Chili Cook Off – Dryden Fire Department

The Dryden Fire Department is having a chili cook off on Saturday, March 3rd at 12:00pm.

Get directions.

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,200 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Rescue 911 TV Show and Michigan State Police – 1990

Columbiaville Site Work

Click here for more pictures of the site work at our Columbiaville paging site.

Shelter Drop In Burnside

The shelter with generator was set in place yesterday at our Burnside Township site. Workers and truck drivers had their work cut out for them with the warm and rainy weather. Lot’s of rain mixed with a 2 inch frost that recently melted made the newly landscaped site very muddy. The trucks with the crane counterweights and shelter were unable to back up the long service drive with their loads. A giant dump truck from a nearby gravel pit was used to tow the trucks up the hill to the site. The truck with the shelter had a gross weight of over 100,000 pounds.

By the end of the day, the shelter was in place and all the trucks made it out of the site and the service drive graded again.

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Customer Center for Solutions Integration

White Motorola’s Schaumburg, IL headquarters in October, we put the 800MHz portion of our radio system through a 30-page test to ensure it works properly and does what is expected of it.

Click here for more photos of the staging of the system at CCSI.

M-24 Public Meeting Scheduled in Lapeer

From MDOT:

Contact: Anita Richardson, MDOT Office of Communications,
Richardsona@michigan.gov
989-754-0878, ext. 227
Agency: Transportation
WHAT: An open house-style public meeting to provide information about the M-24 reconstruction project in Lapeer County, expected to begin in 2013.

WHO: Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) staff
Community representatives
Interested residents

WHEN: Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Lapeer City Hall
Commission Chambers
576 Liberty Park
Lapeer

Special accommodations: 989-658-4029, ext. 310

BACKGROUND: This open house will provide an opportunity for the public to meet with MDOT staff and ask questions about the M-24 reconstruction project. The project will extend from just south of I-69 north to Nepessing Street in Lapeer, and includes work on the bridge over Farmers Creek.

Public input is being sought to help MDOT recognize and address any concerns regarding this proposed work.

MDOT reminds drivers: Snowplows need room to groom

Almont Shelter & Generator in Place

Today we got the shelter and generator put into place on its foundation at the Almont water tower. The shelter houses two rooms: one for the radio equipment and the other for the generator. The whole unit weighs 77,000 pounds.

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Burnside Tower Site Work

Work has begun at our new Burnside Township tower site. The Lapeer County Road Commissions has graciously cleared and leveled the area where the tower will be and Motorola/Pyramid Network Services have dug the foundations for the tower, shelter and anchor points. Concrete started flowing into them this morning. This tower will be 350 feet tall and carry digital 800MHz, VHF paging and microwave equipment for our new digital MPSCS radio system. Follow the link below for more pictures of the site work.

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Tower base which will be set in concrete to hold the tower up.

State Police Investigating Suspicious Death in Lapeer County

FLINT. On November 15, 2011, at 11:30pm, a family member called the Michigan State Police (MSP) Flint Post to report that their 20-year-old daughter was missing from her home near Otisville in Genesee County.

The family member explained that the missing woman was house-sitting at a relative’s home on Kings Mills Road in Mayfield Township in Lapeer County.

Troopers from the Lapeer Post were dispatched to the residence in an attempt to locate the missing woman, but did not make contact with anyone at the home.

At approximately 2:30 am, a call was made to Lapeer County 911 Center to report that the missing woman’s car was found in a parking lot at the Lapeer State Game Area on Five Lakes Road, not far from where the woman was house-sitting.

Troopers secured the area and requested a K-9 tracking dog and MSP aviation support to search the area.

At approximately 4:30am, troopers made entry into the Kings Mills Road residence and found the missing 20-year-old woman deceased.

This suspicious death and missing persons report is being investigated by detectives from the Flint and Lapeer Posts, with the assistance of the MSP Bridgeport Crime Lab and Lapeer County Prosecutor Byron Konschuh.

Anyone with information about this death is asked to call the Lapeer Post at 810-664-2905.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Lt. Stephen Sipes, MSP Flint Post, 810-732-1111 ext. 20115