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Man reported to be suicidal, ring gun

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Standoff ends after ve hours

the man was taken into custody. At about 9:15 p.m. Sunday, Monroe County Sheriff deputies were dispatched to the 13000 block of Wabash Road in response to a reportedly suicidal man, according to a press release from the Monroe County Sheriff s Office. Upon arrival deputies determined a man in his mid-20s, presumed armed, was within a residence of the block. Negotiators contacted him and were able to convince him to surrender about five hours later. He was arrested at about 2:15 a.m. Monday without further incident. He was taken to Monroe County Jail and is facing possible charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. He was expected to be arraigned Monday in First District Court in Monroe. Investigators learned the man had an argument with his wife. According to the Monroe County Sheriff s Office, the distraught man exited the residence with a gun and fired some shots. His wife fled with their 3-month-old child to a neighbors home. The Monroe County Sheriff s Office responded with a special response team, crisis negotiators and an aviation unit. Michigan State Police and the Milan Police Department also responded. Milan police assisted by redirecting traffic moving toward the scene. Wabash Road was closed south of Milan, just past the railroad tracks near Redman Road. Milan Area Fire Department, Monroe County Ambulance and the American Red Cross also assisted at the scene of the standoff.

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Police were at a standoff with an alleged gunman for about five hours Sunday night in Milan Township until the situation was resolved peacefully and

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Paddock Elementary School may soon be offering full-day kindergarten, if the Milan Board of Education approves the plan next month.

Trustees voice their support of the change

By Lori Maranville
Special Writer

Full-day kindergarten is a step closer to reality at Milan Area Schools, after

the school board had the first reading of a resolution to change the program from half-day to full-day. The issue will be put to a board vote during its regular meeting in March. Many trustees voiced their support of the resolution, citing the financial, academic and social gains if the program is implemented.

Its a no-brainer, as far as whats right for the kids, said Board of Education President John Leacher. Milan Schools Superintendent Bryan Girbach said the cost of not implementing full-day kindergarten would be about $530,565 for the school
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Foster grandmother shares civil rights experience with kids

Sands stresses importance of respect, equality
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First- and second-grade students in Elizabeth Sutherland and Molly Jeppesens classrooms at Paddock Elementary School are enjoying a rare learning experience. In the shadow of Martin Luther King Day and in the middle of Black History Month, students are learning firsthand what life was like for a young black girl growing up In Webster Grove, Mo., before desegregation. Classroom foster grandmother and former civil rights activist Elizabeth Sands tells the students about inequities, and how

she, her family and friends worked to change those unfair practices. With the moral of her stories intended to help the children see that skin color isnt important, the 83-year-old stresses treating everyone with respect. She tells the children in a softspoken voice, We need to mingle and get to know one another. Sands recounted lifetime events of prejudice and what she and the black community did to achieve equality. Sands began her weekly talks by telling the students a trip to the local ice cream parlor on a Sunday afternoon, in the 1940s, was anything but fun. She said her father always brought ice cream treats home after church services. One Sunday, they decided

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Elizabeth Sands is photographed with students in teachers Elizabeth Sutherland and Molly Jeppesens classroom. Sands addressed the students, telling lifetime stories of her experience with the civil rights movement. to go inside and eat the ice cream, she said. Sands said she had no idea they wouldnt be welcome. It would be several years before peaceful protests changed the ice cream parlor policy allowing black people to eat inside. It was a really big thing to go out for ice cream in those days, Sands said. But we couldnt eat there, she told the students. With another story, Sands told the students how she and friends got the people of Webster Grove to allow black people the right to swim in the community pool. It was a hot summer day and they wanted to go swimming, she said, even though they knew they wouldnt be allowed. They walked the two miles to the pool and tried to go in. Sands said each time they made the trip, they were more prepared and developed a winning strategy. The teens attempted to abide by all the rules. They dressed in their swimsuits, took along an adult, and each time they went, they
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