Eureka PTO says thanks and Trebesh has grave concerns
Sports Mania Carnival was a huge success thanks to our many area sponsors. Many of our sponsors have continued to support our school throughout the years. We are blessed to live in a community where both businesses and individuals pull together to make great things happen. We, the Eureka PTO, would like to encourage the community to remember the generosity of local businesses that continue to support not only our schools, but also our community. We give our thanks, to these companies that donated to Eureka’s annual carnival:
Shaggies
Little Caesars
M & M Restaurant Supply
Uncle Johns Cider Mill
Fitch Photography
Wal-Mart
Hub Tire
Rotary Glass
Car Quest
Always Charming
A 1 Tanning
Dewey’s
Impression 5
Mancinos
Applebee’s
Main Street Pizza
Subway
Bigby Coffee
Dersheys Cafe
Harrs
Wheel Inn
Avery Vision Center
Andy Ts
Zap Zone
Redwing Lanes
Brooke Coffman Photography
We would also like to thank the many individuals that helped to make our carnival a huge success. Parents, both current and past staff, and the St Johns High School Goodwins Group, who all volunteered their time for our event. All of these groups of individual make Eureka an ideal place to educate our students.
Thank you,
Eureka PTO
Trebesh has grave concerns
Two recent events in Lansing give me grave cause for concern.
First, the senior tax and the other tax increase can’t possibly be about the budget. Along with the tax increase of 1.7 billion dollars there is a 1.8 billion dollar tax giveaway to corporations. That $100 million dollar difference actually increases the deficit, it doesn’t reduce it at all. Reducing corporate taxes by strapping it on to the backs of our senior citizens is not productive, not right, and definitely not fair!
My second concern deals with the control and management of our own local governments. Government should be run like an efficient business- but not by an outside corporation, nor for the benefit of corporations. Lansing recently passed a financial emergency bill giving the governor the right to dismiss locally elected officials and in their place install a corporation to run, and even possibly eliminate some struggling municipalities and cities. Our local voice will in effect be snuffed out, and our local culture and identity lost. It will be possible for an appointed corporation to make decisions that have a serious negative impact on the lives and well being our children and grand children.
I absolutely believe that local government is the best form of government. Citizens have access to their local officials who understand the problems we face in our neighborhoods and in our communities. Local officials listen to us, represent us, and indeed are one of us; however, bureaucrats and corporate officials who live miles away have no concept of our local history, values, and traditions.
Call your representatives and tell them you want fair taxation, and you want to retain local control over your community’s affairs. The focus of State government should be on job creation, innovation and economic prosperity, not taxing our seniors and taking over control of our local communities.
Michael Trebesh, CPA