April 12, 1974

Linda Roede and Sharon VanDyk, who each maintained a 3.72 grade level common, share the valedictory title at Northern Christian Excessive Faculty in McBain. Miss Roede, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Roede of Marion, served as class treasurer in her junior and senior years, on the lady’s basketball group all through highschool, as a choir member for 3 years, and as a cheerleader this 12 months. A pupil on the Space Vocational Middle, Miss Roede plans a secretarial profession. Miss VanDyk, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Fred VanDyk of Marion, served as both class secretary or treasurer for 3 years, with the choir, as a participant on the lady’s basketball group for 4 years, and within the forged of the senior play. She was additionally a college correspondent for the Cadillac Night Information and plans to attend Mercy Faculty of Sensible Nursing. Each women attend Highland Christian Reformed Church and are energetic within the younger individuals’s group. Different honor college students on the faculty embody Marianne Zuiderveen, Karla DeRuiter, Dean Baas, Bonnie VanHouten, Beverly Agema, Debra VandePol, Barbara Rozeveld, Dan Beerrens and Carl Dodde.

April 12, 1999

A freakish spring storm dumped snow on the Cadillac space and was cited as a contributing think about a number of visitors accidents. Dumping about 5 inches of snow on the bottom between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., the snowfall continued right here and in hard-hit areas equivalent to West Department, which acquired eight inches in eight hours. The snowfall adopted a two-week warm-weather interval, which noticed temperatures attain as excessive as 80 levels Fahrenheit in Cadillac. What occurred? “There was a reasonably robust upper-level low-pressure zone. Because it handed by, it produced sufficient power to create quite a lot of elevate to create thunder,” mentioned Chris Holguin, Nationwide Climate Service meteorologist, Gaylord station. Holguin defined that Gulf moisture saturated the air. He referred to as it a “convection snow,” with moist air rising quickly into the very chilly low-pressure zone. “When a convection occasion happens, it’s very seemingly that some areas will get an terrible lot of precipitation actual fast, whereas different areas could get virtually nothing. It’s very laborious to foretell the quantity.” Gaylord acquired simply an inch and a half of snow and Alpena was spared precipitation, whereas different areas in a line from Traverse Metropolis to Standish have been dumped on. Rain fell south of Wexford County in Lake and Osceola counties. Cadillac acquired roughly six inches of snow. Holguin predicted dry climate for at present and Tuesday. Excessive temperatures are anticipated within the mid-40s to mid-50s vary, with partly sunny skies. Holguin mentioned that rain showers would possibly happen within the Cadillac space on Wednesday. In the meantime, Wexford County Central Dispatch alerted authorities and emergency care suppliers to some 16 collisions or rollovers Sunday, lots of which might be attributed to slick roads and poor visibility. Few of the incidents concerned damage. It was worse in West Department, the place Michigan State Police Troopers responded to some 20 incidents and heavy snow weighed down tree branches that fell onto energy traces, inflicting scattered energy loss.

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