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MT. MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- A 38-year-old Clio woman died Monday after a two-car crash at Clio and Mt. Morris roads in Mt. Morris Township.

The woman was driving southbound on Clio Road around noon when she collided with a vehicle going westbound on Mt. Morris Road, police said.

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CLIO, Michigan -- An unlikely pairing could bring a medical training lab that would expand Mott Community College's footprint in northern Genesee County and help funnel more students into health care programs.

MCC's Northern Tier campus and Vienna Township business leaders are in talks about the project, which grew out of a local effort to improve the community's health.

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CLIO, Michigan -- At 16, Hannah Atwell has the rest of her life all but completely diagnosed.

She knows what she wants to do, where she wants to do it and how she's going to get there.

And she's just as sure about what she wants to be as what she doesn't.
"I could never be a surgeon," joked Hannah, who spent 10 days at the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine in Chicago this summer. "Cutting into people doesn't really fascinate me, but caring for people is what I really like to do."

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CLIO, Michigan -- The Clio Veteran's Memorial Park has a new attraction.

On Nov. 7, workers were busy installing the park's newest monument: an ornate tribute to the definitive military veteran.

"A veteran," the monument reads, "whether active duty, retired, nat-ional guard or reserve, is someone who at one point in his or her life wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'"

"That's exactly what it's all about," said Art Bigelow, a member of the Clio Veteran's Memorial Park Board, of the quote. "I knew I was going into the service, there was just no question about it."

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'Candlelite Nite' kicks off with parade

The Clio Area Community Council, Chamber of Commerice and DDA will be sponsor this year's "Candlelite Nite" in downtown Clio on Dec. 5. The lineup for this year's parade will form at 5:30 p.m. on Rogers Lodge Drive. The parade will begin promptly at 6 p.m. and move west on Vienna Road toward Railway Street.
Parade participants have been asked not to have live Santas in their entries or to throw candy to the crowd.
Vienna Road will be closed from Mill Street to the railroad tracks from 5:30-9 p.m.
For information, or to register for the parade, call Bernie Borden at (810) 686-3997 or Doug Vance at (810) 686-5255.

Senior center plans holiday dinner
The Clio Area Senior Center will offer its second annual Christmas dinner at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 6.
The community-wide event, which starts early with the 5:30 p.m. social hour, will usher in the holiday season and help raise funds for programs at the Clio Area Senior Center.
Reservations are required by Nov. 26.
For more information, call (810) 687-7260.

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CLIO, Michigan -- Whether it was knitting, planting flowers or teaching a friend how to play euchre, Helen Courtney made sure she was always doing something.

"She made a pie for a bake sale on Wednesday. ... She'd walk to the mall every day," said friend Alice Grigar. "She kept busy."

Courtney, 89, died early Sunday after a brief illness.

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MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Michigan — Mary Ellen Moran aims her mother toward the 10 pins at the other end of the bowling alley and then steps back as 97-year-old Ellen Moran flings her ball down the lane.

Sometimes Ellen Moran's ball slips into the gutter but more often than not it finds its mark at Colonial Lanes, 6430 W. Pierson Road, in the mixed doubles' senior league.

If she knocks down all of the pins, the house breaks out in cheers and applause and Ellen Moran flashes a sheepish grin.

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