Thursday, January 27, 2011 • HERITAGE MEDIA/WESTERN REGION Page 13-A
Students selected for U.S. Senate Youth Program Two students from Michigan have been selected as delegates to the 49th annual U.S. Senate Youth Program, to be held March 5 through 12 in Washington, D.C. Blake LaFuente of Willis and Priyanka Menon of Ann Arbor were chosen from across the state to be part of the group of 104 student delegates who will LaFuente attend the program’s 49th annual Washington Week. The USSYP was created by Senate Resolution 324 in 1962 and has been sponsored by the Senate and fully funded by The Hearst Foundations since its inception. Each year this competitive merit-based program brings 104 of the most outstanding high school students — two
from each state, the District of Columbia and the Department of Defense Education Activity — to Washington, D.C., for an intensive weeklong study of the federal government and the people who lead it. The overall mission of the program is to help instill within each class of USSYP student delegates more profound knowledge of the American political process and a lifelong commitment to public service. In addition to the program week, The Hearst Foundations provide each of the 104 student delegates with a $5,000 undergraduate college scholarship with encouragement to continue coursework in government, history and public affairs. Transportation and all expenses for Washington Week are also provided by The Hearst Foundations; no government funds are used. LaFuente attends Milan High School, where he serves as a student council representative and as student representative on
the board of education for his school district. He participates in varsity tennis, track, the concert and marching bands, as well as the National Honor Society. LaFuente plans to major in political science and attend law school. His career goal is a position in government at the state or national level. Menon attends Skyline High School where she was elected as senator for the Michigan Junior State of America and president of the Integrity Smaller Learning Community of Skyline High School. This position is equivalent to a Student Council position and the highest office for any member of the Student Action Senate. She plans to attend college with an emphasis on politics. Chosen as alternates to the 2011 program were Chloe Loftis, a resident of Midland who attends H.H. Dow High School, and Katherine Wilkes, a resident of Livonia who attends Adlai E. Stevenson High School.
The chief educational officer in each state selects the delegates after nomination by teachers and principals. This year’s delegates were designated by Mr. Michael P. Flanagan, Superintendent of Public Instruction. While in Washington, the student delegates will attend meetings and briefings with senators and congressional staff, the president, a justice of the Supreme Court, leaders of cabinet agencies, an ambassador to the United States and top members of the national media. In addition to possessing leadership abilities and a commitment to public service, students chosen for the program rank academically in the top one percent of their states. Among the many distinguished former program delegates are Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the first program delegate elected to the Senate; Congressman Cory Gardner of Colorado, the first alumnus to be
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The city of Milan will spend more than $24,000 on new equipment. The City Council approved the purchases earlier this month. A Konica Minolta Bizhub will be used in the administrative offices and replaces a 10-year-old machine that had stopped operating when a networking board failed in October. City officials said the part couldn’t be replaced. The purchase of a new copier was included in the current budget, as well as a separate new scanning machine and folding machine to fold tax and utility bills before they’re mailed. The new machine, which costs $15,441, includes copying, scanning, faxing and folding functions and, among other efficiencies, makes the process of printing and folding tax and utility bills a single step performed by the machine, instead of two steps on separate machines. The machine that was approved for purchase was the second-lowest price of four bids. City staff tested the alternatives at least a week to demonstrate their usefulness for office tasks. The lowest-price machine, a Ricoh at $11,920, was not available for use by city staff. It didn’t include the folding function. “Overwhelmingly, the Konica Minolta machine was chosen as the best machine in terms of ease of use, quality of copies and production capacity,” said City Administrator Ben Swayze.
Swayze added the scanner in the new machine will help in an ongoing effort to reduce paper usage. The monthly per-copy maintenance fee is about $195, Swayze said, in line with current expense. In a separate action in a council meeting this month, officials approved purchasing a new office machine for the police department at a cost of $8,876. The initial plan had been to transfer the current copier at City Hall to the police department, but
its failure caused city officials to consider the purchase of a new machine. Unlike the machine for city administrative staff, this purchase was not budgeted. Swayze said that it looked as if spending efficiencies in the police department might offset the cost of its new copier. Failing that, he said that he would transfer money from the 9-1-1 budget to cover dispatching costs, freeing up adequate funding in the police budget for the new copier.
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