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Contents 2 Positive participation Ron Beeber & Amy LaBarge are thrilled to thrive through service

5 Boater safety class set for July 14-15

6 Downtown Pentwater

free WiFi up and running

7 Calling all artists PTW Photo by Andrew Skinner

8 Sea lamprey control

planned for Pentwater River

10 Blooming Arts Garden Tour expands to neighboring areas

12 Events Check the calendar

16 Patriotic peddlers

ptw Pentwater This Week • July 12, 2016

Published by Oceana’s Herald-Journal 123 State St., Hart MI 49420 © 2016 Community Media Group Published May 24, June 7 & June 21 and weekly June 28 thru Aug. 30, 2016 Distributed free at Pentwater locations.

Jim Young • Publisher, advertising manager Andrew Skinner • Editor

News items may be contributed by emailing ptw@oceanaheraldjournal.com; mailing to 123 State St., Hart MI 49420.

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Frank Galante and Paula DeGregorio

Welcome to Pentwater

When we decided to make Pentwater our home, our east coast friends told us “You can’t move there and give up museums, jazz, modern dance and exotic food,” but we’d been coming here from Brooklyn, N.Y. for years visiting our good friends Cathy and Damon Crumb.

Each time our comments about Lake Michigan were “It’s so beautiful, just like the ocean but without the salt or sharks.” We always thought we would retire to Pennsylvania where we’d had several weekend houses over a 27-year period but as we always do, we made a split second decision to come to Pentwater for the pristine beauty of western Michigan.

Since moving here permanently in 2010, we’ve become active in our community by becoming members of several boards and committees. Best of all, we have become completely involved in the cultural life in the Pentwater area, joining the Pentwater Artisan Learning Center, exhibiting our art in local galleries while Frank performs music along the “Third Coast.” Winter here is chock full of things to do, the Hart Performing Arts Concert Series being one

of the highlights. As for the outdoors, there is all the cross country skiing you’d want. No snow birding for us!

Summer begins the gardening season and Paula has helped organize the Blooming Arts Garden Tour for the past three years while also taking many classes on gardening. With so much going on, we’ve become two of those people who say “We don’t know how we ever found the time to work.”

On top of it all, Pentwater is a place where strawberry season is followed by cherry season, followed by blueberry season, followed by peaches, pears and apples. Add a little whipped cream and we have truly landed in heaven.

Pentwater is our home now and we feel we’ve made the right choice in our decision to spend this part of our lives here. We hope that in your travels through our area you can see and appreciate all the surrounding natural beauty of this part of the world.

– Paula DeGregorio and Frank Galante

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Ron Beeber & Amy LaBarge are thrilled to thrive through service

BY AMANDA DODGE PTW WRITER

Pentwater is always bustling with activity this time of year. From its historic roots, it remains vibrant and full of life, family and friendships.

It is a community of people who care deeply about it and each other and that shows in the efforts put forth by so many. This is something that many have also come to learn when they find Pentwater and it encourages them to stay and thrive with it and in it.

If the word “thrive” were an acronym for residents, and husband and wife volunteering dynamos, Ron Beeber and Amy LaBarge, it would 2 PENTWATER THIS WEEK

probably mean “true happiness resides in volunteering everyday.”

Beeber, a New Jersey native, attended the journalism school at Syracuse University in New York and minored in political science. After working with and being interviewed by major corporations, he took a job offer from General Motors where he did corporate communications and government relations for 40 years.

During that time, he recalled that it was a coworker who told him about a lovely woman in the human relations department that he might want to get to know. LaBarge, a Dearborn, Mich.

native who put in 25 years at GM, was she. The two met in 1988 and married in 1990.

It was Amy’s father, Al LaBarge, who will turn 93 soon, that introduced the two to Pentwater. “I had never heard of Pentwater,” Beeber admitted. “Amy’s dad had built a house here and I had only known Amy a month when he brought us to it. Twenty-eight years later and here we are still.”

Volunteering has always been near and dear to LaBarge’s heart, her mother, Barbara, had done and wanted to do so much for her community, but unfortunately passed away before being able to do so. Her daughter decided it was important to continue her legacy and carries her spirit with her in all she does. After retiring from GM, LaBarge volunteered at the Henry Ford Museum.

In his retirement, Beeber said that he figured he would get to do all the things he didn’t have time for during his professional career, but his talents for writing and community involveJULY 12 - JULY 19

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ment continue to be put to good use as he ghostwrites news releases about local happenings for commissions, millages and more. He also takes photos. His work is often published in several area media outlets. “I want to help put a spotlight on all of the good stuff that happens in our community,” Beeber said.

After years of back and forth trips from Dearborn to Pentwater and upon their retirement, the couple purchased a home in the village in 2011, “to be able to walk to things.” Beeber added that their friends in Dearborn thought they were “crazy” to move here, and at first the two wondered if there would be enough for them to do.

“We found so much to do,” Beeber said, and LaBarge added to that,“It is such a full life here.”

After purchasing their home, LaBarge said that she was reading a book, entitled “Thrive” and it really helped them to hone in on what serving Pentwater means to their vitality.

“We were looking for a place where we could thrive. Pentwater has all the elements of that.

There are places where you can gather with people and there are many outdoor activities.

You can walk, swim, boat and join any range of things to do,” LaBarge said.

Beeber and LaBarge spend their time on various committees and have even helped to start some endeavors. LaBarge recalled that

when she was part of the committee to help renovate the old Baptist Church and move the museum there, a man just happened to walk in during their meeting and offered his labor for free to fix the stained glass windows. “It was divine intervention,” LaBarge said. “It happens here all the time, somebody steps up and if you need something done, someone here has the expertise to do it.”

And speaking of stepping-up, the day of their PTW interview, LaBarge, who staffs the

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volunteers at the museum, had been notified that the person she had listed for the day would not be able to serve due to injury. She did not have to look far for a replacement, as Beeber happily agreed to fill the vacancy.

Beeber, honest, humble and truly sweet is captivated by the history of Pentwater and the little things in life that make it so grand. He also speaks highly of his caring, sensible and industrious wife, who does so of him in return, and as mentioned, both are happy to step-in and help whenever the other is in need.

Beeber recalled a historical story about the basketball court on the second floor of the Pentwater Village Hall building that was put together by the Pentwater Mothers Club, which he said embodied the “spirit of community.”

“There are people everywhere doing unsung work,” Beeber said.

These stories are the fabric of Pentwater and of the lives of those who thrive there. As LaBarge once told Beeber, when it comes to the importance of knowing the history behind the items in the museum, ‘It is all stuff without a story.”

Beeber has also worked to help promote the museum, working with Claudia Ressel-Hodan, a video was created about the museum and can be viewed at www.pentwaterhistoricalso-

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Photos: On the cover, Amy LaBarge and Ron Beeber pose for a picture at the top the Pentwater Village Green Thursday, July 7 during one of the village’s two weekly farmers markets. Both Beeber and LaBarge have been heavily involved in area

groups, clubs and organizations since moving to Pentwater in 2011; LaBarge has served as the Pentwater Chamber of Commerce Event Coordinator for the farmers market for the past four years. Opposite page top, Ron and Amy pause for a photograph while taking a leisurely walk along the Pentwater Channel. This page, top right, Ron announces the winners of the Pentwater Sand Sculpture Contest during a past Pentwater Homecoming weekend. Amy, above, collects donations for the village’s two annual fireworks displays (July 3 and Saturday of homecoming weekend) from Pentwater Homecoming Parade spectators.

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Boater safety class set for July 14-15 The Pentwater Yacht Club will play host to the first of two boater safety programs this summer Thursday and Friday, July 14-15.

The Don Van Zile Memorial Boater’s Safety Class will again be conducted by Oceana County Sheriff’s Office Marine Officer Tim Simon and will run from 8 a.m. until noon each day. Students must attend both days to receive a certificate.

Anyone ages 10 and up are eligible to earn the boater safety certificate.

Michigan law reguires anyone born on or after Dec. 31, 1978 to obtain their boater’s safety certificate in order to legally operate a personal watercraft or a boat powered by a motor of more than six horsepower.

Pre-registration is required to allow organizers to have sufficient materials for everyone.

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The free WiFi is available along Hancock Street from approximately Second to Fifth streets as well as the village green and the village marina.

Pentwater DDA member Claudia Ressel-Hodan told the Pentwater Village Council in the spring that it’s possible that the WiFi’s range could extend further where there are no obstructions.

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Calling all artists The Pentwater Arts Council will sponsor a new event, Ramp Up the Arts, Sunday, Sept. 4, from 1­-4 p.m. in the Hancock Building in downtown Pentwater.

Artists are invited to display their 2­D or 3­D artwork for sale at the show. An application for the event, with further details, is posted on the arts council website, www.pentwaterartscouncil.org. under the events tab. Applications must be submitted by July 30 and artists will be notified of their acceptance by Aug. 15.

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Sea lamprey control planned for Lake Michigan tributary

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides to the Pentwater River to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream bottom. The applications will be conducted between July 12 and July 21 in accordance with State of Michigan permits. Application will be complete in about three days. Application dates are tentative and may be changed based upon local weather or stream conditions near the time of treatment.

Sea lamprey larvae live in certain Great Lakes tributaries and transform to parasitic adults that migrate to the Great Lakes and kill fish.

Failure to kill the larvae in streams would result in significant damage to the Great Lakes fishery. Infested tributaries must be treated every three to five years with lampricides to control sea lamprey populations.

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency have reviewed human health and environmental safety data for lampricides, and in 2003 concluded that the lampricides (Lampricid and Bayluscide) pose no unreasonable risk to the general population and the environment when applied at concentrations necessary to control larval sea lampreys. However, as with any pesticide, the public is advised to use discretion and minimize unnecessary exposure. Lampricides are selectively toxic to sea lampreys, but a few fish, insect and broadleaf plants are sensitive. Persons confining bait fish or other organisms in stream water are advised to use an alternate water source because lampricides may cause mortality among aquatic

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Blooming Arts Garden Tour expands to neighboring areas The Garden Club of Pentwater will host its annual Blooming Arts Garden Tour Saturday, July 16 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring six gardens, artists and musicians. By expanding its reach into neighboring communities the garden club will give garden tour participants a unique look into gardens off the beaten track in New Era, Shelby, Pentwater and along the Mason County line. “Our garden walk has become a ‘tour’ this year,” said Paula DeGregorio of the Garden Club of Pentwater.

Starting in the south are two gardens off M-20 in the New Era and Shelby area. These gardeners are sisters and as sisters often are their gardens are very different. Joan Lound’s garden, 1971 W. Pike Rd., in New Era (just off Oceana Drive) is open, full of sunshine with fields surrounding it. On her covered deck, overlooking her garden in all directions, classical guitarist Frank Galante will be performing from noon to 3 p.m. Sharon Lound’s garden, 3306 S. 60th Ave., in Shelby (just off US 31) has beautiful shaded areas full of hostas, a memorial garden and several veggie gardens in a quiet, calming setting. Under her pergola, Corrie Huisman Tameling will be painting in this lush garden.

Hop back north on US-31 and get off on the Pentwater, Oceana Drive exit to Pere Marquette Highway north to find Carol Buechin’s serene setting, 1492 Anthony Rd., across from Ox Bow Lake, with a beautiful garden surrounded by farmland. Here you can sip ice tea and have a homemade cookie while you stroll through this beautiful spot.

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Heading back into Pentwater on Second Street, garden tour participants will find Jane Dosemagen and Jim Henley’s garden, 925 Second St., with a large vegetable garden, new peach trees and flower beds. As you admire their organic feast, take in the sounds of jazz bassist Andy Henley playing on the deck.

The tour’s sext stop is at 5329 W. Lakeview Dr.

at the home of Jan and Ron Gooding, featuring a garden full of color and a collection of heart shaped stones. This hidden gem will have painter Kristin Orde creating her rendition of the garden. From there head to Apache Hills to the garden of Kristin Forester, 6364 Iroquois Rd. This enclosed, shaded garden backed by a small woodland is a tranquil spot full of shade loving perennials and colorful potted plants. Ceramic artists Karen Antrim and Bonnie Knapp will feature their beautiful garden art which will be placed among Kristin’s plants.

Organizers suggest taking the tour at your leisure by starting at any garden. Tickets, $10, are now available at the Pentwater Chamber of Commerce and at the top of the Pentwater Village Green on the day of the tour and in each of the gardens which will be marked by signs directing you to these unique gardens.

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Calendar of Events This Week and Beyond

July 14-15

… Bingo (6:30 - 7:30 p.m.) every Friday Pentwater VFW Hall. … Sunday, folk music jam sessions, 1:304 p.m., Goodstuffs, downtown Pentwater. … Pentwater Township Library Story Hour, preschoolers -2nd grade Tuesdays through July 26 at 10 a.m.; and 3rd-5th grade Wednesdays through July 27 at 10 a.m. … Tuesday Night Comedy, 9 p.m., Village Pub & Cafe, Pentwater, through Labor Day. … Pickin’ in Pentwater, 7 p.m., Pentwater Village Green, Tuesdays through Aug. 30. … Pentwater Civic Band Concert, Thursdays, June 30 through Sept. 1, 8 p.m., Pentwater Village Green. … Pentwater Farmers’ Market, Mondays and Thursdays, June 6 through Sept. 5, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pentwater Village Green. … Pentwater Historical Society Museum , 85 S. Rutledge St., open 1-4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday June through August and 1-4 p.m.

Thursday through Saturday September and October. Free admission.

… Boating Safety Course, 2-day class 8 a.m. to noon, Pentwater Yacht Club. For more information or to register call Deputy Tim Simon at 231-873-6771.

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Thursday-Friday

July 16 Saturday

… Blooming Arts Garden Tour hosted by the Garden Club of Pentwater, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Pentwater.

July 17 Sunday

… Hope Bridge, free movie showing, 6 p.m., First Baptist Church of Pentwater, 101 S. Rush St., in Pentwater.

Hosted by Barb And Gene Davidson and the Elhart Family.

July 18 Monday

… Monday night bike ride, a leisurely 3-mile ride through Pentwater, meet at the top of the village green at 7 p.m.

Hosted by the “Easy Peddlers” Division of the Oceana Cyclist Club.

July 21 Thursday

… Special Effects Face Painting workshop, 1-3:30 p.m., Pentwater Township Library. Open to students in grades 6-12. Participants will learn techniques for doing special effects makeup, cuts and

wounds.

July 24 Sunday

… Adams Family concert hosted by the Pentwater Township Library, 7 p.m. at the Centenary United Methodist Church in downtown Pentwater.

July 25 Monday

… Monday night bike ride, a leisurely 3-mile ride through Pentwater, meet at the top of the village green at 7 p.m.

Hosted by the “Easy Peddlers” Division of the Oceana Cyclist Club.

July 29 Friday

… Back from the Mac Party, 5 p.m., Pentwater Yacht Club. Open to public. … Last Friday of the Month Gallery Stroll, 5-8 p.m., downtown Pentwater galleries.

Hosted by the Pentwater Arts Council.

Aug. 1 Monday

… Monday night bike ride, a leisurely 3-mile ride through Pentwater, meet at the top of the village green at 7 p.m.

Hosted by the “Easy Peddlers” Division of the Oceana Cyclist Club.

Don’t Miss These Annual Events!

Easter on the Green Saturday before Easter.

Memorial Day Parade at 10 a.m., services at marina, village green and township cemetery.

Garden Club of Pentwater plant sale Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.

Start of Summer party first Sunday in June.

Spring Fest arts and crafts fair third weekend in June.

Community-wide garage sale second Saturday in June.

Pentwater Civic Band Concerts Each Thursday, 8 p.m., village green, last Thursday in June, through Labor Day. Fusion Fashion Show last Friday in June, on the village green, 8 p.m.

Fireworks over Lake Michigan July 3 each year.

Fine arts fair second Saturday in July.

Garden Stroll and “Blooming Arts” third Saturday in July.

Pentwater Homecoming second full weekend in August (Weekends start Thursdays).

MSU Tailgate Party The Saturday of Homecoming, behind the Village Pub. Pentwater Fall Festival Fourth weekend in September.

Oktoberfest Second Saturday in October.

Halloween on the Green Saturday before Halloween.

Spooktaclular Halloween Parade Saturday before Halloween.

Festival of Lights Saturday after Thanksgiving at the village green. Lighting of the community Christmas Tree and visits with Santa.

Christmas Craft Fair First Saturday in December at the school.

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ciety.org. The video opens to the familiar tune, “On The Street Where You Live,” which is very fitting to the items housed inside the museum and how they connect to the lives of those who fill up the streets of Pentwater.

LaBarge also serves as the chamber of commerce event coordinator for the Pentwater Farmers Market, and has done so for the past four years. She is also one of the founding members of Women Who Care of Oceana County, which has raised $175,000, since starting in June of 2012. LaBarge said that they started with 53 members and now have 140.

Each member commits to giving $100 at each meeting to a charitable cause that is voted on during the meeting, essentially raising thousands of dollars in a very short amount of time.

“Women Who Care serves women who are working and may only have an hour to give,” LaBarge said. “It doesn’t matter how much you give, it is about belonging and contributing.”

Beeber also helps out at these meetings, as he shows up at the end to take the photo of the group and the check they are presenting and also writes up the press releases about each meeting.

Beeber has been a member of the Pentwater Service Club for the past five years, and that started when “we moved in, and I showed up.” He said that he enjoys the camaraderie between the men and women that serve in the club’s Duncan Wagon, and notes that volunteering to sell out of there is “part of their community experience.” Beeber now chairs the committee for the sand sculpture contest during Pentwater’s Homecoming celebration.

LaBarge and Beeber also started taking donations for the Pentwater fireworks shows during the Homecoming parade. The first year, former chamber of commerce director Deanna Helmlinger rode in a golf cart, while Beeber and LaBarge asked the crowd for donations for the fireworks. “We walked on the sides of the golf cart, we didn’t even have donation cans, we just held out our hands,” LaBarge recalled.

“The Pentwater Service Club organizes collecting donations now.”

Outside of Pentwater, Beeber said that he joined the board of the Community Foundation for Oceana County in August of 2014 and helps with its communications as well. “Pent-

Amy LaBarge chats with one of the many Pentwater Farmers Market vendors Thursday, July 7 as her husband Ron Beeber checks out some vegetables that caught his eye.

water is a marvelous, caring place. But Oceana County as a whole grapples with too many of its residents dealing with illiteracy, unemployment, poor health and other concerns. The community foundation helps enhance the quality of life now and for generations to come, by building community endowment,” Beeber stated. “The goal is for Oceana to be vibrant, economically stable, healthy, well-educated, and committed to philanthropy.”

They two are also members of the Pentwater Yacht Club, and LaBarge co-chairs the ship store there and sells its wearables. Both are planning to volunteer their time at the PYC’s annual Back from the Mac celebration. They are signed up to help with dipping roasted corn into vats of melted butter and handing them out to attendees. “When you hand that to someone, it looks like you are giving them $1,000,” Beeber remarked.

“There is a rich part of life here in volunteerism,” Beeber noted. “There are opportunities to

help and be a part of something.”

“At this time, this is what we do for fun,” LaBarge said of their involvement.

“We are blessed that we can do this. There are people here who are struggling with health issues or with someone else’s health issues and are still plugging along. People have problems, but they serve anyway. When you can make a contribution to the community and deal with adversity, it is important to spotlight those folks,” Beeber said.

“We were drawn here because of the volunteer efforts and governance that came before us,” LaBarge added. Both LaBarge and Beeber noted that they are so glad to continue those efforts and hopefully inspire others to take up the call to serve as well.

So as the aforementioned song goes, when it comes to Beeber and LaBarge and Pentwater, “there’s nowhere else on earth that (they) would rather be.”

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The Charles Mears State Park campground hosted its annual Independence Day bike parade Monday morning, July 4. Nearly 100 children riding decorated bikes or being pushed/ pulled in patriotic strollers and wagons took part.

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