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Today (Friday, Sept.11) marks the grue-some anniversary ofthe 9/11 attack on thiscountry.

It was 19 years agothat several passengerplanes were hijackedand, in a coordinatedattack, subsequentlytargeted high-profilebuildings – most no-tably the Twin Towers inNew York City.

Two planes flew intothe buildings, whichwere considered a sym-bol of America’sstrength. That led tothe buildings’ collaps-ing under the tremen-dous heat theexplosions caused.

Over 3,000 peoplelost their lives that day– including many policeand firefighters andother first responders.

It was a dark day inthe country’s history.

We salute the mem-ory of those who losttheir lives, and ourheart goes out to theirgrieving families.

We hope you will seta moment aside todayin remembrance of thattragic day.

Continued on page 2

By Charles SercombeDon’t even think about

voting twice.Recently, President

Trump came under criti-cism for encouraging vot-ers in North Carolina tovote twice: one by absen-tee ballot, and again inperson.

He’s suggesting this asa way to test the honor ofthe system, and whethercommunities can actu-ally catch those who at-tempt to vote more thanonce, media reportssaid.

It’s not clear if thepresident was entirelyserious, but his com-ments did raise alarms.

It is illegal to knowinglyvote more than once inan election. In fact, it isa felony in most states.

Hamtramck City ClerkAugust Gitschlag blastedout a message on hisFacebook page warningresidents about the con-sequences of votingmore than once.

“It is illegal to votemore than once in anelection. I will catch you,your extra vote won’tcount, and I will refer youfor prosecution,”Gitschlag said.

He has been joined inthis warning by MichiganAttorney General DanaNessel, who sent outthis email warning:

“Let me be perfectlyclear: voting twice is ille-gal, no matter who tellsyou do to it. The presi-dent’s idea is a great onefor people looking to goto jail,” said Nessel. “Myoffice will prosecute tothe fullest extent of the

By Charles SercombeThere is more action at

Hamtramck’s historicbaseball stadium.

Not only is there a newinfield, the field now hasan honorific name: “Nor-man ‘Turkey’ StearnesField.”

Stearnes is a legendaryplayer who played in theNegro Baseball Leagueback in the 1930s, when

African-Americans werebarred from playing in theall-white Major Leagues.

He played with the De-troit Stars, who’s homefield was Hamtramck Sta-dium.

According to the NationalBaseball Hall of Fame web-site, Stearnes was one ofthe best hitters in hisleague.

Voters are beingwarned

City names newstadium infield inhonor of a legend

Continued on page 2

By Charles SercombeWith the new school

year starting for Ham-tramck Public School stu-dents, we asked districtSuperintendent JaleelahAhmed to give anoverview of what to ex-pect with the coronaviruspandemic still spreading.

As you likely alreadyknow, this school yearwill largely be a continua-tion of at-home learning.

Here is part one of ourinterview with the super-intendent.

The Review: Briefly,please recap the plansfor school this fall.

S u p e r i n t e n d e n tAhmed: For the 2020-2021 school year, HPSwill be implementing vir-tual learning for the ma-jority of students andlearning labs for ourmost at-risk learners.

All HPS students willhave access to our high-quality instructional staff

and curriculum, as wellas a multi-tiered systemof support that includesa focus on social andemotional well-being aswell as necessary tech-nology devices needed tosupport learning.

The Review: Will stu-dents be able to go totheir school at any timeduring the school day forhelp/assistance? Dothey have to make anappointment? Willteachers and support

staff be at the schools?S u p e r i n t e n d e n t

Ahmed: Currently, themajority of HPS studentsare participating in virtuallearning. They are beingsupported by our excel-lent staff, and while weare not offering in-personassistance at this time,students and familiescan always connect withtheir teacher or principalfor additional help.

Our team of Parent Li-aisons is also availableto assist. Each HPSschool building will hostlearning labs for stu-dents with greatest need,including students withIEPs and 504s, EnglishLanguage Learners andnewcomer students.

Teachers facilitatingthe learning labs will beat the schools, as well asnecessary support staff.The majority of our teach-ers are instructing fromtheir homes at this time.

The Review: Whatabout special needs stu-dents (including thosewith learning disabilitiesand behavioral issues)?

S u p e r i n t e n d e n tAhmed: We will do ourbest to meet the goalsoutlined in IEP’s. Learn-ing labs will be used as away to provide supple-mental, in-person instruc-tion for students withIEPs, 504s, EL 1 andnewcomer students. In-vitations will be sent tothese students, who, ifthey are comfortable at-tending, will be providedan in-person schedule.

The Review: And whatabout those studentswho are still learning theEnglish language? Whatis the plan for them?

S u p e r i n t e n d e n tAhmed: Our team of par-ent liaisons workedthrough the summer toensure our EL families

Hamtramck Schools Superintendenttalks about the new year

Continued on page 4

Jaleelah Ahmed

Hamtramck city officials have named the new infieldat Hamtramck’s historic baseball stadium in honor oflegendary player Norman “Turkey” Stearnes, whoplayed with the Detroit Stars at the stadium.

He was born in 1901 inNashville, and it is said hegot his nickname “be-cause of the unusual wayhe ran, which resembledthat of a turkey, with hisarms flapping. However,Stearnes himself claimed

it was because he had apotbelly as a child,” theHall of Fame website said.

Stearnes died in 1979,and was elected into theHall of Fame in 2000. Hehas family that still lives inDetroit.

The stadium is currentlyunder renovation, whichwill include repairing thegrandstands, which fellinto disrepair over the lastfew decades.

Funding for the renova-tion is coming from bothgrants and online fundrais-ing. The importance of thestadium wasn’t knownuntil several years ago,when local baseball histo-rian Gary Gillette and hisorganization, Friends ofHistorical Hamtramck Sta-dium, did exhaustive re-search on it anddiscovered its historicallegacy.

That research has beenused to secure grants.

The state of Michiganhas designated the sta-dium as an official historicsite.

Councilmember Ian Per-rotta, who has worked onresearching the stadium’shistorical importance, saidthe naming of the field inhonor of Stearnes “is agreat opportunity to recog-nize one of the best play-ers of Negro LeagueBaseball.”

Another improvementcoming to the stadium andfield is a commitment fromthe city to regularly assignat least three police pa-trols in the area, to makesure vandals don’t dam-age the site.

That’s something thathas plagued the stadiumfor years. There have beenoccasional reports of peo-ple driving on the field, andother incidents of firesbeing set in the grand-stand.

The pledge to step uppolice patrols was pro-moted by a city council res-olution introduced byCouncilmember Perrotta.

The reason for the reso-lution, Perrotta said at anearlier council meeting in aresolution he proposed, isto make it “imperative forthe City of Hamtramck toshow a buy-in of the proj-ect by committing neces-sary resources to ensurethe project’s success andshow major donors andpartners of the project thatthe City of Hamtramck iscapable of taking the re-quired steps to preserveHamtramck Stadium andthe surrounding area. …”

City names new stadium infield inhonor of a legend Continued from front page

law anyone who inten-tionally flouts our elec-tion laws.”

Secretary of State Jo-celyn Benson alsochimed in with this re-sponse:

“Our election systemhas been stress-testedby three successful elec-tions already this year,and in all of them proventhat it is absolutely safeand secure,” said Ben-son. “We have protec-tions in place to ensureelection officials trackand verify every ballotthey send and receive,and, in every instance,we ensure that each per-son gets only one vote.”

Michigan voters will beheading to the polls on

Nov. 3. Voter turnout forthis election is expectedto be huge, because it isa presidential election.

Gitschlag said, thisweek, that absentee bal-lots should be ready inthe coming weeks.

Locally, Hamtramck vot-ers will be faced with fill-ing four school boardseats as well as thestate representative po-sition for the district thatincludes Hamtramck.

Hamtramck residentAbraham Aiyash is theDemocratic nominee inthe state representativerace, and he is expectedto win the seat, since amajority of Hamtramckvoters have voted Demo-cratic for generations.

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By Charles SercombeOnce again, Mayor

Karen Majewski had badnews about COVID-19cases in Hamtramck.

As of Monday, for thesecond week in a row,the number of cases hasgone up -- from a total of460 last week to 503 –an increase of 43 cases.

The number of deathsfor the year remains at26 here in Hamtramck.

That was the latest up-date the mayor gave inher weekly Monday morn-ing address to the com-munity, via Facebook.

Monday, of course, wasLabor Day, and Majewskisaid this year’s holiday

weekend was noticeablyless festive.

In fact, there was noannual Hamtramck LaborDay Festival – only thesecond time in theevent’s 40-year historythat it has been can-celled.

“This year is a LaborDay unlike any other,”Majewski said.

The festival was can-celed because of thecoronavirus pandemic.The city’s growing num-ber of COVID-19 cases,Majewski said, “just un-derscores why we had tocancel the festival thisyear.”

And if that wasn’t

enough of a letdown formany, Hamtramck alsolost one of its most col-orful characters, Alan“Tex” Booker, who diedsometime this year.

(There have been nodetails available abouthis death.)

The mayor said that,even when the festival re-turns next year (fingerscrossed), “we’ll misshim.”

As for the festival or-ganizers and volunteers,the mayor had nothingbut praise.

“There’s no festival likethe Hamtramck Festival,”she said.

Continuing on thetheme of the virus out-break, Majewskistressed the importancefor residents to wearmasks while out in pub-lic, and to maintain socialdistancing.

The mayor said thereare still reports of busi-nesses here that are notenforcing those rules.She asked that residentscall the city to report

those businesses thatare snubbing the safetyrules.

“Don’t feel like you’resnitching on people,” shesaid. “Be each other’skeeper.”

Another weekly subjectshe has brought up is theCensus count.

It’s still not going wellin Hamtramck.

Only 56 percent of thehouseholds have re-sponded to the once-every-10-year nationalpopulation count.

While the city’s officialpopulation count from2010 puts us at a popu-lation of 23,000, there iswidespread belief thatthe true count is closerto 30,000.

Federal funding andcongressional represen-tation are based on theCensus. Majewski saidthat, in order for the cityto claim its fair share,residents have to partici-pate in the Census.

If few people respond,she said, “it won’t tell thestory of Hamtramck.”

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City of Hamtramck Notice of Ordinance Amendments

Public Hearings were held at the Regular City Council Meeting on September 8, 2020 at 7pm for the purpose of hearing public comments on changes to the following Ordinances. Amendments were proposed and the changes were all adopted by Council. Summaries are as follows. Full text of each ordinance are available at the Clerkat Hamtramck.us under BoardDocs.

Approval of Amendments to the Hamtramck Business License Ordinance: Section 110 Changes made to the ordinance include setting due process for license revocations, changing the renewal due date from June 31st to May 31st and associated late fees, and requirements for an additional license for firework sales.

Approval of Amendments to Chapter 130 The changes made allow the City to bill property owners for services performed to remove graffiti. August R. Gitschlag Hamtramck City Clerk

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Superintendent Jalee-lah Ahmed has this wel-come, on her Facebookpage to students on theirfirst week of school:

“Happy First Day ofSchool students, staffand families! It is a magi-cal day despite it being adifferent kind of start.This week will be a softstart to ensure everyoneis familiar with the expec-tations. Attendance iskey!

“We want to ensure thatall students are in atten-dance so they can receivethe information, meettheir teachers and seekany further clarifications.

“We are here for you!Know that you are sup-ported and appreciated.…”

Early Childhood Elementary

Janice Rakoczy, ECEfirst grade teacher con-tributor, has this to reportthis week:

The staff at the EarlyChildhood Elementarywere busy this past Thurs-day, Sept. 3 getting theschool year ready withcomputer distribution.

Mrs. Vickie Smith, thenew principal at E.C.E.and staff greeted the fam-ilies. Families receivednew computers to use foronline learning thisschool year along withtheir QR cards.

A wonderful bonus wasa bag full of school sup-plies to help the studentsdo their work from home.

Ms. Roz, from the lunchstaff was also there hand-ing out boxes of lunchesfor the families. Don't for-get, students can gettheir free breakfast andlunch from their school bycoming to ECE.

Ms. Roz will be waitingthere for you. Check theHamtramck PublicSchools website fortimes.

The staff has been very

busy training with manyonline workshops to getthe students and them-selves ready.

This year, the studentswill be using Seesaw inthe early elementary les-sons as well as online livelessons with their teach-ers, IReady, videos, sto-ries, activities to get themup and move and somuch more.

We welcome you to anew school year like noother! We are confidentwe can do this working to-gether!

had access to resourcesand technology. We re-cently held an in-personorientation to help ourfamilies navigate thechallenges of remotelearning.

Additionally, newcom-ers and EL students areeligible to participate inour learning labs where

they will receive in-per-son instruction.

The Review: Talkabout how students canget breakfast and lunch.

S u p e r i n t e n d e n tAhmed: Our Eat Up andMeet Up program is con-tinuing at multiple loca-tions throughout thecommunity; familiesshould contact their prin-cipal or school staff forexact times and pick-uplocations. We are provid-ing breakfast and lunchmeals in various loca-tions. We are also seek-ing to move to a 7-daymeal program, which willprovide students withthree breakfast andlunch meals on Fridays.

The Review: How willthe district conduct itsyearly headcount?

S u p e r i n t e n d e n tAhmed: GovernorGretchen Whitmer signedinto law Public Acts 147,148, and 149. Underthese new laws, Ham-tramck Public Schoolswill demonstrate studentmembership accordingly.

Satisfying the member-ship requirement througha count day method isdependent upon the typeof schedule that a stu-dent will maintainthroughout the 20-21school year.

Our pupil accountingdepartment is workingwith Wayne RESA and theMichigan Department ofEducation to ensure thatmembership require-ments are satisfied forstudents in grades K-12who are enrolled at Ham-tramck Public Schools.

The Review: What isthe plan for the wintersemester?

S u p e r i n t e n d e n tAhmed: As always, thehealth and safety of ourstudents, teachers andstaff is our top priority. Atthis time, we are monitor-ing the ongoing COVID-19pandemic and currentlyevaluating plans for thewinter semester.

We are continuing toutilize guidance from theCDC, the State of Michi-gan and the Michigan De-partment of Education inthe creation of our wintersemester plans. Ourplanning will continue tobe led by the HPS Budgetand Restart Team, whichincludes parents, teach-ers, staff members, ad-ministrators andmembers of the HPSleadership team. (Come back next week

for the second part of ourconversation with Super-intendent Ahmed.)

Hamtramck Schools Superintendenttalks about the new yearContinued from front page

Above and below: Scenes from the computer distri-bution held at the Early Childhood ElementarySchool.


Review: Opinion PageIn Our Opinion

Normally in this week’sissue you would seescenes from last week-end’s annual HamtramckLabor Day Festival.

Normal is no longernormal in the age ofCOVID.

The pandemic hascaused a lot of events tobe canceled this year –both nationwide and lo-cally.

The Labor Day Festivalis also on the list of ca-sualties.

Of course, the loss ofevents and sports andconcerts pale in compar-ison to the number ofdeaths this horrible dis-ease has caused. At thispoint it is over 190,000.

Our heart goes out tothe families of thosewho’ve died.

Perhaps, there is onegood thing this disease

has brought about: wecan now review what is re-ally important to all of us.

And that should in-clude the future of theLabor Day Festival.

We’ll say this again,like the proverbial brokenrecord, but there needsto be a serious looktaken at how this festivalis handled.

Organizers have beenvolunteers over theyears, and all of themdid outstanding jobs –considering the hugeodds they have face.

Every year, we are atthe mercy of both theweather and the fickletastes of festivalgoers.

Somehow, the festivalsqueaks by financially.But if there is ever a yearwhen the festival is atotal rainout, its futurewould be in grave doubt.

So, we will once againplead for city officials totake a greater role inbacking this festival. It isclearly an importantevent for the city, andhelps greatly in promot-ing Hamtramck.

It is an asset, but it istreated at arms-length bycity officials.

Instead of distancingthemselves, the cityshould embrace this fes-tival and give it the finan-cial security it deserves.

Volunteers work tire-lessly, around-the-clock,and it is ridiculous to ex-pect that.

We would hope thatcity officials – and we’relooking at the city coun-cil here – will roll up theirsleeves, and take acloser look at how tomake this a more civic-backed event.

City officials need to step up in securing festival

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By Alan MadlaneGov. Whitmer signed an-

other couple of executiveorders on Wednesday,Sept. 3, finally bringingsome long-sought relief tomany of the state’s gymowners and public pools.

Additionally, schoolsports -- both the prac-tices and games – havebeen given the greenlight, something manycoaches, athletes, par-ents and fans have beenloudly clamoring for.

High school footballseason returns Sept. 17and 18.

Soccer teams have al-ready resumed play.

Frustratingly for some ofus, movie theaters, aswell as live theaters andconcert venues, remainshuttered at this point, al-though there has beensome talk afoot that thiscould also change verysoon.

The governor, again in-voking her mantra of fol-lowing “the best scienceand data available,” urgedprudence.

“I urge everyone whoplans to hit the gym afterthese orders go into ef-fect to take these precau-tions seriously and doeverything in their powerto protect themselves andtheir families,” Whitmersaid.

“Be smart, and stay

safe,” she added.Michigan’s chief med-

ical executive and Depart-ment of Health andHuman Services ChiefDeputy for Health, Dr.Joneigh Khaldun, weighedin as well.

“Individuals can nowchoose whether or not toplay organized sports, andif they do choose to play,this order requires strictsafety measures to re-duce risk,” she said.

Virus update: Governor easesup on some virus closings

By Charles SercombeThe city council met on

Aug. 25, and all coun-cilmembers were present.

City Manager Kathy An-gerer gave her bi-monthlyupdate on the Census,and how residents wereresponding.

She said Census work-ers are now going tohouseholds that did notsubmit their forms. Shesaid the workers will havean ID badge with theirphoto included.

In another matter, An-gerer talked about a train-ing program being offeredby the Michigan EconomicDevelopment Corporation.The training in questionaddresses gentrification,and how to prevent it.

What is gentrification?According to information

provided to council, it isdefined this way:

“Gentrification is a gen-eral term for the arrival ofwealthier people into anexisting urban district, arelated increase in rentsand property values, andchanges in the district'scharacter and culture. Theterm is often used nega-tively, suggesting the dis-placement of poorcommunities by rich out-siders.”

However, not all aspects

of gentrification are unde-sirable, according to theinformation sheet.

“Who wouldn't want tosee reduced crime, newinvestment in buildingsand infrastructure, and in-creased economic activityin their neighborhoods?Unfortunately, the bene-fits of these changes areoften enjoyed dispropor-tionately by the new ar-rivals, while theestablished residents findthemselves economicallyand socially marginalized.

“Gentrification has beenthe cause of painful con-flict in many Americancities, often along racialand economic fault lines.Neighborhood change isoften viewed as a miscar-riage of social justice, inwhich wealthy, usuallywhite, newcomers arecongratulated for ‘improv-ing’ a neighborhoodwhose poor, minority resi-dents are displaced byskyrocketing rents andeconomic change.”

A short presentationwas made by a memberof the Huron River Groupregarding the city’s recre-ation plan. The plan callsfor joint action betweenthe city and the schoolboard.

A meeting between the

two public bodies washeld on Sept. 9.

In the public commentportion of the meeting, KitParks congratulated thecity for taking steps indealing with gentrification.She said that Hamtramckrents have increased.

In another matter, shecriticized the police de-partment for traffic controlduring a recent marchthrough southend streetsin support of Yemen.

She said organizers ofthe march had trafficunder control, and thatthe police presence was awaste of money. Shequestioned the policechief’s decision for as-signing officers to thedemonstration.

A number of speakersspoke in support of Coun-cilmember Ian Perrotta,who was the subject of aproposed censure bysome of his council col-leagues.

The censure was re-garding his treatment of acity hall employee, andthe foul language heused.

(Perrotta admitted tousing “cuss” words, andhas apologized to the em-ployee.)

City Hall Insider …City Hall Insider …What is our City Council up to these days? We have the highlights of the latest council meeting.

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KREMPAD o r o t h y

Krempa (neeKnoblock), 91,died August30, 2020.

Mrs. Krempa was thebeloved wife of the lateAlex (2019); mother ofChristine (late John)Walasek, Thomas(Susan), John (Julie) andDonald (Laura). She isalso survived by twelvegrandchildren; twelve

great grandchildren.Dorothy worked for

years at both CiemnakMeat Market and Rex-all’s Drug Store. Shealso worked with localcooks, Mary Glugla andTheresa Witkowski. Sheloved visiting her familyand friends, playingcards, and she and herhusband, Al, were greatdancers. She is a long-time parishioner of St.Florian Parish.

Private Church Serv-ices and burial at GreatLakes National Ceme-tery in Holly, MI wereheld by the family.Arrangements were en-trusted to Jurkiewicz &Wilk Funeral Home.

Congratu lat ions…Rashad Almasmari, ofHamtramck, Michigan,made the Dean’s List atWestern Michigan Uni-versity Cooley LawSchool.

Almasmari, an immi-grant from Yemen, is a

graduate of Northeast-ern Illinois University.Rashad is the son ofNasser Almasmari, andis married to Nabilah Al-shatbi.


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Perrotta’s brother, An-drew, said that Ian losthis temper after being“stonewalled and misled”by city officials over a zon-ing matter at Ian’s bar,Trixie’s.

Andrew said that, if hewas in Ian’s position, hewould resign.

“But he has a higherthreshold than me,” An-drew said.

The city’s new HumanResources director, NicoleBierie, introduced herself.

She was among 175people who applied forthe job.

In new business, thecouncil took the firststeps to update the city’szoning ordinance and thecity’s business license or-dinance.

Among a number of up-dates in the zoning ordi-nance, the city will nowallow wood composite orvinyl fences.

In another matter, thecouncil agreed to amenda contract with its land-scaper contractor, BCL.

The new contract calls forusing the company toeliminate graffiti if prop-erty owners fail to takeaction in a timely manner.

City Manager Angerersaid that it is importantfor the city to eliminategraffiti as soon as possi-ble, because the eyesoreattracts more of thesame, and the city be-comes a “dumpingground.”

The contract amend-ment was approved.

Councilmember Per-rotta introduced a resolu-tion calling for the city totake steps to secure theimprovements beingmade at the city’s historicbaseball stadium.

The resolution, whichwas adopted, requiresmore police patrols in thearea.

The resolution, in partsaid: “(The) City Councilinstructs the City Man-ager to immediately over-see the commencementof regular police patrolsof the site at Hamtramck

Stadium at least threetimes per day with in-structions to remove any-one using the site in anarea that is currentlybeing developed as partof the project, take addi-tional steps where neces-sary in order to preventfurther access to the field…”

The reason for the res-olution, Perrotta said, isto make it “imperative forthe City of Hamtramck toshow a buy-in of the proj-ect, by committing thenecessary resources toensure the project’s suc-cess and show majordonors and partners ofthe project that the City ofHamtramck is capable oftaking the required stepsto preserve HamtramckStadium and the sur-rounding area. …”

A lengthy discussionwas held on the censureof Councilmember Per-rotta. You can read moreabout in The Review’sAug. 28 issue, which canbe viewed online at ham-tramckreview.com. (Clickon the “print editionarchive,” and then clickon the Aug. 28 link.)

City Hall Insider…City Hall Insider…Continued from page 5

By Greg KowalskiBits of broken glass,

beads, rusty old iron nailsand even marbles mayseem to be no more thanscrap, but they also canbe clues to the past.

That’s why Wayne StateUniversity ProfessorKrysta Ryzewski hasbrought a second crew ofstudents to continue anarcheological dig at thesite of the old HamtramckVillage Hall on Jos. Cam-pau and Grayling streets.

The students are follow-ing up on a dig done atthe site in 2018.

Built in 1915, the deco-rative building oncehoused the Village ofHamtramck police andfire departments and vari-ous village and city officesfor decades until it wasdemolished in the 1970s.

It wasn’t the only build-ing to occupy the site be-tween Alice and GraylingStreets. Years ago, therewas a tin shop on thenorth corner of the lot.The infamous Nut Housebar was nearby also. And,even before 1913, therewas a house on thesouthwest corner of thesite, on Alice Street.

It’s mainly that piece ofreal estate that broughtRyzewski, and her anthro-pology students studyingArcheology Field Meth-ods, back to do anotherdig.

“This modest site con-tains a trove of invaluableinformation about the in-dividuals who once livedhere,” the students wrote,in their summary reporton the earlier excavation.

“Learning about theseindividuals makes it pos-sible to understand thesimilarities and differ-ences between life in thepast versus life in thepresent.”

Although much of thestudents’ efforts focus onthe gritty work of diggingin the dirt and salvagingartifacts, a lot of effort isalso devoted to research-ing the site. That meansplowing through old docu-ments, maps, newspa-pers and photos.

That research has al-ready yielded some fasci-nating information aboutthe buildings that werethere, including the houseon Alice St. The studentslearned that the housewas occupied in about1910 by a man namedJames Morris, his wifeMinnie, and their threechildren. James died inabout 1922, and Minnieeventually moved to Tren-ton.

After Minnie moved, in

about 1929, Walter Bren-dle, his wife Martena andtheir four children movedinto the house. Anotherfamily later occupied thehouse, which was demol-ished in about 1979.

The students were alsoable to track down anamazing amount of infor-mation about the house’soccupants, including mar-riages and lifespans.

“By learning aboutthese families, the historyof Hamtramck becomesmore solid,” the studentsnoted in their report. Forexample, at some pointthe families took in“boarders” or “lodgers.”

“The presence of board-ers and lodgers in thefamily home, young mar-riage ages, short life ex-pectancies, a largenumber of family mem-bers living in a singlehome -- even after gettingmarried -- are all aspectsof American life that wereextremely common duringthe 20th century but arerarely present today.”

“Understanding this in-formation about the pastteaches us about the evo-lution of American societyover time, as well as theconnections we sharewith individuals from thistime period.”

There is more to the sci-ence of archeology thandigging up objects fromthe ground, as the stu-dents’ report shows.Each bit of information,and every item, no matterhow insignificant it mayseem to be, is importantin revealing the once-loststory of our past.

All of this contributes tounderstanding aspects oflife in Hamtramck in thepast, which in turn, givesan indication of how Ham-tramck came to be what itis today.

No one knows what thestudents will find in thecurrent archeological dig,but no matter what theydo turn up, it will con-tribute to the whole story

of Hamtramck.Once the students have

completed their excava-tions later this fall, therewill be a presentation atthe Hamtramck HistoricalMuseum of what wasfound. More informationwill be available on the mu-seum’s website, www.ham-tramckhistory.org.(Greg Kowalski is Execu-

tive Director of the Ham-tramck HistoricalMuseum.)

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covers Sept. 1-7.

Tuesday, Sept. 1• At a little after 1 a.m.,

a driver was arrested fordrunk driving.

• A driver was arrestedfor driving without a li-cense.

• Officers responded toa call about gunshotsbeing heard in the area ofDyar and Circle Dr.

• A resident of Warrenwas arrested after a traf-fic stop for possessing agun without a permit.

• An agent for a doc-tor’s office in the area ofCarpenter and Charestreported a theft.

• A resident was ar-rested for domestic vio-lence that occurred at aresidence on Neibel St.

• Officers attempted topull over a driver who mayhave been involved ingunshots being fired, butthe driver fled from offi-cers. Officers eventuallycalled off the pursuit.

Wednesday, Sept. 2

• At about midnight, aresident was ticketed fortrespassing at a busi-ness in the area of Jos.Campau and Roosevelt.

• At about 4 a.m., anagent for a business inthe 9800 block of ConantAve. said three peoplebroke in. However, noitems were taken.

• A person was ar-rested after a crash thatoccurred in 3400 blockof Holbrook Ave.

Thursday, Sept. 3• A juvenile who had

been reported as missingwas returned home.

• An agent for a ConantAve. business reportedan illegal dumping.

• Officers recovered astolen vehicle that hadbeen involved in a chaseearlier.

• A resident reportedthat at 11:30 a.m., theywere assaulted while inthe area of Carpenterand Charest.

Friday, Sept. 4• No incident report

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• At about 2 a.m., aresident was arrestedafter a traffic stop forbeing wanted on a Ham-tramck warrant.

• A resident reportedbeing assaulted while inthe area of Dan and Jos.Campau.

Sunday, Sept. 6• At about 12:30 a.m.,

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• A Holmes St. resi-dent reported that hislandlord attempted to ille-gally evict him.

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• A Detroit juvenile wascaught throwing rocks atvehicles in the area ofDenton and Jos. Cam-pau. The child’s parentswere issued parental re-sponsibility tickets.

• A resident in the1900 block of NorwalkSt. reported that some-one damaged their fence.

• A resident was ar-rested for a street rob-bery that occurred in thearea of Danforth andLumpkin.

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