Tornado cleanup continues. Some businesses slowly reopening, others will need rebuilds. Culvers is back in operation and donated 50% of their proceeds from meals served on Wednesday to the Community Foundations Tornado Relief fund. That has been growing by leaps and bounds. Goal is 1 million and I know they will reach it. Match challenges for anywhere from $1500 to as much as $30,000 are being announced every day it seems and being matched in a matter of hours. Even communities from around northern Michigan are sending in monies from fund raising. Neighbors helping neighbors doesn’t just mean the ones living next to you up here. Driving through the devastated neighborhoods shows signs in many yards of contractors hired to start repairs or reconstruction, dumpsters are sitting here and there for debris. Behind the scenes services are in motion as well.
Gaylord also responded to an interesting situation earlier this week. There is a lady who operates an ice cream truck in the city and county here during the summer. Remember the ice cream trucks that used to come down the streets when many of us were young and we had to go get a treat. She comes from Traverse City and moves around in town and also to events like kids birthday parties. She’s very popular. All last summer she operated in the city limits with no issues and last week she was told to cease and desist until she got a transient permit. Permit costs $200. She didn’t know if her father who funds this venture would pay for it or not as They are in Traverse City and she does make more money over there. More population, but loves the people of Gaylord. Well, one lady said she was going to start collecting pop cans to raise the money, was looking for donated pop cans if anybody had any. Well, that idea snowballed and within a day, she had the permit. Gaylord loves the ice cream truck, gotta make those memories.
No voting here till August. Just a Republican primary to determine who will run against current Governor who’s running for reelection. There were 10 potential candidates. But whrn time came to turn in the petitions to appear on the ballot, 5 of them including one who has been putting in appearances and political ads, were found to have fraudulent signatures on their petitions and disqualified. Two of them fought it to the State Supreme Court and lost.
Interesting about the birds in CA. Perhaps the best, fires and droughts may have them moving to more suitable habitat? Here in MI, bird feeding is being discouraged due to the Avian flu. It’s very contagious and is killing birds. It can spread from wild birds to water fowl and domestic birds such as chickens as well. So the less congregating the better.
Judy, hope the weather changes for you. Beth, glad you have some office help. Have you noticed a drop in guests with the high gas prices? Gas finally topped $5 a gallon up here. People seem to be holding to their summer vacation plans though. You find ways to adjust if you want to do something bad enough. Shirl, love your purple cane idea
How’s the gardening goi g?Need to get in the shower and get this day moving. Am back working on woodcrafts, so will be doing some pattern cutting later. But first need to run to the store and also pick up a bit more pallet wood. Makes free wood for craft projects. Have a nice dsy all.
