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JUNE 5, 2024 • Vol. 21, No. 12
Twp. responds EXPLORE to reports that recyclables are going to landfills
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Feature THE FOLLOWING IS PART OF C & G NEWSPAPERS’ FEATURE SERIES Series ABOUT NORTHERN MICHIGAN DESTINATIONS FOR READERS TO EXPLORE.
Cadillac’s ORV Scenic Ride is the culmination of two years of planning and work by the Cadillac Area Visitors Bureau. Photo provided by Cadillac Area Visitors Bureau
BY MARK VEST mvest@candgnews.com
WEST BLOOMFIELD — Some residents have been expressing concerns about whether or not items that they put out to be recycled are going where they are supposed to be. Multiple residents recently shared those concerns via nextdoor.com, which is a social networking service for neighborhoods. See RECYCLABLES on page 8A
BY GREG TASKER t’s a warm spring morning, and the forest floor is erupting in green and budding trees are exploding in hues of yellow and red, a colorful, seasonal shift that would entice any outdoor enthusiast into the woods. Normally, that’d be a cue to hike, but instead I am watching a parade of off-road vehicles gear up to explore a newly mapped out “ride” on rural county and U.S. forest service roads in and around the Manistee National Forest. One by one the off-road vehicles disappear through awakening trees and beyond the kiosks marking the Caberfae Trailhead Staging Area. Just down the road from the popular ski resort Caberfae Peaks, this trailhead is one of the designated starting points of Cadillac’s new 100-plusmiles-long ORV Scenic Ride. I’m not quite sold on ORVs as a means to explore the
I Some residents have expressed concerns about recyclable items potentially ending up in landfills. Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
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outdoors — they do make noise — but I’m willing to give this fast-growing recreational sport a whirl. Hopping on a side-by-side with volunteer Kris Thorsen at the wheel, we trek along an off-shoot from the main stretch, thick with trees and occasional puddles. Thorsen gingerly maneuvers the mud and small pools of water, keeping his passengers dry and clean. Up ahead, as the ride winds east and then north toward Mesick, the terrain will become more rugged, steeper in spots, and wetter. “It’s a beautiful, fun ride to Mesick,” says Thorsen, a retired home builder who traverses these woods frequently on side-by-sides with his children. “It’s pretty much all in the Manistee National Forest and will take a couple of hours to get there. “There are many reasons to get outside and see how pretty the forest is, how vast it is.”
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