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Plainwell Grads Walk the Stage FREE Volume 66, Issue 5 · www.wilcoxnewspapers.com Extra Edition • Thursday, July 2, 2020 Schools can open in fall, for now By Ryan Lewis Editor Students may go back to school buildings in the fall as long as COVID-19 infections statewide do not rapidly increase. Governor Gretchen Whit- mer announced her MI Safe Schools Roadmap Tuesday, and it contains rules and guidelines for schools to follow as they prepare to welcome students back. Since lower Michigan is designated as being in Phase 4 of the state’s Safe Start plan, schools in Allegan County are permitted to open with “stringent required safety protocols.” n see School, Page A10 Also Inside Plainwell grads walk the stage The Plainwell High School Class of 2020, escorted onto the Kalamazoo Speedway in cars with their family, recent- ly walked the stage in front of the grandstand and picked up their diplomas. The “Race to the Diploma” was Thursday, June 25, and was designed as an alter- native to more traditional commencement ceremonies prohibited due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Plainwell’s Capping off the evening was a fireworks show spon- Veen fought sored by JBS of Plainwell. In the top photo, school board members and adminis- through early trators sporting masks, greet- ed each graduate on stage. At injury left, a graduate picks up the --Page B1 protective cover, stacked in the foreground, and makes her way over to pick up an Sheriff ups official diploma and pause for another portrait. (Photos boat patrols by Ryan Lewis) for holiday --Page B8 INDEX Classifieds .............. B9 Otsego debates police body cameras, riot policy Crossword .............. A9 Happenings ............ A6 By Ryan Lewis some groups would fan out to cause City commissioners ultimately Later, she said, it could be built on Editor trouble in smaller towns in the re- held off on that, however. The policy following more discussions of issues County Living ........ A6 gion. failed on a 1-3 vote with commis- about use of force and body cameras. For The Record ...... A9 Otsego city commissioners opted Otsego’s Facebook account an- sioner Laurie Krueger absent. Obituaries .............. A5 not to pass a riot policy Monday, nounced June 3 that Otsego and Commissioner Brent Milhiem said Body cameras June 29, though they voiced support Plainwell police departments, the it felt somewhat rushed to pass the Commissioner Dustin McNees Opinion .................. A4 for the local police, its recent efforts sheriff’s office and Michigan State policy. pushed for commissioners to con- Bookworm Sez ...... A4 and for researching body-mounted Police could not substantiate the While he respected police Chief sider implementing body cameras Public Notices .. A3, 5, cameras for officers. claims. Brad Misner’s recommendation for as part of the city’s response to riots. The discussion was prompted in the While rumors of a potential riot it, “I’d also like to get the opinion of In his view, it was a relatively small ..................... B2, B4-9 wake of nationwide reaction to the did not pan out, city manager Aaron the rest of the guys of the force, too, expense for the police force’s most Sports .................B1-3 death of George Floyd in Minneap- Mitchell realized all the work they to hear more of what they need, just intense situations. Sudoku ................... B9 olis in May. had done to prepare could be more to make sure we’re doing our due dil- Though Chief Misner knows he As violence erupted amid peaceful formally adopted. igence. and his officers would benefit abso- protests of police brutality in early “So, if we are caught off guard in a Mayor Cindi Trobeck, the lone lutely from body camera use, his ex- June, Kalamazoo declared a state of couple weeks or months, we can go “yes” vote, said, “We’re just talking perience with the strategic planning emergency overnight on June 2. So- right back to what we did, to keep about a riot policy that is a general team at Kalamazoo Public Safety cial media posts began to circulate, people and property safe,” Mitchell template, so we know that we can n see Otsego, Page A10 Otsego officials said, that suggested said. take on assistance.” Visit us Online! Allegan County Fair canceled; plans to return in 2021 By Ryan Lewis Editor Same Quality The 2020 Allegan County Fair has been canceled. In an open letter posted to the fair’s website and emailed to NEWS... lists of fairgoers, fair board president Harry Chestnut and fair executive director Saree Miller said the board’s decision had taken months of deliberation and was made with sad hearts. “The health and welfare of our visitors, vendors, carnival Not Just Paper and employees is our priority,” the letter said. “The coronavi- rus pandemic and the resulting mandates of the State of Mich- igan made this difficult decision necessary. This was one of Anymore! the toughest decisions we have ever faced.” Miller said the cancellation of the 168th fair marked only the second time it had ever occurred—the only other instance was at the commencement of World War II. Details were yet to be worked out for 4-H livestock showing theunionenterprise.com and the 4-H sale with the Michigan State University Extension n see Canceled, Page A10 Youth enjoy a ride at the 2018 Allegan County Fair. (File photo) A2 n July 2, 2020 The Allegan County News & The Union Enterprise S.S. Keewatin’s fate unsure ... again By Scott Sullivan Staff Writer The S.S. Keewatin, the last of the Great Lakes steam- ships towed after 45 years in Douglas to Canada in 2012, again faces an unsure fate. Parties that bought the 350-foot-long sister ship to the Titanic from R.J. Pe- terson and moved it to Port McNicoll, Ontario, have defaulted on their docking property mortgage payments, the Midland (Ont.) Mirror reported last week. “It is up for sale under the power-of-sale process,” said Blake Lyon, chief executive of Skyline Investment, which holds the mortgage. “There are a few people in- terested in the development,” Lyon told the newspaper. “I am not at liberty to state who the buyer is.” Friends of the S.S. Keewa- tin CEO and president Eric The S.S. Keewatin, a Great Lakes Maritime Museum here for 45 years, said goodbye in June 2012 as it was towed off for restoration in Canada. Conroy — who brokered sale of the vessel from Tower rescue. The firm presented Marine owner Peterson to Skyline an offer to acquire Toronto-based Skyline eight the vessel and keep it in Port years ago, told The Commer- McNicoll, then signed an cial Record Thursday Covid- agreement with the Friends 19 had shut down the Kee’s to allow the ship to stay there tourist season. until 2028. “We’ve restored 90-percent However, the ship’s rights of her and she’s beautiful,” remain with Skyline and are said Conroy, adding last year not part of the power-of-sale the 113-year-old vessel drew process, Lyon said. 14,000 tourists. So what will happen to Skyline paid a hefty price the Kee? “It is still unclear,” tag to dig the Kee out of its Lyon said. silted-in berth here, where “It belongs here,” said Peterson ran it as a maritime Conroy, who at age 16 museum from 1967 until worked aboard the still pas- selling it. But the buyer’s senger ship as a bus boy. plans to make it flagship of a “It’s a huge part of Canada’s development with hundreds history, going back to when of homes, a yacht club, the Confederation moved marina, retail shops and en- immigrants to the top of tertainment facilities never Lake Superior so they could reached fruition. populate Alberta and Sas- China-based CIM Inter- katchewan. national and another party “It took people up and bought the Port McNicoll grain and flour back. It mat- development property for ters to us,” he said. $42 million in 2017, but not For now the ship is going the Kee itself, forcing Sky- nowhere, said the Mirror, but line and the Friends group to Skyline is “considering all seek a new home. options.” They shopped the ship The owner is still inter- to the larger nearby Geor- ested in donating the ship in gian Bay city of Midland, exchange for a tax receipt, but its council shot down a but Heritage Canada rules prospective deal in winter stipulate a receiving organi- 2018 claiming the group’s zation must have a Class B March 19 deadline — meant designation. to ensure Skyline received a “Skyline hopes to donate federal tax receipt for giving or sell the ship,” Lyon said. the Kee to the city — was “Dismantling it for sale in too rushed. A ship of that age parts is also a viable option and size is no small commit- for Skyline to recover its ment, to which Peterson can meaningful investment, but testify. obviously this is not our pref- Conroy then approached erence.” Tay Township, on Owen The Friends have applied Sound to the west, as a for a Class B designation, possible new home for the but didn’t meet the criteria, ship. Tay, Midland and Port Conroy said. McNicoll all have ties to the Skyline is considering do- vessel’s Canadian Pacific nating the Keewatin to the Railways active past. More Marine Museum of Kings- nada. ton, a city of 123,000 at the He has worked to have the eastern end of Lake Ontario Friends take ownership of and start of the St. Lawrence the Keewatin. To provide Seaway, but it doesn’t have Skyline with a tax receipt, the status required to receive the ship would need to be- such a gift.
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