The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page 15

5B SUNDAY, JUNE 21. 1998 HWSljj tl TTl I PORT HURON, MICHIGAN 5B Michigan News antra ssrafi5inilzs RfflacMmaw Expert furniture Repair PI On Garfield Between 10th Pine Grove Since 1971 985-9549 City in running as lighthouse museum site The Associated Press MACKINAW CITY This city between Michigan's peninsulas is under scrutiny by a team deciding where to build the National Lighthouse Museum. The five-member team arrived Thursday to spend three days touring the Straits of Mackinac, the only Great Lakes site being considered for the museum. About 20 lighthouses that once focuses on the lighthouses, including the slogan, "We'll leave the lighthouse on for you." In Mackinaw City, residents are eager to win the museum, which could bring in about $20.7 million a year in tourist dollars. Residents wore T-shirts and buttons supporting the museum.

Members of the committee have already visited contenders in Staten Island, N.Y.; Point Judith, R.I., and Hull, Mass. Judges also may visit New London, and Rockland, Maine. The committee plans to vote on the museum's site on July 11. The museum is scheduled to open on July 4,2001. guided mariners to safety are ithin a 20-mile radius of the suggested museum.

Cullen Chambers, 'a lighthouse preservation consultant from Georgia, was among those climbing the rickety spiral stairs of the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse on Friday. "It's an excellent view. There are exciting possibilities. It's one of the prettiest sites I've seen so far," he said. Gov.

John Engler is expected to offer $1.5 million toward the construction of the $20 million museum. On Friday, Gov. Engler announced plans to bring some lighthouses into the state park sys tem, using money from the Natural Resources Trust Fund to allow the state to buy and maintain the structures. Some selection committee members said they were surprised to learn that Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state. "People don't think that Michigan has lighthouses," said Valerie Nelson, who heads the Massachusetts-based national Lighthouse Preservation Society.

"But we're really getting a sense of how important lighthouses are to Michigan." Travel Michigan director Richard Czuba calls lighthouses "the icons of Michigan." Travel Michigan kicked off a tourism campaign Friday that 7T)MlW 'BLUE WATER AREA'S FAVORITE OIL CHANGE" 9S7-725C 3041 Krafft Road Fort Gratiot 364-7987 1184 Gratiot Market Square Marysville Group hopes to save Sawyer aircraft VflMnHH The World's 1 Selling Piano II personally, would hate to see the 00 B-52 leave. For many of us it's a form of nostalgia." JERRY GUNSTROM, Air Force Association member PORT Huaon minwmusic 4 military planes may be shipped from closed base The Associated Press MARQUETTE The four military aircraft left at the former Sawyer Air Force Base may be shipped off, unless a group trying to save the planes gets help soon. Stu Bradley, a retired Air Force colonel from Marquette, said the area Air Force Association chapter will disband if it cannot attract more interest. If that happens, the four display aircraft likely will be returned to the Air Force, he said. His group and the K.I.

Sawyer Heritage Air Museum will meet Monday to discuss the problem. The planes include a B-52D bomber that once flew missions over North Vietnam. The others are a jet trainer, a fighter and a fighter-bomber. All have a historical connection to Sawyer. "We can't lose the airplanes and we won't lose the airplanes as far as I'm concerned," said museum director Dan Benstrom, a retired Air Force chief master sergeant.

If businesses, veterans organizations, retired Air Force personnel or others would volunteer to help mmmi I I 1 The Grove Mall vfcl I itlC Telephone: Pine Grove ot Garfield (810) 984-5081 1-800-284-7891 maintain the display, the planes could stay, he said. Association member Jerry Gun-strom called the displays "a tangible evidence of the past." Sawyer closed as a base in 1995. personally, would hate to see the B-52 leave," Mr. Gunstrom said. "For many of us that were involved in the Air Force Association and the Air Force it's a form of nostalgia." Tom Rumora, executive director of Marquette County's K.I.

Sawyer Development Department, said the county would like to see the planes remain at Sawyer. But the county cannot afford to pay for it, he said. Even if the association chapter folds, Mr. Benstrom hopes to find a way to keep the planes. "The Easy Gift Place" ish sf Scottish Goods It SUNKEN TREASURES ON THE LAKES WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM PORT WELCOME Specializing in custom embroidery for all occasions Dinner Shopping on Friday Nights in Downtown Port Huron Over a Dozen Shops open until 8:00 p.m.

9risRose Downtown Port Huron 982-5487 Bridal Registry Gift Certificates Available Open 10 a.m. 6 p.m. Fri. til 8 p.m. Sun 12-4 Louisiana-Pacific Weather Seal Windows By AL MANN A look at the Port Welcome.

ORIGIN: The 120-foot-long passenger vessel was launched at Camden, N.J., on Aug. 7, 1959. SERVICE: The ship provided harbor cruises at Baltimore for the Maryland Port Authority and later added trips on Chesepeake Bay. SOLD: The hull was sold for a reported $500,000 in 1987 and moved to Albany, N.Y. GREAT LAKES: The ship was resold and arrived at Algonac on July 29, 1988, for new work.

FATE: After 10 years of service, Port Welcome left the Great Lakes last September for Florida. "On the Lakes" is written by Skip Gillham. His address: Box 443, Vineland, Ontario, LOR 2CO. MICHIGAN QUICKSHIPinc. 2545 24th St.

Port Huron Drawing by STEVE TAYLOR A look at the William Nottingham, a 376-foot, steel-hulled freighter that was nearly a casualty of the great storm of 1913: THE STORM: The freighter was laden with 200,000 bushels of wheat and barley on its way from Fort Williams to Buffalo, N.Y., when the storm caught it in the middle of Lake Superior on Nov. 8. The crew battled the gale all day and into the next, but failed to bring the ship close to any kind of shelter. After battling the storm for 48 hours, the ship's fuel was gone. DARING DECISION: Capt.

Peter Fuller decided to burn the grain that the vessel was hauling. AGROUND: The ship almost made it to safety. It was slowly heading around Whitefish Point and approaching St. Ste. Marie when it went aground on Parisian Island Reef.

FATALITIES: Three crew members were drowned when they launched a boat to try to get help. The boat capsized and all three men were lost. AFTERMATH: The Nottingham was salvaged that fall and towed to Toledo, Ohio, for repair. FATE: The Nottingham remained afloat to serve as a cargo transport on the North Atlantic during World War II, then was scrapped at Hamilton, Ontario, in 1946. "Sunken Treasures" is written by James Donahue, a retired Times Herald reporter and author of several books on Great Lakes history.

His address: P. O. Box 1 986, Show Low. A riz. 85901.

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