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25C The Lowell rolume 12, Issue 3j Serving Lowell Area Readers Since 1893 Wednesday, June 29, 1988 dim Mm Stmt I pttermen celebrate Showboat's return "Celebrating good times.** The City of Lowell did just that as the Showboat returned to Lowell June 23-25 for the first 5H time in six years. Hie approximately 7,000 . people who attended the re-open- ing over the weekend left with song and laughter in their hearts just as C.H. Runciman had in- TIME SCHEDULE CHANGE FOR LOWELL AREA tended. \ SCHOOLS In 1932 the people of Lowell visualized a project (Lowell Beginning with the 1988-89 school year, the secondary and Showboat) which would lift their i elementary schools at Lowell will have a lime schedule change in hearts from the great depression jg|t order to allow for more instructional time in the morning for stu- and would become a community dents. The new schedule is as follows: event. Some 50 years later the Middle School - 7:45 a.m. to 2:10 p.m. Showboat has certainly fit the High School - 7:50 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. bill. Alto - 8:40 a.m. to 3:05 p.m. Six years ago. it was a bill of Bushnell - 8:40 a.m. to 3:05 p.m. a different sort (indebtedness) Runciman/Riverside - 8:50 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. that closed the Showboat so that the financial problems could be cleared. TONIGHTS THE NIGHT The attendance was far beyond most expectations. The Two videos of interest will be shown at the LA AC Center Wed- crowd of roughly 3,000 on Satur- h nesday evening June 29 beginning at 7:30 p.m. "O'Keefe, Portrait day was the largest since 1977. of an Artist" will be shown first. CTKeefe talks candidly about On Friday night. 2,200 people her life, her work, and the inspiration she drew from New Mexico's filled the grandstands and 1,800 mountains and desert. "The Real World of Andrew Wyeth" will people were entertained Thurs- be shown at 8:30 p.m. Meet the man behind the controversial day by the comical endmen. The Lettermen entertained and sang their way into the hearts of roughly 7,000 people on Helga paintings. This relaxed, revealing interview is intercut with Jerry Meredith, Joe Greene. footage of Wyeth's work and the landscapes that inspired him. Neal Beck with and Jack Misner, June 23-2?. v- •This formal does afford the Beautifully filmed in Main and Pennsylvania where the artist has the Linda Moon Dancers, the along with songs from their latest 1978. Leslie Uggams re-opened Showboat to do something in spent his working life. Admission is $2.00. Bruce Early Dixieland Band and album "Why I Love Her." the new Showboat in 1979. In June and also in the later part of Enjoy these wonderful films in the comfort of the air conditioned winners of the Amateur Talent "I think the Showboat helps 1988 the Lettermen have lifted August. gallery and view the watercolor exhibit "Harry and Friends" while Search. the community feel good about the hearts of thousands as they Yes, Lowell, the Showboat is i) partaking of a delicious buffet, all in one evening. A night not to "This year above all others, itself and helps the Showboat re-opened the Showboat, assur- back, and would like to dock miss!!! demonstrated something about eam funds to give back to the ing that the successful three-day the Lowell community that Tve community," Quada said. "Low- formal will be repeated next year here a while! known for a long time," said cur- ell is not willing to stay down. (June 22, 23, 24). An idea the whole community 2ND ANNUAL ANTIQUE FIRE TRUCK AND AUTO SHOW rent president of Showboat II. It keeps bouncing back." "We will keep the same for- of Lowell welcomes with open A BIG SUCCESS Ray Quada. "Lowell is a spawn- Behind it is the Showboat fi- mal. It functioned sufficiently arms and hearts. ing ground of good ideas, good nancial problem and the storm and the local people involved More photos pg 16 The Lowell Area Fire Department would like to thank all those projects and hard working that destroyed the Riverboal in were not strained," Quada said. who participated in the 2nd Annual Antique Fire and Auto Show people." Swap Meet held at the Lowell Fairgrounds on June 18. Some of that hard work in- The Department would especially like to thank the many mer- cluded money-making fund-rais- Drought of '88 dries up fields chants and businesses in the Lowell area that contributed to the ers, cleaning the boat, planting Although it is still too early to prizes. Pi flowers, painting seat numbers, say, Kent County along with chorus members spending the other counties in the stale are ex- last six weeks (three hours a day) pected to be given disaster status OFF THE BLOTTER * practicing songs and designing unless rain rescues farmers from costumes. their continuing struggle with the Reported to Lowell Police Dept. was a Hit and Run accident The Robert E. Lee didn*t make drought of 1988. June 22 in the parking lot of Food City on West Main St. involving its trip down the Flat River be- "It is too early to tell yet," a car owned by Karen BrandBerry of Lake Odessa. cause the water wasn't deep Ellen Moore, vice president of A car owned by Francis McMahon of Lowell was reportedly enough. However the soft the Kent County Farm Bureau, involved in a Hit and Run property damage accident while parked melodic sounds of the Letter- said. "Farmers in the govern- in a lot on West Main St. men, who first performed on the ment program however have Involved in a property damage accident on East Main St. near Showboat in 1980, however, had been able to use acres set aside Horatio Sat. June 11 was Kendall Porritt, 63, of Alto when he t wives and girlfriends' heads on for haying and grazing." attempted to turn off Main St. and struck a trailer of a passing car the shoulders of their partners. "If nothing changes, it is quite driven by Bruce Kamstra, 31. of Lowell. It wasn't only the Lettermen's possible Kent County will be Arrested for Driving While License Suspended, Second Offense, songs that won the hearts of the given disaster status," said Sat., June 25 was Thomas Mohr, 19, of Lowell. audiences, but their personable ASCS county executive director Issued an appearance ticket to 63rd District Court for Minor in persona as well. Dave Vain. Possession of Alcohol by Lowell officers June 25 was Ronald "The nicest thing about the Without any significant Washburn, 20, of Saranac. whole show was the way the Let- amount of rain within the next Arrested and lodged in the Kent County Jail for Driving Under termen worked the crowd," two weeks, very little, and in the Influence of Alcohol was Kenneth Sprague, 55, of Ada Friday Showboat spokesperson Bonnie some cases nothing, will be sal- . evening, June 24. Grooters said. 'They were per- vageable. This is a sample of what many soybean fields look like in the To be arraigned on a warrant issued by 63rd District Court sonable both on and off the Marsha Wilcox, information West Michigan area. Wed., June 29 is Thomas Mohr, 19, of Lowell on charges of stage." director for the Kent County ^ Check Forgery which took place June 6. The trio of Tony Butala, the Farm Bureau and also a dairy provide a normal yield if there still grow. Roy Aitcheison Jr., 30, of Grand Rapids lost control of his car only original Lettermen left, farmer, says that small grains is rain within the next couple According to Wilcox, soybean after his dog jumped on his lap causing Aitcheison to drive into along with new faces Mark Pre- (wheat, oats, barley) have been weeks. is not yet critical, but cannot a gas pump at the Admiral Service Station on West Main St., June ston, native from South Bend, diminished. "There isn't enough Fred Klahn, a lifetime farmer withstand the dry weather much 11. No one was injured. IN and Donovan Scott Tea, a moisture to fill their heads, thus who works 2,000 acres adds, longer. Robert Reedy, 22, of Lowell was involved in a property damage Houston boy, mixed hits such as the yield will be down." "the next couple weeks will be Because most pesticides re- accident June 25 when his vehicle struck the rear of a pickup tmck "Put Your Head on My Shoul- According to Wilcox, the first critical. Some of the alfalfa lease active ingredients upon driven by Brian Crandall, 22, of Ada on West Main near West St. der," "When I Fall In Love," and cutting hay/afalfa was not bad, fields can still come back with contact with moisture, pesticides Issued appearance tickets to 63ni District Court for Minors in 'Theme From A Summer Place" but the second cutting will be some rain." have had little opportunity to Possession of Alcohol Saturday, June 25 were: Daniel Young, 20, about 25 percent of its normal Klahn is skeptical about new work, leaving weeds to double of Greenville, Brian Lillie, 19, of Cedar Springs, and Todd Bekins, seedings. He adds that in the past the trouble farmers have with dry 4 FASHION cutting. "Provided there is rain, . 20, also of Cedar Springs. the seed of the alfalfa plant lays conditions.