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People gathered at the four corners in downtown Saline to light and decorate the holiday tree, sing carols and enjoy refreshments and each other's company Tuesday evening.
The Saline Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the annual tree lighting ceremony, attended by about 60 people, including Mayor Brian Marl and Miss Saline Sophia Bauman.
Three tree was installed last week in front of Key Bank by the city's DPW staff. When the evening began, it was a sparsely decorated tree. But throughout the event, between sips of cocoa and bites of cookies, children and their parents added ornaments to the tree.
The Saline High School 10 Tones choir performed carols for the audience.
"I think they (the 10 Tones) are incredibly gifted and I wish I had a fraction of your talent," Mayor Marl told the choir.
Marl told the crowd he hoped they'd join him at the Merry Mile run (5 p.m., Saturday) and Holiday Parade (5:30 p.m., Saturday) in downtown Saline this weekend.
After more singing by the 10 Tones, emcee Molly Coy presented a "magic wand" to Miss Saline Sophia Bauman. On the count of three Bauman waved her wand and the tree's lights sparkled on.
Bauman invited people to purchase Miss Saline ornaments for their Christmas trees. The $10 ornaments are available at several businesses in town and proceeds benefit the Miss Saline scholarship program.
Bauman also invited people to donate toys at area Toys for Tots drop-off locations.
"Last year we collected over 1,100 toys and we think we can beat that this year," Bauman said.
Sunny, with a high of 71 and low of 43 degrees. Sunny during 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,