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$1 Seven Decades Later, and Nowhere Else He'd Rather Be Town Crier $1 A weekly newspaper serving the Mackinac Island Community Volume 64, Number 18 Mackinac Island, Michigan August 26, 2017 to September 1, 2017 Inside This Issue: School Staff Ready To Begin New Year • Civil War Veterans Remembered • Island Medical Center Receives New Equipment Seven Decades Later, and Nowhere Else He’d Rather Be A Contributor to Mackinac Island Community in Countless Ways, Armand ‘Smi’ Horn Honored by City Armand “Smi” Horn is pictured in a familiar spot — near a wagon filled with customers of Mackinac Island Carriage Tours, where he has worked for 69 years. Many Islanders have received his recent move to St. Ignace for health reasons as a great loss for the Island. City Council passed a Resolution of Appreciation pro- claiming that he will always be a valued and treasured member of the Mackinac Island community. By Jacob A. Ball decades, he would not only From serving as fire chief and ing to his many friends and as- have forced him to move across Armand “Smi” Horn began work on the Island, but con- city councilman to his dedica- sociates. Born and reared on the water to St. Ignace. work for Mackinac Island Car- tribute to its small year-around tion to Mackinac Island’s ceme- Mackinac Island, he never The move forced Mr. Horn to riage Tours as a teenager in and summertime community in teries, Mr. Horn had an impact thought he would live anywhere resign from his latest roles as a 1948. For the next seven countless ways. that can’t be overstated, accord- else, but recent health concerns Turn to page 9: Horn New Tourism Bureau Building Gets Approval From Council By Jacob A. Ball ist Dennis Cawthorne told coun- details to work out, but he has memorandum of understanding. Councilmember Dennis A plan for renovation and ex- cilmembers he expects state “no problem” with the project. The rear of the tourism bureau Bradley had objected to the in- pansion of the Mackinac Island lawmakers to introduce a bill Tourism Bureau Chief Execu- building will be extended 6.5 trusion, saying it amounted to Tourism Bureau visitors center next month empowering the tive Tim Hygh said his organi- feet to make room for a staircase giving away city property. won approval from the City City of Mackinac Island to ban zation would cover the cost of to the second story. The exten- Grand Hotel President Dan Council Wednesday, August 16, drones. the changes to the hotel win- sion might require the removal Musser III, president of the clearing the way for a zoning The renovated tourism bureau dows and that the hotel and of lilac trees in the adjoining Mackinac Island Convention application and reviews by the offices will provide employees Tourism Bureau have signed a park. Turn to page 15: Bureau Mackinac Island Planning Com- with their own restroom for the mission and Historic District first time. There was concern in- Commission. stalling water lines for the new The Tourism Bureau visitors restroom would necessitate tear- Airport To Close for Resurfacing center is in the heart of the main ing up a new sidewalk, but By Jacob A. Ball after it was installed in the fall terial has been degrading, little business district, on Main Street Mayor Margaret Doud said The Mackinac Island Airport of 2011 and spring of 2012, but bits of dust and gravel come between the Murray Hotel and there are accessible plumbing runway will be closed for five should have lasted at least 10 loose. Carriage Tours ticket office. Ex- stubs to hook the building into days in September for repairs years. Nate Gambill, an assistant On three occasions since he pansion will add a second story, the city water and sewer sys- and resurfacing to correct pre- attorney general who has been took over as manager this more work space, and a rest- tems. mature weathering of the paved overseeing the matter, said the spring, Mr. Paeth said the airport room. There also was concern the runway. premature erosion likely oc- staff has had to clear debris from Council also approved a enlarged visitor center would Repairs tentatively are sched- curred because the runway was the runway. A compact tractor strengthening of the rules gov- obstruct views from west-facing uled for Tuesday, September 5, installed in poor weather condi- with an attached sweeper that erning temporary permits to use rooms at the Murray Hotel next to Friday, September 15. The tions. During the repairs, he agitates the surface is used first, motor vehicles on the Island, ap- door. To remedy that, plans are final dates will be determined said, it is vital to avoid the same followed by a blower to push it proved the purchase of a new for those hotel windows to be based on weather, but the Mack- circumstances. away. desktop computer for the police extended to the property line inac Island State Park Commis- Until the bad surface has been The sweeping is necessary to department, and looked at price and built similarly to bay win- sion, which manages the airport, replaced, Mackinac Island Air- ensure airplanes don’t slide off quotes for a platform lift. Island dows, with south-facing side hopes to complete the project in port staff will continue to main- the runway while landing. Mr. businessman and former lobby- windows looking out toward the consecutive days without any tain the runway by sweeping Paeth said no pilots have ex- waterfront across Main Street. weather interruptions. away excess gravel that has pressed concerns about the Pat Pulte, owner of Murray The runway’s top layer, called chipped off the surface. Airport safety of the runway. He said he Hotel, said there are still a few the porous friction coarse, Manager Shane Paeth said that wants to get it fixed before large, started eroding about a year as the porous friction coarse ma- Turn to page 3: Airport Page 2 The Mackinac Island Town Crier August 26, 2017 to September 1, 2017 Former Congressman Stupak Tells Story of Historic Legistlation By Jacob A. Ball form, but the importance of the defense of the health care law. The story about how the Af- sanctity of life in his faith made During a question and answer fordable Care Act was passed voting for Obamacare a conun- session, the audience was inter- into law is widely known, or at drum. ested in his opinion on the cur- least that’s what most people “Health care has always been rent state of Obamacare and think. a focus and is one of the prom- Congressional Republican at- Former United States Con- ises I made when I [originally] tempts to repeal it. Mr. Stupak gressman Bart Stupak of Michi- ran in 1992,” he said. said in communities such as gan has his own story to tell The book does not deal with Mackinac Island, all citizens about how the landmark legisla- his or any other politician’s cru- now have access to health care tion succeeded in Congress in sade for health care, however; it and he has been disappointed to his new book, “For All Ameri- explains, in-depth, the strategic, see lawmakers undermine the cans: The Dramatic Story Be- political, and moral issues sur- Affordable Care Act at every op- hind the Stupak Amendment and rounding the passage of the Af- portunity. the Historic Passage of Oba- fordable Care Act. The decision He said the law clearly needs macare.” to write the book came as Mr. to be improved, but many facets Mr. Stupak served as the U.S. Stupak listened to the narratives of the legislation have greatly representative from Michigan’s of others that, he said, were off- benefited all Americans. He of- 1st District, which includes the base or just plain false. fered the example that, after Upper Peninsula and northern “I watched the health care ex- Medicare was passed in 1965, it Lower Peninsula, from 1993 to perts try to explain the Afford- was amended to improve health 2011. able Care Act and how [the act] care coverage within a year and He spoke at the Mackinac Is- came to be. Every time I’d hear has been updated more than a land Public Library Tuesday, one of those explanations, I’d dozen more times since then. In August 22, about what he hopes get mad, sit down, and write a contrast, Congress has passed no Americans gain from his ac- chapter,” he said. legislation to improve the Af- count of the negotiations and As the Obama Administration Island resident Lorna Straus (left) and former U.S. Congress- fordable Care Act in the seven compromises, and also touched was winding down in 2016, his man Bart Stupak with a copy of his new book, “For All Ameri- years since President Obama on the role of his Catholic faith, drive to write the book grew. cans: The Dramatic Story Behind the Stupak Amendment and signed it into law his decades-long pursuit of His biggest role in the health the Historic Passage of Obamacare,” during a book signing at Mr. Stupak says recent at- health care access for all, and the care debate was negotiating an the Mackinac Island Public Library Tuesday, August 22. Mrs. tempts to repeal and replace current debate surrounding the agreement with White House Straus donated a signed copy of the new book to the library. Obamacare are misguided, but Affordable Care Act and its fu- staff to guarantee the Affordable he is encouraged by the in- ture. His talk drew a sizeable Care Act would not allow for have allowed federal funding for rent form, he says.
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