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D I S C LA I M

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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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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.

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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

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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

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email to Content and Community

Manager Sean Dalton at

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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

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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.

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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.”

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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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