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Vemie (Barton) Mowerywill celebrate her 100th birth-
day on June 12; 2013. Born to Gideon and Telana Barton
in Montmorency County in the county north of Hillman.
Mowery was raised with six sisters and one brother, and
attended the Truax School.
On November 2, 1930, she married Frank Mowery, who
she met during her employment at a boarding house in
Rockport. The couple had five children and moved a lot
during those early years. Frank worked on engines at the
stone quarry in the early years, ran the Dairy Bar in
Onaway, and later worked construction.
Following their children's graduation, the pair lived in
Lewiston and wintered in Florida for many years. Both
die-hard fans of the Detroit Tigers, they usually attended
two or three games in Lakeland during the team's spring
training games.
Vemie also loved bowling and her time spent out on a
league. She rarely misses a bowling match on television,
and even more, rarely misses a Tigers game.
Frank died February 13, 1987. Vernie continues to live
in Lewiston, on her own, for much of the year.
They also had 19 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchil-
dren and 11 great-great grandchildren, as well as many
step-grandchildren. Many family members will help her
celebrate the big 1-0:0 at a party in Lewiston.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 The Montmorency County Tribune 9
Senate Bill 163, Revise wetland use per-
mit details: Passed 25 to 12 in the Senate
To expand certain exemptions to a state
wetland permit mandate, increase some
wetland permit fees and reduce others,
require permit denials to document their
rationale and authority, ffuthorize grants
to local governments to create "wetland
mitigation banks," slightly reduce wet-
land regulatory burdens imposed on
county drain commission projects,
slightly increase the state's burden to jus-
tifyrestrictions on an owner's use of his or
her property, prohibit the Department of
Environmental Quality from imposing
regulations that are beyond the scope
those required by federal law, and make
other changes to these land use restric-
tions.
35 Sen. Darwin Bother R - Evart N
36 Sen. John Moolenaar R - Midland Y
House Bill 4042, Require match of wel-
fare applicants against incarceration
lists: Passed 37 to 1 in the Senate
To require the Department of Human
Services to perform a monthly jail and
prison "incarceration match" and Social
Security "death match" to help determine
eligibility for a welfare and food stamp
benefit "bridge cards," and not issue or
revoke the card of a person on those lists.
This would codify current practice in stat-
ute.
35 Sen. Darwin Bother R - Evart Y
36 Sen. Iohn Moolenaar R- MidlandY
Senate Bill 335, Extend Medicaid
"gamesmanship" insurance tax: Passed
65 to 44 in the House
To extend from 2014 to 2018 the sunset
on a 1 percent health insurance claims tax
intended to "game" the federal Medicaid
system in ways that result in higher fed-
eralpayments to Michigan's medicalwel-
fare system. As introduced the bill would
have eliminated the sunset and empow-
ered the Department of Treasury to raise
the taxwithout any ftLrther authorization
by the legislature.
105 Rep. Greg MacMaster R - KewadinY
106 Rep. Peter Pettalia R - Presque IsleY
Senate Bill 165, Require disclosure of
medical futility policies: Passed 108 to 0
in the House
To require a hospital, health facility or
agency that maintains a written policy
that encourages or allows a health care
professional to withhold or discontinue
treatment on the grounds of "medical fu-
tility" to provide a copy of the policy to a
patient or resident upon request.
105 Rep. Greg MacMaster R - Kewadin Y
106 Rep. Peter Pettalia R - Presque Isle Y
Senate Bill 58, Revise DNR andAgricul-
ture Department "mission statements :
Passed 89 to 18 in the House
To explicitly include among the duties
of the Department of Natural Resources
and the Department of Agriculture that
they work together to jointly promote de-
ve.lopment of the state's forest products
industry.
105 Rep. GregMacMaster R- Kewadin Y
106 Rep. Peter Pettalia R - Presque Isle Y
Senate Bill 51, Expand forest property
tax breaks: Passed 79 to 28 in the House
To expand the eligibility for certain for-
est property tax breaks, increase their
value, increase the number of acres eli-
gible for the taxbreaks (by means of new
exemptions from an existing 1.2 million
acre cap), authorize a new 2 mill property
taxonpropertyinthis programthatwould
go to a proposed "Private Forestland En-
hancement Fund" to subsidize private
forestland management activities, and
more. This and related bills are designed
to facilitate use of a program granting
property tax exemptions to owners of
smaller "non-industrial" sized parcels of
forestland, rather than one designed for
owners of much larger "industrial" for-
ests.
105 Rep. GregMacMaster R- Kewadin Y
106 Rep. Peter Pettalia R - Presque Isle Y
Budget Negotiations Dominate Week's
Legislative Activity
The primary focus of legislative activity
this week was the budget for the fiscal year
that begins on Oct. 1. Significantly, House
and Senate conference committees came
to agreement on most spending items,
although some remain unresolved. One
of these is whether the Department of
Education budget will include language
prohibiting adoption of a national "Com-
mon Core" curriculum initiative. Many
grass roots activists have expressed strong
opposition to this policy, which the state
Board of Education has already approved.
The budget agreement does not include
expanding Medicaid eligibility under the
terms of the federal health care law
("Obamacare"). That issue is still in play,
however; as one advocate for the expan-
sion told the Gongwer news service, "The
budget's not done until October 1st." In
other words, a "supplemental" appro-
priation bill could still be passed later that
would authorize the expansion.
Legislative leaders and the Governor did
agree on where to spend a one-time, $483
million tax collection windfall (plus an-
other $219 million expected next year),
which is mostly related to taxpayers shift-
ing income into the 2012 tax year because
of federal income tax increases. Specifi-
cally, $140 million more will be spent on
K-12 schools, an additional $350 million
will be used for road projects, and $75
million will be deposited in the state
"rainy day fund."
It is expected that the full House and
Senate will pass the complete l udget next
week. The weekly Roll Call Report will
report key details when this hOppens.
Day High Low
May 20 77 5I
21 82 51
22 64 42
23 51 27
24 58 27
25 62 27
26 68 20
The Atlanta area received
1.10" precipitation.
Source: US Weather Bureau
