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VOLUME 88, NUMBER 8 .--
‘? 25,1994
I FIFTY CENTS 14 PAGES PLUS 2 SUPPL-S
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School will again seek
funds for new building
The regular meeting of the Deford. cepted because i t was .Audrey Leslie, a bus
Cass City School Board was greater than the amount of- driver for the district for 21
quickly transferred from the LAWN MOW BIDS fered as a trade-in. years, has announced her re-
regular board meeting room tirement.
to the school library to ac- On the recommendation of TECHNOLOGY *Deb Barker has been
commodate the large crowd Dan Ulfig and Marilyn Pe- REPORT hired as a half-time secretary
that attended the Monday tars, who investigated, the for the high school and com-
night session. board voted to hire a private mUnity education depart-
George Bushong presented
The group attended to h t n firm to Illow lawns. Three a repon on the school tech- merit.
what the board planned af- bids were received and the nology plan on its second mPolicy changes concern-
ter the Proposed new lowbidw*by LaPeerLawn e
anniversary, H said that the ing the community educa-
schoat and Campbet1 Senice for $200 each for 20 committee has a 5-yew plan tion department were pre-
ementary schOO’
vote was turned down by
mowings- A maximum Of that js updated each year. sented and will be approved
$4,000 w s approved. The plan for the coming at the next meeting. Essen-
voters last month.
Ulfig said that hiring the year has 2 top priorities.The tially what the new policy
After a lengthy discussiOn~ work was cheaper than buy- first is in-service training for does is reflect the Closing Of
the board decided to resub- ing the necessary equip- the teaching staff so that the adult education program
mit the same proposition to
ment. Besides, he added, if teachers are familiar with in Cass City and the reten-
the voters.
A special committee of in- it doesn’t work out well we computers and programs tion of the enrichment pro-
terested residents and school can always start doing the they are w i n g to teach. gram at the school.
board members will exam- work again ourselves. The second is a software
The bid doesn’t include budget that enables the *The school will borrow
ine the voting dates trimming or other hand teachers to get the programs
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TOUGHTIMES Jordan College omcials and students are optimistic the school and suggest one at the June
meeting when the
work, but does include cut- necessary. This will be a
$700,000 Aug. 1 to elimi-
nate cash flow problems
will remain open, despite financial and administrative disputes with the U.S. De- board is on record as approv-
ting i n the Cass City Park continuing expense but one while waiting for tax money
ing a second vote. area that the school uses. which will enable teachers to arrive.
partment of Education, Pictured above in front of the Thumb Area Campus in
Cass City are (left to right) student Brenda Kempisty of BadAxe, graduate JoAnn that help from supporters of
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Ken said
Two other bids were re-
ceived and approved. Three
to keep current with changes
as they Occur, something
n
* eboard approved en-
try in the Michigan High
a new within
quotes were received for that isn’t possible using ex- School Athletic Association
Izydorek of Decker, and dean Jerry White. the c o m m u n i t y be
trash removal at the schoo]. pensive textbooks, he ex-
for the new school year.
nceded to secure it favorable The low bidder w a Waste plained. Our budget was
vote, They (the voters) tend Management CO,, which is $309000 last year- will it be *meearly childhood pro-
Mortgage payment current to listen and believe what the: current contractor. The
bid for 3 years totaled
mare next year? he asked
rhetorically.
gram for next year w s ap-
proved for 21 students, an
leaders outside of the school
community say rather than $22,322. increase of 2 students. Each
White: few defaults among to persons in the ducation
field, Micklash feels.
Meanwhile, the district has
six bids were received for
the purchase of a used
school bus. High bid was by
& M Bus C-0.of Muncie,
OTHER
OThe annual year-end
school hncheon W i l l be held
student that qualifies earns
the district $3,000.As in the
past, there will be Openings
for non-qualifying studeqts
Jordan students in Cass City received an extension from
the State Fire Marshal until
June 1, 1995, to bring the
Indayfor $3,553. It ac- Monday, June 13, at noon- on a tuition basis.
Memorial Day
present middle school build-
J u h i f i lzyljore~ a walk- pus’ 3 112 lull-time raculty niomy,” he said.
is stable,” White said, and the ing i n conformity with the
ing advertisement for Jord*an have been laid off, although The Thumb campus serves current summer enrollment fire code.
College and the school’s none of them would have a somewhat different seg- of 60 students is the largest 7 3 ~ other areas of concern
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Thumb Area Campus i n workedthissumm~ranyway nient of students than the yet, related to a new building d
Cas City.
Izydorek, 51, who earned taught by adjunct instruc-
an associate of arts degree tors,
because summer classes are c o l h e as a whole (there art:
very fw minority students
but the average age of And, hc
from the school in 1992, still That leavcs 4 full-time staff students is aboul the same few
FEW DEFAULTS
out, very
students are
were presented. Micklash
showed figures that indi-
cated that a 5-mill tax on the
present valuation to estab-
recalls having to withdraw members: White, a swrc- (about 291, a majority are of defaulting on federal lish a new school sinking
observances set
Area Memorial Day pa- a.m. the V F W post will Novesta Towruhip Cem-
a couple of weeks into her tary, financial aid worker W O n l e n and many arc in loans. He estimated the rate fund would raise $608,875 rades and celebrations will decorate thc cemetery with etery, where services begin
second serriester bcxause of and maintenance pcrson, lower income brackets, a]- at 5 or 6 percent. yearly. That means it would
take 13 years to raise the be highlighted with new and 120national flags. The “AV- at 1 p.m. Charles Emmert,
illness. and White said some of though atmut half of area are simply no grab- $7.9 million needed for a okd traditions this year. enue of Rags” became a part pastor of the Novesta
“An instructor offered to those positions may also be Jordan students are em- lems here. Nobody is rip- of the Memorial Day ser-
come to my home and tutor cut or reduced. pl o y d . new building, These figures In Cass City, the annual vices in 1984, when the post Church of Christ, will be the
ping anyone,” he said. “I do not take into account in- Monday parade will begin in had 6 flags. guest speaker.
me’so I wouldn’t fa11 be- Although finances and ad- White said he believes the feel that the quality of edu- terest earned on money col- In neighboring Caro, the 3
hind,” she said, “They were ministration have bcen the munib campus m e t s a spe- cationis ’the parking lot of Chemical
have an lected or the increase in cost Bank. Veterans, Girl and Jack Esau, a veteran or ‘p.m. parade is taking a dif-
never too busy to help. focus of Jordan’s problems, cia1 n e d . “If YOU look at excellentplacement rate.
“I’m the mother of 5 and White indicated he’s dis- the make-up of many of our due to inflation. Boy Scout troops and the World War 11 and quarter- ferent turn this year. The
pay less high school marching band master of VFW post 3644, VFW and American Legion
the grandmother Of 7, and I turhed by the edUCati0n students, their ability to thanpublic sc-,ools (and) we
never thought I’d go to col- department’s focus. The second problem is the will take to Main Street at will be master of ceremonies parade will make use of the
to take educate a student at a far cost of making the building 10 a.m. May 30. for the Cass City activities new honorary veterans me-
lege. They gave me the con- “What no one is looking at classes. . .is very limited. less cost than a public meet fire code regulations
fidence that I could do some- is the number of students Fall semester er~rallmcnt at for the 35th consecutive morial. The parade will end
he added, and handicapped accessible. All veterans are invited to year. He said although many at the courthouse in front of
thing other than cook.” that (have gone from) wel- the local campus totaled 180 the maxiInunl out-of-pocket march in the parade, which communities are discontinu- the memorial after walking
Izydorek said she was fare to Jordan to employ- students i n 1991, 157 i n tuition This money would be lost
to students is when a new school was ends at the Elkland Town- ing their Memorial Day ser- up State Street. Formerly
shocked to hear Jo dan Col- men(. I’m sure wc have 1992 and 137 in 1993. “En-
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legecould be force to close saved taxpayers a lot of rollment h a s been very Iurn to back page. erected.
Interest in the direction the
ship Cemetery, with mem- vices, it is important to con- services were conducted at
bers of the Veterans of For- tinue the long-standing Cass the Indianfields Township
its doors due to financial eign Wars post 3644, Cass Citv tradition. Cemetery.
board will take was exhib-
problems (see related story).
“To me that was so great
to go there and not have to
travel,” she said, “It’s a
small college, but it’s there
Not closing, says ited by the R ~ V .Stu Roy,
pastor of the Deford Com-
munity Church. If the
Deford School were to be
City, in uniform if possible.
for the community.”
And it was community sup-
port that made construction
of the local campus possible
Jordan oflicial abandoned, he said, the
church would be interested
in submitting a bid for the
building. He was informed
that there were no plans to
discontinue school at program.
Weather permitting, at 7
House fire termed suspicious
A blaze labeled suspicious
by Elkland Township Fire
Department officials leveled
T an abandoned building near
a gravel pit south of Cass
City last Wednesday after-
noon.
Assistant Fire Chief
Charles Tunis reported fire
fighters arrived at the scene
to find the former Harvey
Kritzman house already
down. The structure was old
and not insured, he said.
A stiff northeast wind
fanned the flames, which
spread to a nearby field, ac-
curding toTunis, who added
2 adjacent buildings were
not damaged.
The gravel pit, owned by
the Sanilac County Road
Commission, is located be-
FIRE LEVELED THE oId Harvey Kritzman house south of hind the C ~ SCity Oil and
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Gas bulk storage facility
Cass City last week. Elkland Township Fire Department about a mile and a half
officials are calling the May 18 blaze suspicious. of the village
