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I PRESS ARGUS-Friday, April 8, 2005 Longtime official is 'a homegrown product' Developer sees village in the making That's only part of it. A gas station has been proposed on the southeast, corner of Latson and Highland roads. The site will include a car wash, oil change shop, and fast-food restaurant. The Board of Trustees has also discussed plans for a proposed day-care center that would be built south of the gas station. There are also four sit-down restaurants to be built on the south side of M-59, and a 300-unit housing development planned for the west side of Latson, south of the day-care building.

"Lots have been spoken for, but nothing is happening as far as plans and construction," said Township Supervisor Bill Bamber. "Before any of this happens, there needs to be some major land balancing and some drainage structures have to go in, which will probably take all of this summer." he'd only read about. The sergeant was on a train en route to Lincoln, when he got word. that the United States had dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

"I knew we'd end up over there, even after VJ Day," said Dietrich, referring to Victory in Japan Day, when the last Axis power surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945. Dietrich arrived via ship in Tokyo a few days after the Dec. 7 anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, which had drawn the United States into the war. The unit's mission was to keep the peace, as combat was over.

Though Tokyo was the largest city in the country, Dietrich recalls it mostly as a hodgepodge of small villages on dirt roads that made the Fowlerville area seem Continued from page 1 like a modern metropolis. "When I see Tokyo on the news today with the lights and huge buildings, think, 'It was nothing like that when I was he said. his adventures overseas, the only thing Dietrich, who describes himself as traditional, wanted to do in August 1946 was settle back in Conway Township, where he began his career as a homebuilder. He met his future wife, Anna, three years later over malteds in the Fowlerville sweets shop where she worked, and they married in 1950. In 1952, the couple moved into Dietrich's third and final home don't move a lot," he said, grinning) where they had three children, Keith, Carol and Kenneth.

The Dietrichs are now proud grandparents of four, ranging in age from 6 to 30. School M-59 Sit-Down Sit-Down CVS Restaurant Restaurant; Grocery 191-Unit Store Condominium Development Fire Station Township Hall SOURCE: Oceola Township Bamber said Wyett and housing developer Burton-Katzman Group have spoken for most of the properties in that area. Wyett is the developer overseeing the project. ABOUT CHET DIETRICH a Residence: Conway Township I Occupation: Township Clerk since 1976; retired homebuilder. I Age: 79 Family: Married to Anna; children Keith, Carol and Kenneth; four grandchildren.

1 Quote: "I'm just getting broken in now," he says of his job as township clerk. So, was the township clerk always into politics? Not really, the snowy-haired Gas Sit-Down Sit-Down LATSON Station Care Day Restaurant Restaurant: ROAD Development 300-Home Of course, all of this development will generate a lot of traffic and with more traffic comes the need for a lot of road improvements. The Livingston County Road Dietrich said. As a teenager dancing at the jukebox after 4-H meetings back at the old Township Hall built in the 1930s, he never had any aspirations of working there. In fact, Dietrich ended up with the job almost on a lark, after then Clerk L.D.

Dickerson told him he wanted to retire in 1976. Dietrich had been on the zoning board and loved his hometown, SO he thought he'd try it for a few years. "I said, 'It doesn't matter to me, as long as it's not too Then once I got started, I really started to enjoy it," he said. "I'm just getting broken in now." Naturally, the job has gotten more involved as the township has grown by leaps and bounds. Dietrich had to send out about 2,000 voter registration cards for the 2004 election, but he says he still knows just about everybody's name in town.

COUNTY Continued from page 1 Commission recently received federal grant money to add a right-turn lane and extend the center turn lane on Latson Road, south of M-59. By the end of 2006, commuters using the extremely busy intersection coming from the south will have their own rightturn lane, and the center leftturn lane will be extended 800 feet south. There is also a plan from the Michigan Department of Transportation to widen M-59 to either a five-lane highway or a four-lane road including a boulevard. For looking forward to the changes or hoping they never come, Wyett said it's going to take a while before it all comes together. "Joe Richards approached me and we mapped it out and planned it out," he said.

"'We said then that it would take 10 to 15 years. We are not trying to rush it." Young builders craft miniature homes done this and each year the homes keep getting better," Kelly said "They keep getting more and more creative." A few handfuls of pea gravel gave 12-year-old Ashton Gangnier's home a stony exterior. Gangnier said his home costs $120,000, but he makes no bones about the fact that reality, at least in Livingston County, is a little bit different than the classroom. "I wish you could buy a home for that much," he said. The hardest part of the exercise, Gangnier said, has been balancing the bottom line.

In order to build their homes, Kelly's students have take out building permits and loans. Kelly, acting as the banker, adds up the requests to determine the loan amounts, adding an extra $10,000 for cost overruns. The students then are responsible for writing the checks for construction: Checks to The Michigan Group for the property purchase, to R.J Cement for the foundation work, to Andersen Corp. for windows, and to the utility companies. Another reality check comes when the students apply for a 15- or 30-year mortgage.

"They find out how much they're paying in interest," Kelly said. "It's what makes their mouths drop At a little over $200,000, Ray Fischer's two-bedroom, two-bath home came in close to what home buyers might expect to find in Livingston County. Fischer said he wouldn't mind pursuing construction or architecture in the future. "I'd like to go into designing," he said. "I watch HGTV sometimes.

"It was a lot of fun creating your own home," Fischer continued. "It was cool to decide what you wanted to make." That's a big part of the project, Kelly said. Breaking down some barriers of creativity is also a key component of the assignment. "It seems like kids don't have as many opportunities to use that creativity today," she said. The other component of the work is to bolster math skills by having students balance budgets for their work, as well as lay some of the groundwork for general life skills.

"When they go to buy their own home, they're going to know the basics of it," Kelly said. "I've had parents who had said, I wish I could have taken your Controversial auction on the move, again "It's in keeping with the historical objects we have here," said Taylor, who also owns Sycamore Creek Auction and Appraisal in Mason. "We hope it will bring more antique people here." The Cobblestone Events Center has the capacity to hold 275 people. Gray hoped the sale would draw more than 600 people. Taylor said 1 Mason merchants have no qualms about hate-group items being sold at the center, including the entire estate of former Grand Dragon Robert Miles, who lived in Cohoctah Township until his death in 1992.

"It's a part of antiques and history," said Taylor, who has auctioned off Nazi, cowboy, American Indian and Klan objects. "We're hot condoning anything." "I've sold Civil War items Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 before, but that doesn't mean I condone slavery," he added. "That's a basic concept people should understand." Items to hit the auction block include: about 20 Klan uniforms, including two black satin robes from Miles; a framed picture of Adolf Hitler; KKK knives, T- shirts, patches, and bumper stickers; Miles' German Bible from 1847; and inflammatory pamphlets such as "Jewish Press Control" and "The Ni---- Joke Book," featuring a monkey on the cover. This is the second controversial items auction Gray has held. The first sale was originally scheduled at his Howell auction house for Martin Luther King birthday, but Gray moved it to Jan.

29. His second sale featuring "10 times" as much memorabilia as the first auction was originally SLY LEGAL AS REPORTED If you were involved in an accident and a police officer responded at the scene, there was likely an accident report written up. In some cases, the police report will point to the fact that a driver violated a specific section of the Vehicle Code and that the violation contributed to the accident. It may even make mention of the fact that the officer issued a citation. In other cases, the responding officer may briefly note that there was negligent driving.

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Matthews Attorneys at Law Have Family Read The Newspaper Call to Subscribe 517-546-4809 "I just might not know their faces now," he said. Conway Township has come a long way since Dietrich's childhood, when he spent the first years of his life in a home without electricity. "I was just old enough to remember the men working on it, but it seems like it was always going out. We were always lighting kerosene lamps for illumination," he remembered. Of course, the -room Benjamin School House of his youth is long gone, replaced by sprawling modern institutions like Kreeger Elementary and Fowlerville Junior High.

In the Depression era, first- through eighth-grade students sat in the same room in old wooden desks with inkwells, something most kids can only imagine by visiting the 1882 Coughran School House on the Fowlerville Fairgrounds, Most of the changes Dietrich has seen across eight decades in roads, schools and businesses have been positive, but he occasionally finds himself waxing nostalgic. "I guess it's the trend to move out here. Everyone wants to get rural, I guess, but then it's kind of hard to keep it that way," he said. Dietrich looked out of his township office Wednesday afternoon on an open cornfield, just like the one on the family farm on which he grew up near Owosso Road and Hayner Drive. This will be his last term, he's decided, having already retired from his construction business in 1989.

"You know, I've always been rural," he said with a smile. For a traditional man, it seems Dietrich has been quite the trendsetter. OBITUARIES ANNE ELIZABETH NEVILLE Age 89. Died April 4, 2005. Wife of the Late John M.

Services were held at Holy Family Church, Novi on April 8, 2005 ESTHER M. GREENWAY (NEE, KAUZLARICH) Age 80, of Howell, MI, died at home Thursday, April 7, 2005. Dear wife of Robert W. for 55 years. Loving mother of Mary E.

(Gary) Cichon; Patricia A. (Barry) Weber; Robert T. (Kellee); Barbara A. (Michael) Anderson; Teresa M. (Kevin) Crawford and Katherine M.

(Jeffery) Bengel; cherished grandmother to 24. The family will receive friends at McDonald's Funeral Home, 315 N. Michigan Howell on Saturday from 5-8 P.M. and Sunday 1-4 6-8 P.M. with Scripture service at 7 P.M.

Esther will lie in state Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Howell from 10 A.M. until time of Mass at 11 A.M. Interment to follow at Mt. Olivet In lieu of flowers, please consider a gift to Alzheimer's Association or Capuchin Soup Kitchen.

Envelopes available at the Funeral Home. (517-546-2800). GRACE EDDETHA ENGLAND Age 96, died Wednesday, April 6, at St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital, Howell. She was born June 17, 1908 in Allegan County, Michigan, the daughter of Chancey E.

and Oral O. (Myers) Jones. She married Sheldon England in Indiana on March 21, 1935. He preceded her in death in 1968. She is survived by daughters, Carole (William) Fulkerson of Holland; Shirley (John) Sechrist of Brighton and grandchildren, Matthew (Pamela) Fulkerson; Beth (Ronald) Stoel; Katherine (Robert) Baidel; Anne Sechrist; Laura Sechrist and four great grandchildren.

Graveside service will be held Monday, April 11, 2005 in the Salem Township Cemetery, Allegan County, MI at 11:00 A.M. Memorial contributions are suggested to Special Olympics Area XXVII, 6573 Grand Circle, Brighton, MI 48116. Arrangements by McDonald's Funeral Home, 315 N. Michigan Howell (517-546-2800). BEULAH L.

LARABEE Age 81, of Brighton, died Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. Born to Harvey and Lorraine (Stockwell) Borden on August 25, 1923, in St. Charles, Michigan. Beulah married Max E.

Larabee on July 16, 1943, he preceded her in death in 2003. Also preceding her in death, 1 daughter, Karen Best in 1998. She is survived by: 2 sons, Richard (Karen), Larabee of Nevada, Robert Larabee of Kalkaska, 1 daughter, Cheryl Parks of Brighton, 10 grandchildren, 4 greatgrandchildren; 1 sister, Floy Peck of Kalkaska. Cremation has taken place. A graveside service will be held in Kalkaska.

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Gray found a private field on Hogback Road in Handy Township Monday, but Zoning Administrator Keith Anderson said the municipality could "take. action" against the businessman for holding a commercial auction on personal property, Mason is interesting choice for the auction. Malcolm who led the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and 1960s, lived in Mason as a boy from 1939-1941. The civil-rights leader also had a personal history with the Klan. The group had threatened Malcolm X's family when they lived in nearby Lansing, and the KKK was suspected in his father's murder there in 1931.

Gray said he was not aware of Mason's connection to Malcolm adding that the auction features a book on him. "I think he would have found (the auction) interesting," Gray said. LIVINGSTON COUNTY DAILY PRESS ARGUS cents per single on Sundays. Sunday only subscription $52.00 per year inside Livingston County. $91.00 per year out of county inside the state of Michigan.

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