candgnews.com JANUARY 8, 2025 Vol. 38, No. 1
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SIMULATOR SHOWS STUDENTS THE DANGERS OF IMPAIRED DRIVING/3A
Mount Clemens receives audit report
Tommey Walker, founder of Detroit VS Everybody, and Brooklyn Fountain, a 17-year-old Mount Clemens High School senior, hold up a rug in the shape of the school store’s new logo that Fountain designed as part of a Fashion Entrepreneurship course led by Walker. Fountain and Walker are wearing each other’s creations. Fountain is wearing a Detroit VS Everybody shirt while Walker’s sweatshirt features Fountain’s other design created through the class, “Bather Flavor.”
BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
MOUNT CLEMENS — Finances served as the main focus of the Dec. 16 Mount Clemens City Commission meeting, both looking back and looking ahead. The commission received an “unmodified” audit report from the firm Maner Costerisan. It is the second audit to be conducted since consulting firm Plante Moran was hired as the city’s financial manager in spring 2023. “There’s multiple opinions that can be given, but the city receives an unmodified opinion, which is a clean opinion — the best possible opinion you can get in accordance with GAAP, generally accepted accounting principles,” said Jordan Smith, a principal at Maner Costerisan. “Our job as auditors … is not to detect fraud, it is not to give an opinion on internal controls. If we note anything, we bring it to your attention. Thankfully, this year we did not note any inter-
Photo by Dean Vaglia
Bather creativity shines in rebranded school store BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
MOUNT CLEMENS — In recent years, the school store at Mount Clemens High School has been little more than a wayfinding post for students. But as of Dec. 17, it has become a showcase of Bather creativity. Students and faculty were joined by Tommey Walker,
founder of fashion label Detroit VS Everybody, for the final session of a Walker-led program that saw Mount Clemens students learn about, explore and ultimately participate in the business of fashion. The 10-hour course came about through discussions between Walker and district faculty members — notably Terri Lowe, the Mount Clemens High School college and See STORE on page 13A
See AUDIT on page 7A
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