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CITY OF HASTINGS
REQUEST FOR BIDS
Water Treatment Plant Reroofing Project
The City of Hastings Department of Public Services is
requesting sealed bids for the Water Treatment Plant
Reroofing Project.
Bid proposal forms and specifications are available
at the address listed below. The City of Hastings
reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive
any irregularities in the bid proposals, and to award
the bid as deemed to be in the City’s best interest,
price and other factors considered.
Sealed bids shall be received at the Office of the City
Clerk/Treasurer, 201 East State Street, Hastings,
Michigan 49058 until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 1,
2023 at which time they shall be opened and publicly
read aloud. All bids shall be clearly marked on the
outside of the submittal package “Water Treatment
Plant Reroofing Project”.
Travis J. Tate, P.E.
Director of Public Services
199085Saxon tennis hasn’t quite caught
Parma-Western girls yet in I-
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Hastings varsity girls’ tennis team is
now 4-2 in the Interstate-8 Athletic Confer-
ence after suffering its second league defeat,
against Parma Western, in Hastings Thursday
afternoon.
The Panthers won the top three singles
flights and the bottom three doubles flights to
pull out the win.
Hastings had the top doubles team of Bai-
ley Cook and Erin Daniels score a 6-4, 4-6,
(11-9) win over Teagan Robertson and Alena
Engle in their contest.
Saxon head coach Andrew Haines said
Cook and Daniels “came to win and played a
great match, finding a new gear in the third-
set tiebreaker win.”
That Saxon duo is still undefeated in the
I-8 this spring and now 11-1 overall.
MJ Deal got the Saxons’ singles point with
a 6-1, 6-4 win over Kilona Carmody in the
fourth singles match.
“They are a good team, but a beatable team
and we as the whole left a couple matches out
on the court that we shouldn’t have, but I guess
that’s the difference between our two pro-
grams,” Haines said. “I do feel that we have
done a great job of closing the gap that onceexisted. We definitely scare them a bit more.”
Haines said Deal is a “grinder, and she
fought for the win [at fourth singles].”
Parma Western took two other singles
matches in extended fashion. Ali Carmody
won a three-set match with Hastings’ Calin
Redman 2-6, 6-0, 6-1 at number three singles.
At second singles, the Saxons’ Carlota Espi
Vano lost a hard-fought, two-hour match with
Dru Porter in a super tiebreaker. Porter took a
6-7(5), 6-3, (10-8) win.
Western also got a 6-1, 6-2 win from first
singles player Bella Brushaber over the Sax-
ons’ Abby Beemer.
Parma Western took the second, third and
fourth doubles matches in straight sets.
The match was on the heels of a 5-3 win at
Harper Creek Wednesday, May 3.
Beemer bested the Beavers top player,
Rachel Osterhart, 6-2, 6-1.
Hastings scored three quick singles wins,
with Espi Vano taking a 6-1, 6-1 win at num-
ber two and Deal scoring a 6-3, 6-1 win at
number three.
Haines said his team was lucky to escape
with a win as the Beavers’ improved doubles
squads surprised his girls a bit. The Saxons
first and third doubles teams were lights out,
like the girls in the singles victories. Cookand Daniels scored a 6-3, 6-3 win over Grace
Babcock and Cassidy Pratley at first doubles.
At third doubles, the Saxon duo of Julia
McLean and Audrey Vertalka took a 4-6, 6-4,
6-3 win over Emily Purucker and Everlyn
VanValkenberg.
Last Friday, playing a third match in three
days, the Saxons took an 8-0 non-conference
victory at Lakewood.
Lakewood took just one set all afternoon,
at second doubles, where the Saxon duo of
Megan Rowley and Sophia Ahearns eventu-
ally prevailed over Liv Everitt and Paige
Wolverton 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.
Coach Haines said Cook and Daniels
played one of their best matches of the season
tu knock off Alli Pickard and Abby Pickard
6-3, 6-0 at first doubles.
McLean and Vertalka battled for a 6-4, 6-
win over Lakewood’s Gabby Hansen and
Emma Duffy at third doubles, and Lillian
Pepper and Lilyan Solmes scored a 6-2, 6-
win over the Vikings’ Courtnie Mathe and
Kenzie Everett at fourth doubles.
Beemer, Espi Vano, Redman and Deal all
won in straight sets on the singles side. Red-
man faced the biggest challenge, eventually
outdoing Lakewood’s Emily Pilar 6-4, 6-2 at
number three singles.Western sprinters end Saxon boys’ undefeated I-8 run
Valerie Slaughter
Contributing Writer
Hastings varsity track athletes have moved
up in the Interstate-8 Athletic Conference
after meets with Parma Western and Penn-
field last week at home and Tuesday night
against Jackson Northwest in Jackson.
The Hastings’ teams scored wins over Pen-
nfield and Northwest, but lost to a tough
Parma Western team.
“The short sprints got us,” Hastings head
coach Brian Teed said of his guys loss to the
Panthers last week. “We got swept in the
100 and 200 and then naturally in the 400-
meter relay and the 800-meter relay. That’s
32-0 in 4 of 17 events and is really difficult
to overcome. The girls’ meet was at the
opposite end of the spectrum. They were
swept in the 1600-meter and 3200-meter.
Take those two events out and our girls win
the rest of the meet.”
Placing against Parma Western and Penn-
field for the Saxon girls’ team were: Madi-
son Nino taking first in the 100-meter and
first in the long jump, Isabelle Roosien first
in the 200-meter, second in the 100-meter,
and Olivia Friddle finished first in the shot
put, first in the discus, first in pole vault, and
third in the 100-meter; Myah Vincent sec-
ond in the 200-meter; Addy Nickels first in
the 100-meter hurdles and 300-meter hur-
dles; Ava Noteboom second in the 100-
meter hurdles; Grace Madden finished third
in the shot put.
In the relays, the 4x100-meter relay of
Nino, Roosien, Nickels and Vincent finished
first; 4x200-meter relay of Nino, Nickels
Roosien and Vincent finished first; the
4x400-meter relay of Eva Rowley, Maddie
Peake, Skylar Fenstemaker and Lauren
Arnold finished third; and the 4x800-meter
relay of Arnold, Rowley, Jayla Ellwood, and
Ellie Cousins finished second.
Finishing in the top three for the boys’
team: Robby Slaughter first in pole vault,
first in long jump, and second in the 400-
meter; Charlie Nickels finished third in the
400-meter; Riley Shults finished second in
the 1600-meter and third in the 3200-meter;
Brandon Simmons took second in the 3200-
meter; Layton Eastman finished first in the
110-meter hurdles and first in the 300-meter
hurdles; Nate Kohmescher finished third in
the 300-meter hurdles; Daniel Weatherly
finished first in the discus; Isaac Friddle
took third in the discus; Charlie Nickels took
first in the high jump with a PR of 6 feet 4
inches.
In the relays, the Saxon 4x100-meter relay
team of Zane Warner, Lanny Teunessen,
Aiden SaintAmour and Reuben Solmes took
second; the 4x2800-meter relay team of East-
man, Jett Barnum, Kohmescher, and Solmes
finished second; the 4x400-meter relay team
of Nickels, Barnum, Eastman and Tolles fin-
ished first; and the 4x800-meter relay of
Shults, Jonah Teed, Caleb LaBoe and Tolles
finished second.
In Interstate-8 action on Tuesday night
against the Mounties at Jackson Northwest,
the Saxons got another win. The victory
pushes the HHS girls to 14-5 overall with a
4-1 I-8 record, and the boys’ team moves to
16-3 overall and 4-1 in the conference.
Coach Teed congratulated his assistant
coach, Tony Knopp.
“Coach Knopp has done a great job with
the long jump crew. The whole crew did real-
ly well [Tuesday].”
For the girls’ team, Nino broke the school
record, set back in 1977 by B Smith at
17-9.75, with a new PR and jump of 17-10,
and Julie Klein and Maddie Peake also
jumped new PR’s for the Saxons. Slaughter,
Barnum, Devin Smith, Cardale Winebrenner
and Aiden SaintAmour also had PR’s for the
guys crew. Slaughter finished first with a PR
of 20-6.5 and Barnum took second just
behind him with a jump of 20-3.
Teed also noted, “we called on some of our
depth to fill in due to some injuries with our
other guys who are banged up. Cardale Wine-brenner did a good job starting off our 400-
meter relay for his first time.”
Other Saxon athletes placing against
Northwest for the night were: Solmes fin-
ished first in the 100-meter; SaintAmour
took second in the 100-meter; C Nickels
finished first in the 200-meter with a new PR
of 23.82 and second in the 400-meter; Bar-
num took second in the 200-meter and sec-
ond in long jump; Slaughter finished first in
the pole vault and long jump and third in the
400-meter; Tolles finished first in the 800-
meter; Jonah Teed was second in the 800-
meter; Micah Johnson finished third in the
800-meter; Shults took first in the 1600-
meter; LaBoe was second in the 1600-meter;
Brandon Simmons finished first in the 3200-
meter; Alex Steward took second in the
3200-meter; Eastman finished first in the
110-meter and 300-meter hurdles;
Kohmescher took second in the 110-meter
hurdles and third in the 300-meter hurdles;
Weatherly finishes first in shot put and sec-
ond in discus with a PR of 131-08; Adam
Jacob took second in shot and second in dis-
cus; and Isaiah Wilson finished third in shot
put; Caleb Gurtowsky took second in pole
vault; and Draven Pennock finished third in
pole vault;
The Saxon boys relay teams swept all the
relays for the night. The team of Winebren-
ner, Teunessen, SaintAmour and Solmes was
first in the 4x100-meter; the team of Tolles,
Eastman, Kohmescher and Solmes was first
in the 4x200-meter relay; the team of Slaugh-
ter, Eastman, Barnum and Tolles was first in
the 4x400-meter relay; and the team of Sim-
mons, LaBoe, Johnson and Teed took first in
the 4x800-meter relay.
For the Saxon girls’ team, athletes scoring
in the top three were: Nino took first in the
100-meter with a PR of 13:07; Olivia Frid-
dle finished first in shot put with a new
freshman record and PR of 34-11.5, first in
the discus, first in the pole vault, and second
in the 100-meter with a PR of 13.12; Roosien
finished first in the 200-meter with a PR of
26.96 and took third in the 100-meter; Vin-
cent finished second in the 200-meter and
third in long jump; Maddie Peake took third
in the 400-meter with a PR of 1:10.84; Lau-ren Arnold finished second in the 800-meter;
Eva Rowley took third in the 800-meter and
third in the 1600-meter; Jayla Ellwood took
second in the 1600-meter with a PR of
6:31.53; A. Nickels took first in the 100-
meter and 300-meter hurdles; Ava Note-
boom finished second in the 100-meter hur-
dles, second in high jump and third in pole
vault; Klein finished third in the 100-meter
hurdles and third in high jump; Grace Mad-
den finished third in shot put and second in
the discus; Zoe Watson finished third in
discus; and Skylar Fenstemaker took second
in pole vault.
The Hastings girls 4x100-meter and
4x200-meter relay teams remain undefeated
on the season. The team of Nino, Roosien, A
Nickels and Vincent won both events again
for the night. The Saxon 4x800-meter relay
team of Rowley, Ellwood, Ellie Cousins and
Arnold also took first for the night.
Last Friday night the Saxon track teams
headed to Corunna for a 15-school invitation-
al. The Saxons got off to a slow start in the
short sprints, but coach Teed noted they
“turned things around for us starting with the
800-meter relay. The girls broke the malaise
by winning the event and just missing our
school record by a tenth of a second. After the
excitement the rest of the team responded
throughout the evening. The girls 400-meter
relay team set a new school record.”
The 4x100-meter relay of Nino, Roosien,
Nickels and Vincent broke the 2010 record
with a time of 50.7.
Other Saxon athletes finishing in the top 4
in the 15 school field were: Slaughter first in
pole vault; Tolles first in the 400-meter; East-
man third in the 300-meter hurdles and fourth
in the 110-meter hurdles; Weatherly second
in shot put and fourth in discus; Nickels sec-
ond in high jump. The boys’ 4x400-meter
relay team of Slaughter, Nickels, Barnum and
Tolles finished in second place.
For the HHS girls’ team: Nino finished
first in the long jump and third in the 100-
meter; Roosien took third in the 200-meter;
Addey Nickels took third in the 300-meter
hurdles and fourth in the 100-meter hurdles;
and Olivia Friddle took second in shot put
and third in pole vault.DK golf squad seventh
at Constantine jamboree
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Delton Kellogg/Martin varsity
boys’ golf team placed seventh at the
Southwestern Athletic Conference Valley
Division jamboree hosted by Constantine
Monday at the Island Golf Course.
Hackett Catholic Prep outscored
Kalamazoo Christian 161-168 for the
day’s victory. Schoolcraft was third with a
score of 185, ahead of Lawton 191, Con-
stantine 206, Parchment 207 and Delton
Kellogg/Martin 215.
Freshman Tyler Howland led the DK/
Martin boys with a score of 51. SeniorBrett Harsevoort shot a 54 and senior
Trenton Stoneburner and freshman Carter
Brickley both scored a 55.
Hackett senior Niklas Johansson and
Kalamazoo Christian senior Ethan Ver-
kaik were the day’s top players. They both
scored a 37. Lawton senior Zachary lull
was third with a 40. Hackett freshman
Justin Tyler, sophomore Chris Orgrin and
Kalamazoo Christian senior Drew Vander-
laan each shot a 41.
Delton Kellogg is scheduled to be at the
Pennfield Ryder Cup contest Friday, and
Lawton will play host to the SAC Valley
Tuesday.The Saxons' Layton Eastman is a stride or two ahead of teammate Nate Kohmescher
during the 110-meter high hurdle race at Jackson Northwest Tuesday afternoon.
(Photo by Valerie Slaughter)Hastings senior Madison Nino breaks a 46-year-old Hastings High School record by
flying 17 feet 10 inches in the long jump during her team's Interstate-8 Athletic
Conference dual at Jackson Northwest Tuesday. (Photo by Valerie Slaughter)