Deputy Receives Life Saving Award
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FREE but priceless Presorted Standard US Postage Paid Permit No. 81 Cedar Springs, MI The SHOWCASING CEDAR SPRINGS & Reaching around the world ~ www.cedarspringspost.com Vol. XXXI No. 36 Thursday,P September 6, 2018 STServing Northern Kent County and parts of Newaygo and Montcalm Counties INSIDE THIS School board Deputy receives life saving ISSUE appoints new award Harvest Festival member By Judy Reed By Judy Reed Kent County Sher- iff Deputy Todd Frank The Cedar received a Life Saving Springs Board of award last week for his Education inter- rescue of an 11-year-old viewed five can- from a mobile home fire didates Tuesday last summer. evening for the Frank was sitting in his open board seat cruiser filling out a report page 2 & 7 left by the recent in the North Park lot on resignation of July 22, 2017, when a secretary Brook woman came running City manager Nichols. up to his cruiser yelling evaluation Trent Gilmore The board took that there was a fire in a applications until Tuesday morning. The trailer in Cedar Springs five who were interviewed included Tony Mobile Estates (which Owens, Paul Stark, Mistie Bowser, Trent abuts the parking lot he Gilmore, and James Halstead. The board was in) and that people then discussed the candidates and voted to were still inside. Frank Captain David Kok, Road patrol command- offer the position to Gilmore. ran towards the area and er with the Kent County Sheriff’s Office (left) presents Deputy Todd Frank with a Life Saving Gilmore lives with his wife and children could see smoke coming award for his rescue of an 11-year-old from a in Algoma Township. Two attend Cedar from the area. He alerted fire. Photo courtesy of Deputy Ryan Morin. Springs Public Schools and another will dispatch to send the fire start in a couple of years, according to his department. A woman was trying to go biography on the school’s website. Gilm- Frank said it was chaotic when back in the back door and there ore said his wife grew up in Cedar Springs he arrived on the scene at 336 was heavy smoke rolling out. page 3 and graduated from Cedar Springs Public Carol St. I grabbed her and told her she Schools. He also said he grew up in an edu- “I started herding people to- couldn’t go back in. She said her The medal Deputy Frank received Red Hawks win cational household because both his parents gether as swiftly as I could. It 11-year-old son was in there.” with his Life Saving award. Post pho- were teachers, and his father-in-law is also was a family of five, including The boy had reportedly been to by J. Reed. SCHOOL - continues on page 13 a newborn,” explained Frank. outside but gone back in to get a AWARD - continues on page 5 Four townships partner on 16 Mile RoadBy Maura Lamoreaux, Kentconstruction County Road Commission The Kent County Road Commission’s multi- year, three-mile-long, gravel-to-pavement con- SPORTS - page 8 struction project on 16 Mile Road, from Pine Lake Avenue to Harvard Avenue, readies for completion Gold treasures this summer. This is largely due to the collaborative OUTDOORS - page 9 Where four townships meet: 16 Mile Road and Keller Avenue. Pictured (left to right) Patrick Malone, Com- missioner, KCRC; John Wood, Trustee, Spencer; Sharon Fase, Trustee, Spencer; Lisa Wright, Clerk, Spen- cer; Catherine Knapp, Deputy Treasurer, Spencer; Jeff Knapp, Supervisor, Spencer; Mike Krygier, Super- visor, Courtland; Tom Hoskins, Resident, Courtland; Laura Hoffman, Clerk, Nelson; Maureen Mahoney, Time to harvest Trustee, Nelson; Robyn Britton, Supervisor, Nelson; Jerry Byrne, Deputy Managing Director, KCRC. cucumbers effort among the townships of a borderline road im- agreement, the identified of Courtland, Oakfield, Nel- provement project can be township would be respon- son and Spencer. The fund- tricky to secure because of sible for 100 percent of the ing needed to transform the the road’s physical divide local share of a borderline three miles of gravel road to among townships. Agree- road project despite two pavement required a united ments made by townships townships sharing the bor- effort from these neighbor- prior to January 1931 der. ing communities because, sought to alleviate this type Assuming full responsi- as a borderline road, 16 of confusion by assigning bility for the local share of Mile Road falls within each construction—and there- a road project, for which 16 Mile Road, west of Keller Avenue: Two miles of newly constructed of the townships, which sit fore, financial—responsi- only half of the road resides road, from Pine Lake Avenue to Keller Avenue. The third mile, between to its north and south. bilities to one of the adjoin- in the township’s own juris- BLOOMIN’ - page 10 Keller Avenue and Harvard Avenue, will be complete in October 2018. Generally, the financing ing townships. As per the PARTNER - continues on page 13 Page 2 The Cedar Springs Post Thursday, September 6, 2018 Howard City celebrating its 150th Year Anniversary And 2018 Harvest Festival Put your party hats on and on during the day Saturday, howardcity.org. get ready to celebrate How- with a children’s parade, art Howard City’s 150th Anni- ard City’s 150th anniversary tent, face painting, scarecrow versary Celebration will con- and the 2018 Harvest Festival make and take, inflatables, tinue events throughout the September 14-16. petting zoo, Super Smash year which can be viewed on The festivities kick off with Bros video tournament, bike Howard City website and the a fifties sock hop street dance race, car show, horseshoe following face book page: contest on Friday, September tournament, grand parade, piz- https://www.facebook.com/ 14 on Edgerton St from 8-11 za eating contest, fireworks, Howard City -150th -Anniver- p.m. The beer tent will also be and more. 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