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MANCHESTER ENTERPRISE
VOL. 143, NO. 16
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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011

Dispensaries
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Commission recommended
a stricter ordinance banning
dispensaries in the village at its
meeting last week.
Chairman Ron Milkey said
the commission took the advice
of the village attorney, and
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council to ban dispensaries
altogether and only allow home-
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“Upon review of the village
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attorney, he highly recom-
mended we not allow dispen-
saries,” he said. “The planner
commissioners showed some
frustration.”
While the commission previ-
ously modeled the ordinance
after Dexter’s example, the new Connect with
plan mirrors those in Pinckney
or York Township, Milkey said.
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discussed allowing dispensaries on the home page of our
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which would have limited them
to south of West Main Street
and north of Territorial. It also
recommended dispensaries be
located at least 1,000 feet away
from schools to comply with fed-
eral drug-free school zones.
The limitation will affect
several areas of town, limiting
home-based growers – which
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“That effectively is going to
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minimize the number of care-
giver operations on the east side
of the village,” Milkey said.
He said there has been at
least one individual in the vil-
lage that has requested to oper-
ate as a caregiver from his home
that lives within 1,000 feet of the
schools, but Milkey said no one
will be grandfathered in.
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Patients that live within 1,000
St. Mary Catholic Church held its annual Lenten breakfast Wednesday April 13 in the Fr. Fisher Hall.
Facebook:
feet of a school are still allowed We already have more
to use marijuana for medicinal By Betty Cummings he explained that the church the objects in the nave and Cross (or Stations) encircle than 170 fans on Facebook.
purposes. Guest Writer represents the Gospel of Jesus sanctuary. The baptismal font the nave. They depict scenes Click on the Facebook tab
The village council voted Christ built out of stone. is always located near the of the Passion beginning with on the home page of our
Monday to extend the morato- About sixty women from the Members of the church are entrance because we enter Pilate condemning Jesus to Web site or search for us
rium on medical marijuana to Manchester area gathered in Fr. called living stones. The first the church through baptism. death, His carrying of the on Facebook.
allow for proper adoption. The Fisher Hall at St. Mary Catholic St. Mary’s Church was built The people sit in the nave. The cross through the streets of
previous moratorium was set to Church for the annual Lenten in 1871 and was located at the stained glass windows block out Jerusalem, the crucifixion and
expire May 1. breakfast Wednesday, April 13. corner of Macomb and Wager the world and are reminders death on the cross, and His
Each year, for well over forty streets. When it was outgrown, of the heavenly kingdom. In being placed in the sepulcher.
Sign ordinance years, a different area church the present church on Main the early years of the church, The custom of praying the
The commission declined has hosted this event. Ladies Street was built in 1911. Father they were used for teaching Stations began in the Holy Land
to take action on the sign ordi- of St. Mary Altar Society pro- Tim explained that Catholic and depicted scenes from the where early Christians walked The Marketplace:
nance, which was sent back vided the breakfast and Theresa churches are named after Jesus Bible. Now, they are reminders along the way of the passion. Local ads are just a hop
to them by village council on Pellican, a student at Madonna Christ or a particular saint. of heaven and of Our Lord. St. The Stations in local churches away at the MIcentral.com
April 4. College and member of St. This church is named after his Mary’s windows are beautiful are a way Christians can walk marketplace. While you are
The council sent it back for Mary’s, played background mother, St. Mary. The statue in in their simplicity. the way of the passion and not there, you can check out
review after discussion at its music. Fr. Edwin A. Fisher the niche over the door is St. The podium or ambo have to go to the Holy Land. A all the special supplements
meeting about the ordinance, built St. Mary Church 100 years Mary with her arms extended where God’s Word is read, the brochure was passed out with of Journal Register Co.
which was sparked by Dawna ago. The church basement was down to us. She is called Our presider’s chair, and the altar a picture of each station and a newspapers in Michigan.
Stockwell of Stockwell’s renovated in 2004 and named Fr. Lady of Grace. There is a cross are in the sanctuary. A veiled devotion that may be prayed at Click on “marketplace”
Catering on Adrian Street. Fisher Hall in his honor. on the tower and Mary is placed tabernacle is located in the any time. The church is usually on the home page of our
Following breakfast, Fr. below the cross. center of the altar and candles open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. every Web site or go directly to
Stockwell petitioned the vil- www.marketplace.micen-
lage to allow a sandwich board Timothy D. Krzyzaniak, Pastor, The women then went burn to indicate that Jesus day. Anyone may stop in to be
took the women on a tour of inside where Fr. Tim described Christ is present in the Holy with the Lord in a calm, sacred tral.com/ROP/Categories.
PLEASE SEE DISPENSARIES/13-A the church. Starting outside, the parts of the church and Eucharist. The Stations of the place to pray. aspx.

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