4/4/24 Novi Note

Local church works to bring purified water to people of Guatemala

BY CHARITY MEIER cmeier@candgnews.com

Members of Faith Presbyterian Church in Novi have made it their mission over the last 10 years to bring purified water to the people of Guatemala. In February, five members of the church went to the country to install a water purification system at a school.

The area they visited has running water, but it is unfiltered and therefore contaminated with bacteria. The people cannot afford bottled water, which costs approximately $5 for 5 gallons. The majority of people in the area are coffee bean farmers and are lucky to make $20 a week, according to Mark Turner, a missionary with Faith Presbyterian. As a result, they are forced to utilize the unclean water and are susceptible to diseases from it.

“Many people think they could just boil the water and make it pure. Well, that’s true, but where do they get the wood from?” Turner said. “The other thing is they don’t understand that it is not when

Pex to offer door-to-door services, replacing Novi Senior Transportation program

the People’s Express as its mode of transportation services for the elderly, disabled and all others ages 14 and older.

Curb-to-curb and door-to-door public transportation services throughout Oakland, Livingston, Washtenaw and Wayne counties will soon be readily available to residents of the city of Novi, as the City Council narrowly approved a resolution March 18 to name

“People’s Express is going to offer a service to Novi residents 14 and older. The service that we offer is to residents 50 and older and/or those with disabilities, and now I think we are really opening up the door, so to speak, for so many more residents. So I

am thrilled that we are having this conversation,” Mayor Pro Tem Laura Casey said.

“I just wanted us to take a moment to really emphasize just the awesomeness of this opportunity — the fact that we will be able to expand from not only providing the service to aging adults but everyone 14 and above,” Councilman Matt Heintz said.

This not only expands the range of

people who can utilize public transit, but it also extends the hours the city is able to offer it. Currently, Novi Senior Transportation is available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. People’s Express, commonly called “Pex,” which will replace Novi Senior Transportation July 1, has service available 6

ABOVE: Missionaries Mark Turner, back row, right; and David VanZoest, back row, left, of Faith Community Presbyterian Church in Novi, pose with some of the people they are helping to obtain purified water in Guatemala. RIGHT: This water filtration system was installed at Xhequistel School.

Photos provided by Mark Turner

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Novi council approves Active Mobility Plan

BY CHARITY MEIER cmeier@candgnews.com

The Novi City Council narrowly approved the city’s 2023 Active Mobility Plan during its regular meeting March 18.

The plan is an updated version of the nonmotorized master plan that the city adopted in 2011 and shows the system of pathways, sidewalks and other means that allow for non-motorized transit. The plan also encourages residents to have a healthy and active lifestyle.

Due to the original plan, the city was able to implement a total of 16.25 miles of trails and sidewalks between 2011 and 2022. In November 2022, the City Council contracted with The Greenway Collaborative to update its plan for nonmotorized transportation. The company began a lengthy process that included gathering feedback from residents to find out what they felt was needed.

“This was driven by the public input, and that kind of developed the theme that you saw throughout the plan, and this plan would not be here without their input,” said Norm Cox, of The Greenway Collaborative.

According to Cox, there are three main components that the city will be working on for the foreseeable future: a neighborhood greenway network, connecting to transit, and improved access to shopping and dining.

“Think of this as a family-friendly network. It will connect the key destinations in the city. It is really a strategic building upon your existing pathway systems,” said Cox.

Cox said that now that the city has public bus services provided by the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation, it needs to work to update the areas around the bus stops to make sure there is an adequate area for those waiting for the bus and a safe path for them to walk

home or to various areas in the city.

“I would personally like to see a lot of the gaps completed before we start doing anything else,” Councilman Dave Staudt said.

Staudt, who has been a council member for many years, said that he is opposed to putting sidewalks in areas where it was determined long ago not to put them and gave the example of Nine Mile Road between Haggerty and Meadowbrook roads. He said that there were “years” worth of discussion on the sidewalks in that area and said the city gave up federal dollars so that the city could

make the sidewalks narrower there and not cut down as many trees so that it would remain a safe and environmentally sound area.

“Now I see that there are suggestions in here about going across the street, where there are primarily berms, where there really isn’t a place to put a 10-foot sidewalk. We’re going to put sidewalks on both sides of the street. I feel very uncomfortable about having that in the plan where we have studied this over and over,” he said, mentioning that it might have been caused in part by not havSee MOBILITY on page 11A

File photo by Charity Meier

From left, Carolyn Prudhomme, of the Greenway Collaborative; Novi resident Sri Komaragiri and Janet Bloom, then the president of the Novi Chamber of Commerce, take part in one of the city’s open houses dealing with its master plan and Active Mobility Plan approximately a year ago. The City Council approved the Active Mobility Plan March 18, 2024.

Water

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the water comes to a boil, it’s 10 minutes after it comes to a boil that everything’s killed. So it’s not a reliable way for them to get pure water. Then, of course, they have to have clean vessels to put it in or it’s contaminated again.”

Turner is responsible for initiating the church’s involvement with Living Waters of the World. He said the church has had involvement with several other missions in Guatemala, including medical care, abandoned women and drug problems, for 25 years. It was during another mission that he asked their medical team how things were going, and they informed him that they were seeing numerous cases that were a result of contaminated water. He said he decided that they needed to do something about it so that the medical team could deal with things that weren’t as easily preventable.

“I’m just the average person that has a passion for bringing clean water, because everybody should have clean water,” said Turner.

Since then, Faith Presbyterian has gone on six mission trips to the country and installed seven water filtration systems in the area, as one was installed in 2022 with the missionaries participating virtually as a result

of the pandemic. During each weeklong trip, the missionaries teach the people how to install and operate the filtration system, how to bottle and sell the water, and what the purified water should be used for.

“The water is dear because it’s costly, so you have to take care of the water that’s in the bottle. So, you only use it for if you are eating or drinking, cooking, brushing your teeth, anything going into your mouth or caring for a baby, “ said Sue Randall, one of the missionaries. “If you were giving a baby a bath, you would use purified water, but if you yourself were to take a bath, you would not use purified water. That would be a waste. If it were here and readily available, like it is in the States, where you can just go turn on the tap or the garden hose and it’s all good, then you’d use it for everything, but that’s not the way it is there.”

Turner’s team consisted of five people including himself: two certified in the installation of the system, two to educate people on how the purified water should be used, and one manager.

“I realized what an impact I could make,” Randall said of her reason for choosing to do this missionary work. “It’s not just going and making a home for a family. You’re setting up a business for them to operate and share with the community, and then you’re bringing clean

water and health into the homes of anybody that participates and purchases the water.”

Two local operators will have the job of running the filtration system as a business. The business will provide the operators with an income as well as pay for a new filter for the system annually. Turner said the operators charge the community at the rate of 75 cents to $1 for 5 gallons, which is significantly cheaper than the commercial rate and therefore much more affordable. The operators also commit to giving away 20% of the purified water they make, as there are still people who cannot afford to pay for it even at the much lower rate.

Turner said that during his recent trip to Guatemala, he spoke with some medical missionaries from Texas who asked him why they were installing water filtration systems, and they were surprised to hear that there had been an issue with the water in the area causing illness, as they said they hadn’t seen any cases related to unclean water all week.

“So now the medical teams can focus more on their serious problems and not on what we can cure with good water,” Turner said.

He said the medical mission is near to where they installed their first and most-lucrative-thus-far filtration system, and he said that he believes that it was because of the impact that site had on the community that the medi-

cal team didn’t find any water-related issues this year.

“I’m not saying there isn’t any issues in the community, but I’m saying it’s made a big difference,” Turner said.

He said all the filtration systems that they have installed are successful to different degrees. He said one produces over 200 bottles a day, and some make 10 bottles a day. He said it just depends on the operating partners, what the community needs, and how good of an entrepreneur they are.

The installation that was recently done is currently doing well and providing water for the students and their families. The site has to be certified by the government in order to provide the water to the general public. Unfortunately, the certificate takes about one to two years to acquire.

Faith Presbyterian has committed to installing at least 10 systems and therefore plans to return to Guatemala next year. In order to fund the cost of the $8,000 system and the other expenditures of the mission, the church, located at 44400 W. 10 Mile Road, will hold an annual fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. on Cinco de Mayo with a performance of Broadway tunes by John Bogden, the church choir director on piano and organ; Tim VanRiper, the assistant choir director, on vocals; and harpist Dicky Lee for a free-will donation.

a.m.-9 p.m. weekdays, 6 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays. Regional connections and transfers are available with SMART and other local carriers for out-ofboundary trip-making. Those with disabilities will receive door-to-door service.

“Congratulations to Novi, one of Oakland County’s job-rich communities, for voting to collaborate with People’s Express, expand transit service and provide more options to get to shopping, appointments, jobs and school,” Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter said in a press release. “This is great news for the residents of Novi who can now access both SMART bus service and door-to-door rides.”

Eveliina Taylor, the deputy director of Pex, said that the transportation company’s drivers are required to go through an extensive driver-safety training program. New drivers go through defensive driver, passenger safety, sensitivity, paratransit, first aid and CPR training, as well as on-the-road training.

Pex drivers are also assessed to make sure they are physically capable of securing a wheelchair properly. All drivers must sub-

mit to background checks and will have annual training to refresh their past training, and there is recurring training throughout the year. Taylor also said that the vans are equipped with dashcams to provide footage of their performance on the road. She said the cameras are visible to riders.

Mayor Justin Fischer and Councilman Dave Staudt expressed their dismay over the issue.

“Our county commissioners I expected would have been supportive of Novi being funded and providing a service that was Novi-focused and Novi-run, but clearly we have lost in this. Our residents have lost. Our seniors are going to lose. And two or three years from now, if this doesn’t work, we will have nothing to start from,” Staudt said.

Staudt also expressed concern for the cost of the service, which is estimated to be in the ballpark of $1.5 million and will be paid by Oakland County through the millage that was passed 18 months ago.

“You just heard that this service provider is going to get a million and a half dollars. Why are those funds not better served coming back into the city of Novi and letting us continue to run a program that we were doing on an extremely low-cost basis?” Staudt asked County Commissioner Ajay Raman.

Raman said that although Novi is very

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“Novi could do a really good job with $1.5 million,” Staudt said. “We could buy all-new buses. We could have full-time employees. We could have software. And we were told point-blank that was not an op-

tion, and I’d like to understand why. I’ve never gotten an explanation as to why. We’re a very capable city,” said Staudt.

Fischer expressed concern that the city might still have to budget for the seniors to get a free ride. Rides are currently free under the Novi Senior Transportation service for those traveling within the city’s boundaries

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6A/ NOVI NOTE • APRIL 4, 2024

Novi Birders to host hikes

The Novi Birders will be hosting free hikes at various parks in and around the city. Participants should bring binoculars and birding books, and wear hiking shoes. The first hike will be held 9-10 a.m. April 15 at Robert H Long Park. For more information and to register, visit cityofnovi.org or call (248) 347-0414.

Novi attains 32nd Tree City USA designation, 14th Growth Award

The city of Novi has been given a Tree City USA designation for the 32nd time.

The designation recognizes the city’s commitment to sustaining its urban forest of approximately 40,000 inventoried trees, according to a press release. Novi also earned its 14th consecutive Growth Award from the Arbor Day Foundation for going above and beyond the four Tree City USA standards, the release states.

In 2023, the city planted 514 trees and 374 shrubs. Novi contractors also pruned 2,703 street trees to help improve growth form, remove deadwood and reduce safety hazards. Novi carried out invasive species removal projects to address issues with invasive buckthorn in Rotary Park and removed invasive phragmites from parks and public rights of way throughout the city, according to the release. The city also allocated an emergency appropriation of funds for the cleanup of debris from trees in the aftermath of two severe winter storms in late winter 2023.

Michigan State University Tollgate Farm and Education Center, 28115 Meadowbrook Road in Novi, is hosting several forest therapy walks April 11-July 11. Forest therapy, also known as “shinrin yoku,” or “forest bathing,” is said to bring rest and refreshment, according to the press release.

the walks, a certified forest therapy guide will take participants into the Tollgate beech maple forest to bask in its peace and quiet. The cost of each walk is $20 per person. Participants are asked to wear appropriate attire for the weather and forest environment. The walks this month will take place 4-5:30 p.m. April 11 and 9:30-11 a.m. April 26. Preregistration is required; register at canr.msu.edu/tollgate/msu-tollgate-farm-forest-therapy.

CELEBRATION OF HOPE FUNDRAISING GALA

The Celebration of Hope Fundraising Gala benefiting New Hope Center for Grief Support will be held 6-10 p.m. May 10 at the Italian American Banquet & Conference Center, 39200 Five Mile Road in Livonia.

New Hope Center for Grief Support is a nonprofit organization dedicated to its mission of bringing hope, healing and new beginnings to adults and children grieving the death of a loved one.

Attendees will get to enjoy a sit-down dinner along with beer, wine, raffles, a cake auction, a “paddles up” giving opportunity, and a silent auction of artwork created by children who are being helped by the center, along with music and dancing provided by Audial Entertainment. Attendees also will hear stories from those the center helped with their grieving. The event will be hosted by Erica Francis, from Fox 2 Detroit, and speaker Kurt David.

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Food for Thought Food Drive

In honor of National Library Week, the Novi Public Library has partnered with Gleaners Community Food Bank to hold a nonperishable food drive to help feed the hungry April 7-13.

Boxes for the nonperishable items will be located in the lobby area. Items must be unopened and have the original label intact. The item cannot expire before Oct. 1, 2024.

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CRIME WATCH

Someone uses stolen credit card number to order groceries

Novi police were dispatched at 8:06 a.m. March 23 to a residence on Steinbeck Glen, near 13 Mile and Meadowbrook roads, after a woman discovered fraudulent charges had been made on her credit card.

The woman told police that her Capital One Venture account had been used to make unauthorized purchases at Kroger in Lincoln Park in the amount of $418.67 and again for $347. She said another unauthorized purchase was made at Fry’s Food and Drug in Georgia for $487.44.

The Novi resident contacted the credit card company and informed it that the charges were fraudulent. She said she had also contacted the Kroger in Lincoln Park. They told her that it was an online purchase and provided her with the email address to which the order was charged.

The suspect was going to pick up the groceries that morning but canceled the order. Police advised the Novi woman to contact the credit reporting agencies and notify

them that her name and credit card account had been used fraudulently. Capital One returned the money to her account, according to the police report. The woman said she wishes to prosecute if police find a suspect.

Woman scammed into providing personal information

Police were dispatched at 12:48 p.m. March 26 to the Fox Run Senior Living Facility in Novi after a woman’s identity was stolen. The woman told officers that she believes her computer had been hacked.

She told police that on the afternoon of March 22, she was checking her Chase Bank account when her laptop became frozen and a popup window emerged with a contact number for customer support. She said she did not think anything was suspicious at the time and assumed that the phone number belonged to Apple technical support.

She said she called the number on her computer screen and spoke to a “Jacob.” He confirmed that her laptop was frozen and told the woman that he would need some information from her in order for him to assist. He asked for some of her personal information, including her full name and date of birth, which she gave. The man then stated

that there was a bad connection and that he would call her back on a secured telephone line.

At around 3:50 p.m., the woman received a telephone call from an unfamiliar telephone number. The man on the other end of the call advised her that she was now on a secured telephone line and that she would need to speak with another man named “Charlie.” “Charlie” requested that she provide him with her Chase account information, and she gave him her Chase credit card number per his request. The man stated that he needed to access her account and she would need to give him her checking account number as well. The woman said she then became suspicious of the telephone conversation and immediately hung up the phone.

She said she then started receiving random phone calls from numerous unknown numbers. The woman said she checks her accounts frequently for fraudulent activity and noticed that her credit score had dropped 44 points. She contacted Chase and had Chase freeze her account. She said she had not seen any fraudulent activity but was concerned about her decreased credit score.

Police advised her to notify the three main credit bureaus and consider freezing

her credit. She was also advised to block all unknown/suspicious telephone numbers and contact the Novi Police Department if she notices any fraudulent activity. The woman said that she would like to seek prosecution if a suspect is identified.

— Charity Meier

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and $5 for those going outside the boundaries of the city. Pex will charge seniors and those with disabilities $2 a ride, and younger riders without a disability $4 a ride.

“If we go down this path and we still have to subsidize out of our budget for our seniors to get a free ride, that’s going to be very disappointing with the amount of money that Novi residents put into the county, and with how much money is going from the county to this program. The fact that this city would then still have to pony-up and pay for that $2, if the county and Pex can’t figure that out, I will be very disappointed,” Fischer said. “I find this to be a pretty early and not fully well-thought-out strategy at this point. We’re hearing the word ‘outsourcing’ and how we do it all the time, and I love outsourcing when we might be able to save a little money or maybe it’s cleaning some of our facilities or maybe we help our (Department of Public Works) and maybe hire some other firms to do some of our snowplowing. I don’t outsource our people. I wouldn’t outsource our parks department to do camps for my kids, and I don’t think we should be outsourcing this on our most vulnerable residents, our seniors.”

The council approved of Pex with a vote of 4-3. Fischer, Staudt and Councilwoman Priya Gurumurphy voted against the move. There will be a 90-day adjustment period before Novi Senior Transportation is eliminated.

“I commend our staff on the work they have done both here in the Civic Center and all of the drivers for the work that they’ve done. Our movement to Pex is not in any way, shape or form any kind of indication that we are less than happy with the service that we have been providing all these years,” Casey said. “This is just our chance to enhance it.”

“For the first time ever, all Novi residents will soon have access to local connector transit, brought to us by the Oakland County Public Transportation millage,” County Commissioner Gwen Markham said in a press release. “Everyone who needs an alternative to driving will have new options, beginning this summer.”

Call Staff Writer Charity Meier at (586) 498-1092.

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French bulldogs head up popular breeds in Detroit

METRO DETROIT — French bulldogs have secured the crown for the third straight year in the American Kennel Club’s annual rankings of popular dog breeds in Detroit.

Rottweilers came in second followed by German shepherds, golden retrievers and Labrador retrievers. Make sure not to count beagles out in future years. The breed climbed the rankings from 27th in 2022 to 12 in the new rankings, which looked at 2023.

This is the second year that French bulldogs have taken the crown in the national rankings too.

“Since overtaking the loveable Labrador Retriever as the most popular breed, the French Bulldog’s popularity has continued to surge,” the AKC states in a press release. “The breed is playful, adaptable and has an even temperament. Frenchies are very popular among city dwellers, as they’re also portable and get along with almost anyone.”

French bulldogs also topped AKC lists in Denver and Miami.

“Founded in 1884, the American Kennel Club is a not-for-profit organization which maintains the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world and oversees the sport of purebred dogs in the United States,” the press release states.

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Mobility

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ing more senior members of the council, such as himself, on committees. “I would be very opposed to trying to force sidewalks or pathways in the areas that have long been determined as a very bad place to put them. If people are concerned now with what we are doing now with roads to fix up things, just wait if you want to put a sidewalk down where there is a place where there is absolutely nothing but straight trees and berms.”

Mayor Pro Tem Laura Casey said the plan is generally a very solid plan, but that she had concerns over the wording in specific areas.

“There’s a couple places in here where there are things that are recommendations that I don’t think read as clearly as recommendations as they should. So when they get adopted, it’s going to look like this becomes council policy in certain instances, and there are some places where I’m not super comfortable with that,” she said.

She also agreed that there are areas where it is not practicable to put sidewalks on both sides of the road.

“I think, generally, this is a rock-solid plan. I think some of the ideas that you highlight really resonate with me,” Casey said. “A lot of this is what kind of drove me to start talking about that we needed a mobility committee versus a walkable committee and versus a roads committee, because so much of what you talk about in here is that right combination of, as we’re doing road projects, pay attention to the rest of the mobility around them. So, it is the crosswalks. It is making sure that we’ve got clear pathways and all of that.”

Mayor Justin Fischer was highly critical of the plan, which he said should not come as a surprise. He cited issues with requiring 8-to-10-foot sidewalks and the plan claiming that Fox Run is the area where people most likely need non-motorized transit. He said he believes they need other types of mobility there, but that they’re not most dependent on non-motorized transit at Fox Run. He said a lot of the items in the plan don’t match up with “reality” or a policy that he can support for the city of Novi.

The council ultimately voted 4-3 to approve the plan, with Fischer, Staudt and Casey in opposition.

Call Staff Writer Charity Meier at (586) 4981092.

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HVAC Product Design Engineer, Novi, MI - Req: BS/forgn equiv deg in ME or a rel fld & 5 yrs’ exp in product & component development of HVAC products & mftg eng’g sytms for automotive parts mftr. Must have demonstrated kwldg of automotive eng’g,DFMEA, 8D, PPAP, APQP, GD&T & CAD.CV: HR, Hanon Systems USA, LLC, 39600 Lewis Dr., Novi, MI 48377. 0026-2414

E&FP Product Development Engineer, Novi, MI - Req: BS/forgn equiv deg in ME or a rel fld & 2 yrs’ eng’g exp in mechanical device design & development. Must have demonstrated kwldg of variety of eng’g, statistics & CAD SW methods thru edu or exp. Stated exp must incl at least 1 yr exp w/ hydraulic equipment or components.

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