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■ Church to hold fundraiser July 24: Marble Memo-rial United Methodist Church, 8 Park Lane, located in downtown Milan, will offer an “Old Fashioned Boxed Lunch” on the lawn of the church from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 24. Each boxed lunch is $8 and contains two piec-es of fried chicken, baked beans, coleslaw, a cookie and a bottle of water. No reservations are required. The event is being hosted in conjunction with The BackStreet
Cruizers Cruise Down Old-23 and Milan’s 125th Anniver-sary Celebration. For more information, call 439-2421. ■ Tour of park set: John Farmer will give a talk at the new Environmental Education/Passive Recrea-tion Area in Mary McCann Park in York Township 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. It’s located on the east side of Warner Road north of Willis Road, between Willis and Bemis. The facility is designed for unique nature experiences based on a dozen demonstra-tion plots that highlight pre-settlement plant com-munities and display ecological principles.
Comfortable walking shoes and light clothing that covers legs and arms are suggested. Bench seat-ing will be available for those who need it. ■ New blog offered: Austen Smith offers the new-est blog, “The Corner Stool,” in the Heritage Blog Center. Smith writes about “beer news, views and events.” His blog joins “Inside the Newsroom,” “Education Matters,” “All Politics is Local,” “The Starting Five,” “Dave’s Sports Gems,” “Pajama Games,” “Successful Women Weekly,” “April Scarlett Writes” and “The Business Side of IT.”
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VOL. 127, NO. 28 THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2010
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Meet the candidates of the 54th District
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Lammers wins State Amateur tourney
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American Legion hosting benefi t dinners
By Steven HowardHeritage Newspapers
Milan American Legion Post 268 will host two ben-efit dinners in July for a pair of local worthy causes.
The first will be a spaghetti dinner Saturday to help a Dundee family displaced by a tornado ear-lier this summer.
Erica Van Sickle, a bartender at the American Legion, said Jeremy Stowell, Ambler Hosler and their son, J.J., lost everything when high winds ripped apart their home and possessions.
As a friend of the family, Van Sickle said it was hard to watch the family suffer such a terrible loss, which is why she and her colleagues at the American Legion decided to hold the dinner.
Milan American Legion Post 268 will host two benefi t dinners in July to help a pair of causes. The fi rst will be a spaghetti dinner Saturday to help a Dundee family displaced by a tornado, and the second will be a chicken dinner July 31, with proceeds going toward the purchase of GAR markers to be placed on the graves of local Civil War soldiers.
Council continues marijuana discussionCouncil congratulates Milan Mayhem baseball teamBy Steven HowardHeritage Newspapers
The Milan City Council approved a resolution Monday night that will ask State of Michigan legisla-tors to clear up misunderstandings relating to current medical marijuana laws and their relationship to fed-eral mandates.
Resolution 2010-02 reads, in part, that Milan city leaders would like “state leaders to review the current medical marihuana act to clarify discrepancies and allow local municipalities explicit rights to regulate the industry within their community.”
However, the passage of the resolution was just the beginning of discussions on the matter, with council readdressing the issue during a discussion period toward the end of the meeting.
Council member Michael Armitage called the resolu-tion “a good step,” but questioned whether it consti-tuted enough of an action on the part of the city.
Council member Dominic Hamden followed with similar thoughts, voicing what he perceives as the con-sequences of non-action.
“By the time state legislature gets around to acting, quite probably, it will be too late,” he said.
He suggested not doing anything is not an appropri-ate response.
Hamden then proposed creating certain restric-tions on medical marijuana dispensaries, such as background checks, zoning qualifications, barring convicted criminals from such activities and requiring a permit fee.
Mayor Kym Muckler agreed, saying, “I think that’s a very good solution. We need to control where these
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Milan Mayor Kym Muckler points to pothole on Wabash Street, adjacent to railroad tracks.
Infrared road repairNew pothole fi x saves time, moneyBy Gerald LaVauteHeritage Newspapers
As a former staff reporter for Heritage News-papers, Milan Mayor Kym Muckler has the journal-ist’s sense of curiosity and a desire to share interest-ing information with others.
To that end, one of the recent installments of her blog discussed a new method of repairing potholes that the city of Milan began to use two years ago.
It uses a method described as infrared restoration, in which the damaged asphalt in the pothole is heated for eight minutes and raked into a smooth surface two inches thick.
A rejuvenator is added to the old asphalt, replen-ishing oils lost over time, followed by the addition of fresh asphalt.
The old and the new asphalt are mixed together and rolled smooth.
Muckler said that most pothole repairs could be completed in about 10 minutes.
The previous method of repairing a pothole added new asphalt and created a seam around the repair that had to be sealed, and that required regular main-tenance to control moisture infiltration.
The new fix is seamless, because it mixes old and new materials, and the new and old asphalt become an integral part of the new road surface.
City of Milan Building and Zoning official Robert Grostick said the cost of the new method compared with the previous method is a 20-1 ratio—in other words, he can now repair 20 potholes for the previous price of repairing one pothole.
Imagine: a new technology that is faster, more effective, longer lasting (from five to 10 years, Muckler estimated) and less costly.
The city of Milan has implemented a way to repair potholes that hits on all cylinders.
The mayor’s blog address is: http://mayorkym.blogspot.com.
Gerald LaVaute is a staff writer for Heritage News-papers. He can be reached at glavaute@ heritage.com.
A contractor mixes old and new asphalt in a pot-hole.
First spaghetti dinner takes place Saturday at 5 p.m.
The meal will consist of spaghetti, salad, dinner roll and dessert, with choice of punch or tea. The cost for adults will be $8 and $6 for children.
Van Sickle said the family is doing somewhat better in recent days, but still needs a lot of help and support.
“They were staying with friends and family, but now they found a house to rent,” she said.
The spaghetti dinner will take place from 5 to 7 p.m., with a chance to sing karaoke afterward, Van Sickle said.
The second benefit dinner at the American Legion will take place July 31 in an effort to purchase Grand Army of the Republic, or GAR, markers to place on the graves of Civil War veterans whose tombstones have been com-promised because of age and other factors.
A posting on the legion’s web-site indicates there are 65 Civil
War graves in local cemeteries that no longer have the
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There are 65 Civil War graves in local cemeteries
that no longer have the proper markings.
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