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$10,000 rafe will be drawn at Apple Daze

By Sean Dalton
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The regionallyrenowned Dexter Daze Kiwanis $10,000 raffle and the Dexter Rotarys raffle for a small-scale model of a select residential structure in the village will be held later this season during the Apple Daze festival, held in early October. Typically, the raffles are held toward the end of Dexter Daze to encourage folks to stay until the end of the festival and hang out in town frequenting area businesses. The Kiwanis cash raffle even includes a $500 bonus for each winning raffle ticket holder who is physically present during the drawing. But this years drawing was cancelled due to severe weather hitting the area. The Dexter Area Chamber of Commerce and the Dexter Daze board; in fact, issued an order for Dexter Daze fair booth operators to evacuate Monument

Park at about 6:30 p.m. due to the sighting of funnel clouds near Pinckney and severe winds that forced some booth operators into shelter across the street at Aubrees Pizzeria and Grill. Both service clubs had to re-apply for new gaming licenses with the Michigan Gaming Control Board to have the drawings at the later date. Were impressed with how quickly we got our new license, said raffle organizer and Kiwanian Joe Scheuring shortly after Dexter Daze. The Kiwanis raffle has been a community institution for decades and both the Kiwanis Club and the Rotary fund multiple charitable efforts, including scholarships with the funds raised via the raffles. Apple Daze, held the beginning of October each year, also includes apple-pie eating contests, hayrides, animal rides, a petting farm, craft booths as well as apple and cider for sale.

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Village president pushes society on cityhood objection

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hether the village takes a third swing at cityhood is going to come down to a Village Council vote. In the meantime, Village President Shawn Keough told the Dexter Area Historical Society board members that he would like to sit down with them and Webster Township government counterparts for an open dialogue before making any further moves. The villages second and most recent petition for cityhood status was shot down Aug. 18 by the state Boundary Commission during a hearing where the commission unanimously voted down Dexters application based on the protests of officials from Webster and the historical society. We didnt write the proposal in an unfriendly manner to the historical society, nor were we being malicious in any way to Gordon Hall, Webster Township or the historical society,

Keough said, while presenting the proposed boundary map to the societys meeting, which was presided over by DAHS President Gil Campbell. Although Keough said that the villages intentions toward the society and Gordon Hall were good, the society expressed a distaste for stepping out of guidelines of formality and standard procedure. The only thing we ever responded to was articles in the newspaper, said prominent society member Paul Bishop, who has served as a past village president. Keough and Bishop went back and forth on the validity of the villages efforts to notify the society, which Keough said involved oneon-one verbal communication between the two men on multiple occasions. But the societys members kept stating that they never received a written letter detailing the village governments thought process behind including Gordon Hall, which Keough
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Many Americans remember where they were when United Airlines Flight 11 and 175 hit the World Trade Center towers a decade ago, but for some of the Dexter areas bravest, it was the days that followed that will remain etched upon their legacies as public servants, family men and human beings, as well as in the annals of American historys darkest chapters where nearly 3,000 human lives were lost. In the hours that followed the impact of 1 WTC and 2 WTC at 8:46 and 9:03 a.m. respectively, Dexter firefighters Lee Miller, Troy Maloney, Scott Gochis, Mike Grissom and Arthur Stauch piled into a truck and drove to New York City the day of the attacks. They arrived in the battered metropolis in their Dexter Area Fire Department turnout gear ready for whatever fate had in store for them. The group of men traveled more than 600 miles to arrive in New York on Sept. 12, 2001. Were never going to downtown New York, Dexter firefighter Mike Grissom recalled think-

ing on the way through Ohio and Pennsylvania. I thought wed end up in New Jersey some place helping there. Many New Jersey firefighters were called upon by then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as the first wave of support for FDNY firefighters overwhelmed by the crisis. I figured theyd say that they wouldnt need us dummies down there, but it just didnt happen that way, Grissom said. Grissom and Miller are the only members of the group still on active duty in Dexter. When the mayor and the governor (of New York) were requesting first responders to come to New York, the five of us got together with our chief and said that were going to go, said Stauch, the son of an area police officer and the grandson of an Ann Arbor fire chief, both of whom were among Stauchs thoughts while hashing out the details of the groups road trip and possible involvement at the scene of the attacks. The chief didnt like it, but he understood why we had to do it. Many departments in the area and around the country, responded immediately by locking down

their department personnel from going, but the Dexter department wasnt one of those that did. Chief Loren Yates sent his boys onward to the scene of the disaster with what he could spare medical gloves, dust masks and his prayers. Grissom and Stauch describe their decision as a foregone conclusion, given how they both feel about helping their fellow man. You get a paycheck to feed your family and pay your bills like everybody else, but theres no other job like this, Grissom said, grasping for the words. There are a lot of volunteer departments or even reserve police officers that dont get paid to do what they do. Youve got 15-year-old kids who are cadets ... they just want to be a police officer. Grissom and Stauch saw volunteers everywhere on Sept. 12 when they arrived: silverhaired guys in their 50s, 60s and beyond wearing homemade fire and police uniforms out of old jackets, tape and paper with retired firefighter and ex-cop written in black sharpie. Its the mentality that theres something bigger than me, than us, Grissom adds. There were people from all over there retired cops and firefighters from everywhere with hard hats and
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