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Community pillar Tricia Denton faces challenges of her own

Imagine putting in the interminable work required to face down alcoholism and maintain your sobriety for 30 years. Through that journey, you mentor dozens of other women in the throes of their own addiction recovery. Now imagine your world is rocked by a rare neurodegenerative disease called Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS) that, among other cruel symptoms, causes your speech to slur. Most people would feel justified in reacting with anger or indignation but not Tricia Denton of Maple City. “I just found it humorous. We always have the opportunity to turn those situations into teaching and awareness opportunities,” she says with remarkable grace. Click here to read more, and find a link to support Denton’s GoFundMe campaign.

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Shut down the Mackinac Straits pipeline?

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Burdickville resident Jim Lively, a program director with the Traverse City-based Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities (formerly the Michigan Land Use Institute) is a key player in the Oil & Water Don’t Mix campaign, which calls on the state to shut down two aging oil pipelines under the Straits of Mackinac.

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Banging the drum for Climate Change action

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Fifteen-year-olds Annabel Skrocki and Annie Lively, both sophomores at Glen Lake School, stood in complete silence with more than 400,000 other climate activists at the People’s Climate march on Sept. 21—mourning, for the melting glaciers, the rising oceans, the dryer mid-continents, the stronger storms, the disappearing islands and the paralyzed politicians.

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Protesting oil pipeline across Mackinac Straits

On Sunday, July 14, a group of state and national environmental organizations intend to bring the two lines out of the depths at a noon rally in St. Ignace, Michigan. The goal of “The Oil & Water Don’t Mix Rally”, say organizers, is twofold. The first is to define the potential risks of a leak or rupture to the Great Lakes, the largest body of clean surface freshwater in North America. The second, more ambitious, is to clarify the role that Enbridge and its customers are playing in expanding the transport and processing of a gusher of oil and natural gas under development on the American and Canadian Great Plains, and from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada.

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