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Just and can I get Mr. Mayor to do that for us,

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Thank you, roll call. Mr. Pats. Mr. Clark. Mr. Armstrong. Mr. Wallace. Mr. Deity. Mr. Thomas. Mr. Johnson. Mayor Wolley.

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Deputy Clerk, Sarah Ropecki and Mr. Jones.

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We have a forum.

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We pay the motion to approve the agenda with additional appointment to 5.100 mirrors to

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me in the communication.

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Motion.

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Second.

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Motion by Mr. Walsh, seconded by Mr. Armstrong, any discussion?

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Here are none.

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All in favor say yes.

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Yes.

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have a motion carried.

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4.2, motion to approve the acceptance of the minute, held August 5, 2020 sick and dispense

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with oral reading.

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Motion by Mr. Armstrong, ordered by Mr. Thomas, any discussion?

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All favors the yes?

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All opposed?

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This has a motion carried.

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We move on to Mayor's communication.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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I have one motion and that is a motion to approve the new appointment of Jason Dawd to the

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Zoning Board of Appeals to fulfill the term of John Copeland and to expire on May 31st,

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2027.

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Motion by Mr. Clark's support by Mr. Armstrong.

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Any discussion?

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All's favors say yes.

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All opposed.

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Yes, there's a motion carried.

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Mr. Chairman.

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See here?

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to be sworn

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right here raise your right hand or repeat after me. I Jason Dol. I Jason Dol.

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Do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States.

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The Constitution of the State of Michigan.

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The Charter of the City of Taylor.

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Charter of the City of Taylor.

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And that I will faithfully discharge to the duties.

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That I will faithfully discharge to duties.

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Of the Office of the Office of the Zoning Board of Appeals Member.

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Zoning Board of Appeals Member. According to the best of my ability.

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I got one more thing that I got a couple more things that I just want to talk about real quick.

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I just can't say how appreciative I am, how grateful, how happy over the last weekend and all of last week.

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You know, it started with the World Series, Junior League World Series, a great turnout.

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Everybody was more than welcoming, and when you talk to people from other countries and other states that come here to enjoy and literally

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and to be able to ask them what they think of our city and all this stuff and got nothing but praises, which was phenomenal.

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That's what you always want to hear. I can tell you the Australians were really big fans because they told me every time they saw me.

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It was just a great turnout, congratulations to California for being in the World Series Champions this year,

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and to all the volunteers that helped over there, kudos to them, and thanks for everything I know Mr. Bazaar is very appreciative

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and happy how everything went as well. The other thing I want to talk about real quick is the wall that heals.

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Absolutely incredible. I can't tell the city. Thank you enough. I can't tell the committee.

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Thank you, Dennis. It was responsible for bringing in here. Thank you for bringing such a shining diamond to our city.

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It was nothing but positive. Absolutely incredible. Everybody behaved themselves. We had people coming from all over.

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There was people going all hours of the night.

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It was guarded 24 hours or a man or somebody was there 24 hours and it was just absolutely

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incredible.

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In the volunteer, just with the setup, the take down and everybody filling those time slots absolutely

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unbelievable.

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So on behalf of me and the city of Taylor, I can't think all those volunteers and everybody

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that did all the hard work over these.

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Heritage Park was definitely cranking this weekend,

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and everything was nothing but positivity,

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and I'm so grateful for that,

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and everybody up here, everybody out there,

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everybody watching should be very, very happy

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with how everything, when everybody had something to do with it.

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Sitting up here and many sitting out there. So again, thank you Dennis and thank you City of Taylor and the State of Michigan for bringing that honor of hosting that to the City of Taylor.

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And Mr. Chairman, Councilman Patts wanted to read something real quick too as well.

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Through the chair. This is from the Taylor Historical Society. The Taylor Historical Society would like to recognize and thank Dennis Schrunmer for all his hard work

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and dedication in bringing the wall that heels, the traveling replica of the Vietnam veterans

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memorial to the city of Taylor. For a very special week in August of 2026, the wall that

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heels brought people and communities together at Heritage Park to remember, honor, reflect,

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and learn from the incredible escort that welcomed the wall to Taylor to the many thousands

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of visitors who came to pay their respects and finally to its careful dismantling as it continued

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onto its next community. It was an experience that touched thousands. The wall that gave

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us the opportunity to honor our Vietnam veterans, remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice

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and helped teach future generations about a very important part of our history. Dennis, we know

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event like this just doesn't happen. It takes countless hours planning, education, and a lot

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of people working together. Thank you for helping it. Thank you for helping make it happen here

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in Taylor. As a member of the historic Taylor Historical Society, you have helped carry on what

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we work toward every day, preserving the past for the future. We are proud to have this very special event

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become a huge part of Taylor's history.

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And even Prouder to say, thank you, Dennis, for all you did

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to bring the wall that heels to Taylor.

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With gratitude, your friends at the Taylor-Historical Society.

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Mr. Chairman, that's all I have.

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That's it.

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I can go on, but I won't.

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Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to make a comment on this.

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I have never seen this city come together.

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Like I did this last week.

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With the World Series here, with the wall here,

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It was just incredible.

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I volunteer is a photographer for the wall that heels, and I've been a photographer for the world

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series for four years, and I told Angie, I was like, you know, you know, the world series

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is my Super Bowl, and I did agree to do that for her.

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Took hundreds of photographs over there, and thousands of photographs over at the Junior League

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World Series, and I'm just so proud of this community because we had no problems, no

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complaints, and everybody just came together as one.

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So it was something to behold.

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Yes, it was.

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OK, let's move on to the Cassenta agenda.

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Can I get a motion to receive and file the judge?

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Oh, Cassenta agenda.

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Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda?

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Had motion by Mr. Wallace, supportive on Mr. Armstrong.

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Can you discussion on the consent agenda?

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Here, none, all the favor?

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Opposed, we are not on a sedentary motion passes.

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Let's go to the regular agenda, 7.1.

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Motion to a true second reading of case 2626Z zoning ordinance,

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amendment, Pentech's A, City of Taylor, Michigan Code of Ordnance, Regulated Development

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in use to rezone partial 60, 019, 99, 00, 29, 00, and 60, 019, 99, 028, 00, South West

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section,

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City of Taylor, Wayne County, Michigan, to be

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re-re-zone from RC1, single family, to I1, light, and

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industrial.

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This property is located at the Minoath-West corner of

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Wick and Holland.

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Support.

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Motion by Mr. Clark, supported by Mr. Wallace, any

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discussion?

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, if I could just

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speak to this application for a few moments.

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My name is Larry Opaleski. I'm outside Zoning Council for the applicant.

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I know you've all been informed of this application, have received your reports and your agenda packets.

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I just want to highlight a few items for the Council, though, if I may.

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When making a zoning decision as you all know, one of the most important documents to consult

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is the city master plan. And is your familiar with the master plan as a document that is painstakingly

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completely compiled by your citizen planners with resident input, and it really guides land

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use in zoning decisions that are made by a city. And so it's provided for in your

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ordinance as well that a rezoning decision should be made in consistency with the city

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master plan. And it's important too because it makes a municipality, an inviting place

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for property owners and developers,

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if they know that they can consult the master plan

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and say, well, the city clearly prepared this.

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They're going to rule in favor and consistent with their master plan.

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So therefore, I know what's going to happen

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to my neighborhood or a piece of property.

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And that applies both to commercial and to residential

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residents as well.

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And here, when we look at what the master plan

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proposes for this site, it's heavy industrial.

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So in essence, the city has already decided and published a document saying that this site will be heavy industrial.

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And my client, the applicant, they actually are proposing something that is more protective to the city and the surrounding residents by proposing light industrial here.

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And again, I know there's other questions certainly that need to be answered down the way in the development, but a lot of those can be answered at site plan.

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So this is really just the beginning of the process, and we're just asking for the proper

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zoning to submit a site plan to the city for approval.

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We also see that there is existing warehousing to the west of the property.

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When you look at whether it's compatible with surrounding uses, again, the city is really

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already decided this with the master plan by designating this area for heavy industrial.

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And again, with the existing warehousing to the west, it is a similar, similar use that's already there.

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When we look at the capacity of city infrastructure to accommodate the proposed district,

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the report from McKenna suggests that, again, there's already industrial in this area.

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There's existing infrastructure that could serve the site, and certainly if there's improvements needed, again,

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That is something that can be decided at the site plan phase.

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Really, I'm going to leave it there at this point.

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Again, I do commend to your attention, which I'm sure you've already read.

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The McKenna report.

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It's a very good one.

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I've worked with them.

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Opposite them actually for a number of years.

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And I can tell you they're not overly enthusiastic about development a lot of times.

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So when you get a report that is positive and recommending, I think that really means something.

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So we just encourage you to approve the rezoning request if you would and I just appreciate your time and would be willing to answer any questions that you had.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Any other discussion?

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Here are a non-wait.

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Mary Sousa, Beverly Road.

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I'm going to try to focus here because my thoughts are everywhere on this.

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First, I was wondering why it's not a conditional

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rezoning and if that happens later,

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or if it happens now.

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Secondly, I'm wondering why Council hasn't said anything.

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There's been no discussion.

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Are you guys going to discuss this at all?

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Or is this, you came to us first?

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Are you going to discuss this after the residents have

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say, or is your silence, your discussion?

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Because you guys have to have some type of an opinion.

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You have to have some type of debate. There's been no debate. There's pros and cons to this.

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And you've shown none. You didn't show it at the first reading. You didn't show it at the session.

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You didn't show it at the second session, which was yesterday.

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nor do you seem to want to do it today.

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And I'm wondering why you already have decided

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before you even got here,

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why you decided that this rezoning should be denied

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as a planning committee wanted.

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That's a concern.

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And I still have residual issues with I Beverly rezoning because it's the same thing, different properties, but it's in the neighborhood.

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And Granite, you guys weren't here, but Chairman Johnson was, and Mayor Willi was. And you didn't seem to have any issues with the fact that, inster, it was going to come off of inster,

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and be right in the neighborhood of Romulus.

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They're residents there.

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There are Taylor residents.

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I'm Van Boren and Inster.

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And no one seemed to really care about that.

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There was a school right there.

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And Council wasn't concerned with that either,

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with the rezoning to light industrial.

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So my feeling is that you guys needed to bathe this.

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there has to be cons. There has to be pros. You know, it was always, oh, you know, there's going to be taxes and there's going to be workers and they're going to be this and that across the street from us. Why isn't it the same there?

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Because the residents came to you and said, no, when on TV and said, no, we don't want this. Wicked road takes, takes semis right now. They don't go all the way down, Wicked. They can't. It's not allowed. They can't go on Beverly.

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So I'm not understanding the whole thing.

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Now, granite inkster is three lanes.

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Wick is two, but the truck traffic is going to be the same on both.

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Just because there's a third lane doesn't mean that there isn't going to be traffic that's

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going to inhibit people from getting in and out of their homes.

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Yes, sir.

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What else, one more thing if I could, I honestly and truly believe, and you're going to

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disagree with this, and I understand, is that Chairman Johnson, you should

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accuse yourself because you live in that neighborhood.

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You voted to rezone the Beverly property twice

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without any thought of the reference and...

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Lots of thought.

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Well, you know, the wildlife, everything,

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everything that they're talking about is what we talked about.

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But you go when a head and said no, rezone it.

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So I just feel, and I know you disagree, and that's okay.

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That's okay.

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That's fine.

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So that's my feelings.

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And I will stop because I just, I just believe you guys need to debate this.

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Okay.

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We shouldn't stop silent.

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Let me address a couple things.

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I agree it's similar.

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Not the same.

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And in my opinion, not even close.

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They're both next to next to a neighborhood.

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Not in a neighborhood.

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Next to.

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Beverly Road is a contaminated site.

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We had a chance to fix that, to take it away from our responsibility forever, the cost, and all that.

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You have a concrete company right there.

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So, it's not the same.

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Folks, but it's not.

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I don't agree with it.

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I live in the neighborhood.

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I live a half mile down the other way.

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The trucks don't bother me until they start coming in,

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like you're concerned about that they're going to go down Beverly, they have it, hopefully

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they wouldn't at us, but I just don't feel that we, it was zoned our one-for-reason.

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Master plans are made to change and made to alter and plans are plans, they're made to change.

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So, I don't agree with it there.

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I think they got a big piece of property that they can put, they're going to put the other

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building on.

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I would rather see single family homes there.

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That's what I would see, like to see it, because it's own for that.

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Through the chair.

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I have done my own research on this from the original petition to McKinna's opinion to the

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minutes of the Planning Commission meeting, and I actually visited the site.

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So I did not need to consult or debate with anyone on this issue.

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So I just think that you guys should have some back and forth on this whether you all agree on it.

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It's fine, but you guys should tell us what you're thinking because communication is what you guys ran on.

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So thank you.

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Through the chair.

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So

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we represent at large people of the city.

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When the property owners bought the property, they bought it as an R1C property.

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People who are adjacent in the area have made it very clear they don't want us to change.

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And in fact,

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The Master Plan does say having industrial, nobody is asking for this to be heavy industrial. So, somehow, light industrial is supposed to be better than heavy industrial, what they are asking for isn't even part of the Master Plan in addition to that.

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All right, so you want to know my opinion, I think that it is because they said in the public hearing that they're still going to continue with their main building number one number two because they bought it as our one C number three because they're not asking for it to be resowned heavy industrial at that is in the master plan.

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It is my opinion that it should not be resowned. How's that

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any other discussion?

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You're laying past 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 checks and I just want some understanding and the last meeting you had, there was the first reading, right?

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And then now with the second reading, so if this is voted, yes, that means they are changing it, if it's voted, no, they're not changing it, this is the final, right?

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This is where whatever you guys decide, this is it right here, correct?

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Okay, because I thought at the last meeting they said they were canceling or stopping at or postponing at the company.

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they asked to postpone but that it's already in the process we've never postponed according to planning in 30 years.

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Right, I was a little confused on that too, but I didn't know if that made a difference in this year.

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So whatever you guys decide tonight on this, yes or no, is what it does, what it goes.

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We're not okay. Okay.

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Any other discussion?

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Good evening. My name is Matt Striker. I'm 89-14 Holland Road.

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I live adjacent to the proposed rezoning.

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And I was looking through this, this is, I think, June's Taylor today, which

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is an informational

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magazine.

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And what I'd like to point out that it says that Taylor has solid financial footing.

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And it really doesn't say anything in here if we need cold storage or any more warehouses.

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Now, having said that, I think, a lot of the property owners and stuff around me and the

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people, they really like the quiet.

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They like the blend of Taylor, where we have everything we want within a mile in the city,

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and we have such a nice rural area where we could see deer on an almost daily basis.

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we get to see animals and even children playing in the backfields when, you know, times

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of appropriate and it's not swampy back there.

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But I really think that as much as I work in a production facility, I believe in progress.

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I don't think this is the area for this proposed rezoning, which sounds like many of you

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But I would also like to say that it is important to keep Taylor made for the residents, which you all are residents, and I know that.

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I know that you all had to deal with something like this, probably in your backyard's and your own time.

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So, I respectfully, you know, to the development, to the developers and all that, request that you deny this rezoning, and just we keep tailor, the green space, the nice, beautiful city, you know, where, you know, we are trying to build up the old infrastructures that are empty, fill those up like the Masco corporation, and get, you know, uses out of the places that are already vacant.

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So I appreciate your consideration and thank you for listening.

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Through the chair.

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I want to make something else clear since I was very vocal.

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We welcome the business.

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Very much so.

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And as far as green spaces go,

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that's private property.

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And I respect the fact that they have a right to

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and an obligation to be a good part of Taylor

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and we welcome that part of it.

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It's very important for a balance and Taylor.

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And if we're talking about in general green spaces,

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somebody has to own those to keep them green.

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And that's that we don't get to.

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We don't get to take and help businesses.

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They can't build where they're zone properly,

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and they meet all the other environments.

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And we welcome your company doing that on that property.

321
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I want to make that clear.

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Hi.

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My name is Michael McDonald Wilder,

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and I live at 888-2600.

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And at the, I'm going to be the dead horse. When they put in the planning, they put in the code 150 for their general warehouse, for their traffic reports, and that's not, it's a huge, it's a high queue, cold storage, and it should be coded under 157, which is like 700, I think it's a 700 vehicles a day that are going to go down the road.

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quick road. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but this is just on the zoning. Well, we can't

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talk about quick road. Yeah, I understand, but this is just on the on the

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rezoning has nothing to do with all that. If it passes, it would come later. So, so this is

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just about the zoning that the people, the 13 people that live on quick road can't get

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out of their driveways now, because there's so much traffic. I lived on highland road. I

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I have to wait sometimes 10 and 15 minutes to make a left-hand turn on a

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quick road.

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No, fine.

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So traffic-wise, I think we need to consider that already there's too much

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traffic there.

336
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OK, thank you.

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Eric Zimmerson, 2, 6, 4, 5, 7, quick road.

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I'm a fuel hauler.

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I see a lot of traffic every day.

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I've watched the gas station go in at the corner from the new company that took

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over dawn foods that also had refur trailers in there.

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The refur alarms go low or a few alarms go low.

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They start beeping at all hours of the night.

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It's something we got to consider.

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I can hear from my house at the old dawn plant.

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With this place, there's going to be,

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I would assume refur trailers sitting out there running

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all night, cold storage.

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Something we should think about as far as citizens here

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And I just don't think the road can handle the truck traffic as a truck driver and see

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it a lot of traffic.

352
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That's all you'd say.

353
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Thank you.

354
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Any other discussion?

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Anything from the Council?

356
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You're in non-alanced favor say yes.

357
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All opposed say no.

358
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No.

359
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Role call please.

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Mr. Pat?

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No.

362
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Mr. Clark?

363
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No.

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Mr. Armstrong?

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No. Mr. Wallace.

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Mr. Lady.

367
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No.

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Mr. Thomas.

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No.

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Mr. Johnson.

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Motion passed fails.

372
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We're going to 7.2.

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Motion to approve the purchase of six Chevy Tahoe's

374
00:27:50,730 --> 00:27:56,390
on Badger, Berger, Chevrolet, State Contract for Mount Notting

375
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$335,000, $52,00, funded through the federal

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forfeit justice fund.

377
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Motion to support.

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Motion by Mr. Heady,

379
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supported by Mr. Wallace.

380
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Post Mr. Tomas.

381
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:14,780
Any discussion?

382
00:28:16,540 --> 00:28:17,620
Anything from the audience?

383
00:28:18,460 --> 00:28:19,020
Here are none.

384
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All in favor, say yes.

385
00:28:21,140 --> 00:28:21,780
All opposed.

386
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,460
Yeses have a motion carry.

387
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,180
7.3.

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Motion to approve.

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energy product, soul source, with emergency equipment, outfit of six Chevy Tows, an amount

390
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:41,980
not to exceed 81,840, 94 dollars, funded through the federal forfits justice fund.

391
00:28:42,420 --> 00:28:42,520
Motion.

392
00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:52,450
Most of our Mr. Armstrong supported by Mr. Pats. Any discussion from the audience?

393
00:28:53,550 --> 00:28:54,550
Anything from the council?

394
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Here are non-alcoholic favors, say yes, yes, all opposed, yeses have at motion carried.

395
00:29:01,970 --> 00:29:08,630
Motion to approve, magic graphics, low bid, to provide and apply a police vehicle,

396
00:29:08,850 --> 00:29:16,190
vinyl graphics, on six police-sleeak towels, like towels, but I'm not, I'm thinking about

397
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that's what I'm going, it's just a lesson.

398
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We're about not to exceed 3,132 dollars, they're 522 dollars each, on the 3rd federal

399
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warfactor fund.

400
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Motion.

401
00:29:30,370 --> 00:29:34,130
Most of our strong supporter by Mr. Pats.

402
00:29:37,060 --> 00:29:37,660
Any discussion?

403
00:29:38,340 --> 00:29:38,920
Here are none.

404
00:29:39,380 --> 00:29:40,200
All favors say yes.

405
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:40,840
Yes.

406
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:41,760
All posed.

407
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,000
Yes, has have it.

408
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Motion carried.

409
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7.6.

410
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0.7.5.

411
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Company. Motion to approve Dell, State Contract for the purchase of three, ultra-sharp curve monitors for a mountain-out-tick seat, 4,100.

412
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:10,500
Ordered and forty-five dollars, one of those D.C. C. Brian Grant, motion, support. Mr. Thomas, supported by

413
00:30:12,610 --> 00:30:14,470
Mr. Armstrong, any discussion?

414
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:22,620
Here are non-all-of-favorite say yes. Yes. All opposed? Yeses have a motion carried.

415
00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:30,220
7.6, motion to approve CDW Governance State Contract for the purchase of six Lithium

416
00:30:30,220 --> 00:30:36,600
battery backups for 9-11 Dispatch Server Room Equipment for a mount and not to exceed

417
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:41,840
17,425 dollars under through the DC Brain Grant.

418
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:42,860
Potion.

419
00:30:43,180 --> 00:30:43,300
Support.

420
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,300
I'm Mr. Thiti.

421
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,100
Supported by Mr. Armstrong.

422
00:30:47,060 --> 00:30:47,800
Any discussion?

423
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,920
You're not on all of favor say yes?

424
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:51,540
Yes.

425
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:52,680
All opposed.

426
00:30:52,780 --> 00:30:54,360
Just as have it, motion carried.

427
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:57,140
7.7.

428
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:06,760
Motion to approve CBTS sole source for the yearly renewal of red sky E-911, or amount not to exceed,

429
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:12,720
or amount of $8,011 funded through the General Fund IT contractual service.

430
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,180
Most of them are supported by Mr. Clark.

431
00:31:16,180 --> 00:31:17,800
Any discussion?

432
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,120
Here are non-Awns, favor say yes?

433
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,020
Yes, yes.

434
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:22,660
All opposed?

435
00:31:22,780 --> 00:31:24,380
Yes, this has a motion carried.

436
00:31:25,340 --> 00:31:28,940
And you get a motion to approve the contract to provide,

437
00:31:28,940 --> 00:31:33,760
to provide a agreed upon these services to the Taylor Community

438
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:38,440
Development Corporation at the Villages of Taylor Properties.

439
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:39,020
Motion?

440
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:39,760
Motion?

441
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:45,800
Mr. Armstrong supported by Mr. Thomas, any discussion?

442
00:31:48,620 --> 00:31:50,440
Here are none on favor say yes.

443
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:50,980
Yes.

444
00:31:51,420 --> 00:31:52,160
All opposed?

445
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:53,420
Yes.

446
00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:56,720
Have a point nine.

447
00:31:56,820 --> 00:32:05,860
Motion to amend CCR 8.362-26 to increase payment for additional repair.

448
00:32:05,860 --> 00:32:09,880
boss by six, six, six, two, down river bodywords,

449
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,420
repair of the Taylor fire department,

450
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,560
explore XLT for the Mount MattiExeed,

451
00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:20,480
$9,000, $23,000, funded through the fire department,

452
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,040
repair and equipment fund.

453
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,820
Motion. Most of our Mr. Thomas supported by support.

454
00:32:27,420 --> 00:32:30,000
Mr. Wallace, any discussion?

455
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,180
Sorry, we couldn't change it, $1.

456
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,640
Just through the chair, I want to point out that even though there was an increase, there was

457
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unexpected in this repair, they still came in considerably below the second place better,

458
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so it's still a good deal.

459
00:32:50,230 --> 00:32:50,790
Sorry Bill.

460
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,820
Paul, if you ever say yes, yes.

461
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:55,860
Yes.

462
00:32:55,860 --> 00:32:56,380
All opposed?

463
00:32:56,460 --> 00:32:57,900
Yes, it's have a motion carried.

464
00:32:59,340 --> 00:33:05,780
710, Ostonhood Prove Exotic, Low-Fied Bid, who purchased hydraulic hose, crimper for the

465
00:33:05,780 --> 00:33:13,040
compost site, for a mountain that takes seed, 44,000, $95,000, funded through the compost capital

466
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outlay.

467
00:33:13,860 --> 00:33:14,780
Oh, should support.

468
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:20,260
Ostoned by Mr. Thiti, supported by Mr. Pats, any discussion?

469
00:33:21,740 --> 00:33:24,200
Mr. Thiti, do you want to tell everybody what this is for?

470
00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:24,840
Yes.

471
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for a machine to make hydrochosis on site.

472
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,700
That way we don't let to go out and get our guys to make it.

473
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:36,160
Any discussion?

474
00:33:41,050 --> 00:33:42,090
Yeah, but that's for everything.

475
00:33:42,730 --> 00:33:46,350
Lovers, grinder, that's salt trucks.

476
00:33:47,090 --> 00:33:50,310
Through the chair, it includes a ton of supplies, too.

477
00:33:50,350 --> 00:33:52,650
Of fittings, clamps, those, those.

478
00:33:54,090 --> 00:33:56,950
That's what most of the expenses are, all favor?

479
00:33:57,790 --> 00:33:58,930
Yes, yes, yes.

480
00:33:58,930 --> 00:34:01,690
I'll post, yes, it's have it, motion carry.

481
00:34:03,670 --> 00:34:16,250
Let's go to 711, motion to amend CCR, 126630-24, increase authority, and amount by 14,273,

482
00:34:16,470 --> 00:34:26,030
revised total amount, not to exceed 614,848 dollars, funded through the TBA capital L.A.

483
00:34:26,030 --> 00:34:28,130
our program. Motion.

484
00:34:29,010 --> 00:34:31,110
Oh, support. Motion by Mr. Thomas.

485
00:34:31,430 --> 00:34:33,750
Reported by Mr. Wallace. Any discussion?

486
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:37,880
And we get, we don't, is this you, we don't?

487
00:34:38,060 --> 00:34:39,780
Yeah. You talk about it?

488
00:34:44,700 --> 00:34:45,360
Mr. Ulin.

489
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:46,900
That's my dad.

490
00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:49,980
Through the chair, these are just some minor increases.

491
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,500
About a $14,000, some change increases with concrete rock

492
00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:56,220
and then the five system that we went with

493
00:34:56,220 --> 00:34:57,600
after consulting with IT.

494
00:34:58,020 --> 00:34:59,980
So these are the additional costs to cover those up.

495
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,820
Additional units that had to be used at the site.

496
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:11,600
Through the chair. The file is for what? The dog park. So that system would communicate. You register your dog.

497
00:35:12,180 --> 00:35:18,920
At the animal shelter, there's a process in place with the system. They add information and make sure your shots and your license were up to date.

498
00:35:19,020 --> 00:35:25,880
And then you're provided a file and additional files for a small fee. That can be tied to your account. And that's how you enter the dog park.

499
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:28,680
Thank you.

500
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:29,540
Yes, sir, thank you.

501
00:35:29,780 --> 00:35:30,620
Any other discussion?

502
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,680
Here are non-all-favorite say yes?

503
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:34,280
Yes.

504
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:34,620
Yes.

505
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:35,260
All opposed.

506
00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:37,000
Yes, this has a motion carry.

507
00:35:37,860 --> 00:35:43,340
And we get a motion to approve the submittal for reimbursement, applications for the state

508
00:35:43,340 --> 00:35:49,280
of Michigan for early voting wages for the 2026 primary and general election.

509
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:50,340
Motion?

510
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:51,360
No sorry.

511
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:52,560
Mr. Pats.

512
00:35:52,820 --> 00:35:54,220
Supported by Mr. Clark.

513
00:35:55,380 --> 00:35:56,080
Any discussion?

514
00:35:56,080 --> 00:36:00,250
You're a non-all-a-favorite, yes?

515
00:36:00,370 --> 00:36:00,770
Yes.

516
00:36:01,310 --> 00:36:01,970
All opposed?

517
00:36:03,570 --> 00:36:05,110
Yes, this has a motion carried.

518
00:36:06,050 --> 00:36:18,590
713, motion to recin, resolution, 5.203, dash 26, 5.24, dash 26, and 5.205.26, and

519
00:36:18,590 --> 00:36:26,830
authorize the removal of the charter member, 1, 2, and 3 from the November ballot, November

520
00:36:26,830 --> 00:36:29,530
for 23rd, 2026 General Election.

521
00:36:29,690 --> 00:36:30,010
Motion.

522
00:36:30,270 --> 00:36:30,750
Thank you.

523
00:36:30,910 --> 00:36:33,090
Most of my Mr. Park, second of my Mr.

524
00:36:33,450 --> 00:36:34,610
Theady discussion?

525
00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:37,710
Through the chair.

526
00:36:38,510 --> 00:36:38,550
Through the chair.

527
00:36:38,550 --> 00:36:42,590
Like I have Sarah explained why this was on here.

528
00:36:44,290 --> 00:36:48,630
Through the chair, we were notified by the county that adding three city proposals would

529
00:36:48,630 --> 00:36:54,390
cause us to have a second page on the November ballot, which would increase costs.

530
00:36:54,390 --> 00:36:59,090
There would definitely be an increase in voter education that would need to be done.

531
00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:01,770
There would need to be training for election inspectors.

532
00:37:02,030 --> 00:37:05,790
That would need to be done, which would increase the cost as well as mailings and advertisements.

533
00:37:07,170 --> 00:37:09,630
All of those additional things that come with a two-page ballot.

534
00:37:12,060 --> 00:37:17,120
Through the chair, I just want to reiterate that we intend to still move forward with these in the future.

535
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,040
Yes, we are.

536
00:37:20,660 --> 00:37:23,960
Through the chair, in case you don't know what they were,

537
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:37,940
These were the charter amendments to raise the spending limit without Council approval from 2005, so it wasn't worth what it would be required to do it right now.

538
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:40,300
It's not in the emergency, so that's why.

539
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:43,420
Any other discussion?

540
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:44,660
Mr. Chairman.

541
00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:49,080
Even though I don't vote, I just want to point out that I was in the favor of the removal.

542
00:37:51,470 --> 00:37:52,410
Was the stop there?

543
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:56,580
All the favor?

544
00:37:57,340 --> 00:37:57,540
Yes.

545
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:58,640
All opposed?

546
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:05,600
Yes, let's go to the audience first.

547
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,600
Again, Caroline Pat, 60, 60, Jackson.

548
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:19,620
Just want to announce that August 23 from 10 o'clock to 1 o'clock.

549
00:38:19,820 --> 00:38:23,080
The Taylor Historical Society Museum, we're having a sale.

550
00:38:23,340 --> 00:38:26,280
Anybody want to come by at the between 10 and 1.

551
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:28,520
We are cleaning out lots of things.

552
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,720
And so we have some picture frames and all kinds of things.

553
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:40,080
So if you would like to come, it's going to be right in front of the museum underneath the tent and tables from 10 o'clock to 1 o'clock this Sunday.

554
00:38:41,140 --> 00:38:41,660
Thank you.

555
00:38:48,650 --> 00:38:50,650
Dennis Schlemmer, 947A Hazel Street.

556
00:38:51,430 --> 00:38:51,750
Good evening.

557
00:38:51,970 --> 00:38:54,290
We're wooly, Council Chair Johnson and members of Council.

558
00:38:55,050 --> 00:38:57,550
I want to take a couple minutes tonight to simply say thank you.

559
00:38:58,290 --> 00:39:03,090
Last week, Taylor had the tremendous honor of welcoming the wall that heals to Heritage Park.

560
00:39:03,950 --> 00:39:06,850
We estimate nearly 10,000 people experience the wall,

561
00:39:06,850 --> 00:39:09,990
and none of it could have happened without the extraordinary support of the city.

562
00:39:10,990 --> 00:39:15,170
Thank you to Mayor Woolie, Chairman Johnson and Councilman Pats, who all served on our committee

563
00:39:15,170 --> 00:39:17,850
and worked for nine months to make this a reality.

564
00:39:19,170 --> 00:39:22,950
Thank you to Chief Poores and Chief Blair for their incredible support of their departments.

565
00:39:24,150 --> 00:39:25,950
Chief Blair didn't just provide officers.

566
00:39:26,790 --> 00:39:30,710
He joined them physically and building the wall and even worked an overnight shift on site.

567
00:39:31,570 --> 00:39:35,230
Thank you to Guido, you will in an entire parks and recreation staff who were there for us

568
00:39:35,230 --> 00:39:36,690
throughout the entire week.

569
00:39:37,570 --> 00:39:42,850
Councilman Wallace, who helped build, work, and take down the entire wall while also serving

570
00:39:42,850 --> 00:39:47,530
with the Junior League World Series, thank you to Councilman Clark, who helped take down and

571
00:39:47,530 --> 00:39:50,270
Councilman Thomas who captured the entire week as one of our photographers.

572
00:39:51,490 --> 00:39:55,710
Thank you to every city official who visited the wall or attended our welcome home ceremony

573
00:39:55,710 --> 00:39:59,890
and heard Medal of Honor recipient, Command Sergeant Major Terry.

574
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,340
Richard Sinspeak about the men on the wall who he personally knew and served alongside. And thank you to

575
00:40:05,340 --> 00:40:10,320
Dan Bezerra for his tremendous support on behalf of the Junior League World Series. I wasn't sure how

576
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,020
the wall on the World Series would co-exist the heritage park and we had some road bumps, but we

577
00:40:14,020 --> 00:40:18,100
made it happen. The only thing that could have made the week better was the Taylor North Championship,

578
00:40:18,220 --> 00:40:24,640
I think we can all agree on that. Something that happened last week that none of us could have planned, though,

579
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,100
was that this wall and brought this community together.

580
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,940
Veterans, families, volunteers, businesses,

581
00:40:30,420 --> 00:40:32,880
organizations, and strangers came together for one purpose.

582
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,220
And it didn't just unite Taylor, you could feel

583
00:40:36,220 --> 00:40:37,480
down wherever it coming together.

584
00:40:38,940 --> 00:40:41,340
We'll never be able to measure what that week meant.

585
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,540
But most importantly, I hope every Vietnam veteran who came

586
00:40:44,540 --> 00:40:48,020
to the wall felt how much this community honors them,

587
00:40:48,180 --> 00:40:50,700
remembers their service, and is grateful that they're home.

588
00:40:51,580 --> 00:40:54,040
Taylor was entrusted with the wall that heals

589
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,000
and this city rose to the occasion. Thank you.

590
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:57,540
Thank you.

591
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,540
We're going to go open business.

592
00:41:05,820 --> 00:41:09,020
I'd just like to say something about this last week.

593
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,360
I was on council.

594
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:15,060
I've been on council 12 years.

595
00:41:15,580 --> 00:41:19,980
This is the first time that I felt like every council

596
00:41:19,980 --> 00:41:22,320
number wanted to do something here.

597
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:24,910
And we haven't had that before.

598
00:41:25,780 --> 00:41:26,820
And they were there.

599
00:41:27,260 --> 00:41:28,840
And it's to me as amazing.

600
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:34,840
I got to watch Mr. Wallace with a hammer because of those arms, but other than that.

601
00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:41,980
But when it opened and there was one of the bikers that came that was kneeling on the

602
00:41:41,980 --> 00:41:48,520
ground with a buddy behind him touching a name and just weeping, it really gets to you.

603
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,700
So it gets to me right now.

604
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,400
So thank you, Dennis, and thank everybody that came.

605
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:56,320
Open it up to everybody else.

606
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,000
Mr. Chairman, before she reads that, I just want to also thank

607
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:08,460
from earlier working at that wall, I want to say thank you to all the people

608
00:42:08,460 --> 00:42:11,920
that shared stories with me that I would have never thought I'd heard my

609
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:16,440
life, so for them to take the time and share those stories with me, I greatly

610
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:21,320
appreciated that. So, we should tip of that, so I just want to say thanks to

611
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:23,860
them.

612
00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:32,940
Through the chair, last week, was absolutely amazing to spend the days out, and as other people

613
00:42:32,940 --> 00:42:37,840
have said, bring this community together, or people from all over the world for one reason

614
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:43,580
and people of all different ages and from different communities for another reason, and it was

615
00:42:43,580 --> 00:42:45,920
really, it was kind of sad Sunday.

616
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,840
It was like, this was like the highlight of my last few years

617
00:42:53,840 --> 00:43:01,220
and Taylor is to be able to be a part of the well-grounds just on another note saying

618
00:43:01,220 --> 00:43:08,880
long same lines is you know we have the best employees around our DPW or water or our

619
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:14,900
police or fire parks department I mean they made everybody come together this was this is

620
00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:20,200
a great experience I'm proud to be part of the city I guess we got a public comment

621
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,160
Through the chair.

622
00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:25,540
Just like to wish Tira a happy birthday.

623
00:43:30,950 --> 00:43:33,210
Thank you for all that you do for us.

624
00:43:33,850 --> 00:43:38,890
This this council would not be operating as smoothly if it weren't for you.

625
00:43:39,150 --> 00:43:40,070
So thank you so much.

626
00:43:40,410 --> 00:43:42,930
These guys really do spoil me by the way, so.

627
00:43:45,630 --> 00:43:46,710
I do have a public comment.

628
00:43:47,150 --> 00:43:49,550
We have a comment from Charles Blackwell, a political activist,

629
00:43:49,550 --> 00:43:55,170
to make false accusations against public figures that has no basis in fact here is a false comment.

630
00:43:55,370 --> 00:44:00,070
But even if I wouldn't be surprised if there is something that's going on between Mayor Willie and Jay and D.

631
00:44:00,070 --> 00:44:02,870
Kroba, Tony or Willie, who's sorry?

632
00:44:04,490 --> 00:44:05,210
That's it.

633
00:44:07,530 --> 00:44:08,950
Well, they're one all the positive.

634
00:44:10,450 --> 00:44:12,330
We can always count on one thing.

635
00:44:12,990 --> 00:44:14,190
We can always count on one thing.

636
00:44:14,190 --> 00:44:16,190
We can always count on one thing.

637
00:44:17,270 --> 00:44:17,290
We can always count on one thing.

638
00:44:17,290 --> 00:44:17,950
I call them.

639
00:44:18,610 --> 00:44:22,010
I'd like to make a motion to adjourn this meeting.

640
00:44:23,370 --> 00:44:27,410
Motion to adjourn by Mr. Walls, supported by Mr. Armstrong,

641
00:44:27,990 --> 00:44:28,370
Hall of Favor.

642
00:44:29,930 --> 00:44:30,390
I'll pause.

643
00:44:30,510 --> 00:44:31,670
Yes, I have a motion carry.

644
00:44:31,810 --> 00:44:32,910
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

645
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:57,140
I thank you.

646
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,720
And I always promise to kiddo.

647
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:15,400
Never yell at you, never yell at you during the ballgame in bearish. I won't do that. Maybe when we get behind closed doors, I may say something that you have to improve on, but not some bear. I say not some coaches and things like that. I wouldn't do that.

648
00:45:15,980 --> 00:45:27,660
From a success standpoint, you really, you really did have some teams you may have coached. Arguably the finest baseball player to ever come out of the downward or arguably, okay?

649
00:45:27,660 --> 00:45:32,760
I mean, I probably put Steve up there against anybody, but I know there were others, but

650
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:38,240
how do you, how do you balance those and, and what do you, what do you remember from those,

651
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:39,860
from those special teams?

652
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:47,000
You know, I remember most, as the kids were all smarter than I was.

653
00:45:47,740 --> 00:45:53,840
The whole team, the great for my average step here with Steve Avery, the whole team,

654
00:45:53,840 --> 00:46:01,660
That should great point average was around 3, 3, 3, 4 on an average and I know that they were smarter than I was

655
00:46:02,860 --> 00:46:09,220
And it was kind of satisfying as far as I was concerned because they would come to me and say, well, should we do this?

656
00:46:09,340 --> 00:46:11,900
Should we do that? I said, yeah, but what about this?

657
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:17,420
Okay, you're right, though. You know that they respected for what I had had, but about

658
00:46:17,420 --> 00:46:22,540
The best player down there ever. I won't take the credit for that. I will not take the credit.

659
00:46:22,740 --> 00:46:33,180
It's a dad taught him everything that he knew because you know, Ken was part of the Detroit system for a while.

660
00:46:33,260 --> 00:46:37,400
He was down there with Sparman, McLean and Lowlitch and the Minor League.

661
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:45,340
So, you know, he pitched with the bastard. He wore as one of the better ones that taught Steven how to react on Mount.

662
00:46:45,340 --> 00:46:47,900
And I will take the credit for that.

663
00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:50,480
I'll take the credit for what was behind Stephen.

664
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:52,820
And that was that close on the mountain.

665
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,600
Did you ever have to film a void with what's

666
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,140
talk about Stephen for a second?

667
00:46:58,540 --> 00:47:01,340
Did you ever have to film a void anywhere in there

668
00:47:01,340 --> 00:47:05,280
in the psyche thing in the keeping him on the right track thing?

669
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:10,480
I mean, Steve was a great guy on top of being exceptional picture.

670
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,500
Did you ever feel like, hey, you know, at the end of all of this,

671
00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:18,080
I could make it to credit for that particular thing.

672
00:47:20,820 --> 00:47:22,060
No, not really.

673
00:47:22,260 --> 00:47:26,340
I will take, I, I, I, I, I, I said before that it is an anything in particular this,

674
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:32,840
that at the end of the season, maybe it feels like that Steve and I would talk during lunch

675
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:37,620
hour, his lunch hour, that we would talk about, well, what do you think about this?

676
00:47:37,700 --> 00:47:40,080
Because we didn't have a scholarship, they felt what's your mission.

677
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:44,320
Good morning, has scholarship, they go to Stanford, but he was also drafted.

678
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,320
He was trying to make up his mind what he wanted to do.

679
00:47:48,160 --> 00:48:03,140
As far as knowing that, and me being the next pro-ball player myself, as player I would not suggest a player to go to the major league or even to the minor league.

680
00:48:03,780 --> 00:48:09,380
What I would suggest is a pitcher to go, but not a regular player. Get your college education first.

681
00:48:09,380 --> 00:48:13,440
And then if they still want to go draft you by their college.

682
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:19,480
In your lifetime, who was your who were your greatest influences or your greatest influence?

683
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:27,580
Two people come to mind as far as that's concerned. One is my dad.

684
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:37,160
My dad tried out for the old St. Louis Bruns, but he knew the writing on the wall.

685
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:49,480
I mean, baseball is a business and he saw it really bad, that it wasn't business, I didn't realize until I got home, that it was a business and that's the way to treat it.

686
00:48:49,860 --> 00:48:56,540
The second most important person to me was a gentleman by a name of John McFever.

687
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,280
He coached at Gibraltar Carlson.

688
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:06,580
So he was at Crowton Airport where I went my freshman year and we didn't have a freshman

689
00:49:06,580 --> 00:49:12,780
team. So I was I was sitting the bench for the varsity all that time and near the end of the

690
00:49:12,780 --> 00:49:20,760
season he put me in a game and it just I got a base hit and the first base coach says

691
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:27,060
man you did well I said well I don't like sitting anymore and I never sat another game after that

692
00:49:27,060 --> 00:49:29,080
I see it in the freshman editor.

693
00:49:29,820 --> 00:49:31,820
Oh, that's, that is an interesting story.

694
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,060
You're bringing up some really big names

695
00:49:35,060 --> 00:49:35,820
from the past.

696
00:49:35,980 --> 00:49:39,380
I mean, John LaFever, when you mentioned Jimmy Klauson,

697
00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:43,720
you were in the sweet spot of some really, really talented coaches.

698
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:50,140
So was I ever, back to, yeah, Roger, back to,

699
00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:55,000
can A-Bree, I mean, there was so many good coaches

700
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:59,980
during that era that I learned a lot from all of them taking a little bit.

701
00:50:00,020 --> 00:50:09,180
It's a piece from all of them. It was made me well-rounded, I heard. Well, head into this hall of fame. Who do you want to thank?

702
00:50:09,940 --> 00:50:26,800
Who do you want to thank? I want to follow fame in particular for even considering me. Number one, two, this is such a great class that I'm going in with, that every one of them deserves special attention without a doubt.

703
00:50:27,500 --> 00:50:29,720
But the person I'd like to really

704
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:33,840
could check out to give thanks to is Danny.

705
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:42,340
Danny, Danny's already put me in once, but I turned it down.

706
00:50:43,140 --> 00:50:47,180
And I turned it down because I didn't think I really deserved it.

707
00:50:47,240 --> 00:50:51,420
There's a lot of people in Taylor that I've done a lot more than I have.

708
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,800
But Danny Edmund's either he'd never gave up on me.

709
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,380
can't talk to me about it, you gotta do it, you gotta do it.

710
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,160
So I really like to thank him for pushing me.

711
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,440
And last, I like to thank my wife for pushing me also.

712
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,180
She said, you deserve it, go ahead for it.

713
00:51:08,540 --> 00:51:10,700
All the players have played for me.

714
00:51:11,540 --> 00:51:13,020
I appreciate it, I'm all.

715
00:51:13,260 --> 00:51:14,400
I mean, I really do.

716
00:51:14,620 --> 00:51:17,040
There are some that really stick out my mind.

717
00:51:17,220 --> 00:51:20,080
There's probably others that I have forgotten about

718
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:21,680
that I'm wondering how they're doing,

719
00:51:23,460 --> 00:51:26,640
Thank you, and this was really great to have this honor.

720
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:42,840
Thank you.

721
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,220
Like it has been a certified happy risk referee.

722
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,760
He has served almost four decades as an office official

723
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,880
with an insurgent or a place including more than 25 years

724
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:55,840
is an improved supervisor.

725
00:52:57,180 --> 00:52:59,760
Like health teams to the five national titles

726
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,720
and to the second place finishes,

727
00:53:02,720 --> 00:53:06,020
Not to mention a few Stanley Coves.

728
00:53:06,420 --> 00:53:08,320
Let's learn more about my boundaries.

729
00:53:14,580 --> 00:53:18,280
Michael, greatest influence for memory in your sports career.

730
00:53:18,540 --> 00:53:21,940
greatest memories that I have in my sports career.

731
00:53:22,900 --> 00:53:25,380
You know, it's hard to pick just one.

732
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,480
But some of the highlights locally,

733
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:30,920
Taylor Junior football program.

734
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,800
I was privileged enough to assemble a staff that won the championship

735
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,760
up and gave 40 kids the thrill of a lifetime.

736
00:53:41,300 --> 00:53:46,040
During that championship too, we did something that I don't know of anybody that's

737
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:46,820
ever done it.

738
00:53:46,980 --> 00:53:51,700
Every single player on my team, whether they were alignment, a kicker or whatever, got to carry

739
00:53:51,700 --> 00:53:58,880
the ball during the course of the season to see what it was like and we just, you know, we really

740
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:04,640
really did a great job with the kids and the morale and everything like that was great.

741
00:54:06,380 --> 00:54:13,140
NHL-wise, you know, I mean, I've been blessed to work with, you know, six Stanley Cup Finals,

742
00:54:13,620 --> 00:54:22,420
the outdoor game in Ann Arbor, all-star games, travel the Sweden to work games, and, you

743
00:54:22,420 --> 00:54:27,460
know, so there was a lot there, but there's two points that I really want to highlight

744
00:54:27,460 --> 00:54:33,360
on, that revolve around sports, one revolve around my daughter, in 2002, the Red Wing's

745
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:34,880
on the Stanley Cup here at home.

746
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,500
And I was lucky enough to have them at my game.

747
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:38,620
At the game.

748
00:54:39,180 --> 00:54:43,760
After the game, we got, I got to take them

749
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,900
to the NHL party with the Stanley Cup

750
00:54:46,900 --> 00:54:50,400
and everything like that, which was unbelievable privilege.

751
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,120
And something that they could talk about,

752
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:56,220
but my daughter, she was a freshman in high school

753
00:54:56,220 --> 00:54:58,820
and she was complaining because the finals were tomorrow.

754
00:54:59,260 --> 00:54:59,980
Okay, and she

755
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:10,340
It was going to be tired and everything like that. So she walked into school the next day and everybody was asking her, you know, why are you so mad, Stephanie? Why are you? What's going on?

756
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:27,600
Well, my dad made me stave to a party last night. Well, what party? Oh, the Stanley Cup party after the Red Wings won the Stanley, she was the most popular girl in the school to the next that whole day, you know? And then another story with my parents, they were not sports minded whatsoever.

757
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:37,540
You know, so I had set up a red-wing old-timer game with the Taylor Hockey Association coaches at the L-Shared and Community Center.

758
00:55:38,540 --> 00:55:42,120
And I invited them down to the game and everything like that.

759
00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:49,460
So just before we went on the ice, I'd gotten half dressed and I was out in a lobby just making sure everything was going well.

760
00:55:49,460 --> 00:55:55,460
Lobby was packed and here comes my parents in okay and now mind you my dad is is very very

761
00:55:56,060 --> 00:56:04,160
Old school. He had a boat high on I mean he dressed for the occasion and but he also had on his his

762
00:56:04,820 --> 00:56:08,420
Hat and scarf and gloves and a big coat

763
00:56:08,420 --> 00:56:13,320
They had blankets and everything he thought that they were going to the winter classic outside

764
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:19,440
He didn't realize what the temperature would be like and and just a smile that they had when I walked out

765
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:24,740
there, and that meant an awful lot to me, just being able to share that night with them.

766
00:56:24,820 --> 00:56:25,260
You know?

767
00:56:25,260 --> 00:56:26,120
That's fantastic.

768
00:56:27,260 --> 00:56:30,920
What about greatest influences in your sports world?

769
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,280
Greatest influences have to be my parents.

770
00:56:34,460 --> 00:56:36,200
Even though they weren't involved in sports,

771
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,480
they taught me the value my mom,

772
00:56:39,240 --> 00:56:42,200
with her kindness and her respect for people,

773
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,120
my dad, his dedication,

774
00:56:44,980 --> 00:56:48,520
and always out there wanting to help people,

775
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:58,560
you know, through the church and different things like that, he never turned anybody down, and that instilled in me, you know, the, you know, the, you know,

776
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:06,720
what I want to say, the way to get involved, to give back, and, you know, you're not better than anybody else, you know,

777
00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:13,040
to just go out there and do what you can to help people out. What about who do you want to think?

778
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:30,040
Basically, there's a whole lot of people that I've crossed my life with, but the bottom line is my mom and dad number one, you know, because they instilled in me, they gave me the opportunity to be involved in what I wanted to be involved with.

779
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:40,160
My family, my daughter, Stephanie, and my son Ryan, and their spouses, and because when they

780
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:45,160
got involved in sports, it wasn't one of these things where, oh no, I don't want Dad to

781
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:45,720
be involved.

782
00:57:46,300 --> 00:57:52,500
They welcome Dad to be involved, and that's how I got into Ann Arbor and deployments and

783
00:57:52,500 --> 00:57:56,200
different places like that at the high school program, because I wanted to give back.

784
00:57:56,300 --> 00:57:59,880
I wanted to be involved to help other people too, not just my kids.

785
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:01,080
And it was never about them.

786
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,640
It was always about the team, you know.

787
00:58:04,340 --> 00:58:07,660
So, you know, those things, you know, really stand up.

788
00:58:07,740 --> 00:58:10,360
And then there's a family, the soberated family.

789
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,860
They're the ones who got me involved in hockey period.

790
00:58:14,100 --> 00:58:16,820
They had heard that I was at Oakland Community College

791
00:58:16,820 --> 00:58:18,540
and working with the hockey team there.

792
00:58:18,980 --> 00:58:21,060
And they weren't very fond of their coach.

793
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:21,680
All right.

794
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,680
So they said they introduced me to their coach.

795
00:58:23,780 --> 00:58:26,440
And as soon as he heard that I was with the college hockey team,

796
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,320
you know, oh, wow, you know, come on.

797
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,640
And that was my start in Taylor, and the rest is history.

798
00:58:31,860 --> 00:58:35,080
It went from Taylor Hockey Association to Little Seasers.

799
00:58:35,780 --> 00:58:38,780
We had five national championships and Little Seasers.

800
00:58:39,500 --> 00:58:45,440
So, those things that build your bridges, that's the exciting thing.

801
00:58:45,660 --> 00:58:52,340
And the hundreds of people that I've been blessed with, the families, the moms, the dads,

802
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:57,420
the brothers, the sisters, the administrators, all those people that I got to work with

803
00:58:57,420 --> 00:59:04,160
through all these years and even at the NHL, you know, the gentleman by the name of Don Archer,

804
00:59:04,340 --> 00:59:08,860
he gave me my start. He pulled me in one day and asked me if I wanted to go work in the press box

805
00:59:08,860 --> 00:59:16,120
because I needed press box help. My first job was to run the Teletype machine for Auditown

806
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:23,060
Scores at Olympia. People don't even know what Teletype's are, but those are the starts that

807
00:59:23,060 --> 00:59:26,860
that you get. But without him, I would have never gotten that opportunity. And then the people

808
00:59:26,860 --> 00:59:32,100
had faith in me to put me into leadership positions and support me and everything like that.

809
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:40,720
And the bottom line is, I've had a great, I've been blessed, career in sports. Hopefully it's

810
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:48,980
not over yet, there's still a few years to go. But the greatest thing that I have in everything

811
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:56,760
is that I have the kids that I've coached. Okay, 20, 30, 40 years ago. All right, come

812
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,840
up to me at Redwing Games and knock on a window.

813
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,540
I'm down and see me and say, hey, Mr. H, remember me? Unfortunately, I don't because they were 10 or 12 and now they're 30 or 40 years old. So they've changed, you know. But that is the greatest compliment to me and the greatest memory that I will have in all my years and sports is that people respected what I try to do and still remember me and thank me for that. And the biggest thank you is to those people, you know, for what they've given back to me.

814
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,320
so that I could, you know, just give to them.

815
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:02,320
I'm making too much noise.

816
01:02:02,620 --> 01:02:04,240
I was fine, but I'm fine.

817
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:05,180
I'm fine.

818
01:02:05,180 --> 01:02:06,100
I was all so happy.

819
01:02:06,100 --> 01:02:06,740
I'm gonna use that.

820
01:02:07,300 --> 01:02:09,540
To get here is a round of the time.

821
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:10,940
I'm making too much noise.

822
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:12,180
This hurt me.

823
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:14,080
Mickey,

824
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:27,540
let's start with your trip to the 1984 Olympic Games.

825
01:02:28,020 --> 01:02:33,520
You were at the finals of the 800 meter.

826
01:02:35,860 --> 01:02:42,080
When your own protege there, Earl Jones gained the bronze medal.

827
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:43,620
Can you tell us that story?

828
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:47,600
Yes, we'll try to reflect on that.

829
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:52,840
First of all, before we begin, the behalf of Earl Jones, who we spoke with,

830
01:02:53,260 --> 01:02:55,800
and my wife, myself, in the city of Taylor,

831
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,520
we want to congratulate all of the other inductees,

832
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:10,500
And it's proof, living proof that Taylor has the individuals and it can compete on a national state and world-class level.

833
01:03:11,340 --> 01:03:16,620
And this is why we're here right now, so congratulations to all the inductees.

834
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:27,960
Okay, reflecting on the need, it's a really, really interesting legacy that we're going to have to share with everybody as it's first of all.

835
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:31,080
Earl was not expected to make the team.

836
01:03:31,380 --> 01:03:32,160
And he was a long shot.

837
01:03:32,340 --> 01:03:34,280
The paper said that he was a long shot.

838
01:03:35,020 --> 01:03:38,240
And that he would probably be not on the team.

839
01:03:38,900 --> 01:03:41,840
Well, that is not Earl Jen's mentalities.

840
01:03:42,420 --> 01:03:45,380
Number one, when he went into the Olympic trials,

841
01:03:45,940 --> 01:03:48,880
there was Johnny Gray and two other people

842
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:52,520
be right behind Johnny that were seasoned runners.

843
01:03:52,940 --> 01:03:54,940
They were in their late 20s.

844
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:56,640
Earl, being the youngest kid, eventually.

845
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:02,980
on the Olympic team at 20 years old, the cave really really had no business being there

846
01:04:02,980 --> 01:04:11,460
because of their experience of running. However, in the Olympic trials, her old Pete

847
01:04:11,460 --> 01:04:18,780
Johnny Gates at the American Records at 143.7. So now here's the young man that wasn't supposed

848
01:04:18,780 --> 01:04:22,000
to be on the team that is now the American record holder and on the team.

849
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:25,280
The final with so many good runners in front of him.

850
01:04:25,300 --> 01:04:28,380
He went right to the front last week to win the American Championship.

851
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,420
And this week he's using the opposite tactic.

852
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:35,580
That's Earl Jones who has believed that Stanley Redline,

853
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:39,140
from Arkansas in second place at the moment,

854
01:04:39,340 --> 01:04:42,740
has usual team Robinson easy to spot on the candy strike.

855
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:46,900
When he actually got the bronze medal,

856
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:50,720
he wasn't able to run his race that he'd only run.

857
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:56,460
Earl would go out faster than any other athlete in the history of the half-mile Earl would go out

858
01:04:56,460 --> 01:04:59,780
48 49 they would go out 50 51 and

859
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:04,560
Coming off, he got boxed in the first, so he wasn't able to run, he is race in the Olympic

860
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:05,060
Files.

861
01:05:05,940 --> 01:05:10,240
But anyways, when he got unboxed, he was coming on and if they think they would have been five

862
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:16,560
more yards, I believe he would have taken the gold. However, our seats were five yards

863
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:21,300
from the finished, from the awards table, and we were eye level with Earl, where he

864
01:05:21,300 --> 01:05:27,720
could see us, which I just think that may be of intervention of a higher source that put

865
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:32,320
at that way. So that was our experience at being at the 80's,

866
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:35,640
one of them because Earl was the youngest athlete on the,

867
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:39,160
he was 20 years old running against 29 and 31 while King Cruz,

868
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:41,640
the Sebastian Cove, who went one and two.

869
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:46,680
Mm-hmm. I think given the fact that we couldn't get Earl on video,

870
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:51,940
but Earl was in the audience tonight, how would you like to welcome him

871
01:05:51,940 --> 01:05:53,440
officially to the Hall of Fame?

872
01:05:55,020 --> 01:06:00,800
Well, Earl is one of the most humble human beings you'll ever meet in first of all, he would

873
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:08,600
like to welcome everybody in becoming a part of the Hall of Fame here at the City of

874
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:08,800
Taylor.

875
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:18,160
And once again, I've all often believed that the people in the City of Taylor have the

876
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:22,620
credentials to compete on the levels, which I just stated previously that we can compete

877
01:06:22,620 --> 01:06:25,780
the state, national world, what class level, and the people that are going to be in

878
01:06:25,780 --> 01:06:30,820
stuff that today are just examples of that. So we really have just a tremendously

879
01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:37,160
talented community here that I think that Earl and everyone, you know, can be very, very proud

880
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:45,500
of whether it's high school, college, traffic field, or across country. What are the things that

881
01:06:47,900 --> 01:06:55,660
But one thing to jump out of that, that Earl started to define himself as one of world-class

882
01:06:55,660 --> 01:07:00,640
runners in high school, is we were running against one of the best mylers from Ann

883
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:01,280
Upper Pioneer.

884
01:07:01,540 --> 01:07:07,280
I think his name was John Davis, and he had never been beaten in Earl Beat him in an indoor

885
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:07,820
meat.

886
01:07:08,660 --> 01:07:13,940
And so Earl started to opening eyes that, here's an individual, it may have some really

887
01:07:13,940 --> 01:07:21,760
outstanding talent. And that summer we took Earl to the National Junior Championships in Bloomington, Indiana.

888
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:28,280
Chuck Evans was with me who's going to be inducted also tonight in Warren Jenkins, who's my

889
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:35,940
assistant coach in Earl broke the 1500 National 16 year old record. So he became the number one

890
01:07:35,940 --> 01:07:47,300
Myler 1500 in the United States, then we go on to his senior as Junior year, we ran him in the

891
01:07:47,300 --> 01:07:53,080
state finals, we ran him in the mile in the tomb, which is unprecedented for somebody to do a double

892
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:59,720
of that nature and try to win. Well, he took second and a half mile and lost my tenth of a second,

893
01:08:00,180 --> 01:08:05,260
but he won the mile, and he came up to me and he said, Coach, everything comes down to a kick as you

894
01:08:05,260 --> 01:08:31,940
and he said I could have kicked and he said I could have won that, well he didn't, well then that next season was the senior, we took Earl to a meet which is in Oakland and he asked him to run the 600 and Earl ran the 600 and ran the fastest time in the nation, not only for high school but for collegiate, he had the number one time in the nation for everybody, colleagues and high school kids as a senior.

895
01:08:31,940 --> 01:08:41,760
So then the other then he got invited at the very first kid in the history of the Midwest to be invited to compete in the high school mile in the wouldn't make the game

896
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:51,740
It had massive square gardens. We took Earl there and I was really learning experience for Earl Earl was invited as senior to compete in the math and the

897
01:08:51,740 --> 01:08:59,300
try state meat down in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he, there was a kid there that had never

898
01:08:59,300 --> 01:09:06,320
been beaten from Indiana, who was the three-time model state champion, and we set up a way

899
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:10,360
for Earl to run the race, and he beat the kid in round of four or seven.

900
01:09:11,420 --> 01:09:15,020
And so he came up to me and said, hey coach, she said I could go for a flat today if we had

901
01:09:15,020 --> 01:09:17,240
our strategy would have been a little bit different.

902
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:23,600
Well, not being able to send the one of the miles for the quarter miles for the mile relay got injured.

903
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:29,580
So they came to make some it can he run the anchor, or they went him to lead off.

904
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:31,300
I said no anchor, anchor them.

905
01:09:31,580 --> 01:09:37,180
So the kid that he was running against in the end of it was a three-time stay champion and had just won the quarter mile.

906
01:09:37,700 --> 01:09:44,820
At 47 was when Earl got the baton on the anchor leg, the kid was 30 meters ahead of him.

907
01:09:44,820 --> 01:09:49,760
And Earl caught him before he went into the last turn, stayed behind him, came off the turn,

908
01:09:49,900 --> 01:09:58,740
and sprinted down and ran a 45.4 quarter, the fastest of ever, a high school mileer had ever anchored,

909
01:09:59,080 --> 01:09:59,900
and he was only two seconds.

910
01:10:01,780 --> 01:10:09,840
So he got the most valuable athletes award in that regard and then it was on take on the games as we just said.

911
01:11:03,850 --> 01:11:08,470
and love the fastball curveball combination of the Ram's young picture build

912
01:11:08,470 --> 01:11:15,570
past inch. Bill would go on to lead to TC to its most memorable season, a 29 and

913
01:11:15,570 --> 01:11:19,330
over-rand ending in a two-to-one blast to Detroit get up and send phone.

914
01:11:21,990 --> 01:11:22,550
Bill, I'm

915
01:11:22,550 --> 01:11:27,370
being not a model net season, was drafted by the Seattle Mariners and was eventually

916
01:11:27,370 --> 01:11:34,270
named a 1990 Arizona League All-Star and might early release picture of the year. Overall,

917
01:11:34,490 --> 01:11:40,130
he spent six years of professional baseball and then he was able to return home and follow

918
01:11:40,130 --> 01:11:48,350
his daughter Kayla to stay championship and get ready high school. To learn more about Bill,

919
01:11:48,730 --> 01:11:49,830
let's check out the video.

920
01:11:56,350 --> 01:12:01,190
Greatest highlight or memory among your athletic career.

921
01:12:02,230 --> 01:12:11,570
My greatest highlight or memory of my athletic career, I would say is the, my second year in professional sports where I actually made the all-star team.

922
01:12:11,570 --> 01:12:17,590
I think I only gave up two runs that season on a, on a home run, hanging curveball home run.

923
01:12:18,970 --> 01:12:24,850
Yeah, I ended up making the all-star's that year and then I also won the Fireman's Relief Award that year for that season.

924
01:12:25,270 --> 01:12:27,650
That was one of my favorite memories.

925
01:12:27,770 --> 01:12:29,890
Where were you pitching at that time?

926
01:12:29,890 --> 01:12:34,510
I was pitching in Arizona in the minor leagues.

927
01:12:34,770 --> 01:12:36,630
Okay, four of us Seattle Mariners.

928
01:12:36,630 --> 01:12:37,290
Seattle Mariners.

929
01:12:37,850 --> 01:12:38,370
Okay.

930
01:12:39,170 --> 01:12:42,790
Tell me what happens after that.

931
01:12:42,790 --> 01:12:44,150
As far as in my career.

932
01:12:45,190 --> 01:12:49,870
So after that, so we, I got promoted up to the next level, which is like a high A level.

933
01:12:50,490 --> 01:12:51,470
It's above the rookie level.

934
01:12:52,170 --> 01:12:55,810
So after that year, you basically go out and you start out on a whole other team,

935
01:12:55,970 --> 01:12:58,590
where you get promoted and then it's just like starting all over.

936
01:12:58,590 --> 01:13:02,170
starting to season over. It's all new teammates, everything's all new new

937
01:13:02,170 --> 01:13:06,650
opponents. So yeah, so I got moved up to that. And then I think I ended up

938
01:13:06,650 --> 01:13:10,810
finishing pretty well with that here. I don't know, obviously you go back and

939
01:13:10,810 --> 01:13:13,650
you start spring training and start over again the next year. Okay. And

940
01:13:13,650 --> 01:13:16,190
you keep trying to get progress. Obviously up through the ranks of my

941
01:13:16,190 --> 01:13:20,230
early weeks. You guys were really special in Taylor's summer. Yeah, that was

942
01:13:20,230 --> 01:13:25,070
on. That was a fantastic couple of years there. What do you remember

943
01:13:26,010 --> 01:13:35,070
I just remember, I remember just how good the team was, the chemistry we had, I mean, we had a great coaching time, but I mean, he did a, he was, he was just a, you know, an outstanding coach, right?

944
01:13:35,070 --> 01:13:45,770
He took care of the field. He also, you know, he was a coach at or I'm sorry, a teacher at our school too. So he was always looking at you, you know, if you're on the hallways, when you should be in the hallways, you know, he's given you that eye.

945
01:13:46,190 --> 01:13:50,570
So he actually took care of you on and off the field. But yeah, no, the team was just, you know, we had a huge chemistry.

946
01:13:50,570 --> 01:13:52,470
It was just a really good team.

947
01:13:52,690 --> 01:13:55,310
I had myself, I ended up with Todd Boyd, he was on that team too.

948
01:13:55,810 --> 01:13:58,570
So the pitching staff was very formidable, right?

949
01:13:58,590 --> 01:14:00,910
I was really tough to beat us.

950
01:14:01,290 --> 01:14:02,210
So, which is fantastic.

951
01:14:03,610 --> 01:14:06,070
The greatest influence on your athletic career.

952
01:14:06,370 --> 01:14:10,250
The greatest influence on my athletic career, I'm positive.

953
01:14:10,490 --> 01:14:11,490
It's my grandfather, right?

954
01:14:11,810 --> 01:14:15,910
I can remember one of my earliest memories of playing a catcher,

955
01:14:15,910 --> 01:14:16,770
playing sports, right?

956
01:14:17,130 --> 01:14:20,250
So we're out in our front yard and we're playing catching it.

957
01:14:20,250 --> 01:14:21,930
I don't know how I can remember this.

958
01:14:21,970 --> 01:14:23,190
Obviously, I was very young.

959
01:14:23,450 --> 01:14:25,770
So we're throwing, and I'm wild, right?

960
01:14:25,870 --> 01:14:27,670
I'm throwing it all over the whole over the yard pretty much.

961
01:14:27,870 --> 01:14:28,790
Well, finally, I break a window.

962
01:14:29,070 --> 01:14:29,850
It's like, oh, no.

963
01:14:29,930 --> 01:14:31,730
So I'm getting kind of in trouble, right?

964
01:14:32,950 --> 01:14:34,510
So we keep doing what we do it.

965
01:14:34,570 --> 01:14:35,750
I did it again, broke a window.

966
01:14:36,350 --> 01:14:38,690
And finally, he's like, I don't know, I don't know.

967
01:14:38,690 --> 01:14:39,150
I don't know what's wrong.

968
01:14:39,310 --> 01:14:40,550
We're going to figure this out.

969
01:14:40,850 --> 01:14:42,530
I was throwing right hand, right?

970
01:14:42,850 --> 01:14:44,390
So now they realized I'm left handed.

971
01:14:44,650 --> 01:14:46,110
It was all uphill from there.

972
01:14:46,470 --> 01:14:46,530
Wow.

973
01:14:46,890 --> 01:14:47,030
Yeah.

974
01:14:48,650 --> 01:14:54,010
So what's the figure I was left handed and I can remember honestly, we had a mound in my front yard.

975
01:14:54,170 --> 01:14:59,250
We're in a middle of a neighborhood. I had a mound. My grandfather would he had that old 1952 baseball glove.

976
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:07,180
Around the outside, you're running a picture with that looks like he'd go out there, would march it off and he'd catch me all day long.

977
01:15:07,380 --> 01:15:11,480
Heaven and Hall fame here with a pretty good class. Who do you want to thank?

978
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:18,860
I'd like to first thank Tom Bloom. Like I said, he really had, he'd even more so myself. He really had an eye on me, right?

979
01:15:19,300 --> 01:15:25,840
I wasn't the best person off the field as far as schoolwork, so he actually made sure I did all the stuff I needed to do.

980
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:33,600
You know, he watched me on the field and taught me a ton on the field, but he also watched me off the field and makes sure I was doing what I needed to be doing when I was off the field.

981
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:35,420
Anybody else you want to find?

982
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:38,880
My wife, wife for thirty-one years, right?

983
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:40,380
A drug or all around the country.

984
01:15:41,220 --> 01:15:43,480
She's seen more baseball games than most.

985
01:15:43,740 --> 01:15:44,400
I probably should have had.

986
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:46,540
I mean, between myself and my daughter.

987
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:48,740
I mean, she was, she's been with us.

988
01:16:23,360 --> 01:16:26,920
is Lisa Matty, but when it's going to be Lisa, Jan,

989
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:28,320
what would you like to do?

990
01:16:31,220 --> 01:16:33,740
So first of the YouTube Jan, what's this?

991
01:16:33,740 --> 01:16:35,280
There's Lisa, I don't know what's happened.

992
01:16:35,420 --> 01:16:36,780
No one saw the older sister at all.

993
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:38,900
This is Lisa, I don't know what's going to happen.

994
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:43,880
Lisa was a graduate of Taylor Center in the United States.

995
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:48,600
She went on to become one of the most helpless basketball players

996
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:50,880
in the Northern Michigan University history

997
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:53,040
and a hall of fame over there.

998
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:58,940
She was a great-laced, intercollegiate athletic conference player from the year of Seer.

999
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:04,740
All these years later, she still remains more than this fall-time meeting score.

1000
01:17:05,480 --> 01:17:10,520
With 1600 to 99 points and 100 in 11 games.

1001
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:13,460
She now teaches her this to now a high school.

1002
01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:16,300
Let's learn a little bit more about these.

1003
01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:27,220
Tell us the greatest highlight or memory from your career in athletics.

1004
01:17:28,380 --> 01:17:38,020
I think some of the biggest memories I remember are the people that I've come across and played with throughout my career whether it was at Taylor Center or Northern Michigan University.

1005
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:44,220
I remember we had a team of seven at one point on at Taylor Center where we excelled.

1006
01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:50,060
I remember playing best all with my sister. That's a great memory to have both in high school and college.

1007
01:17:50,500 --> 01:17:55,500
Um, we always joke with my parents. They owe us some money because of our success at the end of the center.

1008
01:17:56,080 --> 01:18:02,140
Um, we both got full right scholarships, but I realized now that that's just a select group of athletes to get this chance.

1009
01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:07,220
Um, again, I really do remember Coach Leaver a lot, giving everything to our program.

1010
01:18:08,020 --> 01:18:11,720
Um, he was one that pushed us and loved the game just as much as we did.

1011
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:18,400
Um, I also remember when it was recruited by Northern Michigan University. I didn't know where the U.P. was and my parents have never visited.

1012
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:25,160
it. I get flew up here and it was really bad turbulence. My mom said it was too far away to go,

1013
01:18:25,860 --> 01:18:31,280
but obviously it was a great decision for me and eventually my sister to become a wildcat.

1014
01:18:32,300 --> 01:18:37,320
We had some great teams with great work ethics, goals, and life long friendships. And I know

1015
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:42,800
today that my best friend is my roommate from college and played on the team with me.

1016
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:48,260
And I don't know

1017
01:18:48,260 --> 01:18:51,380
making the infant to the end of your hall of fame,

1018
01:18:51,380 --> 01:18:53,280
being the all-time leading the store,

1019
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:55,460
the second leading rebounder.

1020
01:18:56,580 --> 01:18:59,580
But at least MVP of the conference happened

1021
01:18:59,580 --> 01:19:01,660
because I had great teammates and great coaches

1022
01:19:01,660 --> 01:19:04,640
that believed in me and I loved the game

1023
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:07,700
and probably my parents for the continues for it

1024
01:19:07,700 --> 01:19:09,480
and the memories we made along the way.

1025
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:13,520
Tell us your greatest influence on your F, what a career.

1026
01:19:14,020 --> 01:19:16,640
My greatest influences are probably my parents.

1027
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:22,000
They met on a basketball court in the middle of court actually. They were introduced to one another

1028
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:29,700
They're best man in their met wedding was the University of Detroit coach. I know my dad coach me for years

1029
01:19:29,700 --> 01:19:35,620
My mom was the storekeeper. I know this was it's something we planned after high school. It just happened

1030
01:19:35,620 --> 01:19:37,460
but having influential

1031
01:19:37,460 --> 01:19:39,280
parents coaches

1032
01:19:39,860 --> 01:19:41,360
Mike Leaver, you know

1033
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:50,450
Coach Gary recruited me coach Stein, my assistant coach is player development. I think I couldn't accomplish all that I've had along that way

1034
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:59,980
This is your night. You're headed into the Hall of Fame. Tell us who you'd like to thank. I guess I like to thank my parents for introducing us to the sport

1035
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:28,920
My sister for always making me better because she was always better than me. My favorite saying is hard work beats talent. My talent does a work hard, so I work hard in the sport. I loved. Again, I think all of my coaches, all of my teammates. And I think Taylor's worths all of fame for recognizing this great honor and being part of this great group. I don't think people really truly understand the commitment and sacrifice that people make.

1036
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:32,240
especially when a coach or a cell in the sport.

1037
01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:37,160
So I just congratulate everyone and this honor to be privileged to be here

1038
01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:40,600
and I hope we can inspire others along the way.

1039
01:21:19,370 --> 01:21:22,450
The theme of Joel Arden is how he promised to,

1040
01:21:26,140 --> 01:21:28,360
and the tender and sports history.

1041
01:21:29,440 --> 01:21:31,320
And now, he's still going strong.

1042
01:21:32,260 --> 01:21:35,780
He still shows up two hours early for practices and games

1043
01:21:35,780 --> 01:21:38,580
and is one of the last to leave the field.

1044
01:21:38,580 --> 01:21:52,780
Mainstay and Taylor Northwest Little Lake for four decades, Joe managed baseball teams to stay titles in 1989 and 2003 and others to district and regional titles.

1045
01:21:53,380 --> 01:22:03,720
He was the Northwest Vice President from 1983 to 2011 and shared the Bingo program until it closed in 2010.

1046
01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:09,920
and the Joe Largen field of dreams at Papp Park is named in his honor.

1047
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:16,940
He's also held coaching positions in the Tragier's post with Taylor Jr. football for

1048
01:22:16,940 --> 01:22:18,220
over four decades.

1049
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:25,540
He toasts the Taylor Eagles to the Pantball title in 1990 and the Taylor Seahawks to a championship

1050
01:22:25,540 --> 01:22:27,140
in 1994.

1051
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:30,100
Let's learn more about Joe Largen.

1052
01:22:35,940 --> 01:22:40,720
Joe, what is the greatest highlight or memory in your sports-related career?

1053
01:22:41,440 --> 01:22:47,040
Oh, well, the greatest memory or highlight in my, well, I've been involved in baseball football

1054
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:51,300
and I mean, but my first started off, it was when I was younger than my son who's been

1055
01:22:51,300 --> 01:22:58,580
baseball, but I had a team that went to the state mod, the state went to regionals in

1056
01:22:58,580 --> 01:23:03,640
Peru, Illinois, we lost in Peru, Illinois, but that was probably the most memorable thing.

1057
01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:10,820
I'm always so happy when I see one of the kids that I coached to need a footballer baseball that say hey coach Marvin, and

1058
01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:16,740
After they've gone in the 10 years of 15 years. I said yeah, but I forgot you're an a

1059
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:24,370
From an influential standpoint, who is the most influential person in either the sports career or your wife?

1060
01:23:25,100 --> 01:23:33,000
My son was very influential on me got me into baseball on football my wife. She gave me no hard times about

1061
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:36,060
Going to practice, going to games, going to

1062
01:23:36,060 --> 01:23:38,480
on a state for tournaments for

1063
01:23:38,480 --> 01:23:40,020
I've never complained, I mean,

1064
01:23:40,140 --> 01:23:43,100
show is a show is let me go do what I had to do.

1065
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:44,340
Never complained.

1066
01:23:44,700 --> 01:23:45,220
Fantastic.

1067
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:49,220
Okay, now from a standpoint of thanking people.

1068
01:23:49,440 --> 01:23:50,200
Who do it to thank you?

1069
01:23:51,700 --> 01:23:53,920
I'd like to thank all the people like

1070
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:55,780
well, Lanny Hall from Baseball and

1071
01:23:55,780 --> 01:23:57,320
Paul's Farts from Football.

1072
01:23:57,640 --> 01:23:59,640
They were both influenced with, you know,

1073
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:02,980
we're very helpful in helping me get through all the

1074
01:24:02,980 --> 01:24:03,620
programs.

1075
01:25:00,780 --> 01:25:04,000
The second of our two men are the six wins here.

1076
01:25:06,460 --> 01:25:29,880
When people are one of downwarders, most accomplished were female afterwards, starring in both basketball and soccer before graduating from Taylor, Sunday, 1999. She was 7th in the Michigan, Miss Michigan basketball lawyer, senior, a first year ball state selection, a U.S.A. today, honor, matching deck.

1077
01:25:30,780 --> 01:25:35,860
She finished with school records and scoring assists in fields.

1078
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:40,320
Her efforts on the softball field mirror in which even the basketball court,

1079
01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:44,980
whether it was as a dangerous hitter, boys a standout pitchman.

1080
01:25:45,620 --> 01:25:48,620
When they followed her sister to door the missionaries,

1081
01:25:48,840 --> 01:25:52,540
finishing along at the school's top 15 of them.

1082
01:25:52,660 --> 01:25:55,820
My great point is that the fields assist in scoring.

1083
01:25:56,340 --> 01:25:58,420
Let's learn more about winning.

1084
01:26:04,530 --> 01:26:09,890
My greatest highlight from my athletic career, I mean, honestly there was a lot.

1085
01:26:11,670 --> 01:26:16,550
The one that I reached that sticks out the most was probably sophomore year, softball.

1086
01:26:17,890 --> 01:26:22,190
And we were in the pre-districts, and we were playing the number one team in the state.

1087
01:26:22,730 --> 01:26:28,430
I think it was Monroe High School, and bottom of the seventh inning.

1088
01:26:28,910 --> 01:26:36,590
And I was up to bat, I got on first base, Jerry Abraham was the coach at the time, and he

1089
01:26:36,590 --> 01:26:41,650
had me steal, he had a girl bunts, and then I was on my way to third, they overthrew it

1090
01:26:41,650 --> 01:26:46,430
to first, and then I slid head first, home, and we won one to nothing and knocks them off,

1091
01:26:46,670 --> 01:26:48,570
and that was the area went to the state championship.

1092
01:26:49,770 --> 01:26:55,990
When we were with Taylor Kennedy and Steve Avery, so yeah, it was great because we were both there

1093
01:26:55,990 --> 01:26:56,850
at the same time.

1094
01:26:56,850 --> 01:27:01,850
So that's probably the one that I remember the most, you know, looking back on it.

1095
01:27:03,690 --> 01:27:07,510
I kind of wish I would have played softball or both, or at least tried.

1096
01:27:08,990 --> 01:27:11,650
But with basketball, you know, we had one four district championships.

1097
01:27:12,570 --> 01:27:14,630
You know, we had a great team.

1098
01:27:15,930 --> 01:27:17,790
And you know, and college was fun too.

1099
01:27:18,370 --> 01:27:23,710
But my biggest memories are probably, I guess, from high school.

1100
01:27:24,630 --> 01:27:37,010
You know, in college, I was definitely more of a role player, you know, and in high school, you know, a little bit more of a leader, I guess.

1101
01:27:37,630 --> 01:27:44,490
So, more so more members were high school than from college, but, I mean, college we went to, you know, the instability tournament, my freshman year.

1102
01:27:45,330 --> 01:27:53,330
And, you know, we had a good run at it so that, you know, playing with my sister for a year up there, you know, a year in high school and a year in college.

1103
01:27:54,390 --> 01:27:59,490
So, what was that, you know, what was that, you're like in college when you played with him, you see?

1104
01:28:00,150 --> 01:28:02,170
How did that go? How did that go?

1105
01:28:03,190 --> 01:28:04,970
Well, that is good as when it was in high school.

1106
01:28:05,650 --> 01:28:10,370
The year I played with my sister in college was not as good as the year in high school.

1107
01:28:12,710 --> 01:28:16,050
You know, it was nice, you know, because I did get playing time in my freshman year.

1108
01:28:16,110 --> 01:28:18,270
I didn't start, but I got a lot of playing time.

1109
01:28:18,270 --> 01:28:28,730
So playing with her, you know, she was an all-American that year, and that was different than in high school, because in high school, I think I was scoring more points than her when I was a freshman

1110
01:28:30,090 --> 01:28:42,570
She was a senior, so it flipped left and yeah, she made me earn it in college. She was she came after me, and she didn't go easy on me. Oh, yeah

1111
01:28:42,570 --> 01:28:44,390
So you were truly little, so-

1112
01:28:44,390 --> 01:28:46,910
Oh, I was, yeah, oh yeah.

1113
01:28:47,270 --> 01:28:48,790
Greatest influence on the crew.

1114
01:28:50,130 --> 01:28:57,690
The greatest influence on my career, I would, I mean, most likely, I would say, you know, my dad.

1115
01:28:58,770 --> 01:29:02,210
You know, he got us starting playing sports early.

1116
01:29:03,090 --> 01:29:12,410
You know, I started playing sports in Taylor, when I was three years old, starting at, you know,

1117
01:29:12,410 --> 01:29:20,450
to play softball basketball there, you know, so I've been in Taylor, and then to Taylor

1118
01:29:20,450 --> 01:29:24,590
Center. But yeah, my dad would be probably the greatest influence he was always there.

1119
01:29:24,770 --> 01:29:29,490
He was always involved. He was always coaching us constantly, whether he was our coach or not.

1120
01:29:29,650 --> 01:29:38,250
He was always coaching us. From a teacher and coach perspective, you know, Jim Ryan was a great

1121
01:29:38,250 --> 01:29:48,050
and fluency on me, he was my gym teacher and I want to say fourth or fifth grade and then

1122
01:29:48,050 --> 01:29:53,370
he was my junior high principal and then he was my high school principal.

1123
01:29:54,270 --> 01:29:59,970
So he followed me or I followed him all along and he really influenced me with...

1124
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:07,260
For it's talked to me a lot, helped me get into, you know, basketball camp at Allston, Michigan Allstate.

1125
01:30:08,020 --> 01:30:13,180
He was big influence, and then I would say third would be Jerry Abraham, softball coach.

1126
01:30:13,780 --> 01:30:18,660
He was fundamental. And I still talked to him to this day. I mean, he was a great coach.

1127
01:30:19,360 --> 01:30:20,980
We were lucky to have.

1128
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:22,420
Wow. That's right.

1129
01:30:23,300 --> 01:30:28,040
Going into the whole thing and going in with your sister and many others.

1130
01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:33,680
Who'd you like to thank when it comes to, you know, this is, this is your night, okay?

1131
01:30:34,300 --> 01:30:35,380
Who would you like to thank?

1132
01:30:35,940 --> 01:30:45,340
Yeah. Well, I'd like to thank, you know, you know, you, you, the committee, everybody who got this going again, you know, it's, it's been a long time, you know?

1133
01:30:45,500 --> 01:30:49,780
I mean, it's, what, 30, 35 years, I don't know, they've even counted since high school.

1134
01:30:50,500 --> 01:30:57,420
So it's nice to be back. I think the committee for, you know, nominating, you know, my sister and I and everybody else.

1135
01:30:57,420 --> 01:31:03,080
And I'd like to thank all the coaches that I've had over the years, all the teachers in Taylor.

1136
01:31:04,480 --> 01:31:09,580
You know, the sport I've had from my parents, I mean, my parents supported us through everything.

1137
01:31:09,780 --> 01:31:11,420
They were at all of our games.

1138
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:14,260
So, you know, I really appreciate that.

1139
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:22,700
And, you know, my family, you know, my sons, my husband, you know, I coach them.

1140
01:31:22,700 --> 01:31:28,820
So I mean, I've had a big career in sports, and ironically, it ended last night.

1141
01:31:30,340 --> 01:31:30,380
Yeah.

1142
01:31:30,380 --> 01:31:32,540
So it's always, it's always, it's always, it's always, it's always, it's always somewhere

1143
01:31:32,540 --> 01:31:32,820
done.

1144
01:31:33,300 --> 01:31:33,360
Yeah.

1145
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:34,680
And usually with an offspring.

1146
01:31:35,720 --> 01:31:36,220
So, yeah.

1147
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:25,400
She started her playing career.

1148
01:32:25,740 --> 01:32:29,580
She's staying out for a Catholic school right here in Taylor, under her father, her role,

1149
01:32:29,880 --> 01:32:33,480
and Bob Wilkerson, her both Catholic, and all her family's.

1150
01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:38,280
She eventually started a divine child in high school, and then he'll stay out of college,

1151
01:32:38,280 --> 01:32:41,260
where she was a rare two-sport stand-out.

1152
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:43,720
As basketball players, she captain,

1153
01:32:44,400 --> 01:32:46,360
her team as a senior setting record

1154
01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:47,660
to assist in steals.

1155
01:32:48,440 --> 01:32:50,500
On the diamond, her outstanding pitching

1156
01:32:50,500 --> 01:32:53,960
led the charges to their first lead title.

1157
01:32:54,960 --> 01:32:57,600
And is also part of the Hillsdale

1158
01:32:57,600 --> 01:33:00,100
and Catholic leader, Halls of Fame.

1159
01:33:00,860 --> 01:33:05,040
After college and became a long-time teacher in coach,

1160
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:07,820
Let's learn more about that.

1161
01:33:13,760 --> 01:33:23,160
My greatest one of my greatest memories would probably be when I was in high school when we beat Regina in softball for the Catholic championship.

1162
01:33:23,980 --> 01:33:28,900
I don't remember a lot of games in scores, but this one we beat them two to nothing it came boring,

1163
01:33:29,360 --> 01:33:35,940
because my sophomore year I kind of got thrown to the wolves and we got smoked like 10 to nothing, so it was good.

1164
01:33:35,940 --> 01:33:41,080
You know, like I said, I don't really remember a lot of specific games, but that was one for the books.

1165
01:33:42,140 --> 01:33:45,940
Most of my highlights and memories when I look back and all the basketball and softball,

1166
01:33:47,060 --> 01:33:52,160
probably comes from the bust rides, the meals, hanging out, laughing, the friendships.

1167
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:56,380
So it was really hard when I started thinking about what was the biggest highlight.

1168
01:33:56,900 --> 01:34:02,000
It really was more like off the court or off the fields, just the friendships.

1169
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:04,100
Are you still friends with a lot of movies?

1170
01:34:04,740 --> 01:34:08,560
Yes, and I also find that I'm friends with some of the people

1171
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:10,380
that coached me in the past, like Bob Mokerson,

1172
01:34:11,200 --> 01:34:13,640
who I'll talk about is a great influence.

1173
01:34:14,180 --> 01:34:16,560
He was the one who got me my first teaching job,

1174
01:34:16,600 --> 01:34:20,700
my first coaching job, and I probably drove him nuts.

1175
01:34:20,700 --> 01:34:24,280
He was my first softball coach, and I probably drove him crazy.

1176
01:34:24,680 --> 01:34:25,800
I know I drove him crazy.

1177
01:34:27,020 --> 01:34:31,520
So, that's him, how hard was it to create?

1178
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:33,320
And I'm down by the pitch.

1179
01:34:33,660 --> 01:34:39,540
Oh boy, so one of the biggest influence for that

1180
01:34:39,540 --> 01:34:40,720
and in my life is my dad.

1181
01:34:41,480 --> 01:34:44,620
So he would, we'd go in the backyard.

1182
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:46,620
And if you ask El Ruffner about this,

1183
01:34:46,700 --> 01:34:50,740
he will attest to us that there were a lot, a lot of hours

1184
01:34:50,740 --> 01:34:51,640
in the backyard.

1185
01:34:52,600 --> 01:34:54,640
And we would, my dad would take the mechanics

1186
01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:56,800
from what a baseball pitcher would do

1187
01:34:56,800 --> 01:34:59,200
as far as weight and shifting weights.

1188
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:06,500
And arms speed, and we would take those mechanics and try to break them down into fast pitch.

1189
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:12,900
My dad hit played fast pitch as a young man. And he would actually, and it's school is very important to that.

1190
01:35:12,900 --> 01:35:18,220
But I even remember one time he pulled me out of school, high school, and we drove to Detroit.

1191
01:35:18,340 --> 01:35:28,120
He had a friend who owned a bar, who used to fast pitch. And we went in the alley behind the bar, his friend, who was the owner of this bar, was kind of going through some mechanics with me.

1192
01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:33,700
So, my dad was the best and we just tried to figure it out.

1193
01:35:33,960 --> 01:35:38,860
And if you went and my mom's backyard and dad's backyard to this day, we would throw up

1194
01:35:38,860 --> 01:35:44,860
against the garage and there are wood planks along the side that still have holes in them

1195
01:35:44,860 --> 01:35:48,320
to their stay from just our trial and error.

1196
01:35:49,380 --> 01:35:51,860
But yeah, just we just figured it out.

1197
01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:53,420
Who were your greatest influence?

1198
01:35:53,420 --> 01:35:57,040
So my greatest influence was obviously my dad because he was my coach in basketball,

1199
01:35:57,040 --> 01:35:58,880
I was starting when I was in the fourth grade.

1200
01:35:59,400 --> 01:36:01,380
You know, he was the assistant coach when I was in high school.

1201
01:36:01,660 --> 01:36:03,240
And I got out of college and started coaching.

1202
01:36:03,820 --> 01:36:07,340
He was my assistant, and like I said, with the softball,

1203
01:36:07,540 --> 01:36:10,000
he was the one that helped figure out all the mechanics.

1204
01:36:10,880 --> 01:36:13,580
And, you know, he pushed me, and I put in the hard work

1205
01:36:13,580 --> 01:36:15,300
because of him.

1206
01:36:16,160 --> 01:36:18,920
Other really big influences is my sister Bridget.

1207
01:36:18,920 --> 01:36:20,860
I have a lot of brothers and sisters in their FNTS.

1208
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:23,400
My sister Bridget used two years older than me.

1209
01:36:23,660 --> 01:36:26,600
And she was just probably the toughest

1210
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:33,000
athlete I ever met, and she would probably never take that credit, but she was the one who

1211
01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:37,380
had to catch for me in the backyard. She was the one when we played softball, and I would have

1212
01:36:37,380 --> 01:36:43,840
to pitch banding practice at Divine Child. I hit her more than anybody else. To the point that

1213
01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:48,220
one time she actually chased me around the field with a bat, which is a different story, but you know,

1214
01:36:48,360 --> 01:36:53,940
she was just a warrior and set a good example of how you're supposed to play, and then

1215
01:36:53,940 --> 01:37:00,700
really begin influences, like I said, of Wilkerson, who put up with a young pitcher, who would,

1216
01:37:00,700 --> 01:37:05,880
you know, I might strike out 13, but I also walked 16 and hit seven banners in the early days

1217
01:37:05,880 --> 01:37:11,600
and it's the truth. I mean, it was everywhere. Um, you know, my high school coaches, um, in the summer,

1218
01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:19,740
big influences, Mike Baum and Ray Covo had a lot of good times playing for those guys, um, you know,

1219
01:37:19,740 --> 01:37:28,180
Just probably every coach I came across that put in the time and have faith in me when I didn't have faith in myself.

1220
01:37:29,980 --> 01:37:35,640
Did those obviously those coaches probably had a great influence as you were?

1221
01:37:36,480 --> 01:37:42,000
Oh yes. In fact, they held my hands as I went through.

1222
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:49,140
You know, when I coach softball, at first, I worked with, so he went from being my coach to

1223
01:37:49,140 --> 01:37:51,260
me coaching with him, it gave a reshard.

1224
01:37:51,920 --> 01:37:56,440
And then when I started in basketball, I coached my first year as a coach to under some

1225
01:37:56,440 --> 01:37:57,820
great people.

1226
01:37:58,680 --> 01:38:02,900
It's the analponsis in it, Marion, but then I got right at wind at at 23.

1227
01:38:03,580 --> 01:38:06,360
And my dad came over and he was my assistant.

1228
01:38:06,360 --> 01:38:14,140
So I feel like I had so many people who helped me, it's hard to name it well.

1229
01:38:14,680 --> 01:38:15,680
How did you look at the news?

1230
01:38:17,140 --> 01:38:23,520
I was stubborn and even though I was probably a better softball player,

1231
01:38:24,100 --> 01:38:27,880
I wanted to play basketball because I think it's the main absolutely beautiful game,

1232
01:38:27,880 --> 01:38:33,140
and I just love it. And so Hillsdale was going to let me play both sports.

1233
01:38:33,140 --> 01:38:35,160
They were going to let me play basketball and softball.

1234
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:38,460
And that was the decision.

1235
01:38:38,840 --> 01:38:40,800
Was that difficult to play through sports?

1236
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:46,240
Very few people have to sports at the college or no matter what level you're at.

1237
01:38:47,700 --> 01:38:51,940
It was difficult, it was difficult, but I also feel,

1238
01:38:53,620 --> 01:38:55,680
and I think I look at high school kids today too.

1239
01:38:55,880 --> 01:39:00,940
I was always better when I was in a season all around than I was when I was out of season.

1240
01:39:01,640 --> 01:39:08,060
everything, grades, getting stuff done, being responsible, and I just feel like playing both sports

1241
01:39:08,060 --> 01:39:13,320
kept me very regimented. You know, this is what you do. You go to school, then you go to practice,

1242
01:39:13,740 --> 01:39:19,560
then you do. You know, so... I didn't feel hard at the time, but I looked back and I'm like,

1243
01:39:19,580 --> 01:39:22,520
how did I do that? You know, and then you're doing your student teaching, and you know,

1244
01:39:22,640 --> 01:39:27,400
you're finishing four years, and I look back, but at the time it didn't feel as hard as

1245
01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:30,600
probably was, who do you want to think?

1246
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:38,540
I want to think, I want to think my family, obviously, my dad, my mom, for endless conversations.

1247
01:39:39,500 --> 01:39:43,900
Like I said, I want to think everybody that's coached me along the way and has been really

1248
01:39:43,900 --> 01:39:45,160
patient with me.

1249
01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:52,720
And there were a lot of them, like I said, the Mike bombs, the Ray co-voles, the Bob Wilkerson's,

1250
01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:57,140
you know, I had Nick Stan, I could just go on and on to all the different coaches that

1251
01:39:57,140 --> 01:39:59,980
I had, you know, I...

1252
01:40:01,380 --> 01:40:24,240
You know, I want to thank my immediate family, I mean, a plea for a long time. I plead, basketball as long as they possibly could, you know, and racially, you know, plead, softball for as long as I, my arm would hold up in a dot league. And even those people who gives me a chance to keep playing, also obviously want to think the city of Taylor, because this is really cool. This is a really amazing honor.

1253
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:11,780
He's already in the line that Paul Fayne for his achievements, he's one of our most

1254
01:41:11,780 --> 01:41:13,600
12 high school women, Eastern Michigan.

1255
01:41:14,440 --> 01:41:19,880
Today, he enters the entire hall of fame, essentially as a late-long contributor to sports,

1256
01:41:20,240 --> 01:41:24,080
spending five decades to say, Michigan, high school athletic, left-consosimation,

1257
01:41:24,580 --> 01:41:26,260
trap, and cross-country officials.

1258
01:41:27,600 --> 01:41:33,120
His efforts helped his efforts helped students gain thousands of sleep,

1259
01:41:33,120 --> 01:41:37,560
of dollars in scholarships when titles at every level

1260
01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:41,600
and achieve all American and Olympic status.

1261
01:41:42,140 --> 01:41:45,180
If you be a reminder of just how good

1262
01:41:45,180 --> 01:41:46,660
Al Ruffner was as a runner.

1263
01:41:47,200 --> 01:41:50,620
He has led Roosevelt High School's two-mile repriest health

1264
01:41:50,620 --> 01:41:54,420
Roosevelt High School's two-mile repriest for almost 60 years.

1265
01:41:54,860 --> 01:41:57,220
Let's hear more about Al Fronsson.

1266
01:41:57,220 --> 01:41:58,360
Let's

1267
01:42:03,860 --> 01:42:22,120
see, the greatest athletic memory is probably when I won the state championship my junior year because it told me that I could run with a big boys and it gave me confidence for the running I would do in college.

1268
01:42:23,800 --> 01:42:29,520
But that first race helped me help me know where I was going to go.

1269
01:42:29,520 --> 01:42:31,360
to get over the hump, so to speak.

1270
01:42:31,780 --> 01:42:36,100
Now, you, as a, you were a standout as a high school

1271
01:42:36,100 --> 01:42:41,700
athlete, a college athlete, and then you move into a little

1272
01:42:41,700 --> 01:42:44,920
coaching, a little consulting, and a lot of track

1273
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:45,500
efficient.

1274
01:42:46,440 --> 01:42:49,860
Now, as an official, you get to, you get to have a member

1275
01:42:49,860 --> 01:42:50,520
of your highlight.

1276
01:42:51,160 --> 01:42:55,520
Oh, this is one of the highlights of officiating is,

1277
01:42:55,640 --> 01:42:58,780
when I see a kid that I've worked with or I've

1278
01:42:58,780 --> 01:43:04,200
given some advice to do and achieve.

1279
01:43:04,620 --> 01:43:09,340
I'm going to do what I ask them to do or work on something that we had talked about.

1280
01:43:10,040 --> 01:43:16,240
And just watching the smile on their faces is worth millions to me because I say,

1281
01:43:16,260 --> 01:43:19,540
okay, I've paid it forward and I've seen somebody else succeed.

1282
01:43:20,480 --> 01:43:24,460
As an official, you have favorite places or favorite

1283
01:43:24,460 --> 01:43:32,720
to work that you work on, I worked, you a van, I worked up at Michigan State. I just

1284
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:40,400
loved going to any high school in working with the kids. What about greatest influences

1285
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:46,640
on your career because you've been in school for a very long time? Well, some of the, well,

1286
01:43:46,740 --> 01:43:53,080
well, the greatest influences in my career, I had a couple of teachers at high school that

1287
01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:59,660
and let me fail. I was an average student and I had not had an even went on for track.

1288
01:44:00,700 --> 01:44:05,800
I couldn't swim, so the teacher would throw me in the pool and I said how do I get out

1289
01:44:05,800 --> 01:44:12,000
of swimming and he says, walk for a sport. So I went on for cross-country and these teachers

1290
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:19,340
wouldn't let me scroll off in the classroom and that, you know, so that contributed to me being

1291
01:44:19,340 --> 01:44:26,700
on the track. Some of the coaches that I've worked around with now, Mickey Turchec,

1292
01:44:28,860 --> 01:44:35,120
Tony Metsett, guys that are in the area that have influenced kids, they took me under their wing

1293
01:44:36,700 --> 01:44:43,240
and just so many, so many people that I've come in contact with that of the vittin inspiration

1294
01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:46,280
to me and help me along my way.

1295
01:44:47,180 --> 01:44:48,540
What would you like to think?

1296
01:44:49,020 --> 01:44:55,860
I would like to thank God first of all.

1297
01:44:56,120 --> 01:44:59,980
He gave me the talent to succeed and he also taught me.

1298
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:28,280
With that, it isn't what you do, but do what you've done for what you do for others. And I've been able, you know, I've been able to pass it forward for all these years. I'd like to thank my wife, who's her standing behind me and her influence and her encouragement. My children, they've succeeded way past anything I could have done.

1299
01:45:28,280 --> 01:45:36,980
and the staff I work with, the men and church that are just workers that have won us three

1300
01:45:36,980 --> 01:45:43,600
their families and they don't look for glory. People like that inspire me and I want to thank

1301
01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:53,800
them for all the encouragement that they've given me, not even knowing it, but help me succeed.

1302
01:45:53,800 --> 01:46:04,780
I've been able to do this for 75, I'm a one on my 75th year and I'm just thankful that I've been able to do everything I've done.

1303
01:46:54,120 --> 01:46:57,920
is known as the voice of the Junior League World Series.

1304
01:46:58,800 --> 01:47:02,860
It was the turn of its public address announcer from three decades.

1305
01:47:06,160 --> 01:47:10,860
He volunteered at the Junior League World Series for almost 40 years.

1306
01:47:11,780 --> 01:47:16,380
He was part of the tailor and northeast little late from 1971 to 1985,

1307
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:19,560
and remains a lifetime number.

1308
01:47:20,580 --> 01:47:23,440
Having served as president, vice president,

1309
01:47:23,440 --> 01:47:28,640
Sponsor Chair, Joe Manager, Secretary, and Equipment Manager.

1310
01:47:29,940 --> 01:47:33,960
Taylor Northease, Softball Field, is named in his honor.

1311
01:47:34,780 --> 01:47:35,900
Much more important about it.

1312
01:47:48,370 --> 01:47:52,750
Greatest highlight or memory from your sports-related career.

1313
01:47:53,290 --> 01:47:56,590
Being the public address on Alther for the Junior League World Series

1314
01:47:56,590 --> 01:48:01,930
for over 30 years, the problem of my biggest accomplishment

1315
01:48:01,930 --> 01:48:03,450
that you want to call accomplishments.

1316
01:48:04,190 --> 01:48:05,950
How'd you get that job?

1317
01:48:07,110 --> 01:48:27,770
The Tournament Director of the World Series after the first two years asked me if I would be interested in announcing for the World Series and I thought about it a while and then I said yes and went on until I couldn't find the stairs up the third floor of the World Series building anymore.

1318
01:48:27,770 --> 01:48:34,010
And those stairs are tough to climb, very much though, very much though.

1319
01:48:34,010 --> 01:48:39,830
I have to ask you this, it's the voice of the World Series, okay, it goes back so many years, so many decades.

1320
01:48:40,570 --> 01:48:41,970
You have a favorite team.

1321
01:48:43,090 --> 01:48:50,390
I think the teams from Hawaii, I have a very good friend that was the district,

1322
01:48:50,390 --> 01:49:01,170
administrator and Hawaii and so I kind of was partial to not am I announcing but if I

1323
01:49:01,170 --> 01:49:06,110
want to see anybody when I would like to see Hawaii when they're very well

1324
01:49:06,110 --> 01:49:13,570
behaved actually back in the days when we used to house the kids in our in the

1325
01:49:13,570 --> 01:49:18,970
I actually house get from why the year, the first year of it, for all

1326
01:49:18,970 --> 01:49:20,850
city, one of the rosiers.

1327
01:49:21,190 --> 01:49:21,490
Oh, fantastic.

1328
01:49:22,350 --> 01:49:26,250
Greatest influence on your sports related career.

1329
01:49:26,950 --> 01:49:31,050
For me, probably my father, he was, he was big in the sports,

1330
01:49:33,110 --> 01:49:35,470
and he encouraged me to

1331
01:49:35,470 --> 01:49:40,670
play different sports, they didn't have organized sports, but my play didn't want

1332
01:49:40,670 --> 01:49:52,550
sports felt like we were off and then I was attending a practice of my older son and

1333
01:49:53,770 --> 01:49:59,970
manager that came to have a coach and he asked me if I'd help out and what to get.

1334
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:14,380
Good. I said, okay, and he, uh, then say, long, you're coming all the practice, uh, why don't you become a coach? And so, I did, and did so for about 30 years after that.

1335
01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:20,120
Who would you like to thank today, you're going in the entertainment hall of fame? Who would you like to thank?

1336
01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:29,660
Well, my wife put up with me all those years of my wife that went to what's attending the

1337
01:50:29,660 --> 01:50:37,640
games and everything, but it's hard when you dedicate that much time, it's got that much

1338
01:50:37,640 --> 01:50:41,920
time to go down about that. Anyone else that you'd like to think?

1339
01:50:43,100 --> 01:50:51,280
Probably Hall of Famer Greg Berserra, he had the confidence in me to be his public

1340
01:50:51,280 --> 01:51:00,440
address announcer, and before it went for him, I wouldn't have done that, and as I said,

1341
01:51:00,660 --> 01:51:03,480
I considered that my biggest accomplishment, so.

1342
01:51:03,480 --> 01:51:03,960
The

1343
01:51:53,910 --> 01:51:57,790
journey that started at O'Hoo, it is going to be talking back here.

1344
01:51:58,410 --> 01:52:00,990
The eventually started as a player at Taylor Shutter,

1345
01:52:01,830 --> 01:52:04,310
not to violent and never become a coach.

1346
01:52:05,030 --> 01:52:06,810
He ended up doing just that.

1347
01:52:06,830 --> 01:52:09,730
He had nearly 30 seasons coaching both boys and girls.

1348
01:52:10,190 --> 01:52:13,590
He had massed 400 and 73 wins,

1349
01:52:16,050 --> 01:52:19,830
positive white law again for us on thousands of Taylor and children.

1350
01:52:20,290 --> 01:52:22,450
Let's learn more about Chuck.

1351
01:52:28,020 --> 01:52:33,080
greatest highlight or memory in your athletic career.

1352
01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:38,620
My greatest memory is one in that regional tournament, I think.

1353
01:52:39,220 --> 01:52:43,260
And it was against Romulus who was being coached by NATO.

1354
01:52:43,560 --> 01:52:46,440
It's now NATO's was a coach at Romulus.

1355
01:52:46,880 --> 01:52:50,620
I mean, Romulus is a coach at Romulus.

1356
01:52:50,620 --> 01:52:53,180
He's coaching at Alabama now.

1357
01:52:53,380 --> 01:52:54,720
Right. He was especially Alabama.

1358
01:52:54,720 --> 01:52:58,000
Was that a bit of a rivalry between Taylor and Rhonda?

1359
01:52:58,320 --> 01:53:05,200
Oh, yeah, especially we went to that league and competed very well in that league and

1360
01:53:05,720 --> 01:53:10,540
you know, it usually came down to us and Rhonda was playing in the regional tournament.

1361
01:53:11,300 --> 01:53:17,140
Who was your greatest influence or who were your greatest influences in your athletic career?

1362
01:53:18,200 --> 01:53:18,840
Well,

1363
01:53:20,900 --> 01:53:29,660
my dad was the one that I really looked to because from the time I could walk, there

1364
01:53:29,660 --> 01:53:43,820
was a hoop in our back, you know, because my dad played and my dad actually played in

1365
01:53:47,120 --> 01:53:54,500
big influence on my mom, you know, my dad usually worked in my mom work too, my dad both

1366
01:53:54,500 --> 01:54:00,700
and my mom was a musician. She moved me around, my dad couldn't move me around until I started

1367
01:54:00,700 --> 01:54:09,580
driving and had a great coach who was probably my next, you know, influence. Roscoe

1368
01:54:09,580 --> 01:54:16,360
shackle has a good touch. I pattern myself as a coach after him. You have, you have a lot of

1369
01:54:16,360 --> 01:54:22,580
success as a player in Kentucky, but you eventually, you're family, moves up the table.

1370
01:54:23,560 --> 01:54:27,660
And who are your greatest influences when you come up to table?

1371
01:54:29,910 --> 01:54:36,170
I'll widen. He's just took a liking to me and he felt that, you know, here's a little

1372
01:54:36,170 --> 01:54:41,710
hillbilly boy that's coming in here and can barely understand what he says, but he took the

1373
01:54:41,710 --> 01:54:48,090
and talk to me a little bit about his life and wanting to know more about mine and

1374
01:54:48,090 --> 01:54:53,530
you know, for the time that we stayed at T.C. until they closed it down, you know,

1375
01:54:53,630 --> 01:54:57,310
how was Henry Wander's Wayne?

1376
01:54:57,690 --> 01:54:59,970
When you start coaching, tell us, tell us a story.

1377
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:10,580
How you got into it? Well, we had this net, little kid next door, this little little guy, you know,

1378
01:55:10,640 --> 01:55:17,640
waiting like 40 pounds or 27 pounds or something. And what he was a basketball freak is dribbling as

1379
01:55:17,640 --> 01:55:30,680
You know, so then I finally got a hoop in my backyard, so then I had a paid and so then

1380
01:55:30,680 --> 01:55:38,640
he's coming over, you know, visiting every day and it was just a situation scenario where

1381
01:55:39,760 --> 01:55:43,860
Now, every time I went to the game, he's with me.

1382
01:55:44,180 --> 01:55:47,600
You know, he was about maybe fourth grade.

1383
01:55:48,800 --> 01:55:52,500
Yeah, and so one day, I'd come home for work

1384
01:55:52,500 --> 01:55:56,180
and Jason's sitting on my front front porch

1385
01:55:56,180 --> 01:55:58,720
and he's crying.

1386
01:55:59,280 --> 01:56:00,700
Jason, what's in there?

1387
01:56:01,540 --> 01:56:04,120
Charlie, he's sobbing.

1388
01:56:04,120 --> 01:56:08,340
But our coach quit the day.

1389
01:56:08,480 --> 01:56:11,580
Well, I told her that you coach, you know,

1390
01:56:12,060 --> 01:56:13,000
that's what he tells me.

1391
01:56:13,180 --> 01:56:17,140
And I said, Jason, I'm not, I'm not going to coach.

1392
01:56:17,980 --> 01:56:20,880
You'll have a coach, you know, by the end of the week.

1393
01:56:21,560 --> 01:56:25,560
So next thing I know, he's got me out in the street

1394
01:56:25,560 --> 01:56:29,120
and Chris has come and over, and they're tied to me

1395
01:56:29,740 --> 01:56:31,060
about, you know,

1396
01:56:33,230 --> 01:56:36,030
so no, I'm never going to be a coach.

1397
01:56:37,370 --> 01:56:45,730
And nothing personal, so then the very next morning it was like, wasn't even six o'clock in the morning.

1398
01:56:46,510 --> 01:56:50,110
It's like 530 in the morning. It's Pat Lybe on the phone.

1399
01:56:50,290 --> 01:56:52,830
Oh, coach, this is Pat Lybe.

1400
01:56:54,150 --> 01:56:57,150
I'm sorry, you must have hung up.

1401
01:56:57,890 --> 01:57:01,070
You know, I didn't know who the principal was at the time, even.

1402
01:57:01,070 --> 01:57:07,790
She says, well, I have a couple of people here who are telling me that you are, you are our next coach.

1403
01:57:08,730 --> 01:57:14,430
So anyways, it all went down to it in, you know, pad live, you got in my ear.

1404
01:57:14,890 --> 01:57:20,070
And she kind of locked down to it and said, well, I can't find a coach.

1405
01:57:20,410 --> 01:57:22,210
You know, I need you to do this, you know.

1406
01:57:24,780 --> 01:57:31,580
And I finally said, if you can't find a coach in the next couple of days, I'll help you out.

1407
01:57:31,580 --> 01:57:35,040
So, and that's how it all started at the end.

1408
01:57:35,580 --> 01:57:43,380
It should get all over her and thank her for it, you know, because even though I'd set

1409
01:57:43,380 --> 01:57:49,480
on my life, I never wanted to be a coach, never would be a coach, but since I've done

1410
01:57:49,480 --> 01:57:50,160
it,

1411
01:57:52,720 --> 01:57:54,900
I don't want the most rewarding things,

1412
01:58:00,500 --> 01:58:03,480
that's how they're doing, that's good, that's good.

1413
01:58:03,920 --> 01:58:08,560
This is your night, you're headed into the Hall of Fame, tell us who you'd like to thank.

1414
01:58:10,060 --> 01:58:15,360
So I'd like to thank all these these people that I've got and I probably have forgotten

1415
01:58:15,360 --> 01:58:22,740
a couple here and there, but I'd like to thank my coaches for the hard work and dedication.

1416
01:58:23,640 --> 01:58:30,760
Mike Pearson, who was from day one, to the end, to a three-way retired.

1417
01:58:32,060 --> 01:58:38,660
Tim Rogers, Tim Rogers, was a Kennedy player that ended up on my staff,

1418
01:58:45,690 --> 01:58:46,730
eating with him this weekend.

1419
01:58:47,050 --> 01:58:51,650
I went to watch a couple of playoff games, BM and Mike Pearson.

1420
01:58:52,290 --> 01:58:57,870
The guy the first guy was Tim Allen, another guy that was within the whole time.

1421
01:58:59,220 --> 01:59:06,000
We're Senator Guy, we're at Schwartz, Brett King from Out of Townsend, Nobody.

1422
01:59:06,760 --> 01:59:15,220
He ended up coaching it at baseball at Kennedy, and somehow he wiggled on to my staff at

1423
01:59:16,100 --> 01:59:22,460
Taylor Center, Chris Simons, who now is, I think he's the acting AD over there now.

1424
01:59:22,900 --> 01:59:28,800
Chris Simons, a lifetime friendship and Jason Stewart, lifetime friendship, both of those guys.

1425
01:59:28,800 --> 01:59:31,440
who were, they were both best friends.

1426
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:38,620
So Christian Moon, former player, is on staff over there now.

1427
01:59:39,400 --> 01:59:43,920
Brian Keyfleet, former player, is on staff over there now.

1428
01:59:44,760 --> 01:59:49,180
Daryl Thomas, I think he came for Kennedy and didn't have to twist his arm,

1429
01:59:49,300 --> 01:59:53,880
but he was always around and he finally eventually worked his way on staff,

1430
01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:56,220
and I think he played at Kennedy.

1431
01:59:56,220 --> 01:59:59,980
And then the Gorski brothers of course.

1432
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:13,500
Of course, everybody in technical knows him. They wanted to hear Steve and Bob, but we were on my staff at different times throughout their lives.

1433
02:00:14,260 --> 02:00:22,540
We all still like to thank Pam Pearson. She was a central part of our basketball family right from the beginning.

1434
02:00:22,540 --> 02:00:27,260
Thank you Pam for all your work and dedication, Judy Gorsky.

1435
02:00:27,840 --> 02:00:30,080
This is the lady that made it happen.

1436
02:00:30,480 --> 02:00:31,460
She had her mouth.

1437
02:00:31,600 --> 02:00:33,860
Someone else didn't want me.

1438
02:00:35,320 --> 02:00:36,540
I'm a Melissa Scope.

1439
02:00:37,140 --> 02:00:38,600
Scope can't ski.

1440
02:00:39,200 --> 02:00:40,400
I hope I sit there, right?

1441
02:00:41,460 --> 02:00:43,920
And I believe she's still the principal over there, right?

1442
02:00:44,180 --> 02:00:48,420
And the basketball family, when we moved to Truman High School,

1443
02:00:49,080 --> 02:00:50,480
was my wife Barbara.

1444
02:00:50,480 --> 02:00:56,880
I could not have made this journey without her from getting me to the games on time to

1445
02:00:56,880 --> 02:01:00,000
shopping for concessions, just so much more.

1446
02:01:46,700 --> 02:01:53,580
Dr. Chuck Soltz, our final inductee tonight is the late Delighted, one of Chuck's mentors.

1447
02:01:54,860 --> 02:02:01,040
That was a very humble man who wore many hats, but sports lived in every threat of being.

1448
02:02:01,940 --> 02:02:07,540
As a young man, he dreamed of playing pro baseball, and he was drafted by the old

1449
02:02:07,540 --> 02:02:14,260
St. Louis Browns. As a college athlete, he was an outstanding basketball player who

1450
02:02:14,260 --> 02:02:20,620
is part of the spring-a-hour college hall of fame. He spent decades against an administrator

1451
02:02:20,620 --> 02:02:28,160
in the Taylor schools, and is still beloved by all of those whose lives he touched. Later

1452
02:02:28,160 --> 02:02:35,160
life he became a tremendous golfer recording six holes in one and five times shooting his age

1453
02:02:35,800 --> 02:02:41,520
while earning championships in senior golf tournaments. Let's learn more about

1454
02:02:41,520 --> 02:02:44,780
Al from his son Gary and his daughter, Cindy.

1455
02:02:51,730 --> 02:02:55,390
Okay, let's start with you. You have a letter

1456
02:02:55,390 --> 02:03:02,350
that your dad got way, way, way back decades ago when he was starting as an educator. What you

1457
02:03:03,590 --> 02:03:12,350
Well, this is from one of his first students class he had in 1951 and it was from a young lady named

1458
02:03:12,350 --> 02:03:20,250
Judith and it was to all the girls and boys that might have all my dad in his class at some point

1459
02:03:20,250 --> 02:03:31,730
time and she writes briefly and not taking every word for it but basically she said when she

1460
02:03:31,730 --> 02:03:35,870
had men teachers for the last three or four years and so she

1461
02:03:35,870 --> 02:03:40,690
had gotten word that she had a young girl teacher coming in, woman

1462
02:03:40,690 --> 02:03:43,250
teacher coming in. She was thrilled her girlfriends and her were

1463
02:03:43,250 --> 02:03:45,030
thrilled because they were going to be able to talk about

1464
02:03:45,030 --> 02:03:47,970
sewing and all kinds of things related to what girls

1465
02:03:47,970 --> 02:03:51,170
like. And so they ran down the hallway, gotten a classroom

1466
02:03:51,170 --> 02:03:57,910
and that was stopped. They had a man. And it just happened to

1467
02:03:57,910 --> 02:04:05,110
our dad, how white it, and she says, after she cried a few tears, she said, well, I guess

1468
02:04:05,110 --> 02:04:11,150
we're not going to do sewing and those kinds of home-maker things this year. And she said,

1469
02:04:11,150 --> 02:04:19,090
um, she saw him reading the newspaper and he started by asking the class about a $64 question,

1470
02:04:19,950 --> 02:04:26,590
and every morning he started with his $64 question for the day. And so they had to come back

1471
02:04:26,590 --> 02:04:31,630
school the next day and she told them they had to talk about what they

1472
02:04:31,630 --> 02:04:35,750
like to do their name and so forth like that and of course she said she liked

1473
02:04:35,750 --> 02:04:43,210
sewing and she says he seemed like a pretty nice guy and so that she goes into

1474
02:04:43,210 --> 02:04:48,150
describe him and that was interesting her description of him but then she said

1475
02:04:48,150 --> 02:04:55,310
he started talking about sports well she knew nothing about sports and throughout

1476
02:04:55,310 --> 02:04:59,850
The school year, he became big influence on her.

1477
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:07,160
As far as sports go, they started a baseball team, and the girls got to play, and she decided

1478
02:05:07,160 --> 02:05:12,740
that she did like sports after all. And she sort of forgot about sewing for a while. And pretty

1479
02:05:12,740 --> 02:05:17,660
soon, it came for the choir, for the concert at Christmas time, and she said, and Mr.

1480
02:05:17,780 --> 02:05:23,060
Why did it could sing? And she said, she loved that because she could sing and she loved to sing.

1481
02:05:23,700 --> 02:05:29,900
And then, at the end of her story, she talks about seventh grade, and she said, if I look

1482
02:05:29,900 --> 02:05:32,820
Back on my school career so far, she says,

1483
02:05:32,820 --> 02:05:35,920
I think I had the best year I'd ever had

1484
02:05:36,540 --> 02:05:40,380
with Mr. White, and that she loved sports now,

1485
02:05:40,740 --> 02:05:42,780
and that she would go on later in life,

1486
02:05:42,860 --> 02:05:45,580
and she said, I think I would tell all the kids,

1487
02:05:45,780 --> 02:05:47,520
they would be lucky if they got Mr. White,

1488
02:05:47,680 --> 02:05:48,260
it is a teacher.

1489
02:05:48,960 --> 02:05:50,140
And I thought that was so precious,

1490
02:05:51,500 --> 02:05:52,920
because, you know, you walk yours,

1491
02:05:53,320 --> 02:05:55,700
or honoring your dad or your parents and everything.

1492
02:05:56,520 --> 02:05:59,240
And she really was talking from the heart,

1493
02:05:59,240 --> 02:06:04,940
And, you know, she came in that lagging sport and left loving sports.

1494
02:06:05,440 --> 02:06:08,300
And that sort of, some of my dad's legacy, I think.

1495
02:06:09,080 --> 02:06:11,900
Without a doubt, that's very, very scary.

1496
02:06:12,620 --> 02:06:14,120
Let's expand on it.

1497
02:06:14,240 --> 02:06:17,960
As you were telling me before, we go, we've gone on camera her.

1498
02:06:18,260 --> 02:06:22,620
That your dad used sports as a way to relate to kids.

1499
02:06:22,940 --> 02:06:26,200
I think that he loved playing sports.

1500
02:06:26,480 --> 02:06:27,200
He loved competing.

1501
02:06:28,140 --> 02:06:33,000
But mostly, I think he loved the relationship he developed through sports, whether it was

1502
02:06:33,000 --> 02:06:38,520
his buddies from golfing, or mostly, he knew the high school, and he would tell stories

1503
02:06:38,520 --> 02:06:43,620
about going down to the gym and having free thrurt shooting contest with the kids, or playing

1504
02:06:43,620 --> 02:06:49,340
horse, or jumping on a trampoline, or I can remember one girl he challenged to erase around

1505
02:06:49,340 --> 02:06:53,520
the track, and it didn't matter to him whether he wanted to lost those things.

1506
02:06:53,520 --> 02:06:55,180
I think you would like to have one.

1507
02:06:55,340 --> 02:07:00,880
But what was important is, it was a way he could relate to the students through something

1508
02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:06,720
that they enjoyed, something that he enjoyed, and I think he did that through his whole life.

1509
02:07:07,200 --> 02:07:13,100
And so he loved sports, but he loved all the relationships and the friendships that came with him.

1510
02:07:13,520 --> 02:07:18,560
You were also talking about people and things that were influential on him.

1511
02:07:18,800 --> 02:07:20,080
You talked about that a little bit.

1512
02:07:20,080 --> 02:07:30,920
Yeah, I think he, you know, his first, he played baseball when he was young and played, I think he said at one point in time he's playing in four different baseball teams and one softball team in the summer.

1513
02:07:31,760 --> 02:07:34,000
Just every stuff he did every day.

1514
02:07:34,640 --> 02:07:44,080
But he's distinctly remembers going to Briggsfield and walking out and seeing that beautiful stadium and seeing the players come out and the players cheer for them.

1515
02:07:44,080 --> 02:07:56,460
And like many young boys of that age, he dropped some day being the guy that was that professional baseball player going out on that field, to all the cheering fans and everything else.

1516
02:07:57,140 --> 02:08:01,480
He talked very much about his athletic career.

1517
02:08:02,280 --> 02:08:05,900
He had great success as a college basketball player.

1518
02:08:06,160 --> 02:08:07,180
He also played baseball.

1519
02:08:07,440 --> 02:08:09,460
He was drafted by the St. Louis Browns.

1520
02:08:11,220 --> 02:08:13,460
He turns into a tremendous golfer.

1521
02:08:14,940 --> 02:08:15,720
Did he talk about that?

1522
02:08:16,200 --> 02:08:16,820
Was he confirmed?

1523
02:08:17,740 --> 02:08:18,640
Yes, he did.

1524
02:08:19,460 --> 02:08:20,240
He talked briefly.

1525
02:08:20,540 --> 02:08:25,080
Well, you could always see the join in a space when he talked about the sports that he played in.

1526
02:08:25,080 --> 02:08:31,820
And again, the relationships that he built because much of our family life was based around

1527
02:08:31,820 --> 02:08:39,100
not only his church and belief of that, but around his sports activities and the people that he

1528
02:08:39,100 --> 02:08:43,800
developed friendships with that we were, we came in contact with, we traveled a lot with him during the summer

1529
02:08:43,800 --> 02:08:49,800
and the public's tournament and so we got to see some of this accolades there, but we really

1530
02:08:50,640 --> 02:09:06,720
I didn't really know how good he was until it was later in life, and we started talking more and reminiscing about some of the things that he did, that really came to my knowledge that, wow, he was really good at a lot of things.

1531
02:09:06,720 --> 02:09:23,740
And so, and he influenced me, because I became a physed teacher, and followed it, you know, with the sports, I was very interested in sports, obviously, and had a very successful career as a teacher and related to sports.

1532
02:09:25,420 --> 02:09:26,940
Kevin, what about you?

1533
02:09:28,520 --> 02:09:32,320
Yeah, I think that growing up sports was always at the forefront.

1534
02:09:33,700 --> 02:09:38,300
I remember going out and we'd go play golf on Sunday afternoon after church.

1535
02:09:38,820 --> 02:09:43,880
And he always had a transistor radio listening to the Tiger game while we played golf.

1536
02:09:44,500 --> 02:09:46,520
And then we'd come home and football season.

1537
02:09:46,980 --> 02:09:52,380
We'd have one TV on and another TV stacked on top of it so we'd watch the games on both channels.

1538
02:09:52,380 --> 02:09:55,340
It was just something we did as a family.

1539
02:09:56,240 --> 02:09:59,880
I remember playing on the church softball league or the church basketball league.

1540
02:10:00,850 --> 02:10:06,710
We're going play hockey back in the day when you could actually have a nice freak outside and Detroit.

1541
02:10:08,410 --> 02:10:13,970
And it's just anything to go compete and have fun and have that camaraderie.

1542
02:10:15,570 --> 02:10:22,210
If your dad was still around, who would you think he'd like to thank as he's adopted into this hall?

1543
02:10:22,610 --> 02:10:26,050
He was a part of this hall for a number of years.

1544
02:10:26,050 --> 02:10:36,790
It's one of the reasons why we're inducting him tonight is because he refused to go in before, okay, which probably fits, that's right, that's with his personality.

1545
02:10:37,990 --> 02:10:41,730
But who do you think that he'd want, what do you think he'd like to say if you were?

1546
02:10:42,070 --> 02:10:50,590
I think you'd like to think all of his friends that he had to make over the years playing golf, playing basketball, playing baseball.

1547
02:10:51,070 --> 02:10:58,750
I think he'd thank all the coaches that he had over the years at different schools because

1548
02:10:58,750 --> 02:11:03,530
he felt they were very important to the development of the kids and their personalities

1549
02:11:03,530 --> 02:11:07,230
and everything else is part of the education process.

1550
02:11:08,030 --> 02:11:11,730
I probably want to thank my mom for putting up with all that we can see was a way playing

1551
02:11:11,730 --> 02:11:20,570
golf tournaments and everybody else has kind of been involved with sports over his life.

1552
02:11:22,310 --> 02:11:29,750
So, you're an educator, he was an educator, that obviously was a very, very big part of his life.

1553
02:11:30,210 --> 02:11:31,390
He was the majority.

1554
02:11:33,390 --> 02:11:35,750
What was the most important thing you handed down to you?

1555
02:11:38,710 --> 02:11:40,810
To enjoy what you're doing.

1556
02:11:42,950 --> 02:11:47,430
Again, sports for me became the connection to other people.

1557
02:11:48,970 --> 02:12:06,030
And one of the things I remember most is that, and he was the example of that, is it's not necessarily all the content you give to them sometimes, as an educator, but the feelings that they create,

1558
02:12:08,130 --> 02:12:17,410
and you want to be very careful how you choose your words, and how positive you can be to student that you never know.

1559
02:12:17,410 --> 02:12:23,950
many times you never get to know the influence you've had on a student and I use sports sort of in

1560
02:12:23,950 --> 02:12:31,810
his footsteps at times to be that connection with kids and I and I appreciate it from him and

1561
02:12:31,810 --> 02:12:42,390
he's my hero. Did he leave you with any funny stories or anything from his golf days or his baseball

1562
02:12:42,390 --> 02:12:46,750
There is, for example, basketball days, or anything like that, because any, anything jumped

1563
02:12:46,750 --> 02:12:47,210
to mind.

1564
02:12:47,310 --> 02:12:48,370
And it's okay if it doesn't.

1565
02:12:49,010 --> 02:12:54,690
I, one of them was, and I don't remember the gentleman's name, so he was, I think it

1566
02:12:54,690 --> 02:12:58,970
tailored to human or to an high school, and they had to hire a head football coach.

1567
02:13:00,630 --> 02:13:08,850
And he interviewed three, four players or four coaches, one of them went on to be the

1568
02:13:08,850 --> 02:13:10,690
coach at the University of Colorado.

1569
02:13:11,530 --> 02:13:13,110
I wonder when I'm to be the head coach in our

1570
02:13:13,110 --> 02:13:15,750
Western. The other one was Lloyd Carp who

1571
02:13:15,750 --> 02:13:18,430
went on to be a coach in Michigan. And he hired none of

1572
02:13:18,430 --> 02:13:18,950
those three.

1573
02:13:21,470 --> 02:13:23,490
But he does back himself up and say,

1574
02:13:23,770 --> 02:13:27,310
we did win the League Championship that year. Oh,

1575
02:13:27,890 --> 02:13:29,990
oh, that's great. That's fantastic.

1576
02:13:47,170 --> 02:13:49,350
Doug Gary and his daughter Cindy,

1577
02:13:49,450 --> 02:13:50,950
please come to the Hall of Fame.

1578
02:14:36,760 --> 02:14:41,960
I'm going to do one by part of being burdened and myself.

1579
02:14:42,680 --> 02:14:45,100
I'd like to thank everyone involved with this evening.

1580
02:14:45,700 --> 02:14:46,600
Thank God she's certainly.

1581
02:14:47,380 --> 02:14:52,760
It's been a truly special reason for this situation.

1582
02:14:53,780 --> 02:14:54,320
That's going to be a pleasure.

1583
02:14:54,980 --> 02:14:56,200
So, let's just come back.

1584
02:14:57,400 --> 02:14:59,900
We want to get all of our buildings.

1585
02:15:30,000 --> 02:15:36,400
And join us as you all go down the hall to the Lake House part of Europe, the rest of the weekend.

1586
02:15:37,480 --> 02:15:40,260
Let's stay at the school and go back and forth.

1587
02:15:41,120 --> 02:15:46,500
While you have a huge amount of time, let's have the same money that are being pulled up in our sports class.

1588
02:15:46,860 --> 02:15:48,300
And we're going to give you the key place.

1589
02:15:49,260 --> 02:15:51,720
And lastly, again, thanks for attending.

1590
02:15:52,040 --> 02:15:55,380
We apologize for many technical difficulties here in Hamilton.

1591
02:15:56,120 --> 02:15:58,220
But we'll work it out eventually.

1592
02:15:58,220 --> 02:16:02,820
So if you thank you, you have no reason, I'll ask a lot of people to come.

1593
02:16:46,420 --> 02:16:52,240
Carl Zimack, and this is another installment of From the Mayor's Desk with Tim Wolley.

1594
02:16:52,760 --> 02:16:55,880
In this show, we're going to focus on business activity in Taylor,

1595
02:16:56,420 --> 02:17:03,660
along with several city-initiated projects, and some other important issues that seem to be

1596
02:17:03,660 --> 02:17:04,720
stacking up on us.

1597
02:17:06,380 --> 02:17:09,680
Tim, welcome to the, uh, welcome to the media center. How you doing? Thanks, Carl.

1598
02:17:09,680 --> 02:17:10,680
It's good to see it.

1599
02:17:10,780 --> 02:17:11,360
That's a little wild.

1600
02:17:11,460 --> 02:17:15,040
Well, yes, it's been a little wild, but all we've been talking about is storm, but we're

1601
02:17:15,040 --> 02:17:15,920
not going to talk about storm.

1602
02:17:16,520 --> 02:17:18,260
We're going to talk about it later here.

1603
02:17:18,620 --> 02:17:19,900
Let's talk about some fun things.

1604
02:17:20,880 --> 02:17:27,200
After sitting vacant for six years, give or take, it appears that the old Masco headquarters,

1605
02:17:27,700 --> 02:17:33,800
probably the most iconic building in the city, is going to become a focal point for a new

1606
02:17:33,800 --> 02:17:40,240
multi-use project, including professional services, medical facility, and a convention-type

1607
02:17:40,240 --> 02:17:40,760
center.

1608
02:17:41,780 --> 02:17:45,960
What can you tell us about the project that's been approved by the Planning Commission

1609
02:17:45,960 --> 02:17:46,820
as well as Seneca?

1610
02:17:46,880 --> 02:17:51,760
Well, it's actually really exciting, you know, they, you know, what I didn't really realize

1611
02:17:51,760 --> 02:17:56,000
until I really went over and looked at the facility, you know, there's multiple buildings

1612
02:17:56,000 --> 02:17:56,440
over there.

1613
02:17:57,060 --> 02:18:01,800
So it's a beautiful building and when, you know, I came in office, we didn't want to

1614
02:18:01,800 --> 02:18:08,800
to see that torn down. The previous owner, we went over and toured at me, Dan, and Tim

1615
02:18:08,800 --> 02:18:12,640
Keys went over there and looked at it, and I thought the building was in beautiful shape.

1616
02:18:13,160 --> 02:18:15,940
I think that might have been the first time I'd ever been in there. I can believe how

1617
02:18:15,940 --> 02:18:22,260
well kept it was. Basically, just needed to dusting. And at that time, they were pitching

1618
02:18:22,840 --> 02:18:26,000
tearing it down and making it a trucking facility. Just what you wanted to hear.

1619
02:18:26,040 --> 02:18:30,440
Well, I made it very clear. I said absolutely not, that's not going to happen. You know,

1620
02:18:30,440 --> 02:18:33,800
said, if you want to tear it down, that's up to you, but it's not going to be a trucking facility.

1621
02:18:34,620 --> 02:18:39,780
You have a neighborhood there, you have a neighborhood there, you know, and so luckily, that kind of,

1622
02:18:39,780 --> 02:18:45,300
you know, so I got a call from somebody at Wayne County reached out to me and said,

1623
02:18:45,500 --> 02:18:49,660
hey, would you mind if I shared your number with somebody, they want to talk to you about potentially

1624
02:18:49,660 --> 02:18:56,380
the old masco building and I said sure. And took the phone call and he said, hey, you know,

1625
02:18:56,400 --> 02:18:59,520
I have some gentlemen that are interested in possibly and they want to talk to the

1626
02:18:59,520 --> 02:19:04,380
to you about what you guys may be envision going in there and stuff and I said, well, absolutely.

1627
02:19:05,640 --> 02:19:10,160
So, gentlemen, out of Chicago, Shaboy again, and a few people, we met over at a restaurant

1628
02:19:10,160 --> 02:19:16,100
by the airport and they came in and started telling me what they kind of wanted to do and

1629
02:19:16,100 --> 02:19:21,740
you know, I said, well, as long as you let us know, we definitely are willing to work with you guys

1630
02:19:21,740 --> 02:19:28,060
and I learned about a PUD which allows us to do different zoning on a property almost even on

1631
02:19:28,060 --> 02:19:33,680
floors of a building. So, told them we'd be willing to work with them and I walked out of there

1632
02:19:33,680 --> 02:19:37,360
thinking, man, that was a pretty good meeting. I'm pretty excited about this, but you never know

1633
02:19:37,360 --> 02:19:43,340
how things are going to turn out. Sure. Well, the phone kept ringing. You know, and so I told Dan and

1634
02:19:43,340 --> 02:19:49,540
Laura and said, hey, you know, I think this is possibly going to happen. Then we found out, you know,

1635
02:19:49,620 --> 02:19:54,040
met talked with them more that they were really interested and they ended up purchasing the building,

1636
02:19:54,700 --> 02:19:58,740
sat down with Laura, you know, I'll add down everybody in the room and

1637
02:19:58,740 --> 02:19:59,980
said this is what you, and baby.

1638
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:29,520
Basically it was whatever you guys are thinking about doing, just come to us first and let us know, and everything's conditional. So they have to basically get our permission before they, and if they change that, then they have to go back through planning and everything and stuff. So they want to do different things on different floors. And that building is so big that we understood that. You know, when I first walked the building, I instantly thought of a medical center because it reminded me of a smaller U of M. Yeah, kind of a whole big.

1639
02:20:30,000 --> 02:20:35,960
You know, when my mom was out there, I was visiting there regularly, and when I walked in there, that's what it instantly reminded me of.

1640
02:20:36,180 --> 02:20:45,820
And then when they talked about a potential, you know, convention center, something like that, a smaller one, you know, like maybe like a Nova expo, or, uh, what a time.

1641
02:20:46,120 --> 02:20:47,260
Yeah, whatever it's called there.

1642
02:20:47,780 --> 02:20:53,840
I guess they did the research and there's not one of those, you know, from either Troy or Nova.

1643
02:20:54,120 --> 02:20:58,160
So one close to Detroit would be, that size would be great and stuff.

1644
02:20:58,160 --> 02:21:00,740
So, I think they got a lot of great ideas

1645
02:21:01,280 --> 02:21:03,720
and they're moving, they're moving quick on it

1646
02:21:03,720 --> 02:21:05,360
and stuff, so we're pretty excited about it.

1647
02:21:05,560 --> 02:21:07,120
You know, and I think they already have a few tenants.

1648
02:21:08,160 --> 02:21:10,640
When you came into office, did you give any thought

1649
02:21:10,640 --> 02:21:11,460
to the mask-op building?

1650
02:21:12,020 --> 02:21:14,180
I mean, it's kind of out of sight out of mind

1651
02:21:14,180 --> 02:21:17,380
for as big we have, you know, we did, to be honest,

1652
02:21:17,460 --> 02:21:19,040
because it's a big text, but yeah, you know.

1653
02:21:19,580 --> 02:21:22,060
You know, it was losing value, so that was a concern,

1654
02:21:22,240 --> 02:21:23,720
you know, that's one of our bigger buildings

1655
02:21:23,720 --> 02:21:30,720
and Trinity, and so, you know, with it losing, you know, it's value, you know, that was

1656
02:21:30,720 --> 02:21:34,420
certain when we found out, you know, Masco was leaving and I was on council at the time,

1657
02:21:34,520 --> 02:21:39,780
and that was something. So he was kind of kept an eye out on it, and so it was nice to hear

1658
02:21:39,780 --> 02:21:43,060
there was interest in it and stuff like that. There was a couple of different pitches,

1659
02:21:44,160 --> 02:21:48,980
and but this one was the most exciting, and then it stuck, and these guys have been great

1660
02:21:48,980 --> 02:21:58,180
to talk to and work with so far and everything, you know, you know, not everybody's going to love everything, but I think it's I think it's great for what they're doing and

1661
02:21:59,100 --> 02:22:06,700
you know, some people talk about you know, because there is a storage part of it, but you know, it's, you know, when people are like, well, the high-end stuff, you know,

1662
02:22:07,500 --> 02:22:18,200
Mr. Manugie and used to store his artwork in that facility, you know, so it's, it was meant for that anyway, and this thing is built like a battleship, it's unbelievable, you know,

1663
02:22:18,200 --> 02:22:24,180
the thickness of the concrete and so you know there's limitations on what they could do in certain

1664
02:22:24,180 --> 02:22:28,920
areas. So it made sense to us and you know council and planning both agreed and plus that's

1665
02:22:28,920 --> 02:22:33,080
what it was being used for anyway. Get any feedback from residents because I know you've always

1666
02:22:33,080 --> 02:22:39,620
been concerned no matter what the project has been about that particular area because it is tricky

1667
02:22:39,620 --> 02:22:45,200
because you have really strong housing on each side. Well the main thing was is which was we were

1668
02:22:45,200 --> 02:22:51,740
led here, they want to keep the landscaping, the convention center we talked about parking and

1669
02:22:52,700 --> 02:22:56,440
stuff between me and you and maybe all those that are watching, we're hoping that maybe

1670
02:22:56,440 --> 02:22:59,720
leads into them because they didn't purchase the camear, right building.

1671
02:23:00,680 --> 02:23:06,460
So talking with them, I thought, hey, if you're going to do that there, the camear would

1672
02:23:06,460 --> 02:23:10,340
be great for maybe a hotel and additional parking for that.

1673
02:23:10,720 --> 02:23:13,500
And they were actually pretty, you know, they're like, you know, that's a pretty good idea.

1674
02:23:13,500 --> 02:23:22,800
I mean, that'd be great, you know, and so of course I'm trying to spend their money in, you know, and so I mean, that's a possibility in a couple years, they said, you know,

1675
02:23:23,400 --> 02:23:28,700
the people that don't mask go, you still mask go and the came up, so they still own that came our facility.

1676
02:23:30,160 --> 02:23:40,240
I think they still have at least with Ford for a couple years to the parking there if they choose, but, you know, absolutely, we keep in mind of those residents,

1677
02:23:41,060 --> 02:23:48,540
They did pitch and they want to put a sign on 94, so but they have to go through the state and DNR and things like that to get

1678
02:23:48,540 --> 02:23:56,060
But I definitely want to see how it's going to affect the neighbors that live right by that area where they want to put it.

1679
02:23:56,220 --> 02:24:04,500
So the architecture for long is a beautiful sign, you know, but I want to see how much light it's kicking out if it's going to, you know, if I live over there

1680
02:24:04,500 --> 02:24:06,180
I don't want that thing, you know.

1681
02:24:06,360 --> 02:24:08,500
Oh, yeah, my window on the side.

1682
02:24:08,980 --> 02:24:11,460
Where they position it, how tall and all that stuff.

1683
02:24:11,700 --> 02:24:12,900
So that's going to be it.

1684
02:24:12,940 --> 02:24:16,340
So it's hardly, everything's hardly done on this thing.

1685
02:24:16,460 --> 02:24:17,580
It's just started absolutely.

1686
02:24:19,480 --> 02:24:21,500
OK, well, let's talk about another development.

1687
02:24:21,500 --> 02:24:24,360
And that's the development or redevelopment

1688
02:24:24,360 --> 02:24:27,420
of the Eureka telegraph area.

1689
02:24:27,800 --> 02:24:29,960
Got a raising cane going into the Walgreens.

1690
02:24:30,940 --> 02:24:33,680
You've got a second program.

1691
02:24:33,680 --> 02:24:39,900
a bigger program coming in with a lot of different ramifications, including to party and things

1692
02:24:39,900 --> 02:24:41,520
like that, and talk at that.

1693
02:24:41,700 --> 02:24:47,300
Yeah, so that was another great thing, you know, one day we get this call, you know, and

1694
02:24:47,300 --> 02:24:52,340
Croger was like, hey, because that was becoming a concern, you know, that mall was emptying

1695
02:24:52,340 --> 02:24:57,040
an out pretty quick, you know, and then we got where value city was kind of, you know, going

1696
02:24:57,040 --> 02:24:59,980
and that foreclosure are basically...

1697
02:25:00,720 --> 02:25:29,920
You know, they were going bankrupt. And then, so we're like, you know, that's a big corner right there for us and the law Greens was sitting empty and then all of a sudden we get a call from, you know,

1698
02:25:29,920 --> 02:25:33,860
and then they pitched their areas and locations and all that stuff.

1699
02:25:35,140 --> 02:25:38,040
So we were glad that that place got chosen, you know?

1700
02:25:38,820 --> 02:25:41,520
And they took out the old, it was in Michaels.

1701
02:25:43,200 --> 02:25:46,880
Christmastory, Christmastory, Christmastory store.

1702
02:25:46,880 --> 02:25:47,700
Ah, Christmastory.

1703
02:25:48,120 --> 02:25:49,680
And then it was the other one.

1704
02:25:49,680 --> 02:25:50,460
Bed Bath and Beyond.

1705
02:25:51,340 --> 02:25:53,160
And they're busting over there right now.

1706
02:25:53,280 --> 02:25:54,160
I wrote by there today.

1707
02:25:54,340 --> 02:25:55,560
And I'm like, man, they're really cooking.

1708
02:25:55,560 --> 02:26:01,820
you know, so we worked with them sat down and it's been, that's been a really good relationship as well.

1709
02:26:02,780 --> 02:26:06,380
They're like, hey, is there any way we could get maybe some demolition? Well, we're working,

1710
02:26:06,520 --> 02:26:12,600
you know, and we said sure we'll work with you in any way possible. And so yeah, they're they're doing

1711
02:26:13,480 --> 02:26:17,880
they're really, I think they want to be open by the end of the year and also people they actually put some

1712
02:26:18,920 --> 02:26:24,300
in the drawings. I think they left Samaria for like potential a lot. Oh,

1713
02:26:24,760 --> 02:26:28,240
relocation, maybe a restaurant or a store or something like that because it's a

1714
02:26:28,240 --> 02:26:31,440
big parking lot. I'll be honest with you. You know, once all the construction

1715
02:26:31,440 --> 02:26:34,840
everything clears up down there and I know it's been a long time and people

1716
02:26:34,840 --> 02:26:38,360
get frustrated with that. But the reality is they're going to be finished with

1717
02:26:38,360 --> 02:26:45,500
those bridges and things are going to get back to normal and that is a that is

1718
02:26:45,500 --> 02:26:50,600
really visible. Yeah. And we do know that somebody is going into the old

1719
02:26:50,600 --> 02:26:55,360
value city building. I just can't say who yeah. Gotcha. I think I know too, but I'm not

1720
02:26:55,360 --> 02:27:02,360
just saying. Swordship. What about raising rates? You know, I'm very excited that

1721
02:27:02,360 --> 02:27:07,540
was, you know, there was some potential issues there with a company that we're

1722
02:27:07,540 --> 02:27:12,780
going to be talking about later. But, you know, we're going to be the first city

1723
02:27:12,780 --> 02:27:13,860
down, river to get one,

1724
02:27:18,980 --> 02:27:21,060
and there was some issues with the electrical lines.

1725
02:27:21,340 --> 02:27:29,480
We wanted everything on Eureka to start going underground, that was another company didn't

1726
02:27:29,480 --> 02:27:35,220
want it to do that way, but it was affecting their drive through and everything, and so

1727
02:27:35,220 --> 02:27:41,180
I handle everything privately, Carl, talking about it now, but I see there's people out

1728
02:27:41,180 --> 02:27:47,160
where's Woolie? He's not doing this. She doesn't do that. You know me. I'm a

1729
02:27:47,160 --> 02:27:52,380
phone and I do things. You know, I feel privately professionaly and all that stuff.

1730
02:27:52,800 --> 02:27:57,020
You know, I made it very clear that if I was to lose the title of being the first

1731
02:27:57,020 --> 02:28:01,080
city down river to lose, you know, raising, losing that title of being the first

1732
02:28:01,080 --> 02:28:11,160
city there was going to be issues. So they worked it out to where they're going to

1733
02:28:11,160 --> 02:28:16,780
line or whatever to where it won't affect their entrance or their drive-through because the

1734
02:28:16,780 --> 02:28:20,380
wires were going to run right over the entrance where you can't walk in or out of a building

1735
02:28:20,380 --> 02:28:25,240
with electrical wire wires and then or through the drive-through with the wires going over.

1736
02:28:26,100 --> 02:28:32,500
Long story, but either way, finally got it all worked out and raised in Keynes. I did see their

1737
02:28:32,500 --> 02:28:36,360
they did submit all their stuff and I think they're just working on their Wayne County water

1738
02:28:36,360 --> 02:28:40,640
permit right now, you know, for their, um, uh,

1739
02:28:43,040 --> 02:28:44,220
water discharge, you know, like, got

1740
02:28:44,220 --> 02:28:44,460
yours.

1741
02:28:45,380 --> 02:28:46,280
So, what's amazing?

1742
02:28:46,360 --> 02:28:51,120
I think by the time, by the time everything is finished in that corridor there,

1743
02:28:51,560 --> 02:28:53,200
it's really got to be pretty impressive.

1744
02:28:53,200 --> 02:28:57,640
Oh, it's going to be, and, and touching on what you said earlier, thank God, you know,

1745
02:28:57,640 --> 02:28:59,800
Kroger's putting a gas station as well.

1746
02:28:59,800 --> 02:29:00,960
Oh, near the fire.

1747
02:29:01,380 --> 02:29:05,760
Yeah, right behind the fire station, and they even agreed to put in a road that's going

1748
02:29:05,760 --> 02:29:11,380
connect that mall area to that party that will get people to a light to get people in and out of there

1749
02:29:11,380 --> 02:29:18,540
because you know, you know, anybody that goes to either that mall or to famous days, it's really hard to make a left

1750
02:29:18,540 --> 02:29:25,740
right. And I wouldn't recommend anybody doing it. So that road will now get you over to a light which makes it much easier to make a

1751
02:29:25,740 --> 02:29:32,360
left if you want to go west on your reka road. Yeah, and if you're connecting all the way down the party, that's that really takes you away

1752
02:29:33,580 --> 02:29:37,960
from all of the other stuff that's going on, which is, I don't know if it's party,

1753
02:29:38,620 --> 02:29:42,840
you know, it's, I don't think it is. It's the one, just on the back side of that,

1754
02:29:42,840 --> 02:29:47,640
that ball there, I'm thinking it's party. Is it party? Yeah, I think I was just looking at their graphics.

1755
02:29:47,920 --> 02:29:51,860
I think it's the one that kind of is it the one that takes up by Myers, but I think it's not that one.

1756
02:29:51,860 --> 02:29:55,580
I think it's the one just before that can't think of the name of the street. Well, either way,

1757
02:29:55,740 --> 02:29:59,820
it's going to be the way to give you a row with a light. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly.

1758
02:30:01,400 --> 02:30:22,780
On another hand, you know, you've got corrobor, you've got corrobor now to the north, you've got corrobor to the south, and now we're going to have mire on the old mire, eureka, and now we're getting a mire mark, which is really a cool concept in the old handy. Well, if the pens, how far are you going to go back? I'm thinking to handy handy to me, what do you think?

1759
02:30:22,780 --> 02:30:29,200
for a city to me. Yeah, but then there was a I can't remember Laura was telling me what it was when she was

1760
02:30:29,200 --> 02:30:34,320
There was something else there to it. Yeah, I can't think of what it was called, but she said she bought her first pair of roller skates

1761
02:30:35,240 --> 02:30:41,120
You know, I got a chuck a lot of that but there was for a city before it became handy and he's so I always knew it as for a city

1762
02:30:41,120 --> 02:30:47,800
I think Taylor Taylor residents are getting a reputation for eating because there's a lot of place coming in

1763
02:30:47,800 --> 02:30:50,200
We got two crovers, we got two Myers.

1764
02:30:50,420 --> 02:30:51,640
I can't talk, you know.

1765
02:30:52,460 --> 02:30:54,020
Well, that's not about far behind you.

1766
02:30:54,040 --> 02:30:58,700
Yeah, it was kind of funny, you know, I was doing a radio interview for Dr. J.R.

1767
02:30:58,880 --> 02:31:03,820
And he actually made a mistake and he said, yeah, hey, I hear Taylor's getting a new Myers.

1768
02:31:04,880 --> 02:31:05,580
He goes, oh, I'm sorry.

1769
02:31:05,580 --> 02:31:06,340
I mean a new crover.

1770
02:31:06,540 --> 02:31:10,980
I said no, actually, but the new Myers now, too, you know, so it was a kind of a nice

1771
02:31:10,980 --> 02:31:15,740
segue into promoting that we were getting that new Myers grocery store and, you know, it's

1772
02:31:15,740 --> 02:31:22,400
newer model that's rolling out and stuff. It's just grocery and I think everybody that I've

1773
02:31:22,400 --> 02:31:29,040
talked to is very excited. I know my neighbors, I'm a stone strove from it. Talk to all my

1774
02:31:29,040 --> 02:31:34,900
neighbors and everybody, you know, we're always a little nervous about, you know, traffic on the

1775
02:31:34,900 --> 02:31:39,440
street a little bit, you know, just like anybody else, but we thought it was a good fit, you know,

1776
02:31:39,520 --> 02:31:45,260
and so I think everybody in that neighborhood that lives by there has all been pretty excited about it.

1777
02:31:45,260 --> 02:31:52,400
It's really kind of cool. I was reading about the philosophy behind that concept and it's kind

1778
02:31:52,400 --> 02:32:00,440
of like, you know, small has gone big and now big is trying to go small, you know. And they're

1779
02:32:00,440 --> 02:32:06,760
giving their general managers at these particular locations a lot of leeway in their purchase

1780
02:32:08,240 --> 02:32:15,160
Because they're really learning, leaning heavily toward, you know, produce from the area.

1781
02:32:15,560 --> 02:32:16,840
You know, so you're like an independent good.

1782
02:32:16,980 --> 02:32:17,340
Through the Mexican.

1783
02:32:17,520 --> 02:32:19,100
Yeah, they have an incredible attitude.

1784
02:32:20,580 --> 02:32:24,240
And see, you know, I think it's all depending on what people want to wear.

1785
02:32:25,060 --> 02:32:26,840
I'm going grocery shopping.

1786
02:32:27,020 --> 02:32:28,480
I want the grocery store.

1787
02:32:28,480 --> 02:32:29,780
I don't want the big.

1788
02:32:30,340 --> 02:32:32,000
You know, where some people like the big.

1789
02:32:32,340 --> 02:32:34,840
You know, I don't like the two men.

1790
02:32:34,840 --> 02:32:37,400
You know, I guess it depends on what you want.

1791
02:32:37,620 --> 02:32:39,780
You know, I know when I found out about it,

1792
02:32:39,780 --> 02:32:42,000
I can't really go for your works here.

1793
02:32:42,400 --> 02:32:44,900
Her, she just gave me a double take and said,

1794
02:32:45,200 --> 02:32:46,300
hey, I get to walk.

1795
02:32:46,600 --> 02:32:47,960
It's my grocery store too.

1796
02:32:48,580 --> 02:32:49,180
Yeah, absolutely.

1797
02:32:49,520 --> 02:32:52,260
Which is just fine, and the other sheets location,

1798
02:32:52,460 --> 02:32:53,820
which is moving very quickly.

1799
02:32:54,420 --> 02:32:57,280
I just, okay, I think they're starting the brain.

1800
02:32:57,580 --> 02:33:00,680
I noticed they just completed all the asphalt.

1801
02:33:00,960 --> 02:33:02,640
So I think all the surfaces are down.

1802
02:33:02,820 --> 02:33:04,560
So I think they're going to,

1803
02:33:04,560 --> 02:33:08,000
wouldn't be surprised that they're just going to start stocking the store here. I think they're

1804
02:33:08,000 --> 02:33:10,660
fantastic. I think they wanted to be open by the end of this month.

1805
02:33:10,800 --> 02:33:16,260
Which is fantastic for that whole... that whole area jumps a little bit because, you know,

1806
02:33:16,320 --> 02:33:22,520
it's not far away from Walmart. It's not far away from the dairy queen. All of those places up there

1807
02:33:22,520 --> 02:33:28,040
when you look at it now and you've got that going in there and hook and real is there, too.

1808
02:33:28,640 --> 02:33:32,540
Yeah, you know, well they get a good crowd and me and Amy keep talking about it.

1809
02:33:32,540 --> 02:33:37,800
We always forget about it, it's right there, you know, I've never been in there, you know,

1810
02:33:37,940 --> 02:33:43,080
and I like some food, you know, and so, but, you know, Dairy Queen does a great job, and

1811
02:33:43,080 --> 02:33:46,640
man, you talk about a drive through, but boy, do they get them through there like nothing

1812
02:33:46,640 --> 02:33:46,840
it?

1813
02:33:46,840 --> 02:33:51,820
Well, I remember when they were putting that together, and I remember seeing the schematic,

1814
02:33:52,040 --> 02:33:57,360
the aerial schematic of it, and I'm going, this is not going to work, and yet, it works

1815
02:33:57,360 --> 02:33:57,880
beautiful.

1816
02:33:58,100 --> 02:34:01,500
And once in a while, you'll see my telegraph, but I'm telling you, Carl, you can almost

1817
02:34:01,500 --> 02:34:03,680
such a watch by an eight o'clock.

1818
02:34:04,080 --> 02:34:05,100
Well, that's Dave, man.

1819
02:34:05,320 --> 02:34:08,380
It fills up, but they get people through there.

1820
02:34:08,380 --> 02:34:09,440
And it's unbelievable.

1821
02:34:10,480 --> 02:34:12,780
And there are another great community part.

1822
02:34:12,820 --> 02:34:14,820
Well, I was going to say is unbelievable.

1823
02:34:15,580 --> 02:34:17,860
And here's a guy that reaches out to me.

1824
02:34:17,940 --> 02:34:21,020
And hey, I know the crews sent him over for lunch.

1825
02:34:21,100 --> 02:34:23,060
You know, well, that's great.

1826
02:34:23,280 --> 02:34:25,560
It's funny, because it's not like I hang around a Gary

1827
02:34:25,560 --> 02:34:25,920
quand.

1828
02:34:26,100 --> 02:34:28,520
OK, but the reality, I mean, they might not

1829
02:34:30,080 --> 02:34:36,480
But you know, with Oli and his group, that's a really good group.

1830
02:34:36,540 --> 02:34:38,460
That's the kind of business people you want.

1831
02:34:38,640 --> 02:34:39,420
Very clean, absolutely.

1832
02:34:39,540 --> 02:34:43,540
Oh, yeah. Just just when you walk in and they say the usual,

1833
02:34:43,760 --> 02:34:44,840
you might not know.

1834
02:34:46,300 --> 02:34:46,960
They're great.

1835
02:34:47,600 --> 02:34:51,400
And you know their employees are happy there because it's always,

1836
02:34:51,400 --> 02:34:53,740
they always got a ton of employees there.

1837
02:34:53,860 --> 02:34:55,380
It's clean and they're great.

1838
02:34:55,380 --> 02:34:59,980
your reputation just proceeds you because you got the same thing out of the people at the road out of them.

1839
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:13,120
I mean, my daughter worked there, don't forget. So, you know, I was nervous when they opened the dairy queen, like, you know, that closed the aisle, some like, oh, this could be a problem.

1840
02:35:14,880 --> 02:35:25,200
What about, uh, laying part, moving very quickly, yet there's, there's so much to do there, including at the end, you got to do the road, you know,

1841
02:35:25,200 --> 02:35:27,540
Yeah, so that's what we're basically waiting on.

1842
02:35:27,660 --> 02:35:32,200
I think we're waiting on the pump track to be worth it.

1843
02:35:32,200 --> 02:35:32,920
It's going to be worth it.

1844
02:35:33,560 --> 02:35:34,780
When I was out there, I don't think that.

1845
02:35:35,280 --> 02:35:38,320
Yeah, the skate, I don't know what they call it.

1846
02:35:38,360 --> 02:35:40,000
The drop down the pool, I could call it.

1847
02:35:40,000 --> 02:35:43,340
Yeah, it looks like a skate park, that's all done.

1848
02:35:43,980 --> 02:35:45,600
I think the pump track is next.

1849
02:35:45,940 --> 02:35:51,880
Then they're going to go in and, you know, level certain areas and stuff,

1850
02:35:51,880 --> 02:35:56,700
You know, sculpt the sledding hill a little bit different, you know, and stuff.

1851
02:35:56,960 --> 02:35:58,020
So they'll be final touches.

1852
02:35:58,540 --> 02:36:01,680
Once all the heavy machinery is out of there, we're going to redo Lang Road.

1853
02:36:03,000 --> 02:36:04,820
And we'll be ready to open it.

1854
02:36:05,120 --> 02:36:08,980
So I mean, it's going to, it's looking really cool.

1855
02:36:09,080 --> 02:36:13,660
I couldn't believe, you know, just going over there, you know, Mr. Evans,

1856
02:36:13,960 --> 02:36:17,620
one Evans from the kind of executive office in his team came over.

1857
02:36:17,760 --> 02:36:18,740
And we all met over there.

1858
02:36:18,740 --> 02:36:22,360
stuff. He was very impressed, very happy with their part, you know, their part.

1859
02:36:22,360 --> 02:36:27,380
Sure, because there was. And he had to go, so he didn't even get a chance to go over and

1860
02:36:27,380 --> 02:36:32,320
see the dog park and stuff. And that was my first time seeing it all, it all fenced in everything

1861
02:36:32,320 --> 02:36:38,180
and Greedow was showing me how we got some old fire hydrants and stuff and put those in.

1862
02:36:38,200 --> 02:36:42,220
I couldn't believe how big it was. I'm like, you know, could you make it any big?

1863
02:36:43,340 --> 02:36:50,020
But it's unbelievable, it's going to be another fantastic park here in the city of Taylor.

1864
02:36:50,480 --> 02:36:55,560
In 2013, when you first were elected, okay, to the council.

1865
02:36:56,860 --> 02:37:04,540
Did you ever think that you'd be seeing that particular area of land developed again?

1866
02:37:04,540 --> 02:37:12,000
I mean, it turned, it was long gone, by that time, you know, laying part in Carl, I wasn't even

1867
02:37:12,000 --> 02:37:16,180
aware of laying part to be honest with you when I was a kid. So, you know, when I heard

1868
02:37:16,180 --> 02:37:20,000
it was like a water park and all that other stuff I had never went there. You know, we had

1869
02:37:20,000 --> 02:37:25,240
the Northwest pool. Sure, that's what we did. And I guess by the time maybe laying part

1870
02:37:25,240 --> 02:37:29,900
open, I was an older teenager, but I really didn't know of it, or I think somebody said,

1871
02:37:29,900 --> 02:37:34,240
so I might have been even in the Army. But I don't know. So I had never went over there

1872
02:37:35,400 --> 02:37:40,220
And like just as I joined the Little League board, they moved the haunted house that used

1873
02:37:40,220 --> 02:37:41,940
to be over there, over to back to Pat Park.

1874
02:37:42,060 --> 02:37:46,740
So I never really was familiar with it at all, and then one day, Guido, when I got elected,

1875
02:37:46,840 --> 02:37:51,680
he's like, well, let's go over there, and we've walked a whole place, you know, and I was

1876
02:37:51,680 --> 02:37:55,220
like, man, this place does need some, you know, that's when the paintball and everything

1877
02:37:55,220 --> 02:37:56,020
was there and stuff.

1878
02:37:56,020 --> 02:37:57,420
But I was looking for deer the whole time.

1879
02:37:57,420 --> 02:38:00,560
I was like, that's the right deer back there.

1880
02:38:01,520 --> 02:38:06,720
I remember I took the tour with several people, but John Madreco was with you all the time.

1881
02:38:07,620 --> 02:38:13,300
And John knew everything about like a park, and he's got, yeah, and you know, the

1882
02:38:13,300 --> 02:38:17,760
Dodgom cars used to be here, and the amphitheater was right here, and if we go around

1883
02:38:17,760 --> 02:38:21,900
this corner where this tree is, this was here, you know, it was really got a comic book.

1884
02:38:21,920 --> 02:38:25,240
Yeah, we had the Northwest pool, and then we would ride our bikes up the midway.

1885
02:38:25,260 --> 02:38:25,860
Sure, you know.

1886
02:38:25,860 --> 02:38:26,020
Sure.

1887
02:38:26,020 --> 02:38:31,600
old Carson, but I had never really done there, you know, so it was, but to see what it's

1888
02:38:31,600 --> 02:38:39,740
becoming and that was just me, Dan and we don't really sit in a room and crunching something

1889
02:38:39,740 --> 02:38:45,460
really quick with them. I think we had seven or ten days to come up with a new plan and to knock

1890
02:38:45,460 --> 02:38:52,020
that out what we did and to see the county because I thought the county was maybe a little

1891
02:38:52,020 --> 02:38:54,400
only given us 50% with the amount of our

1892
02:38:54,400 --> 02:38:57,220
perfons that they had. But when I look at how much

1893
02:38:57,220 --> 02:39:00,020
everybody else got on different things, we did

1894
02:39:00,020 --> 02:39:04,100
really good. I'm happy that we got 50% now.

1895
02:39:05,220 --> 02:39:07,760
And I think people are going to be very happy with that

1896
02:39:07,760 --> 02:39:09,440
park when they see the finished product.

1897
02:39:09,840 --> 02:39:12,820
When do you think, I mean, realistically, when you

1898
02:39:12,820 --> 02:39:14,860
think it's going to open? I mean, we've had several

1899
02:39:14,860 --> 02:39:18,260
different things. I mean, I was hoping for like July

1900
02:39:18,260 --> 02:39:21,460
August, but I'm thinking maybe end August, you know,

1901
02:39:21,460 --> 02:39:30,800
Or had it, you know, I don't know, I was kind of, you know, I don't know why the pump track hasn't been poured yet in the studio,

1902
02:39:32,880 --> 02:39:32,880
but

1903
02:39:32,880 --> 02:39:38,760
Gwido's got so much fun as well. He does, you know, I mean, I would get my shout out early, you know, I mean,

1904
02:39:38,980 --> 02:39:48,380
between some of the festival, we got, you know, we got some big things coming at Heritage Park still, you know, and then we got Pickle Ball, so he's,

1905
02:39:48,380 --> 02:39:54,520
got a lot, he's had a lot on his plate and stuff, but yeah, I think, you know, maybe I don't

1906
02:39:54,520 --> 02:39:59,980
know, I will see how quick it goes, but I would love to see it happen in August, but it might.

1907
02:40:00,780 --> 02:40:27,300
Okay. Let's speak in a pick-up ball. Those courts going in at Heritage Park. Okay. I know there was a little bit of the lady that we had a crack. There was a crack in the court. And they had we instantly said that we want to hold new, you know. Right. But even better than that, huge new place gate. It's going just to the south. It's going to connect with the old place gate. And they're going to refurbish that. And this is a biggie.

1908
02:40:28,180 --> 02:40:32,000
uh... so many residents when they talk about place gates and kids

1909
02:40:32,000 --> 02:40:34,340
they constantly refer to heritage park

1910
02:40:34,900 --> 02:40:37,640
and uh... and it's funny because that's

1911
02:40:37,640 --> 02:40:41,080
probably the oldest one we have you know compared with the other

1912
02:40:41,080 --> 02:40:44,280
gotta be excited about that because that really kind of makes everything come together

1913
02:40:44,280 --> 02:40:48,140
so many kids in the car when i was on council i was something that i used to talk to

1914
02:40:48,140 --> 02:40:53,100
you know cdbg about and i used to talk to rick about it and i said you know because

1915
02:40:53,100 --> 02:41:18,340
You know, I hate to say, but, you know, my kids, I didn't have any, but I have friends and family, you know, a lot that have, you know, disabilities, you know, and I just, I love the fact I want to see kids to be able to play together and I don't want to see, you know, this group have to play over here and this group of us. So it was always something that I wanted to do even when I was on council.

1916
02:41:18,340 --> 02:41:23,940
So, you know, when we'd have talk about CDBG spending funds and it's like, well, what can we do here?

1917
02:41:24,000 --> 02:41:26,120
Can we get the swings that, you know, and stuff?

1918
02:41:26,960 --> 02:41:34,200
So, when I came in, that was something that I was focusing on, you know, and, you know, I had a couple priorities that I wanted to get in this.

1919
02:41:34,220 --> 02:41:37,320
That was definitely one of them, but we had to get the funds to do it.

1920
02:41:37,400 --> 02:41:46,840
So, when we did Lang Park, there's definitely a lot of those features, but not all the ones because I knew we were going to do this.

1921
02:41:46,840 --> 02:41:54,300
And I think Lang Park will definitely compete with Heritage Park, but Heritage Park is our diamond.

1922
02:41:54,780 --> 02:41:56,880
And I wanted to continue to be our diamond.

1923
02:41:57,220 --> 02:42:02,840
You know, and I think this park will be, it will touch everyone.

1924
02:42:03,760 --> 02:42:16,140
Everyone that has a child or even an adult child that has disabilities will be able to partake in something at this park.

1925
02:42:16,140 --> 02:42:24,380
And probably multiple things. So we're kind of focusing on laying park right now and once we get that we're really going to blow this up

1926
02:42:24,380 --> 02:42:31,460
But people are going to start seeing work being done right after the junior late world series. Oh, when you look at heritage park, I mean

1927
02:42:32,200 --> 02:42:37,200
You know, there was a lot of heavy lifting that was done at the beginning. Okay, and it's set up

1928
02:42:38,000 --> 02:42:42,000
What the park is now, but a lot of those

1929
02:42:42,000 --> 02:42:45,740
You almost can describe them as little things but they're not little things.

1930
02:42:46,300 --> 02:42:47,840
You came in, they're very first thing.

1931
02:42:48,420 --> 02:42:51,400
You are always on light, the trails.

1932
02:42:52,220 --> 02:42:56,540
And when you lift the trail back of the park up a little bit, when you lift the trails,

1933
02:42:57,580 --> 02:43:01,660
it really changes the whole park at night.

1934
02:43:01,740 --> 02:43:04,180
I mean, it really makes a gigantic difference.

1935
02:43:04,520 --> 02:43:10,940
And then you look at Pickleball, which is very, very popular, you look at the place

1936
02:43:10,940 --> 02:43:18,500
Because you have so many kids at the park, and every 11-year-old that's playing soccer or

1937
02:43:18,500 --> 02:43:25,960
baseball at the park has probably a five-year-old brother or sister whose mom is looking

1938
02:43:25,960 --> 02:43:31,600
to where can I take this kid, you know, and we met with all these different groups.

1939
02:43:31,620 --> 02:43:37,960
They came in and pitched ideas and stuff and many of them have actually kids and people

1940
02:43:37,960 --> 02:43:43,840
with these disabilities, whether they're in a chair or in some can get in a chair or

1941
02:43:43,840 --> 02:43:50,140
some can't, they work for these companies and some have just like kids that come in and

1942
02:43:50,140 --> 02:43:54,660
test their state, you know, and it's awesome, and it was watching these videos was incredible.

1943
02:43:55,340 --> 02:44:00,380
So we learned so much about just each one's needs and requirements, you know, learning

1944
02:44:00,380 --> 02:44:08,360
about kids that can get out of chairs and kids that can't, you know, and stuff and kids that

1945
02:44:08,360 --> 02:44:13,880
can get out of chairs can transition onto it and they love to climb, you know, but they need

1946
02:44:13,880 --> 02:44:19,000
that little resting spot, you know, or something, so you'll see that at laying park and stuff,

1947
02:44:19,240 --> 02:44:25,860
but there's also kids that can't get out of chairs, you know, and, you know, that's on the lower

1948
02:44:25,860 --> 02:44:31,800
and of, you know, but still, I want them to be able to partake and they make things where

1949
02:44:31,800 --> 02:44:38,440
kids can play with, kids insurers can play with kids that are not insurers and they make equipment

1950
02:44:38,440 --> 02:44:43,480
and it's pretty quiet. I don't want to give too much away right now, but it's going to be awesome,

1951
02:44:44,700 --> 02:44:49,920
but I'm sure somebody, you know, I mean, I'm just going to be absolutely incredible and,

1952
02:44:49,980 --> 02:44:54,940
you know, I do talk to people that have those children and stuff that are my friends and family

1953
02:44:54,940 --> 02:44:59,440
And I try to get there a few back because, you know, I'm going to ask them about like, hey,

1954
02:45:00,020 --> 02:45:07,580
I don't even know how to say things, as long as your hearts are in the right place. They can't even keep up with the lingo anymore, you know, and stuff.

1955
02:45:08,160 --> 02:45:20,340
Oh, my goodness. Well, I'm very excited. This has been, when it comes to weather and Michigan, this has been one of those, it's either hotter than 80s or it's colder than that.

1956
02:45:21,660 --> 02:45:35,380
We recently have replaced HVAC systems in a lot of these buildings and talk about a time that makes it tough when you don't have air in these buildings because you can't open the windows, you can't do a lot of things.

1957
02:45:36,600 --> 02:45:40,140
It seems like that's always coming to a, it's for wishing though.

1958
02:45:40,140 --> 02:45:41,420
Yeah, everything is done.

1959
02:45:41,640 --> 02:45:47,040
I think they're finally, we ended up having to get a mobile unit for lakes, because there

1960
02:45:47,040 --> 02:45:47,580
was delays.

1961
02:45:47,820 --> 02:45:54,320
They have a certain type down coils in the basement or something, but yeah, it took a little,

1962
02:45:54,860 --> 02:46:00,720
we didn't expect to get the hottest spring that we did, and as you know me and Mr. Bizarre

1963
02:46:00,720 --> 02:46:02,600
probably suffered from that.

1964
02:46:02,840 --> 02:46:03,400
You guys right?

1965
02:46:03,560 --> 02:46:03,880
Yeah.

1966
02:46:03,880 --> 02:46:08,100
We stuck it out and we said we could probably could have asked for one of those mobile

1967
02:46:08,100 --> 02:46:13,420
AC units that I said no we're not going to do it because of people we understand people are

1968
02:46:13,420 --> 02:46:17,400
hot and if they want to complain they can come up to our office and it was funny every

1969
02:46:17,400 --> 02:46:22,080
time somebody was in our office they were like my god how are you doing you know and

1970
02:46:22,080 --> 02:46:28,740
entrust me me damn Michelle and say we were all it was tough yes I remember going to your

1971
02:46:28,740 --> 02:46:33,180
office during that time frame when it was really hot and they were working on the

1972
02:46:33,180 --> 02:46:37,840
you were stuck like this to your death. Oh yeah. Hey Carl, how you doing? I can't move.

1973
02:46:38,080 --> 02:46:46,840
Yeah. Or if I was on my computer and I'd lean up and I'd have people. It was brutal and it's

1974
02:46:46,840 --> 02:46:50,860
kind of funny now because me and Dan don't want to say anything but sometimes we're at

1975
02:46:50,860 --> 02:46:56,340
cool freezing out there right now. Yeah, well you got to watch what you're asking. Well I'm in

1976
02:46:56,340 --> 02:47:02,900
always projects and improvements. We've had major renovations to the course at the Lake

1977
02:47:02,900 --> 02:47:07,020
to Taylor and now they're moving over to Meto's,

1978
02:47:07,220 --> 02:47:08,540
I have you been out there, have you seen?

1979
02:47:08,660 --> 02:47:11,140
I have not, so like there's been multiple times

1980
02:47:11,140 --> 02:47:13,220
that I wanted to go over and see the work

1981
02:47:13,220 --> 02:47:15,500
that's been done, but it seems like every time

1982
02:47:15,500 --> 02:47:17,260
I get a little free time to think about it,

1983
02:47:17,300 --> 02:47:20,200
it starts raining, no worries, something, so I've heard

1984
02:47:20,200 --> 02:47:24,180
it's beautiful, everybody that I have been out to Meto

1985
02:47:24,180 --> 02:47:26,340
is but there hasn't been any work being done.

1986
02:47:28,080 --> 02:47:31,360
That course looks great, but I have not been out on lakes,

1987
02:47:31,360 --> 02:47:36,520
you know, so um, but I hear everybody that I know that's been out since it's been

1988
02:47:36,520 --> 02:47:42,060
really far away has been good. It was uh, it was tough, you know, when we did the nine

1989
02:47:42,060 --> 02:47:46,300
holes, you know, there wasn't, we thought more people would maybe golf the nine, you know,

1990
02:47:46,300 --> 02:47:51,220
so that was a little tough and then the fact that we were having it was so hot in the

1991
02:47:51,220 --> 02:47:55,560
building, people weren't going in the needing and stuff. So it was kind of, but we wanted

1992
02:47:55,560 --> 02:48:01,980
time it to where hey let's get this done at one point you know and it was tough you know and it was

1993
02:48:01,980 --> 02:48:08,680
tough on those guys and you know there was you know you know I'll tell you the spring was warm

1994
02:48:08,680 --> 02:48:14,980
it was warm a lot of people and some of these buildings I don't police were struggling we were I mean

1995
02:48:14,980 --> 02:48:21,280
there was a couple times I call it weird oh like I don't know how much longer yeah you know and stuff so

1996
02:48:22,740 --> 02:48:27,920
But I think Lake should be, I don't know if they're actually running fully on their own area,

1997
02:48:28,080 --> 02:48:34,360
but we did have to bring in a separate unit of, let's go on to Priority Waste.

1998
02:48:34,900 --> 02:48:39,680
Now they've, and that's our city's curbside service provider for trash compost bulk,

1999
02:48:40,840 --> 02:48:44,840
recently made the news for everything that they didn't want to make the news for.

2000
02:48:44,840 --> 02:48:51,820
a lot of struggles, various cities had them, we've had them here with them keeping up with

2001
02:48:51,820 --> 02:48:57,480
with the job that they're employed to. Lead to some major changes with the company.

2002
02:48:58,140 --> 02:49:04,440
I know just in the past couple weeks you had them in here and had what you termed as a really

2003
02:49:04,440 --> 02:49:10,140
good frank conversation with them. What can you tell the residents about? Where is this going

2004
02:49:10,140 --> 02:49:14,660
with priority waste? Because we did sign 10-year contract with them. We're three years in something like

2005
02:49:14,660 --> 02:49:44,480
Yeah, that saved a lot of money from the tax dollars viewpoint, but now you have, you know, this, there's issues, you know, so, you know, not many times do you see a company remove their CEO, like basically the guy that founded the company, right, so kudos to them for doing that, you know, I often say sometimes when I came in to council,

2006
02:49:45,020 --> 02:49:52,040
year one we came into a deficit and it took us some time to get out of that a little bit. So they brought in a new CEO

2007
02:49:53,320 --> 02:49:59,540
And we have a rep, you know, his name's Paul. He hears from me often. I'll tell you that.

2008
02:50:00,000 --> 02:50:17,460
He's a good guy. I have nothing against them, but he knows how I am and business is business, you know, we can be friendly and everything, but when it comes down to business, sometimes, you know. But again, I do things privately and professionally. That's the way I like to be treated that way, you know.

2009
02:50:19,560 --> 02:50:29,980
So he explained to me what was going on, because the company that took over a little bit of a hedge fund company type thing, made us a little nervous like, oh, what's going on?

2010
02:50:30,000 --> 02:50:35,860
on here and stuff. The fact that they invested a ton of money, I think it was like $100 million.

2011
02:50:36,080 --> 02:50:41,460
That made us breathe a lot easier. You know, they're in for the long haul. The thing that I really

2012
02:50:41,460 --> 02:50:46,180
liked hearing, you know, Paul's a garbage guy. He had his own garbage company and stuff.

2013
02:50:47,040 --> 02:50:52,420
This guy was part of a garbage company. His dad found it, you know, so he grew up in the business.

2014
02:50:52,780 --> 02:50:58,740
He knows and just from meeting with Paul and actually I'm having a meeting with the new CEO,

2015
02:50:58,740 --> 02:51:04,480
I think in the next couple of weeks or something like that to meet him and stuff so I feel they're

2016
02:51:04,480 --> 02:51:10,160
definitely on the right track. They're actually doing pretty well. I mean, on average I think there

2017
02:51:10,160 --> 02:51:17,100
may be a day behind on compost sometimes two days. One of the issues is there is compost requires

2018
02:51:17,100 --> 02:51:23,740
throwers. They need people behind and that's becoming harder and harder to hire. People don't want

2019
02:51:23,740 --> 02:51:30,980
do that job, you know, they're getting new trucks, you know, and there's a lot of things

2020
02:51:30,980 --> 02:51:37,280
these new trucks can do, which is going to help them, saves them time and money. I think,

2021
02:51:37,500 --> 02:51:41,200
you know, they were talking about like the arm actually tracks, it's going to help us track things

2022
02:51:41,200 --> 02:51:46,420
and stuff, so I definitely feel like they're on the right track. We're working with them,

2023
02:51:46,420 --> 02:51:51,500
But we're also letting them know that, you know, we're on it.

2024
02:51:52,140 --> 02:51:55,620
I don't care.

2025
02:51:56,280 --> 02:51:57,480
You have a job to do.

2026
02:51:57,840 --> 02:52:02,540
Me and you talk about things when we'll get into this maybe more with the storm.

2027
02:52:03,940 --> 02:52:09,220
But when there's things to be put out, when there's things to be discussed, I reach out to you.

2028
02:52:09,240 --> 02:52:09,420
Sure.

2029
02:52:09,740 --> 02:52:11,400
And I have you do it.

2030
02:52:11,500 --> 02:52:12,620
You know, that's your job.

2031
02:52:13,900 --> 02:52:16,460
I can talk sometimes once in a while, I will do it.

2032
02:52:16,460 --> 02:52:22,500
know, but there's times that I don't, I don't feel the need that I need to stick a camera

2033
02:52:22,500 --> 02:52:27,600
in my own face and talk it out this and raw, raw, raw, raw, raw, raw. I'm not doing that.

2034
02:52:27,920 --> 02:52:32,100
And you know why I'm not doing that? Because I'm not running for any other position ever again.

2035
02:52:32,940 --> 02:52:37,940
Okay. You know, I don't want to seek any higher position or anything like that. So I'm

2036
02:52:37,940 --> 02:52:43,120
content on the in the makeup tailor. And when I need to call somebody and let them know

2037
02:52:43,120 --> 02:52:49,420
I'm not happy about some eye promise you I'm doing it and you know I'm doing it and you know so these people that

2038
02:52:49,420 --> 02:52:52,100
You know want to get on here and

2039
02:52:52,100 --> 02:52:58,180
Where's woolly where I'm right here. Yeah, I'm right here. I'm right here all the time right you know, so

2040
02:52:59,380 --> 02:53:02,120
I got it

2041
02:53:04,960 --> 02:53:06,780
You know, you know, even

2042
02:53:07,340 --> 02:53:10,240
Even around the block with these

2043
02:53:10,240 --> 02:53:16,460
waste haulers a little bit now. Okay, started with Midwest sanitation, which was our

2044
02:53:16,460 --> 02:53:20,240
carrier when I first got under 13 years ago when both of them went to GFL.

2045
02:53:20,640 --> 02:53:24,780
Well, that went to RISO. Oh, RISO, yeah. That went to GFL. And we had to remove.

2046
02:53:24,880 --> 02:53:31,020
Right. And we had to remove GFL, you know, uh, careful. Exactly. We won't talk too much about that.

2047
02:53:31,620 --> 02:53:39,360
And then we went to priority ways. And it seems like, you know, the big whoever gets to the top

2048
02:53:39,360 --> 02:53:46,040
mountain eats everything else around them, you know? Who are you going to turn to?

2049
02:53:46,360 --> 02:53:51,020
Well, that's the end. You know, Carl. I mean, that's the other thing. You have to see, you know,

2050
02:53:51,020 --> 02:53:55,240
I don't think a lot of people realize that there's not a whole lot out there. Right. You know,

2051
02:53:55,340 --> 02:54:02,700
waste management is very, they don't even bid on him. Republicans basically gone on household pick-up.

2052
02:54:03,000 --> 02:54:06,800
Right. You know, I think they only do roll off and I think they're even almost getting out of that a little bit.

2053
02:54:08,580 --> 02:54:13,520
waste management doesn't really do a whole lot in less it's like right

2054
02:54:13,520 --> 02:54:16,900
that's the one of their dumps that's where they make you know and they're very

2055
02:54:16,900 --> 02:54:22,980
expensive you know they they're they're even having issues you know so there's

2056
02:54:22,980 --> 02:54:29,000
not a lot out I think there's a new startup sure but I think the owner might have

2057
02:54:29,000 --> 02:54:34,840
one of those last names that you said earlier you know which you know it's so

2058
02:54:34,840 --> 02:54:42,260
We're willing to work with this company we have and see the direction they're going in but knowing that

2059
02:54:42,260 --> 02:54:47,960
You know, they just had a hiccup in their company and we're willing to work, you know, but in the same sense, you know

2060
02:54:47,960 --> 02:54:52,660
One of the biggest things that you didn't talk about to is cans. You know, that was a big issue

2061
02:54:52,660 --> 02:54:58,080
You know, and we're addressing that, you know, and like hey, we're we're we out on that and stuff and so

2062
02:54:58,860 --> 02:54:59,960
We were really happy

2063
02:55:01,320 --> 02:55:19,580
We're seeing if that comes to fruition because if it doesn't, then I think that was one of the issues that may be led to the change, because a lot of people, including us, yeah, we're getting cans, we're getting cans, we're getting cans and when nobody was ever getting it, and I don't even think they were being ordered.

2064
02:55:19,760 --> 02:55:29,800
That was a real big portion of the frustration on the part of the residents. It's one thing if you trash is out there for a longer than it should be.

2065
02:55:29,800 --> 02:55:33,420
It's another thing if you can't replace the container.

2066
02:55:33,520 --> 02:55:35,120
Well, not only that, but if I pay for it.

2067
02:55:35,860 --> 02:55:39,000
If I pay for a can, six months ago, and I still don't have a can,

2068
02:55:39,220 --> 02:55:40,180
you should have took my money.

2069
02:55:40,440 --> 02:55:46,720
And I think if I'm not mistaken, the new CEO's latest correspondence

2070
02:55:46,720 --> 02:55:49,020
with the residents and the cities and stuff,

2071
02:55:49,320 --> 02:55:53,820
I believe they said it was a 19,000 can, the new containers.

2072
02:55:54,600 --> 02:55:57,080
I think they ordered that, and those are bad.

2073
02:55:57,080 --> 02:56:02,280
And she, this next batch, I believe, you know, we're, you know, we were told, because

2074
02:56:02,280 --> 02:56:06,740
there's still people waiting, you know, we're, yeah, we're hoping that, yeah, it gets caught

2075
02:56:06,740 --> 02:56:07,440
up and stuff.

2076
02:56:08,060 --> 02:56:13,580
But, you know, it's, it was, you know, there was a lot of, there was a quite a few issues there

2077
02:56:13,580 --> 02:56:14,320
and stuff.

2078
02:56:16,080 --> 02:56:21,220
So, you know, we're working with them, but we're also letting them know, you know, hey, you

2079
02:56:21,220 --> 02:56:29,800
know, but I think the difference to is, and maybe I've then told this to, the way you handle

2080
02:56:30,600 --> 02:56:37,320
things might work in your favor as well, if I were at times, because I think going publicly

2081
02:56:37,320 --> 02:56:41,220
bashing somebody and doing something, do you think that's going to get them to pick your

2082
02:56:41,220 --> 02:56:41,680
trash up?

2083
02:56:41,960 --> 02:56:43,340
Because some people think that.

2084
02:56:43,760 --> 02:56:48,380
Some people think, if I go on social media, the squeaky wheel is going to, and you know,

2085
02:56:48,380 --> 02:56:52,260
but well as me, that it don't work with me.

2086
02:56:52,560 --> 02:56:55,520
If you go on social media and you rip me apart all day long,

2087
02:56:55,800 --> 02:56:58,380
that's not going to get me, there's other people already

2088
02:56:58,380 --> 02:57:00,920
waiting that have gone through the process.

2089
02:57:01,740 --> 02:57:04,560
So that you can go on and talk about me or the city.

2090
02:57:05,040 --> 02:57:07,180
We're not going to, now, if it's a legit, something

2091
02:57:07,180 --> 02:57:09,620
or something, but you're not going to go to the head of the line

2092
02:57:09,620 --> 02:57:10,940
because you're talking about me.

2093
02:57:11,760 --> 02:57:14,120
That's just part of, you know, there's people

2094
02:57:14,120 --> 02:57:16,060
that have done it properly in that are waiting.

2095
02:57:16,060 --> 02:57:20,640
so you know there's a process well I think when you're associated with these companies again

2096
02:57:20,640 --> 02:57:26,740
I don't get to make call on this okay but when you are associated with these companies you do

2097
02:57:26,740 --> 02:57:32,560
develop a partnership okay we need a professional acquaintance whatever you want to call you know some

2098
02:57:32,560 --> 02:57:36,920
people would call it friendship it's not really friendship no there's relationship there's a relationship

2099
02:57:36,920 --> 02:57:44,160
business yeah exactly you know hey and you know I know that the council and the city has covered

2100
02:57:44,160 --> 02:57:48,480
it's behind here because despite fact you have a 10-year contract, you can get out of that

2101
02:57:48,480 --> 02:57:55,200
contract at almost any time. That said, I don't think anybody in the right mind wants

2102
02:57:55,200 --> 02:58:04,060
to switch providers just to switch providers. Okay. My opinion is give them an opportunity

2103
02:58:04,060 --> 02:58:08,940
to get the thing right. What is the number one we did do that the last time? Sure.

2104
02:58:08,940 --> 02:58:16,060
It was no it was unbelievably not even comparison to what we're going right now right, you know, so

2105
02:58:16,060 --> 02:58:20,920
There was a big difference you know, and you know, there's frustration

2106
02:58:20,920 --> 02:58:27,020
I get it and stuff like that, but they're also going through changes in their company and I think it's for the better

2107
02:58:27,020 --> 02:58:32,480
Right, and hopefully this will all be just part of the passion you know when we when we move on

2108
02:58:34,080 --> 02:58:36,960
Over the well, I'm skip the question here

2109
02:58:36,960 --> 02:58:43,180
Junior League World Series is coming up in Taylor, August the 9th through the 16th, at

2110
02:58:43,180 --> 02:58:48,900
the same time in Heritage Park the wall that he holds, a three-quarter-size replica of the

2111
02:58:48,900 --> 02:58:55,400
Vietnam Memorial will be on display on the northern part of the park near the soccer fields.

2112
02:58:56,420 --> 02:59:00,720
And that will be going on from August the 13th through the 16th.

2113
02:59:00,800 --> 02:59:05,280
You're a veteran, you're a sponsor, this sounds like an exciting time at Taylor's.

2114
02:59:05,280 --> 02:59:08,880
Yeah, we're, you know, I'm always excited for the World Series, but to be able to bring

2115
02:59:08,880 --> 02:59:13,560
that wall, you know, this year is absolutely incredible and we did, you know, first

2116
02:59:13,560 --> 02:59:16,740
where we thought it would be great to be able to combine the two as well.

2117
02:59:16,880 --> 02:59:19,320
You sure are going to have a lot of people going through here, you know, working to have

2118
02:59:19,320 --> 02:59:20,260
this there.

2119
02:59:20,380 --> 02:59:25,240
You know, people from all over not just Taylor, I think I'm going to come see this, then it's

2120
02:59:26,160 --> 02:59:26,360
slimmer.

2121
02:59:27,060 --> 02:59:30,800
Yeah, I kind of messed it up, but he was responsible for getting that to come here.

2122
02:59:30,800 --> 02:59:36,520
created a group of volunteers that are heading it up. I know we're always looking for volunteers.

2123
02:59:36,840 --> 02:59:41,260
Angie went and is heading that up. Our former councilwoman, you can find her on social media.

2124
02:59:41,480 --> 02:59:47,240
She's always posting because there has to be somebody at that wall all 24-7. The entire

2125
02:59:47,240 --> 02:59:51,900
time is here. So we're looking for volunteers to kind of help set it up to help break it down when

2126
02:59:51,900 --> 02:59:58,980
it's ready to go. I think they're looking for motorcycles are going to bring it in once it gets

2127
02:59:58,980 --> 02:59:59,980
So the mission can border us.

2128
03:00:02,020 --> 03:00:29,980
So I think it's going to be incredible. I mean, we're already Dan, you know, being the director of the Junior League World Series, we're going to have the teams come over and check it out, you know, in between games and stuff. And so I think it's going to be a great addition to that park, you know, during that time, and we're making, you know, we're going to have golf carts there for people that might not be able to make it over there as well. There's going to be parking. There's going to be signs lit up everything, but that is going to be a 24-7, you know, people looking at it.

2129
03:00:30,000 --> 03:00:36,160
go there and you can actually set up tours as well like you want to bring a group of kids or

2130
03:00:36,160 --> 03:00:41,820
something like that. So we're looking for two or people that will do tours as well and stuff like

2131
03:00:41,820 --> 03:00:49,160
that. So I'm hoping to do some of that. I told Angie, I said I'm sorry but I'm not going to be able to

2132
03:00:49,160 --> 03:00:54,960
commit to anything. We get right close, which you totally understand, but I'm looking forward to seeing

2133
03:00:54,960 --> 03:01:00,980
I know they're also going to have a projection room like for people that are not in there,

2134
03:01:01,200 --> 03:01:07,020
but if you know, I think Angie's going to be on there, Kimber and Michelle's dad will

2135
03:01:07,020 --> 03:01:11,900
both be in there, you know, that lost her life because of Agent Orange and her own stuff.

2136
03:01:12,800 --> 03:01:17,180
And so, there's going to be a real, and I think it's a little trailer or something that

2137
03:01:17,180 --> 03:01:18,960
I write show, you know, those.

2138
03:01:19,280 --> 03:01:22,040
And I think it's going to be a great thing, and I'm looking forward to it.

2139
03:01:22,040 --> 03:01:30,120
I'm glad you mentioned Schlimmer because he's going to be on with us on a couple of days and we were going to do a preview for a

2140
03:01:30,120 --> 03:01:39,520
destination now, driver in addition to our cable network. He deserves a lot of kudos. He's not the type of guy who goes for

2141
03:01:39,960 --> 03:01:49,760
He doesn't strike me as the type of guy who's looking to make a name for something. But his story is interesting because he's not

2142
03:01:49,760 --> 03:01:50,800
He's not a veteran.

2143
03:01:51,520 --> 03:01:52,800
No, I think he did his dad.

2144
03:01:53,460 --> 03:01:53,980
Yeah, he did.

2145
03:01:54,660 --> 03:01:56,100
He did it for his dad.

2146
03:01:57,500 --> 03:01:58,820
And it's really kind of a good story.

2147
03:01:59,300 --> 03:02:00,320
Yeah, it's what it's all about.

2148
03:02:00,400 --> 03:02:02,880
You know, in Carl, you see so much of that.

2149
03:02:02,920 --> 03:02:06,640
And that's what makes me, you know, as of that,

2150
03:02:06,740 --> 03:02:09,500
I can tell you, you know, when I was the president of Victory Gym

2151
03:02:09,500 --> 03:02:12,060
and just part of the W because you got out of Zilaries

2152
03:02:12,060 --> 03:02:16,580
and stuff that even people that, you know, Charlie Johnson

2153
03:02:16,580 --> 03:02:19,180
with the museum, you know, his dad was about there's,

2154
03:02:19,180 --> 03:02:24,320
There's people that just aren't veterans, but they do so much for veterans, you know,

2155
03:02:24,420 --> 03:02:28,260
Mayor McCray to rhyme, you know, that's what foundation 14 and Stutters, you know,

2156
03:02:29,400 --> 03:02:33,820
I, when I was in Mac, I saw Gary Sinese talk, that man's story.

2157
03:02:33,940 --> 03:02:38,140
When he's an interesting guy, the things that man has done for everyone, it's unbelievable, you

2158
03:02:38,140 --> 03:02:43,160
know, and it's just, there's so many people out there that are either just trying to honor

2159
03:02:43,160 --> 03:02:48,860
a family member or something that they may have never served, but to me, that's incredible, you

2160
03:02:48,860 --> 03:02:51,940
you might not have the title, but you're not a rarity.

2161
03:02:52,540 --> 03:02:56,460
It's amazing how that goes sometime, how it develops sometime.

2162
03:02:56,760 --> 03:03:03,500
I get it that somebody like Tom Hanks is on maybe a little different level than what we're

2163
03:03:03,500 --> 03:03:05,040
talking about.

2164
03:03:05,520 --> 03:03:11,640
But even him, okay, when you're looking at a guy like that, and I remember watching, it was

2165
03:03:11,640 --> 03:03:20,060
government channel or something, the ceremonial D-Day thing, and it wasn't real or

2166
03:03:20,060 --> 03:03:24,720
sure, but it was a good one this year. Yeah, he doesn't want to work too or something.

2167
03:03:24,840 --> 03:03:31,660
But it was amazing, because this was a couple years ago, and when he got there, the whole

2168
03:03:31,660 --> 03:03:41,400
thing changed, it was like he was a celebrity, because he's done so many different, profoundly

2169
03:03:41,400 --> 03:03:50,240
good warfare from band of brothers to, you know, to the rest of them, you know, it's really kind of an amazing

2170
03:03:50,240 --> 03:03:57,860
how it draws you from everywhere. That's really, that's really, that's really pretty cool.

2171
03:03:58,880 --> 03:04:05,560
Lastly, let's take a look back at the Taylor Summer Festival. We just had that week and half ago,

2172
03:04:06,880 --> 03:04:12,980
seemed really successful, June the 25th through 20th, tremendous fireworks show.

2173
03:04:13,160 --> 03:04:21,760
I mean, just amazing, sponsored by J.N.T. Kova, concerts by Countrystar Chase Rice,

2174
03:04:22,400 --> 03:04:28,480
along with Zach John King, and the family tradition, rock concert with Eve under fire

2175
03:04:28,480 --> 03:04:36,380
along with Daniel Harrison and the two dollar highway and local town. They feel, we have

2176
03:04:36,380 --> 03:04:41,660
any significant problems now. We had a race about Saturday, we had one little teenager

2177
03:04:41,660 --> 03:04:49,720
fight thing in the ocean. We made, we were showing that we weren't playing, we had multiple

2178
03:04:49,720 --> 03:04:56,220
cop cars over there and threw him in a bag of the car and got him out of there. I was happy

2179
03:04:56,220 --> 03:04:59,900
everything. Everything was great. I would have liked to see maybe a few more.

2180
03:05:00,000 --> 03:05:26,800
People, especially Friday night, talking with some people, I think this whole team take over, definitely hurt a little bit, you know, which is sad, really is. I thought that I'm not a big country, you know, you heard me that, but I thought that was a solid line up. The shows were great. I thought they were, you know, I watched them and stuff, got to meet the guys. They were all super cool. Chase Rice was really cool. He brought his dog with him.

2181
03:05:26,800 --> 03:05:31,540
And I was, that Zac John King was a really cool.

2182
03:05:32,000 --> 03:05:34,580
I enjoyed him, my wife got a little crush on him.

2183
03:05:34,980 --> 03:05:36,560
I only enjoyed this show himself.

2184
03:05:37,740 --> 03:05:40,800
And then the family tradition band, those guys are super great.

2185
03:05:41,000 --> 03:05:43,580
You know, they played here before and they're always willing,

2186
03:05:44,000 --> 03:05:47,480
you know, I talked to those guys on a regular basis, you know, and stuff.

2187
03:05:48,200 --> 03:05:49,820
So I thought it was a great night.

2188
03:05:49,840 --> 03:05:51,020
And I really enjoyed it.

2189
03:05:51,080 --> 03:05:52,180
We had a good turnout.

2190
03:05:52,500 --> 03:05:54,720
I was just hoping maybe expecting a few more people there.

2191
03:05:54,720 --> 03:05:59,400
I don't know, and Saturday night was awesome, you know, it was unfortunate, you know,

2192
03:05:59,440 --> 03:06:05,060
bad flower had to cancel on us. So we kind of had a scramble. We could not get another,

2193
03:06:05,060 --> 03:06:12,320
you know, band with that short notice, the ones that we had were either not worth bringing in.

2194
03:06:12,480 --> 03:06:16,580
They wanted way too much money for the bands that I thought, you know, I'm like, there's no way

2195
03:06:16,580 --> 03:06:21,720
we're paying them this much money. And then some of the people, you know, I don't know, maybe

2196
03:06:21,720 --> 03:06:27,220
they knew we were in a buying, they wanted way too much, no way, and then so worked out

2197
03:06:27,220 --> 03:06:33,120
good, I ran into, so my friend is the drummer of Daniel Harris in right $2.00 highway,

2198
03:06:33,440 --> 03:06:38,900
Rich who was also hard-core upon, you know, everybody, so he reached out to me, you know,

2199
03:06:38,900 --> 03:06:44,180
good drummer, yeah, he'd run back in the day, you know, I was joking, because a lot of

2200
03:06:44,180 --> 03:06:48,640
my friends played drums for some reason, and then so he reached out to me, he's like,

2201
03:06:48,640 --> 03:06:49,480
It's been a while.

2202
03:06:49,540 --> 03:06:51,280
We ran into somewhere and he's like, let's get lunch.

2203
03:06:52,080 --> 03:06:52,200
And something.

2204
03:06:53,460 --> 03:06:55,240
And because we were buddies in high school.

2205
03:06:55,980 --> 03:06:58,120
And so we actually went to BJs over here.

2206
03:06:59,160 --> 03:07:01,040
And it was so funny because everybody,

2207
03:07:01,040 --> 03:07:04,380
he's got the go-tee, everybody recognized them from the show.

2208
03:07:05,060 --> 03:07:07,080
And so we're eating lunch and people would come up.

2209
03:07:08,220 --> 03:07:09,780
And you could kind of see them, you know,

2210
03:07:09,820 --> 03:07:11,840
and they're like, are you the kind of stuff?

2211
03:07:12,140 --> 03:07:17,140
Yeah, you know, and you see people try to,

2212
03:07:17,140 --> 03:07:23,820
Why is it here? I mean with this you know and stuff and it was so funny, but we had a great launch and it was nice catching up and I told him I said hey

2213
03:07:24,620 --> 03:07:28,820
You know, we'd love to you know, we're we need another band and I know you know

2214
03:07:28,820 --> 03:07:30,480
I see you know and he's like yeah

2215
03:07:30,480 --> 03:07:35,440
Let me let me check the date and I said well, we did put another we did put an offer on somebody right

2216
03:07:36,000 --> 03:07:39,420
But their base player was out of town or something you know

2217
03:07:39,420 --> 03:07:41,080
I don't think a man don't you have a wait

2218
03:07:41,080 --> 03:07:45,700
So at that point and I said hey you know

2219
03:07:45,700 --> 03:07:47,460
would you guys be willing to play, you know?

2220
03:07:48,080 --> 03:07:50,360
And the only thing we knew is like rich as a band

2221
03:07:50,360 --> 03:07:52,340
is kind of like country ask, you know,

2222
03:07:52,460 --> 03:07:54,000
but they play a bunch of different things.

2223
03:07:54,780 --> 03:07:56,160
And then, so because we ended up having to go

2224
03:07:56,160 --> 03:07:57,640
with like the hometown crowd again,

2225
03:07:57,740 --> 03:07:59,600
you know, because Eva's right here from In Taylor,

2226
03:07:59,780 --> 03:08:00,340
which is awesome.

2227
03:08:01,240 --> 03:08:04,020
Amanda and Rob, they're great old man

2228
03:08:04,020 --> 03:08:07,620
and just nice as can be always willing to play here.

2229
03:08:07,700 --> 03:08:08,280
You know what I'm saying?

2230
03:08:08,560 --> 03:08:12,580
I think they're ready to boom, I know they are.

2231
03:08:12,680 --> 03:08:15,060
And then David lives here still and he's a great kid

2232
03:08:15,060 --> 03:08:18,000
and everything, you know, it should say man, you know,

2233
03:08:18,040 --> 03:08:19,440
but I always think I'm as a kid.

2234
03:08:20,120 --> 03:08:21,720
I thought it was a great show too, you know,

2235
03:08:21,800 --> 03:08:23,720
and it was just, you know, a little bit of country,

2236
03:08:23,900 --> 03:08:26,340
a little bit of hardcore rock and roll.

2237
03:08:26,860 --> 03:08:27,540
Oh yeah, oh yeah, definitely.

2238
03:08:27,560 --> 03:08:30,340
I was a great show too for 20 bucks, you know,

2239
03:08:30,900 --> 03:08:32,780
and I thought man, if people wanted to just come see

2240
03:08:32,780 --> 03:08:33,880
some good and all around music

2241
03:08:33,880 --> 03:08:35,260
and have a few beers and then watch

2242
03:08:35,260 --> 03:08:36,640
and awesome fireworks show.

2243
03:08:37,240 --> 03:08:38,860
And I thought there was a pretty decent crowd there,

2244
03:08:39,060 --> 03:08:40,100
oh yeah, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

2245
03:08:40,240 --> 03:08:42,620
So talking to go, you know, I think we did okay.

2246
03:08:42,620 --> 03:08:46,800
And I think, you know, even fire is always going to put on a good show.

2247
03:08:47,440 --> 03:08:53,860
Okay, she is the energizer bunny, okay, and the band is solid.

2248
03:08:54,360 --> 03:08:59,240
And like you say, every time you see them, they're incrementally better.

2249
03:09:00,460 --> 03:09:05,020
What I love about them too is the whole time, like when David was playing in Dan.

2250
03:09:06,640 --> 03:09:09,660
They're robbing Amanda or people call her evil.

2251
03:09:10,920 --> 03:09:14,020
They're out talking with people in the crowd

2252
03:09:14,020 --> 03:09:16,660
and people are like, is there any chance I'm like,

2253
03:09:16,800 --> 03:09:17,460
she's over here?

2254
03:09:17,720 --> 03:09:18,720
She's right there, go meet her.

2255
03:09:19,360 --> 03:09:20,820
She's a bunch of a leader and I'm like,

2256
03:09:20,980 --> 03:09:21,940
she's out here in the crowd.

2257
03:09:22,360 --> 03:09:23,200
She's never changed.

2258
03:09:23,600 --> 03:09:26,240
Yeah, and they go out and talk with everybody,

2259
03:09:26,420 --> 03:09:28,660
but I thought it was cool night one, two,

2260
03:09:29,300 --> 03:09:32,180
which chased her eyes and saw all them guys coming out

2261
03:09:32,180 --> 03:09:34,300
to the, you know, in signing autographs.

2262
03:09:34,300 --> 03:09:37,040
Oh yeah, with people and, you know,

2263
03:09:37,300 --> 03:09:40,740
Tira gave Chase Rice that bandana for his dog

2264
03:09:40,740 --> 03:09:42,840
and then he brought his dog out and it had the bandana.

2265
03:09:43,480 --> 03:09:45,860
So he got a nice plug out of that, you know.

2266
03:09:46,640 --> 03:09:48,480
Well, I will tell you this.

2267
03:09:48,960 --> 03:09:51,540
Daniel Harrison gets sick, he can.

2268
03:09:51,880 --> 03:09:54,720
And that whole act, I'll tell you,

2269
03:09:55,220 --> 03:09:58,200
and I've heard them all from the last 13 years

2270
03:09:58,200 --> 03:09:59,980
and some have been,

2271
03:10:00,000 --> 03:10:15,740
Really out of sight and some have been not as good as you thought maybe they would be. But we've had a share of really, really good. That Daniel Harrison and that band, which is like almost a show band, they've gone boggles going, they got all kind of stuff. But he's got a great voice.

2272
03:10:16,300 --> 03:10:26,000
You know, it was funny because, um, who was it? I can't remember, I think it was Kyle from the family tradition. He said, hey, have you seen Daniel Harrison?

2273
03:10:26,000 --> 03:10:32,140
I said no, but my buddy Rich is drummer. He's like he goes, you know, he took two years off. He goes, you're going to be impressed.

2274
03:10:32,240 --> 03:10:40,400
Oh, he goes, that guy can sing. He can really sing. I can't remember, but anyway, somebody they were like, you're going to be impressed.

2275
03:10:40,620 --> 03:10:46,100
That guy can sing, you know. And he reminded me of a cross almost between Charlie Daniels and Hank Williams.

2276
03:10:46,100 --> 03:10:48,560
you know, and I'm like, yeah,

2277
03:10:48,720 --> 03:10:51,880
we're just when him coming out and to see them do

2278
03:10:51,880 --> 03:10:55,620
a country version of Metallica, I was blown away by that,

2279
03:10:55,980 --> 03:10:57,120
because it was so funny.

2280
03:10:57,660 --> 03:11:00,980
Amanda from Eva was walking by, and they started out

2281
03:11:00,980 --> 03:11:02,480
with like, masters of puppets,

2282
03:11:02,820 --> 03:11:04,600
I'm like, how are they going to do this in country?

2283
03:11:04,780 --> 03:11:06,760
And then they went into a sad but true.

2284
03:11:07,180 --> 03:11:08,860
And she looked at me and she's like,

2285
03:11:10,040 --> 03:11:12,540
you know, this is good, I'm like, yeah, this is good.

2286
03:11:12,820 --> 03:11:14,900
And we kind of had a little bit of chocolate, you know,

2287
03:11:14,900 --> 03:11:16,880
And I was impressed by them.

2288
03:11:16,980 --> 03:11:18,060
They were really good.

2289
03:11:18,460 --> 03:11:18,900
Yeah, I was.

2290
03:11:19,160 --> 03:11:19,500
Very good.

2291
03:11:19,500 --> 03:11:20,440
And it's funny.

2292
03:11:20,760 --> 03:11:22,200
Yeah, boy, that boy's got the pipes.

2293
03:11:22,320 --> 03:11:23,880
Well, he really does.

2294
03:11:24,580 --> 03:11:28,280
And the whole band is just really good.

2295
03:11:28,500 --> 03:11:32,080
I knew you sit back and you can watch any portion of the band at any time.

2296
03:11:32,520 --> 03:11:34,240
And get a show out of it.

2297
03:11:34,240 --> 03:11:38,900
Well, it was funny because I was walking through and David Feele was doing his

2298
03:11:38,900 --> 03:11:43,340
And warm up, and you know, I grew up on Motelman,

2299
03:11:43,660 --> 03:11:45,800
I love, you know, Rita, Smokey, all them guy,

2300
03:11:45,980 --> 03:11:49,200
and he was doing something, and I mean,

2301
03:11:49,320 --> 03:11:51,260
he made the hair on my arm stand up, man.

2302
03:11:51,360 --> 03:11:53,220
And he finished up and I started clapping,

2303
03:11:53,900 --> 03:11:55,540
and he's like, hey, it's Mary, you know,

2304
03:11:55,540 --> 03:11:59,760
and I'm like, dude, you got my, you know, you got it.

2305
03:11:59,860 --> 03:12:01,500
You know, you just, you got it.

2306
03:12:01,520 --> 03:12:02,640
Keep working, you know?

2307
03:12:02,880 --> 03:12:04,180
Well, you know, Tim, the funny thing,

2308
03:12:04,760 --> 03:12:07,320
and I know you know, because you've been behind the scenes,

2309
03:12:07,320 --> 03:12:09,400
But it is funny because these people

2310
03:12:10,900 --> 03:12:12,280
They aren't above

2311
03:12:13,400 --> 03:12:22,500
Interacting oh no not at all at all. No, you know, you want this done you want that done you want to just talk about how they're doing or whatever

2312
03:12:24,040 --> 03:12:29,080
It's fascinating how accommodating they once it was funny because once

2313
03:12:29,080 --> 03:12:34,240
Badflower backed out. Yeah, David's like hey, hey, man. I'm here if you need me

2314
03:12:34,240 --> 03:12:39,140
He said, I'm like, hold on buddy, you know, you might be hearing from me soon.

2315
03:12:39,760 --> 03:12:40,000
It was evil.

2316
03:12:40,000 --> 03:12:40,480
It was evil.

2317
03:12:40,620 --> 03:12:42,600
Because, you know, we do those meet, greets.

2318
03:12:43,420 --> 03:12:47,180
And we had that one young lady who brought her bachelorette.

2319
03:12:47,180 --> 03:12:47,940
All of you.

2320
03:12:48,000 --> 03:12:48,740
That was evil.

2321
03:12:49,100 --> 03:12:50,800
And God dressed up like Eva.

2322
03:12:51,120 --> 03:12:53,320
And Eva said, yeah, I'll meet with them.

2323
03:12:53,660 --> 03:12:58,100
And she was when I told her, you know, I'm in the back and they come walking up.

2324
03:12:58,340 --> 03:13:01,720
And, you know, I rob, I saw Rob first.

2325
03:13:01,720 --> 03:13:04,720
And he was like, you know, he was tall man.

2326
03:13:05,240 --> 03:13:07,280
And then, you know, Amanda come walking over and I said,

2327
03:13:07,480 --> 03:13:08,700
hey, if you guys don't mind, I said,

2328
03:13:08,840 --> 03:13:10,940
there's a bachelor at party that's going to be here.

2329
03:13:11,660 --> 03:13:14,380
And the lady that's getting married, her second date,

2330
03:13:14,400 --> 03:13:15,140
what's your concert.

2331
03:13:15,760 --> 03:13:18,880
And she's like, you know, that's all you're saying,

2332
03:13:19,200 --> 03:13:19,780
you know what I'm like?

2333
03:13:20,000 --> 03:13:22,640
So she was all into it, you know, and stuff.

2334
03:13:23,120 --> 03:13:24,460
And they're just great people, you know.

2335
03:13:24,540 --> 03:13:26,220
And like I said, you know, the fact that they go out

2336
03:13:26,220 --> 03:13:28,920
and hang out and talk to everybody and stuff.

2337
03:13:29,720 --> 03:13:31,140
And I'm sitting on the picnic table

2338
03:13:31,140 --> 03:13:33,640
when Kyle pulled up from the family tradition band.

2339
03:13:33,820 --> 03:13:35,140
He's like, man, what are you doing?

2340
03:13:35,160 --> 03:13:35,840
You know, it's tough.

2341
03:13:36,340 --> 03:13:37,940
So they're all very cool people.

2342
03:13:39,280 --> 03:13:41,260
And Chase Rice was very down earth

2343
03:13:41,260 --> 03:13:42,480
and so was that John King.

2344
03:13:42,480 --> 03:13:43,880
Yeah, they're all very calm.

2345
03:13:44,260 --> 03:13:44,440
Yeah.

2346
03:13:44,660 --> 03:13:45,240
Very calm.

2347
03:13:45,280 --> 03:13:47,960
I've never had any issues with

2348
03:13:47,960 --> 03:13:50,520
that some of their managers can be a little,

2349
03:13:50,540 --> 03:13:53,460
well, I don't hardly ever deal with them.

2350
03:13:53,580 --> 03:13:55,460
The meonus with you, I'm just walking back and forth

2351
03:13:55,460 --> 03:13:56,240
and stuff.

2352
03:13:56,580 --> 03:13:57,740
That's Peter's job.

2353
03:13:57,740 --> 03:14:04,700
You know, and so, but you know, I will say I never really had a bad situation with any of them or whatever.

2354
03:14:05,320 --> 03:14:14,720
I did have a band member kind of bark at me one time and like, he's easy to do, you know, just like, you know, it was just, you know.

2355
03:14:14,880 --> 03:14:19,560
You brought up a good point though, a shout out to Peter Cite.

2356
03:14:20,220 --> 03:14:26,680
What a job he's gone in two years with that stage production and those lights if if people

2357
03:14:26,680 --> 03:14:34,020
haven't been to our summer festival. In the last couple of years definitely make the

2358
03:14:34,020 --> 03:14:40,180
next one because Peter they he's got a touch with lighting with sound with every well I

2359
03:14:40,180 --> 03:14:49,740
think like if you paid at the door this is the lady from 95.5 was there I can write a

2360
03:14:49,740 --> 03:14:54,720
And I think we're trying to $40, she goes to get in this, and that's for a seat.

2361
03:14:54,940 --> 03:14:57,660
Oh yeah, she's like, but you're 10 feet away from these people.

2362
03:14:57,820 --> 03:14:59,960
Oh right, she's like, you can't, that's...

2363
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:08,540
She goes, that's a $150 ticket all the way along, you know, in some places, it's $200, and that's way out, you know, a hundred yards away.

2364
03:15:09,600 --> 03:15:16,960
She's like, you know, this is unbelievable, you know, and stuff, so it's like, yeah, you know, it's just a matter of, you know, people, I don't know what it is.

2365
03:15:17,100 --> 03:15:22,920
And we do it on Friday because we know some people don't want to come down because of the fireworks, the word, about the traffic and stuff, right?

2366
03:15:22,920 --> 03:15:27,140
what's I on a stand you know although a lot of people are online on social media right after

2367
03:15:27,140 --> 03:15:31,280
the event saying you know it used to be forty five minutes to get out of here just

2368
03:15:31,280 --> 03:15:35,580
park to go three miles and now that I'm home yeah and I've got to move pretty

2369
03:15:35,580 --> 03:15:39,880
quick yeah everything you know I usually hang out for a little while to let it kind of calm

2370
03:15:39,880 --> 03:15:44,560
down but the police do a really good job they run everybody down the north line and you

2371
03:15:44,560 --> 03:15:48,100
know it's it moves pretty quick what's always nice because you know people don't

2372
03:15:48,100 --> 03:15:52,900
realize that the festivals around your pay for themselves essentially I mean

2373
03:15:52,900 --> 03:15:58,160
We do throw in at six, but sponsorship is huge.

2374
03:15:58,340 --> 03:16:01,360
Data curve needs a shout out because, you know,

2375
03:16:01,440 --> 03:16:04,180
they put on a lot of that and we had Taylor Ford and they are

2376
03:16:04,180 --> 03:16:04,380
out.

2377
03:16:04,560 --> 03:16:08,440
We do not think I can tell you right now, ticket prices on the

2378
03:16:08,440 --> 03:16:09,860
bands do not cover the bands.

2379
03:16:09,880 --> 03:16:11,760
Oh, not even not at all right.

2380
03:16:12,660 --> 03:16:13,400
And it's, yeah.

2381
03:16:13,880 --> 03:16:16,040
And that's a whole difference for good beer sales.

2382
03:16:16,800 --> 03:16:20,460
And, you know, it's part of your story, you know, that exactly.

2383
03:16:20,600 --> 03:16:21,740
That type of thing.

2384
03:16:22,240 --> 03:16:26,520
But it was another, and it was a great day, you know, so that's fantastic.

2385
03:16:27,180 --> 03:16:29,860
Well, Tim, hey, I think we've got through another episode here.

2386
03:16:30,120 --> 03:16:30,580
Okay. Yeah.

2387
03:16:30,580 --> 03:16:32,780
But we're not going to wait another, whatever.

2388
03:16:33,980 --> 03:16:35,760
Well, we'll do one maybe next month or so.

2389
03:16:35,760 --> 03:16:37,960
Well, let's just touch on the storms real quick.

2390
03:16:38,140 --> 03:16:39,300
You know, like we thought we had that.

2391
03:16:39,300 --> 03:16:39,820
Oh, yeah.

2392
03:16:40,340 --> 03:16:41,320
Yeah, let's see.

2393
03:16:41,580 --> 03:16:42,200
No, that's okay.

2394
03:16:42,520 --> 03:16:43,780
Let's cruise.

2395
03:16:43,780 --> 03:16:45,180
They're going to be going through the neighborhood.

2396
03:16:45,500 --> 03:16:48,580
Like picking up limbs, but they got to be out at the curb.

2397
03:16:48,600 --> 03:16:51,500
You know, we're not going in anybody's backyard or any of that stuff.

2398
03:16:51,960 --> 03:16:55,660
We're not going to sweep and rake up all the leaves that are there and stuff.

2399
03:16:55,780 --> 03:16:57,280
We're going to grab the limbs and stuff.

2400
03:16:57,760 --> 03:16:59,460
We're going to try to get to him as soon as we can.

2401
03:16:59,520 --> 03:17:05,760
We're going to try to kind of maintain with the pickup, you know, the trash pickup.

2402
03:17:06,320 --> 03:17:10,360
But depending on how much stuff is out there, we may not be able to keep up with that and

2403
03:17:10,360 --> 03:17:10,860
stuff like that.

2404
03:17:11,500 --> 03:17:15,380
So I know we put that out there, but we want to talk about it too and let everybody know

2405
03:17:15,380 --> 03:17:17,740
that our crews will be doing that to help.

2406
03:17:17,740 --> 03:17:22,880
Yeah, DBW really emphasized the, hey, look, we know you're out there to be patient.

2407
03:17:23,120 --> 03:17:23,300
Yeah.

2408
03:17:23,300 --> 03:17:27,860
We're going to be coming through, but it's not going to be just picked up in, you know,

2409
03:17:27,920 --> 03:17:29,240
day, you know, that kind of thing.

2410
03:17:29,460 --> 03:17:30,980
And I think they will get to it.

2411
03:17:31,200 --> 03:17:35,640
And we also have through next week, okay, we have the,

2412
03:17:35,640 --> 03:17:38,400
the compost center, can drop off your stuff for free.

2413
03:17:38,680 --> 03:17:42,760
If you want to take it there, you don't have to, that kind of thing.

2414
03:17:43,800 --> 03:17:45,840
DTE seems to have handled on, you know,

2415
03:17:45,840 --> 03:17:53,020
We're doing this show on what Tuesday after the storm and they're down to, I believe, 1%

2416
03:17:53,020 --> 03:17:58,580
now of power on it just, but that's a whole different thing and you know, Tim, if a local

2417
03:17:58,580 --> 03:18:00,080
level you really don't have a lot of level.

2418
03:18:00,100 --> 03:18:05,120
I have a representative, we have a DTE and you know, and I'm not afraid to say it, I am not

2419
03:18:05,120 --> 03:18:06,040
a fan of DTE.

2420
03:18:06,540 --> 03:18:14,820
I think they're monopoly, but they're also, these are people that, you know, are state legislators,

2421
03:18:14,820 --> 03:18:22,900
You know, they dictate whether or not they get to raise their rates in my opinion, DTE gets to

2422
03:18:23,840 --> 03:18:30,040
they make, you know, hundreds of millions, if not billion dollar profits and then they say we need to raise our,

2423
03:18:30,040 --> 03:18:33,460
we need to hike our rates up because we got infrastructure problems.

2424
03:18:33,800 --> 03:18:36,420
Wait a minute, that's what you should be using your profits for.

2425
03:18:36,800 --> 03:18:38,320
That's the issue that I have.

2426
03:18:39,240 --> 03:18:42,540
So I encourage everybody to look and see who is on those committees,

2427
03:18:42,540 --> 03:18:48,000
because they're subcommittees that are appointed by the governor and see who's on there and

2428
03:18:48,000 --> 03:18:53,360
start reaching out to them and tell them stop doing these. Stop giving them the right to raise

2429
03:18:53,360 --> 03:18:59,280
our rates. I don't like paying these rates. I pay them just like everybody else. In the same

2430
03:18:59,280 --> 03:19:08,700
sense, the state of Michigan has a lot of trees. And I know some people are not going to like

2431
03:19:08,700 --> 03:19:13,480
hearing this, but you know as well as I do, every time we cut a tree down we got people

2432
03:19:13,480 --> 03:19:19,340
that are throwing a fit, so that's part of the issue too, but it's DTE's responsibility,

2433
03:19:19,640 --> 03:19:27,080
they hire companies. It's been probably almost two decades since I had a company come

2434
03:19:27,080 --> 03:19:33,080
through the back of my backyard in trim the tree and when they did 12 inches. Hey, do you

2435
03:19:33,080 --> 03:19:41,160
You know, if I give you a little money, you think you get no 12 inches or really, you know, that lasted. What a year. Yeah, so I mean I got my issues too.

2436
03:19:41,200 --> 03:19:46,200
And I've voiced my concerns to them. And I'm not happy that we have residents that are still out.

2437
03:19:47,300 --> 03:19:51,780
But again, I let them know, but what are they going to do? Yeah.

2438
03:19:52,100 --> 03:19:58,860
I could make a Facebook video. I could get a petition signing, but what are they going to do? They're going to look at it.

2439
03:19:59,140 --> 03:19:59,980
Well, the reality is.

2440
03:20:00,000 --> 03:20:09,500
You have to have, you have to, like you just said, the people who control this situation, have to have a come to Jesus meeting. You're okay.

2441
03:20:11,660 --> 03:20:20,820
They just can't hand them all the cards on every hand. They just can't do that. It doesn't work that way.

2442
03:20:20,900 --> 03:20:29,220
It has to stop. I mean, we're paying a lot of money for electricity. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm grateful that I can walk in my house and flick a light church.

2443
03:20:29,220 --> 03:20:55,400
And have light and press a button and have either conditioning and heating and stuff, but, you know, in the same sense, it gets to a point where, okay, when's enough enough, you keep charging as this, you're making, you know, record amounts of profit, but yet you keep hitting us up to fix your product, you know, when you're making these profits, it doesn't make sense to make

2444
03:20:55,400 --> 03:21:00,340
did you read the the peace that Christy McWire put I did?

2445
03:21:00,740 --> 03:21:01,820
That was very well put on.

2446
03:21:02,560 --> 03:21:06,740
You could, you could, you could, you could, you could, you could, you could feel the heat of the anger.

2447
03:21:07,460 --> 03:21:11,260
There's, there's a lady who, her and her husband have four local places.

2448
03:21:11,720 --> 03:21:18,720
They've got all those people. They're all dependent on you, or me, or somebody else out there,

2449
03:21:18,920 --> 03:21:24,380
walking through their door so they could feed them or get them a beer or whatever they need.

2450
03:21:25,720 --> 03:21:31,960
And all of that network, all of the girls that walk up to your table, all of that, you know,

2451
03:21:32,040 --> 03:21:37,180
everybody making the food, the food itself, all that they're doing to go fund me because

2452
03:21:37,180 --> 03:21:40,040
there's a gentleman I know he's associated with the little league football here.

2453
03:21:40,600 --> 03:21:46,620
You know, he was just getting ready to open his barbecue business and lost like thousands of

2454
03:21:46,620 --> 03:21:47,360
dollars worth of meat.

2455
03:21:47,460 --> 03:21:49,280
Was that the one that lost $8,000?

2456
03:21:49,660 --> 03:21:49,780
Yes.

2457
03:21:50,060 --> 03:21:50,200
Yes.

2458
03:21:50,200 --> 03:21:57,400
Okay, so funny, you know, so I had no Chris T. and J. Well, and Chris he doesn't, you know, I give her kudos for that.

2459
03:21:57,880 --> 03:22:02,920
Yeah, and here's what, you know, she wasn't bashing the workers because the workers are working her tail off.

2460
03:22:02,940 --> 03:22:03,320
Exactly.

2461
03:22:03,320 --> 03:22:08,160
Actually her daughter's boyfriend works for the company that she's talking about. He's alignment.

2462
03:22:08,660 --> 03:22:11,060
But he's working seven days a week right now and stuff.

2463
03:22:11,500 --> 03:22:14,320
And, you know, one of the issues was is which what we experienced.

2464
03:22:15,900 --> 03:22:16,780
He was a holiday weekend.

2465
03:22:16,780 --> 03:22:20,480
Oh yeah, also, I think they had a lot of people on vacation.

2466
03:22:22,040 --> 03:22:26,100
I do want to give a shout out to those that, you know, I have animal control.

2467
03:22:26,300 --> 03:22:29,160
Oh yeah, I had, you know, Parks and Rec.

2468
03:22:29,660 --> 03:22:34,020
You know, working in our DPW and on the water crews, we had seven water main breaks and stuff.

2469
03:22:34,720 --> 03:22:38,980
So, I mean, I understood people were on vacation and they couldn't make it in and stuff.

2470
03:22:39,220 --> 03:22:44,280
So, I mean, there's no ill will there, but I appreciate those that did come in and work in different departments

2471
03:22:44,280 --> 03:22:52,560
And Kudos to Guido and Johnny that said, hey, all of our parks and our buildings, everything's good that can wait till Monday.

2472
03:22:53,020 --> 03:22:58,000
So anybody that's available can go work in DPW or water if they need to, you know, or if they want to.

2473
03:22:58,220 --> 03:23:00,340
And stuff. So yeah, it was nice.

2474
03:23:01,260 --> 03:23:07,060
And well, hopefully, somewhere along the way, some of this is going to improve.

2475
03:23:07,740 --> 03:23:20,220
Because it really needs to, this is a problematic area, and it doesn't help that, and I think I can say this accurately, in Taylor, we're in a bad portion of their garden.

2476
03:23:20,980 --> 03:23:23,040
It just is, it is what it is.

2477
03:23:23,320 --> 03:23:28,920
You know, and that's the thing, it's just, it's like, okay, everybody barks now, and it just goes away.

2478
03:23:28,920 --> 03:23:38,300
I mean, we saw that in Romulus with the well and everything, it just needs to continue to be that's why I encourage people to find out who's on those committees

2479
03:23:38,300 --> 03:23:49,000
and reach out to them. Right. And say, listen, this is enough is enough. Enough is enough. Stop raising our rates to, you know, feed them.

2480
03:23:50,140 --> 03:23:56,960
Bingo. We'll leave it at that. Thanks to Mayor Tim Woly for coming on today. And for all the updates,

2481
03:23:57,220 --> 03:24:04,620
he gave us also thanks behind the scenes to Joe Camelary at our production desk. We hope you enjoyed the show today,

2482
03:24:05,180 --> 03:24:08,580
and we'll see you on the next from the Mayor's desk.

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2485
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2492
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Hi everyone, I'm Carl Zimek and this is Destination Down River. Today we're going to be talking

2493
03:25:30,200 --> 03:25:37,300
about the wall of the heels, which is a three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,

2494
03:25:37,500 --> 03:25:43,580
which is located in Washington, D.C., it will be appearing in Taylor's Heritage Park on August

2495
03:25:43,580 --> 03:25:50,260
the 13th through the 16th. With us today is Dennis Schlimmer, the major driving force behind

2496
03:25:50,260 --> 03:25:55,680
the walls appearance downriver. Dennis, welcome to the program and you are a busy guy these

2497
03:25:55,680 --> 03:26:05,700
Thank you, Carl. Yes, it's pretty much a non-stop, especially with this wall. What has your schedule been like to give us a typical date in the life of Dennis Limer.

2498
03:26:06,040 --> 03:26:11,620
I wake up in the morning, I go to work, I come home from work, my mother's in a rehab center, so I go visit her.

2499
03:26:12,120 --> 03:26:19,680
And then the rest of the night is either VFW, I'm the National President of the Sun's Daughters of the Vietnam War, so that takes up a lot of time.

2500
03:26:19,680 --> 03:26:25,820
I'm involved in a few other organizations, and the wall has just taken up a majority of my life for the past six or eight months.

2501
03:26:26,360 --> 03:26:40,340
All right, for people who don't really understand the wall or haven't really looked into the replica and everything that it represents, can you give us kind of a nickel tour of describe the wall that he wants.

2502
03:26:40,340 --> 03:26:44,520
Yeah, so it's it's as you said it's a three quarter scale replica of the wall in DC.

2503
03:26:44,580 --> 03:26:45,640
This is the official wall.

2504
03:26:45,740 --> 03:26:49,320
There's multiple walls that travel around the country, but this is the official wall through

2505
03:26:49,320 --> 03:26:51,940
the Vietnam veterans Memorial Fund who are the people behind the wall.

2506
03:26:52,180 --> 03:26:52,340
Gotcha.

2507
03:26:52,500 --> 03:26:53,540
It travels around the country.

2508
03:26:53,660 --> 03:26:58,500
About 30 cities a year, this year it's going to 31, it's the 31st year they've been doing

2509
03:26:58,980 --> 03:26:59,380
it.

2510
03:26:59,720 --> 03:27:03,640
The wall comes on a trailer and after the walls unloaded and put together that trailer becomes

2511
03:27:03,640 --> 03:27:04,940
a mobile education center.

2512
03:27:04,940 --> 03:27:12,440
So one side will feature all the men and women on the wall from Michigan on a TV and their pictures will scroll

2513
03:27:12,440 --> 03:27:17,200
Okay, there's a second TV that will have the men and women that were inducted into the in memory program

2514
03:27:17,200 --> 03:27:22,280
And in the backside of the trailers like a mini mobile museum where it's got artifacts were left at the wall in DC

2515
03:27:22,280 --> 03:27:25,200
Oh, that which is pretty cool. I didn't know I didn't know all of that

2516
03:27:25,200 --> 03:27:30,960
That's that's really neat. How long you know if if somebody is planning to go out and see the wall that he

2517
03:27:31,800 --> 03:27:36,760
How long is it going to take do you think and what's what's the typical thing that goes on?

2518
03:27:37,120 --> 03:27:42,420
So if you go by yourself not as part of one of the tours we offer you're maybe at probably 20 to 30 minutes

2519
03:27:42,420 --> 03:27:46,280
Okay, we also do have a couple ceremonies that will be happening during the week as well

2520
03:27:46,280 --> 03:27:51,580
But we do have opportunity for group tours and there will be even if you're not with a group

2521
03:27:51,580 --> 03:27:55,080
There will be opportunities that you can join a group tour and those tours think about 45 minutes

2522
03:27:55,080 --> 03:27:59,580
They go a little more in depth. They tell stories behind those objects that were left at the wall

2523
03:27:59,580 --> 03:28:07,320
So you know the stories behind the care package that's in there is one of the packages and you learn the long story of how it's set

2524
03:28:07,320 --> 03:28:11,200
And the closet for eight years. We all were a mother gave it to somebody to take to the wall

2525
03:28:11,200 --> 03:28:16,360
Because she couldn't herself make it and just a lot of great stories like that that you'll learn as part of that tour

2526
03:28:16,360 --> 03:28:20,940
So anywhere from 20 minutes to 45 minutes or so very emotional

2527
03:28:22,200 --> 03:28:23,460
Absolutely absolutely it's

2528
03:28:24,500 --> 03:28:26,500
What's kind of neat about this is

2529
03:28:27,460 --> 03:28:33,280
when myelin she's the designer of the wall when the wall was designed it was meant for you to approach it from the center

2530
03:28:33,280 --> 03:28:37,800
Gotcha, and after the wall was open for the first year they realized they couldn't do that because everybody just kept walking along the side

2531
03:28:37,800 --> 03:28:41,940
So if you go there now, you'll notice there's nice railings that kind of walk you along the wall

2532
03:28:42,720 --> 03:28:45,280
This recreates that that experience at myelin

2533
03:28:45,280 --> 03:28:50,020
wanted you to have when she designed the wall where you walk up from the middle and then just kind of

2534
03:28:50,020 --> 03:28:56,000
Overwell she's up and and just in overtakes you and then you get that emotion that she intended when she designed the wall

2535
03:28:56,000 --> 03:29:03,760
Now, tell us about how you started here, okay, how did you get your start in all of this?

2536
03:29:04,940 --> 03:29:12,720
So, well, I guess with the veteran aspect, it goes back to joining the sons and daughters of the Vietnam War when we started five years ago.

2537
03:29:12,820 --> 03:29:14,780
We started right after the pandemic.

2538
03:29:16,160 --> 03:29:22,160
And then I became the first vice president of the organization that I've been the president for a little over two years.

2539
03:29:22,160 --> 03:29:27,180
on my second term now. So I started doing that and then my father passed away in January

2540
03:29:28,680 --> 03:29:34,340
2023 and after his death I found out about the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Funds in Memory

2541
03:29:34,340 --> 03:29:38,900
Program, which is a program for those veterans that came back from the war but then died later

2542
03:29:38,900 --> 03:29:44,040
because of war related causes. Gotcha. So we got him inducted into that and then right after

2543
03:29:44,040 --> 03:29:49,020
that program I found about about the wall that heals. So without any backing, any committee,

2544
03:29:49,020 --> 03:29:51,900
anything I just applied for it and we got denied.

2545
03:29:52,960 --> 03:29:59,960
So I didn't let that stop us and I applied again for the next year and last November I got a call in.

2546
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:29,980
Taylor was awarded the wall. So then it was a matter of just scrambling because I didn't have a committee. I didn't have approval from the city. I said we were using heritage park. We didn't have approval. So it was a lot of backtracking, but I've had absolutely wonderful support from the mayor and from the city council and previous city council members. And it's become a great big community effort outside of Taylor's well. I brought in people from the down river community which makes sense. Yeah. And so it's just been an amazing process. I think for all of us, just the planning has been an amazing part of our lives.

2547
03:30:30,000 --> 03:30:33,620
so far and we just can't wait to see the wall make its tailor.

2548
03:30:33,780 --> 03:30:35,940
Tell us about your dad and about your own upbringing.

2549
03:30:36,340 --> 03:30:41,120
Okay, because all of this ultimately starts with him, he really got a service.

2550
03:30:41,340 --> 03:30:45,340
It does, he volunteered for the Vietnam War.

2551
03:30:45,420 --> 03:30:47,080
He wasn't drafted, he volunteered at age 17.

2552
03:30:47,760 --> 03:30:49,520
He was able to graduate high school, really.

2553
03:30:49,600 --> 03:30:51,960
He went to Henry Ford High School on the Detroit.

2554
03:30:53,000 --> 03:30:55,700
Went to basic training, and then shortly after was sent to Vietnam.

2555
03:30:56,240 --> 03:30:58,840
He was with the 864th Engineer Battalion.

2556
03:30:58,840 --> 03:31:02,800
and he was a heavy equipment mechanic.

2557
03:31:03,820 --> 03:31:06,200
So his, you know what they did is they went in

2558
03:31:06,200 --> 03:31:07,980
to Vietnam before there was any basis

2559
03:31:07,980 --> 03:31:10,340
and they cleared everything and they built the basis up.

2560
03:31:10,760 --> 03:31:12,120
So then everybody could come in

2561
03:31:12,120 --> 03:31:13,460
and they would move on to the next stop.

2562
03:31:14,320 --> 03:31:16,060
So he was there for two years,

2563
03:31:16,460 --> 03:31:18,860
was exposed to Agent Orange in the process,

2564
03:31:19,800 --> 03:31:22,180
but we didn't find that out obviously until, you know,

2565
03:31:22,400 --> 03:31:25,720
40 years later, as when it affected him.

2566
03:31:26,340 --> 03:31:30,700
But so I've always had because of him growing up as a Vietnam veteran, I've always had a strong

2567
03:31:30,700 --> 03:31:35,680
tide of veterans to the Vietnam cause, so it's always been instilled in me that it's a very

2568
03:31:35,680 --> 03:31:40,220
important part of my life, interesting, very, very interesting.

2569
03:31:41,540 --> 03:31:49,220
You mentioned all of the organizations that you've been in, that, you know, like the VFW and

2570
03:31:49,220 --> 03:31:55,020
things like that, how are, what's membership like in those kind of organizations these

2571
03:31:55,020 --> 03:32:03,500
because it seems to have been flow, you know, depending on what era you were in after World War II.

2572
03:32:03,640 --> 03:32:08,220
All of those things took off, then they kind of faded after a little while.

2573
03:32:08,700 --> 03:32:09,640
What are you seeing?

2574
03:32:09,920 --> 03:32:10,820
And that's the case now.

2575
03:32:10,940 --> 03:32:16,520
I think a lot of our, you have W's and American legions across the country are having a little bit of struggle with membership.

2576
03:32:16,780 --> 03:32:17,440
And it's not just them.

2577
03:32:17,500 --> 03:32:20,980
I think it's all our fraternal organizations and the moves, the Eagles, the Elx.

2578
03:32:20,980 --> 03:32:38,960
They're all struggling, you know, back in their hey, they had millions of members, and the membership is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, but I think a lot of the organizations are changing to, uh, track those younger families as well, um, what a, uh, a father that is a war veteran that's 35 years old now, uh,

2579
03:32:39,180 --> 03:32:46,860
is looking for different things out of the organization than that same man 40 years ago. Sure. Um, so as long as those organizations adapt to the, we have W in the American Legion,

2580
03:32:46,860 --> 03:32:53,240
They'll be around for years and they serve a great cause for veterans and all the outreach and work that they do

2581
03:32:53,780 --> 03:32:57,560
So I think as long as they're able to adapt they'll be around

2582
03:32:57,560 --> 03:33:02,880
But membership definitely has fallen off on all the organizations. What what about for the sons and daughters?

2583
03:33:03,200 --> 03:33:09,480
So we're fairly new and we're more of like a lineage organization more like the sons of the American Revolution

2584
03:33:09,480 --> 03:33:15,620
Our daughters American Revolution to where you need to be a descendant now. There's a category where we could join as a friend

2585
03:33:15,620 --> 03:33:19,940
But initially, you join as a descendant of a Vietnam veteran.

2586
03:33:20,620 --> 03:33:24,200
And we're having great growth right now.

2587
03:33:24,200 --> 03:33:25,720
We're actually this month.

2588
03:33:25,860 --> 03:33:28,080
I just talked to my treasure last night.

2589
03:33:28,320 --> 03:33:30,940
And we are having our largest month for membership ever.

2590
03:33:31,500 --> 03:33:32,760
We're running a membership campaign.

2591
03:33:32,920 --> 03:33:35,240
You may at some point see a video with me on Facebook.

2592
03:33:36,340 --> 03:33:39,020
But we're running a shot right out here at the Plaza.

2593
03:33:39,860 --> 03:33:43,280
But there's a video of me going around to boost membership.

2594
03:33:43,580 --> 03:33:45,220
And we're seeing some great gains on that.

2595
03:33:45,220 --> 03:33:54,300
So, and we serve a little bit different purpose, you know, other than like the Vietnam or the VFW in the American Legion, they have their auxiliaries, which I'm an auxiliaries member.

2596
03:33:54,320 --> 03:34:03,260
So we're there to support those veterans, but the sons of dollars of Vietnam, more is a little bit different because we're also acting as a support group for those children.

2597
03:34:03,680 --> 03:34:10,640
That, you know, Vietnam veterans, you can ask most of us, we grew up in different childhood, those that grew up in non veteran households.

2598
03:34:11,520 --> 03:34:21,900
So we had that common bond that we're able to connect with each other and talk about the different things that we experienced when we grew up that a lot of of our other friends didn't have that same experience.

2599
03:34:22,680 --> 03:34:30,320
So we've seen a lot of great things through our members being able to connect where there wasn't a lot of resources previously before our joint group started.

2600
03:34:30,900 --> 03:34:34,000
What was your dad like when you came back?

2601
03:34:34,380 --> 03:34:35,260
I don't know. I wasn't alive.

2602
03:34:35,260 --> 03:34:43,580
Okay, he came back in 70, I was born in 77, so all right, he had already been through quite a bit

2603
03:34:43,580 --> 03:34:44,880
the time that I was born.

2604
03:34:45,580 --> 03:34:48,860
Okay, what did he get into, what was his career path?

2605
03:34:49,220 --> 03:34:49,820
He was a mechanic.

2606
03:34:50,020 --> 03:34:50,580
He stuck back.

2607
03:34:50,860 --> 03:34:52,240
So he ended up being a decent mechanic.

2608
03:34:52,320 --> 03:34:59,520
The rest of his life, and three was retired for the last 15, 16 years of his life.

2609
03:35:00,000 --> 03:35:02,120
Just spend a lot of time with my mom after that.

2610
03:35:02,920 --> 03:35:10,060
Now the wall when it gets here and when you guys have it all set up will be open 24 hours a day

2611
03:35:10,060 --> 03:35:15,820
from all the way until 2 PM on that last day, Sunday to 16th.

2612
03:35:15,940 --> 03:35:18,080
That must be a tremendous undertaking.

2613
03:35:19,400 --> 03:35:23,320
And what do you need as far as volunteers and sponsors and things like that?

2614
03:35:23,320 --> 03:35:26,420
And I know you've made a lot of headway into that.

2615
03:35:26,420 --> 03:35:30,300
but as of, you know, we're here in the first week of July,

2616
03:35:30,880 --> 03:35:32,040
you're about a month off.

2617
03:35:32,480 --> 03:35:33,580
What do you still need?

2618
03:35:33,640 --> 03:35:35,000
We still need the volunteers.

2619
03:35:35,120 --> 03:35:37,600
We still need to fill about 50 volunteer shifts.

2620
03:35:38,280 --> 03:35:40,760
And that's out of a total of over 250.

2621
03:35:41,060 --> 03:35:44,020
So we filled quite a bit, but we still need about 50 volunteers.

2622
03:35:44,340 --> 03:35:46,200
And a lot of that's the late overnight shifts.

2623
03:35:46,360 --> 03:35:47,640
The talk about we're open 24 hours.

2624
03:35:48,020 --> 03:35:49,420
We're looking for people for that.

2625
03:35:49,640 --> 03:35:52,820
Those over midnight shifts into like six in the morning.

2626
03:35:53,400 --> 03:35:55,760
And then sponsors, it's a big undertaking.

2627
03:35:55,760 --> 03:36:00,020
When all is done, it's going to end up costing us about $30,000 or so.

2628
03:36:00,540 --> 03:36:05,520
And that's also including gifts and kind, but we still need money or your donations

2629
03:36:05,520 --> 03:36:07,800
gifts and kind to make this happen.

2630
03:36:09,000 --> 03:36:10,840
Now, we're in the park as this is going to be located.

2631
03:36:11,280 --> 03:36:14,040
It's going to be on the north end by the soccer fields already.

2632
03:36:14,460 --> 03:36:19,700
And the junior league world series will be going on near the south end simultaneously here,

2633
03:36:19,900 --> 03:36:25,320
including that final day when you guys are going to be shutting down right about the time

2634
03:36:25,320 --> 03:36:27,220
that the world series will be shutting down.

2635
03:36:27,680 --> 03:36:30,520
Have you got any interaction with the world series?

2636
03:36:30,780 --> 03:36:31,540
And are they going to work?

2637
03:36:31,660 --> 03:36:33,560
Is they're bringing teams in from everywhere?

2638
03:36:34,460 --> 03:36:35,600
So we've a little bit.

2639
03:36:37,400 --> 03:36:40,040
They've offered one day, they're going to help

2640
03:36:40,040 --> 03:36:41,660
feed our volunteers, which is fine.

2641
03:36:42,620 --> 03:36:45,040
We've talked to them about bringing the teams in

2642
03:36:45,040 --> 03:36:46,480
for part of our group tours.

2643
03:36:47,320 --> 03:36:50,580
So Caroline Pats, who's our group tour chair.

2644
03:36:50,760 --> 03:36:54,140
She's working on that to try to get everything

2645
03:36:54,140 --> 03:36:58,360
is settled with the teams to extend that invite for them to come check of the wall since it's

2646
03:36:58,360 --> 03:37:04,040
right there you might as well. But it's going to be a wild wild week in the park but it's

2647
03:37:04,040 --> 03:37:08,680
going to be so funny. I think it's going to be a blast. You were estimating what did you think

2648
03:37:08,680 --> 03:37:14,500
about 10,000? Well, we're expecting about 10,000 people. Which is phenomenal. And I don't think you

2649
03:37:14,500 --> 03:37:18,320
have any problems with parking or anything out just knock on wood with the weather.

2650
03:37:22,300 --> 03:37:24,040
Yeah, that's all

2651
03:37:24,040 --> 03:37:26,480
your statements out there, especially on social media,

2652
03:37:26,640 --> 03:37:29,100
you're really proud of the leadership team

2653
03:37:29,100 --> 03:37:30,300
that you have for the event.

2654
03:37:30,480 --> 03:37:31,920
Would you like to mention some of them?

2655
03:37:32,240 --> 03:37:34,900
Yeah, I've got, so myself as chair,

2656
03:37:34,980 --> 03:37:36,980
I've got coach here as I've got Sherry Shival,

2657
03:37:37,100 --> 03:37:38,560
who's a long time Taylor resident.

2658
03:37:39,160 --> 03:37:40,800
The mayor is one of our coachers.

2659
03:37:41,640 --> 03:37:45,140
Our volunteer coordinator who has just been such a tremendous help,

2660
03:37:45,240 --> 03:37:48,780
and she's done so much above and beyond her responsibility

2661
03:37:48,780 --> 03:37:49,880
as the Angie Whitten.

2662
03:37:50,840 --> 03:37:51,700
She's just been incredible.

2663
03:37:51,700 --> 03:37:58,580
Caroline Patts is our tour coordinator, Bill Patts is along and he's our representative

2664
03:37:58,580 --> 03:38:05,080
from the council, so he's been helping out. Stephanie Krieger, who is Patts VFW State

2665
03:38:05,080 --> 03:38:10,440
auxiliary president, she's on the board of the Veterans Museum. She's in it overseeing our

2666
03:38:10,440 --> 03:38:14,180
ceremonies, so she's actually writing put together the two ceremonies that we're putting on.

2667
03:38:14,760 --> 03:38:16,740
So it's just an amazing group of people.

2668
03:38:17,120 --> 03:38:20,420
Yeah, no doubt. You've got some real energizer bunnies going in there.

2669
03:38:20,420 --> 03:38:24,020
I'm telling you, especially Angie went in and Caroline made both.

2670
03:38:24,240 --> 03:38:25,760
Once they get started, they don't stop.

2671
03:38:25,760 --> 03:38:26,980
They don't know doubt about that.

2672
03:38:27,640 --> 03:38:30,120
You mentioned those presentations that you're going to have,

2673
03:38:30,260 --> 03:38:33,680
and I believe you're going to lead with a congressional

2674
03:38:33,680 --> 03:38:34,640
Medal of Honor winner.

2675
03:38:35,260 --> 03:38:36,720
Yeah, tell us a little about that.

2676
03:38:37,020 --> 03:38:40,140
Yeah, so our opening ceremony, it's called the Welcome Home

2677
03:38:40,140 --> 03:38:42,380
Center, but it's going to be on Thursday at 10 a.m.

2678
03:38:42,420 --> 03:38:44,160
OK, then we'll have seating.

2679
03:38:44,340 --> 03:38:46,860
We're expecting about 300 people or so.

2680
03:38:47,180 --> 03:38:50,040
But especially because our keynote speaker is a command

2681
03:38:50,040 --> 03:38:53,220
Sergeant Major Terry Richardson from Rayling. He was a

2682
03:38:53,220 --> 03:38:56,200
fan Sergeant Major of Camp Rayling for many years. He's a

2683
03:38:56,200 --> 03:38:58,700
Vietnam veteran in this past March, President Trump

2684
03:38:58,700 --> 03:39:01,480
awarded him with the Corretual Medal of Honor. So he'll

2685
03:39:01,480 --> 03:39:03,920
be our keynote speaker. So that's very exciting for the

2686
03:39:03,920 --> 03:39:07,360
city to have a congressional Medal of Honor recipient.

2687
03:39:08,200 --> 03:39:12,300
Fabulous guy to look up and you know, even if you

2688
03:39:12,300 --> 03:39:17,240
wiped away the honor at the end, the story just from his

2689
03:39:17,240 --> 03:39:28,970
family upbringing and everything. It was fascinating. Yeah, it's incredible. I'm so happy that we're able to have a Michigan guy here too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. How did you? How did you manage to do that? So I found out he was getting the

2690
03:39:31,540 --> 03:39:35,780
The metal and I went on to the metal-vonner website

2691
03:39:35,780 --> 03:39:41,860
The day he got it and I put in a request and so I was probably one of the very firsts that not the first requests

2692
03:39:41,860 --> 03:39:46,020
For an appearance from him and I'm sure he appreciated that because it's right in state

2693
03:39:46,660 --> 03:39:53,440
that's fantastic. Where can people learn more about this event if they before they go

2694
03:39:53,440 --> 03:39:58,840
there, where's the best places to go? Our website, The Wall that yields Taylor that

2695
03:39:58,840 --> 03:39:59,740
come. Okay.

2696
03:40:00,000 --> 03:40:11,480
That's where you're going to find everything from signing up to volunteer if you want to make a donation, if you want to sponsor, if you want to find out about the ceremonies, all the informations right there.

2697
03:40:12,040 --> 03:40:23,220
Our Facebook page also is a great resource. We feature one of the heroes that's on the wall from the down river area every day with the story about them and why they're on the wall.

2698
03:40:23,220 --> 03:40:28,560
And then as the picks up, we're going to start featuring our in-memory

2699
03:40:28,560 --> 03:40:30,320
the honorees from Down River as well.

2700
03:40:30,640 --> 03:40:32,520
And then we'll share the information on there as well.

2701
03:40:32,780 --> 03:40:35,720
But the core information you're going to find on the website.

2702
03:40:36,780 --> 03:40:39,280
Okay, so we went through this like a sprint.

2703
03:40:40,240 --> 03:40:41,280
Do we miss, I think?

2704
03:40:41,860 --> 03:40:42,720
I think it's okay.

2705
03:40:43,260 --> 03:40:44,160
Hopefully we didn't.

2706
03:40:44,360 --> 03:40:47,440
I think we've kind of got our arms on.

2707
03:40:47,680 --> 03:40:50,220
Once this is over, you are...

2708
03:40:51,460 --> 03:40:52,740
What are you going to do next?

2709
03:40:52,740 --> 03:40:54,660
What's the on-core for Dennis?

2710
03:40:56,860 --> 03:40:57,800
I'm going to breathe.

2711
03:40:58,180 --> 03:41:00,280
And hopefully start looking for some type of vacation.

2712
03:41:00,800 --> 03:41:02,680
Take a little take a week off somewhere.

2713
03:41:03,060 --> 03:41:04,680
You have anywhere you want to go.

2714
03:41:04,940 --> 03:41:05,640
I don't.

2715
03:41:06,140 --> 03:41:09,340
But I work for Little Seasers in the International Division.

2716
03:41:09,900 --> 03:41:11,020
So I travel internationally a lot.

2717
03:41:11,200 --> 03:41:14,160
So sometimes when I go on a trip I'll add on days.

2718
03:41:15,180 --> 03:41:16,420
Kind of gets me free gear fair.

2719
03:41:17,040 --> 03:41:19,180
So I'm kind of holding out for something.

2720
03:41:19,280 --> 03:41:21,520
Maybe I'll get some nice trip that I can just add on.

2721
03:41:21,520 --> 03:41:23,960
That's a great way to do it, it is, it absolutely is.

2722
03:41:23,980 --> 03:41:29,220
I know my life for a while was going back and forth to Seattle for her job.

2723
03:41:29,360 --> 03:41:32,740
In fact, it was much longer than a little while, it was like two years.

2724
03:41:34,160 --> 03:41:38,300
And one time she dragged me along and for, you know, and I have the whole week in Seattle.

2725
03:41:38,580 --> 03:41:44,080
Great place to go, okay, it's always neat to go somewhere that you haven't been.

2726
03:41:44,120 --> 03:41:46,900
That's just learn things and stuff like that.

2727
03:41:46,900 --> 03:41:50,780
It's really kind of cool, so well, hey, thank you very much for coming on the show.

2728
03:41:50,780 --> 03:41:53,920
And thanks for doing this for the entire region.

2729
03:41:53,960 --> 03:41:59,160
I think a big thank you should go out and a pat on the back to you because you made this happen.

2730
03:41:59,160 --> 03:42:01,820
That's all the committee. Fantastic. Fantastic.

2731
03:42:02,500 --> 03:42:05,600
That's it for this episode of Destination Down River.

2732
03:42:05,600 --> 03:42:10,380
Thanks to Dennis Schlimmer for being our guest today and it was team for bringing the wall that

2733
03:42:10,380 --> 03:42:15,540
heals to Taylor's heritage park August 13th through the 16th.

2734
03:42:15,540 --> 03:42:20,120
For Joke, I'm aware you're behind the controls I'm Carl Zimack, and we'll see you on the

2735
03:42:20,120 --> 03:42:22,940
next episode of Destination Down River.

2736
03:42:23,460 --> 03:42:27,140
Thank you to our team sponsor, Allegra, marketing, print, and design.

2737
03:42:27,480 --> 03:42:31,680
With a special thanks to our production partners here at the New Taylor Media Center.

2738
03:42:35,130 --> 03:42:36,710
Thanks for listening and watching.

2739
03:42:37,370 --> 03:42:43,310
Please visit our website destination down river.com or on Facebook page and be sure to join

2740
03:42:43,310 --> 03:42:44,950
us for next month's podcast.

2741
03:46:00,530 --> 03:46:10,570
And welcome to the annual presentation of the state of the city of Taylor. My name is Tanya Clayton.

2742
03:46:10,830 --> 03:46:16,890
And I proudly serve as the president currently for the Rotary Club of Taylor.

2743
03:46:23,080 --> 03:46:24,900
Rotary Club of Taylor,

2744
03:46:24,900 --> 03:46:33,620
serve this community, rotary is an international club and rotary is one one of the largest

2745
03:46:33,620 --> 03:46:40,620
service organizations in the world. So I'm very proud to be serving in this capacity this year.

2746
03:46:41,800 --> 03:46:49,340
Equally proud to serve this community of Taylor and our mayor, Mr. Tim Rilly.

2747
03:46:54,880 --> 03:46:59,180
First of all, you all can just assume that you are at a rotary meeting.

2748
03:46:59,180 --> 03:47:02,880
This is one of the largest tailor rotary meetings that we have every year.

2749
03:47:03,200 --> 03:47:03,580
So welcome.

2750
03:47:04,140 --> 03:47:08,320
It is customary for us to open with the ringing of the bells.

2751
03:47:08,580 --> 03:47:09,540
So here we go.

2752
03:47:13,610 --> 03:47:15,850
Rotary is now in session.

2753
03:47:16,410 --> 03:47:20,350
So we will begin with the invocation by Pastor Ryan Bettinger.

2754
03:47:23,700 --> 03:47:25,840
We knew grab was going to hear me, but now you can.

2755
03:47:26,240 --> 03:47:26,980
So that's good.

2756
03:47:27,260 --> 03:47:28,120
Let's pray together.

2757
03:47:28,140 --> 03:47:29,660
Heavenly Father, thank you.

2758
03:47:29,660 --> 03:47:34,780
for this day and for this time that we have together, I thank you for the privilege of living

2759
03:47:34,780 --> 03:47:41,880
in this great city and being able to serve it with our hearts, father and we ask that

2760
03:47:41,880 --> 03:47:46,660
you would just bless this time today, and that it would be just a time of encouragement

2761
03:47:46,660 --> 03:47:47,780
and time of blessing.

2762
03:47:48,500 --> 03:47:53,780
I will also ask now that we know that we also come as a community with hearts.

2763
03:47:53,780 --> 03:47:58,620
Father, a lot of things that have gone on and father with

2764
03:47:58,620 --> 03:48:04,980
11 year old Jacob Robinson passing tragically on Eureka Road for the Bazaar family

2765
03:48:04,980 --> 03:48:07,340
and the loss in this community.

2766
03:48:07,580 --> 03:48:11,380
God, I asked that you would be near to them, the families and all those that

2767
03:48:11,380 --> 03:48:13,660
maybe don't get that publicity father.

2768
03:48:13,780 --> 03:48:18,340
We asked that you would be near to this community in that way.

2769
03:48:18,780 --> 03:48:19,560
That's what we are.

2770
03:48:19,720 --> 03:48:23,160
We're a community of people together and we hurt when each other hurt and we

2771
03:48:23,160 --> 03:48:28,240
rejoice when each other rejoice. And that's why we've gathered. We also not only hurt, but we're

2772
03:48:28,240 --> 03:48:35,200
hopeful for all that you have done, but all that you are going to do in our community and

2773
03:48:35,200 --> 03:48:39,720
Father, we just thank you. We ask now that you have just blessed the rest of this day and the rest

2774
03:48:39,720 --> 03:48:44,560
of this event, may you be glorified and honored do it all. We thank you for your Son Jesus Christ

2775
03:48:44,560 --> 03:48:49,860
who paid the price for our sins that we could be in a relationship with you and know you and know

2776
03:48:49,860 --> 03:48:51,860
you hear us even now in this prayer.

2777
03:48:52,200 --> 03:48:54,540
And Father, we love you and we thank you for all that you do for us.

2778
03:48:54,660 --> 03:48:56,220
It's in the name of your Son Jesus, we pray.

2779
03:48:59,040 --> 03:48:59,480
All right.

2780
03:48:59,680 --> 03:49:00,160
Technology.

2781
03:49:00,940 --> 03:49:02,080
Thank you, Pastor Ryan.

2782
03:49:02,560 --> 03:49:07,640
Pastor Ryan is the pastor of the North Line Church right here in the city of Taylor.

2783
03:49:08,900 --> 03:49:18,480
So as I mentioned, rotary is one of the oldest service organizations in the world.

2784
03:49:18,480 --> 03:49:23,440
We are actually the oldest organization in the world.

2785
03:49:23,840 --> 03:49:33,260
We have over 1.2 million members worldwide, 35,000 clubs over 200 countries.

2786
03:49:33,460 --> 03:49:39,640
So we are really large, and our mantra is service above itself.

2787
03:49:40,200 --> 03:49:45,120
And right here, although we are all over the world, right here in our own backyard in this community,

2788
03:49:45,120 --> 03:49:53,120
The Service Club Taylor works with many organizations in helping with their service projects

2789
03:49:53,120 --> 03:49:59,820
for underserved children, service projects for those in need, our veterans, and so many different things.

2790
03:50:00,000 --> 03:50:09,320
We do to support this community. Our mind trust service above self is shown in the way that we show up. Every week

2791
03:50:09,320 --> 03:50:15,860
in our weekly meetings and it's also shown when we are caught upon to put together and volunteer

2792
03:50:15,860 --> 03:50:22,000
at different activities. Some of those activities, North Line Christmas parties that they have every

2793
03:50:22,000 --> 03:50:29,240
year for underserved children. We worked the shred day for the city of Taylor twice a year. We come

2794
03:50:29,240 --> 03:50:35,760
together, and partner with Macy's right here in the city and Myers, and provide codes for

2795
03:50:35,760 --> 03:50:43,560
those children and needs with through our childcare programs and our schools. Some of the

2796
03:50:43,560 --> 03:50:48,760
different things that we do are night to shine upon with 242 Church. We all just came together

2797
03:50:48,760 --> 03:50:54,960
and volunteered there. So some of the different things that we do to serve this community and

2798
03:50:54,960 --> 03:51:03,660
our service above self mantra. Another important way that rotary contributes is we raise money

2799
03:51:03,660 --> 03:51:10,520
and we give it away. So that's one of the biggest things that we do to serve our communities.

2800
03:51:10,840 --> 03:51:17,120
We have supportive organizations like children with hair loss, food pantry, bike here,

2801
03:51:17,420 --> 03:51:24,220
fish and low school pantry right here in the city of Taylor and so many more. So there are

2802
03:51:24,220 --> 03:51:29,760
city and we're always looking for more opportunities to serve so if there are projects that

2803
03:51:29,760 --> 03:51:36,380
you have ideas that you have come and join us. We'd like to have you and you too can be a part

2804
03:51:36,380 --> 03:51:42,260
of the service that we provide right here in the city of Taylor. So there are three signature events

2805
03:51:42,260 --> 03:51:48,220
that we do and we want you to watch out for these dates. The first one is I wanted to America charity

2806
03:51:48,220 --> 03:51:55,180
right. We do that every summer this year is going to be on Saturday July 18th.

2807
03:51:56,280 --> 03:52:00,680
Our motorcycle has come out. It's a beautiful sight to see. We hosted by the Harley

2808
03:52:00,680 --> 03:52:06,880
Davidson on telegraph and the motorcycles go out under that flag and it's just a beautiful

2809
03:52:06,880 --> 03:52:14,240
beautiful thing and that event goes directly to serve our veterans that have been harmed

2810
03:52:14,240 --> 03:52:20,860
or wounded and service. So that's an important one. And for those of you who are businesses,

2811
03:52:21,660 --> 03:52:27,420
we showcase our business partners at that event. You'll see some of those pictures coming up

2812
03:52:27,420 --> 03:52:33,720
a little bit later. Our charity golf fundraiser, if you are a golfer in this room, you do not want

2813
03:52:33,720 --> 03:52:42,620
to miss our charity golf fundraiser Thursday August 20th right here at the Lakes of Taylor. So we're

2814
03:52:42,620 --> 03:52:48,820
signing up for that, talking to us about it so that you can get involved and for the businesses

2815
03:52:48,820 --> 03:52:54,220
in this room, we would like to have you department with us so that we can showcase your business

2816
03:52:54,220 --> 03:53:00,180
at our event. Another event that we do that we're super proud of is our law enforcement

2817
03:53:00,180 --> 03:53:07,640
appreciation day. This is our state police versus the city of Taylor police, baseball,

2818
03:53:07,640 --> 03:53:12,760
song vlogging. Very exciting event. This is not a fundraiser but there's

2819
03:53:12,760 --> 03:53:18,140
something that we do every year for those families as an appreciation for the

2820
03:53:18,140 --> 03:53:23,400
work that they do when they're on the front lines with us each and for us each and

2821
03:53:23,400 --> 03:53:30,460
every day. So those are the things that we do and we're super proud of it and I just

2822
03:53:30,460 --> 03:53:35,300
want the veterans in the room to just raise your hand really quickly so everyone can

2823
03:53:35,300 --> 03:53:41,460
who you are, thank you for being here and including our own mayor for a super active with our

2824
03:53:41,460 --> 03:53:49,320
rotary class. We are very, very proud of that. One of the things that we like to do is

2825
03:53:49,320 --> 03:53:54,760
acknowledge each other. We like to acknowledge people. We love to acknowledge our community. So one

2826
03:53:54,760 --> 03:54:01,340
of the things that we do at the state of the city every year is our Paul Harris Fellow Award. This award

2827
03:54:01,340 --> 03:54:07,780
is given to individuals and the community who show access service, either through here or

2828
03:54:07,780 --> 03:54:08,080
there.

2829
03:54:08,380 --> 03:54:14,380
I say, all right, here or there, through access service, different things that they may

2830
03:54:14,380 --> 03:54:16,860
do in our community this year.

2831
03:54:17,700 --> 03:54:25,740
We have a special guest, a special honoree, Mr. Giuseppe Persecone, can you stand?

2832
03:54:29,340 --> 03:54:32,960
And Larry is Larry in the TV have you heard?

2833
03:54:34,180 --> 03:54:35,180
You can come forward.

2834
03:54:35,480 --> 03:54:36,460
We all call him Joe.

2835
03:54:36,680 --> 03:54:37,820
You all know that, right?

2836
03:54:38,260 --> 03:54:40,340
Come on for Joe.

2837
03:54:41,790 --> 03:54:41,950
Joe.

2838
03:54:45,910 --> 03:54:50,090
So we just want to acknowledge you right here in front of the city

2839
03:54:50,090 --> 03:54:51,630
for everything that you do.

2840
03:54:51,770 --> 03:54:52,810
You never say no.

2841
03:54:52,930 --> 03:54:53,650
I don't know, Joe.

2842
03:54:53,810 --> 03:54:56,390
There's no ever said no to anybody in this room.

2843
03:54:56,750 --> 03:54:57,970
You never say no.

2844
03:54:58,310 --> 03:54:59,950
I mean, if that would be a deal, it would be a nice deal.

2845
03:55:02,660 --> 03:55:03,680
Thank you.

2846
03:55:07,160 --> 03:55:29,980
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

2847
03:55:32,760 --> 03:55:34,260
Thank you, Joe.

2848
03:55:34,940 --> 03:55:36,560
Don't ask for your phone, Joe.

2849
03:55:38,300 --> 03:55:39,840
You did not know about that, did you?

2850
03:55:41,740 --> 03:55:42,280
Okay.

2851
03:55:42,580 --> 03:55:46,100
This year, we have a few milestone awards

2852
03:55:46,100 --> 03:55:47,680
in our Taylor Roadary Club.

2853
03:55:48,300 --> 03:55:52,200
And we are very, very proud to present those awards

2854
03:55:52,200 --> 03:55:55,620
here at in front of the city for those

2855
03:55:55,620 --> 03:55:58,560
have served over 50 years in this club.

2856
03:55:58,560 --> 03:56:03,560
So, we're super proud of that. Is Enrico here that he make it here yet?

2857
03:56:04,880 --> 03:56:07,840
Enrico's not here yet. Okay, we may have to come back to Enrico.

2858
03:56:08,400 --> 03:56:13,780
Enrico, Nuto, has served 50 years in this voter reclaw.

2859
03:56:13,900 --> 03:56:16,940
We are so proud of that and we have an award for him.

2860
03:56:17,060 --> 03:56:22,440
If he makes it before the end of my time, then we will call him up.

2861
03:56:22,760 --> 03:56:27,640
But for now, we're going to move forward to another 50 year rotarian

2862
03:56:27,640 --> 03:56:30,920
in the city of Taylor, Mr. Robert Williams.

2863
03:56:31,080 --> 03:56:34,980
Let's get him a round of applause as he comes.

2864
03:56:35,440 --> 03:56:37,800
Come on up, come on up.

2865
03:56:39,180 --> 03:56:39,380
Come on up.

2866
03:56:39,380 --> 03:56:40,160
Come on up.

2867
03:56:43,220 --> 03:56:44,820
Bye, we are very proud.

2868
03:56:45,220 --> 03:56:47,300
You're going to ask the Rotarians in the room to stand.

2869
03:56:47,700 --> 03:56:51,060
We are very proud to present to you the service

2870
03:56:51,060 --> 03:56:52,620
of Bethel Award.

2871
03:56:52,880 --> 03:56:57,180
And it says, service of Bethel, presented to Robert G. Williams

2872
03:56:57,180 --> 03:56:59,560
for 50 years of service.

2873
03:56:59,560 --> 03:57:06,380
since October 5, 1974, presented by the Rotary Club of Taylor.

2874
03:57:06,840 --> 03:57:07,320
Thank you.

2875
03:57:07,700 --> 03:57:09,780
Thanks for your time.

2876
03:57:14,280 --> 03:57:15,600
Thank you, Bob.

2877
03:57:15,960 --> 03:57:16,920
Thank you, thank you.

2878
03:57:17,640 --> 03:57:22,100
Now, the next in the last milestone award,

2879
03:57:22,140 --> 03:57:25,960
many of you in this role knows Anthony Nacita.

2880
03:57:25,960 --> 03:57:29,300
He has served as a judge in this city,

2881
03:57:29,560 --> 03:57:33,540
but for Taylor Rotary, he will be celebrating

2882
03:57:33,540 --> 03:57:39,620
his 70th anniversary, 70 years as a Taylor Rotarian.

2883
03:57:39,980 --> 03:57:42,220
So let's get him around the applause.

2884
03:57:48,330 --> 03:57:50,390
He could not be here with us today,

2885
03:57:50,570 --> 03:57:53,450
but my husband and I wouldn't spend time with him on Saturday,

2886
03:57:53,910 --> 03:57:56,670
and he gave us so much history about this beautiful city.

2887
03:57:56,950 --> 03:57:59,350
We went back, Larry Wright and I on Monday,

2888
03:57:59,490 --> 03:58:01,070
and we took a video of him,

2889
03:58:01,950 --> 03:58:05,090
because we're just going to be a challenge for him to be here today.

2890
03:58:05,330 --> 03:58:08,330
So we would like to play this video for you.

2891
03:58:08,330 --> 03:58:11,550
Very short, but Jess Hamp is showing his gratitude.

2892
03:58:13,190 --> 03:58:16,770
Judge Tony Nassita, Anthony Nassita,

2893
03:58:17,290 --> 03:58:19,330
but the city and everyone knows you as Tony

2894
03:58:19,330 --> 03:58:24,230
and we are here today to celebrate your 70th year

2895
03:58:24,230 --> 03:58:25,490
in Taylor Rotorie.

2896
03:58:26,270 --> 03:58:27,710
Well, they've been great years.

2897
03:58:28,670 --> 03:58:31,870
I remember vividly become a member

2898
03:58:31,870 --> 03:58:58,590
And December 6th, 1956, Rotary, to me, has been a camaraderie ship that I have with the members can still count on anytime I need a friend, the things that I've been able to be involved in, in Rotary, enjoy Rotary while you're young enough to do it, and don't wait until you're 97, like I am.

2899
03:59:01,450 --> 03:59:06,030
That's our buddy, Tony and Ms. Seda. Let's get him another round of applause.

2900
03:59:08,380 --> 03:59:09,760
It was such a joy

2901
03:59:09,760 --> 03:59:16,840
sitting with him and just learning so much about the history of the city and he had so many wonderful

2902
03:59:16,840 --> 03:59:22,900
stories to share and I was just so happy to be in this company and to be able to give those,

2903
03:59:23,100 --> 03:59:29,100
you know we have to celebrate people while they're here with us so they don't feel the love, right?

2904
03:59:29,100 --> 03:59:37,160
I'm going to set a man for him, not in church, but, so, as I mentioned, Taylor wrote a

2905
03:59:37,160 --> 03:59:39,880
reclawed, we are people of action.

2906
03:59:40,620 --> 03:59:46,280
We come together, we volunteer, we come together, we raise money, we come together, we give it

2907
03:59:46,280 --> 03:59:46,660
away.

2908
03:59:47,040 --> 03:59:48,100
And that's what we do.

2909
03:59:48,160 --> 03:59:53,680
We have a beautiful social atmosphere, we all get together once a month for our evening

2910
03:59:53,680 --> 03:59:59,980
socials and just with our spouses and have a great time, so it's work, it's play.

2911
04:00:00,000 --> 04:00:01,380
Okay, and it's just very...