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Teen cen er
advisory
. board to meet
The Highland Park Teen
Health Center Advisory Com­
mittee is scheduled to meet on
Tu�y, �ay 9, at 4 p.m. The
meeting will be held in the 7th
Floor Conference Room at
Detroit �eopathic Hospital,
. 12523· Thud Ave. Highland
'Park, ".
� inter ted Highland Park
residents are invited to attend
the meeting.
Members of the Advisory
Co mittee include: Arthur
Blackwell, 3rd District Wayne
County Commissioner; Wanda
Bostic, Public Service Careers,
City of Highland Park; The Rev.
John Ferris, First United
�ethodist Church; Paulette
Fitzhugh, assis�t principal,
Ford School; lW Frazier stu­
dent; Elizabeth Jones, cha�per­
son; Juanita Benson Midds
par�nt; J ohn Stindt, deputy su:
periatendent, Highland Park
Schools; Cynthia Taueg, deputy
health officer, Wayne County
Health Department; Rep, Ethel
Terrell; Clarence Seldon
teacher, Ford School· and
Darius Williams, student'
The Tee!l Center, located
near DOH, IS sponsored bf the
hospital and funded y a
Michigan Department of blic
Health grant. The Center is
open Monday, Wednesday and
Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
and Tuesday and Thursday
fro� 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and
provides general medical ser­
vices and counseling.
For more information on the
Teen Center or the meeting, call
252-4440.
Vote S' 018
HIGHlAND PARK - Four
out of five members of the High­
land Park City Coun . voted to
overturn a veto by Mayor Mar­
tha G. Scott, at the April 4
Council meeting.
Under the current law
Council members serve as th�
city's Board of Review, the body
that determines the tax rate for
�ch piece of property in the
aty.
Their vote to override the
Mayor's veto means that a
resolution would be put on the
'teen center
open Ho se
draws
hundreds
S�yeral hundred teenagers,
families and neighbors visited
the Highland Park Teen Health
Center dur� a recent open
house. 0
The Health Ce er offered
music, ref:resh.ments and prizes,
along With information on
health and the Center's services.
The Teen Cen r is spoil­
sored by Detroit Osteopathic
Hosp· (DOH) dedby
a Michigan Department of
Public Health grant. Located at '
215 Highland next to DOH, the
Teen Health Center is open
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
and Tuesday and Thursday
from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Call
252-4440 for more information.
General medical services in­
clude: sports physicals, blood
and lab tests, ana immuniza­
lions. Pregnancy tests, prenatal
care an� family planning, and
VO testing are also available.
Counseling and education
prol?rams are heavily em­
phasized on topics such as nutri­
lion, personal and family
problems, and substance abuse.
A I rge balloo ttr tedl
vi itors to a recent open
bo at t Highl nd P
Teen Health Center.
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e Up tax boerd question
ballot .to change the city charter Scott's ��o message contained
reducmg the number of council • a few altisisms of Franklin fot
members that sit OIl the Board refusing to attend Board of
of Review.. Revie� �tings.
Councilwoman Christine Scott stated, "Council must
Franklin charged that such perform its responsibility and
power could be used for politi- not allow certain of its members
cal�posestofavorsupporters to atte!Dpt to circumvent a
or friends or cut the taxes of . mechanism designed to provide
council members themselves. our citizens a way to appeal tax
In order to demonstrate her assessment decisions."
point, Franklin refused to at- Attatched to her veto mes­
tend t.his year's meetings sage was a letter from Council­
evaluatmgsuch taxes. men Frank Ross Dwight
Franklin indicated th t she Do es and Come; Heath to
was n?t against having one Franklin, ariticizing her for stay­
council member sit 0 the 108 away from Board of Revie
Board of Review, but con- meetings.
tended the majority of the mem- "We feel that any council per-
bers should be citizens. s?� �hat. choose not to par-
. In her veto message, Scott t1�IP te 10 meetings without
�ld that having ��ote on chang- being e��d by the majority of
mg the ch�ter � unnecessary Co�ncll IS neglecting their,
JDd fiscally irresponsible." . duties as an Elected Official and
She said that in the charter in violation of city charter." the
adopted in 1-968, the voters ap- letter stated ..
�oved th� ide_a of giving the en- However, Ross and Downes
tire ooun� �IS �esponsibility. were reported as voting for the
Fr�m indicated that the resolution to amend the charter,
council was adopted 20 years . Heath had previously state
ago and that voters had voted there should not be' individ
for several changes since them. changes in the charter, but there
. She added that put . g this should be a commission set up
ISSue on �e ballot would not to amend the entire document
cost the CIty extra, if it was was to get rid of all outdated
�dded when fltere was an elec- provisions.
tion on an�ther issue, such as Council later unaminously
the election of new city voted to set up a charter com­
tr�asurer or the August mission for this purpose as well
pnmary. . "This satisfies me," Heath
According to-some sources stated.
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