2017 Issue FREE a newspaper for the rest of us www.lansingcitypulse.com July 26 - August 1, 2017 CityPulse’s Summer of Art: "School Milk," by Vincent Brady. See page 10 for story. 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • July 26, 2017 Lansing’s families deserve a City Government that is progressive, accountable and transparent. Join me as we work together to build a liveable, walkable, and prosperous Lansing. Paid for by Jim McClurken for Lansing City Council PO Box 15008 Lansing MI 48901 jim McClurken Ad.indd 1 6/8/2017 2:58:50 PM BE A PART OF CHARTING CATA’S FUTURE! The CATA CEO Search Committee is gathering public input on what qualities you would like to see in CATA’s future CEO and the issues you feel our new leader should focus on in the years to come. Join us! Public Listening Session Monday, July 31, 2017 Hannah Community Center 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing “Short Flights” By East Lansing artist, Kate Darnell Through the month of July take a blissful ten minutes to experience Kate's Online Survey World premiere of four animated calligraphs set to music. Also view her beautiful exhibit of calligraphy, graphite drawings on paper and If you are unable to attend but would like to provide input, an online Colored pencil drawings on wood. survey is available at www.cata.org/CEOSurvey through Aug. 1. City Pulse • July 26, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 Here’s what you’re missing on BEGINNING STRINGS CAMP AUG. 7-11 INTRODUCES VIOLINS, VIOLAS, AND CELLOS TO KIDS AGES 6-12. REGISTER TODAY! Follow us! @lansingcitypulse (517) 355-7661 or www.cms.msu.edu 4930 S. Hagadorn Rd. CMS is the outreach arm of the MSU College of Music East Lansing, MI 48823 Elect Guillermo Z. Lopez for Lansing City Council At-Large! PRIORITIES: *Neighborhood Empowerment, Development, and Quality of Life *Support of Schools *Safety *Economic Wellness *Quality of life for City Employees “I will work to continue building a strong and supportive Lansing. A community of RESPECT, OPPORTUNITY, and PROSPERITY. The more we care about our citizens, the more Lansing prospers.” *Experience *Integrity *Commitment Paid for by Citizens for Guillermo Z. Lopez P.O. Box 15142, Lansing, MI 48901 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • July 26, 2017 PUBLIC NOTICES VOL. 16 NOTICE OF DAY OF REVIEW OF APPORTIONMENTS Ingham County Drain Commissioner ISSUE 49 Patrick E. Lindemann Notice is Hereby Given that a Public Hearing of Apportionment for special assessment (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com of costs incurred by the drainage districts listed below will be held at the office of the Ingham County Drain Commissioner, 707 Buhl Avenue, in the City of Mason, Michigan, 48854, on Tuesday, August ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-5061 8, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or email [email protected] PAGE CLASSIFIEDS: (517) 999-5066 At the meeting to review the apportionment of benefits, I will have the tentative apportionments against parcels and municipalities within the drainage district available to review. Any drain assessments against land will be collected in the same manner as property taxes. 8 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz For assessments to be collected in installments, the Drain Code (Act 40 of 1956, Sec. 154 [e]) [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 provides that the assessment may be paid in full with any interest to date at any time and thereby House for sale? Voters to decide on fate on Cooley-Haze. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER • Mickey Hirten avoid further interest charges. [email protected] ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Eve Kucharski DRAIN # DRAIN NAME MUNICIPALITY SECTION NUMBER [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 A10-00 ASSELTINE AND BRAVENDER INGHAM TOWNSHIP 8,9 PRODUCTION MANAGER • Amanda Proscia DRAIN PAGE B35-01 BARNES, WAVERLY DELHI TOWNSHIP 7 [email protected] • (517) 999-5066 COMMERCE BRANCH DRAIN 9 STAFF WRITERS • Lawerence Cosentino C13-00 CLARK AND POTTER DRAIN BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 5,6 [email protected] INGHAM TOWNSHIP 32 Todd Heywood LESLIE TOWNSHIP 1 Revisit the Detroit Riots from 50 years ago. [email protected] C16-00 CLINTON DRAIN BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 2-4, 9-11, 14-16, 21-23, 26, 27 SALES & MARKETING DIRECTOR • Rich Tupica C17-00 CLUCKEY DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 13,14, 23, 24 [email protected] C32-00 COUNTRY CROSSROADS DELHI TOWNSHIP 19 PAGE SALES EXECUTIVES DRAIN Mandy Jackson • [email protected] D14-00 DOAN CREEK DRAIN LOCKE TOWNSHIP 32 22 Cory Hartman • [email protected] WHEATFIELD TOWNSHIP 13, 24-26, 35, 36 LEROY TOWNSHIP 5-8, 17-20, 29, 30-32 INGHAM TOWNSHIP 1-3, 10-15, 22-27, 35 City Pulse Staff took to Lansing to find the best pancakes. Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Daniel WHITE OAK TOWNSHIP 36 E. Bollman, Capital News Service, Bill Castanier, BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 5-8, 17-21, 27-34 Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence STOCKBRIDGE TOWNSHIP 1 Johnson, Eve Kucharski, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, VILLAGE OF DANSVILLE 3-9 Cover Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie Pohl, 14,15, 22, 23 Dennis Preston, Allan I. Ross, Rich Tupica, Ute Von D18-00 DRUM AND HECK DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 7 Der Heyden, Paul Wozniak D20-00 DUBOIS DRAIN AND BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 7, 8, 16-21 Art MITCHELL BRANCH Delivery drivers: Frank Estrada, Dave Fisher, Jack G03-03 LANIER BRANCH OF NORTH DELHI TOWNSHIP 7 “School Milk,” by Vincent Brady. Sova, Richard Simpson, Thomas Scott Jr. BRANCH OF GILBERT DRAIN G03-10 GILBERT CHISOLM HILLS DELHI TOWNSHIP 8 Interns: Danielle Chesney, Clarissa Kell, Dylan Tarr BRANCH DRAIN G03-12 GILBERT, HOUGHTON DELHI TOWNSHIP 17 HOLLOW BRANCH DRAIN G12-00 GREEN DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 11,14, 15, 22, 23 G12-07 GREEN, THREE LAKES DELHI TOWNSHIP 11 BRANCH DRAIN H32-00 HARKNESS DRAIN LESLIE TOWNSHIP 12, 13, 24 BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 7,18 H56-00 HEENEY DRAIN BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 2, 3, 11 I08-00 IVYWOOD DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 1, 12 J01-00 JACKSON DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 14 K08-00 KEELER DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 29,30,32 L04-00 LAMOREAUX DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 12 M42-00 MATTHEW DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 15,16 M49-00 MCCLUSKEY DRAIN BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 11 O15-00 OAKWOOD DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 1, 2 CITY OF LANSING 2 R24-00 ROOT DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 30 S01-00 SALOW DRAIN BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 25 STOCKBRIDGE TOWNSHIP 30, 31 S04-00 SCHOOLCRAFT DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 14, 23 S09-00 SHEARER DRAIN BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 20, 28, 29 V11-00 VICARY DRAIN BUNKER HILL TOWNSHIP 19, 20, 29, 30, 32 W69-00 WOODED VALLEY DRAIN DELHI TOWNSHIP 11, 14 Proceedings conducted at the day of review are subject to the Michigan Open Meetings Act. Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for effective participation in the meeting should contact the Ingham County Drain Commissioner at (517) 676-8395 or the Michigan Relay Center at 711 (TTY) at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting to request mobility, visual, hearing, or other assistance. You are Further Notified that persons aggrieved by the apportionment may appeal to the Ingham County Probate Court within ten (10) days of the Day of Review. Patrick E. Lindemann Ingham County Drain Commissioner CP#17-207 See pages 6, 8, 11 & 30 for more Public Notices City Pulse • July 26, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION ‘Endangered’ esker? C Friends of Ormond Park pin legal hopes on remnants of an ancient, subterranean river OF THE WEEK To the layman’s eye, the 25-foot-high Western Michigan University, in a case in miles, it is one of the longest left in the Unit- landscape feature that dominates Ormond Ingham County Circuit Court. It pits neigh- ed States. Park’s eastern edge is a hill. To a geologist, bors of the 8.2-acre neighborhood park on “There’s very few eskers protected by it’s the remains of a 15,000-year-old river Lansing’s east side against city officials, parks today,” Yellich testified Monday. “This that once ran under a miles-thick sheet of who want to cut the park in half by running just happens to be one of them.” ice and remains a valuable natural resource an entryway through it to the city-owned Eskers are key geological formations, the for drinking water. Groesbeck Golf Course. Friends of Ormond Park argue, because of That’s the testimony of John Yellich, di- Neighbors argue the plan will threaten the unique way they were formed. Yellich rector of the Michigan Geological Survey at a stretch of the DeWitt Mason Esker. At 22 testified that the deposits of gravel and sand See Endangered, Page 6 408 E. Grand River Ave. Jim McClurken and Brian Jackson talk their visions for the city and what specif- Lansing of knocking on doors throughout the ic steps they will take to bring those vi- Chicken and egg ward, what they really mean is on doors sions into reality. Not all the candidates of likely voters — and in McClurken’s chose to respond to inquiries, despite Approaching this building from the As primary election nears, case just likely absentee voters, at least repeated phone calls and emails. west, one is immediately captured by for the primary election. Fourth Ward candidates Elvin Cald- Barbara Hranilovich’s colorful mural candidates campaign to the choir “I wish I could hit every door because well Jr., Larry Hutchinson and Jason of an urban forest. The liveliness of everyone voted,” Jackson said. “But Durham as well as at-large candidates the mural is carried to the front of Tina Aquirre sits on the front porch that’s not happening.” Rosalinda Hernandez and Evelyn Pech- the building, where the header bricks of her small house smoking a cigarette.