Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is Cup of
Traverse City for the 12/23/2025.
I'm Mike,
and, today is an extra coffee day for
me. I tell you, a little hard getting
started this morning. So
let's start with the weather.
Today is partly sunny. There's that word again.
Sunny.
Interesting.
And a high near 40. Wow. Southwest winds,
five to 10 miles per hour, becoming northwest
in the afternoon.
Mostly cloudy tonight with a low around 25.
North winds, five to 10 miles per hour.
And Wednesday, mostly cloudy with a high near
36.
Calm wind becoming south around five miles per
hour. And,
looks like Christmas day is gonna be mostly
cloudy and up around 35,
but, none of that four letter word that
that a lot of people, talk about. But
although Thursday night or Christmas night, it's supposed
to have a little
snow showers,
at night. So
it's coming back, but, for Christmas day,
the driving will be easier.
So I learned something this morning,
perusing the news, and
I didn't know this, but the Pavilions, which
is that big nursing home, right next to
Munson,
that's county owned
or city owned. I guess it's county.
Yeah. It's county.
But it just I didn't know that. Well,
anyway, they, been having a lot of issues
here lately.
They've had a lot of turnover in the
leadership,
some financial trouble.
They had a lawsuit,
that they had to deal with. They've had
trouble with staffing. So they got a lot
of issues.
And they,
just hired a new CEO,
and they're splitting up the CEO position
with another position there in leadership. So, hopefully,
it will,
calm down. That's quite a nice facility for
a county owner. I did like I said,
I didn't know that. Maybe that was common
knowledge, but
interesting that
they're trying to get their stuff together. I
hope they succeed.
You know,
my grandfather,
was in there, and, other family members have
been in there,
over the,
you know, over the years.
And
they said they were, top notch back then.
That was probably twenty years ago or twenty
five years ago, whatever it was. So
but, again, I didn't realize that was county
owned. I I thought that was a private
outfit because, you know, the facility is pretty
nice.
You know?
And, of course, I'm showing my age, but,
that's the new one because, there was another
nursing home that looked more like a a
block apartment building
there, before. And I forget what that was
called. It wasn't called the pavilions.
Let's see how what did they,
ended up, they got, like, a 180
beds there and,
several
assisted living apartments.
So,
yeah, it's quite the facility. And I guess
if you gotta go to a nursing home,
that's not a bad place to go.
But, yeah, I just didn't know it was
county owned.
But
sounds like they're
getting their stuff together. Like I said,
the county commissioners
ended up hiring that's the CEO and let
me see if I can find their name.
Daryl Lavender,
he was hired this summer.
And then
the administrator,
is another person, and they didn't name who
that was. But, that used to be a
combined
role, and and it's probably too much for
just one person. At least that's what they
said.
So,
well, hopefully, they'll,
they'll continue on.
And, you know, of course, today is the
the twenty third, so only a couple days
left till the Christmas holiday. I hope everybody's
having a good holiday season
and has some good plans for
Thursday. I will probably take Thursday off from
the show, but maybe not. We'll see.
I don't know. It's not, too difficult to
do, so we'll just get her done. Anyway,
everybody have a good
day, and I will catch you tomorrow.