By Sue Clark on Dec 18, 2007 in Restoration | Leave a Comment 
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Sixth Grader Picks Lost Lighthouse For Project
A lighthouse in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, decommissioned in 1924, sold for scrap after being damaged by a fire and multiple storms, has found an unlikely group of supporters in two middle school groups in Nashville, Tennessee. According to a story in the Press of Atlantic City, 12 year old Diana Branch, a sixth grader at Meigs Magnet Middle School was taking part in the recent New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge with her grandmother, and visited the former Ludlum Beach Lighthouse, now a six room summer rental unit that sits two blocks away from the ocean (photo below from www.lighthousefriends.com).
By Sue Clark on Dec 17, 2007 in Opinion | Leave a Comment Print This Post
Private Aid To Navigation Chosen
A replica of a lighthouse situated on the Delaware Maryland state line has been installed to honor the Coast Guard at a park in San Jacinto, California, according to a story in the Press Enterprise. The monument is the latest to be installed at the Druding Park to honor different branches of the armed forces. It joins an M-60 tank dedicated to the US Army, an 11 ton anchor honoring the US Navy and a 10 foot propeller from a B-17 Bomber. The only one left to honor now is the US Marines.
By Sue Clark on Dec 16, 2007 in Featured, Restoration | 1 Comment Print This Post
Volunteers Rebuild Engines
Volunteers with the Port Huron (Michigan) Museum this week have finished putting on the last tweaks to the engine that ran the 97 foot lightship’s electricity, according to a story in the Port Huron Times Herald. Next, the twin GM diesels that provided the boat’s propulsion are in their plans to rebuild to a running state. But the lightship isn’t going anywhere…it’s been landlocked for more than thirty years at Pine Grove Park. So why rebuild the engines to a running state? Easy, according to volunteer Chris Tabor. “(It’s important) just to have a display, even though we can’t make it go anywhere,” he said in the story. “It’s so much more if it’s a working museum.”
By Sue Clark on Dec 15, 2007 in News | 3 Comments Print This Post
In late December of 2007, the Canadian Post Office will be issuing their Flags series of stamps, featuring five of their lighthouses from different areas of the country. In order from left to right in the above photo, these are the towers that will be featured.
Cap Des Rosiers Lighthouse
Canada’s tallest lighthouse at 112 feet, this station follows the design of the so-called Imperial Towers of Lake Huron. Located in Eastern Quebec, on the Northeast Gaspé Peninsula, near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It’s an active aid to navigation, owned by the Canadian Coast Guard and managed by Phare du Cap des Rosiers.
By Sue Clark on Dec 11, 2007 in Opinion | Leave a Comment Print This Post
Not Enough Parking
Some neighbors of Wind Point Lighthouse near Racine, Wisconsin, are up in arms over the city’s proposal to build a paved turnaround near their beloved lighthouse. The Journal Times has posted a story about the efforts of some of the nearby residents of Wind Point to stop these plans from going forward.
The problem seems to be that there are only eight parking spaces, and buses bringing in school children and wedding parties have no place to turn around, or even to park. Also, the village council uses the area around the lighthouse for their municipal court and council meetings.
By Sue Clark on Dec 8, 2007 in Threatened | Leave a Comment Print This Post
Plum, Pilot Islands Transferred
These two Door County (Wisconsin) lighthouses and their respective islands were finally transferred from the US Coast Guard to the US Fish and Wildlife Service this past October, after decades of bureaucratic red tape and legal wrangling over environmental cleanup issues. Terms of the conveyance required the Service to partner with a nonprofit organization to renovate the buildings on Plum Island that were abandoned when the Coast Guard deserted the century-old life-saving station in 1991. That role has been taken on by the Friends of Plum and Pilot Islands, a newly formed organization just now finishing nonprofit filings (No website yet).
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