To the Journal editor: The theme for this year's July 4th Parade in Marquette is "One Nation Indivisible - 250 Years." The probabilities for Indivisibility, Liberty, and Justice for All diminish over time when we forget God - Psalm 9:17.
To the Journal editor: I would like to thank everyone who contributed to my recent piano concert for the victims of the Ukraine war. The amount of $1,414 for the Razom organization was raised to pay for medical supplies for the first responders involved with the war. Special thanks goes to the chorus members who sang three songs during the program: Marina Shinkarenko, Sharon Everson, Lupine Bigelow and Sophia Laskaris. The entire event proved to be a success.
To the Journal editor: Marquette knows how to celebrate the 4th of July. We decorate our streets, homes and businesses with flags. We have a land parade and a boat parade, a food festival, picnics and family gatherings. The fireworks are fantastic! The first time I went to our parade, I was surprised that people put their folding chairs along the parade route in the morning and came back to find them in the same place in the afternoon. It seems that everybody who isn’t marching or riding in the parade turns out to watch it. Nearly every aspect of our community is represented in the ...
To the Journal editor: The U.S. Forest Service needs to keep its Roadless Rule, which protects millions of acres of wild public lands. In 2001, after hundreds of public hearings and input from more than a million stakeholders, the Forest Service established the Roadless Area Conservation Rule which meant that Roadless areas - with limited exceptions – have been kept free of roads and development. In addition to designated wilderness areas, Michigan has 6 roadless areas (https://maps.roadless.org/). The largest of these, Norwich Plains in the Ottawa National Forest, includes parts of ...
To the Journal editor: In (the) Upper Peninsula, we have a proud legacy of agriculture carried on by farmers across our region. Sadly, access to this fresh, nutritious Michigan-grown food remains out of reach for many of our own residents. The Chippewa-Luce-Mackinac Community Action Agency is proud of our work expanding access to local food for people across the eastern Upper Peninsula and empowering communities through programs for older adults, Head Start services for children and providing weatherization to families to help lower utility bills. That’s why the CLMCAA team is now ...
The world as we know it today was built on the back of burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately, this process has come at a tremendous cost. Emissions from burning fossil fuels are rapidly warming our world at a rate that has never occurred in the history of our planet. Why, then, do we continue to burn planet killing fossil fuels? One primary reason is the tremendous control the fossil fuel industry has over our government. The industry spends approximately $250 million dollars per year lobbying elected officials. The vast majority of this money goes to Republican officials and ...