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Parking rates increase, new system to be implemented in Ferndale
BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
FERNDALE — New parking rates have been implemented in the city of Ferndale as of July 1.
The new parking rates are $1.60 per hour for on-street parking spaces, $1.35 for surface lots and $1.25 for The dot parking structure. Previously, the parking rates were $1.50 per hour for on-street parking spaces, $1.25 for surface lots and $1.15 for The dot.
Parking will remain free on Sundays and 14 holidays throughout the year.
City Manager Joe Gacioch said there are three drivers for the rate increase, the city’s first since 2021.
The first driver, he said, was the cost of business and keeping up with the increase in the
use license plates instead of a numbered-space system.
Pleasant Ridge personal trainer places first in Michigan bodybuilding championship
BY JONATHAN SZCZEPANIAK jszczepaniak@candgnews.com
PLEASANT RIDGE — He needed something to light his competitive fire, and bodybuilding was the answer.
Throughout his years at Sterling Heights Stevenson High School and Hope College, Royal Oak resident David Clark’s sole focus was being an athlete.
A two-sport athlete in football and track, Clark, a 2017 Stevenson graduate, revolved his life around two things — sports and the gym. Clark was a gym rat to the fullest extent and credited Stevenson for developing his passion for working out.
“Stevenson actually got me working out in the first place,” Clark said. “I started working out as a freshman, and I kind of got addicted to the gym. I was working out every single day all the time. I was working out with seniors and juniors that were bigger than me and stronger than me, but I just wanted to work. I wanted to improve and I wanted to get better. That was always my mindset, especially when it came to the physical aspect of sports and lifting.”
Once sports were no longer in the picture after college, Clark’s constant time in the gym
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Ferndale recently increased its rates for parking, and motorists also will see a change after Labor Day involving how they pay for parking. The new system will
Photo by Mike Koury
SEMCOG awards
$10,000 to start Dorothea Road project
BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
BERKLEY — The city of Berkley was one of 14 areas that was awarded a grant from the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments for a future project.
SEMCOG recently awarded $482,000 in grants for its Planning Assistance Program. According to SEMCOG, the program “provides funding for planning projects across five priority topics of regional significance and which help move regional plans and priori-
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BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
FERNDALE — Ferndale will be playing host to the first Webcomicon, an event that will bring popular comic artists together to one convention.
Webcomicon will take place Aug. 3-4 at the Rust Belt Market, 22801 Woodward Ave., hosted by The Awkward Yeti and The Awkward Store. It will feature close to 20 artists who will be presenting their work, along with a host of panels that attendees can check out on the con floor.
Organizer Nick Seluk said these artists don’t get many chances to get together, and he wanted to be able to bring them all to the same place.
Seluk, an artist himself who makes The Awkward Yeti, also said he wanted to give a space to web artists, as they often get overshadowed at big-
ger conventions by more mainstream artists.
“We don’t see a lot of concentrated genres in comic cons,” he said. “You might see, like, one webcomic person or two, and I just wanted to bring everybody into the same place. It’s kind of like the artists of Instagram getting together, like the social media people who you don’t necessarily know who they are or sometimes you don’t even know the comic name, but you’ve seen it on your social media feeds. So I thought it was kind of a nice target to have, like something kind of niche where it’s more intimate and meaningful.”
Seluk described web artists as people who make “short form humor webcomics or comic strips.”
“It’s like basically the evolution of what you would see in the newspapers,” he said. “We all sort of started online for the most part.”
The city of Berkley was awarded a grant from SEMCOG for a project to eventually build a new community space on Dorothea Road.
Photo by Mike Koury
LEFT: Webcomicon is being organized by Nick Seluk, an artist who created the webcomic The Awkward Yeti.
ABOVE: The first Webcomicon, where attendees can meet and see the work of more than a dozen webcomic artists, will be held Aug. 3-4 at the Rust Belt Market.
Images provided by Nick Seluk
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MARTIN ROAD PARK FACILITY SURVEY
FERNDALE — A new survey has been posted to gather feedback for a proposed Martin Road Park recreation facility.
Ferndale Parks and Recreation is looking for feedback on aspects of the facility, such as building footprint, location, features, amenities and more. The survey can be found at surveymonkey.com/r/ martinroadrecfacility.
The city also will be holding its last community meeting on the facility from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, at the Detroit Curling Club, located at Martin Road Park.
“This is a true community project, being designed by your feedback in real-time,” the city stated in a Facebook post.
Oakland County air show renamed to Festival of Flight
OAKLAND COUNTY — The Oakland County International Airport’s annual air show has been renamed from “Open House & Air Show” to “Festival of Flight.”
The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 11 with the airshow scheduled from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at 6500 Highland Road in Waterford Township. Admission and parking are free. Festival of Flight will be showcasing five different performances including skydiving. Attendees will have an opportunity to watch the performers from the air and take airplane and helicopter rides for $50 per person. There will also be live music by a local rock band, Wanted, who will be playing the national anthem at the start of the air show.
“We are thrilled to reintroduce our event as the Festival of Flight, highlighting the dynamic world of aviation with even more exciting attractions this year,” said Orrin Beckham, president of OCIA Air Fair, the nonprofit organization which manages the open house and air show.
Along with the performances, there will be a 1928 Ford Tri-Motor aircraft, a Boeing 727 cargo plane, WWII military vehicles, and the Lake Erie Warbirds TBM Avenger WWII bomber on display, and more. For more information visit oakgov.com/community/airports/open-house-air-show.
Lawrence Gallery hosts Summer Invitational
FERNDALE — The Lawrence Street Gallery’s next show, its Summer Invitational, kicks off July 31 and runs until Aug. 30. The opening reception for the show will take place 2-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, and the mid-month reception will take place 2-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18. The exhibit will showcase 60 art markets from metro Detroit. “Many of these artists have long and rich backgrounds in the arts in and around metro Detroit. The all-media call for this show brings in a bounty of new thinking in a vast variety of textures, subject matter and materials. Unique pieces for the 2024 Lawrence Street Gallery Summer Invitational include pottery, paintings, sculpture, ceramics, photography and hand-made booklets,” a release states. The gallery is open Noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; noon to 9 p.m. Fridays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. For more information and to view the show virtually, visit lawrencestreetgallery.com.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
FERNDALE — The Ferndale Police Department is hosting a National Night Out event from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at Martin Road Park, 1615 E. Lewiston Ave.
According to a press release, National Night Out is a “community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live. This event aims to enhance the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement while fostering a true sense of community.”
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All residents are invited to attend the event, which will have a meet-and-greet with Ferndale police officers, demonstrations of police equipment and vehicles, safety information and resources, games and activities for children, food and refreshments, and more.
“We look forward to hosting National Night Out this year as an opportunity to connect with the community in a positive, relaxed setting,” Police Chief Dennis Emmi said. “It’s a great way for residents to meet their local officers, learn about the work we do, and enjoy a fun night out with their neighbors.”
The event is free and open to the public.
HUNTINGTON WOODS — The city of Huntington Woods’ Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee is looking for feedback on its climate action plan. According to a news release, the city’s plan is in its early stages and the committee is asking the community to provide input by completing a survey. To view and complete the survey, visit the city’s website at hwmi.org. Anyone with questions on the survey can reach out to committee Chair Sean Kristl at skristl89@gmail.com or member Betsy Zobl-Tar at bzobltar@gmail.com.
VOTE AUG. 6
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unit costs for the system. The second driver was to improve customer service and streamline the system, and the third is the “annual debt service requirements for the term of the repayment period, and that’s about $1.1 million per year.”
“You project your costs. Through the budget process, we look at our cost structures,” Gacioch stated. “For example, concrete, the cost of concrete, which we use for resurfacing, that’s increased by about 50% since 2021. As we understand, we have a capital plan. We project out our construction needs for improving surface lots or improving other areas, and we take that into factor. You project your revenues based on your trends. And then, of course, we include our strategic priorities like these customer service improvements.”
In addition to the recent increase, Ferndale also is planning to make a change to the way that customers park downtown later this year.
Currently, customers pay for parking on a mobile app or by kiosk by inputting a space number. The space number system
will be removed, and customers instead will pay by putting in their license plate number, a similar system to one used in Detroit.
“The license plate is tied to a zone that you are in,” Bruce Campbell, general manager of Park Ferndale, said. “There will be much fewer signs and you’ll have signs with zones on them, and what people will do is if they have the app, they’ll have their license plate in the app, all they’ll do is plug in the zone that they park in to the app the same way they do a space right now. It’s the same process and then, depending on where they park, the rate will come up and they’ll make the payment.”
Campbell noted that parking on Woodward will be a bit different, as the city is not planning on having kiosks on the road.
“Woodward is planned to be a mobile payment zone where people will either use the app to pay, or they’ll use text to pay, or they can go to the nearest kiosk. So it’s not like they can’t use the kiosk. We just won’t have any on Woodward,” he said. “With the new configuration of Woodward, I think the most consecutive parking spaces we have is right there in front of Anita’s Kitchen. I think there’s eight spaces. … It really doesn’t make economic sense to put kiosks in those areas where the utilization won’t be high
enough to justify putting a kiosk there.”
The city plans to change the parking system sometime after Labor Day.
“It’ll work the same as the rest of the system, where there will be signs up that will have a zone number on them and people will be able to either use the app to pay or pay
by text, or again, there are kiosks near most of those places,” Gacioch said. “We think it simplifies the process for drivers, as well as making it more efficient from a management standpoint for operations.”
Call Staff Writer Mike Koury at (586) 498-1077.
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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AUG. 3-4
Webcomicon 2024: Inaugural event featuring national web comic artists participating in panels, Q&As, live draws and workshops, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 3 and noon-5 p.m. Aug. 4, The Rust Belt Market, 22801 Woodward Ave. in Ferndale, webcomicon.net
AUG. 16-17
Woodward Dream Cruise: Officially held 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Aug. 17, participating cities along 16-mile radius of M-1 include Ferndale, Pleasant Ridge, Huntington Woods, Berkley, Royal Oak, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township and Pontiac, more events for both days at woodwarddreamcruise.com
AUG. 22
Summer Concert Series: Frontier Ruckus (indie-folk/ Americana-rock), 6:30 p.m., courtyard at Ferndale Area District Library, 222 E. Nine Mile Road, fadl.org/ scs
ONGOING
Birmingham & Ferndale Stamp Club: Meets 6-8 p.m. every first and third Tuesday of month, fellowship at 5:30 p.m., NEXT Senior Center, 2121 Midvale St. in Birmingham, birminghamstamp.club
Nine on Nine Concert Series: 4-5 p.m. Aug. 4 (Lac Le Belle), Aug. 11 (Angela Davis Entertainment), Aug.
To view more Community Calendar and to submit your own event, visit candgnews.com/calendar. To advertise an event, call (586) 498-8000.
18 (The Vig Arcadia), Aug. 25 (Stereobabe), Sept. 1 (Ammy Amorette) and Sept. 8 (Brad Stuart), Schiffer Park, Planavon Street and West Nine Mile Road in Ferndale, downtownferndale.com
Splash pads: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. daily until Sept. 2, Martin Road Park, 1615 E. Lewiston Ave. in Ferndale, (248) 544-6767
• 11 a.m.-8 p.m. daily until Sept. 2, Oxford Park, 2100 Bacon Ave. in Berkley, (248) 658-3470
Art exhibit: See animal paintings inspired by Pop Art movement, open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays until Aug. 30, Woods Gallery at Huntington Woods Public Library, 26415 Scotia Road, woodsgallery.org
Monthly book clubs: Find meetups for kids, science fiction, graphic novels and more, virtual and in person, Ferndale Area District Library, 222 E. Nine Mile Road, also groups which meet off site, see full list at fadl.org/upcoming-events
• Meets 3 p.m. every second Saturday, Roseland Cemetery, 29001 N. Woodward Ave. in Berkley, www. roselandparkmi.com, (248) 541-1154 (ext. 2520)
Ferndale Senior Group: Meets 11 a.m. every second and fourth Wednesday of month, Hazel Park Com-
munity Center, 620 W. Woodward Heights, (248) 506-7389
Farmers markets: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursdays until Oct. 31, South Robina Avenue at 12 Mile Road in Berkley, (248) 658-3353, berkleyfarmersmarket.com
• 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, also antiques and collectibles 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Sundays, 316 E. 11 Mile Road in Royal Oak, (248) 246-3276, more on Facebook
• Also live music, kids activities and food truck, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 11 and 25, Clawson City Park, 1080 N. Custer Ave., see full schedule at cityofclawson.com
Royal Oak Leprechauns: Member of Northwoods League (largest organized summer collegiate baseball league in world), 6:35 p.m. Aug. 3-7 and 9-10, Memorial Park, 3530 Coolidge Highway, www.royaloak leprechauns.com
Health workshops: For ovarian cancer, diabetes, nutrition and more, hosted by Corewell Health, free and virtual, beaumonthealth.digitalsignup.com
Lupus support groups: 10 a.m. every second Tuesday of month and 7 p.m. every last Wednesday, Zoom, (248) 901-7299, milupus.org/support-groups
CLASS REUNIONS
Birmingham Groves High School Class of 1984: 40-year reunion events include brunch at Beverly Park, Tigers game, tour of school’s new outdoor athletic facilities, and stay and celebration at Somerset Inn, Aug. 1-3, myevent.com/ grovesclassof84
Cousino High School Class of 1969: 55-year reunion, classes of 1967-1971 also welcome, 7 p.m. Sept. 6, Roger’s Roost, 33262 Schoenherr Road in Sterling Heights, RSVP to Larry Wilk at lwilk@comcast.net
Mount Clemens High School - All Alumni Night: Cash food and refreshments, 5 p.m. Sept. 13, Rec Bowl, 40 Crocker Blvd. in Mount Clemens, contact Ron Hiestand at (586) 463-6386 or drron82@yahoo.com with questions
Osborn High School Class of 1974: 50-year reunion includes dinner and open bar, 6-11 p.m. Sept. 20, Blossom Heath Inn, 24800 Jefferson Ave. in St. Clair Shores, osborn1974.com
Grosse Pointe North High School Class of 1974: 50-year reunion includes cash bar, food stations, photo booth and GPN gift, 5:30 p.m. Sept. 21, Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, 788 Lake Shore Road in Grosse Pointe Shores, also casual gathering 7 p.m. Sept. 20, WaterMark Bar and Grille, 24420 Jefferson Ave. in St. Clair Shores, grossepointenorth1974.com
Dorothea
ties forward in Southeast Michigan.”
The five priority topics are transportation and infrastructure equity planning, complete streets and corridor safety planning, trails and greenways planning, stormwater management planning, and placemaking along corridors and active transportation planning. The project for Berkley falls under the placemaking along corridors and active transportation planning topic.
SEMCOG Planning Director Kevin Vettraino stated that the overarching goal of the program is to locally implement policies, actions and regional plans.
“We know in our communities there’s a desire to activate some of our public spaces (and) make them work more for residents for gathering, even closing down streets from car traffic and being pedestrian-only zones or areas where you can have benches or food trucks or just more of that community building along some of our key corridors,” he said.
Berkley received $10,000 to develop conceptual designs for a project on Dorothea Road.
During the city’s master plan planning process a few years ago, Community Development Director for Berkley Kristen Kapelanski said one of the things the community expressed interest in was an urban plaza,
CRIME WATCH
AirPods stolen
BERKLEY — A 38-year-old Hazel Park man is suspected of retail fraud July 8 at a cellphone store at 27861 Woodward Ave.
According to the report, police were called to a T-Mobile store at 12:42 p.m. July 9 for a report of a larceny the day before. The manager told police a man came in and purchased items on his T-Mobile account. It was discovered after the man left the store that a pair of Apple AirPods had been taken.
Security footage showed the suspect removing the AirPods from the box and placing them in his pocket without paying. The suspect only paid for a SIM card and home internet. The case was turned over to the detective bureau.
Burglary at Berkley business
BERKLEY — Police responded at 7:56 a.m. July 7 to 2829 Coolidge Highway for a
or pocket parks, in the downtown.
“(Dorothea Road) just dead ends right into an alleyway and some municipal parking, and it doesn’t really go anywhere,” she said. “The municipal parking that it dead ends into and the alley is accessible off of the side streets on either end. So we’re not closing off any access to anything. It would still be accessible in those areas.”
Kapelanski said they want to have a consultant come in and craft conceptual designs for the project and then have the DDA evaluate what’s the best plan to move forward with.
“We would want to make this as … usable and attractive as we can to many different groups of people,” she said. “We have younger people and older people and families, and we want to come up with some concepts maybe that focus on (how) this is a plaza that includes some elements for children or something like that, this is something that’s maybe more geared towards being easy for the Downtown Development Authority to use for events, and here’s a concept that maybe takes a little bit of both of those.”
Kapelanski said the money will be used to hire the consultant, which she sees happening in the fall. By spring, she hopes a concept will be chosen for the project.
The city plans to look for implementation grants to fund the improvements.
Call Staff Writer Mike Koury at (586) 498-1077.
report of breaking and entering.
The police report states that police were called to OSS Detroit after the Public Safety Department received word from a neighboring business that a window had been broken out of the front door. Police found a small rock inside the building that they believe was used to break the window.
Security camera footage showed three suspects at the site of the business at 5:06 a.m. The suspects began grabbing hoodies, sweaters and other clothes off racks before exiting through the broken glass of the front door and running southeast across Coolidge.
The theft remains under investigation.
— Mike Koury
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Important voting deadlines to know ahead of August election
BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
OAKLAND COUNTY — The next election will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 6, and voters should take note of a couple of deadlines before hitting the polls.
For voters looking to get their votes in early, early voting has begun and will continue through Sunday, Aug. 4.
“The more we get people to vote in other ways, it’s easier for us to handle on election day,” Ferndale City Clerk Dean Lent said.
Lent said early voting has been increasing slowly since its introduction in November 2023.
“I think the Secretary of State had a big push out to voters recently notifying them about early voting,” he said. “If folks feel more comfortable voting in person, they could always kind of avoid the long lines and go early, because (it’s) less likely there’s going to be lines at the early voting sites. And then, of course, absentee voters, people can submit their ballots back to us all the way until 8 p.m., the close of polls, on elec-
tion night.”
Lent also stated that a voter can come pick up a ballot at the Clerk’s Office to vote absentee through 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5. People can request an absentee ballot to be mailed to them through 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2.
Huntington Woods City Clerk Heidi Barckholtz also wanted to stress to voters to make sure they don’t split their ballots and cross party lines when voting, as the August election is a state primary.
“In partisan races, you have to vote all Democrat or all Republican,” she said. “You can’t, like, vote for a Democratic senator and a Republican rep, and you can’t vote for the Democratic water resource commissioner and Republican sheriff. It’s a primary to decide who democratically goes on the ballot.”
Barckholtz noted that Huntington Woods already has gotten a couple of ballots returned that have been spoiled because the voters crossed party lines and invalidated the ballots.
While it’s too late for anything to be done for ballots that already have been re-
turned to the clerk, a voter with an invalid ballot that hasn’t been returned can come in and request a new ballot up until 4 p.m. Aug. 5.
“You can also now go take your absentee ballot to the precinct, and let’s say you did spoil it. You can take it to the precinct and say, ‘I’d like to spoil my ballot and vote in person,’ as long as you have it in hand,” Barckholtz said. “If they pass the deadline on Monday, Aug. 5, and they haven’t gotten their ballot yet in the mail or they spoil it, they can go to the precinct and spoil it there, and then they can vote in person. So they can do that.”
Absentee voters can also now bring
their own ballots to place in a tabulator.
“They can now go, and if they want to, in person, put it through a tabulator; they are allowed to do that at both early voting and the precinct,” she said.
The early voting site for Berkley, Huntington Woods and Pleasant Ridge is the Oak Park Community Center, located at 14300 Oak Park Blvd. The early voting site for Ferndale is the Hazel Park Community Center at 620 W. Woodward Heights Blvd.
Early voting hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every day except Thursday, Aug. 1, when it will be noon to 8 p.m.
Call Staff Writer Mike Koury at (586) 498-1077.
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THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP
DRIVES THIS AUSTIN-HEALEY
BY MARIA ALLARD allard@candgnews.com
METRO DETROIT — It didn’t take long for David White and Dan Heming to become friends for life.
From the moment they met in 1968 as student naval aviators in the U.S. Navy, they formed an immediate bond when stationed in Pensacola, Florida, and Meridian, Mississippi.
“He was in another squadron. We were flying the same airplane, a T-34. It’s a primary trainer,” White said. “He was going through his battles to get the grades to move forward, and so was I. It’s a pretty rigorous environment.”
White, a Michigan State University graduate, and Heming, a University of Michigan graduate, lost touch for a while after leaving the service, but soon reconnected.
“I was out at the Pontiac Airport after we both left the service, and there he was,” White, of Bloomfield Township, said. “This was about 1972, and the bond was re-created instantly.”
Sadly, Heming died a few years ago at age 76.
“We went through some really tight situations together. He saved me from falling off the side of a mountain one time. We’ve had some really on-the-edge experiences, and it built a bond,” White said. “It’s the purest measure of friendship. When I think of him — a very generous man.”
Over the years, both men married and started families, but they continued their friendship, often cruising in Heming’s 1956 Austin-Healey. The British sports car maker was established in 1952 through a joint venture between the Austin division of the British Motor Corp. and the Donald Healey Motor Co. Many of Heming and White’s leisure drives in the Austin-Healey were in Milford.
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LEFT: David White, of Bloomfield Township, inherited his 1956 Austin-Healey from his friend Dan Heming.
Photos by Erin Sanchez
ABOVE: White, left, was the best man in Dan Heming’s wedding. The two met in 1968 while serving in the U.S. Navy.
LEFT: While holding up his book “Tall Air,” White stands next to the Austin-Healey he inherited from Dan Heming.
HOMES WOODWARD TALK
RECYCLING COMMON HOUSEHOLD ITEMS MIGHT HELP YOUR GARDEN FLOURISH
BY NICK POWERS npowers@candgnews.com
METRO DETROIT — Did you just move and have an excessive number of cardboard boxes around?
Rather than putting the boxes in the recycling bin, you can put them to good use in your own backyard. If you’re a gardener, many common household recyclable items have uses. From pie pans to cardboard boxes, repurposing these items can save you a trip to the store and help you recycle in a more direct way.
Cardboard can be an easy way to create a weed barrier that allows moisture to get in. To do this, flatten the boxes in the area you want to make a garden bed. Put water on the cardboard and put topsoil over it. Once this is set, start planting.
“Cardboard suppresses weeds by blocking sunlight and helps retain moisture in the soil, reducing the need for frequent watering,” Brian McDaid, of Eagle Dumpster Rental, said in a press release. “It breaks down naturally over time, enriching the soil with organic matter and improving its structure. This method also recycles cardboard that might otherwise end up in a landfill.” Newspapers can serve a similar purpose.
If you’re reading a paper copy of this story, we recommend you finish before you try out this method. Much like cardboard, newspaper can be used as a biodegradable weed barrier. Make sure the newspaper isn’t glossy and is free of any heavy inks. For instance, this paper would be just fine to use. You’ll need five layers to make this work, according to McDaid. Then lightly dampen the layers and add a covering of topsoil.
Caitlin Splawski, Michigan State University Extension consumer horticulture educator, cautioned those using newspaper and cardboard. For cardboard in particular, she said not to use pieces with a glossy finish and to remove all tape. She said opinions are split about using the materials, since it can cause a spike of carbon in the soil that may need to be balanced by adding nitrogen. Though, she said this lacks definitive research.
“It can affect gas exchange and water percolation into the soil in the short term,” Splawski said. “In the medium term, it can add a lot of carbon to the soil. If you don’t have the proper nutrition with fertilizer added in, that can cause some nutrient imbalances if that’s not addressed.”
She advised using more organic material like pine needles, straw and composted
See GARDEN on page 19A
TOP: Old teacups can be used as bird feeders. Shutterstock image
ABOVE: In the finished garden, soil covers the cardboard garden bed weed barrier. LEFT: Cardboard can serve as a garden bed weed barrier.
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Austin-Healey
“We’d just look around, have a coffee, get waves from people,” White said. “Sometimes we’d go out to the state parks. We were bikers and hikers at the time. Two good friends that would just enjoy the day.”
White also remembers traveling to Wisconsin when the car was going through an engine modification.
“We went on the ferry and across the lake. I remember the first test drive we took. The car hadn’t been completed. The guy that was working on it said, ‘Hey, take it for a drive,’” White said. “We’re hauling down the road somewhere in Wisconsin. He was pushing it to the limit and I was going, ‘Whoa, whoa. You’re going a little too fast for me.’ We finally got back to the garage. As he was getting out of the car, he pulled up on the steering wheel and it came right off it. We
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Gardener Kelly Colegio, a former Warren City Council member who helped form the city’s community garden, said there are many items you can use to improve your garden.
“Anything you can imagine,” Colegio said.
In the kitchen, she said, old pie pans can be tied to rattle when a critter tries to find a snack from the garden. Pots can be used as a bird bath. Old teacups can be used as bird feeders. Jars can be repurposed for seeds. Old bread ties can be used in place of zip ties. Old plastic tubs can help as a container for picking berries.
Splawski said plastic containers can be
both went, ‘Holy smokes.’”
Heming owned an Austin-Healey while in college but sold it when he entered the Navy. Years later, he bought the 1956 AustinHealey, which “brought back memories of his college days and also some of the things that happened in the Navy,” White said.
Heming’s friendship also left an impact on White’s wife of 54 years, Ann White.
“There were a lot of late evenings on the patio in the back and a fair amount of Scotch,” Ann White said of the pair.
“And cigars,” White said.
White is now taking care of the AustinHealey. When Heming died a few years ago, he willed the car to his Navy pal. It took White some time to get used to the idea of having the car. At first, he didn’t want to drive the convertible because “it was Dan’s car.”
“It sat in his garage for quite a while after he passed away,” Ann White said. “It took Dave a while to make it OK in his head.”
used for many purposes but said sanitizing them with dish soap and water before use is important. Reusing potting containers may need more care. Plant diseases and pests can sometimes survive a normal wash, so using a bleach solution may be required. According to an Iowa State University article that Splawski provided, soak the container in a solution made up of one part bleach and nine parts water for 10 minutes and rinse. Be careful to protect your skin and clothes from the solution.
Colegio said she picked up many of these DIY methods from her mother, who passed away in 2019.
“I learned that you don’t have to buy a lot if you can just figure out how to repurpose what you have,” Colegio said.
She traced her mother’s thrifty outlook to her grandmother, who did these things out of necessity during the Great Depression.
But he has since carried on Heming’s love for the automobile. A novice to the Austin-Healey, White learned everything he could about the car, “from servicing the vehicle to the right fluids you use.” When he first brought it home, Ann White drove very closely in front of White, who was following in the Austin-Healey.
“I hop in the car, start the car up and I’m driving from Milford to Birmingham,” White said. “And it’s getting dark.”
White then turned on a switch he thought were the headlights, but nothing happened.
“I can’t even turn the headlights on,” he said. “We finally got home. It took me another day to figure out the English have a way of pulling it out and then turning it to the right. I thought I had done that, but I apparently didn’t.”
The restored vehicle is a 100-6 twoseater roadster model. The classic car has a 6-cylinder engine paired with an upgraded
Some of these methods, like canning, could be utilized now to reduce waste, according to Colegio.
“Their mindset was different,” she said. “Perhaps not because they were looking to go green; they did it out of necessity. If we could go back and look at some of their practices of self-sustainability, a lot of them were green.”
Colegio said old nylons or old strips of shirts can be used to prop up plants. Old clothes can be put to use on a homemade scarecrow. Even larger items like an old sink or a washtub can be used as a planter. Colegio uses an old mailbox as storage for gardening tools.
Splawski said old plastic milk containers can be used for winter sowing. She said some plants have a dormancy mechanism. By starting the seeds outside in a jug, it can make the seeds go through their natural cycle and promote growth.
5-speed manual transmission. It is paired in what White calls a “mesmerizing custom green/blue exterior, gleaming chrome with the impeccable condition of luxurious black upholstery interior. A true gem in every sense.”
White often takes the car out for drives on Saturday and Sunday mornings. He’s met up with a local Austin-Healey group a few times. He also likes to drive the English car through Bloomfield Hills, sometimes with his wife by his side.
“There are some neat roads that go on forever. I drive it just for the pure pleasure when I can,” said White, who misses his friend. “I thank him every time I drive.”
During his lifetime, Heming became a commercial pilot for USAir. He also flew for Roger Penske. White worked in advertising, started his own marketing company and also is a published author of two books — “Tall Air” and “True Blue” — under the name D Stuart White.
“A lot of folks swear by it as the way to get — especially native plant — seeds started,” Splawski said.
“If you look at something, and you really look at it for a while, you can find a use for it out in the garden,” Colegio said.
McDaid echoes this idea in the release.
“A home garden is all about sustainability and independence,” McDaid said. “By being sustainable in how you start and maintain your garden by using things that would otherwise be trash, you’ll have a better gardening experience. One that is cheaper, requires less trips to the store, and is genuinely healthy for your plants.”
Composting can also be a good way to recycle, but that could be an article all its own. Splawski recommends that those interested in composting visit canr.msu.edu/resources/ composting_a_smart_gardening_practice_ to_recycle_garden_and_yard_waste.
Clark
was more so for his job as a personal trainer at Pulse Fitness in Pleasant Ridge rather than working towards a goal for himself.
Bodybuilding became an answer, but it never seemed to be the answer Clark was looking for until now.
“The concept of bodybuilding was that I wasn’t going to be able to run, jump and be athletic anymore, so I was really focused on athletic training and stuff that I was used to,” Clark said. “Fast forward to last year, I have a co-worker who won Mr. Ohio in 2021, and he was telling me that I have a great physique and that I have what it takes. I was considering it and thinking about it, but I was leaning more towards not doing it because I was used to being athletic and wanting to stay athletic and doing athletic movements, but at the same time, when I worked out at the gym, and I work at a gym, so I’m always in the gym, I was just working out without a goal, since I didn’t have sports anymore. Bodybuilding gave me that goal to work towards in the gym and gave me a goal to achieve.”
On June 15 at the NPC Natural Michigan State Championships in Ypsilanti, Clark achieved his goal as he took first in the Men’s Classic Physique category, which focuses on how defined and symmetrical the muscles are.
It was Clark’s second show ever after finishing in third a week prior in an open show.
“It felt good, but it didn’t really hit me at the moment,” Clark said. “I wouldn’t say I was expecting it, but I was confident in my ability of where I would place. It felt good, especially when it sunk in and I could sit back and say that I won.”
Embarking on any new journey can be difficult, but Clark was lucky enough to have his friend and coworker Jake Chandler by his side to guide him through the process.
A bodybuilder himself, Chandler has competed in competitions since he was 17 years old after his grandmother, who also competed in fitness competitions, got him into
working out when he was 12.
Chandler, who is a bodybuilding coach, said he understands the struggles his clients tend to face, so he was able to give Clark pointers early on.
“When we first started off, I just wanted to make sure his head was in the right place and kind of give him some expectations on what to expect,” Chandler said. “It’s one thing to get lean for the summer and lose a couple extra pounds
of body fat, but when you’re going for a bodybuilding show, you’re getting yourself to sub-6% body fat levels. I told him right off the bat that this was going to be a very intense version of what we have our clients do.”
What was the meal plan looking like for Clark? Well, more of the same every day for roughly three months.
“It was the same exact thing every single day, pretty much,” Clark said. “I got it memorized for real. I’d have two eggs, 200 milligrams of egg whites, 40 grams of oats, and 75 grams of blueberries for breakfast. That was meal one. I’m not the biggest fan of eggs, so I’d combine the egg whites, the oats, the blueberries, and put some protein powder in and add banana to make a little shake and eat the two eggs separately. Meal two was 6 ounces of chicken and asparagus, and meal three was 6 ounces of chicken and asparagus, and then, like, 200 grams of rice. Meal four was beef and rice, and then I had a shake, so I had four meals plus a shake every single day.”
The workout routine wasn’t anything new for Clark, but it was more detailed, as opposed to an explosive workout routine.
Chandler said the routine focused on certain parts of the body each day with increased cardio each week.
“It’s kind of a combination of everything,” Chandler said. “We usually separate the cardio and the lifting. The lifting is very hypertrophic based, so you’re doing anything from 6-12, or even 20, rep ranges, and you have a variety of rep ranges in there. It’s mostly weight training and isolating certain muscle groups. Instead of a full upper day or a full lower day, you’re breaking things into body parts. You might have one day where you’re training chests and another day where you’re training arms or quads, and maybe a fourth day where you’re training your back and hamstrings. The cardio is separate from the workout. Once you finish your lifting, you’re either getting on the stairs, the bike, or the treadmill and doing another workout on top of what you did.”
Only two shows in and already a first place finish to his name, Clark said he plans to compete in more competitions in the future.
Brian Gordon, artist and creator of the comic Fowl Language, is excited to see how the convention runs and what a webcomicspecific event will be like.
“At traditional comic conventions, it kind of feels like you’re at the kids table, because you have your celebrities, you have your people there to see, like, the big comic artists, you know, from traditional comic book stuff, and it always seems like webcomics are kind of like, ‘Oh, and those guys,’ versus like being in the spotlight,” he said.
“I’m really excited to be at an event that really celebrates web comics for what they are and, on a more personal level, it’ll be fun to see these people in person, because one of the downsides to being a web cartoonist is that you don’t work in a traditional place
… like in a more brick and mortar sort of a work environment where you’re around your peers. So, I know a lot of these people, but they’re in Texas and California and all over the world. So, (I’m) just excited to be in the same place as these people for the first time.”
Seluk said he’s excited about the target niche of the con and focusing on the humor aspect of the work presented.
“Comic cons are more superheroes, graphic novels, stuff like that,” he said. “I really like focusing on the humor part of it. Definitely looking forward to meeting some artists that I haven’t actually met in person yet, and I’m just really hoping everybody has a really good time. I’m doing a lot of detailed planning, hoping that it will be fun for everybody.
“I’m really excited to have everybody together, but also to have a chance to meet fans that are there to see our type of work,” he continued. “It’s always really good to
meet the fans when you’re working online, because they start to forget that there are real people out there. So it’s really nice for them to meet the human behind the comics and for us to actually interact with them.”
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Royal Oak resident and Pleasant Ridge personal trainer David Clark is all smiles after winning the NPC Natural Michigan State Championships June 15 in Ypsilanti. Photo provided by NPC Natural Michigan State Championship
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