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Prescott resident uses talent to bring joy to others
Senior TimeS PUBLiSHer Elizabeth Gorske managing ediTor Eric Young ediToriaL STaff Sherry Barnum Tim Barnum Greg Buckner Kevin Bunch Jessie Tobias Thomas Williams adVerTiSing SaLeS Laurie Blamer Jama Gates Anthony Kachiros Carla Reeves Tracy Pardue-Smith Lisa Saunders ComPoSiTion Sharon Ehlert Jesse Karbowski emaiL reporter3@ogemawherald.com Cover Photo
Photo by Thomas Williams Donna Coyle stands by the AuSable River in her front yard. Coyle has lived in the area since 2003 when she moved north with her late husband.
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By Sherry Barnum Picking up a new hobby late in life might be rather difficult for some, but for Charlene Knight, 77, of Prescott, learning to paint was not only a hobby that she found therapeutic, but something that could bring joy to other people. Knight grew up in Linwood and graduated from Pinconning High School. After high school she took a two-year course at Delta College for dental hygiene. Shortly after her two-year course, she began working for Dr. Lee Short in West Branch and worked there for 16 years. She also spent another 16 years at Sterling Area Health Center. In 1955, when Knight first married, she moved to Prescott. “I was away from Prescott for 20 years after I divorced, but soon found my way back,” she said. Knight learned to paint six years ago while in Florida. She said her clubhouse was offering a painting seminar, so she went and enjoyed it so much that she decided to expand from there. “I thought it would be fun to start a business a few years ago,” Knight said. “But I fell ill and didn’t think I could handle painting anymore.” Knight said her business is called Charlene’s Chalet. Knight said after she got better she continued to paint because she enjoyed bringing joy to others. “I found painting to be very therapeutic,” she said. “It helps me get through the rough times.” Knight said she has done some paintings on tables and wood pieces, but mostly sticks to glasses because they are easier to handle. She sometimes will work with smaller wood pieces as well. “I mostly stick to floral themes,” Knight said. “But I also do grapes, birds and trees.” “Painting is something I want to do for people, it’s a labor of love,” she added. “I do take some custom orders for events, but most of my stuff is already ready to go to craft shows.” “The largest order I have ever done was for the Tolfree Foundation, they ordered 96
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Charlene Knight sits at her table and paints glasses. glasses,” Knight said. “It takes about two hours to paint four glasses and I had about 200 hours in finishing that order.” Knight said that order weighed very heavy on her mind, so when she couldn’t sleep she would pick away at them to get them done. “It can be a long process,” Knight said. “You have to let the paint dry, then bake it at a certain temperature to be safe to wash, and everything I use is toxic-free.” “I got that order done a lot sooner than I expected,” Knight added. Knight said if she is feeling really ambitious and wants to expand past the smaller items, she will paint something outside. “I plan on doing my garage door next summer,” Knight said.
Knight said her daughter showed her a new Pinterest-inspired painting, where you paint the glass from the bottom up, so it’s like a flower. “It’s different, but my hands are getting a little shaky so it’s harder to paint the full scene,” Knight said. “I have been enjoying life immensely and if I can bring a little joy into someone’s life with my paintings that’s what I am here for,” Knight said. Knight has three children, Debbie Provoast, Carla Streeter and Bonnie Dhyne, eight grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. “I feel as if this is a God-given talent and I am going to use it to the best of my ability,” Knight said.
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The season of family and community By Jessie Tobias Fall is my favorite season. I love the glorious colors and the crisp scent in the air as the cooler temperatures move in. Even when the weather is tumultuous, with cloudy fall days instead of warm sun, and after the leaves fall and leave bare branches grasping at the sky — a pretty depressing picture! — I still enjoy it. It’s because of all the seasons, fall says family to me. Autumn means harvest time, a time in history when families gathered to bring in the year’s bounty. There was a lot of work to be done: crops to harvest, fruits and vegetables to can in a steam-filled kitchen, meat to butcher and store for the winter — and families and whole communities worked together to get everything done in time for winter. Many families in Michigan still celebrate the farming life, and while technology has made harvest time much more efficient, it is still an extremely busy time across our region. It’s also a time of feasts and togetherness, to appreciate the traditions and be thankful for our families and what we have. The autumn season culminates in Thanksgiving, but in my view the holiday and the big turkey dinner is the cherry on top of a whole season made for family. Hunting season and the good times I have out in the woods with my brother and grandfather are a big part of what makes the season special to me personally. With the year-
round grind of jobs, commitments — and this year, my brother’s wedding! — a weekend together with them to joke and tell exaggerated stories is a gift. But as I’ve grown up and my family has spread out across the state and outside of it, hunting trips with my brother are few and far between. Distance between family is coming to be a way of life. My aunts and uncles have always lived a ways away, but I was lucky as a kid to have my grandparents close. I am more grateful now than I ever was then that they lived only a short drive away. I saw them every week, and sometimes every day. That’s not the case for everyone, and a few years ago when they started traveling to Florida for the winter, I found out just how much I am accustomed to having them close. And then my brother moved to Illinois, and the nail was hammered home once again. Phone calls and emails and, wonder of wonders, video chat are connections across the miles, but seeing your family face-toface after months is beyond wonderful. Having your family together, where you can give them a hug or a pat on the back and laugh at their bad jokes — I start thinking about that as the seasons start to turn, and the excitement only builds from there. Of course, not all families get along. People have their differences and their rough edges, and sometimes the sparks fly when
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Learning to live on a fixed Income Difficult financial times have forced many people young and old to alter their lifestyles in order to stay afloat financially. Though unemployment has garnered most of the headlines as the economy has struggled the last several years, it’s not just men and women of working age who have felt the pinch. In a 2010 study from the University of Michigan Law School, researchers found that people age 65 and older are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population seeking bankruptcy protection. While there’s no single culprit for the rise in bankruptcy filings among seniors, the state of Florida could offer valuable insight as to why the nation’s older citizens are increasingly filing for bankruptcy. Many retirees call Florida home, and in the past such retirees could tap into their home equity whenever they began to struggle financially. However, like most of the country, Florida’s housing market is depressed, making it less viable for seniors to tap into their home equity to solve their financial problems. In fact, according to a study by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, bankruptcy filings increased by 118 percent in states where the home price index decreased. For many seniors fearful of financial struggles, living on a fixed income can be a helpful way of ensuring their future does not involve filing for bankruptcy.
Though living on a fixed income is a definite challenge and certainly offers no guarantee that bankruptcy can be avoided, it does provide a framework seniors can rely on to keep their heads above water during difficult economic times. • Make an honest assessment. Living on a fixed income involves being honest with yourself and admitting what your resources truly are. Write down any sources of income, including Social Security payments, pension payouts, investments, etc. Then write down how much money you have in savings or print out a statement of all savings accounts. Once you have an accurate figure of both income and savings, write down all your monthly expenses, including all expenses, no matter how minute they may seem. From here you can determine just how much you can spend each month. • Prioritize spending habits. Some expenses, including medications and monthly utility bills, will always remain a top priority. However, men and women who must begin living on a fixed income need to prioritize how they spend their discretionary funds. For instance, a membership at the local country club can cost several thousands of dollars per year, whereas the local public golf course only charges players each time they play. While the country club might have a
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The art of music Prescott man’s homemade guitars gaining popularity By Tim Barnum
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Delbert Burtch shows off a mandolin he built. He says it is one of his favorite instruments from the ones he has built.
It’s very likely people at community events in the Prescott area over the past few years area have seen Delbert “Shorty” Burtch’s art in action. His homemade instruments are preferred by local musicians like Bill Cliff and Roland Harkey. Burtch, 69, has been making various items out of wood for most of his life. He said he started making things for others when he was around 12 years old, when his dad left for work and told him to have a new door built for their farm’s granary by the time he got home. “I’ve made hundreds of clocks and hundreds of picture frames and hundreds and hundreds of turkey calls,” he said. “I even made my own fishing lures most of my life.” “I’ve been making stuff out of necessity my whole life,” Burtch added. “You could n’t afford to buy it, so you had to make it. Some of my machines in my shop, even, I made.” But three years ago he made his first guitar, and now crafting musical instruments from start to finish is his favorite pastime. “I got to the point where I needed something a little more challenging,” he said. “Since I started making guitars, I don’t make any of that other stuff.” Using a vast array of woods — maple, walnut, blood wood, aromatic cedar and mahogany to name a few — Burtch has
made seven instruments over the past three years. He has crafted five guitars, one fiddle and one mandolin. “A lot of times I’m working on a couple of instruments at once,” he said. The instruments take about six to nine months to create, according to Burtch. He said they start out as wood purchased from Jeff Janish of Prescott, and eventually become the finished instruments musicians like Cliff and Harkey love to strum. “I’ve played all five of the guitars,” Cliff said. “I’m the second guy to play them after Roland Harkey plays them. They sound fabulous.” The first guitar’s tone was what sealed the deal for Burtch’s transition from making turkey calls and clocks to focusing most of his efforts on musical instruments. “It sounded so good, and nobody could believe it,” he said. “And I couldn’t believe it either.” Aromatic cedar, not normally known as what guitar makers use, is Burtch’s go-to wood to create the sweet-sounding tones. And whether it’s cedar, California redwood or another type of wood, one thing is for sure — everything on Burtch’s homemade guitars, from the neck to the nut to the pick guard, is made of wood. “I can’t see six to nine months working on a guitar and putting a piece of plastic on it,” he said.
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Credit counseling valuable to seniors By Sherry Barnum Seniors need to be careful when seeking financial help, according to credit counselor Katrina Amerson. Amerson has been credit counseling for 17 years and said seniors should watch for red flags when looking for assistance. “There are things you should be wary of when seeking out credit counselors,” Amerson said. “If they are asking for a large amount of money up front and wanting to take over your finances altogether you should find someone else.” Amerson said she has seen a lot of people go to the so-called “credit counselors” and end up ruining their credit. “I have seen a lot of clients making bad decisions, especially seniors,” Amerson said. “As a credit counselor I only ever charge my clients $25 per visit and I am more hands-on,” Amerson added. “They should teach them how to take charge of their debt and get out of it.” Amerson said the first thing she suggests to her clients is to keep a binder or notebook. “If you divide your binder into different sections, it will allow you to track your finances and keep track of your debt,” Amerson said. “I also give them checklists that allow them to check off the tasks that they need to accomplish.” Amerson said there a lot of books about getting out of debt, but the ones she uses
are by Dave Ramsey and Jean Chatzky. “I use these books because it gives you guidelines on who to contact for counseling, what to say, and helps you create a budget,” Amerson said. When doing a consultation, Amerson has her clients bring in all of their bills. “I have some clients bring in drawers full of unopened bills,” Amerson said. “You can just tell how overwhelmed they are.” “I am here to help them get rid of their fear of being in debt and take control of it,” she added. Amerson said there are several signs that arise when someone is in trouble, but the main sign that someone needs to seek out help is when they are using a credit card to pay off another card. “That is the biggest problem I have seen,” Amerson said. “People using a credit card to pay off another card are just getting themselves in more trouble.” “Another sign is when they are using the card to pay for living expenses,” she added. Amerson also said you should only refinance a loan when interest rates are right. “The only time you should refinance a loan is if you are getting a 1- to 2-percent decrease in interest rates,” Amerson said. “And if you do refinance, you should only do it for the term you are in, not for another 30 years.” Amerson said another problem is when people are buying things they can’t afford right now. “Anyone can be out of debt in three to
five years,” Amerson said. “It just depends on the person and how quickly they want to be debt-free.” “It also depends on where the person’s priorities are,” Amerson added. “Nine out of 10 people in credit counseling have some type of addiction, whether it’s to nicotine or alcohol.” Amerson said she deals with a lot of people who have the attitude that, having worked for all these years, they deserve the huge house, car, motorcycle, or whatever they want at the time. “The average funeral costs around $10,000 and when the time comes they are left with nothing and the children are the ones that are left to foot the bill,” she said. “Children need to be aware of their parents’ finances.” Amerson also said it is difficult for the elderly to give up their finances. “It’s better to think about it now and be prepared,” she added. “That way you aren’t leaving your children with a mess.” Amerson said it is the same for spouses. “Both spouses need to be involved when dealing with finances,” she said. “Nine out of 10 families I deal with have one spouse taking care of the bills and the other one has no idea what is going on.” “You can be more secure if you know what is going on, that way if something happens to the other, they are prepared to take over,” she added. Amerson can be contacted about credit counseling at 989-345-6903.
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Local women working to honor veterans buried in Arenac Township By Kevin Bunch Since World War II, the family of Eileen Wyatt-Burns has been going out to the Arenac Township Cemetery to place flags on the graves of veterans. Now 87, Eileen has passed the torch to other local women, just as her mother Olive Corneal-Wyatt and grandmother Josie Langdon-Corneal had before her. “Back at the end of World War II, the veterans decided to put flags on all the veteran graves,” Eileen said. “Louie Cheltraw was out there trying to put the flags on, but some of them had markers, others didn’t, and he had an awful time.” Eileen said some people in the community told him to contact her grandmother, whose family had been among the earlier settlers of Arenac County. She knew where the lots were in the cemetery, where the unmarked graves were, which ones used non-traditional markers such as stones, and who was a veteran. “He asked her if she would put the flags out instead, and from then on she did it as long as she could,” Eileen said. “She passed on in 1962, and my mother took over, and she did it as long as she could, then I took over probably around 1980.” With some veterans’ graves unmarked, only locally but across the county, and others lacking any indication of military service, the Veterans Administration is working to get new headstones for those veterans.
Brenda Matt, alongside her daughter Tracy Roehm and granddaughters Cassandra and Harley, has placed the flags at the graves of Arenac Cemetery vets since Eileen retired from that activity last spring. She said there are still two there that have no markers at all: Henry Serens and John Caton. With old records sparse, Brenda said they have to rely on various sources of information to determine who is a veteran. “Josie said they were vets,” Brenda said. “We know Caton is a vet because his obituary said he was a vet.” Serens was the great-grandfather of Agnes Unger, and the great-great-grandfather of her son Mike Unger, and Brenda said they knew he was a vet as well, but did not know how to go about getting a marker for him through the VA. “At one time the township and community could apply for veterans to get markers; now they want the next of kin to do it,” Brenda said. “But I feel if they served their country, they deserve a marker.” Along with proof of service, a living relative needs to sign off on the effort for the VA to consider approving a veteran headstone. Eileen said this was not always the case, as she did it herself in the past — she sent out the veteran’s serial number and got the service marker back in a week — but more stringent requirements are now in place. Eileen said there is at least one Confederate Civil War veteran in the ceme-
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Eileen Wyatt-Burns, 87, now of Standish, spent many years placing flags at the graves, marked and unmarked, of veterans at the Arenac Township Cemetery. Brenda said Jim Petrimoulx, a man coltery, and Cheltraw said he would get a flag lecting information on all the Civil War like all the others for serving his country and doing what he believed was the right thing. See Honor, page 13
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Inspired by faith Mio woman takes on helping roles in community By Thomas williams An 81-year-old Mio woman’s faith in God gives her the energy and stamina to help her neighbors both near and far. Donna M. Coyle said she maintains her energy level through her work with various groups in the county and believes that work helps keep her young. “The more active you are with community service and helping your fellow man, the better you are mentally,” she said. “God sees what you do and takes care of you for taking care of his children.” Coyle said she moved to southern Michigan after growing up in North Dakota and lived most of her life in Troy. “We moved to Michigan in 1949 and we lived downstate,” she said. “My husband was a carpenter and owned his own construction business. For 27 years, I worked for the Birmingham School District as the head of the cafeteria. I retired and my husband retired and we moved up here in 2003. We were winter Texans for 17 years, but my husband had a stroke and one year and three months later, he passed.” Coyle said after her husband passed away, she decided to stay in Northern Michigan, rather than travel cross country. “After his stroke, he lived for one year and three months and I took care of him the rest of his life,” she said. “When he passed, I just never wanted to go back to Texas or downstate. It’s so peaceful up here and the country-
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Donna Coyle makes cookies in the kitchen at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church. Coyle is nicknamed “the kitchen Nazi” because of a speech a bishop gave at a convention stating every church kitchen needed one. side is so beautiful.” Coyle said her faith guided her to dedicate her life to service to others after her mother served, lived and died at the AuSable Valley Community. “That woman was phenomenal,” she said. “She was at the nursing home in Fairview and she volunteered and helped out as much as she could up until she died at 98 years and
three months. I’m just trying to be like her and do as much as I can for other people.” Coyle said she currently works with the Mio Moose Lodge, the Oscoda County Council on Aging and St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church. “I’m the kitchen Nazi down (at the church),” she said. “I make sure everyone stays in line. They work well there, but some-
times, they need a little help. I make sure they mind what I say.” Coyle said the nickname came from a bishop’s speech at a convention some years ago and stuck. “At one of the conventions a few years back, the bishop said every kitchen needs a kitchen Nazi,” she said. “From that point on, that’s what they called me. That just means I am in charge of the kitchen.” Coyle said her work with the Moose Lodge helps keep her busy with good causes. “Last year I was the senior regent of the women’s auxiliary and this year I am the junior regent,” she said. “Even with all we do up here, we are always doing fundraisers for the Mooseheart Orphanage. It’s in Indiana, right across the border from Michigan. I love working with the Moose. There are so many things we do for people in need.” Coyle said she also enjoys working with OCCOA because it gives her many opportunities to interact with other members of the community. “I love going down there for meals,” she said. “You get to talk with so many people and the food is delicious. There’s always something to do.” Coyle said she is not sure how people view her work, but she does not do it for accolades. “I just do it because it is God’s work,” she said. Coyle said she enjoys the changing seasons and even the cold of winter does not bother
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Studies show chiropractic care helps keep seniors healthier
McGregors retire after 20 years By Sherry Barnum It’s the store on the corner of Mills and Henderson Lake roads, with the best chicken in town and the friendliest faces, and after 20 years of getting up at 4:30 a.m. to man the counter, Bob and Glenda McGregor, of Prescott, both 68, have decided to retire and pass the store reins over to someone else. The McGregors decided to open up McGregor’s Country Store after moving back to the Prescott area from Flint. “I was running a store at the airport for 10 years,” Glenda said. “So I thought if I could do that, I might as well do it for longer.” “It took a year to get the store up and running,” Glenda added. “The building was boarded up and we had to totally gut the inside.” “After we opened, we had a flea market in the yard and people were dancing in the parking lot,” Glenda said. “We had a lot of fun getting this place up and running.” The McGregors said they also had a lot of fun with the customers and employees. “One thing I will miss is the children coming in on Halloween and saying, ‘I bet you don’t know who I am, Glenda,’” she said. Glenda said they really didn’t have the store for sale, but the new owner, Ole Thorson, made an offer and it was what they wanted, so they accepted it. “We kept saying we would give it five more years before we would retire,” Glenda said.
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Bob and Glenda McGregor stand behind the counter of McGregor’s Country Store one last time before retiring. “We have been open every day for the past 20 years except for on Christmas,” Glenda added. “With 10 grandchildren, it will be nice to spend more time with them.” The McGregors said it’s going to be hard
not getting up so early, but they plan to find a way to enjoy retirement. “We are adjusting to not coming in every day,” Glenda said. “And we aren’t sure what we are going to do, but we will just play it by ear and figure it out as we go.”
A recent study evaluated the health status of 414 elderly individuals (average age of 80 years) and compared those individuals under chiropractic care with those individuals not under chiropractic care. In short, the study found that, “[Elderly] chiropractic users were less likely to have been hospitalized, less likely to have used a nursing home, more likely to report a better health status, more likely to exercise vigorously, and more likely to be mobile in the community. In addition, they were less likely to use prescriptions.” Other findings included: • Eighty-seven percent of those who used chiropractic care rated their health as good or excellent compared with only 68 percent in the nonchiropractic group. • Thirteen percent of those who used chiropractic care rated their health as fair or poor compared with 32 percent in the nonchiropractic group. • Forty-four percent of those who used chiropractic care reported having arthritis, compared with 66 percent in the nonchiropractic care group.
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Winter Continued from page 5 sively tired or have shortness of breath. You may require immediate professional care. If back or hip pains are felt after shoveling, carrying wood or slipping, you may have experienced a muscular strain associated with these activities. The following recommendations are helpful in reducing the discomfort associated with lower back and hip strains: • Apply an ice pack to the area of pain with a thin towel between the ice pack and skin for 10 minutes at a time, three times per day for the first three days. • Sleep on a firm mattress for proper support. • Soft chairs or sagging sofas should be avoided. • Avoid walking up and down stairs as much as possible. • Bending at the waist and lifting should be avoided. If pain is a result of muscular fatigue or strain significant relief should be felt in several days with proper rest. If the pain does not subside or begins to radiate, the discomfort may be due to spinal misalignment and nerve irritation. Chiropractors specialize in relieving this type of pain associated with spinal misalignments.
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Continued from page 8 • Those who used chiropractic care were more likely to do strenuous levels of exercise at three years’ follow-up. • Less than 5 percent of those who used chiropractic care used a nursing home, while a staggering 48 percent of those who did not use chiropractic care did use a nursing home at three years’ follow-up. • Only 26 percent of those who used chiropractic care were hospitalized, compared with 48 percent of those in the nonchiropractic group. In another study, Rupert, Manello and Sandefur surveyed 311 chiropractic patients, aged 65 years and older, who had received “maintenance careâ€? for five years or longer. Chiropractic patients receiving maintenance care, when compared with U.S. citizens of the same age, spent only 31 percent of the national average for the cost of health care services. There was a 50-percent reduction in medical provider visits. The health habits of patients receiving maintenance care were better overall than the general population, including decreased use of cigarettes and decreased use of nonprescription drugs. Futhermore, 95.8 percent believed the care to be either “considerablyâ€? or “extremelyâ€? valuable.
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Season Continued from page 3 they get together. But during this season, and especially in cases where families spend hours and hundreds of dollars on travel, it seems like it’s easier for people to set aside differences and simply enjoy being together — and in cases of far-flung families, getting to know one another better. And that’s wonderful. It’s the type of attitude we should remember all year long. We should embrace the fall spirit even when we’re dealing with people outside our families. It’s something I’ve seen in all three counties our publications cover — a sense of community. It’s increasingly rare in our busy world, and it shouldn’t be. This fall, take the time to appreciate your family and the good things in your life. And also take a moment to appreciate the area we live in, and do what you can to keep our community spirit alive.
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Music Continued from page 4 Out of the seven instruments he has built, Burtch said he has several he considers favorites. The second, fourth and fifth guitars he made were all mentioned as being ones special to him, but Burtch said right now he thinks the mandolin he made is his overall favorite instrument. “The mandolin is my own style,” he said. “I designed the whole thing, except for the scale, of course.” Most would assume someone who can make a guitar from scratch and recognize an instrument’s tones would also be an accomplished player, too. However, that is not the case with Burtch. “I don’t play anything,” he said. “People don’t believe it. I can’t play anything at all.” “This guy grew up on a farm, can’t play a note of music, can’t carry a tune, and he made all these instruments,” Cliff said. “It’s just fantastic.” While he may not be able to play a chord, Burtch still takes pride in his work each time one is played — especially when Harkey, Cliff and other local musicians play them all, which has been the case at some summer musical performances. “It’s indescribable,” he said. “It gives you the darndest feeling. When all these guys get together in July, they play all of my instruments — it’s a sense of accomplishment.” Tim Barnum At this time, Burtch said he has no Delbert “Shorty” Burtch describes the wood interest in selling his instruments, but he used and the design of one of the guitars he has been asked several times. built from scratch.
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“Everybody wants me to sell them,” he said. “I’ve got friends who get on the computer all the time to look at what I could get to sell them.” Burtch currently lives on the farm in Prescott his father purchased in the mid1940s, and has lived there most of his life. He has two daughters and seven grandchildren. And he is happy, he said, that he already has enough instruments so that each grandchild can have one. “I got seven grandkids and I got one instrument for each grandkid,” he said.
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Au Gres-Sims dedicates football field to former coach By Sherry Barnum Former Au Gres-Sims football coach Leonard Tyler was not only confused, but excited when he stepped onto the football field before the game on Oct. 5 to see some of his old players waiting for him. They were there for a special event –– the dedication of the football field in Tyler’s honor. The ceremony took place before the game, and head coach Eric Perrot thanked Tyler for his many years of service and dedication to the football program. In 1964 Tyler was hired at AGS as not only a teacher but football coach as well. He taught junior high science, math, physical education and some biology in the earlier years. Tyler, originally from Hickory Corners, attended Olivet College where he majored in history and physical education with a science minor. “When I was looking for a teaching job, I was also looking for a coaching job,” Tyler said. “I was hired to start up the program that was dropped five years earlier.” After Tyler retired from AGS in 1993, he spent some time helping with WhittemorePrescott and Hale’s football programs, but always came back to Au Gres-Sims, spending a total of 26 years there. Tyler said the most important thing he taught the players while coaching was to enjoy being together. “I wanted my players to enjoy the game, avoid playing dirty and play the game the way it should be played,” Tyler said. Tyler said some of his most memorable years were the 1968, 1984 and 1987 win-
ning teams. “Some years we had some great athletes, other years we didn’t have the best athletes, but they played hard and I enjoyed that as much as I did winning,” he said. Tyler said he’s been helping with the football program the last two years and is having a lot of fun working with the Arenac Eastern kids who have come to Au Gres-Sims to play as part of the merged teams. “It’s a lot of fun to work with great kids and have fun,” Tyler said. When the football field was dedicated to Tyler, he said he had no idea that that was going to happen. “They even hid The Arenac County Independent from me,” he said. “I was confused and excited when all the past athletes started coming onto the field.” Tyler said having the field dedicated to him took a while to sink in because he was excited about the game that was about to be played. “I enjoy working with the kids and running offense,” Tyler said. “On game nights I am up in the box, but I’m on the field during practice.” Tyler said last year when coach Eric Perrot took over he had some questions, and Tyler ended up helping every night. “I think I have as much fun as the kids,” Tyler said. “It’s just one of the things I enjoy doing.” “It was like I never had to work over the years,” he added. “I always enjoyed myself and had fun.”
Left, Dennis Stanley walks out onto the field with coach Tyler, right. Below, coach Tyler stands on the sidelines during an AGS game.
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Above, Leonard Tyler, left, listens to coach Eric Perrot, center, read a dedication while past and present players look on. Inset is the sign that sits under the scoreboard as the dedication to coach Tyler.
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Honor Continued from page 6 veterans in Bay County, has been helping her and others gather the necessary proof of military service through his database of old military documents, newspaper clippings, pension records, and other strands of information. This information can still be questionable, however. Eileen said Brenda told her she found information that indicated another person buried at the Arenac Township Cemetery was a Civil War veteran who had never had a flag put on his grave. “He matched the records, but he didn’t look like the same guy,” Eileen said, indicating that the rest of the man’s history did not sync up with the veteran. “It happens a lot; the cemetery dates match up, and it looks like a match but it isn’t.” Brenda said the primary source of information in Arenac County has been old copies of The Arenac County Independent newspaper, where obituaries frequently listed whether someone was in the military. While she can try and get records from the county courthouse, Brenda said it can take a while for the people there to track down the information. Some of the Independent’s obituaries feature interesting tales. Brenda said one man named William Fillmore, interred at Pine River Cemetery in 1925, met President Abraham Lincoln and held personal conversations with the man before witnessing his assassination at Ford’s Theater. Fillmore went on to march in the president’s funeral procession. Brenda said while she has not been working on getting markers for vets interred in other local cemeteries, she said she heard people in other communities, such as Clayton, have been working on veteran memorials as well. At last count in Petrimoulx’s database, there were 101 Civil War vets interred in Arenac County, but Brenda said there seem to be more, since a few were not listed in there, such as Serens and Caton. “Even if we just had them all listed, it’d be a great start,” Brenda said. Brenda said without the efforts and information from Eileen’s family, none of the work they have done so far would have been possible. “If not for Eileen, no one would know any of this,” Brenda said. “She wrote in their history.”
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Retired Iron Worker spends time traveling and building By Sherry Barnum While traveling down Henderson Lake road, the last thing anyone would expect to see is a family of bears but if you know Sam Pavlik, 66, of Prescott, it isn’t surprising at all. Although the bears are carved from wood, they present quite a scene. Pavlik said he got the idea for the entrance while he was riding his motorcycle through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. “I wanted to have something that no one else had,” Pavlik said. “So I had the idea, designed what I wanted and hired craftsmen to carve them out.” Pavlik said he had already planned on having an entrance displaying horses, his family’s names and an illuminated star, which had originally been his wife, Pam’s, idea. The entrance dons a family of bears, a bee hive, and a bald eagle swooping down to feed its babies with a trout in its claws, towering 27 feet in the air. “I wanted an eagle on the entrance because it’s always been something special and while working on the Mackinaw Bridge I saw one about every day fly over,” he said. “This winter I plan on finishing the entrance and installing an electronic gate.” Pavlik was born in 1946 in Bay City, but moved to Whittemore with his family shortly after he was born. “In the fifth or sixth grade my family moved to Wisconsin, where I finished school and entered the Army,” Pavlik said. Pavlik was enlisted in the Army for three years when he turned 20, seeing a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1966 and leaving the service after that in 1969. After leaving the service, he married in 1970 and moved back to Prescott in 1972,
where he and his wife started building their house and raising their children. Fifteen years later after his children were grown, they began raising Quarter Horses. “I didn’t want the horses, but my wife, Pam, wanted them and she deserved them,” Pavlik said. When Pavlik retired in 2003 from Iron Workers local 25, and a week later he bought his first motorcycle, a Harley Davidson Road King. “I was going to buy one while I was over in Vietnam because they sell them for cheap, but I didn’t,” he said. “Then I was married and couldn’t afford to buy one.” “Forty years later I bought one,” he added. “My first trip was a promise I had made to Pam before she passed away.” Pavlik said his promise to Pam was a run to the west coast back to where his trip to Vietnam had begun. “Not only did I make a promise to Pam, but I made one to myself to go over the Golden Gate Bridge on my way to Vietnam,” he said. “And when I got to the bridge my trip began.” Pavlik said he went up through the top part of the United States and down to San Francisco, then ended his trip at his house in Milwaukee, Wis., where he had enlisted in the Army. “I went 6,500 miles on that trip, and I did it for a lot of reasons,” he said. “One was to clear my head after Pam had passed and another was because it was a promise I wanted to hold up.” When Pavlik wasn’t traveling the United States on his bike he was home tinkering in the garage or barn. “After I retired, I built and designed a solar powered horse feeder,” Pavlik said. “And it actually works and saves a lot of hay from
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Sam Pavlik, of Prescott, stands next to the pig roaster that he built. being wasted.” Pavlik said he was tired of wasting so much money on hay for the horses, and through building the horse feeder he went from 50 percent waste to zero waste. Not only did Pavlik build an energy efficient horse feeder, but he re-created a pig roaster that not only roasted his pig, but offered an insulated keg cooler, battery powered operator, and smoker. “I originally built it for my grand-daughters graduation because she didn’t want me using my old rusty one,” he said. “I’ve used
Pictured right is the family of bears and eagle that Pavlik had carved.
Pictured above is the solar powered horse feeder Pavlik built to reduce waste. Right is the entrance to Pavlik’s driveway.
it about five times since then.” Over the summer Pavlik took another trip on his motorcycle, visiting 22 states. “I went more than 6,000 miles spending a week in Utah touring all the national parks,” he said. “It took me a month to finish this trip, but it took me about three weeks to recoup.” Pavlik said he has made the trips by himself and hasn’t decided if he wants to take a trip to the east because of the traffic. He has three daughters, two son-in-laws and four grandchildren.
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Faith Continued from page 7 her. “I can warm myself up a lot better than I can cool myself off,” she said. “When we would winter in Texas, we would always come back up the first week in April because it would get so hot. One year we stayed a week later because we had some friends from Michigan come down to visit. The day we left it was 100 degrees before noon. That’s too hot for me.” “My granddaughter, who lives in Florida, asked me on the phone the other day what the temperature was,” she added. “I told her it was 50 degrees and she said, ‘Brrr, Grandma, that’s too cold.’ I don’t mind it though.” Coyle said living right on the AuSable River has always been a pleasant experience because the view is always changing. “We always have turkeys coming through here,” she said. “They like to fly across the river and feed. I love living right on the river. I can wake up and see all the colors and the animals. We have a bald eagle who comes around and fishes all the time.” Coyle said she tries to help out whenever she can. “I just love to serve the community,” she said. “I’m a real active person. I think in this community there is a real need for loving, caring people to help others. If I can do anything for people, I will do it.”
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