Hands-on learning at camp

Grace Dean picked up a dry erase marker with the prosthetic hand she just finished making during RUSHing Girls to Engineering Summer Camp, June 18. She pulled the strings she had glued to the hand as she used the prosthetic to write on the white dry erase board. The strings moved the fingers of the […]

Success for Team RUSH

Team RUSH 27 faced their newest challenges while building cardboard boats this summer and are ready for their 7th Annual RUSH Regatta this Saturday. The students faced restrictions in size for their boats made out of cardboard and duct tape last summer. This summer, they can make the boat as big or small as they […]

Wendi’s Word A column by Wendi Reardon

I found myself in limbo a few weeks ago. I was done with where I had been and had a few hours until my next appointment. Because I was already close to where I needed to be I didn’t want to go home. I didn’t want to venture to another town. I was quite particular […]

Football for Cure makes difference for local patient

Clarkston gridiron heroes host their Sixth Annual Football for a Cure to raise money for McLaren Breast Center and McLaren Cancer Institute in Clarkston, Aug. 16. In this week’s edition we sit down with a patient from McLaren. When Clarkston resident Sheri McDonnell was helping McLaren Breast Center and McLaren Cancer Institute in Clarkston with […]

Swayne plays for grandma

Everytime Hampton Swayne kayaks with his grandmother, Sherry Hampton-Nutting, it is a new adventure. ‘It is like a new world because there are spots you didn’t even know existed,? he smiled. Swayne, a Clarkston High School junior, admits his grandmother has always been his idol and on Aug. 16 he will proudly wear her name […]

Hitting the open water

Swimmers from the Clarkston Sea Wolves took their skills outside of the pool to an open water race in early July. Twelve members from the program participated in the 15th Annual Motor City Mile for the first time on July 9. They swam in the Detroit River, starting and finishing the races at Belle Isle […]

Crim training for Clarkston kids

Kids rounded the northwest corner of Clarkston Elementary last Thursday and kept their pace as they finished their 1-mile run. “They are fast,” said Sandi Larkins, as some of the kids finished within seven minutes. Every Thursday since June 26, kids from ages 5- to 11-years-old have met at the Clarkston Junior High School track […]

Wendi’s Word A column by Wendi Reardon

It might be hard to believe but it is time – time for fall sports. Despite the low temperatures and rainy days August has arrived and this week marks tryouts for athletes participating in fall sports and football players going back to the field with two practices a day. Many gridiron heroes are returning from […]

Cancer survivor rides for life, friendship

Jodi Witherspoon is proud to say she is a survivor and to celebrate it she bicycled 60 miles in Susan G. Komen’s Ride for a Cure, Aug. 2 in Lansing. “It was a wonderful journey,” she said. “It was just wow – it is the only way I can say it. It was amazing.” Witherspoon […]

Cold splash for a cool cause

Neiman’s Family Market Store Director John Schmidt and Lori Mouser readied themselves for the buckets full of ice and cold water from their coworkers as they participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge, Aug. 19. “I don’t like they sneak up on us,” Schmidt laughed as the employees neared closer. Within a few seconds, the once […]