Caption: A city commissioner at ?Sterling Heights names 7th grader toBy Robert MusialFree Press Staff WriterDarrell Surhigh didn't set out to be on the Sterling Heights Historical Commission.He just went to the meeting one night. The next thing the 12-year-old knew, he had been appointed a non-voting member."My mom took me," he said. "She's on the cultural commission and there was an empty seat there, so I took it. Then, Mr. Madar - he's a councilman - asked me if I wanted to be on the historical commission and I said, 'Sure.'I thought it would be interesting to join and have something to do with my time - but my mom thought I'd be too young."HE WASN'T, and now he's the envy of his seventh-grade buddies."Their moms told them about it and they want to know how they can get on a commission too," he said.Darrell has found that being on the eight-member historical commission has some drawbacks - especially at school."My geography teacher is a history teacher too," he said. "When I do bad in that, my teacher says, 'And you're on the historical commission, too.'"DARRELL SAYS what he really wanted to do was be on the cultural commission with his mother, Darlene."I thought that would be good because I wanted to bring in some rock bands, but I found out it's not like that," he said.So the historical commission is just fine.
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