The underground facilities include two shafts, several access tunnels and a number of emplacement rooms and support facilities, including ventilation and maintenance rooms.

The underground facility would be constructed in limestone bedrock beneath the Bruce nuclear site. The overall underground arrangement would enable infrastructure to be kept in close proximity to the main shaft, while keeping waste placement areas away from the normally occupied and high traffic areas, according to Ontario Power Generation.

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waste package receiving building, main and ventilation shaft headframes, a compressor room, intake fans, heating fans, a hoist house and emergency generator. The facility would be about a half mile from the Lake Huron shoreline.

The utility said in a statement that several different technologies were considered for the long-term management of the waste, but the repository was selected because it provides the highest margin of safety.

Kevin Kamps, a Kalamazoo native now working as a national radioactive waste watchdog with Maryland-based Beyond Nuclear, said he fears the facility has a very real possibility of being constructed, despite the strong opposition against it.

“We have been following it since about 2001, when the first rumors appeared. It was such a crazy proposal that we thought it would go away,” he said. “I’m afraid there’s a real danger that it will be built. The drinking water supply for 40 million people will be put at risk by this proposal. There is radioactive waste storage in Canada and the United States all along the shores. Never before has anyone proposed burying it where it will almost certainly leak into the lakes.”

According to Kamps, low level and intermediate wastes contain many of the same radioactive materials as high-level wastes, but in lesser concentrations. The long-lasting materials, he said, include cesium-137, strontium-90; plutonium-239; iodine-129 and nickel-59, as well as hundreds of other radioactive materials present in the wastes.

The Detroit water system currently tests for hundreds of potential contaminants each day, as well as secondary and unregulated contaminants that may enter a system. In terms of radioactive contaminants, the department tests for radium 226 and 228, as well as other radioactive materials.

“You have water soluble, radioactive poisons– like cesium-137, like that from Fukushima and Chernobyl – that would flow with currents downstream,” Kamps said. “One of the radioactive poisons that has already leaked at the Bruce site, tritium, which is radioactive hydrogen. It’s not filterable on an industrial scale. They have had leaks on their site, and if that ever gets in the lakes, it will go into our water.”

Ontario Power Generation states that tritium concentrations in the surface water within the site are higher than background monitoring stations, or those maintained by local municipalities for drinking water, but are “well within the standards.”

Kamps in April met with Flint Congressman Dan Kildee to discuss the proposed facility.

Kildee announced the same day that he planned to sponsor a bipartisan resolution to oppose the repository.

“Permanently storing nuclear waste at a Canadian facility less than a mile from the Great Lakes is dangerous and an unnecessary risk we shouldn’t take,” said Kildee, whose district includes Flint, where a new water system, drawing from Lake Huron, is in the works as a replacement for the Detroit system

to which the city used to belong.

A similar resolution was introduced in 2014 by former Michigan Senator Carl Levin. That resolution died in the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Meanwhile, in 2014, the Michigan Senate passed a resolution opposing the repository and urging Congress to do all it can to urge Canadian officials to find alternatives to the proposed facility.

Dozens of municipalities in Michigan and the Great Lakes region have also passed resolutions opposing the project, including the municipalities of Windsor, Ontario; Duluth, Minnesota; Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Niagara Falls, New York; Clinton Township, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; Rochester, New York; and Chicago, as well as many others.

“Millions of people – both in the U.S. and Canada – depend on fresh water from the Great Lakes for drinking, fishing and tourism. Every year, the Great Lakes pump billions of dollars into the economy and support thousands of good paying jobs,” congressmen Kildee, Sander Levin, John Dingell and Gary Peters said in a letter to the joint review panel considering the proposed facility. “Lake Huron, which together with Lakes Superior, Erie, Michigan and Ontario constitute the largest group of freshwater lakes on earth, comprise 21 percent

They have had leaks on their site, and if that ever gets in the lakes, it will go into our water.

of the world’s surface freshwater. If the Great Lakes were to be contaminated with nuclear waste, it would cause significant damage to this vital natural resource.”

In Macomb County, both the county’s Water Quality Board and Macomb County Board of Commissioners have passed resolutions opposing the construction of the proposed waste repository. The water quality board, which is a citizen’s advisory board appointed by the Macomb County Board of Commissioners to advocate for clean water, passed its resolution in 2008.

“Michigan Act 204 of 1987, the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority Act, MCL 333.26201 - 333.26226, set forth citing criteria for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste.

Such criteria excludes any ‘located within 10 miles of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, St. Mary’s River, Detroit River, St. Clair River or Lake. St. Clair,’’’ the Macomb County Board of Commissioners cited in its resolution. “and, whereas to protect water quality, other citing criteria of Act 204 excludes sites (1) located within a 500 year floodplain; (2) located over a sole source aquifer or (3) located where the hydrogeology beneath the site discharges groundwater to the land surface within 3,000 feet of the boundaries of the site.”

Closer to the Port Huron intake where much of southeast Michigan receives its drinking water, Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley said he and other Canadians share many of the same concerns as those in the United States.

“It’s pretty simple. Sarnia is the largest (Canadian) city on Lake Huron. We take our water very serious, like many others,” he said.

“There was no process on this – when they were looking for locations for this, Kincardine put up their hand and said, ‘hey, choose us,’ and they did.

“To build anything like this within a mile of Lake Huron is just foolish.”

Requests for comment from officials in Kincardine weren’t returned.

Bradley said while efforts to reduce radioactive risks on the Great Lakes have been successful in the past, such as previous plans by the utility to ship nuclear steam generators on the Great Lakes, a similar decision will likely require the intervention of the United States government.

“I expect this thing is going to be approved, with a lot of restrictions, and that will take the political fight to the federal level,” he said. “The biggest thing is American opposition. I think that has a tremendous impact on the decision of the Canadian federal government.”

Just across the Detroit River from downtown Detroit, the city of Windsor, Ontario, has opposed the proposed waste repository by resolution: “The city of Windsor, in order to protect the Great Lakes and its tributaries, urges that neither this proposed nuclear waste repository at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station nor any other underground nuclear waste repository be constructed in the Great Lakes Basin, in Canada, the United States, or any first nation property.”

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Windsor City Council in November 2013, goes on to cite the a 2012 Protocol Amending the Agreement Between Canada and the United States of America on Great Lakes Water Quality, where the governments of Canada and the United States acknowledged the importance of “anticipating, preventing and responding to threats to the waters of the Great Lakes.”

“Placing a permanent nuclear waste burial facility so close to the Great Lakes is illadvised,” the council said. “The potential damage to the Great Lakes from any leak or breach of radioactivity far outweighs any suggested economic benefit that might be derived from burying radioactive nuclear waste at this site. The ecology of the Great Lakes, valuable beyond measure to the health and economic wellbeing of the entire region, should not be placed at risk by storing radioactive nuclear waste underground so close to the shoreline.”

The Michigan League of Conservation Voters has also weighed in on the proposed repository, citing that it is “out of step” with responsible stewardship of the Great Lakes and will “pose a serious threat to the largest source of freshwater on the planet.”

Noting the Great Lakes is a source for 1.5 million jobs and $62 million to the Great Lakes regional economy, the group stated in a letter to the joint review panel that “we cannot afford to place the wellbeing of the Great Lakes in jeopardy by storing nuclear waste.”

“There are still too many unknowns about deep geological repositories to risk putting one so dangerously close to the Great Lakes. The type of repository that Ontario Power is proposing would be the first of its kind in Canada, and only the second of its kind in the United States,” the Michigan League of Conservation Voters said in a letter to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s Joint Review Panel. A repository built into water soluble limestone, as Ontario Power is proposing, is unusual and untested, and limited experience shows that repositories like these leak radioactive waste.

“The sole repository that exists in the United States was constructed to hold only low level nuclear waste, not intermediate waste,which is what Ontario Power is suggesting occur at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station. After citizens living near that repository were told the possibility of off-site migration was “essentially non-existent,” radioactive waste was found two miles off-site ten years later. Allowing Ontario Power to store nuclear waste at the proposed site, which is a mere half-mile from the shore of Lake Huron, sets up the Great Lakes and the millions of people who depend on them, for an environmental disaster.”

Low-level nuclear waste generated from nuclear generation sites in the United States, such as that produced at the DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 power plant in Newport, Michigan, is typically sent to one of two shallow-land burial sites, located in Texas and Utah. Other high levels of radioactive wastes are commonly stored at the site of the power station where it was produced, which is how Fermi 2 handles

that waste because the United States currently has no official storage location for such materials.

In 2002, Yucca Mountain, located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, in Nevada, was officially designated as the site to store the nation’s spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste. At the time, U. S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, a Michigan native, recommended the site to President George W. Bush, who approved it. As allowed under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, then Governor Kenny Guinn of Nevada vetoed the decision, which was subsequently overturned by Congress.

However, the Obama administration in 2011 terminated funding for the Yucca Mountain repository, leaving the United States without any long-term storage site for the disposal of spent reactor fuel and defense generated highlevel waste.

Currently, the nation’s only deep geologic repository for nuclear waste is the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The plant is used for the permanent disposal of specific waste that is a byproduct of the nation’s nuclear defense program. The site is used for disposal of transuranic waste, which consists of clothing, tools, rags, residues, debris, soil and other items contaminated with small amounts of plutonium and other man-made radioactive elements, according to the Department of Energy (DOE).

In February 2014, two isolated accidents at the repository forced the site to be evacuated and temporarily closed. On February 5, a salt truck caught fire. Workers were evacuated and the underground portion of the federal nuclear waste plant was shut down. Six workers were treated for smoke inhalation. Nine days later, a second, unrelated event occurred when a continuous air monitor alarm was triggered during the night shift. Eleven employees were at the waste plant on the surface, and none underground at the time.

According to the Department of Energy, the monitors measured airborne radioactivity close to the operating location where waste was being placed. Ventilation air at the site was

We cannot afford to place the wellbeing of the Great Lakes in jeopardy by storing nuclear waste.

pulled from the underground repository by huge fans on the surface. The exhaust consisted of unfiltered air. The following day, an aboveground exhaust air monitor at the plant site detected airborne radioactive contamination.

About 140 employees at the site were kept indoors. It’s believed that a small amount of radioactivity went through the exhaust duct dampers, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Of particular interest to residents in southeast Michigan is the fact that the waste plant in Carlsbad utilizes deep salt formations, or salt mines, as the host medium to store the radioactive materials. The correlation is worthy of note, as the idea of storing hazardous waste in the salt mines of Detroit had been mulled in the 1950s, and at other times since then.

In the 1980s, Michigan and other states were searching for new options of disposing hazardous waste. Proposals to use salt formations for waste disposal sparked interest of the Michigan salt management industry. The concept was not new. Salt mines were contemplated for nuclear waste disposal during the late 1950s, according to the National Academy of Sciences, which recommended radioactive wastes in slat formations.

According to the energy department, “nothing about the waste plant events of February 2014 calls into question this National Academy recommendation.”

The use of deep salt mines has also been used for radioactive and other hazardous waste in Lower Saxony, Germany, at the Asse II pit, a former salt mine. Radioactive waste was first placed in storage there during the late 1960s and 1970s. Over the course of five decades, an estimated 126,000 barrels of nuclear waste have been dumped in the salt mine. It is now feared that the mines, which are in a state of collapse, could allow radioactive contamination to leak into local drinking water. While German politicians have stated they would like to have the waste removed from the mines, German researchers say the task is nearly impossible.

In Detroit, the simple announcement of use of local salt mines for storage prompted plummeting property values in the area near River Rouge, which has never recovered economically, according to proposed legislation introduced in 1997 in the Michigan House.

Considering current and past proposals to use the Great Lakes Basin’s geological traits, as well as those below the city of Detroit that are similar to those already being used in this country for the storage of radioactive waste, the proposal for a Canadian repository in the region is alarming.

“For the waste that exists, we have a nationwide consensus that we use quality, hard casts, that are safeguarded, which none of that is happening now. That would secure an interim period for waste in our midst. Then we should stop making this stuff. We are 70 years into this and we haven’t figured out what to do with the first cupfull,” said Kamps, with Beyond Nuclear, who added that many are worried that more harmful materials could be stored at the repository in the future. “That’s what is so incredible about this Canadian proposal. It’s Yucca Mountain here in the Great Lakes.”

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FACES Garrett Hohendorf rowing up in White Lake and attending Cranbrook Schools as a “lifer”, filmmaker Garrett Hohendorf says he often felt like an underdog. That perspective, though, is what helped shape who he is today.

“It gave me a good perspective. It gave me an edge,” said the 30-year-old, who currently lives in the West Village in Manhattan.

Hohendorf grew up the son of an Oakland County publisher, and lived an hour away from Cranbrook on a lake in White Lake. “We were definitely comfortable, but not swimming in money like the perception of some Cranbrook kids. But that underdog mentality made me work harder there, and in college, as well.”

After graduating Cranbrook, Hohendorf played Division 1 lacrosse at Villanova in Philadelphia. “After being told I was too small, and coming from the midwest, not east coast, it was back to that underdog mentality. I then brought that mentality to my career.”

He believes lacrosse helped make him who he is today. “It instilled in me a work ethic that can only be taught through sports.”

Hohendorf was an English major in college, with plans to go to film school for screenwriting. “But all my friends were moving to New York City (after college). I answered an ad on Craigslist for PBS to be a production assistant on a documentary on Saddam Hussein. It was pretty gruesome, looking at footage and transcribing.”

But the experience turned him on to filmmaking, and when one of the producers introduced him to a producer at MTV, the rest was history. He spent the next five years in production at MTV. “I started as a PA, and when I left I was a co-executive producer. I rode up the ranks pretty quickly,” he recalls.

He worked on various productions, including the show Made, “which is about underdogs,” he laughs. “My MTV career culminated in 2013 when I won an Emmy award for Made. We knew the show was ending, so it was a great way to go out.”

After doing another pilot for MTV, he then worked in development outside MTV, coming up with ideas for new shows.

“It's a freelance world, it's job-to-job, from three weeks to three months. It's about connections. You have to know people, and you have to have good relations,” Hohendorf said. “Everyone's vying for the same jobs.”

After working in post-production on season one of The House of DVF, he's going back for season two, adding editor to his post-production title. “They want it to feel like a documentary about the company, but ultimately it's a competition.”

He also recently worked on a controversial one-hour special for the TLC channel called My Husband's Not Gay. He's currently working on a reality show for the Oxygen network called Player Gets Played, to debut in the fall.

While reality shows have been his niche, Hohendorf hopes it's not his niche forever.

“I love documentaries, and I'd love to get back to them,” he said. “I'm also interested in scripted, but it's really a whole different world. I'm definitely happy with where I am right now.”

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FACES Stephanie Cole nimal enthusiast Stephanie Cole started an accessory business in the name of her beloved pet Bichon Frise, Hugga, with the jewelry maker giving back to a nearby animal shelter.

It was in January 2014 when Cole decided to start Hugga.

“I went to the Michaels store and began collecting supplies,” she said. “I made elastic-tied hair ties with Pandora-type beads. They can be used as bracelets or hair ties and everything I make has a positive, happy theme.”

Cole quickly expanded the business to include necklaces, earrings, watches and bracelets using charms and beads with animals, inspirational words, awareness symbols, and holiday and religious themes. Her handmade pieces are available on Etsy under “Hugga Ties”, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit the Almost Home Animal Rescue League in Southfield.

“It’s one of the only completely no-kill animal shelters that I know of in the area,” Cole said. “I started volunteering there a couple years ago, walking dogs and helping at adoption events.”

The life and loss of Hugga, Cole’s beloved dog, made such an impact on the young woman that it paved the path of her life. “I got Hugga when I was four-years-old and I had her until I was 19,” she said. “She was truly the best dog ever. I was very, very attached to her.”

As Hugga aged, she developed health issues. “She was having seizures and we knew it was time to let her go,” Cole said. “It was one of the hardest nights of my life. I was devastated.”

As a child, the jewelry maker from West Bloomfield attended Detroit Country Day School and International Academy in Bloomfield Hills.

“I was so academic,” Cole said. “The funny thing is I was never a very good artist in terms of drawing. I was more interested in creating images on the computer with the graphic editor program.”

Cole’s mother always encouraged her and her sister to pursue the arts.

“Art and culture were a huge part of my education,” Cole said. “My mom has always been about arts and crafts projects. She was a stay-at-home mom and very hands on. She gave us so much exposure to different cultures, people and activities in the community.”

After high school, Cole went to Oakland University to earn a bachelor’s degree in social work.

“For my master’s in social work, I went to Wayne State University,” she said.

During the day, Cole is the discharge planning social worker for Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit. At night, she can often be found sitting on her living room floor in West Bloomfield designing pieces for Hugga.

“My business is something I do by myself,” she said.

“I’m a very shy person so I don’t get myself out there. It took a lot for me to get out there and tell people what I do. (Customers) write me and tell me who they are or tell me who the hair tie is for. It’s really neat to touch people all over the United States.”

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WHEN THE HIGH HURTS THE RISING RATE OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG AGING BABY BOOMERS

BY LISA BRODY

Arlene claims she wasn’t a typical teen of the ‘60s and ‘70s – mostly because in those days she was against doing drugs during the era of “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” the counterculture phrase about doing LSD popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966.

Arlene, 58, is part of the baby boomer generation, that ubiquitous group of over 76 million American children born between 1945 and 1964. Now part of a large and aging demographic, baby boomers grew up in a time of abrupt and climactic social change, when the recreational use of drugs, in an effort to alter their state of consciousness, was a key part of their youth. hen the ‘80s hit, and boomers grew up, got “mature” and responsible jobs, had kids, began to take care of aging parents, and paid their bills. Most stopped getting high, and drinking became less Boone’s Farm and more cocktails or a glass of wine. But today, baby boomers are increasingly the demographic turning, or returning, to drugs in an effort to feel better, against the aches and pains of aging, as well as from depression, economic loss and the loss of parents and partners. According to government researchers, nationally, more than 5.7 million people over the age of 50 will need substance abuse treatment by 2020. Already, those treating substance abuse are seeing an increase in baby boomers with increased needs for drug-related health problems.

“By the year 2020, the population of aging baby boomers will double,” said Scott Masi, outreach and referral specialist for Brighton Center for Recovery. “Over the age of 60, they have greater access to doctors, and they’re seeking more appointments on average. Eighty percent of all office visits to a doctor will result in a prescription being written. It could be for a statin, blood pressure pill, or a pain pill. The majority being written are for pain pills.”

“I didn’t party a lot as a teen. I was really against drugs,” Arlene (not her real name) said. She said that as an adult, “I experimented with drugs a little – a couple of pain pills, coke now and then, maybe once a year at a party. And I drank socially. Not daily, maybe once a

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She said the turning point was “I was lucky to have lived an adult life drug free as a productive person, so I knew I could have a better life. I chose recovery, because I had nothing else, unless I wanted to live on the streets or in jail.”

According to Nora D. Volkow MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the percentage of Americans 50 to 59-years-old who have reported having abused illicit or prescription drugs has more than doubled, from 2.7 percent to 6.2 percent between 2002 and 2009, the last year they have compiled that data.

“Not coincidentally, by the end of that period, baby boomers had filled out that age cohort. Baby boomers’ histories of illicit drug use, and their relatively tolerant attitudes toward it, along with the fact that they now comprise nearly 30 percent of the nation’s population, have raised the stakes on understanding and responding effectively to drug abuse among older adults,” Volkow said.

Arlene, who now lives in Commerce Township and once again holds an office job, is part of what is believed to be a huge potential mental health crisis. In 2010, six to eight million older Americans, or 14 percent to 20 percent of the senior population, had a substance abuse problem or mental disorder. As boomers age – known as the Silver Tsunami, because boomers do everything with force and numbers – experts project the number of adults 65 and older needing treatment from the mental health care system across the country to increase to 73 million by 2030. In Oakland County, Christina Nichols, manager of the Oakland County Mental Health Authority’s Office of Substance Use Services said 30 percent of adults first seeking substance use treatment through Oakland County’s public mental health system are 40 years and older.

Determining drug or alcohol problems among older adults can be a particularly difficult problem for family and medical professionals.

Who wants to ask Mom or Grandma if she swigs the bottle or pops too many pills?

Often, alcohol and drug misuse and abuse is misinterpreted as

Baby boomers are increasingly the demographic turning, or returning, to drugs in an effort to feel better, against the aches and pains of aging, as well as from depression, economic loss and the loss of parents and partners. week, I drank with a bunch of friends.”

Arlene, a single mother, was a professional office worker. “I always worked. I was able to buy a new home in West Bloomfield at 40,” she said. “My son got married a few years later, and suddenly I was alone. I was alone and ran into people I thought were my friends.

They got me to try crack cocaine and heroin.

“I was lonely and depressed. I never thought anyone could convince me to put a needle in my arm.”

Yet, that is what happened to her. Seeking an escape from melancholy and her perception of feeling unloved, she said at the time she misread the intentions of the crowd she was with, thinking they were friends. At the time, she was still working full time, at a job she said was wonderful.

After being against drugs, she was injected with heroin in her own living room, where the gang of friends would hang out because she was the one who had a house.

“When you’re hanging out with people who don’t have your best interests at heart, things can go awry,” she recalled. “They convinced me it would make me feel great. After the first injection, I was basically hooked, because it feels like the answer to your depression.

It was just like all of the problems disappeared, and you felt like Superwoman – like you had no problems. It was like this amazing feeling of calmness and well-being.”

Initially, Arlene thought she could keep her heroin use recreational. “It was days before I tried it again. But then it was a fast spiral down.

“It only took me 15 months to get to my bottom. My use would gradually increase until I was doing it twice daily, as well as crack cocaine, and not paying any of my bills, including my house payment. It was such a fast spiral down. It was like a hurricane. After a year, I lost my job, my house, and most of my possessions. In that short time, I lost everything, including my friends and others very close to me.”

memory loss or dementia associated with advancing age. Older boomers, even those who believe they have acquired a tolerance to recreational drugs from their youth, have a significantly reduced ability to metabolize different drugs, notably prescription pills. As the brain ages, it becomes increasingly sensitive to drugs and alcohol.

“The longer you’re on pills, your body builds up a tolerance. You need more more and stronger doses,” said Brighton Center’s Masi.

“The potency of the drugs will be more potent. Also, the older you get, physiologically, the blood flow to your organs changes and the metabolism slows, especially to the liver. It’s not flushing the toxins out. The half-life in your system is much longer as you get older.”

As one expert said, if you have a trigger, and your youth was caught up in the ‘60s, you’re going to revert back. When taking drugs is how you once coped, it’s likely how you’ll try to cope once again. rug treatment programs are now dealing with a spike in boomers with drug and alcohol problems. While certain treatments are universal regardless of age, some treatment centers, addiction specialists and psychologists are finding they need to adapt and tailor their treatment for older addicted patients.

Masi said for people over the age of 60, about 70 percent are on two or more medications; and over 50 percent are on four or more medicines, including prescription pain medications.

“I think overall, from that era there was a more cultural acceptance of drug use, that post-Woodstock, Vietnam era,” said Elizabeth Bulat MD, Service Chief of Addiction Medicine, Henry Ford Maplegrove Center. “As they age, they are prescribed more antianxiety medications, like Ativan, Valium, and Xanax, and benzodiazepines. There has been more prescribing of these medications over the last 10 years. A lot of these people were placed on these medication for valid reasons, but lots of doctors don’t know they’re still on them. Now, as they age, there’s aches and pains too, so they’re getting pain medications, prescription opioids, like Vicodin

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and Oxycontin. This push to prescribe pain pills has become an epidemic. Alcohol has always been there for this age range. The combination of Vicodin, Oxycontin plus alcohol, it’s not good.

“Then, for some patients, it goes from being a physiological dependence to a substance use dependence,” Bulat continued.

“Some patients who cannot continue to get those prescription pain medications from doctors, transition to heroin. It’s a rising percentage, and it’s a reality.” asi said a large problem happens among doctors who don’t adequately check to see what patients are receiving from other doctors. “Many patients are doctor shopping,” he said.

He said family members need to know just what family members are using, and possibly abusing.

“Where we’ve seen the largest increase in use since 2007 is in prescription opiates, such as Vicodin and Oxycontin, which has subsequently caused a large spike in the use of heroin,” said Nichols.

“The largest increase in services for the county has been for heroin and opiates. It’s been the biggest trend in the last five years. The average age is 26 to 39, with 36 percent of those seeking treatment in that age range falling into that category. But consistently, across the board, we see that everyone began with the misuse of prescription pills, opiate abuse, and then graduated to heroin. Individuals, as they get older, have a greater need for more medications,” which can lead to their potential misuse. She said the county does not have specific number for those over 65.

“By the nature of the patients I take care of, I see a number of patients that are addicted,” said Dr. Jim Honet, a pain management physician with Pain Care Associates in Bloomfield Hills. Honet is not sure aging boomers are using pain medication more, “but certainly I am seeing a consistent number of patients. However, we’re able to catch more of them because of MAPS – Michigan Automated Prescription System. If you’re a patient and had a narcotic prescription, at the pharmacy, you have to show your ID. Then they

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toward the use itself of alcohol and drugs. He said scientists studying addiction also have found a difference among addiction to pain medication between men and women, as well as to alcohol, still the number one source of addiction among this age group.

Among those 65 years and older, 2.36 percent of men and just under half a percent of women met the criteria for alcohol abuse according to the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Further, of those 60 and older, half of the men and 39 percent of women were daily drinkers, with 5.9 percent of men over 60 and 1 percent of women over 60 reporting binge drinking once a month or more.

The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism recommends that men and women 65 and older have no more than three drinks on any one day, and no more than seven drinks per week.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in 2010 binge drinking was reported by one of six U.S adults – 38 million people.

While younger adults have much higher percentages, “older adults who binge drank reported engaging in this behavior more frequently than their younger counterparts – an average of of five to six times a month. They also reported consuming an average of about six drinks when they did, thereby increasing their risk of developing many health and social problems,” the CDC reported.

Further, they reported that it accounts for more than 21,000 deaths among older adults a year, and costs the U.S. economy $223.5 billion a year in 2006 dollars.

“Although data is scarce on illegal drug use or prescription medication misuse among the elderly, evidence suggests that misuse and abuse of prescription drugs by older adults is a growing problem,” Trevisan wrote, noting that up to 11 percent of older women misuse prescription drugs, and that non-medical use of drugs among adults older than 50 is expected to increase to 2.7 million by the year 2020.

The percentage of Americans 50 to 59-years-old who have reported having abused illicit or prescription drugs has more than doubled, from 2.7 to 6.2 percent between 2002 and 2009, the last year such data is available. take your information to put it in the state system. I can order MAPS on a patient, and it shows the person’s name, address, prescriber, which pharmacy it went to, how the patient paid for it. When you look at it, you can see if someone is getting multiple scripts.

“You’re also able to identify the people who may have photocopied our prescription,” he continued. “I write tons of narcotics. There’s a problems with insurance coverage, and what they’re willing to cover, so people are turning to heroin. There a combination of things. It gives them a high and it’s cheap, and it’s a narcotic, so it relieves the pain. So people are using illicit narcotics because they can’t get the real stuff. Some people aren’t really addicts, they’re just trying to find pain relief in a way they can afford.”

Masi said a large problem happens among doctors who don’t adequately check to see what patients are receiving from other doctors. “Many patients are doctor shopping,” he said. He said family members need to know just what their family members are using, and possibly abusing.

“We at Brighton must go on MAPS,” Masi said. “It’s part of our protocol, part of our admissions process. There’s is some talk about legislation to require doctors to participate in MAPS, but it’s not there yet.”

Bulat said for boomers, “alcohol is always there, and always will be, the number one addiction. Benzodiazepines are now number two.”

Benzodiazepines are a form of tranquilizers or anti-anxiety medication, more familiarly known as Valium or Xanax.

According to Louis A. Trevisan MD in Psychiatric Times, addiction specialists and organizations for the elderly anticipate a tidal wave of baby boomers who will need help fighting addictions, often from different substances and with different attitudes toward treatment than the generation before them. Because baby boomers experimented more with alcohol and illicit drugs than previous generations did, he notes boomers have a more lenient attitude

“There is growing evidence that (the) female sex is a major risk factor for problems associated with prescription drug abuse,” Trevisan continued. “Older women are more likely than men to consume benzodiazepines. This may be associated with recent divorce or widowhood, lower education level, lower income, poorer health status, depression, and/or anxiety.”

“The social and physical changes that accompany aging may well increase vulnerability to drug-related problems,” National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Volkow said. “The loss of loved ones, juggling of multiple roles, and retirement or other alterations in employment and income may cause some older people to use illicit drugs as selfmedication for anxiety or depression, especially if they have a history of taking drugs to cope. Slowing metabolism can increase sensitivity to the effects of drugs. Furthermore, the effects of drugs of abuse in older adults may be influenced by age-related health conditions and medications – contingents that are more problematic when patients hide their drug abuse.” enry Ford Hospital has been treating alcohol and drug addiction in its varying forms for almost 100 years. In 1977, they opened Maplegrove Center on W. Maple in West Bloomfield to help with chemical dependency treatments associated with drugs, alcohol, gambling and other addiction issues, both for inpatient and outpatient care. Their website states, “We treat the whole person, not the addiction...we offer effective, appropriate care for every patient, whether you are unsure if you have an addictive disorder or if you have been struggling with one for many years.”

Brighton Center for Recovery is another local location working with both inpatient and outpatient individuals needing addiction treatment. Founded in 1948 in Brighton, it was one of the first in America that was an actual addiction treatment hospital. Its founder, Harry Henderson, was helped in establishing Brighton from Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, making it a pioneer in the treatment of addictions. “It was open and actively treating

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The adult inpatient psychiatric program at Havenwyck Hospital in Auburn Hills provides 24-hour skilled nursing care for those who exhibit serious psychiatric/substance abuse problems led by physicians in a safe, therapeutic environment. Havenwyck did not return calls relative to their programs for baby boomers. tonecrest Center on Gratiot in Detroit offers inpatient treatment programs for behavioral and mental health issues and substance abuse problems, and in addition to work with adolescents and adults, promotes their work with seniors.

The center is a 104-bed acute psychiatric inpatient treatments center that not only helps individuals get sober, but maintain their freedom from chemical dependency. They recognize the impact depression, memory issues and psychiatric disorders contribute to addiction.

The CDC notes that while depression affects millions of people, keeping them from living normal, happy lives, the highest risk group for depression are middle aged adults aged 45 to 65, especially women. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Substance abuse is common among people who are battling a depressive disorder,â&#x20AC;? states an article by Canyon Malibu, a treatment center for addictions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because alcohol is a central nervous system depressant, the use of this drug tends to trigger depression symptoms like lethargy, sadness, and hopelessness. However, many depressed individuals reach for drugs or alcohol as a way to lift their spirits or to numb painful thoughts. As a result, depression and substance abuse feed into each other, and one condition will often make the other worse. Depression can also suppress the immune system and weaken the body, making you more susceptible to physical ailments and chronic disease. Depression is all too often a gateway drug into drug and alcohol use.â&#x20AC;?

Maplegroveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dr. Bulat said some patients need inpatient detoxification, and some are fine going through an outpatient protocol. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some patients, if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been on pain or anxiety medications, can taper off of them by working with their own physicians in an outpatient setting,â&#x20AC;? she said, sometimes by working with other medications. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of the big issues with baby boomers, empty nesters, is itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s polysubstance, benzodiazepines and opiates. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re coming in with both, and alcohol too. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very, very tough detox and rehab, both physically and mentally,â&#x20AC;? Masi said. He said they are learning to treat them differently from their 18-25 year old heroin abusing population. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 18-year-old has been through trauma; the 60-year old is dealing with depression. We have to identify different kinds of treatments and not put them into the same groups.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once someone has been identified with having a substance abuse problem, especially in this age group, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critical to maintain a recovery program to maintain their sobriety, as well as to manage their pain and anxiety, which can be tricky,â&#x20AC;? Bulat said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once someone has had 10 Vicodin a day, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to convince them to do PT.â&#x20AC;?

She emphasized that pain management programs, physical therapy, antiinflammatories, exercise, and adjunct therapies are critical to not only maintain their sobriety and keep them off pain pills and opiates, but to improving their physical well being. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some patients actually improve just coming off of the medications,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Honet, the pain management physician, agrees. Once people have achieved their sobriety over their narcotic, alcohol, or opiate addiction, he said they can help them achieve their pain relief with a whole different tool box.

And the tools are perfect for aging boomers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a whole gamut of modalities available to them and to us,â&#x20AC;? Honet said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are injections (steroid and non-steroid), physical therapy, medicine, some narcotic, some not, psychology, and even surgery when appropriate.â&#x20AC;?

Bulat said incorporating therapy, and giving patients all the tools to maintain their sobriety, coupled with the issues that got them there in the first place, is critical. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maintaining their sobriety is key, but we also have to deal with all the medical consequences to long term addiction issues. Lots of people who come to Maplegrove havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen a doctor in maybe 10 years.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re helping them deal with the aftermath of the addiction, as well as coping with the divorce.â&#x20AC;?

Arlene has been clean and sober from her abuse for several years, and while she says she still dreams about drugs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;it was such a hell, I will find any other answer and continue recovery.â&#x20AC;?

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Lou Kasischke early two decades have passed since Lou Kasischke attempted to climb to the top of Mount Everest in what was one of the worst disasters in the mountain's history before the recent earthquake. Last year, the former West Bloomfield business owner released a book telling his version of the expedition that, in 1996, claimed the lives of eight people.

"At the time, there was a lot of interest in my account, but I didn't feel comfortable being one more voice about human failings and those who were dead," Kasischke said, who wrote a portion of his book, After The Wind, in the two years following the disaster. "I established in my head what went wrong, and why I lived, and how I survived. At the time, I was content on letting it live in my file cabinet."

Kasischke was 54 at the time of the tragedy. He was already a wellestablished attorney with the Dykema Gossett law firm, and had scaled six of the highest summits in the world. Mount Everest, the highest in the world, was the only feat left. On May 10, 1996, Kasischke had nearly reached the top when he was forced to choose between getting to the top and risk being forever stuck on the mountain, or making it back home.

"When I was close to the top, I knew it was pretty dicey," Kasischke said. "It was never a question about getting to the top. I could almost throw a stone and get there. The big question was 'could I get back down.'

And the answer was, 'no.'"

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expedition. But it wasn't until recently that Kasischke decided to publish his own account, and the reason for turning around that day.

"It was to pay tribute and honor my wife, Sandy," Kasischke said in his reason for distributing his book. "She was very ill, and was the critical force at work at the top of Everest that saved my life. To me, it was a love story, along with a tragic story, and that was very private. It was the strength that came from the heart, and the commitments and promises I had made."

While Kasischke said he wrote the book to honor his wife, whom he had never shown his drafts to over the years, it also sparked interest in Hollywood after being published in 2014. A movie based on the expedition is set to be released in September of 2015. Kasischke was a consultant on the film.

Married to Sandy for 47 years, Kasischke lived most of his life in Bloomfield Hills after being born and raised in Bay City. It was from there that he ran his Pella Window and Door company on Haggerty in addition to practicing law. Today, he spends much of his time caring for Sandy in their northern Michigan home near Harbor Springs.

"I'm her full-time caregiver. It's actually the best time of our lives," he said. "We are closer today than ever. We've been married for 47 years, and I've always been pretty selfish and self-centered. I have learned how important and enriching a person can feel caring for someone they love.

Every day is wonderful."

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DOING TIME AT THE OAKLAND COUNTY JAIL 350 SWORN CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS, 1,600 INMATES, FROM MURDERERS TO SUSPENDED LICENSES

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he cell, designed to house four to five men, at times is filled with several more. They’re lying on cot mattresses that are placed against the steel cell bars at varying angles on the cement floor, huddled in their new uniforms, wrapped in generic blankets to ward off both the cold and the shock of finding themselves in this new home. A holding tank, these new prisoners will discover this cell is their home for the next couple of days, or up to two weeks, depending on how crowded the jail is.

Welcome to the Oakland County Jail, located at 1201 N. Telegraph Road, adjacent to the county courthouse and Oakland County offices.

Mayberry, this is not, and Oakland Sheriff Michael Bouchard and his staff of over 350 sworn correctional officers at the jail bear no resemblance to Andy Griffith. No mere simple lock up, the jail is a maximum security facility for both men and women, and has a general inmate population that houses approximately 1,600 inmates. There are two annexes, with dormitory-style accommodations for men and women prisoners, as well as some out on work release with a GPS tether.

On April 1, the actual count at the Oakland County Jail was 1,300 men and 244 women.

The intake area for processing new arrests, which includes holding tanks and observation cells, can accommodate up to 156 inmates in that area alone.

The sheriff is bound by Michigan statute for the responsibility of operating the county jail, which comprises the care and custody of inmates. That includes providing them food and medical services; supplying them with jail clothing; maintaining a safe and secure environment; providing support programming, such as counseling, crisis intervention and adult education; and maintaining a program of inmate recreation, visitation and chaplaincy.

But who comes to the Oakland County Jail? And how long can someone stay there?

“Everyone who commits a crime in Oakland County, from the most heinous to the most insignificant, comes to the Oakland County Jail,” said Major Charles Snarey of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office. “The felonies are adjudicated while they’re in the Oakland County Jail. The most insignificant end up (being tried) in district court. Felonies are tried in circuit court. If they’re convicted of a misdemeanor, they can serve 93 days maximum.

“Felonies, it’s from the bottom to life,” Snarey continued. “Anything sentenced over a year goes to the prison system. Any sentence

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less than a year stays in the Oakland County Jail.”

Traditionally, a jail was used to temporarily detain someone who was suspected or convicted of a crime, and used for short-term detention, usually for someone waiting to go to trial or for somebody who had been convicted of a low-level offense, who had been sentenced for a year or less. A prison facility, typically, holds convicts who have committed crimes the legal system considers especially serious with more long-term sentences.

Today, counties operate county jails, and there are approximately 3,600 jails in the United States. Prisons are run by either state governments or the federal government, depending on the nature of the crime and where it was committed. Each state has a prison system. There are only about 100 federal prisons, detention centers and correctional institutions in the country.

Snarey said, “Currently we have everything in the Oakland County Jail. There are murderers to suspended (drivers) licenses.

Everything from top to bottom.” s of the end of March 2015, those who were inmates in the Oakland County Jail were made up of 60 percent who had committed felonies and 40 percent who had committed misdemeanors.

The misdemeanors included suspended driver’s licenses, retail fraud, lesser personal crimes, simple assault, assault and battery, and drunk driving.

“You would think there would be more misdemeanors, but we stopped accepting misdemeanors during (former) Sheriff Nichol’s time (who passed away in 1999), other than DUIs, domestics and child abuse, because we’re in a perpetual state of overcrowding,” Snarey said.

If an individual has been arrested by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department, before they’ve been arraigned, they will find themselves in the jail. Others, arrested by local Oakland County police departments, stay in local municipal jails, if they have them, before their arraignment, said Captain Curtis Childs of the Sheriff’s Office Corrective Services Main Division. “But rest assured, once they’re arraigned, we’ll get them.”

The intake area of the jail is where everyone, regardless of their pending charge, is processed. The individual first speaks to a booking clerk, and then is taken to get their mug shot photo and to be fingerprinted. After that, they proceed to a classification interview, which determines where they will eventually be housed. There are several

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issues that have to be taken into account, such as whether they have a violent past, are abusive, or have been in the system before and been a target of abuse.

In addition, a problem many new prisoners have is significant health issues, both physical and mental – meaning it’s a problem that must be confronted and dealt with by jail personnel. Before a prisoner can proceed to the holding tank, much less to their more permanent housing, their health issues must be resolved.

“The biggest problem is mental health. It’s out of control since so many institutions were closed several years ago,” Snarey said.

Fully three-quarters of the state psychiatric institutions in the state of Michigan were closed down between 1987 and 2003. On top of that, community mental health agencies, which were designed to pick up most of those cases, have been hit with a continuing series of budget cuts. Snarey said that once the mentally ill comprised less than 10 percent of the jail population; today they make up more than 30 percent of that population.

“You have a very poor population. Many of them lose their jobs, then they lose their health care. They then stop taking their medications and do stuff they shouldn’t do, and they end up here,” Childs said. “We get them back on their meds. Our program services staff does an amazing job determining what the mental health needs are. They do a tremendous job.”

“We have a separate area for our mental health population, in the K Block,” said Lt. Dorothy Hall, Executive Lieutenant of the Corrective Services Division. “When they get stabilized back on their medications, they can be reintegrated back into the regular jail population. Generally, that’s very successfully done.”

“That’s a credit to our deputies, to their training and to our program services,” Snarey said.

“I’m extremely proud of my senior command, all of whom I promoted,” said Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard. “The team, across the board, they do an amazing job with their professionalism, their work helping people. When I became sheriff, eight percent of the jail population was on psychotropic drugs. Now it’s north of 30 percent. We’ve become the de facto mental health dumping ground – the state and federal government have made so many cuts, so people are not being served. That is not our purpose, but we take the challenge on.

But our principle purpose is to hold people pre-adjudication, and to incarcerate them post-adjudication.”

Noting the tax on the jail’s health system, “a great deal of money goes to mental health services. We’re not a mental health service provider. We have a great partnership with true mental health partners,” Bouchard continued. “But society has a much greater modality than winding up in jail.”

Dale Cunningham, the sheriff’s office Chief Financial Officer, said that out of a $60.5 million budget attributed to corrections, $5.4 million is spent on health care for inmates.

The largest expense for the sheriff’s office is staff, where $41 million is spent on salary and fringe benefits.

“We use a private firm, Correct Care Solutions, that provides all of the doctors, nurses and all of the health care,” Cunningham said. “It’s still a substantial amount of money. But the private firm saves us a quite a bit of money. When we did it, it cost us $7.2 million a year.” orrect Care Solutions is a health care corporation based in Nashville which provides correctional healthcare to institutions across the country.

It was created in 2003 and today employs 7,000 while caring for approximately 250,000 inmates in 37 states. They provide medical, dental, and behavioral health services for inmates, as well as adjudicating and paying for medical bills for some clients. They train their staff to properly deal with their patients, providing them with the tools to ensure they are successfully delivering effective health services.

“Many labels are given to individuals we are entrusted to care for each day, but we prefer to focus on simply referring to them as our patients,” said Correct Care Solutions website. “We find our patients to be typically very appreciative of the care we provide, as often these patients have rarely had consistent healthcare prior to incarceration.

Each day we ask ourselves, ‘What if this was my family member?’”

“On a daily basis, about 100 need some kind of medical care out of 1,600 inmates,” said Cunningham.

Once an inmate is processed through the medical area and the holding cells, inmates are assigned to a block area and a cell, and provided with a uniform. The color of a prisoner’s uniform is determined by their work and and level of threat to the rest of the prison population. Childs said that the color helps correctional staff identify inmates, determine who they are, where they should be, and their risk level in an instant. For example, orange uniform is a maximum risk inmate; an orange and white striped uniform indicates an inmate at super high risk.

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“Men and women’s colors are different,” Snarey said. “We must always keep the men and women separate. Also, child molesters and rapists start here. We have to separate them (from the general inmate population).

He said that while societally, over the last 20 years or so, the women’s jail population has gone up, today it cycles up and down, with no definable reason to determine why one month, or one day, it will be higher than another’s.

In each housing unit, there are various types of cells. The original jail was designed in a linear style, initially created to accommodate eight men or women, but now officials have added additional bunks to have 10 in each cell. Snarey said there are also some singles in each block unit.

“Those in a single cell can’t get along with other inmates, or would be picked on by others,” said Childs. “We try to have the classification system done at intake done within 72 hours of coming in, especially if there’s mental health issues. We try to keep a perfect mix of blacks and whites and age groups, so there’s not a lot of predators. We try to make sure no one is preyed upon while they are here. You can’t always guarantee that. It’s not always perfect with this population, but they (classification) try.”

“Our classification system is very thorough, and they do a very good job,” Snarey said. “It makes our job easier.”

In the Annex, which opened in 1989, the housing is in a dormitory-style, utilizing pods, where individuals have their own individual beds in two-person rooms. There are group common areas to eat and watch TV. “They were originally designed for one person to a cell, but we obtained a variance from the Department of Corrections to get two per cell,” Snarey said.

Across the street is the East Annex, housing 266 inmates on one side and 132 on the other side. The East Annex also is a dormitory housing setting. Corrections officials said it is a wide-open dorm setting that was originally designed for their work release inmates. Today, all work release inmates are “virtual” prisoners.

“They’re all out on GPS tethers,” Snarey said.

Those detained in the jail, whether awaiting trial or serving their sentence, can participate in a variety of activities during the day, or they can sit in the cell and do nothing.

Many ask to participate on work and lifeskill programs. Hall oversees a variety of different programs, some of which they have been sentenced to, others they have petitioned to be put on, and some assigned to, including mental health and substance abuse programs.

“There are weekly Alcoholic Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings, LESP, which teaches them life skills and how to reintegrate into society,” Hall said.

J.A.W.S., a program that stands for Jail Alliance With Support, is designed for misdemeanor and non-assaultive felony male inmates who have co-occurring disorders, such as substance abuse and mental illness, with medium to low security level. The purpose is to continue offering supportive services and treatment to these inmates, and it is done in collaboration with the Oakland County Health Division/Office of Substance Abuse Services and Oakland County Community Mental Health Authority.

“Hazel Park Adult Education comes in here and offers the GED, there are clergy that run different group church services and bible studies,” said Hall. “There are Protestant and Catholic services, and Jewish and Muslim representatives that run their programs.”

“We also run recreation daily,” Snarey said.

“In the warmer months, they’re taken out for an hour each time they’re offered. They’re offered time in the gym during colder months.

It’s to burn energy. They’re taken in shifts.” ome inmates are assigned, and many request, work details. The cleaning detail cleans all of the buildings. Some prisoners do all of the laundry, which Chief Financial Officer Cunningham said is a significant savings to taxpayers.

“About 10, 15 years ago, we used to send all of the laundry out to a private laundry,” he recalled. “I priced it out, and we put some commercial washers and dryers in and the inmates do the laundry. It gets bagged up and washed. It’s quite a savings to taxpayers. The machines have long been amortized.”

The kitchen receives a lot of work duty, with inmates assisting Aramark, the food provider for the Oakland County Jail, in preparing all of the meals, and other inmates assisting by serving the food.

“We’re totally satisfied with Aramark Services here,” Snarey said.

Cunningham concurred. “They’ve had their issues, but for us, they do an outstanding job.”

Between $1.7 million and $1.8 million is spent out of the sheriff’s office budget for food.

“But we’re very proud of that, because out of that we serve 1.9 million meals,” Cunningham said. “That’s three meals a day for 1,600 inmates. The cost for those meals runs about 75 cents a day. I’m going to say it’s not the most delicious food. But it’s nutritional and it meets the caloric intake

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required, which is 2,600 calories a day for a stationary inmate, and 3,200 calories a day for a working inmate.

“I always say, if you don’t like the food, don’t come back.”

Those living in the Annex are inmates that the public may see working out in the community, Snarey said. “We have a dedicated group. Some work at the Oakland County Animal Shelter. They do everything. Some are assigned to veterinarians, others work cleaning cages.”

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ne program Bouchard noted had to be cut for budgetary reasons was a boot camp for non-violent offenders during recent years. “I cut 165 positions to help the county stay in budget during the downturn,” he said. “The program was so they wouldn’t re-offend. Do we have robust alternatives,

like tethers and work cleaning highways. But with limited resources, I had to focus those resources.”

But not every inmate is so motivated.

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two librarians who go around and bring them books. Their idleness is their own choice. They don’t get time added on to their sentence, but they can lose their Sheriff’s Good Time. They might have reports written up on them and the Sheriff approves them. It doesn’t happen very often, but it does happen.”

Visitation of inmates is not like it’s seen on TV or “Orange is the New Black”. Visitors don’t get to see inmates in person at the Oakland County

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Rather, all visitation is via video monitors, where visitors are in the lobby of the main building, and inmates are in secure areas in their cell blocks. “Everyone has two opportunities for visitors a week,” Snarey said.

“They’re allowed up to 30 minutes a week.”

Correction officials anticipate in the near future where visitors will be able to download a program where they can then visit through their home computer screens at pre-arranged times.

“On any given day, we have 1,600 prisoners we have to keep away from the public, keep them safe, give them their meds, and get them to

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court on time,” Bouchard said. “There are two types of prisoners – one society is mad at, and the other they are afraid of. It’s one or the other.

We’re mad at those who commit frauds and retail larcenies. But we have to focus on those we, as a society, budget-wise, we’re afraid of.”

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MUNICIPAL Restaurant reaches pact with township The owners of a popular Commerce Township bar and restaurant on Tuesday, April 7, reached an agreement with township officials that aims to quell a feud between patrons of the Cooley Lake Inn and residents living near the business.

The Commerce Township Board of Trustees at a special meeting on April 7 voted 5-1 in favor of approving a resolution to approve the transfer of a liquor license to Cooley Lake Inc., and approve an entertainment agreement with the business. Board members John Hindo, Rick Sovel, Molly Phillips, Vanessa Magner and Tom Zoner voted in favor of approving the resolution, while Trustee Rob Long voted against it. Trustee Bob Berkheiser was absent from the meeting.

Long said the agreement – which sets out the hours of entertainment at the business, security measures, and various guidelines regarding the physical structure of parts of the building, as well as management guidelines – is too complicated and overreaching for the township and the owners.

“As I read through this agreement, and I know that there has been a lot of work put into drafting it to come up with the parameters, but I think it is an attorney’s dream and a manager’s nightmare,” Long said prior to the board’s vote. “I think it’s so complicated and so overreaching that if the township were to enforce this, somebody is going to have to have a checklist on the wall to keep up with the hours and times.”

Township officials began discussions last year about the possibility of objecting to the renewal of the long-time bar and restaurant's on-premises liquor license following a number of complaints from those living near the business. Residents living near the business say conduct from patrons and entertainment at the Cooley Lake Inn had become unbearable since about 2012 when they said the business changed from a restaurant-style operation to a bar catering to bikers and college students.

Under the township's ordinances, the business must receive the majority of its revenue through food sales rather than alcohol.

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fficials with the Commerce Township Downtown Development Authority (DDA) are working with a third party contractor who accidentally leveled nearly two dozen pine trees along Martin Parkway that weren't supposed to be removed.

The Granger Group, of Wyoming, Michigan, in August entered into a $3-million purchase agreement with the Commerce Township DDA for about 15 acres of land inside the Commerce Towne Place development area, located north of M-5 and Pontiac Trail between Welch and Haggerty roads. The Granger property, located on the south side of Martin Parkway, will consist of an assisted living facility, a memory care facility and room for independent senior living facilities.

Plans for the first phase of the project were subsequently approved by the township planning commission. While a number of trees on the site were to be removed in order to accommodate building, a mistake by the independent contractor hired to clear the trees was made and trees along Martin Parkway were removed in error.

Nearly two dozen trees along the south side of Martin Parkway, from just north of Pontiac Trail to Oakley Parkway, were cut and left laying on the ground for more than two weeks. The trees, which were an average of 20-feet tall, had been transplanted from the north side of Martin Parkway when road construction called for the trees to be removed. The DDA then spent about $250 per tree to relocate them along the road.

"There's no estimate on the damages, yet, for the trees that were cut down in error," DDA Director Kathleen Jackson said at the Tuesday, April 21, DDA meeting. "You have to find (replacements), and some are hard to find because they are so large."

Jackson said the DDA is looking for an estimate that would include purchasing similar sized trees, replanting the trees and nursing the trees, as well as recapturing attorney and administration fees.

DDA board member Mark Stacey said he was particularly concerned that the cutting wasn't stopped as soon as the township realized the contractors were cutting trees that weren't supposed to be removed.

Board chairman Jim Gotts agreed.

"Hopefully, we can get the stumps ground and transplant new trees to screen the new developments," Gotts said. "We are looking for some acquiescence from the developers who hired the 'Insane Clown Posse'."

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former operator, William Steffanuski, owner of Cooley Lake Inn Inc. However, the bar property and the business have since been sold to new owners, who on March 30 said they intend to enter into an agreement with the township to address the issues.

Attorneys for the new property owner of the bar, Helal Farhat, and the business owner, Rami Haidar, worked with township attorney Gary Rentrop to finalize the agreement, which was done on April 7.

Under the agreement, advertisements promoting drink specials, college nights and bike nights, would be prohibited. The agreement also requires several measures to be taken to reduce the level of noise at the bar, including sound-deadening blankets over the business' windows during entertainment events; the construction of a two-door entry system to limit the amount of noise

exiting the business into the neighborhood; restrictions on the times of musical entertainment at the business; and additional measures.

The agreement also requires two security guards to be on premises on nights that entertainment is offered to the public.

Township Clerk Vanessa Magner said the owners were very willing to work with the township and agreed to all of the requests made by the board.

Despite the agreement, Long said he still had doubts about whether the business fit into the neighborhood.

“The neighbors are still saying that there have been continual problems, even under new management,” Long said. “I think that if a business is going to require two security guards to be there at night in that neighborhood, then I don’t think it’s the right business to be there.”

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Commerce Township planning consultant and Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Director Kathleen Jackson has tendered her resignation with the township, effective May 22, following nearly two decades with the community.

"I was actually shocked. I was totally surprised by it. I didn't see that coming," Commerce Township trustee Rick Sovel said on Wednesday, April 29, a day after learning of Jackson's resignation at special Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, April 28. "I thought she might have given up the DDA director's position, as most of those parcels are sold or in the process of being sold."

Sovel is one of several board members who had expressed some concern over the past year regarding what they perceived as a conflict of interest with Jackson holding two positions for the township. In October of 2014, Sovel said he had concerns that Jackson was "serving two masters," in reference to her roles as both the DDA director and the township's planning consultant.

Trustee Rob Long also voiced concern at several meetings about whether it was appropriate for Jackson to have two roles at the township.

Jackson said she was first made aware of the concerns in October when she read some of the board's comments in a story published by Westend. At the time, Jackson said she was frustrated that she was not approached by anyone from the township about the concerns, but rather had to read about them in a news article after the fact.

In response to the concerns, Jackson stated that when she represented the DDA board on a matter before the township, she recused herself from her role as the township's planning consultant. Both Commerce Township supervisor Tom Zoner and township attorney Phil Adkison said that the perceived conflict was not an actual conflict, as they felt Jackson had handled all issues in an appropriate manner.

Just as board members approved a contract with Jackson on April 14 as the township's planning consultant, some trustees then brought up a perceived conflict between Jackson and the township's secondary planners, McKenna Associates, which is contracted to represent the 43

township when Jackson recuses herself. Board members stated they believed there is a "perceived conflict of interest" in the arrangement, as Jackson's husband, John Jackson, is vice president of McKenna.

While Jackson said her husband has no ownership interest in McKenna, nor does he work directly on any of the projects involving the township, board members said the connection gives "the perception" of a conflict.

"I agree that perception is reality," said trustee John Hindo. "It is what it is. I think (Kathleen Jackson) has done a good job. On the other end, I agree that maybe we look at whether McKenna is the company we use and whether we bid it out. I think we should look at that. There may be no conflict, but I agree that perception is reality. I think we should be looking at other firms other than McKenna."

The board voted unanimously to go out for bids on a new planner when McKenna would be used because Kathleen Jackson wouldn't be representing the township.

Jackson expressed feelings following the meeting that the board had "beaten" her up at the meeting before canceling the contract with McKenna without any notice to the contractor.

Sovel, while he said he was surprised at the resignation, said it's possible that the meeting may have "been the final straw." He did say he believes there may have been other issues at play.

Township Treasurer Vanessa Magner said the resignation letter given to Zoner didn't state a reason for her leaving.

"I would hate for that to be the reason," she said. "I'm very sad to see her go. I have worked with her now for almost 12 years. I think it's going to be hard shoes to fill for both the DDA and planning. There's so much she has been able to help with."

Zoner noted that Jackson has a busy family life, in addition to the number of hours she works with the township. In addition to her roles with the DDA and as planning consultant, Jackson serves as director of the Commerce, Walled Lake and Wixom Trailways Management Council. She will also resign from that position effective May 22.

"She's a dedicated person and puts 99 percent of her time in for Commerce Township, and between that and other things, and family, it takes a toll on you," Zoner said. "She was doing a ton of work."

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Board members on April 28 approved moving forward with the process of hiring a full-time planning director who would work directly for the township. Zoner said McKenna would be contracted to fill in for Jackson after she leaves the position next month. Meanwhile, DDA Chairman Jim Gotts said he expects the DDA to hold a special meeting to begin the process of finding a replacement for her position with that authority.

"We will try to deal with it," Gotts said. "Considering we are in negotiations with developers and property owners, it will exacerbate the planning schedule, too."

Jackson is the second DDA director since its inception, and the first to facilitate a sale of property held by the authority. Planning for the Commerce Towne Place development area had been in the works for more than a decade before the first sale of residential property in 2014. In November 2014, the DDA announced a major commercial development in the works.

In terms of finding an interim director for the DDA, Gotts said it was next to impossible. "It's pretty hard to do in terms of a straight-out interim situation," he said.

Jackson has worked with the township for just shy of 18 years. Prior to her coming to Commerce Township, Jackson worked for nearly eight years as a planner for the city of Birmingham. She holds a degree in urban planning from Michigan State University.

"It was definitely a surprise to me, especially after trustees approved her long-awaited contract at the last regular meeting," said trustee Rob Long.

At that meeting, Long and Jackson verbally sparred over her husband's role at McKenna. Jackson pointed out more than once during the exchange that her husband is an employee for McKenna and doesn't have any ownership interest.

"I wish my fellow Spartan well," Long said. "Her younger son and our son played together at pre-school."

Community award winners announced Several local residents will be honored on Monday, May 18, during the 31st annual Commerce Township Community Breakfast at the Edgewood Country Club, 8399 Commerce Road.

The event is held each year to honor people from the community who have done extraordinary things, and originated as part of the township's sesquicentennial celebration. Awards are given out in five categories each year.

The award for the 2015 Outstanding Citizen Award will be presented to Cheryl Savage of Commerce Township. Savage has been involved in Rebuilding Together Oakland County; the Transitional Academy for Girls; Leader Dogs, World Medical Relief, Art on the River; Freedom Village; and three trips to India to help the poor in Nepal and Tanzania. She has also been involved in motivating scholarships for students in Commerce Township and has assisted in local road clean ups.

Former Commerce Township Treasurer Susan Gross will be presented with the 2015 Outstanding Contribution Award. Gross, a resident of Commerce for 42 years, started a long career with the township as a clerk/typist, and was quickly appointed as deputy treasurer. In 1993, she became the township treasurer, and was re-elected six times. She retired from the position at the end of 2014.

Commerce Township Boy Scout Nathan Cox will be presented with the Parks and Recreation Outstanding Service Award. When Cox was 12, he was attending a Boy Scout's International Friendship Camp when he came up with the idea to build a pavilion for community participation.

Since then, he planned and constructed a 30-foot-by 40-foot pavilion, raising much of the money for materials himself. The pavilion is currently located in Commerce Township's Dodge Park 5.

Robert E. Donohue, Jr. will be presented with the Historic Recognition Award for his lifelong commitment to historic preservation.

Donohue has worked on several historic preservation projects in the township, and has been serving as the Main Street Program Coordinator for Economic Development and Community Affairs for Oakland County since 2000. He has also worked as a Downtown Development Director for Rochester; a private planning consultant for Vilican/Leman Associates; worked in planning and directing for Livingston County; and was appointed in 1994 to the Michigan Main Street Advisory Board.

Westlake Health Campus will also be presented with the 2015 Business

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of the Year. Westlake was opened by Trilogy Health Services in 2011 with a legacy addition following a year later for Alzheimer care.

Road projects may cause traffic delays A number of road projects in the west Oakland area could cause delays or detours for motorists in the weeks and months ahead.

Traffic along Haggerty Road between Pontiac Trail and Richardson Road is closed to through-traffic until at least late October while the roadway undergoes an overlay and drainage project.

The Road Commission for Oakland County (RCOC) started construction on Haggerty in mid-April, forcing motorists to bypass the area and use Martin Parkway to head east and west. Access to Haggerty remains available to residential and business traffic. The detour for the closure is Pontiac Trail to Martin Parkway to Richardson Road and back to Haggerty Road, and vice versa.

Motorists should plan for delays along Martin Parkway, particularly during morning and evening rush hour travel.

The project is expected to be completed in late October.

Motorists near the Farmington Hills/West Bloomfield border at 14 Mile and Orchard Lake roads can expect temporary lane closures on 14 Mile Road, Orchard Lake Road and Northwestern Highway, as well as lane closures along 14 Mile Road at the west side of Orchard Lake Road for roundabout construction. The project will is expected to be completed in November.

Bad sections of asphalt along Green Lake Road in West Bloomfield were expected to be replaced starting at the end of April, between Commerce Road to just east of Fieldview Street. The asphalt, which was initially laid in late 2014, is being replaced by the contractor and will include drainage and other improvements. Access will be maintained for local businesses and residents within the closure area.

Lastly, Cedar Island Road, between Oxbow Lake Road and Bogie Lake Road, will remain closed. The RCOC closed the road last year because a culvert beneath it that is collapsing carries the Huron River under the road.

It isn't yet known if the road can be repaired. The detour is Bogie Lake to Cooley Lake to Oxbow Lake and back to Cedar Island, and vice versa.

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Architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rendering of new Commerce library in park.

Trustees get look at new library plans

By Kevin Elliott

Plans that include the layout of the proposed floor plan and exterior design of the future Commerce Township Library were presented on Tuesday, April 14, to the Commerce Township Board of Trustees at their monthly meeting by PenchanskyWhisler Architects.

The plans include a full arrangement of departments and facilities at the proposed library, including placement of children and adult reading rooms, circulation desks, the main entrance and emergency exits, bathrooms, storage and staff areas, and other departments. The presentation also included exterior designs, including a limestone facade and pillars, and a mixture of brick walls and windows.

Township trustee Rob Long told architect Dan Whisler that he didn't care for the limestone part of the building the way it was presented in the plans.

"The water tank that is being proposed in the township is probably better looking," Long said.

Whisler said the drawings don't represent the full view of the limestone part of the building, as it is more of an architectural rendering than a photo that would show shadows and shading on the building.

Limestone is a common rock used in architecture, as well as many landmarks throughout the world.

Many classical structures, such as banks, courthouses and other buildings are often made of limestone.

Township supervisor Tom Zoner said while Long didn't care for parts of the building design, he said he spoke only for himself and not the entire board.

The Commerce Township Board of Trustees voted in October of 2014 to build a 35,000-square-foot library in the northwest corner of Dodge Park 5. westendmonthly.com

Members of the board of trustees have debated since April of 2014 about where to build the library that will replace the township's current facility at 2869 N. Pontiac Trail. The current library, a 20,000-square foot golf clubhouse that was converted into a library, was created with the understanding that it would one day be relocated.

Trustees in October 2014 voted 4-3 to build the library at the Dodge Park 5 location, where the township already owns property, and has contracted with the architectural firm to begin work on the plans. Board members had also considered building the library next to Commerce Township Hall, inside the Downtown Development Authority's (DDA) property known as Commerce Towne Place.

Concerns voiced over library location About a dozen people on Monday, April 20, voiced concern about the location of the future Commerce Township Public Library during a township planning commission meeting where a site plan for the future library was unanimously approved.

Site plans, including the interior layout, exterior designs and precise location of the future township library within the township's Dodge Park 5 location, were presented to planning commissioners at the special meeting on April 20. About a dozen Commerce Township residents attended the meeting to voice their concerns about whether the building would damage the quality of the park, impact traffic in the area and parking at the site.

The meeting, which was initially advertised to include a public hearing on the matter, was changed in the final hours prior to the meeting to cancel the public hearing portion of the meeting. Township Supervisor Tom Zoner said the requirement to

have a public hearing on the site plan wasn't necessary, as the building being proposed is a township building and will be on townshipowned land.

Despite the change in the meeting, planning commission chair Lawrence Haber allowed members of the public to comment during the meeting. He said any comments would be included in the meeting minutes and passed along to the full township board, which has the authority to consider any changes if they deem necessary.

"Based on the original master plan and list of priorities, the use of this park land for the library is inappropriate," one man at the meeting said. "I request we preserve the nature of the park with something more organic and utilize the Martin Parkway property as somewhere where the library can bloom."

Others in attendance said they were concerned about traffic backups in the area, which they said could increase from library traffic.

Some people asked for the library to be constructed on the eastern portion of the park in order to make it less obtrusive to current park operations.

Haber recommended that people who have an issue with the location or other issues with the library not pertaining to the plans being reviewed during the meeting should voice their concerns to the full township board of trustees.

The board of trustees in October voted to build a 35,000-square-foot library at the northwest corner of Dodge Park 5. Board members debated since April of 2014 the location of the library, which will replace the township's current library at 2869 N. Pontiac Trail. The board voted 4-3 in October on the location presented in the most current plans.

Board members had previously considered building the library next to Commerce Township Hall, inside the Downtown Development Authority's (DDA) property, known as Commerce Towne Place.

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Planning commissioners unanimously approved a recommendation to the township board to approve the plans presented at the April 20 meeting.

"This rendering doesn't do justice to the brick," said planning commissioner Brian Winkler. "The banding and mix of materials seem to work very well. We have an architect here who is a specialist in this kind of building, and the library director and they have been working very hard on this. They have been using Giffels Webster also, who know our standards better than anyone. I like the way the building looks."

Village to offer June boater safety course Wolverine Lake Village will offer a boater safety class on Saturday, June 6, in an effort to increase awareness of potential hazards and increase safe operations on the water.

A boating safety certificate is required of all people operating a personal watercraft who were born after 1978. Additionally, officials said obtaining a boater safety certificate may help to reduce boat insurance rates.

Boater safety was emphasized by authorities in 2013 after several drownings in Oakland County, including the death of a 62-year-old man who died while swimming in open water in August near his boat in Wolverine Lake. Police at the time said the man got out of his boat to swim, but his craft drifted away from him and he was unable to make it to safety.

The boater safety class will be run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 6 at village hall. The cost to attend is $15 per person, and pre-registration is required. Registration is open to all ages.

For more information, contact village hall at 248.624.1710.

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BUSINESS MATTERS

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Hair salon opens

Water tank contract tabled in Commerce

Tim’s Hair Studio opened at 1990 Union Lake Road in Commerce Township on April 15. Owner Tim Strelecky’s family has been cutting hair for decades. Fifty-four years ago, his father opened Robin’s Hair Stylist in Garden City. Strelecky, who himself has been styling hair for 38 years, took over as owner of Robin’s in Union Lake when his father retired 20 years ago. This past fall, he decided to close the salon, then located on Cooley Lake Road, and to open Tim’s Hair Studio, which he says has a new, unique concept. “Each hairdresser has his or her own room,” he explained. “Stylists renting chairs in studios is what has been popular in the industry, but it is rare that they have their own room. This allows for more privacy and a more relaxing atmosphere. Ten-chair salons tend to be very loud with so many conversations going on.”

Tim’s Hair Studio is open from eight to five, everyday except Wednesday.

New yoga studio Ray Reese-Cook opened Luminosity Life Yoga at 28265 Beck Rd Suite C-10 in Wixom this March. Reese-Cook, who has been practicing yoga for 15 years and began teacher training at the Yoga Center for Healthy Living in 2007, will also serve as one of the studio’s three instructors. She said that she opened Luminosity Life Yoga so that she can bring the light that yoga brought to her life to the lives of others. “At Luminous Life Yoga we know how wonderful you are and that you have a brilliant light shining within,” she explained. “Our goal is to help you rediscover that light, to realize your full potential, and to show how yoga can change your entire life – body, mind & soul.” The studio, open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, offers gentle, hatha, prenatal, vinyasa, and yin classes as well as kids’ yoga on the second Saturday of each month. Drop-ins are $5 for first-time customers and $12 for returning customers. Five and ten class packages are available for $55 and $100 respectively. One month of unlimited classes costs $105.

Pizzeria expands Crispelli’s Bakery & Pizzeria recently opened a second location at 6690 Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield. The West Bloomfield location has the same menu – thin and thick crust pizzas, salads, sandwiches, soups, pasta, and burgers – as their Berkley one, but at the new West Bloomfield location, servers bring food to the customers’ tables rather than just calling out their names, Crispelli's said.

Fitness club open A new gym franchise has opened in Walled Lake for fitness fanatics.

Anytime Fitness opened at 686 North Pontiac Trail in Walled Lake.

The club, which offers state-of-theart fitness equipment, private bathrooms with showers, tanning, HDTVs, and wellness plans, is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

While the club is only staffed from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, as well as by appointment Fridays and Sundays, Anytime Fitness is equipped with surveillance cameras, and members are each given a key so that they can access the gym at any hour. Personal safety devices are also available to provide members with one-touch access to emergency care. The Walled Lake location has the distinction of offering Anywhere Club Access, allowing members to visit any of Anywhere Fitness Gyms’ 2,825 locations across the globe.

Pop up garden English Gardens will open a temporary greenhouse structure in the parking lot of the Ace Hardware located at 3050 Union Lake Road in Commerce this spring. The outdoor sales event, offering fresh plants and other horticultural items, was expected to open, weather permitting, April 15, and will run through the beginning of July.

Business Matters for the west Oakland area are reported by Kevin Elliott. Send items for consideration to KevinElliott@downtownpublications.com.

Items should be received three weeks prior to publication.

By Kevin Elliott

A decision to award a $5.3 million contract to construct a two-million gallon water storage tank near Commerce Township Fire Station No. 1 was tabled by the township board of trustees on Tuesday, April 14.

Plans to construct the massive water storage facility have been in the works since 2013, and would serve to help lower water rates in the township that are charged by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) by helping to offset water consumption during peak usage times. When completed, the township is likely to see a 20 percent savings on water rates, said Jason Mayer, the township's engineering consultant with Giffels Webster.

Water rates are set by a combination of factors, including the distance water travels to customers, water consumption and the amount of water used at peak times. The water tank would be utilized when water is in highest demand in order to offset peak usage from the DWSD, thus lowering the rates to the township and its customers.

Initial plans to construct the tank estimated that construction would begin in 2014 and be completed by 2016. The facility would be required to operate for about a year before new rates could be negotiated based on the adjusted usage rates, meaning customers wouldn't have likely seen a savings until 2017. Mayer estimated in 2013 that the facility would save the township about $1.3 to $1.5 million per year on its wholesale water purchase rate from the DWSD. While plans for the project have been approved by the township board, as well as money budgeted for the project, it has so far been stalled as attorneys for the township and Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital close on a piece of property expected to be conveyed to the township in order to construct the facility.

Township attorney Phil Adkison said on Tuesday, April 14, that the deal with the hospital could be finalized in the next two weeks.

However, some township board members expressed concerns about awarding the construction bid prior

to the land conveyance being finalized.

Mayer said he hoped that the bid would be awarded prior to the peak of the construction season in order to utilize the water storage facility prior to the summer, when water usage tends to peak. Doing so, he said, would provide a savings of nearly $1.5 million by 2017, rather than 2018.

Board members voted 5-2 to table the motion to award the bid with township supervisor Tom Zoner and trustee Bob Berkheiser voting against the motion.

City nixes proposed apartment complex Plans to construct a 71-unit apartment complex on E. Walled Lake Drive were rejected by the Walled Lake City Council at their meeting on Tuesday, April 7.

Foremost Development owner Terry Bailey approached the city in March of 2014 with plans to construct a two-story development on two acres of land located adjacent from the lake and inside the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) district. Bailey, at the time, had described the proposed development as a luxury apartment complex featuring modern amenities and views of the lake.

City council members on April 7 passed a resolution to deny the project proposed by Foremost.

Council by a vote of 4-3, with council members Tamra Loch, John Owsinek, Bill Sturgeon and mayor Linda Ackley voting to approve the resolution and Dennis Yezbick, Robert Rorbertson and Casey Ambrose voting against it.

Foremost in February submitted an application for a commercial planned unit development with the city, which received conditional approval on February 24 from the Walled Lake Planning Commission. Those conditions would require Foremost to reconsider the proposed density, parking and other specifics in the plan, under the recommendation from the commission to council.

City council on March 4 had told the developer to address density and parking issues or it wouldn’t consider approving the application. The board voted then to instruct Foremost to reconsider its plans.

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West Oakland Alex's Pizzeria and Bar: American. Lunch, Monday - Friday; Dinner, daily. Liquor.

Reservations. 49000 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, 48393. 248.926.1700.

Anaam’s Palate: Middle Eastern. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 2534 Union Lake Road, Commerce Township, 48382. 248.242.6326.

Applebees Neighborhood Grill: American.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Liquor. 9100 Highland Road, White Lake, 48386. 248.698.0901.

Backyard Coney Island: American.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 49378 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, 48393. 248.926.9508.

Bayside Sports Grille: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 142 E. Walled Lake Drive, Walled Lake, 48390. 248.669.3322.

Benstein Grille: American. Weekend Brunch & Lunch. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 2435 Benstein Road, Commerce, 48390.

248.624.4100.

Biffs Coney Island: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

3050 Union Lake Road, Commerce Township, 48382. 248.366.7400.

Big Boy Restaurant: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Beer & Wine. 5834 Highland Road, Waterford, 48328. 248.674.4631.

Big Boy Restaurant: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

800 N. Pontiac Trail, Walled Lake, 48390. 248.624.2323.

Big Boy Restaurant: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Beer & Wine. 7726 Cooley Lake Road, Waterford, 48327. 248.363.1573.

Billy’s Tip N Inn: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

6707 Highland Road, White Lake Township, 48383. 248.889.7885.

Blu Nectar: American. Lunch & Dinner, Monday - Saturday. Reservations. Liquor.

1050 Benstein Road, Walled Lake, 48390. 248.859.5506.

Boon Kai Restaurant: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 1257 S. Commerce Road, Commerce, 48390.

248.624.5353.

Buffalo Wild Wings: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

5223 Highland Road, Waterford, 48327.

248.674.9464.

Carino’s Italian Restaurant: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 500 Loop Road, Commerce Township, 48390. 248.926.5300.

Carrie Lee’s of Waterford: Chinese.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Liquor. 7890 Highland Road, Waterford, 48327. 248.666.9045.

Casey’s Sports Pub & Grill: Deli. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 1003 E. West Maple Road, Walled Lake, 48390. 248.669.5200.

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CAYA Smokehouse Grille: Barbeque.

Dinner, Tuesday - Sunday. No reservations. Liquor. 1403 S. Commerce Road, Wolverine Lake, 48390.

248.438.6741.

China Garden: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner daily. No reservations. 49414 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, 48393. 248.960.8877.

China House: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 901 Nordic Drive, White Lake Township, 48386.

248.889.2880.

China King: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 4785 Carroll Lake Road, Commerce Township, 48390.

248.363.9966.

CJ’s Brewing Company: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

8115 Richardson Road, Commerce Township, 48390. 248.366.7979.

Coffee Time Café: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

1001 Welch Road, Commerce Township, 48390. 248.624.0097.

Coyote Grille: American. Lunch, MondayFriday; Dinner, Monday-Sunday. No reservations. Liquor. 1990 Hiller Road, West Bloomfield, 48324.

248.681.6195.

Dairy Queen: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 10531 Highland Road, White Lake, 48386.

248.698.2899.

Daniel’s Pizza Bistro: Pizza. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 2510 Union Lake Road, Commerce Township, 48382. 248.363.7000.

Dave and Amy’s: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

9595 Highland Road, White Lake, 48386. 248.698.2010.

Dave’s Coney Island: American.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No Reservations. 901 Nordick Drive, White Lake, 48383. 248.889.3600.

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit: Barbecue. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 4825 Carroll Lake Road, Commerce Township, 48382. 248.360.4055.

Dobski’s: American, Polish. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 6565 Cooley Lake Road, Waterford, 48327.

248.363.6565.

Eddie’s Coney Island: American.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 1749 Haggerty Road, Commerce Township, 48390.

248.960.1430.

El Nibble Nook: Mexican. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations for 6 or more. Liquor.

2750 Haggerty Road, West Bloomfield, 48323. 248.669.3344.

El Patio Mexican Restaurant: Mexican.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

7622 Highland Road, Waterford, 48327.

248.666.5231.

Five Guys Burgers & Fries: American.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

5134 Highland Road, 48327.

248.673.5557.

Gest Omelets: American. Breakfast & Lunch, daily until 4 p.m. No reservations.

39560 W. 14 Mile Road, Commerce Township, 48390. 248.926.0717.

Golden Chop Sticks: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 47516 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, 48393.

248.960.3888.

Grand Aztecha: Mexican. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 6041 Haggerty Road, West Bloomfield, 48322.

248.669.7555.

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AND THE ANNUAL COMMUNITY AWARDS PRESENTATIONS

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Gravity Bar & Grill: Mediterranean.

Monday – Friday, Lunch & Dinner, Saturday, Dinner. Reservations. Liquor.

340 N. Main Street, Milford, 48381.

248.684.4223.

Greek Jalapeno: Greek, Mexican.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 6636 Cooley Lake Road, Waterford, 48327. 248.363.3322.

Green Apple Restaurant: American.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 7156 Cooley Lake Road, Waterford, 48327. 248.366.9100.

Haang's Bistro: Chinese/Thai. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. 225 E. Walled Lake Drive, Walled Lake, 48390.

248.926.1100.

Highland Grille: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 7265 Highland Road, Waterford, 48327.

248.666.8830.

Highland House: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 2630 E. Highland Road, Highland, 48356.

248.887.4161.

Highland House Café: American, Pizza.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

10719 Highland Road, White Lake, 48386. 248.698.4100.

Hong Kong Express: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 5158 Highland Road, Waterford, 48327.

248.673.7200.

It’s a Matter of Taste: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 2323 Union Lake Road, Commerce, 48390.

248.360.4150.

Jennifer’s Café: Middle Eastern. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 4052 Haggerty Road, Commerce Township, 48390. 248.360.0190.

Jenni’s Restaurant: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

1186 E. West Maple Road, Walled Lake, 48390. 248.669.8240.

Jeff's Kitchen: Asian. Lunch & Dinner daily.

Reservations. 1130 E. West Maple Road, Walled Lake, 48390. 248.669.8896.

Kennedy’s Irish Pub: Irish/American.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Liquor. 1055 W. Huron Street, Waterford, 48328. 248.681.1050.

L George’s: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 1203 S. Commerce Road, Walled Lake, 48390.

248.960.5700.

Leo’s Coney Island: American/Greek.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 6845 Highland Road, White Lake, 484386. 248.889.5361.

Leo’s Coney Island: American/Greek.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 4895 Carroll Lake Road, Commerce Township, 48382.

248.366.8360.

Leon’s Food & Spirits: American.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 29710 S. Wixom Road, Wixom, 48393. 248.926.5880.

Lion’s Den: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 4444 Highland Road, Waterford, 48328.

248.674.2251.

Lulu’s Coney Island: Greek. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

1001 Welch Road, Walled Lake, 48390.

248.669.1937.

Mexico Lindo: Mexican. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 6225 Highland Road, Waterford, 48327.

248.666.3460.

Mezza Mediterranean Grille: Mediterranean. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 1001 Welch Road, Commerce Township, 48390.

248.926.2190.

Moonlight Mediterranean Cuisine: Mediterranean. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 1123 E. West Maple Road,

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Walled Lake, 48390. 248.859.5352.

Nick & Toney’s: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday; Sunday until 3 p.m. No reservations.

9260 Cooley Lake Road, White Lake, 48386. 248.363.1162.

North Szechuan Empire: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 39450 W. 14 Mile Road, Commerce Township, 48390. 248.960.7666.

On The Waterfront: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 8635 Cooley Lake Road, Commerce Township, 48382. 248.363.9469.

Panera Bread: Bakery, Deli. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

5175 Highland Road, Waterford, 48327.

248.618.0617.

Pepino’s Restaurant & Lounge: Italian.

Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday. No reservations.

Liquor. 118 W. Walled Lake Drive, Walled Lake, 48390. 248.624.1033.

Red Lobster: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 479 N. Telegraph Road, Waterford, 48328.

248.682.5146.

Red Robin: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 3003 Commerce Crossing, Commerce Township, 48390. 248.926.2990.

Rudy’s Waffle House: American.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 674 N. Pontiac Trail, Walled Lake, 48390. 248.669.7550.

Samuri Steakhouse: Japanese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 7390 Haggerty Road, West Bloomfield, 48322.

248.661.8898.

Shark Club: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 6665 Highland Road, Waterford, 48327.

248.666.4161.

SIAM Fushion: Thai. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 6845 Highland Road, White Lake Township, 48386. 248.887.1300.

Siegel’s Deli: Deli. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 3426 E. West Maple Road, Commerce Township, 48390. 248.926.9555.

Sizzl in Subs & Salads: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 2051 N. Wixom Road, Wixom, 48393.

248.960.0009.

Socialight Cigar Bar & Bistro: American.

Lunch & Dinner daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 6139 Haggerty Road, West Bloomfield, 48322. 248.669.0777.

Swasdee Thai Restaurant: Thai. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 6175 Haggerty Road, West Bloomfield, 48322.

248.926.1012.

Sweet Water Bar & Grille: American.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Liquor. 7760 Cooley Lake Road, Waterford, 48327. 248.363.0400.

Taqueria La Casita: Mexican. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 49070 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, 48393.

248.926.1980.

Thai Kitchen: Thai. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

No reservations. 7108 Highland Road, Waterford, 48327. 248.886.0397.

The Lake’s Bar & Grill: American. Lunch, Tuesday - Sunday; Dinner daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 2528 Union Lake Road, Commerce Township, 48382.

248.366.3311.

The Library Pub: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

6363 Haggerty Road, West Bloomfield, 48322. 248.896.0333.

The Root Restaurant & Bar: American.

Lunch & Dinner, Monday - Saturday.

Reservations. Liquor. 340 Town Center Blvd., White Lake, 48390.

248.698.2400.

TJ’s Sushi & Chinese Restaurant: Japanese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No

05.15

AT THE TABLE Sneak peek at Townhouse Detroit’s future offerings

By J. March

Next – Carpaccio-Bison Tenderloin/Morel Escabeche/Yuzu Kewpie/Puffed Brown Rice/Wasabi greens.

In a city full of charcuterie, carpaccio is a hard thing to find. I can only hope that either Barrerra or Calnin puts this on their menu full time because it was really, really good. Perfectly sliced bison, morels (prepared in what may be the best way I’ve had

too much fanfare I will say this: Barrerra and Calnin did the impossible as I adored the lamb and as long as they prepare it, I will gladly eat it. Reluctant to ruin the miracle moment, I added the Riata and Pomegranite and soon decided that if loving lamb was wrong, I don’t wanna be right. Creamy yogurt, mint and cucumber sauce with sweet, acidic pomegranite (not only dead on in flavor, but the added texture of the whole seed was amazing) made for the best dish of the night tied only with one through four.

y guess is that if you’re reading this you’re either into food and metro Detroit dining or you’re waiting for the doctor. I’m going to speak to the former and talk a little about Revolver.

If you haven’t heard of it, the easiest way to explain it is space that hosts different chefs weekly for dinners consisting of four to five courses. If you Finally – Vanilla Parsnip Pot du Creme-Dark have heard of it (and perhaps even attended an Chocolate Ganacha/Sea Salt/Hazelnut/Orange event), then you know it’s much more than that.

Gastrique.

The first of its kind in Detroit, Revolver opened In explaining this last course, Barerra clearly in September of 2013. Owners Peter Dalinowski had put some serious love and thought into it. and Tunde Wey (Wey has since taken his Nigerian The highlight was on savory and sweet with the BBQ Lagos to Nola) consider Revolver a table d’ combination of parsnip and vanilla in the Pot Du hote (hosts table) rather than a pop-up. Originating Creme. How they incorporated the flavor is a in France, this concept refers to guesthouses where mystery to me, but the parsnip was detectable travelers would share meals with the proprietors yet not overpowering and did offer a nice round and other patrons in a communal setting. Sounds savory flavor. Cooked perfectly, it was delicious. It quaint, huh? And for as much as Hamtramck sure was the addition of chocolate and hazelnut that isn’t France, Revolver pulls it off impeccably. threw me, lending bitterness that to me was not The space is small, simple, warm and easy. You harmonious. It would be completely arrive with no clue about the other 38 people in the irresponsible of me to not mention that Scott room and leave feeling like you just had dinner Executive Chef Michael Barerra, Townhouse owner Jeremy Sasson, and Executive Rutterbush of Great Lakes Coffee provided what Chef Brennan Calnin. with your family, sans crying baby and was easily the best coffee I have had at any complaining aunt (drunk uncle may make an them) somehow made to taste bright yet rich. Creamy dinner, anywhere, ever. Local love is good, but appearance, but he’s of the jovial hugging variety).

Yuzu Kewpie (think lemony gourmet mayonaise), certainly easy when the product and people are of puffed rice for texture and Recovery Park wasabi This is attributed to the warmth exuded by staff and such quality. greens that ensured I shall never be able to return to hosts that is real and not the hug-hug-kiss-kiss that It’s difficult to say what made this dinner one of the “common” arugula usually served with carpaccio. the best and if it can be repeated. It speaks to the commonly accompanies prix fixe dinners. Simply put, it’s their house, you’re an invited guest and they are importance of every aspect of dining out. Good food Also – Sunchoke Gnocchi-Fennel Cream/Spring happy to have you. makes for a good dinner. Good service, the same.

Pea/Sunchoke Chip/Steelhead Roe/Pea Tendril.

On this night, the featured chefs were Michael Pleasing atmosphere, gracious host, etc....ditto. All of Barrerra and Calnin took gnocchi and sunchokes Barerra of Townhouse in Birmingham and Brennan those things come together and what started as and made a dish that tasted like spring. How that Calnin of soon-to-open Townhouse in Detroit. Hoping eating out became an experience that was was possible, I’ll never know. I honestly can’t speak for a June start, the Detroit location will seat 300 unforgettable. Isn’t that why we (the noble men and to how the ingredients or preparation came together people in a greenhouse-like structure giving the women of the restaurant industry) do this though? To to make what I described as Unicorn Stew, but once sensation of al-fresco dining year round. Owner provide that one experience that is the benchmark for again, I hope to see this on one of Townhouses’ Jeremy Sasson opened the first Townhouse in all others? menus (without the roe; overkill in my opinion).

Birmingham in 2011 and has recently brought on I don’t know if Revolver would be the same And – Halibut en Papillote-Halibut//Saffron Barerra and Calnin as executive chefs. Both have had without Barrerra and Calnin or vice versa, but I do Butter/Moraccon Olive/Caper/Tomato/Purple great success prior to this, with Barerra at Streetside know that the three together provided the best total Potato/Lemon/Thyme.

Seafood for several years and Calnin having opened dining experience I have had in Michigan ever. Yes, This dish came out with the paper cut and the the Mexican-inspired Imperial in Royal Oak. I was ever. And though accolades don’t come easy from me, smell of saffron butter pouring out which told me I anxious to see what would come of this duo and when they are earned I am happy to hand them out. didn’t even need to eat it to love it. Once again, great pretty certain that it would entail more than seafood Go to Revolver. Go to Townhouse in Birmingham. Go ingredients in simple forms combining salt, acid and tacos. Thankfully, I was correct. to Townhouse in Detroit. See for yourself. And if you cream that allows for each ingredient to belt out a Here are all six courses as listed on the menu by agree, for Pete’s sake, say something nice, would ya? lyric before handing the mic over to the next. It didn’t them and broken down by yours truly: even matter that my halibut was mostly raw in the Revolver, 9737 Joseph Campau, Hamtramck 48212. middle, I ate the whole thing, stopping short of only First – Red beet puree/Smoked Golden Beet/Lemon 313.757.3093. Dinners are usually Friday and Saturdays the paper which I seriously considered.

Confit Turnip/Caramelized Carrot/Green Top only with two seatings at 6 and 9 p.m. Visit their website Chimichurri. (revolverhamtramck.com) for upcoming chefs, menus and Then – Smoked Lamb Shank/Cucumber There are a couple things about this dish that pricing. This is a BYOB establishment. Reservations are Riata/Amba/Pomegranite Rellish/Pita. paid for at the time of booking. Tips are not included in make it amazing. First, the product. Much of the Inspired by a recent trip to New York, this dish the price of dinner, but are appreciated and well worth produce used that night (all of it in the first dish) was was the one I saw on the menu that didn’t garner too it. Townhouse (Birmingham), 180 Pierce Street, lovingly grown by Michelle Lutz of Recovery Park in much excitement. Partially because I despise lamb Birmingham 48009. Lunch and dinner, Monday – Friday, Detroit (look her up, she’s the epitome of what is good (don’t crucify me; I appreciate it, just never wish to 11 a.m.- 2 a.m.; Breakfast, lunch and dinner, Saturday – and right about food and Detroit). Second, the eat it) and partially because it seemed a little Sunday, 9 a.m. - 2 a.m. Reservations. Street and preparation. As the Poster Child of Simplicity, I can’t boring...like a deconstructed gyro. After hearing structure parking. Townhouse (Detroit) is slated to open in say how excited I was that Barrerra and Calnin chose Calnon describe the Cucumber Riata (think Tzatziki to let the product do the talking and implemented with mint), I was excited about at least enjoying that. late June and is located at One Detroit Center, 500 Woodward Avenue, Detroit. cooking methods that brought together what was Long story short, all of the components came out perfection to start. And though I could use the word Family Style and we were instructed to build our pita J. March has 25 years experience in the restaurant simple, I find that this skill set is one most chefs are industry in southeast Michigan, including certification as a (one of few complaints of the night as they were lacking. Less is more. Period. Lastly, incorporating the sommelier. If you have short restaurant items for our super dry). My non-lamb loving dining partner greens for the chimchurri...good stuff. Waste not, want dropped a Flintstone size lamb shank on my plate Quick Bites section, e-mail to QuickBites@downtownpublications.com. and watched me (smirk and all) take a bite. Without not.

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reservations. 8143 Commerce Road, Commerce Township, 48382.

248.363.3388.

Uptown Grill: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor.

3100 W. Maple Road, Commerce Township, 48382. 248.960.3344.

Village Bar and Kitchen: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 525 N. Main Street, Milford, 48381.

248.529.3859.

Village Grill: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

1243 N. Commerce Road, Commerce Township, 48382. 248.366.3290.

Volare Risorante: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 48992 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, 48393.

248.960.7771.

VR Famous Fried Chicken: American, Cajun. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 47520 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, 48393. 248.926.6620.

White Palace: Mediterranean. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 6123 Haggerty Restaurant, West Bloomfield, 48322. 248.313.9656.

Wilson’s Pub n Grill: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

2256 Union Lake Road, Commerce Township, 48382. 248.363.1849.

Wixom Station Food and Drink: American Contemporary. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 49115 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, 48393. 248.859.2882.

Wonton Palace: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 5562 Cooley Lake Road, Waterford, 48327.

248.683.5073.

Woody’s Café: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

235 N. Pontiac Trail, Walled Lake, 48390. 248.624.4379.

North Oakland Clarkston Union: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 54 S. Main St., Clarkston, 48346.

248.620.6100.

Holly Hotel: American. Afternoon Tea, Monday – Saturday, Brunch, Sunday, Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 110 Battle Alley, Holly, 48442.

248.634.5208.

Kruse's Deer Lake Inn: Seafood. Lunch & dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 7504 Dixie Highway, Clarkston, 48346.

248.795.2077.

Via Bologna: Italian. Dinner daily. No reservations. Liquor. 7071 Dixie Highway, Clarkston. 48346. 248.620.8500.

Union Woodshop: BBQ. Dinner, Monday – Friday, Lunch & Dinner, Saturday – Sunday. No reservations. Liquor. 18 S. Main St., Clarkston, 48346.

248.625.5660

West Bloomfield/Southfield Bacco: Italian. Lunch, Monday-Friday.

Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 29410 Northwestern Highway, Southfield, 48034. 248.356.6600.

Beans and Cornbread: Southern. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor.

29508 Northwestern Highway, Southfield, 48034. 248.208.1680.

Bigalora: Italian. Weekend Brunch. Lunch, Monday-Friday. Dinner, daily. No Reservations. Liquor. 29110 Franklin Road, Southfield, 48034.

Maria’s Restaurant: Italian. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 2080 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, 48323.

248.851.2500.

The Bombay Grille: Indian. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. 29200 Orchard Lake Rd, Farmington Hills, 48334. 248.626.2982.

The Fiddler: Russian. Sunday Brunch.

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Dinner, Thursday-Sunday. Reservations.

Liquor. 6676 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield Township, 48322.

248.851.8782.

The Lark: American. Dinner, TuesdaySaturday. Reservations. Liquor. 6430 Farmington Rd, West Bloomfield Township, 48322. 248.661.4466.

Mene Sushi: Japanese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Beer & Wine.

6239 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield Township, 48322. 248.538.7081.

Meriwether’s: Seafood. Lunch, MondaySaturday. Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 25485 Telegraph Rd, Southfield, 48034. 248.358.1310.

Pickles & Rye: Deli. Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 6724 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield Township, 48322. 248.737.3890.

Prime29 Steakhouse: Steak & Seafood.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 6545 Orchard Lake Rd., West Bloomfield, 48322. 248.737.7463.

Redcoat Tavern: American. Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday. No reservations. Liquor. 6745 Orchard Lake Rd., West Bloomfield Township, 48322.

248.865.0500.

Shangri-La: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. Orchard Mall Shopping Center, 6407 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield Township, 48322.

248.626.8585.

Sposita’s Ristorante: Italian. Friday Lunch. Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 33210 W. Fourteen Mile Rd., West Bloomfield Township, 48322. 248.

538.8954.

Stage Deli: Deli. Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

6873 Orchard Lake Rd., West Bloomfield Township, 48322.

248.855.6622.

Sweet Lorraine’s Café & Bar: American.

Weekend Breakfast. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 29101 Greenfield Rd., Southfield, 48076.

248.559.5985.

Yotsuba: Japanese. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 7365 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield, 48322.

248.737.8282.

Birmingham/Bloomfield 220: American. Lunch & Dinner, MondaySaturday. Reservations. Liquor. 220 E. Merrill Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.646.2220.

Andiamo: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 6676 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, 48301.

248.865.9300.

Bagger Dave's Legendary Burger Tavern: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 6608 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, 48301.

248.792.3579.

Beau's: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

No reservations. Liquor. 4108 W. Maple, Bloomfield Hills, 48301.

248.626.2630.

Bella Piatti: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, Tuesday-Saturday. Reservations. Liquor.

167 Townsend Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.494.7110.

Big Rock Chophouse: American. Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 245 South Eton Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.647.7774.

Bill's: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, Daily. Reservations, lunch only.

Liquor. 39556 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, 48304.

248.646.9000.

Bistro Joe’s Kitchen: Global. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Sunday brunch. Liquor.

Reservations. 34244 Woodward Ave., Birmingham, 48009. 248.594.0984.

Café ML: New American. Dinner, daily.

Liquor. Call ahead. 3607 W. Maple Road, Bloomfield Township.

248.642.4000.

Cafe Via: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 310 East Maple Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.644.8800.

Cameron’s Steakhouse: American.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 115 Willits Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.723.1700.

Churchill's Bistro & Cigar Bar: Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

116 S. Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.647.4555.

Eddie Merlot's: Steak & seafood. Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 37000 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, 48304. 248.712.4095.

Elie’s Mediterranean Cuisine: Mediterranean. Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday. No reservations.

Liquor. 263 Pierce Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.647.2420.

Flemings Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar: American. Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 323 N. Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.723.0134.

Griffin Claw Brewing Company: American.

Dinner, Tuesday-Friday, Lunch & Dinner, Saturday and Sunday. No Reservations.

Liquor. 575 S. Eton Street, Birmingham.

248.712.4050.

Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse: American.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 201 S. Old Woodward, Birmingham, 48009.

248.594.4369.

Luxe Bar & Grill: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily; Late Night, 9 p.m.-closing.

No reservations. Liquor. 525 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham, 48009.

248.792.6051.

MEX Mexican Bistro & Tequila Bar: Mexican. Lunch, Monday-Friday, Dinner, daily. Liquor. 6675 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, 48301.

248.723.0800.

Mitchell’s Fish Market: Seafood. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 117 Willits Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.646.3663.

Peabody’s: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 34965 Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.644.5222.

Phoenicia: Middle Eastern. Lunch, Monday-Friday; Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 588 South Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.644.3122.

Roadside B & G: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

1727 S. Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48302. 248.858.7270.

Salvatore Scallopini: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Beer & Wine. 505 North Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.644.8977.

Social Kitchen & Bar: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations, parties of 5 or more. Liquor. 225 E. Maple Road, Birmingham, 48009. 248.594.4200.

Streetside Seafood: Seafood. Lunch, Monday-Friday; Dinner, daily.

Reservations, Lunch only. Liquor. 273 Pierce Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.645.9123.

Tallulah Wine Bar and Bistro: American.

Dinner. Monday-Saturday. Sunday brunch. Reservations. Liquor. 55 S. Bates Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.731.7066.

The Bird & The Bread: Brasserie. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 210 S. Old Woodard, Birmingham, 48009.

248.203.6600.

The Franklin Grill: American. Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 32760 Franklin Rd, Franklin, 48025. 248.865.6600.

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The Rugby Grille: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 100 Townsend Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.642.5999.

The Stand: Euro-American. Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations. Liquor.

34977 Woodward, Birmingham, 48009. 248.220.4237.

Toast: American. Breakfast & Lunch, daily; Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 203 Pierce Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.258.6278.

Townhouse: American. Brunch, Saturday, Sunday. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 180 Pierce Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.792.5241.

Triple Nickel Restaurant and Bar: American. Dinner daily. Liquor.

Reservations. 555 S. Old Woodward, Birmingham 48009. 248.480.4951.

Royal Oak/Ferndale Ale Mary's: American. Weekend Brunch.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Liquor. 316 South Main St., Royal Oak, 48067. 248.268.1917 Anita’s Kitchen: Middle Eastern. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Beer & Wine. 22651 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, 48220. 248.548.0680.

Andiamo Restaurants: Italian. Lunch, Monday-Friday. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 129 S. Main St., Royal Oak, 48067. 248.582.0999.

Assaggi Bistro: Italian. Lunch, TuesdayFriday. Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday.

Reservations. Liquor. 330 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale, 48220. 248.584.3499.

Bigalora: Italian. Weekend Brunch. Lunch, Monday-Friday. Dinner, daily. No Reservations. Liquor. 711 S. Main Street, Royal Oak, 48067.

Bistro 82: French. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 401 S. Lafayette Ave., Royal Oak, 48067.

248.542.0082.

The Blue Nile: Ethiopian. Dinner, TuesdaySunday. Reservations. Liquor. 545 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale, 48220.

248.547.6699.

Bspot Burgers: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 310 S. Main St., Royal Oak, 48067.

248.268.1621.

Cafe Muse: French. Breakfast & Lunch, daily. Dinner, Tuesday-Saturday.

Reservations. Liquor. 418 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak, 48067.

248.544.4749.

Cork Wine Pub: American. Sunday Brunch. Dinner, Monday-Saturday.

Reservations. Liquor. 23810 Woodward Ave., Pleasant Ridge, 48069.

248.544.2675.

D’Amato’s: Italian. Sunday Brunch.

Dinner, Tuesday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 222 Sherman Dr., Royal Oak, 48067. 248.584.7400.

The Fly Trap: Diner. Breakfast & Lunch, daily. Dinner, Monday-Friday. No reservations. 22950 Woodward Ave., 48220. 248.399.5150.

Howe’s Bayou: Cajun. Lunch, MondaySaturday. Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Liquor. 22949 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, 48220. 248.691.7145.

Inn Season Cafe: Vegetarian. Sunday Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, TuesdaySaturday. No reservations. 500 E. Fourth St., Royal Oak, 48067. 248.547.7916.

Inyo Restaurant Lounge: Asian Fusion.

Weekend Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

No reservations. Liquor. 22871 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, 48220.

248.543.9500.

KouZina: Greek. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 121 N. Main St., Royal Oak, 48067. 248.629.6500.

Lily’s Seafood: Seafood. Weekend Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No

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248.591.5459.

Local Kitchen and Bar: American.

Weekend Brunch. Lunch, Monday-Friday.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 344 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale, 48220.

248.291.5650.

Lockhart’s BBQ: Barbeque. Sunday Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, MondaySaturday. No reservations. Liquor. 202 E. Third St., Royal Oak, 48067.

248.584.4227.

Oak City Grille: American. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 212 W. 6th St, Royal Oak, 48067. 248.556.0947.

One-Eyed Betty: American. Weekend Breakfast. Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Liquor. 175 W. Troy St., Ferndale, 48220. 248.808.6633.

Pronto!: American. Weekend Brunch.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Liquor. 608 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak, 48067. 248.544.7900.

Public House: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 241 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale, 48220.

248.850.7420.

Redcoat Tavern: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

31542 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak, 48073. 248.549.0300.

Ronin: Japanese. Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 326 W. 4th St., Royal Oak, 48067. 248.546.0888.

Royal Oak Brewery: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

215 E. 4th St., Royal Oak, 48067.

248.544.1141.

Toast, A Breakfast and Lunch Joint: American. Breakfast & Lunch, daily. No reservations. 23144 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, 48220. 248.398.0444.

Tom’s Oyster Bar: Seafood. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 318 S. Main St., Royal Oak, 48067.

248.541.1186.

Torino: American. Dinner, WednesdaySaturday. Reservations. Liquor. 201 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale, 48220.

248.247.1370.

Town Tavern: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 116 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak, 48067.

248.544.7300/ Trattoria Da Luigi: Italian. Dinner, TuesdaySunday. Reservations. Liquor. 415 S, Washington Ave., Royal Oak, 48067.

248.542.4444.

Vinsetta Garage: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

27799 Woodward Ave., Berkley, 48072.

248.548.7711.

Troy/Rochester Brookshire: American. Breakfast, daily.

Weekend Brunch. Lunch, Monday-Friday.

Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Liquor.

Reservations. Liquor. Royal Park Hotel, 600 E. University Dr., Rochester, 48307.

248.453.8732.

Bspot Burgers: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 176 N. Adams Rd, Rochester Hills, 48309.

248.218.6001.

Capital Grille: Steak & Seafood. Lunch, Monday-Saturday. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 2800 West Big Beaver Rd., Somerset Collection, Troy, 48084. 248.649.5300.

Cafe Sushi: Pan-Asian. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 1933 W. Maple Rd, Troy, 48084. 248.280.1831.

Ganbei Chinese Restaurant and Bar: Chinese. Lunch, Monday-Saturday.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 227 S. Main St, Rochester, 48307.

248.266.6687.

O’Connor’s Irish Public House: Irish.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations.

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Liquor. 324 S. Main St., Rochester, 48307. 248.608.2537.

Kona Grille: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 30 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, 48083.

248.619.9060.

Kruse & Muer on Main: American. Sunday Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 327 S. Main St., Rochester, 48307. 248.652.9400.

Lakes: Seafood. Lunch, Monday-Friday.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 5500 Crooks Rd., Troy, 48098.

248.646.7900.

McCormick & Schmick’s: Steak & Seafood. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. Somerset Collection, 2850 Coolidge Hwy, Troy, 48084. 248.637.6400.

The Meeting House: American. Weekend Brunch. Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday. No reservations. Liquor. 301 S. Main St, Rochester, 48307. 248.759.4825.

Miguel’s Cantina: Mexican. Lunch, Monday-Friday. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 870 S. Rochester Rd, Rochester Hills, 48307.

248.453.5371.

Mon Jin Lau: Asian. Lunch, MondayFriday. Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 1515 E. Maple Rd, Troy, 48083.

248.689.2332.

Morton’s, The Steakhouse: Steak & Seafood. Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 888 W. Big Beaver Rd, Troy, 48084. 248.404.9845.

NM Café: American. Lunch, MondaySaturday. Reservations. Liquor. 2705 W. Big Beaver Rd, Troy, 48084.

248.816.3424.

Oceania Inn: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. The Village of Rochester Hills, 3176 Walton Blvd, Rochester Hills, 48309. 248.375.9200.

Ocean Prime: Steak & Seafood. Lunch, Monday-Friday. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 2915 Coolidge Hwy., Troy, 48084. 248.458.0500.

Orchid Café: Thai. Lunch, Monday-Friday.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. 3303 Rochester Rd., Troy, 48085.

248.524.1944.

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor.

Somerset Collection, 2801 W. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, 48084.

248.816.8000.

Rochester Chop House: Steak & Seafood.

Lunch, Monday-Friday. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 306 S. Main St., Rochester, 48307. 248.651.2266.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House: Steak & Seafood. Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 755 W. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, 48084. 248.269.8424.

Silver Spoon: Italian. Dinner, MondaySaturday. Reservations. Liquor. 6830 N. Rochester Rd., Rochester, 48306.

248.652.4500.

Steelhouse Tavern: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 1129 E. Long Lake Rd., Troy, 48085.

248.817.2980.

Tre Monti Ristorante: Italian. Lunch, Thursdays. Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday.

Reservations. Liquor. 1695 E. Big Beaver Road, Troy, 48083. 248.680.1100.

Detroit Angelina Italian Bistro: Italian. Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday. Reservations. Liquor.

1565 Broadway St., Detroit, 48226.

313.962.1355.

Antietam: French. Dinner, MondaySaturday. Reservations. Liquor. 1428 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, 48207.

313.782.4378.

Bucharest Grill: Middle Eastern. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

2040 Park Ave., Detroit, 48226.

313.965.3111.

Cliff Bell’s: American. Sunday Brunch.

Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday. Reservations.

Liquor. 2030 Park Ave., Detroit, 48226.

313.961.2543.

Coach Insignia: Steak & Seafood. Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations. Liquor.

100 Renaissance Center, Detroit, 48243. 313.567.2622.

Craft Work: American. Sunday Brunch.

Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 8047 Agnes St., Detroit, 48214.

313.469.0976.

Cuisine: French. Dinner, Tuesday-Saturday.

Reservations. Liquor. 670 Lothrop Rd., Detroit, 48202. 313.872.5110.

The Detroit Seafood Market: Seafood.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 1435 Randolph St., Detroit, 48226. 313.962.4180.

El Barzon: Mexican. Lunch, TuesdayFriday. Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday.

Reservations. Liquor. 3710 Junction St., Detroit, 48210. 313.894.2070.

Fishbone’s Rhythm Kitchen Café: Cajun.

Breakfast, daily. Sunday Brunch. Lunch, Monday-Saturday. Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 400 Monroe Street, Detroit, 48226. 313.965.4600.

Giovanni’s Ristorante: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, Tuesday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 330 S. Oakwood Blvd., Detroit, 48217. 313.841.0122.

Green Dot Stables: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

2200 W. Lafayette, Detroit, 48216.

313.962.5588.

The Grille Midtown: Steak & Seafood.

Sunday Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

No reservations. Liquor. 3919 Woodward Ave., Detroit, 48201. 313.832.0892.

Jefferson House: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 2 Washington Blvd., Detroit, 48226. 313.782.4318.

Joe Muer Seafood: Seafood. Lunch, Monday- Friday, Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 400 Renaissance Center, Detroit, 48243. 313.567.6837.

Johnny Noodle King: Japanese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

2601 W. Fort St., Detroit, 48216.

313.309.7946.

Maccabees at Midtown: American.

Sunday Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, Tuesday-Saturday. Reservations. Liquor.

5057 Woodward Ave., Detroit, 48202.

313.831.9311.

Mario’s: Italian. Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 4222 2nd Ave., Detroit, 48201. 313.832.1616.

Midtown Shangri-la: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 4710 Cass Ave., Detroit, 48201.

313.974.7669.

Motor City Brewing Works: American.

Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Beer & Wine. 470 W. Canfield St., Detroit, 48201. 313.832.2700.

1917 American Bistro: American. Sunday Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, MondaySaturday. Reservations. Liquor. 19416 Livernois Ave., Detroit, 48221.

313.863.1917.

Prism: Steak & Seafood. Dinner, TuesdaySaturday. Reservations. Liquor. 555 E. Lafayette St, Detroit, 48226.

313.309.2499.

Red Smoke Barbeque: Barbeque. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor.

Trappers Alley Shopping Center, 573 Monroe Ave., Detroit, 48226.

313.962.2100.

Roma Café: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations. Liquor.

3401 Riopelle St., Detroit, 48207.

313.831.5940.

Russell Street Deli: Deli. Breakfast &

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Lunch, Monday-Saturday. No reservations. 2465 Russell St, Detroit, 48207. 313.567.2900.

Santorini Estiatorio: Greek. Lunch & Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday. Reservations.

Liquor. 501 Monroe Ave, Detroit, 48226. 313.962.9366.

Selden Standard: American. Weekend Brunch. Lunch, Monday-Friday. Dinner, daily. Liquor. Reservations. 3921 Second Ave., Detroit, 48201. 313.438.5055.

Sinbad’s: Seafood. Sunday Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor.

100 St Clair St., Detroit, 48214.

313.822.8000.

Slows Bar BQ: Barbeque. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 2138 Michigan Ave, Detroit, 48216.

313.962.9828.

Small Plates Detroit: American. Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 1521 Broadway St., Detroit, 48226. 313.963.0702.

St. CeCe’s Pub: American. Sunday Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, MondaySaturday. No reservations. Liquor. 1426 Bagley Ave., Detroit, 48216.

313.962.2121.

Tap at MGM Grand: American. Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

Liquor. 1777 Third Street, Detroit, 48226. 313.465.1234.

Taqueria Nuestra Familia: Mexican.

Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 7620 Vernor Hwy., Detroit, 48209. 313.842.5668.

Tom’s Oyster Bar: Seafood. Lunch, Monday-Friday. Dinner, MondaySaturday. Reservations. Liquor. 519 East Jefferson Ave., Detroit, 48226.

313.964.4010.

Top of the Pontch: American. Dinner, Tuesday-Saturday. Reservation. Liquor. 2 Washington Blvd, Detroit, 48226.

313.782.4313.

Traffic Jam & Snug: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

511 W. Canfield, Detroit, 48201.

313.831.9470.

24grille: American. Sunday Brunch. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit, 1114 Washington Blvd, Detroit, 48226.

313.964.3821.

Union Street: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 4145 Woodward Ave, Detroit, 48201.

313.831.3965.

Vince’s: Italian. Lunch, Tuesday-Friday.

Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday. Reservations.

Liquor. 1341 Springwells St., Detroit, 48209. 313.842.4857.

Vivio’s Food & Spirits: American. Saturday Breakfast. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 2460 Market St., Detroit, 48207. 313.393.1711.

The Whitney: American. Breakfast, Lunch, & High Tea, Monday-Friday. Sunday Brunch. Dinner, daily. Liquor.

Reservations. 4421 Woodward Ave, Detroit, 48201. 313.832.5700.

Wolfgang Puck Pizzeria and Cucina: Italian. Dinner, Wednesday-Sunday.

Reservations. Liquor. 1777 Third St, Detroit, 48226. 313.465.1646.

Wolfgang Puck Steak: Steak & Seafood.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 1777 Third St, Detroit, 48226.

313.465.1411.

Wright & Co.: American. Dinner, MondaySaturday. No reservations. Liquor. 1500 Woodward Ave Second Floor, Detroit, 48226. 313.962.7711.

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Sales tax increase should be rejected ichigan lawmakers failed last year to pass a bill to adequately fund the state’s crumbling roads and decided to forego their duty and slap together a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that voters will decide on May 5. In simple terms, the proposal would authorize the state’s sales tax, now at six percent, to be as high as seven percent, and increase the state use tax from six to seven percent, along with a host of other revenue increases to be paid by state residents. For a variety of reasons, we are urging our readers to vote NO on what is known as Proposal 15-1 on the ballot.

As some background on this proposal, Michigan roads, which everyone concedes are in terrible shape, rely for the most part on state general fund monies allocated each year. This ballot proposal would now shift all road funding in the state to the state sales tax and any wholesale taxes on fuel.

At the same time, the proposal would eliminate the sales tax at the pump, which prior to now has been allocated to education and local government revenue sharing. To replace these funds, education and local revenue sharing would be shifted to sales tax revenues, along with the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit for lower income residents, which was cut severely when the current administration doled out tax cuts to the business community in the governor’s last term. The sales tax at the pump would be replaced with a substantially increased wholesale tax on fuel.

In addition to authorizing a state sales tax as high as seven percent and raising the use tax to seven percent, there are several other revenue

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increases, including the elimination of the annual decreases in vehicle registration costs tied to vehicle depreciation, increased registration fees for electric and recreational vehicles, continued application of the state sales tax on marine fuel and fuel for industrial vehicles.

Our first objection to this proposal has to do with the historical precedent set in the state of Michigan many decades ago of dictating earmarked funding for special issues through the use of constitutional amendments.

Rather than deciding how to fund the government based on existing revenues balanced against prioritized actual needs, Michigan is one of the few states in the country that constitutionally binds the legislature on how to spend state revenues, which means if circumstances change in future years, there is nothing lawmakers can do to address a shifting landscape. Further, by adding even more restrictions to the Michigan Constitution, voters are forced to come back to the ballot to make any changes in the future.

So thanks to the failure of leadership in Lansing to address the roads issue through legislation, voters are now facing a complicated ballot proposal, at a cost of $10 million for the election, which will change the constitution and activate 10 pieces of legislation tie-barred to this ballot issue that have already been approved.

Our second major objection is that we find the ballot language for the proposal to be a bit dishonest. Specifically, the ballot states that it would “eliminate sales and use taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, allow an increase in the sales tax rate, dedicate revenue for school aid and revise eligible school aid uses.” While the elimination of

the sales tax on gas at the pump sounds nice, the ballot doesn’t acknowledge that the tax on gas at the wholesale level will be increased considerably higher. By most estimates, the wholesale tax increase will be passed on to consumers at a minimum of a 10-cent per gallon increase in the cost of gasoline at today’s price of a gallon.

Voters should also realize that while the proposed tax hike would generate about $2 billion per year in additional revenue, there would be little overall impact to money made available for road funds in the early going. In fact, a Michigan House fiscal analysis of the proposal estimates only $367.8 million for distribution to state and local road agencies through the Michigan Transportation Fund in fiscal year 2015-16, with an additional $865.3 million used to pay down the State Trunkline Fund debt. About $763.6 million would be distributed to road agencies in 2016-17, and $1.3 billion in 2017-18. All of this would also free up at least $300 million dollars from current road funding, which would be returned to the state’s general fund, not often mentioned by the folks in Lansing.

And then there is our objection to the politics that played into how this proposal was written so that the special interests in the state would get behind this constitutional change because they will all receive a substantial bump in annual funds if passed.

Lastly, we reject the faulty logic by some supporters of this constitutional sales tax increase that this is the best proposal we can expect out of state lawmakers. Voters should reject it and tell state leaders to go back and address the issue of roads through legislation, not a constitutional change.

Safeguarding environmental features he loss of about two dozen trees last month that had been painstakingly preserved along Martin Parkway highlights the necessity for Commerce Township officials to put in place better protections of natural resources at risk of being destroyed by developers or contractors working in the township.

The trees, a variety of pines that had an average height of about 20-feet tall, had been carefully transplanted from the former golf courses where Martin Parkway and the township's Downtown Development Authority's (DDA) project area is located, and painstakingly maintained during its development. Many suffered through irrigation issues, and the difficulties of being uprooted and transplanted not once, but twice, as they were returned to a permanent home once the DDA master development plan was completed.

The trees were strategically planted along the roadway to maintain the area's natural features, and to provide a sort of veil against future development planned for the area. It's just one example of the long-term vision for the area, now referred to as Commerce Towne Place.

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That original vision is still maintained by the township's planning commission, which reviews site plans for developments going into the DDA area and other parts of the township. Natural features, such as woodlands and wetlands, are often specifically noted in site plans by the time they gain final approval from the township. That was also the case when the Granger Group, of Wyoming, Michigan, was approved to build a senior facility on land on the south side of Martin Parkway. In April, Granger hired a third party contractor to prepare the land. However, Granger officials apparently did not oversee the process.

As a result, dozens of mature trees, the ones DDA officials had carefully transplanted and nurtured, were inadvertently clear cut along the southern portion of Martin Parkway and Oakley Park Road. Apparently, DDA officials said, the third-party contractor hired by Granger was unable to properly read a map or site plan. It was only after a township inspector noticed the slashed trees – after they were cut down and strewn lying on the land – that the mistake was caught.

Officials with the DDA are now working with the Granger Group to replace the trees, at a cost that will no doubt climb into the thousands of dollars. The original cost to transplant the trees was estimated at $250 per tree, which doesn't include the cost to nurse and maintain the trees.

While transplanting trees of the height that were lost can be done, it's costly and difficult work, with no guarantee that the timber will live through the process.

While the Granger Group and its contractors were clearly at fault, we have to ask, where were township ordinance enforcement officers and building officials while this destruction was occurring?

We feel safeguards must be put in place to ensure such mistakes don't happen again in the future. While the township can't guarantee the competency of third-party individuals hired by developers, it can, and must, establish preconstruction reviews or ordinances to make sure inspections are done and complied with prior to a errant mistakes. The township and its residents deserve nothing less.

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