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Northern Exposure Work Session Held Earlier in the Week USO-UUt IW NtfOMOf JSW 75 cents W JORDAN & STsr,u,a!"~ Vol. 9 No. 30 EastJordan, Michigan journal Wednesday, May 9, 2001 Serving EastJordan, Boyne City and surrounding areas at a Budget GLANCE talks Boyne Police to sponsor heat up annual bike Boyne City's • City commission Susan Martin, safety rodeo left, and the considers revised draft The East Jordan City Commission The Boyne City Police rest of the introduced a revised draft of the city's Department is sponsoring a PolarTrek proposed budget for the 2001-02 fis• Bike Registration and teammade cal year at last week's regular meet• Safety Rodeo on Saturday, their historic ing. May 12, from 10 a.m.-2 arrival at the The revision included the elimi• p.m. at the Veteran's Park North Pole nation of the possiblity for a full-time Pavilion. fire chief, a point of contention for on April 24. city commissioner Shane Williams. Kids participating can At the meeting, Williams restated register to win one of two his opinion that the need for the cre• brand new bicycles donated ation of a full-time chief's position by the Boyne City Fire was there, noting that the position was Department and the Boyne one of the top goals the commission City Ambulance Depart• set at its goal-setting session earlier ment. this year. For more information, The recommendation to drop the call the police department at position from the 2001-02 budget was made during a commission budget 582-6611. Northern exposure work session held earlier in the week. If a full-time paid position had been created, the job would have to be ad• Time running vertised and all candidates, including PolarTrek adventurers return home safe and sound the current chief if he wished to be out to apply for It was the adventure of a lifetime. To ski to the North Pole on an January. considered, would have to go through all-woman expedition, and make history while doing so. To set an The training, though, could never have prepared Ihcm for the harsh an interview process. scholarships example as a strong woman of science. To be a small-town hero to environment they would encounter. "The temperature was the hardest." Williams stated several concerns students and grown-ups alike. Who could turn down such a chance? Martin said. "There was no way to prepare for the temperature." about the fire department, including Time is running out for Not, it seems, Susan Martin, a science teacher at Boyne City Middle The challenge that the temperature would be made itself evident on an inquiry about the maintenance of BCHS Seniors to apply for School who is one of the 12 women of PolarTrek, the first all-woman the group's first day in Khatanga. Siberia, where the women waited for equipment such as the jaws of life. scholarship money available ski excursion from the 88th parallel in Russia to the North Pole. Martin a storm to clear before they could be airlifted to the floating ice station. Williams proceeded to question cur• from the Boyne City All returned to Boyne City last week after completing the expedition with a The weather on that day was about -35 degrees Celsius with winds rent volunteer lire chief Glen School Boosters and the wealth of stories to tell. gusting at least 15 mph. Within 10 minutes. Finlayson suffered from Thorman about department proce• Foundation for Educational The adventure really began last fall, when Martin was approached frostbite on her cheek. "That kind of set the tone for the trip," said dures, and inquired about the poten• Excellence. by a friend, Kerri Finlayson, an instructor at North Central Michigan Martin. "It freaked out some of the women." tial to upgrade the department's ISO Information and applica• College in Petoskey who had already signed on for the trip, a two-week A Russian guide took the women on practice runs, getting them to rating and the number of volunteers trek of skiing, science, and teamwork organized through WomenQuest, "push ourselves to the limit." They did 10 miles, which Martin said tions are available from Sue currently in the department. led by Michigan State University professor Sue Carter. As soon as she doesn't seem like much, but it took about 15 hours. "It was hard Breidenstein at the BCHS Commissioner Jeanette Norton heard about it, Martin said at the time, she knew she wanted to do it. going," she said. then spoke up, asserting that "what attendance office. Time, though, was of the essence. The trip was only a few short The time they spent "practicing," said Martin, was really intended to we're doing right now is inappropri• Since fewer students months away, scheduled to kick off in early April, and, though allow the women to acclimate themselves to the climate and surround• ate." apply for these scholarships, WomenQuest would provide all the gear including tents, sleeping bags, ings. "It does take the body two or three days [to get adjusted)," Martin City attorney Scott Beatty was applicants have a much and outerwear, the personal cost for Martin to participate was $10,000. said. Upon first arriving, she said, "I thought there's no way 1 could consulted on the rights of an indi• better chance of being Not only would she have to physically and mentally prepare for the survive." In a few days, though, bodies adjusted, with sleep becoming vidual commissioner to inquire about awarded one of these challenge, but she would also need a little help raising the funds. a little easier in the cold, and. said Martin, "your body begins burning a particular department. Beatty sug• scholarships than one from That's where the community came in. "I feel really indebted [to the fat more efficiently." gested that it would be appropriate a college or trade school. people that helped out]," said Martin, noting that she wanted to let folks After being dropped off at the floating Ice Station Borneo, the only if it were the action of the entire know "how great everybody in Boyne City has been." Through the women encountered other groups from other nations, including Italy, Scholarships are granted commission, and that a commissioner course of the winter, sub sandwich sales and celebrity tip nights, as well Poland, and Norway, also setting out to the Pole. "People were could make a motion to conduct an to applicants based on the as donations, brought in the money she needed, without the benefit of intrigued that women would even do it." Martin said, noting that the investigation. applicant's self-profile grants. "All the money was raised locally, basically through business other groups were all men. "They'd say 'this is no place for women.' "It doesn't sound like my ap• (including goals, commu• and personal donations," she said. "A lot of people really helped." Wc were kind of fueled by them, wc wanted to prove [them wrong]." proach is popular with the commis• nity involvement, and Martin and Finlayson teamed up to train for the undertaking, Soon, the team boarded a helicopter to be taken to their drop-off sion, but I have major safety and li• family situation) and ' keeping to a rigorous schedule of weight training and skiing four days a point, thinking that "this is the last time I'll be warm." Huddled in a ability issues that haven't been ad• recommendations from week, with two long ski trips on the weekend, each time pulling 60-80 group amidst miles of vast whiteness, the PolarTrek guide, Josee dressed," said Williams. "I'd like to teachers and community lbs. in a sled and a 40 lb. backpack. "We were probably two of the Auclair was choking up, said Martin. "She said, 'this is the hardest part see them addressed in the proper man• leaders selected by the stronger members on the team," said Martin. of the trip right here.'" ner." applicant. Scholarship Members of the team also gathered for a training stint of skiing and Please see POLAR TREK on page 3 Williams put a motion to investi- money can be used for winter camping in the Porcupine Mountains in the Upper Peninsula in Please see EJ BUDGET on page 3 tuition or books for college or trade schools. Applications and all required information must Char-Em buys former be turned in by May 18. For more information, call Breidenstein at 439- Big Boy building in BC 8127. The Char-Em Intermediate School location in Charlevoix, which has District will be moving some offices become too small for the department's Boyne City to Boyne City, having purchased the needs. "The early childhood program Big Boy restaurant building on Boyne started out seven or eight years ago schools Avenue to house the district's early with one person," said Ekhardt. childhood consortium offices. "Now we're up to 35 people working have half day The building will house early on early childhood initiatives." childhood and head start program The new building will not house on May 24 staff members. actual children's programs, but will "We were looking for a facility rather be solely utilized for office The Boyne City Public ... within the Charlevoix county geo• space. The move to Boyne City, he Schools will have a half day graphical area," said Char-Em super• said, will afford the district "a lot of on Thursday, May 24, for intendent Mark Ekhardt. opportunities to utilize our current, staff development meetings. About a month ago, the possibil• expanded services." Employees The elementary and high ity of purchasing the building in working otjtof the Boyne City loca• tion will be coordinating early child• schools will be dismissed at Boyne City came to the district's at• tention.
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