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Apr 14, 2021 8:37 PM
UNION CITY, MI (WTVB) – Union City and Athens split their season opening track and field meet on Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Field.
The Chargers won the boys meet 78-50 while Athens won the girls meet 84-46.
Union City’s boys won all of the relay races. Individual winners for the Chargers were Riley Laird in the 100, Hunter Snike in the 400, Brennon Wood in the 800, Michael Wilcox in the 300 hurdles, Logan Cole in the discus and Nathaniel Maurer in the long jump.
Kassandra Kohsmann won the 100 and 200 in the girls meet for Union City. Other Charger winners were Kyla Burdick in the 400 and the pole vault along with Amelia Jane in the 1,600 and 3,200. Union City finished first in the 400 and 800 relays.
Marion County April 6, 2021
A rendering in the office of Erin Belgarde, Strategic Planning Coordinator for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (TMBCI) in Rolette County, North Dakota, shows a dream becoming reality: the Turtle Mountain Recovery Center, a 100-acre campus with a central facility, supportive residences, confidence course, equine therapy stables, sweat lodge, medicinal garden and walking trails.
“The students at Purdue did that for us,” Belgarde says of the campus design.
The Turtle Mountain Reservation covers 72 square miles next to the Canadian border, so Belgarde and others were surprised when a USDA-funded program matched them with Purdue Extension.
April 6, 2021
A rendering in the office of Erin Belgarde, Strategic Planning Coordinator for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (TMBCI) in Rolette County, North Dakota, shows a dream becoming reality: the Turtle Mountain Recovery Center, a 100-acre campus with a central facility, supportive residences, confidence course, equine therapy stables, sweat lodge, medicinal garden and walking trails.
“The students at Purdue did that for us,” Belgarde says of the campus design.
The Turtle Mountain Reservation covers 72 square miles next to the Canadian border, so Belgarde and others were surprised when a USDA-funded program matched them with Purdue Extension.
Michael Wilcox, Purdue Extension’s Program Leader for Community Development, started working with the TMBCI in late 2019 through the USDA’s Rural Economic Development Innovation (REDI) program. REDI funds technical assistance for up to two years to help rural towns and regions create and implement economic devel
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TAUNTON Retired Taunton firefighter Russell Laine spent his life helping others, his son Keith Laine said. He would drop anything that he was doing to help somebody in need. Do anything for his friends. He was always loving and caring, Keith said of his father.
Russell Laine died March 5 after a 21-month battle with non-Hodgkin s lymphoma at the age of 62, Keith said. He was living in Summerfield, Florida, where he moved in 2015 after 32 years as a Taunton firefighter.
Russell Laine was born and raised in Taunton. He and his wife Robin married when he was 17 and she was 15 after meeting through a horse farm, and they were together ever since, Keith said.