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Workman topped all vote-getters with 1,253 votes. Gunaga was second with 1,135 and Robbins was third with 1,121. That left incumbent James Trombley outside looking in.

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Congratulations to our newest City Council members My fellow Riverview residents, fall is finally here in all its colorful glory. Now would be a great time to take a stroll through the woods at Young Patriot’s Park to see the burst of color of the leaves before they fall to ground. Then walk andrew around the Reflection swift Pond enjoying the cool crisp air.

As we do every two years, our residents voted in the Riverview City Council election. There were three open positions with six candidates running. Many residents showed their support by putting out lawn signs for the candidate/s that they supported.

The top three vote-getters were Dean Workman, Rita Gunaga, and David Robbins. Please join me in congratulating them on their success.

Also, A big “thank you” goes out to Councilman James Trombley and Councilman Billy Towle for their years of service.

It’s not a secret that although not on the ballot, the Riverview Landfill expansion was in the forefront of their discussions. All three of these candidates understand the importance of the landfill.

The new Council will be investigating all options available to minimize our reliance on the landfill.

There will be a greater degree of success having the next 25 to 30 years, instead of eight to 10 years to do this important work.

One popular option that has been suggested to replace the $3.5 million dollars we receive from the landfill operations is the closing of the golf course and building homes. This option has several issues.

The first being The Riverview Highlands Golf Course is one of the few municipally owned golf courses that were cash positive in the state of Michigan this past fiscal year. Yes, the golf course was cash positive this past fiscal year because of the commitment of council financing improvements and having the right personnel to make it happen. It was also recently voted the best golf course Downriver. Closing the golf course would remove one of

the more popular reasons people come to Riverview.

The second issue is that if it is true that landfills negatively affects the value of the homes near it, why would you build homes right next to it? And if we waited till the landfill closed to build the homes, where would hundreds of thousands dollars come from until the new subdivision was built and sold.

Another issue is that Coachwood residents paid a premium for a view of the golf course. They would lose that marketing advantage if there new view was that of the backs of the new homes.

On a positive note and contrary to popular belief, the city has been working diligently to maximize return from the land preserve. We have two projects in the works related to the land preserve. When they come to fruition, it will mean millions of dollars over the next 10 years or so. And it doesn’t include taking more trash.

If we get the expansion, that would mean millions more to offset property and road improvement taxes.

On to other business.

Coming up toward the end of the month is our Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony.

The event starts at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 20. This year the festivities include our new Riverview Business Expo, which takes place in the Community Center. This is a Riverview-only business showcase and it offers a chance for local businesses and community members to interact.

We have many fun family activities planned.

There will be kid’s games, toy train rides, carolers, a magician, The Plymouth Fife & Drum Corp, The Riverview Community High School Choir and lots more. Santa Claus will make visit from 4 - 6:45 p.m. to hear what the children want for Christmas.

After the Tree Light Ceremony at 7 p.m. the very popular band “Shakedown” will be in concert till 10 p.m. And something that I am very proud to announce is the fun filled family evening culminates with a fantastic fireworks display.

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“Hey Dad, how come I can’t join the Marines?’

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Library’s are disappearing. Probably because you can Google just about anything or any book on the internet.

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Mom and Pop shops and hardware stores are disappearing. They’re being taken over by the Big Box stores. You know the ones.

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Restaurant meals are available from most stores, they’ll even deliver it to your door, for a price. Times are a-changin, folks.

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With regard to things that may or not fit, you simply pack it up and return by mail.

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Memorial PTC had its Trunk or Treat on Oct. 8. Thank you to our PTC members for their time and efforts in putting this family event together. Also, the memorial community would like to thank our local businesses and the Riverview Police Department for their generous donations: Ruhlig Farms, BJ Wholesale, Apple Charlie’s, and Blocks. Donations included participating in the Trunk or Treat, dozens of donuts, gallons of cider, pumpkins, gift cards for candy purchases, and boxes of apples. Their generosity is overwhelming, and we are thankful for their support.

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Happy Homecoming It has become something of a tradition for Downriver high school students to go to Taylor’s Heritage park for photos before their respective homecoming dances. The park offers a small lake, quaint buildings, a covered bridge and numerous scenic photo backdrops.

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Register reunion story leads to another happy reunion A story in the Riverview Register Former Riverview resident Michael Campbell, now a Las Vegas police Sergeant, newspaper has led to a fun reunion between a posing with his third-grade teacher Cheryl Las Vegas police officer and his Bechard and wife Gina Campbell. They third-grade teacher. are holding an issue of the Riverview The original story about Register, open to a story that prompted the 100th annual summertime their reunion. reunion of the family of a former Riverview resident – Las Vegas police Sgt. Michael Campbell Once he saw her face, he recognized her DAVE GORGON – caught the eye of Riverview immediately.

Riverview resident Pam Soli, who noted the It was the first time they two had seen each Register article mentioned his wife and other since Bechard retired in 2000 after a that her relatives were Armenian.

29-year teaching career. Michael’s family Despite not reading the article completely, had moved to Riverview, where he finished Soli, a retired Rockwood school teacher, elementary school. mailed the newspaper page to friend and Michael called their reunion “awesome.” fellow retired teacher Cheryl Bechard, now “Really, the word ‘awesome’ is tossed living along the Colorado River in western around and used so much that it takes away Arizona. its true meaning,” he said. “This was truly the While reading the article, Bechard (then definition of the word.” known as Mrs. Karolyi and later Ms. Kae) The two reminisced and got caught up recognized Campbell as a former student of on each other’s lives for two hours. She both herself and Soli at Chapman Elementary remembered Michael’s parents – his father School in Rockwood – something Soli herself James, a retired Rockwood police officer had not read in the article. currently staying with the Campbells in Vegas, Gina Campbell, a native of Woodhaven, and his late mother, Ronna, who was involved and her relatives from different parts of the in the PTA. She also taught his sister Ellen country were featured prominently throughout LaBell and brother Sean Camps. the article. Their family travels annually to Bechard told him she had remarried and Michigan for a reunion. Along for this year’s moved with her husband to Arizona. He has gathering at Camp Dearborn in Milford were since passed away. the Campbell’s identical twin daughters Ellie Bechard told the Riverview Register that and Ivy. she remembers Michael in third grade as a Michael and Gina had moved to Las Vegas deep thinker. She said the hot fudge jar was for their careers in 2007. Gina is vice principal really a “regift” of something she received at Lummis Elementary School in Las Vegas, visit. His wife introduced him to Bechard (who he from a visitor from Michigan – the lightwhich is about two hours away from Bechard’s knew as Ms. Kae in third grade) but was still puzzled hearted admission she requires for someone to be a home. After Bechard read the article, she contacted until she removed her COVID-19 protective mask. guest at her home. school Clerk Cynthia Orr to set up an “I paid my dues and everything in appointment with the vice principal Michigan,” Bechard said. “I had a great on Oct. 22. job – a wonderful life. We moved to Bechard, who wanted to reconnect Arizona because of the weather and with her former student, said she everything is very nice. I have lots of wanted to surprise Mrs. Campbell contacts in Michigan and great friends out first and Michael second. She made here, too. It’s a good life.” the two-hour drive to the school All three – the Campbells and Bechard in the morning and met the vice – agreed they would never forget the principal, showing her a copy of a reunion.

Chapman school yearbook and giving “We talked for hours and plan to meet her a jar of Sanders Hot Fudge as a up again soon,” Michael said. “She was gift from Michigan. always such a fun teacher and such a kind.

When Gina saw the photo of sweet-hearted woman. She told me Mrs. her husband in a class photo and Soli (who taught Michael in second and discovered Bechard had been his fourth grade) didn’t even realize the story third-grade teacher, the first surprise was about me when she sent it. So now was accomplished. Bechard had I am texting with Mrs. Soli, too. What a the newspaper article with her and great day. showed it to Gina.

“I owe it all to Gina’s family, the Gina asked Michael to visit the written article and Mrs. Soli and Mrs. Michael Campbell and Cherly Bechard look at photos in an old elementary Bechard remaining friends all these years school. He arrived in uniform, but he school yearbook. did not know the reason behind the later.”

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I have been preaching to the choir, I have also been talking loudly in a very crowded room where no one really hears.

My words matter, my words are meaningless, it all depends on how my PETER ROSE readers see their world.

Riverview I see my stores as Register simply representative of the local and independent business world. I’m proud of my stores, but I am not just all about us. I dedicate myself to being a source of support and cheering for any business, anywhere, in which the owners are there on site, talking to people that trust them and value them.

When guests become purchasers of the day, then consistent customers and proponents for us, we don’t take it lightly or take it for granted.

We say thank you with every single purchase, and the sincerity cannot be faked. The thank you is real, it is felt.

All indie stores feel real gratitude.

And that, right there, is the difference in a single line.

Now, most of my energy on this front has to be kept for my own businesses. But between Love Wyandotte and Love Local, a lot of time, energy and passion have been spent on the greater good.

It is not enough for my stores to do well; the entire community needs to do well for anything sustainable to

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be achieved. So we never stop saying nice things about local businesses here in Wyandotte, and anywhere else we go.

We never stop telling people to think local first.

I feel a true responsibility to be a part of the solution. To be a part of my cities and neighborhoods, and the people that live here. To never disparage anything local in public, nor fail to support with enthusiasm and positive reviews, and recommendations to go there.

I don’t have to do this. Every word I write is time diverted from managing my own stores, and it seems more than ever that time is increasingly scarce, right?

But you know what? In such a fast world, with so much polarization and tension, it is extraordinarily satisfying and rewarding to be nice. It is not hard to do. It does, though, require the mindset to do so.

To always consider where we can go where we’ll be thanked and appreciated, which is, of course, the local and independent stores and restaurants.

We take pictures of meals served.

We say nice things about the service, or the uniqueness, or just about anything to be consistently nice.

I have been working to foster more unity and supportiveness for a long time. Four and a half years ago, I was given the opportunity to make my enthusiasm for local businesses public, through the Grosse Ile Grand.

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It is this deliberate strategy to undermine local and replace it with national that galls me, energizes me to keep objecting, keep urging people to not only pay attention and try their best to keep their spending money local, but talk it up as much as possible.

I cannot get my arms around indifference to this serious challenge to the economic health of the region in which people live.

The evident truth seems hard to refute: Those that pay no attention and just use their money only for the immediacy of such spending habits do not see themselves as part of the solution.

It’s not something to criticize; it’s for me to try harder to explain the difference.

I have written a few times about the idea of the disconnect between each person’s lack of awareness about the

power they hold.

If you simply use the “Where’s George” idea, and imagine the $100 bill you spent bouncing around like that in just our Downriver area, being spent over and over again, you get it immediately, if you want to get it.

That money echoes around a lot -or leaves the state. Boom, it’s gone. It is someone else’s now.

The bounce-back from the damage done to local businesses is awesome.

And more people than ever before are telling me why they shop locally. I see all manner of “shop local” messages, and I know that for many, this idea is taking hold in a whole new way.

At the same time, Amazon continues to flourish. People can’t WAIT to click and have it arrive at their door, having avoided any engagement in keeping Downriver strong, vibrant and healthy.

We’re in the time of “the proof is in the pudding.” There are two months until 2022. It’s showtime for retailers and restaurants. Things are feeling solid and bouncy around here – how awesome to be able to say that!

Come eat, drink and shop in this fantastic town!

Thank you to all that are “the choir.” Thanks to all that shop locally, as if it was a cult.

Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Holidays!

City will accept ‘Letters to Santa’ until December 15 Letters to Santa can be dropped off in the Election Box located in the parking lot of the Riverview Police Department starting Sunday, Nov. 2. All letters should be received by Wednesday, Dec. 15.

Have your child address the envelope to Mr. Santa Claus, North Pole. To ensure a response by Christmas please get your letters in early.

Mayor Andy Swift and ‘The First Lady’ have agreed to make sure that all letters get forwarded to Santa in time for a reply before Christmas.

This is open to all Riverview children and those attending the Riverview Community School District.

Have your child(ren) express their

wishes for the upcoming Christmas Holiday.

Parents, make sure to include the child’s name, age, and address, and their school so they can receive a handwritten note from Santa.

All letters received will be put into a drawing for a $50 Gift Card from Serendipity Cakery.

For those who want to get their letters in early, there will be a collection box at The city of Riverview’s Tree Lighting Ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 20th.

Mayor Swift, Darlene Swift, the Riverview City Council and the City of Riverview wish you and your family a safe and Merry Christmas.

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RIVERVIEW REGISTER • november 11 — DECEMBER 12, 2021 • Page 21 CITY OF RIVERVIEW, WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES HELD ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2021 The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m.

Presiding: Mayor Swift Present: Councilmembers Blanchette, Norton, ONeil, Towle, Trombley, Workman Also Present: City Manager Drysdale, Attorney Pentiuk and various department heads Approved Minutes of the Regular September 20, 2021 City Council Meeting, by unanimous vote.

Mayor Swift offered Public Comments.

Approved Consent Agenda by unanimous vote as follows: Approve Special Events Application from “Strides for Adam and Strides for Adam 5K Run” using City Property on March 27, 2022.

Award Bid and Agreement with C & S Construction Management for Replacement Entrance Sign for Young Patriots Park and the Riverview Veterans Memorial Library for $36,300.00, with 5% contingency, and Authorize Engineering Fees with Chares E. Raines Company for $2,200.00.

Approve Budget Amendment as presented: Adopted Resolution Approving an Industrial Facilities Exemption for a New Facility at Ash Stevens LLC by unanimous vote.

At the request of the City Manager and the City Attorney, Proposed Ordinance No. 724, regarding the M2 General Industrial District, was removed from the Agenda.

Authorized the Second Reading, by title only, and Adoption of Proposed Ordinance No. 725, by unanimous vote.

PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 725 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE RIVERVIEW CODE OF ORDINANCES BY THE REPEAL AND RE-ADOPTION OF ARTICLE III, “FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT,” TO UPDATE THE ARTICLE TO COMPLY WITH THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY’S FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY AND STATE LAW

Authorized the Police Department to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Guidance Center and Community Care Services to provide a CoResponder Virtual Mental Health Assistance Program, by unanimous vote.

Authorized Agreement with the Downriver Utility Wastewater Authority (DUWA) for Construction of a Relief Sewer Connection to the DUWA Tunnel, by unanimous vote.

Authorized Solicitation of Bids for Construction of the Huntington Meadows Relief Sewer and DUWA Tunnel Connection Project and for Engineering Fees of $181,034.50 to Charles E. Raines Company for Engineering Services Associated with the Project, by unanimous vote.

Authorized the Second Reading, by title only, and Adoption of Proposed Ordinance No. 724, To Amend the City of Riverview’s Zoning Map to Replace the M-2 General Industrial District with the Public/Semi-Public District to Allow Recreation Uses on Specific Vacant Property East of West Jefferson Avenue, by unanimous vote.

PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 724 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CITY OF RIVERVIEW ZONING ORDINANCE, TO ACCOMPLISH THE REZONING OF A PARCEL OF LAND FROM THE EXISTING M-2 GENERAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT UNDER ARTICLE 7, TO THE PSP PUBLIC/ SEMI-PUBLIC DISTRICT UNDER ARTICLE 4, TO ALLOW FOR RECREATIONAL USES ON SPECIFIC VACANT PROPERTY EAST OF WEST JEFFERSON AVENUE, PER SECTION 2.02 “ADOPTION OF ZONING MAP” AND SECTION 2.03, “INTERPRETATION OF BOUNDARIES”, OF ARTICLE 2 “ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONING DISTRICTS”, ALL BEING PART OF THE RIVERVIEW ZONING ORDINANCE Meeting adjourned at 7:27 p.m. by unanimous vote.

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Authorized the Second Reading, by title only, and Adoption of Proposed Ordinance No. 726, by unanimous vote.

PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 726 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF RIVERVIEW TO AMEND SECTION 66-3 TO RATIFY AND APPROVE TRAFFIC CONTROL ORDER NUMBER 428 Meeting adjourned at 7:55 p.m. by unanimous vote.

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Cynthia M. Hutchison, City Clerk CITY OF RIVERVIEW, WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES HELD ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2021 The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m.

Presiding: Mayor Swift Present: Councilmembers Blanchette (7:08), Norton, ONeil, Towle, Trombley, Workman Excused: Councilmember ONeil Also Present: City Manager Drysdale, Attorney Pentiuk and various department heads Approved Minutes of the Regular October 4, 2021 City Council Meeting, by unanimous vote.

Mayor Swift offered Public Comments.

Approved Consent Agenda by unanimous vote as follows: Authorize Addendum Extending Agreement for Leachate Transportation and Removal with User Oil Company through November 20, 2022.

Authorize Addendum Extending Agreement for Security Services with Eagle Security, at current pricing, for one (1) Additional year through October 18, 2022.

Authorized Telecommunications Site License Access Agreement Addendum for Superior Communications, Inc., d/b/a/ Smile FM, for a One-Year Extension Agreement, by unanimous vote.

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WINTER REGISTRATION BEGINS Monday, November 15 for resident and Monday, November 22 for non-residents.

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Create-it Days Ages 8 & Up

If the child is 7 or under a parent/guardian must stay to help, if a parent/guardian wants to participate they must register & pay also. Ages 8 & older a parent does not need to be present.

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Wednesday, November 10 Gratitude Pumpkin 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Bring your list of people, animals and things you are grateful for and create this unique display for your home to have out during Thanksgiving season. In this class we will paint a pumpkin and decorate it with ribbon and words/phrases for which we are most thankful.

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Wednesday, November 17 Chocolate Pretzel Turkey Jar 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Make this cute jar and decorate your table just in time for Thanksgiving. Makes a great gift too! We will melt chocolate, add fall colored sprinkles to assemble in a glass jar to resemble a turkey.

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Wednesday, December 1 Chocolate Bark 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Are you looking for the perfect teacher gift or just to make a tasty treat? In this class we will make a tray of this seasonal favorite, loaded chocolate bark. We will have white and milk chocolate available as well as many toppings such as: Oreos, pretzels, chocolate chips, nuts & sprinkles.

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Rock and Roll never forgets

Downriver author recalls Detroit halcyon days of 60s and 70s PAULA NEUMAN Grtosse Ile Grand

Mick Jagger once called Bob Harris of Southgate “the oldest Rolling Stones fan in America.”

That was 1999 when Harris was 69. Today he’s 91.

He first met the Stones in Detroit during their second tour in 1965. He was then publisher of The Teen News, and he had a photo taken with the band. When he met them 25 years later, he had them autograph the picture.

In the 1970s, he published Extra, another entertainment newspaper. Through that work; through various side gigs promoting bands, singers and concerts; and through his own brand of friendly, bullheaded tenacity, Harris has met a lot of big names over the years.

He sums up his secret to success with six words: “Don’t take no for an answer.”

In 2008, Harris and co-author John Douglas Peters, wrote “Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s” – one of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series.

The book is full of vintage photos – many from Harris’ own collection – of entertainers, and includes disc jockeys, concert venues and descriptions of the way things were. The picture of Harris with the Stones is the book’s cover image. He did a book signing and brought some of his photos to a recent event at McGuckin’s Pub in Taylor, where he hangs out occasionally, regaling younger patrons with his stories.

A great-great-grandfather today, Harris loves to talk about his extraordinary life.

He was born in 1930 and adopted by Jean Harris, who never told him anything about his birth parents. A few years ago, a family friend got a DNA kit for him to help him look for his family roots. Eventually, he found the names of his mother and father, who were from Massachusetts, and five siblings – all deceased.

But why he ended up adopted is still a mystery, he said.

Harris was very young when he moved with his mother from New York City to Chicago. He tells tales of growing up around gangsters, and once getting shot in the leg by a neighborhood gang member. In 1941, when he was 11, he and his mother moved to Detroit.

Shortly thereafter, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

“When the war started, I was sitting in front of a radio,” Harris said. “That’s what you did in those days: You sat on the floor in front of the radio. I said, ‘Man, I’m going into the service to help my country.’”

A few years later, that’s what he did.

Harris quit school – “worst mistake I ever made” – and used the birth certificate of a neighbor’s son who had died to fake being older and get a job at Hudson Motor Car Co. in Detroit. Then he ran away from home and joined the Merchant Marines. He was 14. A year later, he enlisted in the Naval Reserve in Detroit, and almost a year after that, joined the Army and

shipped out to Japan, occupied then by U.S. troops. He was 16 and attached to the 46th Engineer Construction Battalion at an airbase west of Yokohama.

After his military service, he went back to work for Hudson Motor Car. “I went there and the guy said, ‘We’re not hiring.’

But when he found out I was in the service, he gave me

a job,” Harris said. “I was there for about six years.”

In 1949, he married Hope Seftis. He was 19. A few years later when Hudson Car’s finances began to sink, Harris was laid off.

“Then I bounced around from job to job,” he said.

“I was married and had kids. I did everything I could to take care of my family. I worked for a furniture company in the daytime, and cleaned a bar at night after they closed. I had no trade. I never got out of the sixth grade.”

Then he was hired as a salesman for a newspaper

called Panorama. The owner wanted to start a teen publication, and hired Harris to sell advertising for it.

“I started going to all these teen clubs and getting the ads, but he reneged on paying me,” Harris said. “That’s when I started my own. I knew all these people, so I went back and lo and behold they all bought ads from me. I jumped right in. It was the early 1960s, and all the record companies were here then – Capitol, Columbia, RCA. They heard about my paper and started calling me. They started sending me records and photographs and wanting stories on all these artists. I’d go there and interview them.”

With The Teen News and later with Extra, Harris met hundreds of entertainers besides his beloved Rolling Stones. He met Frank Sinatra, the Supremes, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations and Smokey Robinson, just to name a few.

He still loves the Stones, but another favorite celebrity he met is comedian Bob Hope, who used to be a regular headliner at the Michigan State Fair. It was the early 1970s when Harris met him there.

“I had my newspaper Extra then, so I went there and I was late,” Harris said. “I was running up the stairs and I bumped into somebody, said ‘excuse me,’ and kept on going. I met the manager there and Bob Hope was there.”

Harris realized the man he’d bumped into was the star himself. They talked, Extra’s photographer took some shots, and then Harris introduced his wife – there to enjoy the fair – to the comedian.

“I said, ‘Bob, I’ve been promoting you for a long time. My name is Bob and my wife’s name is Hope.’

He laughed about it,” Harris said.

A police car was on hand to take the star back to his hotel after the show, and Harris convinced Hope to get in the back and act like he was being arrested for a photo. The comedian loved it. The two of them were riding together back to the hotel, when Hope said he wanted a hamburger. The police officer stopped at a little restaurant and went in to eat with Harris and Hope.

“All of a sudden the people in the kitchen started coming up to the little serving window, and pretty soon some lady came up and said, ‘I want your autograph.’

The cop said, ‘Hey, he’s eating, don’t come over here.’

So we had lunch and when we were leaving, 10 people went to that booth where we were sitting and took everything – the napkins, the salt shaker – everything.”

Hope was one of the nicest celebrities Harris met.

He also speaks highly of singer Bobby Vinton – “He became a real good friend of mine” – and Academy Award winner Sidney Portier – “He said I’d be welcome to come to his house in the Bahamas.”

“One of the bad people is Redd Foxx,” Harris said.

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Arrangements were made, and Foxx came to town for the event.

“I went to the airport and picked him up,” Harris said. “He had a comedian, Slappy White, traveling with him. We got to the hotel and his rooms weren’t ready. We waited, and then Slappy goes up to the counter and said, ‘Where the hell is our room?’”

A big commotion ensued when people realized Foxx was there, and finally the police were called to disperse the crowd. Foxx and White eventually got their room.

“Redd Foxx had the most terrible attitude through it all,” Harris said.

“He never said a word to anybody. He was very unfriendly, and here we were raising some money for him.”

Harris swore off the music business in the late 1970s after Three Ounces of Love, a rising trio of sisters he was managing, left him abruptly after he got the group a gig in a New York City showcase.

The Commodores performed there, too, and the sisters were wooed by and joined the group’s management team.

The contractual conflict that ensued led to a failed lawsuit. But it was the betrayal of the sisters, of whom he was fond, that stung more than the money he lost.

“Them girls hurt me so bad,” Harris said. “It hurt me so bad that I got out of it.”

Since then, he’s survived colon, prostate and skin cancer. He and his wife divorced. But Harris stays busy and enjoys his life.

In 2012, DuMouchelle Art Galleries

held an auction of some of his rock memorabilia. Some of his collected photos also are on display at the Detroit Historical Museum.

In 2016 at the age of 86 – along with four younger family members and an 84-year-old friend – Harris jumped out of an airplane. Five generations of his family were there to cheer him on.

The skydiving stunt was covered by radio and TV stations as well as print publications.

Living up to his status as the oldest Rolling Stones fan, Harris initially planned to make his skydive into Comerica Park during a Stones concert. He couldn’t get permits.

In 2019, he was invited by the Gary Sinese Foundation’s Soaring Valor organization to attend a three-day reception for veterans at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

“They were sending vets to New Orleans, all expenses paid,” Harris said.

“So I went.”

In 2021, he told a Gary Sinese Foundation writer: “That’s one of the best trips I ever had in my whole entire life. I loved it. They treated us like the president of the United States.”

The foundation recently sent him a gift package that included a photo album of his trip, a Bob Hope DVD and other items. A video of Harris opening the package is featured on the foundation’s website, as well as a story about him.

Harris knows his life has been extraordinary.

“I’ve lived the life of three people,” Harris said. “Right now I’m trying to find a person who will do a documentary or another book with me.”

And he offers this advice: “The first thing is – whatever you do, don’t quit school. I am very sad that I never went to school and got a formal education. The next thing is – if you really want to succeed, don’t take no for an answer.

“And my last words are – rock on!”

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AAUW looking for STEM-related speakers for Spring 2022 event The local American Association of University Women (AAUW), Downriver Branch held its first planning session last month to set the stage for the 2022 STEM SAVVY Symposium annual event, which had been cancelled the last two years because of the COVID pandemic.

The 2022 event is scheduled for Thursday, May 12, 2022, at the Wayne County Community College Downriver campus on Northline Road in Taylor.

The event will host 125 girls from the 19 Downriver middle schools for a day of STEM inspired seminars and activities.

Since 2015, the AAUW WyandotteDownriver group has organized and conducted an annual one-day STEM symposium for middle-school girls from all of the Downriver school districts. The girls come for a day of immersion in STEM related activities presented by inspirational women speakers.

The event is presented without cost to the girls, with all expenses covered through the AAUW organization, individual donations and sponsorships from Downriver merchants and companies. Anyone interested in sponsorship opportunities can reach out to President Barbara Duran at barbduranaauw@gmail.com Now that the date and location are set, the race is on to find six or more

inspiring women speakers who work in the science, technology, engineering or math fields. The STEM committee is looking for dynamic women who love their career and who want to pass their enthusiasm and knowledge along to young girls.

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Buc gridders fall to Allen Park in playoffs Quarterback Preston Thompson, who led Riverview to a 9-0 record and a Huron League title, broke his leg in the season finale against Monroe and missed the playoff game with Allen Park.

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Jacob Shank had 80 rushing yards and a score against Monroe and a 99yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the playoff game against Allen Park.

A great season came to a close for the Riverview football team in the muck and mire and in a driving rain in Allen Park on Sept. 29.

The Pirates fell 28-20 to the Jaguars in the first round of the 2021 Michigan High School Athletic Association state playoffs.

The game was played on probably the worst night of the 2021 season. It rained, and rained hard, throughout the contest and Allen Park’s natural turf field quickly turned into a natural bog

and the conditions affected everything.

Allen Park is set to follow the lead other Downriver schools, including Riverview, and install a new synthetic turf field before next season, and it is safe to say the Pirates will have no trouble saying good-by this dirt and grass nightmare.

Allen Park scored first in the game and led 7-0 before the Bucs responded with a touchdown and a two-point conversion for an 8-7 lead.

Allen Park kicked a field goal in the

second quarter and led 10-8 at halftime.

Riverview regained the lead when it scored on its first possession of the second half, but the 14-10 lead did not last for long as the teams exchanged a flurry of points.

Allen Park scored for a 16-14 lead and then picked off a rare Riverview pass and returned it for another score and a 22-14 lead.

Riverview responded when Jacob Shank took the ensuing kickoff back 99 yards for a touchdown and it was 22-20 heading into the final quarter.

Allen Park got an insurance touchdown and Riverview’s final two possessions died on downs and the game was finished.

Allen Park’s defense, combined with the tough conditions, held Riverview’s usually formidable offense in relative check during this game. The Bucs had just 138 rushing yards. Ben Johnson led the way with 52 yards and a touchdown. Reece Wakeman had 36 yards and a score.

The Bucs were also hindered by the loss of quarterback Preston Thompson, who broke his leg in the regularseason finale against Monroe the week before. Senior Nico Martin stepped in for Thompson and handled the Bucs during the playoff game, He was 5-for10 passing for 76 yards.

The game marked the fourth playoff game between Riverview and Allen Park in the past seven years. Allen Park has won them all.

The loss capped a season that saw the Bucs win nine straight regular season games and the Huron League championship. Riverview beat playoff qualifiers Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central and Milan on back-to-back weeks and beat archrival Grosse Ile for the third straight year.

The win over Grosse Ile was a dominant one as the Bucs threw no passes, had 11 different players carry the ball, rang up 367 rushing yards and won 52-14.

Thompson and Jacob Puma each scored twice and Shank, Wakeman and Devin Sawmiller also each found the end zone.

In the regular season-ending victory over non-league Monroe, Thompson completed six passes for 72 yards and a score and the Bucs rushed for 325 yards and three more touchdowns.

The running attack was a team effort as Wakeman, Shupe, Johnson and Shank shared the load. Wakeman had 73 yards and a touchdown, Shupe had 78 yards, Johnson had 73 yards and a score and Shank had just two carries, but 80 yards and a touchdown.

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Friends make their mark on high school golf Riverview’s Julia Lizak and the state championship trophy she won with her Divine Child teammates

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Two high school golfers who started playing when they were very young have earned medals in the state finals.

Julia Lizak, a senior captain at Divine Child High School in Dearborn, helped the Falcons win the state championship and earned an individual regional title and a spot on the All-State team along the way.

Megan Rogers, a junior captain at Riverview Community High School, was the first female golfer in school history to qualify for the state finals a year ago. This year, she placed in the finals, showing massive improvement from her sophomore year. One of her coaches said she should be one of the players to beat as a 12th-grader.

Lizak is one of three captains -along with sisters Zeinab and Madina Saab -- who joined the Divine Child team as freshmen and led a program that showed continuous improvement, culminating with the Division 2 state title at Battle Creek’s Bedford Valley course. Along with junior Mary Ronayne, the Falcons locked up the first girls golf championship in program history, finishing with a twoday total of 691 – good for a ninestroke win over second place Byron Center.

“It’s kind of unbelievable, but my team worked so hard for this and it’s been our goal since freshman year – and it feels good to finally complete our goal,” Lizak said after the firstplace finish. “We’ve been doing so good this year as a team and we just had a feeling… We came in thinking we could place really well. They’re my best friends and I couldn’t imagine doing it with anyone else. I love them all.”

It was the fourth straight appearance for the DC girls in the state finals.

This year, Lizak cut five strokes from her first-round score to finish with a two-day 157, good for seventh individually. She and her teammates finished fifth as a team the year before, when the finals were cut to one round because of COVID-19 precautions.

She won the regional tournament

played at Pine View in Ypsilanti, overcoming a slow start to shoot 76 out of a team score of 350.

“I told myself, I know how to play this game,” she said, “now go out and have fun and do what you do best. You’re here to win.”

And she did. And the top three teams qualify for the state finals. The Falcons also won the Catholic League championship.

Rogers’ second straight appearance

Julia Lizak and Megan Rogers, both of Riverview, show off the MHSAA regional awards.

Julia plays for Divine Child, Megan for Riverview.

in the state finals came as an individual player. She shot a two-day total of 183 – good for 40th place out of more than 100 players in the finals, also at Bedford Valley.

She also did well at the regional tournament and in the Huron League tournament, finishing among the top six with Grosse Ile golfers holding the

other spots.

Competing as Riverview’s lone golfer in the finals, Rogers admitted she felt “a lot of pressure.”

“Others have their teams to fall back on,” she said. “If I don’t do so well, it’s just me.”

What marked her improvement over last year?

“I just played as much as I could,” said Rogers, whose sister plays at Trenton High School. “I hit balls at the range. Ken (Moore) helped me a lot. We worked on my swing path.

“I just really put in the work.

That’s a huge part of it. If you want to succeed, you have to put the effort in and in time it pays off.”

Both girls also credited their high school coaches and their fathers, along with their teammates.

While Lizak contemplates where to go to college, where she plans to keep playing golf, Rogers is getting ready for high school softball. The two have grade point averages above 3.9 and are honor roll students and multi-time letter winners The girls have been friends pretty much since they started golfing when they were “little kids” in the junior golf program at Riverview Highlands. They loved the game and kept working at it. They work on their fundamentals year-round in the Highlands’ high school program and have improved so much that they are now junior coaches in the program.

Ken Moore, golf pro at Riverview Highlands, said he takes pride in the success of Lizak and Rogers.

The respect goes both ways as Lizak brought Divine Child’s state championship trophy to the golf course to show Moore. The girls also posed for a “selfie” photo when they saw each other at the golf course to send to their mentor.

“I’m thrilled,” he said. “Julia asked for the trophy so she could bring it to show me. That’s the kind of kid she is. She wanted to do that because ‘you had a lot to do with me getting there.’

It made me cry. Megan is the same way.”

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All hail the champs

Riverview boys run to Huron League cross country crown The Riverview boys cross country grabbed control of the Huron League title race early in the season and never, ever let go.

The Bucs capped a league championship season by winning the Huron League meet at Willow Metropark on Oct. 21.

And it wasn’t even close.

The Bucs scored just 32 points and easily outpaced second-place Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central and the rest of the eight-team field. St. Mary CC had 72 points, Monroe Jefferson had 75, Huron had 83, Milan had 134, Grosse Ile had 154, Flat Rock had 164 and Airport had 245.

Led by second-place runner Logan Ruffner, the Bucs placed all five of their scorers among the top 11 runners.

Ruffner was second in 17:14, Sam Polgar was sixth in 17:39, Justin Shupe was seventh in 17:39, Gavin Shelton was 10th in 18:09 and Blake Robinson was 11th in 18:15. So deep with the Bucs that their sixth and seventh runners, Hayden Holmes and Ethan Rucarean, each finished among the top 20 runners in the race.

The win at the league meet capped a season that saw the Pirates win the first Hurin League Jamboree at Milan High School and the second at Sterling State Park. The closest anyone came to the Bucs was 13 points.

Riverview also won the Gabriel Richard Invitational at Young Patriots Park, The Richard meet is the remnant of the old News-Herald Invitational and still acts as a de facto all-area

meet. The Pirates scored 50 points and finished well ahead of runner-up Dearborn, which had 87.

The Bucs also won their division at the Marauder Invitational at Lake Erie Metropark, cruising in with 47 points to beat runner-up Huron by 40 and the rest of the 11-team field by even more.

All of that seasonlong success had the Bucs anticipating big things at the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 2 state regional, hosted by Carlson at Lake Erie Metropark on Oct. 30.

The Pirates performed well at the 14team regional event, but eight measly points kept the team from turning an excellent season into an all-time great one.

Riverview finished the race with

108 points, eight behind third-place Dearborn Divine Child, the final team state-meet qualifier.

Chelsea won the event with 29 points, Adrian had 89, Divine Child had 100 and all three of those teams qualified for the state finals.

The Bucs had to content themselves with two individual state-meet qualifiers.

Ruffner ran 17:46 to finish 11th and Polgar ran 17:50 to finish 12th. Both made the state-meet cut. Shelton was 25th in 18:39, Shupe was 26th in18:40 and Robinson was 34th in 19:12.

Ruffner and Polgar ran in the MHSAA state meet at Michigan International Speedway on Nov. 6.

That race was held after the Riveview Register’s deadline.

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The Huron League champion Riverview boys cross country team won both Huron League Jamborees, the league meet, The Marauder Invitational and the Gabriel Richard Invitational.

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Riverview claims another district soccer title

In the shadow of a Division 3 soccer dynasty, Riverview is quietly building a little empire of its own.

Coach Ben Zolynsky’s Bucs won a Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 2 soccer district title recently, beating Allen Park 5-2 in a championship game played at Southgate Anderson.

The Bucs, who play in the same Huron League as twotime defending Division 3 state champ Grosse Ile, have now won back-to-back district crowns. In addition, the Pirates wrested the Huron League crown away from the Red Devils last year and finished second to them in this year’s league race.

It has been a nice little run and does not appear to be nearing an end as Riverview seems loaded and ready to keep competing. Zolynsky said nearly his whole starting line-up returns next year and building off a 2021 season that saw the Bucs win 15 games, a district title and finish second in the league, the foundation is in place.

Only three players graduate from the 2021 team.

In the district championship game, Riverview grabbed an early lead and never let the Jaguars back into it.

Riverview’s Matthew Wong got the scoring started about 15 minutes into the contest and teammate Denin Oglecevac added a later goal to give the Bucs a 2-0 lead. Allen Park got one back before the half ended and it was 2-1 at halftime.

Oglecevac had a chance to restore the two-goal margin very early in the second half, but Jag goalkeeper Connor Ferkalo made a big save to keep the score 2-1. But no matter, as Riverview converted on two later chances to grab firm control of the contest.

Caden Demers scored both Riverview’s third and fourth goals.

With about 28 minutes

Caleb Litten and the Riverview Pirates won 15 games, finished second in the Huron League and claimed back-to-back MHSAA district title for the first time in school history.

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remaining, he beat a couple of Allen Park defenders and raced in and beat Ferkalo to put Riverview up 3-1. Then with just 3:19 left, Demers found himself alone in front of the Riverview goal and he made no mistake, upping his team’s lead to 4-1.

Never-say-die Allen Park later scored on a penalty kick,

but Oglecevac added the cherry on the top of the victory for the Bucs when he scored his second goal of the game with a minute left to play.

Allen Park had reached the district final by beating Huron 2-0 and Carlson 2-1. Review, which had a first-round district bye, beat Trenton 4-0 to reach the title game.

The Bucs saw the season come to a close in the first round of regionals as they fell to Birmingham Brother Rice 4-2 in a game played at Livonia Clarenceville.

Brother Rice went on to beat Grosse Pointe North 3-2

in overtime in the regional championship game and then beat DeWitt 2-1 in the state semifinals to qualify for the Division 2 state championship game against Grand Rapids Christian. That game was played Nov. 6 after the Riverview Register went to press.

Riverview fell behind Rice, 4-0 in the first half and although the Bucs rallied and won the second half, the hole was too deep to climb out of.

The loss ended a five-game winning streak for the Pirates and left them with a final record of 15-5-1.

Wong broke up the Brother Rice shutout in the 47th minute with a long, loping shot that just eluded the Brother Rice goalie. Wong also assisted on the second Riverview goal with another long shot that found its way to the foot of Jakob Rose, who sent it into the net.

Pioneers run to D4 regional cross country title Let’s hear it for the boys. The Division 2 regional champion Gabriel Richard boys, that is.

Running at the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 4 regional at Chandler Park, the Pioneers, led by individual meet champion Alex Meszaros, raced to the regional championship by scoring 63 points and edging second-place Royal Oak shrine, which had 69 points. Lutheran Westland was third with 98 points. The top three teams in each regional qualify for the state meet as a team.

Meszaros ran 18:02 to lead all runners to the finish line. He beat runner-up Jonah Cerone of Shrine by seven seconds. Cerone ran 18:09.

John Borowicz was eight in 19:20, Johnny Benko was 13th in 19:24, Parker Heggie was 19th in 19:47 and Peter Laskaris was 22nd in 20:01. Gabe Heath and Andreas Laskaris were the team’s sixth and seventh finishers.

The effort was strong enough that if the Pioneers hadn’t qualified as a team, Meszaros, Borowicz,

Benko and Heggie would have qualified for the state finals as individuals.

The state meet was run at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn on Nov. 6, which was after the Riverview Register’s press deadline.

The regional championship was par for the course in a season full of things to celebrate.

The Richard boys were winners early in the season at the Homer Invitational, the Spartan Invitational in Webberville, the first CHSL Jamboree, and later in the season at the Wayne County Invitational for Division 4.

They came in second at CHSL Jamboree No, 2 and No. 3, as well as the CHSL Championship.

Meszaros was first at all four CHSL Jamborees as well as the CHSL Championship.

Along with Meszaros, Borowicz and Parker Heggie were All-Catholic at the CHSL Championship and Johnny Benko was All-League.

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Lifetime warranty frame, seat springs and reclining mechanisms.

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$769

witH free LOCaL deLiVerY

Lifetime warranty frame, seat springs and reclining mechanisms.

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$799

93” W X 41” D X 41” H

IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE FREE DELIVERY POLYESTER UPHOLSTERY

Twin $649 - Full $759 - Queen $799 - King $1099 • Fire Shield® Fiber • Gentle SupportTM Aire • Gentle SupportTM Foam • Hi IFD Foam Topper Gel Active® Gel Memory Foam • Gel Active® Gel Foam 800 Continuous Coil System with Foam Encasement Serta® Support Foam • 10 year warranty

Lane sOfa serVer

$109

Lane sOfa serVer

$79

3025 Biddle Avenue Wyandotte, MI 48192 734-282-2155

Mon & Fri: 9:00am - 8:30 Tues, Wed, Thur & Sat: 9:00am - 5:30pm Closed sunday

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A local family business serving southeast Michigan since 1946

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