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Staff serves up fun on McDonald’s McTeacher night

Photo courtesy of Rawsonville Tech Specs Mary Ellen Vago and Deb Mounsey

Last month, Rawsonville held its first ever McTeacher Night fundraiser at the McDonald’s on Rawsonville Road. Parents and stu-dents were invited to help the staff in an effort to raise money and fund educational programs at the school. Families had theopportunity to eat food, play in the play area, make crafts, sample some free chillers and socialize with each other. “Everyone hada great time,” said John Harding, a fourth grade teacher at Rawsonville. “My wife and two boys also came out for this memorableevent and loved getting a chance to have some fun with Grimace and the other families.” Harding and several students posedwith Grimace, a McDonaldland character, during the evening.

Storm warning systems in place for public safetyBy Jerry LaVauteHeritage Media

BELLEVILLE — Tom Fielder, former city

mayor, said at last week’s council meetinghe had just learned about the tornadoes inOklahoma on the news.

He discussed Belleville’s emergency warningsystem to remind residents who might need itsomeday.

Police Chief Gene Taylor said the city’s warn-ing siren, located near City Hall, sounds a blastfor three minutes if severe weather is approach-ing, and sounds a one-minute blast when all isclear.

Councilwoman Kim Tindall, a nearby cityresident, said she was grateful for the siren,a longtime fixture in Belleville, but said shesometimes cannot hear the warning if she’s inan enclosed house with, for example, the dish-washer running.

In a phone interview a few days ago, Tayloracknowledged that the system is helpful but notalways adequate. He recommended a belt-and-

suspenders approach to protecting oneself inthe event of severe weather, including a weatherradio, the local news media on television andthe radio and emergency warnings sent tomobile phones and personal computers viaNixle.com.

Sumpter police Lt. Eric Luke said the town-ship has eight severe weather sirens spread

throughout the community, and that formerDeputy Supervisor Craig Moody had done astudy to optimize the placement of the warningsirens.

With respect to population density, SumpterTownship is different from Belleville. Sumpter’s9,500 residents are spread widely across about 37square miles, whereas Belleville’s population of 4,000 is packed into a little more than one squaremile.

“I believe they do a pretty good job,” Lukesaid of the township sirens.

At a May 28 meeting, the township’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved Luke’s recom-mendation to adopt one five-minute siren blastin the event of a severe weather warning oranother type of emergency. He added that thesiren blast might be repeated to ensure resi-dents are alerted to the situation.

Dan Besson, Van Buren Township’s firechief, said the township has considered severalsevere weather warning systems over the years.Its 29,000 residents are spread over an area of 36 square miles. There are no severe weather

warning sirens in Van Buren Township.Besson outlined a mobile phone-based system

and a weather warning siren system as a per-sonal choice, because of its redundancy.

He added that, since he’s been the fire chief,he’s listened to presentations about sirensystems and has worked with Wayne Countyon its Hazardous Mitigation Plan Advisory

Committee, whose report on June 3 will addressweather concerns.

To subscribe to Nixle.com, which will sendsevere weather warnings to a mobile phone

at no cost, go to the website and register as anew user. Users can select the communitiesfor which they choose coverage, includingBelleville, Sumpter Township and Van BurenTownship.

Jerry LaVaute is a special writer for HeritageMedia.

Deputy supervisor’slast day was yesterdayBy Jerry LaVauteHeritage Media

SUMPTER TWP. — Longtime DeputySupervisor Craig Moody’s last day at his jobwas yesterday.

Moody had said he was out in a Facebookpost on May 28, but said he wasn’t told why.

At the Sumpter Township Board of Trustees meeting on the evening of May 28,Supervisor Johnny Vawters would say onlythat he wished to take the supervisor’s officein a new direction.

Vawters said he had adequate staff to con-duct township business after Moody’s depar-ture, and had no plans to hire a replacement.

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