Loved his birthday party

May 23, 2023

To the Journal editor: A big thank you to Mary L’Huiller, Katherine Russel and Jan Sabin for planning and organizing my 90th birthday celebration party. Thanks Carolyn McDonald for alerting staff that I was soon to be 90! Thank you to all the Parkview staff for attending and making the evening tribute a big success. Parkview Elementary staff shared my guidance as elementary principal of Parkview school for 26 years. For many years, I enjoyed working with teachers who were tuned in to the children! All activities were open to parents as they gave individual help to ...

Needs help now

May 8, 2023

To the Journal editor: I’m 75 years old with a heart condition and I have COPD bad. I am on oxygen. Last June, the state took out my culvert so I made a bridge to go across, scary as hell but since the thaw, I can’t get out so we threw a ramp across to M-28 so I could get out. They said my driveway, 31 years old, was the cause of the road to give way. Everybody knows it wasn’t. I wish I had someone’s cell number to send a picture.

Where’s GOP proposal?

May 6, 2023

To the Journal editor: As a business man, Donald Trump declared bankruptcy six times. As president, it took him only four years to create 25% of the total debt incurred by the United States during 250 years. Trump’s debt arose from the largest tax cut in history for the wealthiest 1%. Only Lincoln, who financed a civil war, and George W. Bush, who paid for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, had larger debts relative to the size of the U.S. economy. Republicans and Democrats raised the nation’s debt ceiling three times during the Trump administration. The national debt is money ...

Find God’s way

May 3, 2023

To the Journal editor: Have you ever heart the saying “let there be light”? God said that in the beginning of creation. Just think we all know about darkness with the time change. It’s light for an hour longer in the evening. Just think of light for only a few hours that would be better than total darkness. Life would not continue. No sun to have the crops grow for food and not being able to even see anything. That’s only a start. So with that be thankful for God saying “let there be light” and what a gift. And then with Easter happening last month, it was time to ...

Celebrate libraries

May 2, 2023

To the Journal editor: It has been wonderful seeing all the positive coverage of public libraries in The Mining Journal during National Library Week. Every library in the Upper Peninsula is a precious gemstone on a necklace; strung together through common goals and shared resources, they make our communities shine. From the tiny Richmond Township Library in Palmer to the largest in the region, the Peter White Public Library in Marquette, we have a lot to be proud of and thankful for. We must remember to support these fine fixtures of our communities every day, not just during the ...

Representation needed at Sawyer

May 1, 2023

To the Journal editor: It has been 28 years since K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base closed its doors. Still, K.I. Sawyer is an unincorporated town with a population of 4,000. An unincorporated town has no governance therefore has no say in the township or county it is in. K.I. Sawyer needs to incorporate with charter from the state in order to govern itself and control of revenue generated by taxes paid by the homeowner. You are part of the surrounding townships and Forsythe township is your governing body. You are paying property taxes without representation. Your taxes are being used ...