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City, Continued from page 12
Spring. Plans include six beautiful
housing units with garages attached.
Webb mentioned that in the fu-
ture she’d like to focus on filling va-
cant buildings in the DDA, as well as
do more with the Rouge River like an
ADA kayak ramp from Goudy and
trail connectivity.
“I would love for people to launch
a kayak at Goudy,” said Webb. “The
city has great potential, great bones.
It just needed life to be breathed “I would love for people to launch a
back into it.”
Webb and the administrative kayak at Goudy,” said City Manager
team are working on maximizing the Diane Webb.
city’s potential. city council, the DDA Board, and our
“As great as my team is, we could- community stakeholders for all they
n't do anything without the blessing do for the city of Wayne!
from the council. The council and “I'm really looking forward to the
the mayor have been very supportive future and seeing our visions becom-
of our ideas. They help us move for- ing a reality,” said Webb. “It doesn't
ward,” said Webb. feel like a job when you love what
Thank you to the city’s adminis- you do and that's how I feel, I love
trative team, the support from the what I'm doing.”

Memory, Continued from page 8 the new Harroun Plant, but a fire in
the late 1920s burned down many of
of carriages. In 1916 the land, build- the original buildings. Part of the
ings and equipment were sold for original brick 1888 2-story building
$40,000 to Harroun Motors, a car survived however on Elizabeth
company. Street into the 1990s, before it was
Much of the original Prouty and torn down for a parking lot for
Glass plant was incorporated into trucks.

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