The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page A3

ANDREW ERALD Zack Bryson delivers food to a table at the Village Pub in exington. The Harborview Plaza in downtown Lexington has a new addition to its live theater and gourmet deli, but the word is already out on that. ith little fanfare or advance marketing apart from social media, the Vill age Pub, 7318 Huron opened Friday for a Turnout was better than expected. far surpassed our expectations of what the business would be for the eekend. If an indication of how he summer is going to be going to be aphenomenal summer in Lisa Hind, general manager and partner said.

Owners Mike and Lanae Kettlewell i ntend to have the Village Pub run year- ound as part of a sports and entertain- ent complex that they operate under a resort license. The pub opens onto an outdoor courtyard with fountain and is attached to the Lexington Village Theatre. It takes over the restaurant and bar space the Kettlewells own and leased last year to Celtic Ray pub, which closed. make it through the winter, so to speak, so we decided to take over and combine both the Lexington Village Theatre and the pub. Now this entity is Lexington Village Theatre and ub.

They go Mike Kettlewell aid. Kettlewell is a Lexington native and ives in the Lansing area. He said while ummers in Lexington are usually very busy for them, winters are typically low. They hope to keep the pub busy ear-round with a refurbished backroom bar in addition to their main bar, hich Kettlewell described as ANDREW HERALD Televisions and a shuffleboard table are some new additions at the Village Pub in Lexington. NEW LEXINGTON PUB TAPS YEAR-ROUND THIRST SYEDA FERGUSON TIMES HERALD LOCAL NEWS DIRECTOR: LIZ SHEPARD (810) 989-6273, NEWS MONDAY, MAY 18, HURON 3A St.

Clair City Council to interview candidates The St. Clair City Council will in- erview two candidates to represent Ward 3 at a special meeting Monday. The council will interview William Klieman and Paul Wade at the munici- al building, 547 North Carney Drive, starting at 6:30 p.m.. he council will pick one of the candidates at its regular meeting to complete the term that runs through Dec. 31, 2016.

St. Clair Councilwoman Jane Krebs died April 15. The regular council meeting starts at 7 p.m. and includes a public hearing the budget. Muxlow to hold one-day office hours in Sandusky, Port Huron Rep.

Paul Muxlow, R-Brown City, ill be holding spring office hours for residents in St. Clair and Sanilac count ies to discuss state and local issues of i nterest. Office hours are 1-2 p.m. May 29 at andusky District Library, 55 E. Sanilac Road in Sandusky and 1-2 p.m.

June 1at Blue Water Chamber of ommerce, 512 McMorran Blvd. in Port Huron. Residents unable to meet at these cheduled times can call Muxlow at his office toll free at (517) 373-0835 or email Trinity Lutheran to offer ummer daycare Trinity Lutheran School is expand- i ng its programs to include summer daycare starting June 8 for ages up to 12. Hours are 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday through Friday. The cost is $6 per hour for the first child and $4 per hour for each additional child. Snacks a nd academic instruction will be pro- ided in addition to child care. Registration is ongoing for the new day care and for the 4-year-old preschool program that is offered three days of five days a week. Trinity Lutheran is a pre-K through grade 8 school with before- and after-school programs and a summer vacation Bible school.

The school is located at 1517 10th St. in Port Huron. For more information call the school office at (810) 984-2501 Kim Will at (810) 984-4456. IN BRIEF Times Herald reporter Nicole Hayden has been named the third best writer in the state at papers with circulations between 10,000 and 39,999. Hayden received the award Sunday at the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors newspaper competition luncheon.

The Associated Press is a not-for-profit news cooperative representing 1,400 newspa- ers and 5,000 broadcast stations in the United States. Members of AP include 48 daily newspapers in Michigan. The Times Herald was honored in several other categories, including: Best News Column: First place, ike Connell, Huron Mourns the Loss of a Good Best Website: First place, Michael Eckert Best Multimedia Storytelling: irst place, Beth LeBlanc, Best Informational Graphics or Illustrations: First place, Michael Eckert, Is a Monument to I Best Editorial Writer: Third lace, Tom Walker Entries were judged by editors rom The (Elyria, Ohio) Chronicle- Telegram and Sandusky (Ohio) Register. Other newspapers in the division i nclude The Ann Arbor News, Kalamazoo Gazette, The Muskegon Chroni cle and the Battle Creek Enquirer. Contact Liz Shepard at (810) 989-6273 or Follow her on Twitter The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Nicole Hayden named 3rd best writer in state TIMES HERALD Nicole Hayden MICHIGAMME buried in hundreds of unmarked graves at an Upper Peninsula cemetery is a question hat has challenged one genealogy enthusiast for 15 years. A bout 1,335 people have been buried i unmarked graves at Lakeview Ceme- ery over the past century and a half, acc ording to Renee Saari of Michigamme. Everyone deserves to be she told The Mining Journal of arquette. And so, she went to work in 2000 to track down the names of those buried in the cemetery. About a dozen embers of the Michigamme Historical Lakeview Cemetery Commit- ee have joined the project.

far, used death certificates, obituaries and burial permits to identify about 300 people, and they know the grave sites of about 50. The cemetery is in Marquette Mic higamme Township, about 35 miles west of Marquette in central upper ichigan. any of the people without a heads tone died in the late 19th and early 20th enturies and likely afford a arker, Saari said. Particularly bad were years when cases of scarlet fever a nd typhoid swept through the area. Many graves have death dates of 1918 and 1919, the years that the Spanish In- luenza killed about 50 million people orldwide, said historical society Presi- ent Don Moore.

aari said she became fascinated with genealogy more than 40 years ago tracing the branches of her own and family trees. To help mark the graves of the 50 peo- le whose burial site is known, Saari and the committee are seeking donations to i nstall memorial tiles. It plans to install a laque with the names of the other 250 eople whose exact burial sites nown, she said. esides seeking financial support, Saari said the committee is asking for elp from anyone who may be able to identify an unmarked grave, or who might have old obituaries, death certif- i cates or family histories of former area esidents. quest: Identify 1,335 unmarked graves in UP cemetery STAFF REPOR.