I built the Village exactly as the model, to a total size of 56'wide by 94'long.
Totaling 5,264 sq. foot. Buildings numbered 1,2,3,9,10, and 11 are 12'w x 16'L. Buildings 5,6, and 7 are 16'w x 16'L.
Buildings 4,8 and 12 are 12'w x 12'L. All include 4' wide sidewalks. There's a 10'w x 56'L road in front of the Village
and it sets on a 5,264 square foot black, in-door out-door carpet to protect the gym floors and has white
lines painted on it for the roads. There's 2 8'w x 56L one way streets and 2 two 8'w x 94L two way streets, 2 flashing 4-way
blinkers, 1 working red light, 4 flashing railroad signals with sound tracks, 6 stop signs, 7 telephone poles, a baseball
and misc. items for different lessons. A truck, bus and a car are parked on the streets and a 10'L. x 8'H. x 6'w. school
bus with working flashers is parked on the road in front of the Village. There's 3 mannequins with tape recorded messages,
switches on the sides of the buildings to control everything and the 7 telephone poles supply the electric to make everything
work. (pg.17)
The right front is the
staging area, where the children are assembled and the first lesson starts with a police officer introducing himself to the
kids, and making small talk to calm them down a little. The program is for Kindergarten thru 2nd graders, they go through
the program two times about two weeks apart because they are too excited to retain all the lessons the first time. The officer
starts off with the lesson on how to cross the street, the next lesson is school-bus safety, how to wait for the school
bus, how to approach it and how to get on and off the bus as well as bus etiquette while riding the bus.
They then walk past city hall, (building#1), the officer than instructs them on just what a stop sign is and how
to cross a one way street. They are now walking past the Theater and the officer presses a button on the front of the
theater and a mannequin across the street, (building#6, bus-station and travel center), has a taped message of a man offering
them candy, the officer goes through the stranger lesson and then comes to the R.R. tracks, he reaches up to the button
at that end of the building, presses it and the sound effects for the R.R. tracks start up, the signals start
flashing, after the sound and flashers stop he explains the R.R. safety lessons. They cross the tracks and
pass the sporting goods store. The officer explains a one-way street and what the blinking 4-way flasher means. They then
cross the one-way street and turn left at (building#4, the chamber of commerce). They cross the 2-way street with the
aid of a 8Th grade patrol person while the officer explains patrols, then they pass in front of the school (building#8), and
stop while they get there breath, ask questions etc. the officer than presses a button on the school and a mannequin across
the street (building#7, a fast food restaurant) dressed like a police officer with a taped message says hi to them. The officer
then explains the difference of waving to a officer and flagging one down for help. They then cross the street (another 4-way
flashing light) to the fire house (building #12) turn left and cross the 2-way street walking in front of a family restaurant
(building#11) cross the R.R. tracks and continue walking in front of the video store (building#10) where the officer gets
a base-ball that is stored there that he tosses out into the street, one or more of the kids always runs out to get it for
him and he lectures them about not running out in the street. He then reaches up to a panel of 3 buttons that control
the red, yellow and green for the red light and explains how to cross at a red light and what the colors mean. They are now
walking in front of (building#9) a safe house. The officer pushes a button on the building and a mannequin dressed like a
older woman with a tape recorded message describes a safe house, how to identify one, what it's for and when to go into one.
Another stop sign lesson, cross the road and the children get there first diploma. (of hopefully several throughout there
school years), stating that they went through and passed the Safetyville Village course. Then there's free ice-cream
supplied by the local merchants and a barrel for parents to put donations in. It takes up to one hr. and 15 minutes to
take a class of up to 15 kids at a time through the Village. A lot of the schools in the county school system will make this
a field day and have the parents transport the kids to and from the school that is hosting the program. ( Safetyville
is an in-school program). pg.(17)
When I think of all the things I've
done, I think of my father. He had to quit school in the third grade to help on the family farm, buy the time I was 13, he
had taught me how to read Feeler gauges, Calipers, drill bit sizes, tool and bolt sizes and more. Two months before my 13th
birthday I overhauled a motor; rings and valves, filed rod and main bearings to near perfect tolerances and made all the gaskets,
except the head gasket. The older I get the more amazed I am at all the technical knowledge he had for a third grade dropout.
By Sept. of 1992, I had spent about $2,500 of my own money when I decided to see if I could get
some of the money that had been donated to Sheriff LaJoye for the program. I
called LaJoye and he told me that he had given the money to a lady in Bad Axe that was head of the Michigan Education Association,
that she would give the money out for the schools to build the project, that didn't sound right so I called the lady he said
he gave the money to. She knew of Safetyville and sheriff LaJoye but never got any money or anything from LaJoye. The following
week I called LaJoye back and told him about the lady he said he gave the money to, he said he forgot that he had to put it
in the treasury and got mixed up, that it was in the Shiawassee County treasury ear-marked for Safetyville in the spring.
I called the treasurers office and the treasury secretary said that they had wondered what had happened to all the money,
that he, LaJoye, had mentioned in the paper that he would open a special account with her just for Safetyville but he never
opened it. She then went on to say that it would have been illegal for him to cash the checks anywhere else because they were
made out to the Shiawassee County Sheriffs Department and would have to be deposited in the county treasury. I thanked her
and called LaJoye back. He was very upset with me and said he had had about enough of me questioning him and said he would
have me arrested for hassling an officer of the law if I was of any more bother concerning Safetyville or anything else for
that matter and hung up. I called the prosecuting attorney's office and talked to the prosecutor, Ward L. Clarkson, and explained
the situation to him, he said call him back next week, he would look into it. I called Clarkson,back and he said that LaJoye
had cashed the checks at the Shiawassee County credit pg.(23) union where he has an account, though it may not be ethical he didn't brake any laws by not putting the money in the
treasury. Several people told me it was illegal so I went to an attorney that told me to call the state Attorney generals
office. That office said that it was definitely illegal to call the prosecutor back and tell him that the Attorney Generals
office said it was illegal and for him to call there office if he had a problem with that. I called Clarkson and
told him what the Attorney General told me, Clarkson said he would check into it to call him back in two weeks, I called him
back two week later and he said he was looking into it "these things take time you know, why don't you call back at the
end of the month that should be sufficient". I called back on the 28Th. of Oct. and he said "well I looked
into it but there's nothing I can do about it, the statue of limitations expired on everything last week". I lost
it and called him a crooked bastard, he yelled "your going to jail, your going to jail" and slammed the phone down.
(23) That pathetic degenerate Ward L. Clarkson, proved himself to be Michigan Judge material over the years,
by lying, rigging juries, protecting drug dealers and other low-life perisites the SOB feeds off so well the disgusting
in-bred fool is a judge now. pg.15 pg.(19). This was actually the first time he would yell this out with such passion. (19) The second time he yelled it was in the courthouse waiting area when I took a picture of Lupe, (17).I wanted to take it and info on Corona to someone that would get it to a friend in the Bandidos MC. They both
lied, putting a few of them in prison.
I was more determined than ever now to finish the program and sold my gold nuggets, most of my beads and some antiques
I had acquired over the years, raising about $8,000 in all and started buying my medication in joints, (pg.17) cutting down considerably to several joints over the week-ends. I ate in
a Mexican restaurant 3 days a week, on Friday nights buying my medication from the waiter. While this is going on I'm working
60 hours a week on Safetyville, feeling I deserve to go out partying on Fri. and Sat. nights. I see Judge Lostracco's (pg.20)wife at several of my rounds, She's drinking, smoking pot and snorting coke like there's no tomorrow along
with several other prominent local figures. Charles Chandler (Ernie) is hosting most of the parties and is now called the
snow-man, between the money he's making from the good Dr.s drugs and the coke I'm thinking I'm in the wrong business. February
4Th. 1993. It's been a year to the day since I started building Safetyville and I decide to splurge on an ounce of medication.
I tell my waiter (Lupe Garcia) that I would like to get a ounce, and he says "come in tomorrow at this time (12:30 pm)
my guy will be hear then, I can't afford a whole ounce at once". I say OK, and went in the next day gave Lupe $125.00,
he put it in his apron and took the coffee over to a Mexican guy sitting in the back of the restaurant and came back with
an ounce for me. I finished my meal and left. This was the last time I would buy any medication for several years, by the
time it was gone I had decided to quit for a while. It wasn't unusual for me to quit for 6 or 7 years at a time. I'll never
forget that day though, or the Mexican he got the pot from. (cont.,pg.17)
