Dear Editor,
I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate the Topinabee Development Association (TDA) and in particular, Mr David Ogg and Mr Tom O’Hare for their tireless work successfully securing a $280,000 MNRTF Grant. These funds combined with the Mullett Township taxpayer’s match of $120,000 will completely rebuild the Topinabee Beach Front Park on the west side of Mullett Lake and forever change the appearance and use of one of Topinabee’s most important public assets.
As always, with a victory, others will attempt to associate themselves with this success. Please offer your thanks where thanks are due; to David, Tom, Mary, and those other behind the scenes TDA members who have worked diligently for several years on this project. David and Tom, who serve as the two Board appointed public members on the Mullett Township Parks Committee, went the extra mile and on their own dime travelled to Lansing on more than one occasion to lobby hard for this project. Mr Ogg has also already volunteered his services as a coordinator/liaison for the project.
I am not a member of the TDA and have been a critic at times of both this project and the TDA. Whether we agree or not, the TDA has envisioned a Topinabee they want to see and this new park is an important first step in their master plan for Topinabee. Mullett Township Board’s neglect of the old park has been a much discussed embarrassment to the community for years and I look forward to the expected completion date of this new park by the promised late 2012.
I will be applauding these individuals when they have their much deserved ribbon cutting ceremony next year.
Carl Muscott
Topinabee, MI
