JOH 0 SAID council
members were "sick" of having
the Mayor hold pecial meetings
to get his plans through.
Johnson aid, "There' some­
thing about this land that some­
body wants it 0 bad."
Johnson charged that the city
d not hold clear title to the
Monterey Motel and Howard
Johnson sites. She gave the'
Michigan Citizen a copy 0 a
document from the Blue Water
Title Company indicating the ti­
tle was vested in five companies
other than the City of Highland
Park: the Howard Johnson Com­
pany, Monterey Contract LTD.,
_ Pho ni Motel Corporation,
and W t Fort Street Auto Mart.
Scotty Wainwright, Adminis-
OTHElt REPORT,
entitled "Analysis of Assump­
tions Relative to the five year
Protection of Financial Condi­
tion," which was also dated Feb­
ruary 4, 1994, the same
accounting firm said that the
"benefits" of the bid proposal of­
fered by Municipal Development
Corporation (MDC) "would ap­
pear to be positive."
This is a reference to the pro­
posal that would give one com­
pany three- buildings to
construct: city hal] and two De­
partment of Social Services
rosS) complexes. The mayor has
tied t three to her, . ng
the city can "leverage" its new
Better
schools
•
session
rescheduled
A rescheduled presentation of
the proposed new Framework
for Improving Educational
Quality in Highland Park public
schools, for community input,
will be on Thursday, March 3, at
6 p. m., at Highland Park Com­
munity High School, 15900
Woodward.
The event was originally
scheduled for Jan. 19, but the
dangerous arctic blast prompted
a postponement.
With "High Hope , High Ex­
pectations, High Student
Achievement" as its k ynote ti­
tle, the presentation features
Highland Park children who will
form the High School Class of
2000. A brief presentation will
be followed by comments, ques­
tions, and suggestions. The com­
munity is cordially invited.
Condensed highlights of the
proposed Framework, a blue­
print for raising standards and
student achievement levels, will
be available at the event. With
any recommended modifica­
tions, the Framework will then
come back to the Highland Park
Board of Education for final ap­
proval.
Chrysler
donates books
to HP schools
hrysler Corporation has donated 5,000 ·books in further
support of the Highland Park School District's Running Start
fi t-grade reading challenge. The automaker has also donated
a 1994 Dodge minivan for District use.
The gifts, presented at a Chrysler-sponsored Jan. 5 luncheon
at Cobo Center, were in twin celebration of Chrysler'S 4 mil­
lionth minivan old and the 4 millionth book read 1n Chrysler­
funded Running Start. The Chrysler donations were cited by
Supt. Eugene L.· Cain at the Jan. 11 regular Highland Park
Board of Education meeting.
Attending the Cobo Center presentation were Board of Edu­
cation President Mamie L. Cooper, Dr. Cain, and Curriculum
Ass' tant andra Thompson. Dr. Cain expressed the Di tri 's
hanks for the gi
Also attending were thr Highland P rk erond-grad rs
Tondolaya Bennett, of Barber School; Mon z Morris, of Cort­
land Early Childhood Center; and Darwin Beacham, of Liberty
School. All thr had met the challenge last year as first-grad­
ers. The Morris and Beacham children participated in a WWJ
"Salute to Schools" radio interview last July. The minivan was
presented personally by Chrysler Chairman Robert Eaton.
t
port
Councilman Frank
pr d r gr t th t council
mem did not ho up for th
pecial m eting, Feb. 15 and "al­
low th people an opportunity to
pe k" by h ving an election.
He expr ed concern that
the constant delays regarding
the project would limit the
amount of days that the build­
ings could be worked on this
year, discourage developers,
cause the Department of Social
Servi to withdraw from the
project and give inv tors the
imp ion the official of High­
land Park are indecisive.
RO AID he believed that
moving the city hall to the south
side of Highland Park would
promote business in that area. If
that happened, he· said, the
Mayor could work to t expen­
sive hou ing For the affluent in
the old Holiday Inn on Gerald
near the present city hall and
have a strip shopping center
from the new shopping center at
Manchester to Gerald, expand­
ing business in the south side.
Johnson said the council
never received concrete informa­
tion about the housing plan on
Holiday Inn, so she could not
comment on it. She believed it
was better to use land that the
city had and place housing on
the California street site.
Fund to provide
ub t nee
abu e treatment
t Park ide
The Children and Youth In­
itiative of Detroit/Wayne
County and Black Family Devel­
opment, Inc. have been a warded
a thr year grant to provide
u tance abuse treatment sen-
i for th idents' ofParksid
Public Housing Project on the
east side of Detroit.
The grant from the Center for
Substance Abu e Treatment
funds Proj ct Safe Havens, a
unique effort that brings a com­
preh ive rrayofservice that
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Community Announcements
ESSAY CONTEST - The purpose
of this contest Is to encourage student
rese rch and writing on African
American life, history and culture and
to generate more advanced study.
Any undergraduate and graduate stu­
dent In the first two year's of master's
degree or doctoral study may qualify.
Winners will be awarded $500 cash
prizes and Invited to the ASALH An­
nual Meeting In October 1994. En­
tries must be received by May 15,
1994. Call (202)667-2822 for de­
tailed Information.
FREE PRE-SCHOOL. - Vistas
Nuevas Head Start offers FREE pre­
school to eligible children, 3to 4 years
of age and handicapped children.
oints applaud
ethnic blll
State Rep. David Points (D­
Highland Park) applauded
House passage of a bill he co­
sponsored that would require
truthful campaign advertise­
ments and establish a voluntary
code of ethics for candidates to
follow.
"1 am plea�ed· that' my col­
leagues in the House have given
this bill quick approval," said'
Rep. Points. "We need to reform
our campaign system, and this
legislation takes us in that direc­
tion. 1 hope the Senate will give
this bill speedy consideration so
it can be enacted into law as soon
as possible by the governor and
in time for the upcoming cam­
paign season. "
The legislation, known as the
Clean Campaign Act of 1994,
would es ablish a voluntary code
of fair camp ign practic which
candidat ould su ribe to
and sign. Th code would pro­
hibit the personal attacks and
character defamation that have
displaced real debate on the is-
sues in today's campaigns.
A copy of the signed code
would be kept on file with the
Secretary of State and the
county clerk. A candidate would
be able to indicate on campaign
literature that they have signed
the code. Under the legislation a
candidate, political party or bal­
lot question committee would
have to sign an affidavit affirm­
ing that an advertisement con­
tained truthful information.
"AS BOTH A public official
and concerned citizen, I have
been disappointed at the in­
creased use of negative cam­
paigning," Rep. Points said.
"This act will prohibit the use of
dishonest commercials and ad­
vertisements and force candi­
date to stick to the facts. The
code of fair campaign practices
is an attempt to bringback much
needed debate on the issues that
concern the citizens of our
state."
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Forest St. Call 961-1014.
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R G TART, in its fifth year, challenges first-grad-
ers to read, or have read to them, 21 books in 10 weeks, with
prizes for m ting the challenge. All 343 (100 percent) of
Highland Park's first-graders met the ch llenge a year ago. The
progr-am, developed by Reading Is Fundamental (RlF), Inc.,
and funded by Chrysler Corporation Fund, operates in chool
districts nationwide where Chrysler has facilities.
The 1994 reading challenge began Jan. 1 and ends March
25. The theme is "A Celebration of African American Life", with
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as the subj ct of student stories
and drawings.