June 2020 – Page 4

Community Notices

Area school board elections also scheduled for Nov. 3

June 19, 2020

Besides elections for township, county, state and national offices, there will be contests for school board seats in the three area districts on Nov. 3. The seats will be for four years, beginning Jan. 1, 2021. Anyone interested in serving should understand the deadline to register is at 4 p.m....

Korean War POW Frank Nausieda passes at age 90

June 19, 2020

Frank Vincent Nausieda, age 90 of Wayland, died Tuesday, June 16. At 21, Frank earned POW status and a Purple Heart, serving in the U.S. Army (1950-1953) as combat infantry/Korean War and finished his term in Washington DC as honorary guard at Arlington Cemetery. Frank started his work life early...

Yes It’s True: We’re still fighting over cosmetic issues

June 18, 2020

We Americans seem to have a knack for arguing issues that really do not matter in the large scheme of things. We debate the mundane and cosmetic while ignoring the really important matters. One of the best examples in bygone days was the silly battles in Congress 18 years ago...

Columns

Army Bob: Let Seattle’s ‘CHAZ Zone’ die on the vine

June 18, 2020

by Robert M. Traxler What should we do about the CHAZ or CHOP, the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone?” In my opinion, nothing, let it die on its own. Socialist utopias have been tried and failed thousands of times in our nation, a commune in the Wayland area being a good...

Columns

Basura: Confessions of my love for Hawaiian shirts

June 18, 2020

"Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together." — Georges Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist I started wearing Hawaiian shirts in high school. They were cheapos that four of us would buy at...

Division paving project in Leighton begins Monday

June 17, 2020

The paving project in Leighton Township on 10th Street (Division) from 138th Street north to 142nd Avenue will begin Monday, June 22 and last about three weeks. The road is scheduled for crushing, shaping and resurfacing and will be closed to thru traffic Monday. Please follow the signed detour or...

Columns

One Small Voice: Is police defense racism deflection?

June 17, 2020

by Lynn Mandaville How do you make sure peaceful protesting continues over the issue of police brutality committed against black men? Murder another unarmed black man who is running away from police following what, for the most part, had been a civil exchange between the cops and the man who...

Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

June 17, 2020

(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) This picture was taken circa 1911 in Moline. Here you can see Milo F. Gray had damage being fixed to his home from a tornado that had gone through. Milo was born Feb. 27, 1866, and...

Graveside service will be Friday for Sheryl Baker, 42

June 17, 2020

Sheryl Lee Baker of Aberdeen, S.D. (formerly of Otsego and Martin), died June 11 at her parents’ home in Aberdeen. Sheryl Lee, daughter of Marty (Caley) Haveman was born March 1, 1978, in Kalamazoo. She attended school at East Martin Christian Elementary and Kalamazoo Christian High School. Sheryl lived in...

Funeral is Friday for June Hennip, 92, of Hopkins

June 17, 2020

Glenna June (Moored) Hennip, 92 of Hopkins, died Tuesday, June 16, at the Allegan County Medical Care Community. Born Feb. 23, 1928, she was the daughter of Francis and Orah (Miller) Moored and the wife of the late Peter G. Hennip. June enjoyed being a wife and mother and caring...

Month: June 2020