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Vol. 15 - No. 8
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Delhi Twp. ‘11 budget discussed By WILL KANGAS
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DELHI TWP. — The 2011 general fund budget was approved by the board at its Nov. 16 meeting, but not without one ‘nay’ vote. Trustee Derek Bajema voted against that portion of the budget. “I voted no on the 2011 general fund budget because it plans to spend $142,000 more than the 2010 budget did,” Bajema said. He said he has a hard time voting to approve it after voters recently approved raising taxes for police and emergency services. “Now that new revenue is secured the township continues to spend more creating problems down the line that should be fixed today,” Bajema said. The bulk of the increase in spending is used to fund higher personnel costs in the fire department, he said. “We have a respondsibility to offset that increase with cuts so the budget stays
flat,” he said. Township Supervisor Stuart Goodrich said this was not a ‘final’ vote on the budget and that Bajema’s charges are misguided. Goodrich said it is apparent everyone else on the board is comfortable with the budget. “If we are all happy with it why would we want to make some changes?” he said. He said the township budget operates differently than how state budgets operate. The township has made personnel cuts as well as cuts in health care costs for its employees in recent years. Goodrich said the increase in costs for 2011 could be because of the higher costs of health insurance that is being felt across the state. Continued decreases in state revenue funding and drops in property tax value cut revenue dramatically,
November 21, 2010
Apple pies made, sold for swimmers By WILL KANGAS | wkangas@lsj.com
Courtesy Garry Kolb/www.garrykolb.com
The Holt High School kitchen looked like a minifactory for a brief time on Nov. 13 for the fundraiser.
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HOLT — The Holt High School kitchen area was transformed into a makeshift apple pie factory on Nov. 13. Volunteers from both the Holt Boys and Girls Swimming and Diving teams put on hair nets and aprons and made apple pies as part of a yearly fundraiser. Co-organizer Mark Majeske said the fundraiser is in its 17th year and is becoming a Holt tradition. “We sold over 1,000 pies this year,” he said. “It is quite the operation.” Team members pre-sell the pies leading up to the assembly day, where lines of volunteers mix apples with cinammon and dough before they are packaged and shipped to those that ordered them. “We ran out of cinammon a couple times,” Majeske said. “I think we cleaned Sam’s Club out that day.” He said volunteers assembled pies using over 3,000 pounds of apples. “It gets messy, but we clean it up afterwards and make sure everything looks the same way that we found it.” The process of making them starts a few days earlier, as the dough is prepared at the Immaculate Heart of Mary church kitchen. From there the dough is taken to the high school kitchen on the Friday night beforehand and the preparation begins. “Then on Saturday we go full speed ahead,” he said. “We were still making them as people were picking them up around noon.” There are still some extra pies. Those who want them can contact Janet Harris at (517) 763-5428.
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