Fighting human trafficking in our community through awareness and education is the subject that the Kiwanis Club of Port Huron is tackling and presenting at a Human Trafficking Conference on Saturday, November 3rd from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Blue Water Convention Center at 800 Harker Street in Port Huron.  There is no cost to attend this conference, although it is requested that you register online at kiwanisporthuron.org.  Guest speakers for the day will include law enforcement, Homeland Security, the State Prosecutor, a survivor and a psychologist.

Beginning this week, the St. Clair County Board of Commissioners will begin keeping to their fall schedule for meetings.  St. Clair County Administrator Controller, Karry Hepting says, that she can’t believe it is that time already to be announcing the Fall meeting schedule, but, here we are.  Hepting says that in November and December, the normal meeting schedule is altered to accommodate the upcoming holidays.  The first Thursday of the month will continue to be committee meetings, however, their full board meetings will move from the third Thursday to the second Thursday of the month, so the meeting will be back to back Thursdays, allowing for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

Election day is Tuesday, November 6 and voters will head to the polls to decide on a number of positions.  Locally, in the city of Port Huron three seats for city council need to be filled and the position of Mayor is up for grabs.  Four candidates are running to hold the title of Mayor; those include current , current city councilman Scott Richard Worden, newcomer, Tray Smith, current Mayor Pauline Repp and Garth Gurnsey who has run for Mayor in the past.  Garth says he is an honest and hard-working person and he has a long history of connect to Port Huron.  He lived in the children’s shelter that was on 10^th Street.  He served 26 years in the Navy and is involved in a number of Maritime activities.  He says he loves the city and he has ideas for the city to partner with others.  Gurnsey believes the city should eliminate the city income tax among other ideas which he feels would create growth within the city.