Mount Clemens officials mourn end of cable commission
BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
MOUNT CLEMENS — Members of the Mount Clemens City Commission took on a sorrowful tone at the June 17 meeting as the first round of votes to end the Cable Communications Commission were cast.
The cable commission was formed in 1991 as an agreement between the city and Mount Clemens Community Schools to produce and provide programming for public, educational and governmental channels. The commission oversaw the operation under the agreement and met at Mount Clemens High School on a bimonthly basis. Shows produced under the commission’s watch, including city and school board meeting broadcasts, were aired on the Mount Clemens Community Schools “Bath City Beat” YouTube channel.
According to supporting documents from the meeting packet, the school district decided to end the agreement effective June 30. The end of the agreement comes about 10 months after the commission approved a digital communications contract with
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BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
MOUNT CLEMENS — It is Friday, May 17, and Lois Lombardo is in the fight of her life.
The owner of Olympia Salon & Spa on Cass Avenue is trying to work her new water pump in a shed on the other side of the city, but nothing is going right. She flips switches, turns valves and repositions a hose in hope of getting the pump to send its water to the surface.
Suddenly, a breakthrough: The pump roars to life and bathes Lombardo and the rest of the shed with dirt-brown water stinking of rotten eggs, a scent that hangs in the air for the next hour. From the senses alone, it is hard to believe anyone could find value in extracting such a liquid, but Lom-
Welcome to Bath City
bardo knows what she has. It is the reason she came to Mount Clemens, and it is the key to how she plans to revive the century-old industry that put Mount Clemens on the map.
Mount Clemens is known as Bath City, or at least it is to its residents. Anyone trying to hunt down the signs of a citywide bathing industry have to look hard to find anything beyond baked-in echoes to verify this odd claim to fame, and even then, all they have to work with is a preserved pump in Clemens Park and a historical marker on the east side of Select Specialty Hospital. For something that the city clings to as its identity, the lacking modern footprint of the bath industry almost seems inscrutable. But in some ways, it is fitting
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“I endorse Tammy Patton. I know her to be a woman of integrity and someone who goes out of her way to help others. She has done an outstanding job as a Trustee. Tammy is a Military Veteran who always advocates for her fellow Veterans. I am asking you to join me in electing Tammy T. Patton.” - PAT DANIELS US Army Vietnam Veteran
LEGACY SELFRIDGE PILOT TAKES FINAL FLIGHT
BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
HARRISON TOWNSHIP/ROCHESTER — After two decades of service, Rochester resident and Air National Guard Maj. Jason Holm has piloted his final military flight.
Taking place over the course of June 13, Holm flew an A-10 Thunderbolt II along with two other pilots around Michigan. The first stop on the trip was to the Grayling Air Gunnery Range for training, flying back along Lake Michigan on a path that went over Charlevoix, Traverse City and Manistee.
The flight marks the end of a military career that began with his enlistment in 2004. Holm’s father, Keith, flew F-4 Phantom II jets out of Selfridge in the 1980s and 1990s. Holm joined the Air National Guard at Battle Creek while in the Western Michigan University aviation program, getting hired on in 2006.
“I enlisted there to try to help get a pilot spot and help get myself through college with all the benefits you get from that,” Holm said. “While I was there, about a semester before I graduated, I was hired for the A-10s out in Battle Creek.”
That year, the A-10s were moved out to Selfridge as part of the Base Realignment and Closure Act, putting Holm on the path to fly out of the base his father used to. After several years of officer pilot training on T-37 and T-38 jets, Holm went through six months of training on the A-10 and then began going on mission flights.
“I love it,” Holm said of the A-10. “It’s always an Army and Marine favorite. Our job is supporting guys on the ground, so thinking about the 18- or 19-year-old rifleman on the ground and being able to support them. I know multiple people that at some
Clinton Township approves transfer to Priority Waste
OFFICIALS ADDRESS GFL FAILINGS
BY NICK POWERS npowers@candgnews.com
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — While there was apprehension about approving the transfer of trash collection services from GFL Environmental to Priority Waste, there wasn’t much the Clinton Township Board of Trustees could do about it.
At its June 24 meeting, the board unanimously approved the transfer.
While the township had the option to opt out of the transition, it’s unclear what would’ve been an alternative. Clinton Township Attorney Jack Dolan said Priority Waste was the only company that could reasonably fulfill the needs of the contract.
“It’s my recommendation that we hold our nose, so to speak, and accept the assignment and try to move on in a positive way,” Dolan said. “Hopefully services will improve.”
Dolan mentioned that if the township gives 120 days’ notice, per the terms of their agreement, they can move on to another contract. This is part of the current contract that Priority Waste will inherit from GFL, which is in effect until March of 2026.
“As we move along, we can utilize that provision in the contract to seek out another vendor, if that would be appropriate,” Dolan said.
The board said they had constituents who complained about spotty service from GFL in recent weeks during the transition. Even many members on the board said their
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ABOVE: Michigan Air National Guard Maj. Jason Holm stands on the steps outside of an A-10 Thunderbolt II on June 13. Photo provided by 127th Wing
RIGHT: Michigan Air National Guard Maj. Jason Holm flies a special full-color A-10 Thunderbolt II over the English Channel during the 74th anniversary of D-Day in 2018.
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NEWS & NOTES
Boaters rescued from storm
HARRISON TOWNSHIP — At around 3 p.m. on June 23, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office Marine Division rescued four people from a capsized boat on Lake St. Clair, about one mile east of the mouth of the Clinton River.
According to a statement from the office, the boaters intended to fish on the lake but were caught in a storm. Choppy water entered their vessel and did not drain, flipping the boat over. Two Macomb County Sheriff’s Office patrol boats responded to the vessel, rescuing all four boaters, who were wearing life jackets.
“This group of boaters made the best decision possible when they chose to wear life jackets on their outing,” Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said in the statement. “I sincerely appreciate the efforts of our Marine Division rescuing these individuals and ensuring they made it safely back to shore.”
Clinton Township Board of Trustees approves drainage project payment
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — The Clinton Township Board of Trustees unanimously approved its part of the funding for a drainage project totaling $1,558,475.
The township opted to prepay the amount instead of issuing bonds over a 20-year period. A letter recommending the prepayment by Clinton Township Finance Director Mary Hein states that the township saved $779,000 by making this move. The payment is made for the township’s part in the Oakland-Macomb Interceptor Drainage District.
“We will save a lot of money by doing this,” Clinton Township Supervisor Bob Cannon said. The project addresses the aging Macomb-Oakland Interceptor Drain, which was constructed in the 1970s. According to a letter from engineers on the project, decay caused by sulfuric acid generated by hydrogen sulfide has aged the system. This also caused odor complaints. The project continues lining the system to combat these issues.
MSU EXTENSION HOSTING DISCOVERY CRUISES
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — The Michigan State University Extension in Macomb County, along with Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority and Michigan Sea Grant, announce the return of Lake St. Clair Discovery Cruises. Launching from the Lake St. Clair Metropark Marina July 9-28 at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at $30 per person, cruises will go around the lake for two hours and provide educational opportunities about various aspects of the lake. Cruise topics include the birds of Lake St. Clair, the fish of Lake St. Clair, Great Lakes science, shipwrecks, water investigations and more. Those interested in learning more about cruises can contact Michigan State University Extension Sea Grant Extension educator Angela Scapini at scapinia@msu.edu. To buy tickets for a cruise, visit the Huron-Clinton Metroparks website or call (586) 463-4581. Seating is limited and reservations are encouraged.
Michigan sets recycling record for third year in a row
LANSING — The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy announced on June 24 that Michiganders recycled 703,369 tons in 2023, 82,000 tons more than in 2022. The increase puts the state’s recycling rate at around 23%, keeping the state on track to reaching its goal of a 30% recycling rate by 2029.
According to a statement from EGLE, the more than 700,000 tons recycled equates to every person in Michigan over a 12-month span recycling 140 pounds of cardboard boxes, milk cartons, soup cans, plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, food waste and other recyclable materials.
“Recycling is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do,” Phil Roos, EGLE Director, said in the statement. “Recycling properly saves Michigan taxpayers money by increasing the value of recycled materials, supporting Michigan jobs and improving the health of the environment. We know Michiganders want to recycle the right way, and through our ‘Know It Before You Throw It’ campaign and recycling infrastructure investments, we are providing them with the tools to do just that.”
CMPL hosting presentations, events in July
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — While construction is underway at the Main Library, the Clinton-Macomb Public Library is hosting events at its North and South branches this July.
On Friday, July 12 at 11 a.m., the South Branch will host Portable Pond Ecology for children ages 2-12. Naturalist Endeavors will demonstrate what makes ponds unique with this hands-on interactive program. Call (586) 226-5073 to register.
On Saturday, July 13 at 11 a.m., the North Branch will host an event for those who have a friend or relative with dementia. The event will demonstrate simple engagement techniques that can create shared moments of imagination without relying on memory, and with no right or wrong answers. Call (586) 2265083 to register.
Andrew Kercher brings the history of Mackinac to life on Monday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m. at the North Branch. He’ll share the incredible history of the Straits of Mackinac from the indigenous peoples, fur trading and logging to 19th century battles and fudge production. Call (586) 226-5083 to register. For more information on events and how to register, visit cmpl.org/events.
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point in their military career, they’ve been saved by an A-10.”
Holm’s career led him to fly the A-10 in a variety of places. He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 and 2019, and in Kuwait in 2015, as well as in Europe: in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania. In 2018, he flew in an A-10 painted in World War II invasion markings over Normandy as part of the 74th anniversary remembrance of the landings on June 6, 1944.
“We got to fly out of England and fly over the whole Normandy route with a bunch of C-130s based out of Europe, so we all got to fly together up and down the coasts and over the cemeteries out there,” Holm said. “I think they were dropping paratroopers, like the reenactment they do every year. It was pretty cool to get to cross the English Channel in a D-Day painted A-10.”
Before touching down for the last time
in an A-10, Holm made several passes over the runway for friends and family who came out to witness the occasion. Once he landed, Holm was summarily sprayed with both water and champagne. He shared some words and mementos with the squadron before heading to the American Legion post in Rochester to cap off the night with over 60 family members and friends.
“I’ve been super lucky to be able to get this job and be able to do it for as long as I have; I’ve been extremely lucky with all that,” Holm said. “My parents encouraged me to do this and supported me throughout the whole thing. I’m excited to move on and spend more time with the family. I have two little boys now and I’m excited to spend time with them a little more.”
While his time behind the yoke of an A-10 has come to an end, Holm is not leaving the pilot’s seat anytime soon. After retiring from the Air National Guard later this fall, he will join American Airlines’ roster of 737 pilots, a job Holm was hired for in 2018.
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Families Against Narcotics opens new offices, rebrands
BY NICK POWERS npowers@candgnews.com
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — FAN is still FAN, but the letters have a different meaning.
Families Against Narcotics has changed its name to Face Addiction Now. The switch reflects the nonprofit’s expanded services since it started in 2007.
FAN co-founder Linda Davis, a former 41B District Court judge, spoke about the rebranding at the ribbon-cutting for the nonprofit’s new offices on June 17.
“When we started, we were angry families who wanted to stop narcotics,” Davis said of the name change. “We’ve grown beyond that name. We work with hospitals, police departments, almost everybody in the community and we help everybody face addiction now.”
Davis helped found the nonprofit following a family member’s struggle with addiction. She said this story had a happy ending, but that many similar stories do not. Davis explained that FAN’s aim is to fill in the gaps of the system.
“Where is the system broken and where are we losing people?” she said. “We develop programs around that so nobody slips through the cracks.”
Davis also thanked The Monahan Company for providing FAN with its new offices. The office building is shared by Monahan and Tiny Feet Wellness.
“They are responsible for overhauling this entire building,” she said of Monahan. “It’s hard to find partners that actually want an addiction agency sharing their space.
They welcomed us with open arms.”
Other speakers at the ribbon-cutting ceremony included U.S. Rep. John James, Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido, Macomb County Commissioner James Perna, state Rep. Joe Aragona and Clinton Township Supervisor Bob Cannon.
Davis said one thing summed up the year for the organization: receiving a National Institute of Health grant. The grant, which will allow for research on FAN’s programs, provides $1 million dollars each year
for 12 years.
“It’s almost impossible for a local community to get a National Institute of Health grant,” she said.
New name reflects expanded services
Inside, the new office spaces were bustling with activity. FAN employees set up tables to provide information for the public about different services the nonprofit offers.
Since its inception, the organization has been focused on education. It provides educational materials to kids across Michigan in a way similar to the D.A.R.E. program, according to FAN Director of Community Education Maddie Tortomasi. It also provides education to police academies and hospitals.
The Run Drugs Out of Town 5K run/ walk event also provides a way for families to connect and raise funds for the nonprofit. This year’s event was at Jimmy John’s Field in Utica on June 30. Ryan Reblin, regional director for FAN chapters, said a big part of it is breaking the stigma of addiction. Free support groups for families impacted by addiction are available. According
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Linda Davis, cofounder of FAN, cuts the ribbon to celebrate Face Addiction Now’s new offices in Clinton Township on June 17.
Photo by Nick Powers
that an industry that began as a boom would leave so little behind.
In the 1870s, speculators came to Mount Clemens on the hunt for oil. Their drills found murky liquid beneath the city, but not the sweet crude they hoped for.
“We did not have oil, but we did have some amazing mineral water that had so many different minerals in it,” said Beverly Bishop, a Crocker House Museum docent.
The Original was opened in 1873 by physician Henry Taylor, who capitalized on the interest kicked off by local flour mill owner Dor Kellogg, who attributed his cured eczema to bathing in the water in 1870, and by physician Abner Hayward, who prescribed baths to patients with rheumatism. As word spread of the city’s healing waters, more bathhouses sprung up and more people came seeking treatment. With recommendations calling for people to regularly bathe in the waters, guests would book nearly month-long stays in local hotels, prompting the creation of a hospitality industry featuring restaurants, big bands, symphonies, theaters and other things to keep the guests entertained throughout their stay.
And if the idea of a month-long hotel stay featuring daily spa visits and regular entertainment sounds expensive, that is because it was. Bishop says it cost 75 cents to take a bath in 1913, or about $24 when adjusted for inflation. Add in the costs of the hotel stays and nightly shows and the ideal Bath City visit begins to snowball into an expensive endeavor.
“It was kind of ritzy, and you had to have a whole 21 days of vacation time,” Bishop said. “So I would say it would have been a higher class (activity), but anybody could sign up for it.”
Key to the rise of the bath houses was
the city’s rail connection and proximity to Detroit. That allowed Mount Clemens to capitalize on the resource and gain the clientele and popularity that eluded other communities with mineral water springs that were simply too remote.
“We were lucky because there were trains that came from New York City across to Detroit and then we had spurs that went straight up to Mount Clemens,” Bishop said. “Thomas Edison was really one of the first people working that spur in 1859 and it was like a hub just above Detroit, and much nicer than Detroit was at the time … Midland tried to do that, but nobody could get there because there were no trains. They had to go overland by buggy and there were no roads for cars when they came in, so Midland went the pharmaceutical route and Dow Chemical ended up using the mineral water for their purposes.”
An exact count of how many bathhouses existed is hard to determine. The nature of the industry meant many of the houses would pop up and go out of business fairly quickly with the only solid evidence of a bath’s existence being advertisements and whichever ledgers and letters have been preserved from over 100 years ago. A 1993 pamphlet about the industry printed for the 175th Mount Clemens anniversary places 11 baths within the city’s limits, including the Saint Joseph Sanitarium, now known as Select Specialty Hospital.
Ownership of bath houses was fairly diverse, with Black resident George Hutchinson opening the Eureka on Welts Street near Clemens Park, a decision believed to be attributed to a 1905 news story about a Black university graduate being refused service by the city’s baths. Julia Miller Thome operated the Monroe Hotel and Plaza Bath House after her brother, Fred, died in 1923. Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, several Jewish New Yorkers made the trip to Mount Clemens, took ownership of bathhouses and
built a Jewish community in the city. Mount Clemens was the Bath City, and everyone wanted their share as either a bather or an operator.
The tradition continues
Lombardo, who wanted to carry on the bathing tradition, was attracted to the mystique of the medicinal Mount Clemens waters in 1998.
“I had always wanted to own a salon and spa,” Lombardo said. “I had no experience in owning a business, but this was my dream, and I was very drawn to Mount Clemens. I grew up in St. Clair Shores, but I had always heard about Mount Clemens’ history with the baths and the hotels, and I thought Mount Clemens was where I was supposed to be. I just knew it.”
Lombardo opened up the Olympia Salon & Spa — a name derived from one of the major baths of the peak era — originally on Main Street, keeping mineral baths as part of her offerings from day one. Being the only bath house in town was novel for Lombardo’s Olympia as the industry was well dead by the turn of the millennium. While the rise of pain medication is attributed as one of the reasons for the industry’s decline, Bishop knows the exact day the fate of the baths was sealed: Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929.
“When the stock market crashed in 1929 and we went into a severe depression, they started closing down baths and hotel rooms because they couldn’t rent them,” Bishop said. “People weren’t coming up. They didn’t have disposable income. Everybody was looking for different ways at that time, and that was the big demise. Oct. 29, 1929, was the death knell for Mount Clemens.”
World War II necessitated a shift to manufacturing in Mount Clemens, with industry quickly overtaking hospitality, all while bath houses were left with dwindling
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MINERAL COMPOSITION OF THE WATER
— Source: Mount Clemens 175th anniversary pamphlet, published by the city in 1993 and provided by the Crocker House Museum & Gardens
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Lois Lombardo, owner of the Olympia Salon & Spa and the Park Well, discusses the well’s operation over the phone with Lisa Saylor, who worked with the well’s prior owner.
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patronage. Owners would leave their failing houses to rot, letting fires consume buildings and run off with the insurance payout. Fewer and fewer bath houses and wells remained in operation. Some wells were filled and capped with concrete. Others were built over and rendered inaccessible. Virtually all of them were made inactive by the 1970s.
“When the smell evaporated from Mount Clemens, you knew it was gone,” Bishop said. “Up until then you knew it was there and that bath continued, so it definitely continued though the 1960s — and then it was done … It went from 1930-1960 limping along, and then it ended; the smell went away.”
One well, however, survived the decline. The Park Hotel’s well, once controlled by businesswoman Julia Miller Thome, changed hands over the years before landing in the control of Susan Gans. Born in Detroit and a retail broker in the BirminghamBloomfield area, Gans acquired the Park well in the 1990s and used it to build the Vitl Waters skincare products company.
Gans held her cosmetic products to a
high standard, requiring the significant use of the mineral water as an ingredient in her products due to the medicinal legacy of the water. Lisa Saylor, former Vitl Waters director of sales, says a major cosmetics company tried to buy out Vitl from Gans, but the sale was called off at the last minute when the contents of the products were in question.
“It was a pretty significant deal, and when it got right down to a couple days before they were closing on a deal, the one question she had been asking them was how much of the water they were going to be putting into each product,” Saylor said.
“They had delayed an answer and eventually came down to the end, and they answered they were going to put a drop from a dropper (into each product) and put Vitl Waters on the label, and she turned down a deal that could’ve changed the business. She said no because she understood the value and the impact of what this product had done for people, and she wasn’t willing to tarnish the name because someone else thought it would be a good idea to put our name on something nobody was going to feel a difference in.”
Gans and Lombardo were close colleagues. Olympia Salon & Spa — which moved in 2007 to a building at 117 Cass
Avenue that is from the city’s bath era and resembles the original Olympia — bought water from Vitl for use in its mineral baths, which consist of a 50-50 mineral-to-tap water combination. When Gans died in 2022, Lombardo was the most obvious choice to take over the company and the deed to the Park Hotel well.
“It’s been very exciting for Lois to take over, especially because she had a longstanding relationship with Sue and with Vitl Water,” Saylor said. “She understood the benefits, which I think is why there is so much value in the fact that she is picking up the torch and keeping it going, because they really are great products, and the history of the well is so amazing. It’s like nothing else in the world.”
Standing in the Park well’s modest and sulfuric-scented shed on a May afternoon, Lombardo goes over the situation she’s in. Just across Park Street looms the Victory Inn Motel, which will be demolished soon for a new 101-unit apartment complex. It is in the ruins and soon-to-be rubble of the Victory Inn that Lombardo sees an opportunity.
“What my vision is at this point is I’m going to be looking to expand and create an actual soaking experience here on this lot, where they can go back to soaking in the
black, murky water right from the well like they did back in the late 1800s and early 1900s,” Lombardo said. “What I’m planning is a smaller type setup. A little bit more rustic, not huge and elaborate. It would be more back to the rustic experience of soaking in the water. It’s me having a larger addition built on this garage and making it into a place that people could come soak in.”
Her plan to effectively revive a longdead industry is nothing short of idealistic and will certainly take a great effort, but may not entirely be a moonshot. After all, the land is already zoned for commercial use. Time will tell whether Lombardo is successful at establishing a dedicated bath house in the 2020s, but Saylor believes it is possible.
“I think that people are always in a hurry to do the next big thing, and then lose sight of what was working before,” Saylor said. “I think that there is a large group of people now that are wanting to get back to what is natural, and I think this will be something that is very exciting. I think it will be an exciting thing for the city of Mount Clemens and for the people that will benefit from the water.”
Call Staff Writer Dean Vaglia at (586) 498-1043.
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to Pam Blair, FAN Family Coaching Program coordinator, the 12-session program helps families with things like dynamics, communicating, setting healthy boundaries and the difference between helping and enabling. Blair said she wishes she had the program when her son struggled with addiction.
“I’m so thankful to give families the help I didn’t have,” Blair said.
FAN has offered therapy since August. Jenn Smalenberg, an outpatient therapist with FAN, explained that the nonprofit offers group and individual therapy. The 12week program utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy. The services do not require health insurance. Smalenberg is the only therapist taking patients currently, but she said the organization hopes to get interns in the fall to make the service more available.
The nonprofit offers a host of other services, expanding on its initial mission. It now incorporates a list of harm reduction measures. Harm reduction can take a number of forms. For FAN, it means things like providing clean needles, fentanyl test kits, Narcan kits in public spaces, condoms and intervening to redirect nonviolent drug offenders from imprisonment.
“Some people are not ready for treatment yet,” Reblin said. “We want to make sure that they’re at least healthy in the meantime.”
One feature of the new space is an entrance specifically for FAN, allowing for pri-
vacy for those getting tested for HIV.
“They really thought that through when they were creating this space for us,” Reblin said.
Chelsea Geddes, who helps administer the testing, said the service meets people where they’re at and can also provide an opportunity to provide information beyond testing. She said the aim is to make people feel safe in a difficult situation.
“I want someone to feel as comfortable as they possibly can walking in here,” Geddes said.
For more information on FAN, visit familiesagainstnarcotics.org.
Call Staff Writer Nick Powers at (586) 498-1059.
the Primary Election to Be Held On Tuesday, August 6, 2024
To the qualifed electors of the Charter Township of Harrison, County of Macomb, Michigan.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that any qualifed elector of the Charter Township of Harrison who is not already registered, may register to vote at the offce of the Township Clerk; the offce of the County Clerk; a Secretary of State branch offce, or other designated state agency. Registration forms can be obtained at mi.gov/vote and mailed to the Township Clerk. Voters who are already registered may update their registration at www.expressSOS.com.
The last day to register in any manner other than in-person with the local clerk is Monday, July 22, 2024
After this date, anyone who qualifes as an elector may register to vote in person with proof of residency (MCL 168.492) at the Harrison Township Clerk’s offce, located at 38151 L’Anse Creuse, Harrison Township, MI 48045 at the following times:
• Regular business hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Saturday, August 3rd from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Election Day, Tuesday August 6th from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m
For the purpose of nominating candidates for the following offces:
FEDERAL: U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative in Congress
STATE: Representative in State Legislature
COUNTY: Prosecuting Attorney, Sheriff, Clerk/Register of Deeds, Treasurer, Public Works Commissioner, County Commissioner
TOWNSHIP: Supervisor, Clerk, Treasurer, Trustee (4)
JUDICIAL: Judge of Probate Court
DELEGATES TO COUNTY CONVENTION
ADAM WIT, MMC, MiPMC, CLERK
TERI SALGOT, MiPMC, DEPUTY CLERK CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF HARRISON (586) 466-1406
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garbage wasn’t picked up on time.
“Through the years, GFL has done a great job in Clinton Township,” Supervisor Bob Cannon said. “The last several weeks, it’s been very poor. I think all of us on the board know that. I think all of our staff knows that.”
Trustee Mike Keys said he was disappointed by the lack of alternatives available, though sticking with Priority Waste was the smartest choice in this instance.
“It’s always important to go out for a competitive bid process,” Keys said.
A May 29 letter informing GFL employees of the sale of the company’s residential assets was leaked on social media.
“It is very unfortunate that Township officials learned of the sale from social media post, rather than from our contracted service provider,” said Clinton Township Treasurer Paul Gieleghem in a press release following the leak. “This failure to officially communicate with their community partners casts a cloud of doubt over both companies, and their commitment to providing the good faith public services to our residents.”
“I was extremely upset I learned about this through a Facebook post,” Trustee Julie Matuzak said. “We weren’t notified. We didn’t know.”
Priority Waste Vice President of Municipal Sales Dan Venet was on hand to answer any questions from board members. He highlighted the company’s responsive customer service and its technology. Venet said it relies on cameras, in part, for much of its oversight.
“Our priority integrated technology center allows us to digitally watch all of our trucks that are on the road through our camera systems and GPS,” Venet said. “We use that in combination with in-field supervision as needed.”
Board members, while critical of GFL and the transition rollout, mostly praised Priority Waste.
“I have been to your Hall Road center. It is pretty remarkable,” Trustee Dan Kress said. “About 100 screens on the wall and very courteous and very enthusiastic employees that seem to love their job. So you’re doing something right.”
but said the company would come back to the table when the contract is up to discuss options.
“This contract is not ours, it’s GFL’s,” Venet explained. “It’s not, in our legal opinion, able to be negotiated.”
“I’m disappointed,” Cannon said. “That’s the first time I’ve been disappointed in your company. I think you’re doing this board and this community a disservice. You’ve got all the cards, there’s no other company that can do it.”
The scope of the acquisition is vast.
“This sale encompasses assets and collection operations within Oakland, Washtenaw, Livingston, Macomb, Genesee, and Wayne Counties,” John Addison, GFL General Manager for Wayne, stated in a letter to employees. “It includes the transfer of contracts with 75 municipal customers as well as 70,000 homeowner’s associations and subscription residential customers.”
For its part, Priority Waste has assured residents in the many communities where it has assumed contracts that service will remain the same.
“The way that the service is provided today is the way the service will be provided with us July 1,” Venet said.
Call Staff Writer Nick Powers at (586) 498-1059.
Venet also confirmed that no former workers from GFL have started with Priority Waste during the last days of the current assignment. He said this is set to happen after the transition.
Cannon asked if adjusting the contract was possible.
Venet said he couldn’t authorize that,
Harrison Township receives ‘clean’ audit, awards park contract
BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
HARRISON TOWNSHIP — It was a fiscal-focused evening at the June 24 Harrison Township Board of Trustees meeting, as the board received the audit of its 2023 books and approved a contract for work at Waterfront Park.
Auditing firm Rehmann was tasked with making sure the township’s finances last year were in order. Daniel Clark, an accountant with the firm, told trustees they had given the finances a “clean” opinion, which is the highest rating an auditor can give.
“We had no audit adjustments either past or needed to be posted as part of the audit process,” Clark said. “The
records that were provided to us were clean, and that made the audit go smoothly.”
Harrison Township ended 2023 with a combined fund balance of $7.9 million: a $2.3 million increase over 2022. About $5 million of the combined fund balance was available for spending.
Waterfront Park improvements contract
Trustees awarded construction firm EC Korneffel Company a $1.3 million contract to perform improvement work at Waterfront Park, on Jefferson Avenue.
Work at the park will involve softening the park’s shoreline — replacing the stone-based shoreline with a plantbased one — and building a fishing pier.
and eulogize the programing.
Hunch Free, a contract that was renegotiated and approved on May 6 to include broadcasting City Commission meetings. The end of the cable commission is slated for July 1. Hunch Free has been broadcasting and uploading city commission meetings to the new “City of Mount Clemens” YouTube channel, @cityofmountclemens, for about a month.
Commissioners voted unanimously, if unenthusiastically, to begin the process of ending the 33-year-old communications commission during the first reading of an ordinance. The second reading will occur at the City Commission’s meeting on July 1 and the ordinance will take effect immediately.
After City Manager Gregg Shipman read the memo for the agenda, each commissioner took time during the discussion period to thank the commission’s members
“As Macomb Cable Network’s first student producer, I would like to thank you all for your decades of service,” City Commissioner Erik Rick said to cable communications commissioners in attendance. “You guys gave us so much support through the years and supported such an awesome program that I know all of the alumni of it are grateful for. And most of them never know all the time you put into it, but thank you.”
City Commissioner Theresa McGarity noted how some of the agreement’s alumni were able to obtain careers in broadcasting and media production.
“There are Mount Clemens Bathers that are now working, as stated earlier, for CNN,” McGarity said. “My son, that is his heart. And it gave the children energy and pushed them forward because some of them have a business in doing what you stood for. Thank you for everything that you have done for the students.”
City Commissioner Barbara Dempsey
“Some of (EC Korneffel Company’s) reference projects included the Detroit RiverWalk and they also constructed Blossom Heath Park’s pier, which are both beautiful projects and certainly, I would say, bigger than what we’re proposing,” Township Supervisor Ken Verkest said.
Funding for the improvements will come from the general fund, utilizing $1.52 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds. About $387,420 will be left of the ARPA funds once the project is paid for. A contingency of around 5% of the project cost was included in the awarding motion.
Verkest said work on the park will likely begin in October.
Call Staff Writer Dean Vaglia at (586) 498-1043.
argued the cable commission was kept out of the loop during the process.
“I’m sorry it ended the way it ended,” Dempsey said. “There should have been more input, I feel, but I personally want to thank you very much for all your service.”
Mayor Laura Kropp expressed hope that even though this agreement with the school was over, future collaboration with the district to the benefit of students could occur.
“Programs like this one are what bring kids (to school) and fuel kids to do well in everything else,” Kropp said. “And so, I hope that we can be a part of that as a partner and I know that Superintendent (Julian) Roper is also committed to that. I feel good that the legacy of the Mount Clemens Cable Network will live through a new program and be
helpful to students. We will make sure that we are good stewards of that.”
Roper spoke briefly at the end of the meeting during public comments and expressed the need to uphold the legacy of the cable programs.
“We look to bring those types of efforts and opportunities for our kids back to the school district,” Roper said. “And I hope we make you all proud because you’re a part of something and that legacy is important.”
Board of education meetings have since been moved to a new district-specific YouTube channel, @MountClemensCommunitySchools.
Members of the cable commission were presented with service recognition awards at the start of the meeting for their time as volunteers.
NOTICE
To the residents of the Charter Township of Harrison, County of Macomb, Michigan.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Clerk’s Offce for the Charter Township of Harrison will post, for public inspection, the Agenda for Township Board Meetings and a Synopsis of the approved Meeting Minutes at the Clerk’s Offce located at 38151 L’Anse Creuse Road, and to the Rosso Hall bulletin board located at 38255 L’Anse Creuse Rd. The Agenda and a full text of the Minutes will be available on the Township Website, www.harrisontownshipmi.gov and, upon request from the Clerk’s Offce.
Adam Wit, MMC, MiPMC, Clerk Charter Township of Harrison
INTRODUCTION
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF HARRISON MACOMB COUNTY, MICHIGAN ORDINANCE NO. 308.8
0165-2427
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ARTICLES XVI, OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF HARRISON ZONING ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 16.01 NONCONFORMING LOT OF RECORD; DIVISON OF NONCONFORMING LOT, PROVIDING THE TOWNSHIP BOARD THE AUTHORITY TO APPROVE DEVIATIONS WITH REGARD TO NONCONFORMING LOT DIVISIONS, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, AND EFFECTIVE DATE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the full text of the Ordinance No. 308.8, introduced by the Harrison Township Board of Trustees on June 24, 2024 is now available upon request at the Harrison Township Clerk’s Offce located at 38151 L’Anse Creuse Road. This Ordinance shall become effective 7 days from the date of publication hereof after adoption. Adam Wit MMC, MiPMC, Clerk (586) 466-1406
Published: Journal 07/01/2024 0291-2427
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