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In The News: Marshall student recovering after being struck by vehicle David Newman, the 12-year-old Eckford Twp. boy and Marshall Middle School student who was hit by a vehicle while he was crossing the road to board a school bus March 20, remains in serious condition.

Marshall Public Schools Superintendent Randy Davis commended his staff for its work the day of the accident in assisting the bus driver and the students on the bus. Last week, an outpouring of support helped raise close to $20,000 to help pay for Newman’s medical bills.

See story on page 22 Albion superintendent urges parents to bring their children back For the first time in recent memory, the enrollment at Albion Public Schools for the current school year did not decline from the year prior. Actually, the number increased slightly, reversing a trend that eventually led to building closures including the closing of Albion High School two years ago. On March 25 in the Albion Community School library, Albion Superintendent Jerri-Lynn Williams-Harper held a roundtable discussion to highlight the positive changes that have occurred in the school district for K-8 students. Williams-Harper made a direct appeal to parents of Albion school-age children to bring their children back to Albion and how it can make a difference for the school district: “Bring your students here and demand what it is you want,” she said.

“Parents are the driving force for their child’s education, so don’t do it somewhere else.”

See story on page 28 Missionaries return from Bulgaria and Australia Emily and Laura Peterson, Marshall’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members, are not only sisters, but were also sister missionaries on 18-month assignments abroad: Emily in Bulgaria and Laura in Australia.They’ve followed in their parents’ footsteps as missionaries. Their mother Alice Peterson served in Thailand and their father Brad Peterson served in Korea.

See story on page 20 Volunteers care for the environment Calhoun County is waking up to spring.

Trees are being planted, parks are undergoing restoration efforts, the quality of area water is being tested and volunteers are working to preserve and enhance Mother Earth. The first Stewardship Day for 2015 will be held at Ketchum Park on March 29 and volunteers are still needed. Learn about this event and many more in this week’s edition.

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uty, Honor, Country is the motto of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. With one of the lowest acceptance rates for college and universities at just 9 percent, admission to West Point is no easy feat. That makes the story of Marshall siblings Sammi and Devin Price that more impressive.

Sammi, a Marshall High School senior, will report in late June, while Devin, a 2014 MHS graduate, is completing his first year as a cadet.

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Columns Will mandatory voting cure voter apathy?

Editor’s Corner

by John Hendler We, as humans, get used to our daily routines to the point where it becomes automatic.

Day in and day out, we go through the motions of getting up and out of bed and doing the things to get us out the door each morning.

And then, just like that, our mundane routine is taken away from us, to forever change our lives.

One day in 1987, after a pretty uneventful start to my day, I was leaving a parking lot when a car came speeding around the bend and hit the passenger side of my car, sending the vehicle off the road.

I was OK, but my passenger suffered a fractured skull and was rushed into surgery. Thankfully, she recovered and didn’t appear to suffer any long term effects from the injury.

I think we’ve all had a moment like that at some point in our lives, and it’s etched in our memory forever.

My car accident memory came quickly to mind last week after hearing about David Newman, the Marshall Middle School student struck by a vehicle as he was approaching his school bus.

I also thought as a parent, how many times, as my kids were walking out the door for school, that I casually said to them to have a good day as I was rushing about to get out the door myself, fully expecting to see them that afternoon.

I can only imagine how horrifying it must be to go through what the Newman family has gone through the past week. Just like that, we could lose all we hold dear in a blink of an eye.

Many of us think we are invincible, that no harm will ever come to us, that we can live forever.

This tragedy brought to mind a poem I heard recited by the late motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia years ago about a young woman’s regret titled, But You Didn’t, that speaks of the human condition to put things off, like forgetting to tell those special people in our lives how we feel about them: Remember the day I borrowed your brand new car and I dented it?

I thought you’d kill me, but you didn’t.

And remember the time I dragged you to the beach, and you said it would rain, and it did?

I thought you’d say, “ I told you so.” But you didn’t.

Do you remember the time I flirted with all the guys to make you jealous, and you were?

I thought you’d leave me, but you didn’t.

Do you remember the time I spilled strawberry pie all over your car rug?

I thought you’d hit me, but you didn’t.

And remember the time I forgot to tell you the dance was formal and you showed up in jeans?

I thought you’d drop me, but you didn’t.

Yes, there were lots of things you didn’t do, But you put up with me, and you loved me, and you protected me.

There were lots of things I wanted to make up to you when you returned from Vietnam.

But you didn’t.

Until next week, may the good news be yours.

By FRED JACOBS Publisher and CEO, J-Ad Graphics Most Americans would accept the premise that only two things are certain in their lives, death and taxes.

Last week at a town hall meeting in Cleveland, though, President Obama said he’d like to add one more — voting.

“I don’t think I ever said this publicly, but I’m going to go ahead and say it now,” said Obama. “In Australia and some other countries, there’s mandatory voting. It would be transformative if everybody voted because that would counteract money more than anything. If everybody voted, then it could completely change the political map in this country.”

Within hours, people from across the nation and political experts chimed in with their perceptions on how mandatory voting could impact the landscape. I found it concerning, though, that a president of the United States would even offer such a claim without careful consideration of the impact it would have on our democratic process.

First, as a nation it’s in our best interest to determine why voters aren’t turning out to vote. Are they are turned off by the process and the political environment that clouds most elections? Have they lost interest and are willing to leave the job up to those who care enough to understand what’s really going on? And how about the decline in the average American’s interest in

government at all levels — are we better off when these people stay home?

The political partisans who drive the system aren’t interested in problem-solving because they continue to support gridlock over compromise. So, will making voting mandatory help or just exasperate that problem?

According to Obama, Americans who skip the polls on election day are younger, have lower income and are more likely to be immigrants or minorities.

That’s just the demographic that, Obama says, some people (Republicans) want to keep from the polls. A Pew Research Center poll bears out the president’s claim.

Those not voting in 2014 tended to be younger, poorer, less educated and more racially diverse.

But, many of these same voters did participate in the most-talked about election in the country in 2008. In that vote, 132.6 million votes were cast, and Obama, elected to his first term, received more votes than any other presidential candidate ever received. Compare that to the last “American Idol” contest, though, in which 122.4 million votes were cast in one week, and that record presidential election doesn’t appear to be so significant.

The U.S. Census Bureau takes a poll after each federal election and has determined that among the many reasons people don’t vote is their feeling that candidates don’t have the ability to fix the issues they raise during a campaign. Some other rea-

sons for not voting aren’t surprising, either. Of those not voting in typical federal elections, 8.6 percent are out of town, 18.9 percent are too busy, 12.7 percent do not like the candidates or campaign issues, and 15.7 percent report not being interested. Other indicators are 2.7 percent of voters not being able to find their polling place and 5.5 percent experiencing registration issues.

And then there are the 3.9 percent who just forget to vote.

So where do we start?

How are we going to attract more people to the polls?

In recent years, there have been suggestions about making an election a weekend event or a national holiday so as to accommodate the busy lives of citizens. Some suggest a Saturday election where more voters have the day off and might take the opportunity to vote. Plus, we should continue to promote the use of absentee ballots allowing anyone who wants the opportunity to vote prior to the election.

According to the Pew report, less than 37 percent of eligible voters turned out to vote in the 2014 midterm elections. But would mandatory voting make the difference?

A recent ABC poll stated that 72 percent of Americans are opposed to compulsory voting. They feel strongly that in a democratic system they have the right to choose whether to vote, even though it’s considered by many as a civic duty to participate in all elections.

These Americans don’t want the government making vot-

ing a mandatory requirement, in reality, forcing them to vote.

Compulsory voting isn’t something Obama dreamed up — 26 countries currently have mandatory voting laws on the books, and 11 enforce the law with fines and possible imprisonment for nonvoters.

Still, advocates maintain that if more people voted, it would promote a stronger democracy. So let’s start by again offering civics courses in our schools because our students need to understand the role they play in protecting the process.

Our founding fathers wrote, “A political democracy lives only by the freedom of its citizens to speak, publish, worship and organize without interference.

These rights to hear, read, shape public policies and change our government are all stated in the First Amendment of the Constitution, and they are the foundation of our democratic system. They insure control by a majority, with continuing rights of minority opposition.”

No other political principle has ever been established that guarantees both stability and orderly change.

Making voting the law of the land isn’t the answer to getting more people to the polls — let’s start by encouraging voters to take part in the process.

The lack of voters isn’t the problem. The problem lies in the halls of government from Lansing to Washington, D.C. The machine is broken, and it must be fixed.

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By GEORGE M. STRANDER Ingram County Court Administrator and Probate Register

First in a series.

Most of us are familiar with recycling. In Michigan we pay a 10-cent per container deposit fee on many bottles and cans, and as a result we return most of these containers at the grocery store and other places to collect back these fees.

Also, many of our communities have recycling centers where we can bring used glass, paper, metal and plastic so it can be reprocessed. In this series, I will explore the laws and regulations behind these types of personal or residential recycling.

By way of introduction, I will start with a short history of recycling and then move on to discuss the general state of recycling in Michigan.

Histor y of recycling: In some sense, recycling goes back thousands of years, if we count the reuse of any article or good as recycling. On a more systematic scale, though, we can look to the first millennium B.C. and see

even then the reuse of glass products and bronze coins (the latter to make statues) in the Roman Republic.

Throughout history, wars have proven great catalysts for recycling.

This is especially true regarding metal products, since the production of weapons, ammunition and armor typically has involved metal. And as the World War II home front showed, other products – like rubber – can be important wartime recyclables.

The first recorded use of waste paper to make new paper dates from 11th Century Japan. From the late 17th Century paper was being manufactured in the American Colonies (at the Rittenhouse Mill near Philadelphia) from recycled cotton and linen rags.

Curbside recycling started in Baltimore as early as the 1870s, and the first aluminum can recycling plants opened at the turn of the century in Chicago and Cleveland.

The 1970s saw the first “bottle bill” as well as the introduction of plastic bottles. In 1972, Oregon was the first state to require consumers to pay a deposit on bottle and cans, thereby encouraging recycling of the containers so as to recoup the fee. And in 1973 the polyethylene terephthalate bottle was patented, beginning a move away

from all glass bottling and introducing the need for focused plastic recycling.

The situation in Michigan: As one might guess, Michigan does well in recycling “returnables” – i.e., those items for which one receives a returned deposit fee. More than 90 percent of used bottles and cans that carry a deposit are recycled in our state.

Unfortunately, Michigan does not do well in recycling other reusable products – glass, paper, plastics and metals. In fact, Michigan’s overall residential recycling rate is only around 15 percent. This is the lowest recycling rate of any Great Lakes state and far below the national average of 35 percent.

In response to Michigan’s recycling challenges, Gov. Rick Snyder announced a statewide recycling initiative and the appointment of a Michigan Recycling Council in 2014. And in a few weeks in early May of this year, recycling in Michigan will be at the forefront when the Governor’s Recycling Summit and the annual conference of the Michigan Recycling Coalition will be held in Kalamazoo.

Next time: In the next article, I will review of the laws that govern the different items that can be residentially recycled.

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SALE 45.99. . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAVE 28.00

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Battle Creek

12-12-12 Fertilizer 50lb.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . SALE 12.95

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44th St.

N

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Dickman Rd

Capital

Exit 85

M-66

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McCamly

All Wildlife Food Plot Seed. . . . . . . . . . . 10% OFF

Washington

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Battle Creek 295 Hamblin Ave. 269-962-4025

Locally Owned & Operated for over 90 Years No sales to dealers.

Good while supplies last. We reserve the right to limit quantities.

MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30 TO 5:00 • SATURDAY 8:30 TO NOON CLIMAX STORE OPEN AT 8AM

Two Marshall student-athletes Spring sports seasons to begin this week, weather permitting commit to Alma College

Marshall High School senior Kyle Richardson signs a letter of intent March 20 to play soccer at Div. III Alma College. Looking on is his mother, Denise Richardson.

Marshall High School senior Kodee Smock signs a letter of intent March 20 to play football at Alma College as coach Jim Hendershot and parents Kent and MIchelle Smock look on.

6 Marshall My Way wrestlers to compete at state meet

photos by John Hendler

Six members of the Marshall My Way wrestling team known as the Warriors will compete at this weekend’s state meet at Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek. To qualify for state, a wrestler had to finish in the top four at regional. Front row from left: Blain Wilson, 11, Dominic Candelaria, 7, and Van Wirtz, 6. Back row: Coach Adam Wilson, Alex Miller, 8, Logan Picketts, 11, C.J. Burrows, 10, and Coach Matt Picketts.

Season opening contests for the Marshall High School baseball and girls soccer teams were postponed last week due to field conditions. The MHS girls tennis team opened its season at home March 26, while the track and field teams competed indoors at Hillsdale, also on the 26th. This week, tennis will play at home versus Leslie on March 30 at 4:30 p.m. while the track teams compete at Charlotte on March 31.

The varsity baseball and softball teams play at Lakeview on March 30 and are home versus Sturgis on April 1. The schedules are reversed for the JV baseball and softball teams. The girls JV and varsity soccer teams play at Three Rivers on March 30 and at Father Gabriel Richard in Ann Arbor April 1. No contests will be played between April 2 and April 13 for spring break. Pictured above are varsity baseball first baseman Alex Walton and varsity softball pitcher Brook Patton at practice on March 24.

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É” MS.R.P. $14,305

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SALE

$12,999

$24,499

SALE

PLUS TAX, TITLE & LICENSE

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2014 CHEVY SONIC

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SALE

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SALE

PLUS TAX, TITLE & LICENSE

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2014 CHEVY CRUZE

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SALE

$16,999

$27,499

SALE

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2014 CHEVY IMPALA

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SALE

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SALE

$34,499

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12,999 ROYAL $

00

40 2005 HONDA ACCORD 33,708 $ 00 #5508B. Loaded OR 279 $199 00 Now $6,995 OR SPECIAL

38 K MILES

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2015 BUICK REGAL

SAVE

951459

$

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59 K MILES

54 K MILES

#18521. Loaded Now $12,999

OR$

24000MO.

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25900MO.

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OR$

25900MO.

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Now 22,990 637 E. Chicago Rd., Coldwater, MI

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27,305 299

#5426B. Loaded

OR$

#18540 Power Windows, Locks, Auto

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Now $9,995

18500MO.

year lease. $3,495.00 due at signing.

2014 BUICK VERANO #C4038 M.S.R.P. $24,70500

13 K MILES

2012 MALIBU

Now $13,990 Plus taxes and fees

ROYAL $ 26 2011 NISSAN VERSA 2013 CHEVROLET SPARK SPECIAL

SAVE

32,49261

#18533 Leather, 2LT, Moonroof

00

562400

$

38K ROYAL SPECIAL MILES

$ 2012 DODGE AVENGER SE 2011 CHEVROLET HHR

2015 GMC CANYON 46 K#T5150 M.S.R.P. $30,110 MILES

54 K MILES

32K

2014 IMPALA LS$ Now $15,790

SAVE

Now $23,990

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OR$

26900MO.

#C4075 M.S.R.P. $34,14000

ROYAL SPECIAL

$

#5236B. Sahara 4x4, loaded, auto.

Now $24,990

15K

27,49301

2014 CHEVY IMPALA 2LT 2010 JEEP WRANGLER UNLIMITED #18571. Leather, new style, loaded.

#18490. Alloys, P/seat

2014 BUICK LACROSSE

66 K MILES

MILES

2013 CHEVY CAPTIVA

25700MO.

664699

$

19,08100

#18484. Alloys, P/seat, limited

OR$

MILES SPECIAL ROYAL

MILES

2014 RAM CREW CAB 4X4

Plus taxes and fees #18502.

Hemi, 20� wheels, loaded

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