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\ EATON RAPIDS - IN THE NEWS - I · 1990's -r. -.. ....,.. ~ ~··· -~· - Man. killed when car " . n6tified. -: ..... · Rapids ·is in ·criticar condition at At tµe northern- edge of Eaton Sparrow Hospital. Tyler Hare, 13i Two road deaths ·' hits tree; woman killed Rapids, Leona Marie Sinclair;· 79, also of Eaton Rapids, is in fair con of Olivet was killed in a two-car dition at Sparrow Hospital, said in two-car crash crash about 6:40 :p.m. Saturday at nursing supervisor Millie By· John ·B. Albrigh' -· - M-99 and Grandview Drive, Eaton Spurbeck. .-~ · · "'""'"'"" -~-, Lansing State Journal County· sheriff's"deputies said. The two youths. were ':\'~~!!ring The accident left one 13-year seat belts, Jackson said,·but~mves A man and a woman were killed old boy in· ·critical condition 'and tigation has not 'yet determined in· weekend traffic crashes south another in fair. condition. wnether'.Maggfo Lotaine Collins or of Lansing. · Sinclair, alone in her car, was Sinclair 'were we_aring seatb.elts. westbound on Grandview in Ea:toil An airbag in the Sinclair'tar did In Onondaga Township, a Lan Rapids Township \_Vhen she failed inflate, Jackson .said. sing man in his 40s was fatally in to stop at. the · intersection and At the scene of the Sinclair /Col- jured when his 1991 Chrysler Le pulled out in front of .a car north . Jins collision, Thomas George Baron convertible left Onondaga bound on M-99, deputies said. • Frith, '.39, of Hastings stopped to Road at '.Plains .Road and struck a · The driver of the northbouncJ. give aid and1was1struck in t_he leg tree about '1:20 a.m. Sunday,. car, Maggie"l.oraine'Collins, 17, of by a pas5ing vehfole; tleputies said. IIngh'ain~Gounty .,,sheriff's deputy Eaton Rapids was treated and re-. The vehicle did not stop. Jon~M:artfri»:said.•. 1:: · _· : ,leased at 'Greenlawn Campus of Frith was treated at at Green .TheJacddentOs•linder investiga- Michigan Capital Medical Center, lawn Campus and released. ' • • .,.. ' r tion;'andthe victim's name will not ·a nursing supervisor said. Staff writer. Jodi -Upto,n contrib Ii be released until relatives are Chris.to~E!! Collins, 13, of Eaton . u_teCJ to· this repor4 w::<"·· . ~~"·~·:~·~~i~~-~·~,.~,l ------ --- ------·-------------- ---------- - _,r- ;•. elis, said she will delay the 10-. ·;,.ion - By JOHN B. ALBRIGHT ~a:idsJOwiiruSc1ub ~'JJ.? .r e:.~J space .lot expansion plan to make. up the cause for the tree. Robe.rt .m ~ii;dietlMoncfuYi Lansing S~ate Journal time to confer with- whomever .. Dickip.s~ ·_presidenhelect of the ~ ~h~lly-Ode~Funel · · · 'E. Rapids EATON .RAPIDS.; A plan tci re- wants to save the tree. _ . , group, said he would tak~ that up , , 1· -'" REINERTSEN I . move an old tiur oak tree behind "At this poin~, the project's on wi!!J: ..~i~~p.ians in Ot:tob~r .... ·:; ', ·· _\ Bowling Green, Ki the post office here. to make way hold, and we're investigating ways _ :A· former fe'deral forester, Clegg B ./(tied Sunday. ~ for more parking h8$.J.?een ~topp_ed •:: to.. do the .Pa.rki!lg e]tp.(lnsion while said the tree was 4 Y2 fe.ett.~ic.k and. aj Yf'·., a~ Funeral~! I tree's fall for twQ weeks, .a U.S. P~s~l ,Ser- .. still not d1sturbmg th-e tree...:... even perhaps 250 y~ars old. · · . n ;;y STEWART vice official _said Tuesday ... if it means losing a co_uple of .Postal officials bad plan?ed.. to . o! ~\TIE,~·1 .so, 0r,~- · Grand Rapids-based Barbara spaces,". Martin ~aid. ·· · . · remove the tr.ee, which _ls about.~4 . 1 ~{t.ari.~iri&. died tfl~ Martin, manager of post office· op• Last week; ~H.arnli.n T. ownsbip . feet frorn·th~,.Q-rand_R~v~r shore, t~ *'T~ursday·atca·l .Put .resident Alb~rt Clegg ask.ed the . build -a' concrete re~nmg wall ti[ ::'.fmton: )· ; ' ': ~ on hold .., . .. erations for the _488 ZIP code ar- ' . ' '~12 ..' ,, ..., ·.. c},~q /3:: -.~ .. ' ~ . • • - ..... ~ <.- ... .,.. ' . - \ ,.,..., . .. _Ii_ ... ••*"-*!.l~·--•i.•a-11 ...... _. / • ";_ : t .'U) ui : .. ... • . ~~-••"1 n n ::rn o-o iii"~ 'OOQ.:::~- . .,..., 0 2S - - ·ctl "1 0 I» - - (") "1 '"' - . - -..-·~.g ~~ d 0 n-..!!tCll I» ~ 3 {/l. CD n ~· ~ 0 CD .... 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After weeks of protest by area residents who want to save the tree, postal officials have decided to scrap a $50,000 proposal to take down the nearly 250-year-old tree · on the Grand River shoreline. Instead of building a retaining wall and making 10 more parking spaces, the traffic flow on the post office lot will be changed, outside collection boxes will be relocated and present parking spaces will be rearranged, said Barbara Mar tin, a postal operations manager based in Grand Rapids. "We're just going to try to do something with what we've got," Martin said. The decision to spare and trim the tree and to make changes in the present parking lot and drive way of the post office was made Wednesday by her, Eaton Rapids ' Postmaster Jack Bohne and Murry Weatherall, acting manag er of the postal district,· Martin said. Tree lover Elise Harvey of Lan sing was overjoyed. .. ' "Trees are part of th~ earth," she said. "This tree has ,been a landmark on the river. It's alive." The Save Our Bur Oak Commit tee will stay in business to gather . GREG DeRUITER/L.ansing State Journal funds for the care of the tree, said Long live the tree: A 250-year-old oak tree on the Grand River the group's secretary, Helen shoreline in Eaton Rapids won't be cut down to make room for Clegg of Hamlin Township. Boughs of the tree, some of more parking spaces at the post office, officials have decided. them hanging over the' parking Instead, the tree will be trimmed, and parking at the post office will and traffic areas behind.the post be rerouted. · al facility, will be trimmed. Rearrangement of parking •On Sept. 27, Martin ordered a spaces and relocation of outside hold on the project to study Tree stats boxes for mail collection may add whether the parking could be ex two or three more parking spaces panded without felling the tree. • Height: 75 feet to the 20 there now, the postmas • An Oct. 5 letter from Eaton •Crown spread: 100 feet. ter -said. Rapids Kiwanis Club President • Trunk diameter: 4.3 feet. For better visibility of vehicle Robert Dickins told Bohne that • Age: Nearly 250 years. movements, a one-way traffic the club urgedpi:eservation of the flow around the building will be tree. - reversed, with vehicles to enter at •Nov.14-Postal'f;llfficialsan- 'form the Save Our· Bur Oak the south driveway, Martin said. nounced that the project and tree- Committee. Now, traffic enters from Main cutting would go ahead. A project •Dec. 5, Weatheral~ ordered a Street at the north drive and exits consultant said the tree was to be second stay of execution for the at the south drive. cut the week of Dec. 12-16. tree. _. Here's the history behind the •Nov. 30 - Twelve residents Staff writer G~g1e Gendreau tree:cf< .