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Lenawee County Family Researchers will meet on Tuesday, April 8, at Lenawee Vo-Tech Center at 1372 N. Main St. (M-52) in Adrian, Michigan.  Dan Cherry, local historian and author, will talk on “Technology: Bridging Gaps in Research.”  The meeting also will be the annual White Elephant sale.  The sale is one of the group’s main fundraisers each year for the general fund.  Bring your White Elephant donations.  White Elephant sale will be at 6:30 p.m., followed by a short business meeting, and Cherry’s talk.

THE LENAWEE County Conservation League will hold the 3D shoot and 30 McKenzie targets on March 16.  Registration is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1404 Sutton Rd., Adrian.  For more information call Allan Andrews at (517) 673-5154 or the club at 263-5292.

I know it's not Tecumseh, but it is exciting regardless. I will be reading at Sweetwaters Cafe, 123 W. Washington in Ann Arbor, Tuesday, March 18, at 7 p.m. This is my first featured reading. It will be followed by an open mic where anyone can read poetry or prose.

In a press release issued Wednesday, the Tecumseh Products has announced plans of moving its headquarters to Pittsfield Township, approximately 30 miles from Tecumseh.

At stake will be a loss of 200 jobs here and $100,000 in annual taxes to the city. Information on tax loss to Tecumseh Schools was not available at press time. “We did everything we could possibly do to keep them here,” said City Manager Kevin Welch. “We presented a conceptual plan to move the Products to the new business and technology park, which would have been a good home.”

I cannot believe the Tecumseh School Board is so out of touch with the local and national economies.

While most every business in the Continental U.S. has been cutting back — especially Michigan — on spending for wages, benefits, and expansion these people continue to operate like there is no public economic problem. And they’re willing to test the waters to see if their bond will go through anyway.

We are writing this letter in great appreciation to all who have been wonderful to our family. We have been members of the Britton and Tecumseh community all of our lives and have never been prouder to say we are associated with such generous people.
Our aunts had a Benefit Dinner and Donkey Basketball Game for us to help pay for medical expenses for Eddie’s cancer treatments and extended medical care.

I’d like to bring attention to an issue that is very important to me, though only because I take notice of this type of thing too often. It’s the political campaigning process today, and all the things that are wrong with it. It must have been sometime in July or August of last year that we all heard of the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, which is entirely too early for that type of announcement.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this past weekend’s Dodge Ball Tournament.  
The event was a fund raiser for the Tecumseh High School After Prom.  The 40 teams and 500 spectators helped the committee raise nearly $2,000 for the April 26th event.  
The youngest team consisted of 7th graders and their dads and the oldest team graduated in 1970 something, hence their name, The 70’s Guys.  It was a wonderful cross-generational event with adults and teens competing and socializing.

Naomi E. (Allion) Parker, 91, of Adrian, went to be with our Lord,  Friday, March 7, 2008, at her home surrounded by her loving family.  She was born January 6, 1917, in Charlotte, Michigan to Daniel and Jenny (Todd) Allion.  On October 15, 1938, she married Raymond “Pat” Parker in Adrian, and he preceded her in death on December 3, 2004.