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DHS students competein robotics competition

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INSIDE INSIDEOffi cials reactto state policepost closing

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Digging for treasureBy Sean DaltonHeritage Media

Lucky Haskins Antique andRetro has been opened for amonth now in Dexters down-town and owner A. BenjaminHourani says that his quaintlittle store is bustling.

So many people come inmultiple times, Hourani saidduring an interview Saturday,where a dozen people walkedthrough his front door in lessthan 30 minutes. Its just thenature of my business thatweve always got something dif-ferent.

Houranis inventory runs thegamut from antique jewelry,board games, and books topieces of furniture, curio items,

figurines, silverware and vin-tage typewriters.He gets his treasures from

estate sales, rural auctions andpickers, people who bringHourani additions to his storesgrowing collection and selectionof random, interesting bits andpieces.

On Mondays, shoppers willnotice that Lucky Haskins isclosed. Those craving a treasurehunt should rest assured thatHourani is out expanding hisinventory, he said.

My wife, Patty, worksSaturdays and were about tohire an employee so I can getout there and find more stuff,he said.

Hourani picked his passionfor picking and peddling other

peoples treasures from hisgrandmother, who would setup shop at antique shows andflea markets. A young Houraniwould have his own table ofinconsequential items that hedsell for shiny quarters. Houranisaid that his grandma had noidea that he would leave theculinary world to make a livingof antiquing.

I was a professional chefuntil four years ago ... I workedfor Main Street Ventures, whichowns all of the places on MainStreet in Ann Arbor, Houranisaid. He had no traditionaltraining in the culinary arts,but rather learned and mas-tered it in his free time.

Im grateful for the experi-ence, but as a family man, its

tough to work in that field, hesaid.His wife is a Dexter native,

who like many Dexter nativeswho marry spouses from othercities and states, pulled herhusband back to WashtenawCounty for the communityatmosphere and the excellentschools.

During his culinary years,he worked his way from thebottom as dishwasher in 1987and became a sous-chef, theequivalent of an executive chefand finally downgraded himselfto a regular chef before retiringin 2003.

Being a chef overlapped withantiquing until Hourani finallyopened his first antique shop in

Ocean Bowl students make big splashBy Sean DaltonHeritage Media

The Dexter High SchoolOcean Bowl teams won theRegional Great Lakes OceanBowl held at the University ofMichigan, Natural ResourcesBuilding on Saturday Feb 5.

The varsity and junior var-sity teams came in first andsecond place, earning $1,100 forthe school ocean Bowl Club.

The Varsity team will now

travel to Galveston Texas, April28 through May 1 to compete inthe 15th National Ocean Bowl.

Teams from 25 competingregions in the U.S., includingAlaska and Hawaii will beasked tossup, bonus and chal-lenge questions covering thechemistry, biology, physics,

technology, geolog y, geography,history and current events ofthe worlds ocean. This yearstheme is Human Response toOcean Events.

The NOSB is sponsored andsupported by the NationalOcean Leadership, NASA,NOAA, the U.S. Navy andlocally, the Great LakesEnvironmental Research Lab.

The typical question anOcean Bowler might encounteris, What are the seven major

ions found in the oceans inorder of most abundant toleast abundant, said ScienceDepartment Chair Cheryl Wells.Or In what suborder would youfind the humpback whale?

The NOSB will be pilotinga new element at the finalscompetition in order to help

students increase their knowl-edge of the structure, format,and purpose of policy brief-ing. To do this each team mustprepare and present a mockCongressional Testimonyregarding Aquaculture that theteam will deliver to a panel ofjudges.

The Dexter team will enjoyfour to five different field tripsin Galveston including work-ing on a research vessel, visit-ing behind the scenes at the

Galveston Aquarium, kayakingthe wetlands, dissecting a sharkand other critters at a TexasA&M lab, and a historical walk-ing tour of the old city area.

Captain Maggie Grundlersaid that Ocean Bowl is actu-ally a very intense club; it takes

Team A Captain Maggie Grundler, Spencer Bussineau, DerekFead, Paul Parker, Wesley Powell, Coach Cheryl Wells and guestPaul Gross, consulting meteorologist for WDIV.

Village,union

reachdealBy Sean DaltonHeritage Media

After weeks of closed sessionnegotiations with the bargain-ing unit representing the 10Local 214 Teamsters Unionemployees, the village reached amoney-saving deal.

The Village Council approvedthe contract which will savenearly $200,000 over the three-year term of the agreementbetween the villages two

administrative employees andall of the workers at the Water/Wastewater Treatment Plantand the Department of PublicWorks.

The tentative agreementgives the employees a 1 percentwage increase in the third yearof the contract, but effectivelyfreezes employee wages for thefirst two years. Future villageemployees can look forward tobeing hired into a new pay-scalethat is effectively a 15 percentpay slash across the board com-pared to the previous contract.

I appreciate the concessionsthat our bargaining employeesagreed to, Council Trustee JimCarson said. As a member ofthe bargaining team, Carsonadded that while he appreciates

the concessions, more will haveto be done in the future.

At some point we still needto discuss the cost of health-care with our employees, hesaid. Our employees are stillnot contributing one penny totheir healthcare. They dont paydeductible, co-pay and thats thepart of it that has to change.

When asked for a ballpark fig-ure that the villages bargainingteam might target in the future,Carson said that a percentagecontribution has not beenestablished, but he referredto Gov. Rick Snyders favoredfigure of 20 percent employeecontribution as a good startingpoint.

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Benjamin Hourani and his wife, Patty, stand in their shop surrounded by antique knickknacks.

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