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VOL. 61, NO. 6
Opposition surfaces against bond
Opinions clash
as Feb. 22 vote
approaches
By Steven Howard
Heritage Media
Saline Area Schools Super-
intendent Scot Graden held
a forum at Liberty School
Paramedics
rescue pets
in house fire
Three of four
animals found
are recovering
By Art Aisner
Special Writer
The last of three household
pets rescued from a burning
home on Saline’s west side
return to its owner Monday.
Turbo, a black and white tux- working.
edo cat, was reunited with its
family after three days of treat- the animals regained con-
ment for smoke inhalation at a
local veterinary clinic, said her white Himalayan cat named
anxious owner, Janie Young,
early Monday morning.
Young was shuttling her
17-year-old son from school
and was not at home when a
fire started Friday afternoon.
Smoke quickly filled the bot-
tom floor of the two-unit rental had to close down westbound
property in the 600 block of
West Michigan Avenue and was the fire.
pouring from windows when
firefighters arrived.
Hoeft said a neighbor who just
Saline Area Fire Chief Craig through … and that’s when
happened to be working out-
doors during one of the coldest
and first reported the fire.
They quickly learned nei-
days of the year smelled smoke Veterinary Service responded
ther Young, her son, nor their
upstairs neighbor were likely
home, but that they had mul-
tiple pets.
To be certain, Hoeft said two
teams of firefighters went into
the structure to search for any
survivors, and they luckily
found three animals under a
couch on the first floor. All three suffered varying degrees of
were unresponsive and needed
immediate assistance, he said.
Firefighters also found a
larger dog in the upstairs level
that also suffered from smoke
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Monday night to address a $22 Brian Marl, followed by a ques- In an interview following that they have to borrow, which is “Injured pets recovering as
million bond extension proposal tion-and-answer period with the the forum, McCoy voiced many means we have to borrow, and
investigators continue to probe
fire’s cause”
on the ballot Feb. 22 in which
the district is asking voters to
audience.
The debate grew heated at
of the same concerns she
addressed at the meeting.
then we have to pay it back.
It would be like saying, when
finance major infrastructural
repairs and other needs.
times, with those favoring one
side or the other cheering loud-
“One of the things that
concerns us is that the bond
you talk about your mortgage,
just talking about the principle
The order of the evening ly and clapping when a point language says that the school instead of talking about the
was similar to previous forums was made they agreed with. is proposing to borrow $22 entire amount.”
during which Graden made his Saline resident Judy McCoy million. But when you look at Henry Parks, also a Saline
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the animals to their vehicle and
started administering oxygen
through the air masks designed
for people.
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with masks designed for
canines, felines and other ani-
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Young’s pet for nearly 15 years.
“I was in absolute shock,”
recalled Young, who said she
had to circle the block a few
times just to get home because Fiber artist Kathy Campau’s “Hawaiian Holiday” quilts will be on exhibit through Feb. 28 at
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that,” she said. “It was awful.”
Dr. James Romine of Saline
to the scene and quickly sensed
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there was an opportunity to By Carrie Henderson lush botanical gardens, and were astonished
save most of the animals thanks Special Writer at the variety of brilliantly hued flowers there.
to paramedics. Campau translated this into a series of 32 art
“They were basically in The temperature outside may be bone chill- quilts. The Marketplace:
a comatose state when the ing, but inside the Two Twelve Arts Center in Campau grew up with a mother who hand- Local ads are just a hop
EMTs got there, and getting away at the MIcentral.com
Saline, it’s a tropical wonderland. Fiber artist made all of the clothing for eight children.
that oxygen right away made a marketplace. While you are
Kathy Campau is the center’s February Artist It was not until she became a mother herself
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Romine said. all the special supplements
“Hawaiian Holiday,” was inspired by a trip to children. of Journal Register Co.
All three surviving animals “I guess that sort of lit me on fire. I just
the islands five years ago. newspapers in Michigan.
“It was a life-changing experience,” says didn’t stop,” she says. Click on “marketplace” on
smoke inhalation and had to be Campau began by making functional piece- the home page of our Web
scrubbed clean several times, Campau of her trip. “It was just such a beauti-
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They led the Dinner at Eight Committee in raising The Ragbirds, and a free pre-concert “Instrument tions of various Heritage publications, including The
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