Saline Blood Drive Sets One-Day County Record
Washtenaw County celebrates a record one-day blood drive in Saline with 277 donors at Houghton School gym among 345 volunteers. The event, part of National Red Cross Month, drew praise for organizers, volunteers, and local groups including Saline Ford workers and FFA, FHA, and Junior teams.
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Washtenaw County
Pauline McKenna
Houghton School
Red Cross Center
Ann Arbor
Saline
Ford
F.H.A
F.F.A
Ken Feldkamp
Glen
Mike Finkbeiner
Steve Kohler
Bob Hull
Pat Barland
Diane Bacon
Sandy Dieterlé
Roseanne King
Linda Roberts
Connie Bersuder
Saline High Band Drives Five Firsts at Michigan Festival
Saline High Band soloists and ensembles earned five firsts and three seconds in eight events at the Michigan Festival in Battle Creek. Jerry Dennison led with a first on tuba and 95 proficiency. Mark Klein and Kathy Schneider also earned firsts on alto sax. A horn quartet was sidelined by a car breakdown en route to Kellogg Community College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saline High
Michigan
Battle Creek
Hornet
Kelloge Community College
Larry Largin
Larry
Saline
Jerry Dennison
Mark Klein
Kathy Schneider
Cindy Ferris
Cindy Jordan
Linda Livingstone
Pam Smith
Jody Tull
Brass
Ralph Riley
Dave Carman
Jane Steiner
Sarah Kristner
Paul West
Diane Penning
Anita Janich
Sharone Linda McIntyre
Arlene Haeussler
Garynke
Largin
Keith Riddle
Kurt Schmerberg
Marcia Peck
Jaeger’s runners pledge 25,000 mile goal this summer
Jaeger’s High School compulsory mile run motivates students in Don Jaeger’s physical education classes. The group averages a mile each morning, totaling about 25 000 miles by the end of the summer, enough to circle the globe.
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Jaeger
Europe
Lodi Fire Fault and Local Community News
Corrections note that 100 phones were knocked out in Lodi Estates by an electrical flare and praise repairs by General Telephone crews. Teen Club plans an Inauguration Dance at Saline Community Center with Blue Max, 8 to midnight, after an election at 7 30. Saline athletes and locals featured as WCC coach Slepsky shifts to Georgia trip but postponed due to snow. Lyle Phillips returns to Mercantile management and Saline Baptist Church welcomes the Schoenert family to the parsonage.
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Lodi
Lodi Estates
Saline
Saline Baptist Church
Milan
Saline Baptist Parsonage
Richard Schoenert
Valerie
Richard II
Red Heads Bring All American Team to Saline Court
Coach Jim Bradley assembles Saline All Stars to face the All American Red Heads on April 19 in the High School gym. The exhibition features 8 tall players led by captain Charlotte Adams, with proceeds benefiting Saline athletic programs and booster projects.
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Hornet
Jim Bradley
Bradley
Saline
Kathy McCall
Wings
Charlotte Adams
Red Heads
Sugar Bear
Lois Glover
Emma Bartmess
Louisiana
Cheryl Clark
Wetmore
Mich
Red Head
Tigerbelle
Carolyn Reeves
Brenda Brooks
Watusi
Pat Daroche
All American Red Heads
Saline All Stars
Saline Athletic Boosters Club
Gamble’s
Larry Skinner
Saline High
Impasse persists over 136 acre Lodi annexation to Saline
Lodi Township and the City of Saline remain at odds over annexing 136 acres along Water works Road and Ann Arbor Road. Mayor Hubert Beach and council members attended a brief budget meeting while Supervisor Erwin Frederick urged a pre‑township meeting to avert agitation. Barnett’s 136 acre property owned by Whittier Construction remains tied to a prior release and subdivision agreement.
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Lodi Township
Saline
City Hall
Hubert Beach
Jim Gross
Edward Marsh
Lodi
Erwin Frederick
Frederick
Lodi Town Hall
Margaret O’connor
Waterworks Rd
Ann Arbor Rd
Milton Barnett
Whittier Construction Co
Rolling Meadows
Old Creek Farms
Barnett
Lodis Town Hall
Saline Schools Face Threefold Cost Squeeze
Saline Area Schools Superintendent Harold Hintz outlined a threefold budget pressure at the March 24 advisory meeting. He cited high per pupil tax base shifting more to local owners, rising cost per pupil from 661 to 800 since 1968 70, and $100 110 thousand projected for opening the new Saline High School. A Ford Motor Co taxpayer suit threatens about 50 thousand in state aid this year.
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Saline
Harold Hintz
Saline Area Schools Advisory Council
Ann Arbor
Saline Area
Hintz
Saline High School
Gerald Coe
Supt. Hintz
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Malcolm Danforth
Interlochen
Jerry
Gerald Dennison
Saline Town
Larry Slepsky
Washtenaw Community College
Michi
Gan
W.C.C. Warriors
Georgia
Gainesville
Slepsky
Wes Gall
Dick Goltz
Wendell Petty
Mercantile
Lyle Phillips
Lyle
Reds
H. Hintz
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