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Weidman Road, Weidman, MI 48893 989-644-3079 General Manager [email protected] District 7 — Dean Floria 1163 Taft Rd., Remus, MI 49340 989-382-5230 [email protected] Editor: Jayne Graham, CCC 2 | Michigan Country Lines YOUR CO-OP 5-Alarm Smokehouse: A Fresh Source For Quality Meats pened a year ago to offer custom businesses and restaurants. They deer processing, 5-Alarm Smoke- also offer a quick lunch special house & Custom Butchering has for employees of local businesses, also grown quickly into a destina- with sandwiches made to order, Otion shop for quality meats. chips and a soft drink for just Owner Jeff Brown, a Fremont Township $4.99. firefighter for over 20 years, opened 5-Alarm The building was designed and because he didn’t like the way his own game constructed with meat processing was being processed, with parts being mixed in mind. A geothermal heating into other hunters’ venison to make sausage, and cooling system provides the for example. consistent year-round tempera- “Here we do one deer at a time, even the tures 5-Alarm needs.
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