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Lakeview Village President Ed Winter, right, welcomes Shay Gallagher to Lakeview as the new village manager at a special Lakeview Village Council meeting Monday night. Lakeview and Stanton have parted ways regarding their prior shared manager agreement.

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Marjorie “Hilda” Hawley, a Greenville resident, celebrated her 102nd birthday this year. She was born in the Greenville area along with her sister, Louise, who is 100 years old, and her brother, Clair, who is 91 years old.

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hen Marjorie “Hilda” Hawley was born, horses and buggies were the norms for transportation. Women did not have the right to vote. John Green had settled in the area roughly 70 years prior and the city of Greenville was thriving with sawmills, churches, merchants and families. Hilda was born in 1914 just north of Greenville. When she was about 3 years old, her family purchased a farm on the edge of town, which also recently celebrated its centennial birthday. She is one of three siblings, all of whom are still living. Her sister, Louise Moore, is 100 years old and nearing her 101 while their brother, Clair Morey, is 91 years old. “We have a lot of longevity in our family,” Hilda said with a chuckle. In 1933, Hilda graduated high school and went to cosmetology school in Grand Rapids where she obtained her cosmetology license. She worked in shops and eventually had her own shop, although not in Greenville. Hilda stayed in Grand Rapids for a time before moving to Kalamazoo to live with her newly married cousin and her husband. Kalamazoo is where Hilda called home for just fewer than 20 years and it’s where she had her own beauty shop. Hilda married in 1948 to Thaddeus

Hawley and together they stayed in Kalamazoo for six years before moving to Pensacola, Fla. “It was wonderful,” she said. “We had a place there for many years.” Somewhere along the line, the Hawleys got a timeshare near Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and decided to move there because they liked spending time there so well. “We lived there for many years, not too far from Dollywood. I was about five miles from where Dolly (Parton) lived,” she said. “Back then they had four theaters and top singers would have their own theater. In the spring, when they would start having their nightly shows, the first night … they would have a free concert so everybody got in on that. That was fun.” It was during that time in Tennessee when Thaddeus passed away. He died in 1996, after 48 years of marriage. Hilda stayed in Tennessee until around 1999 when she decided to move back to Greenville where her siblings were at the time. Hilda’s sister Louise splits her time between a mobile home in Florida and a house in Greenville, which she bought with her first husband, who passed away. She’s owned the house for many years and said that lots of things have See Longevity, Page 2

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n Village hires Gallagher as full-time manager By Meghan Nelson

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LAKEVIEW — When Stanton decided to end a shared manager arrangement with Lakeview last week, Lakeview officials knew they would have to consider new options. The Lakeview Village Council held a special meeting Monday night to offer Shay Gallagher, currently the deputy supervisor of Algoma Township, a full-time job as Lakeview’s village manager. On Nov. 14, the Lakeview Village Council had voted for Gallagher as their choice between him and another finalist, Cedar Springs mayor Charles Watson. “Because Stanton didn’t want to share a manager —

that was the feeling they left us — we needed a qualified candidate to fill the position of village manager,” Lakeview Village President Ed Winter said. “I think the best thing for us right now is to go at it alone and hire Shay as our full-time village manager.” The Village Council voted unanimously to give Winter the ability to negotiate with Gallagher for the position of village manager. Gallagher’s start date in Lakeview will be Dec. 1. “It’s definitely an exciting opportunity to carry on the momentum on a lot of the great projects James (Freed) and Jake (Eckholm) worked on,” said Gallagher, who attended Monday’s meeting. Gallagher hopes to continue working on the proposed annexation of a portion of Cato Township along M-46 between Youngman See Lakeview, Page 2

Buck up: Howard City’s buck pole draws crowd By Elisabeth Waldon Daily News news editor

HOWARD CITY — Opening day of hunting season is practically a holiday in Montcalm County, so it’s no surprise Howard City’s inaugural buck pole event was a smashing success. The buck pole went up in the vacant lot at the corner of Ensley Street and Shaw Street (where the village’s farmers market is held) in the early morning hours of

Nov. 15, sponsored by Mattson’s Hardware and Mac’s Rustic Sports. The Howard City Fire Department helped with lighting for the event. Mattson’s owner Rick Kilts said a total of 18 bucks were on display and more than 300 people attended the gathering. Kilts updated the Howard City Village Council about the event during Monday night’s See Buck Pole, Page 11A

Belding’s Ellis Elementary School celebrates successes By Emilee Nielsen

Daily News staff writer

BELDING — Ellis Elementary School Principal Tiffany Jackson got what she called “a little brag time” at Monday evening’s Belding Area Schools Board of Education meeting. Jackson detailed points of pride for the elementary school, including focuses on curriculum, collaboration and culture in the building. According to Jackson, there are great things happening in terms of Courtesy photo curriculum. Students throughout the building are focusing on mathematFrom left, Peyton Moffit, 5, Emma Johnson, 5, Jayde Hoisington, 5, ics and English and language arts. Jackson Shearer, 5, and Lincoln McCarty, 5, work on building a wall for “(Students spend) about 90 minHumpty Dumpty to sit on during a science, technology, engineering and utes each day (on formative assessmathematics (STEM) project at Ellis Elementary School. ments in mathematics),” she said.

Jackson said for first- and secondgrade students there are multi-tiered systems of support in place to give individualized attention to those who need it. The focus on English and language arts at Ellis and throughout the Belding school district in general means a heavy emphasis on early literacy. To boost early literacy rates for students, the school acquired RazKids, a resource which provides a library of differentiated books at 29 different levels of difficulty for students to practice reading. The resources are in the form of ebooks for students to get easy access via their classroom iPads. See Ellis, Page 2


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