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Wyandotte happy to be back in people-hosting business Hello Warrior readers, With the summer season getting underway, the recent news of COVID-19 restrictions being lifted is welcomed news and comes just in time to kickstart our event season. It goes without saying that it’s been a tough year and a half for everyone and I’m so pleased to be able to resume our traditional summer Mayor events that DeSana everyone looks forward to each year.

Please join us on Saturday, July 3 at 10 a.m. in Downtown Wyandotte for the 84th annual Independence Day Parade. Wyandotte is proud to recognize and honor our veterans and service men and women and provide a quality family event to Downriver citizens.

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Wyandotte native elected to Riverview Hall of Fame Last month, Wyandotte resident Honor Shoemaker became the 96th person inducted into the city of Riverview Hall of Fame. The hall has been recognizing prominent citizens since 1989.

Honor Galeski Shoemaker was born in Wyandotte in 1939. She was the first of eight children born to Stannie and Edward Galeski.

She is the older sister to Danile, Patrick, Theodore, Florence, Mary, Stannie and Burdean.

She attended St. Joseph Catholic School and Roosevelt High School, where she graduated in 1956. She attended Wayne State University for two semesters before marrying Ken Shoemaker on June 6, 1959.

The couple moved to Riverview a year later. They have four daughters, Wendy, Kelly,Kathy and Tracy and five grandchildren, Jourdon, Andrew, Charlie, Kevin, Grace and Bruce.

In 1983 Shoemaker married Theodore Butkin, who passed away during the pandemic last year.

Shoemaker was an active volunteer when her children were attending elementary school, serving as a room mother in kindergarten classes and acting as a “helping hand” safehouse haven for neighborhood children. She also taught pre-school children in Sunday school at St. Cyprian Parish and was a leaders of Brownie and Girl Scout troops.

Shoemaker was a hostess on Comcast’s Public Access Channel for 17 years, where she moderated shows featuring a variety of celebrities, including musician Alexander Zonjic, Judge Valasco, State Representative Jeffrey Padden, Michigan First Lady Paula Blanchard, Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano and Wyane County Executive Ed McNamara.

She also hosted the Riopelle brother (twin actors from Riverview), Carolyn the Psychic, oral surgeon and tooth implant pioneer Dr. Ronald Morris and many other authors, performers, politicians and health care experts.

Throughout the years Shoemaker was employed in a variety of positions, working at Dixie Cream Donut Shop, Big Bear Market, Neisner dime store and with Weight Watchers. She managed a paper route with The News Herald and worked

as a legal secretary for Zanglin and McCauley.

Shoemaker was a member of the Recorder’s Court steno pool and the Wayne County Road Commission in traffic, personnel and DPW. She also worked in the Wayne County Clerk’s office as court clerk to Irwin

hours and numerous years to the service of the city of Riverview. She was a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee for Social Security for the Police Department and served as a Riverview City Council member for three terms, one of which she was Mayor Pro Tem. She introduced

be installed at the newly constructed Riverview Highlands. Shoemaker actually skied down Mount Trashmore to break the ribbon during the grand opening of the local ski hill.

Shoemaker has been a longtime member of the Riverview Seniors Club, as well as secretary of the Over 50 Club in Gibraltar.

She has served as a member of the Downriver Cultural Commission, heading up a juried art and craft show that raised money for scholarships given to art and music students.

With Southgate Mayor Pro Tem Norma Wurmlinger and a host of other team members, Shoemaker instituted a

Shoemaker was once recognized by local radio personality Dick Purtain as the “Woman of the Day” on his radio program.

Burdict and John Gillis. DShe retired from the county in 1997 and began working part-time with the Riverview Recreation Department in 1998.

Shoemaker was once recognized by local radio personality Dick Purtain as the “Woman of the Day” on his radio program. She was honored as the first female water waste specialist while working at the airport interceptor plant and the Wyandotte treatment plant.

She received kudos for her volunteer work with Veteran’s Hospital, for who she crocheted more than 1.500 lap robes. She also orchestrated lap robes, blankets and hats for Ronald McDonald House, Josephine Ford Cancer Center and Wyandotte Hospital.

Shoemaker devoted countless

“Dial-a-ride,” a program unanimously supported by her co-council members and she hosted a fundraiser for Gov. James Blanchard.

Shoemaker arranged for Riverview to partner with the city of Detroit Council as a “sister city,” and she attended Detroit City Council meetings as a representative of Riverview. She also coordinated a woman’s conference with Detroit Council member Erma Henderson for three years and served as a liaison to the Riverview Small Business Association.

Shoemaker travelled to Los Angeles to study methane recovery systems and took a business trip to the Wisconsin Ski Show to inspect the types of skiing equipment that would

program that brought artists to present weekly programs to elementary school students in Riverview and Southgate.

From this initiative evolved the Southview Concert Series, a musical program that featured five concerts a year performed at various high school venues in the area.

In addition to all these activities, Shoemaker has served on the UAWCIO Local 1659 Board, the YMCA Board of Directors and as a member of the Downriver Italian Club. She also volunteered as a member of the Forest Homeowners Association and the Eastern Michigan University Parents Committee.

She was president of the Circuit Court Clerks Association for 12 years and was an active member of Riverview Goodfellows.

The Riverview Hall of Fame congratulates Honor Shoemaker for her “honorable” contributions to the community and her well-deserved induction into the Riverview Hall of Fame.

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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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CULINARY CAPERS In May, I was on a cake-mix baking binge. This month, EvelyN it’s cookies. I’ve Cairns been celebrating Wyandotte Warrior National Peanut Butter Cookie Day, which is June 12, by baking dozens of one of my favorite indulgences. To search for recipes, I headed to Georgia, which is the leading producer of peanuts in the United States, followed by Alabama and Florida. I found the three-ingredient recipe that follows on the Georgia Peanut Association website, and have learned since that the popular cookie dates back to the 1910s, and the familiar fork design to the 1930s.

The Peanut Butter Blossom Cookie, an entry in the 1957 Pillsbury BakeOff Contest, became one of the most famous recipes ever entered in the contest and one of the most popular recipes in the United States, especially at Christmas time.

If you’re a chocoholic, you’ll go bananas over the recipe for Double Chocolate Peanut Cookies, and if you’re not a chocoholic, you will be after one bite of this awesome cookie. It includes peanut butter, cocoa, chocolate chips and peanuts. The cookies are large and chunky. If you try to make small cookies from the batter, you will be disappointed. I tried to, and I was.

3-INGREDIENT PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup granulated sugar 1 large egg Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With a spoon, thoroughly mix peanut butter, sugar and egg in a bowl. With a small cookie scoop, place scoops of dough onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Flatten the scoops with a fork to make the traditional peanut butter cookie criss-cross pattern. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Cool before removing from the cookie tray. Store in an air-tight container.

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2 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt Sugar 48 foil-wrapped milk chocolate Hershey kisses, unwrapped Heat oven to 375 degrees. Cream together shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar and ½ cup granulated sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Beat well. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture. Beat well on low speed until stiff dough forms. Shape dough into 1-inch balls.

Roll in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown. Top each cookie immediately with an unwrapped kiss, pressing down firmly so cookie cracks around edge of kiss. Remove from cookie sheet to cool.

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With over 200,000 visitors, 200 fine artists, 25 restaurants and a multitude of local merchants The Wyandotte Street Art Fair is one of the largest art fairs in the state of Michigan, This year, the 60th Wyandotte Street Art Fair is scheduled for July 7-10 2021.

The event attracts fine artists from across the state, region and nation to showcase their work, offering a local platform to expand community awareness of the creative arts.

This quality event provides cultural enrichment to all ages in a fun and festive environment!

The 2020 event was cancelled because of the DOVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 fair was also officially cancelled at one point. But as the state began to reopen and other fairs, such as Ann Arbor, decided to go, Wyandotte officials reversed their decision and decided to have the 2021 fair.

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Downriver Plarning Bag Ladies With a Cause is every Tuesday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Bacon Memorial District Library, 45 Vinewood, Wyandotte. Crochet grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. You can stop in and just grab supplies too. Visit baconlibrary. org or call 734-246-8357.

Yoga Tuesdays at the Downriver Council for the Arts, 81 Chestnut, Wyandotte from 5:30-6:30 p.m, every Tuesday. Suitable for all levels, this Hatha Yoga Flow will focus on linking breath to movement, deep stretching, building core strength and improving balance and overall well-being.

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he Downriver Family YMCA, located on Northline Road near I-75, invited a few friends over on June 11 and celebrated 80 years of serving the Downriver Community.

The YMCA is an inclusive organization of men, women and children joined together by a shared commitment to nurturing the potential of kids, promoting healthy living, and fostering a sense of social responsibility.

Located in the heart of Southgate since 2003, the Downriver Family YMCA has a fully equipped community facility that includes, a health and wellness center, aerobics and functional training studios, an indoor therapeutic pool, workout child watch, sauna, indoor running and walking track, indoor pool and gymnasium. The Y also has an elevator, full locker rooms and wi-fi.

The Downriver Family YMCA has provided over one million dollars in scholarships to Downriver

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The Downriver YMCA began in 1941 and it consisted of an office

and committee rooms in a house at 2956 Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte.

YMCA work expanded rapidly and a permanent location was identified in 1943. The YMCA purchased property at the corner of Chestnut and Biddle streets in Wyandotte.

The Downriver YMCA represented the first “family” YMCA

branch including boys and girls as well as men and women.

In 1959, the YMCA and YWCA together constructed a new YMYWCA building on Fort street and Eureka for a cost of $850,000. In 1968 an addition to the building added two pools and the YMCA retained full responsibility for the facility in 1998.

In 2002, the YMCA and the City of Southgate conceived of a new facility to expand services to all the communities in the Downriver community.

The new facility tripled the amount of kids, families, and seniors served by the Downriver YMCA. The current facility, The Southgate Fun and Fitness Center constructed through the foresight of the citizens of the city of Southgate, opened to the public on May 11, 2003 and has been the home of the Downriver YMCA ever since.

The YMCA has been an amazing part of the Downriver Community for more than eight decades. Hopefully, this great neighbor will be around for decades more.

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The Roosevelt baseball team had the misfortune of drawing a pre-district game at the start of the Michigan High School Athletic Association district playoffs this season. But no matter, Coach Brian Cotner’s Bears battered their way to a district championship anyway.

Playing in a tournament at Lincoln Park, the Bears crushed River Rouge in the pre-district affair 15-0, routed Anderson 13-3 and clubbed the host Railsplitters 9-3 in the title game.

In between the pre-district and the start of the actual district, Roosevelt

To reach the district final, the Bears beat Anderson for the third time this season. found time to sneak in a 3-2 nonleague win over Riverview.

While the Bears were unstoppable in the district, things were a little different in the regional semifinal as the Bears ran into powerful Woodhaven and fell 7-2. The loss ended Roosevelt’s season and left the Bears with a final record of 16-18.

Wyandotte actually jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Woodhaven with two runs in the bottom of the first, but that was all the offense the home team would generate. Woodhaven, meanwhile, got even in the fourth, went ahead 3-2 in the fifth and sealed the deal with four runs in the top of the seventh.

Manny Gutierrez and Dominic Nael each had two hits for Wyandotte and Ryan Meade and Tristan Mathis each knocked in runs. Donovan Canterberry started, went six innings, allowed three runs and took the loss.

After beating Wyandotte, Woodhaven’s stay in the state tournament lasted just one more game as the Warriors fell to Birmingham

Brother Rice 7-2 in the regional championship game.

Brother Rice led the entire way and iced the game with three runs in the top of the seventh inning. Brother Rice then beat U-D Jesuit to reach the MHSAA Division 1 semifinals.

During the district tournament, Roosevelt scored seven runs in the third inning of the championship game against Lincoln Park and the outcome was decided.

Jake Nothnagel, Catertberry, Meade, Gutierrez and Nael all had RBI during the seven-run uprising in the third.

Mathis was 4-for-4 to key a 14-hit Roosevelt attack.

The beneficiary of all the offense was Canterberry, who went the distance on the hill, allowing two runs and four hits, while striking out five.

To reach the district final, the Bears beat Anderson for the third time this season.

The game was never really in doubt as Roosevelt scored two times in the first inning and 11 times over the course of the final four innings.

Anderson, which had six hits, did manage three runs in the bottom of the sixth to avoid being shut out.

Meade and Canterberry had three hits each and Nael and Tyler Kurdi each knocked in three runs. The Bears outhit the Titans 16-6.

The pitching victory went to Gutierrez, who went 5 ⅓ innings, fanning six.

The pre-district game with Rouge lasted only until the third inning when the mercy rule was invoked.

Roosevelt scored six runs in the first inning and nine more in the second.

Gutierrez, Meade and Robbie Longoria each had two RBI in the game and pitcher Kurdi got nine outs in a three-inning no-hit performance.

In their two at-bats, Roosevelt collected seven hits and nine walks.

In the non-league game with Riverview, Roosevelt trailed most of the way, but scored one run in the fourth and two in the bottom of the seventh to walk off the Pirates.

Brayden Calhoun singled in the winning run.

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Jalen Jackson ran in two events and Ethan Breaux ran in one.

Jackson, who dominated the area in the two hurdle events, finished 13th in the prelims in the 110s both and 13th in the 300 hurdle finals. Breaux, running in the 400 meters, finished 17th.

Jackson’s time in the 110s was 16.50 and his 300 time was 41.97. Breaux ran a 51.30 400 meters. That event was won by Terrence meux of Flint Carman-Ainsworth in a state-record time of 46.525.

Bear softballers bow out quickly The Roosevelt softball team’s stay in the MHSAA district tournament was a short one.

The Bears drew Downriver League rival Allen Park in the first round and the Jaguars dispatched the Bears 7-0.

That victory was the start of a run for the Allen Park team, which beat Taylor 15-0 in five innings to win the district championship.

The Jags then moved onto regionals, where they beat Livonia Churchill 15-0 in three innings and then Detroit Western 12-0 in five innings to add a regional championship to their 2021 haul.

Blackledge reaches tennis finals Roosevelt’s No.1 singles player, Reese Blackledge, capped the 2021 season by attending and playing in the MHSAA Division state finals.

Blackledge earned her state-meet berth by finishing second to Southgate Anderson’s Ava Peryam at regionals.

Blackledge played just one match, losing to Lindsey Wiszorek of Dexter 6-2,6-1.

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Peregrine Falcons: The return of a wanderer Karen Cleveland

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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.

By 1988, Michigan had its first pair of peregrine falcons defending a nesting territory in downtown Detroit. They didn’t raise any chicks that year, but their territorial behavior was an encouraging sign for SEE FALCONS Page 21

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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

Peregrine falcon chicks in a nest box on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor wait for their parents to bring their next meal.

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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 those around the country on peregrines.”

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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Uncovering the travels of the secretive muskie

Muskellunge, a prized sportfish, are known as the fish of a thousand casts because of the difficulty many anglers have in catching them.

Their movements and behaviors are shrouded in mystery, but a multi agency team of researchers is using state-ofthe-art technology to reveal patterns of muskie movements in the Great Lakes.

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.

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Erie, and in May 2017 was only a few hundred yards from where he had been captured the year before – a stealthy round trip of at least 620 miles!

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*Sold as is. Cannot be combined with other offers. Certain restrictions apply. Discounts off MSRP. Prior sales excluded. Items subject to prior sale. Items may vary from photos shown. See store for details.

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Design your own custom upholstery.

Choose from any one of our stylish designs, then choose from 500 fabrics orcleathers. Different cushion & seat spring firmness options.

Prices will vary depending on options selected.

Free Delivery within 20 miles

Sofa $799

Beauty Rest Medium

Sectional $1699

Beauty Rest Firm

Twin mattress $339 • Full mattress $429 Queen mattress $449 • King mattress $569

Twin mattress $399 • Full mattress $479 Queen mattress $499 • King mattress $699

lane Comfort King Recliner

Flexsteel Recliner

$699

$699

Sofa $999

Beauty Rest Plush Hybrid

Twin mattress $899 • Full mattress $979 Queen mattress $999 • King mattress $1299

Best Petite Recliner

$399

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WHITE FURNITURE 3025 Biddle Avenue Wyandotte, MI 48192

Monday : 9:00- 8:30 Tuesday : 9:00- 5:30 Wednesday : 9:00- 5:30 Thursday : 9:00- 5:30 Friday : 9:00- 8:30 Saturday : 9:00- 5:30

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www.whitefurniture.com

A local family business serving southeast Michigan since 1946