Community Briefs: Aug. 15, 2023

Lenawee County hosting town hall Thursday to help create opioid action plan

ADRIAN — Lenawee County is having a town hall for county residents this week to help the county develop its action plan to combat the opioid epidemic.

It will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the Lenawee Intermediate School District Tech Center at 1372 N. Main St. in Adrian.

The town hall is an opportunity for residents to contribute their thoughts and ideas to the action plan being developed by Lenawee County to determine how the opioid settlement monies should be spent. Lenawee County has started to receive opioid settlement monies and will continue to do so until 2040.

The featured speaker for the event is Eric Hipple, a former Detroit Lions quarterback. Hipple’s NFL accomplishments include two playoff bids, a divisional championship and the Detroit Lions most valuable player award for the 1981 season.

After his 15-year-old son’s suicide, Hipple fell into a downward spiral. Bankrupt and jailed for drunken driving, he found the strength to seek therapy for his own depression. Since then, he has devoted his life to building awareness and breaking down the stigma surrounding mental illness.

Attendees will have the opportunity to win a personalized copy of Hipple’s book, “Real Men Do Cry,” a story of tackling depression and surviving suicide loss.

Lenawee County to recycle unwanted tires Thursday

ADRIAN — Lenawee County residents will have an opportunity to recycle unwanted passenger vehicle and motorcycle tires for a nominal fee.

A tire collection will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the Lenawee County Recycling Drop-Off Site, 307 River St., Adrian. The program is for Lenawee County residents only.

Tires collected will be recycled into materials such as playground and landscape applications, rubberized asphalt road projects, in-fill material for synthetic athletic fields, and rubber chips for septic fields and other engineered projects.

Residents are allowed to bring up to 10 tires per vehicle. Clean passenger vehicle and light truck tires will be collected for $2 each. Motorcycle tires will be collected for $1 each.

Tires from commercial sources will not be accepted. Leaving tires after hours is illegal dumping, which is a punishable offense, the county said in a news release.

For more information on the Lenawee County tire collection event or other local recycling opportunities, contact the Lenawee County Solid Waste Department at 517-264-4511, option 1, or at Solid.Waste@lenawee.mi.us.

Knitters Club of Tecumseh meets third and fourth Wednesdays of the month

TECUMSEH — The Knitters Club of Tecumseh, which gathers twice a month to knit, crochet or sew shawls, hats, slippers, mittens, lap robes and quilts to provide comfort and inspiration for those undergoing chemotherapy treatments, will meet this month on Aug. 16 and 23.

The Knitters Club meets the third and fourth Wednesdays of the month at the Tecumseh Senior Center, 703 E. Chicago Blvd. Meetings start at 9 a.m. The club welcomes new members and is open to anyone willing to share their talents, an announcement said.

Items that are created by the Knitters Club are distributed to patients at the Hickman Cancer Center in Adrian, Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit and St. Joseph’s Cancer Center in Ann Arbor. Donations of clean yarn and other supplies are appreciated.

Those who would like to donate may contact Diana Mead at 517-263-6221. Those interested in more information about the Knitters Club may call the Tecumseh Senior Center at 517-423-5939 or Donna Wilson at 517-260-0305.

Anyone who is unable to attend either of the meetings is invited to make items for the club’s cause at home.

Two movie showings scheduled for Thursday at Lenawee District Library

ADRIAN — The Lenawee District Library invites teens and adults ages 16 or older to a movie program Thursday, Aug. 17, at the main branch in Adrian, 4459 W. U.S. 223.

The library will show the 2023 movie “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” The movie is rated PG-13. Movie times are 2 to 3:45 p.m. and 6 to 7:45 p.m. There is no cost to attend, and registration is not required. Patrons are welcome to attend one or both showings. Refreshments will be provided.

“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is a drama/comedy that stars Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and Abby Ryder Fortson as 11-year-old Margaret who moves to a new town and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence.

“She relies on her mother, Barbara (McAdams), who offers loving support, and her grandmother, Sylvia (Bates), who's coming to terms with finding happiness in the next phase of her life. Questions of identity, one's place in the world and what brings meaning to life soon brings them closer together than ever before,” a summary of the film said.

Morenci volleyball program hosts inaugural grass volleyball tournament

MORENCI — The Morenci volleyball program will host its inaugural adult 4-v-4, co-ed, grass volleyball tournament at 9 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 20. The tournament will be on the practice football field at 788 Coomer St.

Teams are required to sign up and may have more than four members on their roster, a flyer for the tournament said. To register, visit www.tinyurl.com/Grass-Volleyball. Participants must be 18 or older to play. There will be a prize for the first-place team.

Teams must have at least one female and one male present on the court at all times.

Registration costs $120 per team. All players must be present at the practice football field by 8:30 a.m., the flyer said. Accepted forms of payment include cash or checks made payable to Morenci Area Schools with Morenci Volleyball in the memo. All proceeds from the tournament will benefit the volleyball program.

In the event of inclement weather, the tournament will be played indoors in the high school gymnasium.

BULLETIN BOARD

• The Irish Hills Detachment 1182, Marine Corps League, will have its regular meeting at 7 p.m. today at the Onsted Durkee-Seager American Legion Post 550, 333 Connor St., Onsted. Any Marine who served a minimum of 90 days in the Marine Corps and was honorably discharged is eligible to join. For more information, call 517-467-2773.

• Adrian Morning Rotary meets at 7 a.m. every Wednesday at the Christian Family Centre in Adrian. Anyone interested in helping with service projects in the Adrian area is welcome.

• Civitan of Lenawee will have its weekly meeting at noon Wednesday at Goodwill Industries of Southeast Michigan next to Lowe’s in Adrian. All members and anyone interested in learning more about Civitan are welcome. Civitan’s address is P.O. Box 844, Adrian, MI 49221. The organization meets weekly on Wednesdays. On the first Wednesday of the month, it meets at 5:30 p.m. at Aubree’s Pizzeria and Grill in Adrian. All other meetings begin at noon at Goodwill.

• The Adrian High School Class of 1965 will meet for lunch at 1 p.m. Wednesday at ZZ’s Sports Bar & Grill inside the Lenawee Recreation Center, 520 College Ave. Adrian.

• Blissfield Area Lions Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lena’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant, 214 E. Adrian St., Blissfield. All members and guests are welcome. The club meets twice a month on the first and third Wednesdays, unless otherwise noted.

This article originally appeared on The Daily Telegram: Community Briefs: Aug. 15, 2023