Emmet County is looking for a few good women and men!

From the website: “The Board of Commissioners appoints Board and Committee members from a pool of applicants when positions become available. Openings occur on committees at various times throughout the year.  Please feel free to submit an application at any time and it will be held and considered should an opening on a committee become available.”

Current Open Positions: Planning Commission, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority
Construction Resource Committee (1 openings Plumbing Contractor)
Economic Development Corporation (2 openings)
Historical Commission
Parks & Rec (2 openings)
Regional Prosperity Board (2 openings)
Sanitary Board of Appeals

Fill out this form if you are interested, and return it to Juli Wallin, County Clerk. Note: These appointments are for one year terms, and the term expires on 12-31-19.

Geri Szymanski, ECRP chair, and Laura Cox, MIGOP chair, at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Mackinaw City hosted by the Cheboygan Republicans.

Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, in Grand Rapids at the Van Andel Arena. Thousands of folks watched the rally outside the arena on a jumbotron. #MAGA2020

Packed house last night for @realDonaldTrump in Michigan! Thank you @GOPChairwoman and @MIGOPChair for helping put this together! “Not only was @POTUS the only Republican to win the presidency in Michigan in the last 30 years, but.. he’ll be doing it again in 2020!” #MAGA pic.twitter.com/jxA4NW5m4e

— Lee Chatfield (@LeeChatfield) March 29, 2019

The 2020 presidential campaign has begun! Information about how to obtain free tickets for this rally, here.

Proud MI alum, Dr. Lou

Dr. Lou Zako, ECRP vice-chair and Petoskey News-Review editorialist, has been carefully weighing in on the topic of social pathologies – difficult issues such as poverty and racism.

In his most recent column,  the good doctor discusses war. Specifically, how a strong military not only discourages war but it also discourages isolationism. Quote: “So one may ask what is a better treatment for war? I would submit that a militarily-dominate U.S., recognized by every nation on earth as a beacon for freedom, in alliance with other freedom-loving nations, is a far better deterrent to war than a feckless UN, the majority members of which consists of dictatorships.”

Read it all, and note that this column features a bonus – a mention of Lou and M.J.’s mission trip to the small African nation of Rwanda.

Trooper Hebner

Please join us at our March 4th, 2019 meeting, 7 p.m. at the Northern Lights Recreation conference room on M-119 in Harbor Springs. We have invited two speakers to discuss current drug trends in our community. They will explain the new recreational marijuana law, the rise of opioid use, and vaping.

You will not want to miss this informative, provocative presentation.

The speakers are …

Susan Pulaski, Community Health Supervisor, Health Department of Northwest Michigan; Project Coordinator, SAFE in Northern Michigan

Trooper Corey Hebner, CSO, MI State Police, 7th District, Gaylord post

Here’s our precinct delegates – representing Emmet County and the First Congressional District – at this weekend’s MIGOP convention which was held in Lansing.

Note: Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield, in the center, with his daughter, Payge, and parents, Rusty and Betty Chatfield.

Laura Cox, Michigan Republican Party chair candidate, campaigned in Emmet County tonight! Laura, a former ICE special agent, met with convention-bound-for-Lansing precinct delegates and also made some new friends. #GrandOldParty