Archive for August, 2009

>BERNE TOWNSHIP — Carol Coffman watched Thursday as firefighters extinguished the last flames that consumed her 1987 Toyota motor home.
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She could see the nose of the truck and not much else.

The motor home was a pile of blackened refuse — nothing recognizable but a propane tank, a small grill and wheels with their rubber tires melted off — along the U.S. 33 bypass between Ross and Hamburg roads.

“It was my pride and joy,” Coffman said of the camper. “I’ve been camping in tents all my life.”

Her son, 23-year-old Jon Coffman, was driving the motor home west on U.S. 33 when he smelled smoke. He looked behind him to see smoke billowing from the rear right tire on the driver’s side. The fire soon spread from the back of the vehicle to the front, he said.

“Once I pulled over, there was smoke billowing out from beneath the sink where the water tanks are and the stove and the heating unit,” he said.
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>DECATUR – An unexpectedly strong market and a smoother-than-expected transition have Fleetwood RV Inc. saying it likely will add 300 workers to its Decatur operations in the next three months.

The company also plans to invest $7.4 million in its facilities, company and state officials announced Wednesday.

It marked the second straight day that rumblings of an improving economy meant good news for area factory workers.

Fleetwood RV was formed in July when American Industrial Partners Capital Fund IV bought the motor home assets and the Fleetwood brand from bankrupt Fleetwood Enterprises Inc.
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>Michigan needs to reduce the cost of maintaining State campgrounds. They have already closed some campgrounds to meet reduced funding levels. Looking to the future, if funding cuts continue, as we all expect they will, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Lansing is looking for your input on how to shrink the cost of State campgrounds.

The DNR has created a questionnaire for the general public to help them establish which criteria should guide decision making on reducing expenses to meet the expected revenues.
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