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Sunny afternoon, light winds, temps in the mid 60’s all made for a great day.
Come once again, as every year, to the forests of Holly, Michigan, the 2008 Michigan Renaissance Festival is currently in operation. Take a stroll through the lanes and discover unique, hand crafted wares. Tempt your taste buds with extraordinary cuisine that is fit for a king or queen! Or simply sit back and relax and watch the magnificent Stage Acts!
You are unsure where this fantasy trip in time is staged? Click here for directions to the Michigan Renaissance Festival.
ESCANABA IN DA MOONLIGHT
presented by the Fenton Village Players
February 29, March 1,7,8 @ 7pm
March 2,9 @ 2pm
Purchase Tickets in Advance:
Little Professor Book Center
Gerych’s
Fenton Community & Cultural Center
Fall is just around the corner. That means it is time to plan for hunting season. And if you’re a deer hunter that means deer camp. Come see this comedy written by Jeff Daniels and set in Michigan’s Upper Penisula. Not only is it a place to get together with old friends and go after a big buck, a deer camp is a modern version of the secret society of the past, with its own set of rules, and a lot of good natured humor.
The Presidential Primary in Michigan is rapidly approaching. You can cast your votes on January 15, 2008. But quite possibly you are NOT ALLOWED to vote for your favorite candidate!! This is serious, folks.
In an earlier article on FentonSays.com we have available for view the preliminary primary ballots. If you take a look, you’ll notice that Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina are NOT on the Democrat Primary ballot. Not only aren’t they on the ballot, but if you decide to try to write them in … YOUR VOTE WILL BE THROWN OUT.
Read that last sentence again … if you decide to try to write-in your favorite Democrat candidate for President YOUR VOTE WILL BE THROWN OUT.
“If there’s no campaign, the candidate most likely to win Michigan is Hillary Clinton,” Bill Schneider said. “Her Democratic rivals don’t want a Clinton victory in Michigan to count. They want Iowa and New Hampshire, where they have a better chance of stopping Clinton, to count more.”
If you are a Democrat in Michigan, the DNC (Democratic National Committee) has basically made your choice for you … Hillary Clinton will be your nominee for President (you don’t really think the other guys on the ballot stand a chance, do you?). We have a female socialist as Governor of Michigan, and Michigan’s “choice” for the Democrat nominee will also be another female socialist. What is going on, people?!?!
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!
Part One
Part Two
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The Michigan Presidential Primary Election will be held Tuesday January 15, 2008. This is the first of four elections to be held in Fenton Township this year. The polls will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. There will be two separate ballots available at this election – one for the Democratic primary and one for the Republican primary. Voters must declare in which primary election they wish to vote before receiving a ballot.
This will also be the first election in Fenton Township where voters will be required to show valid photo identification before being allowed to vote. Acceptable forms of photo ID include:
Please be advised that this identification procedure is mandated by Michigan law and all voters throughout the state will be subject to the same requirements. Special procedures have been developed for voters to sign an affidavit if they have forgotten their photo ID, or do not possess a valid photo ID.
Please remember that all voters living in Fenton Township vote at Lake Fenton High School, (4070 Lahring Road). This election will be conducted in the band room, which is located in the south wing of the school.
To view a sample ballot for the upcoming election please click one of the links below.
Michigan Presidential Primary Ballot - Republican – 1/15/08
Michigan Presidential Primary Ballot - Democrat – 1/15/08
Hundreds of taxpayers descended on the Michigan State Capitol on April 18, 2007, for a rally cosponsored by Americans for Prosperity. Here is their YouTube video highlighting the demonstration in Lansing and the numerous job killing taxes that have been imposed on the citizenry.
Don’t fall prey to the slimy political rhetoric claiming that a “property tax shift” isn’t a tax increase. Don’t fall for the lies that Granholm will raise taxes on the corporations so the citizens don’t have to pick up the tab (that’s not how pricing works, the purchasers of products and services here in Michigan ultimately pay for the tax in the pricing of the goods or services). Don’t roll over and accept the new service tax that was passed in near secrecy in the middle of the night (and wasn’t our Governor talking about a 2% service tax, yet the politicians passed a 6% tax plan?).
Businesses create jobs. Plain and simple. Jobs pay people. People who get paid have money to pay their bills and stay where they live. Kill the jobs, stop the paychecks, force people to move to find employment. It’s Economics 101. We must break the cycle of dependency … of the State Government. We must embrace policies that foster job creation and economic growth.
To join AFP’s fight for lower taxes and less wasteful government spending in Michigan and around the country, visit www.AFPMI.com or www.AmericansForProsperity.org.
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In a recent Tri-County Times article is was stated that in 2006 the Secretary of State Office in Fenton, Michigan had 104,532 transactions. And over 250,000 transactions in the last two years. Further it stated that there would be a $28,000 savings to the State of Michigan if this office closed down. Well, the branch location has been saved … for now.
Yes. There are still grumblings of the office being closed down next year when the actual lease on the rented space is up.
At first, we didn’t have any opinion if the office closed or stayed. Especially in light of the fact that there is another Secretary of State Office just 8 miles away in Grand Blanc. But the Fenton community pulled together and saved it from being shut down this year. It got us to thinking … what is the cost of closing down the office to the general public.
Let’s assume there were 100,000 visits to the branch location in Fenton (keep the math easy). And if a person needed to travel 8 miles each way, that is 16 miles round trip. With 100,000 visits … that’s a total of 1,600,000 extra miles driven.
Let’s assume we get good gas mileage at 22 miles per gallon (though we do see a lot of SUV’s in town, so this might be a conservative estimate). This would mean that closing down our Secretary of State Office in Fenton would cause us to consume 72,700 more gallons of fuel per year. At just $2.50 per gallon, that comes out to $181,750!!!
Yes, you read that right. In order to “save the State government” $28,000 on their budget, they are going to shift expenditures of $181,750 onto Fenton residents. We have already been subjected to increased property taxes (don’t give us the “it is only a shift” line of garbage!), higher liquor taxes, higher cigarette taxes and increases to business taxes. Now we are being asked to shell out $181,750 more to take care of our business with the State. This isn’t fair.
Now, let’s take this another step forward. What would this change mean by way of increasing taxes collected. According to this site, there is a 19 cent per gallon State tax on gasoline. At an extra 72,700 gallons of gas being consumed, this would generate an additional $13,813 in gas tax revenue to the State. Furthermore, gas purchases are subjected to our 6% (there is discussion of Jennifer Granholm wanting to raise this to 7% soon) State Sales Tax. Using $2.50 per gallon as an estimate, this would generate an additional $10,905 in sales taxes!
This excludes the Federal taxes on gasoline. Oh yes, the Federal Government gets its pound of flesh in this, too.
Enough is enough!!