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By De horn atkin
HTS. - At if
ond y, September
ular m etin the
Heigh city council
e tabli h comm rcial nd in­
du trial redevelopment dis­
tric for four bu ines e :
Gordon Food Servic , Kent
B verage Co, Inc., and Redeco
Inc. were given public hearing
for commercial requ t and an
indu tri I request for on­
Ferrou Cast Alloy Inc. E ch
firm had a representative
pre nt at the meeting.
Requests for tax abate­
men ar po ible for all four
firm inc each i no in a
redevelopment district.
Durin th que tions-com­
men p riod an audience
member k d Kent B verage
nd R d co official whether
their firm had ny Black
employe. Th official from
Kent Bev rage id his firm
pr ntly has no BI ck; the
Redeco offici 1 aid his firm
doe.
After the meeting had
djourned, ayor Warren
nnonced the avail bility of
hom improvement loans,
belo market intere t rates, to
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JULIUS POOLE'S smile r fleets the r ported enthu-
• m of tudent .t F.lr pl.ln West School, B nton
H.rbor, for. Un ' .... dlng progr.m. Wh.t .re the
t che,.. doing? Wh.t they're doing Is c.uslng .. me
contro r y In the district Prlnclp.1 Judy Johnson, Ph.
D., expl.lns the progr.m from the vie point of •
f ctltlous stud nt on p ges 8 .nd 9. Th story Is .0-
comp.lnedbyphoto of tud nta.tth school. Turn to
p 8 for "Th Girl ho W.nted to A ad".
group decided to
change it name so as
not to be lim ited on ly to
the Heights area. After
sounding out variou
name, the group ten­
tatively adopted "Con­
cerned Citizen for
Com m unity Aff ir tt, a
name ugge ted by a
member in the audi­
ence.
Willard Bowe, storyteller
By Larry Carter
KALAMAZOO
Willard
Bowe is a tory teller . You may
ay 'That' nothing new. We
all tell lie." "Yes," Willard
is quic to dd, "but I get paid
for mine." .
illard came hard into the
storytelling business. He tarted
out as a child, not telling stories,
.. but dreaming, as we all did,
about being a fireman, a cow­
boy, big truck driver. Willard
remembers seeing a civil engineer
peering through a transit and
motioning to workers, first
with his left hand, then with
hi right, and hi teacher remark­
ing, "Every time he waves his
hand. he make a dollar. '
Willard re ponded, "I want
to be like him'. And so he t
hi sights on being a civil engi­
Ili er.
But while attending Miami
orthwestern High School, one
Lcollege prep teacher, in parti­
cular, seemed to resent illard
for his iration . 'She emed
to ant to make it hard for
FACT OR FICTION?
Buying
. .
Real Estate with
no money down
By Ron Leuty
BE TO HARBOR - The
City Commission voted, Septem­
ber 30, to commit S92 000
for the purchase of the Hotel
Vincent.
The Vincent Hotel a
downtown Benton Harbor land­
mark for almost 60 years, will
be bought from the federal
government with a total price
tag of S102,000.
According to ayor WHce
Cooke the city's fund in will
be charged to the developer
of the pr perty wh will buy
the building from the city.
C 0 e ould n t pecify wh
the developer might be, but
aid that the city is looking
at a number of propo als fr m
different developers.
The Vincent became the
focu of attention in late July
and early u ust, when a
Detroit-based developer and th
city unveiled a plan to devel p
the landmark as a hotel and
retail center.
Continued on Page 3
Concerned Citizens organize to act
By D horn Watkin
USKEGO -TheCon-
cerned Citiz en com-
mittee had it fir t
meeting on onday,
Septem b er 30 at M orn­
in Star Bapt. Church,
2031 Riord a n Street.
Originally called the
Concerned Citizen for
u eg0!l Heights, the
me to participate in class to
learn." Willard u ed that ex­
perience later', he recalls to
move through obstacles in his
life.
Upon graduation, Willard en­
rolled at iami Dade Junior
College where he studied civil
engineering for a year and a
half. He left before graduating.
and took a job with the Uni­
versity of iami in animal
husbandry. While there Wil­
lard began to asse his abilities
including taking reading, writing
and personality tests. He a1 0,
during thi time, as e ed his
kinship with God.
"Bird to the air is life and
freedom," he exclaim. 'Fish
to the water i life and freedom.
Being in God, coming from God
man can float like a fish and
sail like a bird. Without God
he becomes distrubed and i as
awkward as a fish is out of
water, or a bird without wings."
It was during this period that
Willard won his first storytelling
Initially, the Cone r -
ned Citizens roup
form d with a p e c if i
purpo in mind,
na m ely t a id in ettin
Ann Allen officially
hired a community
ed u ca tion director.
wh n that purpo e
failed to mat r i liz •
the r up th n d c i d e d
topur uethem tt rby
Continued on Page 3
HEATH' EATCHITTLIH - Kenn hit Is. rn
Ichlg.n entre preneur who Is In on the ground floor of
• m.rtt Ing product h f I will t8ke him to th top.
Tum to P 7.nd wh.t's "A dy to he t, t .nd
nJoy."