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It's Oktoberfest week in Saline.
Originally, the community's Oktoberfest party was a celebration of Saline's sister-city kinship with Lindenberg, Germany. It was also a fundraiser for the Saline-Lindenberg sister city organization.
Delegations between the cities have resumed. The Saline-Lindenberg Friendship Guild will be selling bratwurst and weisswurst during Oktoberfest in downtown Saline Friday and Saturday.
Saline Mayor Brian Marl and Councillor Dean Girbach will be among those prepping and serving the German sausage, they said Monday night during the city council meeting.
"If you want some good, authentic German food and you want to help our sister city group, please come by," Marl said.
Councillor Jack Ceo, a long time backer of both of Saline's sister-city clubs, said there are only five spots remaining on the next trip to Lindenberg. Anyone who wants to make the next trip should contact Jim Roth at roth@bignet.net.
The City of Saline has sister city kinships with Brecon, Wales (celebrated during the Saline Celtic Festival) and Lindenberg, Germany.
Lindenberg is a town in Bavaria, in southern Germany. The town was first mentioned in 857. For hundreds of years, Lindenberg was known for its straw hat industry. Today, Liebherr Aerospace is one of the city's important employers. Liebherr is also one of Saline's important employers.
Sunny, with a high of 71 and low of 40 degrees. Sunny in the morning, clear overnight.
No, the motion to approve & adopt was made by Ceo, seconded by Lesch. If you're interested in an unedited/unredacted version of Monday's meeting, the link to the video recording of our budget work session and regular meeting is provided below -
Thank you to those Council members who support the citizens and the Rec Center.
Please note, the rec center now requires 1/3 to almost 1/2 of its operations be funded by the City of Saline taxpayers. Approximately 10% of our City population uses the facility, while 2/3 of the members are non-resident. It’s time the non City residents of the Saline community pays its fair share.
What happened with the funding for the needed repairs at the Recreation Center? With all of the programs and community services provided at the Recreation Center, the nearby communities spending tens of millions of dollars to build new Recreation Centers, and the number of members/high usage for the Center and part
Name all the municipalities of 10,000 people that have their own Rec Center with a pool. I'm generally curious.
Saline Area Schools needs to take over the Rec Center with a Rec creation millage and maybe a short bond issue, too, for improvements.
The mayor and city council love to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously. More and more $$$ into the rec center, that needs to stop. We still don’t have drinkable water and yet the city keeps raising rates. Can’t speak for everyone but I would much rather have clean water than a “lazy river!”
Sorry, Toby Crotty. Do not align to your assessment or thoughts. While nearby communities are spending tens of millions of dollars to build Recreation Centers (because of their value to citizens and communities), Saline is in the fortunate position of already having a very good facility in place which now needs to
You avoided my main point. The rec center is a nice amenity for those that use it. However, it is not a necessity. Clean safe water that we pay exorbitant rates for IS a necessity for EVERYONE!
The unprofessional behavior while in the supposed role of being a journalist when talking to that protester is ridiculous. The incorrect information and “facts” you spewed during the conversation are just par for the course. Thanks for showing up!
I agree with your comments about this journalist. I use the word journalist loosely here, as a journalist should be bringing forth the views of the people they are interviewing, not bringing their obvious bias into every forced conversation.
I understand the right 4 peaceful protests, why expose children to hate and show disrespect to our flag, what is that teaching the children. As a Korean Veteran I oppose anyone disrespecting our countries FLAG, shame on the protesters,