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The Michigan Banner December 1, 2015 Volume 13 • Number 10 First Great Lakes Bay Regional Newspaper Celebrating 13 years of Positive News! Leading in Diversity “Empowering Communities and Changing Lives” RaeLynn SOUND OF CHRISTMAS P 3 Buckley 1953 • 2015 COMMUNITY LEADERS P 9 Wife, Mother, Leader, Servant, Woman of God HISPANIC/LATINO COMMISSION LB 1 Rae Lynn Buckley completed her heavenly transition of 36 years, Jerome Buckley; sons, Gary Demond on Thursday, November 19, 2015. She was born in (Olivia) Reynolds of Dallas, TX, Jerome (Tamia) Saginaw, Michigan April 6, 1953. Rae graduated from Buckley of Rochester, MI, Erik D. Buckley of St. Joseph High School, Class of 1971, she attended Kentwood, MI and Jermaine Swilley of Saginaw, MI; Delta College and Saginaw Valley State University special nephews, Andre (Traci) Buckley of Midland, where she earned a Bachelor degree in Business MI and Thomas (Cory) Tinsley of Chicago, IL; cousins Management. Donna Hawthorne, Carrie Simpson, Brenda Knox, Carl She married the love of her life, Jerome Buckley on (Patricia) Covington, Henry (Dorothy) Harris; several PREVENT ILLNESS July 14, 1979. She had great leadership and management nieces, nephews, a host of family members and friends, P 17 skills. She began working at State Farm Insurance including a dedicated friend, Carmen Betancourt. Company in 1975, retiring in 2000. She was a member of Mrs. Buckley was preceded in death by her parents, Saginaw Chamber of Commerce, managed Wonderland Loyd and Thaetis Marie Tinsley; brother, Jerry Tinsley; Beauty and Barber Supply and The Michigan Banner uncles, George (Ann), Charles (Vonceal) and Ray where she was co-owner. She was a member of Saginaw Covington; mother and father-in-law, Rowan and Helen Valley Church where she was active with the Prayer Buckley; grandmothers, Dora Tinsley and Clara Smith; Room and Healing Ministry. She enjoyed reading, special aunt and uncle, James and Ethel Pierrie. studying scripture and learning new things. Rae loved The family would like to thank the ICU nursing SERVICE AWARD interacting with her grandchildren and family. staff of Covenant Harrison Healthcare for their P 22 Rae Lynn leaves to cherish her memory her husband diligence in the care and comfort of Rae Lynn. The Michigan Banner First Great Lakes Bay Regional Newspaper December 1, 2015 The Michigan Banner December 1, 2015 First Great Lakes Bay Regional Newspaper The Temple Theatre presents: The Michigan Banner 1400 W. Genesee Sound of Christmas - Saginaw, MI 48902 989.753-3475 [email protected] Elisabeth von Trapp and the Carolian Brass on Office Hours: Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 7:30 PM Monday-Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. SAGINAW, MI - “Before the concert is over and psalms set to her own compositions. She is she will have the crowd gasping with the sheer accompanied by the elegant arrangements of her Publisher and Senior Editor Jerome Buckley beauty of her voice” Boston Globe guitar and acclaimed cellist and longtime musical [email protected] For Elisabeth von Trapp, “ the sounds of colleague, Erich Kory. In the spring of 2001 The Latino Banner music “ are part of her earliest memories. Born and Elisabeth was granted permission from Robert Publisher raised in Vermont, Elisabeth is the granddaughter Frost’s publisher, Henry Holt & Co., to sing parts Jerome Buckley of the legendary Maria and Baron von Trapp, of the poet’s oeuvre. Poetic License, released in [email protected] whose story inspired The Sound of Music. Singing June 2004, features the musical settings of poems The Latino Banner professionally since childhood, Elisabeth has by Frost and Shakespeare, a Japanese haiku and Rosa Morales enthralled audiences from European cathedrals to interpretations of Over The Rainbow / What A Contributor Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center. Inspired by Wonderful World, Sting’s Fragile and Schubert’s Circulation & Distribution: her father Werner von Trapp’s guitar playing and An Die Musik. On her summer 2005 release, Staff singing, Elisabeth has carried on the legacy of the Love Never Ends / Sacred Sounds, Elisabeth has Marketing & Sales: internationally renowned Trapp Family Singers. collected, arranged and recorded some of her Staff She began taking piano lessons when she was eight favorite hymns, psalms and chants with influences Sales and by the age of sixteen she was playing guitar from jazz and gospel, contemporary and classical Staff and traveling the back roads of New England musical styles. Elisabeth has released five self Mission: performing with her siblings at weddings, gospel produced albums, and has performed across the The Michigan Banner operates and serves as a print and meetings and town halls. Building on her famed United States, Austria and Russia. Her music has online media venue committed to educating, informing and family’s passion for music, Elisabeth has created been featured on National Public Radio, BBC- enlightening our readership regarding events and news that directly and indirectly affect the communities regionally and her own artistic style, at once ethereal and earthy, Radio, Japanese National Radio and CNN Spanish globally. Furthermore, to serve as a catalyst and a link for delicate and powerful. Listeners have likened her Radio. She has appeared on CBS’s Eye on People, cultivating young adults as entrepreneurial and business to Judy Collins and Loreena McKennitt. Critics ABC’s Good Morning America and BBC-TV. No leaders for the future. have called her voice ...“ hauntingly clear “ “ one leaves an Elisabeth von Trapp performance Disclaimer: joyfully expressive “ and “ simply beautiful.” unchanged ... audiences of allages are drawn by The Michigan Banner and its staff are not responsible and Elisabeth’s concert repertoire ranges from Bach the promise of her famous name ... awed by the will nto be held liable for any mistakes, error, misspellings to Broadway ... Schubert to Sting. With equal ease beauty of her voice and musical arrangements ... and false advertisements in part or whole that may be placed within its publication. Articles, information or and eloquence she sings timeless wonders like their hearts touched forever by the astonishing comments printed in the newspaper are not necessarily the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Favorite Things and sound of her unique new music. views or beliefs of The Michigan Banner newspaper. The Edelweiss, Lieder by Mozart, Puccini’s O Mio Reserved seating tickets are $35 - $90 Michigan Banner reserves the right to edit, change, or Babbino Caro, soaring gospel tunes, pop classics and can be purchased by calling 877.754. delete any information, or refuse to print any information, like A Whiter Shade of Pale and her own stunning SHOW (7469), securely online via www. article or advertisement which is believed to be inconsistent templetheatre.com, or in person at the with or conflicts with the mission of the newspaper. compositions. Her cathedral program includes sacred Temple Theatre Box Office located at 201 N. Deadlines: and secular music extending from Gregorian Washington Ave. in Saginaw, Michigan. Box 2 weeks before each publication date of the office hours are Monday – Friday, from 10 1st and 16th of each month chants, songs by 12th century mystic Hildegard AM to 6 PM, and Saturday, 12 PM to 4 PM. 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Page 26-36 [email protected] Page 4 The Michigan Banner December 1, 2015 First Great Lakes Bay Regional Newspaper 1400 W. Genesee Saginaw, Michigan (989) 753-3475 www.themichiganbanner.com Volume 3 • Number 21 December 1, 2015 Líder en la diversidad Vamos Adelante Gov. Rick Snyder makes appointments, reappointments to Hispanic/Latino Commission LANSING, MI – Gov. Rick Snyder today Business Association. Reyes earned both a Woodbridge Summer Program at Ferris State announced the appointments of Monica Reyes, bachelor’s and master’s degree in business University. She previously served as the of Saginaw, and Anthony Garcia-Rubio, Jr., of administration from Saginaw Valley State dean of students and migrant/Title III Cadillac, and the reappointments of Noel University. She replaces Kelly Shipman. director of Hart Public Schools. Hernandez Garcia, of East Lansing, Sonya Hernandez of Garcia-Rubio retired as general manager earned both a bachelor’s degree in Spanish Muskegon, and Carlos Sanchez, of Grand of Heraduras Mexican restaurant. He is a and a master’s degree in educational Rapids, to the Hispanic/Latino Commission of member of the Cadillac Area Honor