Port Huron High School - Student Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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ft Tfrfcift w The eerie fog that sometimes covers the St. Clair River and surrounding area caused a foreign freighter to smash a part of the tranquil beauty that surrounds the Inn. After almost two months the damage still had not been repaired. A beautiful waterfront was built by the Thomas Edison Inn from the city for people to enjoy. A lone freighter traveling upstream added to the beauty. Community 7

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VIVID MEMORY SHORELINE DAMAGE The past year has been a hard one on the shoreline of Port Huron thanks mainly due to Lake Huron. A shattering incident is remembered here. The winter of 1986-7 erod- ed all of Lakeside’s beach away as well as the roadway that many remember. Only a bunch of rubble was left for people to think about. The rubble, standing like a lonely guard against any more se- vere weather reminded us of the hard winters in Michigan and the effect it can have on us. Lakeside was then the city’s problem and they set about to repair it before sum- mer began. The city council approved an $80,000 project to get the job started. The first thing to happen after the money distribution was set- tled was to locate a contrac- tor. A local contractor was hired in April and the work actually began in May of 1987. By June of the same year the beach was again looking like a beach but not the Lakeside we remem- bered. Steel walls were erected to serve the rebuilt beach. The water level was shallow compared to years before, but it was still Lake- side to us. The beach had been saved. The next memorable inci- dent to be recorded here was much more recent but not much was known after it first happened. The former Peerless Site was changed into a seawall park area to accompany the newly finished Thomas Edi- son Inn. In September of 1987 a Yugoslavian freighter ran into the seawall and damaged it beyond repair tearing away some of the walkway as well. What was known was that the wall was covered by insurance and plans were slowly being made to repair it to its former state. All in all the year for Port Huron and its adjoining wa- ters was a good one with the sight of new buildings and parks. Only a few marring in- cidents ruined the beginning of a new year for the shoreline, Lake Huron, St. Clair River and the surround- ing land. Storms ruined one of Port Huron’s beaches the winter of 1986-7. The Lakeside Beach was restored and many people still enjoyed the summer throughway of Lakeside was demolished and the beach completely covered there. Steel walls, called jettys, were fashioned af ter the ones at Lighthouse by Lake Huron. Beach. 6 Community

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8 Seniors