Cheers
-- To trail builders who have put in several miles of peripheral trails in Peninsula Township's new Center Road Natural Area. Friends of the Center Road Natural Area have logged more than 500 hours on trail work, fencing and boundary marking. More than a dozen Northwest Michigan WORKS! Earn & Learn Summer Youth Crew workers spent two weeks on the project, which also has received help from Hagerty Insurance volunteers, TC Rentals and the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments.
-- To planners Russell Soyring and Steve Largent for winning two local planning awards. Soyring, Traverse City planning director, received the Roger Williams Planner Award; Largent, land management services director for the Grand Traverse County Conservation District, received the Frank Purvis Stewardship Award. The awards, which recognize leadership, planning, development, professionalism and stewardship, were given out by the Grand Traverse County Planning Commission and the Grand Traverse County Chapter of the Michigan Townships Association.
-- To a number of local developments also recognized by the county planning commission and the MTA. They include Cherry Capital Airport, West Bay State Street Commons in Traverse City, Tom's Food Market in Interlochen, Lighthouse Neurological Rehabilitation Center in Mayfield Township, the Kingsley Village Hall and Library and the Village Ice Cream Shoppe in Kingsley. The Peninsula Township Center Road Natural Area Park and the East Bay Township Forest Lakes Overlay District received special recognition for exemplary planning and implementation.
-- To the Student Propeller Club, Port 150, of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy for hosting the 34th annual Mariners Memorial Service, slated for noon Tuesday, in the courtyard of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwestern Michigan College's Great Lakes Campus. The service, which is open to the public, honors mariners who have perished on Great Lakes and oceans. The freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a raging storm on Nov. 10, 1975.
-- To the Unitarian Peacemaker Needleworkers group for sponsoring a one-of-a-kind sale of bead necklaces and bracelets to benefit Bead for Life, a group that employs about 90 Ugandan women living in extreme poverty after fleeing their homelands.
-- To Home Instead Senior Care, of Traverse City, for hosting an "Operation Medicine Cabinet" initiative Friday to accept unused or expired medication. All medications received will be cremated at the end of the day, which organizers say is more environmentally friendly and safer than flushing them down the toilet or throwing them away.
Jeers
-- To companies that lied about the number of jobs they created with the help of President Obama's economic recovery plan and to the federal government for passing on the faulty information. The Associated Press reviewed the data and set the record straight. The AP said there was no evidence the White House was involved.
Print this story
E-mail this story
