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JULY 4TH is our Nation’s most epic recognition and celebration holiday in our country and in our history. Our second president, John Adams wrote this to his wife Abigail on July 2nd “1776; “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch, (historical era), in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be com-memorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illumi-nations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.” Ad-ams was off by two days and there was contro-versy when exactly which day it officially was signed into effect.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day). The Declaration of Inde-pendence shows the date of July 4th after Con-gress approved and revised the wording. Hence July 4th the day we American’s celebrate our county’s Independence from the legal separation

of the original 13 colonies from Great Britain. The resolution of independence was proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. He was an American Statesman and also served a one-year term as President of the Congress of the Confederation & was a United States Senator from 1789 to 1792. I wonder what he and the others of that era would think about today’s cele-brations.

What does the 4th of July mean to you? My immediate thoughts are the colors, red, white and blue and the Fireworks. You can purchase fireworks on just about every corner now. When I was raising my kids the 4th of July was my son’s favorite holiday. I would drive him down to the Ohio border and let him pick out his favorite fireworks. His dad’s family always went up to Bay City for their fireworks display and that has been his tradition. Most of us have a tradition, going up north, out on the lakes and getting to-gether with family and friends, potato salad, hamburgers and hot dogs.

With all the chaos and craziness going on all over this country we still are 1 nation under God!

Most of our forefathers, grandfathers, grand-mothers and some of our parents came from other countries. We must all obey the rules, think before we speak, build people up and help one another when we can. America is a free country still, right?

Be thankful we live in the best country in the world! Respect yourself and others, keep your word and own your mistakes. We all make them!

I hope everyone has a safe and fun packed day full of good things. Just think, not too long ago we were all complaining about how cold it was and would it ever warm up. It is showing to be about 90 degrees on the 4th. I am one of those who cannot take this extreme heat. I think it would be better if it was snowing, just saying.

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Livingston County Habitat for Humanity is part of a global,

nonprofit housing organization operated on Christian princi-

ples that seeks to put God’s love into action by building

homes, communities and hope. Livingston County Habitat

for Humanity is dedicated to eliminating substandard hous-

ing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating

and preserving homes; by advocating for fair and just hous-

ing policies; and by providing training and access to re-

sources to help families improve their shelter conditions.

Habitat for Humanity was founded on the conviction that

every man, woman and child should have a simple, durable

place to live in dignity and safety, and that decent shelter in

decent communities should be a matter of conscience and

action for all.


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John was born on a Saturday in Ann Arbor to John & Elizabeth Colone. He entered this earth on October 13

th, 1945. He and his 3

brothers grew up in Pinckney and at 73 he is a survivor and great example of Veteran Hero. John was the oldest sibling and recalls how everybody knew eve-ryone and how everyone knew everyone else’s business. That is how it is in a small town! We who live in them know this. John’s dad worked in tool & dye in Pinckney until Detroit Dye Set closed around 1959-1960. His dad then went to work for the same company in Detroit. Dad’s pay check was $73.00 a week and John said they didn’t know they were poor growing up. His mother Elizabeth worked in town as the local phone operator on Main Street. Her boys would sleep in the back room if she was assigned the night shift. Made her feel safer to have them with her. Elizabeth went from there to being a proof reader at Edwards Brothers, a book binding company in Ann Arbor. She worked many jobs, Editor of the Pinckney Dispatcher and was the first woman mayor of the town. Back in those days parents worked their butts off and the kids got jobs while they were kids. John started working at his grandpa’s farm on Cedar Lake Road north of M-36. John learned young that to get somewhere in life you had to work. He placed an ad in the local paper to work odd jobs. He got a call to put up a clothes line for a local lady in town. He was paid $3.00 bucks for that job and in those days to an 11 year old kid that was good money. Holy clothes pin, do people still hang their clothes out? The local newspaper hired him to fold the papers for a couple hours a day. He got a whopping 75cents. They promoted him to melting all the lead needed to print the paper. Time for a new job at the local Gulf Gas Station pumping gas and changing oil and then onto to Jerry’s Drug store washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen. John told me he wasn’t the best student but voted the best looking

in school. His mom wanted him to be the voted the best dressed. She made sure he had his clean ironed white shirts to wear. John could always find another job and was racking up quite a resume. Imagine, eve-ryone knew one an-other and if John was not a good worker it would have been spread around town by all. Young Johnny worked at Half Moon and Sil-ver Lake beaches in the summer behind t h e c o n c e s s i o n stands. Johnny was quite the entrepreneur back then as well. He would go into Steffin’s Store, (now the Scream’s building he owns in Hell,) and would purchase Boones Farm Wine at 79 cents a bottle. He took the Boones Farm back to the concession stands and made wine snow cones to sell to other under age kids for 50 cents a cone. His lake employment is where he met his future wife Anne. They dated for around 4 years off and on before John went into the U.S. Army, 101

st Air Borne.

Before he was drafted he was enrolled in a printer ship appren-ticeship at General Motor’s and at same time was attending

John Colone is Vietnam Veteran War Hero who lives among us in Pinckney. He is a father, grandfather, commu-

nity supporter, business owner, and great friend too many. He spends most of his days in Hell, (Mi.) at Screams

booking weddings, renting out canoes and kayaks and selling SOUVENIRS FROM HELL.


St. Joseph Mercy Brighton Cancer Center unveiled its new Varian True Beam Linear Accel-erator on June 26 during an open house and celebration in honor of National Cancer Survivors Month. The machine, a fully-integrated system that offers image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery, treats cancer anywhere in the body where radiation treatment is indicated, in-cluding the lung, breast, prostate, head and neck. (Left to right) Jane Strudgeon, manager, Radiation Oncology, Saint Joseph Mercy Health System (SJMHS); Beth LaVasseur, executive director, Oncology, SJMHS; Derek Yaldo, chief medical physicist, SJMHS; Dr. George T. Hen-ning, III, Radiation Oncology, SJMHS; John O'Malley, president, St. Joseph Mercy Livingston and Brighton; Dr. Kimberly Morley, Medical Oncology, SJMHS; and Bridgett Young, manager, outpatient nursing, Radiation Oncology, SJMHS.


The Hartland Area Chamber of Commerce was in full swing in for the 2nd Annual

Hartland Polo Classic. This event is unique to Southeastern Michigan and a spectacular venue. Bring-

ing the thundering excitement of live polo. Katie Chuba said Thank you to the Detroit Polo Club and our

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Cleary College full time. The college staff called him into the office about his “C” point grade’s and told him he needed to bring his average up. Johnny dropped his pants; mooned them and walked out. Talk about coming full circle, in 2002 John gave the Com-mencement Address to the graduation class at Cleary College and at that time they also presented John with an Honoree Doctorate! He felt over the moon gratitude for the honor. In his speech he told the class that one of his steps to success was to get a dog. It will be your only friend you may have sometimes! John went to Knoxville Tennessee to boot camp and became Pri-vate First Class John Colone. Next he attended leadership school in Fort Gordon, Georgia and graduated head of his class. Volun-teering for jump school he headed to Viet Nam in September of 1967. It took 28 days to get there on a Troop Ship, the U.S.S. Wig-gins. He had been promoted to Sergeant before he reached the Viet Nam shores His whole battalion trained for 7months before they got to Nam and John became the squad leader in a 6 man team. John and his team were eager to get going but none of them really knew what the war was all about. They were all ready to fight for their country. These men were 20, 21 at that time. Imagine how scary this must have been? Six months into the war they were in the jungle and crossed a river out on patrol. The Viet Cong started firing at them on the ground plus air strikes from above. He witnessed four of his guys going down and did try to help them. He also pretended to be dead and at this point he was shot in his upper thigh. Within a few minutes later returning fire, and he was shot again in the right arm. One of his squad members, Don Marshall ran to him and tied a tourniquet on his arm. His comrade Don died but before he passed asked John to tell his mom he loved her. Thirty Two years later John found her in Hawaii and relayed his fallen veteran’s friends request. Not long after that second hit John was shot again in his helmet which took out a chunk of his ear. His vein was flopping around and he was holding it. He ended up in a helicopter into a makeshift hospital. They put a toe tag on him, pronounced him dead and then sent to the morgue. The Army even contacted John’s parents to inform them their son

had been killed in combat. Obviously he was not a casualty and woke up in the morgue. Then taken to another hospital where they operated on him. Back then they were using short wave radios and they let John call home to talk with his parents and tell them he was alive. Praise the lord for that call! It took our wounded soldier a month to get out of Viet Nam and he was sent to Fitzsimmons Army hospital in Denver, Colorado for a 22 month rehabilitation stay. Three weeks into his stay he received a 3 day pass and was only allowed to travel a 50 mile radius from his hospital. Well just like in Johnny boy fashion behavior he jumped a plane to Detroit and got married to Anne. He swept her off her feet to Den-ver and their first child Laura was born. While still rehabbing they had their second child, a sister, 18 months later, Michele was born. With a lot of down time on his hands during rehabilitation John started a program while in hospital to put veterans to work and learning a trade. Of course they could not be paid for the work because they were in there for rehab and being paid by the Army. John was able to go around to businesses and ask if they would be willing to let some of the veterans work for them to learn a trade for no pay. Those decisions lead John to get into the car business. He started working at a local dealership. They instructed him one day to go pick up this woman from a close by hotel because she wanted to buy herself a new car. Once he got there to pick her up he recog-nized her right away of being Jane Fonda. He told her he was a wounded veteran, they hugged and he drove her to the dealership. She was looking for a station wagon so her protesters against the war could travel around with her. The dealership could not finance her so she pulled out her American Express card. That was the first American Express card John ever saw. Of course Jane Fonda had to fill out a credit application to apply for the loan. John took the application since he knew she had paid for the car by credit card and showed it to me for this story. If you would like to learn more of John Colone’s story stop in at Screams one day, sit down with John and have an ice cream. He has many stories to tell and I would like to thank John Colone for his service and continued support within our community. I think naughty Johnny still appears from time to time and we who know him love them both! A side note: John still has 17 pieces of shrap-nel they could not remove in his body. When he walks through the scanners at the airport he carries a letter from the V.A. explaining so he can board the plane.

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