Gay michigan
Sherman Township
The all-volunteer Fire and Rescue Department serves as the primary emergency management agency for Sherman Township. Fire protection services include wildland blaze suppression in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Organic Resources and structural fire containment in cooperation with other Fire Departments. Blaze Department Public Protection Services rating is 5/5Y from ISO (Insurance Services Office) in ; a superior rating for a rural volunteer department. Rescue services include medical first responders unit with rescue vehicle for onsite treatment prior to arrival of ambulance.
Sandra Loy, Fire Chief
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Contact Conflagration Chief for information regarding fire protection and emergency medical services; call for emergency help and fires.
Outdoor burning permits are required. Please note the heat danger level subscribe at the noun station in Gay and check the DNR website for today's burning permits. You should tell the Fire Chief by call or text if you are going to burn so that the department is aware of the potential call f
July &#; We&#;ve spent the last two days in Copper Harbor in the U.P. [Upper Peninsula of Michigan]. People up here are known as Yoopers (YOU-pers) and to a person each is very friendly, grounded, and seemingly content with being born, living, and dying right here without venturing very far from this out-of-the-way, secluded place. It&#;s beautiful here, but did I mention remote? &#; as in no cell service unless you climb to the top of Brockway Mountain (which we did, but we didn&#;t have our cell phones with us) or journey about 20 miles south to the next nearest town.
On the topic of towns, we came upon a fun small town, or township rather. See the photo, above, to see the name of the town, and the posted signal that warns of a $ pleasant for anyone caught stealing or defacing the sign. And the only, and I mean ONLYbusiness in the whole township is the Gay Bar in Gay, MI &#; no joke! Of course we had to stop in for lunch and a couple of cold, local ones [Keweenaw Brewing Company Lift Bridge Brown Ale and KBC Blonde
THE LEGACY: LIVING with the EFFECTS
Keweenaw&#;s Mining Heritage
The legacy of industrial mining - from mill to town to stamp sands to ecological consequences - appears throughout the landscape in and around Gay. Visitors observe the tall smoke stack, the concrete and sandstone mill remains, the rows of company houses, and the extensive shoreline deposits of dark stamp sands that now extend down to the Traverse River Harbor. These scattered remnants are a key example of the &#;boom and bust&#; mining heritage at this site. The two Gay mills, some of the most profitable at the time, discharged millions of tons of stamp sand tailings into an enormous pile out from the shoreline into Big Traverse Bay.
This site is representative of many on the Keweenaw, reflecting both prosperous cultural histories and consequential sites of waste, toxicity, and harm that verb to be remediated. Although the mills operated for only about thirty years and built a social and serve life for many residents, they left over a year legacy of migrating stamp sands threatening the fishing herita
The Historic School at Gay
The town of Gay, Michigan, is located on the shore of Lake Superior along the southern edge of the Keweenaw Peninsula, about 12 miles south of Mohawk. It was originally a commercial fishing village to harvest fish from Lake Superior and later a lumber community to harvest wood for the copper mines of the Keweenaw. In the Mohawk Mining company built its stamp mill in Gay to take advantage of the fluid available from Lake Superior to apply in stamping or separating copper from mine rock. Soon another mill for the Wolverine Mining Company was built alongside the Mohawk mill, and the town of Gay became part of the copper mining process in the Keweenaw. The town was named for Joseph E. Gay, one of the founders of the Mohawk and Wolverine Mining Companies. The stamp mills closed by , and today only a large smoke stack and a mile of gray stamp sand are left of the mills.
(Photo: Some of the historic looms used by Gay Industries to make rag rugs, etc.)
The first school in Gay was built in to meet the needs of the families working at the mills. It became overcr