Loss of traffic
light threatens
seniors
mGHLAND PARK - Mel
vin Wi)]jams, a long time com
munity leader, warned High
land Park Mayor Martha G.
Scott that removal of a traffic
light at Woodward Avenue and
Ford created a danger for
senior citizens trying to cross
the busy intersection to get their
gas bill paid
Since Woodward Avenue isa
state highway, it is the state,
rather than the city that decides
whether or not to have traffic
lights and it was the state's
decision to remove the one at
Woodward and Ford.
At the February 6 City Coun
cil meeting, Williams described
how some seniors had difficulty
getting across the busy street.
He asked Mayor Scott to
post an auxillary police officer
in the Public Safety Department
to help seniors go back and
. forth, particularly on days that
seniors received their social
security check, and they would
be going to the gas company to
pay their bills.
Scott promised she would
100 into it, but a150 suggested
that citizens should go to the
state and protest jhe fact that
the light was taken down m the
. first place.
The slate shouldn't have
done that." she said
Scott compared the stale ac
tion in removing the light with
the decision of Detroit Edison
to remove its office from High
land Park .. -- a decision which
she and many city residents are
actively challenging.
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HIGHLAND' PARK
February is "Black History
Month" and this year it has aka
been designated "National
Community College Month,"
In order to commemorate
the role of community colleges
I in providing education�l and
employment opportunity. to
people of all races, the Highland
Par-k City Council unaminously
voted to join with the Highland
Park Community College
(H.P.C.C.) in commemorating
the occasion and giving honor to
"the community college system
in our state."
The resolution noted that the
local Highland Park Com
munityCo11ege (H.P.C.C.), now
celebrating its 71st year, has
given graduate degrees to
21,000 students and providc:s
education to more than 400 resi
dents a year.
As public input
ness, industryand government", SJgDS.. •• on City's future
"local elementary and high Residents f�1 �at making It HIGHLAND PARK - Want
schools", benefitting the local . a ne way street IS unport�t for t�at:ve a voice in the future
The resolution stated that economy by providing educa- c safety: One �dditional p of your city?
H.P.C.C. offers "a broad array tionalopportunitiesfornewand r ason for this effort IS the fact . The Highland Park City
of educational services, includ- current employees. [that Saint Benedict's Cath�lic Council is holding a special
ing transfer education, one year sehoul, where many city Pi·C hearing 7 p.m. Tuesday
certification and two-year de- children attend, is on that street F ruary 21, 1989, where resi-
gree programs, career prepara- d w. Answering a complaint by a de ts can voice their ideas
tion and basic skills education" ne- ay signs resident, Fred Ferris, Ad- a ut city efforts to get state as-
and represents a "resource for delayed for Church ministrative Assistant to the sis ce in the development of
oommunity services, including S ayor, stated tliat the signs pI nning strate�:s for the
cultural programming, educa- r w re delayed because a mem- . Highland Park co unity.
tional and career counseling, HIGiu . .AND PARK - AI- r of the engineering staff had The city is requesting a grant
specialeventsforseniorcitizens though residents of Church g. n notice. of $25,000 from the Com-
and the entire family. Street �<?t city .council approval He stated the signs would be munities in Transition Project
The resolution added that for getting their street changed p t up by the end of February. of the Michigan partment of
the community college "enjoys a to a one way stree� no action Commerce to . in develop-
special partnership With busi- . was taken for putting up the ing such planning.