Roseman honored as Citizen of the Year

“There are a lot of small places, but Pentwater is very open to newcomers and their new ideas,” said Pentwater Citizen of the Year Dr. Dave Roseman.

Article and photos contributed by Ron Beeber.

Roseman and his family (left foreground) are surrounded by the many friends and well-wishers who packed the Pentwater Yacht Club dining room Thursday evening.

PENTWATER — “I’ve had the luck of being blessed with a never-ending stream of ideas,” Dr. Dave Roseman told the audience at Pentwater Yacht Club Thursday evening while accepting Pentwater Service Club’s Citizen of the Year award for 2014.

Speakers included service club president Bill Maxwell, village President Juanita Pierman, state rep. Jon Bumstead, residents Barb Davidson and Mike Flynn, and the honoree’s son Robert Roseman.  As they made their remarks, there were broad smiles and moist eyes across the yacht club dining room.

Pentwater Village President Juanita Pierman and Roseman.

“Dave’s the proverbial one who always puts himself last before everyone else,” said Oceana County Commissioner Dean Gustafson to his dinner table companions.

“No,” Dave replied.  It was the same statement he made several years ago to developers who wanted to build wind turbines in Lake Michigan, and who cited how turbines built in fiords in another country had spurred the local economy.  Roseman’s statement at a packed town hall meeting in Hart with the developers was perhaps the turning point in

Pentwater Service Club President Bill Maxwell, State Rep. Jon Bumstead, and Roseman.

the community’s successful effort to block the