town Action Agenda 4 ‘ITYXTY MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25,2066CHRONICLE FIFI’YCENTS . t 16 PAGES VOLUME 94, NUMBE - Gun club hosts debate House candi dates agree on ltlrearrn rbights issues Tom Meyer and Pam said. “It’s there for our pro- they’re the type of person The candidates agreed with Stillwell-Binder agreed on tection as well as our guid- that needs a gun. .then they the idea of adding 2 commu- most issues, including resi- ance.” have a right to do so,” he nity members to gun boards, dents’ right to “keep and bear added. which are currently com- arms”, during a debate in INTERPRETATION The candidates also said posed of the sheriff, state front of about 50 people at they would support “shall is- police representative and the CasCity Gun Club Sun- The candidates were also sue” legislation that would prosecutor. day afternoon. asked to address the state’s guarantee a concealed weap- Gun boards may lose the Meyer, a Republican, and concealed weapons laws and ons permit to any citizen who discretion they now have, Stillwell-Binder, a Demo- how gun boards vary from meets the statute require- according to Green, who was crat, are both seeking the county to county in their in- ments. on hand during Sunday’s de- 84th District Michigan terpretations of those laws.. It’s a matter of going back bate. House of Representatives “I think we need to be veq to the Constitution, accord- Green told the audience that seat in the Nov. 7 general careful of who is allowed to ing to Meyer, who said resi- there’s a 99 percent chance election. carry a concealed weapon,” dents -without a criminal that his “shall issue” con- Meyer, 58, a veteran radio Stillwell-Binder responded. record have the right to keep cealed weapons permit leg- station manager from Bad However, she said, if a citi- and bear arms. islation will pass this year. Axe, dominated a field of 3 zen has a clean record, he or “We still have the right to The law would require all candidates in the August Re- she should be allowed to ob- bear arms, and I agree if you gun boards to issue permits SUNDAY’S DEBATE at the Cass City GAClub featured 84th District Michigan publican primary election. tain a permit. don’t have the criminal ele- unless they can determine an Stillwell-Binder,39, who has Meyer said he would like to ment in your background, applicant is mentally unfit to House of Representatives candidates Pam Stillwell-Binder (seated, left) and Tom worked in the service indus- see a uniform concealed you should be able” to ob- receive one. Meyer (far right). Tuscola County District Judge Kim Glaspie (center) moderated try, factowed estate, bank- weapon permit policy state- tain a permit, Stillwell- -Also - - - - in- - - attendance.. .. Sunday ing and education fields, ran wide. they &in show that Binder said. Please turn to page 5. the debate. unopposed in the primary. The434th District seat, rep- resenting Huron and Tuscoia counties, is currently held by Board okays Campbell work Mike Green (R-Mayville), who is being forced from of- fice due to term limits. The opening salvo in the presented to the board by held at Deford School are mum number for best results. Sunday’s debate, sponsored next major school improve- teachers Paula Levalley and selected on the basis of need Samples of the work of the by the Thumb Area Respon- ment plan was fired Monday Kelly Ball. as recommended by teachers students at the start of the sible Gun Owners, touched night in an otherwise un- The class mects all-day, 4 and the students’ records. class and in mid-October on a number of issues, but eventful meeting of the Cass days a week, and is paid for There are now 20 students were presented. This class is questions related to gun City School Board. from a grant carmarked for in the class that started with designed to reduce the num- rights surfaced on several The board approved a plan class size reduction funds. 22. LeValley and Ball agreed ber of first graders that will occasions. submitted by Superintendent Students attending the class that 20 is probably an opti- Please turn to page 5. Asked to define the guaran- Ken Micklash for the re- tees of the Second Amend- placement of the windows at ment in the U.S.Constitution Campbell Elementary .‘ as wqll as the right to keep School. The walls around the IGA owner: lack of town and bkar arms for the defense windows are rotted severely of self and state as outlined and make repair at best a very in the Michigan Constitution, :emporary solution. suppor closed local store Meyer said he believes no The project is roughly esti- one should infringe on those mated to cost some $200,000 rights. but funds will come from the Cass City IGA owner Dan people told him they wanted ees that were working there “I think what they meant general fund not from a spe- Wills says his decision to a nicer, cleaner store. “Un- at the time. But he said that was that we’re supposed to cial millage. close the local grocery store fortunately,” he added, “it got led to a number of personnel be a free country,” he said, Barring unexpected was based on a number of to the point where they (cus- problems. adding more enforcement of changes in the school’s rev- factors, but a lack of commu- tomers) were just coming in On top of that, he codtin- current gun control laws, enues, the plan i? to spread nity support tops the list. and buying the specials. ued, shoppers are very mo- rather than new laws, may be Wills, who posted a sign the cost over at least 2 years “You can’t pay your bills bile and willing to take their the key. with $lOO,OOO coming from announcing a “going out of business to other communi- “People should be allowed business sale” a little over a with that. It was costing me the 2001 budget. more to keep it open than to ties. When the new Meijer to have their guns to protect VOLUNTEERS Minnie David (left) and Laura LaJoie put some finish- $Theboard appeared to be in week ago, expected to close close it,’’ he said. “I prob- store opened in Bay City, he their property and state as ing touches on a graveyard at the Haunted Forest east of Kingston, where accord with the replacement the doors by early this week. said, the increased competi- well as (for) hunting,” “I think the bottom line is, ably should have closed it a plan and authorized the su- year ago, to be frank.” tion hit the Cass City store’s Stillwell-Binder agreed. “I area residents are invited to satisfy their appetite for fright this week- perintendent to get actual the community didn’t -wmt -.- +., bottom line more than that of think we need to be diligent end for a good cause - funding for a new Alzheimer’s Unit at the local cost estimates for the con- to support. the store,” said Wills said there were other the Bay City IGA Store. to maintain that right.” She struclion. Wills, who also owns an IGA factors that contributed to the said the,focus should be on hospital. Another project for im- store in Bay City. “I think if closing of the Cass City “And with the new ‘&per’ getting guns out of the hands provement at Campbell I was a member of the com- store, including expenses re- Wal-Mart opening in Caro, of criminals and children. Haunted Forest awaits School will be replacing the munity and lived there, lated to dealing with a con- there was just no sense in try- Meyer said he believes the __ tile floor in the cafeteria. things would have gone a lot taminated well and replacing ing to recover.” state and U.S. constitutions That’s a smaller cost item, better. But my wife and I are a roof. He said annexing the Wills indicated he hopes the were designed to protect citi- kstimated at $40,000 or less, good people and hard work- store property to the village decision to close the Cass zens. “I think we’ve got to Hospital eyes new facility and will definitely be com- ers. also cost him more than he City IGA won’t affect all of get back to the basics of our pleted next year, the super- “I’m kind of bitter about the was led to believe it would. his customers in the commu- Constitution.” intendent said, whole thing.’’ Wills added that he wanted nity, but he felt he had no Those plans, along with a The progress made at the Wills said one of the rea- the community to acceet choice. “At this point and “1 don’t think it leaves a lot specially-designed Kmdergarten Literacy Sup- sons he first came to Cass him, so when he purchased time, I’m really discour- of room for interpretation. It Alzheimer’s unit, are still port class, new this year, was City 4 years ago was that the store he kept the employ- aged,” he said. is what it is,” Stillwell-Binder alive, but Hills and Dales they take place on several CEO Dee McKrow cau- wooded acres behind the tioned that hospital officials hospital CEO’s home under have not yet decided to pro- a moonlit sky. But it’s all in ceed with the project.