Monday, April 30th, Starting at 11:30am

Alcoa / Howmet Plant 10, 3850 White Lake Drive, Whitehall, MI

The luncheon will feature United States Representative Bill Huizenga (R), 2nd District. Congressman Huizenga will inform the attendees of his work with the committees in which he is involved and give an update on local and current issues in Washington D.C., expectations for the future, as well as responding to questions from the floor.

Other invited legislators attending are State Senator Geoff Hansen (R), 34th District and State Representative Holly Hughes (R).

This years’ event is generously sponsored by PNC Bank and hosted by Alcoa / Howmet. Dave’s Kountry Katering is planning a delicious lunch along with table service by Debby Does Dishes.

For more information: 231-893-4585

Seven Whitehall Middle School students and their teacher will be awarded the Michigan State Senate’s White Pine Award by Senator Geoff Hansen (R-Hart) this Friday, April 20, at 10:00 a.m. in the gym at the middle school located at 401 Elizabeth Street.

The students, Alaina Anderson, Breann Comstock, Brooke Bachelder, Nathan McWhinnie, Elle Bachelder, Victoria Learman and Morgan Mitteer, and their teacher Susan Tate, are being recognized for their environmental work that led to the group’s becoming a first place winner in the national Lexus Eco Challenge. The White Pine Award is given annually in recognition of efforts to protect Michigan’s natural resources. The students will be planting the tree on the grounds of the middle school.

From: http://www.whitehallschools.net

Hudson Marecek, junior at Whitehall High School, an Architectural/Mechanical Computer Aided Design Student from the Muskegon Area Career Tech Center (MACTC), earned third place at the 2012 State Drafting Contest held at Muskegon Community College on Friday, March 16, 2012. Classmate Jared Felt (Mona Shores) placed second.

Muskegon Community College and the American Foundry Society sponsored the contest. The competition included 55 high school computer-aided design (CAD) students from Allegan, Kent, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, and Ottawa counties. Students were given a "real-life"engineering problem to solve and results were based on accuracy, dimensioning, tolerances, proper layer usage, arrangement of views, and spacing.