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Police cleared the area after cleaning the roadway of debris. No serious injuries were reported.

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Vet to oversee shelter euthanasiaBy Jeff Broddle

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CADILLAC — It was standing room only at the Wexford County Court-house for a special meeting called to explore allegations of inhumane treatment of animals at the Wexford County Animal Shelter.

The Board of Commissioners lis-tened Thursday evening as many citizens shared their concerns about operations at the shelter and animal control, which falls under the department of Sheriff Gary Fin-strom.

Finstrom said he couldn’t immedi-ately respond to the allegations but did say that a local veterinarian had volunteered, for now, to supervise all euthanizations performed at the

shelter. Finstrom did not name the veterinarian. The announcement comes in the wake of allegations by a former shelter worker that ani-

mals had routinely been euthanized by the heart-sticking method without having first been anesthetized in the preferred two-step process.

The meeting fea-tured many individ-uals sharing stories of their dissatisfac-

tion. Initial allegations came from Marion resident and former sher-iff ’s department employee Kathy Dennis, who said she was forced out after she raised concerns about how

animals were euthanized. Finstrom has said Dennis is a disgruntled em-ployee who is trying to discredit ani-mal control.

Others also came forward, includ-ing Cadillac resident Rachel Shook, who said that while working at the shelter, she witnessed about 100 ani-mals being euthanized with heart sticking, with only two having first been sedated. Shook also said she saw a black pit bill that had been brought in and immediately eutha-nized, instead of being held for a few days as is county policy. When a family called soon after looking for a black pit bull, they were told by a shelter employee that they had not seen the dog but would keep an eye out for it, Shook said.

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Former Wexford County Animal Control employee Kathy Dennis speaks about what she said were inappropriate methods of euthanizing animals at the Wexford County Animal Shelter.

Future uncertain for free clinics as Affordable Care Act loomsBy rIck charmolI

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Like most people, those working to bring health care to the uninsured or

under-insured are waiting to see what the Affordable Care Act brings.

The law, commonly known as “Obamacare” or the feder-al health care law, was signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health Care and Ed-ucation Reconciliation Act, it represents the most signifi-cant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. health care system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

The goal of the act is to decrease the number of un-insured Americans as well

as reduce the overall costs of health care. It provides a number of mechanisms — in-cluding mandates, subsidies and tax credits — to employ-ers and individuals in order to increase the coverage rate.

Additional reforms are aimed at improving health care outcomes and stream-lining the delivery of health care. It also requires insur-ance companies to cover all applicants and offer the same rates regardless of pre-ex-isting conditions or gender. It is anticipated that once in place, it will lower both future deficits and Medicare spending.

Find out what it could mean for Cadillac’s Stehouwer Free Clinic and its patients.

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From left, volunteer nurse tammy Hoekwater and Medication Access Program Coordinator Karen Zenner work at the Stehouwer Free Clinic in Cadillac.

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Hundreds turn out for NASF Family NightBy mardI SuhS CadillaC News

CADILLAC — Five hundred people showed up for Family Night at

The Wex, the first event of this year’s North American Snow Festival.

Organizers were thrilled with the Thursday night turnout as lines formed to taste 12 different chili dishes

entered in the Great American Chili Cook-off.

In addition to the chili event, there were plenty of family activ-ities. Children enjoyed face paint-ing, an appearance by Dynamite the Clown, the bouncy house and a special magic show by Ronald McDonald.

“This is our first time here, and we love it,” said Tyra Ditchen.

“This is something fun to do with the kids when it’s cold,” said first-time attendee Lindsay Ber-tram with 6-year-old Noah and 4-year-old Lindsay. “And I don’t have to cook.”

This year’s winner of the Great American Chili Cook-Off was a white chili entered by The Port Hole Pub and Eatery inside the Cadillac Sands Resort. Manager

Jack Simcock accepted the first-place trophy and noted that cook Donna Niedzielski created the winning entry. The second place winner was Lakeside Charlies, and third place went to Coyote Crossing Resort.

Four women competed in this

year’s Miss NASF Pageant and modeled casual wear, winter sports wear and an evening gown. Each contestant answered one question from the judges.

Winning contestant Ally Clark, an 18-year-old Baker College stu-dent, first appeared on stage in

western wear with a lasso. She is a competitive barrel racer and loves showing horses and steers. She works at Stoney Corners Vet Service as a vet assistant and is studying for a degree as a veteri-nary technician.

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Future uncertain for free clinics as Affordable Care Act loomsBy Rick chaRmoli

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CADILLAC — Plain and simple. Cut and dry. When it comes to the potential impact of the Af-fordable Care Act on health care providers like the Stehou-wer Free Clinic, your guess is as good as theirs.

Cindy Evans is the clinic’s ex-ecutive director, and recently, she went to a meeting of the Free Clinics of Michigan. At that meeting, the Affordable Care Act was a topic of discus-sion, and at the end of that dis-cussion, Evans said there was

no clearer picture of what it will mean to her clinic than before it started.

“I still hear lots of talking but no definite decision,” she said.

While she said things are un-certain, what she was pretty sure of was the fact that her clin-ic and others like it will be open for business.

While they may still be op-erating, Evans said they also could lose half of their clients. With the need growing and the fact that many people they could help simply don’t know about them, there would still

be people who would need their services. In 2010, the clinic had 2,000 patient visits. That number jumped 200 percent to 6,000 vis-its in 2012.

“Even if we lost half of our clients, we currently would have 1,000 more patients than we had in 2010,” she said.

The biggest question, Evans said, has to do with Medicaid recipients who don’t currently have doctors. She added it will be a sad situation for those people if they get Medicaid and then can’t find or get a doctor to treat them.

“If you qualify for our servic-es, we don’t turn you away. Right now, to qualify, you can’t have insurance,” she said. “If you get Medicaid, you don’t qualify, and that is why the discussion keeps coming up.”

With so much uncertainty, Ev-ans said it is difficult to plan. For the moment, the clinic is plan-ning for services for the next five years or so, and she doesn’t ex-pect the clinic will go away dur-ing her lifetime.

“The Affordable Care Act is a Band-Aid on the issue more than a solution, but it is better to have

a Band-Aid than an exposed wound,” she said.

When the Affordable Care Act is implemented on Jan. 1, 2014, 30 million of 53 million unin-sured will be eligible for cover-age. Eligibility for Medicaid will increase from 35 percent of the Federal Poverty Level in Michi-gan to 133 percent of the Federal Poverty Level across the nation. Also, childless adults will be eli-gible.

For more information about the Affordable Care Act, log on to www.healthcare.gov.

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Donna Weaver said that in October, she contacted animal control about a stray dog, a Manches-ter Terrier, which was picked up by the shelter. Weaver said she was told it had been adopted by a Manchester Terrier res-cue group. When Weaver asked if she could adopt it, she said she was told the group would keep the dog. Dennis, who was working at the shelter during this time, told Weaver the dog had not been adopted out but had instead been put down.

County resident Tami Cosgray also stepped for-ward to share her family’s story of their dog, a lost and injured Great Dane named Cole, that the family believes was shot by an ani-mal control officer when it could have been returned to the family. When the in-cident occurred in 2010, an animal control officer said he believed the dog would have died if it had been tranquilized so it could be captured.

Others had stories of sup-port for the shelter. Chris Corwin, a volunteer for the Wonderland Humane Soci-ety, which is not affiliated with the shelter, said she worked at the shelter from

2001 to 2011, when she was let go for reasons that were not apparent to her.

Still, Corwin had good things to say.

“In the 10 years I was there, the animals got fabu-lous treatment, and most of the animals were quite happy,” Corwin said.

She also said the animals were euthanized in a two-step process.

Kari Franz, a volunteer at the shelter for eight years, said she never wit-nessed animals being mis-treated. In fact, she said she once saw a jail trustee spray a dog with water to drive it away, and the trust-ee’s privileges to work at the shelter were revoked.

Housler said he felt it will be difficult to come to a so-

lution that pleases every-one, “Although we will do our best effort.”

Following heartfelt pub-lic comment, both pro and con, regarding practices at the shelter, Commissioner Gideon Mitchell made a motion that the shelter be closed within seven days and the animals be trans-ferred to no-kill shelters until the matter is fully in-vestigated.

Commissioner Alan De-vereaux disagreed, point-ing out that local no-kill shelters already are full.

“Missaukee is over-whelmed every day,” De-vereaux said.

Mitchell rescinded his motion after being advised by County Administrator Ken Hinton that under the

county’s ordinance, the au-thority to operate the shel-ter is the sheriff depart-ment’s alone.

The Michigan Depart-ment of Agriculture and Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs is conducting an in-vestigation.

Board Chairman Les Housler promised to place

the issue of the shelter’s operation on the agenda for the next meeting, which is Wednesday.

Finstrom said animal eu-thanization is an emotion-al issue, and that none of his animal control officers enjoy putting down ani-mals. He also said nothing is gained by animal control officers not following the

guidelines, which he said are more strict than the state guidelines.

He also said that if the community does privatize the shelter, his department will still continue to en-force animal control ordi-nances.

The next meeting of the BOC is 6 p.m., Wednesday.


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When the judges asked Ally what recent event had an im-pact on her life, she said that “graduating from high school was a wakeup call” about the re-sponsibilities of being an adult and the cost of college tuition.

As Miss NASF, Ally will rep-resent the NASF at community events, summer parades and festivals.

First runner-up Rachel Van-Houten is a 2012 graduate of McBain High School and a stu-dent at the Cadillac Institute of Cosmetology. The queen’s court includes contestants Lau-ra Johnson and Tabitha Brint-nell. The 2012 Miss NASF, Sar-ah Dick, expressed gratitude for her year.

President of the NASF Board

of Directors, Sharon Flewel-ling, was “ecstatic” about the success of the event.

“Our goal was to make this a family night, and I think that might be catching on,” she said. “We’ve come a long way and we could do so much more.”

Flewelling expressed grati-tude for the many sponsors, volunteers and vendors.

The chili contest was spon-sored by WTCM and Silent Ob-server volunteers.

Chili entries were supplied by: CJ’s Pub and Grub of Lake City, The Willows at the Little River Casino, Chico’s Taco House, The Port Hole Pub and Eatery of the Cadillac Sands, Maggie’s Tavern, The CTC 13th Street Cafe, Curly’s, Da Dawg House, The Sweet Shop, Wen-dy’s, Coyote Crossing and Lake-side Charlies.


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Almost 500 votes were cast for the best chili. the winner was the Port Hole Pub and eatery of the Cadillac Sands resort. manager Jack Simcock accepted the trophy with a shout out to the chef, Donna niedelski, who created a white chili.

By Jeff Broddle CadillaC News

CADILLAC — Cancer survi-vors mark their own mile-stones, and a group that raises funds locally is mark-ing a milestone of its own, as the Wexford County Re-lay for Life recognizes three decades of fighting cancer.

Relay for Life is inviting volunteers and participants to gather Thursday at Mc-Guire’s Resort for a kickoff party to launch its fundrais-ing efforts for the year.

Organizer Stacia Thomp-son said that although the event is more than four months away, now is the time to get involved.

The kickoff party starts at 5:30 p.m. with a meet and greet, including appetizers and refreshments, followed by a short program at 6 p.m. This year’s fundrais-ing goal is $71,000. Last year, the event fell just short of its goal but did manage to bring in $65,000.

“We were extremely happy to donate that much money in the fight against cancer,” Thompson said.

Participants interested in forming teams will find sup-plies and answers to their questions about taking part at the kickoff party.

In observance of the Wex-ford County Relay for Life’s 30 years and the American Cancer Society’s 100 years, the relay’s theme will be “Through the Decades.”

Relay participants will have the opportunity to throw back to their favor-ite decade, whether they are sporting the beads and bangles of the 1960s, the wide collars and shoulder pads of the 1980s, or flapper styles of the 1920s.

The Wexford County Re-lay for Life is June 21 and 22. As in past years, teams of family, friends and cowork-ers will camp overnight at Veterans Memorial Sta-dium and log laps around the oval track to raise funds for fighting cancer. Teams average in size from 15 to 20 people, but some larger or-ganizations boast as many as 30 or 40, Thompson said.

Events include celebrat-ing the victory of area can-cer survivors during the Survivors Lap, remember-ing those who have lost the battle by lighting a candle, and the Fight Back Cere-mony that gives everyone a way to stand up against the disease.

McGuire’s Resort is locat-ed at 7880 Mackinaw Trail, Cadillac.

Community members can start a team, join an exist-ing team, register as a sur-vivor or make a donation by visiting www.relayforlife.org/WexfordCountyMI or calling Thompson at 866-0292.

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Man’s restitution reduced 50 cents

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted in a Memphis bank robbery has won a small-change victory from an appellate court.

In a ruling an-nounced Thurs-day, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals left intact the con-viction and the 52-month sen-tence of Calvin Rene Calhoun Jr.

Calhoun was charged in the robbery of a Regions Bank of-fice in Memphis two years ago. Calhoun pleaded guilty and was sentenced.

While the ap-peals court up-held the federal district court, it did remand the case for two mi-nor corrections. One reduces the restitution Calhoun must make by 50 cents, to $4,259. That’s the value of cash burned when a dye pack explod-ed as he fled the bank. The judge didn’t mention 50 cents orally at sentencing.

Police: Man arrested after pocket-dialing 911

ORANGE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A conversa-tion with two passengers landed a Florida tow truck driver in jail after his cellphone pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers listened in.

Authorities say 19-year-old Mat-thew Dollarhide of Orange City was surprised when a Volusia County Sheriff ’s deputy pulled him over on Tuesday and asked why they had been talk-ing about selling drugs.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports deputies were alerted at 9:42 p.m. Tuesday and sent to a lo-cation where dis-patchers said the phone signal was coming from.

Authorities said deputies found a crack pipe on Dol-larhide, who was arrested for pos-session of drug paraphernalia.

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CADILLAC— Participants will be “freez-in’” for a reason” as they dive into the icy waters of Lake Cadillac on Satur-day. But for Cadillac Police Captain

Matt Wohfeil, the Oasis Polar Dip will be a bitter-sweet farewell.

Wohfeil, who’s served with the department for 24 years, is set to retire and considers the plunge his way of making one fi-nal splash.

“It‘s going to be my one and only time taking the plunge,” Woh-feil said.

The dip, which will take place at 2 p.m., benefits the Oasis Family Re-source Center and Women’s Shelter.

Wohfeil has been on the organiza-tion’s board of directors for several years and said each year, one member volunteers for the plunge. He said he decided to take the plunge after speak-ing with Oasis Family Resource Cen-ter Executive Director Sally Repeck.

“Last year, (Repeck) took the plunge,” Wohfeil said. “I told her next

year was going to be my last year, so I volunteered to take the dip.”

Wohfeil said friends and colleagues have given him a lot of advice for tak-ing the freezing winter dip, but he said he’s confident he can withstand the cold waters.

“I’ve had people tell me I should take a cold shower to prepare, but I’m just going to jump in,” Wohfeil said.

Wohfeil is also promoting his last dive through his, “I’m Taking the Dip For Oasis,” website, where community members can donate to the local area fundraiser. Wohfeil has received 39 do-nations totaling $1,545 from residents and local organizations.

To help encourage his plunge, he plans to have two or three of his fellow officers toss him into the cold waters while in full uniform.

Repeck said Wohfeil has been a tre-mendous help in promoting the event over the last year.

“It’s a fabulous contribution,” Repeck said. “He will be one of our big-gest donors.”

Members of the Cadillac City Fire Department will be on hand to assist volunteers safely out of the water after their plunge.

Last year’s polar dip drew a crowd of about 80 spectators. Donations raised through the polar dip contribute about 10 percent of the organization’s total event funding, Repeck said.

“Like all other events, the polar dip is two-fold,” Repeck said. “The dip raises money to support the organization but also helps raise awareness to domestic violence.”

Wohfeil said the department has worked closely with Oasis over the years and appreciates the service the organization has given to the commu-nity.

Those interested in making dona-tions can donate online by visiting www.crowdrise.com/dip4oasis.

The polar dip will take place at the foot bridge on Lake Cadillac. For in-formation, call Oasis Family Resource Center at 775-7299.


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Debris from a structure fire that started late Wednesday night still burned Thursday at a home on La Chance Road outside Lake City.

Electrical problem likely sparked house fireBy ChriS lAmPhere

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MISSAUKEE COUNTY — Debris from a structure fire that started late Wednesday night still burned Thurs-day evening at a home on La Chance Road near Lake City.

Lake Missaukee Fire Department Chief Bill Morey said electrical is-sues likely caused the fire, which de-

stroyed a mobile home and an adja-cent barn.

Morey said two firefighters received shocks when electricity passed from the energized buildings to water they were standing in while battling the blaze. Both were treated at the scene but re-fused additional medical attention.

Morey said power lines were touch-ing bare metal on both structures, making it a dangerous situation for

firefighters.Although no serious injuries were

reported, many animals, including dogs, rabbits and birds, perished in the fire.

Crews from Lake City, Lake Missau-kee, McBain and Merritt fire depart-ments were on scene for five hours fighting the fire.

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‘65 Roses’ dance benefits fight against cystic fibrosisBy riCk ChArmoli

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CADILLAC — Prior to her child being born, Sarah Cowley had limited knowl-edge about cystic fibrosis.

Although she had some background with the dis-ease because of a high school friend who suffered from it, it wasn’t until her son Parker was born that she fully understood it.

Parker was almost three weeks old when doctors dis-covered that he had CF, and the reason it was discovered was because of the newborn screening process. He will be 4 in April.

Cystic fibrosis is an in-curable, hereditary disease caused by a defective gene that causes the body to pro-

duce abnormally thick mu-cus, which clogs the lungs and leads to life-threaten-ing infections. Other symp-toms include faulty diges-tion and breathing difficul-ties.

For the first year after the diagnosis, Sarah and Parker went to Helen DeVos Chil-dren’s Hospital in Grand Rapids once a month for a check up. Now, they go every three months. When he gets sick, Sarah said he usually can see a local pediatrician unless it is something more severe. In that case, he typi-cally has to go to Grand Rap-ids for treatment.

In addition to his quarter-ly doctor’s appointments, he has a regiment of medica-tions and treatments he has to do every day and will do

that for the foreseeable fu-ture, Sarah said.

“He has his medications he takes every morning, breathing treatments, inhal-ers and a vest that he wears to help break up the mucus in his chest,” she said.

For the past three years, Sarah has been involved with the 65 Roses Dance, which takes place on Feb. 9. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness and mon-ey in the fight against CF.

Organizer Sue Mellema said her involvement dates back to before there was the 65 Roses Dance. Since that time, Mellema said there have been huge break-throughs in research and the hope is a cure is not far off.

“It is really taking off. I’m thinking within the next

five to 10 years, we will have a handle on it or be able to cure it,” she said. “Fifty years ago, kids wouldn’t live past the age of five, and now the average life expectancy is 37.”

Tickets to the Feb. 9 event at the Fox Hill Events Cen-ter are $50 a person or $100 a couple. The cost of the ticket includes a prime rib or veg-etable lasagna dinner. Ap-petizers start at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 7:30 p.m. The meal is followed by a live and silent auction and music and dancing.

For tickets or to donate items for auction, contact Mellema at 775-3701. Tickets also are available at Brinks Custom Framing in down-town Cadillac.


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Donald Lewis Jernigan

BUMPASS, Va. — Don-ald Lewis Jernigan, of

Bumpass, Va., died Tuesday, January 29, 2013. He was 67.

He was born to the late Charles and Ruth (Rogers)

Jernigan on May 5, 1945, in Dearborn, Mich. Don graduated from Theo-dore Roosevelt High School in 1963 and served in the U.S. Navy from 1963 to 1966. He married the late Carol Michael in 1966, and they were hap-pily married for 28 years prior to her untimely passing. They started their lives together in Lincoln Park, Mich., be-fore relocating to Cadil-lac, Mich., Herndon, Va., and ultimately settling in Frederick, Md.

Don started working at the age of 12 as a pa-perboy in Wyandotte, Mich. Throughout his life, he worked in many fields, from a lineman for Detroit Edison, boil-er operator at Mercy Hospital, cameraman and director at TV 9 and 10, ultimately finishing up his professional ca-reer at NABET/Com-munications Workers of America, where he served as an interna-tional staff member for more than 20 years, and he passionately repre-sented the hard working men and women of the union.

Don spent the last years of his life living on Lake Anna, where he spent a lot of his time re-laxing with good friends and family. He was an ac-tive member of both LACA and Hickory Landing HOA and was previously a member of the Lions Club. His love of family and music was unmatched. He enjoyed debating politics and was always ready to lend a helping hand. He also loved to travel and read, and for several years, was a dive master, teach-ing countless others to scuba dive.

Don is survived by: his longtime girlfriend, Karen Talamini, of Mt. Airy, Md.; her chil-dren, Randy and Bri-an, and her grandson, CJ; two children: Wen-dy Wagner, of Sterling,

Va., and Donald and Lori Jernigan, of Ur-bana, Md. He also is sur-vived by six siblings: James (Karen) Jerni-gan, Pat (Paul) Dillon, D av i d ( B a r b a r a ) Jernigan, Michael (Peggy) Jernigan, Bonnie (Greg) Pawlik and Sally (Frank) Vir-sala, and three sibling-in-laws: Joan Michael, Patricia (Ron) Hunt-ley and Carl (Jill) Mi-chael. In addition, 15 nieces and nephews: Julie, Laurie, Carrie, Kristina, Deborah, Rebecca , Jose ph, Me ghan, All ison, Carl, Andrew, Nathan, John, Thomas, Robert and 13 great-nieces and n e p h e w s : S a r a h , Bridget, Dillon, Ra-chael, Stephen, Jason, Ava, Ryann, Valenti-na, Adrienne, Mat-thew, Andrew and Ce-celia. Most importantly, he is also survived by the lights of his life, his three grandchildren: Jessica, Justin and Ja-cob and “The Bears.”

In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made in his name to the Lake An-na Rescue Inc. (LARI) or the Lake Anna Civic As-sociation (LACA).

Friends and family will be received from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, February 1, 2013, at the Akers Funeral Home, 299 Raystown Road, Everett, Pa., 15537.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Feb-ruary 2, 2013, at 10 a.m. in the chapel at Akers Funeral Home, with Fa-ther Richard B. Tom-kosky officiating.

Burial will be held pri-vately at Everett Ceme-tery.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.akersfuneralhome.com.

Edith Novak Eppard

MANISTEE — Mrs. Edith Novak Eppard, of Manistee, formerly of Luther, passed away at the Manistee County Medical Care Facility on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. She was 98.

The oldest of 12, Edith was born to Clyde and M i n n i e ( M a r s a n d ) Straley in Toledo, Ohio, on October 23, 1915. She was preceded in death by her parents and all of her siblings.

Edith lived with her family on a farm in Lu-ther for many years and served as Dover Town-ship trustee and trea-surer for several years, as well as serving as

secretary for the Luther Senior Center.

She is survived by her d a u g h t e r s R u t h (Frank) Novak-Mo-dreski of Manistee, and V i r g i n i a ( L o u ) Slawski of Luther. In-terment will take place at Dover Township (Bristol) Cemetery in Luther.

Wyman Funeral and Cremation Services has been entrusted with Edith’s care.

Please visit her per-sonal memory page at www.stephensfuneral-home.net to sign the guestbook or leave a memory or message for her family.

Sandra Lynn Spencer

MESICK — Sandra Lynn Spencer (Johnson) died suddenly with her daughter, Susan, on Mon-day, January 28, 2013. They were inseparable in life and will remain so in heaven.

Sandra “Sandy” was born August 13, 1956, to Coral L. Johnson (Me-dendorp) and Edwin L. “Bud” Johnson in Lakev-iew, Mich. She attended Mesick High School and graduated from Baker College with a degree in business.

She married Richard, the love of her life, on No-vember 17, 1973, in Lake Station, Mich. Together they had four children.

She enjoyed camping, traveling, quilting, sew-ing, riding her motorcycle and spending time with her family in any way she could find. She was proud to have quilted a blanket for each of her 11 grand-children. Granddaugh-ters Alyssa, Morgan and Alaina, and grandsons, Kole, Jacob, Andrew, Cody, Even, Derek, No-ah and Lucas. She adored them all beyond measure and usually had at least one of them with her.

Sandy worked for Me-sick Schools for a num-ber of years and spent the years since then do-ing what she loved best, devoting her time to her grandkids, husband and family.

She is survived by her husband, Richard Spen-cer of Mesick; her moth-er, Coral Johnson of Weidman, Mich.; sons, Dustin (Becky) Spen-cer of Pinconning, Eric (Kathy) Spencer of Me-sick, Curtis Spencer of Mesick; her siblings, Robert Johnson, Mike Johnson, Connie Sim-mons, Kim Johnson and Greg Johnson, all of Weidman, Mich.; brother/sister-in-law, Daniel (Billie) Spencer of Schoolcraft, Tracy (Dorothy) Spencer of Plainwell, Nancy (Jef-fery) Fagerman of Sum-merville, Ala., and San-dra Star Spencer of

Jennings. She is survived by her grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father, Ed-win Johnson of Weid-man, Mich.; father-in-law and mother-in-law, Lloyd and Verta Spencer; two infant brothers, Steven Johnson and Darrel Johnson of Lakeview, Mich.; her grandparents, Eva Johnson-Marshall, Thomas “Ed” Marshall, Lewis Johnson, Fred Me-dendorp, Pansy Meden-dorp (Nicholes); a neph-ew, Shaun Trowbridge of Manton, Mich., and a niece, Cathy Spencer of Schoolcraft, Mich.

She entered heaven hand-in-hand with her beloved daughter, Susan Alyssa Spencer, of Me-sick.

A memorial service will be 11 to 2 p.m. on Sat-urday, February 2, 2013, at Hall Holdship Funeral Home in Manton. Lun-cheon will follow imme-diately after at the Sher-man Gospel Hall. An ac-count has been set up at Fifth Third Bank for me-morial contributions to help cover the costs and expenses.

John 11:25 — Jesus said to her “I am the resurrec-tion and the life. Whoev-er believes in me, though they die, shall they live.”

Susan Alyssa SpencerMESICK — Susan

Alyssa Spencer died suddenly with her moth-er, Sandy Spencer, on Monday, January 28, 2013. She and her moth-er shared many happy memories in her short life. They continue to be inseparable in God’s lov-ing embrace.

Susan was born in Tra-verse City, Mich., on Au-gust 18, 1990, to Sandra L. and Richard L. Spen-cer. She was a 2008 grad-uate of Mesick High School and attended Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City. Most recently, she worked at McDonald’s in Traverse City.

She enjoyed camping, photography, art, writ-ing, music and spending time with her family and friends. She cher-ished every precious moment with her nieces and nephews. Her most joyous calling was being a mother and guardian angel to her precious Alaina Rose.

Susan is survived by her daughter, Alaina Rose Spencer of Me-sick, Mich.; her father, Richard Spencer of Mesick, Mich.; her sib-lings, Dustin (Becky) Spencer of Pinconning, Eric (Kathy) Spencer of Mesick, and Curtis Spencer of Mesick; her nieces, Alyssa and Mor-gan Spencer; her neph-ews, Kole, Jacob, An-drew, Cody, Even, Der-ek, Noah and Lucas Spencer; 13 aunts and uncles and 19 cousins.

She was preceded in death by her grandpar-ents, Lloyd and Verta Spencer of Mesick, Mich., Edwin “Bud” Johnson of Weidman,

Mich., and cousins, Cathy Spencer of Schoolcraft, Mich., and Shaun Trowbridge of Mesick, Mich.

She entered heaven hand-in-hand with her adoring mother, Sandra Lynn Spencer, of Me-sick.

A memorial service will be 11 to 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 2, 2013, at Hall Holdship Funeral Home in Man-ton. A luncheon will fol-low immediately after at the Sherman Gospel Hall. An account has been set up at Fifth Third Bank for memori-al contributions to help cover funeral expenses and establish a trust fund for Alaina’s future needs.

John 16:22 — “So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.”

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14 dead in Mexico City blastMEXICO CITY (AP) —

An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexi-co’s state-owned oil com-pany in the capital killed 14 people and injured 80 on Thursday as it heav-ily damaged three floors of the building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline.

There were reports that people remained trapped in the debris — as many as 30 according to civil protection and local me-dia — from the explosion, which occurred in the basement of an admin-istrative building next to

the iconic, 52-story tower of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex.

There was no immedi-ate cause given for the blast, which also dam-aged the first and second floors of the auxiliary building in a busy com-mercial and residential area. But in a Tweet, Pe-mex said it had evacuated the building as a precau-tionary measure because of a problem with the electrical system.

The company later tweeted that experts were analyzing the explo-sion and any reports of a cause were speculation.

Counties spared flooding problems

By Nicole Weiss cadillac news

EVART — On Thursday, Osceola County’s emer-gency management di-rector was helping put out fires — figuratively speaking — in neighbor-ing Mecosta County.

Mark Watkins and other personnel from the region were helping the county after flooding this week cost an estimated $3 million worth of person-al property damage and caused the evacuation of at least 30 homes because of rising waters from the Muskegon River, which also flows through Osceo-la and Missaukee coun-ties.

And while the wet, weird weather has the potential to cause similar problems in the area, so far, local emergency man-agement departments say most roads and areas are above water.

Watkins said during other times of the year, portions of Osceola County are susceptible to serious flooding. Right now, the only flooding in the county is more of a nuisance than a major concern.

“Osceola County is stable, and by stable, I mean we have no emer-gency flooding,” he said, noting only mi-nor flooding, compared to 2011, when Osceola County had 140 homes affected by a 12-inch river crest.

Watkins said with the recent weather pat-terns, regular flooding areas are not at typical conditions. They are de-termined by where the river freezes and how water flow is able to move around impacted freeze areas.

Watkins said trouble arises when residents who have spent many years in an area see freez-ing patterns leading to flooding in areas they aren’t familiar with. However, Watkins said the freezing and flood-ing in different spots is one of the few constants Mother Nature gives our area.

“The (Muskegon) river

freezes somewhere ev-ery year, just not in the same places,” said Wat-kins. He added that in the case of the Muskegon River in Mecosta County on Wednesday, the flood-ing was a result of a big pack of ice that gave way south of Old Logging Trail and resulted in a “dramatic flooding is-sue” that progressed over the course of a couple of hours.

“That’s just simply how the river works,” he said.

Wexford County Emer-gency Management Di-rector Sarah Benson said much of the county has remained above water, except for a few high wa-ter spots.

Benson said flooding has closed a portion of Glengary Road in Me-sick, and the road com-mission is working to keep signs in place to remind people to seek an alternate route, some-thing Missaukee County Planning/EMD Depart-ments Director Linda Hartshorne-Shafer said is important to note in high-water situations.

Har tshor ne-Shafer said while she is not aware of any flooding in Missaukee County so far, motorists should be reminded to avoid roads with high waters.

“The usual advice bears repeating: Do not drive through high water areas and across those roadways for safety rea-sons,” she said.

Watkins said with the wet weather, now is a good time to remind peo-ple that flooding emer-gencies — when they do happen — are difficult to respond to.

“Everyone in Osceola County is vulnerable to flooding, not just those that live near rivers and lakes. Heavy rains and ice melt can make any-one have flood waters around their homes and basements,” said Wat-kins, adding that resi-dents should do what they can to prepare their homes and property to best withstand a poten-tial flooding situation be-fore it happens.


Murder convict mistakenly releasedCHICAGO (AP) — Po-

lice were hunting for a convicted murderer on Thursday after he was mistakenly released from custody in Chicago, where he was sent to face a drug charge while serv-ing a 60-year prison sen-tence in Indiana.

Indiana Department of Corrections officials said Steven L. Robbins, 44, was sent to Cook County Circuit Court on Tues-day to face a drug charge. The charge was dropped, “but for reasons yet un-known, the offender was released by Illinois au-thorities without being held for return,” the de-partment said in a news

release.The Cook County Sher-

iff ’s Office said it was investigating how Rob-bins was released. The Gary, Ind., native was serving the decades-long sentence for murder and weapons convictions out of Marion County in Indiana. He started serving the sentence in October 2004 and his ear-liest projected release date was more than 16 years from now on June 29, 2029.

Both Illinois and Indi-ana have issued arrest warrants for Robbins. Of-ficials in both states are asking for the public’s help to apprehend him.

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There is talk among some people that the Second Amendment should be re-pealed.

The most common argu-ments presented are that the authors had no idea of the advances in weapons tech-nology, and the amendment is exploited by competing and selfish interests. There is exactly one place in all of the Constitution where a specific item of personal property is addressed, the Second Amendment.

Firearm ownership was considered so important; they put it in the Constitu-

tion. No mention of plows, horses, lan-terns, or Ben Frank-lin’s Almanac. However, they did specifically say the people will always be able to own a firearm.

Surely the authors of the Constitution did not gather around a crystal ball and gaze into the future as they wrote the Constitution. How-ever, if we are to repeal the Second Amendment on the grounds of technological ad-vances, then we must repeal freedom of speech, as they had no idea that one day we

would have Twitter, freedom of religion, as they could have never known about scientology. If we are to repeal on the basis of exploita-

tion and selfish interests, then we must again apply the same standard across the Constitution. We must repeal freedom of religion, as they promote distrust in any en-tity that strays from the ap-proved dogma, and threaten eternal damnation without (insert random god here), all the while increasing their tax free bank accounts. Free-

dom of the press must go, as MSNBC promotes its liberal agenda, while Fox News pro-motes the conservative, and both are owned by massive corporations, that actively sensationalize the news to gain more viewers, to make more money. Meanwhile, warrantless wiretaps are le-gal, American citizens can be detained indefinitely without trial and the president can order your death without providing any evidence as to why. So, yeah, I’ll keep my guns.

Jason L. LuhrsMcBain

here is a reason for the second amendmentT SpeAk Out

By Carl P. leuBsdorfMcclaTchy-Tribune news service

After several bitterly par-tisan battles on fiscal issues, bipartisanship seems to be breaking out on Capitol Hill in two other controversial ar-eas, immigration reform and gun control.

While it’s too early to know if it will produce significant legislation, there are positive portents in how all sides — including the White House — are proceeding.

On immigration, eight sen-ators — four from each party including two top Democrats and key Republicans Marco Rubio and John McCain — have agreed on principles de-signed to lead to a broad bill providing both strengthened border control and a path to citizenship for millions of il-legal immigrants.

The White House called it “very consistent” with President Barack Obama’s views, which he laid out more completely Tuesday in Las Vegas. But potential for conflict remains in Obama’s advocacy of an easier path to citizenship not tied to the success of the expanded bor-der controls.

It was no coincidence the eight senators came forward before the White House. Their hope: to reduce the GOP criticism that greets almost anything Obama says and establish the bipartisan

tone that will be needed to pass the complex leg-islation.

Similarly, on gun control, a prominent Re-publican conser-vative senator, Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn, has been working quietly with a moderate Republican and two key Democrats to develop a plan to strengthen background checks, the most likely area for congressional agreement.

The legislative process is just starting on both issues. But the inclusion of key legislators bodes well for action in the Senate, where partisan divisions have often prevented it.

Even in the House, where most Republicans oppose both immigration and gun control measures, a group of Republicans and Demo-crats has been working qui-etly on immigration, and Speaker John Boehner said several days ago, “they basi-cally have an agreement.” Boehner has called a compre-hensive approach to immi-gration “long overdue.”

A key question in the House may be whether GOP leaders allow a coalition of most Democrats and a small number of Republicans to bring to the floor a compro-mise bill that most Republi-

cans oppose. But they did so to pre-vent the so-called “fiscal cliff,” and Boehner’s at-titude suggests they would do it again.

It’s clear why immigration is the issue most conducive to

the kind of bipartisan effort needed to surmount poten-tial procedural roadblocks.

As Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., explained Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”: “First of all, Americans support it in poll after poll. Secondly, La-tino voters expect it. Thirdly, Democrats want it. And fourth, Republicans need it.”

That’s because the GOP suffered significant erosion in its Hispanic support, win-ning just 27 percent in 2012, compared with 40 percent eight years earlier.

“We are losing dramatical-ly the Hispanic vote, which we think should be ours, for a variety of reasons, and we’ve got to understand that,” Mc-Cain, R-Ariz., added.

Menendez and McCain are among the eight senators working on immigration, along with the Senate’s No. 2 and 3 Democrats, Rich-ard Durbin of Illinois and Charles Schumer of New York; Sens. Michael Bennett, D-Colo., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and

Rubio, R-Fla..On gun control, Coburn

is working with Schumer, Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., on legisla-tion mandating background checks for all gun buyers, with some limited excep-tions.

“If you transfer your car, you have to have a license to transfer, it has to go through that,” Coburn told KRMG-TV in Tulsa on Friday. “I have no problems with us mak-ing sure that we don’t allow guns to get in the hands of either felons, or people who are a danger to themselves or other people.”

Legislation extending background checks is seen as more likely to pass the Sen-ate than measures banning semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has introduced a far broader bill, including reviving the ban on semi-automatic weapons that was passed in 1994 but expired 10 years later.

Still, the road for any gun-related legislation remains far more difficult in the House than in the Senate, unless bipartisanism breaks out there too.

Carl P. Leubsdorf is the former Washington bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News. Readers may write to him via email at: [email protected].

Washington bitten by the bipartisan bugOpInIOn

&Analysis

In a breathtakingly broad decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that Presi-dent Obama violated the Constitution when he uni-laterally appointed three members of the National Labor Relations Board dur-ing a “pro forma” session of the Senate. If upheld by the Supreme Court, the decision would all but end so-called re-cess appointments, by which presidents of both parties have bypassed the Senate — often because of unjustified obstruction by a determined minority.

The Constitution says that important appointments by the president require the “advice and consent” of the Senate. But in recognition of the difficulty of travel in the 18th century, it also gives the president the power to “fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of

the Senate.” By the middle of the 20th century, the practical justifi-cation for recess appointments had been eclipsed by advances in transportation and the emer-gence of a virtu-ally year-round Congress. But presidents continued to make them, even during relatively brief periods of Senate inactiv-ity. In 2005, for example, President George W. Bush outraged Democrats when he took advantage of a recess to appoint John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations.

Republicans were similarly exercised in January 2012 when Obama invoked his recess appointment author-ity to install the three NLRB

members, two of whom had been only recently nominated. (Obama acted when he did to ensure that the NLRB had a quo-ta necessary to conduct agency business.) The legality of the ap-

pointments was challenged by a Washington state busi-ness that received an adverse ruling from the labor board.

In ruling on that lawsuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was expected to focus on the fact that Obama made the appointments at a time when the Senate was holding pro forma sessions at which no business was transacted. Instead, the court reached beyond that issue to lay down a sweeping rule that presi-

dents may make recess ap-pointments only in the break between formal sessions of Congress, a hiatus that now occurs only once a year (and sometimes not at all).

Reining in the president’s ability to make recess ap-pointments wouldn’t be a problem if the confirmation process worked the way the framers intended. But in Washington’s current par-tisan gridlock, a minority of senators can — and too often do — deny a president a timely up-or-down vote on his nominations, a distortion of the advice-and-consent process. However solidly grounded in the Constitu-tion, the appeals court’s deci-sion addresses overreaching at only one end of Pennsylva-nia Avenue.

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DETROIT (AP) — Blind-ing snow squalls, high winds and a slick highway led to a mile-long series of crashes in Detroit that left at least three people dead Thursday, including a 7-year-old boy and 9-year-old girl.

Michigan State Police Lt. Michael Shaw said vis-ibility was extremely poor when the mass of crashes happened on Interstate 75 on the southwest side of the city. At least 13 people were rushed to hospitals, and others were treated at the scene, Shaw said.

SUVs with smashed front ends and cars with doors hanging open sat scattered across the debris-littered highway, some crunched against jackknifed tractor-trailers and tankers. Res-cue crews went vehicle to vehicle in the search for survivors and to provide aid. About 30 vehicles were involved in the morning accident.

Shaw said the two chil-dren who were killed are believed to be siblings, and their parents were hurt in the wreck. He said the boy died at the scene, and the girl died at a local hospital.

Shaw said the family is believed to be from Wind-sor, Ontario, across the Detroit River in Canada. None of the victims’ names has been released.

A similar pileup west of Indianapolis involving about 35 vehicles closed Interstate 70 in both direc-tions. Authorities said at least a dozen people were injured, and the interstate was expected to be closed for several hours.

In Detroit, the pileups were along a stretch of busy freeway that cuts through a heavily indus-trialized part of the city and nearby communities. Semi-trailers and tankers

dominate the interstate, some hauling loads and liquids to a nearby refinery and steel companies.

Motorists and passen-gers who were able to climb out of their vehicles huddled together on the side of the road, some visibly distraught, others looking dazed. A man and woman hugged under the gray, cloud-filled skies, a pair of suitcases next to them and a bumper on the ground behind.

Police: Teen shot by student at Ga. school

ATLANTA (AP) — A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck be-fore an armed officer work-ing at the school was able to get the gun away, police said.

Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown around 1:50 p.m. and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said. In the aftermath, a teacher re-ceived minor cuts, he said.

The wounded boy was taken “alert, conscious and breathing” to Grady Memorial Hospital, said police spokesman Carlos Campos. He was expected to be released Thursday night.

Police swarmed the school of about 400 stu-dents after reports of the shooting while a crowd of anxious parents gathered in the streets, awaiting word on their children. Students were kept at the locked-down school for more than two hours be-fore being dismissed.

Investigators believe the shooting was not random and that something oc-curred between the two

students that may have led to it.

Brazil fire prompts regional reaction

SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authori-ties inspected and shuttered night spots around the coun-try on Thursday as part of a crackdown on unsafe public spaces after a deadly nightclub fire left 235 people dead and shocked the na-tion. Officials in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Mexico fol-lowed Brazil’s example and tightened scrutiny on their own nightclubs.

The action comes just a week before Carnival celebrations get under way across Brazil and much of Latin America, with revel-ers set to pack streets and popular venues.

Inspectors in the Ama-zon city of Manaus have ordered the temporary closure of some 58 bars, nightclubs and other pub-lic buildings, the city’s Em Tempo newspaper report-ed. Owners of the affected night spots staged a protest Thursday outside City Hall to denounce what they said were arbitrary closures,

the newspaper said.It added that fire code

irregularities have been found even inside Manaus City Hall, including faulty emergency lighting and nonfunctional fire extin-guishers.

In Rio de Janeiro, officials said they were studying the possible closure of some of the dozens of cultural centers operated by state and local governments, in-cluding theaters, libraries and museums said to hold expired licenses. Nine out of 10 municipal theaters in Rio have expired fire inspection certificates, the O Globo daily reported on Thursday. It also said two nightclubs in the Rio neigh-borhood of Barra de Tijuca have been closed.

Alaska borough wants to give away $78M ferry

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Take my ferry. Please.

An Alaska borough stuck with a $90,000 monthly bill for maintaining a ferry it can’t use is offering the $78 million vessel free to any government entity — fed-

eral, state or local — that will have it.

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough also will con-sider selling the ferry, the 200-foot Susitna, for pennies on the dollar to a private company. The bor-ough appealed for a taker last week with a letter to the Passenger Vessel As-sociation, a trade group for companies that operate fer-ries, dinner cruises, tour boats and gambling boats.

“We’re trying to hook a buyer, and those are folks who might be using or needing ferries,” said bor-ough spokeswoman Patty Sullivan.

If sold to a private entity, Sullivan said, the borough is seeking $7 million to cover the cost of paying back federal grants that may have to be reimbursed if the ferry is not used for municipal public transpor-tation.

Ore. car-bomb suspect guilty of terrorism

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal jury found an Oregon man guilty of federal terrorism charges

on Thursday, rejecting the defense team’s argument that Mohamed Mohamud was entrapped or induced by a yearlong FBI sting that began to target him when he was a teenager.

Mohamud was accused of leading a plot to detonate a bomb at Portland’s 2010 Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. But the device he thought was a bomb was a fake, supplied by under-cover FBI agents posing as members of al-Qaida.

Mohamud sat still, giving no visible reaction as Thurs-day’s verdict was read. His attorney, Steve Sady, later said an appeal was being planned for after the sched-uled May 14 sentencing.

“We are disappointed with the verdict,” Sady said. “We obviously though he was entrapped.”

Prosecutors argued that Mohamud was predisposed to terrorism as early as 15 years old.

Mohamud, now 21, trad-ed emails with an al-Qaida lieutenant later killed in a drone strike. He also told undercover agents he would pose as a college stu-dent while preparing for violent jihad.

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Gasoline prices get early start on spring surgeNEW YORK (AP) — Gasoline

prices are getting an early start on their annual spring march higher.

The average U.S. retail price rose 13 cents over the past two weeks to $3.42 per gallon, and within a few days it will likely set a record for this time of year.

The culprits: Rising crude oil prices, slowing output at refiner-ies that are undergoing mainte-nance, and low supplies of gaso-line.

These are the kinds of things that push gasoline prices higher every spring after what is nor-mally a lull in gasoline prices in the late fall and early winter. But a heavy schedule of January maintenance at West Coast refin-eries has led to sharply higher prices there. Meanwhile, low inventories have pushed prices higher on the East Coast.

And rising crude oil prices

have pushed prices higher throughout the country.

“I’m not surprised at what I’m seeing, but I am surprised it’s coming early,” said Tom Kloza, Chief Oil Analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.

Hopes of stronger economic growth in the U.S. and abroad helped push the U.S. stock mar-ket to a five-year high in January and sent crude prices up. When economies expand, more gaso-line, diesel and jet fuel are con-sumed by shippers and travelers.

Crude oil has risen 14 percent since mid-December, to $97.49 on Thursday. Brent crude, the benchmark used to price oil that most U.S. refineries use to make gasoline, is up 9 percent since then to $115.55

But gasoline wholesale prices are rising even faster. That’s the price distributors and service stations pay to buy the gasoline

that they then sell to drivers. Wholesale prices in California are up 56 cents — a 20 percent jump — to $3.32 per gallon, in just two weeks, according to Kloza. Many California drivers will soon see $4 a gallon at local stations. Smaller but still sub-stantial jumps are being seen throughout the country.

Retail gasoline prices have risen for 14 days straight, ac-cording to AAA. The average price for the month of January was $3.32, the second highest January average ever, although a nickel cheaper than last year’s record. In each of the last two years gasoline prices rose sharp-ly at the beginning of the year because tensions in the Middle East raised fears that oil sup-plies would be disrupted. In 2011 it was the Libyan uprising; in 2012 it was Iran’s threat to close a key shipping lane.

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A gas pump is shown in this November 2012 file photo. Gasoline prices are get-ting an early start on their annual spring march higher. The average U.S. retail price rose 13 cents over the past two weeks to $3.42 per gallon.

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Furor over proposed shift in Boy Scouts’ no-gays policy

NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America fac-es intensifying criticism from the left and right over a proposal to move away from a mandatory no-gays membership policy and allow troop sponsors to de-cide the matter for them-selves.

The Human Rights Cam-paign, a major gay-rights group that initially wel-comed the BSA’s possible shift, said Thursday that it was inadequate and de-manded that the Scouts adopt a nationwide policy to accept gays as scouts and adult leaders.

The HRC said corpora-tions that continued to do-nate funds to the Scouts if any troops were allowed to discriminate would lose points in an annual evalua-tion of how major employ-ers deal with gay-related workplace issues.

Meanwhile, conservative groups which support the long-standing no-gays pol-icy asked their followers to flood BSA headquarters with phone calls opposing

any change,Tony Perkins, president

of the conservative Family Research Council, urged callers to persist even if they couldn’t get through at first.

“The BSA national lead-ership were not prepared for the thousands of Amer-icans who were shocked to hear that an organiza-tion that could always be counted on for standing for what’s right was about to cave in to homosexual ac-tivists and corporations,” Perkins said in an emailed appeal.

“It is so important that you keep the pressure on, to show them how devastat-ing this moral collapse will be for the Scouts and the country,” he said.

Similar appeals were made by other conservative groups across the country.

The Boy Scouts, who em-phatically reaffirmed the no-gays policy just seven months ago, announced on Monday that they were considering a major change. Instead of man-

datory exclusion of gays, the different religious and civic groups that sponsor Scout units would be able to decide for themselves how to address the issue — either maintaining the ex-clusion or opening up their membership.

The proposal is expected to be discussed, and possi-bly voted on, at a meeting of the Scouts’ national ex-ecutive board next week in Texas.

Deron Smith, the Scouts’ national spokesman, de-clined comment on the Human Rights Campaign’s announcement and also denied reports that the Scouts were taking a poll to gauge public sentiment on the controversy.

“When we receive calls we allow people to pro-vide feedback, but if the board decides to address this topic, it will be about what is in the best inter-est of Scouting,” Smith said. “Regardless of what people think about this issue, America needs Scouting.”

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Chuck HagelWASHINGTON (AP) —

Republican senators ham-mered former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel at his confir-mation hearing Thursday on issues ranging from Is-rael and Iran to his support for a group that advocates the elimina-tion of nucle-ar weapons. But with most Democrats in his corner, an unflustered Hagel seems headed for approval as de-fense secretary.

Hagel, a former two-term senator from Nebraska, de-scribed his views as main-stream and closely aligned with those of President Barack Obama, the Demo-crat who nominated him. But several GOP members of the Armed Services Committee sought to por-tray him as radical and unsteady. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., called his ideas “ex-treme” and “far to the left” of Obama.

Hagel said he believes America “must engage — not retreat — in the world,” and insisted that his record is consistent on that point.

He pointed to Iran and its nuclear ambitions as an example of an urgent na-tional security threat that should be addressed first by attempting to establish dialogue with Iranian rul-ers, although he said he would not rule out using military force.

“I think we’re always on higher ground in every

way — international law, domestic law, people of the world, people of the region to be with us on this — if we have ... gone through every possibility to resolve this in a responsible, peace-ful way, rather than going to war,” he said.

He pushed back on the notion — first raised by one of his harshest Republican critics, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma — that he favors a policy of appease-ment.

“I think engagement is clearly in our interest,” Hagel told Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., who de-nounced the idea of nego-tiating with a “terrorist state.”

“That’s not negotiation,” Hagel said. “Engagement is not appeasement. En-gagement is not surren-der.”

After the daylong hear-ing, committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the panel could vote as early as next Thursday if Hagel quickly provides ad-ditional material requested by some members.

The nominee’s fiercest exchange came with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a fel-low Vietnam veteran, one-time close friend and a vote that could carry consider-able sway. Politics and Ha-gel’s evolving opposition to the Iraq war caused a split between the two men that was on full display.

McCain suggested that Hagel and his critics were not quibbling over small matters.

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Law enforcement officers investigate the scene of a shooting in downtown Kaufman, Texas, on Thursday. A prosecutor was shot and killed Thursday morning near the Texas courthouse where he worked, and authorities said they were searching for two suspects.

Texas prosecutor gunned downKAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — An as-

sistant district attorney was shot and killed Thursday morning near the North Texas courthouse where he worked, and authorities said they were searching through his cases to try to find clues about why he may have been targeted.

Mark Hasse, 57, had exited his vehicle in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex and was walking toward the building when a masked gunman shot him multiple times just before 9 a.m., Kaufman County authori-ties said. Hasse was taken away in an ambulance, but it’s unclear if he died at the hospital or en route.

Investigators were talking to wit-nesses and had some leads but had not arrested anyone as of Thursday afternoon, Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh said. He urged the public to come forward with tips. The suspect or suspects were believed to have fled in a brown or silver older

model Ford Taurus. Officials didn’t immediately indicate any motive for the shooting in Kaufman, located about 33 miles southeast of Dallas.

“I hope the people that did this are watching because we’re very confident that we’re going to pull you out of whatever hole you’re in. We’re going to bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law,” District Attorney Mike McLelland said at a news confer-ence Thursday afternoon.

He said his office, the county and state had suffered a “devastating loss” and called Hasse a spectacular prosecutor who would not be easily replaced. He said Hasse, head of the organized crime unit, knew the dan-gers of his job but readily accepted them.

Doug Lowe, longtime district at-torney in nearby Anderson County, said Hasse’s death is disturbing for all who prosecute crimes in Texas.

“We are a tight group of people, and my heart bleeds for his family and his office,” Lowe said. “This re-minds us all that we deal with some very, very bad people.”

Lowe said he keeps a pistol in his office but plans to start taking it with him.

“This is pretty scary,” he said. “I may be packing heat for a while.”

Local law enforcement officials decried the shooting as an attack on the criminal justice system.

“We understand that we may come into contact with violent people, but this is the next level,” Kaufman County Sheriff David By-rnes said at a news conference.

Hasse, who previously worked as an assistant prosecutor in Dallas County, had worked in Kaufman County for three years. McLelland said Hasse worked hard and took work home with him at night and on weekends. He called him the of-fice “storyteller.”

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli air attack staged in Syria this week may be a sign of things to come.

Israeli military officials appear to have concluded that the risks of attacking Syria are worth taking when compared to the dangers of allowing sophis-ticated weapons to reach Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon.

With Syrian President Bashar Assad’s grip on pow-er weakening, Israeli offi-cials fear he could soon lose control over his substantial arsenal of chemical and advanced weapons, which could slip into the hands of Hezbollah or other hostile groups. These concerns, combined with Hezbollah’s own domestic problems, mean further military ac-tion could be likely.

Tzachi Hanegbi, an in-coming lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu’s Likud Party and a former chairman of parlia-ment’s influential foreign affairs and defense commit-tee, signaled Thursday that Israel could be compelled to act on its own. While Israel’s preference is for Western powers to gain control over Syria’s arms stockpile, he said there are no signs of that happening.

“Israel finds itself, like it has many times in the past, facing a dilemma that only it knows how to respond

to. And it could well be that we will reach a stage where we will have to make deci-sions,” Hanegbi told Israel’s Army Radio Thursday. Hanegbi, like other Israeli officials, would not confirm Israeli involvement in the airstrike.

In this week’s incident, Israeli warplanes conducted a rare airstrike inside Syria, according to U.S. officials who said the target was a convoy believed to be car-rying anti-aircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group allied with Syria and Iran.

The Syrian military has denied the existence of any weapons shipment and said a military research facility outside Damascus was hit.

On Thursday, Syria threatened to retaliate, while Hezbollah condemned the attack as “barbaric aggression.” Iran, which supplies arms to Syria, Hezbollah and the Hamas militant group in Gaza, said the airstrike would have significant implications for Israel. Syrian ally Russia said it appeared to be an unprovoked attack on a sov-ereign nation.

John Paul II’s gunman: Iran behind ‘81 attempt

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Turkish gunman who

shot Pope John Paul II has changed his story once again, saying in a new au-tobiography that Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini personally told him to kill the pope.

Mehmet Ali Agca writes in “They Promised Me Paradise,” released Thurs-day in Italy, that he was trained in Iran by Kho-meini’s forces after escap-ing from a Turkish prison, and that the Iranian leader himself told him to kill John Paul in the name of God.

Agca shot and wounded John Paul on May 13, 1981, in St. Peter’s Square.

Minutes after being ar-rested, Agca said he had acted alone. Later, he sug-gested Bulgaria and the

Soviet Union’s KGB were behind the attack, but then backed away from that assertion.

Agca was released from prison in 2010.

Armenia presidential hopeful shot, wounded

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A doctor says that a candidate in Armenia’s presidential election has been shot and wounded.

Ara Minasian, the chief doctor of the Yerevan Clinical Hospital, said Pa-ruir Airikian was shot by an unidentified gunman in the Armenian capital just before midnight Thursday. He said Airikian was hos-pitalized with a gunshot

wound and is in stable con-dition.

Airikian is one of eight candidates in the Feb. 18 presidential vote, which incumbent Serge Sarki-sian is expected to win. Airikian is expected to win only a few percent of the vote, according to opinion surveys.

Police were searching for the gunman.

Group: 591 killed in Venezuela prisons in ‘12

CARACAS, Venezu-ela (AP) — A Venezuelan watchdog group says the country’s latest bloody prison clash came after a year in which 591 inmates were killed in the country’s

troubled prisons.The Venezuelan Prisons

Observatory released last year’s death toll on Thurs-day, saying it was the highest it has recorded during the 14 years of President Hugo Chavez’s presidency.

The number of deaths in prison riots and other vio-lence in 2012 was up about 5 percent from the previ-ous year, and up about 24 percent over the number killed in 2010.

Human rights groups called for a thorough inves-tigation into Friday’s vio-lence at a prison in the city of Barquisimeto. The gov-ernment reported 58 killed in clashes between inmates and troops. Nearly all of victims were inmates.

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Mexico vigilantes set charges against 53 prisonersMEXICO CITY (AP) —

Vigilantes who have taken up arms against drug car-tel violence and common crime in southern Mexico announced Thursday they will bring charges ranging from organized crime to kidnapping and extortion against 50 men and three women who they have been holding prisoner at impro-vised jails.

Villagers armed with old hunting rifles, ancient pistols and small-bore shotguns set up armed pa-trols and roadblocks in the township of Ayutla almost one month ago to defend their communities against crime, saying authorities have failed to bring peace and safety to the Pacific coast state of Guerrero. So far, the state government has tolerated but not for-mally recognized the self-defense squads.

The growing movement toward self-policing, which has since spread to other towns in Guerrero, has sparked concern among human rights officials who say residents shouldn’t be allowed to take the law into their own hands.

“What is happening in Guerrero state is a warning sign that should alert au-thorities to do their duty and guarantee public safety, to avoid having these (vigilan-te) activities grow and out-strip the power of official in-stitutions,” said the head of the National Human Rights Commission, Raul Plascenc-ia. But in townships like Ayutla, it is clear the vigi-lante movement already has authorities cowed.

Villagers in squads of about a dozen patrol roads and search passing motor-ists, checking their identi-fication against handwrit-

ten lists of “bad guys.”On Thursday, the un-

bound, unsmiling detain-ees were marched between rows of armed, masked vig-ilantes in the town square of El Meson, in the town-ship of Ayutla. While the detainees appeared to be clean and adequately fed, and bore no obvious signs of mistreatment, reporters at the scene were not al-lowed to speak with them.

Two weeks before, angry villagers had turned back a team of Guerrero state human rights officials who had gone to visit the detain-ees and ensure they were being properly treated.

Human rights officials appear to be hamstrung; Mexican law allows rights commissions to investigate only abuses by authorities, not abuses committed by civilians against other ci-vilians.


Iran says it will speed up nuclear programVIENNA (AP) — In a defiant

move ahead of nuclear talks, Iran has announced plans to vastly increase its pace of ura-nium enrichment, which can make both reactor fuel and the fissile core of warheads. Eager to avoid scuttling those negotia-tions, world powers are keeping their response low-key.

Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency of its in-tentions last week, and the IAEA informed member nations in an internal note seen by The Associ-ated Press on Thursday.

The brief note quoted Iran as saying new-generation IR2m “centrifuge machines ...will be used” to populate a new “unit” — a technical term for an assembly that can consist of as many as 3,132 centrifuges.

It gave no timeframe. A senior diplomat familiar with the is-sue said work had not started, adding that it would take weeks, if not months, to have the new machines running once techni-cians started putting them in. He demanded anonymity because

he was not authorized to divulge confidential information.

Mark Fitzpatrick, a non-prolif-eration expert and former senior official at the U.S. State Depart-ment, described the planned upgrade as a potential “game-changer.”

“If thousands of the more ef-ficient machines are introduced, the timeline for being able to produce a weapon’s worth of fis-sile material will significantly shorten,” said Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strate-gic Studies.

“This won’t change the several months it would take to make actual weapons out of the fis-sile material or the two years or more that it would take to be able to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile, so there is no need to start beating the war drums,” he said. “But it will certainly esca-late concerns.”

The planned upgrade could burden international efforts to coax Tehran into scaling back its nuclear activities and cooperat-ing with the agency’s attempts to

investigate its suspicions of se-cret weapons work. Talks are ten-tatively set for next month with a date and venue still open.

Iran insists it does not want nuclear arms and argues it has a right to enrich uranium for a civilian nuclear power program. But suspicion persists that the real aim is nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic hid much of its nuclear program until it was revealed from the outside more than a decade ago. A deadlock in the IAEA’s probe of Iran’s nucle-ar program has furthered suspi-cions of a clandestine pursuit of atomic weapons.

Defying U.N. Security Council demands that it halt uranium enrichment, Iran has instead expanded it. Experts say Tehran already has enough enriched uranium to be able to turn it into weapons-grade material for sev-eral nuclear weapons.

The Iranian plan was con-demned by Israel, which sees Iran’s nuclear program as an existential threat and has said it would use all means to stop it

from reaching weapons capabil-ity.

“While the world is discuss-ing where and when the next meeting with Iran will be, Iran is rapidly advancing towards ob-taining a nuclear bomb,” said a senior official from Prime Minis-

ter Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. “The international community cannot allow Iran to arm itself with a nuclear weapon.”

The official demanded ano-nymity because he said he was not allowed to comment publicly on the issue.


In this Sept. 2007 file photo, an anti-aircraft gun position is shown at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.

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Israel may feel need to strike

Syria again


In this Nov. 17 photo, an Israeli Iron Dome missile is launched near the city of Be’er Sheva, southern Israel, to intercept a rocket fired from Gaza. An Israeli air attack reportedly staged in Syria this week may be a sign of things to come. Israeli military officials appear to have concluded that the risks in attacking Syria are worth taking when compared to the dangers of allowing sophisticated weapons to reach Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon.

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Confidence boostBy Marc Vieau cadillac news

CADILLAC — To call it battling back might be an understate-ment.

The last time they faced each other on the court, the result was a 23-point blowout.

That’s also the last time they lost.

Cadillac continued to show improvement and has put itself back in the race as it beat Traverse City West 56-53 in a key Big North Confer-ence boys’ basketball contest Thursday night.

The Vikings (10-2 overall, 5-2 BNC) lost to the Titans pretty handily before the Christmas break but haven’t been beaten since, including a huge win at Petoskey last Friday.

“We’ve pulled together as a team,” Cadillac junior forward Justin Liptak said. “That night, we were kind of spread out as individuals.”

For Cadillac coach Jeff Mc-Donald, the improvement is about the team sticking togeth-er and building its confidence.

“This team lost its first two Big North games of the year and one was a 23-point shel-lacking at TC West,” he said. “This team gained a large mea-sure of confidence tonight.

“The other thing is it’s Feb-ruary 1 so there’s still a ton of basketball to play. We’ve just got to keep getting better ev-ery day.”

Liptak is someone who has taken that to heart.

Typical for juniors making the move to the varsity game, he struggled with its speed at first. Now, a little more than halfway through the season, he’s getting into a groove.

Liptak scored a season-high 15 points Thursday night and was the recipient of good pass-ing underneath when Cadillac broke TC West’s trap game.

“I was getting good looks from my teammates and we were making good passes to-night,” he said. “It’s coming a lot easier to me now.”

McDonald said both Liptak and senior guard Matt Ad-ams gave Cadillac a boost.

“Matt and Justin really gave us a lift tonight by hitting shots and keeping us afloat at times,” he said.

“This was an awkward game for a lot of our guys be-cause West traps you all over the floor so you never find a comfort zone.

“When we broke it, we were able to get the ball inside to Justin and he hit shots.”

The Titans got off to a hot start as they led 9-2 early and were up 11-5 after the first quarter. Cadillac rallied, though, and outscored West 22-11 in the second quarter for a 27-22 halftime lead.

The Vikings led 38-36 going into the fourth quarter and it

was tight the rest of the way.The game was tied 42-42

midway through the fourth before Cadillac’s Nick Paquet buried a 3-pointer to make it 47-43 with 3:14 remaining. A putback by Liptak after sev-eral offensive rebounds made it 49-45 with 2:38 remaining.

The lead got as big as 51-45 af-ter a pair of free throws by Lip-tak with 1:48 left but a couple of turnovers and some missed opportunities made it interest-ing in the waning moments.

A three-point play by West’s Kendrick Meyer made it 52-49 with 1:07 remaining and two free throws by Meyer cut it to 53-51 with 39.6 seconds left.

Another big bucket under-neath by Liptak gave Cadillac a 55-51 lead with 26.5 seconds left and the Vikings survived a desperation 3-pointer by West that hit off the back of the rim.

Adams added 12 points for Ca-dillac while Paquet had 11, Jalen Brooks eight and Ben Mackey seven. Wyatt Lucas pulled down 10 rebounds and kept West’s Nate Castor in check. Castor is the leading three-point shooter in the Big North.

• TC West won the JV game 46-32. Ty Pugh paced Cadillac with seven points.

• TC West won the fresh-man game 57-25.

Cam McTaggart led Cadil-lac with eight points and Kev-in McLeskey had seven.

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Cadillac junior forward Justin Liptak hits the glass for a shot during Thursday’s Big North Conference con-test against Traverse City West. The Vikings beat the Titans 56-53.

Cadillac boys knock off TC West

Team Conf Overall

TC West 6-2 9-4

Cadillac 5-2 10-2

Petoskey 5-2 10-2

Alpena 4-3 8-3

TC Central 3-3 3-9

Gaylord 0-5 1-10

Ogemaw Heights 0-6 4-7

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Cadillac 56, TC West 53

Ogemaw Heights at Gaylord

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TC Central at Petoskey

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LEROY — Even an early hic-cup can’t slow them down.

Pine River found the go-ing rough for a short while early, but eventually treated the blip like a speed bump on the way to a 62-33 High-land Conference win over Northern Michigan Chris-tian in girls’ basketball ac-tion Thursday.

The Bucks (12-1, 9-0 High-land) missed five consecu-tive layups to start the con-test, and coupled with the a pair of 3-pointers from the Comets found themselves down 7-0 in the early going.

Pine River, though, closed the quarter with a 21-2 run.

“Pine River’s just a bunch of great athletes,” NMC coach Casey Sigafoose said of the Highland leaders. “We’ve got great athletes, too, but they’ve got great ballplayers. Their experi-ence was untouchable to-night. They’re just a won-derful ball club.”

The Bucks would take a 31-18 lead into the break, and led 52-24 heading into the fourth quarter.

“Our rebounding was decent tonight, especially in the second half, and I thought we were a lot more aggressive,” Pine River coach Shawn Ruppert said. “Paige Esiline came in and did a very nice job and was aggressive to the basket.

“I thought NMC came out aggressive,” he added of the Comets. “They’re young, but they’re getting better.”

Despite the loss, Sigafoose praised his team’s effort.

“I love their hearts,” he said. “I wouldn’t trade my team for any team. They com-peted from buzzer to buzzer.”

Jamie Justin paced the Bucks with 20 points and four rebounds, while Cay-man Gatt added nine points, five boards and three as-sists. Kassy Nelson recorded eight points, six rebounds and four steals, while Haley Raymond chipped in with eight points and five boards.

Ruppert praised the de-fensive efforts of Devin Powell, who pulled down eight boards and collected four steals.

For NMC, Emma Towers, Adri Sigafoose and Paige Schoo each had eight points, with Towers adding four steals.

Pine River hosts Mason County Central as part of a varsity doubleheader at 6 p.m. Monday, while NMC (9-5, 5-4) hosts Beal City Tuesday.

• Pine River won the JV game, 38-28.

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Michigan State's Keith Appling, right, drives for a layup against Illinois' Nnanna Egwu during the second half of a game Thursday in East Lansing. Appling led Michigan State with 24 points in the team's 80-75 win.

Appling leads Michigan State to victoryBy Larry LaGe

The associaTed press

EAST LANSING — Keith Appling bounced back from a poor perfor-mance when No. 13 Michigan State needed him most.

Appling led a pivotal run early in the second half and finished with 24 points, eight rebounds and seven assists to help the short-handed Spartans beat Illinois 80-75 on Thursday night.

Michigan State (18-4, 7-2 Big Ten) started the game without senior cen-ter Derrick Nix, finished it without sophomore guard Travis Trice and played much of the second half with-out freshman guard Gary Harris.

"We just had to pick it up and grind the game out without Gary and Tra-vis," Appling said.

The junior point guard was coming off a three-point, no-assist, five-foul performance Sunday in a five-point loss at No. 3 Indiana. Appling helped the Spartans score the first 14 points of the second half to take their first

lead against Illinois."He was the best

player on the floor," Illi-nois coach John Groce said. "He did a great job of making his team-mates better.

"He has a swagger about him that ulti-mately gives them swagger and confi-dence."

Nix didn't start be-cause Izzo said the captain missed one class and one meeting with a tutor. He entered the game midway through the first half and finished with eight points.

"Did that hurt my team? It did," Izzo said. "It was a distraction."

Trice, a key guard off the bench, was limited to 11 minutes in the first half because of a blow he took to the head on a shot attempt. Trice missed five games after breaking his nose and getting a concussion in the season-opening loss to Connecticut and Izzo said early reports on his latest head

injury were not encouraging.Harris, a starter, went to the locker

room midway through the second half with back spasms and returned to the bench, but not the game.

"He couldn't even walk so we couldn't put him back in," Izzo said. "That hurt us, we're just not deep enough."

Harris, who said he was OK, had 14 points and fellow freshman Denzel Val-entine scored a career-high 14, Braden Dawson had 12 points and nine rebounds and Adreian Payne added eight points, including a dunk off an alley-oop pass with 1:45 left to put the Spartans up 72-67.

Appling's spinning, scooping layup put them ahead by six points with 45 seconds remaining to essentially seal the victory that kept Michigan State undefeated at home this season.

The Fighting Illini (15-7, 2-6), who were ranked as high as No. 10, lost for the fifth time in six games. They had a chance to be the first team with four wins over currently ranked teams, but put themselves in a tough position for postseason play.

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McBain cruises past Lake City

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LAKE CITY — Hot shooting and a balanced attack led McBain to a dominant 79-37 victory over Lake City in a Highland Conference girls’ basketball contest Thurs-day.

The Ramblers got dou-ble-digit scoring from four different players, led by Meredith Hamlet’s triple-double effort of 20 points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds.

“That’s the number I’m most proud of,” McBain coach Todd Hamlet said of his sophomore daugh-ter’s assist total. “We were able to distribute the ball around and the kids were hitting their shots.”

The Ramblers led 20-10 after the opening quarter and stretched the mar-gin to 43-18 at the break. McBain led 66-29 heading into the final stanza.

Todd Hamlet was effusive in his praise for his team’s collective effort, noting es-pecially the off-the-bench performances of Sam Bode (12 points), Haley Koetje

(two 3-pointers to start the third quarter), and Asia LaGrow (eight points).

“This might have been the first game since Cadil-lac where we had 10 kids play 32 minutes,” he said.

“We didn’t lose a step no matter who was in the game.

“Our team shot really well tonight.”

For Lake City coach Luke Prielipp, the night was about knowing what they faced but choosing instead to look internally.

“Going in to this we know what we’re up against with McBain,” he said.

“They’ve got such a good program. But I told the girls, we just need to focus on us. Since the break, we haven’t been playing as good as we can.

“I wanted them to focus on effort, and I was very happy with the effort to-night.”

Maddie Barnette added 15 points, five rebounds and five assists for McBain, while Kara Hughston notched 10 points and five

steals.Lake City was paced by

Makayla Schichtel’s eight points and nine rebounds,

while Mackenzie McCord added eight points, five boards and two steals, and Maggie Eising chipped

in six points and five re-bounds.

McBain (7-5, 6-2 High-land) hosts Manton Tues-

day, while Lake City is at Evart the same night.

• McBain won the JV game.

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Lake City’s McKenzie McCord tries to rip the ball away from McBain’s Maddie Barnette during Thursday’s Highland Conference contest. The Ramblers beat the Trojans 79-37.

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EVART — This one was a tale of two halves.

Manton used a stifling press to jump out to a big first half lead, then could only watch as Evart began hitting long-range bombs to charge back and steal a 53-52 Highland Conference victory in girls’ hoops action Thursday.

The Wildcats led 10-7 after the opening quarter, but the Ranger press produced 24 second quarter points on the way to a 31-18 half-time lead.

“We came out a little sluggish, but then we pressured them in the second uarter and scored 24 points,” Manton coach J.P. Kato-na said. “What happened was we

ran out of gas in the second half.“They kept chipping away and

chipping away.”Manton maintained a 44-35

lead entering the fourth quarter, but late turnovers turned into three big 3-pointers for the hosts in the closing minutes.

“Give them credit,” Katona said of Evart. “They hit some big shots.

“I thought we worked hard in the first half, and we were getting steal after steal, doing what we were doing.”

Evart would connect eight times on the night from behind the arc.

Jurrica Stanley paced the Rangers with 18 points, while Karrah Baker added 11 points,

six rebounds and four steals. Tori Vogelaar chipped in with seven points, eight boards and three steals.

Manton is at McBain Tuesday, while Evart hosts Lake City the same night.

• Manton won the JV game, 43-15. Katie Flint led the Rangers with 15 points and seven steals, while Zoe Wahr added eight steals.

Marion falls to AggiesBEAL CITY — The rust was a little

more than apparent.With the week’s weird weather,

Thursday marked the first time Marion stepped on the basketball court as a team.

Facing the Eagles was a solid Beal City team and the rust showed as the Aggies scored a 67-35 victory in Highland Confer-ence play Thursday.

“We’ve had the three days off with no practice and it showed,” Marion coach Brian Miller said. “We had some things after our last game against Beal City that we wanted to do different but we didn’t have time to work on them.

“We tried it anyway and didn’t have a lot of success.”

Beal City led 21-9 after the first quarter and was up 39-15 at half-time.

Jamie Sylvester paced the Ea-gles with 10 points while Makay-la Swiler and Ashley Nowland each scored six points.

Marion hosts Pine River on Tuesday.

Highland Girlsn

Team Conf Overall

Pine River 9-0 12-1

Beal City 6-2 8-5

McBain 6-2 7-5

NMC 5-4 9-5

Manton 3-6 5-10

Evart 2-6 4-9

Lake City 2-7 7-7

Marion 1-8 4-11

Thursday’s Games

Evart 53, Manton 52

McBain 79, Lake City 37

Beal City 67, Marion 35

Pine River 62, NMC 33

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HARBOR SPRINGS — Call it deja vu all over again.

Cadillac’s boys took sec-ond and the girls fourth for the second straight time Thursday in a Big North Conference ski meet at Nub’s Nob.

Petoskey cruised to the win on the boys’ side with 36 points while the Vikings were second at 80, Traverse City Central third at 89, Tra-verse City West fourth at 89.5 and Gaylord fifth at 175.

“It was an excellent job by everybody,” Cadillac coach Joe Host said.

Cadillac fared best in the giant slalom as sophomores Keenan Cooper took first in 48.65 seconds and Nate Houk second at 48.68. Tyler Neiss was 16th in 55.76 and

Alex Best 17th in 55.92.On the slalom, Cooper

was third at 1:04.11, Houk sixth at 1:06.62, Best 17th at 1:13.80 and Adam Pertunen 18th at 1:16.13.

TC Central won the girls’ race with 37 points while Petoskey was second at 61, TC West third at 68, Cadillac fourth at 132 and Gaylord fifth at 192.

On the GS course, Ma-rissa VanAlst was 14th in 1:03.21, Gabrielle Sake 16th in 1:04.84, Emily Orcutt 17th in 1:05.65 and Sarah Mitch-ell 18th in 1:06.57.

On the slalom, Orcutt was 15th in 1:17.93, Mitchell 16th in 1:19.68, VanAlst 17th in 1:20.65 and Sake 19th in 1:22.04.

Cadillac competes in the third BNC meet Wednesday at Crystal Mountain.

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Colorado Avalanche's Ryan Wilson, left, and Jarome Iginla collide during the second period of a game Thursday in Calgary, Alberta.

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By LARRy LAGEap hockey writer

DETROIT — Wanna fight?

If you’re an NHL player, you can probably find some-body to drop the gloves.

A lockout-delayed and shortened season has creat-ed a spike in fights around the league, just as it did the last time labor woes led to a 48-game season.

There were 58 fights through the first 87 games this year, following play on Tuesday night, an increase from 39 after the same num-ber of games last season, according to STATS.

During the 1994-95 sea-son, there were 83 fights over the first 87 games of that lockout-shortened slate, a jump from 58 during the same stretch previous season.

“Obviously, you have a situation where the players are being thrown into the immediate intensity of a shortened season and that certainly may play a role,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly wrote Thursday in an email to The Associ-ated Press. “We monitor these things as well, and the number of fighting majors have decreased significant-ly and begun to normalize over the last week. I expect that will continue over the balance of the season.”

There were, in fact, few-er fighting penalties than games on Monday for the first time since the season started with 12 fights in 13 games. And on Wednesday, there were six fights in four games.

But there were a season-high 16 fights in 10 games on Tuesday, when Detroit Red Wings forward Jordin Tootoo and fought two dif-ferent players in the open-ing period against the Dal-las Stars.

Tootoo has been a part of two of the four fights that have started within the first three seconds of a game this season. When the gloves drop soon after the puck does, the fights seem orchestrated by World Wrestling Entertainment decision-makers.

“For me personally, noth-ing is staged,” Tootoo in-sisted. “It’s spontaneous. It’s all about the eye contact. You kind of say, ‘Let’s do it,’ with-out saying a word.”

Some players say they’re unleashing pent-up energy, stored during the four-month lockout.

Others want to give fans what they seem to want.

One 25-year-old player ac-knowledges he’s fighting for his job. Nashville Predators forward Richard Clune has been trying to make it back in the NHL since playing in 14 games with the Los Ange-les Kings three years ago. He was in three fights in his first five games.

Clune didn’t play in Nash-ville’s opener when star de-fenseman Shea Weber got into a rare fight with Colum-bus forward Jared Boll, the first NHL player to five fights this season.

Clune, perhaps not coinci-dently, was in the lineup for the next game and tried to make his presence felt right away by getting penalized for boarding in the opening

minutes.“I play hard and get in

the other team’s faces and sometimes it results in dropping the gloves,” Clune said in a telephone inter-view before playing on the road against the Kings.

The NHL struggles with its public stance toward fighting.

The league doesn’t want to embrace or encourage the most violent part of its fast-paced, heavy-hitting game during a concussion crisis in sports, and with some of its former enforc-ers dying young and unex-pectedly in 2011.

And yet fans seem to stand and cheer each time gloves drop and fists fly.

Red Wings senior vice president Jim Devellano, who has four decades of NHL front-office experi-ence and is in the Hockey

Hall of Fame, said he used to be among the majority of people within the game that accept fighting as simply being a part of the sport.

“I’ve changed 100 percent and I’m now in the minor-ity because I personally could do without fighting,” Devellano said.

“I don’t think it brings anything to the game and there’s a lot of violence in society that we have to read about all the time.

“I changed my opinion when Scotty Bowman, who wasn’t big on fighting, was our coach and I saw how beautiful the game can be when you let the talent and the speed of the game take over. I’m not a crusader to stop fighting, but when I’ve shared my opinion with hockey people, they’re not really happy with what I say.”

Fights have spiked in another shortened NHL season

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NEW ORLEANS — In-vestigators have confis-cated more than $13.6 mil-lion worth of phony sports merchandise over the past five months and expect to seize more in New Orleans during Super Bowl week, a federal law-enforcement of-ficial said Thursday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Di-rector John Morton said authorities also have shut down more than 300 web-sites selling counterfeit goods as part of an enforce-ment effort dubbed "Opera-tion Red Zone."

The operation targeted international shipments of jerseys, hats and other sou-venirs entering the U.S. for sale by stores, flea markets and street vendors.

And federal investigators say they have intelligence that shows even the Mexi-can drug cartels are getting

involved in the counterfeit NFL black market trade be-cause they can make quick money by selling fake jer-seys in flea markets and parking lots.

In September, for ex-ample, HSI's newly created trade enforcement unit seized dozens of counterfeit San Francisco 49ers, Min-nesota Vikings and Miami Dolphins jerseys around New Mexico.

Agents have also raided flea markets in El Paso, Texas, and seized NFL jer-seys that federal agents say were believed to be linked to cartels in northern Mexico and local gangs like Barrio Azteca.

Officials say that a num-ber of seizures of fake NFL materials have shown evidence that cartels are venturing into the lucra-tive black market in border states, although they are just finding out how the op-erations work.

Federal agents believe

cartels are using the coun-terfeit trade to launder mon-ey and expand their illegal activities as authorities step up drug enforcement.

"Cartels are seeking to get their hands into any illegal activity they can," said Kev-in Abar, assistant special agent in charge of Home-land Security Investigations in New Mexico.

"A lot of folks may think that there's nothing wrong with buying a knockoff Denver Broncos jersey, but in reality, the money is be-ing used to fund the drug war in Mexico."

More than 160,000 coun-terfeit items, mostly pur-porting to be official Super Bowl and other NFL mer-chandise, were seized dur-ing "Operation Red Zone." A total of 23 people have been arrested on related charges since September 2012.

"We attacked the counter-feiters at every point along the criminal supply chain," Morton said during a press

briefing in New Orleans.Morton said agents also

were in the city this week to crack down on the sale of counterfeit merchandise before Sunday's Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens.

"This just takes good old-fashioned police work, people getting out on the streets," he said.

This is the fifth consecu-tive year that federal au-thorities have launched a similar operation to crack

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"This is the largest num-ber we've ever seized," Mor-ton said of the $13.6 million.

Feds: $13.6M in phony sports goods confiscated

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Andy Hageman, owner of the House of Football in Albuquerque, N.M., holds an authentic NFL hat Thursday, while discussing ways of determining fakes. Federal officials announced Thursday that investigators have confiscated more than $13.6 million worth of phony sports merchandise nation-wide over the past five months and expect to seize more in New Orleans during Super Bowl week. Homeland Security Investigation officials said that Mexican drug cartels are getting involved in the NFL black market.

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Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, left, catches a pass as linebacker Ray Lewis walks past during an NFL Super Bowl XLVII football practice on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in New Orleans.

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NEW ORLEANS — Un-happy with the hard arti-ficial turf at Tulane Uni-versity's baseball field, the Baltimore Ravens finished practice Thursday on the grass field at the Saints' fa-cility instead.

The San Francisco 49ers, their opponent in Sunday's Super Bowl, already are training at the Saints' com-plex in nearby Metairie.

The Ravens asked the league early Thursday if

they could work out at the Saints' facility. In order for both teams to practice at different times there, the Ravens agreed to dress at Tulane's baseball facility and hold their 30-minute walk-through there.

Then the players and coaches boarded five buses for the 8-mile trip from Tu-lane to the Saints' facility, not far from New Orleans International Airport.

There, under heightened security, the Ravens com-pleted their on-field work

for the day with a 1-hour, 25-minute practice coach John Harbaugh called "a very normal, late-season Thursday practice."

All 53 players on the Ra-vens' active roster prac-ticed under sunny skies, and none of the players was limited.

"I think our players dealt with it great," said Har-baugh, who walked off the field afterward with line-backer Ray Lewis.

"As Ray just said to me, 'We work.' That's what we

do. Our guys don't flinch at things like this."

Because Tulane has broken ground on a new football stadium, the AFC champions were forced to practice in the outfield of the baseball facility Wednesday.

"It's a baseball field, it's really tight, and when you stop and start, you feel it," Lewis said. "It's especially tough for the older guys. I know the other players, on that hard surface, they feel it.”

Ravens moving main practice to grass field

By JANIE MCCAULEythe aSSociated preSS

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hall of Famer Jerry Rice has no interest in a back-and-forth debate with Randy Moss during Super Bowl week about who's the greatest NFL wide receiver of all time.

"This is not about Ran-dy and Jerry," Rice said Thursday. "It's OK. I don't need to talk about being the best receiver. I don't need to do that. I don't need to pat myself on the back."

Rice has a strong opinion on the matter, yet insists he won't come out and say he is the best ever. The former San Francisco 49ers star turned television man will offer one thought to Moss: Check the stats.

"I know he says you can't bring the stats into the scenario, but I think that's part of being the best re-ceiver to play the game," Rice said Thursday.

"I'm just having fun with it right now. I think the thing is, I never took any plays off and I always gave 100 percent. Also, you put my numbers up against Randy's and my body of

work compared to his, and there's a big difference."

During media day Tues-day at the Superdome, Moss declared himself "the greatest receiver ever to play this game."

The 35-year-old Moss, who returned to the league this season after a year off, Moss made 28 catches for 434 yards and three touch-downs this season.

In 2007, he broke Rice's single-season record for touchdown catches with 23. Rice had 22 in 1987.

Rice had 14 1,000-yard seasons. Moss is second with 10.

Rice, who played the first 16 of his 21 NFL seasons with San Francisco from 1985-2000, holds virtually every significant receiving mark. That includes most career receptions (1,549); yards receiving (22,895); to-tal touchdowns (208); and combined net yards (23,546) in his career with San Fran-cisco, Oakland and Seattle.

Rice gives Moss the nod for pure talent and athletic abil-ity, but that's not all it takes.

"The thing about me guys — and I still say this today — I think Randy Moss was the most talented," Rice

said. "But along with being the most talented, you have to work hard — every sea-son, every play. I was not the most talented, but I was going to outwork you.

“He probably could have been the greatest player ever to play the game. He's 6-5, could run a 4.3. Could outjump you. Struck fear in the heart of the defense. But you have to have it here, in your heart."

Rice later pointed out that he wasn't questioning Moss' heart, just emphasiz-ing his own and the pas-sion for the game.

"This is how I impacted the game," Rice said, hold-ing up the sparkly 1988-89 championship ring on his middle right finger, "with Super Bowl rings. I'm hop-ing he can go out there and win his first one and be a big factor."

Before Rice spoke, dur-ing a media session for sev-eral in the lineup of ESPN commentators, he was an-nounced as "arguably the best wide receiver ..." The woman couldn't finish be-fore Rice interrupted.

"The second best," he quipped, laughing.

Let the debate continue.

Rice to Moss: check the stats

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NEW ORLEANS — When Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome walks through the locker room past Joe Flacco, other players start up a chant: "Pay the man, pay the man."

No worries: Flacco will be getting paid.The question is, by which team?Yet Flacco's expiring contract doesn't

seem to concern anyone with the Ravens, including the quarterback himself.

Flacco practically shrugged Thursday when asked about potentially being a free agent after the Ravens play the San Fran-cisco 49ers in the Super Bowl.

"It's real simple," said Flacco, who made $6.76 million this year in the final season of his rookie contract. "We didn't agree on a number and I didn't really care to discuss it any further once it got to that point. Bottom line is I'm not the guy going up into their offic-es and negotiating with them every day any-ways. It was really never a concern of mine

and I never really thought about it. Even in the offseason, when you think about it a little bit, they are really all good thoughts.

The guy talking about it with Ravens management is agent Joe Linta. He and Newsome recently had brief discussions about a new deal, but nothing was done.

"The onus is on them to make a move af-ter this week," said Linta, who recognizes that the Ravens could slap the franchise tag on Flacco for 2013 at a cost of about $14.6 million. "I would guess they want to keep him. He's 28, in the prime of his football life, has never missed a game. His resume on the table is outstanding and his future is even brighter."

If that resume includes a Super Bowl win, Flacco might cost the Ravens in the $20 million per year range that Tom Brady and the Mannings are at.

Flacco, a first-round draft pick in 2008 out of Delaware, already is the only quarter-back to win a playoff game in each of his first five seasons.

Flacco's expiring contract not an issue

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Prep Sports ScheduleFRIDAY, FEB 1

Boys BasketballMcBain at Pine RiverManton at Lake CityMarion at NMCBeal City at EvartMesick at KingsleyBuckley at Frankfort

Girls Basketball Cadillac at TC WestReed City at Holton

SATURDAY, FEB. 2Boys Basketball

Skeels Christian at Heritage Chr.Wrestling

Mid-Michigan tourney at Pine RiverCSAA Meet at Holton

MONDAY, FEB. 4Boys Basketball

Mason County Central at Pine RiverVestaburg at EvartNewaygo at Reed City

Girls BasketballCadillac at LudingtonMason County Central at Pine River

TUESDAY, FEB. 5Boys Basketball

Cadillac at Ogemaw HeightsNMC at MP Sacred HeartManton at ManisteeImmanuel at Heritage Christian

Girls BasketballOgemaw Heights at CadillacManton at McBainLake City at EvartBeal City at NMCPine River at MarionNewaygo at Reed CityBuckley at Mesick

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6Boys Basketball

Leland at MesickGlen Lake at Buckley

Girls BasketballMcBain at EvartMorley Stanwood at Reed City

SkiingCadillac in BNC Meet (Crystal Mtn.)

WrestlingReed City in Div. 3 Team District at Clare

THURSDAY, FEB. 7Boys Basketball

Pine River at NMCEvart at MantonBeal City at MarionLakeview at Reed City

Girls BasketballMesick at FrankfortSuttons Bay at Buckley

WrestlingPine River in Div. 4 Team District at Pine River

FRIDAY, FEB. 8Boys Basketball

Lake City at McBainBuckley at MesickMidland Christian at Heritage Chr.

Girls BasketballManistee at CadillacNMC at McBainLake City at Pine RiverBeal City at MantonEvart at MarionReed City at Lakeview

HockeyCadillac at GR Northview Invitational

Prep Boys’ Hoops Rankings

The top 10 teams in the Michigan Associated Press high school bas-ketball poll, with records in parenthe-ses. Totals are based on 15 points for a first-place vote, 14 for second, etc.:

ClASS A1. Detroit Pershing (5) (14-0) 752. Romulus (9-1) 693. Saginaw Arthur Hill (12-0) 664. East Kentwood (12-0) 605. Detroit U-D Jesuit (10-2) 516. Saginaw (13-1) 497. Detroit Cass Tech (12-1) 488. Detroit Southeastern (11-3) 399. Zeeland East (11-1) 3110. Grand Blanc (11-0) 30Others receiving votes: Temperance Bedford 21, Holt 13, Macomb L’Anse Creuse North 12, Rochester Adams 11, Lansing Waverly 6, Harrison Township L’Anse Creuse 6, Clarkston 4, Fenton 3, Warren De La Salle 2, Ypsilanti 2, DeWitt 1, Okemos 1.

ClASS B1. Detroit Country Day (4) (9-2) 651. Wyoming Godwin Hts (10-1) 653. Dowagiac Union (10-1) 594. Stevensville Lakeshore (11-0) 555. Harper Wds Chandler Prk (9-3) 536. Otsego (9-1) 497. Dearborn Hts Robichaud (6-2) 398. Jackson Lumen Christi (9-1) 389. Big Rapids (1) (11-0) 3510. Detroit Douglass (7-1) 24Others receiving votes: Frankenmuth 23, Lansing Sexton 19, Hudsonville Unity Christian 14, Comstock Park 13, Warren Fitzgerald 11, Yale 10, Cadillac 10, Lansing Catholic 6, Trenton 3, Spring Lake 3, Flint South-western Classical Academy 2, Port-land 1, South Haven 1, Corunna 1, Bridgeport 1.

ClASS C1. Flint Beecher (5) (12-1) 752. Grandville Calvin Chr. (11-1) 653. Traverse City St. Francis (11-0) 604. Melvindale AB&T (7-0) 465. Detroit Consortium (8-2) 426. Detroit Loyola (10-2) 377. Negaunee (10-1) 368. Harbor Beach (11-0) 349. Mount Clemens (9-1) 3210. Flint Hamady (13-0) 28Others receiving votes: leroy Pine River 27, New Haven 23, Pewamo-Westphalia 23, Muskegon Heights

Muskegon Hghts Public Sch Acade-my System 19, Montague 17, Ithaca 10, Pontiac Academy for Excellence 8, Adrian Madison 7, Hanover-Horton 5, Sanford-Meridian 4, Schoolcraft 1, McBain 1.

ClASS D1. Wyoming Tri-unity (4) (11-1) 742. Climax-Scotts (1) (12-0) 713. Cedarville (11-1) 624. Allen Prk Inter-City Bapt (10-2) 565. Southfield Christian (8-4) 556. Frankfort (10-0) 537. Bellaire (8-0) 458. Mio Au Sable (11-0) 399. Mt Pleasant Sacred Hrt (11-1) 3610. Brimley (10-2) 24Others receiving votes: Middleton Fulton 18, Mendon 14, Carney-Nadeau 13, Munising 9, Canton Plymouth Christian Academy 7, Lake Linden-Hubbell 7, Crystal Falls For-est Park 5, Eau Claire 3, Ewen-Trout Creek 3, DeTour 2, Rock Mid Penin-sula 2, Bessemer 2.

Prep Girls’ Hoops Rankings

The top 10 teams in the Michigan Associated Press high school bas-ketball poll, with records in paren-theses. Totals are based on 15 points for a first-place vote, 14 for second,etc.:

ClASS A1. Detroit King (3) (13-0) 732. Grand Haven (1) (12-0) 683. Grosse Pointe South (1) (12-1) 674. East Lansing (11-1) 605. Westland John Glenn (12-1) 566. Midland Dow (14-0) 487. Clarkston (11-1) 428. Macomb Dakota (11-2) 389. Southfield Lathrup (11-2) 2410. Inkster (9-0) 22Others receiving votes: Grand Ledge 21, Brownstown Woodhaven 16, Bloomfield Hills Marian 13, Novi 12, Utica Ford 11, Waterford Kettering 11, DeWitt 8, Dexter 4, Walled Lake Western 4, Farmington Hills Harrison 1, Mattawan 1.

ClASS B1. Goodrich (5) (12-1) 752. Flat Rock (13-0) 673. Freeland (11-1) 634. Detroit Country Day (10-2) 615. Eaton Rapids (12-2) 546. Hamilton (11-1) 486. Ludington (11-1) 488. Gd Rapids South Chr. (11-1) 389. Portland (11-2) 3710. Midland Bullock Creek (10-2) 22Others receiving votes: Dearborn Divine Child 20, Clare 16, Haslett 9, Olivet 7, Big Rapids 6, Battle Creek Harper Creek 6, Benton Harbor 6, Flint Powers 4, Wayland 4, Livonia Ladywood 3, Kalkaska 2, Grand Rap-ids Catholic Central 2, Williamston 1, Shepherd 1.

ClASS C1. Reese (4) (13-0) 742. Niles Brandywine (1) (12-0) 673. Saginaw Nouvel (11-1) 604. Manchester (12-1) 474. Concord (12-1) 476. leroy Pine River (11-1) 407. Kent City (12-1) 398. Houghton (12-1) 379. Sag. Valley Lutheran (12-2) 3310. Flint Hamady (12-1) 27Others receiving votes: Watervliet 26, Traverse City St. Francis 25, Ypsi-lanti Arbor Preparatory 21, Johan-nesburg-Lewiston 12, Shelby 11, Burton Bendle 10, Marlette 7, Adrian Madison 4, Carson City-Crystal 3, Gobles 3, Hemlock 3, Pewamo-West-phalia 2, Lincoln-Alcona 1, Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary 1.

ClASS D1. St. Ignace LaSalle (5) (13-0) 752. Crystal Falls Forest Prk (13-0) 693. Lansing Christian (13-0) 664. Superior Central (14-0) 595. Portland St. Patrick (12-1) 525. Waterford Our Lady (10-2) 527. Mendon (12-1) 438. Posen (15-0) 429. DeTour (10-1) 2210. Marine City Card Mney (8-4) 20Others receiving votes: Gaylord St. Mary 17, Birmingham Roeper 15, Fruitport Calvary Christian 12, Bark River-Harris 10, Manistee Catholic 8, Hillsdale Academy 7, Powers North Central 7, Athens 6, Ontonagon 6, Carney-Nadeau 4, St. Joseph Lake Michigan Catholic 4, Big Rapids Crossroads 2, Pickford 1, Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart 1.

Prep Hockey Rankings

Coaches association rankings for the week of Jan. 28

DIVISION 11. Birmingham Brother Rice2. Detroit Catholic Central3. Brighton4. Muskegon Mona Shores5. Orchard Lake St. Marys6. Macomb Dakota7. Plymouth8. Grosse Pointe North9. Utica Eisenhower10. Plymouth Salem

DIVISION 21. Trenton2. Livonia Stevenson3. Traverse City Central4. Escanaba5. Livonia Churchill6. Hartland7. Saginaw Heritage

8. Grosse Pointe South9. Grand Haven10. Novi

DIVISION 31. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook2. Houghton3. Sault Ste Marie4. Flint Powers5. Calumet6. Gross Pointe University Liggett7. Chelsea8. Riverview9. Dearborn Divine Child10. Hancock

NFL PlayoffsWIlD-CARD PlAYOFFS

Saturday, Jan. 5Houston 19, Cincinnati 13Green Bay 24, Minnesota 10

Sunday, Jan. 6Baltimore 24, Indianapolis 9Seattle 24, Washington 14

DIVISIONAl PlAYOFFSSaturday, Jan. 12

Baltimore 38, Denver 35, 2OTSan Francisco 45, Green Bay 31

Sunday, Jan. 13Atlanta 30, Seattle 28New England 41, Houston 28CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sunday, Jan. 20San Francisco 28, Atlanta 24Baltimore 28, New England 13

PRO BOWlSunday, Jan. 27

At HonoluluNFC 62, AFC 35

SUPER BOWl XlVIISunday, Feb. 3At New Orleans

Baltimore vs. San Francisco, 6 p.m. (CBS)

Men’s Hoops Top 25The top 25 teams in The Associ-ated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 27, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv1. Michigan (51) 19-1 1,611 22. Kansas (13) 18-1 1,572 33. Indiana 18-2 1,457 74. Florida (1) 16-2 1,420 85. Duke 17-2 1,328 16. Syracuse 18-2 1,322 37. Gonzaga 19-2 1,177 108. Arizona 17-2 1,160 69. Butler 17-3 1,023 910. Oregon 18-2 969 1611. Ohio St. 15-4 945 1412. Louisville 16-4 905 513. Michigan St. 17-4 897 1314. Miami 15-3 894 2515. Wichita St. 19-2 621 2016. Mississippi 17-2 473 2317. Missouri 15-4 464 2218. Kansas St. 15-4 463 1119. NC State 16-4 431 1820. New Mexico 17-3 333 1521. Creighton 18-3 312 1722. San Diego St. 16-4 302 —23. Minnesota 15-5 281 1224. Cincinnati 16-4 220 2125. Marquette 14-4 216 —Others receiving votes: Georgetown 121, UNLV 56, Wisconsin 45, UCLA 34, Arizona St. 14, Notre Dame 12, Pittsburgh 10, Louisiana Tech 8, Villanova 6, Baylor 5, Iowa St. 4, Memphis 4, VCU 4, La Salle 3, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 2, Colorado St. 1.

Big Ten Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTMichigan 7 1 .875 20 1 .952Indiana 7 1 .875 19 2 .905Michigan St. 7 2 .777 18 4 .818Ohio St. 6 2 .750 16 4 .800Wisconsin 5 3 .625 14 7 .667Minnesota 4 4 .500 16 5 .762Purdue 4 4 .500 11 10 .524Iowa 3 5 .375 14 7 .667Nwestern 3 6 .333 12 10 .545Illinois 2 6 .250 15 7 .681Nebraska 2 7 .222 11 11 .500Penn St. 0 9 .000 8 13 .380

Tuesday’s GamesOhio St. 58, Wisconsin 49Minnesota 84, Nebraska 65

Wednesday’s GamesMichigan 68, Northwestern 46Indiana 97, Purdue 60

Thursday’s GamesMichigan State 80, Illinois 75Iowa 76, Penn State 67

Mid-AmericanEast Division

Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTAkron 7 0 1.000 16 4 .800Ohio 6 0 1.000 15 5 .750Buffalo 3 4 .429 8 13 .381Kent St. 2 5 .286 11 10 .524Miami 2 5 .286 7 12 .368Bowling Gn 2 5 .286 7 13 .350

West Division Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTW. Michigan 5 2 .714 13 7 .650Toledo 4 3 .571 8 10 .444E. Michigan 3 3 .500 10 10 .500N. Illinois 3 4 .429 5 14 .263C. Michigan 2 5 .286 9 11 .450Ball St. 2 5 .286 8 11 .421

Wednesday’s GamesAkron 68, Bowling Green 55Toledo 85, Ball St. 78Buffalo 91, Cent. Michigan 73W. Michigan 72, Miami (Ohio) 68N. Illinois 67, Kent St. 65

Women’s Hoops Top 25

The top 25 teams in the The Asso-ciated Press’ women’s college bas-ketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 27, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv1. Baylor (37) 18-1 997 12. Notre Dame 18-1 953 23. UConn (3) 18-1 930 34. Stanford 18-2 853 65. Duke 18-1 834 46. California 17-2 790 77. Penn St. 17-2 768 88. Kentucky 19-2 695 59. Tennessee 16-3 691 910. Maryland 17-3 674 1011. N. Carolina 19-2 495 1112. Louisville 17-4 491 1313. Georgia 17-3 470 1414. Purdue 17-3 446 1515. S. Carolina 18-3 442 1816. Texas A&M 16-5 435 1617. Dayton 17-1 357 1718. UCLA 15-4 339 1919. Oklahoma St. 15-3 315 1220. Florida St. 17-3 253 2221. Oklahoma 15-4 211 2022. Colorado 15-4 205 2023. Iowa St. 14-4 102 2424. Iowa 16-5 79 —25. Delaware 15-3 66 —Others receiving votes: Michigan 42, UTEP 21, Villanova 11, Texas Tech 10, Syracuse 6, Duquesne 4, Green Bay 4, Michigan St. 4, Kansas 2, Nebraska 2, Vanderbilt 2, LSU 1.

Prep Basketball ScoreboardBOYS’ BASKETBAll

Auburn Hills Avondale 56, Ferndale 53Big Rapids Crossroads Charter Acad-emy 53, Walkerville 42Cadillac 56, Traverse City West 53Calumet 52, Baraga 26Marysville 56, Madison Heights Lam-phere 54Montague 68, Hart 23Morley-Stanwood 73, Hesperia 44Muskegon Catholic Central 51, Fruit-port Calvary Christian 38Muskegon Oakridge 47, North Mus-kegon 40Negaunee 63, Gwinn 57Newaygo 42, Lakeview 40Shelby 62, Ravenna 43Southfield Bradford Academy 61, Detroit Old Redford 48Southgate Anderson 58, Taylor Tru-man 51Taylor Baptist Park 54, Ypsilanti Cal-vary Christian 30White Cloud 50, Remus Chippewa Hills 46

GIRlS’ BASKETBAllAkron-Fairgrove 50, Mayville 34Au Gres-Sims 59, Atlanta 15Bath 47, Potterville 18Beal City 67, Marion 35Beaverton 42, Roscommon 36Blanchard Montabella 68, Coleman 29Bloomfield Hills Marian 49, Livonia Ladywood 34Brimley 71, Harbor Light Christian 41Burton Atherton 51, Burton Bentley 21Burton Bendle 70, Dryden 25Calumet 44, L’Anse 21Carrollton 44, Shepherd 29Carson City-Crystal 54, Vestaburg 20Carsonville-Port Sanilac 37, Port Hope 25Chassell 50, Lake Linden-Hubbell 44Chesaning 38, St. Charles 34Clare 67, Sanford-Meridian 17Clarkston 64, Troy 35Concord 65, Union City 40Deckerville 65, Kinde-North Huron 30DeTour 36, Cedarville 28Elkton-Pigeon Bay Port Laker 52, Bay City All Saints 20Essexville Garber 59, Bridgeport 25Fairview 57, Hale 26Farmington Hills Mercy 70, Warren Regina 58Farwell 61, Harrison 20Flat Rock 44, New Boston Huron 32Flint Hamady 69, Byron 31Frankenmuth 69, Birch Run 36Frankfort 45, Benzie Central 43Freeland 49, Saginaw Valley Luther-an 47, OTGrosse Pointe South 57, Macomb Dakota 52Harbor Beach 59, Memphis 16Hemlock 48, St. Louis 29Hillsdale Academy 59, Litchfield 10Homer 62, Jonesville 42Inkster 44, Ypsilanti Arbor Prep 38Iron Mountain 59, Manistique 45Jackson Christian 41, North Adams-Jerome 26Jackson East Jackson 63, Vander-cook Lake 27Kingsford 51, Crystal Falls Forest Park 50Kingston 63, Owendale-Gagetown 27Laingsburg 43, Fowler 37Leroy Pine River 62, McBain North-ern Michigan Christian 33Leslie 48, Dansville 30Lincoln-Alcona 59, Tawas 44Mackinaw City 70, Alanson 21Manchester 64, Addison 43

McBain 79, Lake City 37Michigan Center 58, Hanover-Horton 17Midland Bullock Creek 53, Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary 46Millington 62, North Branch 15Mio 57, Hillman 49Morrice 42, Webberville 27Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart 70, Ashley 21Muskegon Catholic Central 63, Fruit-port Calvary Christian 50Muskegon Heights 37, Fremont Prov-idence Christian 35Muskegon Western Michigan Chris-tian 44, Grand Rapids Covenant Christian 41Napoleon 53, Grass Lake 51New Lothrop 56, Genesee 25Onaway 38, Indian River-Inland Lakes 32Ovid-Elsie 43, Merrill 16Painesdale Jeffers 57, Baraga 51Peck 63, Caseville 11Pickford 79, Engadine 45Pinconning 39, Sag. Buena Vista 29Pittsford 54, Battle Creek St. Philip 43Reading 51, Quincy 14Reese 63, Bad Axe 22Riverview 50, Milan 25Riverview Gabriel Richard 61, Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard 39Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest 40, Sterling Heights 39Saginaw Swan Valley 48, Ithaca 46Southfield Lathrup 26, Rochester Hills Stoney Creek 23St. Joseph Michigan Lutheran 50, Watervliet Grace Christian 19Ubly 28, Sandusky 16Unionville-Sebewaing 45, Marlette 39Vassar 44, Cass City 27Whittemore-Prescott 119, Standish-Sterling 65

NHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAN.Y. Islanders 7 4 2 1 9 27 23New Jersey 6 3 0 3 9 16 14Pittsburgh 7 4 3 0 8 19 18N.Y. Rangers 7 3 4 0 6 16 20Philadelphia 7 2 5 0 4 14 20

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 7 5 1 1 11 23 19Ottawa 7 5 1 1 11 24 13Montreal 6 4 2 0 8 18 15Toronto 7 4 3 0 8 21 22Buffalo 7 3 3 1 7 23 23

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GATampa Bay 6 5 1 0 10 29 15Winnipeg 7 3 3 1 7 21 24Carolina 5 2 3 0 4 14 18Florida 7 2 5 0 4 16 27Washington 7 1 5 1 3 15 25

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 7 6 0 1 13 24 16St. Louis 7 6 1 0 12 28 14Detroit 6 3 2 1 7 15 17Columbus 8 2 5 1 5 14 26Nashville 6 1 2 3 5 10 18

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAMinnesota 7 4 2 1 9 19 19Edmonton 6 4 2 0 8 17 15Vancouver 7 3 2 2 8 19 19Colorado 7 3 4 0 6 16 19Calgary 5 1 3 1 3 14 21

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 6 6 0 0 12 26 10Anaheim 5 3 1 1 7 17 17Dallas 7 2 4 1 5 13 18Los Angeles 5 2 2 1 5 11 14Phoenix 7 2 4 1 5 22 22NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss.

Wednesday’s GamesMinnesota 3, Chicago 2, SOOttawa 5, Montreal 1Edmonton 2, Phoenix 1, OTVancouver 3, Colorado 0

Thursday’s GamesBuffalo 7, Boston 4Toronto 3, Washington 2N.Y. Islanders 5, New Jersey 4, OTPittsburgh 3, N.Y. Rangers 0St. Louis 4, Columbus 1Florida 6, Winnipeg 3Colorado 6, Calgary 3Nashville at Los Angeles (n)Edmonton at San Jose, (n)

Friday’s GamesPhiladelphia at Washington, 7 p.m.Ottawa at Carolina, 7 p.m.Winnipeg at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.St. Louis at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Phoenix at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Chicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Minnesota at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesNew Jersey at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.Buffalo at Montreal, 2 p.m.Edmonton at Colorado, 3 p.m.Boston at Toronto, 7 p.m.Carolina at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.Detroit at Columbus, 7 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Chicago at Calgary, 10 p.m.Los Angeles at Anaheim, 10 p.m.Nashville at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

White scores 27, lifts Iowa past Penn State

the associated press

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Aar-on White had a career-high 27 points and Iowa beat Penn State 76-67 Thursday night, snapping a two-game losing streak.

Melsahn Basabe had 10 points and 10 rebounds in his first start of the season for the Hawkeyes (14-7, 3-5 Big Ten), who hit 31 free throws in 39 tries.

Iowa took the lead with an early 14-0 run and never looked back against the last winless team in Big Ten play. The Hawkeyes let Penn State creep back within 69-62 with 1:30 left, but White answered with a three-point play for Iowa.

D.J. Newbill had 20 points for Penn State (8-13, 0-9), which committed 18 turn-overs.

No. 8 Arizona rallies to beat Washington


SEATTLE — Nick John-son scored 15 points, five in the final 2 minutes, and No. 8 Arizona rallied from an early deficit for a 57-53 vic-tory over Washington on Thursday night, snapping a three-game losing streak to the Huskies.

Mark Lyons and Solomon Hill both added 10 points for the Wildcats, who won their second straight after losing at home to UCLA.

Arizona trailed 48-46 with 4:34 left after C.J. Wil-cox hit Washington’s first 3-pointer of the game. The Wildcats (18-2, 6-2 Pac-12) then closed on an 11-5 run.

Wilcox and Scott Suggs both scored 11 points to lead Washington (12-9, 4-4), which has lost four straight for the first time since 2008.

The Huskies, who fin-ished 1 of 12 on 3-pointers, committed 17 turnovers.

Saint Louis knocks off No. 9 Butler


ST. LOUIS — Jordair Jett matched his career best with 19 points and Saint Louis pressured But-ler into a season-worst 23 turnovers to record the program’s biggest upset in nine years with a 75-58 vic-tory Thursday night.

Dwayne Evans added 15 points on 6-for-8 shooting and five rebounds for the Billikens (15-5, 4-2 Atlan-tic-10), who fed off just the fourth sellout at 5-year-old Chaifetz Arena and led by double digits most of the game. Saint Louis shot 50 percent.

Rotnei Clarke had 17 points for Butler (17-4, 4-2) but also had five turnovers. Andrew Smith added 12 points and six rebounds for the Bulldogs, who have lost four games this season, three by 15 or more points.

The Bulldogs are Saint Louis’ biggest victim since a 1-point upset over No. 2 Louisville on Feb. 12, 2003 at the Scottrade Center.

Jett was 8 for 12 with two 3-pointers.

FRIDAY

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

EVENING 6:30 Z (BIGTEN) College Hock-

ey Michigan State at Michi-gan. (N) (Live)

7:00 1 (ESPN) NBA Basketball Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers. From Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (N) (Live)

7:30 5 (NBCSN) College Hock-ey Dartmouth at Union (N.Y.)C (FOXDT) NHL Hockey St. Louis Blues at Detroit Red Wings. From Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

9:00 (ESPN2) Boxing Friday Night Fights. Carlos Molina vs. Cory Spinks. From Chicago.

Z (BIGTEN) College Wres-tling Penn State at Iowa. (N)

9:30 1 (ESPN) NBA Basketball Los Angeles Lakers at Minne-sota Timberwolves. From the Target Center in Minneapolis.

SATURDAY

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

MORNING 7:30 (ESPN2) English Premier

League Soccer Queens Park Rangers FC vs Norwich City FC. From Loftus Road Stadium in London, England. (N) (Live)

AFTERNOON12:00 1 (ESPN) College Bas-

ketball Syracuse at Pitts-burgh. (N) (Live)(ESPN2) College Basketball Purdue at Northwestern.

12:30 C (FOXDT) Women’s Col-lege Basketball Texas at Tex-as Christian. (N) (Live)

2:00 1 (ESPN) College Basket-ball Duke at Florida State.5 (NBCSN) College Basket-ball Dayton at St. Louis.(ESPN2) College Basketball Notre Dame at DePaul.

3:00 $ (7-NBC) PGA Tour Golf Waste Management Phoenix Open, Third Round. From TPC Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Ariz.

3:30 Z (BIGTEN) Women’s Col-lege Hockey Minnesota-Dulu-th at Minnesota. (N) (Live)

4:00 * (9-CBS) College Bas-ketball St. John’s at George-town. (N) (Live) (CC)1 (ESPN) College Basketball Tennessee at Arkansas.(ESPN2) College Basketball Wichita State at Northern Iowa. (N) (Live)C (FOXDT) College Hockey Michigan vs. Michigan State. From Joe Louis Arena in De-troit. (N) (Live)

EVENING 6:00 1 (ESPN) College Basket-

ball Kentucky at Texas A&M.5 (NBCSN) College Basket-ball Columbia at Princeton.(ESPN2) College Basketball Kansas State at Oklahoma.

7:00 & (27-PBS) College Bas-ketball Miami (Ohio) at Cen-tral Michigan. (N) (Live), (WGN-A) NBA Basket-ball Chicago Bulls at Atlanta Hawks. From Philips Arena in Atlanta. (N) (Live)C (FOXDT) NHL Hockey De-troit Red Wings at Columbus Blue Jackets. From Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.Z (BIGTEN) College Basket-ball Ohio State at Nebraska.

8:00 5 (NBCSN) College Bas-ketball Nevada at New Mexi-co. (N) (Live)(ESPN2) College Basketball Baylor at Iowa State. (N) (Live)

9:00 1 (ESPN) College Basket-ball Michigan at Indiana.

11:00 C (FOXDT) Boxing Gold-en Boy Live - Frankie Gomez vs. Lanard Lane. From Las Vegas, NV. (N) (Live)

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away ConfNew York 28 15 .651 — 5-5 W-2 16-6 11-9 18-8Brooklyn 27 19 .587 2½ 6-4 L-1 17-8 10-11 20-10Boston 22 23 .489 7 4-6 W-2 15-9 7-14 14-15Philadelphia 19 26 .422 10 4-6 W-1 13-11 6-15 11-13Toronto 16 30 .348 13½ 2-8 L-3 11-11 5-19 9-15

Southeast Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away ConfMiami 29 13 .690 — 6-4 W-1 18-3 11-10 14-8Atlanta 26 19 .578 4½ 5-5 W-1 16-7 10-12 17-11Orlando 14 31 .311 16½ 2-8 L-7 8-16 6-15 6-22Washington 11 33 .250 19 5-5 L-2 8-14 3-19 5-22Charlotte 11 34 .244 19½ 2-8 L-2 6-18 5-16 8-16

Central Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away ConfChicago 28 17 .622 — 8-2 W-2 15-11 13-6 22-7Indiana 27 19 .587 1½ 5-5 W-1 17-3 10-16 15-10Milwaukee 24 20 .545 3½ 6-4 L-1 12-10 12-10 18-11Detroit 17 29 .370 11½ 4-6 L-2 12-11 5-17 14-15Cleveland 13 33 .283 15½ 5-5 L-1 6-13 7-20 10-18

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away ConfSan Antonio 37 11 .771 — 9-1 W-9 21-2 16-9 21-8Memphis 29 16 .644 6½ 5-5 L-1 17-7 12-9 16-12Houston 25 23 .521 12 4-6 L-1 15-8 10-15 9-18Dallas 19 26 .422 16½ 6-4 L-1 12-9 7-17 10-17New Orleans 15 31 .326 21 4-6 L-2 7-15 8-16 8-21

Northwest Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away ConfOklahoma City 35 11 .761 — 7-3 W-1 20-3 15-8 23-6Denver 29 18 .617 6½ 8-2 W-5 18-3 10-15 21-11Utah 25 21 .543 10 7-3 W-1 16-5 9-16 13-16Portland 23 22 .511 11½ 3-7 W-1 16-8 7-14 14-12Minnesota 17 25 .405 16 1-9 L-5 11-8 6-17 10-14

Pacific Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away ConfL.A. Clippers 34 13 .723 — 6-4 W-2 20-5 14-8 24-9Golden State 28 17 .622 5 5-5 W-2 14-6 14-11 13-12L.A. Lakers 20 26 .435 13½ 5-5 L-1 15-10 5-16 12-18Sacramento 17 30 .362 17 4-6 L-1 12-12 5-17 6-20Phoenix 16 30 .348 17½ 4-6 W-1 12-11 4-19 9-15

Wednesday’s GamesPhiladelphia 92, Washington 84Indiana 98, Detroit 79Boston 99, Sacramento 81New York 113, Orlando 97Atlanta 93, Toronto 92L.A. Clippers 96, Minnesota 90Chicago 104, Milwaukee 88Miami 105, Brooklyn 85San Antonio 102, Charlotte 78Denver 118, Houston 110Utah 104, New Orleans 99Phoenix 92, L.A. Lakers 86

Thursday’s GamesOklahoma City 106, Memphis 89Dallas at Golden State, (n)

Friday’s GamesL.A. Clippers at Toronto, 7 p.m.Miami at Indiana, 7 p.m.Orlando at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at New York, 7:30 p.m.Chicago at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.Sacramento at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.Cleveland at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Memphis, 8 p.m.New Orleans at Denver, 9 p.m.Portland at Utah, 9 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 9 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesChicago at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Sacramento at New York, 7:30 p.m.Oklahoma City at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.Charlotte at Houston, 8 p.m.New Orleans at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Washington at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Orlando at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.Utah at Portland, 10 p.m.Phoenix at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

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Noah built himself an ark, but then he had it on good authority that there was going to be a whole lot of rain. Noth-ing like a timely heads-up.

We got our liquid heads-up from the online weather experts. From whom (or Whom) he or she got their infor-mation is beyond my ken. So my kids have been sledding the last few days against the possible de-mise of the snow. Jeffrey in partic-ular is concerned that winter may be over. Not the cold, of course, but he thinks the snow may not be replenished.

Fortunately children are resilient; they’re pliable, adaptable and, most im-portantly, distractible. The snow has indeed become

scarce as water when Noah started his boat building project.

The rains came down and the floods came up and the ditch-es and drains and low areas filled up with cold, win-ter water. This is a problem for some of us.

On the other hand, if you’re a child water is a good thing. If you’re a child, a flooded yard can be a very good thing.

“Grandpa’s side yard is full of water,” Jeff let

me know.“Aunt Jenny said when

you were little you used to canoe when the yard flood-ed,” Laura added.

“Do we have a boat they could use?” my blushing bride asked with a smile.

Jenny knows we have a

boat the kids could float in Grandpa’s temporary pond. I told her I would dig the dingy out of the sail-boat and inflate it.

Because, as Water Rat said, “There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.”

Even in the middle of winter with rain spitting from the featureless maw of an ashen sky. Even then, if you are a kid and there is water, it is the perfect time for messing about in a boat.

The inflatable dingy was stiff as a dead sailor’s up-per lip. And like the sailor whose upper lip would be pierced as his canvas shroud was sewn shut, somehow the skin of the dingy had been pierced.

But the dingy didn’t move. A sailor, on the other hand, would likely move if he was alive when a needle passed through his upper lip.

That was the idea. In order to find out if the sailor was only playing dead in order to be thrown overboard so he could take his chances swimming to shore, his lip was stitched. Keep a stiff upper lip, in-deed.

I was hoping Jeff and Laura wouldn’t want to jump ship, even though I was at first concerned that the dingy was in dire straits when I heard air escaping its hull. A closer inspection revealed only a tiny rupture, so the launch was still on.

Laura and Jenny had gone to town, so Jeff and I put the dingy in the bed of

the pickup and drove the short distance to Grandma and Grandpa’s seasonal pond. I shoved the dingy out into the water, but the floating slush soon stopped it.

Risking a soaker, I waded out to just below the tops of my boots and gave the intrepid explorer another shove. Jeff started to row.

He splashed and he twirled and he flailed and he whirled, but that was about all he could do. He tried rowing backward, he tried rowing forward, he even tried paddling with one oar. Nothing worked.

Then Laura arrived. Like Michael, Jeff rowed his boat ashore, hallelujah! Now there were two sailors aboard the slowly deflating dingy.

There is always mischief

about when these two get together. Laura wanted the boat to herself, so Jeff got out.

Before long Jeff was throwing snowballs at his sister. Detonations of water erupted ever closer to the boat until the snowballs started landing inside the dingy.

The two miscreants traded places and it was Laura’s turn to lob snow-balls at her brother. She finally hit her fleeing sib-ling, leaving a round splat of snow between Jeffrey’s shoulders.

Laughter erupted like warm lava, flowed over the ground, warmed the atmo-sphere and took away the wet chill of messing about in a boat on a petulant, sullen, chilly day. Then the laughter wasn’t enough.

Soaked to the skin, the two winter sailors decided they were cold.

Like two wet otters they emerged from their play, trundled up the bank, told grandma and grandpa goodbye and headed for the dry warmth of the home hearth. Winter’s demise was forgotten amidst the joy of gathered water.

When we lose one thing, there are other good things waiting to take its place. Today it was water. Tomor-row...?

The kids are hoping for ice. Today’s boating pond could be tomorrow’s ice skating rink.

Or it could be something else. But surely there will be something fun to do out-side if we’re young enough, brave enough and frolic-some enough to give it a try.

When winter gives you slush it is time to float the dingy

Nature Notes

Jeff Junker

JeFF Junker | special To The cadillac news

Jeff Junker paddles the dingy while his sister Laura tries to make a well-aimed snowball hit the mark.

The National Weather Service has called it “The most extensive and very nearly the most severe blizzard in Michigan his-tory.” Few of us who expe-rienced it will ever forget the Blizzard of 1978, which wreaked a snowy havoc on the Ohio River Val-ley and the Great Lakes region 35 years ago from Jan. 26 to 28.

In northern Michigan the the news media had been hyping the storm for two days and by Jan. 25, a nervous energy flowed through my classrooms of junior high stu-dents, who could think of little beyond the impending “snowdays.” That night I taught an adult educa-tion night class at Cadillac High School and then as I walked back to my car, the first snowflakes began to fall. Driving back to our Lake Mitchell home, I re-member thinking that this just didn’t look like much of a storm.

By midnight I knew I was wrong. Gale force winds slammed against our house. The yard light illuminated nothing but swirling whiteness. Most alarming was to see the water level moving up and down in the toilet.

By 8 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, the local TV station announced that the plows had been pulled off Cadil-lac city’s streets. With visibility at zero, the tem-perature hovering around 10 and the windchill mak-ing it feel a couple dozen degrees colder, no one was outside. The scroll across the bottom of the TV an-nounced that schools,

factories, county offices, and city halls were closed. Motorists were told to stay off the roads. News film showed parked cars rap-idly being covered by the snowy whiteout. Cyndy and I made sure we had at

least 10 gallons of water ready in milk jugs, lo-cated our camp stove, and had flashlights close at hand in case the power went out. Our 7-and-a-half month old son, Ben, crawled around the floor seeming uncon-cerned by the drama going on outside.

Although news reports said county plows were trying to

keep main roads open, we knew our street, a dead end road, would likely not be useable for several days. Unable to leave the house, we played with Ben, read books, and watched for TV news updates. Outside the world was being trans-formed. The wind buf-feted our home, sometimes producing a shrill whine as it whipped around the eaves. The narrow open area to the north between our house and the woods became a wind tunnel, the energy surging with such ferocity that virtually all the snow was cleared from the ground, spun around the corner and depos-ited on our deck in a drift reaching toward the top of our full length glass door.

The evening news showed film of buried cars and plows throwing waves of snow, while news anchors recounted stories of snowmobiles deliver-ing medicine to shut-ins, and plans for shelters if power outages occurred.

The weathermen, seem-ingly happy to be the center of attention, pre-dicted more of the same for Friday. Winds that had been blowing at up to 65 miles an hour would con-tinue and the snow would keep coming. The storm, we were told, made the record books as the 28.65 barometric reading taken at Houghton Lake was an all-time low. (Note: The windstorm of Oct. 26, 2010, produced a slightly lower reading.)

That evening we sat on the couch in the living room with Ben looking at picture books barely notic-ing the ever-present low moan of the storm winds beating on the house.

The next morning, when we awoke, it was still over-cast, the wind was still blowing, the snow was still falling, and our ther-mometer mercury was just touching zero. The weath-erman announced that the eye of the storm would pass over us that morning. This would cause a lull — the winds would drop,

the sun would come out, and we’d enjoy a break of around an hour.

He was right. A few hours later, suddenly blue sky appeared and the air cleared. I grabbed a cam-era and waded out into the yard, through snow that was sometimes chest deep, to take pictures. After-ward, I picked up a shovel and began to clear snow off the deck. The calm in-terlude lasted just about an hour and then gray skies returned, the wind picked up and we were in phase two of the blizzard.

Clearly the novelty of be-ing snowed in was wearing off, but the biting cold, the bitter wind, and the deep snow made being outside even less appealing, so we cleaned the house, played with Ben, and later Cyndy baked cookies.

The evening newscast brought promise of a bet-ter tomorrow — tempera-tures in the 20s, winds di-minishing to 10 to 20 miles per hour, and lake effect snow. Michigan, we were told, had been declared a

national disaster area and would be eligible for fed-eral assistance. We went to bed somewhat reassured.

Saturday the cleanup was underway. We learned main roads were open. Sin-gle lanes had been plowed on secondary roads but in Wexford County, 500 to 600 miles of roads were still impassable. On Peninsula Drive, where we lived, we hadn’t seen a vehicle since Thursday morning. Stand-ing on the back deck with a shovel I hardly knew where to begin. The TV reports said 16 to 18 inches had fallen and we’d get another 8 to 10 inches of lake effect snow over the weekend. (The official four-day snow total was later set at 27 inches.) The numbers didn’t mean much when I saw the size of the drift pushed up against our car sitting in the driveway.

Cyndy and I worked in half-hour shifts. While one stayed inside watching Ben the other shoveled. Where the drifts were deep you had to deal with the same snow several

times, pushing it a few feet then throwing it a short distance and then maybe once again to get it out of the way. We spent hours in the driveway. Eventu-ally we went around to the lakeside, where I found my neighbor, Emil Pergler, working to knock back a drift that had completely covered his full length slid-ing glass door.

In the afternoon, Cyndy decided to try and take some snowshoes to a neighbor. Putting on snowshoes and a pack she headed off into the woods. Ben and I watched out the window as she struggled like a floundering swim-mer in the deep powder. She made it about 50 yards before turning back. We waved from the window and I took a picture.

The TV report that night showed that Cadillac was coming to life, as news reel footage caught some cars moving on the streets and many people shoveling. We learned that most sec-ondary roads were being worked on and we imag-ined that West Lake Mitch-ell Drive was probably open. However, we were still trapped on Peninsula Drive cut off by a a quar-ter-mile of snow plugged road. We were more than ready to rejoin the rest of the world.

A few more inches of snow fell in the night and we were out early Sunday finishing our driveway. Though much of the heavier shoveling had to be done by hand, we could now hear our neighbors’ snow blowers attacking the snow. The most welcome sound, however, came in the afternoon as the first county snowplow dug its way down our road. Our snow adventure was over and we couldn’t have been happier.

Dave Foley

On the Outside

Blizzard of 1978 kept most people inside

dave Foley | special To The cadillac news

Our neighbor Emil Pergler works to clear his deck.

Today Cadillac

What: Storytime Info: No sign up necessary, but please arrive on time. Ages 3 to 5. Time: 11 a.m. Friday Place: 411 S. Lake St. Contact: 775-6541

What: Getting loud at the library Info: Drop-in playgroup, every Friday, ages 1 to 5 Time: 11 a.m. Friday Place: Cadillac Wexford Public Library Contact: 775-6541

What: Lunch at the Elks

Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Place: Elks Lodge No. 680, 122 1/2 S. Mitchell St. Contact: 775-5331

What: Fish dinner Info: Every Friday. Weekly special and other items available. Time: 5:30 to 8 p.m. Place: American Legion Post No. 94, 422 N. Mitchell Contact: 775-6500

What: Fish fry Time: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Place: Moose Lodge, Boon Road Cost: $6.50

Lake City What: Reading for Feeding

Info: Kids and teens, during the months of January and February, you can donate a cup of dog or cat food to the Missaukee Humane Society with every book you read. Place: Ardis Missaukee District Library, 210 S. Canal St.

What: The H.O.W. Group Info: Alcoholics anonymous. Al-Anon. Adult children of alcoholics meeting. Time: 8 p.m. Friday Place: Covenant Life Church, 7700 W. Blue Road Contact: Shirley 839-8080

LeRoy What: Bingo Time: 6 p.m. Friday

Place: VFW Post 10770, On Mackinaw Trail next to Citizens Bank

Manton What: AA meeting Time: 8 p.m. Friday Place: United Methodist Church of Manton, 106 N. Michigan Ave.

McBain What: School Choice Day Open House

Time: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Place: Northern Michigan Christian School, 128 Martin St. Contact: Jenny Closson 2318252492 [email protected]

What: Soup Supper Info: A soup supper to support the students of Northern Michigan Christian School and their service trip to the

Dominican Republic. Time: 5 to 7:30 p.m. Place: NMC gymnasium, 128 Martin St. Contact: Lori Dodde 231-825-2492 [email protected] Cost: Free will offering

Reed City What: Blood Drive Time: 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Place: St. Philip Neri Church, Church Hall, 831 S. Chestnut St.

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DEAR AMY: I am a 16-year-old with a great and supportive

family. My twin brother and I are home-schooled by our mother. Recently one of my good friends and her mother came over to visit.

My friend and I were looking at some websites for a game we enjoy play-ing. She began to show me some of the music she listens to and some of the videos that go with the music. I did not like the music or the videos.

For one, they scared me. I found them dark. The songs included cussing, which I feel ruins a song.

I could not figure out how to say that I would really rather not listen to (or watch) those things. She’s the type of person who gets angry and upset if you disagree with her. She said her mother had no idea she was listening to this stuff. I began to feel literally sick to my stom-ach.

How can I tell her I don’t want her going on these websites on my computer? I really want to tell her mom what she is up to, but I don’t want this to end our friendship.

I am very worried and don’t want my friend go-ing down the wrong path. I told my mom and dad

about what hap-pened, and my mom thinks that maybe I should tell my friend’s mom, but I’m not sure.

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RIED: If your own values don’t give you the strength to speak your own truth — or if you’re simply too dominated or shy — then your parents can help give you “cover” to work around peer pres-sure.

In the moment you could have said, “My parents will go ballistic if they find these sites on my computer, so you need to stop.”

I suspect that your friend finds this mate-rial appealing because it is a way for her to rebel against her folks, your folks and people who share your specific val-ues. If you or your par-ents feel that this mate-rial is dangerous for her, then your parents should speak with her parents.

DEAR AMY: Our daughter’s fiance is charm-

ing, intelligent, thoughtful and has dreadful table manners.

He’s Asian, so we think it’s a cultural thing. He spends the meal slurping, with his face and body almost in the plate, in the “trough” posi-tion with open-mouth chewing and lots of noise. We wonder if this is considered appropriate or appreciative in his home culture.

He’s lived in the U.S. for quite a few years, but I don’t think he recognizes what’s going on.

My husband wants to talk to him about this, but I don’t want to offend him. I don’t think we can ask our daughter to talk to him, either. I keep hoping he’ll notice how we eat, as we share meals together often, but it’s been months now.

Any thoughts? — Future Mother-in-LawDEAR FUTURE:

There’s nothing “cultural” about your future son-in-law’s dreadful table man-ners that I’m aware of. He simply has dreadful table manners.

This is an issue best broached by your daughter.

What’s needed is merely a gentle correction. It should be expressed to him that better table manners will likely benefit his other personal and professional encounters, which is a good thing. If he changes, mealtime should become more palatable for you ... and for everyone else.

Send questions via e-mail to [email protected] or by mail to Ask Amy, Chicago Tribune, TT500, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611.

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Today’s Birthday (02/01/13). Home, romance, career and community have your heart this year. Creativity, sports, culture and fun buzz you into June, when work picks up. Provide excellent service to others (and yourself). After April, stick with tested methods and your team to accomplish greatness.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — To-day is a 9 — Dare to renew a family bond. It may take cour-age. Your friends support you. Think through what you’re committed to and share it. Suc-cess is your reward.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — To-day is an 8 — Clear up confu-sion before proceeding, and get

some rest. Keep control of your own resources. Get an expert coach, and you’ll become one. Provide common sense limits. You’re gaining status.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — To-day is a 9 — Take it easy. Pas-sion asserts itself, and you may find yourself compelled to ac-tion. Persuasive methods and compromise are needed. Others share your enthusiasm. Craft a solid plan.

cancer (June 21-July 22) — To-day is an 8 — Postpone projects and organize your space with systems streamlined. Change up work habits. Conditions are too unstable to launch yet. Collect supplies, and prepare with a solid foundation.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — The possibility of loss is high, so keep bets low, or bet-ter yet, avoid gambling. Review rules and instructions. Don’t launch yet, even though you’re

anxious to start.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — A profitable assign-ment opens up, despite tempo-rary confusion. Wait until the dust clears. It may be necessary to make a mess for beautiful results. Stay flexible and open-minded.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Invest in your career. Take care ... there are pitfalls along the path. Don’t spread hurtful gossip. Sweep residual emotions out along with the dust. Lean on your friends.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — To-day is a 7 — It’s not a good time to mess around or get into risky business. There’s money coming in, but it could go right back out. Stick to tested routines and play it low key.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Explore a new philosophy or view. Emotions are on the surface and could

hit extremes. Conditions feel unsettled. Winning isn’t every-thing. Maintain composure. What would your coach do?

capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — To-day is an 8 — Do homework early and increase overall efficiency. Gracefully overlook inept re-marks, and persuade without co-ercion. New responsibilities will soon occupy your time. Prepara-tion leaves room for love.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — To-day is a 9 — Don’t invest in a startup group activity yet; you may decide it isn’t worth it, de-spite generous impulses. Impor-tant people are impressed by your diligence and confident work.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — To-day is a 7 — Let your emotions fuel your effort. You can bor-row the money you need, or just ask for, and receive, a raise. Don’t take on more than you can handle.

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(US 131 to E. 20 1⁄ 2 Rd. to N. 41 Rd.)9:00 AM Sunday School

& Adult Bible Study10:00 AM Sunday Worship

Coffee FellowshipFollowing Service

Rev. Richard Bachman

Our hearts, minds and doorsare always open.

The people ofThe United Methodist Church

1020 East Division St.SUNDAY WORSHIP8:30 AM & 11:00 AM CHURCH SCHOOL

9:30 AM~ Child Care Available ~

Phone 775-5362Tom Ball, Pastor

www.umccadillac.org

WORSHIP ’ROUND THE TABLES 8:30 AMADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL W/ENRICHMENT 9:15 AM

TRADITIONAL WORSHIP SERVICE 10:30 AMwith Sunday School for Pre K-12th Grade

Paul R. Tomlinson, PastorDon Phillips, Director of Christian Education

Visit us at www.cadillacfpc.org • 221 E. Harris Street • (231) 775-7111

The FirstPresbyterian Church

Saint AnnCatholic Church

800 W. Thirteenth St., CadillacMasses: Sat. 4:00 pm

Sun. 8:30 am, 10:30 am, 5:30 pmNursery Care & Preschool Religious Education

will be during the 10:30 am Mass

1601 West DivisionCadillac 775-4942

www.thbc.org

Temple Hill

BaptistChurch

Pastoral Staff:Jack Miller, Ryan Huebner

& Andy BrubakerSunday Celebration & Worship Service . .9:30 amCoffee Fellowship . . 10:45 amSunday School . . . . 11:00 am

Wednesday MinistryAwana . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30 pmJr . High . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30 pm

Cadillac West Seventh-day Adventist ChurchWelcomes You!

(231) 775-0182Corner of M-115 & 13th Street

Saturdays9:30 AM ................. Worship Service10:45 AM ...................... Bible StudyHouse of Prayer ...........Wed. 6-7 PM

MANTONBAPTIST CHURCH

416 W . 7th StreetPhone 824-6501

10 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bible Class11 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday Worship6 p.m. . . . . .Evening Worship & PraiseWed. 6:30 p.m. . Prayer & Bible Study

Sunday WorShip 8:30 & 11:00 am

FelloWShip|education hour 9:45 am

WedneSday WorShip/education hour 6:15 pm

provided dinner @ 5:45 pm

rev. Joel heSS, paStor

11198 e m-551 mile eaSt oF uS-131 bypaSS

cadillac

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Joyful Hearts early learning CenterJayne FoSter, director | 775-3898

EmmanuelLutheranChurch

Missouri Synod775-3261

ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

815 E. Lincoln at the end of Pine St.

231-775-9641www.stmaryscadillac.org

9:00 AMHOLY EUCHARIST

10:00 AMBIBLE STUDY

CADILLACCHRISTIANREFORMEDCHURCH

...Growing Together - Sharing Our Hope

Pastor Brian D. Seifert

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1110 E. Division St.,Cadillac

775-5291www.cadcrc.org

403 E. North St., Cadillac231-775-8842

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Sunday Service 10 am • Bible Study 9 amWELS - all welcome!

SUNDAY MINISTRIESWorship Service withHoly Communion .... 8:00 AMCoffee & Fellowship Following Services

Worship Service .....10:30 AMCoffee & Fellowship Following Services

The Rev. Scott Torkko PastorPhone: 775-9821

www.Zion-Cadillac.org

ZIONLUTHERAN350 PEARL STREET

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CONTEMPORARY SERVICES 11 AMNursery Provided

Pastor Jim Quales (231) 250-0134

100 N. Harrison, McBain, MI

New BeginningsC H U R C H

Today Harrietta

What: Prayer service and potluck supper Info: Bring games or cards to play or just visit with friends and neighbors. Everyone welcome. Time: 6 p.m. Friday Place: St. Edward’s Church

Lake City What: The H.O.W. Group Info: Alcoholics anonymous. Refreshments following. Time: 8 p.m. Friday Place: Covenant Life Church, 7700 W. Blue Road Contact: Shirley 839-8080

What: Al-Anon Time: 8 p.m. Friday Place: Covenant Life Church, 7700 W. Blue Road Contact: Shirley 839-8080

What: Alateen Time: 8 p.m. Friday Place: Covenant Life Church, 7700 W. Blue Road Contact: Shirley 839-8080

What: Adult children of alcoholics meeting Time: 8 p.m. Friday Place: Covenant Life

Church, 7700 W. Blue Road Contact: Shirley 839-8080

SaTurdayEvart

What: Free Community Dinner Time: 5:45 p.m. Saturday Place: Brooks Corners United Methodist Church Contact: Joe Beavan 912-1576

reed City What: Free Dinner Info: There will be a free dinner every other Saturday. Time: 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday Place: Church of the Firstborn Revival Center, Reed City Cost: Free

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What: Special gospel singers Info: Before 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. services every Sunday. Time: 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday Place: Victory Tabernacle, 1 1/4 mile north of Meijer Contact: Pastor E.V. Neff

775-2326

What: Victory Tabernacle Info: Everyone welcome. Sunday services are at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday service begins at 7 p.m. Time: 6 p.m. Sunday Place: Victory Tabernacle, 1 1/4 N. of Meijer on 131 Contact: Pastor 231-775-2326

MondayCadillac

What: Al-Anon Info: Meets every Monday Time: 8 p.m. Monday Place: First Presbyterian Church, 221 E. Harris St. Contact: Dolores Eisele 775-3102

TuESdayCadillac

What: Shepherd’s Table Info: Free community meals. Everyone welcome. Volunteers needed for clean-up, 5 to 7 p.m. Time: 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday Place: First Baptist Church, Chapin Street entrance Contact: 775-0608 Cost: Free

Lake City What: Al-Anon Time: 10 a.m. Tuesday Place: St. Stevens Catholic Church, 506 Union St.

Mesick What: Golden Agers dinner Info: Bring a dish to pass and table service, public welcome Time: Noon Tuesday Place: United Methodist Church Mesick, 121 S. Alvin St.

WEdnESday Cadillac

What: Cadillac Community Food Pantry Info: Doors open at 8:30 a.m., optional church service at 9:30 a.m. and food distribution at 10 a.m. Bring container to transport food. Time: 8:30 a.m. Wednesday Place: Revival Center Contact: 775-2662 What: Prayer Shawl Ministry Info: Prayer Shawl Ministry knits or crochets shawls for healing, love, comfort and special events. Time: 1 to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday Place: Zion Lutheran

Church, 350 Pearl St. Contact: Louise Wright 775-7179 [email protected] Cost: None

Manton What: Christ’s Community Table Info: Free dinner for everyone! Wednesday Nights at Manton United Methodist Church from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Everyone Welcome! Time: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Place: Manton United Mehodist Chruch, 106 N Michigan Avenue Cost: FREE

What: Awana Club Info: Awana Club is happening for kids every Wednesday, two years old to 8th grade. Off M-42. Time: 6:15 to 8 p.m. Wednesday Place: Rollin Church, Manton Contact: Rollins Church 824-6431 Cost: Free

THurSdayCadillac

What: Celebrate Recovery Time: 7 p.m. Thursday Place: Cadillac Revival Center, 984 Plett Road

What: Victory Tabernacle Info: Everyone Welcome. Time: 7 p.m. Thursday Place: 1 1/4 miles N. of Meijer on Old 131, Victory Tabernacle Contact: 775-2326

What: Shepherd’s Table Info: Free community meals. Volunteers needed for clean-up, 5 to 7 p.m. Time: 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday Place: First Baptist Church, Chapin Street entrance Contact: 775-0608 Cost: Free

Evart What: T.O.P.S. group Info: The TOPS weight loss support group meets every Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Weigh in is from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m. and meeting is at 9:30 a.m. date: Thursday Place: Evart United Methodist Church, Contact: 734-5752

Lake City What: T.O.P.S. No. 1631 Info: Weigh-in, 9 a.m. Time: 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday Place: Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Next to Foster’s Contact: 839-7865, 826-4492

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Our faith can loosen the grip of fearA wealthy man

hired a nanny to look after his

little girl, but in order to keep the child from running away, she told her scary stories about monsters lurking in the shadows of the garden. Any time the girl wandered near the gate the nanny would remind her of the dan-gers on the other side. Eventually, the girl became consumed by fear of scary monsters beyond the hedges of the garden. In reality, however, beyond the shadowy border were beautiful flowers and trees with delicious fruit.

One day, her older brother took the nanny’s place. He tried enticing his sister to go through the hedge into the neighboring garden, but the little girl was too scared. No matter what he did or said, she could not be persuaded to step into the shadows. Finally, he asked if she would believe it to be safe if he went through the shadowy hedge and came back. She nodded. So her brother walked into the shadows and returned unharmed. When he did, his sister took his hand and walked boldly through the mo-mentary darkness into the bright sunshine of the beautiful garden

on the other side.These days, there’s

no shortage of things to be afraid of. Some people are afraid of heights, closed places, darkness, or dentist and doctor bills, just to name a few. Others fear what people say. People are afraid of losing their job, afraid their house might get robbed, afraid of another recession or a terrorist attack. Sadly, many people live their lives in bondage to things that go bump in the night and those scary “monsters” that lurk in the shadows.

Mark 4:35-41 records the story of Jesus’ disciples taking a late-night cruise when a fierce storm arose. Although some were skilled fishermen, the storm’s fury threatened to capsize the tiny boat. Amazingly Jesus, who must have been physically exhausted, was asleep. When the disciples could no longer handle the situation, as a last-ditch effort, they woke Jesus up saying, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” Jesus stood up and rebuked the storm. With just a word, His demand stopped the raging storm. Then He said to His followers, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no

faith?” Then the disciples looked at each other and wondered, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey Him?”

It’s easy to understand why these disciples were afraid. As fishermen, they were well aware of the dangers of being on the Sea of Galilee when one of these powerful storms came with its driving rain and gale-force winds. The sea was calm and peaceful when the cruise began, but this sudden and unexpected storm now gripped them with fear. They woke Jesus up because their lives were in danger. They were hoping that somehow He could turn the tide and save the day, which He can and did. With just a word, Jesus commanded the wind and waves to submit to His will and instantly these cre-ated things obeyed their Creator (Colossians 1:16).

What are you afraid of ? What causes your heart to tremble? In this passage, Jesus asks two questions: “Why are you so afraid?” and “Do you still have

no faith?” The Lord knew these fishermen knew how to handle the rolling sea, but this time, they were no match for its fury. They strained at the oars with all their might, but no matter how much they tried, their lim-ited abilities were not enough. Suddenly, they were staring at the prospects of death, and they were afraid.

Asleep or not, Jesus had the situation under control. He took this opportunity to teach His followers an important les-son about having faith in fear-ful situations. Jesus teaches that the cure for fear is faith in God. After all, wasn’t Jesus in the same boat? Why wasn’t He afraid? He knew the Master of the sea and He had the power to overcome the storm. Faith is the absence of fear, and fear is the absence of faith. Jesus shows that “we don’t get faith as a re-sult of our victories; we get vic-tory as a result of our faith.” As Christ stood on the deck of that storm-tossed ship, surrounded

by a group of frightened men, He calmly said to the wind and waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Just like that, the wind stopped blow-ing, the waves stopped tossing and the fears of these men van-ished.

Like the elder brother of the frightened little girl, the Lord Jesus, our Elder Brother, braved the storms of life, stared fear in the face and conquered sin, death, hell and the devil. The risen Lord came back from the shadows victoriously to show us that the grave and trials of life no longer need to hold us in the grip of fear. Psalm 23:4 says, ‘Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.’ Isaiah 12:2 reminds us, “Be-hold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid.” Trials come and go, but there’s no need to fear. Jesus is in the boat, and you can be confident that the Master of the sea will make sure that you get safely to the other side.

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Rev. James W.Martin

These days, there’s no shortage of things to be afraid of. Some people are afraid of heights, closed places, darkness, or dentist and doctor bills, just to name a few. Others fear what people say. People are afraid of losing their job, afraid their house might get robbed, afraid of another recession or a terrorist attack.

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2002 Saturn S Series SL2, 4 door, 4 cyl., 5 speed, only 88,000 miles, on sale $4,995. Call Al Pierce@Highpoint (231)775-1222.

2004 Cadillac DeVille, red, only 68,000 miles, loaded, leather, on sale $8,995. Call Al Pierce @ Highpoint (231)775-1222.

2006 Buick Lucerne CXL, leather, loaded, $12,995. See Jack Pedlar @ Highpoint (231)775-1222.

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2010 Chevrolet Aveo, air, CD, stick, local trade, only $6,500 out the door. Crossroads Chevrolet, Reed City, (231)832-4362. www.crossroads-chevy.com.

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2000 GMC Sierra 1500 SLE, 4X4, ext. cab, full power, real nice, local trade in, yours for only $5,990 plus fee’s. Call Dale Elsing at Classic Chevy (231)839-7231.

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1997 Ford Expedition Eddie Ba-uer edition, runs great, good rub-ber, reliable winter transportation, $2,450 or best offer. Call (231)734-9757.

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2006 Ford Explorer XLT 4WD 4.0L, V6, power windows/locks, A/C, cruise, CD, good miles, only $206/mo. with $0 down. Contact Rich @ Classic Chevrolet (231)920-8098.

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2011 Chevrolet Traverse LS FWD, 1 Owner, Remaining Full Factory And 5YR/100K Mile P.Train Warranty, Automatic, Air Conditioning, Tilt, Cruise Con-trol, 4.3" Touchscreen CD Play-er W/Sirius Radio, Fold Down Rear Seat, Alloy Wheels, White, 23K Miles, Sample Payments: $262.23 / 66 Months @ 3.29% APR* $18,900. Don’s Adopt-A-Car @ (231)775-2583. Please visit us at www.DonsAdoptACar.com

2011 Chevy Equinox, AWD, factory warranty, $19,995. SeeJack Pedlar @ Highpoint (231)775-1222.

2012 Dodge Journey SXTFWD, 1 Owner, Remaining Full Factory And 5YR/100K Mile P.Train Warranty, Automatic, Air Conditioning, Tilt, Cruise Con-trol, 4.3" Touchscreen CD Play-er W/Sirius Radio, Fold Down Rear Seat, Alloy Wheels, White, 23K Miles, Sample Payments: $262.23 / 66 Months @ 3.29% APR* $18,900. Don’s Adopt-A-Car @ (231)775-2583. Please visit us at www.DonsAdoptACar.com

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2008 Chrysler Town & Country Touring package, Stow-n-Go seat-ing with heated leather, rear DVD, power liftgate, well equipped & powered to move fast! $0 dow and only $239/mo. Call Matt @ (231)872-9710.

2010 Chrysler Town & Country Touring 3.8L, V6, power windows/locks/sliding doors and lift gate! Stow-N-Go seating, low miles, only $324/mo. with $0 down. Contact Rich @ Classic Chevrolet (231)920-8098.

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Spring Break Travel just got sim-pler, load up the kids and stuff in this beautiful Stow-N-Go 2010 Chrysler Town & Country Mini van, low miles, all the bells &whistles, power lift gate & doors, $299/mo. with $0 down on ap-proved credit. Jeff @ Classic (231)942-1989.

Industrial Equipment209

1990 International log truck, 6axle, new front tries, springs and king pins, Prentice loader, $24,000. 1992 Serco 170 loader on 1989 truck, $22,000. Call (231)510-4767.

EMPLOYMENT

General Help Wanted301

A Local Cadillac insurance agency is looking to immediate-ly fill a full time position as a Customer Service Representa-tive. This candidate needs to be: proficient in typing, have a strong working knowledge of Mi-crosoft Office, good multi-task-ing skills in a fast paced work environment, have professio-nal phone etiquette. The ideal candidate should have a license in health and life insurance and/or an Associate’s degree.

Resumes will be accepted through Tues., Feb. 5th at:

Employee Benefit Solutions 801 S. Mitchell St., Cadillac

Or e-mail resume to: [email protected].

Buning Dairy Farm is looking for candidates for machinery op-eration with limited milking du-ties. Non-smoking and experi-enced preferred variable hours with weekends and holidays. Positive individuals who enjoy cattle need only apply. Send re-sume to: Buning Dairy Farm, 349 E Prosper, Falmouth, MI 49632.

CDL Drivers needed. Local-Regional loads

Benefits. Call (231)832-2267.

Chartwells Dining Services Seeking Cooks

Chartwells Dining Services is ac-cepting applications for part and full time head cook positions at Cadillac Area Public Schools.Candidates must have a minimum of 2 years experience in food pro-duction and be able to undergopre-employment testing for drug screening/background check/and fingerprint scan. All final job offers are contingent upon successfulcompletion of pre-employment testing. Chartwells is an Equal Op-portunity Employer.

Please send resume to:Central Office

421 S. Mitchell St.Cadillac, MI 49601

Or email to:[email protected]

EDUCATIONImmediate Opening

Residential Alternative SchoolTemporary Site Supervisor, Coun-selor/Teacher preferred, at Beaver Island Lighthouse School. Start immediately. Background and ed-ucation in counseling of at riskyouth preferred. Supervision of al-ternative school and historic site. Interested persons should submita letter of interest, resume, cre-dentials and transcript by visiting:

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Kettunen Center seeks part-time kitchen and housekeeping helpwith limited benefits. Some week-ends and evenings are required.Apply in person at 14901 4-H Drive, Tustin, MI 49688. Call (231)829-3421 with questions. Ap-plications are due by February 8th.

Large independent parts retailer seeking a motivated, energetic in-dividual to join our hard working team in a fast paced environment. Parts sales experience and posi-tive attitude required. Competitive pay and benefits. Please send re-sume to PO box 304 Cadillac, MI 49601.

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The Cadillac News is seeking a Web Development Assistant to join our CN Digital Solutions staff. We are looking for a proactive, organized problem solver that would be comfortable functioning in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment. Personal strengths should include trouble-shooting and analytical processing, great communication, desire to learn new technologies and gain new skills, strong work ethic and being a team player that can work independently.

Responsibilities for this position would include but would not be limited to:

external websites and/or web based applications.

between various Internet browsers.

Necessary requirements for the position would be 1 year

CSS work. Preferred but not required qualifications/experience

development and an understanding of relational database design and development. We are willing to invest in training if you are the right person and have at least the necessary requirements.

If you are a rock star looking for a fun, fast paced, family oriented place to work and this sounds like you, please email resume to [email protected]

No phone calls please.

General Help Wanted301Local financial office looking for receptionist/client services team member. Must be computer profi-cient, detail oriented, and able to multitask. Please submit resume and cover letter by Monday, Feb-ruary 8th to [email protected].

McBain Area dairy farm looking for milker/scraper, possible field

work in summer. Call (231)667-0428.

NOTICE OF EXAMINATIONFOR THE POSITION OF

POLICE OFFICERWritten examinations for the posi-tion of Police Officer in the Cadil-lac Police Department will be con-ducted on March 5, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in the Cadillac Junior High School Cafeteria, 500 Chestnut St. The purpose of these examina-tions is to establish an eligibility list for the City of Cadillac Police Department under the provision of Act 78 of the Public Acts of 1935, as amended. Applicants must pre-register for the examination by submitting a City of Cadillac appli-cation for employment and proof of valid MCOLES license or eligi-bility for licensing to participate in the examination. Applicants must be either licensed or eligible for li-censing as a police officer through MCOLES by the date of applica-tion. Applications are available at the Cadillac Municipal Complex Administrative Offices and online at www.cadillac-mi.net and will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. February 22, 2013 at the Cadillac Municipal Complex, 200 N. Lake Street, Ca-dillac MI. Faxed or e-mailed appli-cations will not be accepted. Resi-dency within a twenty (20) mile ra-dius of the city limits of Cadillac is required 90 days after appoint-ment. The starting pay is $41,994 annually. Contact Linda Kent at (231) 775-0181 for additional in-formation. The City of Cadillac is an AA/EO/ADA employer.

OASIS/FRC is seeking a caring and compassionate person to serve as Shelter Advocate in our residential shelter. Applications taken at 118 S. Mitchell St., Cadil-lac. EOE. Deadline February 5.

Rexair, LLC is looking for a full-time, experienced Individual to work as part of and established facilities maintenance group. The position encompasses a full range of duties in a variety of disciplines. Duties would in-clude outdoor property/building maintenance inside janitorial tasks, mechanical work, as well as industrial electrical and HVAC maintenance. Solid in-dustrial electrical experience is required. If you are interested in working in a clean manufactur-ing environment that provides competitive wages and excel-lent benefits, please send your resume to the address below.

Rexair LLCHuman Resources 230 Seventh StreetCadillac, MI 49601

Wanted - Individual to teach con-versational French and vocabulary 3 times a week beginning at 7:30 am for approximately one to one and a half hours each session. Sessions to begin mid February going through early August. Pa-tience and teaching skills a must. Please send resume' with cost per session to: [email protected].

Medical (Health Care)304King Nursing and Rehabilitation is seeking LPN or RN charge nurse for full time midnight shift and contingent position is availa-ble. Please fax resume to (989)422-4490 or fill out an appli-cation at 2280 Tower Hill Road, Houghton Lake. Benefits availa-ble. Come join our team.

King Nursing and Rehabilitation is seeking Certified Nursing Assis-tants for all shifts. Full time and part time available. Please fax re-sume to (989)422-4490 or fill out an application at 2280 Tower Hill Road, Houghton Lake. Benefits available. Come join our team.

MENTALHEALTH

Home-Based Therapist, (Reed City) -- Works with families with children, within the home and community, who have emotional disturbances requiring intensive intervention, using family and group treatment methods. One year exp. with children and families. For details, visit www.cmhcm.org. Master’s degree; LMSW preferred. Reply to [email protected]; or Cathy Todd, Supervisor, CMH for Central Michigan, 4473 S. 220th Avenue, Reed City, MI 49677. Deadline: 2/5/13.

E.O.E.

Industry (Trades)305Electrical-Feyen Zylstra is a pre-mier electrical services firm with our branch office located in Tra-verse City. We have set ourselves apart from our competitors by po-sitioning ourselves as a knowl-edge based company. We serve industrial, commercial, and institu-tional clients through four distinct work groups designed to deliver the best possible results: Electrical Construction, Energy Manage-ment, Electrical Service, and Low Voltage Systems. In anticipation of future upcoming work we have ex-citing opportunities for outstanding electrical apprentices, journey-man, foreman, control engineers, low voltage technicians and proj-ect managers to join our organiza-tion. We seek creative, aggressive and driven individuals to help con-tinue and enhance our growth. The ideal candidates will be pas-sionate about work, committed to safety, and energized by new op-portunities. Qualified candidates should forward resume and cover letter to: [email protected]. For more information on our company, please visit our website at: www.fzcorp.com.

MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN/NIGHTS

Petoskey Plastics, a growing, Blown Film Manufacturer seeks a talented, team oriented, Mainte-nance Technician to join our team. Shifts consist of 12 hour shifts 4 nights per week. Successful can-didate must possess strong elec-trical (3 phase and AC/DC drives), mechanical, pneumatic and hy-draulic machine troubleshooting and problem solving skills. Relo-cation assistance available. Please email resume to: [email protected] line must read: Petoskey Applicant

Babysitter Wanted308Cadillac- In home babysitter needed for 2 school aged kids, some mornings and occasional nights. References required. Seri-ous inquiries ONLY! Call(231)884-9440 for an interview.

MERCHANDISEFarm Equip., Supplies5081951- Tractor- John Deere- B, $2,100. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

Case 480- with loader, gas, indus-trial, $5,900. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

Ford 860 with loader, $4,500.Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

Ford 8N, $2,000. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

John Deere 650, diesel, 25HP, $4,900. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

John Deere 770 with loader, FWD, 27HP, $10,500. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

Massey Ferguson 20, $2,000. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

Farm & Dairy Products5094 X 5 Grass Round Bales, $75 each. Call (231)667-0560.

HAY FOR SALE: Square bales 2nd & 3rd cutting, high quality mixed hay, $9 per bale. Call (231)825-2724.

Horses & Supplies511

Hay for Sale - Square Bales First cutting $7.50 per bale and Second cutting $9.50 per bale.

Good Quality mixed hay. Call (231)768-4856.

Household Goods513

Amish Log Headboard, Queen Pillow Top Mattress Set, Heavy Duty Frame, All New, Compare At $899, Sacrifice $295. Call (231)876-0565.

Best Prices On Mattress Sets All New In Plastic, Twin $99, Full $119, Queen $159. Call (231)876-0565.

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Firewood & Timber517

Firewood - Quality OakCut, split, delivered, $54.50/Rick Seasoned $65/Rick, Visa, DHS

& Energy drafts accepted. (231)266-5102

Firewood & Timber517

Firewood: $40 a cord loaded on your vehicle, possible delivery available, 20 mile rd., Tustin. Call (231)829-5035.

Hardwood Slabs: $25 per cord or $30 per rick(16”). Gingerich Saw-mill 2 1/8 mi. W. of Manton of 16 1/2 Rd. (231)824-9403, no Sun-day Sales.

Mixed hardwood firewood, 8 ft lengths $85 per cord. Cut, split, deliv. - $55 per cord. Accepting DHS and energy drafts. Buying standing timber. Call (231)878-0582.

Paying TOP PRICES! Looking for trees to cut, hardwood, soft wood & Red Pine, 5 acre minimum. Call Jim (231)463-0363.

Seasoned hardwood $45/face cord, cut, split and delivered within reason. Call (989)418-0204.

Lawn & Garden519Husqvarna with blower, mower, 25HP, $1,900. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

John Deere 265 with snowblower, $1,500. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

John Deere 320, mower, tiller, hy-draulic lift, snowblower, $1,950. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

John Deere 325, hydraulic lift, snowblower, $2,500. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

John Deere 335, hydro, hydraulic lift, 300hrs., power steering, blow-er, mower& bagger, $4,900. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

Snowblowers &Snowplows521John Deere 1332, hydro. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

John Deere 726, 8HP, walk be-hind, $650. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

Sears 824 electric, like new, $750. Voelker John Deere, Lake City, (231)839-8660.

Snow Thrower- 24 inch Crafts-man, 179cc, 6 forward speeds and 2 reverse speeds, electric start, brand new, only used twice, $400 or best offer. Call (231)920-2199.

Winter got you in a rut? Clear Your Way this winter with a Bliz-zard Snowplow! Now available at Classic Chevrolet, Lake City. (231)839-7231.

Merchandise Wanted523Collector buying military items Civil War thru Vietnam only, all countries, uniforms, helmets, swords, rifles, pistols & medals, Call (231)775-2756, Cadillac.

I buy junk cars and trucks, $125 to $350 for complete vehicles. Call (231)218-3815.

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Musical Instruments5255-string Mastercraft banjo, excel-lent tone and condition, hard shell case and electric tuner, $475. Call (231)779-8698.

NEED CASH? I buy guitars, amps, PA systems, keyboards, etc. Call (231)775-7425 between 10am and 6pm.

Pets & Supplies5261 yr., old, neutered 3/4 Australian Shepard and 1/4 Blue Heeler, very lovable family dog, but sometimes aggressive to strangers, $150. Leave msg., (231)734-2024.

Canaries For Sale, young and healthy American Singers, very reasonably priced, some used cages available as well. Call Kris (231)775-5976, anytime.

Chihuahua pups, 10 weeks, pure bred, mom and dad on site, sweet and small, $200. To good homes. Call (231)360-4932 or (231)942-9123.

Wonderland Humane Societymay be able to help with the cost of spay/neuter surgery for your cat or dog. Call for info: (231)920-6405 or (231)775-8164. Like Us On Facebook!

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Pet Grooming by Lynn Koetje at Stoney Corners Veterinary Service. Dogs, cats, birds.

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Merchandise Under$300ZeroXposur snowboarding jack-et, unisex size XL, headband in-cluded, brand new, still has tags, $220 value, will sell for $60. Call (231)878-5605.

Tall antique looking, free standing lamp with glass shade, $10. Call (231)750-4239.

Older 22 semi-auto rifle, good condition, $140. Call (231)250-3566.

Never worn, 3 pair of Jeans, size 3, two are Arizona acid wash, one pair is Decree dark blue, from JC Penny, $25 for all. Call (231)884-5323.

2 big boxes of very nice blankets, some are crochet, different sizes, clean, just have way too many, non smoking home, all for $25. Call (231)884-5323.

Mirrors- Won’t need these when we down size, large wall size, one is 39” X 48” with Maple frame. The other is 32” X 46” with light wood frame, only $80 for both, will sell-seperately, Cadillac. Call (231)779-8118.

Antique dresser, over 100 years old, 2 large lower drawer and 2 half size drawers, 46” wide, 22” deep and 36” high, has a large mirror that fastens at the rear, Walnut color, only$200, Cadillac. Call (231)779-8118.

Nice collection of 10 DVDs for sale, 1 is brand new, asking $40 for all. Call or text (231)920-9748.

20+ cookbooks for sale, Taste of Home Holidays, Pillsbury, Favorite All time, etc., asking $50 or best offer. Call or text (231)920-9748.

Curio cabinet, glass front and sides, 6’ high 17” wide and 10” deep, lighted, 4 shelves, like new condition, $130, Cadillac. Call (231)779-8118.

China cabinet, large, 77” high, 40” wide and 16” deep, glass doors with 3 lower doors with a sil-verware drawer, like new condi-tion, downsizing and cannot use, $200, Cadillac. Call (231)779-8118.

TV Cabinet 40” wide by 22” deep by 57” high, 2 doors and 2 lower drawers, $40, Cadillac. Call (231)779-8118.

42 GE Ecoluv fluorescent lamps. F32T8-SP41 Eco. $84 for all, will sell separately. Call (231)825-2795.

36 inch snow blower for a TORO-Wheel Horse lawn tractor, $100. Call (231)825-2795.

Simplicity model 870 snowblow-er for sale, heavy duty machine in great condition, runs and operates good, $300. Call or text (231)429-6724.

One king bed, 2 night stands with 2 lamps, 1 large dresser with mir-ror, medium Oak, dining room ta-ble with 1 large leaf and 4 uphol-stered chairs with casters, enter-tainment center and small chest freezer, $300. Call (231)839-4376.

Snowblower 8HP 26" MTD, 6 for-ward, 2 reverse, works good, elec-tric start, $225 or best offer. Call (231)667-0047. No Sunday Sales.

Very nice entertainment center, all Oak, $100. Call (231)779-0111.

Half price tickets, Drew Thomas, Magic and Illusion, Sat. Feb. 9th. Little River Casino 8pm, 2 seats, cost $60, will sell for $30. Call (231)920-2150.

30 X 50 spotting scope, new in case, has tripod mount, paid $100, will sell for $40. Cadillac (231)920-2934.

Captains double bed, shelf head-board and drawers underneath, wood, in good condition, $100. Call (231)-825-2530.

Southpole zip up sweat shirt, kids size XL, hot pink, $10. Call (231)878-4914.

No Boundries zip up sweat shirt, kids size LG, black with the word “love” in bright colors, $5 Call (231)878-4914.

Lincoln 225 arc welder, great shape with extras, $200 or best of-fer. Call (231)862-3310.

Yardman snowblower, 8 hp with electric start, 24 inch cut with 5 forward and 2 reverse speeds, like new, $300 firm. Call (231)862-3310.

Kirby vac with never used sham-pooer and attchments, $300. Call (231)920-5349.

2 Oak bar stools, nice condition, $30. Please call (231)775-4064.

Generator 10HP, 5000 watt, 110 and 220 volt outlets, runs good, $280 or best offer. Call (231)779-0424.

Merchandise Under$300Sears Craftsman table saw, great condition, used very little, asking $75 or best offer. Please call (231)429-0915, ask for Dan.

Delta miter saw 10", nice condi-tion, used very little, asking $40 or best offer Please call (231)429-0915 ask for Dan.

600 Watt Sony stereo tuner, nice condition, used very little, asking $75 or best offer. Please call (231)429-0915 and ask for Dan.

Mountain Man Coyote hat, full length, new 2 to choose from, fits 23 1/2 dia. head or smaller, 2 to choose from $200 for both will sell separately. Call (231)734-2712.

16’ aluminum canoe, $300. Call (231)884-1621.

12’ V bottom aluminum boat, $300. Call (231)884-1621.

Snowmobile sleigh with fiber-glass body, windshield and cover, seats 2, maufactured by Polaris, good condition, $300 fir. Call eve-nings (231)824-6266.

MP3 player with Skull Candy headphones, asking $150. Call (231)779-8613.

Heavy duty tow bar w/draw hitch sway bars & 2” ball, $150. Call (231)775-7720.

1980 340 Jag., good seat, hood and belly pan, needs carb work and windshield, $300. Call (231)884-1812.

Snowplow, 7 1/2flt with frame, came from a Ford, has cyl., $225 or best offer. Call (231)825-2249.

4 ft X 7 ft trailer with 16” side rails, 13” tires, $300 or best offer. Call (231)825-2249.

3 Swivel stools, excellent condi-tion, 29" top of seat to floor, asking $120, original cost $750. Call (231)734-2712.

4 XBox 360 games; Project Goth-am Race 4, Moto GP”06, Front-lines- Full of War, Vancouver 2010 Olympic Game w/books, 1 XBox 360 game w/o book, Spiderman Alliance Marvel, asking $30. Call Eddie (231)468-2900.

XBox 360 RCA cords & power supply, $50. Call (231)468-2900.

Bissel ProHeat with attachment carpet cleaner, $60. Call (231)468-2900.

Merchandise Under$500SKS Rifle with folding stock and one 30 round clip, $450. Call (231)631-2856 after 4pm.

RECREATIONALSnowmobiles6081994 Arctic Cat Prowler 440 CC, two-up, reverse, hand and thumb warmers, excellent condition, $850. Call (231)825-2180.

1995 Polaris Indy snowmobile 600 Triple, very good condition, studded track, hand and thumb warmers, 5800 miles, adult ridden, asking $900 or best offer. Call (231)394-0169.

1995? Wells Cargo 8’ x 12’ en-closed snowmobile trailer, 4 doors with ramp, fair condition, $950 or best offer. Call (231)920-7126 or (231)885-2530.

1998 Polaris XC 600, 5,800 miles, $1,500, Cadillac. Call (231)920-3636.

2004 Arctic Cat 600 Pantera, 6,100 miles, remote start, $2,700. in very good condition. Call (231)389-2663.

Mark Your Calendar – March 2nd. White Star Snowmobile Auc-tion INC., Americas largest snow-mobile auctions. For more infor-mation go to:

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Sporting Goods609

3rd Annual Falmouth Gun Show

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M&M M10 AK47, nearly new, per-fect condition, comes with 6 30 round Tapco mags, 5 of which are loaded, 3 X 9 X 32 scope, $2,000. Call (231)884-4899.

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3 bdrm, one bath, 1200 sq ft. This energy efficient house has new windows, a high efficiency furnace & insulation. Other improvements include flooring, drywall & siding. Large yard & basement. Near Lin-coln Elementary School in Cadil-lac, $49,900. Call (231)394-1757.

By Owner- 298 Bramblewood, 4000 sq. custom ranch, largekitchen with island, 5 bed, 3.5bath, office, finished walkout base-ment, 3 car garage, 2+ acres,$319,000. Call (231)944-5146 forappt.

M-21105774, $189,000. Unbeliev-able house for an unbeatable price! 4 BR's, 4 full baths, 3118 square feet, built in 1990. 3 car garage plus 28X40 storage ga-rage, main floor master suite &laundry. Upper level has 2 BRs, 2 baths & a shared soaking tub lo-cated in a Jack & Jill style con-necting room. Finished basement has guest suite w/bathroom.Handicap accessible & provisionfor future elevator. Awesome curb appeal; covered porch, fenced in yard. Near golfing, skiing, Manist-ee National Forest, Lake Mitchell& just minutes from downtown Ca-dillac. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com Call Mike McNamara, RE/MAX Cen-tral (231)920-6453.

Have several houses for sale on land contract, or lease option, min-imum of $5,000 down. Call Pio-neer Investments (231)510-5724.

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Log home with 79.6 acres, 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, full basement, loft, wood boiler system plus propane, wood stove in living room, very private and secluded, house sets back 1/4 mile off the road, also pole barn and wood shed, $259,500. Call for more info (231)328-2112, Merritt.

M-21106905, $199,000. 11 Unit Motel located at Caberfae Peaks Ski and Golf Resort; includes a 1366 square foot owners resi-dence, 24X30 garage & office area. Motel has vending room, plenty of parking for guests & their sport equipment. Area is famed for Whitetail Deer, Morel Mushroom & small game hunting. Free adver-tising on area snowmobile maps because it's a snowmobile fuel stop. Close to Pine & Manistee River paddle sport opportunities and hiking trails. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com Call Mike McNamara, RE/MAX Cen-tral (231)920-6453.

M-21107436, $122,000. Remod-eled farm house offering 3 BR's, 2 baths, 1502 square feet and a , 2 car attached garage. Located on 4 wooded acres! Newer electric system, plumbing, furnace, roof-ing, insulation & floor covering. Gorgeous kitchen, pellet burning insert in the dining room fireplace, wrap around porch. House sits well off the road. Site is lined with mature maple trees. Pole building has animal stalls and lean-to stor-age area. New 5 inch well instal-led in 2010. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.comCall Mike McNamara, RE/MAX Central (231)920-6453.

MLS# 20903047 – 4780 M-115 $89,900. Price reduced for a quick sale! Seller will look at land con-tract. Lots of potential! Great buy!! Call Jeanne @ 231-620-8376 ERA Greater North Properties, PC. 3080 W. 13th St, Cadillac.

MLS# 21107897 – 21300/21400 215th Ave $189,000. 2 homes in-come potential. 1st home 3 bed-room/2bath, sep. dining, hot tub, fireplace, full walkout basement, 1568 sq ft, 2 car garage, screened porch, landscaped. 2nd home in-come potential, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, fireplace, sep. dining, 1560 sq ft, sheds gazebo, 2+ garage, 40 acres, open area, woods. Call Mary Anne @ 231-357-5218ERA Greater North Properties, PC. 3080 W. 13th St, Cadillac.

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642 S. Lake St., CadillacFeburary 2nd & 3rd, Saturday & Sunday 1pm-3pm. Marina Shores condo, 3 bedroom, 2 full baths, garage, boat slip, $189,000. Call (231)577-1281.

Condominiums ForSale712Beautiful Marina Shores condo (#642), 3 bedroom, 2 full baths, garage, boat slip, new paint, ex-cellent condition, $189,000. Call (231)577-1281.

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3 bedroom, 1 car garage, country setting, close to Pleasant Lake & downtown, $700/mo. heat includ-ed, plus electric & security depos-it, no pets, non-smoking. Call (231)775-7697 or (231)920-7697.

McBain Schools - 2 bed, 1 bath, 2 car garage. $550 month, $550 deposit. Call (231)878-2888.

www.CadillacRentals.com 2 BR., lg. yard, pets ok, new car-pet, $595. Negotiable on deposit and utilities. Call or text (231)510-5453. HRP Management Inc.

Roommate Wanted803Furnished bdrm., laundry, cable, wi-fi, all utilities included, $350/mo. & $150 security. Call (231)884-6025.

Mobile Homes ForRent8042 Bedroom, Woodward Lake area, $400/mo. Call (231)846-1322.

3 Bdrm, 1.5 ba, large shed, deck, recently updated, Meadowlark, Lake City, $500/mo. + security. Call (231)920-8643.

Apartments For Rent8081 br, 107 Sturtevant/Manton, $475/mo + dep. and electric, in-cludes heat. Storage area. No pets. Call (231)885-2228.

2 & 3 bedroom townhouses with full basement! Rent is based on income. Call Cadillac Shores

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2 Bdrm., newer apt., $595/mo. + util., first floor, carport, no pets/smoking. Call (231)846-3005.

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is updating the waiting list for one and two bedroom units, rent based on income. Barrier free units in building, laundry facilities and play area on site. Applications at mgr. apt. #42 or call 1-800-225-7982. Managed Stratford Group Ltd., 442 W. Baldwin, Aplena, MI. Equal Housing Opportunity. TDD#1-800-855-1155. This insti-tution is an equal opportunity pro-vider and employer.

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MORTGAGE SALETHIS FIRM IS A DEBT

COLLECTOR AT-TEMPTING TO COL-LECT A DEBT. ANY IN-FORMATION OB-TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. MORTGAGE SALE--De-fault has been made in the conditions of a Mort-gage made by DUSTIN BALDWIN AND JODI L. BALDWIN, husband and wife, Mortgagors, to FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF AMERICA, Mortga-gee, dated March 28, 2003, and recorded April 2, 2003, in Liber 478, Page 283, of Wexford County Records, Michi-gan, on which mortgage there is claimed to be due as of the date of this notice $53,253.49, in-cluding interest at 12.50% per annum. Un-der the power of sale contained in said mort-gage, and pursuant to the statutes of the State of Michigan, notice is hereby given that said mortgage will be fore-closed by a sale of the mortgaged premises, or some part of them, at public auction to the highest bidder, on Fri-day, February 8, 2013, at 10:00 o’clock in the fore-noon, at the place of holding the circuit court within Wexford County, Michigan. Said premises are situated in the Town-ship of Clam Lake, Wex-ford County, Michigan, and are described as: The South 1/2 of the South 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 18, T21N, R9W; c/k/a 8741 S. 37 Rd., Cadillac, MI 49601 The redemp-tion period shall be six months from the date of the sale, unless the premises are determined to be abandoned pur-suant to MCLA600.3241a, in which case the redemption pe-riod shall be 30 days. Please be advised that if the mortgaged property is sold at a foreclosure sale by advertisement, pursuant to MCL600.3278 you will be held responsible to the person who buys the property at the mortgage

Legalsforeclosure sale, or to the mortgage holder, for damaging the property during the redemption period. Dated: January 11, 2013 LeVasseur Dyer & Associates, PC Attorneys for Mortgagee P.O. Box 721400 Berk-ley, MI 48072 (248) 586-1200January 11, 18, 25, Feb-ruary 1

PUBLIC NOTICECADILLAC/WEXFORDTRANSIT AUTHORITYProposed State andFederal Applicationfor Operating andCapital Assistance

All citizens are advised that Cadillac/Wexford Transit Authority has prepared an application for the State of Michigan financial assistance for fiscal year 2014 as re-quired under Act 51 of the Public Acts of 1951, as amended, and for fed-eral assistance as re-quired under the federal transit laws, as amend-ed.

The Cadillac/Wexford Transit Authority is re-questing a total of $1,553,273 through the following funding sour-ces:

Funding Sources,Oper-ating Amount, Capital Amount, Total Amount

State Formula Operat-ing: $729,000 - N/A - $729,000

Federal Operating As-sistance: $303,000 - N/A- $303,000

Section 5339 Capital Requests: N/A - 3 buses @ $116,250 - $348,750

Section 5339 Capital Requests: N/A - 3 vans @ $36,270 - $108,810

STP Funding: N/A - $33,713 towards 1 cut-away bus - $33,713

Section 5311 (f) Inter-city: N/A - $20,000 - Se-curity Windows - $20,000

Section 5311 (f) Inter-city: N/A - $10,000 - Bus Shelter Heater - $10,000

The Cadillac/Wexford Transit Authority ensures that the level and quality of transportation service is provided without re-gard to race, color, or national origin in accord-ance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For more information re-garding our Title VI obli-gations or to file a com-plaint please contact us at the address below.

The proposed applica-tion is on file at the Ca-dillac/Wexford Transit Authority, 951 Casa Road, Cadillac, MI 49601, and may be re-viewed during a 30 day period (February 1, 2013-March 1, 2013), between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Written comments re-garding the application and/or written requests for a public hearing to re-view the application must be received by March 1, 2013. If a hearing is re-quested, notice of the scheduled date, time, and location will be pro-vided at least 10 days in advance.

Submittals should be sent to the attention of Vance D. Edwards, Ca-dillac/Wexford Transit Authority, 951 Casa Road, Cadillac, MI 49601.February 1, 2, 4

LegalsMORTGAGE NOTICEIF YOU ARE NOW ON

ACTIVE MILITARY DU-TY OR HAVE BEEN IN THE PRIOR NINE MONTHS, PLEASE CONTACT OUR OF-FICE AT 248-502-1400.

MORTGAGE SALE - Default has been made in the conditions of a mortgage made by Ho-ward R. Cleveland, sin-gle, to Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Sys-tems, Inc., as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Cor-poration, its successors or assigns, Mortgagee, dated October 15, 2003 and recorded November 21, 2003 in Liber 0524, Page 615, and , Wexford County Records, Michi-gan. Said mortgage is now held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC by as-signment. There is claim-ed to be due at the date hereof the sum of Sev-enty-Three Thousand Six Hundred Forty-Two and 79/100 Dollars ($73,642.79) including interest at 5.875% per annum.

Under the power of sale contained in said mortgage and the statute in such case made and provided, notice is here-by given that said mort-gage will be foreclosed by a sale of the mortgag-ed premises, or some part of them, at public venue at the front South door of the Wexford County Circuit Court-house in Cadillac, Michi-gan in Wexford County, Michigan at 10:00 AM on FEBRUARY 15, 2013.

Said premises are lo-cated in the Township of Greenwood, Wexford County, Michigan, and are described as:

All that parcel of land in Township of Green-wood, Wexford County, State of Michigan, as more fully described in Deed Liber 385, Page 254, ID# 2410-15-3101, being known and desig-nated as the South 1/2 of the North 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 15, T24N, R10W.

The redemption period shall be 6 months from the date of such sale, unless determined aban-doned in accordance with MCLA §600.3241a, in which case the re-demption period shall be 30 days from the date of such sale. TO ALLPURCHASERS: The foreclosing mortgagee can rescind the sale. In that event, your damag-es, if any, are limited solely to the return of the bid amount tendered at sale, plus interest.

If the property is sold at foreclosure sale, pur-suant to MCL 600.3278, the borrower will be held responsible to the per-son who buys the prop-erty at the mortgage foreclosure sale or to the mortgage holder for damage to the property during the redemption period.

If you are a tenant in the property, please con-tact our office as you may have certain rights.

Dated: January 18, 2013

Orlans Associates, PC, Attorneys for Servicer, P.O. Box 5041, Troy, MI 48007

File No. 12-511409January 18, 25, February 1, 8

LegalsNOTICE OFMORTGAGE

FORECLOSURE SALETHIS FIRM IS A DEBT

COLLECTOR AT-TEMPTING TO COL-LECT A DEBT. ANY IN-FORMATION WE OB-TAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE CONTACTOUR OFFICE AT THE NUMBER BELOW IF YOU ARE IN ACTIVE MILITARY DUTY.

ATTENTION PUR-CHASERS: This sale may be rescinded by theforeclosing mortgagee. In that event, your dam-ages, if any, shall be lim-ited solely to the return of the bid amount ten-dered at sale, plus inter-est.

Default having beenmade in the terms and conditions of a certainMortgage made between TRACY J. COE andJAMES M. COE, wife and husband, whose ad-dress is 607 North Park Street, Cadillac, Michi-gan 49601, as Mortga-gor, and FIRSTBANK MORTGAGE COMPA-NY, f/k/a FIRSTBANK-MT. PLEASANT MORT-GAGE COMPANY, a Michigan banking corpo-ration, whose address is102 South Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858, as Mortgagee,dated October 16, 2007, and recorded in the of-fice of the Register ofDeeds for WexfordCounty, Michigan on Oc-tober 29, 2007, in Liber 605 at Page 2236, upon which Mortgage is claim-ed to be due at the dateof this notice the sum of SEVENTY-NINE THOU-SAND EIGHT HUN-DRED ONE AND 75/100 ($79,801.75) DOLLARS, and no suit or proceed-ings at law or equity hav-ing been instituted to re-cover the debt secured by said Mortgage, or any part thereof;

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the power ofsale contained in saidMortgage, and pursuant to the statute of the State of Michigan in such case made and provided, no-tice is hereby given thaton March 8, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., said Mort-gage will be foreclosed by a sale at public auc-tion to the highest bid-der, at the Wexford County Courthouse in the City of Cadillac,County of Wexford, Michigan (that being the building where the Cir-cuit Court for the County of Wexford is held) of thepremises described in said Mortgage, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay theamount due of said Mort-gage, with interest there-on at 6.5% per annum, and all legal costs, ex-penses and charges, in-cluding the attorney feesallowed by law, and alsoany sums which may be paid by the undersigned to protect its interest in the premises, which said premises are described as follows:

Land situated in the City of Cadillac, County of Wexford and State of Michigan, to-wit:

The East 16 feet 8 in-ches of the South 90 feet of Lot 3, and the South90 feet of Lot 4, Block 49 of G.A. Mitchell's Plat, as recorded in Liber 1 ofPlats, Page 17, Wexford County Records.

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LegalsThe redemption period

shall be six (6) months from the date of such sale, unless determined abandoned in accord-ance with MCLA600.3241a, in which case the redemption pe-riod shall be thirty (30) days from the date of such sale.

If the property descri-bed in this Notice is sold at the foreclosure sale referred to above, the Mortgagor will be held responsible to the pur-chaser who buys the property at the mortgage foreclosure sale or to the mortgage holder for damaging the property during the redemption period in accordance with MCL 600.3278 or as otherwise provided by law.

FIRSTBANK MORT-GAGE COMPANY, f/k/aFIRSTBANK-MT. PLEASANT MORT-GAGE COMPANY, Mort-gagee

Dated: February 1, 2013

TIMOTHY L. CUR-TISS, Esq. - Braun Ken-drick Finkbeiner P.L.C., 304 East Broadway, Suite 206, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858, 989/775-7404February 1, 8, 15, 22, March 1

NOTICE OFPUBLIC HEARING

FOR IMPROVEMENTSTO LAKE MITCHELL,WEXFORD COUNTY,

MICHIGANHEARING OF

PRACTICABILITYAND REVIEW OF

APPORTIONMENTSTake Notice that The

Lake Mitchell Improve-ment Board will hold a public hearing on the practicability of a 3-year lake improvement pro-gram for Lake Mitchell. The lake improvement program for Lake Mitch-ell would begin in 2014,

Legalsand continue through 2016. The program will consist of herbicide treat-ments, mechanical har-vesting, biological con-trol, administration, in-spections, and contin-gency expenses.

Take Further Notice that special assessment rolls (SAD Roll 2-013) have been prepared and are on file at Cherry Grove Township Hall, and are available for public examination at the Cherry Grove Township Hall located at 4830 East M-55, Cadillac, Michigan during normal business hours. Said special as-sessment rolls have been prepared for the purpose of assessing the cost of improvements to the property benefited therefrom. Such assess-ment shall be paid in three yearly payments and shall be included on your Winter Tax Notice. The Special Assessment District for the Lake Mitchell Lake Improve-ment Project includes all lakefront parcels and all backlots with deeded or dedicated access. The annual cost of the project is being assessed equal-ly against all parcels within the Special As-sessment District. Under this plan, your assess-ment is proposed to be between $275-$326 for Lakefront lots (1.0 units of benefit), between $138-$163 for Back lots (0.5 units of benefit) with deeded or dedicated ac-cess, and between $550-$652 for Commercial lots (2.0 units of benefit) per year for 3 years.

The Lake Mitchell Im-provement Board will meet at the Cherry Grove Township Hall lo-cated at 4830 East M-55, Cadillac, Michigan, at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, February 23, 2013 to re-ceive public comment on the proposed project and for the purpose of re-viewing said special as-sessment rolls and hear-ing any objections there-

Legalsto. Appearance and pro-test of the special as-sessment at the hearing is required in order to ap-peal the amount of the special assessment to the Michigan Tax Tribu-nal or other court of com-petent jurisdiction. An owner of or party with in-terest in property to be assessed, or his or her agent, may protest con-tinuance of the program and/or the special as-sessment by appearing in person at the hearing or by letter filed with the Lake Mitchell Improve-ment Board at or prior to the time of the hearing, in which case appear-ance in person is not re-quired. Written objec-tions may be filed or mailed to the Lake Mitch-ell Improvement Board at the Cherry Grove Town-ship Hall, 4830 East M-55, Cadillac, Michigan, prior to the time of the hearing. If the special as-sessment is protested as provided above, the owner or any party hav-ing an interest in the property may file a writ-ten appeal of the special assessment with the Michigan Tax Tribunal or other court of competent jurisdiction within 30 days after the confirma-tion of the special as-sessment roll.

Lake Mitchell Improve-ment Board

Michael J. Solomon, Wexford County Drain Commissioner

Sperry Claypool,Repre-sentative at-large, repre-senting the Lake Mitchell Association

Dave Foley, Selma Township Representa-tive

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Legals

NOTICE OFFORECLOSURE

THIS FIRM IS A DEBTCOLLECTOR AT-TEMPTING TO COL-LECT A DEBT; ANY IN-FORMATION WE OB-TAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF YOU ARE IN ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE PLEASE CONTACTOUR OFFICE AT THE NUMBER BELOW. No-tice under MCL600.3278: Pursuant to MCL 600.3278, if the property is sold at a fore-closure sale under MCL600.3201 et. seq., the borrower will be held re-sponsible to the person who buys the property at the mortgage foreclosure sale or the mortgage holder for damaging the property during the re-demption period. AT-TENTION POTENTIALPURCHASERS ATFORECLOSURE SALE: In the case of resolution prior to or simultaneously with the aforementioned foreclosure sale, Con-struction Loan One, L.L.C. may rescind this sale at any time prior to the end of the redemp-tion period. In that event, your damages, if any, shall be limited to the re-turn of your bid amount tendered at the sale, plus interest. Default having occurred in the conditions of a Mortgage made by Kelly Metcalf and Theresa Metcalf, husband and wife, joint tenants with rights of sur-vivorship, ("Mortgagor") to Construction Loan One, L.L.C., dated March 16, 2007, and re-corded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for the County of Wexford in the State of Michigan on March 20, 2007, in Liber 598, Page(s) 952, et. seq., on which Mortgage there is claimed to be due as of the date of this Notice the sum of $152,712.10, which amount may or may not be the entire indebted-

Legalsness owed by Debtors to Construction Loan One, L.L.C. together with in-terest at 6.75 percent per annum. NOW THERE-FORE, Notice is hereby given that the power of sale contained in said Mortgage has become operative and that pur-suant to that power of sale and MCL 600.3201 et. seq., on March 1, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., at the Front (South) door of the Courthouse in Cadil-lac, Michigan, that being the place for holding the Circuit Court and/or for conducting such foreclo-sure sales for the County of Wexford, there will be offered at public sale, the premises, or some part thereof, described in said Mortgage as follows, to-wit: LAND SITUATED IN THE TOWNSHIP OF GREENWOOD, COUN-TY OF WEXFORD, STATE OF MICHIGAN, IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: PART OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 4, TOWN 24 NORTH, RANGE 10 WEST, MORE PARTIC-ULARLY DESCRIBED AS: COMMENCING ATTHE NORTH 1/4 COR-NER OF SAID SECTION 4; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 53' 28" WEST, ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SECTION 4, 693.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 31' 10" WEST, 417.50 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-NING; THENCE CON-TINUING SOUTH 01 DEGREES 31' 10" WEST, 417.50 FEET; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 53' 25" WEST, 208.75 FEET; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 31' 10" EAST, 417.50 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 53' 25" EAST, 208.75 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-NING. SUBJECT TO AND TOGETHER WITH A 40.00 FOOT WIDE EASEMENT FOR IN-

LegalsGRESS AND EGRESS AND THE INSTALLA-TION AND MAINTE-NANCE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UTILIT-IES IN SECTION 4,TOWN 24 NORTH, RANGE 10 WEST, WITH A WEST LINE DE-SCRIBED AS: COM-MENCING AT THE NORTH 1/4 CORNER OF SAID SECTION 4;THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 53' 28" WEST, ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SECTION 4, 941.75 FEET TO THE POINTOF BEGINNING OF SAID WEST EASE-MENT LINE; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 31' 10" WEST, 455.00 FEET TO THE POINTOF ENDING OF SAIDWEST LINE EASE-MENT. The redemption period shall be six (6) months unless the prop-erty is established to beabandoned pursuant to MCL 600.3241a, in which case the redemp-tion period shall be thelater of thirty (30) days from the date of sale or fifteen (15) days from the date the notice required by MCL 600.3241a(b) was posted and mailed, or unless under MCL600.3240(17), prior to the foreclosure sale the borrower follows the pro-cedure set forth in that section to establish the presumption that the property is used for Agri-cultural purposes, inwhich case the redemp-tion period shall be one(1) year from the date of the sale. Dated: January21, 2013 Construction Loan One, L.L.C. By: H. DOUGLAS SHEPHERD IV (P64560) BRANDT, FISHER, ALWARD & PEZZETTI, P.C. Attor-neys for ConstructionLoan One 1241 E. Eighth Street, P.O. Box5817 Traverse City, Michigan 49696-5817 (231) 941-9660 File No.: 9478.0008 Ad #44190 January 25, February 1, 8, 15

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32 mixed acres - Wellston $49,900Commercial behind Herradura’s

$60,00021 wooded acres adjoining

Federal Forest $69,90010 acres City of Cadillac $60,000Lot for medical office - $99,900

GREAT BUILDING SITES

#21101127 $149,90053+ acres for your outdoor enjoyment. 30 foot deer hunting tower. Large pole barn for storage. Property is sloping/rolling and is covered with many varieties of trees. Many great building sites.

HOBBY FARM

#21105766 $139,900 10 acre hobby farm features 4 barns and fenced pastures. Country living yet only minutes from Cadillac. 3 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, tri-level home. Finished basement is being used as a family room with wood stove. 2 sliders access large deck. 1 car attached garage.

#21106471 $149,900Rest, relax and enjoy the water! Condo living - no yard work. Situated on 9 acres, North Shore Condos feature 660 ft. of Lake Cadillac waterfront, private swimming area and boat docks. 2 BD, 2 BA, 1-1/2 story condo with A/C, 2 car attached garage.

NORTH SHORE CONDO

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We’re all looking forward to a fresh start at the beginning of the new year: Whether it’s an updated fitness regime, pursuing new hobbies or getting organized, there are a slew of resolutions to try. In 2013, why not make a few changes to not only yourself, but also your home? By incorporating cutting-edge design trends, you’ll add style and color that’s perfect to kick-start the year.

Patterns that pack a punch“No one wants a house that lacks personality,” says

HGTV designer and television personality Taniya Nayak. “The easiest way to infuse your style - while being on-trend - is with an impactful pattern.” According to Nayak, there are a few prints to be on the lookout for in 2013:

Chevron: a bold, dramatic, V-shaped pattern

Geometrics: graphic, colorful shapes, delivering a vintage-modern look and feel

Ombre: subtle color gradation of similar shades that’s extremely versatile

Ikat: tribal, swirls and diamonds reminiscent of tie-dye

Moroccan: culturally-inspired, timeless and exotic motifs

“These powerful patterns can be easily achieved with a fresh coat of paint and a premium painter’s tape, like FrogTape Multi-Surface and Delicate Surface,” adds Nayak. “Treated with PaintBlock Technology, FrogTape can be used to create these new, intricate patterns for a haute interior just in time for the new year. And best of all, FrogTape will help deliver sharp lines, making your handiwork look like that of a

professional.”When using bold patterns, it’s best to find the

right pairing of both the color and the print to not overwhelm your space. If you’re looking to use bright colors, incorporate the patterns onto one accent wall or window treatments. If you’re using neutral hues, try using a pattern on a larger scale, around the entire room or even a piece of furniture. “You don’t want the elements of a space to fight each other,” advises Nayak. “Considering the color, scale and intensity of any pattern in relationship to the rest of your decor will leave you with a finished space that is perfect for 2013 and beyond.”

Mixing up materials“The key to updating your home with the latest

trends is finding a balance,” says Nayak. “It’s all about making it personal and adding elements that fit your lifestyle and design personality, without breaking the bank.” One great way to make a big impact on a small budget is to mix materials, creating a blend of polished and raw in a room with modern and industrial elements.

“The rustic look will be extremely popular in homes in 2013, as it’s elegant and comfortable,” adds Nayak. “It provides a feeling of richness and warmth, while still being comfortable to actually live in the space.” A great material for achieving the industrial and modern look is reclaimed wood. From frames, to furniture, this aged, repurposed wood can bring richness and a dose of style to any space.

Mixing materials can also mean utilizing different finishes throughout a room. In the kitchen, using contrasting materials makes your space look personalized. Try a mix of wood and painted finishes for a more layered and collected feel. By resisting the urge to perfectly match every piece, you’ll have a space that looks current and works nicely together.

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Look for the unexpected“Just because a product is made for a specific purpose, doesn’t mean you can’t reimagine how it could be used,” says Nayak. “For example, hanging materials on the wall that are typically used as flooring can be breathtaking. Wood planks or concrete panels, featured vertically and not just on the ground, add richness and texture.”

Another great tip to accomplishing this trend is to look at construction materials in new ways. Molding and paneling can add architectural detail well beyond crown molding and baseboards. Installing framing on a wall and painting it with complementary paint colors can change the look and feel of any room. “Unique treatments instantly increase the texture, depth and

visual appeal, without spending a lot of time or money,” says Nayak. “And the greatest feature is that these updates aren’t permanent, meaning you can continue to change your space as your style - and home design trends - evolve.”

Finishing touches“The key to incorporating any trend is to make sure it accurately represents your style,” adds Nayak. “The finishing touches are the final way to infuse personality into your updated space.” Whether it’s utilizing accents like pillows, throws and frames in your favorite colors, or a rug that reminds you of a beloved piece of clothing, your home will truly come to life when it depicts who you are in its designs.

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#12052018 Luther - $489,000Sitting on 20 acres with over 1,200 ft. of river and creek frontage, this stunning setting offers plenty of outdoor adventures. There is a spectacular stone fireplace that rises to the peak of the cathedral ceiling. You have the option of heating with pronpane or the outdoor wood furnace, large wraparound deck, 30x48 pole barn that has a finished man-cave area. Also available with additional acreage and 1,000 sq. ft., 2 BD, 2 BA house.

#12006343 Leroy - $66,500 Excellent parcel for your recreation with 500 ft frontage on private Hammarstead Lake. Want to take the snowmobiles out or go for a hike? Eastern edge of property is along the rail trail. Hunting blind in place with many successful hunts over the years or try your luck out in the lake fishing. Several walkout building sites nestled in the pines, all with great views of the lake.

#12044164 Evart - $399,000 150 acres to roam around on, 2000ft m/l of lakefront, 2 beaver ponds, a nice trail system throughout, hunting blinds in place, pole barn for the toys, and another outbuilding set up for dog kennels. Both the pole barn & kennel have concrete floors. The barn style house has oversized door on one side of the garage with 12ft ceiling for an RV.

#12054143 Arcadia - $74,500 Nice rolling 29 acre parcel only minutes from Lake Michigan and many lakes and rivers. Many recreational options to choose from when you are done with the days hunt or after a day of just relaxing with nature. There are several areas around the property that have been cleared and are ready for you to set up camp. Whether its summer, fall, winter, or spring, you’ll always have something to do in this great area in Northwest Michigan for adventures, exploration and relaxation.

#12048249 Reed City - $599,900 Located only 8 miles from the 131 highway, you’ll enjoy easy year round access to the 320 acre parcel. Has a vast variety of terrain that includes nice level areas, rolling hills, some ravines, an old gravel pit and a nice two track trail that loops around the entire parcel. Oak trees are scattered throughout the Pines, Maples, and Poplar trees. Several old base camping spots are widely spread out on the parcel. The 12 X 16 storage shed has metal siding and roof as does the outhouse.

#12038846 Evart - $84,500 Be one of the few owners (48) who enjoy the peace and tranquility of Strawberry Lake. Parcel is 2.5 acres and has a shed, 2 car garage and a 55’ X 60’ big old red barn from the turn of the century. The barn was used as a store and office from when the lake and surrounding area was a private resort and could be converted into a very unique lakefront residence. Property has well, septic, electric, and a lot of room for your stuff. Lake is private 85 acres and has great fishing.

#12057702 Tustin - $39,900Great 5-acre hunting/fishing parcel has a nice size pond and approx. 300 Blue Spruce trees on it. A couple of blinds are in place and waiting for you to get your trophy buck from. There is a storage shed for your gear along with an older 28 ft. RV and a pickup camper to keep you out of the elements. Access is via a two-track easement from 140th and is about a half mile back off the road.

#12041437 Harrietta - $139,00020 acres with a nice Trout stream lead to your very own stocked pond with new deck. Property backs federal land. Home features many recent upgrades. Great floor plan with an unfinished bonus room upstairs, rustic lodge, high efficiency furnace with central air, upgraded insulation in walls, ceiling and basement and unfinished guest home equipped with its own mailing address. The 24x40 shop is heated and insulated with water.

#12059811 Baldwin - $499,000 A quiet, 10 acre parcel with 730’ of river frontage. This log home features 3 bedrooms with 2 full baths. One bath features a jetted tub, large shower enclosure with 6 sprays and a 4 person dry sauna. Recently installed new flooring on the main level. Kitchen redesigned in ‘06 has Grabill custom cabinetry, stainless steel appliances and soap stone countertops. Walkout lower level French doors take you down the path to the fire pit. Oversized 2 car garage with extra storage, covered firewood area and large dog run for the family pet. Home includes a security system, metal roof, paved driveway, cable and high speed internet.

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LEROY $119,900• Currently known as LeRoy Garage • Equipment can be purchased along with property • New drywall, insulation, furnace, A/C • Property is also a propane refill station • Located next to “Rails to Trails” • Could be a snowmobile service businessLynn Spence #C21107587

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LAKE CITY $49,900• Bank Owned! • 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath ranch • Over 1,000 sq. ft. and a 2 car garage, workshop and much more! • This will not last long!! • Virtual tour @ www.BarryFall.comBarry Fall #C21107377

Live FOr Free!

MCBAIN $369,000• Property has a working gravel pit that produces nearly $40,000/year. • Over 5,000 sq. ft., 5 bedrooms, 6 baths, full walkout basement, 2 car garage • 3 of the bedrooms are suites • Also includes a theater room, hot tub and more!Barry Fall #C21107633

HOme WitH acreaGe!

LUTHER $57,500• Bank Owned! • Outdoorsmans’ Paradise! • 3 bedroom, 1 bath ranch • 18 acres with woods, open areas, and trout stream!! • Also includes a 1 car garage • Call to look today!Barry Fall #C21107713

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LEROY $79,000• Nearly new ranch home • 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1st floor laundry • Large master suite with walk-in closet • Modern open floor plan • 1 acre lot leaves plenty of room for future garage • All this and more!!Lynn Spence #C21107726

LEROY $99,900• 4 bedroom, 3 bath home on 2 acres • Open floor plan throughout with hardwood floors • Walkout basement with game/rec. room • 3/4 bath and large utility room in basement as well • Beautiful landscaped yard, patio, deck • More acreage availableLynn Spence #C21104754

CADILLAC $54,900• Large 5 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, 2 story home • Over 2,000 sq. ft. • Sets on large lot • Backs up to Clam River Walkway! • 2 car garage • Walking distance to downtown & Lake Cadillac!Barry Fall #C21107486

MANTON $69,900• 3 bedrooms, 2 baths • 4 car garage, on 1.4 acres • Over 1400 sq. ft. • Many recent updates • Close to town • This is a must see!Barry Fall #C21107182

Quiet cuL-de-sac LOcatiOn!

CADILLAC $112,500• Spacious 4 bedroom, 2 bath • Very energy efficient • Open floor plan, very well taken care of • 2 bedrooms on main level, 2 upstairs • New carpet, new light fixtures and new furnace • Playhouse/fort for the kids outsideLynn Spence #C21105564

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WELLSTON $42,900• 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1st floor laundry • Eat in kitchen, singlewide, large yard • Freshly painted, new carpet & laminate floors • 2 car garage with mechanics pit • Near Dublin Store & Tippy Dam • Bank financing availableMary Anne Colmus #C21103577

55 acres BOrders state Land

CADILLAC $93,500• 55 acres for hunting & recreation • Great building sites • 3 hunting blinds included • Semi trailer with wood burner included • Seasonal road, close to snowmobile trails • Land contract availableMary Anne Colmus #C21103691

remOdeLed rancH!

CADILLAC $65,000• Completely remodeled • 3 bedrooms, 1 bath • All new roof, windows, floor, doors, drywall, lights, paint and much more! • Within walking distance to downtown and Lake • Make your appointment today!Hank Johnson #C21107649

remOdeLed 2 stOry!

CADILLAC $100,000• Completely remodeled! • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths • All new floors, drywall, paint, newer roof, windows and much more! • Within walking distance to downtown and Lake • This is a must see! Hank Johnson #C21107648

priced tO seLL!

CADILLAC $59,900• 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, full basement • Sauna, 1 car attached garage • 3 stall pole barn insulated and electric • Outdoor wood boiler • All this and more on 2 acres • This is a must see!Kathleen Anderson #C21106443

LOts OF pOtentiaL!

CADILLAC $97,000• 6.20 acres includes road right away • 30x60 pole barn building • Zoned for retail or restaurant • Currently use as a marina • Visibility with lots of options and potentialJeanne Schultz #C20903047

BeautiFuL HOme; BeautiFuL prOperty

LEROY $299,500• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths all on 74.75 acres • 2 huge pole barns for all your toys • Stream runs through back of property • New siding in 2009, new kitchen in 2001 • Pole barn sizes are 40x46 and 30x40 • This really is a must see!Kathleen Anderson #C21104886

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COPEMISH $125,000• 5 bedrooms, 2 bath, 2 unit apartment • Lower unit has 2 bedrooms, 1 bath • Upper unit has 3 bedrooms, 1 bath • Large kitchens, separate dining • Huge 30x47 pole barn • Large deck in front for outdoor enjoyment!Vicky Ball #C21106989

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MANTON $70,000• 2 bedroom, possibly 3, 1 bath • Sits on almost 2.5 acres • All new electric in 2012 • New carpet, tile, hot water heater • Huge master bedroom, great deck off the back • Take a look today!Vicky Ball #C21106591

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Despite its negative reputation, the number 13 doesn’t always have to be unlucky. Take these top 10 decor trends for 2013 from design experts, manufacturers and trend forecasters across the country. They’re fresh, fun and sure to bring good fortune to any home.

A splash of colorIndustry leader Pantone’s annual fashion color report sets the tone for home decor as well as clothing, and the spring 2013 report is no exception. Its softer-hued palette of Dusk Blue, Lemon Zest, African Violet, Grayed Jade, Linen and Tender Shoots is emboldened by Monaco Blue, Poppy Red, Emerald and Nectarine. Marc Thee, founder of the No. 1 residential interior design firm in the country, also sees a move toward pure color palettes such as cream and sea glass, khaki and white, or neutral with a pop of yellow.-

Not your mama’s wallpaperRepositionable wallpaper is a decorating mainstay, says Todd Imholte, president of Murals Your Way, whose

website, www.muralsyourway.com, is the top online destination for wall murals worldwide. The company’s10 collections of peel-and-stick wallpaper are available in such themes as Vintage, Dots, Flower Prints and Mostly Modern, and can be removed and reused hundreds of times without losing their adhering qualities. Because the company offers color matching, customers can match their repositionable wallpaper to an existing paint color, updated decor or the new Pantone color palette.

Cooking up smart ideasNext year’s contemporary kitchen will include European frameless laminate cabinetry, multi-tasking appliances, hands-free faucets, and increased smartphone and tablet functionality, according to Jamie Gold, a certified independent kitchen and bath designer in San Diego, Calif. Value-oriented remodels will remain popular, she predicts, with homeowners incorporating existing flooring, fixtures, cabinets and/or appliances into their design plans to save money and retain favorite design elements.

Ten lucky homedecor trends for 2013


Let it shineJeff Dross, senior product manager of Kichler Lighting, says energy-efficient LED products will continue to dominate lighting, and will be prevalent in coves, tray ceilings, toekicks, and under and above cabinets. Chrome and polished nickel will appeal to the emerging “Y” generation and baby boomers modernizing their retirement homes. Tall, slender outdoor lanterns in contemporary, cottage and transitional styles will work well for those in smaller urban spaces.

Heavy metalSusan Goldstick of Susan Goldstick, Inc. predicts home furnishings will also shine in 2013. New metals such as rose gold and gun metal will be mixed, and pierced, hammered and oxidized textural metals will be especially popular. Vendors will add metal to their wood pieces, and faux animal print metalics will provide texture and reflective light in the textiles arena.

There’s no place like homeEven as the economy shows signs of improving, homeowners still find comfort in “cocooning” in the warmth and safety of their homes, says Graeme Smith, conceptual designer at Second Nature kitchens.- Adding an on-trend color such as cranberry or velvety chocolate to a soothing palette of muted tones and delicate detailing creates timeless interiors, and incorporating vintage pieces fosters a sense of nostalgia, heritage and solidity.

Woodn’t it be nice?Next year’s trendy furniture will boast reclaimed wood or reclaimed-looking synthetic wood, according to Lenny Kharitonov, president of Unlimited Furniture Group, Inc. Combinations of wood and metal will be popular, such as a desk with a wood top and an iron base.

Thee also sees a new freedom to mix metals, linen or stone into wood, with the juxtaposition of materials and finishes creating a beautiful combination.

Watch your stepLori Kirk-Rolley, senior marketing director at Daltile, notes that one of the biggest style trends of the year will be porcelain tile that emulates the look of hardwood in high-traffic areas, offering the natural beauty of wood with the long-lasting durability and ease of maintenance of tile. Rectangular-sized tiles - particularly those in long, linear plank styles - will remain popular in floor and wall applications.

Back to natureConsumers’ eco-friendly focus on using organic, sustainable materials will continue into 2013. Orange, Calif.-based Budget Blinds recommends woven wood shades made from bamboo, grasses, jute, reeds, rattan and other natural renewable resources for honest, simple beauty. Smith suggests using timber and wicker furniture, ribbed and woven finishes on accessories, and layered wool throws in the living area of the kitchen to bring a sense of the outdoor into the home.

You can judgea book by its coverExterior design and landscaping say just as much about a home as its interior architectural counterparts. Artist and designer Pablo Solomon touts stone, concrete and brick that blend into the environment, requires little upkeep, and is superior weather susceptible wood decks, rust-prone metals and dulling plastics. He also sees increased use of eco-friendly native plants to save water and reduce pesticides.

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NEWER HOUGHTON LAKE home in a very nice neighborhood. Cape Cod with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, large walk-in closet in the master bedroom. Large living room with fireplace. Good condition, wooded lot. Over 1800 sq. ft., with a bonus area over garage could be finished off for more living area. $114,500. #2838

BARGAIN RANCH HOME. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1st floor laundry, partially finished basement. Large deck, 2 car garage, 5 secluded acres. Benzie County location. Priced low for quick cash sale. Only $54,900. #2794

PRIVATE SETTING, manufactured home on 5 acres, open floor plan, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, master bath, large den could be a 4th bedroom. No neighbors visible from home. Rural setting, just south of Mesick. Only $35,000. #2836

BUCKLEY AREA, modest manufactured home. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, larger pole barn garage, additional small pole barn that could be used as rural storefront. Perfect location for small home business, close to the old engine show. Just over 5 acres. Only $29,900. #2837

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NEW LISTING, SMALL 1 BEDROOM, 1 bath home in the Village of Kaleva. Ideal for rental, or a cheap vacation cabin. Better than a hotel room. Only $17,100. #2839

CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP! Unbelievable price, bargain bungalow, Reed City area. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, Michigan basement, deck, enclosed porch, convenient in-town location. Home needs work, but you can’t beat the price, only $8,500. #2826

BUCKLEY AREA, well maintained singlewide on almost 2 acres, neat, clean and affordable. Front deck, enclosed rear porch, 2 storage sheds, short commute to Traverse City. Only $39,900. #2834

MODEST 2 STORY home with spacious rooms. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, formal dining room, fireplace, basement and detached garage. Large attic for storage, close to Diggins Hill and McKinley School. Only $30,000. #2832

MODEST OLD FARM HOUSE. 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, basement, covered porch, enclosed entry, detached 2 car garage and several outbuildings. Square 10 acre parcel, Marion area. Call Brian. Only $45,000. #2831

CONTEMPORARY LOG SIDED HOME. Like new interior. 2068 sq. ft., 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths with den/office which could make a 3rd bedroom. First floor laundry, hardwood floors, cathedral ceilings in the large open living area, attached 2 car garage, and shared lake access. $132,000. #2840

PLATTE RIVER COTTAGE, 1 bedroom, den, and great room. Potential for 2 more beds. Home has 1 1/2 baths, double lot. Great potential. Private road, Beulah. Only $59,900. #2841

COZY LAKEFRONT COTTAGE, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, built in 1994, attached 2 car garage, lakeside deck, abundant wildlife and water view. Located on 28 lakes which is in the Fife Lake/Kalkaska area. Only $64,900. Call Shirley. #2842

QUALITY INTERIOR REMODELING. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 story home with 1st floor laundry, formal dining room, large master suite. 2nd floor has multi-purpose room for all your family hobbies. Now offering $5000 in seller’s concessions. Only $85,000. #2817

ORPHANED HOME needs new owner. Priced to sell! Million dollar panoramic views of Manistee countryside, quiet location, limited neighbors, hilltop setting, raised ranch, large deck, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, unfinished walkout basement, Kaleva area on 4.59 acres. Only $24,900. #2793

GREAT VACATION SPOT!! Partially wooded double lot with access to Rose Lake. Power pole installed. Site cleared for building. Survey on file. Now only $7,000. #250320 ACRES OF HUNTING LAND with small stream in Tustin area, $42,000. #2756MIDDLE BRANCH RIVER front lot, Marion area. Only $9,250. #2804

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ROSE LAKE AREA CHALET, 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, partially finished basement, newer furnace, wooded lot, Rose Lake access. Priced to move quickly. Only $31,500. #2829

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M-21106816 $500,000Awesome site located just North of Professional Park full of newer office buildings, South of Cadillac’s newest motel, near a resort and convention hall, close to retail and lakes. Frontage on S. US-13 Highway and Mackinaw Trail makes this an excellent spot for office/service, office professional or other commercial development. Seller will consider splits and seller financing terms may be available. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com

US-131 & MACKINAW TRAIL FRONTAGE

M-21106098 $399,000Profitable long running restaurant in recreational Cadillac West area. Close to Pine River, canoe and water sport liveries, fishing, hunting, skiing, mushrooming and snowmobiling traffic patterns. No trip up north to the Cadillac area is truly complete without a stop at Garlets Corner Restaurant. There is plenty of parking for RVs, snowmobile trailers, boats and big rigs. Fixtures and equipment are included. Building has been updated inside and out including central air, furnace, some kitchen equipement and a new sanitation system. Upper level could be turned into living quarters. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com.

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TERRIFIC HOME ON LAKE MITCHELL

M-21105182 $599,000An awesome site on Lake Mitchell with a spectacular sunset view! 4 BDs, 3 BAs, 3600 total sq. ft. 2 sided fireplace, vaulted ceilings, central air, main level laundry room, whirlpool tub, master suite with bath & private deck. Large kitchen with dual radiant baking & roasting oven. 2 car heated attached garage with entry to basement, tons of storage & a tornado shelter! Detached storage garage too. Monitored security system. Convenient location. Gorgeous landscaping, sprinkler system & seawall. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com

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M-21105697 $163,9003 bedrooms, 2 baths, newer ranch home built in 2005 and still in like new condition. Kitchen has solid surface countertops, breakfast bar eating area, plenty of cabinetry & sliding glass door to covered porch. Vaulted ceiling throughout main living areas, master suite has private bathroom, walk-in closet and sliding glass door to south facing sun deck. Detached garage and large pole building/workshop. Acreage is about 80% wooded. See photos www.mikesellscadillac.com

M-21107178 $44,9003 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1280 sq. ft. living space. Newer mobile in great condition. Located in Pine River Retreat Subdivision. Shared Pine River access is at north end of Pine River Road. Master bedroom has 2 closets and whirlpool tub. Large island style kitchen, built-in cabinetry in dining & living rooms. 20x16 two story barn is insulated. 24x12 Amish built storage building, carport and additional garden shed provides plenty of storage. See photos www.mikesellscadillac.com

PINE RIVER ACCESS

M-21104573 $14,900Site is at Caberfae Peaks Ski and Golf Resort and located in Manistee National Forest. Great spot for every kind of hunter and golfer. Plenty of mushrooms and excellent for hunting and snowmobiling. Just a short walk to Caberfae ski hills and the golf course. See photos www.mikesellscadillac.com

LEVEL BUILDING SITE

M-21107097 $79,900Commercial building with basement and side entry. Can be used as single unit or 2 unit. Both units have their own Mitchell Street entrances. Part of lot is undeveloped and could be turned into off street parking lot. Move-in ready. Great for office, professional or retail business, but can also be purchased as business opportunity that will include business equipment & inventory. Roof has been updated. Estimated cost of business is approximately $30,000. See photos www.mikesellscadillac.com

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11 UNIT MOTEL CLOSE TO CABERFAE PEAKS

M-21106905 $199,000Nicely remodeled residence has vaulted ceiling, loft, 24x30 garage and offers 1366 sq. ft. of living space with separate office area to sell concessions, sporting goods & snowmobile parts. Northern Michigan Resort Motel has 11 unites, vending room, plenty of parking space for guests and their sport equipment. Area is famed for Whitetail deer, Morel mushrooms & small game hunting. Free advertising on area snowmobile maps because it’s a snowmobile fuel stop. Also includes tennis courts that need resurfacing. Close to Pine River & Manistee River water sport liveries, hiking trails. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com

M-21106488 $99,9003 BDs, 1274 sq. ft. of living space. Reconstructed in 1994/1995. Electrical, plumbing, drywall, kitchen cabinetry, counter tops, bath fixtures and exterior siding of home have been updated. Ceramic tile at front entry, natural wood banister and open stair to lower level. Lower leve is ready for finishing to add additional 1144 sq. ft. of living space. Close to schools, lakes, recreation opportunities and shopping at the north end or downtown. Home should qualify for most low or zero down payment loan programs. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com

CONVENIENT LOCATION

M-21102982 $119,000Once in a lifetime opportunity! This wooded site offers 320’ Pine River frontage and more than 1 acre of land. Main house includes 2,736 sq. ft. space, 6 bedrooms & 2 baths. Guest cottage includes 2 more bedrooms & approximately 680 sq. ft. space. DEQ has reviewed for determination regarding “the Natural River’s Act” and documentation states that home could be demolished and new dwelling built (but no closer to water than existing structure). Close to Skookum Road Bridge, just south of Ne-Bo-Shone. Land contract terms might be possible. See photos www.mikesellscadillac.com

320’ PRIME RIVER FRONTAGE

M-21106938 $159,9004 bedrooms, 2 baths & 4 car attached garage, 2896 sq. ft. living space. Located in the only “ski back home” subdivision in the area, 3 levels of living space, authentic cedar siding, cedar tongue & groove interior, oak hardwood flooring in kitchen & dining room, large entry. 2 more bedrooms can be made in attic above garage. Handcrafted china cupboards in kitchen, beautiful built-in entertainment center/book shelves in living room. Elevated decks, private patio area. Lower level has family/game room & comfortable 4 season sun room w/wet bar. See photos www.mikesellscadillac.com

CABERFAE SKI CHALET

M-21101959 $395,0004 BDs, 3 1/2 BAs, 2 car attached garage. 3559 sq. ft., 2 master suites with private baths, walk in closets & a privated deck or balcony. High-performance Andersen windows, built-in entertainment center with bookcases in the family room, gourmet kitchen, sunroom with a ceiling full of skylights! Solid oak passage doors, trim cabinetry, stair spindles & bannister. The expansive site offers a terrific sunset view. Move right in, relax and enjoy yourself. Few homes offer a list of features as extensive as this one. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com

140 FT. OF LAKE MITCHELL FRONTAGE

M-21104950 $48,3003 BDs, 1.5 BAs, 1198 sq. ft of living space. Private bath in the upper level bedroom. Large 2 car detached garage with a concrete driveway. Maintenance free exterior siding, back yard is partially fenced in. Drain field and furnace have been updated. Very affordably priced and ready for your family. See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com

CONVENIENT LOCATION

M-21105774 $189,0004 BDs, 4 full BAs, 3118 sq. ft., built in 1990. 3 car garage plus 28x40 storage garage, main floor master suite & laundry, large rooms. The upper level includes 2 BDs, 2 BAs & a shared soaking tub located in a Jack & Jill style connecting room, both have walk-in closets. Bedroom 4 on main level can be used as a den or office. Finished basement has a guest suite w/bathroom. Handicap accessible & provision for future elevator. Awesome curb appeal: covered porch, fenced in yard. Near golf, skiing, Manistee National Forest, Lake Mitchell & just minutes from downtown Cadillac. See photos on website www.mikesellscadillac.com

UNBELIEVEABLE HOUSE FOR AN UNBEATABLE PRICE!

M-21107397 $199,000 Built by Ken Orshal Construction in 2003 and still shows like new! 3 BDs, 2 BAs, 1480 sq. ft. of living space. Southern exposure & expansive lakefront views. Living room has windows from floor to the peak of the cathedral ceiling. Island kitchen w/stylish white cabinetry, lower cupboards have pull out shelving. Private bath & walk-in closet in master bedroom. Living room wired for surround sound, plenty of deck space for entertaining. Central air, 3 car garage, sale price includes 40 ft. of dock & 21 ft. pontoon with 28 HP Mariner outboard motor, the furnishings are negotiable too. Site elevation survey proves no need for flood insurance! See photos on web site www.mikesellscadillac.com

188 FT. OF SHARED LAKE MITCHELL FRONTAGE

M-21107205 $89,9002 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1680 sq. ft., walkout basement. Rebuilt from foundation up in 1984. Awesome view from south facing deck. Located on a double lot. Well & drain field replaced within last 10 years, propane tank owned by seller & will save YOU money when you purchase fuel. Energy efficient forced air furnace & wood burning heating system. Includes refrigerator, range, washer, dryer, microwave oven, window air conditioner, counter stools, bedroom furniture, office desk & dog pen. Exterior re-stained in 2007, new shingles and skylight in 2011. See photos www.mikesellscadillac.com

CABERFAE SKI GOLF AREA


C-21000742 $12,144Blacktop road frontage. Great spot for your recreational property or year-round.

C-21001274 $18,900North of Manton, slightly rolling & mixed woods. Blacktop highway & seasonal creek.

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7.59 ACRES 10 ACRE PARCEL

LAKEFRONT HOME - PRICE CHANGE

C-21105483$379,000

101 ft. frontage on Lake Missaukee. Updated home with newer kitchen, flooring, paint & drywall. Master suite, great room, den with fireplace. Detached 4 car garage with a kitchenette & workshop.

C21104334$115,900

Snowmobile out your door! 3 bedrooms, 2 baths with a walkout lower level. Enjoy the cooler days by your pellet stove. Custom hickory cabinets with ceramic tile countertops. Move-in ready! All on 7 acres with countryside views!

SNOWMOBILE OUT YOUR DOOR! 80 ACRE HUNTING WITH CABIN

C-21103924$159,000

A bit of paradise with this secluded cabin. Windmill with generator, 3 bedrooms, bath, living room, kitchen, dining & bar. Interior just recently updated, steel roof, wood stove.

C-21104553 $59,900Recreational or year-round! 2 bedroom ranch with 2 car detached garage, additional 1 car plus storage shed. All on 1.4 acres & close to Hodenpyl Pond.

C-21104662 $42,9003 bedrooms, 2 baths on 1 acre with Rose Lake access. 2 large storage buildings, all furnishings included.

C-21107787 $29,900Secluded rolling & wooded acreage on the thread of the Pine River. Great recreational area!

C-21107790 $84,9003 bedrooms, full bath, full basement with family room, 3 season glassed porch with many updates. Steel roof and 2+ car garage. Move-in ready.

9.46 ACRES ON PINE RIVER KINGSLEY AREA

C-21105466 $42,4001-2 bedroom home with basement within walking distance to Lake Cadillac & walking path. Many updates to home plus chain link fenced yard!

C-21107585 $29,9002 bedroom home with attached garage. Large lot & convenient location. “Sold as is”.

PRICE CHANGE PRICE CHANGE! PRICE CHANGE! FORECLOSURE!

LAKE CADILLAC FRONTAGE

C-21102680$234,000

Charming 3 bedroom home or cottage features fireplace, hardwood floors, ceramic tile, Andersen windows, attached 2 car garage. 63.45 feet of frontage, sandy bottom & dock included.


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Monthly Payment Per $1,000 Borrowed

Rate Interest Only 10 Year 15 Year 20 Year 25 Year 30 Year 40 Year1.000 0.08333 8.76041 5.98495 4.59894 3.76872 3.21640 2.528561.125 0.09375 8.81477 6.04008 4.65492 3.82558 3.27413 2.588081.250 0.10417 8.86935 6.09554 4.71134 3.88297 3.33252 2.648451.375 0.11458 8.92414 6.15132 4.76818 3.94090 3.39154 2.709671.500 0.12500 8.97915 6.20743 4.82545 3.99936 3.45120 2.771721.625 0.13542 9.03437 6.26386 4.88316 4.05836 3.51150 2.834621.750 0.14583 9.08982 6.32061 4.94129 4.11789 3.57243 2.898341.875 0.15625 9.14547 6.37769 4.99985 4.17795 3.63400 2.962892.000 0.16667 9.20135 6.43509 5.05883 4.23854 3.69619 3.028262.125 0.17708 9.25743 6.49281 5.11825 4.29966 3.75902 3.094442.250 0.18750 9.31374 6.55085 5.17808 4.36131 3.82246 3.161422.375 0.19792 9.37026 6.60921 5.23834 4.42348 3.88653 3.229212.500 0.20833 9.42699 6.66789 5.29903 4.48617 3.95121 3.297782.625 0.21875 9.48394 6.72689 5.36014 4.54938 4.01651 3.367142.750 0.22917 9.54110 6.78622 5.42166 4.61311 4.08241 3.437282.875 0.23958 9.59848 6.84586 5.48361 4.67735 4.14892 3.508183.000 0.25000 9.65607 6.90582 5.54598 4.74211 4.21604 3.579843.125 0.26042 9.71388 6.96609 5.60876 4.80738 4.28375 3.652263.250 0.27083 9.77190 7.02669 5.67196 4.87316 4.35206 3.725413.375 0.28125 9.83014 7.08760 5.73557 4.93945 4.42096 3.799303.500 0.29167 9.88859 7.14883 5.79960 5.00624 4.49045 3.873913.625 0.30208 9.94725 7.21037 5.86404 5.07352 4.56051 3.949233.750 0.31250 10.00612 7.27222 5.92888 5.14131 4.63116 4.025263.875 0.32292 10.06521 7.33440 5.99414 5.20959 4.70237 4.101984.000 0.33333 10.12451 7.39688 6.05980 5.27837 4.77415 4.179384.125 0.34375 10.18403 7.45968 6.12587 5.34763 4.84650 4.257464.250 0.35417 10.24375 7.52278 6.19234 5.41738 4.91940 4.336204.375 0.36458 10.30369 7.58620 6.25922 5.48761 4.99285 4.415594.500 0.37500 10.36384 7.64993 6.32649 5.55832 5.06685 4.495634.625 0.38542 10.42420 7.71397 6.39417 5.62951 5.14140 4.576294.750 0.39583 10.48477 7.77832 6.46224 5.70117 5.21647 4.657584.875 0.40625 10.54556 7.84297 6.53070 5.77330 5.29208 4.739475.000 0.41667 10.60655 7.90794 6.59956 5.84590 5.36822 4.82197


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725 Partridge

Nicely landscaped 1998 Holly Park, 16x80

(1,100 sq. ft.) 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, large private deck on back with great view over a meadow. Tastefully painted interior,

a must see!$25,000*

1998 Schult, 24x48, 2 bedroom, 2 bath,

spacious kitchen and dining room with patio door opening to a deck.

An additional deck off the rear entry, carport parking pad and storage building.

$24,900*

392 Fairway Drive

2002 Holly Park 28x64,3 bedrooms, 2 baths.

8 ft. x 26 ft. covered porch on back of house.

All appliances and oak cabinets.$32,900*

425 Fairway Drive

2000 Holly Park 28x523 Bedrooms, 2 Baths,

all appliances including washer & dryer.

central air, carport, porches,

nicely landscaped, shed$29,500*

395 Farm Lane

*First two years lot rent reduced to $249/mo.


Lake CityMLS#21107588

Land

$7,900

MarionMLS#21107446

3-5 Bedroom,1 Bath

$49,900

MantonMLS#21107303

3 Bedroom,30 Acres

$119,900

CadillacMLS#21105707

5 Acres

$11,500

MantonMLS#21107304

30 Acres

$49,900


3 Bedroom,3/4 Bath

$124,900


Acreage

$11,500


CommercialProperty

$51,900

LutherMLS#21104193

2 Bedroom,10 Acres

$130,000


Acreage

$11,500


2 Bedroom,1 Bath

$51,900


4 Bedroom,2.5 Bath

$145,000


Acreage

$15,000

LeRoyMLS#21107441

2 Bedroom,1 Bath

$59,900

MantonMLS#21106731

3 Bedroom,60 Acres

$149,900


2 Bedroom,1 Bath

$33,500


CommercialBuilding

$79,900

MantonMLS#21106831

3 Bedroom,10 Acres

$154,900


Building Site

$35,000


3 Bedroom,1 Bath

$85,000


3 Bedroom,Lake Mitchell

Frontage$239,900

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