Thursday, July 28, 2022
The Mining Journal 3A
Region
Gladstone wants
property on tax roll
By ANDIE BALENGER
Escanaba Daily Press
future development on the
parcel.
GLADSTONE
—
The
“What would be the future
increase in tax revenue and
potential of bringing families
to the city if that was a build-
able site,” Mantela asked the
commission. “You could
have multi-family units there
in a very desirable spot.”
Gladstone City Commission
has taken the first steps to-
wards terminating a lease
agreement that allows it to
utilize a parcel of lakefront
property adjacent to Van
Cleve Park.
The parcel, which current-
ly houses the fitness trail, sits
right next to Kids Kingdom
on Lake Shore Drive. The
city has access to the proper-
ty and maintains it as part of
a trust agreement, whereby
the city leases the property
month-to-month for $1 a
year and waives the parcel’s
property taxes. Mayor Joe
Thompson had requested
discussion regarding the cur-
rent state of the property at
Monday’s meeting.
“Right now we are not in
any position to buy property
… and the whole time we are
sitting on this, holding it in a
tax-exempt state, and paying
them $1,” Thompson said.
“We have a lot of lake
frontage in this town. I don’t
think that we should be hold-
ing that property considering
all the other lake frontage
that we have.”
If the commission terminat-
ed the lease they would not
own the property, which
would re-establish property
taxes on the parcel. Consider-
ing that the city entered this
lease agreement in 1984, the
property has sat tax-free since
1984.
While the commission
made no decisions regarding
the status of the lease agree-
ment at Monday night’s
meeting, a motion was made
to consult with the Recreation
Advisory Board about the fa-
cilities that currently exist on
the parcel before taking fur-
ther action. The lease agree-
ment will be on the city com-
mission’s agenda for its next
regular meeting, which will
be on at 6 p.m. on Aug. 8 at
Gladstone City Hall.
Additionally, the commis-
sion decided to appoint Com-
missioner Robert Pontius to
the Delta County Hannahville
Collaborative Task Force
Monday night. The purpose
of the task force is to aid and
promote economic opportuni-
ty and sustainability in the
Upper Peninsula. Ron Miaso,
who has been representing
the city at these meetings, is
retiring from the position
when his contract expires at
the end of July. Miaso en-
couraged the commission to
fill his role.
Pontius has attended these
meetings in the past, and will
now be the sole advocate for
the City of Gladstone when it
comes to economic develop-
ment in the local area.
“They are really valuable
meetings … There is a lot of
economic development going
on in that group, and I eat that
right up,” Pontius said on his
appointment. “I want to thank
Ron Miaso for his service …
he is very well regarded and
he has been great as the face
of Gladstone at the [meet-
ings].”
In other business, the com-
mission reviewed and dis-
cussed the year-end financial
reports, including revenue
and expenses, which are cur-
rently pre-audited and subject
to change. Robert Valentine
of First Bank in Gladstone al-
so presented a report on the
current state of the city’s in-
vestment portfolio. The city
began investing with Valen-
tine in 2020.
If the city were to add-on to
the property, like a new
recreational facility, they
would have to get permission
from the property owners to
proceed with the addition.
Even if permission were
granted, the month-to-month
nature of the lease keeps the
About 75 people walk from the ruins of the former Old St. Joseph Orphanage and School in Assinins as part of the sec-
ond annual Children’s Remembrance Walk Friday. (Houghton Daily Mining Gazette photo by Garrett Neese)
Children’s Remembrance Walk city on edge, for the property
owners could sell the parcel
out from under the city at any
time.
“I would consider it in a dif-
addresses impact of Native
ferent light if we actually
owned it,” Thompson said.
The parcel in question is
considered residential, hold-
American boarding schools
ing 463 feet of lakeshore
frontage. After some of the
commissioners noted how the
property and fitness trail are
hardly used by citizens, many
believed the parcel would be
well-suited for future housing
By GARRETT NEESE
More than 75 people took part in policy and strategy. Her goal is to
Friday’s walk. It began near the ruins help people heal.
Houghton Daily Mining Gazette
ASSININS — Over more than a
century, federally-run boarding
schools for Native American children
followed the principle articulated by
Carlisle School founder Richard Pratt
— “Kill the Indian in him, and save
the man.”
The acts that followed, from forbid-
ding the speaking of native languages
to acts of physical abuse, left thou-
sands of Native Americans feeling
disconnected from their culture and
led many to turn to drugs or alcohol to
numb their pain, former students said.
“It’s one of the root causes we have
of the disparities in our communi-
ties,” said Cecelia LaPointe, founder
and executive director of Native Jus-
tice. “It’s the result of a genocidal pol-
icy, a result of the historical and inter-
generational trauma from the board-
ing schools. To call it a boarding
school, you should basically never do
that. It was basically in many ways, a
torture chamber.”
of the Old St. Joseph Orphanage and
“Getting back to our culture … our
School in Assinins, one of three fed- cultural values, our language,” she
erally-run schools in Michigan. Pri- said.
development.
Janice
marily an orphanage, it operated for
about 90 years starting in 1860.
Cobe’s cousin, Bob Hazen, was 6
when he was taken to Harbor Springs
Ketcham, the city’s assessor,
was asked to give an estimate
on what the property would
be worth. Ketcham noted that
last year’s lakefront prices ran
at $1,100 for every foot of
lake front property. Using last
year’s estimate, that would
make the property worth over
$500,000.
“The whole time we are sit-
ting here, and people are
looking for places to build
houses, and we are holding
[this property] captive,”
Thompson said.
“We have to understand that there in 1955. They would be beaten if
was different things that occurred in they spoke Ojibwe. Girls were given
different schools, and understanding page cuts, while boys were shaved
the different dynamics, but the effects bald, he said. The school leaders put
on our communities has been incredi- delousing powder on them, “even
bly detrimental for a long time,” La- though we didn’t have lice,” Hazen
Pointe said.
Linda Cobe, a member of the task
said.
“They called us pagans and hea-
force and a Lac Vieux Desert Band thens, said we were nothing but
tribal member, was 5 when she was trash,” he said. “They made us pray
taken to the Holy Childhood of Jesus all the time. They tried to break the
Catholic Church and Indian School in bonds of the families. They achieved
Harbor Springs.
that by telling us we were no good —
“I remember the loneliness, the chil- the color of our skin and our beliefs
dren crying every night for their par- … when you’re told you’re going to
ents, and not being able to understand go to hell all the time, why should you
why we were there,” she said. “It was be good?”
Commissioner Brad Man-
tela added to the discussion of
a fearful time, because you got beat a
As a result, many people turned to
lot for little infractions, and it was drugs and alcohol, including Hazen’s
very demeaning, humiliating, cruel at brother, who recently died of compli-
times … you grow up, and you look cations from alcoholism.
Friday’s walk was part of the kick-
off of a concerted effort to spread the
word of what happened, promote heal-
ing for survivors and protect today’s
Native American children from abuse.
The Michigan Truth and Reconcili-
ation Commission, launched by the
non-profit Native Justice Coalition,
preceded Friday’s walk with speakers
and a dinner Wednesday at Zeba Hall.
The non-profit plans to link with the
federal government’s work in investi-
gating what happened at the various
schools, spending a minimum of 10
years to pursue restorative justice and
promote healing. U.S. Secretary of
the Interior Deb Haaland ordered a
federal investigation of the schools in
2021, the same year more than 1,500
graves were discovered at similar Na-
tive American boarding schools in
Canada.
back at the hypocrisy of what they
were trying to teach us with Christi- closed, many of those traumas were
naity and then treating innocent chil- passed down to future generations,
dren like they did.”
In her siblings, the trauma manifest- happened can help put an end to it.
ed in poor health, she said. Two older For the past eight years, he’s been
brothers who attended the school for teaching a class on intergenerational
longer than she did died in their 20s. trauma at Lac Vieux Desert.
Even once the boarding schools
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Her sisters, one of whom went to the
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suffered from health issues including pursuing a bachelor’s degree at
In turning his own life around, he
hypertension.
Michigan Technological University,
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“I went through a lot of personal and hopes to someday become a pro-
problems, and it was a struggle to get fessor. His son’s girlfriend, a member
back on my feet, to make something of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Com-
of myself, after you’re told all the munity, is teaching his son about the
negative, ‘You’re no good, you’ll Ojibwe culture. In turn, Hazen’s
never amount oto anything,’” she learning from his son.
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