Calhoun County

out, Derek? Let me pull it up here just to be sure I know what exact locations there are.

So the 5th Congressional District in Michigan includes all of Branch, Cass, Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe, except for Milan and St. Joseph counties, and also southern Berrien County, most of Calhoun County, and far southern Kalamazoo County.

Oh, wow.

It's the heart of the state, isn't it? That's a big area.

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Boy, the days are, uh, fast evaporating before election day.

Some of you may have already voted.

I mean, these are economic priorities, but I would do what I could to ensure that, uh, for example, public schools teachers, hiring and maintaining those public schools teachers, uh, would be incentivized, uh, by helping public schools districts properly pay and train and compensate teachers to keep them in those jobs.

But certainly, if it's not done, as you alluded, uh, in lame duck, I think that i- if prices continue as they are now in context of gas and if prices continue as they presently do in the grocery store and in big box stores in context of what tariffs have brought to the United States, then I think a, a, a priority right away, just like a senior pension tax repeal was in two thousand twenty-three, would be a suspension of the Michigan gas tax by the state legislature.

Talk about other ways that when you served as the forty-fourth District representative, that you bolstered Calhoun County.

Well, one of the things we, we did is ensure that we supported an initiative which funded major highway improvements in Calhoun County, and this includes the two hundred and ten million dollars reconstruction of twenty-five miles of I-sixty-nine between, uh, Marshall and into, uh, southern Eaton County.

Two Michigan Potawatomi tribes have celebrated their long-lasting relationship with a 10-day paddling trip across Southwest Michigan and ending in St. Joseph.

Members of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi took part in the nearly 130-mile trip, mostly in the St. Joseph River, starting in the Pine Creek Indian Reservation in Calhoun County on October 3rd and ending in St. Joe October 12th.

The route followed Pine Creek into Nottawa Creek and eventually to the St. Joseph River.

Pokagon Band Advanced Language Specialist Kyle Malott greeted the kayakers as they reached the Pokagon property in Niles and where a celebration was held

yeah absolutely um not not up in the north you know you hit the nail right on the head there even i'm afraid even betsy might be okay You know, I'd certainly like to see a Republican in that seat.

However, yes, Kathy Schmaltz down in Jackson County, Steve Frisbee in Calhoun County, Riley Linting in the Down River area.

They live in heavy purple areas, 50-50 areas, 51, 52 areas.

And so those are always a slugfest there.

The search for Mary has continued over the years, and her family and Jim Carlin have never given up hope.

In 2019, a search was conducted in Calhoun County after tips were received by the Venus Foundation and the Canine Human Remains Detection group stating that Mary's body was buried there.

Unfortunately, no remains were found at the site, and Mary's case quickly ran cold again.

Eight years prior to this, Mary had been declared deceased in absentia by a judge in Michigan, with Marshall Police Deputy Chief McDonald telling a judge that they had no evidence to suggest that Mary was still alive.

The reality that we believe that we are to watch and be ready.

Volunteering at the Seventh-day Adventist church booth at the Calhoun County Fair.

By the way, what a wonderful thing it is.

The Marshall Church, the Battle Creek Tabernacle, the Urbandale Church, and the Spanish Church all coming together to reach Calhoun County.

A brochure that will be passed out at the Calhoun County Fair.

Having all four churches in there saying, hey, this isn't about territory.

This is about saving souls for the kingdom.

The Lincoln Land Energy Center also in Sangamon, Illinois, 638.4 megawatts scheduled to go live June in 2030.

And in Calhoun, Michigan, we've got two 500 megawatt projects being built in MEC North, MEC South.

So very sizable gas turbine projects for sure.

And like I say, all over the country.