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SEE PAGE 15 SEE PAGE 3 SEE PAGE 3 Next stop, New Orleans To refrigerate or not? Cruising through cursive for Green Some produce fares Flowing form of English Linden graduate invited to better at handwriting better for fluency Saints’ rookie camp room temperature of ideas for kids INSIDE THIS ISSUE: BY 2056, AMERICA WEDNESDAY EDITION WILL HAVE MORE SENIORS THAN KIDS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE 65 AND OLDER IS SET TO DOUBLE BY 2050 Midweek 2012 & 2013 NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR VOL. 21 NO. XX WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014 $1.00 tctimes.com Weather still plagues Cornerstone completion ONLINE uProgress continues, new finish COMMENTS date pushed to December By Tim Jagielo This is for Charter [email protected]; 810-433-6795 Communications. You Fenton — At the first signs of lightning ‘‘want us to buy it even if Monday morning, all three contractor we don’t want groups working on the Cornerstone build- it. We pay for a TV and yet ing grabbed their gear and packed up for we have to the day. pay you to Steady rain, thunder and lightning per- watch our TV. sisted, killing any That’s extortion.” possibility of con- tinuing work on the We’re President Obama third floor decks, will attend three moving good ‘‘$10,000-a-plate fund- and the masonry on ‘‘ raisers. The the north tower. now, barring attendees Project superin- weather. will be movie tendent Rohn Smith Rohn Smith stars, movie of Sorenson Gross Superintendent, producers has had it up to his Cornerstone project’’ and multimil- hard hat with the lionaire business owners. His presentation will be weather. In the winter it was the relentless ‘income inequality.’ He TRI-COUNTY TIMES | TIM JAGIELO cold and wind, now it’s the relentless rain. continues to be the most Contractors for the Cornerstone building vacate the construction site Monday as lightning and No work happened in January and hypocritical president.” thunder roll in. Weather has caused the most interruption to an already budget-challenged little in February. March yielded few work project. Despite these issues, progress is being made for an end of 2014 completion. See CORNERSTONE on 11 This box stuff for Charter is a mess. The ‘‘boxes did not activate. I called and waited over City repeals Sunday liquor prohibition an hour before giving up. Heroin — it’s not going away Today, almost two hours u By Tim Jagielo u and no answer. What are Increased prescription abuse 6-1 decision [email protected]; 810-433-6795 our other TV choices in leading to serious, deadly addictions this area?” allows Fenton Fenton — In a few weeks, shoppers in Fenton City businesses to will be able to do what they already can do in Fenton, By Sharon Stone Holly and Tyrone townships, Linden City and Holly [email protected] 810-771-TEXT buy Sunday Village — buy alcohol before noon on Sunday. S a m J a w h a r i (8398) sales license See LIQUOR on 8 would never have guessed four years TEXT ago that he would be YOUR speaking out about HOT LINE TV’s twin truckers are from Fenton? the dangers of her- oin. u Wolf brothers debut on But since his TRI-COUNTY TIMES | FILE PHOTO History Channel’s ‘Big Rig 17-year-old daugh- Sam Jawhari speaks passion- ter Briona died from ately at the first Chasing the Bounty Hunters’ on May 22 a heroin overdose Dragon presentation in 2011. on Valentine’s Day By Sally Rummel He continues to offer his experi- 2011, he has spoken ence to this day, reaching more [email protected]; 810-629-8282 in front of more than than 40,000 area students. It’s a “wild ride” not only for viewers, 40,000 students with but also for two Fenton twin truckers who the hope of educating them on the dangers of the have found themselves unlikely TV stars NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM deadly drug. on the second season of the History Chan- Dave and Don Wolf pose with their Briona’s biological mother died from a heroin over- nel’s popular “Big Rig Bounty Hunters” big rig, as part of their truck hunting dose in 2007 and things took a downward spiral for reality show. roles on the History Channel’s “Big See HEROIN on 9 See TRUCKERS on 8 Rig Bounty Hunters.” TRI-COUNTY TIMES TIM JAGIELO Fenton area hit by massive, Servepro water techs Sheldon Miller and sudden storms Monday Jeremy Burns bag the sewage-soaked uRailroad By William Axford • [email protected] carpet in Rick Fenton — Rick Orlowski was up to Orlowski’s Fenton crossing gates, his toes in raw sewage Monday night, basement Tuesday multiple traffic which he fought for nearly six hours fol- morning. 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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014 PAGE 3 www.tctimes.com FEATURESANDNEWS SMART Cruising through SOLUTIONS uFlowingcursive form of English handwriting better for fluency of ideas for kids Fog proof your 1 bathroom mirrors By Tim Jagielo [email protected]; 810-433-6795 Fog proof your bathroom mir- rors. Squirt a small dab of shaving Holly — In Haley Day’s third-grade class- cream onto a paper towel, rub it room at Patterson Elementary School, students over the glass, then wipe with a are learning about tails, bumps and mountains dry cloth. The cream leaves an invisible film making it difficult for — at least, in how the terms apply to cursive water bead’s to stick and giving writing. you a fog-free mirror for weeks. On the dry erase board, Day shows the stu- dents how to write Stop the pain of a capital “M,” in 2 swimmers’ ear The students cursive, emphasiz- usually ing that there are no associate it “mountains” mak- ing up the letter with a way that “M,” just bumps. grownups write, “When do you lift and a fancy or your pencil off the special way to paper?” she asked TRI-COUNTY TIMES | TIM JAGIELO the class. Patterson Elementary teacher Haley Day works on a handwriting lesson with her write.” “When you’re students on Monday. Students are eager, and generally excited about cursive, which Stop the pain of swimmers’ ear —Haley Day done with the they see as a new, “grownup” skill to learn. by mixing 2 teaspoons of white vin- Third-grade teacher, egar with 2 teaspoons of rubbing word,” was the spo- alcohol, then squeezing two drops Patterson Elementary into the affected ear with a cotton radic reply. dents start learning cursive, the form of into sentences. It can look like a com- ball. The alcohol evaporates with Third-grade is writing that allows a little bit of flourish, pletely different language, and a new set of trapped water while the vinegar generally when stu- and also a flow of letters into words, and See CURSIVE on 13 stops infection. TRI-COUNTY TIMES The Tri-County Times (USPS 018-092) is published weekly (with exceptions) by Rockman Communi- To refrigerate or not? cations, 256 N. Fenway Drive, Fenton, Michigan 48430. Periodical postage paid at Fenton, Michigan u Not all of your produce should be 48430-2699 and other post offices. Serving the Some produce fares better communities of: Fenton, Linden, Lake Fenton, Holly, refrigerated, and some will require Hartland, Byron, Gaines, Davisburg, Swartz Creek at room temperature your own judgment call, based on how and Grand Blanc townships of: Fenton, Holly, Rose, quickly you plan to use it and how ripe Tyrone and Argentine. Subscription Rate: 42.00 By Sally Rummel per year. No non-member subscribers. 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