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www.lsj.com Lansing State 7A to MSU vs Wyoming Sept. 27 Go to www.facebook.com/lsjnews to enter now! Hurry! Contest ends September 22! One person injured i Eaton Co. crash A assenger in a Ford ruck is recovering from inor injuries after the truck collided with a tree Thursday evening in Eaton County. The driver of the Ford truck was traveling northbound on Hartel Road around 5:40 p.m. and attempted to pass a vehicle, unaware the econd vehicle was turn- i ng onto Gresham High- ay, the Eaton County Office said in a ews release.

The driver of the Ford swerved to avoid a collision, but lost control, drove into a ditch and truck the tree, Eaton County deputies reported. The passenger in the Ford truck was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The driver was not injured. Prosecutors charge woman Prosecutors in Michigan say charged an 18- ear-old woman with ausing a false police report to be filed after she was reported missing and found a day later. Monroe County Chief A ssistant Prosecutor oseph Costello Jr.

says he charge filed Thursday against Hayley Turner is a felony. It carries apunishment of up to our years in prison. A uthorities say Turner laimed she was abducted Aug. 7, just north of Ohio in Bedford Township and was found safe 1 6 hours later in the Detroit suburb of Ecorse. hey say they found problems with her story.

ostello says prosecutors were working ith lawyer Bill Godfroy for her surren- er. Godfroy return a message to The A ssociated Press on Thursday. MSU, other groups et MI-OSHA grants Michigan State University and a half-dozen other agencies based in the Lansing area re- eived grants to promote worker safety. he Michigan Occupational Safety Health A dministration, or MI- OSHA, Friday announced 20 Consultation Educa- ion and Training Grants totaling $865,000 for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.

In addition to MSU, local agencies receiving grants were the Associated General ontractors of Michigan, uilders Education Services Training of Michigan MARO Employment Training Association, the Michigan AFL- CIO, the Michigan Association of Chiropractors, and the Michigan Infra- tructure and Transportation Association (MITA). I-OSHA specify the amount given to each group. Most groups ill use the grants for training, according to the MI-OSHA announce- ent. MITA plans to use its grant to create a martphone app that can help calculate angles on a job site, the statement said. MSU will use its grant to reach out to the and dairy agricultural i for health raining and hazard assessment.

Lansing HR director leaving position human resources director will eave her position next eekin order to pursue a rivate-sector job, Mayor irg admini- tration said Friday. Terri last day will be Sept. 26, Berner office said in a statement. An interm director will soon be named. staff and wire reports IN BRIEF The Cold War is over, but the memories linger and memories that should be kept alive.

one reason for the creation of the K.I. Sawyer Heritage Air Museum in the former Silver Wings Recreation Center at the former U.S. Air Force base. The facility, though, is more than just a place to hare war stories, according to The Mining Journal of Marquette. The museum was founded by members of local Air Force Association Lake Superior Chapter 238 in 1993 when it was learned Sawyer Air orce Base was going to be shut down.

knew they were going to close, and there be anything left, a nd they wanted to pre- erve the said Bob Vick of Marquette, president and chief executive officer of he museum. The museum has oved over the years before being housed in its urrent site. Money and manpower continue to be challenges, but Vick said former residents love the useum. thank us every ay, I guess, for doing what we did, even though he said. Vick, who served in ietnam, knows military history well.

He was stat ioned at Sawyer from 1977-82 as communications maintenance superintendent, taking care of the control tower and ra- ar. Six months later, he as back at work in civil service for the Air Force. The Sawyer base officially shut down on Sept. 30, 1995, ending an era hat began in 1954 when he U.S. government ne- otiated with Marquette County for the lease of 5,278 acres to become the new base.

Does Vick agree with the closing? in a way, no, but Iunderstand why, because the base was here because of what we called the Cold War, and they had to scatter their bombers and tankers out keep Russia from des troying everything with one Vick said. said when the form er Soviet Union in a sense the nited States won the old War. the Air Force ecided, well, time to start doing things differ- ntly, and they eed all the bombers any- Vick said. K.I. Sawyer is peppered with abandoned buildings, a far cry from its bustling heyday when notable events, such as the completion of a foot runway in 1957 the year the Soviet satellite Sputnik was launched took place.

However, the museum with its artifacts and displays gives visit ors a sense of what life as like when the base was active. laques and trophies a re displayed at the museum, as well as old pho- ographs and newspaper lippings, model airplanes, an F-106 ejection eat, a bomb safety pin used during Operation esert Storm and other a rtifacts. any of the memories pleasant. One exhibit shows pieces from a Sawyer B-52H crash in 1977 in which all eight people on board perished. However, what would an air museum be without actual planes? Located northwest of the museum is the outside static display where people can walk up former Sawyer air- raft such as the McDonnell F-101B Voodoo Inter- eptor and the massive oeing B-52-D Stratofor- tress.

The Upper Penin- ula Memorial Retreat enter also is next to the static display. he museum not only contains memorabilia ut houses a community enter. The K.I. Sawyer ilver Wings Community Library also is housed at the facility. Karen Manninen, a former teacher who lives at Sawyer, works at the library as well as the store and greets people at the museum.

very Manninen said. meet a lot of good people. You hear a little bit of eve rything. People tell you heir life Vick said the museum sed to be in a gymnasi- in a now-abandoned building at Sawyer. When he museum moved to its urrent location, however, a lot of work needed to done because the uilding was left to freeze.

like I tell people, hen G.I.s want something, they find ways to ix he said. Local pipefitters elped to make the building usable, Vick said. of us are curators, but we know what like and what looks good, and we try to follow he rules and inventory things and all this kind of Vick said. He said the museum eases the building from Telkite Enterprises LLC. elkite wants the museum to buy the building for $359,000, which, Vick acknowledged, possible now.

I the meantime, don ations and $30 annual memberships keep the museum afloat. A Crow- drise campaign to raise funds also is under way at ww.crowdrise.com/KI- awyerMuseumBuil- ingPurchase. Admission to the museum, which is open from 1to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, is by donation. Vick said he is willing to take people from a single individual to groups on a guided tour of the facility.

The Cold War period mutual assured destruction was a loom- i ng factor involved eople, Vick pointed out, so remembering what hey endured is why laces such as the museum are important. said people should ot forget those struggles or history is bound to repeated. MUSEUM KEEPS AIR HERITAGE ALIVE Planes, models. more on display By Christie Bleck Associated Press ASSOCIATED PRESS Bob Vick, president and chief executive officer of the K.I. Sawyer Heritage Air Museum, stands by the B-52-D Stratofortress, one of the planes on display in the static exhibit area of the museum in Marquette.

K.I. Sawyer Heritage Air Museum president and CEO Bob Vick stands by an F-101B Voodoo Interceptor at the static display exhibit in Marquette..