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March 21, 2015 • Vol. 136 No. 12

KCC’s Dennis Bona accepts positionin Minnesota

Dennis Bona, president of KelloggCommunity College, announced on March18 he had accepted a college presidency inMinnesota and looks forward to a new andexciting opportunity after a 34-year careerat KCC. Bona, president of KCC since2010, will retire from the college as of June30 and assume the duties of president ofNorthland Community and TechnicalCollege in East Grand Forks, Minn., effec-tive July 1. See story on page 11

Consolidation pays off:Calhoun County 911 DispatchAuthority celebrates five years

On March 25, the Calhoun County 911Consolidation Dispatch Authority will markfive years of having an operational consol-idated 911 center. “We’ve said it since dayone, this is how collaboration and consoli-dation can work and benefit the residentsand entities of a single county,” saidExecutive Director Jeff Troyer. “I would staytrue to that to this date. We’ve been able tosave money, create efficiencies, and I thinkwe provide an equal or better service thanwhat was provided before.” Since the col-laboration, there has been an estimateddispatch savings of approximately$100,000 a year.See story on page 13

City supports plans for Cronin Buildingwith grant applicationOn March 16, the Marshall City Council

held a public hearing to submit Blight andRental Rehabilitation Grants for the J.H.Cronin Building at 101 W. Michigan Ave.The grants from the Michigan HousingDevelopment Authority, in the amount of$280,000, and Michigan EconomicDevelopment Corporation, in the amountof $361,000, would assist Cronin BuildingDevelopment, LLC.See story on page 12

Homer selects Robert Wright as nextsuperintendent

The Homer School Board of Educationvoted unanimously on March 12 to extendan offer to current Onsted High SchoolPrincipal Robert Wright to serve as thedistrict’s new superintendent. The board’saction took place after the completion ofsecond round interviews. “Robert is agreat fit for the candidate profile we devel-oped and he made an excellent impres-sion on everyone who met with him duringthe process,” said Homer Board PresidentGary Tompkins. “He’s also a great fit forour community. We felt we had two out-standing finalists, but Robert was definite-ly the best fit. We all look forward to work-ing with him to move our district forward.”See story on page 10

The 2015 St. Paddy’s Day Dance Party will be held March 28 at theMarshall Country Club to raise money for the Calhoun County EastRelay for Life’s support of the American Cancer Society. With the

help of dozens of volunteers, sponsors and donors, Jim Pardoe and hisstaff of Standard Printing are guiding the event again this year, hopingto meet or exceed last year’s event total of $14,000. Pictured withPardoe are committee members Kathy Miller, left, and Theresa Chaney-Huggett. See story on page 2

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Editor’s Corner

Major League Baseball legendRogers Hornsby once gave thisanswer when asked what he didduring the off season: “Peopleask me what I do in winter whenthere’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare outthe window and wait for spring.”For a couple days last week, it certainly felt like

spring out there with temperatures in the 50s and60s. But, it looks like the next round of true springfever will have to wait a few more days but at leastwe’ve finally left winter behind.I find that the first hints of warmer weather al-

ways take me back to my childhood growing up inFlorida.What also took me back to my childhood last

week was seeing several boys playing ball in thestreet, an occurrence virtually unheard of these days.How times have changed. When I was a kid, my

friends and I would spend countless hours in thestreet after school each day playing football, base-ball, tennis and stickball where parked cars were al-ways in play and always it seemed, in our way, atthe most inopportune time.When a car would approach, we would yell “car”

in unison and move off to the side of the street wait-ing for some Cadillac Eldorado or AMC Pacer tochug by as we leaned against someone’s Ford Pintoor Chevy Vega.When we would take a water break, we didn’t

break out water bottles or sports drinks. We insteadran to the nearest garden hose to quench our thirst.But, you never wanted to go first, because this

was Florida after all and the water that would comeout of the hose initially was disgustingly hot andsometimes, you could taste a hint of gasoline be-cause someone had siphoned some gas out of theircar to put it in their lawn mower.After break time, we’d continue playing until our

parents called for us over and over again as duskturned to darkness and our dinners turned cold or insome cases, got tossed, meaning we would go to bedhungry.These days, parents are still calling their kids to

dinner, except the kids are on the sofa or at the ac-tual dinner table, head down and eyes glued to theirphones.Playing ball after school, drinking from a hose

and missing dinner - those were the days. Thosewere our days.We didn’t have video games, computers, Face-

book, Twitter and smartphones to pass the time andwaste our youth.We didn’t know any better, but we thought we

were living quite the life playing on that blacktopand dreaming about the day we’d be able to driveour own Chrysler Cordoba or Ford LTD, interruptingsomeone else’s street games.Until next week, may the good news be yours.

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What are legislators inLansing smoking thesedays?

Though polls show onlyhalf of Michigan residentsin favor of legalizing mari-juana, a group of legislatorsis pushing a new bill de-scribed as the “next step”toward full legalization, reg-ulation and taxation of mari-juana in the state.

Rep. Jeff Irwin (D-AnnArbor) introduced a similarbill during the last sessionof the legislature but ran outof time in the lame-ducksession to see it progress.Last year’s proposal had bi-partisan support, and Irwinis back now pushing for vot-ers to decide on a “free mar-ket” approach to legaliza-tion.

“I think the idea ofputting this question to thevoters is a good one,” Irwinhas said. “The public is wayahead of politicians on thisissue, as usual.”

A recent poll conductedby EPIC-MRA of Lansing itrevealed that, “50 percent ofMichigan voters would belikely to support a futureballot proposal to legalizethe possession or cultivationof marijuana by adults 21years of age or older and al-low taxable sales at state-li-censed stores.” So maybe Ir-win is right. Another pollcommissioned by the Michi-gan Chapter of the NationalOrganization for the Reformof Marijuana Laws, statedthat 50 percent would voteto support while 46 percentwould vote against it, and 4percent remained unde-cided.

On the surface, it seemslike the right thing to do,but I read those poll num-bers to mean that we are di-vided right down the middleover the benefits of legaliz-ing the drug. So why arelegislators in such of a hurryto get this on the ballot? Isit all about the money?What about the social andeconomic consequences thatramping up drug use willcause? Do supporters wantto move fast before morequestions come from statesthat have approved the leg-islation? I think legislators

are salivating over the addi-tional taxes with little or noconcern over what increaseddrug use would causestatewide.

Currently, Colorado andWashington State have le-galized pot for recreationaluse, while 21 states and theDistrict of Columbia allowmarijuana to be prescribedfor medical use.

Under federal law,though, marijuana is an ille-gal drug on par with heroinand LSD. In recent testi-mony before Congress, thehead of the Drug Enforce-ment Administration fa-vored sticking to that stance.

“The fight against drugabuse is a generations-longstruggle; it will not be wonovernight,” said MicheleLeonhart of the DEA.“Marijuana-related emer-gency department visitshave jumped by 48 percentbetween 2007 and 2011,with marijuana only slightlytrailing cocaine as the most-cited reason for emergencyroom visits.”

Proponents of legalizationcontinue to claim that thedrug is harmless and not ad-dictive. But, in a recentstudy released by WayneHall of the World HealthOrganization, dangers areidentified that need to beunderstood and dealt with.Hall said marijuana is apowerful drug that cancause hallucinations anddelusions and can interferewith the way the brainmakes and stores memories.His study found that mari-juana use doubles the risk ofdeveloping psychotic disor-ders, including schizophre-nia. He also found that onein 10 adults who regularlysmoke the drug become de-pendent on it, and thosewho use it are more likelyto go on to use harderdrugs. His study also con-cluded that the drug poses adanger to teens; one in sixteenagers who regularlysmoke pot will become de-pendent.

An increasing number ofcitizens who think weshould change the lawshould not deter lawmakersfrom taking the time tostudy how the law is playingout in Colorado. The initialreports are sobering.

A recent article publishedin the Journal of the Ameri-can Medical Association in-dicated that, since Coloradoallowed the retail sale ofmarijuana in January 2014,the state has seen an uptickin marijuana intoxication:“anxiety, panic attacks, pub-lic intoxication vomiting orother non-specific symp-toms precipitated by mari-juana use.”

The University of Col-orado burn unit also hasseen an increase in hospital-izations for burns resultingfrom flash fires that occurwhen users try to extractTHC and other active mari-juana constituents using bu-tane. The report indicatedthat of the 31 marijuana-as-sociated burn cases seen atthe hospital, some had burnsover more than 70 percentof the body surface; two-thirds required skin grafts.Law enforcement officers inColorado and neighboringstates, as well as emergencyroom doctors and legaliza-tion opponents, are caution-ing other states thinkingabout legalizing the drug tomove with caution.

In recent years, manycities and states have con-sidered the idea of legaliz-ing marijuana as afundraiser to offset increas-ing costs of government.Yet, when you think aboutthe impact on society, busi-ness and industry, legislatorsshould stop and consider therisk. Every day across ourstate, thousands of job seek-ers are turned away due tothe simple fact they can’tpass a drug test. And sincethe passage of nationalhealth care, companies havebeen saddled with increas-ing health care costs, whichwould likely be exasperatedby increasing drug use ifmarijuana is legalized.

Michigan is a huge indus-trial employer, so legislatorsmust take into considerationthe impact that legalizingmarijuana would have on in-dustrial expansion in the fu-ture. Plus, would the addi-tional taxes gained fromtaxing the drug be overcomeby the social, medical andother problems arising fromlegalizing the drug?

“Even some conservativeshave joined forces with sup-porters,” Rep. Michael Call-

ton of Nashville told Michi-gan Radio. “I’ve heard someof the most conservativepeople say ‘let’s legalizemarijuana and tax the heckout of it.’”

That may not be as easyas it sounds. Marijuana wasapproved for medical use inMichigan by 63 percent ofvoters in 2008. Challengesand legal conflicts with thelegislation are continuingmore than six years later.

It’s a serious issue thatseems to be supported bycitizens who don’t want tobe told what they can do.They want the ability tomake the decision them-selves — but at what price?

To show you how ficklelegislators can be, considerthe fact that these same rep-resentatives are currentlyconsidering raising the ageon tobacco sales due to in-formation released in a re-port, “Public Health Impli-cations of Raising the Mini-mum Age of Legal Accessto Tobacco Products.” Thatstudy indicates that, if theage for tobacco use were tobe increased from 18 to 21,it would “dramatically re-duce tobacco use among ourmost vulnerable population— our youth.”

So now they are con-cerned about the effects thatone drug has on young peo-ple while opening the gateto another whose negativeeffects are being tragicallydemonstrated in Coloradoand documented in volumesof medical studies?

States are considering le-galizing marijuana becausepolls indicate Americans aregrowing more accepting ofits use. Plus, they’re beingswayed by compelling argu-ments that legalizationwould reduce our over-crowded jails and prisonswhile providing a huge fi-nancial windfall through thetaxing of the drug.

Simply ignoring the sci-ence on the negative effectsof chronic marijuana usesidesteps the dangers of andconsequences for communi-ties across the state. It’s fareasier to slow down nowand take time to see how theissue plays out in Coloradothan to risk the impact oncommunities that could takegenerations to overcome.

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Marshall swimmers finish 11th at state

The Marshall High School boys swimming and diving team placed 11th overall at the Div. 3 state meet at Oak-land University March 13-14. Above, Josh Turner, black cap, is approached by 200-yard medley relay teammatesMike Sitar, silver cap, and Levi Graves while Tyler Horn, right, checks the scoreboard as the team set a newschool record with a time of 1:41.1. Turner earned All-State honors by placing fifth in the 500-yard freestyle witha school record time of 4:46.82. Turner was also part of the 400-yard freestyle relay team, (Cam Foster, Eron Hilland Graves) above right, that earned All-State honors with an eighth place finish with a school record time of3:19.52. Below right is diver Lasse Westphal, who was eliminated after preliminaries. (Photos by Dave Turner)

Homer loses state quarterfinal toYpsilanti Arbor Prep, 69-38

The Homer High School girls basketball team, pictured above, after defeating Galesburg-Augusta, 60-43 onMarch 12 to win a Class C regional title, was defeated by Ypsilanti Arbor Prep, 69-38 in a state quarterfinalmatchup on March 17. (Photo by Mike Warner)

The Marshall Thunder fifth grade basketballteam won the 5th Annual Harper Creek basket-

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The 7th Annual Fred We-berling Classic Tournamentwill take place on Friday,March 27 at 6:30 p.m. Thefive-person team entry fee is$100 and entries closeMarch 26, or when the tour-nament is full. Teams maybe five men, five women ormixed.

“We love hosting thisevent for the Weberling fam-ily,” said organizer SueHutchings.” Fred was such agreat friend to the bowlingcommunity and each yearthis event is a reunion of hisfamily, customers and fellowbowlers.”

The tournament is inmemory of Weberling, whopassed away Sept. 23, 2008.

Weberling was an avidbowler since graduatingfrom Marshall High Schoolin 1962. He owned and oper-ated Fred’s Standard Servicein Marshall by Brooks Foun-tain for nearly 40 years.

The format includes threegames all bowled on thesame pair of lanes. Bowlersneed not be certified or havea league average to partici-pate.

All prize money will bepaid out at the conclusion ofbowling.

Call Sue Hutchings atMarshall Lanes to reserveyour spot. 269-781-3125.

Also at Marshall Lanes,

the Spring Baker tourna-ment is scheduled for Friday,April 17 at 6:30 p.m. with 14teams having already se-cured reservations. The tour-nament is open to the first 16teams to register and pay thefull entry fee of $125. Allbowlers must be USBC cer-tified.

Teams are comprised offive bowlers with eachbowler rolling two framesper game. The format in-cludes 10 games of qualify-ing with the top six teamsadvancing to the finalrounds.

Call Sue Hutchings atMarshall Lanes to reserveyour spot. 269-781-3125.

Fred Weberling

Redhawk powerlifting competes at state meet

The Marshall High School Redhawk powerlifting team finished its season March 14 at the Michigan High SchoolPowerlifting State Finals in Montrose. Seniors Zane Knafel, Tori Razkowic, juniors Jackson Friend, ParkerVotava, A.J. Jasienski and freshman Garrett Upright competed for state titles. Upright finished 8th in the 275-pound weight class and Jasienski placed 3rd in the 207-pound weight class. The team finished the season with18 individual medals and three team trophies from regional competition. Pictured above are Parker Votava, left,and Jackson Friend.

Olivet loses in district finalto Eaton Rapids, 65-47

The Olivet High School boysbasketball team lost its ClassB district title game to EatonRapids, 65-47 on March 13.The Eagles finished the sea-son with an 11-11 record.Trailing after halftime, Olivettook the lead 32-31 with 3:26to play in the third quarter.Eaton Rapids re-took thelead moments later andnever relinquished it the restof the way. Above: CoachTravis Brown watches as histeam tries to overcome afourth quarter deficit. Left:Ryan Tennant drives to thebasket. (Photos by JohnHendler)

MHS baseball, girls socceropen seasons on March 25

The spring sports schedule gets underway on Wednesday, March 25 as the Mar-shall High School varsity baseball team hosts Jackson at 4 p.m. The JV team playsat Jackson on the 25th at the same time. The girls soccer teams are also home onthe 25th with the JV team hosting Western at 5 p.m. and the varsity team hostingPaw Paw at 6:45 p.m. The girls tennis team hosts St. Phil on March 26 at 4:30 p.m.The MHS track and field teams are scheduled to compete at Hillsdale College onthe 26th. The MHS boys golf team does not open its season until mid April. Picturedabove is MHS JV baseball player Dylan Pelfrey. (Photo by John Hendler)

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