INSIDE

INSIDE

Art on the Farm to feature droves of artists Page 8-A

INSIDE

Back Forty Acres offers local, sustainable food Page 14-A

$52

Todays coupons are worth up to ...

Evil Dead hits Dexter

Page 3-B VOL. 138, NO. 43

Chelsea Standard
75
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011
Weave the Web:
Make sure to click on www.heritage.com around the clock for the most in-depth coverage of Washtenaw County. Our Most Viewed story this week is Purdue might be Michigans most important game of the season.

Meet the candidates: City Council

Seven Chelsea residents forum 7-9 p.m. Nov. 3 at are running for three seats the Washington Street on the Chelsea Education Center City Council for in the board room. the Nov. 8 elecThe candidates tion. will be given Kent Martineztwo questions Kratz, Rod in advance, and Anderson and audience memBill Holmberg bers will have the are incumbent chance to submit council members questions in writand will be chal- Martinez-Kratz ing, which will lenged by Indira be collected by Ghosh, Erin chamber staff and Brayton, Marcia White and asked to the candidates. Harry Myers. The candidates were For more information asked a series of questions about the candidates, The by the Chelsea Standard, Chelsea Area Chamber of and here are their responsCommerce will co-sponsor es: a nonpartisan candidates Name: Kent Martinezplus years. Kratz (incumbent) Community or volunOccupation: Special teer involveeducation teacher ment: Served for Jackson Public Schools on Chelsea Personal info City Council for the past six (age, marital years, Chelsea statue, names Recreation Board and ages of any and liaison to children): 47 years old, married Chelsea School to Marina, with Board. Previously three children. Anderson elected posiEducation: Novi High tions: Six years School, Michigan State on Chelsea City Council. University, Bachelors of Name: Rod Anderson Science; Eastern Michigan University, Masters of Arts. (incumbent) Occupation: Retired from Hometown: Novi area remote sensing research Length of time living in Chelsea: On and off for 10 and development in the aerospace/defense industry and from the U.S. Navy in the grade of captain. Personal info (age, marital status, names and ages of any children): 66 years old and married to Nancy with three grown children: Rebecca, Jocelyn and Owen. Education: Mount St. Joseph H.S. (Baltimore, MD) 1963; University of West Florida - B.S., Physics (summa cum laude) 1971; The Johns Hopkins University- M.A., Physics 1976; The Johns Hopkins University- Ph.D., Physics
PLEASE SEE CANDIDATES/9-A

Check out our video:

2ForU

Schools audited budget is Fair trade store focuses efforts in community clean
By Erica McClain
Heritage Media

Rooted in Chelsea

Click on the jobs tab on the home page of our websiteror a g edirectly to h e i t go . c o m http://jobs.heritage.com.

Join us on Twitter:
Become a Chelsea Standard follower. Click on the Twitter tab on the home page of our website or go directly to http://twitter.com/ ChelseaDexter.

By Crystal Hayduk
Special Writer

Chelsea Public School District has a clean audit report, according to an auditor from Yeo and Yeo with a $5.6 million fund balance. Auditor Mark Perry told the school board Monday that the well-balanced budget was due in part to closing Pierce Lake Elementary School and reducing staff. The auditors are just amazed at how things come together and how functional the finance department is, Superintendent David Killips said.

In other board news:

State Rep. Mark Ouimet spoke during the opportunity for public input. He reported that the potential repeal of the personal property tax could result in the loss of $1.2 billion in income to the state. It is not presently known if the repeal would be phased out over time, or if there will be an option for regaining lost dollars through another source. Were anxiously awaiting the governors proposal, he said. Then we can figure out the full impact of this bill. Killips said that the loss of funds usually obtained through the personal property tax could mean a loss of hundreds of dollars per student. Its critical to get replacement funds, he said. An expected upcoming increase in retirement costs of 3 percentage points will
PLEASE SEE AUDIT/3-A

In the months since Back to the Roots opened in downtown Chelsea, owners Jason Povlich and Jason Bendinelli have been dedicated to their 115 S. Main St. location. We recently closed our Colorado store to focus all of our efforts here, Bendinelli said. The other store was strictly retail, and that store was only 900 square feet. With all of their attention on their Chelsea mainstay, the two owners have big plans for their business, which offers retail clothing, sushi and a full caf with tea, coffee and organic soda. Those plans include: an online retail store and a full kitchen for home-cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner within the next month. Bendinelli said the business will have a rotating Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce ofcials and the Back to the Roots family stand menu that will constantly outside the business 115 S. Main St. location for a ribbon cutting. be evolving with customer input. coffee and retail products and schools as well as feed lauded the stores efforts Bendinelli said much the needy. to become its own niche available in this single of Back to the Roots sucwithin the community. location is topped only by The owners are also cess and desire to grow looking into a partnership Back to the Roots is rap- the friendly and helpful has certainly been due to to aid the St. Louis Center, idly becoming something staff who makes a boomer the friendly environment a residential facility for the else in downtown Chelsea, like me feel welcome and Chelsea fosters. developmentally disabled, Bob Pierce, the chambers coming back for more. We obviously love being executive director, later All that support for in Sylvan Township, as in Chelsea; theres a very Back to the Roots has also well as a nonprofit safesaid. I have often lamenthomey atmosphere here, benefited a fair amount of house in Detroit. ed the fact that we dont and everyone has been As the roots of our busihave many retail offerings nonprofit agencies, includoverwhelmingly acceptfor the Gen Y population ing the business primary ness continue to spread, so ing from other businesses in the area. Wow, has that beneficiary, Asha House, will we, Berdinelli said in to every individual, a safehouse for children reference to their nonprofit changed! Bendinelli said. Word of efforts. There is no longer a in India who are at risk of mouth about our business being sold into child prosBack to the Roots need for anyone to go to has spread like wildfire, Ann Arbor for outstanding titution and human trafdonates 25 percent of its and were very humbled by sushi or funky latte art. ficking rings. The business efforts to nonprofits. everyones comments and For more updates and This is certainly not the has also taken on aiding very thankful. the Caribbean Fellowship information on Back to the run of the mill storefront At a ribbon cutting Roots, visit their website, you expect to find in a Ministry, a Haitian minOct. 14, the Chelsea Area small Midwestern downistry that works to build backtotherootsonline.com Chamber of Commerce churches, medical clinics or find them on Facebook. town. The variety of food,

Join us on Facebook:

Click on the Facebook tab on the home page of our website or search for us on Facebook.

Get breaking news:

To receive breaking news alerts, text HERNews to 22700.

Local ads are just a hop away at the MIcentral. com marketplace. While you are there, you can check out all the special supplements of Journal Register Co. newspapers in Michigan. Click on marketplace on the home page of our website or go directly to www.marketplace.micentral. com/ROP/Categories.aspx.

The Marketplace:

INDEX
Editorial Page 6-A Death Notices Page 8-A Sports Kids View Page 1-C Page 1-B

News Tip Hotline: 475-1371

Printed on recycled paper

LEGACY ASSISTED LIVING & LEGENDS ALZHEIMERS CENTER JUST 15 MINUTES FROM CHELSEA LOCATED RIGHT OFF I-94 NO ENTRANCE FEE

Able to take long-term care insurance

5025 ANN ARBOR ROAD, JACKSON, MI gantonretirement.com 517-764-2000 for your tour of this state-of-the-art center!