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

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Highlights of Port Huron At Last!! While the city of Port Huron be- gan to celebrate its annual Blue Water Festival, its occupants noticed a major change in its community. The Cumberland Val- ley Carnival Company entertains with their usual flair, among the activities of the Festival was the exotic spectacle of fireworks that awed the crowds of Port Hu- ron. Along with this celebration came the realization that Port Hu- ron had to celebrate another event. After twelve years of contro- versy and two years of construc- tion, the Thomas Edison Inn opened in July, 1987, to fill a lot of the former Peerless Cement property. The Inn, owned by Donald Reynolds of the St. Clair Inn, faced a challenge even after vot- ers approved the plan to build the Inn in 1985. City resident Dean Kibbe filed a lawsuit protesting the language on the ballot. He claimed it was “con- fusing and misleading”. The suit was dismissed by a Port Huron judge and Kibbe appealed in Detroit and Cincinatti. Those cases also were dismissed. Once the court battles were put aside, Reynolds proceeded to build the Thomas Edison Inn at its site next to the Blue Water Bridge. The land opposite the Inn was developed into a park and streets were built. In less than two years a dusty, empty piece of land became a luxury hotel and park. Many people who lived in Port Huron throughout the controversy can now have a sigh and say — At Last!! Newly constructed, the Thomas Edison Inn was built near the site where inventor Thomas Edison once worked. The Inn over- looks the St. Clair River. 4 Community

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Not paying any attention to the In school colors, the Big Red pipes in the back of the room, Jon Chief emblem was added to the Zulauf focused attention on his bi- south wall of our gymnasium. The ology teacher. Jon was also a Var- graphics were designed to match sity Basketball player. the line work painted on the north side of the gym. Opening 3

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Lighting the night, fireworks flare over the display was sponsored by London’s Farm Dairy Port Huron Municipal Building. The annual during the Blue Water Festival. Community