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Local/regional briefing

U.P. Honor Flight fundraiser slated

MARQUETTE — Jerry Irby is planning a fundraiser to support Upper Peninsula Honor Flight and is looking for people who can help with the effort.

Irby wants to hear from past participants in the flight and their families, but he also would like to hear from anyone willing to help with the event or willing to make a donation to support it.

The fundraiser will be a spaghetti dinner on Saturday, May 16 at the Marquette Elks. More details will be announced later.

All proceeds will go to UPHF, which twice a year brings U.P. veterans to Washington D.C. to visit memorials in their honor and other landmarks. The veterans make the trip at no cost to them.

Anyone willing to help is asked to contact Irby by email at jerrymqt@gmail.com or by phone at 906-228-4537.

Water bill due date moved back

MARQUETTE — The city of Marquette is announcing that customers with a water bill due this Monday will have their bill’s due date moved to Tuesday instead, as this Monday is a bank holiday. Residents on autopay will have their payment automatically withdrawn on Tuesday instead of Monday, officials said.

Recreation passport fees to rise

LANSING — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced that the regular Recreation Passport vehicle entry fee for residents will increase from $11 to $12. the first Recreation Passport price increase since January 2013. All other resident Passport fees stay the same, including those for motorcycles, mopeds and commercial vehicles.

The change is due to a statutory provision to adjust the Recreation Passport fee based upon the Consumer Price Index as determined by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. That statutory requirement was put into law when the Recreation Passport funding model was created in 2010 to ensure the funding source keeps pace with inflation.

Reward offered for poaching info

LANSING — The Safari Club International-Michigan Involvement Committee is concerned by numerous recent reports of elk being poached in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula.

As a result, the committee is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone providing information leading to the arrest and conviction of an individual or individuals illegally killing elk in Michigan. In the past, the organization has offered a similar $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone illegally killing moose in Michigan, and this offer stands to date.

In mid-December, area residents found three adult elk cows poached in Otsego County. The incident marked the third such case in northern Michigan in roughly a month. In mid-November, one bull elk was killed in Montmorency County and another, during the same week, was poached in the Pigeon River Country in Otsego County.

To report information on the illegal killing of elk or moose in Michigan, call or text the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ Report All Poaching hotline at 800-292-7800.

For more information about the conservation work of SCI-MIC visit http://scimic.org/index.html.

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