Survey Finds 1,084 Boats on Paw Paw Lake Are 628 Too Many Ian Ownership, Not on Keyholing
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J I $123,846 fire dept. budget Abandoned property court Area girls and boys baseball OK'd in Watervliet.. see page 5 hearings set.... see pages 10-12 teams previewed.. see page 13 112th Year Issue No. 14 April 3,1996 Fifty Cents Survey finds 1,084 boats on Paw Paw Lake are 628 too many ian ownership, not on keyholing. Lake Association says home and One boat for each riparian would be 456 boats, far less than the condo owners impose excessive 1,084 that now utilize the lake. Included in the analysis report boating burden on the lake was a recorded number of boats By Cliff Stevens on Paw Paw like which showed Paw Condominiums to remove A yearlong carrying capacity condominiums contributed 223 its marina from Paw Paw like analysis of Paw Paw Lake, aim- watercraft to the lake, compared and preventing it to erect, main- ed at pinpointing the number of to 16 boats from the Watervliet tain, or operate a marina on the boats utilizing the lake, has DNR site and 23 watercraft from lake without a permit. determined Paw Paw Like is the Coloma Township DNR The analysis was undertaken heavily overburdened. launch site. The analysis, conducted during by a committee selected for its various backgrounds, interests, 1995 by the Paw Paw l^ake Asso- Paw Paw I^ake - • -• ' < ciation Inc., concluded Paw Paw and expertise to provide for coun- Foundation formed to Lake property owners have im- ting all watercraft moored at preserve and improve posed an excessive boating Paw Paw like and active water- burddn upon their lake. craft at peak times on the lake. lake... see page 5 The full text of the analysis is Documentation of active expected to be used later this watercraft was made through Single homeowners accounted month in a lawsuit filed by the aerial photographs and video- for about 800 boats on the lake. Association against Chalet du tape. The carrying capacity analysis Paw Paw Condominiums, aimed Examining housing distribu- completed earlier this year can at restricting the number of boats tion, boat distribution, and be an important tool to establish available to owners of condo- residential lake frontage shows a position in favor of growth miniums. that 185 condominium families management. occupy 4.86 percent of the resi- The analysis also contained six The lawsuit will be held in the A NICE DAY AT THE 1.AKE can mean hundreds of boats clogging the water on Paw dential shoreline and contribute recommendations. They are: Kalamazoo Circuit Courtroom of Paw I^ke. A recent survey of boat ownership on the lake shows there are more than Judge John Foley and involve the 21.5 percent of the residential Recognizing that Paw Paw- watercraft. The condos contri- like is already overburdened double the boats recommended for the lake's size. The aerial photo shows Sherwood Bay Association's seeking to prohibit on the Fourth of July, the light streaks are the wakes of boats. (Del Sipes photo) unreasonable utilization of rights bute a 1.2 watercraft per family, and in need of regulation, any- to use the lake and to create a and they average one watercraft future development should limit standard to determine reason- for every 11.2 feet of shore. lake utilization to one powered watercraft per 100 feet of Change in Board leadership at able riparian rights. The single-home residents con- Another suit, combined by- tribute 1.75 watercraft per family npanan frontage. Judge Foley last year, involves and average one watercraft for Individuals should be prohibi- Community Hospital does not mean the state Department of Natural each 61.1 feet of shore. ted from using public property- Resources suit seeking a court The concept of one-boat, one- such as fire lanes or road ends to change in mission or philosophy order requiring Chalet du Paw dock minimum is baaed on npar- permanently moor or dock watercraft By Joe Cheshire liw enforcement officials The leadership at Community- working relationship with the ad- hands. "Doug has brought a lot of Area Easter Services & Events should be encouraged to continue Hospital was passed on recently, ministration and staff at the leadership to our facility and he and enhance their enforcement with the announcement that hospital. She forecasts additional is wise in the ways of managing a of rules and regulations that app- Joyce Tutton was named Chair- changes ahead for Community medical facility, far beyond his MECCA EASTER ly- to safe operation of watercraft man of Community- Hospital's Hospital, with some being "good, young years." EGG HUNT on Paw Paw like Board of Directors. bad, or indifferent." Mrs. Tutton forecasts "hard Vehicles with trailers should be She Lakes over from Robert Mrs Tutton said over the time times ahead for all medical IS APRIL 6 Pobuda and. like Bob. has served she has served she has seen a facilities," and added, "If any MECCA club of the tri-cities prohibited from parking along roadsides in the vicinity of the the Board for many years in dif- great many changes, with most small hospital can make it, ours will sponsor its annual Easter ferent capacities. Over her 18 of them being for the better. She can." Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 6, at public access so as to prevent fur- ther access beyond that currently- years as a member of the Board. cites the affiliation with Borgess Mrs. Tutton's full-time occupa- 1 p.m. in Hays Park, Watervliet, and 7:00 p.m. designated at each access site. Mrs. Tutton has been Treasurer. Hospital in Kalamazoo as one of tion is Principal at Coloma's with lots of prizes and bunnies! Easter Sunrise. April 7, at 7:00 Any form of keyholing, whe- Washington School. She has a.m. ther it be by way of common worked in the Coloma education Easter Festival Service, April ownership of npanan land in a program since 1962, with 22 years EASTER EGG 7, at 10:30 a.m. condominium concept or physi- in administration. Mrs. Tutton A continental breakfast will be HUNT APRIL 6 cal excavation of a channel, boasts of her pride in Coloma's served by the Men's Club and should be strictly prohibited and schools and of being a 1956 IN HARTFORD Youth Group on Easter Sunday MADAME Van Bur en County Sportsman condominium docking in the graduate of the system. from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. CHAIRMAN Club and Auxiliary, Hartford, is future should be limited to one Following her graduation, she Joyce Tutton sponsoring an Easter Egg Hunt dock/powered watercraft per 100 took two years of nurse's training in Ely Park on Saturday, April 6, FAITH LUTHERAN feet of riparian frontage. with previous at Mercy/Memorial and obtained at 1 p.m. This event is for babies CHURCH The Paw Paw like Associa- Hospital Board her bachelor's degree in elemen- through children who are 10 tion in conjunction with the Paw- Chairman Bob tary education from Western years old. CONTINUES Pa w like Joint Advisory- Com- Pobuda Michigan University in Kalama- Come and enjoy the fun. There mission and any municipalities zoo. She also obtained her SERVICES master's degree in educational will be a surprise visitor! The Maundy Thursday service involved should seek to devise a leadership from Western and her at 7 p.m. and the Good Friday plan, based on the 1995 Carrying specialist's degree in educational service at 1:30 p.m. will continue Capacity Analysis, that over a SALEM leadership from Wayne State with the theme 4'The lord's period of years will reduce the University, near Detroit. LUTHERAN HOLY Prayer and the lord's Passion." number of watercraft on Paw Along with her husband of 37 Thursday's communion ser- Paw like by 20 percent. WEEK SERVICES years. Gene, the Tuttons have a Salem Lutheran Church, 275, vice will be based on the petition The Carrying Capacity Analy- son, Brian, daughter Lori, and Marvin Street, Coloma, an- "and lead us not into temptation" sis reported the effects of an Secretary and Vice President, the greatest improvements ac- one granddaughter. nounces the following Holy Week and Good Friday's service on the overburdened Paw Paw like, along with serving on many com- complished in Watervliet. "This Listed among Mrs. Tutton's services: petition "but deliver us from due to excessive boating totals, mittees. creates a great partnership." Maundy Thursday, April 4, at are already visible by the in- In an interview, Mrs. Tutton With Doug Rahn at the helm at other contributions to the area is her 15 years as a 4-H leader. 7:00 p.m. See EASTER SERVICES creasing erosion of the shoreline said she feels the Board is very Community Hospital, Mrs. Tut- Good Friday, April 5, at 1:30 continued on page 5 cJid loss of shore habitat. solid at this time, with a good ton says the hospital is in capable See TUTTON continued on page 16 We asked Mrs. Burch's first-grade class at Washington School in Coloma: "How does the Easter bunny color all those eggs?" Andrew Dolby, 7: Craig Cubb^ge, 7: "He puts them on a §iv Eric Leach, 6Vz: Carie Moore, 6; Alyssa Lucker, 6: Jessica Davis, 6^: Kelsey Owen, 7: "He puts a dab of platform that turns "He rotates the ce Kurland, 7: "He has special "He dips them in "He has a chickea paint on them, and real fast and then "He has people eggs and dabs "I think he uses paint that he dips helping him.