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Rally for Gordy
July 30 fundraiser planned at St. Pauls Church

(myelodysplastic syndromes), a bone marrow
Tri-City Times Staff Writer
disease that may have
resulted from earlier radia IMLAYCITY
tion and chemotherapy
Friends and family of
Gordon Gordy Valdez are treatments for a tumor of
the esophagus.
rallying in support of the
It was recently deterlocal resident who is
engaged in a difficult battle mined that treatment for his
current condition will
against cancer.
require a bone marrow
On Saturday, July 30,
Gordys supporters will host transplant at Henry Ford
Hospital in Detroit.
a benefit/fundraiser at St.
Fortunately, Gordys sisPauls Lutheran Church in
ter, Esther Shimmons of
Imlay City, starting at 4:30
Attica, was recently tested
p.m.
The fundraiser will fea- and found to be a close
ture a pig roast, live auction match for his bone marrow.
and other activities to assist LuAnn Valdez, Gordys
wife of 43 years, remains
Valdez and his family with
hopeful that the bone maraccumulating medical
row transplant will be sucexpenses.
Valdez, 64, was recently cessful.
Meanwhile, Gordy is
diagnosed with MDS
undergoing a fourth round

of chemotherapy at
Karmanos of Lapeer.
Gordys health issues
began in 2012, when he
began having problems
swallowing and consulted a
doctor, leading to the discovery of a large tumor in
his esophagus.
Following removal of
the tumor, Gordy went
through an extended recovery period and was eventually able to return to work.
Several months ago,
however, the symptoms of
MDS appeared and in late
April, he was forced to take
a one-year leave of absence
from his sales job at Milnes
Ford in Lapeer.
Photo by Tom Wearing
By Tom Wearing
Pictured with Gordy and LuAnn are their grandchildren, Tabitha and Alysa
Clark, along with their beloved dog, Sasha.
Gordy page 10-A
Chef Ray = culinary bliss

coordinator earlier this year.
His job is to oversee all of
Tri-City Times Assistant Editor
their catering and barbeque
ALMONT The
jobs along with some of the
Country Smoke House is
retail items sold from their
known around the state and
store. Certified as an execubeyond for its award-winning tive chef through the
meat and other food prodAmerican Culinary
ucts. One of their newest
Federation, he came to his
staff members, responsible
new post with close to 40
for creating the signature
years of experience in makdishes that come from the
ing good food but says hes
kitchen is Chef Ray
excited to dive into new venHollingsworth.
tures at the store and in the
Hollingsworth became
community.
the Smoke Houses culinary Ive never worked at a
By Maria Brown
place with as much quality as

this and were ready to go to
the next level, he said.
Besides working in the
industry, Hollingsworth hosted his own public access
cooking show and works
with the next generation of
culinary professionals as a
part-time instructor at
Macomb Community
College.
At his new post,
Hollingsworth is looking forward to launching on-site
cooking classes, working
with local farmers markets

and technical education programs and helping non-profit
groups and other organizations create fantastic fundraising dinners.
Having the Smoke
Houses reputation to work
with makes that job an easy
one.
Steve and Sue really
emphasize quality. They put
their name on a product and
stand behind it, he said of
Chef Ray page 10-A
Photo by Maria Brown
Almont Country Smoke House chef dedicated to delicious
Chef Ray Hollingsworth joined the Country Smoke

House staff earlier this year and says he looks forward to new ventures at the well-known business
and within the community.
Lapeer Countys hidden gem

Master Gardeners Garden on Suncrest wows visitors from across area
By Catherine Minolli
waterfall, lily pads and live

fish.
A water feature is also
TRI-CITY AREA
part of the Japanese garden,
Residents didnt have to travwhich includes a gazebo,
el to London to enjoy an
statues and a welcome sign
authentic tea in the garden
thats written in Japanese
experience over the weekend.
characters.
They only had to go as far as
Youngsters can play in
Lapeer.
the Childrens Garden
The annual Tea in the
where a large, weatherproof
Garden event hosted by the
xylophone beckons to be
Lapeer CountyMaster
heard.
Gardeners (LCMG) drew
This is one of the best
480 visitors, who enjoyed tea
parts of the garden, Paine
and snacks served on china
says. Having people come
plates with all the finery.
out, kids and everyone, and
There were two seatings at
answering their questions
linen-topped tables at the
and showing that theres
Garden on Suncrest on
always something new to
Sunday afternoon, one at
look at.
Lapeer
County
Master
Gardener
Candice
Meyer
12:30 and one at 2:40.
Answering questions and
prepares mulch to spread around Japanese
Great for seeking either
pointing out items of interest
Garden. Meyer also helps take care of the labyserenity and meditation or
is one of the purposes of the
rinth garden at Holy Redeemer Church in Dryden.
relaxation and fun, the
garden.
expertly groomed gardens
Part of our charge is to
are on a par with world-class spot is amazing, she says,
est at every turn.
and working in the garden
botanical gardens. And
The Kissing Dove foun- educate and introduce horticulture to the community,
is just so peaceful. You dont tain greets guests near the
theyre lovingly tended by
Paine says. Its also called a
mind
it
even
if
youre
just
Lapeer County Master
entrance. Paine says its a
demonstration garden by
working by yourself.
Gardeners.
popular spot for photogra Peaceful, tranquil and
Treasurer and display
phers as the fountain attracts some.
Whatever you wish to
garden chairman Mary Paine colorful are among the many all sorts of birds and bees
call it, the LCMG Garden on
says the one-acre garden plot terms visitors might use to
who stop for a sip of water.
is a labor of love for LCMG describe the garden.
There is a perennial gar- Suncrest rivals the best in the
midwest, and draws visitors
With 625 feet of paved
enthusiasts.
den, an annual garden, herb
from as far away as Canada.
pathways, the Garden on
Being able to see that
and butterfly gardens and a
Gem page 10-A
Suncrest
offers
areas
of
intermany different plants in one
water garden complete with a
Imlay Citys own Hunter Pope contemplates next

brush stroke.
Art in Action
Public invited to meet the artists
at free event Thursday, July 14th
By Nicholas Pugliese
Tri-City Times Contributing Writer
IMLAY CITY The

downtown area is about to
become a new destination for
art lovers thanks to the Art in
Action Initiative.

The
Imlay
City
Downtown
Development
Authority (DDA) is set to
host a unique meet-and-greet
with Imlay Citys two resident artists, Randy Hughes
and Hunter Pope, on
Thursday, July 14th from 6-8
p.m.
The artists, who have
been commissioned by the
DDA to create large works of
public art for the program,
say theyre excited to have
their work displayed prominently in downtown locations
for years to come.
Its really cool, Pope
says, Im looking forward to
it.
Thursdays Art in Action
Meet and Greet is open to the
Art page 10-A
Photo by Catherine Minolli
Photo by Nicholas Pugliese
Tri-City Times Editor
Park upgrade
Food for families
Visitors to Almont Community

Park will enjoy new pavilion,
...see page 3-A
St. Pauls Church program

in need of donations,
...see page 12-A
PAGE 2-A-TRI-CITY TIMES-JULY 13, 2016
By Tom Wearing
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have led to a July 4 house fire
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Ashes re-ignite, causing

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Car pulled from pond in Attica

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Almont Police Chief Pat
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find pavilion upgrades
By Tom Wearing
painted which included spray

painting the pavilions ceiling.
Peltier noted that the
upgrades were designed to
minimize future maintenance, while enhancing the
building both physically and
aesthetically.
During his brief comments prior to the ribbon cutting, Peltier acknowledged
the community spirit of
Almont Jaycee and Almont
Lions Club members who in
1976, fundraised and constructed the pavilion, using
donated materials and volunteer workers.
He also thanked DNR
representative Amy Matisoff
for her efforts in coordinating
ALMONT Almont
Park Board members on
Thursday, July 7, celebrated
the completion of scheduled
upgrades to the 40-year-old
pavilion
at
Almont
Community Park.
Prior to Thursdays
Music in the Park concert
featuring Double Play, Park
Board members gathered for
a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Gary Peltier, Village
Councilman/Park
Board
Chairman, said the total cost
for the project was $72,500,
with $44,800 of that amount
coming from a Michigan
Dept. of Natural Resources
(DNR) Recreational Passport

Grant.
He said the remainder of
the costs were shared by
Almont and Almont Village,
each of whom contributed
$7,500; and funds from the
Almont Park Boards budget.
Peltier listed the recent
upgrades, all of which were
to the pavilions exterior;
included: new metal roofing;
replacement of four entry
doors; installation of new
gutters and siding; new
LEDlighting; landscaping;
and the creation of three
dedicated handicapped parking spaces and walkways
from the parking lot to the
pavilion.
The structure was also re-
Terry Stroh, Denny Dwyer and Dennis Hanselman of the Double Play band
entertain the audience at Thursdays concert at Almont Community Park.
Improvements include new roof, gutters, siding, & more
Park Boards Gary Peltier cuts the ribbon while project supporters Paul
Schafer, Gene Ramin, Dave Love, Tarik Taskin, Kim Keesler, Rick Lauer, Wes
Wagester, Sarah Moyer-Cale, Paul Curzydlo and Mindy Steffler look on.
the Passport Grant, along
with Almont Townships
Board of Trustees and
Supervisor Paul Bowman;
Almont Village Council and
Council President Steve
Schneider; architect/Almont
resident Jeff Szczepanski of
Partners in Architecture; and
the Mid-Thumb Contracting
Group.
Were very pleased with
how things have turned out,
said Peltier. I think everyone did a great job and were
appreciative to everyone who
helped bring this project to
fruition.
The Almont Community
Park Board includes: Gary
Peltier, chairman; Terry
Roach, vice chairman;
Roberta Kudsin, secretary;
Rick Tobias, treasurer; and
Board
members
Wes
Wagester, Kim Schall,
Kristine Todaro and Kathy
Swanger.
In conjunction with
Peltiers duties, he also
schedules the entertainment
for the Park Boards Thursday
night Music In The Park
series.
The weekly summer concerts run from 7-9 p.m.
through Thursday, Aug. 11.
Concert sponsors include
local businesses and organizations, including the Four
County
Community
Foundation.
Upcoming concerts
July 14: The Lapeer
Symphony Orchestra, sponsored by Almont Downtown
Dentistry and the Chamber
of Commerce.
July 21: Wayward
Wind, sponsored by Mobil
X.
July 28: Rock of Ages
swing band, sponsored by the
Law Offices of Steve
Schneider.
Aug. 4: The Hackwells
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Deloy benefit Saturday at Spartys

IMLAYCITY Friends
of local wheelchair athlete
Jason Deloy will host a benefit in his honor on Saturday,
July 16 at Spartys Sport Bar
& Grill.
The fundraiser will run
from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. and
include an auction, raffles,
pool competitions, music and
more.
Money raised from the
event will go toward the purchase of a new hand-controlled three-wheel motorcycle for Deloy.
Seriously injured in a
motorcycle accident in 2008,
Deloy remains active, competing in the Thunder in the
Valley Wheelchair Olympics
games in recent years.
Deloy collected nine
medals at the 2016 competition at Saginaw Valley State
University held June 2-5.
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and those throughout the local
community.
For the second straight
year, he has been invited to
take part in the Imlay City
Blueberry Parade, to take
place on Saturday, July 23.

Spartys Bar & Grill is
located at 145 E. Capac Rd.
(old M-21) in Imlay City.

Those unable to attend
the fundraiser but interested
in making a donation to
the cause are encouraged to
contact Jason at 810-5420158.
Insurance and the Chamber

of Commerce.
Aug. 11: 3rd Degree
Burns performs classic rock,
sponsored by Gear Master.
Almont Lions Club members will be on hand to sell
refreshments (hot dogs, cold
beverages, coffee) during the
concerts.
In the event of inclement
weather, the concerts will be
moved inside the Almont
Lions Hall, which is located
at 222 Water Street, adjacent
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ALMONT The village

is looking to formulate a protocol that will allow employees and staff to safely report
or communicate matters of
concern to the village council.
Village Manager Sarah
Moyer-Cale indicated that
such a protocol would also
apply to personnel issues that
are brought to the attention of
council members.
She said a council committee, including Steve
Schneider, Tim Dyke and
Mindy Steffler; has been
established for the purpose of
developing a protocol.
There have been challenges ensuring that everyone
involved is equipped with the
most accurate information,
Moyer-Cale said. The com-
mittee was formed in hopes of

rectifying that in the future.
The committees formation comes in the aftermath of
the departure of former Police
Chief Pat Nael, who resigned
his position unexpectedly on
June 21.
Naels previous contract
was set to expire at midnight
on June 21, pending the
renewal of a new one-year
contract.
When the council voted
6-1 (Tim Dyke dissented) to
not renew his contract, Nael
decided to tender his resignation, effective immediately.
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closed session, Council
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led to the councils decision
to not renew the chiefs contract.
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the roadway before striking a
high pressure gas valve and a
tree on the north side of the
road.
There was no fire, said
Kustowski, but there was a
strong smell of (natural) gas
leaking from the pressure
release valve.
He said firefighters stood
by at the scene for four hours
awaiting the arrival of
Consumers Power workers to
shut off the gas flow.
All told, Imlay City firefighters were on the scene a
total of six hours, said

Kustowski.
Crash alcohol-related
Also responding to the
scene was Imlay City Police
Officer Cory Martin, who
found the 51-year-old male
driver walking westbound
along East Capac Road, away
from the accident scene.
A Lapeer County Sheriffs
Dept. report indicated that
Martin had detected a strong
odor of intoxicants and asked
the motorist if he had been
drinking, to which he replied
yes.
Martin added that the
motorist, who indicated he was
from Imlay City, was not very
cooperative at the scene. He
was believed to be alone in the
vehicle when it crashed.
Staff from Lapeer County
EMStransported the motorist
to McLaren Lapeer Region
Hospital, where he was treated
for minor injuries and tested
for drug and alcohol use.
The name of the motorist
has not been released, pending
a 9 a.m. court appearance and
expected arraignment in
Lapeer on Tuesday, July 19.
IMLAY CITY Enjoy a grilled chicken barbeque at

the Blueberry Festival on Friday, July 22. From 4-9 p.m.,
the Imlay City Rotary Club will again offer their freshgrilled chicken dinner, which includes a half-chicken and
two sides. Chefs from Almonts Country Smoke House
will be manning the grills. The cost is $10; carryout also
available. The Rotary Chicken Barbeque tent will be
located at the corner of Third and Main streets, next to the
beverage tent.
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considered, but that the search
will be expanded to ensure
that the best possible candidate for the job is hired.
Meanwhile,
Almont
Police Sgt. Andrew Martin
has assumed the interim chief
duties.
Bosma ruling on tap
There is no new information on the status of former
Police Sgt. Mark Bosma, who
was dismissed by the department in October of 2015.
Bosma, a 22-year veteran
of the Almont department,
filed a grievance with the village, requesting arbitration
and reinstatement to his fulltime position, along with back
pay dating back to his dismissal.
Birmingham-based Labor
Attorney Brandon Fournier
said Bosmas arbitration hearing has already taken place
and that a ruling is expected
within 60 days.
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Despite that decision, the

council agreed to award the
former chief with a $48,000
payout, including six-months
pay, equivalent to $30,000,
and accumulated paid time
off amounting to $18,000.
Nael had been earning
$60,000 per year and did not
receive health benefits from
the village.
In light of the large payout to the chief for accumulated paid time off, the
council is now considering a
policy requiring that employees use their vacation days
during a given calendar year
or risk losing them.
Council President ProTem Tim Dyke said earlier
that the council also plans to
re-evaluate the police departments job descriptions,
which have not been updated
for 20 years.
Dyke said a search for a
new police chief is expected
to begin soon. He added that
Jim Sadik
Business Manager
Rachel Walls
Business Development
Specialist
Editors note: The following is a compilation of activity

and reports from area police
departments:
In St. Clair County:
Police and emergency
responders responded to:
a property damage accident at Main and Frantz
streets in Capac on July 5
report of a larceny in the
120 block of Main St. in
Capac on July 5
a property damage accident at Sterling and Norman
roads in Lynn Twp. on July 5
an animal complaint in
the 5300 block of Martin Rd.
in Mussey Twp. on July 6
report of a breaking and
entering incident in the 2100
block of Miller Rd. in Berlin
Twp. on July 6
report of a breaking and
entering in the 130 block of
N. Matteson St. in Capac on
July 6
a neighbor dispute in the
15000 block of W. Park St. in
Capac on July 6
report of shots heard in
the 16000 block of Speaker

Rd. in Lynn Twp. on July 8
a missing person report
in the 5100 block of Capac
Rd. in Mussey Twp. on July 8
a domestic assault in the
240 block of Christopher
Stone Dr. in Capac on July 9
a property damage accident in the 15000 block of
Imlay City Rd. in Mussey
Twp. on July 9
take a fraud report in the
200 block of S. Neeper St. in
Capac on July 9
a domestic incident in
the 15000 block of Downey
Rd. in Mussey Twp. on July
10
an animal complaint in
the 3400 block of Capac Rd.
in Mussey Twp. on July 10
an harassment complaint
in the 310 block of N. Main
St. in Capac on July 10
a malicious destruction
of property report at Tubspring
and Capac roads in Berlin
Twp. on July 11
report of a larceny in the
120 block of S. Main St. in
Capac on July 11.
Imlay board okays

2016-17 budget
By Maria Brown
Facebook photo
Demolition derby cars line up for action at Eastern Michigan State Fair. This
years derby is slated for 7 p.m. on July 30.
Big payout expected

at 2016 Demo Derby
Popular event returns to Fair on Saturday, July 30
By Tom Wearing
IMLAYCITY The
Demolition Derby has
become a tradition at the
Eastern Michigan State Fair,
and this year is no exception.
The popular Derby competition returns to the Imlay
City fairgrounds on Saturday,
July 30, starting at 7 p.m.
This years event is sponsored by Novaks Supply &
Equipment of Almont.
Organizers
promise
another big payout on July
30, for participants, making
the event one of the most
competitive and best-attended on the Derby circuit.
The 2016 Derby is being
coordinated by Jack Fistler
Jr., a self-proclaimed motor
head with a passion for
powerful engines and a penchant for competition.
Fistler anticipates a field
of some 40 participants in
two classes and a total purse
of about $10,000 to be shared
among the drivers.
Fistler says the competition will be divided into
front-wheel and rear-wheel
drive vehicles, noting that

large-body cars like the
Mercury Grand Marquis,
Ford Crown Victoria and
Lincoln Town Car are very
popular among the drivers.
With 23 years as a former driver and now a Derby
coordinator, Fistler is wellconnected with the drivers
on the circuit.
Ive been doing this
since I was 14 years old,
Fistler recalls. I grew up
with this sport with my dad,
who was a driver.
This is an addictive
hobby, he says. All the
drivers are competitive, and
it can get pretty exciting.
It can actually be a great
stress reliever, Fistler says.
Its a lot of fun to be able to
wreck a car.
Fistler says he looks forward to returning to the Fair
in Imlay City, where the
crowds have been enthusiastic and supportive of the
drivers.
He also appreciates the
support of the Eastern
Michigan Fair Board and
Fair Manager Ian Kempf,
with whom he and others on
the circuit have developed a

loyal bond.
This will be our fifth
year coming back to Imlay
City, he says. Its a great
group of guys to work with.
Kempf point out that the
Demolition Derby remains
one of the highlights of the
annual county fair.
Its always our biggest
night at the fair, says
Kempf. The fact we offer
one of the largest payouts in
Michigan leads to a great
show and a lot of competition among drivers.
Guys come here from
Canada, Ohio, western
Michigan, the U.P. and
everywhere, he says. And
they all come to win. Theyre
very competitive.
On July 30, the pit gates
will open at 2 p.m. and be
accessible through 5 p.m.
For questions, information or to register a car for
the Demolition Derby, call
Jack Fistler Jr. at 586-5310384.
Rules for the Demolition
Derby are available online
at: Easternmichiganstatefair.
com.
IMLAY CITY The

books are closed on the 201516 school year budget and
board
members
have
approved the proposed 201617 budget. The district will
need to dip into their fund
balance to cover expenses for
both the prior and coming
years but leaders are confident they can stay within a
self-imposed 12-13 percent
target.
Its anticipated theyll
need about $240,000 to cover
a 15-16 school year shortfall
but considering that the district typically doesnt spend
every penny thats budgeted,
they foresee returning more
than $64,000 to fund balance
after the audit later this year.
Similarly, after auditors finalize numbers for the 2016-17
school year, they should only
need about $19,000 to balance that budget. Amy
Swantek, Director of Business
Services, says that despite
those shortfall, Imlay City
Schools fund balance will
remain at 12 percent of
expenses.
Since 2008 and the start
of the Great Recession, the
district has had to use more
than $1.2 million in fund balance.
The 2016-17 budget calls
for $19.5 million in revenues
and $19.8 million in expenses. It assumes a fall enrollment of 2,027 students which
represents a decrease in the
blended count of 38. Imlay
City will see more per pupil
funding from the state to a
tune of $243,000 but its not
quite enough to cover the
$280,000 lost from having
fewer students. Imlay City
will see approximately
$100,000 less in revenues
now that a superintendent
sharing agreement with
Dryden has ended. Since
2013, Dr. Gary Richards has
History, pie and ice cream served up at museum

IMLAY CITY Have
you wondered what was life
was like 100 years ago? Then
plan to take a step back in
time and visit the Imlay City
Museum during this years
Blueberry Festival, July
22-23. A special display in the
Depots Main Room features
scenes and items that harken
to Imlay City around 1916
including Ralphie, a boy mannequin wearing a handmade
clothes typical of the period.
Deb Rubenstein made
his outfit based on a photo
from the former Abbott
School, Historical Society
President Carla Jepsen said
referring to the one-room
schoolhouse in Goodland
Township. Rubenstein is
director of the Goodland
Township
Historical
Collection.
Visitors will also enjoy a
collection of photos of businesses that used to, and still
do, call Imlay City home. The

museums kitchen display has
been reworked and progress
is being made on the Imlay
City Class Composite project.
The Alumni Association
recently gave us $1,100 and
we received a $500 grant
from the Four County
Community Foundation,
Jepsen said of the project that
aims to create a uniform, centralized collection of composite photos of every graduating
class.
Displays in the museums
annex, dining car and caboose
will also be open for perusal.
All that strolling is bound
to make visitors hungry, so
its a good thing volunteers
will once again host their signature pie and ice cream
social from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
on both Friday and Saturday.
Whole pies and slices from
Bryans Market in North
Branch will be available for
purchase, along with vanilla
and blueberry ice cream and
blueberry muffins.
they are facing.

The Lapeer Veteran
Support Group (LVSG) meets
the second Thursday of each
month at the LCVA office.
There is no fee to participate, but registration is
encouraged.
The group is open to all
veterans of all eras; and
female veterans are encouraged to participate.
Classic cars sought for show

IMLAY CITY Calling all classic car buffs!
Sanctuary at Maple Vista is hosting a free classic car
show on Tues., July 26 from 1-3 p.m. Anyone interested
in showing off their classic and/or antique vehicle is welcome to do so at the event. Along with the car show,
refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend the
free event. For more information on showing a classic
vehicle contact Jennifer Martin-Grandlund at 810-7246300 to reserve a spot. Sanctuary at Maple Vista is
located at 600 Maple Vista St., behind Sacred Heart
Catholic Church.
2016 Blueberry Festival

CornSponsored
Hole
Tournament
by Imlay City Project Graduation
Saturday, July 23, 2016 10 a.m. Start time
$40 per team of 2 if registered by July 20, 2016
$50 per team of 2 on day of event
Double elimination bracket play, 20-minute time limit per game.
Rules will be given at time of registration.
Send check, team player names & contact number to:
Campbell Project Graduation, 808 N. Youngs Rd, Attica, MI 48412
Ages 16 and up. More info? 810.705.7522
Downtown Art in Action

Community Celebration
6:oo pm - 8:oo pm
400 East Third Street Imlay City

The Community is Invited
to Attend a Celebration
of the Downtown
Development Authoritys
Art in Action Initiative.
Guests sit down to enjoy a serving of blueberry

pie and ice cream at the museum during the 2015
festival.
Before departing, be sure
to stop for a photo with Mr.
Blueberry, a friendly paper
mache figure created by businessman Steve Teets, thats
greeted guests for more than
30 years.
Not everyone can stop
for pie and ice cream but a lot
of guests make sure to get a
picture with Mr. Blueberry
Veterans support group to meet July 14

LAPEERCOUNTY
The Lapeer County Veteran
Support Group will hold its
monthly meeting Thursday,
July 14 at 6 p.m. at the Lapeer
County Veterans Affairs
(LCVA) office, 287 W.
Nepessing, Lapeer.
The group provides veterans the opportunity to meet in
a confidential and informal
setting and discuss issues
In other meeting matters:

the board approved giving $400 in merit pay to more
than 80 teachers rated as
highly effective in their
evaluations.
members approved various tentative agreements and
employee contracts.
Swantek reports support
staff, represented through
AFSCME Units A and B,
along with non-represented
staff and administrators will
see a 1.33 percent increase to
their salary schedule.
Teachers on salary steps
1-12 will receive a 1 percent
increase to their salary schedule. Teachers on step 13 will
see a 1.5 percent increase to
their
salary
schedule.
Teachers and administrators
due to receive steps were
awarded those as well.
Thursday, July 14
File photo
By Maria Brown
had a dual administrative role

in Imlay City and Dryden.
For
the
last
year,
Administrative
Assistant
Sandy Zrembski has also
served both district.
Two
teachers
from
Venture High School have
been laid off but the budget
calls for adding two positions,
one each at the high school
and elementary level. The
district also seeks to add one
instructional interventionist
to staff come fall. The budget
calls for upping the textbook
line item by $106,000, insurance by three percent and
returning expected utility and
bus fuel expenses back to
2014-15 levels.
The property tax millage
rate has also been set at 17.98
for non-homestead properties.
VA Director Ed Ronders
said the meetings provide an
opportunity to share their
experiences, concerns and
veteran issues among fellow
veterans. There is no specific
agenda.
To
register,
e-mail
jokreiner@lapeercounty.org
or call 810-667-0256. Only
first names are required to
register.
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every year, Jepsen said.

Leave with a souvenir if
you like. Items for sale
include historic postcards
and calendars, Imlay City
Spartan t-shirts, locally produced maple syrup and
more.
For more information,
contact the museum at 7241111.
Meet and Greet

with the Artists
Complimentary Light
Snacks and Beverages
www.icdda.com
Summer Concert Series
Join us Tuesday, July 19 th, 7 pm at the

Lamb Steele Park (rain location Heritage Church) for
Rich Eddy's
Rockin' Oldies Band
Farmers' Market Every Thursday, 1 pm to 6 pm
Shop the market
this Thursday to find fresh
produce and other products!
More information can be found at: www.icdda.com or www.facebook.com/downtownimlaycity
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Opinion Page
Letters to the Editor
Leadership is something that every individual possesses

Leadership is complicated philosophy. I cant take
complete credit for what I
have learned through studies
of leadership, but I can take
credit for how I have related
it to my real life experiences.
So, what is leadership?
Leadership to me is simply
doing the right things. To
many people, that may not
seem so simple. Leadership
is something that every indi-
vidual possesses; however,

not everyone fulfills their
potential.
It all begins with leadership of self. How you conduct yourself, how you take
care of yourself and your
family, its knowing what
you stand for and sticking to
your values, morals, and
core principles. Leadership
is the willingness to stand up
and be a voice for what is
Our Opinion
People need food

all year long
ots of retailers and residents like to celebrate Christmas in July, because the
season of giving is a happy and rewarding time. Its the time of year when generous
citizens donate to charitable causes, help stock
the shelves at food pantries and deliver baskets
filled with the fixings for holiday meals.
That generosity and holiday spirit goes a
long way, but the fact is people are in need of
meal assistance all year long.
Right now, the Food for Families program
at St. Pauls Lutheran Church in Imlay City
illustrates that need. Since its inception in
2008, the program has served 32,000 meals to
area residents. People of all ages, the elderly
and young children, visit the churchs kitchen
on Mondays and Wednesdays for homemade
meals prepared by loving volunteers. Theyre
also able to shop for items at the free food
pantry. Despite the improvement in economic
conditions, program officials say the need in
the area continues to grow.
Food for Families relies solely on the generosity and giving spirit of its volunteers,
church and community members, who along
with their time donate funds and food items,
often during the holiday season.
Currently, the program is in need of cash
and food donations in order to continue to
serve those in need in the area. In the past,
every time the call has gone out for help, generous individuals from across the area have
opened their wallets to keep the program
going. Once again, Food for Families volunteers are seeking help.
Donations of cash or excess garden produce
will be accepted with deep gratitude. If you
can, we urge you to lend a hand. Donations
may be dropped off at or mailed to St. Pauls,
200 N. Cedar St. (M-53), Imlay City, MI
48444.
For those in need of food assistance, Food
for Families serves meals every Monday and
Wednesday from 4-5:30 p.m.
right. Leadership is acting

ethically, being honest, trustworthy, respectful, polite,
and acting with integrity.
Leadership is thinking about
the good of the whole, and
not ones own self-interests.
Leadership is giving up your
own time to serve others. It
is helping others build and
realize their own leadership

qualities.
If leadership is doing the
right things, who decides
what is right? Who decides
what are ideal morals, values, ethics, and principles?
The answer to that question
is you. You are the one
that holds the key to unlock-
ing your full leadership

potential. You are the one
that self-fulfills your leadership by sticking to what you
believe in and not deviating
from your core principles at
any cost. You are the one
that will do what is right,
the best way that you see fit.
We are all leaders, and we all
I am writing today to ask

you to join me in supporting
Scott McKenna for Sheriff. I
have found Scott McKenna to
be man of impeccable character, if you have any doubts
just ask the people of Mt.
Morris Township. He spent
22 years serving on their

police department, just under
five of those years as Chief. I
have personally talked to the
Morris Township Supervisor
who gave him an excellent
recommendation as a great
leader for his community and
assured me that Scott would for Lapeer County Sheriff on

be an excellent choice as August 2nd.
Lapeer County Sheriff.
Kevin Daley
McKennas experience
Former State
and passion will bring a new
Representative
energy to the Lapeer County
82nd District
Sheriffs office. Please join me
Lapeer County
and vote for Scott McKenna
Arcadia Twp.
Join in supporting McKenna for Sheriff
Two systems of justice in our country

Three years of law school,
over 47 years engaged in the
practice of law and throughout that time I have been a
proud defender of our system
of justice in this country. I
readily acknowledge that
there have been instances
where justice was not well
served, but aberrations exist
in every system.
Today I am embarrassed
and disappointed. It is clear to
me that those who argue the
system is rigged are correct.
There truly is a system of justice for the rich, powerful and
well connected and another
system entirely for the rest of
us.
I listened to F.B.I. Director
Comey speak for nearly 14
minutes laying out the case
for why Hillary Clintons
actions in relation to her treatment of email and classified
materials would justify bring-
ing charges against her only

to have him do a 180 degree
turn at the end. It reminded
me of Lucy pulling the football away just as Charlie
Brown would try to kick it in
the Peanuts cartoon. His decision was a political decision
and not one based upon the
facts and the law.
From the facts as presented by the F.B.I. Director
there was more than enough
basis to charge, and likely
convict, Hillary Clinton of
gross negligence in her handling of classified materials.
Despite what the Director
said, gross negligence does
not require the wrongful
actions be intentional. The
words intentional or
intent are not to be found in
the relevant statute. He clearly stated that Clinton was
extremely careless. Such conduct equates to gross negli-
ts no secret how mathematically challenged I am.

Just ask the friendly tellers at
CSB Bank, who always find
an exceedingly polite and
politically correct way to
point out that I may have
made a miscalculation
that I might want to check
on.
When it comes to figuring out someones age when
given their birth year, unless
it ends with 00 or 02 or some
other even number, Ill have
to dig out my pen and some
paper to find the answer. The
reason Idig out the pen and
paper is because at my age as
a fully grown, adult woman
of some advanced age,
counting on the fingers and
toes is just too embarrassing.
The more I talk about my
numerical shortfalls, the
more I am reminded that Im
not alone when it comes to
the dreaded M-word. Lots of
people tell me they try to
avoid math at all costseven
if doing so can be costly. A
simple misplaced decimal in
the bank account can add up
to mountains of red ink.
But I guess thats what
accountants and bookkeepers
are forstraightening out the
Last year, more than 90

percent of teachers across the
country used their own money
to pay for school supplies to
assist their students. To ensure
local students and teachers
have the supplies they need
this school year, Shopko and
the Salvation Army are partnering once again on the
Tools for School campaign.

Shopko and the Salvation
Army have worked together
on the Tools for School
program since 2005. This
year, from July 10 through
August 12, customers can
help local students in need by
dropping donated school supplies in collection bins that
obtain radically different

treatment than the rest of us?
Both Bernie Sanders and
Donald Trump have struck a
chord with the folks and in
many ways they are both correct. If you believe that honesty, fair dealing and integrity
will win the day you have
your head in the sand. The
law applies only to the little
people and not for the ruling
class. It certainly isnt meant
for someone like Hillary
Clinton.
It is tragic to be so cynical
but sometimes the cynicism is
accurate and called for. The
people who run this country
need to be removed from
office, but only voters are
capable of doing this and I
dont hold out much hope that
they will stand up and say
Enough.
John L. Lengemann
Imlay City
will be located in over 370

Shopko
and
Shopko
Hometown stores across the
country.
The Tools for School
program provides school supplies to students in need in
kindergarten through 12th
grade. Beginning August 10,
school supplies are distribut-
ed by local Salvation Army

chapters based on community
donations and are available
while supplies last. Children
are provided a pre-packaged
bag of school supplies and
each family is given one new
backpack.
Michelle Hansen
Shopko Public Relations
3rd Degree Burns grateful for support

Young
Musicians
Community, (YMC), the
proud sponsor of the rock
and roll project 3rd Degree
Burns, is delighted and ever
so thankful to three generous
programs in Lapeer County.
They are the Lapeer County
Community
Foundation,
(LCCF), Kiwanis Club of

Lapeer, and the Four County
Community
Foundation
(4CCF) for their generous
donations to our non-profit
group. The band. 3rd Degree
Burns, gives students from
Lapeer County and outer
areas the opportunity to learn
beans and the books; hedge

funders that literally hedge
the funds. Im thinking
Donald Trump. How does a
billionaire file for bankruptcy
numerous times? How does a
successful entrepreneur
have so many business failures?
Obviously, this is all a
little like rocket science to

me, what with my shortage
of math skills and whatnot.

Every now and then I
crocked math of arithmocome across something that
phobes like me.
illustrates the fuzzy math
It is frankly beyond the
situation in more relatable
scope of my imagination to
terms. Simplifying simple
relate to those who make a
living doing math, although I math for the math simpletons
sometimes envy the cut-and- like me.
Heres one such illustradried calculations with their
rock-solid numeric beginning tion. It came by way of an
that always lead to an incon- email a while back, and I
trovertible, cast-in-stone end. consider it a bonus that its
packed with country charm
In this business, someto boot.
times its just the newsprint
itself thats black and white. An old country farmer
with serious financial probLife and all its endless joys
lems bought a mule from
and complications seem to
another old farmer for $100,
take place in the gray areas
who agreed to deliver the
more than not.
But I guess some of those mule the next day. However,
the next day he told the farmnumber crunchers can, and
er that he had bad news: The
do, swim around in those
mule had died. Heres the
gray edges. Im thinking
conversation that followed:
Wall Street. Im thinking
Farmer #1: Well, then,
bean counters who cook the
just give me my money

back.
Farmer #2: Cant do
that. Iwent and spent it
already.
Farmer #1: Okay, then
just unload the mule.
Farmer #2: Whatre ya
gonna do with a dead
mule?
Farmer #1: Im going
to raffle him off.
Farmer #2: You cant
raffle off a dead mule!
Farmer #1: Sure I can. I
just wont tell anybody else
hes dead.
A month later the two
farmers meet up and the
farmer who sold the mule
asked Whatever happened
with that dead mule?
Farmer #1: I raffled
him off just like I said I
would. I sold 500 tickets at
$2 apiece and made a profit
of $998.
Farmer #2: Didnt anyone complain?
Farmer #1: Just the guy
who won. So I gave him his
two dollars back...
So I guess its not rocket
science after all. Its just
plain cheating.
Email Catherine at
cminolli@pageone-inc.com.
gence and as such a prosecution should have been instigated.

However, the fix was in.
Just as some years ago some
businesses were too big to
fail, Hillary Clinton was too
important to prosecute.
However, if someone who
didnt have the political clout
she has were to engage in
similar behavior does anyone
doubt that not only would
they be prosecuted but convicted and sentenced to jail?
So, what is the long term
result? I suspect that trust in
government, trust in the F.B.I.
and trust in our justice system
has been dealt a serious blow.
How can anyone really
believe that they will get a
fair shake in our courts or by
law enforcement officials
when the evidence stares us in
the face that those in power,
with money and influence
Tools for School runs July 10-Aug. 12
Honing up modern mathematic skills
have the power to choose or

change what kind of leader
we are or what we want to
become. Leadership is a
choice. I make my choices
every day. What do you
choose?
Michael Guerin,
Trustee
Imlay Twp.
how to play music, and then

return that gift back for the
enjoyment of community listeners during their summer
performances.
LCCF provides grants to
enhance the quality of life in
Lapeer County. Since 1996
LCCF has given over 3 million dollars back to Lapeer
County.
Kiwanis Club of Lapeer
is a global organization of
volunteers dedicated to
improving the world one
child and one community at a
time. Sally Morey, President
of the Kiwanis Club of
Lapeer, stated Kiwanis Club
of Lapeer is honored to support the 3rd Degree Burns
Band and YMC organization
and their efforts to empower
children through music and
performance. A wonderfully
positive influence we believe
is needed in our community
so that our children can
thrive.
4CCF has been serving
the Four Corners of Lapeer,
Oakland, Macomb, and St.
Clair counties for 29 years.
In that time 4CCF has given
back 7.5 million to these
counties to improve the quality of life for those living

there.
3rd Degree Burns practices every Friday night at
the Center For Innovation.
Prior to the three grants YMC
received, we only had one
rehearsal room for nearly
seventy students. With their
donations we were able to
fully equip another rehearsal
room and double the band
member's rehearsal times.
New room, new equipment, new sponsor, who
could ask for anything more?
3rd Degree Burns is asking
for your support in thanking
the LCCF, Kiwanis of Lapeer,
and 4CCF. We encourage
anyone who has the willingness to learn music and the
desire to perform in a rock
and roll band, please come
see our new band room furnished by LCCF. Contact me
at gary.burns@y-m-c.org or
by phone 810-441-6672.
Gary Burns
Director of the YMC
and proud manager of
3rd Degree Burns
Lapeer
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Silent
sorrow
Photo provided
Ubly Dragway in the 1960s.
Saturday night at Detroit dragway

...or Dryden dragway?
can still hear those radio and
television commercials from
the 1960s and 70s in my head.
Saturday! Saturday night at
Detroit Dragway! And there was
racing on other nights as well.
The commercials were voiced by
my friend, Rube Weiss, long-time
Detroit actor
and announcer.
Rube also was
Santa Claus at
the Hudsons
Thanksgiving
Day Parade.
Because it
was home to
the auto indusRick Liblong
try, racing has
always been
popular in
Michigan. And one of the most
popular forms of racing was drag
racing. Two cars racing side by
side for a quarter mile from a
standing start. It was thrilling and
chilling.
Detroit Dragway opened in
1959 and closed in 1998. The
track hosted hundreds of racers in
its heyday including some of the
best of all time like Big Daddy
Don Garlits, and Shirley ChaCha Muldowney who lived near
Armada, Michigan. At times,
there were as many as 30,000
spectators attending a nights racing.
Detroit Dragway wasnt the
only place one could enjoy the
sport of drag racing. Closer to
home was, and is, Ubly Dragway
in Ubly, Michigan about an hour
north of the Tri-Cities. It opened
in 1962 and still operates. Even
closer is the Lapeer International
Dragway which opened in 1968
and is still going strong.
And believe it or not, you
could also race right here in the
Tri-Cities at the Dryden Road
Dragway. The Dryden
Dragway, just north of Almont,
was not a sanctioned track. It was
simply two lines painted by some
local boys on the smoothly blacktopped country road a quarter
mile apart. At the finish line was
painted Not bad, Lad! On each
side of the road were deep ditch-
All the Liblong day..
es and, of course, there was no

safety guardrail.
Since I think any statute of
limitations for any outstanding
no-nos has passed, let me share
some stories from locals about
the good old days of racing.
Tom Edwards told me, Yes,
my brother, Ron, and I were part
of that group that painted the
dragstrip on Dryden Road, and,
yes, I raced a lot on it. I ran my
65 GTO at Ubly with the rest of
the guys. We all had cars with
animal namesImpala, Mustang,
Barracuda, etc. The GTOs were
known as goats. We called ourselves The Almont Animals
Racing Team. Unofficial, of
course.
I ran in B Stock class. We
called it the belly button class, as
everyone had one. It was the biggest class because of the muscle
car explosion at that time. Every
Friday my regular tires came off
and the street slicks went on for
the whole weekend. I ran on
Gratiot, Woodward Ave, Utica,
Romeo, and Almont in the same
night.
Tom wasnt the only person
to try the Dryden Dragway.
There were some girls, too.
Toni Lee: Mrs. Bechtol,
Almont bank president, had just
bought a beautiful, new
Mercedes, beige in color, that
year. We bugged her to let us take
it to the Friday night football
game until she, finally, gave in
and said OK. But we had better
not harm it or heads would roll.
So, like all kids, we drove around
after the game and decided to see
what this car had (even though it
was a tank) on Dryden Road. We
punched it on the quarter mile. It
wasnt very fast. We went back to
Marys. Unbeknownst to us, they
had just tarred Dryden Road that
day but did not have barricades
up. The car was black tar all
around half way up to the windows. Boy, was Mrs. Bechtol
mad!!! She ended up taking it
into Glovers garage to have it
cleaned but had to have it
repainted. Needless to say, Mary
and I were grounded for a very
long time and never drove the car

again.
My AHS 66 classmate, Lois
Hobson Russell, shared this:
Candy Paton and I challenged
Shirley Muldowney, who
each other on a Saturday. We
lived near Armada, was one
were driving our dads cars, of
of the best ever.
Photo provided
Tom Edwards drove a 65 Pontiac GTO like this one and

was a performance/test driver for Ford Motor Company
for 28 years.
Kimery said: You could see and
hear the Dryden strip from our
back porch. I think everyone
from the county raced here.
There were no houses around.
Sometimes the cops would station themselves at Kidder Road.
Tickets were expensive! Bets on
winners could be as high as 800
bucks!
I never knew of any accidents. On one occasion I drove
the 1941 Packard ambulance that
my dad bought from the Almont
Fire Department out there with
all of the lights flashing. There
must have been a dozen cars
scattered thinking it was the
cops.
Great fun all summer at the I personally ran the
Detroit Dragway.
Dryden Dragway only
once with my dads 1962
course. My dad owned a cool car, Oldsmobile. I was the only
a midnight blue, 1963 Impala
car out there though I had a
Super Sport, with a 360, 4-barrel friend with me. I pushed the
engine.
gas pedal to the floor until the
We positioned our cars at
speedometer was bouncing off
the line on Dryden road. Then I the 120 mph mark. Just then the
must have flooded it. No go. I
car began to shake. I let off the
ended up having to call my pargas and slowed down. It scared
ents for help. I was busted. It
the you-know-what out of me!
Never again.
could not have been more obvi Ah, yes, the good old days.
ous, just what we were up to.
And we lived to tell the tales.
That was the end of my racing
Email Rick at
career.
rick.liblong@cox.net.
Another classmate, Gary
uly 6 marked our twenty-year journey

from the phone call that reduced our
family of five to four. I never know
what to do with the day as it approaches. Other than prayer, a personal ritual
of remembrance has not naturally arisen
from my firstborns grave.
I dont know what to do with
myself, either. Its odd to walk upon this
earth while my child does not. The cycle
of death is out of order. I do my best to
adjust, remember funny and fulfilling
moments my daughter bred within and
without our household. No matter my
efforts, the veil over the empty place at
our table cannot hide
the beautiful life
destroyed by addiction.
Without warning,
a flashback recalls a
visit to a rehab center,
the drama of recovery
and relapsethe horror of transformation
from track and crosscountry champion to

criminal to corpse.
For eight years, I
followed my daughter up her mountain
of disillusionment, but couldnt catch
her when she fellI lost her whereabouts in the wilderness. As other parents who walk this loathsome path testify, this is a common conclusion to an
addicts life.
Forgive me, dear Reader, for this
dark subject. If I were you, I would put
down the paper and take up my dulcimer instead, or walk my country road to
ease my mind and spirit from painful
truth.
Yet, in the heart of this homestead
blooming with lavender and sweet with
birdsong, theres a solitary, silent sorrow
that must speak for the legions who bear
it. They include extended family members, dear friends, neighbors, co-workers, and fellow volunteers in community
service I do and do not know, who
climb this mount of woe with me.
Ive heard few voices who speak
truthfully about our countrys fatal
attraction with pharmaceuticals and
alcohol. In my daughters case, the
chemical interaction of the two stopped
her young, athletic heart. And it all
began with marijuana at Hillsdale
College. Some call that recreation.
Neglected in literature, our press,
and political dialogue, who dares reveal
the sources of Americas drug traffic,
our corporations, politicians, and law
officials who harvest the profit?
I dont know what Cincinnatis
newspaper printed about my brother-inlaws nephew who passed this July 6
from an overdose. Perhaps the same line
or two the Lexington newspaper published when our daughter passed twenty
years ago. I couldnt speak when my
sister called last Wednesday with the
shocking news. More flashbacks.
Depending on the deceaseds celebrity status, drug deaths have become
pass or romantic to Americans, and to
many youth, heroic. Anyone who
searches for facts will discover, Drug
overdose deaths are the leading cause of
injury death in the United States, ahead
of motor vehicle deaths and firearms,
(cns.news.com, for one source).
Its redundant to ask why, then, gun
control persists to lead the news. I must
think upon whatever is a good report,
set my eyes upon the Celestial City.
High above our beloved country, I
believe, my daughter waits, forgiven
and risen.
Email Iris at
irisleeu@sbcglobal.net.
Three perspectives rubbed together
n front of me I have a few

perspectives worth sharingperspectives which will
rub up against each other,
honing up
like iron
sharpening
iron.
The
first is
from an
article by
Observer
Staff
Writer
Chris
Gray, who
was doing
a little publicity for Author
Catherine Ulrich Brakefield.
Brakefield, who plans to be
at the Ruth Hughes Memorial
Library this evening
(Wednesday, July 13) at 6:30

pm, will be telling all about
her second novel, Wilted
Dandelions as well as her
previous books, The Lapeer
Area and Eastern Lapeer
County, both of which are
documentaries. Her newest
work was also preceded by
another novel, The Wind of
Destiny, a Civil War
romance.
Brakefield, a self-proclaimed hopeless romantic
and patriot, will carry the
endless research shes done
right on into this newest
work which follows a
couple as they set out to
cross the Rockies in the
1830s to minister to
Native Americans.
What courage to blaze
your own trail into the

unknown, the author says
of her newest, work which
had already won accolades
prior to its being published.
(She won second place for
entering the story to the
Heart of American Christian
Writers writing contest in
2010.)
What courage that must
take, she adds, and they
are doing it not for material
gain, but to spread the
Word.
Im told that Brakefield,
an Addison Township resident, pours herself into her
research, and that it shows.
Shes voracious, and passionate in searching out the truth
of what motivated the early
settlers here and in other
places in our country. The

freedom they came seeking.
The freedom they fought and
bled to preserve. Be sure to
come out and hear what she
has to say. Dont let the construction on Almont Avenue
deter you. Theres plenty of
parking within easy walking
distance.
Two more perspectives
worth rubbing up against that
one and each other are the
following:
God assumed from the
beginning that the wise of
the world would view
Christians as fools...and He
has not been disappointed...
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have
the courage to have your
wisdom regarded as stupidi-
ty. Be fools for Christ. And

have the courage to suffer the
contempt of the sophisticated
world.
The other is this: ...
What doth the Lord require
of thee, but to do justly, and
to have mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy God?
The first one was from an
address given by Antonin
Scalia, the other an admonition from the ancient prophet
Micah (6:8).
No one of us sees the
whole picture, but when we
rub our perspectives up
against each other, and really
mull over what we see, now
thats a perspective worth
gaining.
Email Willene at
willenetanis@aol.com.
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For Senior Citizens

Gentle yoga, Wednesdays
from 1-2 p.m. at the Imlay
City Senior Center. Practice
led by Dina Miramonti,
RYT.
Dinner and an evening of
card playing with friends,
50/50 raffle and prizes of
high and low for each table
every 3rd Monday at the
Washington Senior Center,
57880
Van
Dyke,
Washington Township, MI
48094, from 4-8 p.m. Call
the center for further
details, 586-752-6543.
Almont and Dryden area

senior citizens meet the 2nd
Tuesday of the month at 12
p.m. at the Almont Lions
Hall, 222 Water St., for a
potluck and program. Call
798-8210 for more information.
Adults 55 and over are
invited to Berlin Twp.
Senior Center to play cards
from noon-3 p.m. the 2nd
Wednesday of every month.
Bring a sack lunch, beverages provided. Senior
stretch exercise on Tuesdays
10-11 a.m. Potluck luncheons will be served the
4th Tuesday of every month
at noon. Call 810-395-4518
for details.
Ryan Smith, a certified

alcohol and drug counselor
will be available at the
Imlay City Seniors Center
on the 4th Thursday of
every month from 9 a.m.-12
Swing Dance Lessons of- p.m.
fered at the Port Huron Senior Center, 600 Grand Avenue in Port Huron, every
Tuesday from 7:30-9 p.m.
and the 1st and 3rd Thurs- St. Pauls Lutheran Church
day of the month from 7:30- Food for Families kitchen
9 p.m. with instructors Lyle is open to the public for free,
Malaski & Kristina Morton. hot meals every Monday
Call 810-984-5061 for more and Wednesday from 4-5:30
information.
p.m.
Free Meals, Food
Council
on
Aging
Membership is open to individuals 18 and older. The
Capac Senior Center is
open 8:30-4:30 weekdays.
We offer a variety of activities such as fitness and craft
classes, a book review
group, cards and bus trips.
Call Lori at 395-7889 for
more information.
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This Heart Loves Food

Pantry is open the 1st
Saturday of each month
from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at
Gateway Assembly Church,
2796 S. Van Dyke Rd., Imlay
City.
Dryden Area Food For
Families free dinner is
served on the 2nd Tuesday
of each month from 4:306:00 p.m. at St. Cornelius
Church, 3834 Mill Street
(north of the light in
Dryden). No proof of income
is required. Come and enjoy
a home cooked meal with
us.
The Attica United Methodist
Church will be holding a
free community meal on the
2nd and 4th Tuesday of each
month from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
For more information
please call 810-724-0690 or
visit www.atticaumc.org.
attend their Barnyard

Roundup Vacation Bible
School, July 18-22 from
9-11:30 a.m. each day. Call
395-7557 for more information.
The Attica Food Bank at

the Attica United Methodist
Church, 27 Elk Lake Rd., is
open from 2-4 p.m. the 2nd
and 4th Monday of each
month. Proof of residency Imlay City Christian School
and need required.
is now enrolling for Fall.
Call
810-724-5695
to
The Capac Community inquire. We serve students
Food Pantry, 114 S. Main from Junior Kindergarten
Street, is open each through the 8th grade with
Wednesday from 1-3 p.m. a Christ centered, quality
Please call LOVE, INC. at education. All inquiries are
810-245-2414 in advance to welcomed.
ensure your food voucher
will be received before you Ready, Set, Go! Workshop.
stop in to shop. Any ques- This is a FREE workshop
tions, please call Sherrie for 3-5 year olds & parents/
Cramton at 810-395-1905.
caregivers! Enjoy fun projects that will develop your
The Capac Kitchen serves childs skills and prepare
free meals every Tuesday them for school! Children
from 4:30-6 p.m. at Zion also enjoy a snack, story
United Methodist Church.
time, and a free book! Call
Free meals for people in the Family Literacy Center
need are offered at the today to reserve your seat at
North Branch Senior Center 810-664-2737 and for more
on Monday and Thursday information on dates and
evenings from 5:30-7 p.m. times.
Call 810-441-0322 for more Play groups available. Free
information.
6 week sessions. At these
Orchards Cupboard Food FREE 90 minute playgroups
Pantry is open the 3rd children will participate in a
Saturday of every month 9 storytime, developmentally
a.m.-noon. Food distributed appropriate games and
at 74903 McKay Rd., Bruce crafts, learn new skills, and
Twp., 586-336-4673. www. enjoy a snack and social
time with other children.
orchardsonline.org.
Parents will have the chance
to talk to other adults with
same-age children. Register
now for the next session!
The Capac Historical Numerous locations and
Society is now open to visi- dates available. For more
tors daily from 1-3 p.m. and information and to sign up
1-4 p.m. on Sundays. Call call the Family Literacy
810-395-2859 for more Center at 810-664-2737.
information.
Museums
The Imlay City Historical

Museum is now open for the
2016 season on Saturdays
from 1 to 4 p.m. Stop by and
view new exhibits and learn
more about Imlay Citys
wonderful history. For more
information call 810-7241904.
Support Groups
FOR WIDOWED MEN &

WOMEN. Lunch-CardsFriendship. Join us every
3rd Tuesday of each month
from 11:45 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at
Cavis Pioneer Restaurant,
5600 Lapeer Rd. in Kimball
Twp. 48074 (located approx.
15 Miles S.W. of Port Huron.
No RSVP necessary. For
St. Johns Lutheran Church more information call
invites children from four Joanne K. at 810-324-2304.
years to sixth grade to This activity is sponsored by
Youth Events
Widowed Friends, a peer raiser for TAFFY (Tuition

support group www.wid- Assistance Fundraising For
Youth). Come join us for
owedfriends.org.
euchre the 2nd Saturday of
Widowed Friends invites all each month at 7 p.m. at the
widowed to join us for Imlay City Christian School,
breakfast and friendship in 7197 E. Imlay City Rd. in
a safe setting every 2nd and Imlay City. For more infor4th Monday of the month at mation, call 810-724-5695.
9 a.m. at Seros, 925 Gratiot
in Marysville. For more
information about our
group, call Julie at 810-3880868.
Lapeer County Families Lapeer County Health
Against Narcotics group Department, 1800 Imlay
meets the second Tuesday of City Rd., Lapeer - Regular
the month at Faith Christian Immunization Clinic Hours:
Fellowship, 69 W. Nepessing (held in 2nd floor clinic
area) Mondays 1-3:30 p.m.
St. in Lapeer. Call 810-667Walk-In, Wednesdays 8:30
0119 for more information
a.m.-11:30
p.m.
By
or email faithchrist09@aol.
Appointment
Only,
com.
Thursdays 1-3:45 p.m. By
Only.
TOPS 620 Lapeer weight- Appointment
loss group meets Tuesday Additional Immunization
nights at the Hunters Creek Clinics Offered: Tuesdays
Mobile Home Park Club (July 19-Sep. 13) 8:30-11:30
House, 725 DeMille Rd. in a.m. & 1:30-4 p.m. By
Lapeer. Weigh-in from Appointment Only (held in
6-6:30 p.m., meeting from 2nd floor clinic area),
6:30-7:30 p.m. For more Mondays (Aug. 22 & Aug.
information, call 810-664- 29) 8:30-11:30 a.m. & 1:30-4
p.m. Walk-In (held in lower
7579.
level). For additional inforTOPS 888 (Take Off Pounds mation, to check if we accept
Sensibly) meets Wednesdays your insurance, or to schedat the 25 Pine Ridge Dr. in ule an appointment please
Lapeer. Weigh-in at 8:30 call 810-667-0448.
a.m., 9:30 a.m. meeting.
Call Linda at 810-245-3955 Free tutor training for peoor Phyllis 810-395-7035 for ple who would like to help
others in our community
more information.
improve English skills.
For those that have experi- Volunteer basis. Please call
enced the death of a loved for orientation before trainone, a support group is ing at 810-664-2737.
available facilitated by a
trained United Hospice Free hearing and vision
Service (UHS) bereavement screens for children of prevolunteer. Marlette Regional school age are available at
Hospital, 2770 Main Street the Lapeer County Health
in Marlette, hosts this sup- Department. To schedule an
port group the 1st Friday of appointment please call
each month at 10 a.m. in the 810-667-0448 or 810-245Administration Conference 5549.
Room. For more information, call 800-635-7490 or Volunteer for the Habitat
visit www.marletteregional- for Humanity of Lapeer
County at the office.
hospital.org.
Interested parties can call
810-664-7111 and speak to
Carolyn, Cheryl or Pete at
810-660-7823.
The Imlay City Christian
School is holding a fund- Capac Pharmacy is teaming
with Support Million Hearts
by offering in-pharmacy
blood pressure screenings,
136 North Main St. in
Capac, Tuesdays, 9 a.m.- 6
p.m. Everyone is invited to
come and have their blood
pressure read for free.
Other
Fundraisers
c
AREA UNITED
METHODIST
CHURCHES
27 Elk Lake Road, Attica, MI
(810) 724-0690
Sunday Worship: 10 a.m

Attica Food Bank: Serving those
in need in Attica Twp, 2-4 pm,
2nd and 4th Monday
Rev. Ron Rouse
www.atticaumc.org
15
Dryden
U.M.C.
810-796-3341
15
West Berlin
U.M.C.
Worship 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Pastor Alan Casillas
15
Church 810-395-2112
Sunday School - 9:15 am - All Ages

Sunday Service: 10:30 am
Junior Church and Nursery Available
Bible Studies Every
Monday and Tuesday Evenings
Tuesday Morning
16
15
15
15
700 Maple Vista, Imlay City
810-724-1135
586.336.4673
Weekend Masses
Sat. 5 pm
Sun. 9 am - English
11 am - Spanish
Reconciliation 1/2 hr. before each Mass &4pm Sat.
Father Paul Ward
15
COME WORSHIP WITH US!
John Barker, Minister
15
Sunday Mornings
10:30 am
COME & MAKE A

DIFFERENCE WITH US! 15
firstapostolichome.com
15
15
Light of Christ
Community
Church
Almont
First Baptist Church
Wayne Boyd, Pastor
881 Van Dyke - 810-798-8888

Sunday Bible Classes: 9:45 am
Worship Services
10:30 am & 6:00 pm
Bible Study Wednesday 7:00 pm
fbc@airadvantage.net
Live Webcasting Sunday all worship services
over Sermonaudio.com/fbcalmont 15
Proclaiming the Sovereign Grace of God
GATEWAY
ASSEMBLY
2720 Winslow Road

Imlay City, MI 48444
1 Mile South of I-69 Overpass

Sunday Worship 10:30 am
Wednesday Prayer & Praise 7:30 pm
Phone: 810-724-6999
15
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH

(ELCA) 109 E. Kempf Court Capac, MI
(810) 395-7557
Phone: 810-724-8110
Pastor Jeffrey S. Krist
810-417-0265 cbcimlay.org
Sunday School 9:30 am
Morning Service 10:45 am
Evening Service 6:00 pm
Wednesday Service 7:00 pm
15
Monday - Friday: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School
9:00 a.m. September thru May
Staffed Nursery During Worship 15
Christ Evangelical First Congregational Church

Lutheran Church
United Church of Christ
1970 S. Almont Ave., Imlay City
at corner of Newark Rd.
275 Bancroft - Imlay City

(Corner of 5th Street)
810-724-7855
Pastor
Ralph O. Stuebs
Cell-(567) 674-0438
Come to the WELS
201 E. St. Clair, Almont, MI

810-798-8855
Sr. Pastor: Keith Langley
810-724-6207

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.
Thursday Worship 7:00 p.m.
St. Nicholas
Catholic Church
7191 Imlay City Road

Imlay City
Educational Hour - 9:15 am
Worship Time - 10:30 am
Weekday Masses are held at

St. John The Evangelist Church
Weekend Masses:
Sunday - 11:00 a.m.
Rev. Mike Gawlowski, Pastor
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Sunday 2:30 pm
Tuesday 7:00 pm
Friday Youth 7:00 pm
Supervised child care during all services
Adult & Children's Sunday School 9:00 a.m.

Children's Church during service.
Family of
Christ
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Phone 810-724-2620
PASTOR KEN RENARD
6835 Weyer Road Imlay City, MI48444
2796 S. Van Dyke Road - Imlay City

Morning Worship - 8:55 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.
Evening Service - 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday Family Night - 6:45 p.m.
74903 McKay Rd., Romeo
Weekday Masses
M-T-Thurs-Fri 8 am Wed. 10 am
First Sat. 8 am
810-724-3306
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Come Grow With Us!
Sacred Heart
Catholic Church
670 N. Van Dyke

Sunday Service
Bible Study (all ages) 10:00am
Morning Worship 11:00am
1st Sunday of the
Month Evening Service 2:30pm
Wednesday Bible Classes (all ages) 7:00pm
810-395-2409
Imlay City
C.R.C.
810-724-4315
Come as you are - everyone is welcome!
810-724-0687
email: nlcc@newlifechristian.net
www.newlifechristian.net
Pastor Tim Martin
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395 N. Cedar (M-53)

www.imlaycitycrc.org
Worship 10:00 a.m.
Youth Ministry
MOPS Program
Community Mens & Womens
Bible Studies
Imlay City
Church of Christ
905 Holmes Rd. - Allenton, MI

Corner of Almont Road
Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.
Rev. Curtis Clarke
810-724-2702
14952 Imlay City Rd., Capac
Imlay City
U.M.C.
859 N. Van Dyke Road

Imlay City, Michigan 48444
4411 Newark Road

Attica, MI 48412
810-724-1200
Corner of 4th St. & Almont Ave.

(Across from the Library)
www.imlayumc.org
9:15 a.m. Sunday School
10:30 a.m. Worship
Nursery Available
Jr. Church for K-5th grade
Rev. Marcel Allen Lamb
5394 Main Street - Dryden

Pastor Patricia Hoppenworth
Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME!
(ELCA)
200 North Cedar (M-53)

Imlay City, MI
Capac
U.M.C.
Attica
U.M.C.
Club News
St. Pauls
Lutheran Church
15
4331 Capac Road

Capac, MI 48014
Sunday School &Morning Adult Group 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
Rev. Dr. Renee C. Jackson
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on lifes journey, you are welcome here!15
810-395-7572
4538 Dryden Rd. Dryden, MI
810-796-3951
www.lutheransonline.com/holyred
810-395-7074
www.stjohnsallenton.com
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Weekday Masses:
Wed., Thurs. & Fri. 8:30 a.m.
Weekend Masses:
Saturday - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday - 9:00 a.m.
Rev. Mike Gawlowski, Pastor
Jr./Sr. High Youth Group ~ Sundays 6-8pm

Kidz 4 Christ ~ Wednesdays 6-7:30pm
Pre-School - 5th grade
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Holy Redeemer
Lutheran Church
St. John The

Evangelist
Catholic Church
872 Capac Rd.
Allenton, MI 48002
www.stnicholascapac.com
Sunday Worship Service at 10:15 a.m.

Nursery available and Jr. Church
for ages 3 thru 5th grade
8:00 am - BIBLE CLASS

9:30 am - WORSHIP
11:00 am - SUNDAY SCHOOL & BIBLE CLASS
ALL WELCOME!!!
Pastor Steven Helms
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Christian Preschool Available
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The Imlay City American

Legion Post 135 meets the
2nd and last Wednesdays of
the month at 7:30 p.m. The
post is located at 212 E.
Third Street. Contact them
at 724-1450 or americanlegionpost135@frontier.com.
The Evening Star Quilt
Guild meets the last
Wednesday of each month
at the Davison Senior
Center, 10135 Lapeer Rd. in
Davison. Meetings start at
6:30 p.m. and doors open at
6:00 p.m. For more information, call Lisa, 810-3587294.
Markets
Attention Cottage Food
Vendors - The Market
Lexington is currently looking for Cottage Food
Vendors for the 2016 market
season. Contact Kristen
Kaatz, 810-404-7570 for
stall space and pricing.
The Flea Market held each
Sunday at the Lapeer Center
Building, 425 County Center
Rd. in Lapeer, will be open
from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Up to 50
booths inside and outside
sell a huge variety of items.
This event is sponsored by
the Lapeer Center Building,
and there is no admission
charge. For info on space
rentals, contact Logan at
810-347-7915. For general
information on the Flea
Market or food service by
Peacock Alley Catering call
810-664-2109 or email lapeercenter@charter.net.
Obituaries
~ Timothy M.
Schoenherr, 67 ~
Timothy M. Schoenherr,
age 67, a resident of
Allenton since 1989 and previously from Davis,
Michigan, passed away at
his home on Saturday, July
9, 2016. Tim was born
December 14, 1948 in Mt.
Clemens, the son of James
and Mildred (Distelrath)
Schoenherr. He married Terri
Pevitt on February 28, 1986
in New Baltimore,
Michigan. Tim retired from
the Macomb Township
Water & Sewer Department
in 2014 after 19 years of
employment. He previously
worked at Hartsig Plumbing
in Auburn Hills/Rochester,
for Frank Grader Excavating
in Ray Township, and Wicks
Lumber in Romeo. He
served his Country proud in
the Army during the Vietnam
War. He currently serves as
the Commander of the
American Legion in Almont
and also belongs to the VFW
Post #2052 in Romeo. His
interests include everything
from watching western movies, especially John Wayne
movies, reading Louis
LAmore Western Novels,
driving around checking out
crops with his dogs Chaps
and Mya, and most of all,
just talking to his many family and friends. His gift of
gab will always be
remembered.
Tim is survived by his
wife Terri, children: Brian of
Allenton and Stephanie of
Westport, Massachusetts
along with siblings: Judy
Schoenherr of Ray, Jim (Jo
Ellen) Schoenherr of
Washington Twp., Gail
Schoenherr of Ray and
Janice Schoenherr of Capac.
Tim was preceded in
death by his parents, brothers William (Joyce), Phillip,
Richard (Sandra) and stepfather Bob Acker.
Funeral services will
take place on Thursday, July
14 at 10:30 a.m. at St John
Catholic Church of Allenton
with Fr. John (Doc) Ortman
officiating. Burial will follow in the Davis Cemetery
in Ray Township. Visitation
will take place on
Wednesday from 1-8 p.m. at
the Henry M. Malburg
Funeral Home, Romeo
Michigan.
Funeral arrangements
were made by Henry M.
Malburg Funeral Home of
Romeo.
In Loving Memory of
Clifford Harrow
July 18, 1916 - March 22, 2000
Happy 100th birthday to my dad in heaven.

Sadly missed but always in our thoughts.
Love you, miss you Dad
Your son, Gary
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Community Calendar
Wednesday, July 13th
Lapeer Area Citizens Against

Domestic Assault meets 1:00 p.m. to
3:00 p.m. in the Lapeer Court House for
personal protection order clinic. For
info 810-246-0632.
Imlay Conversation Salon will meet
6:00 p.m. social hour optional, conversation 7:00 p.m. at Mulefoot Gastropub,
Imlay City.
Imlay City American Legion Post 135
will meet 7:30 p.m. at the Post 212 E.
3rd Street.
Thursday, July 14th
Almont/Dryden Masons meets 7:00

p.m. at Masonic Center in Almont.
Overseas Veterans will meet 7:00 p.m.
at Imlay City VFW Post 2492 (behind
he Tri-City Times office.)
Friday, July 15th
Imlay City Senior Center Texas Hold

Em 12:30 p.m. For info 810-7246030.
Al-Anon Meeting 10:00 a.m. at
Family of Christ Lutheran Church,
Imlay City.
Monday, July 18th
Almont/Dryden Lioness Branch

Club meets 7:00 p.m. at the Lions
Hall, 222 Water Street in Almont.
Tuesday, July 19th
Imlay City Senior Center Euchre

Tournament 1:00 p.m. For information call 810-724-6030.
Community Soup Kitchen is open
4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Zion United
Methodist Church.
Alcoholics for Christ meets 7:00
p.m. at Full Potential Ministry, 170
Weston Street, Imlay City.
Wednesday, July 20th
Lapeer Area Citizens Against

Domestic Assault meets 1:00 p.m.
to 3:00 p.m. in the Lapeer Court
House for personal protection
order clinic. For info 810-2460632.
Lapeer Amputee Support Team
will meet at 3:30 p.m. at Trinity
United Methodist Church, 1310
N. Main Street, Lapeer.
Friday, July 22nd
Imlay City Senior Center Texas

Hold Em 12:30 p.m. For info
810-724-6030.
Al-Anon Meeting 10:00 a.m. at
Family of Christ Lutheran Church,
Imlay City.
Blueberry Festival in Imlay City.
Saturday, July 23rd
Blueberry Festival in Imlay City.
Tuesday, July 26th
Imlay City Senior Center

Euchre Tournament 1:00 p.m.
For information call 810-724-6030.
Community Soup Kitchen is
open 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at
Zion United Methodist Church.
Alcoholics for Christ meets 7:00
p.m. at Full Potential Ministry, 170
Weston Street, Imlay City.
Eastern Michigan State Fair in
Imlay City.
John E. Burns, age 68,

of Imlay City, MI died suddenly Thursday, July 7,
2016 at McLaren Lapeer
Region Hospital. John
Edward Burns was born
August 12, 1947 in Detroit,
MI. He is the son of the late
Frank George and the late
Betty Lee (Eldridge) Burns.
John grew up in Detroit and
Utica. He was a graduate of
Utica High School, Class of
1965. He served in the U.S.
Marine Corps during the the
Vietnam War (1965-1969).
John married Penny
Mae Smith on April 15,
1972 in Goodison, MI. They
lived in Gulf Port, MS for a
few years and while there
John graduated from
Mississippi Business
College with a degree in
Accounting. John and

Penny have lived in the
Imlay City area for 31
years. John took classes at
Macomb County
Community College in
Machine Operation. He
found the he was a very
good welder and he was
employed by McLanes
Welding, Jervis B. Webb in
Detroit and Waste
Management as a welder.
John was a member of
Crossroads Baptist Church
in Imlay City; the Imlay
City VFW Post and the
Lapeer Chapter of the
Vietnam Veterans of
America. John made handmade leather crafts. He
liked to make and sell his
handmade leather goods.
John loved to ride his
Harley-Davidson
Motorcycle whenever and
wherever he could.
John is survived by his
wife: Penny Mae Burns of
Imlay City; two daughters:
Betty Jean (John) Cassidy
of Romeo and Jennifer Mae
(Cindy Sue Fry) Taylor of
Washington Twp., MI. Also
surviving are a brother:
Frank (Mary) Burns of
Smiths Creek, MI; a sister:
Janice McNichols of Utica,
MI; and six grandchildren:
John Cassidy III, Jean
Cassidy, Morgana Cassidy,
Delaney Cassidy, Kristin
Taylor, and Wesley FryTaylor.
He is preceded in death
by his parents: Frank and
Betty Burns; and his brother-in-law: Ross McNichols.
A Funeral Service was

held Tuesday, July 12 at
Crossroads Baptist Church,
6835 Weyer Road, Imlay
City, MI with Rev. Kenneth
Renard officiating. Burial
followed in Imlay Township
Cemetery. A Veterans Salute
was held Monday, July 11,
2016 at Muir Brothers
Funeral Home Of Imlay
City, 225 N. Main Street,
Imlay City, MI.
Those interested in making memorial contributions
may direct them to Helping
Hands in Lapeer or to the
Burns Family.
were made by Muir
Brothers Funeral Home of
Imlay City. Please be sure
to sign our on-line register
book at muirbrothersfh.com.
~ Doris E. Dudley, 88 ~
Doris E. Dudley, age 88,
of Dryden, MI died
Saturday, July 9, 2016 at
McLaren Lapeer Region
Hospital. Doris Elizabeth
Goodwin was born
November 4, 1927 in
Richmond, MI. She is the
daughter of the late Elmer
and the late Lora (Shue)
Goodwin. Doris grew up in
the Pinconning and Bay City
areas. She lived in Memphis,
MI for a number of years.
She married Forrest Smith
Dudley on August 14, 1965
in Brown City, MI.
She retired from Manco
Mushroom Farms in the
mid-1980s. She had worked
at Vlasics foods in Imlay
City, and a pickle plant in
Memphis; she had also been

a telephone operator back in
the days when the operator
actually made the phone
connections for you.
She is survived by her
husband: Forrest Smith

Dudley, five daughters: Lou
Ann (David) Thomas of
North Branch, MI, Barbara
Jo VanConant of Lake City,
MI, Laura Lee (Michael)
Burkel of Yale, MI, Dorothy
Ann (David) Moore of Holl
and Ann Louise (Dan)
Vincent of Brown City, MI
and three sons: Michael
(Randa) Boyd of Westland,
MI, Fred Allen Boyd of
Capac and David Dudley of
Allenton, MI. Also surviving
are 23 grandchildren; 32
great-grandchildren; and one
great-great-grandson.
She was preceded in
death by her parents and
four brothers: Wayne
Dutton, Harold Dutton,
Arnold Goodwin, and

Donald Goodwin.
The funeral services will
be held 1:00 p.m. Thursday,
July 14, 2016 at Muir
Brothers Funeral Home of
Imlay City, 225 N. Main
Street, Imlay City, MI.
Burial will follow in Lynn
Township Cemetery.
The family will be available for visiting from 2-5
and 6-8 p.m. Wednesday,
July 13th at Muir Brothers
Funeral Home Of Imlay
City.
were made by Muir Brothers
Funeral Home of Imlay City.
Please be sure to sign our
on-line register book at
muirbrothersfh.com.
~ Earldeen Dee Sucura, 70 ~

Earldeen Dee Sucura,
age 70, died Wednesday,
July 6, 2016 at her home in
Imlay City. Earldeen Sue
Wythe was born July 6,
1946 in Holly, MI. She is the
daughter of the late William
H. and the late Virginia
(Cody) Wythe Lockwood.
Earldeen grew up in Detroit
and Roscommon. She
attended high school in
Detroit, MI. She married
Richard Gordon Sucura on
September 12, 1964 at
Parma, OH. They lived in
Hazel Park before moving to
Imlay City in 1976. Dee had

been a homemaker, raising
her family. She and Richard
owned Sucura Lock and Key
in Imlay City in the mid
1980s. Earldeen was a
member of the Imlay City
Eagles and the Hamtramck
Moose Lodge. She enjoyed
bowling, crossword puzzles,
and hunting.
She is survived by her
husband: Richard Gordon
Sucura of Imlay City and
four daughters: Cathie
(Alfred) Kozfkay of
Croswell, MI, Leisa (Frantz)
Sturm of Blanchard, MI,

Susan (David) Sump of
Brown City, MI and Patty
Louk of North Branch, MI.
Also surviving are 11 grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren.
Dee is preceded in death
by her son Richard Gordon
Sucura, Jr.; her parents and
three sisters: Rene Wythe,
Vonnie Marek, and Billy
Ann Kellman.
The funeral was held
Saturday, July 9, 2016 at
Muir Brothers Funeral Home
of Imlay City, 225 N. Main
Street, Imlay City, MI, with

Deacon David Hoffman of
the Family of Christ
Lutheran Church of Imlay
City officiating. Burial followed at White Chapel
Cemetery in Troy, MI.
Those wishing to make
memorial contributions may
want to direct them to
United Hospice of Marlette.
were made by Muir Brothers
Funeral Home of Imlay City.
Please be sure to sign our
on-line register book at
muirbrothersfh.com.
~ June Phyllis (Seddon) Sillers, 95 ~

June Phyllis (Seddon)
Sillers was born October 2,
1920 in her family home in
Rich Township. June is the
daughter of Vern Seddon and
Avis Plain, and sister to
Oscar, James, JoAnn, and
Ellis Seddon. She was raised
on the dairy farm that boasted the top Friesian herd in
the state of Michigan. In
1938, June graduated from
Mayville; after graduation
she attended Lapeer County
Normal pursuing a teaching
degree. Before she was married, June taught at the
Hathaway and Seyforth
Schools in Rich Township.
June married Amos D.
Sillers, October 30, 1943.
They lived in North Branch
their entire married life, and
June continued to live in
North Branch after Amoss
death. June was the mother
of five children, William
Amos, James Dwight, Doris
June, Helen Jo Anne and

Thomas Vern. She was the
loving grandmother to
twelve grandchildren,
Clayton, Cara, Chad and
Ryan, Lisa, Christopher, Ken
and Laura Sillers, Nathan
and Joel Koshak,
Christopher (CJ) and Sarah
Sillers, as well as; seventeen
great-grandchildren: Lisa,
William and Clayton,
Samuel, Joshua, Eli, Josiah
and Lily, Avis, Cooper and
Ryland, Josiah and Jeremiah,
Rebekah and Rachel,
William and Ian.
Once her children were
in school, June returned to
college and graduated from
Eastern Michigan University
with a degree in Education.
She returned to teaching in
Clifford, which consolidated
with Marlette, and taught
Junior High Science.
June was a member of
the United Methodist Church
in North Branch since 1944.

She served her community
as the first Community 4-H
Leader and was voted top
4-H Leader in Michigan. In
4-H June served on the State
4-H Council and aided in the
development of the National
4-H Center in Chevy Chase,
Maryland. She has been
active member of the

Daughters of the American
Revolution, and the Colonial
Dames. In addition, June
was recognized as a Rotary
Paul Harris Fellow for her
outstanding commitment to
the community.
At her request, a graveside service officiated by
Reverend Roger Gedcke will
be held at 3:30 p.m., on
Sunday, July 24, 2016 at
Rich Township Cemetery,
9666 Rich Rd, Mayville, MI
48744. Friends and Family
are welcome to attend a celebration of life following the
graveside service starting at
5 p.m. at the home of Dr.
Jim Sillers, 6760 Seabury
Rd, Imlay City, MI 48444.
Memorials in Junes
honor may go to the North
Branch Methodist Church,
4165 Huron Street, North
Branch, MI 48461, or a
charity of ones choice.
~ Betty May Newlin, 83 ~
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Betty May Newlin, 83 of

Imlay City, MI passed away
July 4, 2016. Betty was born
February 14, 1933 in
Donnelson, IL. The daughter
of Wayne and Frances
(Hubbard) Smith. Betty
grew up in Greenville, IL
and graduated from
Greenville High school,
class of 1950. She married
Donald Newlin on
September 27, 1951 at the
First Congregational Church
in Imlay City. Betty worked
for Western Union, and
many years at Hamill
Manufacturing in Yale and
in Imlay City for TRW until
her retirement in 1995.
Betty was a loving mother, grandmother and wife.
She enjoyed her flowers and
gardening, feeding and

watching the birds at her
bird feeders and traveling
and camping. She also
enjoyed dinning out, reading, getting phone calls and
letters and spending time
with her family and her dog

Barney.
Betty is survived by
three of her four children;
Janet (Charles) Stanley of
Melvin, MI, Ruth (Mike)
Houser of Imlay City, MI,
and David (Holly) Newlin of
Decatur, MI. Also survived
by grandchildren; Leslie
(Don) Hilgendorf of Melvin,
MI, Angie (Matt) McElheny
of Melvin, MI, Allyson
(Annie) Starrett of
Kalamazoo, MI and Charles
Newlin of Houghton, MI,
and great-grandchildren;
Jaden Doublestein and
Vivian McEtheny both of
Melvin, MI. Betty is also
survived by Mary Servantes
(sister) Los Angeles, CA and
Harry (Marilyn) Smith of
Greenville, IL, sister-inlaws; Louise Sommerville

and Martha Scully, many
nieces and nephews and her
extended family at Angelic
Gardens in Lum.
She is preceded in death
by her husband Donald
Newlin and a son Steve
Newlin and her parents and
her beloved dog Barney.
The funeral service was
held at Carman Funeral
Home Thursday, July 7.
Burial followed in Evergreen
Cemetery in Brown City.
Memorials may be made
to United Hospice in
Marlette.
were made by Carman
Funeral Home of Brown
City.
Science, fun merge in spinning program

GOODLAND TWP.
Remember how much fun it
was to try to do tricks with a
yoyo or a spinning top?
Those items will take center stage at the hands of
Zeemo, who will present
The Science of Spinning at
the
Goodland
Townshiplibrary on Monday,
July 18 at 11:30 a.m. There is
no charge to attend; all are
welcome.
Library
Director
Catherine Yezak says Zeemo
will introduce patrons to
the wonders of tops and
yoyos.
The Science of Spinning
is a fascinating library program that teaches children

basic science concepts using
spinning toys, Yezak says.
In addition to inertia, kids
learn about gravity, friction,
energy, force and sound
waves. Awesome demonstrations are performed that will
amuse and amaze audience
aged 3 to 103.
Goodland
Library will
host Zeemo,
the Science of
Spinning on
July 18th.
Snacks and beverages

will also be provided. Though
the program is free, space is
limited so registration is
required. Register online at
goodlandtownshiplibrary.org
or by calling 810-721-2110.
The Goodland Township
Library is located at 2370 N.
Van Dyke, north of Imlay
City.
Photo by Nicholas Pugliese
from page 1-A
Artist Randy Hughes of Marlette puts finishing

touches on large portrait of a dog.
Art: DDA to host Meet

and Greet on July 14th
from page 1-A

public and all are welcome to
attend. It will take place in
the former sign shopwhich
has been converted to an artists studioat 400 E. Third
Street downtown.
The community is invited to meet the artists and talk
to them one-on-one and ask
questions about the inspiration behind the art or what
Imlay City itself inspired,
or the meaning of the art,
says DDA Director Dana
Walker.
The artworks will be
available for viewing during
the event, and attendees will
see all the pieces both artists
have created during their
month as artists in residence
in Imlay City.
So many times, commu-
Though they have insurance, LuAnn says the costs

of Gordys treatments, along
with the associated travel
expenses are quickly mounting.
He doesnt receive disability from work, says
LuAnn. He decided to start
collecting his Social Security
early. It helps, but with bills
still coming in, we might
have to take out a second
mortgage to pay for it all.
A lifelong member of St.
Pauls Lutheran Church,
LuAnn is thankful for the
efforts of her fellow church
members, as well as the
community of Imlay City
Noting that Gordy is
one year older than her,
LuAnn says the couple met
in school in 1968, and both
graduated from Imlay City
High School. In 1973, they
were married in at St. Pauls
Lutheran Church.
Gordy is Catholic and
still attends Sacred Heart (in
Imlay City), she says
Neither of us wanted to
change our religion. So on
the day we got married,
Gordy made sure that Father
(John) Dunn was at the ceremony to offer his blessing.
Before their marriage,
Gordy landed a position at
Hamill Manufacturing where
he remained for 11 years. He
credits his experience at
Hamill for having been ben-
nities have art projects or

events with art, but people
cant actually talk to the artists, Walker says. Its going
to be a unique experience to
talk to them about their art.
Attendees to the event
will enjoy light refreshments
and are encouraged to ask
questions and take pictures.
The works both artists have
completed will be hanged in
the downtown Imlay City
area for years, but the Art in
Action Meet and Greet might
be the only opportunity many
have to hear the story behind
each piece.
Because its such a
unique project, we dont think
its really been done in this
way before, Walker says. from page 1-A
People have talked about Last year the hosta gardoing it, but weve done it. den drew a busload of enthusiasts from Ontario and a
visit from 300-plus members
of the Eastern Michigan
Hosta Society.
The garden is also regularly enjoyed by residents at
house, others from a topthe Lapeer County Medical
notch pastry chef.
Facility (commonly known
He said theyre still true
as Suncrest), and residents
to their wild game roots,
from across the area and the
priding themselves on taking state.
cuts of meat that the average People call it a hidden
consumer might be squeagem because a lot of people
mish about and preparing it
in a way that more people
can enjoy.
We utilize true culinary
traits in the kitchen, that contributes to great quality products and the highest safety
standards too, he said.
In his One Pan
Madness tv show,
Hollingsworth cooked two
dishes in a half-hour with an
emphasis on keeping recipes
and ingredients simple.
Hell use that same concept when he hosts small,
10-person cooking classes at
the Smoke House.
Calamity Duck created
from recycled materials

Although hell spend his among the items of intersummer serving thousands of est in the gardens.
meals to hungry party-goers,
Hollingsworth has some sage
advice for preparing good
food in your backyard on a
smaller scaledont be in a
hurry.
In the South it takes
them all day Sunday to cook
dinner, he said of the low
and slow mantra to good
grilling.
Year-round he encourages children to get in the
kitchen and get cooking.
Theres nothing better
than the self pride of a finished product, he said.
Kids love to get their
hands in stuff and being
together in the kitchen can
be more fun than an hour at
any amusement park and cerAnother garden helper
tainly offers more one-ondraws the eye in the
one interaction than many
Garden on Suncrest.
other activities.
eficial to his 29-year career

in automobile sales.
Over the years, Gordy
spent more than a decade as
a Little League coach in
Imlay City. It was a time he
still cherishes.
I was around Little
League for about 13 years
here in Imlay City, he
recalls. Our son, Edward
G., was a good athlete and
received a scholarship from
Northwood University.
He lettered four years
as a pitcher and hes now in
the pharmaceutical business, he says. Weve been
lucky and blessed.
Despite his ongoing
health issues, Gordy remains
steadfastly hopeful and is
optimistic about the future.
He is particularly thankful to still have his hair following multiple rounds of
chemotherapy; and he scoffs
at rumors that his illness is
getting the better of him.
Instead, Gordy keeps
busy caring for his expansive 10-acre grounds, which
includes a well-manicured
golf green and putting hole.
And just recently, he finished laying and setting the
new brick pavers on his
backyard patio.
I feel good, says
Gordy. The doctors think
theyve caught this
(MDS)early, and things are
looking favorable. Im feeling confident.
Gordy: Benefit planned

for Imlays Gordon Valdez
LuAnn and Gordy Valdez pose for a photo on their

homes rear deck, which was recently adorned
with new brick pavers by Gordy, himself.
While awaiting a yet-tobe-scheduled bone marrow
transplant, LuAnn and
Gordy continue to spend
time and stay in contact with
their children, Edward,
Sandra (who lives next door)
and Erin, along with their
nine granddaughters.
LuAnn says she is bolstered by the kindness and
generosity she and Gordy
are receiving from St. Pauls
and the greater Imlay City
community.
It has been amazing,
says LuAnn This is a great
community. Were so thankful.
Gordy, who is somewhat
embarrassed by all the atten-
tion coming his way, echoes

his wifes sentiments.
Ireally appreciate all of
the support, he says.
Sometimes we dont realize
how many friends we have
out there.
For questions or more
information about the July
30 fundraiser, or to donate
an auction item or financial
gift to the Valdez family, call
St. Pauls Lutheran Church
at 810-724-1200.
St. Pauls is located at
200 N. Cedar St. (Van Dyke)
in Imlay City.
Editors note: Gordy
welcomes anyone wishing to
contact him to e-mail to:
gordyv1952@yahoo.com
Gem: Garden on Suncrest a respite from busy world
retail and catering markets.

Couples are having weddings in backyards, barns,
old factories and other different locations. They want to
change it up, make it different with their food too, he
said.
To that end,
Hollingsworth said he and
his staff work with each customer and often times create
new items that have never
gone out their doors before.
The list will make your
mouth water with dishes like
stacked and grilled sandwiches, bacon and shrimp
kabobs, new pasta and sauce
concoctions, house cured
vegetables and delectable
desserts toosome made in-
dont know its here, Paine

says.
The garden is open to the
public from dusk to dawn,
and is located behind the
medical facility.
Along with a wide variety of labeled plants, the garden features handcrafted
metal sculptures, benches,
beehives, and a covered
pavilion that is offered for
rent for gatherings and parties.
Last year, a patio and
firepit area was added,
which was funded by a grant Lapeer County Master Gardeners Sue Corder,
from theLapeer Community Carole Billig and Candice Meyer prep Japanese
garden for Sundays tea.
Foundation.
Paine says Sundays tea
is a major fundraiser to keep
the garden thriving. Along
with tea and snacks, visitors
enjoyed music, door prizes
and a silent auction.
It is a lot of work, but
its a lot of fun to host the
tea every year, Paine says.
We are happy so many people enjoy it.
For photos and more
information about the Lapeer
County Master Gardeners
Garden on Suncrest visit displaygardenonsuncrest.org.
To learn about the
Lapeer County Master
Gardeners Association, go to Charming visitor gazes around at all the wonders
lc-mga.org.
in the Childrens Garden.
"Steve and Sue really

emphasize quality.
They put their name
on a product and
stand behind it."
--Chef Ray
Hollingsworth
Garden on Suncrest Chairman Mary Paine pauses near perennial garden.
from page 1-A

owners, Steve and Sue
Francis.
Along with quality,
Hollingsworth said his staff
prides themselves on offering food that pleases all palates.
As societys tastebuds
evolve, chefs strive to
answer the call for new flavors across the board.
The average consumer
is more aware of what
theyre eating and expects
more. Its great for us, it
challenges us continually,
he said of the desire for
unique dishes in both the
Chef Ray: Country Smoke

Houses popular addition
Water service lines

add to project cost
By Tom Wearing
IMLAYCITY The
Almont Avenue street project
could cost as much as
$159,000 more than what was
anticipated.
The extra costs are associated with the discovery of a
number of deteriorating water
service lines and four fire
hydrants which need replacement as part of the ongoing
infrastructure project.
On Tuesday, July 5, city
commissioners voted 7-0 to
add the copper line replacements and fire hydrants to the
overall project cost, which
now could rise to more than
$1 million.
City Manager Tom Youatt
said the projected additional
costs represent a worst-case
scenario, based on a total of
38 water service lines. He
Workers continue to press ahead with Almont Ave.

project in Imlay City.
Almont Fire Department

seeks millage renewal
By Maria Brown
ALMONT TWP. A
one mill levy has served as
the Almont Fire Departments
main funding source for more
than 35 years. On August 2,
residents in the township and
village will be asked to renew
that millage for another five
years.
Chief Don Smith calls the
millage critical to the general
operation of the force that
numbers 28 active firefighters and handles between 100
and 125 calls per year.
Weve scrimped and

saved and spent our money
wisely to keep our equipment
and facilities up and running.
Weve never asked for an
increase, Smith said.
Our firefighters and
medical first responders are
trained to handle anything
from a cat in a tree to a major
hazardous material spill.
With our community on
M-53, a major commerce
route, we get a chance to use
our skills.
The millage is expected
to generate about $218,000 in
the first year.
anticipates that the actual cost

will be less than what was
approved by the commission.
Youatt said it makes good
sense to replace the bad lines
now, before the street is
repaved and possibly having
to dig them up later.
If there can be a silver lining to the added costs, Youatt
pointed out that the original
project bid of $903,000 came
in nearly $100,000 under the
budgeted amount.
The good thing is we
were already under budget for
the project, said Youatt, who
added the extra costs will be
paid out of the citys water
and sewer fund.
Its important to note
that these added costs will not
be coming out of our voterapproved funds for streets and
City votes to make upgrades now while construction ongoing
Construction is ongoing on Almont Avenue in Imlay City, where replacement

of deteriorating water service lines has been added to the project.
sidewalks, Youatt said. Its
important to make that distinction.
Last November, city residents approved a five-year,
2.5-mill levy to be used solely
for street and sidewalk
improvements.
The levy is expected to
raise about $1.3 million for
streets and sidewalks over the
next five years.
Youatt said the extra work
could extend the projects

substantial completion date
to late August. Right now
things are moving along very
well, he said.
Once completed, the project will also include the construction of new storm drains,
curbs, gutters, sidewalks,
driveway approaches and a
one-foot white-striped lane
for bicycles.
Rowe
Professional
Services did the design and

engineering work for the
project; while DiPonio
Contracting
of
Shelby
Township is handling the construction phase of the project.
If the commission agrees,
Youatt would like to see decorative lighting installed
along the section of Almont
Avenue from Fourth Street
north to Capac Road (old
M-21).
Pay raises for city employees

By Tom Wearing
IMLAYCITY The
city commission has awarded
across-the-board raises to city
employees for the 2016-2017
fiscal year.
The approved pay increases range from 2.5 percent to
4.5 percent, with the majority
falling into the lower category.
Those being awarded 4.5
percent raises include City
Clerk/Treasurer Nicole Frost,
whose wage rises from
$53,560 per year to $55,970;
DPWSupt. Ed Priehs, whose
hourly wage increases from
$26.65 to $27.85; and bookkeeper Renee Mazey, who will
realize an hourly increase
from $15.76 to $16.47.
City Manager Tom Youatt
noted that the citys POAM
and TPOAM Union employees are receiving their 2.5 per-
cent pay increases in accordance with recently ratified

union contracts.
He added that the 4.5 percent raises awarded the citys
clerk/treasurer and bookkeeper resulted from their taking
on additional duties and
work load.
Also receiving a bump in
pay was Police Chief Scott
Pike, whose annual compensation rises to $66,625 per
year, representing a 2.5 percent increase over his starting
salary of $65,000.
Youatt said the salary of
Downtown
Development
Authority Director, Dana
Walker, will be determined by
the DDABoard. Walker is
currently paid at the rate of
$41,250 per year.
Imlay City firefighters
were also awarded 2.5 percent
raises.
Fire Chief Rick Hortons
annual compensation will rise

from $17,000 to $17,425 and
Assistant Chief Andrew
Kustowskis will increase
from $10,000 to $10,250.
Fire Capt. Scott Stone
($6,150),
Lt.
Matt
Makedonsky ($3,075) and Lt.
Neil Collins ($3,075) will
realize slight increases. Most
other firefighters will receive
hourly wages of $15.17.
As a matter of note,
Youatts future wages have
yet to be determined, pending
his upcoming performance
evaluation, expected to take
place later this month.
Youatt is currently earning $82,260 annually, along
with a standard benefit package.
City auditor retained
In another matter, city
commissioners agreed to
enter into another one-year
contract with CPA Robert
Klaczkiewicz to continue
serving as the citys auditor
for the next fiscal year.
He will be paid at the rate
of $10,600 per year.
In other business:
Commissioners issued a
proclamation to longtime
DPWemployee Larry Lloyd,
who tendered his resignation
effective June 20, 2016. Lloyd
had served the city for 23
years, including a stint as
DPW supervisor.
Also acknowledged by
proclamation was Third Street
resident Hiroko Lee, who
called 911 and alerted her
neighbors to the recent fire
downtown. Hirokos instinct
was to think of her neighbors,
putting their safety above her
own, said Mayor Walt
Bargen. She is a hero in the
eyes of the Imlay City Fire
Department and the community.
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Almont library renewal

on August primary ballot
File photo
Volunteers Connie Frank, Kathy Andersen, Kathy Eschenburg, Nan Ortwein

and Kay Hendricksen serve homemade meals to visitors during past Food for
Families free meal offering.
Help Food for Families

help area families in need
St. Pauls program in Imlay City seeking donations
IMLAY
CITY
Volunteers with the Food for

Families program at St.
Pauls Church are again hoping community members will
lend a hand to keep the program alive.
Pastor Alan Casillas says
cash donations are needed to
keep the program going
strong.
We are serving over 100
people each week from the
area, and the need seems to
be growing, Casillas says.
The Food for Families
program has served 32,000
meals to people of all ages
since the program launched
in 2008.
Run by volunteers, Food

for Families relies on donations of money and food to
operate. Casillas says every
time theyve put out a call for
help, generous community
members step up to the plate.
Cash and garden produce
donations are most welcome.
This is a very giving
community and the community always responds when
were in need, Casillas says.
Any help to keep the program going strong is really
appreciated. If it werent for
the community support, we
wouldnt be able to continue.
Along with serving
homemade meals, Food for
Families runs a food pantry
and a monthly mass feed-
ing. On the third Saturday

of each month, crates of food
are handed out to people in
need.
Casillas says people
begin lining up at the church
around 9 a.m. for the crates,
which are distributed at 11
a.m. Hes hoping for more
community volunteers to
help distribute the boxes for
the well-attended program.
To volunteer for the mass
feeding call St. Pauls
Lutheran Church at 810-7241200.
To donate cash and/or
garden produce stop by St.
Pauls or mail checks to the
church at 200 N. Cedar St.,
Imlay City, MI 48444, indicate Food for Families on
the check.
ALMONT
On
Tuesday, August 2, residents
will be asked to renew a 1.25mill levy for the purpose of
funding operations of the
Almont District Library.
The library millage was
previously approved on
November 7, 2006, for a period of 10 years, to expire in
December of 2016.
The renewal would maintain the current level of funding of the library for another
decade, from 2017-2026.
It is expected that the
renewal would raise about
$275,000 during the first year
of the levy.
The library currently has
a staff of five full-time and
four part-time employees,
including Library Director
Kay Hurd.
Hurd pointed out that 85
percent of the librarys fiscal
revenue is generated from the
library millage.
She provided a fact sheet
noting some of the specific
benefits of the millage,
including what and where the
money would be used.
Specific uses include:
To provide a stable
source of funding for the next
10 years.
To provide services such
as childrens programs, adult
programming, interlibrary
loaning and access the
Michigan Electronic Library.
For building maintenance and upkeep to ensure
the preservation of the
librarys historical building
status on the Federal and
State Register of Historic
Places.
To provide books, magazines, newspapers, DVDs,
books on CD, electronic
books, modern technology,
including wireless internet
access, patron access computers, employment resources,
educational materials, photocopying, faxing, genealogical
and historical resource materials.
To continue to provide
convenient open hours to
meet the needs of a growing
and changing community.
If renewal doesnt pass
Because the librarys budget is dependent on revenue
levied from the millage, it
would not be able to operate
at its current level, resulting
in cuts to all services.
The Almont District
Library is located at 213 West
Saint Clair Street, west of Van
Dyke.
Library
hours
are
Monday-Thursday,
11-8;
Friday, 11-5; Saturday, 10-2;
and Sunday, closed.
For questions or information, call the library at 810798-3100.
Brief history of library
In 1916, Albert Stephens
offered to fund the construction of a library in honor of
his father, Henry Stephens,
who was one of Almonts earliest and most important settlers.
The following year local
contractor Al Thayer erected
a Georgian Revival building,
first opening to the public in
1919.
On August 29, 1994, the
Henry Stephens Memorial
Library became the Almont
District Library.
On May 22, 1994, the
library renamed its Genealogy
Room the James P. Smith
Genealogical and Local
History Room in his honor.
Smith died in 1996, after
53 years as an Almont Library
Board trustee.
A member of Almont
High Schools Class of 1930,
Smith contributed much to
his hometown over the years.
Not the least of which was his
support of the Henry Stephens
Memorial Library.
10th Congressional
candidates forum on tap
Lapeer County GOP hosts July

14 event at Goodland Twp. Hall
GOODLAND TWP.
The Lapeer County GOP and
Young Republicans are sponsoring a 10th Congressional
District Candidate Forum on
Thursday, July 14.

All are welcome to attend
the forum, which will begin at
7 p.m. at the Goodland
Township Hall.
Congressional Candidates
who have thus far confirmed
Baby, toddler contest

is on for Blueberry Fest
By Maria Brown
Candice
Miller enjoys
Dinner on
the Farm
IMLAY CITY Ahoy

mateywhos the fairest
Blueberry Baby and Toddler
in all the land? That will be
determined when the winners
of the 2016 Blueberry Festival
Baby and Toddler Contest is
announced on Saturday, July
23, at noon on the Main Stage.
monetary donations, can be

cast. The baby and toddler
that garners the most votes
each will earn gift packages
from StudioE. The first prize
in each category will be a gift
package including a $100 gift
certificate
to
StudioE
Photography and those coming in second will get a $50
gift certificate to StudioE
Photography.
Winners of the
annual
Blueberry
Festival Baby
and Toddler
contest will be
announced at
noon on July
23 on the festivals
MainStage.
By Maria Brown
Photo provided
TRI-CITY AREA On
June 27, Congresswoman
Candice Miller took part in
her last Dinner on the Farm
event as Michigans 10th
District representative.
For the last 12 years,
Miller has met with farmers
in her district through these
annual events, hosted by
Farm Bureau groups from
the 10th District, including
Lapeer and St. Clair counties.
This years event was
held at the Goma Dairy Farm
inSanilac County. More than
400 Farm Bureau members
attended.
In 2004, the Michigan
Farm Bureau hosted its first
Dinner on the Farm, such a
unique and one-of-a-kind
event that gives farmers and
ranchers the opportunity to
discuss the important issues
at home and in Washington
and how they impact their
businesses.
Twelve years later, I cel-
In the meantime, the community is invited to cast their

vote or votes among a field of
32 whove posed for some
adorable pirate-themed photos, courtesy of StudioE
owner and contest sponsor,
Erin Wetzel.
Portraits will be on display at City Hall in advance
of the July 22-23 festival
where votes, in the form of
Geert and Gertie van den Goor give Rep. Candice

Miller a tour of their milking parlor while hosting a
Dinner on the Farm event at their Sanilac County
operation.
ebrated my last Dinner on the some great victories over the
Farm at Goma Dairy Farm years and I am confident, that
with members of the agricul- with the Michigan Farm
ture community from across Bureaus great leadership
M i c h i g a n s
1 0 t h and other fierce advocates
Congressional District, many within
Michigans
of whom I have come to call Congressional delegation,
my good friends. Fighting our agriculture industry will
alongside them, weve had continue to thrive.
Photo by Erin Wetzel
to participate in this forum

are Antony Forlini, Paul Historic Almont District Library located on West St. Clair. Voters will be asked
to approve a millage renewal in August to keep the library going strong.
Mitchell and Phil Pavlov.
Audience members will
submit questions for the
forum. Refreshments will
also be available.
The Goodland Township
Hall is located at 2374 North
Van Dyke Rd., north of Imlay
City.
By Tom Wearing
Rural Lifestyles
ts rather exotic looking

and calls a big swath of
the Midwest home so I
was surprised to learn that
the pretty flower in bloom
along dirt road ditches right
now has the lovely but simple name of Michigan lily.
An email from friend
and reader Chris Cecil of
Almont sent me on a quest
to learn more about this elusive bloomer. A photo
attached to his message
showed a big bunch of the
beautiful blooms and Chris
noted that, to his knowledge, it was rather rare to
find a big clump of this
flower in the wild. Just the
day prior I had spotted some
on a trip into town.
Although similar to the
orange Tiger lilies that naturalize readily, the Michigan
lily is much daintier and its
curved petals catch the eye,
transforming the typical
star-like
bloom
into something more
bulbous.
The rich
orange
color of
the petals
are
enhanced
with purBrown
plish
brown
spots. The
flowers stamens usually
point to the ground since the
petals curve back toward the
base of the bloom.
That drive by encounter
had me thinking these were
some Oriental or other type
of garden lily that had
escaped cultivation and
found a new wild home.
Nope, theyre in a class of
their own.
According to the
University of Michigan
Herbarium, the Michigan
Lily occurs in nearly every
county of the Lower
Peninsula and a handful of
those in the Upper
Peninsula. According to the
USDA Plant Database, the
Michigan lily calls many
states home, considered
native in as far south as
Alabama, as far as east as
New York and as far west as
Oklahoma. Its even ventured across the border to
reside in Ontario too.
Speaking of New York, the
Michigan lily is considered
endangered and it has
threatened status in
Tennessee.
Several nurseries and
seed suppliers appear to sell
the plant for propagation
but, at the same time, its
fickle nature must make it
difficult to grow. Wildflower
groups in various states
Photo by Maria Brown
Michigan lily a rare beauty
While on a crop tour with the kids, I spotted this healthy clump of Michigan
lilies along a Mussey Township dirt road.
report that populations will
simply collapse after a few
seasons. The Ohio Prairie
Association claims the
plants shouldnt be touched

because deer apparently eat
them if human scent is left
on flowers or leaves and,
when grazed, the plant

enters dormancy.
Contact Maria at mbrown@
pageone-inc.com.
Employ goats for weed control

cedars, thistles, autumn olive
and other weeds. Spraying,
digging or bulldozing is
often way too expensive.
Fortunately, goats eat these
weeds. Also, with the smaller size of goats, they tend to
do less damage to wet soil
than heavier animals like
cattle.
Nearly all grazing operations have enough weeds to
add a few goats without
needing to reduce the number of other grazing animals.
If these goats eat your weeds,
you save money on herbicides, and fewer weeds mean
more pasture for grazing
other animals. Goat kids can
sell for $150 apiece during
the November through
March holiday season.
Michigan State University
Extension is currently working with a Jackson County
farmer who is using a small
goat herd to help rejuvenate

her horse pastures. We hope
to share information on this
project through a pasture
walk later in the season.
Goats are relatively low
maintenance, easy to handle
and very personable. The
cost of adding a few goats to
your operation to help clean
up your pastures is relatively
low and could add up to a
big savings in the long run.
This article, written by
Mike Metzger, was published
by Michigan State University
Extension. For more information, visit www.msue.msu.
edu. To have a digest of
information
delivered Drought conditions weaken grasses in fields and pastures, giving weeds the
straight to your email inbox, chance to spread. Goats will often eat those weeds and other undesirable
visit www.msue.msu.edu/ plants that other grazing animals skip over.
newsletters. To contact an
expert in your area, visit
expert.msue.msu.edu, or call
888-MSUE4MI (888-6783464).
USDA-ARS photo
TRI-CITY AREA
What do autumn olive, multiflora rose, cedar trees and
thistle all have in common?
Yes, they are all plants we
often consider to be undesirable in our pastures. A couple of these are even called
noxious weeds, and they are
difficult and expensive to
spray and kill. But these
plants might be a valuable,
untapped resource. All of
them, in addition to many
other weeds and brush species, are the preferred feed of
goats. Goats like to browse
and can greatly help to
remove these undesirable
species from your pastures.
Drought will often weaken grasses, leading to an
explosion in weeds and all
sorts of other plants that cattle and horses rarely eat.
Many other pastures have
their own problems with
Managing lawns for water quality

TRI-CITY AREA
The average homeowner
spends a significant amount
of time from April through
October taking care of their
lawn. By using good management and maintenance practices, the homeowner can
reduce the amount of time
needed for these lawn projects and protect local water
quality. The Michigan State
University Turf Team offers
five tips for lawn care:
Mow at the highest setting and recycle the clippings. By mowing the grass
at least 3 inches high, you
reduce mowing time and the
amount of grass being cut off
the blade. These smaller clips
can be mulched back into the
grass to return nutrients to the
turf. Consistent mulching of
the clippings can reduce fertilizer application by one each
year. Mowing at the highest
setting also helps prevent
weeds by crowding them out
Weather
almanac
Lapeer station
Minimum temp.
54 on Sunday, 10th
Maximum temp.
90.8 on Thursday, 7th
Rainfall
1.49 inches
Growing Degree Days
for corn development:
Current: 1,274
Forecast: 1,437
and encourages a deeper root

system, making the lawn
more tolerant to dry conditions and could reduce the
need for extra watering. .
When mulching, remember to
blow or sweep clipping off
sidewalks, driveways and
roads to prevent the clipping
from being washed into storm
drains and local surface
waters.
Time fertilizer applications. While fall is the best
time to fertilize lawns for best
results, most homeowners
still do multiple applications
throughout the growing season. MSU recommends a soil
test to insure the nutrients
applied are the ones needed.
Nutrients not needed will be
washed away, impacting
streams and rivers.
Choose fertilizers wisely. Michigan has a law
restricting the use of phosphorus fertilizers. Fertilizers
with phosphorus can only be
For the week of

July 5-11
Emmett station
Minimum temp.
57.9 on Sunday, 10th
Maximum temp.
88.1 on Wed., 6th
Rainfall
1.46 inches
Growing Degree Days
for corn development:
Current: 1,234
Forecast: 1,380
Growing degree days are accumulated from

March 1 and forecast through July 18.
Weather data courtesy of Enviro-weather,
www.enviroweather.msu.edu
used on newly seeded or sodded lawns or if a soil test

indicates the lawn needs additional phosphorus. This is to
prevent excess phosphorus
from running into local water
bodies. Make sure the spreader setting is correct so you
dont over- or under-apply.
This can damage the lawn.
Clean up to protect
runoff. Sweep fertilizer granules off walkways and driveways back onto the lawn. (Its
the law in Michigan!) This
will keep the product where it
should be and prevent runoff
that can pollute local streams
and rivers. If you wash your
spreader after use, do it on the
lawn, not on the drive or walk
to prevent runoff. Maintain a
buffer zone near lakes, rivers,
streams and storm drains. A
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where no lawn chemicals or
fertilizers are used.
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Lighter, more frequent watering of lawns is recommended.
It should not produce puddles. During hot summer
months, many grasses go dormant and turn brown unless
watered regularly. This brown
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with regular watering or rain.
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Area youths shine at SkillsUSA

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he learned from his Ed Tech
program at the various areas
of the competition including
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configuring a wireless access
point; configuring Cisco
routers and switches with
advanced options such as
SSH, VLANs, Etherchannel,
GRE Tunnel, OSPF with
authentication, and Access
Lists; configuring a Windows
Server with Active Directory,
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The
Lapeer
County
Education & Technology
Centers ITnet Program has
an exciting accomplishment
to share with the community. Matthew Schuster, a
student in the program, represented Michigan at the
SkillsUSA
National
Championships in Louisville,
Kentucky on June 20-24. He
competed against the best
from around the country and
he was awarded the bronze
medal in Internetworking.
The
Internetworking
competition is very challenging. Students compete in 6
different
areasTAC
(Technical
Assistance
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National Championships last month.
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Michael Antovski and Nick Pocius took fourth

place in the nation in the Mechatronics contest.
DNS, and DHCP, as well as

configuring a Client; and
using WireShark to monitor
network traffic.
Matthew is the son of
Todd and Lori Schuster of
Almont. He plans to continue his networking studies at
Davenport University in
Grand Rapids in the fall. Not
only is Matthew skilled with
networking, he will also be
playing baseball as a
Davenport
University
Panther. His instructor, Ms.
Kelly Ross and everyone at
the Ed Tech Center are so
very proud of him and look
forward to the great things he
will do in the future.
Other Ed Tech students

fared well on the national
stage too.
Drydens
Michael
Antovski and Nick Pocius
took fourth in the nation in
the Mechatronics contest.
Imlay Citys Tyler
Instructor Kelly Ross

congratulates Matthew
on his medal win.
Schumacher came in sixth
place in Sheet Metal competitions.
Others traveling to the
SkillsUSA Nationals were
Imlay Citys Chris Keller
and Alex Belbeck who took
part in criminal justice and
firefighting contests, respectively.
Berlin Twp. seeking

half-mill road proposal
Issue to appear on August 2 ballot

By Maria Brown
BERLIN TWP.
Township officials have spent
$95,000 on limestone and
$18,000 for one chloride
application just this year but
its still a challenge to keep
the roads in good shape, says
Supervisor Bill Winn. After
fielding calls from residents
whod like to see smoother,
less dusty roadways, the
board opted to place a half
mill proposal on the August
ballot.
The roads and ditch pro-
posal would use millage funds

to repair and maintain roads
and other infrastructure like
culverts, allowing for additional ditching were drainage
is an issue and allow for additional dust control through
the application of calcium
chloride.
Winn said Berlin used to
do two chloride applications
per year but as that cost rose,
they reduced it to one. This
year, in an effort to see longer
lasting results, the township
opted to use all limestone
instead of gravel on their
unpaved road projects.
For some time, funds

from the state and county
havent been sufficient to
cover their roads costs.
We get some help but we
cant completely maintain it
the way we want, Winn said.
Township officials believe
that it only makes sense to
tackle drainage issues in a
roads millage too.
This is an issue throughout the county. When you see
trees two feet around in the
ditches you know things
arent draining the way they
should, he said.
The millage can be collected for a term of up to 10
years.
Prep now for pet parade

Popular Blueberry Fest parade
slated for 6:30 p.m. on July 22nd
By Maria Brown
IMLAY CITY Do you

and your dog look alike?
Does your cat look adorable
all dressed up? Is your pet
turtle like a superhero in a
shell? Then plan on heading
downtown on Friday, July 22,
for the Blueberry Festivals
popular Pet Parade, sponsored by the Imlay City Vet
Clinic.
The parade is open to
everyonewhomever wants
to participate, says Diana
Stroman, the Clinics Office
manager, noting there are no
age limits or, for the first time
this year, age categories.
Although dogs are the
most popular entrant, there
arent limits to the type of
animals allowed. Ponies,
chickens, cats and others have
made appearances too.
Any pet whatsoever is
welcome, Stroman said.

Trophies will be awarded
in several categories including Most Patriotic, Best Look
Alike, Cutest Costume, Most
Colorful Costume, Best
Superhero, Most Team Spirit
and Judges Choice.
Registration begins at
5:30 p.m. at Almont Ave. and
Fourth Street. Entrants will
parade south down Almont
Ave. beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Trophies will be handed out
at Almont Ave. and Third
Street on the Downtown

Stage.
contact the Imlay City Vet
Clinic at 724-5125.
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ST. CLAIR COUNTY

Gates to the St. Clair
County 4-H and Youth Fair
open Monday, July 18, and
organizers say theres lots to
do no matter what day visitors arrive at the Goodells
County Park.
Like others, this fair
boasts a lively grandstand
schedulea rodeo on
Monday; truck, tractor and
horse pulls on Tuesday;
more tractor and truck pulls
on Wednesday; a Bump and
Run
race on Thursday,
Figure 8 races on Friday and
quad and motorsport contests on Saturday.
Take in a grandstand
event at night or stroll
through the grounds during
the day and take in a livestock show or spin around
on a midway ride.
The Skerbeck Carnival
will be there starting on
Monday at 5 p.m. and
Tuesday through Saturday
from 1 p.m. until the gates
close, St. Clair County
Agricultural
Society
President Rob Usakowski

said.
New this year, teens
have the chance to enjoy a
Foam, Paint and Glow Party
on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday nights. Tickets
are $5 each.
Youngsters can get in on
the fun with a Bubbly Party,
Wednesday-Friday, from
12-4 p.m.
New this year is an
Agriculture Education Tent
where presenters will cover
topics like bee keeping, raising chickens and rabbits,
composting, food safety and
edible gardening.
Once again, St. Clair
County Farm Bureau will
host a fun crop-themed
scavenger hunt that features
food grown in St. Clair
County and across Michigan.
Winners of three age categories have the chance to
win $50 gift cards.
Cost is $7 per person,
$20 for daily pass for car
and all occupants.
including the complete fair
schedule, visit www.stclaircounty4hfair.org or call
810-364-9100.
Village to join
CLEMIS system
By Maria Brown
CAPAC The village

will need to spend up to
$14,000 to join the countys
new dispatch and law
enforcement records system,
but by working directly with
the
provider,
Oakland
Countys CLEMIS (Courts
and Law Enforcement
Management Information
System) system, theyll realize a cost savings.
At their July 5 meeting,
council members voted to
approve spending $10,000 on
new computers and related
equipmenta
onetime
expensealong with the
$3,989 annual fee. Once the
installation is complete, the
Capac Police Department
will have the necessary tools
to tap into St. Clair Countys
new dispatch system. Chief
Heather Fantin said it was
cheaper for the village to
contract
directly
with
CLEMIS than access the system through the county.
Overall the $3,989 annual user fee represents a $1,500
per year increase over the old
system but Fantin said
CLEMIS is far superior and
will streamline record taking
and keeping for Capac officers.
Officer Shaun Alcodray

noted using the CLEMIS system will let them access
records in neighboring communities like Lapeer County.
They also switched their 911
system to CLEMIS in 2015.
Well have direct access
to reports from Lapeer
County. In law enforcement,
its all about connecting the
dots, Alcodray said.
CLEMIS is a product
developed by Oakland
Countys Department of
Information Technology. The
program is open to entities in
Michigan and already serves
every law enforcement agency in Oakland and Washtenaw
counties. According to the
programs website, CLEMIS
facilitates communication
and sharing of criminal justice information among its
users.
In other council business:
members discussed the
possibility of amending their
snowmobile ordinance to add
language allowing for the use
of golf carts in the village
limits.
a contract between
Capacs police officers and
village was approved, effective July 1 through June 30,
2019. It will provide pay raises to officers based on years
of experience.
The components of a meth lab are shown after dismantling by the Drug Task Force. Cleaning up and
disposing of the dangerous material is a costly undertaking, local law enforcement officials say.
Drug Task Force seeks millage increase

By Maria Brown
ST. CLAIR COUNTY

The countys Drug Task
Force (DTF) stays busy combatting illegal drug activity.
Last year, they raided 31
methamphetamine
labs
alone, a nearly eight-fold
increase from 2011 when
there were just four and, in
the last two years, 45 people
have lost their lives to heroin
overdoses. The sheriffs
department says these sobering statistics have prompted
them to ask for a millage
increase on the August 2 ballot this year.
Since 1984, the task force
has been funded by a .28 mill
levy. In 2016, voters will be
asked to double that amount

to .56.
The increase will gives
us the budget to increase the
size and scope of the DTF....
specifically boots on the
ground including more
investigators to help combat
the issues surrounding our
communities, Sheriff Tim
Donnellon said.
With the dramatic
increase of both heroin and
methamphetamine use in our
county, coupled with the high
cost of cleanup and disposal
of meth labs, we are asking
you to support us with our
efforts in shutting down the
poison dealers and bringing
them to justice.
The 100-plus investigations the DTF conducted in
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or information regarding illegal drug activity.

Drugs affect our community with an increase in
home burglaries, armed robberies,
deaths-including
overdose, homicide and suicide-and felonious assaults,
Donnellon adds.
A homeowner whose residence has a $100,000 taxable value will pay an additional $28 per year if the
increase is approved by voters.
The St. Clair County
Drug Task Force is comprised of law enforcement
officers from the Sheriffs
Department, Port Huron
Police Dept., U.S. Border
Patrol and U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
The 3rd
degree
Imlay City area residents enjoy performance by the area
youth band 3rd Degree
Burns during last
Tuesdays Concert in
the Park. Yesterdays
performance featured
rising country pop star
Allie Louise. The final
concert of the series
will feature Rich Eddys
Rockin Oldies on
Tues., July 19th at 7
p.m. at Lamb Steele
Park. The concert will
be moved indoors at
Heritage Church (former Imlay City
Cinemas) in the case
of inclement weather.
For more information
on this and other DDA
happenings visit icdda.
com.
Register now for MS Walk/Run

IMLAY CITY Registration is underway for the
Second Annual Lapeer County MS Walk and Timed Run,
which is slated to begin at 10 a.m. on Sept. 17. Participants
will gather at Lamb Steele Park, 333 E. Third Street.
Walkers, runners, individuals and teams are all welcome
to participate. The event is a fundraiser to find a cure for
MS(Multiple Sclerosis). To register for walking and fundraising, visit walkmsmi.org; to register for running, visit
a2racemanagement.com/registration. For more information about the MS Walk/Run, contact Carol Konik at 810417-4600 or Alan Casillas at 810-656-1562.
2015 resulted in the arrest of

242 people who went on to
be charged with a total of 331
felonies and 232 misdemeanors. Additionally, 60 firearms
were seized during the more
than 100 search warrants
served. Their 2015 activity
also included the seizure of
206 grams of heroin and
more than 500 grams of crack
cocaine and cocaine.
DTF officials estimate opiate-based prescription medication have contributed to 65
overdose deaths in the last
two years. They encourage
residents to turn in unused or
expired prescriptions to the
sheriffs office to prevent
abuse. They also ask residents to contact the DTF at
810-985-8201 to report tips
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Burn ban ignored by

by some celebrants
By Tom Wearing
LAPEERCOUNTY
Some local residents may
have decided to ignore a
countywide burn ban over
the Fourth of July weekend.
The burn ban had been
put into effect last week by
the Lapeer County Fire
Chiefs Association (LCFCA)
due to exceedingly dry conditions and the associated threat
of fires.
Despite the ban, Imlay
City Asst. Fire Chief Andy
Kustowski said the department responded to several
reported illegal burns during
the holiday period.
Because of heavy rainfalls
in recent days, the ban was
lifted in some areas of Lapeer
County on Friday, July 8.
Those areas included

Attica and Hadley townships
and
the
villages
of
Columbiaville and Otter
Lake.
In a press release dated
July 8, Don Bissett,
Chairperson of the Lapeer
County
Fire
Chiefs
Association, said the ban
would remain in effect in
other townships until Monday,
July 11, pending evaluation
by fire chiefs in those jurisdictions.
Bissett suggested that residents contact their local fire
departments for updates on
when and where burning is
deemed safe again.
Local fire officials say it
is always advisable to request
a burn permit before burning.
Ban is lifted in Imlay
On Monday morning,
July 11, Imlay City Fire Chief

Rick Horton lifted the burn
ban for the City of Imlay City
and Imlay Township.
Horton said although the
ban had been made public by
the LCFCA prior to the Fourth
of July weekend, not all county residents were aware of the
ban.
There were probably a
lot of people who didnt
know, said Horton. Its hard
to get the word out to everyone.
He added that there are
always some who will disregard bans and warnings even
after being advised of the
threat of fire.
Still, it appears the vast
majority of bonfires and holiday fireworks displays were
conducted safely and without
incident.
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Sports
Sams on national
champion team
By Kevin Kissane
Tri-City Times Sports Editor
CAPAC Andrew
Sams, who will be a junior at
Capac High School this fall,
helped the Panthers Select
baseball team register a firstplace finish at the 16U
National Tournament recently.
The team set the stage for
a successful tournament run
by putting together a 5-0 pool
play run at the Louisvillebased event. That stretch of
diamond clashes featured a
5-2 win against Stallions
Baseball Club (Ohio); a 5-1
victory over Champaign
Dream (Illinois); a 5-3 triumph against Indiana Blazers;

a 9-5 win over St. Louis
Pirates (Missouri); and an 8-1
victory against St. Louis
Bandits (Missouri).
Those outcomes earned
Panthers Select a bracket play
appearance.
It was there Panthers
Select handed Dullin Dodgers
(Henson, Tennessee) a 5-0
setback and made the Lake
Erie Warhawks (Ohio) absorb
a 12-0 loss at Bellarmine
University, earning a semifinal berth as a result.
Panthers Select then
notched a 6-0 win against
Bluegrass XPress (Kentucky)
at Louisville University to
lock up a title game appearance.

The squad then squared
off versus Pro Player Canes
(Deain, Illinois) for tournament honors. When the last
out was recorded, Panthers
Select left the field with a 5-3
victory to their credit.
Ben Mets, John Fantauso,
Brian
Naidus,
Layne
Malcevski, Jacob Guzik,
Jacob Rybicki, Butch Lux,
Cade Lawitzke, Matt Boutin,
Ryan Lux, Chad Lorkowski
and Garett Navara joined
Sams on the championship
team. They were directed to
the top finish by Kirk
Lawitzke, Jay Naidus and Jeff
Navara.
Photo provided
Capac standout contributes to title
The Panthers Select baseball team won a national title. They are front row (L
to R) Ben Mets, John Fantauso, Brian Naidus, Layne Malcevski, Jacob Guzik,
Jacob Rybicki and back row Butch Lux, Cade Lawitzke, coach Kirk Lawitzke,
Andrew Sams, Matt Boutin, Ryan Lux, Chad Lorkowski, Garett Navara, coaches Jay Naidus, Jeff Navara and statistician Mike Fantauso.
Torres ties for 12th at GLIAC Tourney

By Kevin Kissane
ALMONT Former
Almont High School standout Joe Torres teed it up for
the Hillsdale College mens
golf team at the GLIAC
Championship recently.
The Virtues Golf Club,
in Nashport, Ohio, served as
the venue for the tournament contested April 15-17.
Torres, a junior, opened

action with a 69 over 18
holes.
Day two saw Torres
manage an 80.
He then closed out tournament action with a 77.
That left him with a 226
total for the 54-hole event,
good enough for a threeway tie for 12th with
Ashlands Kondratian and
Ferris States Ryan Bayer.
Tiffin
topped the
team standings with an
892 output.
They were
followed by
Grand Valley
Torres
S t a t e
University
( 8 9 3 ) ,
Northwood (904), Ferris
State University (912),
Malone University (914),

Northern
Michigan
University (914), Ashland
(920), Ohio Dominican and
Saginaw
Valley
State
University (921 each),
Findlay (925), Wayne State
University and Hillsdale
College (930 apiece), Walsh
University (939), Lake
Superior State University
(944) and Lake Erie College
(1071).
Foster Oilers register a state title

By Kevin Kissane
the Foster Oilers a spot in

Saturdays championship
game. When the final out
was registered, they left the
field with a 5-2 triumph to
their credit.
It marked the 26th win in
as many games for the Foster
Oilers this season.
Avery Woodard, Devin
Johnston,
Kendall
Roszczewski,
Lauren
Teltow, Piper Clark, Emmi
Hildreth, Avery Wolters,
Brooke Bunch, Ashley
Stafford and Lexa Forti
comprised the championship
squad. They were coached
by Victoria Hildreth and
Nicole Clark.
Photo provided
TRI-CITY AREA
The Foster Oilers 10U softball squad earned a firstplace finish June 30-July 2
at the ASA State Tournament.
The team opened tournament action on Thursday,
June 30 with a 6-1 triumph

against the Lakeshore
Pirates.
The Foster Oilers then
notched an 8-0 win over the
Mount Pleasant Drillers and
obtained a 2-1 victory
against the Lakeshore Pirates
in Fridays action.
Those outcomes landed
Grace Zimmerman, of Almont, tees off in a round

at Treetops Resort in Gaylord.
Zimmerman takes
11th at Treetops
By Kevin Kissane
ALMONT Grace
Zimmerman, who will be a
junior at Almont High School
this fall, competed at the 13th
Annual Midwest Junior Golf
Championship recently.
The event took place July
2-3 on the Tradition Golf
Course, located at Treetops
Resort in Gaylord, Michigan.

Zimmerman got her tournament stint underway with a
99 over 18 holes.
She then chipped in with
a second round of 97.
That left her with a
36-hole total of 198, paving
the way to an 11th-place
showing in the Girls 16-18
age group.
Photo provided
Almont golfer shines at the

Midwest Junior Championship
Foster Oilers won the 10U state title recently. They are front (L to R) Emmi Hildreth, Avery Wolters,
Brooke Bunch, bat girl Kassidy Clark, Ashley Stafford and Lexa Forti; and back assistant coach Victoria
Hildreth, Avery Woodard, Devin Johnston, Kendall Roszczewski, Lauren Teltow, Piper Clark and coach
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Almont 10U team nabs

first place in Imlay City
By Kevin Kissane
Almont ahead by a 10-3

count.
Austin Swain, Giovanni
Marracco, Brendan Cole,
Luke Zondervan, Zachary
Hoffner, Luke Winkler,
Jason Lane, Liam Webster,
Cole Walton, Max Koskodan,
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by Jason Hoffner, Leonard
Koskodan and Paul Webster.
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ALMONT The
Almont 10U baseball squad
forged a 3-1 mark en route to
a first-place finish at the
Imlay
City
All-Star
Tournament.
Almont kicked off tournament action Saturday with
a 6-4 loss to Dryden.
Later that day, Almont
evened their mark at 1-1
with a 6-5 win against Imlay

City.
Those results placed
Almont in Sundays semifinals where Armada provided
the opposition. It was there
Almont advanced on the
strength of an 8-5 victory.
Almont then squared off
versus Lakeville for the distinction of tournament
champs next. Their confrontation wrapped up with
Almonts 14U baseball team won the Imlay City All-Star Tourney. They are
front (L to R) Leonard Koskodan, Ben Roland, Carson Tennant, Kyle Kanirie,
Scott Pape and Eric Herman; and back coach Steve Lloyd, Jacob Korte,
Austin Amlotte, Seth Helfer, Darren Herman, Lucas Thompson, Dawson
Maxlow and coach Jasen Thompson.
By Kevin Kissane
ALMONT
The
Almont 14U baseball team
posted a 3-1 mark, paving the
way to a first-place finish at
the Imlay City All-Star
Tournament.
Almont opened tournament play Saturday with a 3-1
setback to Imlay City.

bounced back with a 5-4 win
against Armada.
The team followed that
up Sunday with a 12-11 victory over Washington.
Almont then wrapped up
a title-producing run with a
4-3 triumph against Memphis.
Eric Herman, Scott Pape,
Kyle Kanirie, Carson Tennant,

Ben
Roland,
Leonard
Koskodan, Dawson Maxlow,
Lucas Thompson, Darren
Herman, Seth Helfer, Austin
Amlotte and Jacob Korte
formed Almonts championship roster. They were directed to their number one finish
by coaches Steve Lloyd and
Jasen Thompson.
Photo by Kevin Kissane
Almont captures 14 and

Under title in Imlay City
The Almont 10U baseball team took first at the Imlay City All-Star Tourney.
They are front (L to R) Austin Swain, Giovanni Marracco, Brendan Cole, Luke
Zondervan and Zachary Hoffner; middle Luke Winkler, Jason Lane, Liam
Webster, Cole Walton, Max Koskodan, Nolan Maxlow and John Biswack; and
back coaches Jason Hoffner, Leonard Koskodan and Paul Webster.
Almont 12U squad

garners a second
ALMONT
The
Almont 12U baseball squad
took second place at the Imlay
City All-Star Tournament this
past weekend.
Almont began their successful tournament run with a
6-5 win against Imlay City.
That was followed by a 7-2
loss to Armada; a 13-2 victory over Armada team two;
and an 8-6 triumph against

Memphis.
Brock Conger, Reno
Golaszewski, David Goodloe,
Ian
Hicks,
Dominic
Ljuldjuraj, Grady Nash,
Gavin Peake, Rich Rockey,
Mason
Smith,
Seth
VanHoutte, Lucas Webster
and Logan Williams made
Almonts second-place finish
possible. They were coached
by Dave Nash and Dave
Goodloe.
Athlete of the Week
Photo provided
By Kevin Kissane
The Almont 12U baseball team took second at the Imlay City All-Star Tourney. Their ranks consist of
Grady Nash, Reno Golaszewski, Mason Smith and Rich Rockey; and back Gavin Peake, Lucas Webster,
Seth VanHoutte, Brock Conger, Ian Hicks, Dominic Ljuldjuraj, coach Dave Nash, David Goodloe, coach
Dave Goodloe bat boy Luke Goodloe and Logan Williams.
Imlay City takes second at own tourney

By Kevin Kissane
Almont senior Matt

Schuster hit at a .491 clip
for his baseball team this
season.
For his effort, Schuster
earns our Boys Athlete of
the Week honor.
Dryden junior softball

standout Claudya
DeLand turned in a TriCity best .556 average
this season.
For her effort,
DeLand claims our
Girls Athlete of the
Week honor.
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Imlay City 8U baseball team
generated a second-place
showing at an All-Star
Tournament it hosted.
Imlay City got their successful tournament run
underway Friday with a 9-4
win against Almont.
Saturday would see
Imlay City split its games,
dropping a 10-0 verdict to
Armada
and
handing
Mayville a 17-4 setback.
Imlay City then concluded their tournament run
Sunday with a 24-6 triumph
against Lakeville.
Vinnie Guerin, Brady
Detwiller, Logan Dodge,
Jack Siegler, Ethan Collins,
Joel Schultz, Aiden Wroubel,
Kaiden Stoldt, Trystan
Whiting, Brady Homer,
Levi
Lengemann
and
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Imlay Citys 8U team took second at an All-Star Tourney it hosted. They are
front (L to R) Ethan Collins, Brady Homer, Trystan Whiting, Levi Lengemann,
Jack Siegler, Kaiden Stoldt and coach Mark Detwiller; middle Brady Detwiller,
Logan Dodge, Lincoln Goward, Joel Schultz, Aiden Wroubel and Vinnie
Guerin; and back coaches Alex Lengemann, Neil Collins, Mike Guerin and
Casey Coles.
Imlay Citys roster. They Collins, Mark Detwiller, Lengemann
were coached by Neil Mike
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Capac second at Brown City...
The Capac 10U softball team took second at the Brown City All-Star Tourney. They are front (L to R)
Briana Swamba, Christina Howard, Mallory Lietz, Neveah Mason and Jenevieve Lewis; middle Leah
Trudo, Saidie Hernandez, Deanna Thibert, Jenna Maday, Madelyn Roberson, Skyler Tesnow and
Rachel Mirling; and back coaches Mike Maday, Aaron Roberson and Gary Mirling.
Ian Rennie, of Capac, looks to sink a putt during a

match this past spring.
Ian Rennie is All-BWA

honorable mention pick
By Kevin Kissane
TRI-CITY AREA
The following athletes were
named to the All-Blue Water
Area Conference boys golf
team which was announced
recently:
First team - Noah Kosal,
Richmond; Nick Bailey, Port
Huron Northern; Jarrod Belli,
Marine City; Matt Benson,
Cros-Lex; Billy Fealko, Port
Huron Northern; Justin
Fuhrman, Yale; Nolan Gilbert,
Marine City; Matt Hammer,
Armada; Nick Lazono,
Marysville; Adam Lemoine,
St. Clair; and Kurtis
Obermeyer, Port Huron
Northern.
Honorable mentionBen Burgess, Algonac;
Nicholas Findley, Armada;
Dylan Foster, Brown City;

Phil Lowe, Brown City;
Mitch Conley, Brown City;
Ian Rennie, Capac; Daniel
Everhart, Cardinal Mooney;
Kody Birtles, Cros-Lex;
Austin Smith, Cros-Lex; Sam
Palmateer, Marysville; Matt
Rose, Marysville; Jacob Belli,
Marine City; Brendan Bohm,
Marine City; Kyle Hepting,
Port Huron High; Nick Miller,
Port Huron Northern; Luc
Bowman,
Port
Huron
Northern; Owen Kosal,
Richmond; Benjamin Jones,
Sandusky; Austin Western,
Sandusky; Marshal Holt,
Sandusky; Harry Miller, St.
Clair; Matt Tetreau, St. Clair;
Patrick Bondy, Yale; and
Ryan Meyers, Yale.
Golfer of the Year- Noah
Kosal, Richmond.
Shelby Fridline helps

Wayne State to title
By Kevin Kissane
ALMONT Shelby
Fridline, a graduate of
Almont High School, completed her sophomore season
with the Wayne State
University softball team
recently.
The sophomore finished
with nine hits in 36 at bats for
a .250 average. She contributed five runs scored, collected two RBI and walked
twice.

The sophomore, a catch-
er, also registered 89 putouts and three

assists while
committing
just one error.
With her
help, Wayne
S t a t e
Fridline
University
closed out
the 2016 campaign with an
impressive 50-10 mark. That
included
a
21-3
GLIACrecord, good enough
to end the season atop the
league standings.
McKillop plays
for Olivet squad
IMLAY
CITY
Dominique McKillop, a 2015

graduate of Imlay City High
School, wrapped up her debut
campaign with the Olivet
College softball team recently.
The infielder/outfielder
finished the year with five
basehits. She also contributed
four RBI, four walks and one
steal to her teams cause.
Olivet College ended the

2016 campaign
as
owners of a
16-18 overall
mark. That
included a
3-13 MIAA
mark, leaving the team
McKillop
in
eighth
place.
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Legal Announcements
ORDINANCE NUMBER 197
VILLAGE OF ALMONT
NOXIOUS WEED AND
OVERGROWN GRASS
ORDINANCE
IMLAY TOWNSHIP
BOARD OF REVIEW

An ordinance to regulate noxious
weeds and overgrown grass/vegetation
in the Village.
THE VILLAGE OF ALMONT
HEREBY ORDAINS:

Section 1. Prohibitions.

Section 2. Definition of Noxious
Weeds.

Section 3. Duty of Owner, Agent or
Occupant.

Section 4. Action by Village upon
failure of owner to comply.

Section 5. Collection of costs from
owner.

Section 6. Enforcement Officer.

Section 7. Violations.

Section 8. Notice of Requirements.

Section 9. Effective Date.
The undersigned President and
Clerk of the Village of Almont hereby
certify that this Ordinance was adopted
at a Regular Meeting of the Almont
Village Council held on the 5th day of
July 2016 and was published in the TriCity Times on the 13th day of July 2016.
Kimberly Keesler
Clerk
Steve Schneider
Village President

A complete copy of the above ordinance is available in the Clerks office
during regular business hours or at
www.almontvillage.org.
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The Imlay Township 2016 July Board of Review will meet Tuesday, July
19, 2016 at 7:00pm at the Imlay Township Hall 682 N. Fairgrounds Road. The
July Board of Review will review Principle Residence Exemptions, Qualified
Agricultural Exemptions, current year Poverty Exemptions, Veterans Exemptions, and qualified errors of fact. The July Board of Review will not hear appeals on assessment and taxable values.
28-1
TOWNSHIP OF BERLIN
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Request for Variance
To the Berlin Township Zoning Ordinance
Notice is hereby given that there will be a Public Hearing at the meeting of
the Berlin Township Zoning Board of Appeals on July 28, 2016. The meeting
will be held at the Berlin Township Offices, located at 740 Capac Road, Allenton, Michigan, 48002 beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The purpose of the Public Hearing is to consider comments, verbal or written,
relating to the following request for a variance from the Berlin Township Zoning Ordinance:
Parcel #:
Address:
Legal Description:

74-09-025-4001-001
550 Berville Road
BEG S 0D 2M 54S W 2075.04 FROM W 1/4 COR,
TH S 0D 2M 54S W 240, TH E 546.32, TH N 0D 2M
54S E 240, TH W 546.32 TO BEG SECTION 25 T6N
R13E 3.01A.
Variance Request: A variance to the front yard setbacks for an addition and attached garage. The applicant proposes a 108.7 and a 106.7 front yard setback
from the centerline of Berville Road for the addition and garage, respectively.
The required front yard setback is 135 from the centerline of Berville Road.
The requested front yard setback variances are for 26.3 for the addition and
28.3 for the attached garage
VILLAGE OF
ALMONT
ALMONT VILLAGE
COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
JUNE 21, 2016
SYNOPSIS
Copies of the application and any related documents are available for inspection at the Berlin Township Offices during regular business hours and will be
available at the time and place of the public hearing. All interested citizens
will be given an opportunity to comment on this application. Written comments
may be submitted up to the time of meeting.
President Schneider called the

meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
Councilmembers present were Dyke,
Lauer, Love, Peltier, Steffler, Tobias &
Schneider. Staff present were Manager
Moyer-Cale, Clerk/Treasurer Keesler,
Karen Klos,
Berlin Township Clerk
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MEASURE WITH IT.
ATTICA TOWNSHIP
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
ATTICA TOWNSHIP
PLANNING COMMISSION
Notice is hereby given that the Attica Township Planning Commission

will hold a public hearing on Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 7:00 PM, or as soon
thereafter as the meeting agenda allows, at the Attica Township Hall, 4350
Peppermill Road, Attica MI 48412. The purpose of the hearing is to receive
public comments regarding amending Section 5.1.3.A Accessory Building Height of the Attica Township Zoning Ordinance to increase maximum
height of residential accessory buildings.
A complete copy of the proposed amendments may be examined at the
Attica Township Hall, Monday through Friday, except holidays, from 9 a.m.
until 12:00 noon.
Written comments may be sent to the Planning Commission, at the address above, prior to the hearing. Verbal comments will be taken during the
public hearing.
This notice is published pursuant to the requirements of Michigan Zoning
Enabling Act, Public Act Number 110 of 2006, as amended.
Nancy Herpolsheimer
Attica Township Clerk
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VILLAGE OF
ALMONT
Police Chief Nael and Building Official

Israel.
The Council approved agenda;
approved consent agenda; approved for
the Manager to camera the covered culverts of two lots on Westwinds; approved
to purchase an ABS submersible pump
from Hydro Dynamics; approved purchase of a spare pump for the Howland
Rd. lift station; approved entering into a
3-year contract with Hydro Corp for the
Cross Connection Program; approved
budget amendments & accepted Police
Chiefs resignation.

Discussion was held on building
committee meeting, Clauw properties,
audit & park improvements.

The meeting adjourned at 10:32
p.m.
Kimberly J. Keesler
Clerk/Treasurer
Steve Schneider
President

A complete copy of the minutes is
available in the Clerks office during
regular business hours or at www.
almontvillage.org.
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8-3-16
Chairman Germayne called the

regular meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.
Commissioners present were Germayne,
Bargen,
Romine
and
Sadler.
Commissioners Davis, Lengemann and
Schwab were absent. Also present were
Zoning Administrator Jerry Edwards,
and pending administrative review and

approval of the Sanitary Sewer Plan to
include submittal of a complete easement document. The meeting was
adjourned at 7:21 p.m. Complete copies
of the minutes are available in the
Clerks office during regular business
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PLANNING COMMISSION
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JUNE 28, 2016
SYNOPSIS
City Manager Tom Youatt, Jeff Liebler

of Liebler Agency, Richard Burmann of
Burmann Associates and Greg Dennis of
Midwest Commercial Construction. The
Commission approved the agenda as
presented and approved the minutes of
the Regular Meeting held Tuesday,
February 23, 2016. The Commission
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Bid for 1999 John Deere TC44H Wheel Loader

The City of Imlay City is seeking sealed bids for the sale of a 1999
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Hours. A minimum bid of $30,000.00 is required and shall be submitted in a sealed envelope entitled John Deere Loader Bid by no later
than 3:00 p.m. on July 27, 2016 to the attention of the City Manager, 150
N. Main Street, Imlay City, MI 48444. Please contact Ed Priehs, DPW
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Almont garners second place

went to 2-1-1 with a 10-4 victory over the North Branch
All-Stars and a 4-4 outcome
against the Algonac Swamp
Rats.
Those verdicts placed
Almont in Sundays semifinals against Imlay City. That
clash concluded with Almont
earning a 19-4 win.
Almont then challenged
Algonac for tournament honors next. Their battle drew to
a close with Algonac posting
By Kevin Kissane
ALMONT
The
Almont Raiders 8U softball
team obtained a second-place
finish at the Alysha Rahn
Memorial Tournament in
Imlay City.
Almont began tournament
action Saturday with a 16-6
win against the Imlay City
Spartans.
an 18-8 victory.
Anna Debczak, Kalia
Tencza, Julie Ljuljdjuraj,
Nora Yarbrough, Charlie
Kennedy, Myah Houvener,
Rory Meeker, Olivia Eldridge,
Allison Derk, Lauren Webster,
Kylie
Tennant,
Olivia
Kwierant and Tara Tencza
made Almonts second-place
finish possible. They were
coached by Jeremy Yarbrough,
Ed Debczak, George Tencza
and Matt Derk.
Imlay City won the 10U title at the Alysha Rahn Memorial Tournament. They
are front (L to R) Fallon Behrick, Hannah Carney, Reese Schmidt and Gabby
Cremeans; middle Caylee Benge, Aalyiah Guerrero, Hope Schriber, Jaelynn
Hoban, Laura Conley, Alexia Barron and Addison Rottman; and back coaches
Jason Schmidt and Brian Hassenflug. Isabelle Lindquist was not present for
the photo.
By Kevin Kissane
IMLAY CITY The

Imlay City 10U softball team
garnered a first-place finish at
the Alysha Rahn Memorial
Tournament in Imlay City.
The team started tournament play Saturday with a 4-2
loss to the Michigan Hawks.
That was followed by a 15-0
setback to the Oxford

Wildcats; a 5-1 win against
the Michigan Hawks and a
5-0 victory over the Oxford
Wildcats.
Those results placed the
team in Sundays championship game where the Michigan
Hawks provided their opposition. That battle drew to a
close with Imlay City registering a 2-1 triumph.
Fallon Behrick, Hannah

Carney, Reese Schmidt,
Gabby Cremeans, Caylee
Benge, Aalyiah Guerrero,
Hope Schriber, Jaelynn
Hoban, Laura Conley, Alexia
Barron, Addison Rottman
amd Isabelle Lindquist comrpised Imlay Citys championship roster. They were
coached by Jason Schmidt
and Brian Hassenflug.
Imlay City softball captures 10U title
The Almont 8U softball team took second at the Alysha Rahn Memorial
Tourney. They are front (L to R) bat girl Kate Yarbrough, Anna Debczak, Kali
Tencza, Julie Ljuljdjuraj and Nora Yarbrough; middle Charlie Kennedy, Myah
Houvener, Rory Meeker, Olivia Eldridge, Allison Derk, Lauren Webster, Kylie
Tennant, Olivia Kwierant and Tara Tencza; and back Jeremy Yarbrough, Ed
Debczak, George Tencza and Matt Derk.
Imlay City 12U claims a second

IMLAY CITY The

Imlay City 12U softball
squad claimed a secondplace showing at the Alysha
Rahn Memorial Tournament
it hosted.
Imlay City opened tournament action Saturday with
an 11-6 triumph against
Michigan Hawks.
Later that day, Imlay

City dropped a 14-4 verdict
to Oxford Wildcats and
notched an 11-10 win against
the Sterling Heights Tigers.
Those results landed
them a semifinal assignment
Sunday versus the Sterling
Heights Tigers. That clash
ended with Imlay City up by
a 5-4 count.
Imlay City then met the
Oxford Wildcats for tournament honors next. Their bat-
tle wound down with Oxford

registering a 13-3 triumph.
Hailie Rzeszut, Natasha
Cremeans, Veronica Johnson,
Taylor
Eagle,
Olivia
Livingston,
Breanna
Penzien, Grace Schriber,
Ellery King, Emily Diaz,
Yesenia Rojas, Anglene
Konarski
and
Seanna
Caudillo appeared on Imlay
Citys roster. They were
coached by Jennifer Rzeszut
and Todd Rzeszut.
By Kevin Kissane
Imlay Citys 12U team

took second at the
Rahn Memorial
Tourney. They are front
(L to R) Hailie Rzeszut,
Natasha Cremeans,
Veronica Johnson,
Taylor Eagle, Olivia
Livingston and Seanna
Caudillo; and back
coach Jennifer Rzeszut,
Breanna Penzien, Grace
Schriber, Ellery King,
Emily Diaz, Yesenia
Rojas, Anglene
Konarski and coach
Todd Rzeszut.
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Blueberry Festival Visitors Guide Inside This Issue

Your Local Hometown Newspaper

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

142nd Volume - Issue No. 28

Rally for Gordy

July 30 fundraiser planned at St. Pauls Church

undergoing a fourth round

Photo by Tom Wearing

Gordy page 10-A

Chef Ray = culinary bliss

place with as much quality as

with local farmers markets

Photo by Maria Brown

Almont Country Smoke House chef dedicated to delicious

Chef Ray Hollingsworth joined the Country Smoke

Lapeer Countys hidden gem

waterfall, lily pads and live

Imlay Citys own Hunter Pope contemplates next

Tri-City Times Contributing Writer

IMLAY CITY The

Photo by Catherine Minolli

Photo by Nicholas Pugliese

Tri-City Times Editor

Food for families

Visitors to Almont Community

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