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FREE No strings attached. Nope. Not a one! FREE All it takes is to grab one! Presorted Standard US Postage Paid Permit No. 81 Cedar Springs, MI The Reaching around the world - www.cedarspringspost.com Vol. XXIX No.P 13 Thursday, March 31, 2016 STServing Northern Kent County and parts of Newaygo and Montcalm Counties INSIDE THIS ISSUE Families lose home in fire Car crashes into POST travels to Arizona schoolBy Judy Reed bus A crash involving a car and a school bus sent one person to the hospital on Tuesday, March 29. According to Sgt. Jason Kelley, with the Kent County Sheriff Department Cedar Springs Unit, the crash occurred on 18 Mile Rd near White Creek, in Solon Township, about page 2 8:23 a.m. A 68-year-old Solon Township woman was traveling Want to earn some east on 18 Mile behind a Cedar Springs Public Schools bus carrying elementary children, when the bus began to slow fast cash? down for another bus it was following that was stopping to pick up children. The woman was reportedly blinded by the sun, and did not see the bus stopping. She then crashed into the back of the bus without braking, according to a witness. None of the children on the bus were injured. Another bus was sent to pick up the children and transport them to school. The bus driver, a 48-year-old woman from Spencer Township, complained of general pain. She was checked out by Rockford ambulance but was not hospitalized. page 3 The driver of the car was sent to Butterworth Hospital by Rockford ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries. Unleash happiness “We are forever grateful for the Kent County Sheriff De- partment, Fire Department, paramedics and all other first responders for their prompt, caring and professional re- sponse to the needs of our school district and community,” Post photos by J. Reed. said Cedar Springs Public Schools Superintendent Laura VanDuyn. This mobile home in Cedar Springs Mobile Estates was destroyed by fire on Friday, March 25. By Judy Reed Fraser, the Cedar Springs dren were home at the time Fire Department was on of the fire, and everyone got Two families lost their scene within seven min- out safely. A 21-month-old Easter bunny at HEALTH...pages 8-9 home last Friday, March 25, utes of getting the call, and reportedly had some minor when a fire broke out short- it took 20 to 30 minutes to burns to the chest and index ly after 10:30 a.m. on Linda knock it down. finger, and was treated at the library PLUS Street in Cedar Springs Mo- He said the fire started the scene. Outdoors page 10 bile Estates. in a bedroom, though the The home is reported to According to Cedar cause is undetermined. be a total loss. Tax Time page 11 Springs Fire Chief Marty Two adults and two chil- Pothole repair truck falls into Whenpothole it rains, it pours. And where one pothole is, another is sure to spring up. That’s what our local DPW department discov- ered when they contracted an excavating crew to repair a pothole on 17 Mile Road this week. According to a DPW spokesperson, a truck filled with asphalt was backing up towards the hole, when the road gave way, creating another pothole. To make it even worse, the truck be- came stuck in it. They then had to call in a helicopter to help lift the truck out of the pothole. Caleb Hankinson snuggles with the Easter Bunny at the Cedar “You can’t make this stuff Springs Library. up,” he said. Once they got the truck The Easter Bunny visited the Cedar Springs Public Li- out, they found that water brary last Friday, March 25. was running underneath the Thirty children from age 6 months to 5th grade got a road from an underground chance to visit with him, and then decorated foam Easter DPW workers try to figure out how to get their pothole repair truck out of a pothole. POTHOLE - continues on page 13 eggs. Including adults, there were 50 people in attendance. Page 2 The Cedar Springs Post Thursday, March 31, 2016 Friends of the Library quilt show Post travels to Arizona Sheryl Fleser won the quilt raffle Nancy Flierman with her first place quilt. Saturday March 19, was the 4th annual Friends of the Library Quilt show. It was held at the Cedar Springs Middle School from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. with approximately 180 people in attendance. Included were 36 quilts made by area residents. The winners of the show were chosen by those in attendance, with prizes going to: Nancy Flierman, of Cedar Springs, won the Antique Quilt Category with her Rose Hankins, of Courtland Township, recently traveled “Dresden Plate” quilt, and 3rd place with “Cathedral Window.” Both were spe- to Arizona to visit old friends from Paradise Park, where cially made by her mother, Garnet Kline, who passed last year. It took her moth- Rose lived for 19 years, getting away from the snow in er six years to make Cathedral Window, from 1994-2000. She won a beautiful Michigan winters. She saw a lot of her old friends, and en- quilt rack donated by Bob Thomas Woodworking, joyed her visit. Rose is shown here with her friends Nita, Jo 2nd place went to Barb Krawczyk, for her “Snake River Log Cabin” quilt. and Lola, at Apache Junction, Arizona. She won a quilt rack donated by Ron Akom. Thanks, Rose, for taking us with you! Featured at the show were a yard sale of quilting goods, a silent auction, trunk Are you going on vacation? Take the Post with you and shows from Blueberry Backroads and Red Button Quilt Company and a Quilt snap some photos. Then send them to us with some info to Raffle featuring a Queen size quilt pieced by the Scrappy Quilters and quilted [email protected] or mail them to Post travels, by Aerie Quilting. The raffle quilt was won by Sheryl Fleser of Cedar Springs. PO Box 370, Cedar Springs, MI 49319. We will be looking Barb Krawcyzk with her second place quilt. for yours! West Michigan Hawks visit Cedar View On Tuesday, March 14, the West Michigan Hawks The Jellybean received the tremendous opportunity to give back to their community by hang- Challenge ing out with the children of Cedar View Elementa- ry. Plenty of high fives and smiles were exchanged, as well as story time, where the Hawks read to the stu- dents. “We had such a great time coming into Cedar View and reading to the 4th and 5th graders,” said head coach/owner David Lange. “I know that the guys had do so. Without the support the team has been seen The Hawks will be on just as much fun if not more of the community, none out and about in the Cedar the field again soon, as than the kids. Interacting of what we do is possible. Springs area. Last year, they well. 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