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a newspaper for the rest of us www.lansingcitypulse.com May 30 - June 5, 2018 See page 9 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • May 30, 2018 THIRD ANNUAL CITY PULSE LGBQT+ INCLUSION AWARDS Thursday, June 14 • 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Spiral Dance Bar • 1247 Center St., Lansing Come fete the honorees on Thursday, June 14. Doors open at 7 for the Inclusion Awards Cocktail Party. Awards Ceremony at 8 p.m. Purchase in advance by credit card at www.lansingcitypulse.com or call Ella at (517) 999-6704 with credit card information. Mail checks to City Pulse/Inclusion Awards, 1905 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing 48912 by June 13. Pay in person with cash or credit weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the mailing address. HONOREES Emcee Kaston Anderson-Carpenter Nick Page Lansing City Nicole Ellefeson (aka Lauren Ordair) Councilwoman Erica Fitzbaden Maxine Thome Williamston Community Schools Evan Lewis Kathie Dunbar Theresa Rosado City Pulse • May 30, 2018 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 grand lansing city concert market • Birthday Parties • Bachelorette Parties series • Team Building Events • Family Get Together • Girls’ Night Out • Private Party PUBLIC CLASSES 7 DAYS A WEEK! june 14th: yancyy july 12th: tell yo mama 26th: rodney page august 9th: kathleen murray band 16th: 89th key september 6th: msu professors of jazz Welcome Another Gardening Season!! Please visit our selection of garden art to enhance your plantings. free admission | 6:30pm Included are: Sculpture for the wall and 325 city market drive free-standing, ceramic chimes, downtown lansing Hummingbird feeders, hand-turned wooden bird houses, lansingcitymarket.com Mobiles, bird feeders sponsored by: 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • May 30, 2018 Budget Hearing Notice VOL. 17 The Mid-Michigan Leadership Academy will be holding it’s annual budget hearing on June 11, 2018 at 5:30pm. The location will be the Board Room (room 2006) located at 730 W. Maple St, Lansing ISSUE 42 MI 48906. The 2018-2019 budget is available for public inspection at 730 W. Maple St, Lansing, MI 48906. The meeting will be conducted in accordance with the Open Meetings Act. Robert Macomber, Board President (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com CP#18-128 ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-5061 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS or email [email protected] EAST LANSING CITY COUNCIL PAGE CLASSIFIEDS: (517) 999-6704 Notice is hereby given of the following public hearings to be held by the East Lansing City Council on 5 Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers, 101 Linden Street, to consider the following: EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 1. A public hearing will be held to consider a Modified Site Plan and Special Use Permit Delhi Township studies how to honor lynching victim application from Burcham Hills Retirement Center, for the property at 2700 Burcham Drive, for ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Skyler Ashley a four story (49 feet) building addition, including underground parking, to the existing continuing [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 care retirement facility. The proposed building addition will include 12 one-bedroom residential EVENTS EDITOR • Ella Kramer units and 32 two-bedroom residential units. The property is located in the RM-8, Planned Unit [email protected] • (517) 999-6704 Development zoning district. PAGE PRODUCTION MANAGER • Abby Kelly 2. A public hearing will be held for the purpose of reviewing the proposed 2018-2024 Capital [email protected] Improvements Program. 9 (517) 999-5066 STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino The City of East Lansing will provide reasonable accommodations, such as interpreters for the hearing A look at a handful of Margarita Fest contestants [email protected] impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being considered at this meeting, upon notice to the City of Todd Heywood East Lansing, prior to the meeting. Individuals with disabilities requiring reasonable accommodations or [email protected] services should write or call the City Manager’s Office, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 319-6920, TDD 1-800-649-3777. PAGE SALES EXECUTIVE Jennifer Shuster Lee Purdy • [email protected] • (517) 999-5064 City Clerk 19 Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Daniel CP#18-133 E. Bollman, Capital News Service, Bill Castanier, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence CITY OF EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN Lansing Brewing Co.’s unique cocktails Johnson, Eve Kucharski, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, NOTICE OF ADOPTION Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie Pohl, ORDINANCE NO. 1423 Dennis Preston, Allan I. Ross, Dylan Tarr, Rich Tupica, Cover Ute Von Der Heyden, David Winkelstern, Paul Wozniak AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTIONS 3-4.2.1 AND 3-4.2.2 OF CHAPTER 1 – Interns: Kelly Sheridan, Shruti Saripalli, ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT – OF SECTION 33 – AMENDMENTS Art Sherry Min-Wang TO FIRE PREVENTION CODE – OF CHAPTER 16 – FIRE PREVENTION AND Distribution manager: Paul Shore • (517) 999-5061 PROTECTION – OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF EAST LANSING TO ALLOW FOR OUTDOOR FIREPLACES ON PROPERTY USED SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING IN By Kimberly Lavon Delivery drivers: Dave Fisher, Yvonne LeFave, THE RM-8, PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT ZONING DISTRICT Richard Simpson, Thomas Scott Jr., Jack Sova Please take notice that Ordinance No. 1423 was adopted by the East Lansing City Council at the regular meeting of the Council held on May 22, 2018, and will become effective immediately upon the publication of the following summary of ordinance. SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 1423 THE CITY OF EAST LANSING ORDAINS: Ordinance 1423 amends Sections 3-4.2.1 and 3-4.2.2 of Section 16-33 of Chapter 16 of the East Lansing City Code by allowing for outdoor fireplaces on property used as single-family dwellings in the RM-8, Planned Unit Development, zoning district. A true copy of Ordinance No. 1423 can be inspected or obtained at the Office of the City Clerk at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, Michigan during normal business hours. Jennifer Shuster City Clerk CP#18-132 City Pulse • May 30, 2018 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION one drop of blood was shed.” But it was the first that shot through Deadman’s Hill Ingham County. A black man had murdered FOR four white people, three of them women. Delhi Twp. to honor county’s sole lynching victim He was tracked down and arrested in Bath DESIGN Aug. 27, 1866, was to be John Taylor’s year after the end of the Civil War. Township and jailed in Mason. A mob of 18th birthday. On the cusp of that day, he’d “It’s important to know this history,” said 100 showed up demanding he be hand- already lived a life of the times: a slave, a Brown. ed over. Again, stories differ on how then freedman who joined the Union Army in And he’s not alone in that belief. Bill Ingham County Sheriff Fredrick Moody the Civil War hired farm hand in Ingham Castanier, president of the Historical responded. In one telling, he denied Taylor County. But Taylor was not meant to see Society of Greater Lansing, said acknowl- was lodged in the jail, In another, he told the sun rise on that birthday. edging history is important. the crowd what cell he was in and where his He was lynched by a mob estimated “It behooves us to remember this, to keys were in what Castanier called a “wink to be a 100 strong on Aug. 23, 1866. He honor this man,” he said. wink” move. In both instances, the crowd was hung and shot three times, his corpse State Sen. Curtis Hertel, Jr. a Democrat rushed the jail, broke down the doors and brought down and dismembered and ulti- who represents the vast majority of Ingham dragged the teen from the jail at gunpoint. mately buried first in a shallow grave on a County, agreed. He was ordered to pray, then murdered. farm in Delhi Township, then later in a hill “Those who do not remember the past A grand jury was brought together at the now known as Deadman’s Hill. Where his mortal remains rest today is unknown, but that is not stopping town- ship residents and officials from taking action to honor the victim of Ingham County’s only known lynching. “I think that in terms of a moral con- East Lansing scious, we wanted to bring this up at a time when everybody in the community is maybe John English of East Lansing was ready to deal with this on a more humane the first person to correctly identify the level,” said Mark Brown, a Lansing resident May 9 Eye for Design (below) as the who works with both the Lansing ACLU “Grove Street parking structure near and the Lansing branch of the NAACP. 54b District Court.” The pleasant com- He’s also been involved in meetings with position of brick and concrete block Ingham county residents and Delhi leaders appears on this otherwise unremark- on finding a way to honor Taylor. able structure, which creates a strong Deadman’s Hill Park, on Cedar Street division between the city’s commercial south of Holt Road, has been owned by core and the residential neighborhoods Delhi Township since it was donated in Todd Heywood/City Pulse to the north. 1972. It’s been a popular sledding hill since This popular sledding attraction in Delhi Township is known as Deadman’s Hill, not The colorful, painted metal detail before it was even named a park. Minutes because of break-neck speeds, but because in 1866 a lynching victim was buried here.