LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Governor Snyder has appointed two persons from the Lakeshore to state panels.
Brett Brink, a Hamilton farmer for 12 years with 43 hundred acres of corn, four thousand acres of soybeans, 11 hundred acres of alfalfa and 600 acres of wheat, will serve a three-year term on the Michigan Corn Committee through March of 2021. The nine-member panel “prepares and oversees the research and marketing program budget which promotes the advanced of the state’s corn industry,” according to the Governor’s office.
In addition, Nick Carlson of Spring Lake, a Goodwill Industries of Grand Rapids executive and one-time member of the Michigan Board of Occupational Therapists, was tabbed to the state Board of Speech Language Pathology. This 11-member panel “assists the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs with regulating the licensure and practice of speech-language pathologists,” according to the Governor’s Office. Carlson’s four-year term runs through the end of 2021.
Both appointments must also be approved by the state Senate.
