Lac La Belle South Shore residents voice concerns South Shore Association President Tom Collins, right, discusses land use, zoning and other concerns with Lac La Belle residents at the recent SSA mid-winter meeting in the Lac La Belle Fire Hall kitchen. Pictured also, from left, are Lac La Belle residents Barbra Battersby and John Kaleita; Roy Koljonen, SSA secretary; and Diana Jones, SSA vice-president. LAC LA BELLE ’Äì Lac La Belle area residents voiced concerns about local incidents of annoyance and nuisance that might be controlled through township ordinances. At a recent meeting of the South Shore Association (SSA), residents mentioned being disturbed by the noise of the generator running late at night for the lights on Mt. Bohemia, as well as a lack of consideration by visiting downhill skiers (with Wisconsin license plates) who used one resident’Äôs yard as a restroom despite the availability of portable, heated restrooms at the ski lodge. Newly elected South Shore Vice-President Diana Jones suggested looking at the Grant Township ordinances to see if any of them could be amended without having to consult the County Zoning/Planning Commission. SSA President Tom Collins said the SSA could bring up an issue to the township board and work with them on ordinances, as was done in the past with the no-wake zones at Lac La Belle. Ken Korhorn, Grant Township supervisor and SSA member Grant Township Supervisor Ken Korhorn said in order to request a township ordinance, residents would need to document such incidents and then report them to the township board for consideration. "I’Äôm reasonably sure that the township board would be responsive to your thoughts and wishes in that area," Korhorn said. "You’Äôve got to have the documentation (on the calendar) so you’Äôre able to say it wasn’Äôt just one day out of the month that this occurred." Anita Campbell, member of SSA and the Grant Township Land Use Study Committee Anita Campbell, a member of the Grant Township Land Use Study Committee, reported attending the planning meeting with Common Ground representatives for the Keweenaw County workshop on land use planning to be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 5, at the Mohawk School. Land Use Committee members Barbra Battersby and Ken Korhorn, who also attended the planning meeting, said Phil Musser, Common Ground Core Group member and Keweenaw Industrial Council executive director, was very helpful. Said Korhorn, "I was impressed with his approach and what he knew." Collins said the Grant Township Land Use Study Committee members should all attend the Feb. 5 workshop. The committee, which will hold its first formal meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, in the Lac La Belle Fire Hall, will be important for obtaining information and feeding the information to the Zoning Board and the county commissioners, he added. Korhorn noted, "(The committee’Äôs work) provides an opportunity to learn about the (planning) process and what is going on and how it’Äôs going forward." Anita Campbell said the Eagle Harbor Township land use committee has already met with Lori Hauswirth, associate planner for the Western Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Region (WUPPDR). Campbell said she believed the Grant Township committee may also need to invite Hauswirth to meet with them and provide professional help with the planning process. Another professional planner, Rod Cortright, field co-chair of Michigan State University Extension’Äôs Land Use Area of Expertise team, is planning to offer two conservation design workshops in March, Campbell added. Tentative dates are March 1 and March 22. Cortright spoke at a public forum on land use planning in Mohawk last September. Korhorn said Grant Township may be willing to pay the workshop fee for two or three members of the Land Use Study Committee to attend the workshops. Collins added another subject for the Land Use Study Committee to consider is what kind of zoning residents living around Lac La Belle want to have. Much of the lakeshore area is now zoned Resort Residential, which would allow commercial buildings such as gas stations and restaurants to be built next to some residential cabins or houses. Korhorn said plat files and maps could provide information the committee needs in order to investigate the zoning issue. Sandy Collins asked if the group could work on a historical record of the area, collecting photographs, documents and other memorabilia. Said Battersby, "That goes hand in hand with land use." Anita Campbell offered to collect these for the association. Anyone with historical photographs or documents to contribute can send them to her at HC-1, Box 31, Mohawk, MI 49950. John Kaleita, author of the Town Crier "HEAR YE!  HEAR YE!" newsletter, expressed his appreciation of those who assisted him after he passed out in his parked car near the Lac La Belle mailboxes on January 8. "The Mount Bohemia ski patrol revived me by applying CPR and oxygen and also contacted the sheriff's office and Mercy Ambulance, who took me to the hospital," Kaleita reported in his newsletter, recently posted on the Bulletin Board of George Hite’Äôs Eagle Harbor Web. "Appreciation also to the competent staff at Keweenaw Memorial Hospital where I was told that a slow heartbeat caused by downstate prescribed medication I had been taking for two years caused the problem," Kaleita explained. "Also, a sincere thank you to those who expressed their concern for my welfare." Kaleita said tests at Keweenaw Memorial Hospital revealed no other problem. "As I'm feeling better now, I expect to continue my Town Crier reports as well as return to publishing the South Shore, Copper Harbor and South Point newsletters," he added. In other business the SSA: approved a motion to draft a letter to State Representative Rich Brown, D-Bessemer, to ask about possible legislation to allow people with a second residence to vote on local issues that affect their second-residence property; approved a motion to make lake water testing a group project for next summer; discussed designs for the SSA logo; discussed the liability insurance policy for the Fire Hall building; learned the group received a letter from Grant Township, signed by Tom Beveridge, former Grant Township supervisor, recognizing Tom Collins for community service in removing and storing the no-wake buoys in Lac La Belle; discussed a future Web page for the SSA; learned Guy Snyder would volunteer for the township Board of Review. The next SSA meeting will be Saturday, June 2, 2001. ’Äì Michele Anderson January 21, 2001