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Hekhuis A 43-year-old Georgetown bound on Ransom Avenue Rapids with critical injuries. later returned to the hospi- Township woman has died when she missed a stop sign She died later in the morn- tal complaining of pain, a following a two-vehicle col- and collided with a Ford ing, deputies reported. hospital spokesman said. lision early Wednesday at F-250 pickup truck south- Benjamin Hekhuis, 34, of After the collision, Blake Thorne/The Holland Sentinel the intersection of 120th bound on 120th Avenue, said Allendale, was riding in the A firefighter examines a van in a crash at 120th Avenue and & Stretch Avenue and Ransom Street Sgt. Steve Austin of the Otta- backseat of the van. Hekhuis See CRASH, A2 Ransom Street in Holland Township. Over 42,000 Safer NEWSMAKERS smokes Readership and was a roller coaster year. There were floods and serious Economy, 2009crimes, but there were also bright moments for the community inauguration Smokers in 12 and environment. These are the top 10 local stories for the year. top national states, including stories of 2009 Michigan, to puff THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fire-safe cigarettes SPRING FLOODS teachers lost their jobs and * CAUSE $40 MILLION West Middle School Princi- The convoluted American THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IN DAMAGE pal Kathyrn Curry resigned economy restoring windfalls Circulation abruptly after losing her to a lucky few while leaving TALLAHASSEE, Fla. | In the first hour of the principalship to another millions jobless and dis- Smokers in 12 states will June 19 storm, 4.3 inches district administrator in the traught was the top news be lighting — and relight- of rain fell. Before the night re-organization. A credit- story of 2009, followed ing — fire-safe cigarettes was over, a total of 6.3 inch- recovery high school creat- closely by the inauguration designed to go out when Daily Readers es would del- ed in the Van Raalte School of President Barack Obama, they’re not puffed as the uge the Holland building proved to be a suc- according to U.S. editors result of new laws that go area. cess, with more than double and news directors voting into effect Friday. The state the anticipated number of in The Associated Press’ The states are among the denied the students turning out in the annual poll. last to require that all ciga- counties’ claims first weeks of school. The economy, which has rettes meet standards first 1 for emergency superseded other issues as implemented by New York relief. Spring flooding $25 MILLION Americans’ No. 1 concern, six years ago. The states with Ottawa Coun- DUNES DEAL received 61 first-place votes laws going on the books this ty saw $36.5 million in pub- “Our photographs went footage. out of 117 ballots cast for week are Alabama, Arkan- lic and private damage, Alle- into indecency,” Wester- In exchange, Westerlund The path in 2009 to make the top 10 stories. A related sas, Florida, Georgia, Mich- gan County: $4.2 million. lund, 51, told a federal stands to have dropped six the new 171-acre Sau- saga, the tribulations of igan, Missouri, Nebraska, Governments and the court magistrate during the counts of criminal sexual gatuck Harbor Natural Area the U.S. auto industry, was New Mexico, North Caro- public are still reeling from plea hearing in November. conduct, which charge him a public park was as bit voted the No. 4 story. lina, South Carolina, Ten- the damages. “It should not have taken with molesting the two like a walk in the dunes In 2008, the top story was nessee and Virginia. place.” boys. themselves, Obama’s election as the first Wyoming is the only state FORMER TULIP At the beginning of 2009, with ups and African-American president. that hasn’t passed such a TIME OFFICIAL Tom Westerlund was a Tulip downs before His inauguration this year was law, according to the Coali- WESTERLUND Time Inc. operations man- reaching the No. 2, receiving 45 first-place tion for Fire-Safe Cigarettes. ager who had spent 33 years lakeshore. votes, while the bruising bat- Fire-safe cigarette laws will SENTENCED FOR working for the festival The groups tle in Congress over a health also take effect in Mississip- CHILD PORNOGRAPHY — one of his responsibili- 4 working to buy care overhaul was No. 3. pi, Ohio and South Dakota ties being the recruiting of the land from For the first time, the AP by the first week of 2011. Tom Westerlund went too young volunteers. Oklahoma City also enabled members of Canada has a similar law. far. By March, he was being millionaire Aubrey McClen- the general public to select “Cigarettes are a major That was the former Tulip investigated by state police don had hoped a $15 mil- their list of top stories, set- cause of fires, especially in Time official’s explanation for having alleged sexual Van Raalte School lion grant from the Michi- ting up a separate vote on residential occupancies,” for the sex acts, contact with two 13-year- gan Natural Resources Trust Facebook. Those voters, said Jim Goodloe, chief of pornographic old boys in 2005. The probe Fund in February would 1,410 in all, reversed the fire prevention for the Flor- films and pho- began when Zeeland police HOLLAND PUBLIC secure the land at a total order of the editors’ and ida Division of State Fire tography he were called to a complaint SCHOOLS CLOSES cost of $25 million, but news directors’ top two Marshal. engaged in with of an intoxicated male juve- THREE SCHOOLS the trust fund board post- stories placing Obama’s The coalition says ciga- several under- nile, which later revealed poned its decision almost inauguration first and the rettes cause 700 to 900 fire 2 age boys as he Westerlund had been giv- Driven by declining 10 months. economy second, but the deaths and about 3,000 prepared to ing his young victims alco- enrollment and financial McClendon and the con- two Top 10 lists had eight injuries every year in the plead guilty to hol and marijuana to lure problems, Holland Public servation groups continued stories in common. United States — many of four felony counts in federal them. Schools Super- negotiating after the origi- One notable difference them among nonsmokers. court. Westerlund admitted to intendent Brian nal agreement fell apart, was that Michael Jackson’s The fire-safe standards investigators that he was Davis unveiled then in October, the parties death was No. 3 among require cigarettes to burn sexually attracted to boys a plan in announced a pact to transfer Facebook voters, instead of out 75 percent of the time between 10 and 15 years December 2008 seventh on the AP mem- when not in active use. On Line old, and police found to re-organize See NEWSMAKERS, A2 bers’ list. “There’s tiny, ultra-thin DVDs, CDs and computer 3 district schools Here are 2009’s top 10 bands of paper that are hard drivers containing into four K-7 stories as voted by the U.S. literally layered on the images and videos of boys schools and a editors and news directors: white part of the cigarette in various states of undress high school serving grades and when the lit end of or engaged in sex acts when 8-12. The plan, adopted by 1. THE ECONOMY: the product crosses one of they searched his home, car, the school board in Janu- Despite a $787 billion those bands it acts like a sailboat and office. ary, closed three area ele- federal stimulus package, speed bump and it slows Westerlund pleaded guilty mentary schools: Van Raalte much of the U.S. economy down the burn rate,” said to four federal charges alleg- founded in 1907, Harrington David Sutton, spokesman ing he created and stored founded in 1928 and Maple- Saugatuck Harbor See NATIONAL, A2 for Altria Group Inc., parent Tom Westerlund pornographic images and wood built in 1967. Eighteen Natural Area of Philip Morris USA. DEATHS INDEX CONTACT US INSIDE Ask Amy . C3 Reach More Robert Borgman, 61 Births . C3 Classified: (616) 355-3278 Johanna Goorman, 90 Business&Personal Finance. A4 Delivery: (616) 392-8800 Readership NEWS Classified . C8 News: (616) 392-2314 or Page A5 Comics . C7 [email protected] ◆ Detective Sgt. Randy Terpstra retires after 32 years, A3. 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