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nEn.PWY'l,-..t HAR80 - At the Mon­
day, July 22, Benton arbor City
Commi ion meeting, Commi -
sioner Steve Wooden and erry
Shannon voted g i le ing a
front-end 1 der from Do Id
M hinery Company in Indian for
59,000 or $7 per month for 60
mon .
According to Finance Director
Mic el Vance, the City' Public
Wor Dept needs two front end
I ders to perform duties. but on i
not in workin condition.
Wooden aid Public Work
hould if they could et along
'th the of one front-end loader,
beca e the city could not afford
more debt.
He 'd the city could have ved
some money if they had cut back on
every department before they started
cutting back on the people.
• Anytime you cut budget, you
don't just tart cutting people out of
the budget, you start cutting back on
the departments first"
COMMISSIONER KERRY
Shannon said he also believes that
the city could have cut more from the
budget."J t beca we have some­
thi Ii ted n expenditure in our
new budget, thi doesn't mean we
have to pend that amount of
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went ahead and voted on the city's
budget. "Now since the budget have
passed everybody wants to punish
the taxpayers."
Wysinger said the city does 0 not
have enough equipment to keep the
city clean, trees cut down and keep
the storm drains open.
"WETOOK THE city manager
to the wood shed and we talked to
him back in Au ust and it didn't do
any good," Wy. nger said. "The man
is still running wild like a loose
canon. Until we get some rings on
Steve Manning, we are going to keep
finding ourselves in deep trouble."
Commissioner Ralph Crenshaw,
chairman of the ci ty 's finance com­
mi ttee said the only way to address
By Mary Golliday
Pre-convention evangelistic ser­
vices with street preaching will be
held Thursday and Friday, August
1-2.
Thursday, August 1, at 7 p.m. ser­
vices will be held at the Morning Star
Baptist Church, where Rev. Weens is
the pastor and on Friday, August 2, at
7 p.m. services will be held at the
New Hope Baptist Church, where
Rev. Kerksey is the host pastor .
On Saturday, August 3, at 10:30
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the' ues on the budget' to 'have the
fin nee committee to view e en
dep rtm nt' expenditures.
In other b in t the city com­
mi ion in tructed cting city
manager Dave Lincoln to tal to the
police chief to inform th police
department to enforce the city'
noi e ordinance for people driving
down the treet playing loud music.
Commi ioner Wooden and
Crenshaw id re idents are com­
plaining to them about the noise.
"IT'S A SERIOUS concern,"
id Crenshaw, "We need to make
sure that officers are aware that if any
individual i playing music with
profanity and exually explicit lan­
guage on it, that individual should be
immediately ticketed."
In other matters Commi ioner
Charles Yarbrough suggested ome
guidelines and a date needs to be set
for evaluations of all who work for
the city commission. "We are violat­
ing the City Manager's agreement".
he said.
Mayor Pro-tern Sims and Dave
Lincoln took the place of Mayor
William Wolf and City Manager
Steve Manning who were away on
reserve duty.
Grant Writing
Workshop Set
A Basic Grant Writing Workshop
will be offered by Lake Michigan
College's department of continuing
education from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday, August 21, and 8;30
a.m. to 12 noon Thursday, August 22
in The Mendel Center for Arts and
Technology at LMC's main campus,
2755 E. Napier Avenue. Benton
Township. .
Fee for the course is $250, and
registration must be received by 0
August 14. For more information or
to register. call Sally Schwerha,
director of continuing education at
Lake Michigan College, at (616)
927-3571, or, within Michigan, 1-
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a.m. a parade will be beld.
Sunday, August 4, at 7 p.m. a
musical wi 11 be held by the Mass
Choirs of the General Baptist State
Convention, at Beulah Baptist
Church.
Monday through Friday, August
5-9, the General Baptist State Con­
vention of Michigan will be closing
out with their 65th Annual Session at
the Beulah Baptist Church 2601
Manz St., where the Rev. Willie N.
Paul is the ho t pastor.'
Antonio Nealo wins track meet
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By M ry Golliday
Antonio Neal, 8th grader at Steele
Jr. High School won first place in a
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State Track Competition recently in
Howell, Michigan. He will run in the
semi-finals in Hersley, Penn.
Antonio is the grandson of Mrs.
Dorothy Bailey. Congratulations
Antonia. We are very proud of ),o,u.
Rev. William and Mrs. Willie Bell
Burrell celebrated their 40th Wed­
ding Anniversary recently with a
family dinner. She is the former Wil­
lie Bell Forte and Rev. Burrell is the
p tor of the Christ Temple Church.
They are the parents of 12
children and 29 grandchildren.
St. Luke Bapti t Church will be
celebrating their Church's Anniver­
. sary on Sunday, July 28 at 3 p.m .
Their special guests will be the
Zion Baptist Church. Rev. Cifford
Mitchell will bring the me age.
Rev. Isaac Moffett is the host pastor.
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The monthly meeting of the
local chapter :re held t first S tur­
d Y of each month, and ccording to
Allen, oot I than 20 persons h ve
been in attendance ince he be me
president
THE MEETI G held at
the George Wa hington Carver
Community Center.
Allen has rranged to have local
and County officials guest of each
NAACP meeting to keep members
breast of community functions.
He recently attended a State
Chapter meeting in Albion,
Michigan and received a tanding
ovation while there. He has planned
nd invited Mattie Roddy, Area
Director of the MiChigan State Con­
ference, to schedule a training se -
sion for members of the Executive
Board. The session is et for August
3rd.
On June 19th, Allen wa
nominated to the Michigan Associa­
tion of School Boards. In 1988, he
was appointed Veterans Counselor
for St. Jo eph County, by the County
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Telecourse college classes can be
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In the fall, 11 telecourses will be
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Queen Esther Baptist Church's
Mi ion will have their Annual Tea
Program on Sunday, July 28, at 4
p.m. Everyone i invited. Mr .
florence Hood' the President and
Rev. Samuel Greer is the host P tor.
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