sun and news 4-3-2021

The Sun and News, Saturday, April 3, 2021/ Page 7

Middleville prepares for

annual Spring Clean-Up Day

Middleville’s Spring

Clean-Up Day is drawing

near. As an annual service to

residents, the village has

arranged with Republic

Services for a one-day pick-

up of household items, rolled

carpet, furniture and other

large and bulky objects that

have outlived their useful-

ness.

The pickup will be one

day only, Saturday, April 17.

Village residents may

begin placing items at the

edge of a village street abut-

ting their own residence

April 10. All items must be

placed at the curb by 9 p.m.

April 16. The private hauler

will make only one sweep

through the village, begin-

ning at 7 a.m. April 17.

The private hauler will

not pick up the certain items,

including petroleum-based

products, toxic chemicals,

paint, motor vehicle parts,

building demolition or con-

struction materials (including

concrete), batteries, food

wastes, animal wastes or car-

casses and any other materi-

als deemed to be hazardous.

Refrigerators and other

appliances will be picked up

but must have all airtight

doors completely detached

for safety reasons.

The spring clean-up is

financed by village property

taxes and is for village resi-

dents and property owners

only. Any village resident

allowing spring clean-up

items from outside the vil-

lage will forfeit their pickup.

If unauthorized waste items

are mixed in with authorized

waste items, the result will be

that no items will be collect-

ed from that residence.

If items are placed at the

curb after the waste hauler

has made the scheduled

sweep of the village, the res-

ident will be responsible for

disposing of those items and

any expense related to that

disposal.

We at Mike’s Pizzeria & Tavern deeply appreciate the support of the

community during these tough and ever changing times. We wish to thank

our employees for their hard work & dedication with the long hours. We

are thankful for the patience of our customers. Supporting each other is

how we will get through this.

Wishing the best for everyone during the Easter Holiday.

Hallelujah the Lord is Risen and is in control!

Let your faith be bigger than your fear!

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Wallace “Wallie”

Brock Ward, age 94,

of Caledonia passed

away peacefully on

Thursday, March 25, 2021.

He was preceded in death

by his parents, Byron and

Helen (Sherk) Ward;

brothers, Hugh (Mary)

Ward, J. Richard (Lucena)

Ward.

He will be dearly missed

by his wife of 73 years,

Betty (Denise) Ward;

children Robert (Bonnie)

Ward, Steven (Melanie)

Ward, Barbara (Robert)

Troost, Christine (Sam) Bull;

grandchildren, Brian (Anna)

Ward, Belinda (fiance,

Jonnathan Jackson) Ward,

Michael (Samantha) Troost,

Kevin (Katie) Troost; great

grandchildren, Lydia Ward,

Isaac Ward, Ethan Ward,

Aaron Ward, Owen Ward,

Nora Troost, Lucas Troost

and Brock Troost; and

several nieces and nephews.

Wallie enjoyed farming,

tractor and engine shows,

camping, family gatherings,

bus tours, and trips to the

Red Shack.

A private family funeral

service was held Monday,

March 29, 2021 at Matthysse

Kuiper DeGraaf Funeral

Home, 616 E. Main St. SE,

Caledonia.

Burial will be held at

Alaska Cemetery.

Those who wish may

make memorial

contributions to American

Diabetes Association or the

American Heart Association.

Ward Wallace

Area Obituaries

Kinsey Street sewer

work to begin Monday

Greg Chandler
Staff Writer
A portion of Kinsey
Street in the village of
Caledonia will be closed next
week for sewer work.
The roadway will be
closed between 100th Street
and Maple Street starting
Monday, Village Manager
Jeff Thornton said.
“This work should take
three days, but possibly
[could] go longer if weather
hampers the project,”
Thornton said.
During construction,
through-traffic should may
use Main Street to Johnson
Street. Caledonia Farmers
Elevator traffic also should
consider Main and Johnson
as an alternate route to avoid
the closure, Thornton said.
Teunessen Excavating
will be performing the work
on behalf of CD Barnes,
Thornton said.
The sewer project on
Kinsey is separate from plans
by the village to rebuild
Kinsey, from Maple to Main
streets. The project, which
has an estimated cost of more
than $540,000, calls for
rebuilding Kinsey between
Main and Maple, with a com-
bination of curb and gutter

and open ditch cleanout, san-

itary sewer improvements

and extension between Main

and Maple streets, and asso-

ciated storm sewer and drain-

age improvements.

Village officials hope to

hear this month on additional

funding for the reconstruc-

tion through the federal

CARES Act via the Grand

Valley Metropolitan Council.

A Metro Council program-

ming subcommittee has rec-

ommended the village

receive $141,550 in CARES

Act funding toward the proj-

ect, a little less than the

$150,000 it had hoped to

receive.

The village already has

been approved to receive

more than $283,000 in feder-

al surface transportation

funding through the Michigan

Department of Transportation

and the Metro Council for the

Kinsey Street project. If the

village received the addition-

al COVID relief funding, it

would pay more than

$115,000 as its share of the

project cost, according to

documents from the Metro

Council.

The Metro Council

Technical and Policy com-

mittees must still review the

programming subcommittee

recommendation. The techni-

cal committee is scheduled to

meet Wednesday and the pol-

icy committee April 21, said

Laurel Joseph, the Metro

Council’s director of trans-

portation planning.

The village council in

December 2020 approved

hiring the engineering firm

Fleis & VandenBrink to put

together design plans for the

project, at a cost of $56,600.

The tentative timetable

calls for construction to take

place later this fall or in the

spring of 2022, village engi-

neering consultant Jon

Moxey told the village coun-

cil last month.

The project calls for

re-establishing a drainage

ditch on the northeast side of

Kinsey, south of Lake Street,

with asphalt valley gutter on

the west side. The section

north of Lake Street will

have concrete curb and gutter

on both sides, Moxey said at

the March 8 meeting.

The village had consid-

ered having new water mains

along Kinsey installed as part

of the project to provide bet-

ter fire protection for the ele-

vator, but dropped that idea

because of the cost.

Thornapple Kellogg

senior earns scholarship

Thornapple Kellogg High
School senior Ellie Essenberg
has received an Odyssey of
the Mind $500 scholarships

• one of five scholarships
  offered statewide.
  Essenberg has been a
  member of school district’s
  Odyssey of the Mind teams
  for eight years and an unoffi-
  cial coach for four years.
  “I poured my heart and
  thousands of hours into
  Odyssey of the Mind, which
  led my teams and I to com-
  pete in three world finals
  competitions,” Essenberg

said. “The friends that I made

and the skills that I built over

those eight years are the rea-

son that I am who I am

today.”

Essenberg plans to attend

Grand Valley State University

in the fall to major in exer-

cise science and minor in

biomedical engineering.

Beyond that, she plans to

attend graduate school,

where she hopes to study to

become a prosthetist and

eventually open her own

prosthetic practice. Ellie Essenberg

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