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Volume XXV, Issue X OUR 25TH YEAR October 8, 2020 www.GlenArbor.com FREE! Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore turns 50 with virtual party By Jacob Wheeler within the current boundaries of the Sun editor park. … My hope is the Sleeping Bear Dunes of 2045 is as recognizable as it Twenty-five years from now a fu- is today and the relationship created ture superintendent of Sleeping Bear over the next 25 years contributes to Dunes National Lakeshore will open a the park you are managing today.” time capsule stored in a metal lockbox In the time capsule the future super- and read a letter written to them by intendent will also find memorabilia Scott Tucker, the Lakeshore’s current showing what it felt like to experience superintendent, on the occasion of 2020 here in northwest Michigan. The Sleeping Bear’s 50th anniversary on items in the lockbox will tell the story of October 21. a global pandemic—of signs encourag- “As Sleeping Bear Dunes National ing people to wear masks and practice Lakeshore celebrates the 50th anni- social distancing, of a spring shutdown versary of the park’s establishment, of the National Lakeshore prompted we must remember our story is not by COVID, a celebrated reopening, a finished,” wrote Tucker. “Throughout record number of visitors during a gor- 2020 and 2021, we will look to how geous summer, and also record-high the past 50 years will shape the next Lake Michigan water levels. As intense, 50. One key piece of the celebration bewildering and painful as 2020 has is acknowledging how we have gotten felt, Sleeping Bear Dunes has leant us to where we are today. These ventures a sense of joyous normalcy. Swims in would not have been possible without Lake Michigan feel just as exhilarating, the passion and commitment from rolling in her sand dunes releases just Travel companions Siddhika (left, pointing toward the Glen Lakes) and Soham innumerable employees and partners as many pheromones as any other year. Gokhale hiked the Dune Climb Trail and jumped into Lake Michigan on June throughout the years, not to mention 17. The couple use their Instagram account “PeachyAndPumpkinsBucketList” the sacrifices of former landowners See SLEEPING BEAR on page 9 to document their travels through American National Parks. The things we carry on Munson’s COVID ward By Elitza Nicolaou safe and calm, to stop him from pull- day. I hope they managed to before he Sun contributor ing the oxygen tubing from his nose, died the following afternoon. to help him lie on his side or belly to Patients have lost limbs to blood There are gowns and face shields help his lungs work. clots, gone through amputations and and masks. The new air purifier By the end of my shift, he’d broken died anyway. Families are being forced helmets are lighter and quieter and his oxygen tubing and needed two to have conversations about death and more comfortable than our old ones, people to hold his arms down while we dying and treatment and care that they but after three or four or 12 hours got everything reassembled. In the bare aren’t ready for. Let me tell you: have nonstop in one, they’re heavy on the few minutes it took to get him set back the conversations now, before you neck, and they dig into your scalp. up, his blood oxygen level went from need to. Make sure your people know Wearing one lets a patient see 88%—which is low, but tolerable; where to draw the line, what your your face, but it’s hard to hear over normal is above 95%—to 50%. A pulse priorities are for life, so that if you’re the fan next to your ear. An N95 oxygen reading of 75% generally leads the one on a ventilator, on life support, mask and face shield is okay too, to loss of consciousness. 50% doesn’t with dialysis running continually to but in order to be effective, the mask bode well for continued survival. support failing kidneys and nutri- has to be painfully tight and the face When we got him calmed down and tion going through a tube, they know shields flop around at usually incon- settled, I let myself cry for the first time whether that’s actually what you want. venient times. Overall, the helmet since the pandemic started. There have been beautiful moments, and hood are a better choice; we can I have seen some truly painful too: nurses singing hymns to their pa- move fast in them when we need to. things while working at Munson’s tients through masks and shields, staff On a weekend in late Septem- COVID ward during the Coronavirus forming bonds like in trench warfare, ber, I had to move fast. I was as- pandemic. One of my nurses spent 45 conquering steep learning curves and signed to sit with a COVID patient minutes trying to set up a FaceTime ever-evolving standards for everything who wasn’t getting nearly enough chat, a Zoom call, anything that he and from what mask to wear, and when, oxygen, so as the day progressed he the patient’s family could think of so to how to wipe off your helmet, to became more and more agitated and that they could see him and talk to him. who’s even allowed in COVID patient confused. My job was to keep him They never did get it figured out that See COVID on page 10 From Republican to hippie: my evolution, a party’s evolution By Norm Wheeler years) in the 1930s. (I still have the my grandpa’s cottage on Lake Sun editor chair he brought home from his stint Michigan one day as he memo- in the Capitol Building.) So my father rized his speech for that night’s I was raised in Shelby by Republi- helped to elect his friend Sen. Robert Lincoln Day Dinner. As president cans. In the 1960s my father, Robert R. Griffin, a member of the U.S. Congress of the local chapter of the Young Wheeler, was the Republican chairman from 1957-66. He was appointed to the Republicans, I walked the neigh- of Michigan’s Ninth Congressional Senate by Governor George Romney borhoods of Montague, Shelby, District, stretching from Grand Haven in 1966, and kept being reelected un- Hart, Pentwater, and Ludington to Traverse City up the shore of Lake til 1977. He was later a Justice of the passing out campaign leaflets in Michigan. Republican activism ran Michigan Supreme Court. Governor 1966 for Vander Jagt, and in 1968 in the family: my grandfather Neil William G. Milliken was another of for Nixon and our young state rep- Wheeler had been elected state repre- my father’s friends. So was Elly Pe- resentative from Manistee, Dennis sentative in Lansing for one term (two terson, chairwoman of the party from Cawthorne, another frequent guest Our 2020 election coverage includes: 1965-69, and candidate for the Senate and friend. against Phil Hart in 1964. That’s the The Republican party of the •Pg 3, an editorial advocating for year Gov. Romney visited Shelby and 1960s tended to be fiscally con- you to vote Biden on November 3 I shook his hand. servative and socially progressive. Guy Vander Jagt had supper at our Griffin voted in favor of the Civil •Pg 12-15, interviews with candidates house many times. He was our con- Rights Acts of 1960 and 1964, the for the Leelanau County Board of gressman from 1966-93. I watched Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Norm Wheeler (middle, age 13), together with Commissioners him pace the shoreline in front of younger brother Jerry (left) and Michigan See REPUBLICAN on page 11 Governor George Romney, in Shelby in 1964. ac·count·a·ble Commission Candidates Respond on Racism /uh-koun-tuh-buhl/ If you are elected as commissioner, what actions or policies will you work toward in order to address racial responsible; answerable disparities, equity, justice, diversity, and/or inclusion? What have you learned about racism recently that has influenced your thinking about it as a person and as a potential commissioner? : be responsible for something that happens. *No Response: Candidates received three emails and a phone call from us inviting a statement. **See More: Additional comments from the candidates can be found at www.LeelanauUnited.com

District 1 District 6 George Bowers: Recently, I've come to the conclusion that racism is directly Lana Schaub: I believe in life from correlated to exposure. I have long conception to death, and that informs my been grateful to say that my past has moral compass. I want to help my entire afforded me exposure to many community with my whole heart and I cultures. As a potential commissioner, I would be willing to listen. Commissioners seek to gain further exposure to our deal with the budget. Our tax dollars are Native neighbors, their culture, and dependent on votes within the committee. their needs as a community. **See I stand with my moral compass - that More: I do not see the issue of race each life is important. as partisan... Gwenne Allgaier: Even though my generation has been aware of racism, Rick Robbins: *No Response white privilege has undoubtedly left me with unconscious bias which I am very willing to learn about and address. District 2 County employees should take anti-bias training, hiring patterns should be John Hunter: Education is key and the reviewed. Positions on boards and sooner it starts the better. Inequality commissions should be promoted to creates injustice. Whether people of color. **See More: We all have discrimination or harassment presents a lifetime of unconsciously accepting Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS itself in racial or other forms, it has institutional racism... absolutely no place in any branch of government. I am encouraged that "When you see something that is not right, not County Administrator Janik has hired just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to Professor Emling to provide anti-bias say something. To do something. Our children training to county commissioners. District 7 **See More: I would hope that and their children will ask us, ‘What did you every county employee has do? What did you say?'" Julie Morris: I would like to work the opportunity… toward increasing diversity in Debra Rushton: *No Response ~Congressman John Lewis membership in county and township committees and leadership positions. I also would like periodic training on racism, equity, justice, diversity and District 3 District 5 inclusion. I cannot and will not let elected officials in our county spew Patricia Soutas-Little: Action must begin with William Bunek: If re-elected, I will work racism without speaking up. to promote diversity, inclusion, equality ongoing anti-bias training at the Board and **See More: I recently enrolled in and equity in all aspects of county employee levels, encouraging local government Understanding Racial Justice: a government. These goals will be to follow suit. That will provide us better skills to five-week introductory training accomplished through providing, review County policies, practice and regulations, program for white folks living in supporting and participating in the identifying racial inequities and making needed necessary professional development Northern Michigan... changes that lead to racial equity and more anti-bias training for elected officials and all county employees as stated in diversity in the workforce. **See More: The Melinda Lautner: *No Response Leelanau County Resolution #2020-014. anti-bias training offered to commissioners is a **See More: I have learned there are good start, but not one and done... types of racism that people do not wish to discuss publicly… Jim Houdek: *No Response

Lois Bahle: I plan to participate in available professional development programs. As with your advertisement in the 9/17 Leelanau Enterprise, "I don't Be accountable. Carefully consider consider myself racist," but I don't know our candidates’ words and actions. what I don't know. I welcome the opportunity to start the listening Hold them accountable. Contact and conversation. them to learn more. Stay engaged after the election to help them District 4 keep their word. Make a plan to Ty Wessell: I must learn, speak out, vote. Learn your voting options at listen, and be accountable. I must vote411.org confront racism through actions, advocacy, education and policy review. I must get racism on the agenda and acknowledge racism as an issue. I must promote training and support efforts for workforce diversity and policy review. Most Paid for by the Northwest Michigan United for Racial importantly, I must remain Equity Committee and not authorized by any candidate dissatisfied with the status quo and advocate for change. **See More: or candidate's committee. 10 specific policy actions... Contact us at: [email protected] Learn more at: www.LeelanauUnited.com Glen Arbor Sun October 8, 2020 • Page 3 Protect American democracy. Restore our values. Fire Trump Opinion by Jacob Wheeler consequential election of 2020 will be a Sun editor judgement on one thing above all else— Trump’s utter mishandling of the Coro- The Glen Arbor Sun is not typically navirus—the worst public health crisis a political publication. We celebrate this in a century, which has killed (as of press Leelanau community, feature its unique time) more than 210,000 Americans, and characters, places and businesses, and more than 1 million worldwide, with promote its events. As such, we’ve no end in sight—save for a vaccine that never explicitly endorsed a candidate may be many months away. for office before. We hope we won’t feel As I write these words, COVID kar- compelled to do so in the future. ma has caught up with Donald Trump, But this particular election season who now has the Coronavirus. Since the falls during dangerous times. The virus arrived on American shores he has United States, our democracy, our code (publicly) downplayed its risk. He has of honor, our ability to keep our fellow mocked those who wisely wear masks. citizens out of harm’s way, our time- He has resisted the necessary sacrifices honored identity as a nation of immi- we have had to make to our families, our grants, all seem more fragile than ever communities, our schools, our econo- before. Day in, day out, we’re battling mies. He has ducked his presidential a five-alarm fire—an inferno that grows responsibility to speak honestly to the hotter each time Donald Trump opens nation, warn us of hard times ahead and his mouth or writes an offensive Tweet. implore us to sacrifice for the greater This man must be stopped. At the good, for a patriotic cause. polls on November 3, or beforehand if Think about this, could you imagine you are voting by mail, we must team if previous U.S. presidents had treated up and elect Joe Biden as our next a colossal crisis as if it were a con- president. For the future of this country, spiracy made to hurt them politically? and to honor those before us who have If Lincoln had looked the other way sacrificed so much, nothing less than the when the Confederates fired on Fort future of our democracy depends on it. Sumter, if Roosevelt yawned when the The words in this editorial should Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, if Bush come as no surprise to anyone who has hadn’t marshalled our patriotic will to listened and watched the past four years. empathize and sacrifice for each other Trump flaunts countless attributes that after 9/11? No, you couldn’t imagine. we wouldn’t wish to see in our child’s Because those leaders ducking the re- kindergarten classroom. He is a male sponsibility of their office would have chauvinist who brags about sexually been unthinkable. Make no mistake, Photo by Gwenne Allgaier assaulting women. He is a racist who the Coronavirus in the United States in Dr. Jill Biden campaigns for her husband, former Vice President Joe Biden, outside whips his followers into believing that 2020 is a situation just as grave as those Right Brain Brewery in Traverse City on September 29. people of color and immigrants are dan- previous examples. gerous, are undeserving, and somehow As I write this, Trump has left Walter climate change, on the state level, na- home. Look no further than Leland’s pose a threat to white people. He is a Reed hospital and returned to the White tionally and internationally. The effects historic Fishtown shanty village, a gem narcissist who wants only himself in House, telling us “Don’t be afraid” of of climate change are being felt every- of Leelanau County tourism. Inundated the spotlight. As with all narcissists, he the virus, even as more and more of his where, though the impacts don’t always with rising water, Fishtown knew it had lacks self-esteem, which explains why inner staff and his Republican allies in mirror each other. The West Coast is lit- to raise the most vulnerable shanties. he is so sensitive about crowd sizes Congress test positive for COVID. At erally on fire this fall. The Gulf Coast is Fishtown Preservation Society’s esti- and about how he is perceived. He is this grave hour, at his own grave hour, he hit by progressively stronger and slower mated pricetag for raising the shanties a bigot and a bully who openly mocks has failed us once again. He has failed us moving hurricanes across warming rose from $1.6 million in January 2019 handicapped people, soldiers who died nationally, he has failed us internation- seas which do more damage once they to $2.5 million by the end of last year, in on the battlefield, anyone who wasn’t ally, and he has failed us locally. make landfall. Here in the Great Lakes, part because of the rising cost of steel, handed their fortune on a golden tray Here are a few specific ways Trump’s climate change means far more moisture reported Gene Hopkins, a restoration like he received from his father. He is caustic presidency has harmed Leelanau in the system, more frequent and intense architect who works with Fishtown also dim and incompetent: he doesn’t County during these past four years: storms, and meteoric fluctuations. Lake Preservation. read books, doesn’t care to comprehend • In failing to exercise national lead- Michigan water levels surged from all- • Finally, this election season Trump complex topics, doesn’t have the curios- ership during the Coronavirus pandemic time low in 2013 to an all-time high in is inciting violence and threatening to ity to listen. I could go on. and stand with governors to keep their 2020. The lake is eroding bluffs, eating undermine faith in the voting process. Trump’s occupation of the White citizens safe, he has opened the door to up beaches and threatening to devour At the first presidential debate he called House brought us 1,000 nervous nights, a confusing hodgepodge of rules and homes of those who built too close to for the white nationalist “Proud Boys” to and countless ruined lives. The early policies. Some states are open, some the shore. Waterfront home owners up “stand back and stand by”—basically a images of this wretched presidency bars and retail establishments don’t and down the coast are now choosing call to arms. The specter of voter intimi- included children in cages, Puerto Rico require masks, some emboldened anti- the expensive, controversial, and poten- dation and outright voter suppression by helpless and dark following a devastat- government, science-misunderstanding tially short-sighted option of “arming” armed groups faces us on November 3. ing hurricane, foreign dignitaries and Trump fanatics think they can crash our their shores with steel walls and boulder That’s un-American, it’s un-democratic. leaders somberly shaking their heads, community and rage on a grocery store rip-rap. For farmers, climate change It’s painful to even contemplate it hap- a world growing more dangerous as clerk or a restaurant server, and even tampers with the growing season, mak- pening here in this great country that time-honored alliances and treaties were spit at them, when asked to wear a mask ing their livelihoods less predictable. gave the world so much when it em- shredded. Under Trump’s pathological indoors. Shame on them. Shame on the • Trump gloats in his caustic, hateful barked on American democracy. bluster, we almost went to nuclear war leader who emboldened them. “That rhetoric. He shirks responsibility, some Don’t let it happen here. This elec- with North Korea, we almost let Iran woman from Michigan” he mocked our other group is always to blame. His rally tion, fire Trump. We must make Joe drag us into another quagmire in the governor for taking a stand against CO- cries and his Tweets are often tinged Biden our next president. Middle East. To save face, and to feed VID. “Liberate Michigan” he Tweeted with racism and xenophobia, whether his petty ego, Trump staged a worthless in April as gun-toting activists stormed it’s Mexican and Latino immigrants he Glen Arbor Sun cameo with Kim Jong-un in the Korean our state capitol. calls murderers and rapists, or African Here to enlighten you demilitarized zone; he even tried to How many more Americans have Americans manifesting for racial equity bring the Taliban—the Taliban!—to died for Trump’s lack of a cogent policy who he claims will destroy the suburbs. Camp David. Despite all that, this nation that took the disease seriously—in Feb- Those taking a page from Trump’s poi- P.O. Box 615 • Glen Arbor, MI 49636 nearly escaped the Trump nightmare ruary or March? No, of course he can’t sonous rhetoric are everywhere, includ- without a full-blown existential catas- be blamed for the Coronavirus arriving ing here at home. Behold Tom Eckerle, [email protected] trophe. Almost. on American shores. But many of those the disgraced, now former Leelanau [email protected] County Road Commissioner who re- This nation is divided, entrenched, 210,000+ deaths occurred after certain Subscriptions: Get all 12 issues of the 2020 season deeply tribal—perhaps more than at any regions of the country—like New York fused to mask during a public meeting mailed directly to you for $25. other time since the Civil War. Think City—had flattened their curve. in August and used the N word while Contact us at any of the above listings. about that—the Civil War. We progres- • Trump is an unabashed denier of blaming the Coronavirus on blacks in sives and conservatives disagree on so climate change, which is the other ex- Detroit. One could almost feel Trump’s Editors: Jacob Wheeler & Norm Wheeler much that we forget how much we still istential threat facing our civilization. presence in the room when Eckerle have in common with each other, how As with other Republican leaders, he voiced his disdain for wearing masks. Webmaster: Leelanau.com much we need each other, how much has pushed short-sighted and dangerous • His short-sighted and disastrous nationalistic trade policies caused a The Glen Arbor Sun is a free tabloid published 12 times we enjoy each other’s company at the policies that would roll-back hard-won each year, and distributed throughout Leelanau County. Thanksgiving dinner table. How much environmental victories and pollute our trade war with China, and caused global Advertising inquiries, comments, suggestions, critiques, articles, photos, poems, and letters are welcome. we ought to respect and love one another. air and our water. He has stifled efforts steel prices to skyrocket. That hurt im- © 2020, Glen Arbor Sun, all rights reserved. Despite that widening divide, this to recognize and combat man-made portant infrastructure projects here at Page 4 • October 8, 2020 Glen Arbor Sun Local musicians play live house concerts to weather the Spacious, light, community COVID pandemic ... in our next edition of the Sun. focused, Empire’s library reopens By Jacob Wheeler ficial capacity during the pandemic is Sun editor 25 people. The library also features an en- “It’s so beautiful, it almost brings closed study room available for small tears to my eyes,” Glen Lake Com- groups (such as a family that recently munity Library director David Diller reserved it so their children could overheard a former volunteer say re- complete their virtual schooling home- cently when she toured the spacious, work), a spacious back conference light, and inviting new library, which room with a large-screen television reopened on September 8 on 10115 for future movies or indoor gatherings, W. Front Street in downtown Empire. and linoleum floors “so we can throw “People are sort of overwhelmed,” paint around here,” said Diller, who said Diller. adds he’s anxious for the community Watch a video tour of the library on to use this conference room space once the Glen Arbor Sun’s Facebook page. it’s safe to do so. A mainstay of the community, this “It’s an unusual time, to say the new library opens onto Front Street least,” he said. “We’re pleased we were and features an entrance plaza with an able to go ahead with this project and outdoor sign that glows from within open only four-five months behind and lights up during the evening hours, schedule.” POWa ERbicycle parking area, and a donor Designed in conjunction with the All told, the library occupies two EXHIBIT + LECTURES POWER TOOLS exhibit: UP!wall in the entryway that features the village lots and has a footprint of 5,800 Thru November 5 names of individuals, families, and square feet—that’s nearly double the CREATIVITY KIT businesses who generously contrib- space of the previous library, a long uted to the library. “That reflects how narrow building that was accessible widespread the community support through a side entrance (the front door POWER for this project has been,” said Diller. was used only to deposit returns, and Enter the library itself and you’ll as an emergency exit). marvel at the high ceilings and natural Diller, who started working at the TOOLS light entering through the building’s Glen Lake Library in 1997, said that, online lectures available thru Nov 5 many windows. “On a sunny day, you by 2013, books and multimedia had for kids THE POWER OF ART IN 28 1/2 MINUTES could almost turn the lights off and filled the building, space was limited. with Hank Feeley This kit provides materials for children to still be able to read,” said Diller. Public and the staff were “literally up against explore their own powers of imagination, CREATIVE RESISTANCE: computers and new media displays the wall.” There was little room for ingenuity, and expression. POLITICAL ART & CRAFTIVISM sit in the main lobby adjacent to the people and activities. The need for an with Sarah Bearup Neal All materials included, instructions service desk. The small study tables, expansion was clear. and chance to share work virtually. reading lounge, classy modern furni- $10 GAAC members/$15 non members Diller and the library board of $45/kit, $55w/shipping ture, and gas fireplace might convince trustees looked at a few other sites and you to linger here all day. One rack of considered rebuilding on a new prop- GlenArborArt.com for more info on all! materials near the fireplace features a erty, said Diller, but quickly decided Michigan history section. the community preference was to stay see the OUTDOOR GALLERY Tables in a study area on the south in downtown Empire. The library ap- open anytime, featuring the work of MARK MEHAFFEY side of the building afford privacy and proached homeowners on both sides a view out the back window to a green of the building. As it happened, the space which, Diller said, will eventu- neighbors to the east, Mark and Vicki ally be landscaped and feature a rain Finstad, wanted to sell their home. garden of native plants. During warm The library worked out an agreement days, patrons can sit on benches out- to buy the property and committed to side and gaze up at the majestic maple the expansion project. tree anchoring the property. The Finstads lot was cleared the On the west side, in the library’s following year, in 2014, and construc- original footprint, check out the win- tion began in 2019. The library moved dow seats in the nook—or better yet, temporarily to the former home of Gro- the expansive kids’ play area, featur- cer’s Daughter Chocolate in the green ing board books for children of all building on M-22, south of downtown ages, graphic novels, and outlines of Empire for 16 months, from April 2019 friendly animals watching over you until September 2020, until the new from each row of books. building was complete. “We look forward to seeing kids The Glen Lake Community Library and families here” post-COVID, is integral to Empire, a village known said Diller, who said the library can for its public Lake Michigan beach and host some small gatherings, but all as a gateway community to the Sleep- in-person official programming is on ing Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, hold for now. The building’s unof- See LIBRARY on page 15 Glen Arbor Sun October 8, 2020 • Page 5 Abra Berens, “the return of a chef” By Madeleine Hill Vedel more, rethinking the role of vegetables Sun contributor on the plate, and in the pantry. At Farm Club Abra hopes to bridge You may remember Abra Berens the similarities between the two agri- as farmer chef at Bare Knuckle Farm cultural businesses: food production in Northport, the farm she co-founded and food preparation, linking them in 2009 with farmer partner Jesse Pis- together, all the while encouraging kor on two acres beside his family’s awareness for Michigan agriculture cherry orchards. During the summers (the most diverse in the United States of her last two years at the farm, a after California). Farm Club’s structure lucky few enjoyed Abra’s five-course, will allow for many teaching opportu- reservation-only farm dinners featur- nities, and perhaps lure more chefs into ing vegetables harvested that day in the this style of cooking. fields. Concurrently as food columnist “The most inspiring thing is the for the Traverse City Record-Eagle she collaboration between a farm and a shared her veggie passion with a wider restaurant. It’s a real gamble—partners audience. During winters spent in Nic and Sara, Gary and Allison [Jonas] Chicago, full time after her departure (who also own The Little Fleet in Tra- from Northport, she collaborated with verse City). They understand how a farmers and chefs who prize the fresh traditional restaurant operates … that it and local, including chef Paul Virant of will be a stretch to do a higher volume the restaurant Vie outside of Chicago, with these local ingredients. We have a stint opening and helming the Stock to be comfortable with running out of Café at Local Foods in Chicago, and things, be transparent. [Farm Club is] since her return to Michigan in 2017, primarily a farm that has a restaurant, in the role of resident chef at Granor market, and brewery on it.” Farm in Three Oaks, creating menus Abra, daughter of farmers, canners, for farm dinners and recipes to share and cooks, at first thought she’d pursue with the farm’s CSA shareholders. epidemiology and maybe work for “Look out over the hills and get a This fall we celebrate her return to the United Nations. However, while sense of Leelanau County, how con- Leelanau County, eager to share her earning her degree at the University nected to the land, the area, the region, culinary vision at the recently opened of Michigan in English and History, a the state we all are. It all affects our Farm Club, located on South Lake part-time job at Zingerman’s Deli led lives in so many ways. Our menu will HONOR MICHIGAN Leelanau Drive (aka County Road to cooking school at Ireland’s famed showcase this place and those people 641) right beside the Leelanau trail. Ballymaloe Cookery School, Organic so often hidden.” This might appear as HONOR MICHIGAN “I’m excited to get to be a part of Farm & Gardens, leading her to pur- a pasty, in homage to the Upper Penin- TREE SERVICE Farm Club,” says Abra at her new sue the many alchemical possibilities sula, or a Ukrainian or Polish specialty TREE989-600-7452 SERVICE professional abode, surrounded by the kitchen (when nourished by the honoring immigrant populations that 989-600-7452 piles of freshly harvested fall-bright garden) promises, as well as the rich call Michigan home. orange squash, vibrant red cabbage, conversations every aspect of the food Elaborating on her process, Abra slender green beans and blue-green world germinates. says, “It always starts with the ingre- broccoli tips. “I’ve known Nic and “There are so many ways to interact dients. Every week I do a farm walk Sara [Theisen of Loma Farm] for a with these agricultural products.” Abra with Nic to see what’s coming up, long time. We’ve been talking about explains as we sit down at a small what there’s an abundance of, or what this project ever since I moved back table, illuminated by the late afternoon there’s a small amount of for just a few to Michigan in 2017 … I started help- light streaming in through the floor-to- special plates. The more stable items ing from afar in the middle of July. I ceiling windows. “There’s nothing we are the proteins. They are less seasonal, now go back and forth between Three ingest that doesn’t have some connec- and easier to obtain in a higher volume Oaks [Granor Farm] and Traverse City tion with what has been grown. ‘Come to move through the year. But every- every week. I am maintaining both po- in and have a beer and a snack, or a thing around them will change. Right sitions. Both are more than traditional full menu, or get your groceries and now there is a Chicken Dinner on the chef positions. [I am] culinary director a six-pack to go.’ Let’s break down menu with crispy potatoes, herbed in both places.” the barriers between the regional food butter, and a green salad. The chicken In the past year Abra’s reputation movement and daily consumption.” will stay consistent, but the vegetable has grown through her acclaimed cook Abra reminds me that 100 years options will move out.” book, Roughage: A Practical Guide to ago, 30% of our population farmed; Vegetables. The New York Times and today barely 3% do. Most people have See ABRA on page 15 Bon Appétit magazine called this book never visited a farm, have no sense celebrating plant-based and waste-free of where their food comes from. She cooking one of the best cookbooks for wants visitors and diners, families, spring, leading to interviews on morn- passing bicyclists, cross-country ski- ing shows and culinary collaborations ers, and more to come see how they from New York to Seattle. In it she farm, to comprehend that each place shares her knowledge of vegetables in is unique, its own ‘terroir.’ The north alphabetical order, with tips for choos- Midwest is its own region, she affirms, ing, preparing, storing, canning and if rarely recognized as such.

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Page 6 • October 8, 2020 Glen Arbor Sun On the air with Leelanau’s radioheads By F. Josephine Arrowood show. I’ve always loved music, col- are also emailed to Hines, who inserts Sun contributor lected that all my life,” he says. them as indicated. When Hamper and his family moved “You’d think it would be a lot easier. Despite rumors to the contrary in to Leelanau in 1995, he discovered a If you don’t like something, you can recent years, the medium of radio is community gem in WNMC, 90.7FM. just stop and start over. But I try not alive and well. In Leelanau County, in- It broadcasts 24/7 from Northwestern to do that; I like to have the mistakes dependent radioheads share their love Michigan College in Traverse City in there, ‘cause it’s real. It is very of music, practice citizen journalism, under the guidance of freewheeling sterile compared to the studio, where and produce feature segments over the General Manager Eric Hines. I’d have ‘bed music’ behind me like a airwaves and online, on venues such as Their Facebook page states, “Found- safety net; it loosens me up and makes Interlochen Public Radio and college ed in 1967 as a student activity avail- it feel like I’m at a party.” Before CO- radio station WNMC. Here are some able only to the NMC dorms and a VID, listeners loved to phone in to his of their stories. few lucky folks close by, WNMC has shows, like random guests dropping Ben Hamper: Before his memoir grown into a radio station serving six by. Currently, they connect with Ham- Rivethead startled, amused, and dis- counties and staffed by volunteers from per on FaceBook, leaving suggestions, mayed with its bare-knuckle account all over the Traverse Bay area.” requests, and feedback. of life on the GM assembly line; before In what may be his most delight- Another popular show feature was a cameo in Roger and Me; before writ- ful radio gig yet, Hamper is host and a live broadcast, typically on the last ing for the Michigan Voice and Mother song spinner of two weekly shows on Sunday of the month. It started at the Jones, Ben Hamper was a dedicated WNMC. Soul Possession began in old Inside Out Gallery, then later at radiohead. For 10 years (1981-91), the 2006 as the successor to a prior DJ’s Union St. Station. This September, af- Flint native hosted a weekly show at Friday night funk show. Over time, ter a months-long hiatus, Hamper was WFBE that featured “a bunch of crazy his weekly mellow audio fest began invited to bring Head for the Hills to bands and skits, basically a punk rock to gather speed and verve, and now the Tru-Fit Trouser Building parking lot features primarily rock—but not the in Traverse City, complete with grilled ubiquitous Top Forty or overproduced food, potluck offerings, a Bloody Mary pablum of commercial radio. His bar, and an actual audience—albeit knowledge of the genre is extensive; masked up and socially distanced. his musical choices eclectic, even Hamper looks forward to WNMC’s whimsical at times. A recent playlist long-planned move to new studio included The Premiers’ “Get on the space at the Innovation Center, on Plane,” Little Richard’s “Try Some of the site of the college’s original West Me,” and “Mystery Man” by 1960s Hall. Heading into autumn, live venues Flint band Dick Wagner & The Frost. remain uncertain—but despite every- He says, “I try to keep it moving, thing, both Soul Possession and Head hopping. It’s Friday night; people don’t for the Hills will go on, he vows. want to hear a bunch of groovy ballads. “I’m really proud to be associated They want fast-paced, high-octane with the station. I go downstate and rock’n’roll.” spin the dial, and it’s horrible; there’s Hamper’s voice projects comfort nothing that compares. The other day, and ease, as though hosting a party at someone asked me, ‘How long are you his own home. “That’s exactly what I gonna do this?’ Until the day I die! As attempt very time. I envision maybe long as I can spit out the words and cue six people I know being over; I drag up the tunes, I’ll be doing it.” out my new record purchases—a few Sandy Blumenfeld of Elmwood friends over and some cocktails, keep is another longtime WNMC volun- everything loosey-goosey.” teer. Sandy B, as he is affectionately He launched his second show, Head known, actually witnessed the birth for the Hills, in 2010 after a friend of the radio station. “I was one of the turned him on to country music. “I was first residents in 1963, when it wasn’t intrigued, then I got hooked; I couldn’t West Hall—it was the only dorm at get enough of it. I asked [WNMC man- the college. There were a couple of ager] Eric if they had anything like an kids, radio freaks, putting out stuff old country show. I thought it would be over UHF—let’s just say it was pretty perfect for Sunday morning.” Eventu- crude: mics in bathrooms, that kind of ally a spot on the weekly schedule stuff—and people who lived on Front opened up from 10 to noon, and has St started complaining about the TV proved even more popular than Soul interference,” he chuckles. Possession. In 1967 the radio station was As a writer, he weaves a bit of nar- launched as a sanctioned “student rative thread through his quirky, often activity,” to literally channel the ac- obscure musical selections. “I’ll have tivities of those early dorm innovators a songwriter series. There’s birthdays, (college cofounder and benefactor commemorations. I’ll have a truckers’ Lester M. Biederman had also created show. There’s plenty of woebegone Traverse City’s first commercial radio drinking tunes in country; I’ll do a station, WTCM, in 1941). series called ‘Sinners and Suds.’ The The 1960s folk revival movement, [music] is primarily from the ‘50s and with Dylan, Baez, Mitchell, and oth- ‘60s, but there’s still people making ers, influenced the Northern Michigan good country music in the spirit of the scene, as did the blues. “Out at Holiday old stuff. Hills, they had ‘hootenannies’ on Sun- “I get a kick out bringing illumina- day nights—basically, they were open tion to these unknowns. I could sit there mics. We’d go to that a lot. One of my every week and play George Jones and suitemates in the dorm was a good Tammy Wynette, but I really try each finger picker. I played ukulele and show to pull out names from, like, the four-string; he got me started playing history of honky tonk—these people six-string guitar. Some local kids, like GROCER’S DAUGHTER that fell through the cracks but had good records.” chocolate When the pandemic shuttered the college campus in March, Hamper, like the other volunteer DJs, had to learn to all natural. all nurturing. prerecord shows at home. He uploads songs from his extensive collections YOUR LEELANAU and discoveries into a computer pro- gram, sending the playlist as an MP3 CHOCOLATE file to Hines in Traverse City. Hamper GROCERSDAUGHTER.COM then records six “breaks” of sellbacks STOP (231) 326-3030 and conversational patter with a re- cording app on his cell phone. These Glen Arbor Sun October 8, 2020 • Page 7

Tom O’Brien, hung out at the dorms, Round Up from 2004 to early 2020. and we all played music. The talent variety show evolved from “I grew up with music in Keego a regular open mic at the Cedar Tavern. Harbor, near Pontiac. We had a baby he ran it for a while, but when the tav- grand piano; my dad played uke, my ern stopped doing open mic nights, he sister played guitar. In college, I’d go approached Hayloft Inn owner Marion down to Detroit to the Chess Mate, Peplinski—and the rest is history. where Chuck and Joni Mitchell were At some point, Dungjen began to the house band; they were like the Seth record each week’s Thursday night Bernard and May Erlewine of that day. show, edit, and condense it into an They had Tom Rush, Ramblin’ Jack hour-long episode that ran on Sunday Elliott, Eric Anderson, David Blue.” nights on WNMC. While Blumenfeld’s musical educa- “It was born out of live perfor- tion was expanding, his college studies mance, but without the time to re- suffered, and he eventually left school. hearse,” he explains. “We were look- He married, had a family, and worked ing for something to make open mic as a stone mason for years. He’s al- more fun, give it a little pizzazz. It ways played music with others in the was really kind of cool. We had a lot Larry Mawby is having fun with community—Patrick Niemisto, Geno of people drop in: locals and traveling radio these days, too. The pioneering Miller, Bob DeKorne, Jonah Powell, musicians like Bobby Yang. Michael Suttons Bay winemaker retired last to name a few—but it was when he on Fire, The Accidentals, Joe West. year, and joined Red Pine Radio, a retired, around 2004, that he unearthed Merle Haggard’s illegitimate son group of Northern MI independent his musical NMC roots in a new way. Scott showed up, played some tunes. amateur producers. The group was “The DJ thing was totally different. Billy Strings came. He wasn’t famous created by Peter Payette, Interlochen My wife worked for a local doctor, then—he wasn’t even old enough to Public Radio’s executive director, to whose husband Bob Brown did stuff drink. We’d read the dispatch blotter facilitate stories unique to the region. for WNMC. Bob said they needed from the Leelanau Enterprise. People Anyone interested in telling audio more help at the station. I sat in on his would say, ‘You can’t put that on the stories can join. IPR hosts workshops Crossroads show a few times [Ameri- radio!’ But we did.” periodically, and Red Piners meet once cana, blues, folk], and then did my own Round Up led to another radio op- a month (currently via Zoom) to pitch Crossroads.” portunity for Dungjen when WCCW in stories for Points North, learn technical He recalls with amazement the Traverse City hired him to put together skills, and foster camaraderie. breadth and depth of WNMC’s ar- a weekly, hour-long polka show that Mawby says, “I find it really in- chives, and manager Eric Hines’ ran from 2008-2011. triguing. You have an idea of what generosity to the quirks of volunteers. “That channel was ESPN for 23 the story is to begin with, and then “There’s a format, for sure, and a hours a day on Saturdays, except for being willing to throw that out. I don’t genre, but the fact that we could play the polka show at 7AM,” he says. want to be in the story. If I do, then what we wanted” was a key attraction. “Who knew there are so many polka I’m editorializing. I really try to just “I was blown away by artists I’d never bands out there? They came out the set the scene and let it roll smoothly, heard of. The longer I’ve stayed there, yinyang! People would call in all naturally. Or let two or three experts the more I realize I don’t know s---!” the time. Cute little old Polish ladies talk—let them carry the story along. I The longer he stayed, the more fun would leave voicemails, and I’d bump still shape [it]. he had—so much so that he took on ‘em right from my cell phone [into the “For the past several months, my- a second show, Local Motion, which show]. It was my weirdest gig. One self and two others worked on a series highlighted music from the Northern show, I played two 30-minute polkas.” about what’s going on in the natural MI scene, and eventually cohosted an In 2014, he produced six shows world. [With COVID-19], it seems early morning drive-time slot as well. for Interlochen Public Radio as well, really appropriate. How does nature Along with his band mate Bill Dungjen a kind of touring Round Up that in- talk? Wind is generally considered of Sour Mash, he also frequented cluded venues such as the venerable a defect in audio. There’s waves, Round Up, a weekly open mic show Elderly Instruments shop in Lansing at the Hayloft Inn on M-72 that was and Cherry Republic in Glen Arbor. See RADIOHEADS on page 15 broadcast for years on WNMC. “Jonah Powell and I did all the editing Recently, he’s cut back a bit—turn- for the first one. What Jonah did was ing Local Motion over to a couple of refine my messes. other DJs after a dozen or so years— “Doing it for free, I always went and the pandemic’s restrictions have for open-source stuff; I use Audacity caused more advance planning than [editing software] almost exclusively. he likes, such as prerecording shows It’s a comfort level thing; it’s so much and cohosting drive-time slots over the fun. And there have been many tech phone. The downside of returning to changes over the years,” he says. He the radio station will be cleaning mics, has so many audio adapters, he could quarantining CDs played, and bad hang them on the wall, like a visual weather commutes. But he feels it’s all timeline honing his craft at his studio, worth it to get back to his well-polished Cedar Valley Productions. seat at the soundboard, headphones on Currently, Dungjen directs theater and big boom mic at the fore. productions at Glen Lake School, but “I like to work spontaneously this year, the pandemic has served up and without a lot of preparation,” he an ironic, yet appropriate twist. “I just laughs. “Hopefully, we’ll be back in got green-lit to put on a radio play,” he the studio soon!” chortles. He’s already dreaming and Bill Dungjen of Cedar has taken a planning: “A Christmas Carol, with different path to radio. A theater vet- sound cues, incidental music. There’s eran of Old Town Playhouse and other enough mics to space the kids apart. live drama, the bluegrass musician was We’ll go as high fidelity as we can. the long-time host and organizer of We’ll have fun with it!”

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SLEEPING BEAR have found innovative, virtual ways destructive impacts of man-made cli- Check out our continues from page 1 for the public to celebrate Sleeping mate change. Bear’s 50th birthday. A new website, In the past 50 years, our National advertising rates at Sleeping Bear Dunes, and National www.Nps.gov/slbe/planyourvisit/ Lakeshore has undergone tremendous Parks in general, may be more im- sbdnl-50th-anniversary.htm offers changes: the Park’s headquarters GlenArborSun.com. portant this year than ever before for opportunities to participate in a “Plan moved from Frankfort to Empire in Americans, said Rob Wallace, assistant Your Way” 50-mile challenge, an 1987; long a fixture of local maritime secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks “Explore the Shores” scavenger hunt, history, the Great Lakes lighthouses at the Department of the Interior, dur- a Junior Ranger downloadable book, were automated, and the Coast Guard ing a visit on Sept. 15. Wallace was in peruse a Sleeping Bear artists in resi- was modernized; shipwrecks were pro- town to learn how the Great Ameri- dence virtual gallery, take part in daily tected from commercial interests; citi- can Outdoors Act, signed into law on online activities in the runup to Oct. zen movements grew to preserve pub- August 4, could expand recreational 21, and share ideas with Park staff lic access to road-end beaches within opportunities and address long over- and take a pledge to protect our Na- the Lakeshore, historical buildings due infrastructure and modernization tional Lakeshore. Sleeping Bear is also and barns were preserved. Through it challenges for this and other parks. teaming up with the Grand Traverse all, resentment lingered among land- ssbankmi.com “From a national perspective, the ti- Astronomical Society to hold a virtual owners within the Park who lost their Member FDIC tans of the National Park movement— star-gazing party on Oct. 16. homes, even as others with financial the Teddy Roosevelts, the John Muirs, Depending on the weather on clout and political connections were al- the Ansel Adams—they all understood Wednesday, Oct. 21, Sleeping Bear lowed to stay. Local citizen opposition the power of the outdoors,” said Wal- staff may hold pop-up events at the to The Homestead resort’s proposed lace, who complimented Sleeping Dune Climb and other popular desti- golf course on the Crystal River even- Bear’s staff for finding innovative nations such as Platte River, Empire tually led to an artful “land swap” that ways to safely reopen the Park after Bluff and Pyramid Point. In addition, involved The Homestead, Sleeping closing it in April. a mobile visitor center featuring multi- Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and According to Sleeping Bear’s in- media exhibits and a television screen the Leelanau Conservancy. terpretation and education program mounted on the side of a passenger Through the decades, tourism has manager Lisa Griebel, the time capsule van playing videos of the Sleeping boomed during the summer months. will contain the Park’s 2020 visitor Bear experience will soon be ready The “Good Morning America” TV guide, the 50th anniversary logo, and to bring the Park to underserved com- show anointing Sleeping Bear Dunes news about innovative staff projects munities. However, the mobile visitor as “America’s most beautiful place” such as the virtual learning initiative center won’t hit the road until after the in 2011 brought record crowds to to bring an educational Sleeping Bear COVID threat passes. the National Lakeshore—records experience to classrooms during a that have since been broken, and will schoolyear when yellow buses aren’t Environmental movement, new Park likely be again this year. This National bringing kids to visit the Lakeshore. President Nixon officially estab- Lakeshore plays a huge role in Michi- Those 45-60-minute, webcam- lished the Lakeshore on Oct. 21, 1970, gan’s tourism industry. According to based virtual learning programs are nine years after U.S. Senator Philip a recent study, Sleeping Bear Dunes geared both for elementary and middle Hart of Michigan introduced legisla- supported an estimated $173 million school students and focus on water tion in 1961 to add the Sleeping Bear in economic contributions to the state’s health, geology, history, and Anishi- Dunes and 77,000 surrounding acres economy and supported more than naabeg native tribes. Sleeping Bear’s to the nation’s National Park system. 2,370 jobs. lead education technician David Fen- As reported in the book Sixties Sand- The first leg of the popular Sleeping lon said that schools nationwide, and storm: the Fight Over Establishment Bear Heritage Trail opened in 2012, even in India and South America, are of a Sleeping Bear Dunes National reflecting a commitment to promote calling to sign up for the program via Lakeshore (Michigan State University recreation in certain parts of the Zoom. Press, 2001), “the 1,600 people who Lakeshore, whereas the Park just a de- “I started back in June, and knew I lived in the proposed park area feared cade before had contemplated closing would be involved in distance learn- not only that the federal government off access to the public. The massive SHOP ing,” said Fenlon. “I couldn’t fore- would confiscate their homes, but that storm of Aug. 2, 2015, changed the THE STYLES see how timely it would be for this a wave of tourists would ensue and de- forests near Alligator Hill for genera- program. We’re getting a lot of great stroy their beloved and fragile lands. In tions, and an unprecedented fluctuation feedback from teachers, that we have response, they organized citizen action in Lake Michigan water levels, from something like this when they can’t groups and fought a nine-year battle all-time low in 2013 to all-time high in CURBSIDE & come here in person.” SHIPPING against the legislation.” 2020—a period of just seven years— AVAILABLE! Prior to the Coronavirus pandemic, Sleeping Bear Dunes was born at showed the challenges Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore staff had planned the zenith of a new American environ- Dunes faces in an era of unpredictable a year-long series of in-person events mental movement, one that ushered in climate change. 6324 W. Western Ave., Glen Arbor to celebrate 50 years since President 4 x 4 Enterprise the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Open year-round. 231.835.2120 Nixon signed the Park into existence Act, and a renewed interest in protect- on Oct. 21, 1970. The series was to ing our environment and cleaning up SLEEPING BEAR concludes on page 10 CRYSTALRIVEROUTFITTERS.COM culminate with a large public gather- industry’s carcinogens and pollutants. ing. COVID interrupted those plans. Here in Michigan, Gov. William Mil- Lakeshore staff hope to hold those an- liken, who ran the state from 1969 until niversary events next year. The expres- 1983, was considered an environmen- sion “51 is the new 50” has become a tal champion. Calls are growing today guiding principle at Park headquarters for a new environmental movement in Empire. in the United States, particularly as Instead, said Griebel, Park staff communities struggle to mitigate the LET’S MAKE ART… AFTER with the GAAC ART in a BOX SCHOOL Developed in tandem with an art teacher with 20+ years of experience, art boxes are chock full of all materials needed, instructions and a chance to share virtually. Online interactive videos provide support and inspiration. $45/kit, $55 if shipped. 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COVID ventilation; how and where to get fitted There’s a good article on the sci- continues from page 1 for an N95 mask. entific journal portal SpringerLink that wearing masks doesn’t just slow rooms. One week, I got three different When we got rapid testing and didn’t get so many triage patients, the droplet spread, but actually reduces the trainings on how to remove the same severity of infections: the fewer virions piece of PPE (personal protective COVID-positive patients and their signage moved into the side of the unit we inhale, the longer our bodies have equipment). to mount a good immune response It’s okay; we’re all learning as we we kept reserved for isolation. There InspIratIon used to be a cheerful, hand-lettered before becoming overwhelmed by the go and tweaking things as we learn. virus. I’d hate to defeat this pandemic That goes for your governor, as well board of success stories (“Today we for your ImagInatIon took ONE patient off the ventilator!”) by appealing to selfishness rather than as your hospital staff. empathy, but at this point, I’ll take We play music for vented patients but the one we see every day, still, is “Morgue process at charge desk.” what I can get. and hold their hands, we try our best Elitza Nicolaou, a nursing student to save their dignity. We’ve had babies I thought it would stop getting to me after a little while, but it hasn’t. at Northwestern Michigan College born on our unit for the first time, to who works on Munson’s COVID ward, new parents who test positive for the Every time I have the aide assignment in COVIDLand, I stare at it over and grew up on Port Oneida Road and lives virus, and we’ve learned how to sup- in Elmwood Township. port each other when things get really over. Morgue process at charge desk. scary or tough. We have to treat our COVID dead a Signs started going up on the unit little differently. We have to treat our COVID liv- SLEEPING BEAR in April, a couple of weeks after we continues from page 9 moved all the open-heart and other ing a little differently, too. It’s hard to develop a relationship with a patient cardiothoracic surgery patients into Sleeping Bear’s next 50 years a different floor and set up isolation when you’re wrapped in PPE and trying to protect yourself; the barri- Asked about climate change during equipment stations outside all of our his Sept. 15 visit to Sleeping Bear, the rooms. Instructions in bold green let- ers are physical and psychological on both sides of the equation. We spend Department of the Interior’s Rob Wal- ters, hand-written, on how to bridge lace said, “I try to change the conversa- sedatives if we ran out of a specific enough time and energy donning and doffing our protective gear that a nor- tion to what it means for someone like medication; what precautions to take Scott [Tucker] to manage resources. for patients who were just waiting on mal patient interaction--getting a glass of water, or a hairbrush, or changing You’ve got to think about adaptive test results, or who were confirmed management strategies for forests, for positive, or who were on mechanical the sheets—is a long, often-exhausting process. We give the best care that we beaches. Regardless of the impacts can, but it’s draining. of climate change, you’ve got to be I don’t know when this pandemic is prepared for change.” going to end, or if things will ever get Wallace and Herbert C. Frost, Na- back to what we thought was normal tional Park Service Regional Director a year ago. I know that I’ve had to for the Department of the Interior learn too much this year, that we’ve Regions 3, 4, 5, will have a hand in all had terribly abrupt lessons in what allocating the $6.5 billion afforded by it means to live in a society. We’re all the Great American Outdoor Act to in this fight together, even if we don’t pay for maintenance backlog in parks all have the exact same fight, and our nationwide. Sleeping Bear’s backlog actions can deeply affect other people: is estimated to be $16 million and we can choose to try to keep others includes projects on standstill at the safe, or we can not. Port Oneida Rural Historic District in When I see people without masks, the Park’s northern reaches. I wonder if they have any idea how “This is the first time in modern much that feels like an insult to the memory that there’s a commitment memory of more than 210,000 people to funding the maintenance backlog,” in this country lost to COVID, and how said Wallace. much it feels like they’re thumbing “Not since the 1950s has this kind their noses at those of us working on of money been made available,” added 1480 S. West Bay Shore Dr. 1701 South Airport Rd. W. Suttons Bay, MI 49682 Traverse City, MI 49686 the units. I wish, sometimes, that they Frost. “It is the investment of a gen- 231-271-0010 231-947-1400 could see what we’ve all seen on the eration—the we’ve ever seen in our careers.” NorthernBuildingSupply.com unit, whether it would help them take it seriously. The Great American Outdoor Act also provides $900 million a year for the land and water conservation fund in perpetuity, funds that can be tapped for land acquisition. 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REPUBLICAN there,” I offered in my profound in- Many young Republicans had continues from page 1 nocence. “It was really bad,” he said. turned into anti-war hippies by the “I can’t talk about it.” When I came spring of 1970 when the Kent State from Olivet College for my first visit massacre happened on May 4. Every- back home in the fall of 1969, I went thing stopped. We demonstrated on our to the Friday night dance at the Shelby college campuses. American public Pavilion to catch up with everyone. A opinion tilted against the war, the Civil guy I knew from Ferry stood pale and Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 had been thin by the wall. He had been to ’Nam. passed, but it had taken several years of He explained that his insides were in marches and demonstrations and riots a colostomy bag under his sweatshirt. and deaths and our country being torn But he would recover, he said. My inside out and tipped upside down. friend Fred Wenk also came back from And now it’s 2020, and the political Norm’s late father, Robert Wheeler there with a Purple Heart. atmosphere and sense of doom feel (center) appears with then Lt. Gov. At Olivet College in 1969, the just the same. The COVID-19 pan- Milliken in 1967. specter of the war was ever present. demic has killed more than 210,000 On December 1 they had the first draft Americans. The president and first lady 24th amendment to the constitution lottery. We were listening on the radio have tested positive. Demonstrations (no poll tax). Milliken always called to the dates and the numbers being for Black Lives Matter against police himself a moderate, championed en- drawn in Paul Miller’s room in the brutality turn into riots, poisoned by vironmental issues, and helped pass dorm. When they picked his birthday, radical rabble-rousers with guns. A Michigan’s bottle return bill, which July 9, they picked number 1. Mine reality-show, chaos-loving president took effect in 1978. Milliken supported was 55. Everybody who kept a GPA of compulsively lies and then calls the Kerry against Bush in 2004, as well as 2.0 would keep their 2-S student de- truths uncovered by diligent journalists Clinton against Trump in 2016, and ferment and stay in college. But there “fake news.” Propagandists on Fox Sen. Gary Peters against Terri Lynn were some guys who struggled to do News and talk (hate) radio propagate Land in 2014. “Increasingly, the party that, so after the semester exams they terrifying conspiracy theories (Obam- is moving toward rigidity, and I don’t were crying and begging professors aCare death panels?!) and manipulate like that,” he said in 2008. to give them a break or they would addicted viewers (like my Republican It was easy to be a Republican then be drafted and sent to Vietnam. The parents before they died) with hatred and there. Oceana County was rural, pressure on the professors was enor- and fear, just like the Two Minute Hate most folks were asparagus and fruit mous. And the despair of the drafted in Orwell’s 1984. I think of the line farmers or related to one, there was a was profound. I told my parents that I from the W.B. Yeats poem The Second strong Dutch Calvinist ethos in all of would go to Canada if I had to. By the Coming: “The best lack all conviction, West Michigan, and most everybody time I graduated in 1973, they weren’t while the worst are full of passionate listened to Paul Harvey on the radio at drafting anybody, and we were almost intensity.” noon every weekday. Life was ordered out of Vietnam. If you’ve read this far, I can hear and predictable, a series of Norman My Republican philosophy, espe- you thinking, “OK, boomer.” And Rockwell paintings, the epitome of cially about the necessity of that war, it’s true: I’m a baby boomer hippie, Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town. had already started to change. When like so many others. But if you, dear People valued honesty, hard work, tak- George Romney was running for reader, still hue to the conservative ing care of each other, self-discipline. president in 1967, he said he had come values of our now gone parents and People were proud when their kids home from visiting Vietnam in 1965 grandparents, I finish with this plea: went off to college and became sci- “brainwashed” by the U.S. military Please hang on to those values and get entists or journalists or doctors. And about the progress of the war. Now rid of this president. Biden is more like new residents in town were welcomed. he was against the war. That ruined the Milliken and Griffin and Romney Or at least it was that way on the his campaign. (If you watch Robert Republicans of our childhoods than surface. Every summer the popula- McNamara’s documentary The Fog of Trump is or ever will be. It is a secret tion of the county doubled when the War, or the Ken Burns series The Viet- ballot, after all. It’s up to you … Mexican migrant workers came to pick nam War, you’ll see that what Romney Meanwhile Jim Crockett’s song asparagus and fill the camps around the said was just what was happening: keeps soothing my brain: cherry farms. They picked the cherries, Westmoreland and the military were plums, peaches, pears, and apples, lying to us.) Then the tumultuous year “I will be the last believer in a pure and then headed back to south Texas of 1968 happened. We sat stunned in and simple way, in November. Some of their children front of the TV over and over: in Janu- From a country way of living, til my came to school with us in the spring ary, the 26-day North Vietnamese Tet dying day and fall and played Little League with offensive sent thousands of American I’ll be the last believer in the power us in the summer, so we all had friends boys home in caskets; Martin Luther of the dove, among them. But it was understood King was assassinated on April 4; I will be the last believer in love.” that we shouldn’t mix too much. Some Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination fol- of their families stuck around and be- lowed on June 6; and then in August came members of the community, but the Democratic National Convention we weren’t supposed to date. in Chicago was soaked in tear gas. As And we were banned from reading my friend Jim Crockett sings in his certain books at Shelby High School. song “Last Believer”: My English teacher, Marty Fuce, told us that she was forbidden by the su- “It was in the 1960s when I came of perintendent, Mr. Rottschafer, from age. teaching: The Catcher in the Rye, Times they were a changin’, my life Othello, The Grapes of Wrath, or To turned a page. Kill a Mockingbird. But we could read Detroit was burning, there was hatred them on our own and write reports all around. for extra credit. The way she praised One by one they shot my heroes down.” my paper on The Catcher in the Rye taught me that I could be a good writer. (And Orwell’s 1984 taught me about the manipulation of language through propaganda and the subversion of truth. Remember doublespeak? War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength?) While I was in high school the Vietnam War was cranking up. Several local boys were involved. Jim Martin was killed. He had been running up and down the football field for the Shelby Tigers just a couple of autumns before. Dave Kamhout used to play basketball with us at Henrys all the time. When he came home from ’Nam he was skinny and shaking, he couldn’t catch the ball or shoot it. He apologized. “It must have been pretty bad over Page 12 • October 8, 2020 Glen Arbor Sun Leelanau County Commission candidates address Internet access ... From staff reports been determined are not readily met and sustainable energy sources. The in any area that possesses high prop- county government should embrace Of seven seats on the Leelanau erty values due to desirability. While renewable energy at its campus. The County Board of Commissions, six I applaud the efforts that have been townships could implement a less are in play this November 3 election and continue to be made to construct restrictive renewable energy process (Democrat Ty Wessell is running unop- adequate and attractive dwellings at concerning residential, small business posed). Republicans currently enjoy a a reasonable cost, it seems to leave a and small community facilities. Each slight, 4-3 majority on the Board, but long road toward realizing the goal. of us has a personal obligation to pro- occasional “swing vote” Tony Ansorge I feel that the main underlying issue tect our environment and mitigate the is not seeking reelection. We asked the can best be resolved by addressing the effects of climate change. The future candidates the following six questions: reason why homes are unaffordable in depends on it. 1) What are three hurdles facing the first place, and I think it’s obvious 5) The Board of Commissioners Leelanau residents that you think the that wage stagnation is the heart of has strenuously worked to achieve a County Commission should address? the matter. Without a living wage, the successful resolution for the future of 2) What can the Commission do notion of workforce housing remains Sugar Loaf. Let’s review some facts. to increase broadband and Internet elusive for most. While the County As long as the property taxes are paid, access? cannot effectively mandate a minimum the County is precluded from taking 3) What can the Commission do wage, it can encourage local businesses form of government or science, the firmer measures. A developer agreed to increase affordable and workforce to offer fair pay. I would like to see a job of elevating Leelanau County as to purchase and improve the property. housing options here? campaign initiated on a regional level a whole becomes much more difficult For various reasons one delay fol- 4) What can the Commission do to that both recognizes and incentivizes and the future more uncertain. It is lowed another. Said developer then protect Leelanau’s environment and local businesses who are able to offer wrong to block the positive change wanted $3 million for demolition and mitigate the effects of Climate Change? a reasonable living wage. that one district may desire against remediation. More delays because 5) What can the Commission do to 4) I support the need to adopt a some perceived slight another district of COVID-19 or “bureaucracy”. $3 reach a resolution for Sugar Loaf? wastewater ordinance in some form. might suffer. A holistic approach would million has now become $6.5 million 6) What did you learn from the As the majority of the county’s homes, serve us all better. The three hurdles are for clean-up. The developer is now Commission’s pained efforts to draft farms, and businesses are not serviced infrastructure, affordable workforce fighting a civil ticket in Federal Court. an anti-racism resolution? Why was it by sewers, it is past time to enact housing and environment. The county should continue meaning- so difficult to do so? What next steps policy for proper septic compliance. 2) This question would be best ful discussions regarding the future should the Commission take on com- The Commission should determine answered by those who have worked of Sugar Loaf but must maintain its batting racism in Leelanau? the most appropriate approach and tirelessly on expanding our Inter- financial integrity. implement an inspection schedule net access. The Leelanau Peninsula 6) I learned that “Pained” is the District 1, southern Elmwood as a priority. We all benefit from the Economic Foundation (LPEF), its perfect metaphor and witnessing a few Township (left vacant by Re- abundant water resources here, and it is Leelanau Internet Futures Team (LIFT) public servants engage in a childish publican Tony Ansorge) our collective responsibility to protect and Commissioner Soutas-Little in display of ‘whataboutism’ was even and steward them. As with the afford- particular, have been striving for years more painful. The difficulty arose able housing issue, I think the County researching to provide the best process when a Commissioner(s) verbally ex- should entertain creative measures to connectivity for all. Some are fortunate pressed his/her racial bias. The County recognize and incentivize residents and to live in a section of the county that had no anti-racism policy procedure. owners whom are able to implement has a stable, high-speed, internet con- Fortunately, the Commissioners came alternative energy sources. nection. Too many residents do not together and created a meaningful 5) I honestly don’t claim to have have this connectivity. This is no longer resolution. I am encouraged that the insight on the Sugar Loaf issue that a luxury but a critical necessity. I trust County Administrator Janik has hired would allow me to suggest its resolu- the experience and professionalism of Professor Emling to provide anti-bias tion. It appears to me that any signifi- the experts and would likely support training to the County Commissioners. cant expenditure of the County toward their recommendation(s) to the Board All county employees might benefit a private enterprise would likely pose of Commissioners. from this or similar anti-bias training. an inordinate risk for the taxpayers. 3) All members of the Board of Whether discrimination or harassment Talk is cheap, and ski resorts are not. Commissioners should recognize presents itself in racial or any other 6) I can’t speak as to why (the anti- that affordable, workforce housing form, it has absolutely no place in any racism resolution) was difficult, as I is considered an essential driver to branch of government. was not privy to those conversations. our County’s economic growth. Our I think that the fact that a resolution businesses will benefit from a stable Deb Rushton, Repub. INCUMBENT was unanimously adopted is what is workforce and our schools will benefit Did not respond to questions. important. More than expending re- with younger families. Some Com- sources in an attempt to change narrow missioners overlooked this issue in District 3, Suttons Bay and minds, I would like to see educational their 2020 goals. I’m encouraged that Lake Leelanau George Bowers, Democrat opportunities and experiences made the Leelanau County Planning Com- 1) The main hurdles that I feel the available to our younger population. mission may be participating in the Will Bunek, Repub. INCUMBENT Commission should address for the The experience that Leelanau has had “Homes for our Future” campaign 1) The top three issues I think the residents of Leelanau County are pro- in the last few months surrounding the being conducted by Housing North county needs to address are: wireless tection of the water, sensible develop- race issue has left me with the opinion at the Northwest Michigan Housing internet access; Balancing the budget ment, and what I would call “growing that racism occurs primarily due to a Summit later this month. I’m optimistic under COVID conditions; services for pains.” The proud residents of this lack of exposure. I invite all residents the Board will approve this meeting seniors/Bringing families with young- county now face challenges that come of the county to reflect and consider expenditure. I would expect whomever sters to the county. along with the fact that we live, work, how personal exposure to different the County sends will benefit from the 2) The county is allowing six and play in a unique and beautiful re- cultures (or lack thereof) has shaped meeting and return with potentially months free internet access on all gion. As with any desirable place to call our views. workable solutions. The Board could county towers for wireless internet home, families will want to grow here be instrumental in bringing together providers as an incentive to achieve and folks will wish to relocate here. Rick Robbins, Republican property owners, construction groups, county wide internet access. The I feel that we can achieve a balance Did not respond to questions. private, public, non-profit and business through mutual respect of newcomers partnerships to solve this problem. This and “old-timers”. Sensible develop- District 2, Bingham Township, should be a top priority of the Board ment requires that the voices of those northern Elmwood Township of Commissioners after the November who have made Leelanau the gem that elections. it is be heard. We all strive to maintain John Hunter, Democrat 4) An overwhelming majority of the natural beauty of our neighbor- 1) The biggest hurdle facing County residents want some sort of hoods, open spaces, and shores for the Leelanau County is our political po- septic ordinance. A Point-of-Sale/ enjoyment of future generations. larization and how that plays out in Transfer Septic Ordinance would 2) Improved internet access is a our daily lives and in many decisions protect home buyers, identify failing challenge in rural communities. I by the Board. Many of us have con- systems and protect our watershed. would support all efforts to encourage vinced ourselves there is only one side No person should be able to claim an providers to improve infrastructure and to every issue, our own. Inappropriate infringement of their property rights as access. Ultimately, private companies comments from a passing vehicle to an excuse for failing to do the minimum have to see this as a lucrative endeavor, abducting yard signs has now replaced necessary to protect the public’s right and I believe that most regions will spirited political discussion among to safe, clean water. The University of eventually have options available neighbors. Many residents feel dis- Michigan in 2019 presented findings of throughout the county. enfranchised by a commissioner who a Community Renewable Energy Plan. 3) Affordable housing is a difficult only listens to their base supporters. It showcased how Leelanau Peninsula issue to resolve. The needs that have When that base has a mistrust in any could be 100% powered by efficient Glen Arbor Sun October 8, 2020 • Page 13 affordable housing, climate change, Sugar Loaf, combating racism county is also looking into the possibil- cess. Specific recommendations from the site safe, clean up the site or support ity of bringing fiber cable to all county the Leelanau LIFT Committee can be the development of a successful proj- towers. We have been working on this found here: https://bit.ly/2SueIBe. We ect. I hope that the County Commission for quite some time, and as is the case must work with townships to review can partner with Cleveland Township with many government projects, it is a current zoning ordinances in order officials to consider all options. As we very slow process. The commissioners to encourage expansion of towers for continue to hope for a successful busi- are working diligently on this goal and services to low population areas where ness developer, I would recommend will continue to move it forward as the cost of fiber is prohibitive. We must that we explore all possibilities for a quickly as we can. also help ISPs identify unmet needs quick cleanup of the existing site. 3) The county has a housing task and help them navigate the permitting 6) It was painful but we are moving force committee that is addressing the and approval process in those areas forward. A resolution was passed and affordable work force issue. In an effort where fiber is a viable option. The anti-racism training is scheduled. As an to achieve cheaper housing for those Commissioners recently approved a individual and a Commissioner, I must who want to move to the county, I have plan to provide incentives for ISPs speak out, listen, and be accountable. proposed to the county Building Safety interested in using existing towers. We I must get racism on the agenda and Committee that we move to a single all must also assist the ISPs in reaching acknowledge racism as an issue. I must inclusive permit fee for houses under agreements for space on private tow- promote training and support efforts for a certain square footage. The Building ers and identify new tower sites that workforce diversity. We must adopt a Safety Committee is scheduled to meet Committee and engage with Hous- might be needed. Federal, State and/ culture that recognizes that silence is in October to discuss this option. ing North. Encourage communities or private dollars to cover the costs of complicity. All officials and staff must 4) Leelanau County is addressing to streamline zoning regulations for infrastructure should be solicited. be expected to speak out against rac- environmental issues in these many affordable workforce housing. Support 3) County government cannot sin- ism, support efforts to diversify the and varied ways! The sheriff’s depart- the Landbank/Brownfield Authority to gle-handedly solve the housing prob- workforce, review policies and proce- ment was able to reduce their fuel costs mitigate land costs. lem, but collaboration with non-profits, dures and promote formal and informal by $10,000 this year without reducing 4) Work with Leelanau Energy to investors, and state/federal government training programs for staff and com- miles travelled because of more fuel- be informed: encourage retrofit of can have an impact. We have been fo- munity. We must encourage leaders efficient vehicle purchases and lower homes for energy efficiency, use the cused on the need for increased inven- to develop strategies that can improve gas prices. County residents will vote Government Center campus as an ex- tories of workforce and young family responses to racism, and provide ad- on whether or not to renew and increase ample with solar installation. Follow housing through the County’s Housing ditional training dollars to the Sheriff’s household recycling fees in a ballot the suggestion of our utility providers Committee and Housing Task Force Department to support adoption of best proposal this November, which will and Electrify Everything. Add an EV since 2016. Progress has been slow but practices in law enforcement. We must allow for a continuation of hazardous charging station. Live the example. the County efforts have made a differ- enlist the involvement of community waste, electronic, and tire collection. 5) Assist in cleaning up the site so ence. The evidence is clear. Land costs, leaders who can help us refute the ar- The county residents themselves are it’s safe. construction costs, zoning restrictions, guments of those who say that racism paying for and protecting the environ- 6) As I would expect most of us do and regulatory procedures play an inte- is not an issue in our County. We have ment through recycling efforts. The not see ourselves as racist. Or, in the gral role in housing shortages. So, too, much hard work to be done. county is the facilitator. At the county Road Commission situation, we chose do the actions, ordinances, and policies buildings, all departments participate to look the other way. Wordsmithing of local communities. Without spend- District 5, Leland Township, in recycling and will continue to do so. a resolution that was agreeable to the ing significant funds, local govern- Centerville Township 5) With regard to the Sugar Loaf seven-member Commission was not ments can help by becoming ‘ready for property, the county’s Brownfield easy. I welcome the opportunity for development.’ We can also work with Patricia Soutas-Little, Democrat, Redevelopment Authority and Land discussion and engagement with our developers, investors, and nonprofits, INCUMBENT Bank Authority are working with the Grand Traverse Band neighbors and consider possible incentives, explore 1) In my view, attracting young land owner. To the frustration of many people of color in our community. You opportunities for reduced costs, and families to Leelanau County is im- persons including myself, it is an ex- don’t know what you don’t know. suggest revision in the local zoning portant for maintaining a diverse tremely slow, expensive, and compli- ordinances. The County can assist by and robust community and a vibrant cated process. This process has been District 4, Leelanau Township streamlining development processes, economy. But three obstacles are a lack become even slower and more com- (Northport) assisting with zoning reviews, and of affordable housing, sufficient quality plicated because of the Coronavirus. convening the essential stakeholders. childcare, and expanded county-wide No one is happy about this unfortunate I endorse the efforts of the Housing high-speed internet. Businesses have situation. Hopefully, as the virus is Ty Wessell, Democrat, INCUM- BENT (unopposed) Action Committee and the suggestions difficulty finding qualified workers resolved, progress can be made. in the Committee’s recommendations because affordable housing is limited 6) In my years of service to the 1) During the past six years, I’ve worked with fellow Commissioners on in the Readiness Checklist. I also sup- today. This is a critical problem that county board, racism has not been an port the recent action of the County needs a solution. Last year I co-chaired issue. As commissioner, I think the a number of critical issues including partnerships with non-profits, respon- Planning Commission to partner with the Early Childhood County Commit- adoption of the anti-racism resolution, Housing North to continue to address tee that was convened to examine how which was accomplished in a week’s sible fiscal oversight, safety, economic development, environmental protec- housing needs in our County. the County could support quality early time, went quite smoothly. The pain, 4) Since pollution from carbon- childhood programs, and progress has from my perspective, seemed to come tion, changing County demographics, broadband expansion, support for based fuels is a major contributor of been made. The committee recommen- from the public who didn’t under- carbon dioxide emissions into the dations resulted in a millage passed by stand the process and did not want the young families/seniors and affordable housing. I plan on continuing to work atmosphere, we should work toward voters last November implementing commissioners to discuss all types of becoming a society and peninsula early childhood services through the racism. As a next step, the commis- on these important issues, but the on- going challenges are responsible fiscal that whole-heartedly embraces energy Health Department. We are getting sioners are scheduled to meet for an efficiency and uses clean, renewable very close to providing high-speed anti-bias conference in November. All management, protecting what makes Leelanau County special, and com- energy for its needs. The Commission internet county-wide which will enable the commissioners take their county can contribute by embracing energy parents and school children to work responsibilities seriously. I want to munity partnerships to support young families, business owners and seniors. efficiency and renewable energy in online from home. These problems are take this opportunity to compliment its future planning, by adopting these interconnected, they impact young and them for their efforts, and though we 2) I have been a part of Leelanau LIFT that has worked with businesses, technologies for its own operations old alike and I hope to continue work- may disagree on issues, we treat one and by supporting clean solutions at ing collaboratively to find solutions. another with respect. residents and officials to identify Inter- net needs and possibilities. Armed with every opportunity. We can also use our 2) In 2016, the Leelanau Penin- influence to both educate and advocate. sula Economic Foundation established Lois Bahle Democrat data regarding status and needs, we have met with Service Providers (ISPs) Additionally, we must responsibly ad- the Leelanau Internet Futures Team 1) Supporting young families: hous- dress issues of environmental quality (LIFT), which I chair, tasked with ing, day care, internet access for work interested in expanding and/or estab- lishing services in areas without ac- and septic inspections in Leelanau examining the status of broadband and study from home; COVID: rapid County. We have been unsuccessful in services in Leelanau County and results testing, encourage everyone to addressing this issue responsibly in the developing an action plan to provide get a flu shot; Recognize our changing past but it is critical that we consider high-speed internet access throughout climate and find ways to participate in all options to responsibly respond to the County. Following a survey of the solution. this environmental quality and public Leelanau County residents, businesses 2) The two main impediments are health issue. I am hopeful that the and educators to identify broadband lack of infrastructure and cost of ser- County Commission can work with the needs and priorities, LIFT met with vice to the individual. Work with Grand Benzie-Leelanau Health Department to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), lo- Traverse Band on photo optic line successfully develop an ordinance that cal government Zoning and planning installation, work to improve capacity would protect our waters and address officials, and seized upon the idea of on county owned towers, possible ad- environmental risks caused by our utilizing existing county-owned towers dition of a tower location, needs based failure to address this issue in the past. to expand high-speed internet service. assistance to families for internet hook 5) Sugar Loaf is a challenge! Op- Since the survey was conducted, the up and fees. tions are limited, but we must not give 3) Continue the Housing Action up. There are only three options—make COMMISSION continues on page 14 Page 14 • October 8, 2020 Glen Arbor Sun

5) The revitalization of Sugarloaf, 6) A resolution has been recorded commissions to support needed hous- which once seemed so promising, and approved by the County Commis- ing. Other Counties have been willing has turned into a dismal disappoint- sioners, and I support it. to take some financial risk to support ment. As a member of the County’s housing—accepting grants, leveraging Building Safety Advisory Committee, District 6, Glen Arbor, Empire bonds and being willing to underwrite my primary concern at this point is and Cleveland Townships (left community development grants, all of safety—the lodge needs to be demol- which our County could and should ished. The September 25 hearing on vacant by Democrat Carolyn consider. There is work to be done, the blight ordinance complaint brought Rentenbach) careful consideration is needed as to by Cleveland township in local District how to best meet this need to support Court was adjourned with the case Gwenne Allgaier, Democrat our residents and our businesses. Our being moved to Federal Court. This 1) We need to know that our water children should be able to raise their takes precedence over District Court is safe to drink and lakes are safe for children here, our workers should be action, placing the case on indefinite swimming. Our County has discussed able to be a part of our community. hold. The Commission can do two this issue, and the need for a septic Candidates Wessel and Bahle have things, first we can continue to support ordinance, since at least 1994. We both been integral to the work of the the legal effort brought by Cleveland have the science and the experience HAC. township. Second, under the Building of other communities now, and we can 4) While County government does Code Sugarloaf owners are required to not play a direct role in environmen- respond to cited code violations either tal policy, it need not be silent on the by bringing the structure up to code, importance of sustainable practices demolishing it, or making it safe. The and energy efficiency. Our Planning reliance on internet for businesses, Commission, working with the County Commission can include accommoda- schools and residents has only in- Prosecutor, needs to explore all pos- tions for windmills and solar in its Five creased, magnified by the COVID-19 sible options, outside Federal Court, Year Plan, and support incorporation pandemic. But a major barrier to ex- to gain compliance creating a plan for of the same in township zoning and pansion of service are zoning issues. moving forward. planning commissions. A sustainable We are working with local government 6) What happened was incredibly energy committee could work with to harmonized and streamlined zoning disturbing, on so many levels, but I’m community partners to promote solar regulations. The Commission needs grateful that it started a public conver- and windmills, and direct developers to encourage use of the towers and sation. People found their voice and and citizens to grants and loans. County explore all new technologies that will spoke up in protest demanding they government should always look for enhance internet service. be heard. On a personal level, it helped sustainable options for its own campus, 3) Commissioner Ty Wessell con- me understand I need to learn how to and be a positive voice and support vened a County housing task force in talk about racism, listen even more for sustainable practices in Leelanau 2015 to examine the status of housing, intently, and learn how to construc- County. identify barriers and make recom- tively confront and engage individuals 5) Sugar Loaf was for years one mendations to the commission based making racist statements. Early on it of our County’s biggest job creators, on their findings. The Commission became apparent that commissioners act responsibly. We need to extend and was a wonderful attraction for visitors established a Housing Action Commit- viewed racism and racial equity from strengthen cell signals and broadband and created wonderful memories for tee (HAC) to work with local levels of different perspectives, rendering it dif- connections so we can work from home residents. It is now a hazard and an eye government and to create partnerships ficult to agree upon words and terms. and our children can do their school- sore, and action is needed to remove with other groups finding solutions to The overwhelming negative public work. We need affordable housing dilapidated and dangerous structures. housing problems. The HAC has made response caused us to rethink our views so that young families can raise their While for years there was not an iden- tremendous strides working with lo- and try harder to reach agreement. As children here and their children can tified owner who would take action, cal government to help communities commissioners we need to work on go to our schools, so that year around now we have a responsible owner, with identify their own needs, strategies becoming better advocates for racial workers can be part of our commu- good intentions, whose businesses and and plans that will increase workforce equity. Action begins with ongoing nity, and we need workforce housing income stream have been hammered by housing. I sit on both the County anti-bias training at the Board and to support our businesses. I must add the effects of COVID. This is a difficult Brownfield and Land Bank Authorities employee levels, and encouraging local that we must always strive for equity situation—but a bottom line right now working with groups, such as REACH, governments to follow suit. Anti-bias in our hiring practices, our Boards and is that the structures are dangerous, and and non-profit and for-profit develop- training will provide us better skills to Commissions appointments and our must be removed. Brownfield funds ers. To date, we’ve had some success review County policies, practices and approach to evaluating and meeting have been applied for. The primary ac- but affordable housing continues to be regulations. community needs. tor with Sugarloaf is Cleveland Town- a major problem and much more needs 2) Leelanau County Economic ship—the County can provide support to be done. The Commission must Development Corporation has formed with brownfield options to deal with continue collaboration with organiza- LIFT, Leelanau Internet Futures Team, immediate safety issues. tions like Networks Northwest, Hous- chaired by Patricia Soutas-Little, a 6) The statements and attitudes ing North and others in educating and collaboration of businesses, local resi- expressed when the County Commis- advocating for solutions, and exploring dents, nonprofits, community organiza- sion first attempted to approve an anti- ways to increase housing opportunities tions and the Tribe, that is working to bias statement were unfortunately not through changes in zoning ordinances advance broadband coverage. A survey surprising to me … I have witnessed, and regulations. was completed, needs were identified, in my years of attending meetings, 4) At best practices forums, scien- tower sites are being identified. LIFT similar attitudes and statements by tists and industry experts have advised has been and will continue to work with Commissioners Lautner, Bunek and us measures must be taken to address township boards, zoning administrators Rushton many times. That is one of our clean water issues. I agree with and planning commissions to address the reasons I decided to run for Peachy them. We need to develop an ordinance zoning ordinance needs. It is working Rentenbach’s seat when she stated she specific to Leelanau County, based on with Networks Northwest on an Eco- needed to retire. We have commission- data, that addresses septic and runoff nomic Development Administration ers whose political ideology repeatedly issues. The Health Department com- grant to fund two new towers needed expresses itself in County Commission pleted digitizing records for 14,740 for expanded internet. If the LCBoC decisions. I firmly believe that commis- septic systems in Leelanau. A partner- Jim Houdek, Republican authorizes the Emergency Manage- sioners should act to meet the needs ship with pumpers/haulers requesting 1) Completing the H/VAC system in ment Director to pursue this grant high of citizens, and be non-partisan. Cau- outcome data on residential systems the County Bldg. Continue to protect speed internet in our County can be casians have lived in a world of white serviced will provide county govern- our Citizens in support of the “rule of greatly improved. privilege that we often are not aware ment with direction. The County can Law”. Vigilant monitoring of County- 3) Leelanau County needs 668 ad- of … we have much to learn, all of us, provide leadership and advocate for re- funded programs ditional affordable housing units by about our implicit bias, about the ways newable energy by example, exploring 2) Continue to work with current 2025. The Housing Action Commit- our assumption of white privilege has ways to increase energy efficiency in proposed options, AND also look at tee (HAC) has met since late 2017 to benefitted us and disempowered people our campus structures. It can strongly other good available & affordable op- tackle this issue, and has identified of color. I am glad commisioners are encourage developers to utilize renew- tions. key areas needing support and/or im- engaging in Title Track’s training. We able energy in projects through Land 3) Work with and support, standard- provement. Permit processes need to need to examine our hiring practices, Bank, Brownfield or other County ized guidelines for all Townships, ease coordinated between departments and our employment environment and programs reducing reliance on carbon- of use for developers and code office streamlined. There needs to be a pro- make an effort to recruit people of color based fuels and decreasing carbon 4) After 35 years in being a Licensed cess for referring builders to available to our board and commissions. dioxide content in the atmosphere. Waste Hauler, I have some ideas on how grants and funds through landbank and The Building Safety Department could to mitigate the effects, and would be brownfield, with referrals to Networks Julana Schaub, Republican offer incentives, such as reduction in willing to address whether County Com- Northwest, Housing North and the 1) The three hurdles we need to con- building code permit fees, for devel- missioner’s have the authority to do so. HAC. While the Leelanau Planning tinue to address are: Senior services. opers and home owners who choose 5) I understand Sugar Loaf is cur- Commission creates a five year plan, Helping our lower income and poor. renewable energy technology when rently being handled by Cleveland more work can be done to work with Keeping services funded; Keeping constructing new homes or renovating. Twp. Zoning township supervisors and planning our Sheriff’s office fully funded; It’s Glen Arbor Sun October 8, 2020 • Page 15

only one week. I feel the process went fields to use the most up to date farming a point of sale inspection ordinance extremely smooth. practices. Broadband is essential for since 1990. Protection of our wells and students, small businesses, telehealth ground water is paramount. I support District 7, Kasson and Solon and 911. As a county commissioner, I fair, data-based initiatives to address Townships will advocate for these Board of Com- this issue, and preserve and protect our missioners goals: to “explore federal water quality. Julie Morris, Democrat and state grants, to develop common 5) Sugar Loaf Resort has been a 1) The three hurdles facing Leelanau language for franchise agreements, to problem for Cleveland Township and residents that the Commission should explore tower options and partnerships, Leelanau County for far too long. With address are affordable workforce hous- and research partnerships with service input from county officials familiar ing, broadband and internet access, utilities.” with this issue, the County Commis- and a county wide septic ordinance. 3) Three quarters of small business sion should take whatever steps it can, While not the only issues that impact owners in Leelanau County report within its jurisdiction, to aid Cleveland Leelanau County, these are issues that affordable workforce housing is a Township in finding a solution to this are hindering the stability and growth barrier to business growth and nearly issue. Leelanau County should always of businesses, and the health, safety half of small business owners report enforce our Building Safety Code that and well-being of our residents. The finding enough workers is a serious Sugar Loaf has been in violation of Commissioners should first research problem. County government should since 2014. We should also look at each of these hurdles and develop play an active role in encouraging the reimbursing Leelanau County for any important to balance our budget under clear goals and objectives to address private sector, non-profits, and town- expenses that are incurred through these COVID conditions. Keeping our them. We need to research best prac- ship governments to contribute to whatever legal means possible. staff and residents safe. tices, quality programs that have been housing affordability and availability. 6) I learned that racism exists on 2) The county has already offered implemented in other areas and return Zoning is another challenge to afford- the Leelanau County Commission 6 months free access to the towers. on investment for each of these issues. able housing. In order to reduce the and the County Road Commission. After this timeframe the rent has been Solving these issues is not a matter of cost of building a home, homes need I was appalled by the comments of reduced. We continue to work towards more money, but of having a clear vi- to be grouped more densely than some four Commissioners that I chose to broader coverage at affordable prices. sion and collaborating with all parties current zoning laws allow. Townships, speak during the public comment at 3) For the past two years the county to help the County reach its goals in the the primary determiner of their local the September 15 meeting. I shared task force has been working for afford- most efficient and cost-effective ways zoning ordinances, should work with my own background as a teacher in able housing. Reducing permit fees, for long-term stability and growth. their planning commissions to develop two urban school districts. I recounted reducing inspection fees. 2) Our residents increasingly depend site options for young family and work- some of the instances of racism that my 4) It’s important to continue to on reliable broadband internet access. force housing. students and their families endured at monitor our water levels. In the past Farmers need internet access in their 4) One of the ways the Commission the hands of police officers. It can be we’ve raised road levels to deal with can protect Leelanau’s environment very hard to find common ground when excess of water on roadways. Paying is with a county-wide well and septic faced with such an emotional issue. We attention to our seasonal cycles. We’ve inspection program. Well and septic in- should always remember that racism also helped reduce gas prices to help spection is particularly important with is real in Leelanau County and always make better vehicles affordable to run rising lake levels across the county. work to wipe it out. I suggested the here in our county. Septic tanks and drain fields may be Commissioners next steps could be to 5) If we as a county would stop ha- overrun by higher lake levels and the invite Northern Michigan E3 to speak rassing the owners, stop taking them to overflow is never contained to just the before the board. I also suggested that court, I believe a true resolution could property of issue, but seeps into neigh- Commissioners attend “Understanding be found. Allowing the owners to go boring waterways and groundwater Racial Justice: a five-week introduc- ahead with upgrades, maintenance, over time. Michigan does not have a tory training program for white folks and rebuilding. This will bring in more septic ordinance, so we as a county living in Northern Michigan”, offered revenue to our county. Continuing to need to pass a septic and well inspec- by Title Track. fight will only deter any renovations. tion program to protect the health and 6) The county has come up with an wellness of our residents and the value Melinda Lautner, Republican IN- excellent resolution regarding the rac- of our home and business investments. CUMBENT ism issue. This was accomplished in As an example, Benzie County has had Did not respond to questions.

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