Archive - Jun 2008

Waterskiing Lake Evans, Tipton, MI

I begin this letter by saying I am very proud of our city of Tecumseh. However, I have noticed over the past year that many of our street signs in Tecumseh are in need of repair or replacement. I suspect there are many others who have noticed this besides me. It would no doubt be a costly project to update our signs but we have a beautiful town and I am suggesting that at least the ones that are hardly “readable’ be replaced and perhaps the others repainted or whatever it would take to upgrade them.

In traveling through other towns I’ve noticed signs that look like “old fashioned” wood signs. I think I saw these in Columbus, Ohio and they are beautiful. Perhaps the city could purchase this type of signage for Chicago Boulevard as it would beautify our main street when people are traveling through. This type of signage would really enhance our great historical homes along this route. They are made of material that would prevent them from rusting as the current old signs do. I’ve thought about it for a long time and I think it’s time for change!

I would like to suggest that before next spring when we celebrate our Promenade the Past that at least the signs along Chicago Boulevard be replaced. Does anyone else agree?

Pat Patten
Tecumseh

This past April, a few of my friends and I organized a clothing drive at Tecumseh High School.  We had a pretty good turn-out and collected more than we had expected; we recieved over 150 items, most of which were pairs of jeans.  All the clothing we collected was donated to Covenant House Michigan, which is located in Detroit.

The Covenant House is a place of hope for young people from across the state ages 18-22. They have an immediate crisis support program which offers food, clothing and shelter.

 Also, they have a long-term transitional-living program avilable for up to two years for each individual that offers life skills, job training, and an education.

I am writing this letter to make people aware of the Covenant House and their need for donations.  I recently took a tour of their campus and was very impressed with their buildings and programs.  If you would like to help go to www.covenanthousemi.org for a list of ways to donate and items needed.  I would like to thank any THS students that donated clothing and Tecumseh High School for allowing us to hold this clothing drive.  Also, thank you to Shelby Shaffer, Sarah Brimm, Ali Wice, and Lara Bartel for organizing this with me.

Rachel Bartolo
Tecumseh

I am a volunteer youth group leader for Tecumseh Campfire Boys and Girls of America. I lead a group of about 13 teenaged kids and we have for the past two years run a fundraiser booth at the pow-wow in Tecumseh the last weekend in June. However this year we are not invited to their circle and we as a group are very upset and do not deserve to be treated this way.

Prior (1999-2005) to running a booth at the pow wow, we worked food booths at MIS and then they started selling beer and the kids could no longer work in the stands there. In 2006 we applied to run a booth at the pow wow to raise money for our group to go on a ski trip to Shanty Creek. We were told that there was no registration fee because we were a non-profit organization. We had applied to sell hot dogs, pop, water, and glow necklaces. Then I got a call that we had to pay a $50 registration fee and that we couldn’t sell food unless it was an Indian style food, but that we could sell beverages. I said OK, let me take this to our meeting and decide what we are going to sell. The kids voted to sell snocones and glow necklaces. So I called the pow wow committee and they said that would be OK. Also as part of our community service we have to find a way to “give back” at our fundraisers, and the kids decided to give all of the Indian dancers free snowcones on both days. So we did; we had to get a food permit and go through health inspection for the snocones and we raised $900 for the weekend.