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MIDDLE SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY TEAM WRAPS UP SPIRITED SEASON

From Joseph YekulisFollowing their

successful “Virtual” St. Louis Center 60th An-niversary fundraising event on Thursday Oc-tober 22nd, the online

St. Louis Center Announces its “Virtual”

33rd Annual Fall Auction November 7th

fun continues with the 33rd Annual Fall Auc-tion on the evening of Saturday November 7, 2020 starting at 7:00 p.m. This event which is usually conducted during a formal din-ner at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital – Chelsea, will forgo the meal because of this year’s COVID19 pandemic, and it will be an online auction in-stead. There will be no

cost to participate, and plenty of items will be up for grabs to help St. Louis Center continue to support its 70 resi-dents with intellectual and developmental dis-abilities. It can be found on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/stlouiscenter/.

As usual, this fast paced exciting auction will feature Chelsea’s continued on page 3

Hunter Ferry (1) with the fumble recovery while everyone else searches for the ball! Photos By Pamela Kemp.

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From D&B Strategic Marketing

Local businesses will officially herald in the holiday season with the 15th Annual Wine, Women & Shopping. Residents and visitors will experience a safe and enjoyable event. A loyal following of hun-dreds of shoppers has been cultivated over the past 15 years. The shop-pers, many of whom are women, come to Chelsea’s historic city to shop, eat, listen to mu-sic, and see a play.

“We want to pro-vide a ‘2020 version’ of this fabulous event that is safe and festive,” said Jennifer Fairfield, Owner of The Garden Mill. “Small business owners are an integral part of the communi-ty offering unique and amazingly cool goods and services - and ev-ery one of us appreci-ates and relies on com-munity support.”

This year’s Wine, Women & Shopping begins November 14 and runs through No-vember 22. The event duration has been ex-panded to accommo-date capacity proto-cols, giving shoppers more opportunities to visit the various Wine, Women & Shopping

Chelsea's 15th Annual Wine, Women & Shopping

November 14 through November 22, 2020

Hours vary by businessparticipants. As No-vember 14 draws near, event details will be posted on Social Media and the www.shopchel-seamich.com website. Subscribe to the news-letter to get exclusive information about Wine, Women & Shop-ping, and other #shop-chelseamich events on the #shopchelseamich website. Shoppers can anticipate late-night shopping, private shop-ping, customer draw-ings, superb dining, and beverages to sus-tain your shopping ex-perience.

“We opened The Cottage Rabbit in June, so this will be our first experience with Wine, Women & Shopping! We are thrilled to be part of the #shopchel-seamich merchants and look forward to welcoming new and loyal customers to our store to celebrate this time-honored tradi-tion.” shared Mary Harding, Owner.Chelsea Comfort Inn will be offering a spe-cial room rate for vis-itors wishing to spend a carefree day and eve-ning in Chelsea. For more details, contact them https://www.c h o i c e h o t e l s . c o m /reservations/groups/

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#shopchelseamich is a group of indepen-dent business owners with entrepreneurial flavor and spirit. Their focus is on keeping the community active by providing reasons for people to shop in Chelsea with unique products and services. They sponsor Wine, Women & Shopping, Chocolate Extravagan-za, and Sidewalk Sales. For more information – www.shopchelseam-ich.com.

From Joseph YekulisTo support St.

Louis Center’s school age children during the pandemic, com-plementary grants were written to three different funders to support a children’s in-house education program. In Septem-ber, the Center was awarded two grants. The Jenkins Fami-ly Foundation con-tributed $10,017.50, which will provide 20 Chromebooks and children’s sen-sory toys to facilitate learning. The Com-munity Foundation for Southeast Mich-igan has granted us $65,000 to cover the cost of a paraprofes-sional and for net-working infrastruc-ture upgrades to continue to support the educational needs of the students here at SLC.

St. Louis Receives Grant Funds to

Support Children’s Education

The paraprofes-sional education spe-cialist will work with the children for the next 12 months, as the pandemic has limit-ed access to school and outside activi-ties. The paraprofes-sional will develop an education curric-ulum tailored to the needs of each child, including creating lesson plans, securing needed supplies and working with other staff and children di-rectly to implement their lessons. S/he will also coordinate with teachers and principals to ensure that the lessons corre-spond to school cur-riculum, and provide support so that direct care workers, social workers and supervi-sors can focus more directly on the emo-tional and daily care needs of the children. This will ensure that children are not losing ground educationally or cognitively during the pandemic by se-curing educational resources appropriate

for children with I/DD at various cogni-tive levels to remain engaged and not “lose ground,” while unable to attend school.

Additionally, this week St. Louis Center was also notified that it will be receiving a $200 grant award from the 5 Healthy Towns Foundation to purchase supplies that will help engage resident movement through its Evening Activities program during the week.

St. Louis Center is grateful to all of these funders for helping to ensure that the chil-dren don’t fall behind during the pandemic. For more information about St. Louis Cen-ter, please visit www.stlouiscenter.org, or call 734-475-8430. St. Louis Center is a residential care facil-ity for children and adults with intellectu-al and developmental disabilities currently celebrating its 60th Anniversary.

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Don't Forget to set clocks back on November 1, 2020

own Joseph Merkel from Merkel’s Auction Specialists, Inc., who has held several virtu-al auctions for other non-profits suffering through this years’ pandemic. Some of the more unique items for bid include:

A week for four at La Cappella, a pictur-esque villa in Calvari, Italy, located in the northern province of Liguria near the Med-iterranean, and valued at $5,000.

A “Thanksgiving Bounty” of vegetables from Tantre Farms, a turkey, duck and chick-en from Old Brick Farm, LLC, a pie from Grand Traverse Pie Co., and a Whimsical Cow painted by local artist

St. Louis Center Announces its “Virtual”

33rd Annual Fall Auction November 7th

Lindsey Dahl; all val-ued at $375.00.

A “Canadian Fish-ing Paradise” with 3 days/3 nights at Loch Island Lodge in Wa-batongushi, Ontario, post COVID, valued at $1600.00.

A one week stay at Villa del Palmar Beach Resort and Spa in Can-cun, Mexico valued at $5,000.

A pastel of the Chelsea Clock Tow-er & Welfare Building at Sunset by Sue Craig valued at $500.

These are just a few of the 16 major items that will be up for bid, along with a chance to bid on Star items called “Comforts of Home,” to provide bedding, lin-ens, furniture, micro-waves and entertain-

ment media needed in the new Cottage Homes to be opened soon in St. Louis Guanella Village.

To view the re-maining auction items up for bid, please vis-it the St. Louis Center Auction webpage at the following location, https://stlouiscenter.org/news-events/fund-raising-events/fall-auc-tion/.

For more infor-mation about St. Lou-is Center, please visit www.stlouiscenter.org, or call 734-475-8430. St. Louis Center is a residential care facility for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabili-ties celebrating its 60th Anniversary this year.

Clocktower at Sunset


Savings inChelsea

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By Kitty GoldingKitty & Company

will be conducting a se-ries of short interviews with Chelsea Residents for 52 weeks, bringing to light differing per-sonalities and design styles in our commu-nity. Perhaps you will meet someone new through these weekly interviews or perhaps it will be YOU! Stay tuned and follow us each week – we now introduce you

Photo Courtesy of Kitty Golding

to Mrs. Patti Musolf.What is your pro-

fession? I have been a secretary at the Chel-sea School District for 33 years. I was hired by Bill Wescott at North Elementary and worked there for 10 years then was moved to Beach Middle School where I am at now. I retired in 2012 and was hired right back as a part-time secretary still at Beach. It is the BEST re-tirement job ever!!!

Your family mem-bers: Mark is my hus-band. My daughters are Krista Johnston-Jar-vey and Kelly Johnston Napieralski - both are Chelsea graduates. I

also have six totally awesome grandchil-dren ranging in ages 19 to 3. I love being a grandmother. I feel it is a "do over" from raising my girls. All the things I did wrong in parent-ing I can do right with grandparenting.

People think of me as: having it all togeth-er, but really I don’t.

When did you move to Chelsea? My family moved to Chel-sea in1954 from De-troit. My grandfather and dad started Turner Electric Service out of the building in which Mike's Deli is located.

What do you love about where you cur-

rently live? I love our downtown area. I love that I can go weeks without leaving town because everything I need is right here in-cluding my job. In fact, the only reason I leave Chelsea is to visit my family in either Saline or Hartland.

If you could have a second home any-where, where would it

be? A family cottage on any of the Great Lakes

What three words describe your style? See - like – buy.

As you think about the home in which you grew up, what el-ements did you like and do you think you have incorporated some of them in your own home? I loved ev-ery home I grew up in but these homes were always painted in very "beigey" colors and lots of wallpaper which is

not my taste. My mom decorated with an eclec-tic style, but I like each room to be cohesive in furniture style.

Who most influ-enced your design styles? My style is nothing like my mom’s or my friends. I love calming colors and very comfy furniture. Right now my home décor reads blues and grays. Two years ago when we bought new furniture I walked into the store, found a loveseat that I adored and bought rest of the furniture to match around that. I guess you would call my loveseat the "statement" piece.

Have you fluctu-ated in your tastes through your vari-ous homes? I have not stayed true to one style. When we first moved into our home my col-ors were pale yellows and greens with rasp-


From Marijo Grogan (Marijo Grogan is

a clinical social worker with a private practice. She has been a resident of the Chelsea commu-nity for over 25 years.)

Friends were not surprised that election anxiety had overtaken pandemic panic on my rating scale. When I confessed this, the look on their faces (without masks over zoom) said it all. They, too, were frightened. I decided to conduct some research and googled “election anxiety.” My screen filled up with articles from major newspa-pers and on-line health research. Someone out there was recognizing our plight as a nation.

Many articles in-dicated this phenome-non was shared equal-ly across party-lines. Helpful suggestions were offered: limit your media consump-tion, avoid conversa-tions that can escalate into conflict (remem-ber family Thanksgiv-ing dinners), practice relaxing techniques such as walking in na-ture, pursuing a hobby, identifying moments of gratitude. Above all, and this was one of my favorites, “avoid cata-strophizing.”

It’s not that I didn’t appreciate these sug-gestions, I just didn’t

Anxious about the Election? Need Help?

think they went far enough. Continuing to scan multiple pag-es I happened to catch the date on many of these articles. There it was: October, 2016. I couldn’t believe it. This jaw dropping ev-idence mocked my ef-forts - evidence of deja vu, all over again. We had come a long way but apparently not far enough, or in the wrong direction. Two days lat-er I checked once more. Now, I found more current information including this statistic: A survey conducted by the American Psy-chological Association found that 56% of U.S. adults identify the 2020 presidential election as a significant stressor. That's up from the 52% who reported the same in the weeks preceding the 2016 election. An-other article raised this number to 60%.

While I took some comfort in knowing that I was not alone, this news was not re-assuring. In searching for ways to break out of this groundhog day, I came across the follow-ing tips from the APA (American Psychologi-cal Association).

• Channel your concerns to make a positive difference on issues you care about.

• Consider volun-

teering in your com-munity, advocating for an issue you support, or joining a local group.

• Know that in ad-dition to the presiden-tial election, state and local elections may provide more opportu-nities for civic involve-ment.

Finally, I was home. I could look to friends and neighbors for support during these challenging times. I started by checking out our local non-profit, One World One Fam-ily, which promotes a community that in-cludes and welcomes people from a variety of backgrounds: ethnic, cultural, economic and religious.

The Restorative Justice committee of OWOF responded to my request for more information. This com-mittee wants to in-troduce the people of Chelsea to restorative practices, which heal people involved in con-flict and restore har-mony. They created a list of helpful resources which I have listed be-low.

I am reassured by that once popular bumper sticker encour-aging us all to Practice Random Acts of Kind-ness. Connecting with caring people has less-ened my anxiety. Our

community is blessed with many good peo-ple and organizations. I feel confident that we can look toward them for support and lead-ership in the days and months ahead.

Mental Health• United Way 211

h t t p s : / / w w w. u n i t -e dway.org/our- im -p ac t / fe ature d-pro-g r a m s / 2 - 1 - 1 211 is a free, confiden-tial referral and infor-mation helpline and website that connects people of all ages and from all communities to the essential health and human services they need, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

• W a s h t e n a w County Commu-nity Mental Health https://www.washten-aw.org/839/Commu-nity-Mental-Health 24/7 phone services and mobile crisis services are avail-able to any Washten-aw County Resident TEL: 734-544-3050 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) for Washtenaw County https : / /namiwc.org TEL: 734-994-6611 EMAIL: [email protected]

Community Con-flicts

• Dispute Res-olution Center https://www.washt-e n a w . o r g / 1 1 3 9 /D i s p u t e - R e s o -l u t i o n - C e n t e r Anyone living, work-ing or attending school in Washtenaw County can ask the center to schedule mediation by

calling 734-794-2125.• M I - R e s o l v e

h t t p : / / w w w . m i -m e d i a t i o n . c o m / A New Way to Resolve Disputes Online spon-sored by the Michigan Supreme Court Ad-ministrative Office

• M i c h i g a n Courts - Office of Dispute Resolution https://courts.mich-i g a n . g ov / a d m i n i s -t rat ion/s c ao/of f i c -e s p r o g r a m s / o d r /p a g e s / c o m m u n i -t y - d i s p ut e - re s o lu -t i on - pro g r am . aspx In many jurisdictions throughout Michi-gan, courts are making citizens aware of the availability of commu-nity mediation as an alternative to litigating many types of disputes. TEL: Phone: (517) 373-4839

Election Protec-tion

• Election Protec-tion resource re: mi-litia activity prepared by Georgetown Law

h t t p s : / / w w w. l a w.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/s i t e s / 3 2 / 2 0 2 0 / 0 9 /M i c h i g a n . p d f ? TEL: 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) Assistance in also avail-able in:

• Spanish at 888-VE-Y-VOTA (888- 839-8682)

Arabic at 844- YAL-LA-US (844-915-5187)

• Asian languages at 888-API-VOTE (1-888-174-8683)

• A video call num-ber for American Sign Language is available at 301-818-VOTE (301-818-8683).

• Help for people with problems voting League of Wom-en Voters https://w w w . l w v m i . o r g / ACLU Election pro-tection hotline 8 6 6 - O U R - V O T E Interfaith Council on Peace & Justice Voting Access hotline 855-VOTE-311

From Colette CooperSydney decided

she had everything she wanted/ needed at the moment and decided to give back to a local dog “Foster” care orga-nization called Mikey & Me located in Chel-sea. All of Sydney’s friends were happy to provide “gifts” for the dog foster home, she researched what items they would ben-efit from or need and sent out a list with the birthday invite.

Last weekend Syd-ney delivered the dona-

Local Dexter teenager Sydney Collins decided to celebrate turning 13 a little differently during

this Pandemic/ COVID-19 year

Photos Courtesy of Colette Cooper

tion items to Mr Dan-iel Depew - Founder/ Manager of Mikey and Me, a dog foster home for dogs waiting to be adopted. During Syd-ney’s visit she loved meeting all the dogs and visiting the barn that houses all the fos-ter dogs. Inside, the barn has been rebuilt with sectioned 10 x 10 feet rooms for each dog, enough room for each dog to exercise, rest and enjoy interac-tion daily with the vol-unteers who walk and look after the dogs.

The barn contains 8 dog rooms along with a special dog indoor playground which is used during rainy days and snow days in win-ter.

Outside on the 10 acres of property, they have sectioned off a fun play area for the dogs to enjoy with the volunteers during the day.

Sydney, an 8th Grade student at Mill Creek Middle School in Dexter, enjoys studying STEM sub-jects, Art, and plays

flute in Mill Creek school band. After school Sydney loves swimming for the lo-cal swim team DCAC (Dexter Community Aquatic Club). Syd-ney is a Girl Scout, currently a 3rd year Cadette, and working on achieving her Girl Scout Silver Award. At present she is in con-tact with Daniel from Mikey and Me to work out needs and wants for his organization to help work on her final project to achieve her Silver Award.

Mikey and Me is named after Daniel DePew’s dog “Mikey” a corgi who died in 2009 at age 17, on that day Daniel promised he would care for other dogs who needed him because Mikey had brought so much joy and love to Daniel and his family.

Daniel joined a res-cue group but became disappointed in how many dogs they turned away due to the facil-ity not having a foster care area to help the transition from shel-

ter to adoption. Dan-iel noticed many of the dogs need to learn how to socialize and interact with humans and other animals be-fore being adopted out. Animal shelters do not have the time or money to provide this rehabilitation service to the dogs who arrive in their facility. Daniel decided to make such a facility and, envisioned a place where dogs can receive care, love and nurture in a safe en-vironment while they wait for their “forever homes.” The realiza-tion came into fruition in 2016 when Mikey & Me was established. Daniel, works with Happy Days Dog and Cat Rescue, and to date has found 138 dogs their forever home.

If you are inter-ested in donating to Mikey and Me - please contact Daniel De Pew via Mikey and Me Facebook page or email Daniel at [email protected].


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CHELSEA BULLDOGS SPORTS

SCHEDULES*Note: Dates and Times

May Change*

Girls Varsity Swimming & Diving

10/30/20 12:00pm (H) vs TBA SEC White Invitational at Chelsea

10/31/20 12:00pm (H) vs TBA SEC White Invitational at Chelsea

Girls Varsity Volleyball

10/31/20 9:00am (H) vs Multiple Opponents Varsity Quad

11/4/20 5:30pm (A) vs Marshall HSThe Beach Mid-

dle School field hock-ey team ended their 2020 fall season play-ing strongly in games against skilled oppo-nents Saline and Dexter, with both games ending in a 1-1 draw.

On October 13, the Bulldogs hosted the Sa-line Hornets at the mid-dle school field. Their most recent matchup at Chelsea’s Play4The-Cure event concluded with a 1-1 tie, and the Hornets had edged out the Bulldogs 2-1 at their first matchup earlier in the season. For eight graders Arianna Reg-inaldo, Braiden Schef-fler, Grace Kapolka, Kahlen Eckert, Kaitlin Kubicki, Lily Spiess, and Sabrina Wescott, this was their last game of their middle school career. The first half of the game saw the two evenly matched teams taking shots on both goals, with Reginaldo, Scheffler, and Azlyn Eckert working aggres-sively to move the ball into the shooting circle, and Kubicki and Cecilia Bayer helping the Bull-dogs to maintain pos-session of the ball in the midfield. K. Eckert, Ka-

MIDDLE SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY TEAM WRAPS UP SPIRITED SEASON

Photos By Brian Boospolka, Westcott, Mad-dy McCollum, Brenna Taylor and goalie Spiess all contributed to a strong defensive effort. The score remained 0-0 at the half. Saline pulled ahead with a goal in the third quarter during a corner play despite per-sistent efforts by goal-ie Emma Woodard. A re-energized Chelsea team tied up the game in the fourth quarter with a shot into the cor-ner of the goal by Lucy Taylor following an of-fensive corner.

Later that week, the Chelsea team traveled to Dexter’s twin turf field for the final game of the season. When the teams matched up earli-er in the season, Dexter prevailed 3-0. The Bull-dogs were determined to have a stronger show-ing, especially since this would be the last middle school game for eighth graders Ava-Reese Ha-gen, Abbie Nye, Teresa Smith, Keygan Mona-han, Slater Boos, Lind-sey Partyka, and Naomi Ratliff. During the first quarter, the Bulldogs’ defensive line was put to the test defending four penalty corners, successfully keeping the ball out of the goal. The

Dreadnaughts kept up the pressure during the second quarter, break-ing through to score one goal. During the first half, skilled stick-work in the midfield by B. Taylor, Partyka, A. Eckert, and Boos helped the team transi-tion the ball down the field, and Smith as cen-ter forward attempted to convert a breakaway opportunity to a goal. In the third quarter, Ha-gen’s strategic pass to Smith created another breakaway opportunity culminating with Smith lifting the ball past the Dexter goalie and into the net, tying the score 1-1. Efforts in the mid-field and offensive lines by McCollum, Brin-na Wenzel, Boos, and Monahan also opened the field of play for the team. Despite the con-stant pressure on Chel-sea’s entire defensive line throughout the game, and especially in the fourth quarter defending against five penalty quarters, the determined Bulldogs allowed only one goal the entire game thanks in large part to the ef-fective combination of Ratliff, who had a tre-mendous game as goal-

ie, paired with Hagen as sweeper; big hits and proficient stickwork by L. Taylor, Monahan, and Nye also proved to be key components of Chelsea’s success in the defensive end. Hagan, who had missed sever-al games because of an injury, played a crucial role in the successful outcome of the game for the Bulldogs against a skilled and fast Dexter team.

At the final practice, the team celebrated the season with revealing the identities of their Se-cret Sisters, competing in Field Hockey Olym-pics, and giving out Pa-per Plate Awards creat-ed by the squad captains Smith, K. Eckert, and A. Eckert. The Paper Plate Awards acknowledge the individual contri-bution of each player to the team’s success and enjoyment during the season. Although play-ing a team sport during the current pandemic presented unique chal-lenges, Coaches Brian Boos and Angela Men-egay will remember the season more for the op-portunities for camara-derie, growth, and resil-ience provided by being part of the field hockey team. Field hockey is a sport that players can join as seventh and eighth graders without prior experience, so the coaches look forward to seeing both returning and new players next year!

CHELSEA BULLDOGS

BOYS SOCCER

Chelsea beat Pinckney 5-0 in the district quarterfinals last Thursday. Goals from: Jacob Schultz (2), Will Barhite (2), Jordan Fansler (1) / As-

CHELSEA WINS

sists for: Jacob Schultz (2), Will Barhite (1), Ryan Martin (1), and Adam Bahri (1).

They played Te-cumseh Tuesday night in the district semifi-nal in Chelsea at 4 pm.

BULLDOGS FINISH PERFECT: 6-0


In a year where nothing has remained the same that adage doesn’t hold true for the Chelsea Bulldogs foot-ball.

Chelsea won on the road against a much larger school in Monroe High.

The Bulldogs dropped the Trojans 26-

Coach Lucas talks to the team after the game.

Trent Hill (20) throws his defender off him to score the touchdown.

17. They finish the regu-lar season a perfect 6-0.

Trent Hill scored on a 50-yard kickoff return. Dylan Dollinger kicked the extra point.

Hill also ran in a touchdown from one yard out and Dollinger made the extra point. He also ran in a touch-down from 55 yards out.

Quarterback Griff-en Murphy threw an 82 yard pass for a touch-

down to Joe Taylor.In passing, Murphy

was 6-for-11 for 137 yards. The team rushed for 114 yards. Hill had 13 carries for 102 yards.

Chelsea Coach Josh Lucas is looking at the future one game at a time. “We went to Monroe and played a good Monroe team,” Lucas said. “It was good for us to be challenged and have some scenar-ios come up during the game that we have not been in this year yet.”

This week is a play-

off week. The team has a history of going deep into the playoffs and has done extremely well un-der Lucas and his staff.

“We play Redford Thurston,” he said. “We are the number 1 seed in D3 and will host as long as we win. Being in the playoffs everyone will bring their best and we need to ready for ev-eryone's best shot.”

The game against Redford Thurston is at home tonight at 7 pm. Chelsea will be fired up and ready to go.

By Dave Merchant [email protected]


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CHELSEA BULLDOGS BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

2020 SEC WHITE CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS@ HUDSON MILLS NORTH COURSE

35 DEGREES CRISP CALMCoach Swager's

Comments:This was a

high-powered, intense race. The SEC teams showed up for battle today. Pinckney won as expected, but Dexter put a scare into them with the Dread's best effort of the season. We were solid, but gave up a few spots in the last 1 km to remove our chances of winning.

It is always our goal to learn something from each race. We will work on finishing that last portion with more gusto. The next couple weeks we face Adrian again, and I am excited to go head to head at the Regional level.

Individually, Con-nor had his best race of the season.

He took the top Pinckney guys best shots, and came up just short. Our other 3 all SEC runners (Erik, Bram, and Jimmy) need to be congratu-lated. This is a tough league so it is truly an

Team Scores1. Pinckney 472. Dexter 573. Chelsea 644. Adrian 765. Jackson 1326. Lincoln 1327. Tecumseh 214Individual Overall Places Times

Varsity Results3. Connell Alford 16088. Erik Reiber 163915. Bram Hartsuff 170218. Jimmy Alford 171320. Jonas Norwood 171721. Zebedee Swager 171823. Caden Faupel 1737

(47 Runners in race)Bold = All SEC

JV Race2. Nick Spruce 17523. Jackie Dell 17578. Misha McElrath 183817. Ethan Kapolka 193119. Colby Pfeiffer 202921. Grayson Eckland 210523. Colin Kovich 211424. Evan Muchler 211625. John Putnam 212435. John Muckle 2500

honor. Several JV run-ners also, had good ef-forts!

Thanks to the par-ents for the food after-

wards, and to the fans who came out on a beautiful morning!

CHELSEA BULLDOGS GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

PRE-REGIONAL 35-2 @ ADRIAN AT HERITAGE PARK, ADRIAN5000 METERS, OCTOBER 24, 2020PARTLY SUNNY, COLD, WET SLOW

COURSE, 41 DEGREESCoaches Com-

ments (Pat Clarke): “It was cold and damp today! The course was hilly! These two fac-tors made for very slow times. Despite the trying conditions the girls performed very well and contin-ue their improvement. Anytime that you win is always good, but the girls were great today. We ran without one of our senior captains (Riley Thorburn) and the rest of the girls ran as a Team to pull out the victory. Riley should return for Re-gionals.

Tecumseh is the defending Regional Champions with ev-eryone back from last year. Divine Child is the Catholic league

Champions. Gabri-el Richard has de-feated Divine Child twice this season. This meet had the top four teams from the region in it. We have come a long way from last year when we did not make the top three in the region.

We have a lot of improving to do, but the girls will work at it. I am confident in their ability to improve. We still have the Regional ahead and hopefully the STATE MEET the week after. I am very proud of this team and I hope they will continue to improve.”

“Freshman Tril-ian Krug led the way with a third place performance and Senior Captain Na-

talie Davies placed sixth. Junior Rachel Bullock ran a great race to place seventh. Freshman Seren An-gus ran a tough race coming off an injury to place 14th. Soph-omore Audra Guthre ran a strong race to finish out the scoring in 15th place. Junior Kate Gaiser ran one of her best races of the season to place 17th and help the cause, ” said Coach Pat Clarke.

“We will to con-tinue to improve, and get our team prepared for the important Re-gional race. This team will continue to get a lot better as the season progresses!”, Clarke concluded.

If you are not one of approximately 1,800 absentee voters in Lima Township, then you will be standing in line (winter coats advised) with as many as 1,500 others on November 3rd to vote in-person. I am the Clerk, along with my Election Inspectors, who will get you through the line and voting as quickly and smoothly as possible. As voters, you may assist the process by being kind, patient, and following the rules.

The two-sided ballot has almost 30 choices to make, but the good news is most of you have already done your research and know who you will be picking. I want to assist you on election day by suggesting using the Straight or Split-Ticket method to vote your ballot. Straight

Letter to the EditorCOME OUT TO VOTE IN LIMA TWP.

Ticket is voting for the party of your choice and nothing further need be done in the partisan section. The Split Ticket is voting Straight Party Ticket of whichever major political party you choose and cherry-picking any other candidates or write-in candidates from another party (do not forget to fill in the squares). That’s as easy as it gets, and it completes most of the front portion of the ballot, and you get to move on to the nonpartisan section of the Ticket much quicker and finish your voting much sooner. Once you finish, this allows the next person to vote sooner, and hopefully, they will also use Straight or Split-Ticket to vote and move through

quicker. None of this is new information, just restated so that if used, it will make election day better for everyone.

Lima Township has only one local important race to decide on with this ballot. That of the Township Trustees. There are not a lot of qualifications a person must have to run for a township board. A person must be a township elector or, in other words – qualified to vote, but property ownership is not required. An elector is defined as someone 18 years of age who is a U.S. citizen and has lived at least 30 days in the Township for which they will serve.

That being said, both of my adult kids are registered voters and have voted in most elections since they were 18 years old.

Because they should. They were born and raised in Lima. My daughter drives a Chelsea School Bus, and my son works for the Milling Company, so their community roots run pretty deep. All this sounds so much like Dale Luick’s story. Both my kids may even think they could be Trustees – just like Dale. But I still wouldn’t vote for either of them, like I won’t vote for Dale. First – they were just lucky to be born and raised in Lima Township, and second I am already on the Board, and that is enough of one family. The Township is a five-member Board. If two are from the same, immediate family, is that a good representation for the approximately 4,000 people of the Township?

The voters of

Lima are fortunate to have two excellent candidates running for the Trustees’ positions. Greg McKenzie (R) wants to resolve the Township’s facility deficiencies. David Hensel (I) brings his long-range planning and financial experience. What does Dale Luick bring to the table? - Another

family member. Thank goodness it is almost Thanksgiving.

Lima voters, come out on Election day and make your voice heard. Maybe Lima Township will be the highest percentage of voter turnout in Washtenaw County.

Elaine Bater


Chelsea Police Department

Weekly Summary

Incident #: 20-2318 Location: 1100 block of S. Main Street

Date: October 24, 2020 Time: 11:00 am

INFORMATION: While on routine pa-trol an officer was dis-patched to the 1100 block of S. Main Street for the report of a lar-ceny from auto com-plaint. Upon arrival the officer met with the complainant who stated that his vehi-cle had been parked in the parking lot and

sometime between Oc-tober 19th – 24th an unknown suspect(s) had cut the catalytic converter off of the ve-hicle. The complainant stated that when he started the vehicle up, he immediately noticed that the vehicle did not sound right. Upon fur-ther inspection a recip-rocating saw blade was

found laying under the vehicle. Inspection un-der the vehicle deter-mined that a clean cut had removed the cat-alytic converter from the vehicle and this had been an intentional act. Case closed pending further information that may lead to poten-tial suspect(s).

➢ continued from page 4berry accents. Two years ago I bought new furniture for my living room and family room and completely changed the style and colors.

What are you most inspired by in your de-sign/decor? If I love it and I can envision it as a compliment to the room that is how I am inspired

What is one trend in design you do NOT like? I haven't seen one I absolutely don't like. Design trends are like people - all different but each unique and some-thing to like.

Have you ever built a new home or remod-eled an existing one? Yes. We bought a con-do that was in the pro-cess of being built so I picked out all kitchen and bath fixtures. Also, we have built our cur-rent home.

Have you ever sought professional help with the interior design of your home? No. My daughters and I do ask each other's opinions, though, when purchasing new items. My daughters usual-ly take me along with them when they furnish a new home.

What is the one biggest interior de-sign issue you strug-gle with? I would love to have white kitchen

cabinets. They are a light oak color. I have 30 kitchen cabinets and could not afford to have them painted. I still love my kitchen, though.

Which room in your home gets the most use? Our den. Our TV is in that room and it is a huge room. When the family comes over we all fit in there. We fit 18 in this room on Christmas Eve with plenty of room to spare.

No room is com-plete without: Acces-sories.

I tend to be more of a collector of things, than a minimalist.

What did you do to pass the time during the COVID-19 State shutdown? During the shutdown, I ran er-rands for friends, took meals to friends that were sick, I tried many new recipes, caught up on my reading, and hung out with my fam-ily. My daughter has an in-ground pool so the family was there a lot.

If you were moving and could only pick one item from your home to keep, which would it be and why? My bed-room furniture. I love the wrought iron bed, the style and color of the furniture.

A few of your fa-vorite things!

Movie - The Nativ-ity Story.

Historical Place You Have Visited- Washington D.C.

Season- How can I pick? I love them all! From the spring-flow-ers and green grasses, to the warmer summer weather fit for swim-ming. The fall brings beautiful foliage and Thanksgiving. Win-ter has the first snow, cozy fires, and Christ-mas along with holiday lights on homes.

Scent – Cinnamon.Song, Artist or

style of Music- I love Christian worship songs. Steve Green is one of my favorites.

Meal- Lobster tail, baked potato and a sal-ad.

Bucket List Travel Destination- I already go to my favorite places: B & B in Harbor Springs and condo on Ormond Beach in Florida.

Things to Collect- Good Books

Museum- The Cre-ation Museum in Ken-tucky

Item on a book-shelf- Knowing God by J.I. Packard

Color- If it is a calming color, I like it.

Hobbies- Hanging out with my family.

Tree - Flaming Red Maple

Kitty’s Notes: Pat-ti was such a friendly welcoming face to me and our kids at Beach Middle school during the years we were there. She is one of the most positive people you will ever interact with if you have the good fortune to meet her one day. Even though Patti has been a long time Chel-sea Resident, you may have learned something new about her in this interview! I love the, “see-like-buy” answer! It’s classic.

Rick Eder, LUTCF1250 S. Main St., Chelsea

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