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JULY 31, 2024 • Vol. 36, No. 16
Demolition of old county jail buildings underway
Wing focused on mental health to be built
BY DEAN VAGLIA
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MOUNT CLEMENS — For about a year, Macomb County’s top elected officials have dreamed and de-
bated about tearing down old buildings at the Macomb County Jail. On a hot morning July 19 while wearing 10-gallon hardhats, the county’s executive and sheriff finally got their wish. Macomb County Executive Mark
Hackel and Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham bashed the first hole into the wall of the Macomb County Jail Annex, ceremonially beginning demolition and paving the way for a new jail building to be built.
Hackel and Wickersham were joined by Macomb County Board of Commissioners Chair Don Brown and contractors to mark the occasion. “Demolition is starting today,”
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The Vasteras Wrestling Club of Sweden and the Viking Roughneck Wrestling Club pose for a group photo. Photo provided by John Jeffire
U.S., Swedish high school wrestlers find common bonds
MACOMB COUNTY— A recent two-week wrestling camp between the Vasteras Wrestling Club of Sweden and the
Viking Roughneck Wrestling Club, which is made up of wrestlers across Oakland and Macomb counties, ended with tearful eyes and the exchange of social media information. The clubs are all too familiar with each
other as Roughnecks leader John Jeffire, a teacher at Chippewa Valley High School, and Vasteras leader, Christer Persson, have built a bond over the course of four decades. “It goes back 45 years to 1979,” Jeffire said. “I was on a U.S. team that toured Den-
mark and Sweden, and that’s when I went to the city of Vasteras. We competed there and I met this guy, Christer Persson, who was the head of the Vasteras Club. In 1980-1981, I went over there for a year and trained with See WRESTLING on page 9A
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