June 2016

Mangiamo Italian Grill, on West Michigan Avenue in downtown Saline MI

Support Downtown Saline Restaurants Now: Mangiamo Italian Grill

June 22, 2016 Janet Deaton

Last night we had dinner at Mangiamo Italian Grill on West Michigan Avenue. [1] It was well after 6:00pm when we arrived, but construction crews were only then starting to pack up for the day. ….

Saline Pre-Prix 1986 facing east-southeast along Michigan Avenue downtown

Exactly Thirty Years Ago, Saline Hosted Its First “Pre-Prix” Race

June 4, 2016 Dell Deaton

Anyone who was around and aware during that summer of 1986 remembers it. They’re likely to have a story to tell as well. In fact, quite likely many, expansive stories. This was the first of ….

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General Motors booth at SAE 2018 WCX World Congress Experience

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June 7, 2018

Trade shows are by definition an immersive environment. As such, many of them will often tell you want they think about the industries they are assembled to reflect, what they hope you’ll find attracive about their offerings, and even what they fear. [1] Better still, all of this can happen whether the organizers want it to or not. The recent Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) event held earlier this year at Cobo Center in Detroit ....

Great Train Show 2022 at Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi Michigan

Southeast Michigan appearance of Great Train Show set out a legacy interest not to be replaced by any virtual rendition

March 31, 2022

The introduction of railways in England dates to 1764, and were erected for military purposes “as a way to reduce friction in moving heavily loaded wheeled vehicles.” [1] Depending on definition of terms used, the earliest “model trains” may date to almost as far back — to a couple of centuries past. [2] “Electrified” setups appeared in the early 1900s, with a bias favoring true-to-life reproductions produced to scale in the 1930s. Minton Cronkhite is credited ....

Conspicuously Elevated Camera Positioning Can “Make” Certain Photographs

February 24, 2017

That familiar yellow storage barn behind the Saline Railroad Depot is another often photographed local icon. Easily visible across East Bennett Street from Henne Field, it’s often used to serve as a symbol of Saline. At the same time, it can be a challenging subject in composition. Although certainly free of obstructions for its south face, because of the site layout, most camera positions end up producing a Keystone Effect, which is particularly unflattering for ....

Baptist State Convention of Michigan hosted ethnic-linguistic event to support new church startups, Part 3: Work Sessions

May 29, 2022

In 2019, management consulting firm McKinsey & Company addressed the topic of international business mergers with the following opener: “Understanding culture, and proactively managing it, is critical to a successful integration. [1] This requires a comprehensive approach. The fact that these principles could be applied to the success of North American church-plantings derived from roots literally originated from all around the globe should have come as no surprise to anyone going into the recent Southern ....

Reasons Why Customers Continue to Shop at Convenience Stores

September 11, 2017

When fire shuttered our local Dollar General last October, Saline lost an important option for convenience store shopping on its East Michigan Avenue corridor. [1,2] The value of this thankfully temporary loss to the City of Saline may be put into perspective by looking at nationwide numbers. According to the most recent National Association of Convenience Stores and Nielsen study: “US convenience store count increased to a record 154,535 stores” in 2016. [3] The well-established ....

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Month: June 2016

Support Downtown Saline Restaurants Now: Mangiamo Italian Grill

Exactly Thirty Years Ago, Saline Hosted Its First “Pre-Prix” Race