Wind company puts down roots in McBain
Heritage Sustainable Energy is putting down roots in McBain by leasing a facility to accept shipments of wind turbine parts and serve as an office. The city’s economic development office is promoting the town as a good location to manufacture wind turbines.
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Church members prepare for the annual St. Paul Lutheran Church Fall Bazaar, scheduled for Nov. 7.
Pushing for permanence
By Izzi Bendall
Cadillac News
Whether they have no living relatives or come from abusive homes, children end up in the foster care system for various reasons.
But no matter the reason, Wexford/Missaukee County Department of Human Services (DHS) director Dave VanHouten has seen a decrease in the number of children moving through the foster care system in the area.
In September 2008, there were 89 children in the Wexford/Missaukee County DHS foster care system. In September 2009, that number dropped to 59 children.
And while VanHouten cannot speak on behalf of the state’s trends, he credits the decrease to the department’s efforts to moving kids into more permanent situations - and doing it faster.
"We’re trying to keep the kids from remaining in a sort of limbo," VanHouten said. "Ideally, the first placement will be the last placement. I think that a 34 percent reduction of kids in our care is a real indication that we’ve been able to find resolutions for these kids faster."
For more on foster care, see A2.
Cadillac reaches out to the needy
A group of Cadillac organizations and businesses are working to prevent the needy from going hungry this winter.
Cadillac Rotary Charities in conjunction with the Cadillac Area Community Foundation have organized a mobile food distribution site at the north end of the Goodwill store parking lot on North Mitchell Street. It is scheduled to be held at 3 p.m. the first and third Thursdays of the month through June.
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