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Youth and Teen Services Librarian Tiffany Ohman lays down the rules of engagement during the Flat River Community Library’s recent “Food Fear Factor” event. Menu items included clam juice, roast crickets and lots of really big marshmallows. — DN Photo | Mike Taylor

Crickets and clam juice Events at the 2018 Ionia Free Fair will include Kids Day, top left, many musical acts including the Rock Show Band, bottom left, and the Teen Dance party, above. — Provided photos

Ionia Free Fair returns for a 103rd year from July 12-21 ELISABETH WALDON

ewaldon@staffordgroup.com IONIA — Beer tasting, monster trucks, princess tea parties and American Idol judges? It must be summertime in Ionia. The 103rd annual Ionia Free Fair returns with the “10 best days of summer” from July 12-21. The much-anticipated fair will get underway with the kick-off breakfast at 8 a.m. July 12, featuring Ionia Public Schools Superintendent Ron Wilson as the keynote speaker. “I plan to talk about the lost virtues that were held in high esteem by our forefathers and how this loss has changed our schools and our country,” Wilson told The Daily News. The breakfast event is hosted by the Ionia Jaycees and will take place at the Merchants Building. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Ionia Free Fair Office, the Chamber of Commerce Office or under the tickets tab at www.ioniafreefair.com online. The Governor’s Luncheon featuring Gov. Rick Snyder will return at noon July 13. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online. New this year is the Beers & Steers Brew Fest from noon to

See Pages 9-12 for more about the 2018 Ionia Free Fair. 5 p.m. July 21 at the Merchants Building. Cost is $20 for general admission (includes 10 tickets and a glass) or $30 for VIP admission (includes 15 tickets, a glass, bottle of water and early admission at 11 a.m.). Admission can be purchased online and at the door while supplies last. Each ticket gets a 3-ounce pour. “We had a brew fest last year, but this year we have nine local breweries coming out to the fair to pour their beer you cannot get in stores,” Ionia Free Fair General Manager Michael Smith said. “You’ll be able to chat with local brewers about their product and how beer is made.” Featured breweries include Steel Street Brewing of Ionia, Eagle Monk Pub & Brewery of Lansing, Brick Haven of Grand Ledge, New Union of Lowell, ConfluxCity Brewing Co. of Portland, Schmohz Brewery of Grand Rapids, Looking Class Brewery of DeWitt, Dimes Brewhouse of Dimondale and Sanctuary Spirits of Grand Ledge. The popular Princess Tea Party will return at 3 p.m. July 21 at the

Merchants Building with the newly crowned Ionia Free Fair queen and her court. Tickets are $10 and include decorating your own princess sash, face painting, a salon hairstyle and mini manicure, photo booth, music for dancing and a magician, plus appetizers and lemonade “tea.” All princesses must be accompanied by an adult at no charge. More grandstand events will also be featured at this year’s fair. “We have something in the grandstands every night this year,” Smith said. “We’ve doubled up on shows — two nights of Unique Motor Sports Derbies, NTPA Truck and Tractor Pulls and Monster Truck Throwdown.” SPECIAL DAYS The Free Fair will offer special days for select groups: • Seniors Day is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 16 at the Merchant Building, featuring bingo, vendor booths, lunch, activities and more (free parking until noon). • Kids Day is noon to 11 p.m. July 17 at the E-Stage, featuring face painting, balloons animals, special guests and the annual Big Bike Giveaway. • Cops Day is 1 p.m. to midnight

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Greenville library event offers area youths a chance to step outside of their comfort zone MIKE TAYLOR | correspondent GREENVILLE — Every parent knows the futility of trying to get a finicky eater to try something new. From toddler to teen, any menu item straying too far from “the usual” will likely be met with adolescent suspicion, if not outright hostility. So it’s hard to parse the excitement and enthusiasm of the group of young teens who gathered June 27 at the Flat River Community Library to dine on everything from clam juice to roasted crickets. Organized by Youth and Teen Services Librarian Tiffany Ohman, the “Food Fear Factor” program brought in 32 participants, along with a sizable group of spectators. According to Ohman, summer youth programs at the library — with the exception of Nerf events — typically draw around 20. “This one was definitely on the bigger side,” Ohman said. “It was definitely big, even for a summer program.” Ohman, who organizes all the teen events at the library, based the program on a similar one held recently at Ionia’s library. Ohman met with Ionia’s youth librarian and the two pooled their ideas and “took it from there.”

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A scientific success story CM teacher one of less than 10 in Michigan to complete Six Star program BRANDON SCHREUR

City of Ionia approves sale of land for new library construction MIKE TAYLOR | correspondent IONIA — The Ionia Community Library’s dreams of a new facility moved one step closer to fruition Tuesday when the City Council approved the sale of a parcel of property to be used for new library construction and an adjacent parking lot. That property is located at the intersection of Adams and Steele streets, near the former Michigan Works building. The committee campaigning for a new library — the C4ICL (Citizens for Ionia Community Library) — was initially interested in developing the Michigan Works building as a new library, but abandoned the idea after property management company Eyde, of Lansing, suddenly doubled the price of the property from about $400,000 to about $800,000 after learning the library was interested in the building. According to Ionia Community Library

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Board President Gale Yeomans, who also serves on the C4ICL board, that was the point at which the library began looking seriously at the city-owned property between the Michigan Works building and Steele Street. The parcel, about three-quarters of an acre, would be large enough for the new construction, as well as the 47 parking spaces and barrier-free access required for a building its size. Additional parking also would be available on the other side of the Rails to Trails trail which borders the south side of the property. “We feel strongly, as did the Planning Commission, that the library would be one of the gateway buildings,” Yeomans said. “It would help with the development of that corridor for the city. We’re hoping for success there.”

STANTON — Just because Barb Christensen is the one who is in charge of teaching science to a classroom full of eighth-grade students at Central Montcalm Middle School, it doesn’t mean that she’s not learning things herself at the same time. “As teachers, we are always learning ourselves, always trying to become better, more effective in the classroom,” Christensen said. Barb Christensen, who has Christensen taught at Central Montcalm for 20 years now, wanted to find a way to continue that learning process, which could then, in turn, help her students learn more efficiently as well. That’s what led her to the Six Star Science Online Teacher (OT) Professional Development Program. The Six Star Science OT Program, also called Frontiers in Physiology, is

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