“THE FACE OF ANN ARBOR” — VOLUME 3, NUMBER 13
Inside:
State Police closing posts
Local troopers
will be based at
Brighton post
By Austen Smith and Erica McClain
A2 Journal
The Michigan State Police
Post in Ypsilanti Township is
one of more than 20 statewide
posts to be shuttered as part of
a new regional policing plan
announced March 24.
In an official statement, Col.
Kriste Kibbey Etue, director
of the Michigan State Police,
said the new model is designed
to provide increased services
while relying less on traditional
bricks and mortar post build-
ings. The plan emphasizes
enhanced technology and data-
driven policing.
State troopers will not be
laid off as part of the new
U of M student
earns internship
in tea abroad
Love for tea
leads to great
opportunities
By Sarah Rigg
Special Writer
His humorous video promo
about the benefits of tea won
Taylor Caldron, a graduate
student at the University of
Michigan, a summer internship
in Kenya, India and Sri Lanka
this summer, studying the farm-
ing and processing of tea.
Caldron, 22, was awarded the
internship abroad as a prize
for winning the Sip of Success
contest sponsored by the Tea
Council of the USA Inc.
Caldron is an MBA student
studying green and sustain-
able business practices at U of
M and expects to graduate in
April 2012. He is also marketing
manager for Ann Arbor-based
Arbor Teas.
Caldron said he became inter-
ested in tea while he was still in
high school.
“I started buying tea when
I was a high school senior,”
he said. “Then, when I was an
undergrad at the University of
Michigan, I started going to cof-
fee shops and cafes to get tea and
study. I started drinking more
Taylor Caldron, a graduate student at the University of
Michigan, recently won the ‘Sip of Success’ contest sponsored
by the U.S. Tea Council, and won an internship abroad this
summer. Caldron is pictured in the tea aisle of the Whole
Foods Market on Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor.
plan, which will help the state
police meet a $20.7 million
general fund reduction slated
for the state’s 2012 fiscal year.
Washtenaw County will be
served out of the Brighton post
starting in October, when the
21 buildings are scheduled to be
closed.
Lt. Wynonia Sturdivant from
the Ypsilanti post said the move
will enhance police services
for residents who live in the
few townships served solely by
state police. She said by combin-
ing the Ypsilanti and Brighton
posts, they will have more troop-
ers available, if necessary.
“The troopers are still in the
communities that they were
originally assigned,” Sturdivant
said Friday. “The only change is
that, for instance, in Washtenaw
County, instead of the Ypsi post
being the home base for troop-
ers, it’s now the Brighton post,
but the Washtenaw troopers
stay in Washtenaw.”
and more tea. I started off with
Japanese green tea as one of my
favorites.”
Caldron became involved in
the business side of tea when
he was looking for a summer
internship. In the spring of 2010,
he contacted Arbor Teas to see if
they had any positions open.
They didn’t have any open-
ings, but once they looked at
his resume, Caldron said, they
decided it would be nice to have
someone with an online market-
ing background.
“So I worked for them over
the summer, and they offered
me my current position in the
fall,” Caldron said.
Caldron said he found out
about the Sip of Success contest
because he’s on the mailing
list for the Tea Council. He
made the winning video, which
depicts him breaking up with
his coffee maker, with a little
handheld camera, and asked a
co-worker to provide the voice
of the coffee pot.
He sent the video and an essay
about the benefits of tea off to
the contest, and a few weeks
later, learned he was the winner.
As part of his internship,
Caldron will live and work on
tea plantations in Kenya, Sri
Lanka and India, from mid-May
through July of this year. For
the internship finale, he will
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Troopers in Washtenaw
County already have two
detachments where they can
work remotely by using comput-
er, phone, fax and can interview
subjects at Sylvan Township
Hall or in Salem Township.
Sturdivant said she is confi-
dent they will be able to estab-
lish more detachments, allow-
ing troopers to work from the
Brighton post sparingly, mostly
for paperwork.
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Nearly 100 children, some as young as 3 the group.
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disease. The organization was founded in
children in the race, but came out to enjoy the
the fall of 2008, after a good friend and neigh-
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