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4A SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 DETROIT FREE PRESS Metro Curved hallways, protective impact-resistant windows, doors that lock with a touch of a smartphone. These are some of the design elements Fruitport High School in western Muskegon County will implement in its new building, set to open summer 2021. Fruitport Community Schools Superinten- dent Bob Szymoniak said the measures, which were supplemented by a $404,707 grant from Michigan State Police, can potentially save lives in an active shooter situation. often, we feel like going to be hap- less victims that nothing that we can do until after it (a shooting) he said. what learning is a lot we can do on the front Szymoniak said the idea to design the new building with non-traditional safety measures came after a group of parents in the communi- ty advocated for a new high school building to replace the one built in the 1950s.

It was agreed that a new facility will be built around the old one, and to do this, the hallways had to be curved. we were sitting with the architect during the design phase and were looking at this curved structure, somebody said, know, that cuts down on the line of sight of an active From that point, we started to brainstorm what else we could do to keep our kids said Szymoniak. Mich. high school unlike most in US Designed to help save lives in active shooter situation Omar Abdel-Baqui Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK A rendering of the new Fruitport High School, set to open in 2021. FRUITPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS See FRUITPORT, Page 6A It sounded like a Kid Rock show.

It looked like a Kid Rock show. When the obligatory pyrotechnics went it boomed like a Kid Rock show. Yet something felt this time, as the Michigan-bred star hit DTE Energy Mu- sic Theatre on Friday to launch a four-show stand. And it just the old-school Ken- tucky Fried Chicken bucket now don- ning as a hat to perform For years, a Kid Rock show was a big-buzz draw for metro Detroiters across the board. It was an event widely viewed as a guaran- teed good time with a celebratory home- town But we ourselves in the political pell- mell of 2019, and this homecoming DTE run presents a Kid Rock operating in a new, fraught context: In a day of deepening cultural polarization, the 48-year-old musi- cian has become a lightning rod.

These past few years, gone unapolo- getically political vigorously backing President Donald Trump and sometimes lacing his concerts with pointed social takes. caught for a recent Twitter shot at Taylor Swift. His past use of the Con- federate onstage, which defended as a nod to Southern rock, has resurfaced for attack by activists. Throw all that into charged cli- Brian McCollum Columnist Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK Something felt different at Kid DTE concert Kid Rock kicks off his homecoming show at DTE Energy Music Theatre on Friday. CHRIS PRESENTS See MCCOLLUM, Page 6A Imagine being crammed inside a construction elevator with 14 other people, the machine erupting into a loud roar once it began going up the building.

Feeling like an eternity, the elevator door is opened, which leads to the 32nd Several windows occupy the open space, breathtaking views of the Detroit skyline. Blue skies hang over the Detroit River, with various skyscrap- ers in the background. This is what several attendees had the chance to experience Saturday afternoon during the Look Inside the Book tour. Hosted by Detroit Design 139, the event allowed more People on the Bedrock tour of the Book Tower walk around taking pictures from the 32nd floor of the historic building in downtown Detroit. One of the several caryatids outside of the 13th floor of the Book Tower overlooking downtown Detroit on Saturday.

They were repaired as they showed signs of age over time. PHOTOS BY ERIC FREE PRESS Guests get look at Book Tower renovation process Micah Walker Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK See BOOK TOWER, Page 11A The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists black rhinos as a critically endan- gered species, with about 5,500 remaining in the wild. Nearly half of those are in Namibia, which is allowed under international conven- tion to permit male rhinos a year to be le- gally killed by hunters. The subspecies Peyrek listed on his application, the south-western black rhinocer- os, is listed as by the IUCN, mean- ing it is at less threat of extinction than the rest of the species as a whole. Peyerk did not respond to a phone message on Thursday seeking comment.

He is president of Excavating a large construction WASHINGTON The Trump administration says it will issue permit to a Michigan trophy hunter to import the skin, skull and horns from a rare black rhinoceros he shot in Africa. Documents show Chris D. Peyerk of Shelby Township applied last year for the permit re- quired by the Fish and Wildlife Service to im- port animals protected under the Endangered Species Act. Peyerk paid $400,000 to an anti- poaching program to receive permission to hunt the male rhino bull inside a Namibian na- tional park in May 2018. contractor in Michigan.

The numbers of black rhinos have been in- creasing in recent years with stricter conserva- tion management, but dozens are still illegally poached each year for their horns, which are sold on the black market for use in traditional Chinese medicine and as a status symbol. The horns are composed largely of the protein ker- atin, also the chief component in hair and gernails. well-regulated hunting as part of a sound management program can the conservation of certain species by providing Shelby Twp. hunter to import body of rare black rhino Spike, a rareblack rhino, is shown in 1997 at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. A Michigan trophy hunter is getting a permit to import the body of a rare black rhino he shot in Africa.

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