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Shores staff to participate in county Incident Management Team
The St. Clair Shores City Council recently approved a request to authorize the City Manager to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with Oakland County for staff participation in the Incident Management Team.
Fire Chief James Piper presented the agenda item and explained the team as a specially trained team for incident command and control. He referenced the tornado that occurred in Armada a couple years ago.
“If that had come through our area or (a) more heavily populated area, you would have an extremely large, expanded incident that would very rapidly expand beyond the capabilities of just one jurisdiction,” Piper said.
He added it’s not just about incident stabilization, but it’s about having a hand in every area, including but not limited to finance and recovery.
“This will allow us to be full participating members,” Piper said. “Right now, we can do training and planned events but if there were to be an actual needed deployment, we wouldn’t be able to until we have this memorandum with Oakland County.”
Literary walk coming to Blossom Heath June 24
Enjoy music and listen to award winning poets read their work at a literary walk at Blossom Heath Park on June 24.
According to M.L. Liebler, poet laureate for St. Clair Shores, the literary walks started about five years ago at Blossom Heath, and they’ve been doing it every year since. He said they had to do at least one online because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are three sets of poets who will participate and read their poetry for those in attendance. The poets include Jennifer DeBelllis, Alinda Wasner, Cindy Frenkel, Jan Mordenski, Christine Rhein, The Rev. Robert B. Jones, Carolyn Striho, Writer L. Bush and Vincent James Perrone.
The event is from noon to 3 p.m., and it will also be live streamed.
The poets’ books will be sold at the event. Liebler said the walk is open to everyone, of all ages. Those in attendance are welcome to bring chairs.
Optimist Club to host July 14 golf outing
The St. Clair Shores Optimist Club will host a scholarship golf outing sponsored by Edward Jones on July 14 to help fundraise for a charitable cause.
Mikhail Yudin, an Optimist Club member, said the fundraiser is to help raise money for scholarships for kids who have overcome significant challenges.
“Essentially, we’re rewarding that effort to strive to improve even if they may have had an off year with grades because of those personal challenges,” Yudin said. “They show that they work toward graduating; they’ve showed, demonstrated that work ethic to overcome those challenges.”
Yudin said the scholarships don’t necessarily have to be for traditional schooling; they can be for skilled trades as well, and that the goal for the outing is to fundraise enough to increase the number of scholarships they can give to the kids.
“We believe that if we help the kids in our community, we’re also helping ourselves out,” Yudin said. “The better off the children are in our community, the better the future for the community in general.”
A ticket for the outing is $100 and participants will get a day at the St Clair Shores Golf Club plus breakfast, lunch and a dinner where they’ll speak about the scholarships. As a special guest, Detroit Tigers World Champion Dave Rozema will be on the golf course supporting the cause, Yudin said.
Lakeview Class of 73 to celebrate 50 years
Lakeview High School’s Class of 1973 will celebrate 50 years with a class reunion on July 21. It is their first reunion in 30 years.
The event will be at Blossom Heath Park, and Kris Pierowich, event chair and former president of student congress, said they worked with Celebrations to Remember to put on the event. The reunion will feature food by Chef Bobby, DJ/magician host Magic Joe and a lot of good memories, Pierowich said.
“We’re going to have a memory table with memories and memorabilia from the high school, trophies, letter sweaters, all that good stuff, memory books for the attendees,” Pierowich said.
Other things at the event include slide shows around the banquet room and a memory table for alumni who have passed on.
Tickets are $113. He also said they are trying to get a head count done by the end of the month.
Alumni who are interested can go to celebrations2remember.com.
