Y B B A R C T S E T E SWE R E B O T C BEEKEEPING BEGINS WITH LEARNING 12A O OCTOBER 1, 2025 Vol. 45, No. 22
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Local, state officials unveil Chapaton Retention Basin State and local officials gathered at the Chapaton Retention Basin for a press conference explaining the process of its construction and what it does for the lake. Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
BY ALYSSA OCHSS
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On Sept. 16, Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller, along with local and state officials, unveiled the new and fully operational Chapaton Retention Basin in St. Clair Shores. The basin has been under construction for around two years and cost approximately $29 million dollars to build, most of it being state funded through American Rescue Plan Act funds. “The project involved the rehabilitation and expansion of the Chapaton Canal, at the foot of Nine Mile Road (east of Jefferson Avenue) in St. Clair Shores along Lake St. Clair,” a press release stated. “With its new dimensions of 700 feet long, 200 feet wide and 16 feet deep, the canal has the capacity to store 17 million gallons and will reduce CSOs by 50%.” CSOs, or combined sewer See CHAPATON on page 7A
ST. CLAIR SHORES RESIDENT TURNS 101
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St. Clair Shores Resident Tanina Lafata will turn 101 on Oct.14. She said she’s had a won-
derful life, though it wasn’t perfect. Tanina, known as Tina, said she grew up with a strict father in Detroit and worked at his grocery store. Tony Lafata, her son, said she doesn’t have good memories of
her childhood, but Tanina said her mother was wonderful. She graduated from eighth grade and later returned to night school at Lake Shore where she graduated as valedictorian.
Tanina eloped with her husband at the age of 16. When she first met him, her sister, who went to school with him, said he was no good. “The more she said it, the
more I liked him,” Tanina said. “Typical kid today.” The family moved into the Shores in 1957 when Tony was a freshman in high school and her See LAFATA on page 5A
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