Here comes Hollywood!

Kinross in da Moonlight

by Joe Paczkowski

Our Township Supervisor has made his plan known. Yes, he has a plan. What kind of a plan you may ask? "I was hired by Twentieth Century Fox to be an extra on the production of several minutes of Die Hard 2." says Oberle in a recent letter to the editor. Does this mean as a member of the Screen Actor Guild he will take another trip to Hollywood to find answers to our economic problems? If so I say go West young man...go West. I had no idea he was working so closely with Governor Granholm who he affectionately refers to as Aunt Jenny. Seriously folks, this is his answer to the economic development of Kinross Township. Lets do the math. He says the Chippewa EDC got $30,000 when Die Hard came here to shoot. Well I guess the Chippewa EDC can put that into their pocket but Kinross isn't likely to see much of it. What's next? Oh yeah he got paid as an extra. Everyone line up and we will make a list for Hollywood to use for extras. I am sure they pay $20 or $30 bucks a day for the couple of days they use you. Make sure to put that in you family's budget for the next 10 year's. What's left besides screen credits for Kinross? Well we can be real positive about the idea and hope that Jason can use his Hollywood influence to bring us say 5 movies a year for the next 20 years. Can we budget that? I sure wish he would have worked this hard on activating the Kinross Economic Development Commission. Three years later and he still has not got around to appointing anyone. John Gaines wanted to be on the EDC but Jason Oberle said "no, you’re too old John". Make sure you’re on his good side or he won’t let you be in the movie he plans on making. He has ordained himself the Director of this project and urges all the surrounding communities to come and audition for him and Oh Yea, he is going to let the Sault Tribe produce it for him. The good news is that the KBA is already producing a promotional video to be used on kinross.biz as well as the State website but we will focus on promoting Kinross / Kincheloe like we should unlike Jason's Hollywood production.

What he does not understand about the Governors program is that it is a statewide program which is meant to impact an entire state as a whole. Using an example one should realize that the impact such a plan may have on Kinross or even the Northeast UP would be similar to buying a lotto ticket. Yes you might get lucky but you can't run your household budget on it and the odds of winning repeatedly are non existent.

Don't worry though Jason. Just in case your grandiose plans don't work out we plan on putting you in the movies anyway. Well not quite but we will be video recording your performance twice monthly at the Township Board meetings and making it available for your subjects to view right here on kinross.biz.

Are you willing to risk your families well being on such a pipe dream? I'm not. I will continue to work with the local citizens and businesses on a real plan for change. Something tangible that we can build a future on.