Alumni Banquet - June 28 2008

The Hudson Area Alumni Banquet will be held on Saturday, June 28 2008 at the American Legion.  Classes of 1963, 1958 and 2008 will be honored.  All other classes are encouraged to attend.  Mark you calendars and plan to attend.  More information will be given later.
                                             - Hazel Monahan, Alumni secretary

40 Year Class Reunion Set

The 1968 Class of Hudson Area High School will again have their reunion along with the alumni June 28 at the American Legion.  Questions and addressees please call Tony Marry at 517-448-8434 or Diane Milliman at 517-448-8418

Job Opportunity Sessions Planned

South Central Michigan Works will be available to discuss local job opportunities and resources being made available in Hudson on Tuesday, May 13.

Two sessions are planned, at 3:00 and 5:30 PM at the Hudson Community Center, 323 West Main Street. (Please use the Church Street entrance).

South Central Michigan Works, Lenawee Chamber for Economic Development, Hudson Area Schools and the City of Hudson have created a partnership to bring local residents these opportunities.

In the future, these groups will join together for a workshop to create resumes and profiles for Michigan Works!, which will be the agency that hiring for the job expansion planned this summer at Hi-Lex Controls will take place. Other local hiring will be handled in the next few months through the Michigan Works! application process.

People with an interest in these jobs are urged to attend.

Traffic Signal Study Planned for Tuesday

It is tentatively planned for researchers from the Michigan Department of Transportation to study traffic flows at the corner of Main and Church Street next Tuesday, May 13.

After a study was conducted last fall, it was concluded that the traffic north and south on Church Street was too light for the state to be able to fund replacement of the existing stop lights at the downtown corner. The Hudson City Council appealed this decision, and a new study was commissioned to test the issue, arguing that the study done last fall was too limited in scope and done at a time and date which traffic would normally be expected to be light.

The traffic lights at the corner is several decades old and would be expensive to replace if the city had to fund it, which was one of the options presented to Council.

Another option presented to Council at that time was to create a four-way stop at Main and Church Street -- something that didn't appeal to the Council because of the traffic hazard they felt would be created.

Power to be out Downtown Thursday

Consumer's Energy will be cutting power to much of the downtown area on Thursday, May 8, from 1 PM to 5 PM.

The outage will allow crews to replace a failing power pole on Lane Street.

If weather or other things keep work from being done this Thursday, the outage will be rescheduled for Thursday, May 15.

Swimming Lesson Signup Starts

The plans for Hudson's summer recreation program are underway but the first order of business is getting youngsters signed-up for swimming lessons at Adrian's Bohn Pool.

The first session will began on Monday, June 9th with a new starting time of 9:45. The session is for two weeks ending on Friday, June 20th. The cost is $38 per swimmer. The second session runs June 23-July 4.

Any Hudson area youngster interested in getting signed-up needs to contact summer recreation director Bill Mullaly at 517 425-9525 for more information about the swimming lessons.

The other summer recreation information will be in next week's edition of the Hudson Post Gazette. Anyone with any questions or wanting more information should just contact Bill at the above number.

Drama Class Cleans up at Forensics Tourney

This year’s drama class brought home a record number of awards for their efforts in the county forensics tournament.  Students were allowed to participate in up to two categories of events including dramatic or humorous monologues, duos, multiples, poetry, storytelling, impromptu, persuasive or informative speeches.  Students from Hudson competed in each category against students from Sand Creek, Adrian, and Lenawee Christian with each school allowed only three entries per category. 

The class earned ten awards, more than ever before in a tournament.  Hudson swept the humorous monologue event with Ashley Goodlock placing third, Bradi Henson earning second place, and Zach Warner winning the event. Each person competing in the monologue event presents a five to eight minute monologue.  Beth Court earned a second place award in the dramatic monologue event.  Both of the multiple groups representing Hudson earned awards.  The multiple event is for a piece involving three to eight people performing for ten to fifteen minutes.  Performing Red vs. Blue and earning third place was the group of Hobbs Valley, Blake Woodward, Sean Stubli, Andrew Weasel, Nathan Burlew, Adam Brenner, and Jesse Webster.  The second place award went to the multiple of Jeremy Busscher, Kellee Wonders, Carla Vera, Sydney Foreman, Joe Rodriguez, Liz Austin and Zeb Hilyard.  Mykahla Frayer brought home a third place for her telling of the story You are Special by Max Lucado.  This is a telling of a children’s story lasting five to eight minutes.  The two categories for duo performance (a performance by two people) were both represented by Hudson winners.  Jeremy Busscher and Kellee Wonders took second place in the dramatic duo event for their interpretation of a cutting from When Harry Met Sally.  Winning the first place honor in the humorous duo event were juniors Blake Woodward and Adam Brenner.  The last event that Hudson placed in was the impromptu event.  In this event, a team of two actors draw from a hat to find their characters, their location, and the situation they find themselves in.  The two then have two minutes to prepare a scene and five minutes to present the scene for judging. Joe Rodriguez and Zach Warner won this event by portraying a TV news journalist and valley girl, Christina Aguilera in a kindergarten classroom making a music video.  The win caps their respective three and four years of drama competitions. 

As you can see, Hudson has a wealth of talent and much to be proud of in their young people of the community. 

The entire drama class will be highlighted during a public performance on Thursday, May 29 at 7:00.  They will perform their interpretation of a few popular sitcoms.  Mark your calendars now to enjoy the talents of these young people.

Pictured Left to Right.  Standing: Hobbs Valley, Blake Woodward, Sean Stubli, Andrew Weasel, Nathan Burlew, Ashley Goodlock, Mykahla Frayer, Jeremy Busscher.  Middle Row:  Adam Brenner, Sydney Foreman, Carla Vera, Kellee Wonders.  Front Row:  Zach Warner, Bradi Henson, Joe Rodriguez.  Missing:  Jesse Webster, Liz Austin, Zeb Hilyard, and Beth Court. 

Glory Bound at First Baptist

A musical family, ‘Glory Bound’, will be singing at Hudson First Baptist Church Sunday evening, May 18, at 6 o’clock. They are from the Ypsilanti area. The public is cordially invited to attend and enjoy their southern gospel style of singing.

Brownies to Help Food Pantry

Working with the Hudson Post Office, second grade Brownie Girl Scout Troop 180 (Helping Hands for Hudson) will have a donation box at Market House on Friday and Saturday (May 9th & 10th) for the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Items will be donated to the Hudson Food Pantry.

Adam Baker Promoted

ADAM BAKER was promoted to Sergeant in the US Marine Corps on May 1, 2008. His commander and his wife Hannah pin on his new rank insignia. Baker is a career planner in the Corps, and is coming up on four years in the service. He recently re-enlisted for another four years. He served in Operation Iraqi Freedom for a year in 2005. He resides with his wife in Jacksonville, NC. He is the grandson of Dorothy Baker of Hudson and is a 2003 graduate of Hudson Area High School.          

Traveling Exhibit about Midwest Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany Coming to Hudson

Hardly anyone alive today is aware that the first U.S. troops sent to fight in WWII came from the Upper Midwest, or that the region’s 34th “Red Bull” Division served the longest uninterrupted duty in U.S. military history-about 600 days. Even fewer know that, as some 1,800 mostly Midwest soldiers were captured in one night in North Africa in February 1943, until the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 the most U.S. POWs in Nazi-German camps came, per capita, from the same region.

“Behind Barbed Wire”, touring seven Midwest states in the spring and summer of2008, including Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, explores the experiences of Midwest prisoners of war (POWs) who were imprisoned in Hitler’s Third Reich, and the human context in which their experiences took place. The 8t. Paul-based, non-profit educational organization TRACES created this exhibit. The exhibit, housed in a converted school bus, will reach nearly 120 schools, libraries, and historical societies along the way.

Barring unforeseen difficulties the BUS-eum will be in Hudson, Michigan from 9 a.m. to Noon on Friday, May 16th, 2008; it will be at the corner of Main and Lane Streets in the Bob’s Market House Parking Lot “Behind Barbed Wire” poses five primary questions:

• Why did some Midwest POWs survive certain conditions or experiences, while others did not, -

• What roles did art, free time and religion play in helping those men who did survive imprisonment by the Nazi regime,

• Why did some Germans or Austrians assist Midwest POWs, while others did not,

• How did the liberated POWs later come to terms with their own experiences, and

• How do countries once in armed conflict reconcile with each other:

• How do nations and the individuals who constitute a nation get beyond war?

As the opening panel of the exhibit reminds viewers, “The prisoner of war experience is one few men or women know directly. Being taken prisoner is, in itself, neither dishonorable nor heroic.

Capture is largely an accident; often, it comes as a complete surprise and is frequently accompanied by injury. Usually, the confinement is painful; too often, it is fatal. In war, not everyone is lucky:

some lose. Those taken captive are part of the unlucky ones.” As the exhibit’s first text explains, “There were three main waves of Midwest POWs: those captured in North Africa in 1943, those pilots shot out of the sky during the air war over Europe, and those soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge, near the war’s end. Each wave of Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany had its own experiences. All of the men who survived them, however, left a provocative legacy for those alive today-one involving the very nature of war itself: how does armed conflict between groups of people play out, face-to-face, when the guns are lowered; how ‘should’ humans treat each other and, ultimately, live together?”

This is the only scheduled stop in the Lenawee/Hillsdale county area at this time. There is a suggested donation of $1.00 per person to help offset the cost.

Great Lakes, Great Traditions at Library

Michigan Week’s mission is to inspire people - at the local level- to embrace, explore and celebrate the history, resources and opportunities that set Michigan apart as an ideal state to work, play and thrive.

Michigan week is May 17-23 this year.

The Hudson community spiffs up yards and plants gardens and flower beds, new flags go outside at homes and the cemeteries, the city authorities exchange council people and department heads with other communities to gather information and learn of new ways and manners of doing things and performing duties. This year Hudson will turn 175 years old and community members are urged to consider planting trees in celebration of our longevity.

The Hudson Public Library staff has put together a display of Michigan Notable Books from 2007 and 2008. A few local favorites have also made it into the display. Some of the titles are as follows:

Mackinac Bridge: A 50-Year Chronicle, 1957-2007 by Mike Fornes;  “My Brave Mechanics:” The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War by Mark Hoffman; Up in Honey’s Room a Mystery by Elmore Leonard; Nicotine Kiss: a Mystery by Loren Estleman; Summer of the War by Gloria Whelan; Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan by Lynn Steiner; Death’s Door: the Truth behind Michigan’s Largest Mass Murder by Steve Lehto; Keewaydinoquay: Stories from My Youth by Pesche Keewaydinoquay; Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis; Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison; Donutheart by Sue Stauffaucher; Michigan Heritage Barns by Mary Keihan; Forests of Michigan by Donald L. Dickmann; Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan by Lynn M. Steiner; Barns of Old Mission Peninsula and their stories by Evelyn Johnson; Night Work by Steve Hamilton; Annuals for Michigan by Nancy Szerlag; Mapping in Michigan and the Great Lakes Area edited by David Macleod; Public Gardens of Michigan by Miriam Rutz

All of these titles are available to be checked out. We also have many Michigan books upstairs in the call number of 977.4 and quite a collection of Michigan Fiction and Michigan Nonfiction in the local history area of the library.

LISD Students Assist with Anatomy Lessons

Senior students enrolled in the LISD Tech Centers Nursing Preparation class assisted 2nd grade teachers with their anatomy lesson. Katie Grob is shown dissecting a sheep's eye. This helped students to understand the anatomy of the eye. Thank you Mrs. Lisa Dunlap Nursing Prep Instructor.

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