{"id":2,"date":"2016-04-08T01:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T01:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:16:53","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Painesdale Mine and Shaft, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. According to our Constitution and Bylaws: \u201cThe purpose and objectives of the Painesdale Mine and Shaft, Inc. shall be to preserve the one remaining shafthouse (#4) while maintaining a safe environment, to receive as gifts or bequests, to purchase, to raise funds, to preserve and to make available to the people all procurable material and properties pertinent to the history of the area, and to raise monies to accomplish the goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By preserving and restoring the Champion #4 Shaft-Rockhouse, Painesdale Mine &amp; Shaft, Inc. hopes to continue using it as a museum so that future generations can experience the sights, sounds, smells, and the feel of mining as it once was. In the town of Painesdale, along with the #4 Shaft-Rockhouse, numerous industrial buildings and private homes related to the mining area remain. PM&amp;S Inc. hopes to someday identify these structures so that the full story of what life was like in Painesdale can be told.<\/p>\n<h2>Location<\/h2>\n<p>42634 2nd St (Shaft House Road), Painesdale, MI 49955<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m10!1m8!1m3!1d6237.3425195406135!2d-88.67404716816404!3d47.037043899039205!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1690254745776!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Monthly Meetings<\/h2>\n<p>The Board of Directors would like to invite interested people to join our monthly Board meetings.<br \/>\nFor the months of October thru June we will be meeting via Zoom. Meetings are held at<br \/>\n6:30 P.M. Eastern Time on the fourth Tuesday of the month. No meeting is held in December.<br \/>\nIf you are interested in knowing more, send us an email (<a href=\"mailto:painesdalemine@gmail.com\">painesdalemine@gmail.com<\/a>) and we will add you to the invitation list.<\/p>\n<h2>Current board:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Officers:<\/strong><br \/>\nMichael Prast &#8211; President<br \/>\nVince Kanthak &#8211; Treasurer<br \/>\nChristopher Timonen &#8211; Secretary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trustees:<\/strong><br \/>\nCatherine Lewis<br \/>\nTom Raffaelli<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trustee Emeritus:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Janet Gregorich<br \/>\nBarbara Manninen<\/p>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p>You may contact us by mail, email or phone at:<\/p>\n<p>Painesdale Mine &amp; Shaft, Inc.<br \/>\nPO Box 332<br \/>\nPainesdale, MI 49955<\/p>\n<p>(906) 369-5358<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:painesdalemine@gmail.com\">painesdalemine@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painesdale Mine and Shaft, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. According to our Constitution and Bylaws: \u201cThe purpose and objectives of the Painesdale Mine and Shaft, Inc. shall be to preserve the one remaining shafthouse (#4) while maintaining a safe environment, to receive as gifts or bequests, to\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/?page_id=2\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/template-onecolumn.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/painesdalemineshaft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}