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From the Editor
From Dexter 4
Health Watch 6
News 9-10
Entertainment 9
FEATURE:Sheppard Hut 12
FEATURE:All Star Lineup 18
FEATURE:Into the Wilderness 20
We Remember 22
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Inside this issue
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All o Dexter is invited to join Dr. Kathryn Harmes at the Dexter
Wellness Center HIS HURSDAY as she presents evidence
based finding on the nature o vaccines. Tis FREE event is
open to the public, but space is limited, so call 734-580-2500 to reserve
your seat. Te ruth o Vaccines will begin at 6 p.m. on Tursday,
August 27 with a Question - Answer session concluding the workshop.
Interested in learning more about health and wellness? Great! Te
Dexter Wellness Center strives to provide our community with a variety
o recreational programming in addition to our general membership
offerings. Tese Community Programs may include educational
workshops ranging rom healthy eating habits to how to maintain
flexibility as the body ages. All workshops are intended to provide the
best proessional advice to the broad range o questions and interests
important to the people o Dexter.
Our speakers come rom a wide range o backgrounds which include
proessional athletes, doctors, dieticians, physical therapists, and even
Santa Clause makes a scheduled visit or the children and amily. Teseworkshops are open to anyone interested – no membership at the
Wellness Centers is required. As an added bonus, the workshops are
routinely ree o charge to all who register!
I you’re looking to increase your involvement rom educational
workshops to all out active participation, be sure to check-out the
fitness offerings section o the Community Program guide. We have age
specific fitness programs or both youth and adults. Youth fitness classes
include:
• Parent/oddler yoga Adventure\ class is more than just a yoga class.
Yogi Rhonda incorporates props, stories, music, and encourages the
use o imagination to expose children to fitness in a way that provides
joy and laughter and a chance to experience fitness with mom or dad.
• Fit Kids! is a class is geared toward children ages 6-8 years old who
want more “gym class” or need more structured time to get moving.
It introduces a variety o new exercises equipment such as the Bosu
Ball and Swiss Balls in a un, sae environment.
• Boot Camp 4 Kids is a step up rom Fit Kids! in both age and energy.
9-11 years old participants learn proper orm or age appropriate
exercises. Body weight exercises and fitness equipment are used to
increase strength and ability in this non-stop class!
• A rapidly growing aspect o Dexter Wellness Center’s Youth
programming is Children and Adult Special Needs Movement
Classes taught by Yogi Rhonda. Tese Saturday classes provide age
and ability appropriate dance/movement classes that supports un
exposure to fitness in a relaxed and supportive setting.
Adults programs are no less exciting. Get a taste o ai Chi with an
introductory class taught by a skilled instructor with years o ai Chiand Wushu experience.
Let our running coaches help you kick-up your race preparation or
walk you through the basics o training or your first 5k.Prepare or the
Dexter urkey rot is a sport specific fitness program running this all.
I you are looking or a new and unique way to challenge your body
consider Pilates/RX Fusion.
Tere are many, many more opportunities or the Dexter community
to get active at the Dexter Wellness Center. Call the Dexter Wellness
Center at 734-580-2500 to learn more or register.
By Dexter Wellness Center staff
HealthWatch
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Jay Howe o Divergent Brewing Company
introduced himsel to the Planning
Commission, Dec. 7 during non-arranged
public comment time. Howe wants to open a
nanobrewery o about 1,000 to 1,500 square
eet at 8080 Grand St., in an industrial area.
“We are not currently in business
somewhere else,” Howe said. “We are a new
business.”
Te company wants start a brewery that
will produce 750 ml-size bottles o beer, but
will likely need some help rom the city in
regard to zoning to pull it off. Te property is
zoned village commercial, but the prospective
company is having trouble fitting into one o
the permitted or special uses.
“Tere’s not language or breweries,”
Howe said. Community Development
Manager Michelle Aniol said that included
microbreweries and brewpubs.
Te unction o the brewery would beprimarily production, although there would be
a small tasting room. Te tasting room would
be similar to the tasting room at the Cider Mill
across town, Howe said.
Howe said Aniol has advised it would be
best i the brewery could have some seating,
but the the brewery would be sel-distribution
meaning the owners could deliver beer
directly to local grocery stores.
“Because we are so small,” Howe said.
“Tere wouldn’t be a chain o distribution
trucks.”
Planning Commission Chairman Matt
Kowalski said it was nice to meet Howe, and
suggested working with Aniol on zoning
questions.
Aniol said the timing couldn’t be better
since the commission is working on updating
the zoning ordinances.
“Tis is a use we’ve talked about beore,”
Aniol said. “It’s not in the commercial district.”
Tat means at this time, the brewery
wouldn’t be allowed in the commercial
district, only in the industrial district, Aniol
said. Te small size o the operation should be
a mitigating actor and the commission needs
to do something about it, she said.
“How we are going to bring this type o
small industry that a retail component to
it, how are we going to bring this back into
the downtown,” Aniol said, noting a similarcircumstance existed when the Jolly Pumpkin
started.
“We are much smaller,” Howe said.
Aniol said the Jolly Pumpkin probably
didn’t enjoy zoning compliance.
Te proposed business would be an
production acility downtown, while Northern
United Brewing is a bar in an industrial
section, Aniol said.
News
Entertainment
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How we are going to bring this type of small
industry that a retail component to it, how are we
going to bring this back into the downtown.”
Michelle Aniol
ony Walton is a big deal on Broadway and
he’s also the inspiration or Disney’s “Winnie
the Pooh.”
Tanks to also being close riends o the
Encore’s Dan Cooney and Jessica Grové, he
will be coming to Dexter to work with the
Encore Musical Teatre Company on a show
while being a temporary resident o Dexter or
our weeks.
It’s not ofen a man with slew o wins and
nominations or Oscars, ony’s, BAFA’s, and
Emmy’s comes to town.
“He came to see ‘Into the Woods” because
he loves Jessica and he loved the show,” said
Encore Marketing and Development Director
Chuck Colby. “We were hanging out in the
VIP room afer the show closing weekend and
he asked Dan i he was going to ask him to
come direct a show.”
Colby said that the Encore team isn’t
ashamed to admit that they stammered out an
overly loud and enthusiastic “yes!”
Walton will be guest director “My Fair
Lady,” which runs rom August 4 to 28.
It replaces “Kiss Me Kate,” which was the
previously planned production or that part o
the current Encore season.
Tis production scheduling shuffle also
involves “Assassins” moving to the June 8 to
July 3 season slot.Colby promised that Walton’s involvement
is capable o bringing any show he is working
on to new heights o excellence.
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News
For the residents o the 59
homes in the Island Hills Estates
subdivision in Dexter ownship,500 eet o sidewalk along the
south-acing side o Island
Lake Road rom Jessica Lane
to Katherine Way would give
the neighborhood’s pedestrians
much more saety when walking
or biking into the nearby Dexter
downtown.
Island Hills Estate
representative Eric Connell
presented his neighborhood’s case
or the sidewalk construction,
which has already received
$22,000 in financial commitment
rom the Dexter Wellness
Coalition.
wo Washtenaw County Road
Commission recommended
contractors have provided bids
to the neighborhood group led
by Connell in the amounts o
$22,000 and $30,000, which leaves
a $6,000 unding gap that the
group asked Dexter ownship’s
Board o rustees to cover earlierthis week.
“What I’m most interested in
is the saety aspect o it,” Connell
said. “My wie was a runner
back beore I was, and she’s had
some incidents on Island Lake
Road (along the stretch between
Jessica and Katherine). Tere’s no
shoulder on the road (and) the
line on the edge goes directly to
grass and kind o a berm.”
Connell’s wie and other
residents have had many “near
misses” with traffic on Island
Lake Road, which is a 55 mph
roadway. Te 500 oot sidewalk
would connect with the existing
sidewalk that was built when
the Cedars o Dexter was
constructed,
providing sae
pedestrian
passage to Westridge and the
Border-to-Border rail.
Connell reerred to this projectas a “first step” when the topic
o urther sidewalk requests
and sidewalk expansion in
general came up in the meeting
discussion.
“Once people see a sidewalk
being built they will probably be
excited and ask us how we did it,”
he said. “Tere is an additional
1,500 eet in ront o our
neighborhood that isn’t going to
be connected, so in order to get to
Stoney Field there’s another 2,500
eet or hal mill o sidewalk to get
to Wylie Road. Tere’s still quite
a gap there which is why we’re
tackling this small project first.”
Te neighbors would consider
a special assessment at that time
or more significant expansions
north and south rom Island Hills
Estates, Connell said.“I certainly understand the
can o worms comment and once
this is built people will probably
ask ‘How did that get done?’” he
added.
Ceo reiterated that she would
need to see the association
get more financial skin in the
game beore she would support
appropriating 2016-2017 unding
to the project.
Rider responded that while
the community at large beyond
the 59 homeowners in Island
Hills Estates, he too would like
to see either the residents or the
association bridge any remaining
gap in project unding.
Lesser said that i each o the
59 homes ound $100 to spare
they’d collectively close the
$6,000 gap without any need or a
government or non-government
agency to put orward any unds.
Te Island Hills Estates
residents projected in their
project summary document that
the expected build time or the
sidewalk is sometime during the
2016 calendar year, despite there
being much work still to be done
on the project’s pre-planning
phase.
Sidewalk Talk for Island Hills
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Victoria Schon stretches out on the daybed
with a book in her hand, a smile on her ace
and nature’s radio playing in her ears. With
the windows slightly cracked, the Dutch-door open
and the sun providing plenty o warm light inside
her customized Blackdown Shepherd Hut, Schon has
walked into a completely different world just a ew
steps rom her Dexter home.
Her Blackdown Shepherd Hut is tucked in the
corner o her Dexter property nestled up against a
wetlands area offering a sea o green backdrop thatonly Mother Nature could create. Te beautiully
handcrafed 14 x 7.5 oot hut was designed and built
by highly skilled artisans in both England and the
United States, all o whom are well-versed in the rich
heritage and exquisite crafsmanship long practiced
in England.
Built on a beautiully handcrafed solid oak rolling
chassis, each shepherd hut is constructed with time-
honored quality and premium building materials,
finishes and construction processes with the refined
sensibilities o the Victorian era. But it’s the eeling
one gets experiencing these “pieces o art” that really
captured Schon’s heart and soul and then her passion
to share that eeling with others.
“It’s such a different eeling out here,” says Schon,
a longtime and active member o the Dexter art and
culture community including the chair o the Dexter
Arts, Culture and Heritage Committee. “It’s just one
with nature. It’s so beautiul. I get such a rejuvenating
eeling when I come in here. I can come out here and
turn off the world or a while.”
Schon, with an artistic background and educationsteeped in art history and appreciation, designed the
interior o her hut as a “retreat.”
A Blackdown Shepherd Hut starts at around
$20,000.
While honoring the impressive heritage, every
individual hut equals the unique characteristics o
the owner. And the uniqueness and specialness o
the hut is ound in the details.
Te huts come with bargeboard and ascia as
standard rather than just leaving the grey metal
underside o the roofing sheet exposed. Te custom
Sheppard Hut
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windows, doors and cabinetry use the highest quality
hardware as standard practice. Te wheels and
turntable are cast at a small oundry using ancestral
techniques and the insulation is English sheep wool.
“Te designers and builders involved in these
huts are a community o artists. An artist has been
involved in every detail,” Schon said.And the huts offer a unique piece o art to any
yard, garden or wooded area.
“It’s simply wonderul how graceully the shepherd
English hut compliments the natural landscape,”
Schon said.
Te largest hut complete with a queen-sized
bed, kitchenette and bathroom with shower is near
completion.
“We have come to realize that times have changed
and demands or dwelling space have become
more refined,” Schon said. “Our contemporary hut
designs blend this rich tradition o crafsmanship
with modern environmental technologies, which
are riendlier to the planet and more efficient. Our
luxuriously refined finishes will transorm your hut
rom a simple dwelling space into an elegant retreat.”
Schon says the reaction rom people who have
seen them in Dexter has been “wonderul.”
“We are just at the beginning o this,” she said.
“Tey just got here and I’m so excited to show them
to people.
“Tese are extremely ashionable in England now.
Tey are the in-thing to have in your garden over
there. It’s part o their culture and I just ell in love
with them so much that I wanted to have one and I
am hoping other people will all in love with them as
much as I have.”
“We have come to realize that times have
changed and demands for dwelling space have
become more refined.”
Victoria Schon
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Success is a tune that high
school students enjoy singing – at
least at Dexter High School. Te
Dexter High School marching
band has marched to some
impressive accomplishments
over the past ew years, and the
turnout or this coming season
has reached peak levels.
Does more success equal
greater interest?
Longtime band director
Kenneth Moore thinks it does.
“We have 201 students in
marching band this coming year,”
said Moore. “And that’s a high or
us. We’ve been increasing the past
ew years. We were averaging 180
to 185 or several years and then
last year we jumped up to 191 and
now this year it’s 201.”Te reasons or the increased
turnout relates in part to the
increase in success.
“We’ve been successul the
past ew years and the students
find marching band to be
enjoyable and they want to be
part o something that they see
as successul,” he said. “Tey also
eel like they have a vital part in
leading.”
And that’s been part o Moore’s
philosophy since he took over the
band program.
He wants the students to be the
leaders.
“Tat’s one o the things I’ve
been most proud o is that our
band is truly student-led,” he said.
“We have three student drum
leaders and 40 rank and squad
leaders who are each in charge o
a group o our students and we
count on these student leaders
to do a lot o the teaching and
helping the younger members get
acclimated to band and to high
school.
“A lot o the kids stick it
out because they enjoy it. Our
marching band here in Dexter is
like a amily and we’ve been pretty
successul with that ormula.”
Every our years the Dexter
HS marching band perorms at
Disney World in Orlando and
will be heading south again in
the spring. wo years ago the
school’s concert band was invited
to perorm at the State Music
Conerence and last year the
concert band took first place at a
estival in Nashville, enn.
“We’ve been on kind o a nice
roll,” Moore said.
Moore’s student-led philosophy
even carries over to the music
perormed by the marching band.
“For the marching band,
we will start planning or the
upcoming season in the early
spring and I will start asking
students or ideas either about
a show theme or music they
would like to perorm,” Moore
said. “From these ideas we go out
and try to find marching band
arrangements or these songs.Once we find some good, solid
arrangements we will build a
show around that.”
Tis year’s marching band
show theme is “vinyl,” as in vinyl
records and will be a tribute to
1970s classic rock and roll. Yes,
something good did come out
o the seventies. Te Dexter
turntable will spin some Who,
By Terry JacobyDexter Pride
A lot of the kids stick it out because they enjoy it. Our marching band here in
Dexter is like a family and we’ve been pretty successful with that formula.
Kenneth Moore, Band Director
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Kansas, Aerosmith and Queen.
Te band program at Dexter
High School consists o three
bands: Varsity Band, Concert
Band and Symphonic Band.
Tese classes meet every dayand rehearse separately and they
have their own set o music they
rehearse and perorm as separate
bands.
From July until October the
ocus is on marching band music.
In mid-October the ocus will
switch to indoor concert mode.
Tese three bands also make up
the marching band. Te marching
band members began pre-camp
rehearsals on Monday and will
head to a week-long band camp
on Sunday at Hillsdale College.
Te marching band perorms
at every home ootball game
and also will participate this
year at the Chelsea Marching
Band Invite (Sept. 23) with as
many as 15 other bands where
they will receive eedback rom
college-level judging. Te District
Marching Band Festival is Oct.
4 at John Glenn High School
where bands receive a letter-grade
evaluation.
Moore has been the director o
bands at Dexter High School or
the past 18 years and beore that
taught in Dundee and in Illinois.
Te Wyandotte native has two
degrees rom Eastern Michigan
University and a doctorate rom
Boston University.
“I’m just very proud o our
band students,” Moore said.
“Many are among the top
academic students in the schooland many take challenging
courses. We also have some
who not only spend time in the
marching band but play a sport as
well. Tese kids really have to be
organized to make it all work and
they do such a great job.
“Tey are pretty incredible
kids.”
Te 2015-16 drum majors are
Michelle Hoang, Jake Nevin and
Alex Schwartz.
Te rank leaders are Zach
Barnes, Lucas Bell, Regan Corum,
Caroline Darr, Ben Elliot,
Alex Everdeen, Emily Driscoll,
Nick Grant, Joy Hook, Kevin
Kimmel, Jasmine Koback, Jordan
McGinnis, Ali McLean, Ben
Ramey, Randall Schliebe, Alex
Sikora, Sofia Sokansanj, Kristine
Westman, Kaylee Witte and Reed
Yalisove.
Te squad leaders are Duncan
Babe, Griffen Beck, Nathaniel
Burrell, Billy Chesbrough, Cassy
Christy, Emma Collins, Madison
DeLacy, Chris Eakin, Louisa
Judge, Riley Kremkus, AmyLarkin, Sam Latshaw, Madalyn
Palmer, Jon Preuth, Vedhika
Raghunathan, Claire Richarson,
Olivia Seta, Nate Shay, Jack
Shelley, ravis Spuller, Meagan
Uren and Brannon Weigers.
I you have news that you
would like us to cover, send an
email to Content and Community
Manager Sean Dalton at
seandalton@welovedexter.com.
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When they step on a basketball
court they become one. Six
seniors, who orm the core o the
2015-16 Dexter Dreadnaughts,
are making history. Afer losing
their season opener, the Dreads
have rattled off 18 consecutive
wins – most by lopsided scores.
Tey will go down as one o
the best teams the school has
ever produced and maybe even
the greatest when all is said and
done. Te six players have played
together or years and have
created an amazing continuity on
the basketball court.
Six playing as one in a system
designed to take advantage o the
team’s incredible depth.
But off the court, these six
Dexter senior girls’ basketball
players are individuals with
different emotions, dreams and
personalities. So let’s take a step
off the court and go one on one
with each senior.
Amanda Fileccia
Amanda Fileccia wears the
only odd number jersey on the
girls’ basketball team. And or
good reason.
“It’s the only odd number
jersey, and I’m pretty odd,” says
the 5-8 guard who dons No. 5.
Fileccia, who enjoys eating
White Cheddar Cheez It Grooves
and dining at Real Seaood Co.,
is heading to college afer high
school to study international
business.
Her avorite basketball memory
is beating Warren Cousino
(ranked ourth in the state at
the time) to win the Northville
ournament this season. When
it’s all over she says she is going to“miss the girls.”
“We have played together since
we could dribble a ball and we
are all really close,” she said. “I
will miss all the team bonding
activities, even the workouts.”
She said she owes her success
to her dad.
“He was the first to teach me
about the game,” she says. “He
would help me practice and give
me advice. I wouldn’t be the
player I am today without him.”
Shelbea James
Shelbea James doesn’t just
thank her mother or all her
support, she thinks about her
every time she slips on the Dexter
basketball jersey.
“I wear No. 12 because that’s
the number my mom wore in
high school,” said James, a 6-1
senior orward.
She has a very close
relationship with her mom.
“My mom always drove me to
all my practices, workouts, games
and always kicked my butt out o
bed to go to morning workouts
every day,” she says.
Her ather was the other
member o that parental
backcourt. “I want to thank my
dad or all his motivational texts
beore every game.”James, who enjoys snacking
on pretzels and dining at the
Mongolian Barbecue, will never
orget “spending the
whole day on the beach with
the team and jumping off the pier
at our team camp.”
James is taking her skills to the
next level. She will play basketball
at Concordia University next year.
But she will certainly miss her
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Dexter teammates.
“We are so close and such good
riends,” she said. “I will miss
playing our avorite sport with
them every day.”
Anna LoveAnna Love’s avorite show
is “Friends” and she will never
orget her “riends” on the Dexter
basketball team.
“I am going to miss the good
riends that I have made on
the team,” said the 5-10 senior
orward. “My avorite basketball
memory is sophomore year
when we did different events o
the Olympics as a team bonding
experience.”
Love loves to snack on ruit or
eat mashed potatoes or dine at the
exas Roadhouse. She chose the
No. 14 because it’s the day she was
born on.
Like all o these players, Anna’s
parents provided plenty o
support along the way.
“I would like to thank my
parents or always helping me
even when I didn’t want it,” she
said. “I also want to thank my
grandpa or always yelling at me
in the stands while I’m playing.”
Love also excels in sofball
and will attend Ferris State
University next year on a sofball
scholarship.
Taylor Olson
aylor Olson also will be
attending Ferris State University,
but the talented 5-10 senior
orward will be playing basketball
or the Bulldogs. But Bulldogs
are not Dreadnaughts – at leastnot yet.
“Honestly, I’m going to miss
all the girls,” she says. “Just being
with them every day, making un
o each other or hanging out. I
will really miss that.”
Her avorite basketball memory
was the team sleepover in the
team room at school so they
could be the first team to practice
at midnight.
Her avorite ood is pasta
which is why the Olive Garden
is her avorite restaurant. When
she’s not snacking on pretzels
with peanut butter, she’s watching
her avorite show “One ree Hill.”
Or maybe she does them both atthe same time.
aylor has plenty o people
to thank or her success and
happiness in lie, starting with
her mom. “She is my rock and I
wanted her to know how much
I appreciate everything she has
done or me and or supporting
me all these years.”
She also thanked ormer coach
Dan Schlaff who she called “one
o the best coaches ever.” And
Jibri aylor and Amy Hollman
(Popz) or “working we me and
pushing me to become a better
basketball player and person.”
Cayla Schlaff
Cayla Schlaff hasn’t decided ona college yet but she has decided
on continuing to play the game
she loves. Even though it will
mean playing without her avorite
teammates.
“I am going to miss being
with the girls every day and the
memories,” says the 5-4 senior
guard.
Her avorite basketball
memory, up to this point, was
attending team camp when
“Alyssa Baker hid in Lauren’s
room to set off alarms at 4 in the
morning.”
She chose No. 4 not because o
Bobby Orr but because o Kenzie
Svihra, who donned No. 4 or theDreadnaughts so she “decided to
ollow in her ootsteps.”
Like a ew o her teammates,
Cayla enjoys dining at the Olive
Garden even though her avorite
ood (mashed potatoes) isn’t on
the menu. Like aylor, she enjoys
pretzels sans the peanut butter.
“I want to thank me mom, dad,
step mom, step dad, the Waltons
and the rest o my amily or all o
the support,” she said.
Hannah Wing
Hannah showed what a great
teammate she is when it came to
picking numbers.
“Cayla picked No. 4, Anna
picked 14, aylor picked 24 so Ihad to continue the trend with
34,” says the 5-10 senior orward.
She also likes the Olive Garden,
so she continued to the trend
there too.
But she also has her own tastes
– she likes mac and cheese and
her avorite snack is almonds. Her
avorite show is SpongeBob. Now
that is different.
Her most embarrassing
moment also is quite different.
“I scored on the wrong
basket during the Saline game
my sophomore year,” she says.
“Please note it was a pass, I wasn’t
shooting at the basket.”
But she gets back on course
with her teammates when talking
about her teammates.
“I will miss being so close tosuch an amazing group o riends
and getting to spend seven days
a week with them,” she says. “I’m
also going to miss our pregame
rituals especially Cal beating me
up beore they announce starters
each game.”
She also thanked her parents
or “always supporting me and
encouraging me throughout my
basketball career.”
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The sensation set into
the pit o Doug Marrin’s
stomach like a bad gulp o
coffee – he hadn’t connected with
the world on his phone in hours.
His business partner Frank
Schramm and the rest o the olks
trundling along the path behindhim elt similarly about their lack
o mobile news, text messaging,
smartphone games and whatever
else they were accustomed to
pulling out o their pockets and
fiddling with to fill the empty
time waiting at a doctor’s office or
the DMV back at the civilization
they had temporarily abandoned.
“It was absolutely hilarious,”
recalled Doug Marrin, whose
companyInto the Wilderness LLC
will (sometimes literally) pull you
away rom the modern world and
take you to a place where a more
genuine sensory and spiritual
experience awaits.
“Once you leave the car and
you’ve got your backpack on,you head into the wilderness and
you can’t get a phone signal–
everybody goes through this
withdrawal,” he continued, but
afer awhile the complaints die
down and the anxiety wanes, as
the crunch o the trail, the smell
o resh air, and the rich sounds o
nature begin to cleanse the group
o any longings or what they’ve
temporarily lef behind.
“Once it begins to happen, it’s
great – the thrill or me isn’t just
being out there, but I just enjoy
the experience and the real thrill
is to see other people realize
what I know when I’m in nature,”
Marrin said.
It’s quite different rom servingcoffee to people in a burgeoning
small town like Dexter, where his
goal was to deliver a wholesome
cup ull o nature’s goodness into
his customers’ hands. With Into
the Wilderness, Marrin must
reverse that concept by bringing
the customers into nature’s hands.
Marrin’s been taking nature
excursions or the last 14 years.
Until recently it’s just been riends
going with him, but as more and
more people have heard positive
reviews rom the lips o those
who have experienced Into the
Wilderness word has spread
around and beyond Dexter.
Realizing that there was
demand or his stewardshipover other people’s journeys into
nature, Marrin had the idea o
joining another o his passions
together with the concept o
building a business around it.
With his beloved Foggy
Bottom Coffee flagging the past
couple o years, the decision to try
something new and unique was
even more attractive.
“Until now it’s just been
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an inormal ‘who wants to go
backpacking or camping?’”
Marrin said. “Slowly I started
thinking o how I can do more
o it. I absolutely love it – I thrive
on it. And seeing the interactions
and hearing the commentary othe group is a lot o un.”
Marrin and his groups begin a
process o “re-creation” borne out
o recreation, he explains it. Te
idea is to re-create how people
interact, how they relax, how they
think, and how they eel - or
starters - in an environment filled
only with the things that matter.
While Into the Wilderness is
going to be run like a business,
Marrin says he isn’t looking to
make oodles o cash create a
staff o people to replicate the
experience provided by he and
Schramm, a proessional che
who cooks delicious meals when
the Marrin-led groups set up
camp.
Into the Wilderness is offering
a range o opportunities:
sometimes Marrin and
Schramm will “go west” in a
very continental way, while
other times they’ll stay in state
and target a nature destination
somewhere around Michigan.
With Schramm’s culinary
prowess, Marrin expects a good
deal o interest in what he calls
(and sports ans will understand
as) “trail-gating.”
“Frank is a top che – his ood
is amazing,” Marrin said. “We’re
eating grilled salmon, buffalo
burgers, chicken breast and all
o these sides. It is a great way to
cap off an exhilarating day among
the peaks. Most trips involve a
couple o meals in town with the
last night being a trip over the
continental divide or a night out
in Aspen.’
Extrapolating trail-gating rom
Schramm’s trail culinary work
was an obvious extension o the
concept, which will allow Into the
Wilderness ample opportunity
to provide more outdoor
opportunities right here in the
Dexter area.
“railgating is the name I’ve
given to our local group hikes in
Pinckney Rec Area or U o M’s
Stinchfield Woods area,” Marrin
said. “We meet at the trail-head
or a bit o ood and coffee and
then head into the woods or an
hour or so.”
Tose who like the idea o
eating ood more than hoofing
it through nature will be pleased
to know that Into the Wilderness
hikes don’t require anybody to
be Captain America in order
to come out the other end o a
trip in one piece. Te excursion
opportunities are detailed on
the Into the Wilderness website
and mention the parameters o
the trip, such as how high thepeak is that the group will be
dealing with on a given trip with
guidance on the level o difficulty
and who should and shouldn’t
consider a particular outing.
Into the Wilderness prices are
a quarter o the price that the big
companies charge or the same
experience, according to Marrin.
Weekend trips in Michigan
will begin to come available next
all. Later in the year there will
be yoga in the Rocky Mountains
trips, an “intense” backpacking
trip into the heart o grizzly
country in Montana, and a
lighter backpacking trip on the
Appalachian rail.
Marrin and Schramm also take
special trip requests rom those
who are particular about how
they want Mother Nature to mold
them.
“Te whole thing is
transormative, we like to make
that happen or people,” Marrin
said.
“Once it begins to happen,
it’s great – the thrill for
me isn’t just being out
there, but I just enjoy
the experience and the
real thrill is to see other
people realize what I
know when I’m
in nature.”
Doug Marrin
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Dexter lost a
very special person
in June Doletzkey
(ormerly Aiken) last
Tursday. She passed
away in her home,
surrounded by heramily.
She is survived by
siblings Bob Aiken
and Carmen Brey,
as well as daughters erry Stacey, Julie Knight, and Sharon Abrass. Due
to her success as a mother, June’s daughters learned to love amily just
as much as she did, and so there are also 10 grand-children, 19 great
grand-children and three great-great-grandchildren. By all accounts,
June was overjoyed to lie a long enough lie to hold so many babies in
her arms over nearly a century’s time.
Her daughters said late last week that it was hard to have their first
Mother’s Day brunch without their mom there with them, although
they took the day to celebrate her lie, which was rich with happiness.
June’s also special to the WeLoveDexter team. Last December she was
kind enough to sit down with Bob to discuss on camera her amily’s
connection to WWII. June was relatively quiet, deerring to her brother
ofen and allowing him to get the majority o the words in while our
cameras rolled, but she recalled a great deal o the time that her five
brothers served overseas.
A reverence or service and responsibility ran in the Aiken
and Doletzkey beyond her five brothers. June worked or Dexter
Community Schools as a ood service department worker or eight
years. She was also a charter member o the Dexter American Legion
Auxiliary Post 557, where she served as president and past president
numerous times. She requently volunteered at the VA Hospital, too.
June loved being out in the community. She was a figure in the local
bowling league scene at Dexter Bowling Alley or 35 years, as well as a
longstanding member and Faith Ladies Aid volunteer at Faith Lutheran
Church. She loved camping at Riker and Four Mile Lake, traveling with
her sister and the Senior Citizens’ group (they traveled to Egypt, Hawaii,
Venezuela and Alaska), and just being out in the world with other
people any chance she could get.
When she wasn’t helping others or on-the-go in the wide open world,
she liked to quietly can home grown ruits and vegetables and bake
traditional Swedish coffee cakes with amily. Sometimes she’d just take
in the flowers and bird watch on her rural property.
June was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Doletzkey, whom
she met while he was working in the Upper Peninsula with the U oM Forestry School. Tey married in 1939 and lived a lietime o a
storybook happy ending on their amily arm in Dexter ownship or
the entirety o their lives, right up until June’s final moments last week.
A memorial service will be held at Faith Lutheran Church, 9575 N.
erritorial Rd, Dexter, MI on Monday, May 18 at 11 a.m. Te amily will
receive riends at the church rom 10 to 11. A luncheon will ollow at
the Dexter American Legion Hall. A private interment will take place at
Forest Lawn Cemetery. In lieu o flowers, memorials contributions may
be made to the American Legion Post 557, American Cancer Society or
Faith Lutheran Church. Arrangements by Cole Funeral Chapel.
William B.
Steptoe, 87, o
Dexter, passed away
peaceully and with
amily by his side on
Friday, September
11, 2015 at St. JosephMercy Hospital in
Ann Arbor.
Bill was born
April 15, 1928 in
Pinckney, Mich. to parents David and Mary (Banghart) Steptoe and
was the middle sibling between older sister Jean (Drinkwater) and
younger sister Mary (Kimmel). Te amily resided in the neighboring
village o Dexter, where Bill lived his entire lie. He graduated in 1947
rom Dexter High School, where he was a stand-out athlete in ootball,
baseball, and basketball. Bill was part o the second o our generations
o Steptoe DHS graduates.
Bill was married to Mary Ann Harris on August 26, 1950, and
during their 65 wonderul years together, raised three children: Robert
(Margaret) Steptoe o Dexter, Bonnie (Steve) Przelomski o Rocky
Mount, N.C., and David (Kim) Steptoe o Dexter.
Instilled in Bill was the importance o serving his country and
community. He served in Korea as a member o the United States Army
during the Korean War. He also leaves behind a legacy o service within
the Boy Scouts o America organization, o which he was a Cub Scout
and Boy Scout Leader or a number o years with roop 477 o Dexter.
He was also proud to lead hundreds o local boys over the years as the
Founding Scout Master o Dexter roop 448, which he ounded in 1969.
Bill remained active in the community by serving on the Dexter
Planning Commission, as a member o the American Legion Post 577,
and as a member o the Post 46 Hunt & Fish Club. He was honored to
be elected to the Dexter High School Alumni Hall o Fame in 1997 – 50
years afer graduating. Bill enjoyed being a member o the Chrysler
Bowling League and retired rom Chrysler in 1978.
Bill is survived by his wie and three children. He made a
tremendous, positive impact on many other amily members including
his six grandchildren, Dan (racie) Steptoe o Port Huron, Sara Steptoe
o Howell, Erin Steptoe o Dexter, Brett Stocchi o Pinckney, Hannah
Przelomski o Rocky Mount, N.C., and Joe Przelomski o Rocky Mount,
N.C. He was also blessed to enjoy three great-grandchildren, Allie,
Maggie, and Wesley Steptoe o Port Huron. Bill was also adored by
nieces Sue Chase o Washington, D.C., Judy Gill (deceased), Janet Burke
o Littleton, Colo., Karen Posa o Mayville, and Kris Leary o Rockville
Md.Te uneral service or Bill will be held at 11:00 a.m. on uesday,
September 15 at the Hosmer-Muehlig Funeral Chapel in Dexter, 3410
Broad St.
Visitation will be held 4-8 p.m. on Monday, September 14 and 10-11
a.m. on uesday, September 15, also at Hosmer-Muehlig.
Memorials may be made in Bill’s honor to Boy Scout roop #448 o
Dexter, c/o Dexter United Methodist Church, 7643 Huron River Dr.,
Dexter, MI 48130.
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