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D I 0 , ch ir- 1 y-offs," Brooks aid.
per on of the Committee, ying Manning re ponded th t it
he w going to "drop bomb" in w bee u e he w now the
wolr I p, howed letter the "li on" betwe n the city and the
committee aid it would end to I w firm t king Postelli' pi ce,
the ttorney gener I king for and he wa "bringing her into
writ of m nd mus, parity" with other dmini tr tive
That mean the ttorney a istants.
general will force the commis- Brook voiced her concern
ion to pre ent "detailed" over the I y-offs of so many
bre kdown of city pe din for people while giving the secretary
the I t fi cal ye r gain t what it a raise for doing what she did
had budgeted for the ye r nd before.
then wh t it projects pending in . Mike Stevens told the com­
it budget for the 1991-92 fiscal missioners the budget was not
ye r, Knowle told the Michigan itemized and expressed his
Citizen. dimay that the employees who
He said the committee wa had been there the longest were
giving the commission three day let go before later, non-resident
to �ide the information employees.
mandated by charter, or the let­
ter would go off to the attorney
general.
Ernestine Brooks of the com­
mittee, asked the commission
wh ther or not the 3% raises of­
fered by Manning to ad­
ministrators was still in the
budget. She was told the raises
were not.
I E COMMUNITY or­
ganizer Charles Cobbs inivited
Commissioner Shannon to "walk
with me through some hella­
cious" neighborhoods after
Shannon had remarked city resi­
dents were satisfied with the
progress made under the Wolf
administration.
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BBNTON HAR 0 - A Ta
Force of the Com unity
Economic Development Cor­
por tion (CEDC), the qu i­
government I rm of Whirlpool
Corp.; h developed pi n for
imp vement to the old' hip-
pin n I.
The can I run from the
mouth of the P w P w River t
the St. Jo eph River, par llel
with M in Street, up to. W ter
Street.
The project w -pre ented by
CEDC taff per on u n Lack­
ey to the PI nning Committee of
the City Commi ion July 10.
A park with w Ikw y dotted
with culpture will run along the
can I, according to drawing
prep red by Abonmarche Ar­
chitect of Benton Harbor. PI n
also include an mpithe ter t
the end 0 nal near Water
Stre nd Hinckley.
ommi ioner Mickey
Yarbrough, teve Wooden nd
John Sams were surprised by the
o repre ented
orc .
te e onin
nd yor Willi Wolf re the
t 0 city repre ent tive on the
C niT orce ccordin to
L c eYe
Wolf" p rticip tion r i e the
que tion of conflict of iatere t
he t nd to benefit fin ncially
from ny improvement to the
can 1.
Wolf' f mily own m rin
property Ion the c n I nd in
19 1 the ity of Benton H rbor
old Wolf an ddition I piece of
property on the c n I for S2,OOO.
The city c' n repurch e the I nd,
but must buy it b c t the p­
prai ed v lue at the time of buy­
b ck. Improvement - pi nned
or real- to the c n I will en­
h nee the value of the property.
L ckey s id there re two
other property owner along the
c nal who h ve imilar de Is with
the city.
L ckey refused to ay how
much had been spent drawing up
A Star
Is Bor"n
By DANNY R. COOKS
COn'lspondenl
KALAMAZOO - After thirteen
years of training and instruction, a
Black female compo er dazzled
Kalamazoo music lovers recently
when the Kalamazoo College Or­
ch tm and Chancel Choir of Allen
Chapel AME Churchjoined forces to
.premiere her creation, "Fo e The
Foolish And Uve."
The June 9th double performance
(first at Allen Chapel and later at
Kalamazoo College) consisted of
Bible verses from the Book of
Proverb set to music and song, ac­
cording to Angela Gray. "It tarted
as a tune I carried around in my head
since the age of even. I had to wait
until I got the skills to write down
what I wanted," he volunteered.
Her passion for music took off in
sixth grade. Attending Parkwood
Upjohn Elementary School, she
began a close relationship with a
b . "Originally: I was suppose to
play cello but the bass looked more
attractive because of its size and be­
cause I enjoyed its deep, melodic
sound."
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"WHILE I FEEL real good
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Angela' flve-ye r goal il to
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BaIT)' Ro ,assistant conduct. •
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'Forsake the Foolish and Live,'
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Angela's talent and achieveme t
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eel Choir quickly grabbed the oppor­
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