On-Target 4-H members hold meeting
By Bryce Huffman - 4-H news reporter
The Clinton County On-Target 4-H Club met at the Clinton County Farmers and Sportmen’s Club on Monday, May 10 as Vice President Mikala Hatfield started the meeting at 6:38 p.m. with 43 in attendance.
Makenzie Daniels led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance and Isaac Newberry in the 4-H Pledge. Dirk Rinehart read the Secretary’s Report and Stanley Chesney gave the Treasurer’s Report.
Dave Chesney went over the raffle. Safety goggles were handed out to members in attendance. The State Shooting Sports got a grant and purchased the safety goggles for all shooting sports members in Ohio. Judy Hatfield went over t-shirt and hoodie orders and inventory for the club.
Grand Rapids City Commission this morning unanimously approved a $546 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
The new budget includes a $700,000 increase for the city’s police department, despite months of protest, hundreds of calls and thousands of emails from people calling for cuts to GRPD’s budget.
“I talked to a number of people who feel very strongly about the need to have police presence; I’ve talked to folks who feel over-policed, said Second Ward Commissioner Joe Jones. Again, for anyone out there who assumes that the decision is simple, I would suggest the opposite, Jones said.
City leaders say the funding will go toward more training. They say it ll allow the department to continue a new neighborhood policing model, in which officers are assigned to specific neighborhoods to better connect with residents.
On-Target 4-H Club meets
By Bryce Huffman - 4-H news reporter
The Clinton County On-Target 4-H Club met at the Clinton County Farmers and Sportmens Club on Monday, April 12 with President Zoie McCandless starting the meeting at 6:40 p.m. There were 26 in attendance.
Andrew Delph led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance and Bryce Huffman led the group in the 4-H Pledge. Bryce Huffman read the Secretary’s Report and Stanley Chesney gave the Treasurer’s Report.
T-shirts were discussed again.
Member Minutes for May will be Makenzie Daniels, Jacob Ritchey, Colt Thompson and Bryce Huffman. Mikala Hatfield did her Member Minutes on the Animal Science Program at Laurel Oaks.
Late in the evening on March 10, 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the first cases of coronavirus in Michigan. In the days that followed, the state was on alert as the disease COVID-19 took hold.
A two-week shutdown became a month, then three months, then six months. Now, one year later, all of our lives look very different. Masks are commonplace, many of us still work from home, and students continue to learn remotely. Weddings and trips were postponed or cancelled. Lives were put on hold, and worse. More than 16,000 Michiganders have died of COVID-19. Over 650,000 have tested positive.
Here is a month-by-month breakdown of Michigan Radio s coverage since that fateful March day.
Racism is the idea that one racial group is inferior or superior to another, and has the social power to carry out and benefit from systemic discrimination. This applies to most, if not all, institutions in this country, including public media. Anti-Blackness and white supremacy shape both the institutional policies and practices of society and shape the cultural beliefs and values that support racist policies and practices.
White supremacy is the political and socio-economic system that allows white people both at a collective and individual level to enjoy structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not.