Hi Lake Orion. You’ve all so graciously accepted me into your lives since I started here that it’s time I officially introduce myself. My name is John Counts, and I will now be covering your community for the Review. First off, let’s give a name to the column. The name should reflect what topics I […]
Families looking to add a bit of a kick to the quality time they spend together do have an option’martial arts at the CERC. According to Master Leo Mayer, head of the American Martial Arts Academy (AMAA), there’s no better way to spend time with your kids than studying the 4,000-year-old Korean form of Dan […]
A year and a day after losing two of their sons in an automobile accident, Cliff and Vicki Schrauger were presented with the keys to their new Lake Orion home in a ceremony on Tuesday (Sept. 30). ‘Today, this comes to completion,? said Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson. Patterson took an interest in the […]
After much time spent ironing out the details, the Lake Orion Village Council approved the process for evaluating Village Manager Paul Zelenak at their Sept. 22 meeting. The process, involving a form drafted by previous councilmembers, would assess Zelenak’s first six months as manager. The council hired him in Feb. 2008 after ousting previous Manager […]
There doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day for Lake Orion High 12th-grader Samantha Kaufman. ‘I get home at 5 p.m. from cross-country practice, take the dog for a walk, then it’s homework for two hours, and any other extra time, I either work on art projects or read. Or just keep doing […]
With televisions beaming images of violence daily to children’from the simulated sort in video games to news broadcasts from overseas’it sometimes seems impossible to teach the value of peace. But for the past two years, Lake Orion elementary students have participated in an art program that channels their creative energy to combat violence. The result, […]
When Lori Bryan found a 1940s telephone table at a garage sale, she saw beyond the spilled candle wax and the hideous green paint job. Cleaned, sanded, re-painted and adorned with flowers, it now stands amid other rehabbed pieces of furniture in the middle of Chic Antiques, her downtown Lake Orion shop which opened early […]
A piece of Lake Orion history won’t become history anytime soon. The Ehman Center went to Deborah Moceri for $52,500 at an auction held at the old school on Sept. 30. According to Lois Golden, executive director of the Downtown Development Authority, Moceri plans on retaining the building at 55 Elizabeth Street, which once housed […]
It’s a bit chilly to be playing in Paint Creek, so why would anyone want to be knee-deep in it at Children’s Park on Sunday? A closer look revealed waders, nets, buckets, test tubes and a microscope: serious equipment for a serious project. ‘Obviously, we’re concerned about the gorgeous place we live in. We want […]
In the Sept. 10 edition of The Lake Orion Review, readers were asked to submit memories related to the Lions Club in honor of their 70th anniversary celebration. On Oct. 7 1976, we ran a story about 5-year-old Christy Chitu, a blind girl the Lake Orion Lions Club had given a braillewriter to. Thirty-two years […]