If you have a Smart Phone, and most people do these days, you realize just how much our lives are controlled by that electronic item we travel with everywhere. There are apps on our phones that allow us to “find our car”, or “find our keys” or “find our friends” or the best, “find my […]
In a world of uncertainty, stress and downright ugliness, I want to share an amazing story of human compassion, selflessness and an over-abundance of love right here in our own Lake Orion. While the list is too long to thank each of you here, I have affectionately named them our “Labor of Love Angels!!!” My […]
A powerful heartfelt message for us all. I had the privilege of introducing our Lake Orion 2018 Honored Veteran Kenneth “Bill” Smith at the Orion Area Chamber of Commerce picnic and sharing his story: Three tours in Vietnam, the final year on a swift boat where every day might be his last. Bill thanked the […]
(Falderal: mere nonsense; foolish talk or ideas.) We are this week involved in one of the biggest boondoggles in Michigan. No, I’m not referring to our Lansing lawmakers and their summer sojourn, I’m alluding to the annual Mackinac Policy Conference which this year takes place on The Island from May 29 – June 1. The […]
I was at Kroger on M-24 on Tuesday morning, April 16. I checked out my order and found out I did not have my wallet. They held my groceries and I drove home for the wallet. When I returned to pay, they told me that the person in line behind me had paid for my […]
The township board has placed a new millage on the August ballot to raise $1.7 million annually for 5 years to support parks and recreation activities. But the township already has the funding and supports it out of the $7 million budget that exists today. What the township wants is a new millage to build […]
Recently, the world as we knew it changed when the leaders of North and South Korea met in peace. Not only was there an exchange of a handshake and a smile, but each stepped across the border onto the land of the other country. There was an amazing and peaceful energy which surrounded the two […]
On Monday, April 16, 2018, I appeared before the Orion Township Board of Trustees to comment on a pending issue in the township. My comments, in part, were as follows: “Mr. Chairman [Supervisor Chris Barnett], I am responding to your statement in the March 29, 2018 Lake Orion Review article. In regard to Trustee Ron […]
President Trump most correct – Communist China violates, does not honor their WTO agreements! Japan, Australia, India, Europe, England, Canada, and the United States all pretty much agree that China is violating numerous WTO agreements, Dumping products into most of the world’s Markets/Economies and despite years of complaints filed with the WTO against China, […]
I truly hope that our Orion Township Board elected officials will remember the information that was first presented to them by JoAnn VanTassel, and then later shared and written about by me and then published in The Lake Orion Review in January of 2015 that was in regards to waste haulers: Re: No Authority for […]