Plans Made for WCUZ/Budweiser Weekend the Third Annual WCUZ- Promotional Event Staged by Amphitheatre
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The Grand Valley% Ledger Serving Lowell Area ' Readers Since 1893 Volume 9, Issue 18 March 20, 1985 Plans made for WCUZ/Budweiser Weekend The Third Annual WCUZ- promotional event staged by Amphitheatre. There will be ell YMCA. amphitheatre in review. This is tent and lots of activities like a Budweiser Showboat Weekend downtown merchants beginning Roulette. Black Jack. Craps and On Saturday there are more not a race, and appropriate safety young persoa's fishing contest promises to be bigger and better at 10:00 a.m. Details will be an- all the popular casino games in Showboat rides slated for 9:00 equipment will be required. sponsored by the Jay-Teens. than ever. Planners met last nounced later. Showboat rides this Lottery Bureau sanctioned a.m. through 1:00 p.m. Again, The highlight of the weekend Lowell Showboat President Ray week to begin putting the gala will be offered from 1:00 until event. Lots of qualified dealers details about schedules, ticket will be the tentatively scheduled Quada has tssaed a plea to the weekend together. The two day 4:00 p.m. The highlight of Fri- and table captains will be needed prices, etc. will be published in Wariner Show at 7:00p.m. in the community for any and all addi- weekend is scheduled for Friday day's activities wiil be an Old to run this event, please watch future editions. At 2:00 students Showboat Amphitheatre. tional support. "We need volun- and Saturday. May 24 and 30. Fashioned Riverboat Gambling future editions of the Ledger for and staff from the high school Wariner is a country music star teers for all of the scheduled eve- Festivities will begin with a Night on the Showboat and in the requests for volunteers and meet- will sponsor a "Puttin-on-the- who has been riding high on the nts phis people and ideas for ing times. Walt Dickerson is Hits" air band or lip sync, contest charts with hits like "Kansas City more activities throughout the chairing this event. in the amphitheatre. These con- Nights." "What I Didn't Do," weekend," Quada said. The 32 team softball tourna- tests are becoming increasingly "By Now,** and "Midnight Fire." Anyone willing to pitch in and ment that has become a big part popular, and it is hoped that with He has released three albums to help make this the best WCUZ- of the WCUZ-Budweiser WCUZ's backing, this could be- date. WCUZ Public Relations Budweiser Showboat Weekend weekend will also get underway come a very large event. Executive Kevin Reynolds says ever, should plan to attend the on Friday, and continue through At noon, the Lowell Jaycees that ticket prices haven't been next meeting at Lowell City Hall Saturday. Details of rules and are planning a "Show Float fixed yet, but they will be very on Wednesday. March 26, at prizes for the tournament will be This event is tentative now, but reasonable. .7:30 P.M. announced later by tournament the idea calls for decorated floats Throughout the day Saturday director Jim Hodges of the Low- and inner tubes to drift past the there will be food booths, a beer Blind golf pro promotes leader dogs DID YOU KNOW? ' The Lowell Rotary Gub was Leader Dog School. Welcome Alto students have been spending a lot of time on educational ac- treated to a program last Home for the Blind. White Cane tivities outside of the normal school day. Fourteen students have Wednesday that can only be de- and the Michigan Eye Bank. been practicing for the O-M (Olympics of the Mind) coming up on fined as "inspirational." Greg During the first four years, 90 March 30 in Jackson. They will be enjoying a day of educational Matthews, a PGA golf pro from top tour professionals and celeb- rities form the world of sports fk competition along with our Middle School team. Three Rivers was the guest Students also recently completed some very interesting science speaker. Greg is a co-owner of took part in this tournament. projects for the first annual Alto Science Fair held on February 28. Pine View Golf Club tn Three During the last five years the Seventy-six students recently raised over $1700 participating in a Rivers, golfs regularly and car- tournament format has grown Math-a-thon for the St. Jude children's Research Hospital. The stu- ries a 28 handicap. What's so in- from 150 to 200 players. The dents completed math workbooks at home with pledges being paid spirational about a 28 handicap 1984 touqiament included 40 for every correct problem. golf pro? Nothing, unless he has LPGA Tour Stars. 40 WMPGA This information has been supplied by the Lowell Citizens for been blind since 1970. professionals and 120 amateurs. Education. Matthews. 48. lost his sight to This event alone has now raised sugar diabetes fifteen years ago, over $40,000 for Lions charities. PARENTS INVITED TO LECTURE ON and a foot and part of his left leg The Lions Leader Dog pro- TEEN SEXUALITY to the disease five years ago. gram at Rochester is the largest But. while listening to Matthews of the five leader dog schools in High School Principal Richard Korb has passed along an invita- one soon learns that these handi- the nation, and is the only one tion for parents of children in the Lowell School District to attend a caps have done little to slow him sponsored by the Lions Gub. lecture by Dr. Sol Gordon entitled. "Raising Teens Conservatively down or dim his enthusiasm. He The school graduates approxi- # i in a Sexually Permissive World." The lecture is scheduled for 7:00 quips, "when someone wants to mately 325 teams per year at no p.m. on Wednesday, March 26 at the Jenison High School au- play a round of golf with me I ask cost to the students other than ditorium. Dr. Gordon is from Syracuse University, is the Director for two strokes a hole, or offer to their phone calls home. Matth- of the Institute for Family Research and Education and is an interna- play them even at midnight " ews says the cost to put a team on tionally recognized authority on reproductive health. Matthews prothesis is a rela- the street is about $7,500. which tively new one with a flexible adds up to a $2.25 million per SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINES CLARIFIED ankle. The doctor who designed year budget for the school. it said a patient of his that The dogs at the school are all The deadline dates for the scholarships mentioned in last week's switched from a solid ankle to a either Golden Retrievers, Lab- Ledger have caused some confusion. Perhaps this will straighten flexible one claimed he shaved rador Retrievers. German things out a bit. The Doyle and Runciman Scholarships have an ten strokes off his golf game be- Shephards. Shepard/Retriever April 1 deadline. The Helen Look Daly Scholarships have an April cause of it. Matthews passed this mixes and a few Rhodesian 15 deadline. Further information is available at the Student Services information along to the surgeon Ridgebacks. The Ridgebacks are Center of the High School or the office of the First Congregational at the Mayo Ginic who ampu- primarily show dogs, and when Church. tated his foot adding, "if this is the distinctive ridge of long hair Greg Matthews addresses the Lowell Roimy CM. The leash at really true, I'll be back next year on their backs is not quite right, tached to his wrist leads to his seeing eye dog "Naner who slept MEETING ABOUT STOREFRONT RESTORATIONS to have the other taken off." they arc often donated to the pro- at his feet throughout the program. Hardly the type of comments one gram. Matthews said that these dogs in kennel at any given time, tor pretendiag he's a dog. All Mr. Ollie Webb from the Kent County Community Development would expect from a family man breeds are used because of their and Matthews says their kennel this serves a purpose as the in- program will be on hand to explain the current status of Lowell's so severly afflicted in the prime intelligence, temperment. and conditions border on the plush structors me this tiroe to learn the storefront restoration program at a meeting to be held at Lowell City of his life. size. The dogs are both male and side, with heated ceramic tile traits of the stndents so that they Hall Tuesday. March 26. The meeting is slated for 7:30 a.m. and Matthews speaks frequently to female when they enter the pro- rooms complete with running will be able lo match them up will be adjourned at 8:30 so that shop owners can open their busi- all sorts of groups, but his mes- gram. but as Matthews says, water that the dogs dispense with with the best dog for their indi- ness on time. Coffee and rolls will be furnished. sage isn't about golf or his handi- 'Ihey are all "its" when they go their muzzles. vidual needs. caps. it is to promote the Lions out on the street " The dogs Matthews says that the one Once the undtnt and dog are BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN MAY CHAR- Leader Dog School in Roches- come from a variety of sources, month school for the humans is teamed up. the remaining weeks TER A CHAPTER HERE ter. Michigan. Three years after but most are donated or sold to quite an experience. The instruc- are spent in kanung techniques, he lost his sight.