The Orion Area Parade Group needs help for the Orion Area Holiday Lighted Parade on Dec. 6. A fundraiser for the parade is scheduled for Nov. 22 at the Hamlin Pub. The evening begins at 7 p.m. and the tickets are $20. A buffet dinner and entertainment are included. An auction and 50/50 will also […]
CJ’s Village Cafe on Flint Street in downtown Lake Orion is again hosting a free Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 27, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Seniors, shut-ins and others without family or friends are invited to share the holiday. Call 693-8704 for more information or for shut-in service.
Orion Township is looking for an information and technology manager, for a non-union, full-time position with full benefits and a salary range of $40,000 to $50,000 per year (depending on qualifications). The manager would plan, supervise, manage and direct the provision of data management services to various township departments, and provide technical staff assistance in […]
Orion Township’s contracts with its township attorneys and engineering firm are nearing their ends, and the board of trustees would like to hear proposals for new contracts from both. The board has asked township attorney firm Secrest Wardle to submit a proposal for attorney services for 2004-06, for board consideration at their Dec. 1 meeting. […]
Orion Township resident Charles Ring, Jr. was just 18 years old when he was drafted for the United States Marine Corps in 1943, but he said he never had to think twice about his decision to go into the service. “I got a deferral so I could finish high school, then I went right in,” […]
Connie Waldon started working for the United States Post Office after a friend of her mother’s told her it was the “best job she’d ever had.” After 36 years, Waldon said she can’t disagree. “I started at the post office in Pontiac right after high school,” said Waldon, who retired from her job at the […]
Monday, Nov. 3, domestic violence and child abuse arrest on Georgia. Home invasion on Bald Mountain Road. A wallet containing $220 was taken. Warrant arrest on Flint. Threats and harassment on Indianwood Road. Domestic assault arrest on Swallow Court. Drunken driving and possession of marijuana arrest on Baldwin Road. Drunken driving arrest on Mapleview Drive. […]
Tuesday, Nov. 4 12:57 a.m.-A man on Mt. Vernon Drive had chest pain. Station #3 responded. 12:29 p.m.-Station #1 responded to a person on South Lapeer Road who had chest pain. 1:27 p.m.-A downed wire on Joslyn, south of Waldon was on fire. Station #3 responded. 3:38 p.m.-Two people on Fisherman’s Cove were injured. Station […]
I know July and September are the big birthday months, but for some reason a lot of people I’m acquainted with or related to celebrate their birthdays in November. The 11th month isn’t one of my favorites. Fall has ended and I’m starting to dread the long cold dark days of winter. Thanksgiving, although a […]
(Left to right) Blanche Sims Elementary School parent Sheri Lindsay, school counselor Lara Sebert, and parent Tammy Chartrand, along with other volunteers, drove down to Kmart headquarters in Troy last week to pick up wrapped and unwrapped Christmas presents for the school’s Adopt-A-Family Program for Christmas. Sebert said a van with gifts also came to […]