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SPOTLIGHT

By JILL [email protected]

DOWAGIAC—Visitors and residents in the Dowagiac area have a fun-filled weekend to look forward to with the return of the Summer in the City Festival.

Now in its 29th year, the festival will take place over four days, July 24 through 27, at a variety of locations, and the line-up of planned activities has something to offer for everyone.

Opening on Thursday at 4 p.m., the ‘Jack Festival Center, sponsored by the Wounded Minnow Saloon and located next to Twistee’s, will be a hub for the weekend’s activities. Over the course of the festival, event-goers can enjoy karaoke contests, Princess Parties, happy hours with food and drink, and magic shows, among other activities.

Funded by 13 corporate sponsors and a grant from the Pokagon Fund, Summer in the City is the community’s old-est and largest summertime festival.

“While the festival in recent years had been funded pri-marily by grant dollars, this year’s event truly represents a strong commitment to our community by local corporations that have stepped forward to help underwrite the $12,000 four-day event,” said Vicki Phillipson, program director for the Greater Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce and DDA.

For those who love live music, the festival has booked a variety of acts known for playing different genres of music, including rock, rhythm and blues, country, folk and today’s favorite covers. Acts appearing at the festival include Kalamazoo Avenue, The Outta Towners, Tex Mex musician Rene Meave, Rebel Pride, Due Process, Exit 41 and Jordi.

There will also be dance exhibitions presented by the Pokagon Band Dance & Drum Troop, Miss Michele & Co., MKSOD and Positively Dance.

Food lovers will not want to miss the second annual Taste of Dowagiac, scheduled to take place from 2 until 7 p.m. on Friday.

With Dowagiac’s growing reputation as a town full of fine and casual dining choices, the Taste of Dowagiac will provide participants with the opportunity to sample to cui-sine from 10 area restaurants, including Beeson Street Bar & Grill, Caruso’s Candy Kitchen, Deb’s Café, The Eagles, Foodies, Mimi Sarducci’s, Saylor’s Front Street Pizzeria, Trackside Restaurant, Wood Fire Italian Trattoria and The Wounded Minnow Saloon.

Patrons will enjoy a mix of hors d’oeuvre-sized special-ties at each location. Tickets, priced at $10 each, are now on sale at each of the host sites.

“The debut year of this event was very successful,” said Kim MacGregor, Chamber of Commerce president. “The Chamber of Commerce and each of the restaurants received great feedback. For the restaurants, this led to new and

repeat business.”Many events have also been planned to entertain young-

er event-goers. Children’s activities include a petting zoo and pony

rides, a dunk tank hosted by the Dowagiac Department of Public Safety, inflatables provided by Judd Lumber Building Supply & Rental Center, Rubber Ducky Races presented by Dowagiac Fine Arts Boosters, the Curious Kids Museum hosted by Dowagiac Public Library, a Ronald McDonald magic show and pedal cars presented by Crystal Springs Camp & Retreat.

Action sports entertainment company, AGA Nation, will also be returning to downtown Dowagiac for the festival as BMX riders bring their thrilling stunts to Commercial St. According to Vickie Phillipson, Chamber of Commerce program director, high-flying riders will be featured during three daily shows on Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26, at 1, 3 and 5 p.m.

AGA Nation will host a special BMX clinic on both days for any rider who wishes to participate. The clinic is free, courtesy of the festival and its underwriters, and local riders should bring their own helmets and bikes.

Phillipson also said that organizers plan to close Front Street to through-traffic on Friday and Saturday to accom-modate the summer sidewalk sales planned by local spe-cialty shops. Additional nonprofit and commercial vendors have also been invited to set up booths and join the festival.

Finally, a new addition to the Summer in the City sched-ule is the extension of the activities into Sunday, as ACTION hosts a community-wide worship service and family picnic at the ‘Jack Festival Center, beginning at 11 a.m.

A full schedule of Summer in the City events can be obtained by calling the Chamber of Commerce at (269) 782-8212 or by visiting their website at www.DowagiacChamber.com.

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Princess Parties with Miss Dowagiac and a BMX clinic with riders from AGA Nation are just two of the events planned for younger folks as a part of Dowagiac’s Summer in the City Festival.

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By JILL McCAUGHANjill.mccaughan

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BERRIEN SPRINGS—It’s that time of year again when Domaine

Berrien Cellars throws open the gates and invites the com-munity to come down to the vineyard to enjoy a day of music, art, food and wine on July 26.

“We only do one giant event like this each year. We want to do it, and we want to do it right,” said Wally Maurer, co-owner of Domaine Berrien Cellars. “It’s a great event. We expect between 1,000 and 1,500 people over the course of the day.”

As in previous years, the Tenth Annual Art, Wine and Music Festival will include the opportunity for visitors to view and purchase fine arts produced by 25 artists.

“Every year is a new year. It will follow the same format as in years past, but there will be some new artists and some returning artists,” Maurer said. “It’s really art. We do jury it, and we try to get a nice

mix. There’ll be jewelry, pho-tography, woodworking, watercolors, pottery, baskets, and all kinds of unique fine arts and crafts.”

In addition to the art, three bands will be providing enter-tainment throughout the day from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m.

“Bring your dancing shoes,” Maurer suggested. “We have some great bands coming out. Mike Talbott plays at the Hard Rock all the time, the Oblates of Blues are an awesome blues band, and Vince Miller will be there, too.”

Barbequed foods will be prepared by Chef Jim with The Outdoor Kitchen, and Domaine Berrien’s critically-acclaimed wines will be available for those who wish to purchase them.

“We will have a wine tast-ing tent,” Maurer said. “It will be the normal $5 charge for a tasting flight of five wines. You can buy a bottle or a glass of the one that you like, and you can drink it from a plastic cup, or we will sell you a glass if you prefer that.”

There will also be soft

drinks and water at the event, and families are welcome to bring children, but there are no games or attractions planned specifically to enter-tain younger folks.

Another popular attraction is the annual raffle. Raffle tickets will be available for $2 each or 3 for $5, and prizes include items from Bixby Farms, Bridgman Premier Meat Market, Headhunter Sportfishing Charters and other local businesses.

“The raffle also includes gift certificates for use that day with the vendors at the festival,” Maurer added. “Those have been really pop-ular in the past.”

Whether you plan to spend a couple hours or the whole day in the vineyard, Domaine Berrien’s Art, Wine and Music Festival is a fun time that you won’t want to miss.

“The cool thing is, it’s free. You don’t have to pay to park or get in,” Maurer said. “If you want to just come down and listen to the bands, you’re welcome to do that.”

More information about the event, which will take place at the vineyards at 398 E. Lemon Creek Rd. in Berrien Springs, can be found at www.domaineberrien.com. The vineyard can also be reached at (269) 473-9463.

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Visitors to the Domaine Berrien Cellars’ Art, Wine and Music Festival will have the opportuni-ty to view and purchase art from 25 juried artists while they enjoy the setting of the vineyard.

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BARODA—On July 26, the Village of Baroda will welcome

as many as 8,000 visitors to the Support Our Troops Festival, an event designed to celebrate and support the American veterans who have sacrificed so much for our country.

Originally the project of Carle Post, son of a veteran and owner of Baroda’s Gun and Bow Outpost, the Support Our Troops Festival has grown over the past four years.

“Carle started it on his own to help wounded vet-erans who were in need of assistance. His father was a veteran, but as the last sur-viving son in his family, Carle wasn’t allowed to join the service,” explained Sherry Petzke, one of 15 board members for the non-profit that plans the festival each year. “This was his way of giving back.”

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compelled to join the Support our Troops board because of the service her own family members had given to the country.

“My whole family is involved in the service,” Petzke said. “Everyone on our board is ex-military or some form of family member.”

One of those board members, Jeff Roberts, serves as the executive chairman for entertainment.

“We raise money to help veterans, like the wounded veterans coming back from overseas,” Roberts said. “We raise money to donate to Paws with a Cause, the Wounded Warrior Project, Lest We Forget, veterans’ hospitals in the state of Michigan, and other causes like those.”

Last year, Roberts esti-mates that the festival was able to raise over $26,000 to donate to those and simi-lar organizations, and this year’s festival looks like it may be even bigger than in previous years.

“It’s amazing that we get such a turn-out in such a small town,” Roberts said. “And, we’re getting more and more sponsorships each year. Whirlpool has signed on this year, donating appli-

ances for the raffle.”Other sponsors include

Honor Credit Union, Sieman’s, Miller Lite, Martin’s Supermarkets and Chemical Bank, just to name a few.

Besides the raffle, in which participants can win a variety of prizes including several firearms, there will be a full day of entertain-ment for patriots of all ages.

The schedule begins at 8 a.m. with a custom and clas-sic vehicle show. Soon after, vendor booths will open up for the day, selling food, t-shirts, military gifts, and a wide variety of other items. A supervised kids’ carnival area will be open all day as well.

A parade will take place at 12:15 p.m., including military vehicles, area vet-erans, and other public ser-vice agency personnel.

“We have a motorcycle run, and we also have Bill Camp’s Famous Flying Dogs. They do Frisbee tricks. He has done NFL half-time shows for Colts, Steelers and Bears games. He’s volunteering his time for this event,” Roberts said. “There will also be helicopter rides for an extra charge. A retired Vietnam veteran does those.”

Then, later in the after-noon, the festival will pro-vide visitors with live music and a beer garden, followed a huge fireworks show at 10:30 p.m.

“This year, we have a tribute show, the ‘Me & The Boys Music Show.’ We’ll have Irv Cass performing as Tom Jones and Elvis, Steve Bobbitt as Rod Stewart, I will perform as Roy Orbison, and there are several others, too,” Roberts said. “Then, 5th Gear, a popular band from Buchanan will follow that up.”

The festival will take place at the American Legion Post 345, located at 9214 First St. in Baroda, and a full schedule of events can be found on the festival’s website, www.supportourtroopfestival.org. Updates are also avail-able on their Facebook page at www.facebook.c o m / B a r o d a S u p p o r t OurTroopsFestival.

Tickets to the event can be purchased in advance from participating busi-nesses and sponsors as well as at the gate. They are $10 for adults, and children aged 10 and under are free. Family ticket packages are also available for $25.

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Organizers have a full day of activities planned for festival-goers in Baroda this weekend.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Alex, the Potawatomi Zoo’s male chimpanzee, will be cele-brating his 17th birthday on July 26. Keepers will decorate the chimpanzee exhibit with party decorations and gifts prior to letting the chimpanzees onto exhibit at 11 a.m.

The Zoo is encouraging members of the public to drop off birthday cards and gifts from our enrichment wish list for Alex. Items from the enrichment wish list that Alex enjoys are baby toys, large stuffed animals, baby links, and food items like nuts, dried fruit, and granola bars. Donations can be made at any open admission gate from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily.

The Potawatomi Zoo is home to two chimpanzees, Alex and Babyface, a 42-year-old female. The chimpanzees can be viewed in their exhibit on the North side of the Congo Café. Chimpanzees are an endangered species with a remaining population of 150,000 to 250,000. For more information on Potawatomi Zoo please call (574) 235-9800 or visit www.potawatomizoo.org.

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Carrying the torchBy JILL McCAUGHAN

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ST. JOSEPH — Hoping to provide Southwest Michigan with a new

option for family-friendly, outdoor music events, a group of twenty-something locals have joined together to form the area’s newest event pro-duction company, ADURO Productions.

“I feel like we are a part of a new renaissance in the area—the younger generation getting involved in doing things,” explained Rashon Massey, marketing coordina-tor for ADURO. “There are so many young families and young people here. You really see the vitality, the return, the next generation coming back here. I’m excited just to be a part of that.”

Led by Massey, who has roots in Benton Harbor, and Brendan Bowser, a St. Joe native, team-members Michael Nelson, John Howland, Jr., Pat Kohn, and Matthew Sypian have planned an evening of good, dance-able music for an all-ages event they are calling “Waves into the Night, ” on Aug. 9 at the Shadowland Pavilion.

“We want to create a new atmosphere that hasn’t been felt down there for a while,” explained Bowser. “Our goal in anything that we do is, we want to bring the energy. We want to make sure that every-one is having a good time and just feeling the energy we want to create.”

“Everyone likes to dance,” added Massey. “And that was the question — ‘How do we

create something that will be more family-inclusive for this entire area that’s representa-tive of many different demo-graphics, that could bring folks together, and that’s something that we could eas-ily do next year?’ We’d like for it to continue to grow with this community. That’s what this thing is really about.”

The event will feature the music of two Midwestern bands, The Chicago Afrobeat Project and the New Sound Underground.

“Chicago Afrobeat Project is a band from Chicago, and it’s just great world music,” explained Bowser. “We paired them with New Sound Underground. They’re just really young, funky guys from Minneapolis. A lot of them are college-trained musicians, so they’re all pro-fessional. There’s not a lot of lyrics—it’s just good, dance-able music.”

Planning for the event began last November, and the production company’s name, “ADURO” speaks to the ini-tial enthusiasm and the ambi-tions of the company’s found-ers.

“‘Aduro’ is Latin for ‘to start a fire’ or ‘to ignite,’” Bowser explained. “That was kind of what we felt we were doing. That was just the ener-gy we had. We wanted to light this flame that would spark a bigger fire.”

“It was Brendan’s gusto that really started it,” Massey agreed. “ It was his catalyst—his initial interest.”

Originally, the group envi-sioned making the event a day-long festival for families, but since a number of other

events are taking place in St. Joseph that weekend, the team decided to limit the event to an evening concert that would complement—rather than compete with—those other events.

“We want to do our part to promote what else is happen-ing downtown,” Massey explained. “We don’t want to be distracting.”

In keeping with the com-munity focus of the event, Bowser and Massey pointed out that attending Waves into the Night will help to support both Berrien County Parks and Recreation and LAYLA, a nonprofit organization based in Michigan City.

“The money goes back to the community with this event because ticket proceeds will be split between ADURO and Berrien County,” Massey said. “It’s a huge way to sup-

port County Parks and Recreation, and a percentage of our alcohol sales will go to County Parks, and the rest goes to the nonprofit LAYLA. That stands for ‘Life After Loving Your Animal.’”

More information about LAYLA can be found on their Facebook page at www.face-b o o k . c o m / p a g e s /LAYLA/116363803466.

Although Rashon, Brendan and their friends were excited to see the event succeed, they ran into some initial resistance to their ideas.

“A lot of people said, ‘Start smaller. Do a little show.’ And we said, ‘Why? We can do this,’” Bowser recalled. “That’s was the thing the whole time: ‘We can do this.’”

Soon, however, Massey, Bowser and their crew came across much more supportive

folks.“Everyone at the County

and our sponsors have been so great, so welcoming,” Massey said. “Without our sponsors, this truly would not be happening, and that’s Silver Beach Pizza, MailMax, and Miller Lite and Alliance Beverage Distribution. They’ve been really great. When other people were say-ing, ‘Maybe next year,’ they said, ‘Sure, what do you need?’”

Now that all of the prepa-rations have been made, the members of the ADURO Productions staff are looking

forward to the big day. “We’re just excited about

it. Now, it’s just tying up loose ends. It’s really been remark-able. Everyone’s been so kind. Everyone’s been so open to seeing this happen,” Massey said.

Open to all ages, the event gates of the Shadowland Pavilion will open at 6 p.m. and ADURO Productions will host an onsite beer garden for those ages 21 and older. Both admission and beverage tick-ets will be sold “cash only” at the event gates on the day of the show. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, but coolers and other carry-ins will not be permit-ted.

Ticket prices range from $10 for general admission to $15 (limited seating), and children ages 5 and under will be admitted for free. More information can also be found at www.eventbrite.com/e/waves-into-the-night-feat-new-sound-underground-chi-cago-afrobeat-project-tick-ets-11489269715.

“If anyone wants to know anything about this event, it’s about supporting a communi-ty-driven event. We’re local folks, we’re not going any-where, we want to be able to do bigger, more engaging things next year,” Massey said. “That’s only possible if the community comes out and supports this event.”

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Rashon Massey and Brendan Bowser can’t wait to invite the commu-nity down to Shadowland Pavilion for an evening of danceable music.

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A few weeks ago I baked a bunch of cookies to take with me to various parties and social func-tions. As I often do with my culinary exploits, I posted photos of the fin-ished product on my social media pages. I was very pleasantly surprised by how many people wanted the recipe for these little nutty yums. I wasn’t sur-prised because of their quality (they’ve been my favorites for years), but because I don’t personally think of cookies as a great summer-time treat.

Silly me, cook-ies are good any time of year and frankly any time of day.

This recipe can be whipped together in min-utes and will be sure to please any fan of a little crunchy sweetness. They are packed with healthy ingredients like natural

peanut butter, unsweetened coconut, and buckwheat, so you don’t even have to feel guilty about eating a few. They store well in the freezer if you’re like me and need to have some sweets on reserve, and best of all, your fellow snackers won’t even know they’re vegan.

They definitely taste healthy, and almost have a granola bar quality, but I’ve fed them to, many discerning

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Peanut Butter Delights

Yield: 4 dozen mini cookies or 2 dozen regular size

¾ cup coconut oil (melted then cooled so it’s liquid)½ cup crunchy natural peanut butter (sugar and oil free!)1 ½ cups raw sugar1 teaspoon baking powder½ teaspoon baking soda½ cup soy milk1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract1 ½ cups buckwheat flour2 cup shredded natural coconut (unsweetened!)¾ cup rolled oats or wheat bran (gluten free oats of going for gluten free. Or you can use almond meal).

1. Beat the coconut oil and peanut butter in a mixer on medium high until combined. Slowly add the sugar, baking powder, and baking soda. Beat until mixed well, scraping the sides often.

2. Beat in the soy milk and vanilla. Gradually add the buckwheat flour, remember-ing to scrape the sides of the mixer frequently. Lastly, stir in the coconut and oats or wheat bran.

3. Preheat your oven to 375 and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Using a small ice cream scooper or a 1 teaspoon measure, scoop 1 heaping tea-spoon of dough, form into a ball and place on the parchment line pan. You may want to slightly flatten the top of the balls with the palm of your hand.

4. Bake for about 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove parchment and repeat. For larger cookies, use a regular size ice cream scoop. Let cool completely and serve.

Kat Barry, a St. Joseph, Michigan native, is owner of Kat’s Hot Cakes vegan cater-ing, and co author of "The New Chicago Diner Cookbook: Meat Free Recipes from America’s Veggie Diner." She also develops recipes for eHow.com, where you can find over 30 of her vegan instructional cooking videos. She is also a certified yoga instructor. Kat currently resides in Chicago, and in her free time she enjoys practic-ing yoga, sampling local spirits, listening to live music, and getting outdoors. Follow @katshotcakes on twitter. Kat can be reached via email at: [email protected].

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The Benton Harbor Heritage Hikes will be led by a staff mem-ber of the H e r i t a g e Museum and will take you on a fascinating route through Benton Harbor’s historic down-town and Arts District.

The tours will begin and end at the Dwight P. Mitchell City Center Park (cor-ner of E. Main and Pipestone Streets) and will feature the history of Benton Harbor’s historical land-marks like the Farmers and M e r c h a n t s Bank, the Vincent Hotel, B r a m m a l l I n d u s t r i a l Supply, the State Theater, the Fidelity Building, and several other businesses.

The tours will be approximately 60 minutes in length and will cover just over one mile of Benton Harbor’s historic downtown. Everyone is welcome for this fun and exciting tour of Benton Harbor’s past. Bring your walking shoes!

Tours will highlight Benton Harbor’s popular landmarks that are still standing, but will also share information about land-marks that are no longer there such as the

Liberty Theater, Benton Harbor’s Carnegie Library, and the Yore Opera House, which was built in 1888 by Patrick Yore, but burned down on September 5, 1896. 12

firemen (7 from Benton Harbor and 5 from St. Joseph) lost their lives dur-ing the Yore Opera House fire, and monu-ments were erected in both cities to honor these men. The St. Joseph mon-ument was

erected on September 5, 1898 and stands in Lake Bluff Park, while Benton Harbor’s monument was placed in Crystal Springs Cemetery in 1946 for the 50th anniver-

sary of the trag-edy. Historic photos will be shown through-out the tour to add to the histori-cal understanding of the area.

Benton Harbor Heritage Hikes will meet at the Dwight P. Mitchell City Center Park (corner of E. Main and Pipestone) at

10:00am on July 25 and August 8. The tours are weather permitting with a rain date scheduled for August 22 if necessary. Donations of $5 are asked to support the Heritage Museum & Cultural Center’s programs and tours. Please contact the Heritage Museum at (269) 983-1191 to reserve your spot for the tours, or for more information.

Heritage Museum hosts‘Benton Harbor Heritage Hikes’

Submitted photosTOP: Street view looking East on East Main Street from the corner of Pipe-stone Street, circa 1915. MIDDLE: The wreckage from the Yore Opera House fire on September 5, 1896. BOTTOM: The Hotel Michigan at the corner of Territorial Road and Water Street circa 1930s. The Hotel Michigan serves as an example of the numerous overnight accommodations that the industrious city of Benton Harbor offered during the first part of the 20th Century.


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BENTON HARBOR—It’s no secret that more than 50 percent of

American marriages end in divorce, and that common knowledge is backed up by the 2011 data (the most recent available) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

So, when you come across a couple that has managed to stay together for 60 years —plus 5 years of courtship, it’s natural to wonder what their secret is.

“A key to anybody’s mar-riage is that you have to learn how to compromise and to respect each other, and you also have to love,” said Icie Mae (Harris) Guidry, who married Ezekiel “Zeke” Guidry on Aug. 1, 1954 at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Benton Harbor.

Icie Mae has certainly shared that advice with her nine grandchildren.

“My grandmother always encourages me not to settle for anyone who doesn’t really love and respect me,” said Katina Rudley, Icie's oldest granddaughter, who now lives in Houston, Texas. “She always has a lot of good advice for us.”

Because a marriage relies so heavily on the ability of the two partners to compromise, Icie Mae also recommended that young people take some time to experience the world before they commit to a mar-riage.

“I would not suggest to any other young people to get mar-ried right away out of high school, even though that is

what I did,” Icie Mae said. “Once you’re married, it’s a partnership. So, go out and test the waters, and see what the world has to offer because, once you are married, you have to compromise and con-sider each other’s goals.”

Despite that cautionary advice, Icie Mae said, “I’ve got the glory, the honor and the praise for our marriage.”

Once a couple does marry, Icie Mae stressed the impor-tance of showing appreciation for the things one’s partner does.

“It’s the little things we do for each other and the little compliments we give to each other that keep our marriage good,” Icie Mae said. “Little tokens, like flowers, a little note or a card—those are things that can help to keep a

marriage good.”Icie Mae also pointed to

honesty as an important aspect of a lasting marriage.

“You need to be honest and open with each other, and not do things behind each others’ backs,” Icie Mae said. “You should also keep family and other people out of your busi-ness and not let them interfere with your marriage. My moth-er taught me that.”

While Icie Mae said that working to “stay on the same page” and getting to know each other’s likes and dislikes are also important compo-nents in a lasting marriage, she pointed to a strong relation-ship with God as the corner-stone for her marriage to Zeke.

“If you have that relation-ship with the Lord, you can work through the difficult things,” Icie Mae explained. “The bond that has kept us together has been God. It’s one of God’s favors that has kept us together.”

The sixth of eight children,

Icie Mae and Zeke’s daughter Cassandra Benion, also noted the importance of religion in the family’s ability to stick together through good times and bad.

“One important thing for them is their faith. They are God-fearing people, and they

have a strong belief system,” Benion said.

Another theme for children growing up in Guidry family has been the importance of commitment to one’s family.

“For my parents, more than anything else, family is really important to them.

They’ve weathered the storms and hung in there together, and a lot of it has to do with commitment,” Benion said. “Their commitment to each other has been so important to us as kids that we try to make commitments and stick to them. They were our role models in that.”

Such a focus on commit-ment and strong family rela-tionships is visible in the Guidry family’s emphasis on spending time together, despite their being spread out into many parts of the country now.

“We are such a close fam-ily that, every holiday, we are together. We make a conscious effort to get together at the holidays and for family cele-brations like the open house we had for my niece’s gradua-tion recently,” said Benion, who lives in Detroit. “We really pride ourselves on being a strong family and again, that comes from Mom and Dad. They set the example, and we follow that. Good times, bad times—we stick together.”

That commitment to fami-ly has been passed down to the next generation as well.

“My family values are definitely strong, and our fam-ily bond is definitely tight because of those two,” said TeRhon Guidry, Zeke and Icie Mae’s oldest grandson, who is in the process of moving to Denver, Colorado.

Through faith, commit-ment, love and respect, Icie Mae and Zeke Guidry have weathered the storms and sailed the calm seas of life for 60 years together, and it seems certain that they will celebrate their wedding anniversary sur-rounded by many generations of family members in Benton Harbor on Aug. 1.

As TeRhon said, “I hope that later on down the line in life, I’ll have a relationship that lasts as long as theirs has, if not longer.”

Faith & Family

Submitted photos

ABOVE: The four generations of the Guidry family make a conscious effort to gather around Ezekiel (front row, left) and Icie Mae (front row, right) at every holiday and family celebration. RIGHT: Icie Mae Harris married Ezekiel Guidry on Aug. 1, 1954 in Benton Harbor’s New Bethel Baptist Church.

Benton Harbor couple will celebrate 60 years together


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Manufactured Homes

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NOW OPENNILES FLEA MARKET

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Antiques 600ALLEGAN ANTIQUE

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Cemetery Lots 6172 ADJACENT

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FOR SALE•Used and Reconditioned

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Garage-Yard Sales

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Thurs. & Fri. July 17 & 18,10am-5pm,

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July 24

St. Patrick’s County Park will offer a basic archery lesson on Thursday, July 24, 2014 from 6-8 p.m. at the Brown Barn. This program is geared for ages 12 years and up, accompanied by an adult. The fee is $10/person. Registration and payment are required by July 21. For more infor-mation or to make reser-vations, please call (574) 654-3155. St. Patrick’s County Park is located on Laurel Road in South Bend, IN.

July 25

Elkhart County Parks will be presenting a program which will explore the wonderful world of am-phibians and reptiles on at 1:45 pm. at the Heri-tage Park Stage during the Elkhart County 4-H Fair. This will be a fun, hands on program fea-turing a variety of live amphibians and reptiles.

Niles will host a Craft Brew and Wine Festival from 3 to 9 p.m. in Riv-erfront Park, featuring brews, music and food. Visit www.nilesmi.com for more information.

i On Friday July 25 and Aug. 8, at 10 a.m., the Heritage Museum & Cultural Center will host walking tours of historic downtown Benton Har-bor. The tours will begin and end at the Dwight P. Mitchell City Center Park (corner of E. Main and Pipestone Streets) and will feature the history of Benton Harbor’s histori-cal landmarks. The tours will be approximately 60 minutes in length and will cover just over one mile of Benton Harbor’s his-toric downtown.

July 26

The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company will “Coriolanus” in a cabaret setting at the Box Factory for the Arts. Beer and wine will be available for purchase. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $10 general

admission; $8 students and seniors; children 12 and under free.

Kids On Stage will pres-ent “Disney’s 101 Dal-matians” at the Kids On Stage theatre at The Or-chards Mall. The show will be performed Friday July 25 at 6:30pm. All tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the door.

i The Buchanan Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting its first ever “Buchanan Open House Day” from 1 to 6 p.m. Organizers are ask-ing for all merchants, or-ganizations and commit-tees alike to participate in this community wide event. For more infor-mation, contact [email protected] or (269) 695-3291.

A reminder to Dowagiac Band Alumni of the second band reunion to be held on Saturday, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Dowagiac Elks Club. Those who would like to attend, but haven’t sent in a reservation still have time. The deadline has been extended to July 14. Invitations were sent out to classes 1960 through 1973. Dowagiac band members who were in band before 1960 or af-ter 1973 are still most wel-come to attend. Contact Linda Nelson, (269) 782-5212 if you would like to receive an invitation and it will be sent to you right away.

iResidents and busi-nesses in Berrien County are invited to recycle their unwanted e-waste items and tires on Sat-urday, July 26, 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m, at the New Troy Community Center, 13372 California Rd., New Troy. For more in-formation or to volunteer to assist with the event, please contact FONT’s Recycling Committee member, Janna Riley, at 773-275-1514 or [email protected].

The Episcopal Church of the Mediator in Harbert,

Michigan would like to in-vite the public to join us for a “Starry Starry Night” under the stars on July 26th at 7:30 p.m. (EDT). Our experts to guide us through the sky viewing are Jennifer Francis, Di-rector of the Upton Plan-etarium in St. Joseph and Mike Durren, Instructor of Astronomy at Lake Michigan College. There will be a 12” Dobsonian telescope available for viewing or you can bring your own. Binoculars are also a great way to see features in the night sky. If you don’t have a tele-scope and would like to purchase a Galileoscope kit they are available for advanced purchase at a cost of $25. A tripod is recommended for stability and they will be available for $25.

Lubeznik Center for the Arts will hold a panel dis-cussion, Art As Autobiog-raphy: The History of the Artist in the Work from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Panelists include author Stepha-nie Medlock and artists Suzanne Cohan-Lange, Richard C. Lange and Material Possessions ex-hibiting artists John Paul Morabito and Aram Han. Panelists will discuss what influences inspire their works, from the more obvious fascination with forms and materials, to the socio/political is-sues that interest them, and the deeply personal memories that may un-consciously direct their choices.

Alex, the Potawatomi Zoo’s male chimpanzee, will be celebrating his 17th birthday on July 26. Keepers will decorate the chimpanzee exhibit with party decorations and gifts prior to letting the chimpanzees onto ex-hibit at 11 a.m. For more information on Potawato-mi Zoo please call (574) 235-9800 or visit www.potawatomizoo.org.

July 28

The first public read-ing of South Bend Civic Theatre’s world pre-miere adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will take place Monday, July 28. A select group of SBCT actors will give

first voice to this play with an opportunity for audi-ence feedback after the reading. The reading is free to attend in the Wil-son Theatre at 7 p.m.

July 29

Lake Effect hops farm of Bridgman will be featured at the Tuesday, July 29 meeting of the River Valley Garden Club. Members will meet at a home in Bridgeman and then carpool to the farm. Guests are welcome to join both the meeting and tour. The meeting starts at 1:00 pm. Contact [email protected] location. More informa-tion is available on the club’s website, www.riv-ervalleygardenclub.org

July 31

On July 31, from 5:30-6:30, the Texas husband-and-wife duo Grifters and Shills will be in South Bend holding a workshop for local songwriters at The Music Village. The event has a recommend-ed donation of $5.

Aug. 1

DANK will host a fish fry at 2651 Pipestone in Benton Harbor. Call (269) 926-6652 for more details. Doors ooen at 5:30 p.m. and live mu-sic from 7 pm to 10 p,m. Cost is $8 for members and $9 for non-members.

Aug. 2

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians’ Four Winds casinos will host a concert by Heart at Four Winds New Buf-falo’s Silver Creek Event Center on Saturday, Aug. 2, at 9 p.m. East-ern. Tickets for the event can be purchased begin-ning on Friday, May 9 at 10 a.m. Eastern exclu-sively through the Tick-etmaster website, www.ticketmaster.com, or by calling at (800)745-3000. Ticket prices start at $50 plus applicable fees.

Galien United Methodist Church is hosting a BBQ Chicken Sandwiches and Ice Cream Social event from 5 to 7 p.m. A free will offering will

be available at the door. All proceeds will benefit mission trips. Call 269-362-4917 for carry-outs.

The Box Factory for the Arts will present Gary Brandt and Jackie Da-vidson. The concert be-gins at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $10 general admission; $8 students and seniors; children 12 and under free.

Gary Brandt and Jackie Davidson will perform at Box Factory for the Arts, 1101 Broad Street in St. Joseph, for one night only at 7:30 p.m. Gen-eral admission tickets are $10 with senior and student tickets available for $8. Tickets are avail-able in advance at www.boxfactoryforthearts.org/calendar/#jackiegary with credit card by phone at 269-983-3688; or at the door.

Join paddling expert Ted Beatty, co-coordinator of Paddlefest, for a be-ginner canoe and kayak lesson on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 at St. Patrick’s County Park. The class is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and the fee is $15/person. Registra-tion and payment are re-quired by July 30, 2014 at (574) 654-3155. The $15 fee for the class in-cludes the park entrance fee and use of the ca-noe/kayak, paddle and lifejacket. Participants are encouraged to bring a snack or sack lunch.

The Edwardsburg Con-servation Club will host its annual corn and sau-sage roast Menu items include corn, sausage, baked beans, cold beer and soft drinks. Fun and games will be offered for children and adults with a horseshoe tour-nament, contests and raffles from 6 to 10 p.m.

Lubeznik Center for the Arts will hold an opening reception for its new ex-hibits Invasive Species, Transformation, and Aquatic Kaleidoscope from 5 to 8 p.m.

Aug. 2-3

Round Barn Winery will host its third annual unique art fair from 12 to 6 p.m. Saturday and 12 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Expect to find original works of art in the form of pottery, glass, metal sculptures, paint-ings, jewelry and much more. Sip on award-win-ning wine, refreshing mi-crobrews or DiVine cock-tails while listening to live music and searching for that perfect piece of art.

Aug. 3

The Episcopal Church of the Mediator, 14280 Red Arrow Highway, Harbert, Michigan wel-comes the Tenors Three in performance. Show-casing beautiful harmo-nies and powerful solo performances, The Ten-ors Three entertain with a variety of vocal stan-dards, classical pieces and seasonal favorites. A free will offering will be taken at the door.


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SOUTHWEST MICHI-GAN — Back in 1970, 15-year-old Rick Brill

and several friends made the local newspaper when they canoed the 72 miles from the Paw Paw dam down to Lake Michigan via the Paw Paw River.

“It took us four days to make the trip,” Brill recalled. “There was a lot of portaging in the beginning due to the river’s being so narrow there, but it widened up some near Coloma.”

Now a professor of Michigan history at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Brill has the resources to place that trip within a larger historical context.

“The Native Americans definitively used the rivers in this area to travel. It was just so much faster than walking, and there really were very few trails,” Brill noted. “The river was really the path of least resistance.”

According to Brill, when the French arrived in south-west Michigan, they, too, travelled via those same natu-ral waterways, using much the same technology as the Native Americans.

That reliance on the rivers continued and grew once set-

tlers began arriving in the region.

“Really, the first genera-tion of towns in Michigan were river towns,” Brill explained. “When the pio-neers came to this area in the late 1820s and early 1830s, they wanted to put mills on the smaller rivers and tribu-taries, and that was where they settled.”

Residents continued to rely on southwest Michigan’s network of waterways for transporting people and goods up until the railroads were built in the 1850s, and it was then that the Industrial Revolution really gathered steam, as Brill explained.

By the time Brill and his high school friends took their trip down the Paw Paw River, the effects of that industrial-ization on the region were inescapable.

“There was a lot of pollu-tion in the water. It wasn’t very clean—there was a lot of slime, and it had an odor to it,” Brill recalled. “There weren’t a lot of regulations about dumping and run-off back then, and there was a lot of debris in the water. One of my friends saw a dead horse floating in the river.”

What Brill and his friends didn’t see were many other people.

“I don’t think we met any-body except one girl who came up to our campsite to

introduce herself,” Brill said.Now, more than 40 years

later, times have changed. Thanks to a heightened

awareness of the environ-ment and more restrictions on dumping, the water is clean-er, and many old dams have

been removed as well. Paddle boarding, kayaking and canoeing have become more popular activities, and the waterways are receiving renewed attention as a means of drawing more tourism to the state, particularly since

Governor’s Snyder announced his goal of mak-ing Michigan a “trail state” in 2012.

In an effort to make Michigan’s rivers, inland lakes, and even the Great Lakes more accessible to watercraft enthusiasts, the Michigan Water Trails web-site has been launched, and it is accessible at www.michi-ganwatertrails.org.

There, kayakers, canoe-ists, paddle boards and others can plan trips similar to the one that Brill and his friends took—but with a lot more information.

“The website offers trip-planning information for pad-dlers,” said Marcy Colclough, senior planner with the Southwest Michigan Regional Planning Commission. “People are using it right now.”

While the website is up and running, thanks to fund-ing from the Michigan Coastal Zone Management Program, the Department of Environmental Quality Office of the Great Lakes and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there is still much to be done.

“The goal is more access. We’d like for there to be a site with restroom facilities every 5 miles and with camp-ing every 10 miles. That’s a state-wide goal on the Great Lakes Coast, and we’re not

quite there yet,” Colclough said.

However, the website does show launch sites and camping access, as well as the locations of nearby muse-ums, parks and restaurants, and volunteers can be trained to add even more informa-tion.

“The website provides a lot of information on differ-ent access sites,” Colclough said. “It tells how hard it is to launch from any given access point, and it gives specifica-tions on how to do it. It’s really useful information.”

With the new website, paddlers can avoid many of the hardships that Brill and his friends encountered, mak-ing for a more enjoyable trip.

“There’s so much poten-tial here in southwest Michigan with all of the riv-ers we have here—the Black River, the Galien, and the St. Joe, along with the lake,” Colclough said.

To tap that local poten-tial, a partnership to promote the West Michigan Water Trail was forged between Williams & Works, the West Michigan Environmental Action Council and Grand Valley State University’s Hospitality and Tourism Management Program, and more information about that project can be found at www.westmichiganwater-trail.com.

Michigan Water Trails website helps make trip-planning easier

Leader Phoho/Jill McCaughan

Kayakers, paddle boarders and canoeists get a different perspective of southwest Michigan while travelling down the Galien River.

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