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‘Fly, Hannah, fly’

GI’s Bellard competes at Olympic Swim Trials BILL STEVENSON Grosse Ile Grand

A Grosse Ile high school junior has achieved something that weekend warriors and a myriad of serious athletes only dream of.

Sixteen-year-old Hannah Bellard was invited to the Olympic Swim Trials and competed in the Women’s 200 meter Butterfly competition, held on June 1320, 2021 at Omaha, Nebraska. Bellard swam the Olympic trial with a time of 2:13.61 and finished in 23rd place out of 40 competitors.

The top sixteen swimmers advanced to the semi-finals, and the top eight swam in the finals.

The top two competitors in each event qualified for the United States’ Olympic team and will compete in Tokyo from July 23-Aug. 8, 2021.

In Bellard’s event, the Women’s 200 meter Butterfly, Hali Flickinger was the winner with a time of 2:05.85, with Regan Smith, the swimmer-up flying with a 2:06.99.

For Hannah Bellard, the journey to aquatic greatness began when she was a youngster “My parents signed me up for swim lessons at Water’s Edge pool, when I was about 7. I can remember advancing through the different levels. I just love to be in the water. I also have a competitive streak, and love a challenge,” said Bellard.

“It’s not just beating others in a race, it’s pushing yourself against the clock, to get better and better.”

And better and better she got.

She started swimming year-round with the Trenton Swim Club under the tutelage of coaches Tim Skowronski and Lindsay McFarland.

Coach Skowronski recalls when Bellard was a 12-year-old ranked 4th nationally.

“She’s a hard worker. She definitely has a competitive mindset, whether she’s at practice or a swim meet. She

showed great success as a young swimmer and now she’s excelling in all the details of her races. She has proven there’s definitely a high ceiling for her.”

Bellard set pool records in the 50 Butterfly, 100 Butterfly, and the 200 Butterfly as an 11 and 12 year old. She exceeded the time standards for the Junior Olympic, regional, and state competitions, becoming one of the best in the nation.

In seventh grade, she began swimming for Club Wolverine out of Ann Arbor, under former University of Michigan swim great, Coach Gunnar Schmidt Racing for Club Wolverine, means travelling all over the United States for Hannah to compete throughout the year.

“I really couldn’t do it without my family. My parents, Jennifer and Grady, my brother Liam and sister Gillian (who also swims for Club Wolverine), and my grandparents Kim and Sue Richardson have been so supportive. Driving to Ann Arbor throughout the week for practice, travelling to swim meets all over - they are my biggest fans.”

“Former Grosse Ile Hight School

swim coach Jerry Bringard has been great, too - giving coaching and letting me workout in his pool to get additional work in.”

Persistence, hard work - and natural ability - pays off.

Hannah qualified for the Olympic Trials, posting a time of 2:12.12 at the Eric Namesnik Memorial Open at the University of Michigan in the 200 meter Butterfly, as just a 14-year-old. Just in the last two weeks, she also met the Olympic Trial standard in the 100 meter Butterfly with a time of 1:00.69.

Coach Gunnar Schmidt praised Bellard saying, “We’re lucky to see a lot of great, hard-working athletes at Club Wolverine. Hannah is one of the best.

She’s a great example of someone who is dedicated, very humble, and truly has a great love of the sport of swimming and racing.

“She’s fun to coach, because she’s so even tempered but when it comes time to race the lights in her eyes turn on, and she’s focused and locked in. She’s very hungry to be the very best she can, and she will continue to have success, not only in swimming, but in a successful

life.”

As expected, a typical day is spent in the pool.

Depending on the training regime and the conditioning for in-season competition, it’s not unusual to have two-a-day practices, three hours each. Or, on lighter days, practices in the morning.

It’s not unusual for Bellard to average 18 hours per week in her training. All of this, in addition to online schooling and the “normal” life of a 16-year-old.

As attention turned to the Olympic Trials in Omaha, Hannah Bellard became a hometown hero. The local VFW and marquees up and down the Macomb business district cheered on the aspiring Olympian, emblazoned with “Go, Hannah, Go! Swim Hard, Swim Fast! Your Hometown Loves You!” Televisions, streaming devices, cell phones, and all eyes were turned to the second heat of the Women’s 200 meter Fly, second lane. Hearts pounding.

Nervous. Deep breath. Holding back a flood of emotions.

And then the gun.

Screaming, cheering, whistling, yelling “Fly, Hannah, fly!

At one point, she’s in the lead.

Come on, come on. Keep goin’ Great turn. Goooooo!

And then the finishing touch. Her time: 2:13.61. Fourth place in the heat, 23rd overall.

When asked how she felt about her race, Hannah replied, “I feel great! It’s hard to explain how incredible it is being there. It’s amazing seeing all the big name swimmers. And to realize that I’m there, too.”

“I just want to thank our entire community, my family, friends, coaches, and team mates for being so supportive, so kind.”

Not surprisingly, as soon as it was over, Hannah was back in the pool again. Working, giving private lessons and training. Then, getting ready for college visits. Starting her high school junior year in the fall.

Her sights on the Paris Olympics, 2024. To which we can only say, “Fly, Hannah, fly!”

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Olympic dreams

Grosse Ile’s Hannah Bellard, a 16-year-old junior at Grosse Ile High School, was in pretty rare air when she swam in the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha last month. A butterfly specialist, Bellard was fourth in her heat in the 200 fly and finished 23rd overall. Bellard, who swims for Club Wolverine out of Ann Arbor, said it was a great experience, but she already has her eyes on the 2024 Paris Olympics

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Help Wanted!

Restaurants desperate for kitchen help, offering enticing incentives Restaurateur Jeremy Syrocki has a message: His businesses are hiring.

Syrocki, who is involved in ownership of Truago restaurant in Trenton, Major Biddle in Wyandotte and Lloyd’s on Grosse Ile, said all three businesses are in need of employees, especially cooks and kitchen help.

“We need to get some staff hired,” Syrocki said.

“We’ve been extremely busy and our current staff needs some help.

Syrocki said his restaurants are looking for all sorts of help from waitstaff, to bartenders to dishwashers, but the most pressing need is for chefs,

“We are prep-intensive,” said Syrocki. “We prepare everything fresh, every single day.”

To get new staff on board, Syrocki is willing to step up and offer greater pay and benefits.

Already since the pandemic, he has increased pay for his kitchen staff by about 20 percent and he is willing to open his wallet further.

“We are trying to get creative,” he said.

One of the things the restaurants are doing to hire kitchen talent is offering four 10-hour workdays.

In addition, they are willing to pay 45 hours for 40 hours of work. That’s a pretty attractive offer.

Also, Syrocki is offering up to $500 sign-on

restaurant since it opened five years ago.

To thank the staff for its hard work, on June 28, the restaurants will be closed and all 110 employees will be treated to a special Detroit River cruise on the Diamond Jack riverboat. There will be live music, dancing, a catered meal and an open bar.

“It’s going to cost us some money, but our employees have worked exceptionally hard and they have earned it,” said Syrocki, who also recently paid bonuses to kitchen staff in appreciation of their hard work.

Syrocki said hiring cooks has always been hard, but since the pandemic and since the additional unemployment benefits given by the federal government, it has become even more difficult.

“Cooks bounce around,” said Syrocki. “That’s how they gain experience, so you’re always looking for more cooks. But now, if I can pay them $600 a week and they can make $900 sitting on their couch, it makes it tough. Hopefully, somewhere down the road there will be incentives to get people to go back to work.”

Syrocki has shown that he is not afraid to pay up for good help, but, he said, in the end, it leads to higher prices for diners.

“Margins are very, very slim in the restaurant business,” he said. “If I was paying cooks $13 an hour and now I am paying them $17 or $18, that increase is going to have to be passed on to customers.”

Ben (left), Shannah, Kimbo and Mario are some of the kitchen staff at Truago Resaurant in Trenton. They are Syrocki is acutely aware of how looking for some co-workers. important his workers are. line cooks and prep cooks. bonuses depending on an applicant’s experience “Our No. 1 goal in the kitchen has and always Chefs, said Syrocki, run the show. They set up level and the management team is looking into will be the quality and consistency of our food. the day-to-day operation, handle scheduling and, in providing health insurance for its employees.

The No. 1 goal for the service staff is to make sure general, act as the boss. Line cooks are the ones who Syrocki is a good person to work for. The loyalty every guest that walks through our door has an do the heavy lifting, standing over stoves, actually of his staff tells that story. outstanding experience with us. cooking the food that gets served to customers. Prep For example, Truago head prep chef Veronica “And the cooks are warriors, they just are. cooks, who work mostly during the day, do just Manzano predates even Truago and has worked for The restaurant business is like a drug. You get an what the name implies: prepare things for the line Syrocki for 10 years. adrenaline rush when things are crazy busy and cooks to cook.

“Our team of employees is what makes our there are a bunch of tickets lined up. Then there is Syrocki said the prep cook role is vital at Truago, restaurants succeed and a majority of them have that feeling at the end of a wild night and you look Major Biddle and Lloyds because so much of the been with the company since day one,” Syrocki back and say, “Whew, look what we just did!’” food at the restaurants is prepared daily. Little said.

So, if you are a warrior cook, looking for that comes from a freezer or a can and little is prepped Many of Truago’s employees, like general adrenaline rush, Jeremy Syrocki has a place for you. more than a few hours in advance of being cooked. manager Carrie Hancock, have been with the

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Ways to improve your health in under five minutes 3. Quit smoking. Nicotine can restrict blood flow throughout the body - even your spine.

4. Get a new pair of shoes. Shoes that are comfortable and have a heel less than one inch are ideal for your back.

We all want to live healthy, robust lives. In today’s fast paced world, it can seem that there just isn’t time for it all. But we’ve got good news - small changes can have a big impact on your health.

Here are three things you can do to improve your wellness quickly that don’t take much time at all.

Use the stairs instead of an elevator You can climb one flight of stairs in less than 30 seconds and it’s a great way to increase blood flow.

Add one extra glass of water into your day Create a goal to drink one additional glass of water each morning as a part of our wake-up routine.

Work on your balance now - your older self will thank you You can do this by adding balance exercises into your daily routine. How? Start by balancing on one leg at a time for just ten seconds each. Repeat a few times.

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Unbeknownst to many, a week of recognition passed this May without being marked with parades, festivals, or fireworks.

For 2021, May 16-22nd marked the 59th annual National Public Works Week.

This week of recognition was proclaimed by John F. Kennedy in 1962 and is intended to celebrate those individuals who provide and maintain the infrastructure and services that we use on a daily basis.

With recognition in mind, I wanted to take an opportunity to highlight some of the services performed by Grosse Ile Township under the Department of Public Services umbrella.

The major responsibilities of the Grosse Ile Department of Public Services are to provide Grosse Ile residents with safe drinking water, removal and disposal of residential solid waste and the operation of the sanitary sewage collection and treatment system.

The Department of Public Services maintains over 65 miles of water mains, nearly 700 fire hydrants and 75 miles of sewer system.

In addition, the department maintains over 10 miles of bike paths, including mowing, sweeping, cleaning, and winter maintenance.

The Department of Public Services also provides for dust control over gravel roads, crack and joint sealing, ice and snow removal from Township facilities, stormwater management, drainage maintenance and operations of the wastewater treatment plant.

The Department of Community Development also falls under the Department of Public Services.

Responsibilities of this department include, the enforcement of national building regulations, the adoption and enforcement of municipal codes, zoning enforcement, building compliance inspections, permit issuance and property maintenance compliance.

Through its Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals, the Department of Community Development reviews and prepares amendments to the zoning ordinances, reviews proposals for new development and hears and decides upon variances to existing regulations.

All of the numerous responsibilities are accomplished through a very dedicated staff of only seven full-time employees, a multitude of volunteers and a variety of private service providers.

As Grosse Ile Township’s Director of Public Services, I am honored to work with this very dedicated group of employees, contractors, appointed and elected officials.

Knowing the people that assist in providing these services, they do not do it for the recognition. Quietly providing the services that support your household is their reward.

Despite this, next time you are out and see a Grosse Ile DPS staff member or stop by and visit Township Hall for a building permit, please take a moment to recognize those employees who provide the public services you count on.

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Still Cruisin’

Now an orphan with no official sponsor and no sanction from any Downriver cities, the Downriver Cruise rolls on year after year and 2021 was no different. On the last Saturday in June - this year June 26 - the classic cars hit Fort Street in Lincoln Park, Southgate, Riverview and Wyandotte and the crowds were there to greet them and enjoy the day despite the constant threat of rain and thundershowers. The rain held off, the cars did their part and the event was enjoys by the thousands who lined the street

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Terry Laesser, Future Engineer Teacher of the Year

Downriver educator wins lucrative Amazon award Bill Stevenson Grosse Ile Grand

already knew about those things because of the teachers I had at Grosse Ile and later at the University of Findlay where I received my BA in Biology.

“When I decided to change careers, I went back to school at the University of Michigan to get my teaching certification. I later returned to U-M to get my MA in education. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, I went back to U-M again and got another MS in Environmental Science. During the “times of COVID” I completed my ESL/Bilingual endorsement to better serve my English Language Learners.

Those students, my ELLs, are the reason behind this award. I work hard to find opportunities for them.”

Principal Vranesich praised Laesser saying, “Ms. Laesser not only serves as the coach and mentor of our first robotics team, but she is also an exceptional teacher dedicated to opening up future pathways for her students.”

Laesser provides STEM (Science

Terry Ann Laesser, Grosse Ile High School alum and computer science teacher at Melvindale High School, has been selected among thousands of eligible teachers as a 2021 Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year.

Laesser is one of 10 award recipients across the entire United States to be recognized for “inspiring her students to build skills in computer science and to promote diversity and inclusion in the field of engineering.”

Laesser learned of the honor when her Principal, Ryan Vranesich - also a Grosse Ile High School alum surprised her with an Amazon box filled with Amazon Future Engineer swag.

The prize package includes a $25,000 gift to expand computer science and/or robotics education at Melvindale High School and $5,000 cash award for personal use.

“It has been an especially difficult year for teachers, so we are excited SEE EDUCATOR, Page 12 to recognize their hard work and commitment to their students’ successes,” said Victor Reinoso, global director, Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon in the Community.

“The Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Award recipients work diligently to help students in underserved and underrepresented communities build life-changing skills to propel their futures in computer science. We celebrate their tireless efforts to increase access to technology and computer literacy in their classrooms and beyond.”

Laesser reflected, “I am humbled to receive this award, because I think I was honored for doing what I love to do. Although I did not originally go to college to be a teacher - I went to be a bio engineer - there have been teachers who influenced me greatly. Those teachers taught me the importance of teaching with passion and sharing my passion with my students.

“Before I even knew about “Rigor and Relevance” and later Rigor, Zoe is another robot created by Laesser’s students.

Relevance, and Relationships”, I

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Technology Engineering and Math) learning opportunities through her handson engineering programs. The First Robotics team, 6914, Retro5ive have won awards at district competitions and off season events.

According to the Amazon press release, “In their first year, the team won the Rookie All-Star Award, the Rookie Inspiration Award and the Team Safety Award, advancing them to the state championship.

In their second year, the team won the Goonettes All-Girl Invitational, and the DADARA Winter Challenge Event.

The team also received peer awards from other teams for their respect, spirit and unity during the pressure.

In their third year, the team was sidelined from competition due to COVID-19, but found other ways to use their skills by fabricating mask straps with their 3-D printer and donating safety glasses to Beaumont Oakwood hospital.

In their most recent year, the team competed virtually in FIRST Robotics in international groups in two divisions.

The team is working throughout the summer on new robots for demonstrations and activities, and is eagerly looking forward to the new school year, getting back into the classroom.”

“I never thought I would be a teacher,” said Laesser, “it has just been an incredible career.

“I could talk about my students and my robotics team forever.”

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I got the recipe for the rice, which is EVELYN wonderful with grilled CAIRNS Grosse Ile chicken and really easy Grand to make, from Shelley Dalley of Grosse Ile, who got it from Kathy Boudrie of South Rockwood, who got it from her mother, who got it from an old Pillsbury cookbook.

The recipe for the pasta salad was posted on the Henry Ford Health System Live Well website, along with a photo and a video of how to prepare it.

Ideas for adapting the recipe with other pastas and vegetables and nutritional values were included as well. The salad can be served at room temperature or cold and travels well to a picnic or other outing.

You may not remember the Watergate Salad, which was popular in the 1970s and ‘80s, but you may remember the President Richard Nixon scandal involving the 1972 break-in at the Watergate office complex for which the salad is named. There are stories galore about the origin of the salad, which I would call a dessert rather than a salad. Among the rumors are that the salad was concocted by a sous chef at the Watergate Hotel, and that Kraft Foods created the salad to introduce its new pistachio pudding mix.

Nevertheless, it is the most addictive whatever-you- call-it that has ever crossed my lips, and takes only about five minutes to make.

ORANGE RICE WITH RAISINS 1 stalk celery, sliced into 1/4-inch pieces 3 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 cup white or brown rice 1 ½ cups water 2 tablespoons grated orange rind 1 cup orange juice ½ cup raisins or currants ½ teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons honey Cook celery in butter until tender.

Stir in rice. Add water, orange rind, orange juice, raisins, salt and honey.

Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to very low. Cover and cook 20 to 30 minutes (40 to 50 for brown rice) or until the rice is tender. Makes 5 to 6 servings. If desired, sprinkle ¼ cup toasted almonds or chopped pecans over the rice before serving.

LEMON, ASPARAGUS ORZO PASTA SALAD ½ cup lemon juice 2 teaspoons lemon zest 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper ¼ cup olive oil 2 cups dry orzo pasta 1 pound asparagus, cut into 1-inch pieces 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley ½ cup diced green onion ¼ cup feta cheese crumbles Lemon slices for serving In a small bowl, whisk together lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic, salt, pepper and olive oil. Set aside. Bring water to a boil; add orzo and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Add asparagus the last 2 minutes of cooking. Drain, but do not rinse. Add warm orzo and asparagus to a large mixing bowl. Add dressing and parsley. Mix well. Top with green onion, feta and lemon slices.

Serve chilled or at room temperature.

Note: You may want to cut the recipe in half, as it makes a lot. Other pastas can be substituted for orzo, and your favorite vegetable in season for asparagus. The addition of grilled chicken, steak or shrimp would transform the salad into a main course.

WATERGATE SALAD FROM THE 1970s 4-serving-size package instant pistachio-flavor pudding mix 20-ounce can Dole Crushed Pineapple, undrained 1 cup miniature marshmallow ½ cup chopped pecans 1 ½ cups thawed whipped topping Combine dry pudding mix, crushed pineapple, marshmallows and pecans in a large bowl until well blended. Gently stir in whipped topping. Cover and refrigerate 1 hour or until ready to serve.

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GIGCC crowns champs at 57th annual Ladies Invitational The Grosse Ile Golf & Country Club hosted its 57th annual Ladies Invitational Golf Tournament on June 18-19.

The field consisted of 64 players - 32 club members and 32 guests.

The tournament was chaired by Cathy Booker, Susan Pizzimenti and MaryAnn Chapman and, despite a rainy start to the event, the tournament went off as scheduled and a good time was had by all.

The field was divided into four flights based on handicaps and there were eight teams in each flight.

The winners were: Flight 1: Janet Schwin and Nancy Negrini Flight 2: Leslie Esordi and Margaret Esordi Flight 3: Andrea Papp and Rebecca Kaplar Fight 4: Diane Mace and Theresa Gemus This year’s event was held in honor of Nancy Tunier for her many years of contributions to women’s golf at GIGCC. Key sponsors for the event were Tom Conti of Tri Star Steel, Dr. Nick Booker and Bill Tunier of Post Gardens.

Afterward, the players extended a big thank you to GIGCC general manager John Paul and head golf pro Eric Ganzberger for making sure that the entire event ran smoothly.

First Flight winners at the GIGCC Ladies Invitational were Janet Schwin and Nancy Negrini.

Flight winners were Rebecca Kaplar and Andrea Papp (flight 3), Theresa Gemus and Diane Mace ( flight 4) and Leslie Esordi and Margaret Esordi (flight 2)

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Grosse Ile tradition carries on

Annual Sims Run expands the possibilities Bill Stevenson Riverview Register

We’re back! Well ... we never really left.

We just transmogrified into a different realm. This year we’re goiang hybrid.

The 19th(!) annual Simsonian 5K Kick-Off Classic will offer both a virtual opportunity for runners or walkers of all stripes, ages, shapes, and sizes, and a return of the long awaited in-person 1 mile Fun Run/Walk and 5k Race.

The window for the virtual race will run from Sunday, Aug. 1 to Friday, Aug. 20. For those who can’t make the in-person race, you can make the virtual race your own and run your 5K at your own place, your own pace, your own race. You can use your GPS to run,

walk or crawl your 1 miler, or race your 5K. When you have completed your virtual best, you can upload your time on the runsignup.com website to record your results.

Or, you can make the scene and enjoy the freedom and rush of real life competition in-person.

The traditional Simsonian 5K KickOff Classic will be held on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021 at Grosse Ile High School 7800 Grays Drive. The 1 mile Fun Run/ Walk begins at 8:30 a.m. with the 5K Race following at 9 a.m.

The 19th Annual Simsonian is held in memory of beloved Grosse Ile High School teacher and coach, Steve Sims who died unexpectedly of a dissecting aortic aneurysm in 2003.

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All proceeds from the race, virtual or not go to a scholarship given to an outstanding female scholar/athlete at GIHS. More than $42,000 has been awarded throughout the race’s history.

As in the past, the 5K race will be timed by Race Time Services and Chronomaster Gary Olsen providing a chip-timed event. Even if, heaven forbid, COVID restrictions are reimposed, the race can have a socially distanced start and finish.

Real racers know the best social distancing is when you run faster than everyone else, and run away from your competition.

Help the cause (and the race directors) by registering now at www.runsignup. com Costs are $30 for the virtual race

(includes postage and handling for coveted T-shirt and race info). In-person costs are: Ages 10 & under - $10; students, 18 & under - $20; adults $25; late or race-day entries - $30.

In-Person Awards: 5K first male/ female overall. Gold, Silver & BronzeMale/Female age group 12 & under; 1315, 16-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60 & over.

The in-person gig - with real people - includes an after party with DJ, refreshments and raffle prizes (must be present to win).

So, either way - virtual or in-person, come join us for a good time and an even better cause supporting a great Grosse Ile tradition.

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To honor and respect

The Wall that Heals coming to Young Patriots Park Aug 13-14 The Wall That Heals, a threequarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial along with a mobile Education Center, is coming to the city of Riverview, Aug. 13-14, 2021.

The exhibit will be on display at Young Patriots Park and will be open 24 hours a day and free to the public.

Ceaser Capital Management, the city of Riverview and Riverview American Legion Post 389 are leading the effort that will bring the exhibit to the city.

The Wall That Heals honors the more than three million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed forces in the Vietnam War and it bears the names of the 58,276 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam.

“The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is pleased to bring The Wall That Heals mobile exhibit to Riverview to allow local veterans and their family members a chance to experience The Wall.

“We will work carefully with the host to provide a safe opportunity for the community to experience the healing and educational aspects of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” said Jim Knotts, president and CEO of VVMF. “Hosting The Wall That Heals provides an opportunity to honor and remember all those who served and sacrificed in the Vietnam War and educate visitors on the continuing impact of the Vietnam War on America.”

Visitors will be encouraged to wear

masks and practice social distancing to safeguard the staff, volunteers and other visitors.

“Nothing is more important to VVMF than the health and well-being of our Vietnam veterans and their families.

We will work closely with the host to make certain that all health and safety protocols are met in order to provide the best visitor experience while keeping the safety of our staff, volunteers and visitors at top of mind,” said Knotts.

The Wall That Heals is transported from community to community in a 53-foot trailer. When parked, the trailer opens with exhibits built into its sides, allowing it to serve as a mobile Education Center telling the story of the Vietnam War, The Wall and the divisive era in American history.

The three-quarter scale Wall replica is 375 feet in length and stands 7.5 feet high at its tallest point. Visitors will experience The Wall rising above them as they walk towards the apex, a key feature of the design of The Wall in D.C. Visitors are able to do name rubbings of individual service member’s names on The Wall.

The mobile Education Center exhibit includes: digital photo displays of “Hometown Heroes” - service members whose names are on The Wall that list their home of record within the area of a visit; digital photo displays of Vietnam veterans from the local area honored through VVMF’s In Memory program which honors veterans who returned

home from Vietnam and later died as a result of their service; video displays that teach about the history and impact of The Wall; educational exhibits told through items representative of those left at The Wall in D.C.; a replica of the In Memory plaque; a map of Vietnam and a chronological overview of the Vietnam War. The exhibits tell the story of the Vietnam War, The Wall and the era surrounding the conflict, and are designed to put American experiences in Vietnam in a historical and cultural context.

Since its debut in 1996, the exhibit has been on display in nearly 700 U.S. communities in addition to an April 1999 tour of the Four Provinces of Ireland and a visit to Canada in 2005.

The Wall That Heals is a program of VVMF, the nonprofit organization that built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1982. The Wall That Heals is the only traveling exhibit

affiliated with The Wall in Washington, D.C. and includes the largest Wall replica that travels the country. Two VVMF staff members lead volunteers on site, educate visitors and students, and ensure the reflective atmosphere of The Wall.

About VVMF The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) is the nonprofit organization that built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) in Washington, D.C. in 1982. VVMF continues to lead the way in paying tribute to our nation’s Vietnam veterans and their families. VVMF’s mission is to honor and preserve the legacy of service in America and educate all generations about the impact of the Vietnam War and era through programs, ceremonies and education materials.

To learn more about VVMF, visit www.vvmf.org or call 202-393-0090.

Sign-up to be a volunteer The success of The Wall That Heals comes from those who volunteer their time. Please visit our signup genius at https://www.signupgenius.com/ go/4090c4daea72caaf58-thewall1 or search dmitchell@cityofriverview.com at signupgenius.com.

You can also check out the event page on Facebook at Riverview Recreation Department for volunteering opportunities.

For more information please contact Riverview Recreation Director Todd Dickman at 734-281-4219 or email him at tdickman@cityofriverview.com

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Estate Planning 101 Which plan do you need?

Time to clear up the confusion about Estate Planning ... The following definitions lack legal precision, but makes it easier to get a clear picture of what may be needed in your case.

■ Will – letter of intent of where you want your personal property to go – or not go.

■ Living Will – Documents your wishes during your final days including final healthcare choices and possibly your burial wishes.

■ Trust – This is a “company” that you start, and you become the CEO, “Trustee” and “Settlor.” The company outlives you, but continues to manage your assets as if you were alive by the successor CEO – whom you designate.

■ Power of Attorney – Financial and Healthcare – you need both – the first so someone can pay your bills, the second, sometimes called a Patient Advocate, designates someone to make “hallway at the hospital” decisions to take the stress off the family.

■ Ladybird Deed – probably the best thing that has happened to owning a home. I love these deeds – you grant yourself a life estate – in your own property - but retain the power to sell or borrow against the property. If you do not sell before you pass, this “springs” the house out of your estate, and your heirs have instant ownership, subject to any mortgage or taxes owed or similar.

Again, this is just a general description of the more popular terms – no one choice is a “silver bullet” but depending on how your estate gets planned out you can expedite a clean and clear process for the assets you worked a lifetime to save.

Why wouldn’t you want to do that? Stop by or call and make an appointment and I’ll tell you what you’re going to need to do this right.

To my numerous former clients – thank you for allowing me to draft your estate plan!

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Crawford said the community response to her has been “fantastic.”

Crawford works her healing magic on a wide variety of people, from infants to seniors. Her techniques include: Full-spine hands adjusting, diversified, gonstead, drop table, activator instrumentation, soft tissue release and craniosacral work.

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TELESCOPING THE TOWNSHIP

J.W. Westcott provides mail service to freighters

As a member of the Great Lakes and Detroit River Networking group, it was a treat to meet and learn more about the J.W. Westcott that in 2024 will celebrate 150 years delivering mail to passing by lake freighters.

The meeting was held on June 24 at the ship headquarters off 24th Street in Detroit, south of the Ambassador Bridge. It was hosted PAMELA A.

by Jim Hogan, whose family has FRUCCI operated the J.W. Westcott since Grosse Ile Grand 1947. They’re celebrating their 75th anniversary serving the US Postal service in 2023 and recently signed a new four-year contract with them.

The J.W. Westcott meets freighters out in the river near their on-land office and relays their mail. Mid December ends their 252-day season of delivery.

Jim Hogan explained that it’s the fourth generation of Hogans to provide the service and his son Jimmy will be the fifth. It’s actually Jim’s 48th year running the business.

Being so close to the Detroit River, he is extremely dedicated to maintaining its quality and is an active member of the Great Lakes and Detroit River Networking Group. I recognized at the meeting Riverkeeper Bob Burns, activist and artist Stephanie Prechter and John Hartig, former head of the International Wildlife Refuge and now a visiting scholar at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research where he handles the clean-up of the worst polluted areas of the Great Lakes.

Concerts on the Commons coming back After an absence of music on Sunday evenings in the summer months of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Grosse Ile Alliance for the Arts has decided to bring back Concerts on the Commons beginning on July 11 from 7 to 8 p.m.

The free concerts are brought to those who bring blankets and lawn chairs to hear a variety of musical entertainment on a summer evening.

The GIAA has raised money to pay the performers and in the past has received generous checks from the Downtown Development Authority and a check from Steve and Kim Landaal. Mrs. Landaal is the daughter of Dick and Rosie Meyer who donated the money to Grosse Ile Township to build the gazebo at the Commons where the concerts take place.

Rather than 10 concerts, there will only be eight concerts this summer starting on July 11. That Sunday entertainment will be a live performance by actors from the Open Door Theater in Trenton and music by Martinez.

The popular ice cream cart provided by Custard Corners will also be selling their cold treats. The full concert series will be printed on flyers which will be

distributed around the Island.

Coming up on future concerts will be regular entertainers like Bill Bynum, Barry VanEngelen, and Benny of the Jets, as well as barbershop quartets.

Foam recycling a slight possibility in the future at the Riverview landfill I’ve been talking to the manager of the Riverview Landfill for the past year on a proposal to park a truck at the landfill where homeowners can bring clean foam.

DART Industries, in Mason, MI recycles foam to make useful products like sleeping bags. My husband Jack and I bring our foam to their recycling center whenever we head for Lansing to visit family.

So far, foam is a recyclable with no local drop-off disposal.

I’ve been assured that the landfill sub-committee has discussed my proposal and according to the manager, they are “lukewarm” but haven’t said no.

Right now they’re hoping the public and Wayne County are receptive to an expansion of the landfill.

If they get this, they’ll look more seriously at setting up foam recycling. DART has said it will supply a truck to drop off clean foam and perform a pick up on a regular basis.

Animal control officer Julie Cortis offers a helping hand I’d like to publicly thank our animal control officer Julie Cortis for the helping hand she offered me a couple weeks ago.

It was a hot day and I was walking from St. James Church where I had a meeting with the GIAA. I had some car trouble. My emergency brake was locked

into place and I couldn’t budge it.

I thought if I walked to Richardson’s Gas Station, a mechanic could drive me back, solve my problem, and get me back on the road.

As I was walking down Parke Lane, Julie pulled up next to me and offered me a ride. When I explained my car trouble, she thought she could help. When we drove to St. James and she hopped in my car, she easily released the brake and I was up and running.

Thanks, Julie, for going beyond your normal duties as an animal control officer!

Grosse Ile Then & Now has been reprinted and is available for sale Back in 2011, three of us put together a guidebook to sights around Grosse Ile that’s for sale at the Grosse Ile Historical museum for $15. It’s been reprinted and 20 copies ordered.

The museum reopened on July 11 after a long closure due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Now it will be open every Sunday from 1-4 p.m. and Thursdays from 10-12 p.m.

The guidebook features 50 pages from the former Ile Camera with a print by artist Tommy Woodward and commentary by his wife Barbara. These are from fifty years ago.

What Meren James, Meg Bremer Jones, and I did was revisit the sights and write up a more current version.

The back of the book features a pull-out map with the locations listed. It’s a self-guided tour of Grosse Ile. A revision was done in 2016 by myself, Meren James and Jo-Anne Gronlund and a brand new version is promised for the future.

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Feeling our way along, one step at a time One of the things I value the most as a local and independent merchant is the opportunity to talk to the people that visit us.

It is the missing link with much today - the interest in understanding each other.

Stores like ours serve as something of community forums, loosely and informally.

People are still airing grievances with the way our governor handled the whole thing, many others feeling that they are grateful we had someone Peter that did what had to be done. The truth Rose Grosse Ile is somewhere in the middle of the Grand spectrum of perception. I just know that I didn’t have to make those calls.

Those that are the angriest about it all are the businesses that felt the death grip of being closed down. Some businesses absolutely thrived during this nightmare, and that’s part of the magic that underpinned us while so much else was on pause.

Closing the economy down is an unthinkable challenge. Way above my paygrade, let me tell you.

The incredible way it all somehow works, with monies changing hands in every niche of our economy has to be sorcery. There’s no way this thing should actually work. But it does.

So it is a relief to feel things percolating, with restaurants operating with no limits and people now going about with no masks. People going to movies and ball games and weddings makes my business necessary again and enables us to contribute to the economy.

I don’t publicly share numbers about our businesses.

But June was our best June in over 23 years. It doesn’t make me confident; it makes me supremely satisfied, but I remain cautious and defensive while still trying to be what we’ve always been. Just because it’s good today does not guarantee that it will be great tomorrow, but you know, being unwilling to accept it and enjoy it keeps us in the prison cellar. So I’m optimistic!

Especially because this figurative earthquake forced rethinking of so much about our stores, and hopefully, these early indicators are solid signposts for the roads ahead.

The same goes for all elements of our economy. It will be quite a while before supply chain issues are resolved and operating more on a normal basis. But it’s getting better, and it feels very good - less scary, less ominous.

Ours is a business that operates by confidence, looking forward six months as we do initial buys for upcoming seasons. How can I buy if I have no belief that I have my fingers on the multitudinous pulses I have to think through. In a month, I’ll be deciding what

I believe our stores will have to do to satisfy the needs of a customer that is still more casual than before. That is what I do, and I’m very enthusiastic about getting back into that groove.

This column is now four years running, one article per month for 48 months. You know what the basis is, and I think you know what I’m talking about as I point out the radical differences between being just another faceless number as a consumer in a national chain of any variety, or worse, of internet buying.

I talk about it because when I stop, I hear no other voices calling for the return to personal service where the dollars spent benefit the spender almost instantly.

I don’t talk about it so you’ll patronize my store in particular. I want you to consider every purchase and think about how much better it is to keep it local, so that towns like Wyandotte can offer a killer downtown in which to do all manner of business.

If local stores and restaurants fail here, there will be no nationals lined up to save Wyandotte. They don’t care about Wyandotte or Downriver or any other area.

If our cities go the wrong way, it will likely now be impossible to restore that magic. So I write to make that truth more real, and to get everyone to realize that they have the power to make an enormous, positive difference.

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Former student still has fond memories of teacher teacher.

Emily wrote: “What an influence she had on me as a first-grader and right on through high school.”

After my mother passed away, I sent Emily one of her many sweatshirts, one that had humming birds on the front.

Emily sent me a photo of her wearing that sweatshirt.

My mother, Bernie Marsh, taught first grade in the Grosse Ile schools for many years. Although she passed away in 2002 at age 94, when we would be out and about, we’d often run into former students who remembered her fondly.

She was able to get almost 100 percent of her firstgraders to be readers and every class looked forward to her annual circus where they could dress up and perform.

PAMELA A. FRUCCI Emily T. Gail, one Grosse Ile Grand of three sets of Gail twins, ended up living and working in Hawaii. My husband Jack and I have visited her there, but fairly recently our daughter Marti connected with Emily.

They got together at a Starbucks in Kona.

Emily wrote to me that she was so happy to connect with a third generation of her fondly remembered first-grade teacher whom she called her favorite

A 60-year anniversary celebrated July 8 It’s hard to believe but 61 years ago I met Jack Frucci at a teachers’ convention in Los Angeles, CA. At 28-years-old, I figured I’d be an “old-maid” school teacher and travel the rest of my life.

That changed when I met Jack and after the convention he changed teaching jobs from East Lansing to Grosse Ile. In 1961 we were married by a justice of the peace in Flat Rock.

Since by then I was 29 and didn’t feel like a “blushing bride,” I wore a white linen summer dress that I’ve worn for every anniversary for 60 years!

This 60th anniversary, our kids Jay and Marti are throwing a party for us at Portofinos in Wyandotte for friends and family. For the occasion, I wrote a “love” poem which composer/ singer Dave Martin has set to music and Jack and I performed at the July 10 celebration.

Former student is actively promoting peaceful world I heard recently from a former student who was in my journalism class at Grosse Ile High School. Michael Knox, a 1964 graduate, went on to earn his PhD. from the University of Michigan and had written a book that Jack and I are using to write down what we want done with our possessions after we’re gone.

I picked up a copy of the book “Last Wishes” many years ago, which he and his wife had written after she lost her father. They decided they didn’t follow his last wishes for his service and disposal of his properties, so they wrote

and published a book for people like us.

I wrote Mike to thank him for the useful resource, and he wrote back that he’s published another book, “Ending U.S. WARS by Honoring Americans Who Work for Peace.” Currently, he’s chairman of the US Peace Memorial Foundation, which is raising money to erect a memorial in Washington, D.C. dedicated to a peaceful world.

Farewell to a good man At the June 16 funeral service at Martenson’s in Trenton, friends and family of John Szewc bid him a fond farewell. He was a former neighbor of ours and Jack and John were golf, bowling and barbershop buddies for years.

About 20 guys met at Martensons, a long way from the northern suburbs since they sing in the Rochester Barbershop Chorus, and sang a tribute to their longtime bass singer.

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The Grosse Ile Police Department is participating in two related programs designed to help people who want help and save lives.

Hope Not Handcuffs is a program designed to help anyone struggling with drugs or alcohol by encouraging them to walk into the Police Department and ask for help. The department is seeking volunteer “angels” to assist with the program.

Grosse Ile police Lt. Kenneth Pelland said every member of the department has received training in the proper administration of Narcan, a life-saving drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.

Each officer will receive two free doses to carry while on duty, courtesy of The Guidance Center and Families Against Narcotics.

Families Against Narcotics actually started Hope Not Handcuffs, which is aimed at bringing law enforcement and community organizations together to find viable treatment options for individuals seeking help to reduce dependency with heroin, prescription

drugs and other substances.

The program, which is available in more than 100 Michigan police departments, invites any person struggling with a substance use disorder to visit police and ask for help. Nearly 6,000 persons statewide have been helped since the program’s inception.

The person seeking help is greeted with support, compassion and respect and is guided through a brief intake process to ensure proper treatment placement. The volunteer angels are needed to help with paperwork and provide support until a treatment option

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If the person is uninsured or has Medicaid, officers and angels will work directly with the local office of substance abuse services for placement.

If a person has private insurance, he or she will be provided with treatment options covered by his or her insurance plan.

Regardless, the team will work to get the person seeking help into treatment as soon as possible.

Lt. Pelland said the program is an important resource for officers to help individuals in crisis. He said every

person in the department will receive the training.

The angels are individuals who have been trained about addiction and the Hope Not Handcuffs methodology used to assist people in getting help with addiction.

Grosse Ile resident John Burgan became an angel after the Grosse Ile Rotary Club invited Judge Linda Davis, founder of Families Against Narcotics, to speak about her family’s situation at a club meeting.

Burgan, who is a general manager at National Trails Motor Coach, said it is important for volunteers to participate to make the program work. Angels will receive some brief training in Hope Not Handcuffs and in the use of Narcan.

“It’s two hours of training and then whatever you want to give,” Burgan said. “I make it a priority to give back. I think everybody has time to give.”

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Live theater coming back to Grosse Ile Pamela A, Frucci Grosse Ile Grand

Back in late 2020 when the Creative Writing Club was still meeting regularly, member Fred Watson asked me why there was no longer live theater on Grosse Ile. I was around when the 80-year-old theater group “The Islanders” folded in 2007. At the time, it was too hard to get volunteers to either act on stage or work backstage, so it was decided to disband.

When it was an active organization on the Island, It was the second oldest theater group in Michigan, having first performed a play called “How to Marry a Dumb Wife” in 1926.

With a sizable treasury, $6,000 was donated to support the Boar’s Head festivals and $6,000 went towards a bench at the Commons area honoring the Islanders’ 80-year history and its 250 productions.

Then in December 2020, I brought together a group of past Islander performers to see if a revival was possible.

Rather than starting off with a play,

the group performed and produced a variety show we called “A Showcase of Grosse Ile Talent.” at the IslandFest on Sat., June 5 Along with Linda Stanko, who had been in past Islander shows, I announced the acts on stage at the IslandFest.

The planning group - made up of me and my husband Jack, Scott and Mary Gray, Rolland Taylor, Barry Van Engelen, Mike Walls and Fred Watson - are hoping there are other Island residents out there who also miss live theater and would meet to see if re-launching the Islanders could be an actuality.

Interested people who would either like to act or take on backstage jobs (lighting, props, costumes, construction) are invited to meet with the planning group at 10 a.m. on Sat., July 17 at the VFW on Macomb Street.

The original planning group came up with a name: Islanders II but are open to a new name when a larger group gets together.

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Top athletes honored in successful stadium ceremony Bill Stevenson Grosse Ile Grand

The 2021 Spring Athletic Awards ceremony took place in Red Devil stadium on June 7, 2021 with the varsity letter winners and outstanding athlete awards in each sport honored.

According to GIHS Athletic Director Jim Okler, “This has been an absolutely challenging year with things on again, off again. We were at least fortunate to be able to play a relatively full schedule and give our athletes opportunities for personal growth, team building, and successful competitions.

“I am very proud of the athletes, coaches, parents, and fans who made this season possible.”

The top athletes for the spring 2021 season Boys’ Golf - MVP, Anthony Joly-Naso; Most Improved, Luke Champnella; Coach’s, Luke Taubee Boys’ Track - MVP, Trey Swick; Most Improved, Landon Wise; Coach’s, Vasilios Dionyssopolous Clay Target - MVP, Neil Hancock; Most Improved, John Finazzo; Coach’s, Seth Perko Girls’ Tennis - MVP, Hayden Kobiljak; Most Improved, Alexandra Heckman; Coach’s, Sara Whitty Girls’ Track - MVP, Andrea Fulmer; Most Improved, Cecilia Vesperman; Coach’s, Katie Keim, Annie Wozniak Lacrosse - MVP, Luke Miller; Most Improved, Marino Concessi, Garret Floyd; Coach’s, Owen Bonham Softball - MVP, Rylee Lorenz; Most Improved, Melanie Veres; Coach’s, Addie Gurney, Mackenzie Lane Baseball - MVP, Tyler Garza; Most Improved, Ryan Driscoll; Coach’s, Nate Brown Also, the Grosse Ile Athletic Boosters recently awarded four scholarships to deserving members of the Class of 2021. The awards were presented by Grosse Ile Athletic Booster Vice President and former

recipient of the Ron Solak Award, Bill Lowery.

The Ron Solak Memorial Award was presented to Marina Rensi and Joey Pizzo. Marina will be attending the University of Toledo and Joey Pizzo will be attending Michigan Technological University.

The Jay Tissot Award was presented to Marisa Barnard and Trey Swick.

Marisa will be attending Michigan State University and Trey Swick will be attending Wayne State University.

The Ron Solak Memorial Award recognizes and encourages outstanding athletic and scholarship achievement by students of GIHS. The award is given to a male and female member within the senior class who has achieved outstanding athletic excellence and have maintained a 3.0 scholastic record during their high school career.

The Jay Tissot Award is bestowed annually upon one male and one female senior student-athlete who, during his/her high school career, has best exemplified the qualities of achievement, commitment, sportsmanship, and leadership, both as a student and as an athlete, which Jay Tissot fostered and encouraged while a coach and athletic director at Grosse Ile High School.

Further, Athletic Director Okler announced, “On behalf of the Grosse Ile School District, the Athletic Department, and the Administration and coaches at Grosse Ile High School, I would like to congratulate Nathan Brown, Will Davis, Mackenzie Lane, Emmi Pinkowski, and Joey Pizzo on their recent acceptance to sign an athletic scholarship for further participation in interscholastic athletics.

Nathan has accepted a scholarship to play baseball at Lawrence Technological University starting in the fall. While at GIHS, Nate played football, basketball, and baseball.

Will Davis has accepted a scholarship to play football and run track for Albion University. During his time at GIHS, Will has played football and track.

Mackenzie Lane has accepted a scholarship to play softball at Mid Michigan College. Mackenzie has played softball for her entire career at GIHS. Emmi Pinkowski has accepted a scholarship to play soccer at the University of Michigan this fall. Emmi has played basketball and soccer during her time at GIHS. Joey Pizzo will be attending Michigan Technological University this fall on a football scholarship. Joey has participated in football, lacrosse, track, and basketball at GIHS. Olivia O’Brien signed with Schoolcraft College for volleyball, after a stellar career at GIHS. “(These are) very high honors and are indicative of one who has achieved success in academics as well as athletics. We are especially pleased with our athletes’ successes because it demonstrates the kind of Red

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“We would also like to congratulate the parents and coaches who have contributed so much to who they are and what they have accomplished as a Red Devil. We have the greatest confidence in their athletic and academic endeavors and wish them the best of luck in their collegiate careers.”

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Scientists from the Michigan DNR, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Ohio DNR and United States Geological Survey began tagging muskies in the Detroit River in 2016, with subsequent batches of fish tagged in the Canadian and American waters of Lake St. Clair.

Muskies primarily were captured by local fishing group partners who caught the fish before tagging. Each fish was surgically implanted with an acoustic transmitter that emits coded pings unique to each fish and has a battery life of at least seven years. These signals can be detected by a network of listening stations throughout the Great Lakes as part of the Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System.

Detections revealed broad movements of fish from Lake St. Clair into the Detroit River and even Lake Erie.

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The Grosse Ile High School Golf team won its June 2 Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 3 regional at Washtenaw Country Club and went on to place sixth at the D3 state meet at The Meadows Golf Course in Allendale on June 11-12.

Coach Charlie Butler’s team fired a twoday total of 650, the same as Grand Rapids Northpointe Christian and just one stroke behind both Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett and Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard.

Grand Rapids Cathoilc Central claimed the Division 3 state crown with a score of 623. Big Rapids was second worth 640 and Hanover Horton was third, also with a

640.

Additionally, Anthony Naso’s two-day total of 145 was good for second place individually. He shot rounds of

70 and 75. Top honors went to Cheboygan’s PJ Mayband, who ran away with medalist honors, shooting 66 and 69 for a twoday total of 135.

Behind Naso’s opening round 70, Grosse Ile found itself in eighth place after the first day of competition and they improved two spots on

day two.

Following Naso in the scoring for Grosse Ile at the state meet were senior Jacob Christie 169 (84-84), junior Luke Champnella 171 (83-88), junior Parker Miklos 171 (89-82) and senior Luke Taulbee 173 (91-82). \At regionals, Grosse Ile beat out 10 other teams for the title.

Grosse Ile shot 322, three shots better than Liggett and 12 shots better than Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard.

Naso was the medalist with a round of 72.

That was five shots better than the next golfer.

Following him were Champnella (81), Miklos (82), Taulbee (87) and Christie (103).

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Peregrine Falcons: The return of a wanderer Karen Cleveland

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Merriam-Webster defines the verb “peregrinate” as “to walk or travel over; traverse,” and peregrine falcons are truly travelers.

Peregrines can be found on every continent except Antarctica. They may travel thousands of miles on migration, and it’s not unusual for birds to settle down and start a nest hundreds of miles away from where they hatched as chicks.

While it’s now fairly common to read about falcons nesting on a bank in a downstate Michigan city or a cliff overlooking Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula, it wasn’t always that way.

In Michigan’s early years of statehood, peregrines wouldn’t have been a common sight in our southern cities. The species nested only in northern Michigan, and then mostly on remote forested bluffs in the

Michigan Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist Kristie Sitar holds a newly banded peregrine falcon chick from the nest box.

Upper Peninsula.

Our best estimate of how many birds called the state home at that time is around 10-15 nesting pairs.

Despite living in isolated and inaccessible places, peregrines weren’t safe. By the late 1950s, they’d disappeared from our landscape.

If you’re a Michigander, you likely know the story well – the buildup of toxins in the environment ranging from DDT to PCBs knocked out vital parts of the food web, sickened animals and kept them from being able to breed.

In the case of peregrine falcons, the concentration of DDT up the food chain, from insects to birds, meant the falcons’ diet contained high levels of

the poison that would be their doom. As the DDT accumulated in their bodies, the shells of the eggs they laid got thinner over time until the weight of the parents was enough to crush them, foiling reproductive success.

It wasn’t until the 1970s, when these environmental contaminants were banned, that recovery of Michigan’s peregrines became a possibility. But by that time, all the peregrines in the eastern United States were gone.

Bringing them back would rely on an infusion of birds from a different source: Captive breeding.

These efforts were ground-breaking.

A captive breeding program involves numerous facets, including researchers and falconers working together to better understand how to breed peregrines in captivity and ensure a healthy genetic mix in their offspring.

Federal scientists and regulators needed to provide legal protections, and state conservation partners would have to supply resources and expertise to find these birds new homes in the wild, along with the support they’d need to give them their best shot at survival.

The first step in the journey to Michigan’s peregrine falcon recovery was taken in Minnesota

by Pat Redig and Harrison “Bud” Tordoff at the University of Minnesota. In the early 1980s, they acquired captive-bred peregrines and released them in Minnesota.

In 1986, Bob Hess with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources approached Redig and Tordoff about acquiring birds to release here in Michigan as well.

“Bob Hess contacted me one day to inquire about sourcing young falcons for release. I had an extensive network of breeders that were supplying our releases in Minnesota to the tune of about 30 falcons a year and in order to avoid a bidding war, I told Bob I would serve as an intermediary in acquiring young falcons that were matched agewise and gender-wise for release,” Redig said, recalling how this led to the growth of the Minnesota program. “Based on this model, the program expanded to more than 100 falcons per year going to more than a dozen sites throughout the Midwest.”

Eventually, Redig and Tordoff would build a network of conservationists across 12 states and one Canadian province to share resources, expertise and research to support the recovery of peregrine falcons across the region.

It sounds simple: Get birds and release them, but that fails to capture the complex process that was involved in turning hand-raised birds into wild ones.

It starts with something called a “hack box.” Since it was well known that birds often return to near where they hatched when it’s time for them to breed, one way to attract birds to nest in a location is to raise some chicks there and hope they return.

This is where the hack box comes in. It’s a large

wooden box with a barred metal door covering the front and a small hinged door in the back. Chicks that are old enough to feed themselves, but not yet ready to fly, are kept in the box to get familiar with the sights and sounds of their new home while food is supplied through the small door in the back.

Once they’re ready to fly, the metal door on the front gets opened so the chicks can start testing their wings. Over time, they teach themselves how to hunt and live away from the support of the team that cared for them.

Each chick that learned these skills and flew away was an investment in the species’ future.

With all the daily care required to give these chicks their best chance at survival, the DNR looked beyond the places where peregrines historically nested in the state and set its sights on the man-made cliffs of Grand Rapids for the state’s first hack box.

McKay Tower, the tallest building between Detroit and Chicago until 1983, was chosen to host Michigan’s first peregrine release in the summer of 1986. With access to the roof to house the hack box, feeding and monitoring the chicks wouldn’t require packing supplies for a backwoods hike. The building where the hack box was placed was situated in the heart of downtown.

Lessons learned at this first site were invaluable as the hack box program expanded first to Detroit and then to more natural habitats on the bluffs of Isle Royale and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the U.P. in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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It was a slow process waiting for falcons to discover Michigan as a possible home where they could nest. Some of those released chicks came back, but we also found birds from as far away as Toronto and Kentucky setting up housekeeping here.

Each year, DNR wildlife biologists would watch for new nest sites and work with the landowners there to help those pairs succeed.

“The local response has almost always been very positive,” said DNR wildlife biologist Nik Kalejs.

“Elementary school classes have helped name the chicks and raise money for peregrine conservation.

Local peregrine watchers have provided valuable information about nest box use, egg laying dates and hatching dates to help coordinate banding operations.

“Audubon club field trips were organized around falcon hatching and fledging activity. Newspapers and local television stations ran yearly stories about the peregrines and the newest batch of chicks, and the local building and utility companies took lots of pride in the peregrines and the company’s role in the restoration of the falcons.

Sure, there were a few complaints about bird parts littering the ground around some downtown buildings, but the feedback was overwhelmingly

positive.”

With their diet composed almost entirely of birds they catch in flight, peregrines will sometimes drop an uneaten head or leg to the sidewalk below as they feed their chicks.

Over the years, the DNR built up networks of connections with peregrine landlords, birders and conservationists to keep a watchful eye on these nesting sites to protect them.

In 2020, the DNR and its partners actively monitored over 30 nesting pairs across the state.

Dina Maneval, of the Lansing Board of Water and Light, where the birds nest on the utility’s Eckert Power Station, had an experience typical of peregrine landlords.

“The peregrines chose the BWL, and we were here to help support their nesting efforts. When they identified Eckert as a good place to nest given the height of the building, BWL knew we could help them be successful,” Maneval said, “I found a blueprint of a peregrine nesting box online, asked our BWL construction shop to build it, and a nest was placed on the Eckert roof in 2007.

“In 2009, working with the students and staff at Moores Park Elementary School, who collected money for a program called Pennies for the Peregrine, BWL was able to purchase and install two Falcon Cams at the nest site, which still run 24/7 to this day. The connection has helped educate local classroom students, the Lansing community and

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While the bulk of these birds are ones taking advantage of man-made structures, the number of birds reclaiming homes on cliffs and bluffs in the U.P. has been slowly climbing, and we know of at least seven pairs of peregrines using these sites now.

The future of peregrine falcons in Michigan will likely be written by networks of urban landowners and U.P. conservationists.

Coal-fired power plants, like Consumers Energy B.C. Cobb Plant in Muskegon and the Presque Isle Power Plant in Marquette, once a core component in the falcon’s nesting landscape, are being decommissioned and demolished as they age, and cleaner power generation technology becomes available. The birds nested on the smokestack structures.

Falcon parents can be fearless in defense of their young and sometimes scare their urban neighbors.

Peregrine landlords who embrace their role in the protection of the species and find ways to welcome them have been pivotal in the recovery of these falcons.

Peregrine falcons have become beloved residents of our city centers and reclaimed their place as a symbol of Michigan’s rugged north woods. With care and a little luck, they’ll hold that place for generations to come.

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