Richmond Mayor Sees Value in Local Efforts and School Millage
Richmond mayor Matthew J. Killewald Jr says “Our people are our biggest asset” as he tours Saline during May or Exchange Day. He cites community support for a pool complex and warns about sewer and storm drain needs while noting millage proposals have faced defeats and an upcoming June vote on school funding.
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Matthew J. Killewald, Jr
Richmond
Saline
Killewald
Port Huron
Mt. Clemens
Julie Rapp
City Hall
City of
Memorial Day Parade and Services in Saline
Saline honors war dead from American Revolution to Vietnam with a parade led by William B. Lutz Post 322 American Legion. Senator Gilbert Bursey will speak at Oakwood Cemetery with Reverend George Saucier giving the invocation. The procession starts May 30 at 10 a.m. from Harris Street and Michigan Avenue, then to the cemetery and back after the service. Participants include veterans groups, Saline High School bands, Junior Auxiliary, scouts, and baton corps.
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William B. Lutz
Post 322
American Legion
Vietnam
Gilbert Bursley
George Saucier
Harris St
Michigan Ave
Saline Vew Post
Korea
Saline
Boy Scouts
Baton
Grand Army of the Republic
North
Confederate Veterans
South
Poppy Days Set for Thursday Through Saturday
Poppy Days will be observed in Saline by American Legion Auxiliary volunteers on Thursday Friday and Saturday to aid disabled and deceased veterans and their families. Dimes and dollars go to rehabilitation and child welfare programs of the Legion and Auxiliary. funds are not kept by the groups. The poppies are crafted by hospitalized veterans.
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Saline
American Legion Auxiliary
American’ Legion and Auxiliary
Hundreds Attend Co-op Breakfast
The third annual Employer-Employee-Parent Breakfast sponsored by the Saline School Cooperative Training Program drew about 200 attendees on Friday. The program placed nearly 60 students this year with speakers including Richard Nisbet of Eastern Michigan University, Dave Potter of Community Food Sales, Robert Helber of National Bank and Trust, and former student Terry Nowlan. James Bradley, the program’s coordinator, hosted and received an attache case from students who announced Friday as his birthday.
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Saline School Cooperative Training
Richard Nisbet
Eastern Michigan University
Dave Potter
Community Food Sales
Robert Helber
National Bank and Trust
Terry
Nowlan
Fred Pieske
Shirley
James Bradley
Auxiliary to Elect Officers at Legion Home Meeting
The American Legion Auxiliary will elect officers at 8 p.m. Tuesday during a meeting at the Legion Home.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Home
Dotson Wins Union Run-Off Election
Dell Dotson won the trustee post in a run-off election held last Wednesday by UAW Local 892 at the Saline Ford plant.
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Dotson
UNION
Dell Dotson
UAW
Saline Ford
Dancers Readies Big Recital at Local High School
Over 200 Mary Lou Gall dance students perform a four act recital this weekend in the High School Little Theater. Shows are Friday and Saturday at 7 30 p m and Sunday at 2 p m with all proceeds to the High School band. Tickets 75 cents at the Dance Studio 114 By Henry St or from band members.
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Mary Lou Gall
Henry St
Saline historian honored for 50 years in DAR
Bessie Carren Collins of Saline received a 50 year DAR member award at a Saline Library ceremony. She wrote a family genealogy Descendants and Ancestors of Daniel and Abigail Wallace and lives at 202 S Ann Arbor St. Her DAR ties go to the Wallace family who came to Michigan in 1832. Collins joined the Ypsilanti DAR chapter in 1919 after graduating from Eastern Michigan College.
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Bessie Carren Collins
Saline City
S. Ann Arbor St
Daughters of the American Revolution
Ann Arbor
Daniel
Abigail Wallace
Clayton A. Hopp
Textile Rd
Ypsilanti
D.A.R
Saline’ Library
Collins
Eastern Michigan College
Wallaces
Michigan
New York State
Fred Wahr
Engineering Explorers
Saline High to Host Alumni Banquet June 14
The Saline High School Alumni Banquet is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday June 14 at the school. Officers will be elected. No alumni dance is scheduled this year.
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Saline High School
Special shelf of 16 Girl Scout books at Saline Library
A Saline Library special shelf now hosts 16 books for Girl Scout leaders funded by United Fund donations. The volumes cover organizing troops games songs outdoor cooking projects and arts to aid troop activities.
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Saline
Girl Scouts
United Fund
Saline Facility Tentatively OK'd By SW Council
Saline Community Hospital nears Southwestern approval for expansion to 70 to 100 beds serving Saline and nearby towns. A planning advisory group and Washtenaw officials cite growth and bed shortages as factors while noting state and federal approvals required before construction.
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SW Council
Saline Community Hospital
Southwest Michigan Hospital Council
Vince Catacuzzeno
George Johnson
Saline
Maybee
Dundee
Willis
Milan
Manchester
Johnson
Washtenaw
Gerald Bahnmiller
Southwestern
Bahnmiller
State Health Department
Michigan
Detroit
Tecumseh
Jackson
Hillsdale
Coldwater
Battle Creek
Kalamazoo
Greater Detroit Hospital Council
Saline’s Hospital
Blue Cross
Saline Hospital Board
Ford Saline awards honor 12 community service volunteers
Twelve Ford Saline plant workers and spouses were honored at the third annual Community Service Awards held at Leutheuser’s in Saline. Outstanding Service plaques went to Erwin Feldkamp Don Holloway Viola Ingledue and Harold McRae. eight Citations were given to Adkins Bauch Henning Sole and others.
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Erwin Feldkamp
Bridgewater
Ford Motor Co
Saline
Ford’s
Leutheuser’s
John McDougall
Ford
General Parts Division
Henry Ford
Erwin C. Feldkamp
Austin Road
Don Holloway
Grass Lake
Viola M. Ingledue
Toledo
Harold McRae
Ann Arbor
Roy C. Adkins
Ypsilanti
R W. Bauch
Wayne
David C. Henning
Tecumseh
Hughie H. Sole
Belleville
Howard Smallwood
James. M. — Telfer
Westland
Jo Wegner
Gilbert E. Bursley
Michigan
Jonathan L. Adams
Feldkamp
Viola Ingledue
David Henning
Hughie Sole
Harold
McRae
Donald Holloway
John Adams
Gil Bursley
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Archibald Armstrong
Oakwood Cemetery
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Russ Michalke
United States
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Mary
Lou Gall
Hansel
Gretel
Janet Feldkamp
Eft
Sandra Dieterle
Otto Gunnesch
Collie
Linda Mallory
Catacuzzeno
Saline Hospital
St. John’s Lutheran Church Council
Saline Area Schools Planning Committee
Holloway
Portage Trails Council
Ervisor
Henning
Tecumseh Jaycees
Sole
Smallwood
Michigan’ Children’s Aid Society
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