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1955 - 2016 2 Sunday, October 16, 2016 SIXTY-ONE YEARS www.tctimes.com Publisher Rick Rockman, Sr. promised January 1997, we left our offices at the that the new paper would provide Fenton Mini-Mall on North Leroy Street, complete, in-depth coverage of all area and moved into a new state-of-the-art news and activities. We believe he had facility on Fenway Drive in Fenton’s not only lived up to that promise, but industrial park and added a print shop exceeded the community’s expectations and mailing house called Allied Media by the many additions and improvements (formerly Allied Mailing & Printing) not only to the Sunday newspaper, but along with Rockman & Sons Publishing. with the addition of TCTimes online In November 2003, we added the (tctimes.com) in 1997, and the addition final phase of our communications of the Wednesday Midweek edition in network by creating a full service ISP, September 1999. Tri-County Wireless. The rapid growth of “This area desperately needs a your hometown newspaper then made it TRI-COUNTY TIMES | FILE PHOTO newspaper with local news,” said necessary for us to build yet another new Due to the success of the Tri-County Times, a second state-of-the-art facility was Rockman in April 1994. “We feel that building, directly next door to our facility opened in 2005. the hometown paper concept has all but on Fenway Drive in 2005. disappeared over the last few years. We’ll Serving you, our valuable readers, and focus on local news and events that are advertisers always has and always will of interest and concern to the citizens of be our top priority, and we thank you for The Tri-County Times this area.” your continued support. With that first issue 22 years ago, The Times has been the dominant area came the return of Rockman’s popular medium for more than half a century. To NEW BEGINNINGS “Straight from the shoulder” column and this day, it is still owned and operated by nTri-County News becomes County Times on April 3, 1994. It was the Hot lines. its founders, the Rockman family. Every the first time in nearly 40 years that tri- Over the years, there have been a employee of the Times organization is the Times in April 1994 county residents witnessed the birth of a number of changes at the Tri-County dedicated to providing readers with the By Vera Hogan new newspaper, following the demise of Times, all of which have been changes finest, most professional newspaper in [email protected]; 810-433-6823 the former Tri-County News. that benefit our readers, advertisers and the state. Start the presses! The new publication was based on a communities. That was the banner headline that 40-year tradition of strong newspaper Many new employees have also been appeared in the first edition of the Tri- experience. added to our staff over the years. In Straight from the SHOULDER Who knew growing older could be By Rick Rockman The following “Straight from the Shoulder,” a weekly column by Tri-County News (and later Times) Publisher Rick Rockman was published on Dec. 20, 1984. Rockman worked tirelessly for his readers until he died in March 2011. ‘A NEWSPAPER HAS RESPONSIBILITIES’ so much fun! I have been publisher of the Tri-County News since its inception in 1958 and during that time have made many friends and many enemies. It bothers me that at times I’ve had to criticize friends and foes alike but that is what a newspaper man must do if he’s worth his salt. It would be very easy for me to ignore the self-serving and irresponsible school board members we have on local boards. It would be even nicer to not have to criticize my friends who serve on govern- mental bodies in the area. It would definitely be safer for me to ignore the dope problems we have in Fenton, Holly and Linden. It would be much easier on me and my family to overlook the few cops who abuse their authority. LIVE HERE FOR THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE® It would be beneficialto me to act like crooked and lying politicians don’t exist, but they do. Rent Includes Independent Amenities Include In other words, the typical newspaper • Daily Continental Breakfast Senior Living Community • Beauty & Barber Shop publisher in small communities such as • Daily Light Housekeeping • Ice Cream Parlor ours is a nice guy who attends all the • Weekly Full Maid Service Personal care assistance available • Movie Theater right functions and prints nothing but • All Utilities (excluding phone & cable) • Convenience Store good news, BUT I don’t see it that way. • Full Activities Program • Coffee Shop • Scenic Courtyard A real newspaper has an obligation • Small Pets Welcome • Chapel • Exercise Room to its readers and that is to report the • Emergency Help Button • Library • Private Party Room news — good or bad. A real newspaper is your watchdog over the goings on in your community regardless of what the consequences are. The Tri-County News has an obligation to its subscribers to “tell it like it is.” If a politician is crooked; if a city man- ager is incompetent; if a school board is inadequate; if a cop is corrupt; if your neighbor is a child molester or if your governing bodies aren’t doing their job, I’m going to tell you about it. If you don’t care and choose not to do anything about it that’s your business. If I inform you as best I can, which is the 3221 E. Baldwin Rd. • Grand Blanc, MI • (810) 606-1110 • www.abbeypark.com function of this newspaper, then I have fulfilled my obligation to you. www.tctimes.com SIXTY-ONE YEARS Sunday, October 16, 2016 3 development of the newspaper. Tri-County Times. It began with a 23-year-old The Tri-County News’ last downtown In 1996, Rockman decided to make office site was in the last building to be another move and built a new facility on who wanted to play football torn down during Urban Renewal. In fact, Fenway Drive in Fenton’s multi-million Rockman remembered wrecking dollar industrial park. The doors crews knocking down an to the new facility opened adjacent building while he for business in January of and his staff were trying 1997. Realizing that the to put out an issue of As one of the very few the paper. newspaper must The office had privately owned family k e e p u p w i t h newspapers‘‘ left in the United rapidly changing a l r e a d y b e e n moved twice to States, we face challenges t e c h n o l o g y , stay ahead of the every day from multi-billion R o c k m a n wrecking ball. dollar corporations. authorized the l a u n c h o f t h e Later, the Tri- THE LATE RICHARD County News moved ROCKMAN, SR. ’’ newspaper’s popular founder of the website, Times online, to the newly built Tri-County Times Fenton Mini-Mall, which at www.tctimes.com. Rockman owned with long- In September 1999, the time business partner Dean Tri-County Times, which was Moore. distributed on Sundays only, added a Over the years, the Tri-County News second weekly edition. The Wednesday Fenton High School Midweek edition is mailed to subscribers. nRichard Genesee County enjoyed steady growth, becoming the hometown newspaper readers came Rockman’s sons have all been an Rockman, Football Class “B” integral part of the business over the years, Champions 1945 to rely upon for all their news and information. including active roles Sr. changed (PF-210-PA-13) in the subsidiary Although physically located in Fenton, Front row: Alan c o m p a n i e s game plan, Rockman took pride in the fact that Niskanan, Cline — Rockman the newspaper always covered not launched See 23- Hagerman, Bill only Fenton, but Holly, Linden and the YEAR-OLD newspaper Hill, Norm Spears, surrounding communities. “We’re not on 18 career instead Penrod Wright and just a Fenton paper,” he once said. Art Bush. Second row: Due to a variety of circumstances, John Howe, Jack McKeon, By Vera Hogan Rockman decided to go into retirement George Granger, Bob Butts, [email protected]; 810-433-6823 and sold the Tri-County News to a Detroit The Tri-County Times journey began co-captains Ken Wegner and Vince media group in 1989. 61 years ago with the hard work and Harrison, Ray Steede, Estelle Gushwa In April 1994, after a year-long legal determination of one man. and Bob Torrey. Third row: Bob Fessler, battle with the media group owners, Richard Rockman, Sr., founder of Phil Kelley, Jim Botticelli, Bernard Sin- Rockman came out of retirement and the Tri-County Times, didn’t set out clair, Richard Rockman, George Howe, took back ownership of his newspaper originally to become a newspaper Bud Cole, Bob Glaspie, Jack Groll and through court action — renaming it the publisher. He actually dreamed of one day Coach Ivan Williams. Fourth row: Allan becoming a professional football player, Gale, Chuck Franks, Frank Winn, Leo having played semi-pro football for Bob Foley, Phil Scott, Bruce Dorland, Vern Beach, owner of the Fenton Independent Clark and Clare Whitman. and Ray Hunt of Hunt-Smith Insurance Agency. It would later become the Tri-County Beach, whose Fenton Independents News Advertiser, and ultimately the Tri- were Michigan champions, gave County News. Rockman, a teenaged fullback, a job Once a broadsheet publication, the sweeping the floors at his newspaper Tri-County News switched over to the office. Soon, Rockman was setting type current tabloid-style in 1969. and two years later, was promoted to It was about this time that Rockman foreman. He would, years later, become developed his no-nonsense, hard-hitting Beach’s competitor. editorials that became his trademark. At the age of 23, Rockman purchased His column started out being called his first newspaper, the Linden Leader. “Rotten Apples” or a “Bouquet of Roses,” About 950 copies were printed on a whatever the case (or the target) was at hand-fed press. the time. The name was later changed to Rockman later purchased the Grand “Straight from the Shoulder.” Blanc News and operated it for two Urban Renewal, which destroyed most years before selling it to start a shopping of downtown Fenton in the 1970s, was guide called the Tri-County Advertiser. one of the challenging issues during the FENTON HOTEL Tavern & Grille
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TRI-COUNTY TIMES | FILE PHOTOS (Left) Downtown Fenton was a bustling place before Urban Renewal in the mid-1970s, when the majority of buildings were destroyed to make room for the more modern Fenton Square. Fenton City leaders have since been working toward preserving the history of the downtown and bringing some of that bustle back with the help of business owners and developers. (Right) The streets of downtown Fenton were packed as area residents and visitors from miles around attended the annual Fenton Fourth of July Parade in 1934. Planning Commission approved a central Despite objections, the Fenton City URBAN RENEWAL, business district renewal project, which Council approved an ordinance that would called for three downtown blocks to be commit Fenton to the Urban Renewal when the walls completely leveled and the area turned project. over to private investors. Voters rejected the idea twice in a two- came tumbling down Fenton citizens may not have been year period. In February 1974, however, paying too close attention to what was voters gave their approval to the urban n some downtown merchants to get the going on downtown. In 1967, the average renewal program itself by a slim vote in The face of central business district owners to spruce citizen was said to be too busy with the an advisory election. downtown Fenton was up their buildings with some paint and new $5 million high school on the west Then, in the mid-1970s, the buildings general fixing up. Those attempts proved side of town, and the development of the started coming down. The result was a few changed forevermore unsuccessful. new Silver Lake municipal park and beach of the original buildings remaining, and Then in April 1964, the Fenton to be too concerned about urban renewal. the creation of the Fenton Square, where By Vera Hogan Planning Commission launched a [email protected]; 810-433-6823 movement to modernize the central By June of 1970, a group of downtown Dancers Fashions and Ideal Pharmacy cut The face of downtown Fenton has been business district. Commissioners invited a merchants had turned against the urban off South LeRoy from North LeRoy Street. a volatile topic since before the early group of merchants and civic organizations renewal. One told city leaders that the Some businesses remained steadfast, 1960s, even before the words “Urban to meet with them to investigate ways to buildings did not need to be torn down, including The State Bank, which reinvested Renewal” were first spoken. finance such a program. that all that was needed was more parking in the downtown with new buildings, even Prior to 1964, there was talk among At the end of March 1966, the Fenton and a new sidewalk. See URBAN RENEWAL on 18
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[email protected]; 810-433-6823 The family sat in their vehicle for two Details from the news headlines over minutes before they were rear-ended by the past 61 years are just too many to another semi. Whitney had driven for 39 share, but the following are some of the hours straight with no sleep. Today, he is major occurrences: serving a 10-year sentence for reckless ● Great Blizzard of 1978 homicide and three years for violating During what has been dubbed the “Great Illinois Motor Carrier Safety Laws. His Blizzard of 1978,” a winter storm swept projected parole date is Aug. 29, 2017. through Ohio and Michigan on Jan. 26 and Since the tragedy, Durk’s family has 27, 1978, dumping more than 2 feet of snow been fighting to change laws regarding on the ground. The storm is remembered truckers and drowsy driving. as one of the coldest and most damaging in ●Linden’s Historic Union Block Michigan’s history. About 20 people died burns to ground (2007) as a direct or indirect result of the storm, The city of Linden lost a little piece of most due to heart attacks or traffic accidents. TRI-COUNTY TIMES | FILE PHOTOS Several businesses and residents lost their home when Linden’s Historic Union its history when its most historic building, At least one person died of exposure to Block burned to the ground on May 18, 2007. commonly known as the Historic Union exhaust from a stranded automobile. About Block on E. Broad Street, burned on 100,000 cars were abandoned on Michigan Police there placed the death of the Silver Parkway, despite objections from Friday, May 18. The building housed highways, most of them in the southeast the Broad Street Grille, the Serendipity part of the state. The storm was so severe 27-year-old woman at approximately residents and business owners in both the midnight on March 24. Her body was city and neighboring Fenton Township. Day Spa, Blade Dental, CPA and attorney that then Gov. William Milliken declared offices, and apartments. Surrounding fire a state of emergency and employed the found about 12 hours later, just before Noise, traffic problems, environmental issues and the impact a Walmart would departments helped suppress the fire as Michigan National Guard to aid residents. noon on March 25. She died from multiple stab wounds. The small town have on property values and the local a large number of bystanders watched ●Urbin sisters murdered (1991) girl, who had aspirations of becoming a economy topped their concerns. The in horror. The property has since been In September 1991, Leslie Allen famous singer, was a 1988 graduate of 136,000-square-foot facility is located at purchased by Dr. Nicole Wax, but Williams abducted sisters Michelle Urbin, Fenton High School, where she was a the corner of Silver Parkway and Owen currently remains undeveloped. 16, and Melissa Urbin, 14, of Tyrone cheerleader and a member of the track Road and employs hundreds. The end ●Storm rips through Fenton Township. After suffocating the girls, team. The case remains unsolved. result is a shopping area that provides the and Holly (2007) Williams, who we later learned was a Third worst winter storm in protections needed to co-exist peacefully. On Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, a tornado serial killer, hid their bodies in Fenton’s ● 100 years (2000) ●Janelle Durk killed in ‘drowsy later categorized as an F-2, with winds Oakwood Cemetery. Originally thought Though there was plenty of advance driving’ accident (2006) in excess of 100 miles per hour, ripped to be runaways, the sisters’ remains were warning of the impending measurable Janelle Durk, 15, of Byron, was killed through the Fenton and Holly areas, found in Oakwood in early 1992. Williams snowfall that started on Monday, Dec. in a semi accident on July 5, 2006 in leaving in its path destroyed buildings, is now serving multiple life sentences. 11, 2000, many tri-county area residents Clark County, Illinois. The investigation thousands of uprooted trees, and stunned ●Christine O’Brien abducted, were shocked to see how much when revealed that Janelle was the victim residents and visitors. Fenton and Holly strangled (1995) they woke up Tuesday morning, Dec. of a semi driver, identified as Robert were left with significant damage. In Christine, 24, went missing on July 18, 12. Genesee County was among the Whitney, who had fallen asleep at the See BIG NEWS on 18 1995. Just over 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, Michigan counties declared a “state of she was an enthusiastic equestrian and told emergency” Tuesday. All schools were an employee at a spa in Flint that she was closed and drivers were asked to stay off in a hurry because she planned to meet the roads, allowing for emergency traffic someone who was building horse stables. only. According to the National Weather O’Brien never returned home. Her sister, Service, the tri-county area received 14.3 Laura, found her car, a 1987 Chevy Nova, inches of snow. High winds and drifting parked at the Tyrone Hills Golf Club, a made it seem like more. Most area short walk from the horse auction she businesses shut down operations in order often visited. The car was locked and her to let their employees get home safely. purse and keys were inside. Her badly Although The Flint Journal closed for the decomposed body was found eight months first time in more than 100 years on Dec. later. Her murderer, Timothy Watkins, 12, 2000, the Tri-County Times stayed strangled her and left her body under a open, having picked up employees from collapsed duck blind south of Bennett Lake their homes in four wheel-drive vehicles. near Cohoctah Road. Watkins is in prison ●Walmart comes to Fenton (2002) with an earliest release date of March 25, After a five-year battle to get the 2059. He is currently 70 years old. store built, Walmart opened its doors to ●Jill Ann Weatherwax killed in the public during a Jan. 23, 2002 grand California (1998) opening. Walmart obtained approval to Jill Ann Weatherwax of Fenton was build a retail store on a 32-acre parcel killed in Fresno, California in 1998. of land at the corner of Owen Road and 6 Sunday, October 16, 2016 SIXTY-ONE YEARS www.tctimes.com of the true beginning of the Vietnam War could be debated as earlier or later, Nov. It happened in 1, 1955 is the 1955 earliest date that Compiled By Vera Hogan Mouse Club television program made its started to plan the construction of a theme the United States debut on ABC. The show was billed as park to be built on 160 acres of land near g o v e r n m e n t • Polio vaccine deemed safe a variety show for children and would Los Angeles. Construction on the park uses to qualify In April 1955, it was announced to the feature cartoons, began in 1954 and by July of 1955 it was a member of the g world that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was ohigh w.com e d u c a t i o n a l nearly complete. An invite-only opening military as being a bro determined to be safe and highly effective segments and was held on July 17, but thousands more veteran of the Vietnam Wa r. in preventing the disease. In 1962, a new, serials like “The people than expected showed up to the The war in Vietnam would last until April more effective oral polio vaccination Hardy Boys” event with counterfeit tickets. Although 30, 1975 when the last of the U.S. military was created by Albert Sabin and quickly a n d “ S p i n Disneyland was not ready for the full left the embassy in Saigon, making replaced Salk’s vaccine. The creation a n d M a r t y. ” opening on that day, the park recovered the total length of the United States’ of these vaccines nearly eradicated the The show also and was officially opened involvement in the war nearly 20 years. formerly rampant illness. featured child actors imdb.com to the public in the • Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat • Mickey Mouse Club debuts on TV as “Mouseketeers,” w h o following days. Rosa Parks (42) refused to give up her In October 1955 the original Mickey would perform in musical and dance • Vietnam bus seat to a white passenger on Dec. 1, numbers as well as the other segments. involvement 1955. Parks is arrested for violation of The original run of the Mickey Mouse begins Alabama segregation laws by refusing to Club lasted four seasons until it was The United follow orders from canceled in 1959 and would feature a States involvement d the bus driver. es om Cost of living, rotation of 39 different “Mouseketeers.” in the Vietnam Conflict igningdisney.c Parks becomes a • Disneyland opens in Anaheim or Second Indochina War officially began figurehead for The Disneyland resort and theme park, in November 1955 with the arrival of the the Montgomery THEN located in Anaheim, California, opened U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group Bus Boycott its doors in July 1955. Walt Disney grew (M.A.A.G.) in South Vietnam to help and Civil Rights and his animation company throughout the train the South Vietnamese military after M o v e m e n t . c NOW 1930s and by the early 1950s he had the French left the conflict. While thedate See 1955 on 17 olorlines.com Compiled By Vera Hogan The cost of living has changed dramatically in the 61 years since 1955. For example, in 1955 the average cost of a new house was $10,950. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the average cost of a home in the United States today is $188,900.
The average income in 1955 was $4,137 per year. The median household income for 2015 was $53,657.
In 1955, the average price of a new car was $1,910. According to USA Today, the average price for a new car in 2015 was $33,560.
A Harvard education in 1955 cost $800. For the 2016-2017 school year, that same education is going to cost $59,550, according to Harvard.ecu.
The cost of a single movie ticket in 1955 was 75 cents. According to ncg.com, the cost of an adult ticket to see a movie is $8.50.
In 1955, you could easily fill up your 12-gallon gas tank for less than $3, at 23 cents per gallon. While the national average was $2.15 at the start of August, gas prices have fluctuated over the years, having gone over $4 per gallon in the not too distant past. Kerton Lumber Co. Snail mail was worth it back in YOUR LOCAL HOME IMPROVEMENT HARDWARE STORE the day when a first-class postage 1122 N. Saginaw St. • Holly, MI • 248-634-8951 stamp cost a mere 3 cents. Today M-F 7:30am-5:30pm • Sat. 7:30am-1:00pm mailing a first-class letter will cost 46.5 cents. www.tctimes.com SIXTY-ONE YEARS Sunday, October 16, 2016 7 COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR FOREIGN DOMESTIC MOTOR HOMES
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TRI-COUNTY TIMES | FILE PHOTO Representatives from area businesses joined together to march for the "Shop Local" campaign in 2009. Chamber President Shelly Day estimated there were 150 partici- pants, who marched 1.6 miles from the Fenton Gazebo to Uncle Ray's Dairyland. ‘Shop Local’ campaign launched by Times and Chamber n community needs to support one another Hometown newspaper and keeping our hard-earned dollars local teams with local businesses is one big way to do that. We all benefit from that, there is no doubt about it. By Vera Hogan The “Shop Local” promotion jointly [email protected]; 810-433-6823 sponsored by the Tri-County Times and the The reasons a hometown newspaper is Fenton Regional Chamber of Commerce critical are many. in 2009 has become much more than just We are the community watchdogs when a “slogan” or advertising campaign — it it comes to reporting on the activities of launched an educational process that has local government and schools. people seriously thinking about where We let you know about crimes in they want to spend their money. our neighborhoods so you can be Making an effort to buy products made aware. We talk about local citizens who here in the United States, supporting share a host of journeys, from exciting Michigan-made products and shopping travels, important accomplishments, and local in your hometown are all ways to overcoming illnesses, just to name a few. say “Yes!” to our country, our state and We offer a forum for readers to share our own community. their opinions through the Hot lines, and Every time you spend a dollar in your give them a place to post their important hometown, you are contributing to the upcoming events and activities. quality of life in your community. Every One of the things the Times is most dollar you spend out of town takes proud is when it partnered with the away dollars from local schools, police Fenton Regional Chamber of Commerce, and fire services and families whose the Fenton Downtown Development businesses depend upon your support. Authority (DDA), and the Linden DDA That’s why the “Shop Local” campaign in the “Shop Local” campaign. has made a tremendous impact on local The bottom line is that everyone in the businesses and the people who shop here. Celebrating 60 YEARS of Skiing!
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Again, a bunch of pointy nFamous (or infamous) However, who knows which public officials heads sitting around trying to figure out we should write to. It would be very helpful November 2000 ways to spend other people’s money. Hot line feature of the Times if the Tri-County would follow through on this and help us get the information in the I PREDICT THAT one year from now March 2012 the loser of this presidential election will began on Wednesday, March right hands. It seems that this is a very BILL CLINTON, NOT Romney, shipped our consider himself the luckiest man in the important situation. If he’s willing to lay his jobs out of the U.S. He signed NAFTA into universe. 12, 1986 life on the line, we certainly ought to be law. He could have vetoed it. Get your facts willing to do our part. nnn straight please. By Sharon Stone nnn I WAS JUST curious if anyone was sick of MR. REAGAN NOW knows who Rick this election and the interruptions on our September 2012 [email protected]; 810-433-6786 Rockman is. I clipped out Rick’s column TV programs? WHAT’S THIS WORLD coming to? Hot lines. Some people absolutely love and sent a copy to Mr. Reagan’s attention Linden beating Fenton? That’s like them, while others loathe them. It’s easy at the White House. Way to go Rick! We December 2000 Appalachian State beating Michigan. It’s to see why. need to speak up and stop this stupid FOUR YEARS FROM now, George Bush unheard of. Whitey Wegner is rolling over For more than 30 years, this newspaper government spending. is going to get such a whooping it will be in his grave. unbelievable. has offered anyone in the community February 1990 November 2013 an opportunity to anonymously share I’M CALLING IN response to the person October 2005 SO YOU THINK Obamacare isn’t going their opinion on nearly anything. They who said, ‘Why does Fetnon have a OK, THE HOT line equating smoking to affect people’s price of insurance? could do so without fear of retaliation or football team?’ That’s like asking ‘Why do sections in a restaurant to a peeing What about the new regulations? The punishment. the 49ers have a football team?’ Simple – section in a pool was very clever. One of new people covered? Who do you think we play, we dominate, we win. the things I love about living in this area is is going to pay for that — the people Opinions of the general public could receiving free healthcare? be read by the entire tri-county area when March 1990 the sense of humor. they first began running. Now, there is I WOULD LIKE to complain about the November 2005 October 2014 no limit as to who reads those opinions idiotic kids who think they’re too hot and WHAT’S GOING ON with the old Topps’s MANY THANKS TO the Hasenfratz thanks to the internet and tctimes.com. they go down to the bridge after school store? 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Source: Thoughtcatalog.com www.tctimes.com SIXTY-ONE YEARS Sunday, October 16, 2016 15 our town Oh no, it’s Leno and Letterman Meet nTimes front page was fodder for late-night laughs The Tri-County Times did not escape Jay Leno’s famous segment called FOSTER “Headlines,” where he would share with the audience some of the funniest newspaper, magazine and book headlines, and mail and advertisements, usually submitted by viewers. CHILDS On Nov. 29, 2004, Leno displayed a partial of the Tri-County Times Sunday, (A.K.A. ‘THE KING’) Oct. 3 front page. The headline was “Bank robbery By Vera Hogan suspect caught.” The front-page picture, [email protected]; 810-433-6823 regarding a completely unrelated event, Once a week, Foster Childs, the was placed directly below the article Times’ sometimes controversial about the robbery. columnist, angers, amuses, educates The photo shows Officer Bill Koryciak and entertains readers with his wit of the Argentine Police Department McDonald, an article published in the Tri- and wisdom, or lack thereof. As we demonstrating to Ryan Stuhrber, a student at Argentine Elementary School County Times on Feb. 10, 2002, wound celebrate our 61st anniversary, we media. They are no longer impartial up on display on the David Letterman at the time, how to escape a would-be thought we’d try to get a bit more journalists, they are propaganda Show on June 16, 2008. kidnapper. In the photo, Officer Koryciak personal information out of our machines for the left. The headline for the article was, “Man elusive penman through our weekly is leaning over, grabbing the child’s arm. found dead in cemetery,” written by Chad Our Town. What issues don’t you care about Leno held the page up and said to the Walsh, a former staff writer. Lewis said at all? No wi-fi on cruise ships. Too audience, “Yup, they got their man.” when they sent it in, their letter said, “Isn’t Leno became guest host of The Tonight that where he is supposed to be?” Are you a real king, or self- much traffic in Fenton (It’s a sign of progress, get over it). The social Show in 1987 and — when Johnny Lewis sent the clipping in a few years proclaimed royalty? I’m not really a later, after she figured out online where to significance of push-pin art. Carson retired in 1992 — NBC chose king. I have no penchant for funny hats Leno as his replacement. In 2009, after 17 send it. She heard back from Steve Young, or beheadings. Any random words of wisdom? years as host and an Emmy, Leno handed Letterman’s employee who organizes the Yes, I would like to share this definition the show to Conan O’Brien. “Small Town” news segment. Is Foster Childs your real name? As Letterman held up the clipping to Yes. No. Maybe. of a father: ‘A man who hopes his son Letterman got us, too! his amused audience, he announced it was grows up to be as good a man as he Thanks to a couple of Fenton Township from the Tri-County Times newspaper in From which kingdom do you meant to be.’ employees, Julie Lewis and Valerie Fenton and said, “There ya go.” hail? California. I left in the ’70s because it was obvious that America Who are you voting for in the was tilting to the left, causing pretty election? I’m not voting for anyone. much every person with I’m voting against someone. a few loose screws to What is one thing tumble into Southern STILL REGISTERING people don’t know California. about you? Well, Do you have “Most people don’t m o s t p e o p l e for fall classes any tattoos? know that I have don’t know that Yes, I have a I have been two inch capital been arrested arrested and AGES 2½+ • BEGINNER - ADVANCED ‘M’ tattooed on and thrown in jail thrown in jail each of my butt on 13 different cheeks. Someone on 13 different occasions — all once told me when occasions.” in my younger I bend over it reads days. But, on the “MoM.” bright side, I’ve hardly spent any time Do you consider in prison. yourself a writer? Not really. A good writer is one who initiates change when Uh, okay. Let’s move on. he whispers. I tend to shout. What’s the biggest problem in the world today? Restaurants that Do you have a queen? Oh yes, and automatically add an 18 percent tip she is definitely my better half. Despite to parties of eight or more, and the being a king, I do what all husbands lack of quality teaching by our current do — as I am told. dysfunctional college education system. What possessed you to write a If you could grant one wish for weekly column? Most people are all of humanity, what would it simply a reflection of other people. be? Here’s three: Never re-elect any Their thoughts are someone else’s politician. Abolish the IRS. Feed every opinions, someone else’s deductions, hungry child. someone else’s viewpoints. I prefer to be the one shaping opinions, not the What is the best quote you have BALLET • JAZZ • TAP • POINTE • LYRICAL one regurgitating them. ever heard? It is easier for a father HIP HOP • CONTEMPORARY • KICKLINE to have children than for children to What issues matter most to you? have a father. 1) The utter destruction of the American
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downtown Dallas, Texas. • The first laptop was invented in 1981 • Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz by Adam Osborne and was known as the People and events Aldrin and Michael Collins of Apollo Osborne 1. shape national news for 61 years 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, with Armstrong calling it “one giant leap 1990s nLives are changed 1950s for mankind.” • The launch of the Hubble space • Martin Luther King delivered his “I telescope in April 1990 marked the most forever by people and • Dr. Jonas Salk begins immunizing have a dream” speech at the March on significant astronomical advance since events reported in national children against polio. Washington on Aug. 23, 1963. He was Galileo’s telescope. • The inter-state highway system begins later assassinated on April 4, 1968. • The O.J. Simpson trial in 1995 acquitted news every day with the signing of the Federal Aid • Woodstock Music Fest brought 400,000 the former NFL star in the double murder By Sally Rummel Highway Act. people to Yasur’s Farm in New York case of his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson and [email protected]; 810-629-8282 • Alaska and Hawaii become part of the State, Aug. 15-18, 1969. her friend, Ronald Goldman. The world today is a far different place U.S. • U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War • The Oklahoma City Bombing on April than it was back in the 1950s. Many of • Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat escalated. 15, 1995 caused massive damage to the the big news events of each decade since on the back of a bus to a white man in Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and then have shaped our lives in ways we Montgomery, Alabama, igniting the civil 1970s killed 168 people, including 19 children. could never have imagined, had we not rights movement in the U.S. • The Watergate scandal occurred on • Ted Kaczynski, best known as the lived through them or learned about them June 17, 1972, when several burglars “Unabomber,” was finally arrested in school. 1960s were arrested inside the Democratic in 1996 after a 20-year campaign of Here’s a flip through newspaper • President John F. Kennedy was National Committee offices, connected sending letter bombs that resulted in stories from national news events of assassinated shortly after noon on Nov. to President Richard Nixon’s re-election three fatalities. each decade: 22, 1963, as he rode in a motorcade in campaign. • President Nixon resigned from the 2000s presidency as a result of this scandal in • The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks August, 1974. by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, • The voting age was lowered from 21 forever known as 9/11, killed 2,996 to 18 in 1970. people, injured more than 6,000 others • Technology advanced with the founding and began the U.S. war on terror. of Microsoft in 1975, the first test-tube • U.S. captured Saddam Hussein on Dec. baby and the creation of “Star Wars.” 13, 2003, after the former Iraqi dictator spent nine months on the run. He was 1980s executed in 2006. • The Cold War ended with the fall of • Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Berlin Wall in 1989 and President the Gulf Coast in Aug. 29, 2005, causing Reagan’s famous challenging Soviet catastrophic damage to the region, Union leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, in shutting down refineries and increasing Berlin, Germany, to “Tear down this the price of oil and gasoline. wall!” • The inauguration of the first black • Iran-Iraq War began in 1980. president of the U.S., Barack Obama, • U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger went up took place on Nov. 19, 2008. in flames immediately after takeoff on • The financial crash in September 2008 Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts resulted in a big bank bailout of more on board including teacher Christa than $700 billion from the U.S. Treasury McAuliffe. Department.
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E. Hill Rd. 18 Sunday, October 16, 2016 SIXTY-ONE YEARS www.tctimes.com 23-YEAR-OLD Sadly, Rockman did stop, when BIG NEWS country attending his funeral. Wolf was Continued from Page 3 he lost his battle with Parkinson’s Continued from Page 5 on patrol with his department-issued & Sons Publishing and Allied Media. disease on March 2, 2011. His passing Fenton, costs to the city government were motorcycle on Aug. 28, 2015, driving on Due to the growth and success of was a huge loss to his family, friends, around $700,000. Dixie Highway near I-75 in Springfield Rockman’s companies, it was necessary employees and the community. But ●Eli Florence story gets Township at approximately 6:30 a.m. to construct yet another facility on thanks to his family and a dedicated staff, national attention (2007) when a passenger vehicle towing a trailer Fenway Drive, adjacent to the original the newspaper continues publishing Eli Florence, a young Lake Fenton collided with his motorcycle. Wolf was building. The Tri-County Times moved successfully as he would have liked. High School teen fought a courageous dragged for several miles before the into the new, state-of-the-art offices in The Rockman family continues to four-year fight with Acute Myelogenous driver stopped at the Davisburg rest stop December 2006. own and operate the Tri-County Times. Leukemia. In the fall of 2007, members of north of Springfield Township. Wolf died “As one of the very few privately owned “We’re very fortunate to have a talented the male Lake Fenton High School senior later that day at Genesys Health Park family newspapers left in the United States, and dedicated staff at the Times who operate homecoming court (David Bittinger, in Grand Blanc Township. The driver we face challenges every day from multi- the paper as if it were their own. They are the Ethan Merivirta, Lucas Hasenfratz, has been charged with reckless driving billion dollar corporations,” Rockman individuals responsible for the Times being Matthew Taneyhill and Jake Kirk) resulting in death and leaving the scene said in 2007. “I may be just a little guy to awarded ‘Michigan Newspaper of the Year’ showed the world how big their hearts of an accident when at fault — resulting them, but this is my home and I will stay for the past three years. It’s basically the same were by giving up their chance to be in death. The case is still pending in the here as long as the residents and businesses staff that worked with dad for so many years,” Homecoming King, giving the crown to court system. continue to support me. I’ve had to fight for said Craig Rockman, publisher. “Dad would Eli. Their generosity landed them some ●Man found dead in home year everything my entire life, I’m sure as hell be as proud and appreciative of them as national news coverage, including ESPN. later (2015) not going to stop now.” we are.” Eli lost his battle with the disease on Oct. Gary Richard Buys, 69, was found 14, 2007. dead in his Tyrone Township home in ●Randa Jawhari went missing October of 2015. Based on the level URBAN RENEWAL Plan updates of 2002 and 2008, as well as (2009) of decomposition, authorities believe Continued from Page 4 the Downtown Master Plan and Design There is still no sign of Randa Jawhari, he had been dead for more than a year. after the square was destroyed by the Guidelines of 2007. a Fenton woman who vanished with- Multiple news organizations, as far away removal of the stores and the re-opening The Downtown Development out a trace, sometime during the very as Texas and the UK contacted the Times of LeRoy Street. Authority (DDA) needed to build up late night hours for permission to enough tax capture to pay for new projects In 1996, while the Fenton Master Plan was of Tuesday, Feb. reprint the story. updated, one of the key questions was what needed to stimulate private investment, 10, 2009 and early like the Fenton Fire Hall Restaurant and ● L i n d e n to do with downtown. morning hours of the new Cornerstone building. High School Both Dancers and Ideal Pharmacy were Wednesday, Feb. Fenton City officials have not allowed shooting plot still located there, but would soon close 11, 2009. Jawhari, inappropriate development to take place, (2015) their operations. As part of that master 43, was reported such as the suburban CVS that wanted to Three teens, planning effort, a ‘design charrette’ was missing Feb. 11 af- locate where the Cornerstone building Ryan Stevens, conducted on Oct. 19 (1996) with over 50 ter her mother went residents, city officials, business operators, now stands. 18, of Linden, to her Shiawas- and property owners in attendance. The city has benefited from private Kody Brewer, see Avenue apart- The overwhelming response was that investment in businesses like The 15, of Wolverine North LeRoy Street should be re-opened and Laundry, The Fenton House, CRUST, ment and found the Lake (formerly a traditional downtown created. Fenton Hotel (Tavern & Grille). Today, apartment empty. of Linden), and This vision for downtown Fenton has SkyPoint Ventures and Rhoads & Jawhari had lived Lamarr Dukes, 15, remained intact over the years and been Johnson have invested in the future of the there for about five of West Bloomfield further refined and supported in the Master downtown. months. She kept were charged in touch with her with conspiracy large family con- t o c o m m i t stantly by using her f i r s t - d e g r e e , apartment phone. A p r e m e d i t a t e d search of Randa’s TRI-COUNTY TIMES | FILE PHOTO murder, a felony apartment did not The $20 million embezzlement case involving punishable by up provide any clues as Michael LaJoice of Tyrone Township is still to life in prison to her whereabouts. working its way through the courts. and false report or All neighbors liv- threat of terrorism, ing at the complex at the time of the a felony that could have been punishable disappearance, and the landlord were by up to 20 years in prison. The incident questioned. A video surveillance camera, occurred on Oct. 27, 2015, over a series of triggered by a motion-detecting light, did Instagram posts, direct messages and text not show Randa in the parking lot during messages, which suggested there might the night or early morning. be a shooting at the school perpetrated by ●Dominick Calhoun beaten to the three teens. The court cases are still death (2010) pending. Another local tragedy resulted in the ●LaJoice embezzlement strengthening of child abuse laws in shocker (2016) Michigan. “Dominick’s Law” was signed The Fenton area was shocked when it ComeOPEN 7check DAYS A WEEK out 11AM our - 2AMNEW DRINK MENU! FOR MORE DETAILS, VISIT US ON into legislation in June 2012. Dominick was discovered that Michael LaJoice, 37, FACEBOOK OR GIVE US A CALL. 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