Advisor & Chronicle

February 21, 2015 • Vol. 136 No. 8 514 S. Kalamazoo Ave. in Marshall, MI • Phone 269-781-5444 and FAX 269-781-7766 • www.advisor-chronicle.com

In The News:

City of Marshall sues local residents, business owners Last week, the city of Marshall filed a complaint with the 37th District Court to recoup $7,576 in fees for temporary fixes to a downtown structure as well as asking the court for a judgement for permanent repairs, which could cost more than $70,000. Wharry Engineering informed the city that the property (111, 113 and 115 E. Michigan Ave.) was in dangerous condition and in imminent danger of collapse due to the condition of the roof structure, roof joists and ceiling joists on the third floor, according to the court complaint. “The city is required to take protective action when there is a danger to health or safety under the International Property Maintenance Code,” said Director of Community Services Natalie Dean. The city is asking the court to place liens on the properties until the work has been repaid in full.

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State superintendent visits Marshall High School The cooperative agreement between Marshall Public Schools and Albion Public Schools in 2013 made local headlines. But, word quickly spread throughout the state about the venture, including to the office of State Superintendent Michael Flanagan. On Feb. 18, Flanagan paid a visit to Marshall High School to have lunch with some students, parents, teachers and school board members and to hear and see firsthand how the partnership is going. “I really appreciate Albion and Marshall taking the lead,” said Flanagan.

“Most districts don’t even think about these things because they are not bold enough.”

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First woman director takes the helm at Calhoun County Fairgrounds Megan Harvey of Marshall is the first woman director and the youngest director, at age 28, of the Calhoun County Fairgrounds. Harvey, who has been the assistant director for the past three years, accepted the position of executive director on Feb. 16 after the Calhoun County Agricultural & Industrial Society Board unanimously voted to promote her. “I think it’s really neat that they are putting their trust in me,” Harvey said. CCAIS Board President Doug Wildt said Harvey was the most qualified person the board interviewed. “She is the right person for the job,” he said. “She brings all of her knowledge from being involved with the fair for so long (since age 8) and knows the mechanics of the fairgrounds better than anybody. And it’s amazing what she can get done in only a few short months. She knows what she’s doing.”

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Exchange Club honors local law enforcement On Feb. 9, the Marshall Exchange Club held its Officer of the Year program, honoring three local law enforcement members for their “unselfish dedication and loyalty to service.” The Officer of the Year recipients are Marshall Police Department Officer Matthew Potter, Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chris Young and Michigan State Police Trooper Matthew McLalin. “I cannot thank you enough for having this program,” said MPD Director of Public Safety Jim Schwartz. “It might not seem like a big deal for these 20 minutes or so that you allow us, but for us it lasts a lifetime.”

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Editor’s Corner

by John Hendler I’ve read that divorce attorneys see a lot of unhappy spouses (mostly wives) right after Valentine’s Day, a holiday that is so overrated and leaves expectations of a “happy” day so high that it’s bound to under deliver and thus, cause disappointment, especially among those whose relationships are on shaky ground to begin with.

That got me thinking: Is being happy all that it’s cracked up to be?

Viktor Frankl, the prominent psychiatrist and neurologist who survived a Nazi concentration camp and and wrote about his experience in the book, Man’s Search for Meaning, came up with one of my favorite quotes on life: It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Think about it; how often have we set out to “be happy” only to find that the experience we pinned such high hopes on turned out to be less than what we expected?

Frankl concluded in his book that the difference between those who lived and those who died in the camp came down to one thing: meaning.

Frankl saw in the camp that those who found meaning even in the most horrifying situations were far more resilient to suffering than those who did not.

A Gallup poll a while back showed that approximately 60 percent of Americans think of themselves as “happy.”

On the other hand, according to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 40 percent of Americans say they do not have a satisfying life purpose.

In an article titled, There’s More To Life Than Being Happy, Emily Esfahani Smith states that research has shown that having purpose and meaning in life increases well-being and life satisfaction, improves mental and physical health, enhances resiliency, enhances self-esteem and decreases the chances of depression.

She also notes, that the pursuit of happiness is ironically, leaving people less happy according to recent research.

An author of a study in the Journal of Positive Psychology has noted that “Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life, in which things go well, needs and desire are easily satisfied and difficult or taxing entanglements are avoided.”

Happiness, they found, is about feeling good and being more of a “taker” rather than a “giver.”

The article notes that participants in a study reported meaning from giving a part of themselves away to others and making a sacrifice.

To quote psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman: You use your highest strengths and talents to belong to and serve something you believe is larger than the self.

One last thing to think about: Researchers found that having negative events happen to you decreases your happiness, but increases the amount of meaning you have in life.

Looks like finding meaning in one’s life is the key that just might bring about happiness.

Until next week, may the good news be yours.

By FRED JACOBS Publisher and CEO, J-Ad Graphics I was shocked when I heard the live broadcast apology Feb. 4 from NBC’s Brian Williams regarding the story he’s been telling about supposedly being forced down in a helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In fact, I was listening the night in 2013 when Williams told David Letterman the story.

Williams was so compelling that he received a rousing applause for his bravery as a newscaster during a horrific assault on his helicopter.

Now, 12 years later, Williams remembers the story somewhat differently. He was “outted” by Lance Reynolds, a flight engineer who was on board one of those three helicopters that was attacked in 2003. Reynolds, along with other crew members, said they were forced to make an emergency landing, and that the Chinook helicopter Williams was in arrived after the entire incident was over. Feeling the pressure, Williams apologized on air for the mistake, saying he “misremembered” events.

But wouldn’t most people — especially a seasoned reporter and a trained television news executive — remember the details of being shot at in a helicopter while in a war zone?

Following his apology, Williams’ starstruck fans sounded the typical defense.

“Not Brian Williams,” they chorused, “We love his program, you must be mistaken.”

Well, it didn’t take long for Internet bloggers to question the story and other events that Williams reported on over the years. Satirical postings of Williams reporting from the moon and other comical locations flooded social media.

So far, NBC has suspended Williams for six months without pay. The seriousness of the situation, however, demands that this examination not end there.

First of all, NBC staff — and possibly the network’s highest executives — must have known of Williams’ inaccuracies over the years. There is no way he could have covered up the actual events as

they happened. Whenever he’s on assignment, Williams has a staff of writers and cameramen who are also on the scene. Did they not notice the penchant of Williams to rewrite events as they occurred?

Williams is the network’s No. 1 rated news ‘star’ and, because the “Nightly News” program is one of the highest rated news programs on network television, NBC executives apparently chose to look the other way. They preferred to focus on their coveted ratings rather than on whether the stories Williams was covering were accurate.

This isn’t the first time a famous person or a political superstar has been caught in the act of “misremembering” the facts. One of the biggest scandals of my lifetime was Watergate, and the Nixon administration’s attempt to cover up its involvement in a break-in of Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C. When the conspiracy was finally discovered and investigated by Congress, it took down a president who “misremembered” the facts until he got impossibly twisted in his own lies.

Years later, another president, Bill Clinton, also had a problem remembering the facts. Clinton allegedly was having sexual relations with staff intern Monica Lewinsky, nearly leading to his impeachment and a dubious acquittal of any wrongdoing.

Clinton’s wife, Hillary, had one of those “misremembering” moments of her own when she was a candidate for president in 2008. Hillary recalled having to run from sniper fire, along with her daughter, Chelsea, when they were arriving in Bosnia in 1996. Because she was a former first lady and a prominent politician, however, it didn’t take long for a video to surface that showed a much calmer version of the events of that day. When confronted, though, Clinton called up the old “misremembered” play, saying, “So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I’m human, which, you know, for some people is a revelation.”

Barack Obama went on to win the election, yet later appointed Clinton as his secretary

of state once he was elected.

So it might lead you to believe a deal had been brokered prior to the election.

And how about former Illinois congressman Rod Blagojevich who tried to sell Obama’s former seat as a congressman from Chicago to the highest bidder?

Blagojevich was arrested and convicted on charges of corruption, earning him a prison sentence which he’s still serving.

Recently, comedian Bill Cosby has been under fire for alleged sexual relationships he’s had the past 40 years. Apparently he, too, remembers the facts a little differently.

I could go on and on with other examples of famous people that have forgotten or “misremembered” the facts as they were, but the Williams case hits me hard because he’s in my business. It’s an honorable business of getting the facts, all the facts as they are and not how a reporter wants to remember them.

In fact, when dealing with a big story, most news outlets would hold a report rather than risk going with a story about which they don’t have all the facts. In today’s media firestorm, however, it’s become more important for some outlets to be “first,” “live” and “on the scene,” rather than to be accurate.

The problem in Williams’ case is that he’s become more of an entertainer caught up in polls and ratings that are important to NBC and their shareholders, rather than a newsman accurately reporting the news.

I think these guys are under so much pressure to keep the numbers up that they would do almost anything to remain on top. Williams must have felt compelled to beef up the stories, adding to his brand as a great storyteller. In the end, however, he got caught cold when those in the story pointed out the facts as they really happened.

It’s unfortunate that such an accomplished newsman would have risked his reputation and possibly his career just to make the story a little more interesting.

Here’s a guy who, in his first year as the anchor of

“NBC Nightly News,” covered two major disasters, the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. In fact, NBC News was given a Peabody Award for its coverage when the committee said that the staff at “NBC Nightly News” exemplified the highest levels of journalistic excellence in reporting Hurricane Katrina. NBC News also earned a George Polk Award and the DuPont-Columbia University Award for its Katrina coverage. In a Vanity Fair magazine story, publishers acknowledged Williams’ work as “Murrow-worthy” and gave Williams the title of the “nation’s anchor.”

Since Williams stepped down voluntarily Feb. 7 — before his bosses imposed the six-month penalty — many leaders have questioned what’s happening to the industry when a news anchor thinks more about how the story sounds rather than the facts that comprise the story.

I’ve spent my entire life in the newspaper business and understand the importance and dedication necessary to getting all of the facts and the importance of their accuracy. In fact, I’ve had to drop information from some of my columns because I couldn’t find a source or verify one small piece of information. That’s what it’s all about — getting the story, making sure the facts are correct and giving credit where credit is due.

Mark Twain said it best with his line, “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

It’s a unfortunate that such an accomplished news anchor lost his position, but NBC had no choice. What kind of a message would it be sending to all of the other dedicated news personnel in the organization if they chose to ignore these public calls for accountability?

Williams’ fall from grace is just another indication of what’s been happening in corporate newsrooms across the country where it’s not about the news anymore, it’s about the audience. In today’s corporate environment, sometimes “big news” has to sell its soul to keep stockholders happy.

That’s not the way it’s supposed to be, but it has become reality.

Letters Thanks goes to the great people of Marshall To the Editor: On Jan. 29 at 6:30 p.m. in front of the Stage Coach, my husband and I were about to cross the street when I slipped and fell on the ice. In trying to break my fall, my husband strained his

back and couldn’t help me up and could hardly walk.

Two young men came out of the Stage Coach to help us and when a car came around the corner, the young men in the car also helped us.

We are truly grateful and would like to thank these young men for helping us.

Ernie and Shirley Schroder, Marshall

Ice, Wine & Blues successful because of volunteers To the Editor: I would like to sincerely thank all of the wonderful people who worked countless hours to help make the 2015 Ice Wine & Blues event successful.

The event this year, was organized by a committee of hard-working and dedicated volunteers who were passionate about this event. They were aware of the positive impact that an enjoyable event like this can have on our downtown. They knew it would attract peo-

ple to downtown Marshall and benefit our wonderful city.

In addition, this event now benefits The Franke Center for the Arts in Marshall. Being a non-profit arts and community center, we appreciate the additional funds raised by such a event to help support all that we offer here and the upkeep of our beautiful historical building.

The members of the 2015 Ice, Wine & Blues Committee, event volunteers,

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Patty Williams, Executive Director, The Franke Center for the Arts

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By JOHN HENDLER Editor This has been a season unlike any other in recent memory for the Marshall High School girls varsity basketball team. The team won its 15th straight game to improve to 16-1 on the season following a 58-23 victory at Western on Feb. 17.

Coach Sal Konkle said one of the team’s goals is to win the I-8 conference championship and Marshall can take big step to accomplishing that goal on Friday evening (Feb. 20) when they host Northwest.

Marshall enters the game unbeaten in conference play, while Northwest has just one loss, to Marshall on Jan. 16.

“Our girls are experienced and they are focused on Northwest,” said Konkle. “If they or any team beats us after we give our best effort, so be it.”

Despite its only loss of the season to ranked Williamston on Dec. 5, Marshall has not been ranked or received honorable mention honors all season.

“It doesn’t matter to me, but I think the girls would like to be recognized,” said Konkle. “It would be nice for the girls because they work so darn hard.”

Still, Konkle says what’s important is staying focused with the district tournament getting underway on March 2 versus Delton-Kellogg at Harper Creek High School.

“The girls are excited for districts,” said Konkle.

“But, I’ve tried to get them in my mindset that we only think about one game at a time...They are really dedicated. They love basketball and they will come out ready to play.”

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Coach Sal Konkle and the Marshall High School girls varsity basketball team at practice Feb. 18.

Chelsea Tobias at the free throw line following a Lumen Christi technical foul Feb. 13 as teammates from left, Georgiana Pratley, Chloe McAllister, Nikki Tucker and Jill Konkle look on. Marshall won the game, 69-28.

Emily Delmotte takes it to the basket in the fourth quarter versus Lumen Christi Feb. 13.

The MHS Dazzlers had a Valentine’s Day themed performance for the home crowd Feb. 13.

Chloe McAllister makes the easy lay up versus Lumen Christi Feb. 13.

Kiefer Bartlett advances to wrestling regional Marshall High School advanced one wrestler to the individual regional tournament Saturday, Feb. 21 in Eaton Rapids.

Kiefer Bartlett went 32 and placed 4th at 119 pounds in the individual district to advance.

Bartlett was seeded 7th at the beginning of the tournament and defeated opponents from Richland Gull Lake, Zach Girten, St. Joseph, Trey Cuellar, and the 4th seed from Edwardsburg, Nick Bradley, to advance. His only two losses were both to the number 2 from Stevensville-Lakeshore, Tony Williams.

Also just missing the podium were Corey Dexter at 171 and Owen

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"I was very happy with the way we wrestled all day,” sid coach Nick Zuehlke. “We had some hard fought matches and we had a couple that we let slip away. At this point in the year it’s more about who wants it at the end of the match and that’s how Kiefer got through. He's a great wrestler but he wanted it more than the kids across from him and he prevailed. If he can go in with that same mindset at regional, he has a chance at advancing to the state tournament."

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Marshall’s Kiefer Bartlett, right, seen here at the team district tournament versus Western on Feb. 12, advanced to the individual regional meet in Eaton Rapids. Marshall was defeated by Western in the team district semi final.

Marshall wrestlers Owen Miller, left, and Corey Dexter, were each one match away from advancing to the individual regional tournament after posting 2-2 records at the district tournament.

MHS boys varsity beats Western to go to 8-7

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