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VOL. 61, NO. 12 THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2011
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Officials say merger is good for Saline
By Art Aisner
Special Writer
Officials with St. Joseph
Mercy Hospital did not have
to look too far to find a respon-
sible suitor to fill the space
vacated late last year at its
Saline location.
After months of negotia-
tions, hospital officials con-
firmed late last week that they
reached a long-term lease
agreement with Evangelical
Homes of Michigan to expand
their services.
The agreement is for 15
years, said St. Joseph Mercy
spokeswoman Lauren Stokes,
but neither healthcare pro-
vider would disclose financial
terms.
Evangelical Home-Saline,
which already shares a com-
mon corridor with St. Joseph
Mercy-Saline, at 400 Russell
St., will get an additional 21,000
square feet that will be con-
verted into 25 private rooms, a
service currently not offered
on that wide a scale.
“It’s a continuation of a
long-standing relationship
and this just continues to
strengthen that relationship
and the health care service to
this community,” said Barb
Fielder, operations director for
St. Joseph Mercy Saline.
“We’re filling our building
up and opening it up in a way
that the community will ben-
efit from because of the sub-
acute rehabilitation service,”
she said.
Evangelical Homes of
Michigan is a nonprofit orga-
nization that offers health
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est Catholic health-care pro- ■ Successful Women
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The enhanced partnership they have reached a long-term lease agreement with
with Evangelical Homes of Evangelial Homes of Michigan to fill space at the hospital’s
vacant Saline location.
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Phoenix Sky
Cottrelle, 3,
was among
the many
children in
attendance
Powwow returns
By Amy Bell “It’s the academic, scholarly late 19th or early 20th century.”
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for Mother ture of Native Americans on Native Americans were becom-
Earth pow- Native-American tribes from campus,” he said. ing more mobile. Many traveled
wow at throughout the United States The event featured com- the country as performers in
Saline came to Saline Middle School petitive intertribal, contest and Wild, Wild West shows or rode
Middle this past weekend to share their exhibition dancing, as well as a in trains or automobiles. While
School last culture and traditions. tiny tot exhibition. traveling, they would meet with
weekend. Formerly held at Crisler One of the dance styles other tribes, exchange dances
Native- Arena in Ann Arbor, the Dance included the Men’s Grass dance and interact with one another,
American for Mother Earth powwow in which the men dance in he said. Join us on Twitter:
tribes from is traditionally one of the regalia decorated with long, Deloria’s father, Vine Deloria
all over the first and largest in a series multicolor fringes that symbol- Jr., was a renowned Native- We have 1,283 followers
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held throughout the nation. ize the long, blowing grasses of American author, historian Saline Reporter follower.
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share their Click on the Twitter tab
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cultures and Association organized the event was a hand drum competition Episcopal missionary, one of directly to http://twitter.com/
traditions. along with the support of other in which participants competed the first of five or six Dakota SalineMilanNews.
The pow- groups. for cash prizes. people to become ordained as a
wow used to
be held at Philip Deloria, a University Deloria said a common mis- minister.
Ann Arbor’s of Michigan professor of conception of powwows is that Those who came to the pow-
Crisler Native-American studies, said the event is a celebration. wow also got the chance to learn
Arena. the program is very supportive “It’s really an interesting cul- about various issues within the
of the students who organize tural form,” he said. “They are Native-American community
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Local author debuts historical romance novel We have 561 fans on

By Sheila Pursglove
Special Writer
Saline author Cheryl Ann
Smith has penned a histori-
cal romance, “The School for
Brides,” set in the Regency era
of early 19th century England.
The book, combining Smith’s
love of history and “all things
English,” is the first in a series,
with a second book, “The
Accidental Courtesan,” due out
in October, and a third book in
the works.
\The book will launch in
bookstores and online April 5
and Smith’s first book signing
will be 2 p.m. April 9 at Borders,
3140 Lohr Road, in Ann Arbor.
Her writing career started
out pretty simply, Smith said.
“I’ve been hooked on his-
torical romance novels since I
first read ‘The Flame and the
Flower’ by Kathleen Woodiwiss
when I was 14. One afternoon,
I was bored and without a book
to read, so I decided to write my
own. Easy right? I didn’t expect
it to take five years to finish that
first manuscript.”
Determined to succeed as an
author, Smith pursued her pas-
sion while working full time,
getting married, and having her
first child.
“I virtually knew nothing
about formatting manuscripts,
word counts, plotting –– any-
thing publishing related. I was
flying in the dark and that first
manuscript showed it,” she
said.
Realizing she was unlikely
to succeed unless she learned
the business end of publishing,
she joined a writers group. By
the time her book came to “the
end,” she was hooked, which
is just as well because her first
book, 100 pages too long and
thin on plot, never did sell.
“In fact, it took many years
and several other unsold manu-
scripts before I finally wrote a
book that intrigued an agent,”
she said. “Really, it was pure
stubbornness that got me this
far.”
Smith’s agent, who has now
worked with Smith for two
years, ultimately sold “The
School for Brides” to Berkley
Publishing in July 2009.
The story, set in England in
1818, is about Eva Black, a beau-
tiful spinster and the daughter
of a courtesan who hides under
a dour disguise and rescues
courtesans from their fates,
schooling them to leave their
lives as mistresses and become
suitable wives.
“Her life is upended when
she crosses a duke, after steal-
ing away his courtesan, and
he vows revenge,” Smith said.
“The book has secrets and
surprises and danger –– and, of
course, romance.”
Smith, a Saline native, lived
here through third grade
and attended the old Jensen
Elementary School.
“Our family lived in the coun-
try, so I spent most of my time
playing in our old red barn and
getting into mischief with my
cousins,” she said. “After mov-
ing to Arizona and living there
for several years, I returned to
Saline to go to high school. I
loved being back home.”
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