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Organic Chicken
raisers seek
new location
Frank and Kay Soandso have big plans for their small agricultural operation near Durand.
At their 10-acre Earth Shine Farm they raised and processed 2,400 organic chickens last year; most were served in Flint-are restaurants.
The couple hopes to expand their operation to 15,000 birds this year and perhaps to 40,000 in 2007. They say they are looking for a new location, and have been considering moving their chicken-raising to Suttons Bay.
'Village needs
Fowl Officer'
Suttons Bay Village President R.M. Catton Jr., told the Village Council Monday night that an Animal Protection Officer (APO) is needed.
Catton said the new position should be modeled after Leelanau County's Animal Control Officer (ACO) position pioneeered by the late Wm. Chatfield on his way to the political summit as Chairman of the County Board of Commissioners.
S-B'S APO will, village solons believe, be charged with protecting all legal forms of animal life, from pet goldfish to elephants - with the specific exemption of Condo Jackasses (CJS).
Anti-barbecue
Law proposed
Suttons Bay residents have begun a petition drive to put an Anti-BBQ ordinance proposal on the August primary election ballot.
If approved by voters, as anticipated, the law would ban any and all Chicken Barbecues, of any size and location in the Village. The ordinance would specifically pertain to all condo units within the Village limits.
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After ten years on the main downtown street Known Books has moved to our new location across the street, and down by Suttons Bay in the lower level of the Millside Building. The building address is 101 Dame Street. Finding the building is easy! Turn onto the street between the BP Oil/Standard gas station and Roman Wheel Pizza and head towards the bay. We will be on your left. We are the last building closest to the water.
Suttons Bay is located about 15 miles (about 20 minutes if traveling the speed limit!) north of Traverse City on M-22.
Suttons Bay is a lovely year 'round village surrounded to the east by the bay, and snuggged in under the hills along the shore.
Our downtown main street business district is lined with shops, boutiques, galleries, restaurants, a movie theatre and a few antique and resale shops.
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Weakly S'Prise
Are you a Rooster Booster? Have a rooster for sale?
Word is on the street that the community is seeking, to present as a gift, a new breed of roosters which hopefully are a bit weaker than the norm and only do their crowing on the weekends. (Similar to a lot of our friends we gather with on the weekends!)
The picture shown above was taken as construction was beginning. You can see the boom crane in the distance. They had many working at once. Little did the staff and marketing arm know that they were moving into a neighborhood rich with agricultural history complete with farm animals, smells, and sounds. The new development sits on the former Frigid Foods Plant which used to process the tons and tons of cherries produced during the July harvests.
A comment recently bandied about a local coffee group was about the possible construction integrity of the condo structures - you would think that after paying upwards of a cool half-million dollars for a place on the water that the walls should at least be thick enough and soundproof enough to filter out the sound of a rooster.
'Noise law' exempts all farm animals
A new "construction noise" ordinance adopted by the Suttons Bay Village Council was amended minutes before passage to exempt all animals living in properly zoned areas of the village.
The council action came after a petition, signed by some 132 village residents, was presented, urging exemption of all 4-footed beings, especially farm animals, from the ordinance.
The action means that farm animals, such as roosters, in/on property zoned Agricultural can continue to crow at their owners' delight, day and night. Also excluded from coverage by provisions of the ordinance are village employees and state and county road workers.
'Rooster Booster' offshoot group is due in U.P.
The creator of the Suttons Bay "Rooster Booster" movement has been chosen to begin a similar movement in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
He is former Village president and Leelanau County honcho Dick Catton, who began the "S.B. Rooster Booster" club in April in defense of a crowing rooster next to the burgeoning new condominium development on the north edge of the village.
After purchasing property in the U.P. and putting his Suttons Bay Village residence up for sale ("By Owner", by the way), Catton was approached by a group of P.E.T.A. members and urged to form a similar group "up North".
But the new organization won't be about chickens - it's to be called the "Save Our Skunks" (S.O.S.) movement.
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Village chicken
is burned
Chuck E. Rooster of N. St. Joseph St. was transport to Munson Medical Center yesterday for treatment of severe sunburn.
Medical authorities said Mr. Rooster evidently became severely sunburned after several trees which had shaded his yard were cut down by a neighbor.
Village officials said such foul fowl treatment should not be allowed to continue. Police Chief Del Moore also said from Iraq that Mr. Rooster's illness only spotlights the need for a full-service medical Waddle-In Clinic in the Village
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