Huge Exhibit at the BAC ●Buchanan Area High Schools & Middle Schools Art Exhibit Featuring Work from 10 Schools Within a 50-Mile Radius of Buchanan
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Things to know... People to meet... Plans to make... Vultures Return Blue Star Mothers Procrastinators Day VOL I No. 12 April 6–20, 2018 Huge Exhibit at the BAC ●Buchanan area high SchoolS & Middle SchoolS art exhiBit Featuring work from 10 schools within a 50-mile radius of Buchanan. Cash awards sponsored by Dr. Richard and Cindy Beckermeyer. Runs through 4/19/18. ●the art experience A Buchanan Art Center program in partnership with GateWay Services and the First Presbyterian LastClasses call for registration: Church, featuring artwork ●intro Watercolor (Adult) by GateWay Services Deadline: April 8 Participants. ●digital photography (Adult) Runs through 5/5/18. Deadline: April 7 ●inSide/outSide oilS ●russian folk painting (Adult) by Jackie Welsh and Deadline: April 19 Cheryl Phelan. “Painting ●creative Silver recycling together is not only plea- (Adult) Deadline: April 19 surable, we are constantly ●clayMateS (Ages 7-13) learning from each other. Deadline: April 8 We have painted together painting the colorS of Spring for a long time.” Some of the art on display Runs through 5/5/18. (Ages 5-12) at Buchanan Art Center Deadline: April 10 gallery reception Sunday, april 15th 2-4pM Visit the website or call for pricing and dates. light refreShMentS. all are invited. www.buchananartcenter.com 269-697-4005 Awards What’s Inside. High School 3rd Place: Leo Rosales Page 2: letterS, etc. Page 5: Misc. Alice, Drawing 1st Place: Lauren Rakowski Publisher’s comments Rex Rose Exhibit at Galien Library 11th grade, Edwardsburg HS Hello Beautiful, Painting The Paper Contact and Distribution 11th grade, Edwardsburg HS Voter Registration Training Session The Man Who Got the Race Running 2nd Place: Daniela Delacruz Winners All Around Middle School It’s a Fox, Charcoal Page 3: life iS Better, police, etc. 75th High School Senior Athlete Night 11th grade, Eau Claire HS 1st Place: Zane Runkel Message from the Mayor 2nd Place: Harleigh Besaw Page 6: Vulture Venues Finished, Pencil Scarecrow Factory Opens Ceramics of the Sea, Ceramics 8th grade, Upton MS 11th grade, Edwardsburg HS Police Reports Page 7: Spring cleanup 3rd Place: Mollie Harris 2nd Place: Amelia Pipik Ursa, Drawing Eat Fire, Mixed Media Page 4: Body, Mind, Spirit & Soul Jumpstart your Spring Cleaning 8th grade, Upton MS 10th grade, Edwardsburg HS Celebrate St. Expeditus Day Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Day 3rd Place: Delani Stull 3rd Place: Ava Blasy Fox, Drawing Seriously, Pencil Blue Star Mothers Chapter 193 Page 8: calendar 9th grade, Edwardsburg HS 8th grade, Upton MS Our Sympathy... the paper April 6–20, 2018 Letters, Etc. Page 2 MARy LiSteR All letters to the editor may be edited for Publisher grammar and spelling, but not content PAtRiciA BAnkeR (unless for length). They do not necessarily Editor reflect the opinions of this newspaper. indness is always fashionable. We want to hear from you, and to share your voice. The comments here include opinions, observations and viewpoints which are not necessarily reflected by K -Amelia Barr, novelist (1831-1919). The Paper. We will print your name or withhold it as you request, but we must Amelia hit the nail on the head. Not only know the source in order to publish. fashionable, but loved. Have you ever disliked anyone who was kind (unless it was a case of envy)? Kindness comes in many forms. One of the Man Who got the race running again my favorites is the old-fashioned thank-you note, A recent drive across the rolling hills and valleys of Berrien County reminded me of hand-written, if it’s only on a piece of plain paper how much water had fallen on us in SW Michigan to cause widespread flooding in -- sometimes that’s better than some of those Kalamazoo and Niles—but not in Buchanan. cards that we spend hours trying to find. I am Having been a junior member of the 2010-12 Ad Hoc McCoy Creek Watershed in awe of Shirley Roti Roti and Marie Kangas Committee, tasked with finally settling the supposedly conflicting interests of a healthy -- both in their 90’s and still taking the effort and mill race for Pears Mill, and a healthy Creek for fishermen (a controversy since 1945), time to write a lovely thank you for giving them I realized why Buchanan remained largely dry. a simple thing such as a card! The residents of Buchanan who stayed dry should drink a toast to the Chairman of You probably know others who do that type of that Committee, tom Fehlner, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Notre Dame. thing. Apart from casting oil on troubled waters —fish vs. mill— to get a workable And then there are the little acts of kindness, compromise solution, he single-handedly used his long-developed skills of procuring many that have disappeared, such as holding the grant money to request help from National, State, County and special-interest sources door open for the person behind you, or offering (up to 16 at one point, of which only three had turned us down, as of February 2012) your umbrella to someone in the rain, or saying and to thereby raise half of the money the City estimated would be required to do the excuse me when you accidentally brush against engineering work necessary to free up the water flow through the City. someone, or giving a surprise gift for no apparent The three biggest components were the removal of the dam forming Clark Pond, the reason. But I think one I admire most in people construction of the free-flowing channel through the former pond and the dredging of is the kind act of listening. I was in a tiny shop the silted up Race leading to Pears Mill. earlier this week and a lady began talking about At the height of water flow through the City with heavy rain falling on frozen ground her deceased husband as though she needed throughout Berrien and the surrounding counties, while the Kalamazoo River was someone to listen to her. The very busy shop invading the suburbs of the City and Amtrak was reduced to 10mph at several places owner and I were the only other people there, near the swollen river, water was rushing through Buchanan several inches below flood and he just let her go on and on. I thought it was stage in both the Creek and Race. An eyeball estimate would put three-fifths in the Creek incredibly kind of him. We never know when it and two-fifths in the Race. will be us who need the support. So when it rains, raise a glass to Tom Fehlner who almost single-handedly enabled So, yes, Amelia Barr, kindness IS always the City to “get-er-done.” fashionable. And, also, it might get you out of Randal Peart deep doodoo. -- Mary editorial Board advertiSing Manager Nancy Fehlner Mary Vincent Mary Lysy church liaiSon We need you! ●Do you read The Paper every issue? Marjorie Trapp Louann Gardner dviSory oard ● a B calendar coordinator Do you look forward to having it arrive? Darlene Clevenger Beth Murphy ●Is it keeping you better informed about Don Holmes what is happening in town? Randal Peart faceBook/inStagraM Rick Polos Renée Ruth ●Do you enjoy the quality? Alan Robandt contriButorS We are going to start offering subscriptions in the near future. Our Community attorney John Colip We are trying to find other ways to raise funds, and perhaps to seek grants. But those take time. If you wish to advertise, please With special thanks to Mary Vincent, Don Holmes, contact us. 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The City Code 3/19: Officers were called to investi- Enforcement Officer attended to a litter gate a property damage accident.