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VOL. 138, NO. 37

Chelsea Standard
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
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Student athlete wakes from coma


Community sets up fundraisers to aid family with medical bills
By Erica McClain
Heritage Media

A Chelsea High School cross country student came out of a coma Sept. 12, according to a Facebook page, more than a week after he was struck by a car at Old U.S. 12 and Freer Road during a morning practice. In the days following the accident that seriously injured 13-year-old Kersch Ray, who has a closed-head injury, the community outpouring for support has been immense. The Facebook page, Prayers for Kersch, has gathered more than 2,000

followers in the wake of the accident and remains a mainline for communication between friends, family members and supporters. According to a post on the page, Michael Ray, Kerschs father, informed the pages readers that his son will be transferred to a rehabilitation floor, where he will stay for at least one month. He is alive and we taught him to talk and walk before, Michael Ray wrote on the Prayers for Kersch Facebook page. This time we have a lot more people to help. Thank you again for all the Prayers. Fundraisers in Kerschs name have cropped up from

Chelsea all the way out to the Downriver area. The Hooch, a bar and grill in Dearborn Heights, has organized an Oct. 9 benefit that includes 50-50 raffles, a live band and more. The restaurant will charge $15 at the door. While the main means of collecting donations remains with the Medical Fund for Kersch Ray at Chelsea State Bank, many around Chelsea are finding different ways to add to the fund. Theres been talk of a spaghetti dinner. A lot of people are doing different things and directing it all back toward the Chelsea State Bank Fund, said Eric Swager, the high schools cross country and track

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Ofcials will offer townhall meetings to discuss millage on November ballot


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SRSLY youth Coalition members pose with a giant check representing the $625,000 grant they received from the White House Ofce of National Drug Control Policy.

SRSLY garners grant


By Erica McClain
Heritage Media

SRSLY Community Coalition has received a $625,000 grant from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The award, called the 2011 Drug Free Communities Support Program, is a multi-year grant, which will award $125,000 each year to SRSLY for the next five years. SRSLY is supported by the Chelsea Community Hospital and the Coghlan Family Foundation and was formed in 2008 in response to local data showing that teens in Chelsea were more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol that the state and national averages. The nonprofit agency works to provide positive involvement opportunities for families, the Chelsea school district and community through programs and events such as Project Sticker Shock. Sticker Shock is a twiceyearly event where teens have the chance to place stickers warning the public not to buy alcohol for minors on alcohol at local stores. Coalition director Reiley Curran said the funding will allow SRSLY to continue

working on its core programs and build upon them. It means more resources for youth-led projects, more training for coalition members and more education like our Guiding Good Choices Youth Empowerments Solutions, Curran said. The sky is the limit. We have five more years and the youth and the energy to match it. A program highlighting the achievement occurred at the Chelsea District Library Sept. 8, where Curran said there were about 175 people in attendance. Ellen Christie, a member of the groups Youth Steering Committee and a senior at Chelsea High School, spoke about how SRSLY has affected her life for the better. Ellen spoke about how SRSLY makes It easier for kids to make the right choice; it makes it easier for them to say no to drugs and alcohol and be a part of this group, Curran said. It was really very powerful for me to hear. Curran said it was also made her feel very proud to see so much support at the library program. It speaks to the culture of Chelsea, she said. We are a part of Chelsea now. I love seeing people in the community really care.

ylvan residents received a preliminary presentation on a potential 4.75-mill tax levy that will be on the November ballot for township voters at the last board meeting. District 1 County Commissioner Rob Turner and township attorney Peter Flintoft discussed the levy with residents as a precursor to several town hall meetings, which the two will host in the auditorium of the Washington Street Education Center, 500 Washington St., in Chelsea at 7 p.m. Sept. 15, 29 and Oct. 13. The potential millage would begin paying $13.2 million in debt payments owed by the township in both water and sewer system bonds as well as $1.25 million owed to the county for a special assessment, which was invalidated by the courts. Turner said that the agreement between the county and the township is still being drafted and will be before the county commission this month. The agreement will be voted on no later than the first meeting in October. Certain aspects of the contract are still being hashed out, such as the townships ability to levy

taxes to pay the county back its $1.25 million. The millage will not bring in as much as the township owes, Turner said. One of the premises under which the countys proposed agreement with the township is being drafted is that the county will have to carry the township for a certain time. For the first five years, the county will charge 1 percent interest, relieving the township of dealing with the full burden, and then the loan terms will be re-assessed with a tentative 3.788 percent interest rate cap based on the countys bond rating. That cap would be set at what the lowest interest rates that we can get from a bank, Turner said. The interest rate will be assessed every five years, according to Turner. Turner and Flintoft encouraged those asking questions at the township board meeting to bring their questions and their neighbors to the town hall meetings where the two officials promised a more robust rundown of the situation. Each meeting is going to be set up with detailing of the plan, the payment structure, the millage structure ... information will be available as well as a short
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