Our Sponsors

Be Published Today!!!Advertisement

Post Tags

Annette Kingsbury By Annette Kingsbury By Michael Dwyer C.O.R.E Christine Lind Hage City Council City of Rochester clinton river Crittenton Dan Stickradt Dave Pruneau DDA dear crabby Downtown Rochester Grace Centers of Hope Heidi Morris Jayna Pyke L. Brooks Patterson Mayor Barnett Mayor Bryan Barnett Mayor Bryan K. Barnett Michael Dwyer Oakland County Oakland Township Oakland University OPC Paint Creek Center for the Arts paint creek trail Road Commission for Oakland County rochester Rochester Adams Rochester City Council Rochester College Rochester Community House Rochester Community Schools Rochester High School Rochester Hills Rochester Hills Fire Department Rochester Hills Museum Rochester Hills Public Library Rochester Regional Chamber of Commerce Rochester Rotary Club Stoney Creek High School Stuart Bikson The Village of Rochester Hills
Advertisement
Posts Tagged ‘Rochester Hills Resident’
An American girl’s Viet Nam war
Written by Annette Kingsbury
Tuesday, 01 November 2011 14:49
No Comments

The Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm will celebrate Veterans Day with a presentation by Rochester Hills resident Joann Puffer Kotcher, author of An American Red Cross Girl’s War in Viet Nam.

The event begins at 7 p.m. Friday, November 11. Kotcher puts you in Viet Nam; face down in the dirt under a sniper attack, inside a helicopter being struck by lightning, at dinner next to a commanding general and slogging through the mud along a line of foxholes. You see the war through the eyes of one of the first women officially allowed in the combat zone.

Kotcher was once abducted; she dodged an ambush in the delta and talked with a true war hero in a hospital who had charged a machine gun. She found answers to what war is really like, what a soldier will say to a girl while sitting in a bunker with shells flying overhead, what the young men she met thought about the war, and why a man would risk his life to save another. The answers will surprise you.

Details about the book and author can be found at www.donutdolly.vpweb.com. Signed copies of the book will be available for sale at $25. Admission to the event is free and refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP at 248-656-4663.

The Rochester Hills Museum is located at 1005 Van Hoosen Road, off Tienken Road between Rochester and Dequindre.

 
Letter to the Editor, About the Mayoral Race of Rochester Hills
Written by Editor
Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:41
1 Comment

Dear Editor,

As August 2nd approaches, I am excited to join fellow voters to gladly retain Bryan Barnett as the mayor of Rochester Hills.

As a new resident, having moved from downtown Rochester, and childhood resident of Oakland Township, I have been able to follow the changes over the decades in our area. In the past few years, I’ve noticed how Rochester Hills has really become one of the best places to raise a family, due to many improvements Mayor Bryan Barnett has made.

As the Mayor himself is a father of young children, I’m confident he will make choices for our city that are great for young families and business professionals alike. I also have met a surprising number of young families this year that have moved into Rochester Hills from out-of-state. At a time when the media wants to bash Michigan and give press to those leaving our area, apparently the Mayor and Rochester Hills are doing a great job of attracting people to our area despite the odds.

As you go to vote this year, please vote to keep Mayor Barnett in office, keeping our great family city moving in the magnetic way it already is.

Sincerely,

Heidi Morris , Rochester Hills

 
Giant Hogweed Plants Thought to be Spotted on Paint Creek Trail
Written by Editor
Thursday, 07 July 2011 01:05
3 Comments

Earlier this week, a couple from Rochester Hills reported that they thought they saw Giant Hogweed plants on The Paint Creek Trail. These plants are beautiful, but very dangerous if handled. Fox news reported that a woman in New York has gone blind from getting the sap in her eyes while attempting to transplant it. The couple called Dinosaur Hill and has inquired with others to find out if the plants spotted in Rochester are in fact these dangerous Giant Hogweed plants.

The thirdage.com website explains that the “Giant Hogweed is a kind of plant with flowers the size of umbrellas and sap that causes blisters and blindness.”

Heracleum mangtegazzianum is the Latin name for the plant. It lives up to its name, growing from eight to 15 feet high and is native to the Caucasus  Mountains of Central Asia.

The Department of Agriculture suggests that the plant originally came to the United States as an ornamental plant. Spices obtained  from the plant are used in some Iranian food dishes as well.

Considered a noxious weed by the federal government, Giant Hogweed produces a sap that, when exposed to sunlight, can cause large, painful blisters and dark scars on the skin, and blindness if it gets into the eyes. Contact with leaves and stems can also result in exposure to the sap, so the plant should be handled as one would handle poison ivy.

Giant Hogweed has a long tap root that allows it to survive even after being cut down. The danger of the sap and the difficulty of removing it permanently make it difficult for homeowners to deal with Giant Hogweed.”

As a follow-up to this article, Oakland Township ruled out the possibility of Giant Hogweed. See here http://www.rochestermedia.com/oakland-township-rules-out-giant-hogweed/