JOIN THE PENTWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND GET YOUR OWN FIRETRUCK

[XLFD]

One more ethical local fire fighter has bitten the dust down in Pentwater.  It started Tuesday on a Facebook page of The Pentwater Daily News Herald Journal Tribune Beacon

 

JOIN THE PENTWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND GET YOUR OWN FIRETRUCK
has your vehicle broken down and high gas prices driving you nuts, no problem become a Pentwater Fire Department and they'll give you a truck to drive and provide gas.
offer only valid if your father is the township superviser.

 

A few replies followed among these:

 Joe Pentwater according to my facebook sources this has been going on for month's, as well as a few other things that are a bit wierd. My sources say that we shouldn't worry because there is always a Pentwater DPW truck parked at the station during working hours and have spotted the DPW worker sitting there for hours on a laptop instead of working. Why fix potholes when you can get paid to watch porn or check facebook using the library wifi. It's only tax payers dollars being wasted and they do that alot around this village.

 

 Another firefighter who was released earlier for passing out candy during a parade, Deb Millard (her story found in the archives of that facebook page) informed us on Thursday January 6th (followed by a reply from the 'paper' and the firee):

Deb Millard Well now what do we have here. Because this paper {the facebook page} found an opinion and wrote it's own details about a firefighter using a dept vehicle my husband, Bear Millard, was suspended from the Pentwater Fire Dept. today by none other than Terry Cluchey. He refused to answer any questions and stated that "You can discuss this..." at the big meeting we will have in "a few weeks". The suspension is indefinite, read "terminated". When asked where he got the information that led to the suspension, Terry replied "It was handed to me". When asked who it was he replied "I can't tell you that. Suspicious yes, underhanded yes, shady yes, rediculous well I can't even begin to describe.   

The paper caught on and did it's own digging and watching, it isn't difficult to see when the truck and driver are all over town every day and the truck sits at the FF's house. When your officers are doing the wrong thing and get caught do...ing it, shouldn't the person in the wrong be the one punished? Shouldn't the chief be fixing the problem so he doesn't have to worry about "stories" being broadcast all over the internet about the corruption and mismanagement of the department you head? Realization eludes these people. Interesting how this department can be called to a fire and be deemed ineffectual...every time. Obviously the safety of the residents of this village and township are of no concern to them. Valuable and trained firefighters are so easy to come by around here, especially when the 2 in power make it so easy to like them and are such competant leaders, wouldn't you say? The road to rediculous is paved with the leadership and assinine behavior of these two "men". When this statement is "delivered" to you, make no mistake, this was written with full knowledge that you watch our every move, you are a poor leader, we are the most interesting and worthwile projects you've ever had, and that is about all of the repect you will ever deserve. Trade in your fire helmet, you are ineffectual and sad.

 

The Pentwater Daily News Herald Journal Tribune Beacon Well it looks like we have another story. Our hopes are that you do not believe this is our fault and we would love to work with the two of you to spread this whole preposterous witch hunt to the four corners. We have readers in Australia. With 10,000 readers a day this is sure to blow up in someones face.

 

Bear Millard

hey guys that's the way the cookie crumbles. I saw something that I felt was wrong and called it. It has been a pleasure serving this community and I'll keep you all posted. Did any of this fix the problem? No. Hey if it looks this bad to m...e and I am on the Dept think how bad it looks to John Q taxpayer or Joe Pentwater. I am hoping when I do finely get my meeting this can all be worked out and I can remain on the Dept., if not have I got some stories,videos and documents for you guys as I won't have to fear retaliation or cost me my Job. Keep up the good work and I might need a job are you still hiring? To my wife's comment above....geesh tell em how you really feel! Love ya and your candy.

 

The Pentwater Daily News Herald Journal Tribune Beacon ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST. Due to the fact that we found an opinion (thanks Deb) and ran with yet another story of Pentwater Fire Departments misappropration of funds and misuse of equipment by people on the fire department, another skilled and honest firefighter has been lost to us, the taxpayers.

 

A few hours later we have the latest update after the FD meeting:

Deb Millard

According to firefighters that were at the monthly meeting of the PFD last night. The wife of the firefighter who has been seen since Aug. using fire trucks as his own personal vehicle is the one who copied Bear Millard's entire page and then sent it to the township the asst. chief and chief, thus moving the story into the "mainstream media" and ensuring that more people got to see it than those of you who read the paper. Bear Millard was suspended for "The information going out to the mainstream media". This wife is also the daughter-in-law of the township supervisor. The same township supervisor that told Deb Millard, when she was terminated for passing out candy, that he or the township can do nothing in regards to the FD as it is a "separate entity". The same township supervisor who, we've heard through the grapevine, is being sued for telling the same line to another person. The same township supervisor who's son is the one using the truck for personal use. In effect, Mr. Millard was punished for an officers wife's emotions and poor judgement. Interesting.

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The corrupt continue, the virtuous fall.  Small city life.  Does anyone care though?

[Sweater Cows!]

NO, really people don't care X, I mean they gossip, and really may wish it was themselves getting the 'perks', but they don't care.

 

It seems the boondoggle you found in good ol' ludville is farm from an anomaly;)

[Willy]

XLFD

I take it that the Pentwater daily news......... is just an online name for a privately run forum on Facebook. Could you give us a condensed version of what is going on down there?

[Sweater Cows!]

RJE, What he listed above IS the entire story,  it is a satirical make fun of the local media facebook page, hence the name *news *herald *journal *tribune *Beacon   Don't feel bad i didn't catch the joke the first time I saw the page either, then i got it that a newspaper doesn't name itself ALL those things, lol

What you see is all there is to see, the second paragraph above is the facebook status update by the PDNHJTB, then the other are peoples comments under that. Just like a thread in this forum if you are not familiar with facebook Someone posts something and then other people reply underneath.

 

 

[XFFDM]

Not even kind of a joke.  When I was fired earlier this year from the same dept. for an even more rediculous reason, the PDNHJTB was the first to listen!  It may "spoof" on things and give us all a smile but they also gave me a voice.  The OHJ, however, gave me a reproach and did a TERRIBLE job of fact finding and reporting even when I gave them all of the facts as presented to me in writing from the FD.

[Sweater Cows!]

Oh. I didn't mean that they are a joke or your story either, i meant that that name is a(okay joke is a bad use of wording,) how can i say it? i mean what do you call the name? satire? spoof? teaser? parody? i think spoof is correct...I don't know. To be clear I was only talking about the papers name though.

[XLFD]

In all fairness, Lando is the valued member of the Torch that brought your incident and the FB paper in to my radar.  We frequently misunderstand and are confused by her ravings and rantings-- which just so happens to make her a prime candidate for running this web site; ) 

An experiment which will be undertaken in February.  Heaven help us.

[Sweater Cows!]

Yep X, it is so easy for us to be thinking something in our head and typing it out online only to have the readers think we meant something totally different.  Once I went back and re-read it i could see how somebody could have thought I was saying something different.

 

I do find it is best to clarify as best as possible as soon as possible. I have seen a lot of online bickering get going on this site alone because what someone meant in their head didn't transpose very well to a post(text) format. Trying to avoid such misunderstandings is usually why I spend quite a bit of time re-wording and editing posts or taking 5 paragraphs to say what really only needs one.

 

One thing I have noticed is that once someone spends a bit of time on the forum we will start to recognize each others ways of speaking or typing, and what to a new person may seem to say one thing, us who've been reading that person for a while know what they are 'trying' to say.

 

Then trying to text on a cell and shorten things up more yet can really get frustrating, sometimes its just easier to call the person!LOL.

 

Any way Deb, I hope I clarified what I meant for ya.

 

 

[XFFDM]

In my reply I was stating that our story wasn't a joke, the name of the paper is exactly that.  Please forgive my abruptness, the only time I can seem to get people to listen is when I am brusque, concise, and to the point.  I agree to all that you have stated here and do appreciate the clarification. I really can find the humor in (almost) anything, and as you said, once we read each others post for awhile it will start to show in banter.  I look forward to this!  Let the games continue, so we have someone to catch with their proverbial pants down. 

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

Lord knows I am often guilty of unclear posts... Heck I didn't even know you were a she even??  lol I often have to call rather than text though for clarity and speed also. :)

[Edie Lindsey]

Good luck in finding this in Shoreline Media's Ludington Dry-on News or the Oceana Hearing-Loss.

 

I heard a little of Deb Millard's story earlier, but is this really what's happening down there?

[AQUAMAN]

This is now, and has been, going on all around Mason County too. The DPW guys are taking City trucks home too, so are some LPD and MCSD officers/hierarchy individuals. I've questioned it for a long time, and asked some of those particular people why? Only to be asked my name, address, phone#, and other questions that have no bearing on the matters. Others in positions of authority have also been using/borrowing City owned equipment and tools, for instance at the old Water Dept. building, as well as the DPW garage, as long as the keys are entrusted to you, sure, to use in their homes and p-t businesses for profit. It's an old disease that has gone unchecked and considered the norm for many decades, lest we question, then we become the spotlighted individuals to hassle.

[XFFDM]

A little was all the OHJ would write, even though I gave them all of the paperwork (including bogus write-ups).  In the article they contradicted themselves, Terry Cluchey (fire chief) flat out lied, and all of this was proven with the departments own paperwork.  Shameless.  I have called foul and was terminated for it.  But I guess the department would rather be known for firing a competant FF/MFR for passing out candy, as instructed, than for firing me for calling out embezzelment, sexual harrassment, and incredibly poor leadership.