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Our
new Mayor Dan Rastall is a true-blue Midwesterner. Born
in Chicago and raised in NW Indiana,
he and his family moved to Fennville in 2002. Dan and
wife Lenore have five children; a daughter Cynthia, 17;
son Tino, 15; daughter Christina, 13 and sons Tyger and
Jaguar, both 6.
He became involved in
local government shortly after moving to Fennville
serving first on the Planning Commission then eventually
holding down a position on the City Council at the same
time. After being elected Mayor in November, he resigned
from his Planning Commission post to be able to devote
the necessary time to his more demanding mayoral duties.
Dan is the youngest
mayor that Fennville has had in more than 25 years.
That’s as far back as we were able to search the
records.
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Dan works
as the production manager in the specialties department
at Shoreline Container, a full-service packaging
company. “If it’s got something to do with packaging, we
have it or we can make it” says Dan. He started at
Shoreline as a hi-lo driver back in 1995. Over the years
he advanced through several jobs and levels of
management to his present position as production
manager. “It’s a job I love” he says.
Dan sees many challenges
as our new mayor. “I see the greatest challenge of our
city commission is getting the funding for city services
we would like to maintain and for the projects we would
like to accomplish.”
(Ed
Note: That’s pretty much the same challenge most of us
face I suppose -- too little money, too many needs.)
What Dan most enjoys
about his involvement with the city government is “doing
my part to give back to the community. It’s great to
work with some really caring people on the City
Commission, the DDA and the Planning Commission.”
We all wish Dan the
best of luck and offer our full support to him in his
new position.
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