SAULT STE. MARIE, MI— A number of U.P. organizations will receive a share of $856,473 from the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
The money is part of the tribe’s twice-yearly payments to communities in seven counties based on 2 percent of its video gaming revenues from Kewadin Casino properties.
Fall contributions were allotted as follows:
- Lake Superior State University received $9,999.96 for mobile robotics
- Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department received $5,000 for a CAD Unit
- Rudyard Schools received $5,416.25 to support its cardio lab
- Garfield Township received $5,000 for Wildland fire fighting boots
- City of St. Ignace received $5,344.81 for fire department lighting and $12,000 for a police department ballistic shield
- Schoolcraft Hospital received $8,242.81 for a LUCAS Unit (a portable, mechanical device that provides consistent, high-quality chest compressions for patients in sudden cardiac arrest)
- Schoolcraft Medical Facility received $1,000 for insomnia carts
- Munising Township Fire Department received $11,352.36 to update its 800 MHz radio
- Alger County Sheriff’s Department received $3,274.06 for emergency backpacks
