Senior leaguers get ready to play ball in Warren
Michigan Senior Softball League seeks players, sponsors for two divisions this year
Patrick Chmiel, 68, of Warren, and Roger Ricci, 83, of Grosse Pointe Woods, said the Michigan Senior Softball League will have two divisions for the first time this season. Games are played at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning May 18 at Halmich Park in Warren.
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METRO DETROIT If you ask Bob O’Brien how long he’s played ball, he’s quick to tell you.
“Forever,” said O’Brien, 78, of Shelby Township.
He hails from Houghton in the Upper Peninsula, where it wasn’t uncommon to find snow on the field when it came time for spring baseball. He said he started playing young, began league competition at the age of 13 and never really stopped.
Once a rarity in what was previously a traditionally male-dominated profession, there are now many female Funeral Directors, Arrangers and Crematorium Managers helping families to say farewell to their loved ones that have died. In pre-Victorian times, before funeral directing became a profession, the practical tasks required when someone in a community died were divided amongst the male and female members of the family or village. The caring job of ‘laying out’ the dead would be allocated to a local woman or women, who may well have also acted as a midwife. The men would be responsible for physical tasks such as digging the grave, making a coffin, transporting the deceased and - if the family did not have enough men to fulfil the task - providing additional men to carry the coffin.
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BATEMAN Joan Passed away peacefully on February 25th at Hereford hospital, aged 93. Beloved wife of the late David. Kind and loving aunt, stepmother and nana. Fondly remembered by her family and many friends. Small funeral for family and close friends at Hereford Crematorium. Donations, if desired, to St Michael’s Hospice, Bartestree. All enquiries to Bayley Brothers Funeral Directors Tel: 01432 272465
BROWN Sylvia Margaret ‘Margaret’ Peacefully passed away at Alexandra House, Ludlow on 2nd March 2021, aged 89. Much loved Mother, Mother in Law to Leslie and Sue, Andrew and Gert. A private Funeral Service will take place at Holy Trinity Church followed by Burial. Donations if desired for Herefordshire Heart Fund. All enquiries to Bayley Brothers, 17-19 Cotterell Street, Herefor
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• Mar 10, 2021
Late in the evening on March 10, 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the first cases of coronavirus in Michigan. In the days that followed, the state was on alert as the disease COVID-19 took hold.
A two-week shutdown became a month, then three months, then six months. Now, one year later, all of our lives look very different. Masks are commonplace, many of us still work from home, and students continue to learn remotely. Weddings and trips were postponed or cancelled. Lives were put on hold, and worse. More than 16,000 Michiganders have died of COVID-19. Over 650,000 have tested positive.