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‘Climate Denial,’ tribute to Sherryl Martin topics of AFFEW annual meeting
Videographer and blog-ger Peter Sinclair will be the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the local environmental education group, A Few Friends for the Environ-ment of this World (AF-FEW), Thursday, Oct. 17 at Jamesport Brewing Co.’s Red’s Room.
Social time is 6 to 7 p.m. AFFEW will provide light appetizers. Drinks and entree will be avail-able for purchase.
A report and election of officers takes place at 7. There will also be a trib-ute to Sherryl Martin, a board member who died unexpectedly last month.
At 7:30 Sinclair will speak. He has been seek-ing out leading scientists and telling their stories in his Youtube series “Cli-mate Denial Crock of the Week,” and “This is Not Cool” for the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media.
Sinclair is an advocate of environmental aware-ness and energy alterna-tives. The award-winning graphic artist, illustrator, and animator runs Green-man Studio from his home in Midland, and has given presentations to the American Geophysi-cal Union, as well as doc-umenting research teams in the northern Cascades glaciers, and the Green-land ice sheet.
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BY PATTI KLEVORNNEWS EDITOR
Larry Richert is new to Carrom Co., but he’s no stranger to the community.
Richert is a Scottville na-tive, a 1981 Mason Coun-ty Central graduate, and is now back home serving as the game manufacturer’s president and CEO, oversee-ing marketing, sales, qual-ity, purchasing, logistics, manufacturing and engi-neering.
“I grew up playing Car-roms,” he said. “It’s neat I’m in the management now and can help grow the jobs.”
The Dowland Street man-
ufacturer employs 15 peo-ple and Richert hopes to in-crease that number as it ups its sales.
Company owner Norman Rosen of Pennsylvania, who had been filling the role of president and CEO before hiring Richert this fall, is still active in the business, Richert said.
“Our plan is to grow, or-ganically and inorganically, by making the right deals,” he said.
The same Carrom boards that have been made in Lud-ington since 1890 are still being made here today, now along with free throw bas-ketball, hockey games, foos-
ball, balance boards and more.
The company added Drueke games of chess, cribbage and backgammon, too, several years ago.
“It all draws the family right together,” he said of the games. “They’re all with the theme of being family-based.”
He remembers his fam-ily having Carrom tourna-ments with family friends as a child.
Richert now enjoys bring-ing Carrom games home to his own family. They espe-cially like the Nok-Hockey, he said.
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New president at Carrom grew up playing the game
Season finale
Oktoberfest fun: a bike race, beer and music
Lots of cocaine seized in bust
BY KEVIN BRACISZESKI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
HART — A traffic stop Fri-day led to the arrest of three men with ties to Mexico and the seizure of more than 1,000 grams of suspected cocaine.
“We do a field test before we send it to a lab and it tested positive in the field test,” Michigan State Police Sgt. Ron Nelson said, add-ing “It’s a pretty big amount, we normally don’t get that amount.”
The three men, one 24 and the other two 35 years old, have been lodged in the Oceana County Jail pending formal arraignment.
A trooper stopped the ve-hicle for a routine traffic vi-olation at 6:30 p.m. Friday on U.S. 31 near Polk Road in Oceana County’s Hart Township. Further investi-gation at the scene resulted in the discovery and seizure of more than 1,000 grams of suspected cocaine, pack-aged for distribution.
As part of the investiga-tion, members of the State, Sheriff’s Chief’s Enforce-ment of Narcotics Team (SS-CENT), a multi-jurisdictional narcotics team that serves Oceana County, and a Police Officer from the Hart Police Department assisted
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MELISSA KEEFER | DAILY NEWS Dozens of people lined the walkway along the channel Sunday evening to greet the SS Badger with cheers and waves, as it returns to Ludington to complete its last sailing of the 2013 season.
Crowd welcomes SS Badger home for winterBY MELISSA KEEFERDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Forty minutes late was worth the wait Sunday eve-ning as dozens of people lined the walkway along the Ludington channel to watch the SS Badger dock for the final time of the 2013 sailing season.
John and Florice Lynn, along with daughters Ju-lie and Jill, waited in their
vehicle like they have done every day of this year’s sail-ing season for the ship to return from Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
“We live in town and come to watch it every night,” Jill said. “We enjoy watching it.”
“I like the water,” John said. “And I think it’s fun.”
Jill said the family was excited to hear the carferry would be sailing in the fu-
ture now that the consent decree between Lake Michi-gan Carferry and the Envi-ronmental Protection has been signed and accepted by U.S. Western Michigan District Court Judge Janet T. Neff. It allows LMC until the start of the 2015 sailing season to create a means to store ash on board from the coal burned by the Bad-ger to power its steam en-gines. Currently the carfer-
ry discharges the ash into Lake Michigan, as it was de-signed to do when built 60 years ago.
“It’s been like that so long, I don’t know why they need to change it,” John said.
Florice said the family lived in the country before moving into town.
“We didn’t get to see it out there,” Florice said.
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PATTI KLEVORN | DAILY NEWSLarry Richert is Carrom’s new president and CEO. In the back-ground is 11-plus-year employee Steve Larson.
David Barr of Grand Rapids rides through
The Mitten in downtown Ludington as
Judy Ringlein-Dunn of Bass
Lake cheers him on. Barr won the first
Mitt Crit, a short cycling
race put on by the Shore-
line Cycling Club.
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BY PATTI KLEVORNNEWS EDITOR
Doug and Laurie Haan and Jim and Rose Pratt, all of Grandville, were in Ludington Saturday for Oktoberfest, enjoying the chili samples, watching the Mitt Crit bike race, and visiting the Bell’s Brewing Co. craft beer and music tent.
They were in Ludington for Okto-berfest last year and decided to re-turn this year and spend even more time in town.
“We added a night we love Luding-ton so much,” Laurie said.
Judy Ringlein-Dunn and her hus-band, Chris Dunn, of Bass Lake clapped as bicyclists rode through
The Mitten in a Mitt Crit bike race through Barley & Rye, The Mitten and Sportsman’s.
“I’ve never seen (a bike race) quite like this,” he said.
“That’s the great thing about this town,” Chris said. “It’s such a fun place to live.”
Christina Peck and her fiancé, Scott Quiring, dressed as the Cut-ters from the 1970s bicycling film “Breaking Away.”
“I think I smiled through the whole thing,” Peck said.
Jason and Sharon Thurston of Ada, who also have a home in Ludington, brought Sharon’s sister, Joanne Toth of Novi, and their friends Mike and
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