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volunteer board, works within their budget along with planning and providing recreation opportunities that mirrors their organizations mission statement.
• Develop a job description for a “director” to manage RMRA entities and recreation opportunities; ie, responsible for programs, grant seeking opportunities, general communication, networking with other groups, etc.
• Group financial support from Township, Village and RMRA to combine enough income for general expenditures and RMRA Director. RMRA will be renamed Roscommon Area Recreation Authority (RARA) to fit its multiple townships, two counties, and a Village demographic. Recreation is ranked third for driving economics in a community. This restructuring will open new doors for the community and its members. Opportunities and
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benefits from resources that are currently under-utilized within the surrounding community will impact our local based economy and tax base.
After 18 months of workshops and revisions, the Articles of Incorporation were approved by the Township and Village and have been submitted to the State of Michigan. The next steps forward will include appointing RARA board and adding a seventh member, finalizing and posting a job description for a RARA Director, with plans of interviewing by late spring.
The goal after the restructuring process will be focused on the new direction of the Roscommon Area Recreation Authority. Board meetings are open to the public typically the third Wednesday bimonthly starting in January each year. For further information contact Sue Jock-Chairperson of the RARA at rmrauthority@gmail.com.
membership.
AAV members receive a 5% discount on gallery purchases, invitations to members-only events and quarterly newsletters, and premier member donors are honored with personalized plaques displayed prominently in the gallery.
AAV is located at 219 Michigan Avenue in the heart of downtown Grayling. The gallery, staffed totally by volunteers, is open in the winter months from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. Continued from page 10 Artisan Village
ROSCOMMON - The Roscommon County Community Foundation (RCCF) is pleased to announce that the Roscommon County Animal Shelter has received a grant of $922.00 for a Speed Queen Dryer.
The purpose of this grant is to lighten the work load and save money on electric bills while creating more time to focus on the animals and other areas of work.
“We were literally having to take loads home to dry and we just couldn’t keep up,” Shelter Director DeeDee Mendyk said.
The Roscommon County Animal Shelter hopes that new dryer will cut laundry time in half so that they have more time and funds to make sure that every cat and dog has what they need.
Funding for the project was provided by the Morley Foundation Fund and the Roscommon County General Fund.
For more information about the Roscommon County Animal Shelter and their needs, you can find them on Facebook or visit their website at www. roscommoncountyanimalshelterandcontrol.com. The shelter would also like to remind the community that there are multiple animals who are still in need of caring and loving homes.
Want to get involved? You can support the Morley Foundation Fund and the Roscommon County General Fund by sending your donation to RCCF at P.O. Box 824, Roscommon, MI 48653 or visiting our website at www.myrccf. org to make a donation online.
Bucks bowlers headed to regionals
ROSCOMMON - Saturday Feb. 22 the Roscommon Bucks hosted their last meet of the 2019-20 season against the Shepherd Blue Jays at Fred’s of Roscommon.
In the first game of bakers, the Bucks (5-2) came out flat missing a lot of spares and falling 156-130. In game two of the bakers they bounced back with a 166-120 win and baker total point win.
In the next two games of Peterson match play the Bucks pulled off a 644-579 win, winning all five matches and a 664-607 win winning three of five matches for a total match and meet win of 24-6.
“The boys by far didn’t bowl their best by any means. the shot was tough and spares seemed to be hard to come by,” said Coach David Osim. “But sometimes you just have to say a win is a win and move on. Maybe this will be the boost that we needed by winning and still not doing our best. We all knew that we can bowl much better.”
Leading for the boys and getting
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the Bucks to a 6-2 record is senior Brady Briggs with a win and 164- 126 games, junior Seth Patchin with two wins 133-150, senior Hunter Prieskorn with two wins 120-148, junior Kamaron Leach with a win 141 game, senior Austin Lytle with a win 136 game and sophomore Nick Stehle with a win and 91-99 games. The bucks will have a short practice week getting ready for regionals in Traverse City at Lucky Jacks Feb. 28 - 29.
“We are only taking two girls for singles on Saturday and a team of six boys for team and singles both days we are hoping to bowl our best, make spares and hit our potential and move forward for one more week after that in Lansing for state competition,” said Osim.
Roscommon vs Grayling The Roscommon Bucks hosted the Grayling Vikings Feb. 20 at Fred’s of Roscommon.
In the first game of baker competition the Bucks fell to the Vikings 145-124.
“We missed a lot of spares in both of the baker games, but the Bucks came back with a whole lot of luck to take the second game of baker 123- 122. Spares mean everything in the sport. Strikes come and go, but spares
Late Season Ice Alert By Ken Elmore, Markey Township firefighter Well, we’ve had a few pleasant days of late that remind us that winter does end in due time. With the suns rays a little brighter and the occasional breeze coming out of the southwest, things begin to look up and the winter blahs melt away along with all that ice and snow. Leave it to emergency services to throw a word of caution in that pleasant thought, but here we go anyway. This year’s season regarding lake ice started off with a flurry of ice rescues for the surrounding fire departments and we’re hoping to avoid a late season repeat of the same. Reasons why vehicles, snow mobiles or ice shanties along with their occupants or riders break through the ice are as varied as each incident, but they all share one common denominator: thin ice. Likewise, the reasons for ice being thin or thick also vary widely. Most often we associate thin ice with temperatures, so we reached out to the experts to see why this year seems to be just a bit more hazardous out on the ice than in other years. We had a chance to speak with meteorologist Patrick Bak, of the National Weather Service center located in Gaylord. Patrick informed us that the temperatures in our area have been a little warmer than the usual normal this winter, so much so that the Great Lakes have less than 10% ice coverage compared to the normal of around 55%. While they do not monitor local inland lakes, it’s reasonable to assume that conditions here would reflect the wider circumstance. All this leads to the lake ice possibly not being as “good” this year for those winter activities as usual, so we’re sending out a word of caution. Patrick also informed us that this year has not seen any long, locked-in cold spells favorable to ice development either. With temperatures yo-yoing up and down, who knows what ice conditions may be like. Surely, with the ice season beginning to wind down, there are those of you looking to get out on the ice regardless. For you folks we would ask a few things to help in our quest to keep everyone safe and healthy. Please monitor the weather situation before you go out, and not just the morning of, but for several days prior. Stick to areas you’re familiar with and always let someone know where you’ll be and for how long you expect to be out. Never go by yourself. If you are planning on using the ice shanty for as long in the season as possible, remember there are laws you must follow. When it comes to some of the legalities, we got some great information from Lt. Brandon Kieft, of the Michigan DNR, Roscommon branch. Lt. Kieft is one of those responsible for the enforcement of regulations designed to keep all of us safe. He sends a reminder to all that ice shanties are required to be removed from the lakes before midnight, March 15th in our area. This is of course unless the ice situation deteriorates before that, necessitating earlier removal. He suggested for more information, check out www.michigan.gov/dnr, and click on the new fishing guide link. Good information indeed. Moms and dads, this isn’t just for the sportsmen. Kids like the ice too, so caution them to walk and wander somewhere other than ice-covered water. Tragedy can lurk even in shallow water close to shore. Hoping that your ventures out on to that cold slab on the water, don’t end up with you on a cold slab at the morgue. Stay safe everyone! Continued from page 12 Bucks Bowlers are the most important part of the game,” said Osim. “We still need a ton of work on this part of the game.” In the next two games of Peterson and match play the Bucks came back with wins of 730-634 with four of five matches, and 814-715 with three of five matches won and giving the bucks a 21-9 win overall in the meet. Notable for the bucks are Junior Seth Patchin 164-162 winning two matches, senior Hunter Prieskorn 166-149 winning two matches, senior Brady Briggs 158-144 winning a match, Austin Lytle 176 winning a match, Jeremy Black 134 with a win, Kamaron Leach with a 183 and Nick Stehle with a 108.
GRAYLING – Grayling 7th grade basketball team came short in their latest games losing to East Jordan and Boyne City.
Early in the week, down by three points with 7.2 seconds left, Grayling called a timeout setting up a potential game-tying play. The Vikings were able to go the length of the floor and get Madison DeMeere open for a 3-point attempt, but it was just short and East Jordan captured an 18-15 victory
"Madison's shot was right on line hit the front of the rim," Coach Don Helinski said. "It would have been incredible if we could have sent it to overtime but we showed composure executing the play even though we had to have our second option bring it up the floor."
The first half was low-scoring with the Red Devils leading 6-3 at the break and then both teams scored six points in each of the last two frames. Cali D’Amour led the Vikings with six points and five rebounds while Brooklynn Laskowski also added a team-high tying five boards. DeMeere finished with two points, four steals and three rebounds while Jillian Hartman had two points, four steals and two boards. Katelyn Kanary chipped in with two points and four rebounds and Ali Helinski two points and one board. Boyne City Grayling’s fourth-quarter comeback attempt came up short and the Vikings, who trailed by as many as 13, fell by seven at Boyne City on Wednesday, 27-20.
Cali D’Amour led the Vikings for the second-straight game with eight points and four rebounds. She tallied six of her points in the final quarter when Grayling was mounting a comeback.
Jill Hartman had a fine all-around game with six points, four steals and three rebounds. Madison DeMeere notched two points, four rebounds and four steals and Karlie Smith added two points, three rebounds, an assist and a steal.
"I was proud of the way we didn't quit and fought back, but we need to start stronger and more focused," Coach Helinski said. 7th Grade Vikes fall short
Lady Vikes have winning season GRAYLING - The 8th Grade Lady Vikes moved to 4-1 on the season with wins recently vs. East Jordan and Boyne City. In the first game of the week, the Vikings hosted the Red Devils of East Jordan coming out on top with a score of 44-16.
This was a great defensive game lead by Makalya Watkins who had four steals to go with 7 points and four assists. Emma Kuziel was the leading scorer with 17 points to along with two rebounds, two assists, and two blocked shots.
Other stats for the night included: Lilly Odden with 8 points, one assist, and one steal
Rylan Finstrom with 7 points, two rebounds, one assist, and two blocked shots
Amanda Lewis with 3 points, one assist, and four steals
Shelby Swander with three rebounds and one steal
Mandy Andrews with one assist and one steal Boyne City Then on Wednesday, the team traveled to Boyne City where they finished with another decisive victory with a final score of 52-24. After another slow start in the first quarter, our girls picked up the defensive pressure and started finishing more consistently on our shots.
“We played great team basketball tonight sharing the ball really well, we just need to improve a little on the execution of some of our passes to continue to grow and improve. These girls are having a great season and I look forward to seeing what they will be able to do as we enter the second half of our season,” said Coach Sarah Frisbie.
The leading scorer for the Vikings was Kuziel with 22 points to go along with eight rebounds, one blocked shot and one steal. Watkins added 11 points, four rebounds, two assists, nine steals, and one blocked shot.
Other stats for the night included: Finstrom with 8 points, 10 rebounds, three assists, and two blocked shots
Odden with 6 points, one rebound, and one steal
Marjorie Hair with 2 points, two assists, and one steal
Swander with 2 points, two rebounds, one steal, and two blocked shots
Lewis with 1 point, one rebound, four steals, and two blocked shots.
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McFatridge named as new lending manager ST. HELEN - North Central Area Credit Union (NCACU) recently announced that Sue McFatridge has been selected as the new Director of Lending for the credit union. Sue has spent the majority of her career in the credit union industry with the last 25 years specifically in lending. NCACU is excited to add Sue’s knowledge to our Leadership Team and especially looks forward to seeing how her experience will benefit NCACU members in the development of new products and services. Sue believes in the philosophy that credit unions have of “people helping people” which is what she strives to do through lending, mortgage and collections processes.
Sue and her family reside in Commerce Township in Oakland County, but have enjoyed a seasonal home in St. Helen for years and this move brings Sue north during the work week. Eventually, the family plans to retire to their St. Helen home.
Sue is an avid fan of the Detroit Red Wings and is also a Hockey Mom. Both of her boys, Kevin and Justin, played hockey during school and Justin also played for Adrian College. In her free time, she loves to read, quilt and scrapbook and truly enjoys camping with Mark, her husband of 31 years. Sue McFatridge
Front (l-r) Susie Skoglund (VP of Operations), and Ron Skoglund (President). Back (l-r) Dan Morris (Technical Engineer), Krystal Donajkowski (Executive Assistant), and Mark Piasecki (Systems Engineer)
Grayling Spotlight-a-Member GRAYLING – Telephone Support Systems & Alpine Professional Answering Service of Gaylord is the Grayling Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Spotlight-a-Member for Feb. 2020.
Telephone Support Systems was founded in 1999 and is recognized today in Northern Michigan as an industry leader in the development of voice, data and video communication. Prior to moving to northern Michigan, owner Ron Skoglund worked for Telephone Support Systems in Farmington Hills for over 17 years.
Ron saw a need in the business communications marketplace for a solid resource in northern Michigan and created his own Telephone Support Systems business based in Gaylord. Since 1999 Telephone Support Systems has successfully offered customized solutions to businesses of all sizes. In 2007 they added Alpine Professional Answering Service which provides a “live” answer for your important phone calls.
Telephone Support Systems offers a large range of products from basic, small business communication systems to full-featured voice and data applications including wireless communications, voice and data cabling, and advanced telephony applications. These applications are designed to meet diverse communication needs: call centers, voice mail, automatic call distribution, automated attendant, call accounting, network services, advanced PBX networking, centralized administration, unified messaging, VoIP and Mitel Cloud Connect as well as many other advanced applications.
Alpine Professional Answering Service has served northern Michigan and the surrounding areas for over 30 years. Ron and Susie Skoglund acquired the business in the fall of 2007. Over the years, they strengthened their relationships with existing customers while welcoming new clients and opportunities. Alpine Professional Answering Service is an extension of YOU! Their job is to make sure you do not miss a call. Whether they are answering all of your phones seven days a week, covering lunches and after hours, or monitoring your oil and gas wells, they are here for you!
Telephone Support Systems is able to service older legacy systems that many other companies cannot.
Family gathers to celebrate 100 years By Jan Wilkerson ROSCOMMON - Breakfast at her home in the Brook at Roscommon signaled the start of just another weekend for 99-year-old Helen Lippert. But when her son Jim picked her up, her true adventure began as she was transported to the Au Sable Riverview Resort in Grayling. For Helen, turning 100 years young, it was the beginning of her wonderful, fantastic, truly delicious, very grand day. Surrounded by her family it epitomized the theme of the weekend “100 Years Loved” as five generations deep and still growing gathered from around the state to celebrate and embrace this spunky woman of 100 years.
Helen’s life in the area began in Grayling in 1920. Her legacy around Higgins Lake springs from her time when her husband Paul and she ran the Sonoma Lodge. Generations of Higgins Lake vacationers partook of
Joining together to help celebrate Helen included: front (l-r) Kaci Hitt, Malie Lippert, Patsy Lippert, Helen Lippert. Center (l-r) Jim Lippert , Sawyer Lippert (Infant), and Rose Lippert (Infant) Middle (l-r) Chris Lippert, Hailey Lerner, Danielle Lerner, Nicole Crespo, Nick Hoover, James Crespo, Isaac Lippert, Becca Lippert and James Lippert III. Back (l-r) John Hitt, Austin Lippert, Nicole Lippert, and Emily Schimmer
their hospitality and that same spirit pervades her life now.
Helen enjoys spending her time at the Brook with life-long friends and members of her church Messiah
Lutheran. Although nearly blind, Helen still sees the joy in every day and appreciates the blessings of those she knows and the love of her family.
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