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In The News: Armed officer in schools draws concern for some Albion residents
A dozen Albion citizens stood outside Marshall Middle School the morning of March 7 carrying signs protesting the presence of an armed School Resource Officer (SRO) in Marshall schools. Marshall Superintendent Randy Davis said he understands the sensitivity some may have regarding an officer in school and added that he met with Marshall Public Safety Director Jim Schwartz last week to review protocols in regards to the SRO. “I am going to continue to have the SRO in the building,” said Davis. “The police department is not going to let their duly sworn officers any place in the field without having their equipment with them.”
See story on page 7 Gov. Snyder appoints Paul Beardslee to 10th District Court
Gov. Rick Snyder announced March 9 the appointment of Paul K. Beardslee of Marshall to the 10th District Court in Calhoun County following the resignation of Judge John Hallacy. “I’m grateful for the Governor’s appointment,” Beardslee said Wednesday. “I’ll miss the regular contact I now have with my clients, but I look forward to serving all the people of Calhoun County. I’ll strive daily to be fair and impartial and to apply justice for others as I would want it applied to me and mine.” Beardslee must seek election in November 2016 to be retained for the remainder of the four-year term.
See story on page 6 Community members, staff earn Oaklawn's thanks during focus on patient safety Community members and staff members who have contributed to Oaklawn Hospital’s focus on patient safety in the past year will receive a bow of gratitude during an upcoming observance. “So many elements go into the day-to-day work of hundreds of Oaklawn employees when it comes to making sure patients are kept safe,” said Jane Jones, Oaklawn's executive director of organizational excellence. Oaklawn's healthcare professionals will join others across the country as they observe Patient Safety Awareness Week from March 13-19.
See story on page 12 Time to ‘spring forward’
It’s that time of year again, where we “spring forward” as daylight-saving time officially begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 13. Time changes can actually impact a person’s health, sleep habits and lifestyle.
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Editor’s Corner by John Hendler It’s interesting how on social media and in the media, so many people come out against Donald Trump, but for the past six weeks, Trump continues to see his support growing as he continues to pile up wins in primaries and caucuses. The same was true for Trump here in Calhoun County and in Marshall as Trump trumped the field on the Republican side, albeit by a fairly small margin. In Marshall, Trump earned 276 votes, while John Kasich had 264 votes. Ted Cruz received 254 votes and Marco Rubio came in with 111 votes. For the Democrats, Bernie Sanders was the big winner in Marshall, garnering 445 votes while Hillary Clinton got 275 votes. For you number crunchers out there, you can get detailed primary results for Calhoun County and surrounding counties at electionmagic.com Still, despite all the hype of this election season, just 30 percent of registered voters turned out. As much as people claim to despise him, Trump still continues to dominate the national landscape. Why? How did we get here, where a boisterous, obnoxious showman of little, if any political substance could be on the ballot in November? Then again, is it any surprise? Repeated public opinion polls have voiced the concern of Americans over the erosion of civility in government, business, media and social media. It was reported than nearly 50 percent of those surveyed said they were withdrawing from government and politics because of incivility and bullying. What was the catalyst that took us on the road to incivility? Archie Bunker's bigotry? Richard Nixon’s Watergate? Bill Clinton’s sexcapades in the Oval Office? Reality TV? Violent and misogynistic song lyrics? Anonymous chat rooms? The erosion of the nuclear family? Is it any surprise that we have the schoolyard antics of Trump, Cruz and Rubio? Years ago, even the hint of a scandal would force someone to drop out of the race, yet Hillary Clinton, who could still be indicted, defiantly refuses to even discuss the e-mail matter seriously and the possibility of what she would do if indicted. This is the today’s normal. Maybe 20 years from now, it will be so bad that we will hearken back to the good ol’ days of 2016. There was a song back in the early 80s that got very limited air play but the lyrics resonated with me then and still does 35 years later. The song Used To Be, sung by Stevie Wonder and Charlene, talked about the breakdown of society and how superficial we had become: Have another Chivas Regal You’re 12 years old and sex is legal Your parents don’t know where or who you are... Used to be the hero of the ballgame Took the time to shake the loser’s hand Dignity and courage were the measure of a man Not the drugs he needs to hide the scar... Can your teacher read? Does your preacher pray? Does your president have soul? Have you heard a real good ethnic joke today? The kids are wild, we just can’t tame ‘em Do we have the right to blame them? We fed them all our indecisions We wrecked their minds with television But what the hell, they’re too young to feel pain Is there any way to get back to the way things used to be? Until next week, may the good news be yours.
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By FRED JACOBS Publisher and CEO, J-Ad Graphics Obituary notices like those that run in any newspaper can vary from just the facts of a person’s life to sometimes colorful character descriptions. Every obituary is a life story though, and, if you read carefully between the lines, there’s always a theme. The gift that comes from the life story of Nancy Reagan after her death at age 94 Sunday is one I see often in the obituaries of small-town American newspapers everywhere, especially here in our own hometown. They’re stories of two people who come together and work as a team for a lifetime. They’re accounts of couples who accept life’s challenges, take them on together and enrich each other through love, support and dedication. That’s the relationship Mrs. Reagan had for more than 50 years with her husband, President Ronald Reagan. Nancy Reagan leaves a powerful legacy, of course, as a trusted friend and adviser to one of the most significant presidents in history, but her devotion to a marriage partner is her true bequest to us all. “Without Nancy, there would have been no Gov. Reagan, no President Reagan,” the late longtime aide and friend Michael Deaver once said of the Reagans. Nancy Reagan will be re-
membered as one of the most influential first ladies of the 20th century. Not only did she bring a feeling of glamour to the White House not seen since Jacqueline Kennedy, she also showed us tireless dedication watching over and protecting her husband in politics and through his final battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Those closest to the president were well aware of the powerful influence she carried in the role of supporting her husband. In his book, Killing Reagan, Bill O’Reilly talks about Nancy’s influence on her husband’s administration. “Nancy knows that her unswerving devotion to her husband made her a target of scorn in their White House days,” O’Reilly writes, and then quotes her as making no apologies for the derision she received. “I’m the one who knew him best, and was the only person in the White House who had absolutely no agenda of her own, except helping him,” Nancy told O’Reilly. She went on the mention how “Ronnie” trusted everyone around him and tended to think well of people. “While that’s a fine quality in a friend,” Nancy said in O’Reilly’s book, “it can get you into trouble in politics.” A good example was the controversial disclosures that erupted around the Iran-Contra, affair, the illicit operation
that provided American funds to Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. Mrs. Reagan was in disagreement with White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan over the scandal that dogged the administration for several years until Nancy and others in the administration worked on a speech of apology the president delivered in a special nationally televised message that began a vital healing process. Mrs. Reagan stood dedicated at her husband’s side even in darker hours from the day he was shot by a wouldbe assassin to his last days fighting Alzheimer’s disease. She remained by her husband’s bedside providing care day and night, until his death. Nancy Reagan was a powerful leader in her own right, too. She traveled throughout the country and abroad speaking about and against drug and alcohol abuse, reminding young people to “Just Say No.” In 1987, when cancer was detected in a mammogram, Reagan underwent a mastectomy. Following the surgery, she began a campaign to encourage women to get yearly mammograms. “You learn something out of everything,” she said, “and you come to realize more than ever that we’re all here for a certain space of time, and then it’s going to be over, and you better make this count.” Using Mrs. Reagan’s death
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to look back again on the Reagan years, we’re reminded of how Ronald and Nancy Reagan worked together as a famous couple to accomplish great things. One of the most significant came June 12, 1987, when President Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall in West Germany and called on Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in a speech that would define his presidency and his political career. This column is more than just a reminisce about the Reagans, though. This is about any marriage in which two people work together so closely and for so long that they often get to the point where they can almost finish each other’s sentences. It’s about the power of couples working as a team to accomplish meaningful things in their lives and those of others. My parents had such a relationship, working together to build a family newspaper, being dedicated to their community, their readers and the advertisers who made it possible 52 weeks every year. Neither of them ever retired from what became their career and their passion. My mom was the businessperson, while my dad was the inspiration, the guy with the vision and a mission.
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Live like Kari Jolink: forever a hero in our hearts To the Editor: Kari (Searles) Jolink is my hero. This has been the case since I first met her. However, recent news from my hometown catalyzed this idea into a clear belief within my mind, heart and soul. Her passing last month, news delivered from my father, has left me shaken, confused and with a sense of unease in my stomach – feelings that only news of this magnitude can create. I first met Kari sometime around fifth grade. I remember the rumors of a girl whom was “as good as the boys” in any athletic endeavor – something that I can humbly say now more than two decades removed was true. I also remember the last time that I saw Kari sometime in 2008. It was at a local watering hole in Marshall during a mini-reunion of members from the Marshall High School Class of 2001. We reminisced about high school memories – toilet basketball on Wright Ln., freezing together in the back of a convertible driven by her father during halftime of the MHS homecoming football game our senior year, emceeing Class Night together and sharing the commencement podium during our graduation in the spring of 2001. We laughed and then Kari smiled. Today I can still picture her smile. To be honest, her smile is something that I can remember about the first time that I met her through to the last. Words cannot truly describe it, but if you had a chance to have been warmed by it, I am sure you felt the same way that I did then and do now. It was a smile that was genuine, infectious and was a light during the darkest and most difficult times of adolescence. There was something else behind that amazing smile that frames my belief about her to this day. When I first met
Kari, in my eyes (and I would argue those around me) certain things mattered. To a fifth grade Rob, sports, winning, clothes, possessions and being “cool” were what mattered. And to be honest, as we moved through middle school and into high school it was these same things that seemed to matter even more. One had to be “cool” and if one was not they were cast to the side, made fun of and definitely not celebrated in local newspapers. Kari was “cool” in fifth grade, “cool” during her commencement speech, “cool” in 2008 and is still “cool” in my mind’s eye today. However, it is not the type of cool that I just described – the type that one realizes once their brain fully develops at age 25 never truly existed anyway – but the type of cool that means something much bigger. Kari is the cool that comes when one is truly a genuine and kind human being. In reflection, Kari is by far the most genuine and kind human that I have ever met. She somehow had this figured out in fifth grade and lived a life that was defined by being kind to everyone she ever met – even when it was “uncool” to be this way to those persons that may have not been deemed “cool.” Somewhere along the way, prior to fifth grade, Kari learned what it meant to live out the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I watched her do this from the day I met her through the day that she passed. Kari was able to do this even in the years where being “cool” had nothing to do with a moral compass and everything to do with a false sense of popularity. Kari was wise beyond her years in realizing what truly mattered in life. I realize this now, a month too late to let her know that she is my hero.
In a world that is fraught with hatred, war, bullying, gossip and people more connected to screens than their neighbors, Kari was and is the antitheses of this darkness. Her smile, her kindness and her ability to live out the Golden Rule was and is a light within these social and cultural shadows. I had the chance to be around this light as a chunky fifth grader with a bowl-cut through to an unsure teenager moving west. I remember being re-inspired by this light in 2008. Her recent passing reminds me of the light that she still is in my life and in the lives of anyone whom ever spent time with her. Today, I realize that she left us with an example to follow and with a mantra to live by. Living a life like Kari is truly living out the Golden Rule. However, I feel that I need to honor her tireless efforts to lead by example and thus I have written a new Golden Rule for myself: To live like Kari. The unease that I feel in my stomach today stems from the challenge presented by her passing and the life that I now want to better live. If I can even come close to my new Golden Rule, I will be a better person and the world around me will be a better place. And I believe that is what a hero does – makes others and the world around better through leading by example day in and day out. Kari made me better and made the world around her better. Her passing does not stop this fact. Kari, I want to thank you for your smile, your genuine kindness, your light – you will forever be my hero. Rob Backlund, Burlington, Vt.
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MHS girls running on all cylinders District champs win 22nd in a row to advance to regional final The Marshall High School girls basketball team advanced to a Class B regional final versus Otsego on March 10 following a 62-44 victory over Stevensville Lakeshore on March 8 at Harper Creek High School. The game was played after the ad-visor&chronicle went to press. A victory over Otsego would send Marshall into the state quarter finals on March 15 in Otsego versus either Muskegon Oakridge or Grand Rapids Catholic Central. Marshall advanced to the regional after beating Harper Creek 42-34 in the district final March 4 in a game that saw 14 ties or lead changes in the second half. “We have great chemistry,” said Marshall coach Sal Konkle. “We are playing really well...We are in a very good place.”
The Marshall High School girls basketball team won its fourth district title in the past five seasons following a 42-34 victory of Harper Creek in the Class B District 35 final in Marshall on March 4. (Photo by John Hendler)
Nikki Tucker hoists the district championship trophy following Marshall’s victory over Harper Creek March 4. Tucker scored 22 points verssus Harper Creek and also against Stevensville Lakeshore in the regional semi final. (Photo by John Hendler)
Jill Konkle scored nine points versus Stevensville Lakeshore and led the Redhawks with six assists. (Photo by John Hendler)
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The Marshall High School boys junior varsity team capped off a 19-0 season after beating Eaton Rapids 63-24 in the season finale on March 3. Back row from John Sherman, Nick Mumaw, Jack Luciani, Zack Zacharski, Jeremy Luciani and Bryce Munn. Front row: Jarrett DeLand, Dylan Pelfrey, Jason White, Logan Austin, Wyatt Crow, Zach Lee and Coach Anthony Miller.
Marshall High School powerlifter Mitchell Upright earned first place in the 270-pound JV weight class last weekend at the regional meet to qualify for the state meet this weekend. Cory Dexter, pictured with Upright, placed fifth in the 207-pound weight class.
Marshall boys advance to district final The Marshall High School boys basketball team beat Parchment 5553 March 9 to advance to the March 11 District 35 title game versus host Comstock at 7 p.m. Comstock beat Harper Creek 68-54 in the other semi final game. Jacob Brubaker led Marshall with 23 points including a key lay up with 35 seconds to play to give the Redhawks a 5552 lead. Two nights earlier in the district opener, Drew DeVine scored 32 points and Brubaker 30 as Marshall beat Pennfield 89-81 in overtime. “The last two games have been been very representative of how we have played all season,” said Marshall coach Nick Dent. “Time after time we find ourselves in close games that we somehow find a way to win. We credit our senior leadership for our ability to win close games. I'm sure our district final game versus Comstock will be another nail bitter.
Top: Drew DeVine scored 32 points in Marshall’s 89-81overtime victory March 7. Center: T.J. Rocco swats the ball away from Pennfield’s Francois Jamierson. Top right: Marcus Waters drives the lane versus Parchment March 9. Right: Jacob Brubaker's lay up with 35 seconds gave Marshall a 55-52 lead over Parchment in the district semi final. (Photos by John Hendler)
Marshall coach Nick Dent reacts following Marshall’s 89-81 overtime victory versus Pennfield in the district tournament opener March 7. (Photo by John Hendler)
Olivet bowler Daniel Jacob Brubaker to play Higgins wins state title college ball at NAIA Cornerstone University
Daniel Higgins
At the MHSAA Division 3 singles bowling tournament March 5 at Airport Lanes in Jackson, Daniel Higgins, a junior at Olivet High School, defeated Bailey Neal of Pennfield 404-340 in the two-game championship match to win the state title. Higgins led by five after the first game but wrapped up the championship with six strikes in a row from the third through eighth frames of the second game. “I was struggling with my release throughout the day,” said Higgins, who averaged 200.7 over 14 games at the finals.“Once I found the release that I was consistent with, I could follow through more consistently. “ He said his six-strike streak was “nerve racking.” “I was in a sweat and pretty amped up,” said Higgins. “Some people said looked totally calm but I was nervous and my mind was only focused on the next shot and nothing else.” The road to the championship wasn’t easy for Higgins as he faced two opponents with a history of success in the MHSAA tournament. Higgins opened match play with a 377-363 victory over defending champion Tyler
Kolassa, and in the quarterfinals, Higgins topped Jonesville’s Jonah Root 395385. Higgins needed a mark in the 10th frame of the second game to defeat Root, a semifinalist a year ago. In the semifinals Saturday, Higgins had back-to-back games of 211 and 226 to defeat Robbie McKinnon of Birch Run 437-396. Neal, who had the second-highest regional score in Division 3, awaited Higgins in the final. Neal had a slight lead going into the 10th frame of the first game, but Higgins threw a double and 8-count for a 188-183 victory. Then he used the six-bagger in the second game to breeze to the 64-pin victory. “Coming in, I just wanted to make the top 16,” Higgins said. “I’ve been in situations before when I get placed into a bracket and come out in the first round or second round and go home, but Saturday was totally different. I was able to keep my composure throughout the day and come out with the championship.” This is only Olivet’s second year fielding a bowling team, but Higgins said he’s been bowling since he could walk and participates in bowling leagues year-round.
On March 4, Marshall High School senior Jacob Brubaker signed a letter of intent to play college basketball at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, an NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) school. Brubaker was the leading scorer on the Redhawks this season and on Feb. 8 at Homer, eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for his high school career. Pictured left next to Brubaker is MHS varsity assistant coach Andy McCormack. To the right of Brubaker is Cornerstone head coach Kim Elders and assistant coach Ted Albert. In back are parents Brian Brubaker and Stacy Tucker along with MHS varsity head coach Nick Dent.(Photo by John Hendler)
Marshall bowler Gillett places 25th at state Stephanie VanMeter Marshall High School bowler Grey Gillett placed 25th out of 60 bowlers at the Div. 2 state finals in chosen as February Canton on March 5. Gillett rolled games of 168, 188, 233, 185, 207 and 164 for a total of 1, 145, 28 pins shy of cracking Griffon of the Month the top 16 and advancing to match play. The MHS boys bowling team, on March 4, placed 12th with a 10-game total (eight Baker games and two regular) of 3,078. The top eight teams advanced to the finals stage.
Ten representing Marshall at state swimming and diving finals
Nine swimmers and one diver will be representing Marshall High School at the Div. 3 state swimming and diving finals this weekend (March 11-12) at Eastern Michigan University. Pictured in the back row from left are swimmers Alec Kraushaar, Cam Foster, Chandler Cruz, Eron Hill and diver O’Shea Swinton. Front row: Swimmers Luke Stone, Landon Morgan, Brian Huyge, Juul Loonen and Michael Vezmar. (Photo by John Hendler)
Marshall Academy student Stephanie Van Meter was selected as the February Griffon of the Month. She was nominated by coach Grafton and also her teacher John Miller. “Stephanie goes over and beyond to help all of her classmates,” said Miller while Grafton added: “Stephanie is a great leader and hard worker.”
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