The Hastings Banner — Thursday, March 7, 2024 — Page 13STATE OF MICHIGAN
PROBATE COURT
COUNTY OF BARRY
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
FILE NO. N/A
In the matter of the Frank A. Kokmeyer Trust.
Date of birth: 12/30/1941.
TO ALL CREDITORS:
NOTICE TO CREDITORS: Frank A. Kokmeyer,
died 02/11/2024. There is no personal representative
of the decedent’s estate to whom Letters of Authority
have been issued.
Creditors of the decedent are notified that claims
against the Trust will be forever barred unless
presented to Verna K. Kokmeyer, Trustee of the
Frank A. Kokmeyer Trust, under a Trust Agreement
dated 11/17/1978, as amended, within 4 months
after the date of publication of this notice.Date: 03/04/Miller Johnson
Angela M. Caulley P
45 Ottawa Avenue, SW, Suite 1100, PO Box 306
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49501-
(616) 831-Verna L. Kokmeyer
10641 Gun Lake Road
Middleville, MI 49333
(269) 998-
213208STATE OF MICHIGAN
PROBATE COURT
BARRY COUNTY
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Decedent’s Estate
CASE NO. and JUDGE 23-29536-DE
Court Address: 206 W. Court, # 302, Hastings, MI 49058
Court Telephone No.: 269-945-
Estate of Mark Mullenix, deceased. Date of birth:
August 20, 1958.
TO ALL CREDITORS:
NOTICE TO CREDITORS: The decedent, Mark
Mullenix, died 12/22/2022.
Creditors of the decedent are notified that all
claims against the estate will be forever barred
unless presented to attorney C. Christopher
Newberg (address below), personal representative,
or to both the probate court at 206 W. Court St.,
Ste. 302, Hastings, MI 49058 and the personal
representative within 4 months after the date of
publication of this notice.Date: March 5, 2024
Christopher Newberg P
180 Monroe Ave. NW, Suite 400
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
616-454-
Barbara Maloney
6971 Greendale Ct.
Jenison, MI 49428
616-669-0615 213311PRAIRIEVILLE TOWNSHIP
BARRY COUNTY, MICHIGANNOTICE OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENT PUBLIC HEARING
RICH LANE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DISTRICT 2023-TO: THE RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF
PRAIRIEVILLE, BARRY COUNTY, MICHIGAN AND ANY OTHER
INTERESTED PERSONS:PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, the Township Board of Prairieville Township,
as authorized by PA 188 of 1954, as amended, proposes to undertake a private road
improvement project (including paving and related improvements) on Rich Lane in
Prairieville Township as more particularly described below and to create a special
assessment district for the recovery of the costs thereof by special assessment against the
properties benefited.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the special assessment district
within which the foregoing improvements are proposed to be made and within which the
costs thereof are to be specially assessed includes with frontage on Rich Lane, including
the following tax parcel numbers:RICH LANE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DISTRICT 2023-2 - PROPOSED
DISTRICT:The properties indicated by parcel numbers:12-036-014-10 12-040-003-00 12-040-013-00 12-050-001-
12-036-022-00 12-040-004-00 12-040-014-00 12-050-001-
12-036-025-00 12-040-005-00 12-040-015-00 12-050-004-
12-036-028-00 12-040-006-00 12-040-016-00 12-050-005-
12-036-031-00 12-040-007-00 12-040-017-00 12-050-006-
12-036-031-10 12-040-008-00 12-040-018-00 12-050-007-
12-036-032-00 12-040-009-00 12-040-019-10 12-050-008-
12-040-001-00 12-040-010-00 12-040-020-00 12-036-013-
12-040-002-00 12-040-012-00 12-040-021-00 12-036-034-PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Township Board has received plans
showing the proposed road paving project and associated activities, together with an
estimate of the cost of the project in the amount of $55,237, which includes administrative
costs. The cost of the project is proposed to be raised by special assessment on parcels in
the proposed district. The Prairieville Township Board has passed a resolution tentatively
declaring its intention to undertake such project and to create the afore-described special
assessment district.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Township Board has placed the project
plans and costs estimate on file with the Township Clerk and said plans, cost estimates
and special assessment district may be examined at the Township Clerk’s office from the
date of this Notice to the date of the public hearing and may further be examined at such
public hearing.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Township Board proposes to make a
per-parcel special assessment each year for a period of four years (2024-2027 inclusive)
of approximately $460.61 per year. Additionally, the Township Board reserves the right
to levy a lesser assessment in any year that there are more funds in the special assessment
district fund than the amount needed.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a public hearing on the plans, district, and
cost estimates will be held at Prairieville Township Hall, 10115 S. Norris Road, Delton,
Michigan, on March 13, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.At the hearing, the Board will consider any written objections and comments to any of the
foregoing matters which are filed with the Township Clerk at or before the hearing, and
any objections or comments raised at the hearing; and at the hearing (or any adjournment
of the hearing which may be made without further notice), the township board may revise,
correct, amend or change the plans, cost estimates or special assessment district.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that if written objections to the project are filed
with the Township Board at or before the hearing, signed by the record owners of more
than 20% of the total road frontage proposed for improvement, the township board may
not proceed unless petitions in support of the project, signed by record owners of more
than 50% of the total road frontage proposed for improvement and for inclusion in the
special assessment district, are filed with the township. Written comments or objections
may be filed with the clerks at the address set out below.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that appearance and protest at the public hearing
is required in order to appeal the amount of the special assessment to the State Tax
Tribunal within 30 days after the special assessment roll is confirmed. An owner or party
in interest, or his or her agent, may appear in person at the hearing to protest the special
assessment, or shall be permitted to file at or before the hearing his or her appearance or
protest by letter and his or her personal appearance shall not be required. All interested
persons are invited to be present in person or by representative and to express their views
at the public hearing.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that if the township board determines to proceed
with the special assessment, the board will cause a special assessment roll to be prepared
and another hearing will be held, after notice to record owners of property proposed to be
specially assessed, to hear public comments concerning the proposed special assessment.Prairieville Township will provide necessary reasonable aids and services to individuals
with disabilities at the hearing upon four (4) days’ notice to the Township Clerk at the
address below.
Rod Goebel, Clerk
Prairieville Township
10115 S. Norris Road
Delton, MI 49046
(269) 623-2664 212990Saxons compete against D2’s best on tough lanes at finals
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
A 17 pin per game difference is kind of a
lot, but not so much that it can’t be a carrot
dangling in front of the Saxons’ Hunter Pen-
nington for next season.
Pennington had the top individual finish
among the three Saxons who qualified for, and
competed in, the MHSAA Division 2 Singles
Finals at Century Lanes in Waterford Satur-
day. The top 16 in six qualifying games at the
finals advance to the match-play bracket.
The Saxon junior had high games of 225,
218 and 202 while putting up a total score of
1,088 that put him in 32nd place in the quali-
fying. The last of the 16 match play qualifiers
from the field of 56 total guys, Madison
Heights Lamphere junior Nick Weidenbach,
had a final qualifying score of 1,164 – just
over 17 pins per game better than Pennington.
The Hastings varsity bowling program also
had junior Miles Lipsey place 48th in the
boys’ singles competition at the D2 Finals
and senior Ally Herder place 49th in the girls’
singles competition.
“It was a hard couple of days on the lanes
that weren’t forgiving,” Hastings varsity girls’
coach Deanna Rhodes said. “All of the bowl-
ers did well and we are happy and thrilled of
their accomplishments for making it to states.”
Herder capped off her two days at the state
finals by rolling a 172 in the last of her six
qualifying games. She also got to compete
with teammates Jen Stoline, Heaven Simmet,
Megan Ramey, Mya Norman and Keylin
Schild in the team state competition Friday in
Waterford where the Saxon girls were 16th in
qualifying.
Herder had an overall six-game qualifying
score of 902 Saturday.
Lipsey checked in with a total score of 1,
in the boys’ competition with a high-game of
223 to open the tournament. His next best was
the 191 he closed the competition with.
Flint Kearsley senior Gavin Haack was the
top scorer in the boys’ singles qualifying at
1,347, but it was his sophomore teammate
Jameson Vanier who won the D2 boys’ singles
state championship in the end. Vanier was fifth
in qualifying with a score of 1,234, just ahead
of another Kearsley teammate, sophomore
Chase Parr, who was sixth at 1,215.
Vanier beat out Madison Heights Lam-
phere junior Nolan Pepper in the match play
championship 489 to 362 in their two-game
series.
Northview senior Kelly Hartman was the
last of the 16 match-play qualifiers on thegirls’ side. She had a total score of 1,101 –
just three pins better than her hearest compet-
itor. There were four girls behind her within
six pins of her.
New Boston Huron had three girls in the
top six in qualifying including junior Addison
Dolencic who won it with an overall six-
game total of 1,2 09.
Livonia Clarenceville junior Caitlyn John-
son was seventh in qualifying, and then won
her way to the state championship in the
match-play bracket beating Hartman 413 to
332 in the finals.
The Flint Kearsley boys and girls both won
team state titles on Friday in Waterford. The
team competition consisted of 16 teams roll-
ing eight Baker and two regular games in
qualifying and then the top eight advancing to
a bracket where the teams compete in best-of-
five Baker games.
The Saxon girls had top Baker games of
163 and 151 among their eight and tallied
regular scores of 695 and 649. They had an
overall total of 2,466 to place 16th. Marshall
was eighth in the girls’ qualifying with an
overall score of 2,837.
Rhodes said her girls were thankful to get
the chance to compete against the top teams
in the state.Burpee one victory shy of earning his first state medal
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Maple Valley sophomore Jackson Burpee
wasn’t on one of the steps of the medal stand
as he would have hoped at the end of the
MHSAA Division 4 Individual Wrestling
Finals over the weekend at Ford Field in
Detroit.
He did take a big step in his second varsity
season though. A first-time state qualifier,
Burpee won his first state finals match ever
- outscoring Leslie’s Matt Dexter thanks to a
take down in a sudden victory overtime peri-
od. Burpee won that bout in D4’s 190-pound
weight class 3-1.
It turned out to be the final victory of a 35-
season for Burpee. He was pinned midway
through the third period by Bark River-Harris’
Lucas Sischo in the quarterfinal round, and
then defaulted his blood round match to
Charlevoix’s Trevor Streeter due to an injury
early in the third period Friday afternoon.
Burpee won 25 matches and was a regional
qualifier as a freshman, but didn’t get a victo-ry at regionals a year ago after finishing as a
district runner-up.
New Lothrop senior Colton Symons won
Division 4’s 190-pound weight class over the
weekend, pinning Lakeview junior CJ Cope-
land in the championship match Saturday in
Detroit.
Sischo placed sixth and Streeter seventh in
the weight class. Burpee had a 1-0 lead over
Streeter following a late second period escape
in that blood round match before having to
bow out of the tournament.Vikings eighth at Division 3 Cheer Finals
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
A group of 69 teams that started the 2023-
24 MHSAA varsity competitive cheer season
in Division 3 didn’t get to cheer in front of
the screaming, rainbow-colored wall of fans
that fill the north section of McGuirk Arena
on the campus of Central Michigan Universi-
ty at the state finals.
The Lakewood Vikings did.
The final scores weren’t what the Lake-
wood ladies were hoping for, but they gave it
their all at the MHSAA Division 3 Competi-
tive Cheer Finals in Mt. Pleasant Saturday.
“Not what we were hoping for,” Lakewood
senior base Emily Pilar said. “We’re kind of
down, but that is what happens I guess.”
The Vikings had some tears, and so did the
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep girls.
Croswell-Lexington won its second
straight MHSAA Division 3 Competitive
Cheer Championship outscoring Notre Dame
Prep 782.52 to 782.12 at the top of the stand-
ings. Croswell-Lexington outscored Notre
Dame Prep by nine tenths of a point in round
three to finish fourth tenths ahead in the end.
The Notre Dame Prep girls were also second
to Croswel-Lexington a year ago.
The Lakewood tears came in part due to a
senior-filled team not quite meeting its own
expectations Saturday, and that group of eight
seniors cheering together for the final time.
This was the third consecutive season the
Vikings closed their season at the state finals.
“There were some nerves,” Lakewood head
coach Kim Martin said, “and it’s emotional
when you’ve got this many seniors and it is
their last time on the mat. It’s kind of an emo-
tional day too. When you walk into a gym and
you have those east side teams. You kind of
just get star-struck a little bit. We’re in a tough
area. Those teams have gyms in their back
yard ... we train at our school and that is it.”
Just over a point separated the top three
teams, all from the east side of the state which
once again had the top four overall at the
finals. The Irish are the state runner-up behind
the Croswell-Lexington girls for the second
year in a row.
Grosse Ile was third with an overall score
of 781.34 ahead of Armada 769.58, Paw Paw
767.546, Portland 763.74, Tri-County 756.
and Lakewood 750.76.
Lakewood was in sixth place, ahead of
Tri-County and Portland, heading into round
two, but an eight-point deduction in round
two for a back extension roll that didn’t quite
get its extension set the Lakewood team back
a bit. Lakewood head coach Kim Martin said
it was a pretty excellent round two rolling to
that point for her girls.
The eight point deduction dropped the
Lakewood round two score to 212.18, about
two points behind the Tri-County team in
that round. Everyone else was over 221 in
round two.
Pilar said she heard the gasp from the state
finals crowd on the mat in round two and
knew something hadn’t gone quite right.
“It felt like round two was going pretty
well based off of the crowd and the coaches
... but when I hear the crowd go ‘ooooooh’ Iam like, I need to push even harder. Then, I
just try to pick it up harder.”
“I love it,” Pilar said of the state finals
crowd, which she has now performed in front
of three times. “It gives me so much more to
give. It gives me an adrenaline rush. It just
gets me hyped.”
Lakewood had a round one score of 229.
and closed out its day with a round three rou-
tine that was just a little shaky and earned a
score of 308.90.
Martin said she was especially pleased
with how the stunt groups topped by seniors
Navaeh Newton and Nadia Martin performed
once again.
“Round two was looking really good until
that [failed skill]. It was probably one of our
better round twos,” coach Martin said. “Still
some mistakes in round one that we haven’t
been able to overcome all season. Round
three wasn’t as clean as it usually is. We had
some balance checks. It is tough. These east
side teams are just a different demon. It
would have been nice to come out of here in
that fifth spot, because we’re capable – like
we did at regionals. It wasn’t our day.
“It wasn’t our day.”
The Croswell-Lexington Pioneers had the
top round two and three scores of the day.
They put up a total of 234.50 in round one,
which had them in a tie for second with
Grosse Ile. Notre Dame Prep threw out a
score of 235.40 to start the day.
Croswell-Lexington followed up with a
score of 228.42 in round two and then
clinched the state championship with a score
of 319.60 in round three. Notre Dame Prep,
Grosse Ile and then Croswell-Lexington per-
formed fifth, sixth and seven in round three
before Portland closed out the competition.
“In my mind, watching Cros-Lex, I was
like wow, it is crazy that they’re doing these
things,” Pilar said. “Watching them get their
awards it just felt so wholesome, like wow,
they worked so hard for this and now they’re
getting it. It’s really cool to see.”
Over the past four years, Pilar said she has
really come together with her teammates and
especially her stunt group this winter.
“The coaches basically base [stunt] groups
off of height, so it is really random,” Pilar
said. “My other base, Kara [Fedewa], her and
I are complete opposites. Getting to know
each other was like, ‘what’s going on.’ But
we were also bases last year. Lilly [Burgess]
and I, she’s my flyer, we have been best
friends for a long time.
“We always see each other’s ups and
downs and know how to break each other’s
mood.”Lakewood senior Kylie Walkington is front and center as the Vikings perform a jump during round two of the MHSAA Division 3
Competitive Cheer Finals at Central Michigan University's McGuirk Arena Saturday, March 3. (Photo by Brett Bremer)
Viking senior Lilly Burgess and her teammates cheer in unison during round one of
the MHSAA Division 3 Competitive Cheer Finals at Central Michigan University's
McGuirk Arena Saturday, March 3. (Photo by Brett Bremer)