COL0R USA JUNE 28, 2015 | FEATURED SECTION MICHIGAN FACTS DID YOU KNOW? PAGE 3 YOU KNOW YOU’RE A TRUE MICHIGANDER IF... PAGE 4 KEEP YOUR DOLLARS ON MAIN STREET PAGE 5 WHAT IS MICHIGAN FAMOUS FOR? PAGE 6 THE TASTIER THINGS IN LIFE PAGE 10 COL0R 2 Sunday, June 28, 2015 MAIN STREET USA tctimes.com tctimes.com MAIN STREET USA Sunday, June 28, 2015 3 PICNIC TIME nOne local group still guns, and other activities. Memorial Day was the last picnic they had. They used to packs a picnic basket have picnics the first of every month, but everyone was too busy. By Hannah Ball “Ours is based on activities, keeping [email protected]; 810-433-6792 busy, having fun,” Gerometta said. “We Summer is the perfect time for putting have a common interest and spend all day Welch’s Jams delicious food and beverages in a picnic doing it. We have so much fun we don’t Teta Foods basket, sitting outside on a blanket with ever look at the watch,” Gerometta said. Jack Daniel’s sauce your sunglasses, and enjoying the Michi- Food is an important part of these pic- Classico pasta sauce gan weather. nics. Everybody brings their favorite food Wing has been baking for 30 years, but Koegel Meats Although fewer people are going on as a potluck. doesn’t eat a lot of what she makes. She Bill Knapps picnics these days compared to years Gerometta said they can always count just likes to bake. “We just basically eat Better Made potato chips ago, one local volleyball group is defying on Sue Wing to bring delicious food. and then we play,” Wing said. “It’s fun.” Lay’s Chips the norm by having a few picnics every Wing, of Fowlerville, has done many While growing up, her family would Garden Fresh chips and snacks summer. potlucks and she said, “Always bake go on picnics with a basket and a blanket. Bay’s English Muffins Misty Gerometta of Linden is part something that feeds a lot of people. I’m Over the years, she’s realized people go Dean Foods of the Dirty Tuesday Volleyball Group, all about that quick and easy.” on picnics less and less. Although, when which gathers every Tuesday and Friday Some of the dishes she makes includes she and a few family members were go- Minute Maid in Fenton’s Bush Park to play volleyball. corn cake casserole, cherry berry crunch, ing through Wing’s late mother-in-law’s La Croix sparkling water About once a month, they bring their sloppy joes, cheesey potatoes, and no- house, they found an old-fashioned picnic Spartan Brand favorite foods and spend all day playing bake cookies. Watermelons are also a basket. Her 18-year-old relative wanted it. Yoplait Yogurt volleyball, throwing a football around, oc- big hit. “Those come from fresh produce “It was just amazing to see that she Source: vgs.spartanstores.com casionally having water fights with squirt markets,” she said. wanted it,” she said. MICHIGAN FACTS DID YOU KNOW? Linden NOW OPEN! 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