Last evening over 100 of Rogers City's business and community leaders gathered at the Rogers City Area Senior and Community Center to celebrate our business community. Chamber of Commerce President Bill Depsey, introduced Ray Spain, the new Executive Director for the Chamber of Commerce. Ray brings many strengths to this challenging position. I've already seen Ray show positive leadership and energy. Welcome Ray!
The dinner was served by a host of friendly staff and the food from the Senior Center kitchen was hot and tasty. The party proceeded with award of various raffle prizes. Many people won a token gift, or in my case a funny gag gift--a bottle of "Slownoff" (sounds like like Smirnov) Vodka. The sound of my name is the Russian word for elephant. So, the logo on the bottle of Slownoff Vodka was a pink elephant with the message "fill up your trunk." Ray gave me this gift because we were brain storming economic development ideas, and I had suggested that Vodka could be made using locally grown food, like potatoes or corn.
Anyway, the evening was great fun with Mike Ridley performing the after dinner entertainment. No group was spared Mike's lampooning wit. Mike is a very talented artist--you should see him perform.
Well done!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Veteran's Day--November 11, 2010--is Coming
May God Bless America.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Kiwanis Halloween Parade and Party--Big Fun!
The weekend was quiet and all through the streets not a creature was stiring...well, not exactly. Thanks to the members of the Rogers City Kiwanis Club and the Key Club for putting on a great Halloween Parade and Party. Also, a big thanks to the Miss Rogers City Queen's Court for leading the Halloween Parade. Finally, thanks to the Rogers City Fire Department for the use of the Fire Hall for the party. When the pictures come in, I'll show you how "spooktacular" it really was!
Cedar Street and Community Development
Cedar Street is now open to traffic. If you are travelling in the area, please be very cautious and watch out for continued construction activity.
There have been delays to the Cedar Street work due to underground conditions discovered during excavation. These conditions included an underground spring which flooded the sewer trench and a layer of extremely dense "hard pan" which took some extra work to excavate. With determination and resourcesfulness, Mr. MacArthur and his crew worked through the challenges.
Most of the new water and sewer lines are now in place in this area. Storm drainage work and surface grading is still in progress. Unfortunately due to the delays, paving will have to wait until next spring. This may cause some challenges to local residents and users, but it will result in better compaction of the subgrade as many vehicles drive over it during the next few months. Sorry for any inconvience to travellers in this area.
The Cedar Street area was selected for work due to the poor condition of existing infrastructure and because it may provide opportunities for community development at reasonable costs. The area has a mixture of occupied and vacant lots, some commercial lots with high visibility from US-23 and some nicely wooded and quite lots suitable for single family homes away from the highway.
Because of Federal rules associated with the grant financing used, no special assessments may be charged for these improvements. Therefore, once the project is completed, these lots will have high quality utilities and new roads available at no extra cost to the property owners. Any developers interested should check with local realtors about the availability of this property.
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