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Baroda kicking off summer fun with music, drinks

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ARODA, Mich. — Round Barn Winery, in Southwest Michigan, is at it again with the addition of another high-energy event on Memorial Weekend, May 23 and 24, whereby kicking off summer with a bash

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cocktails, add in live music, family-friendly activities, and the launch of the new Round Barn Grille summer menu. Shake well and enjoy!

Music Line-Up • Saturday May 23: Jester at noon; Top Secret Band at 3:30 p.m.

• Sunday May 24: Red Pop Fury at noon; Slim Gypsy Baggage at 3:30 p.m.

Coinciding with Memorial Day weekend is the kickoff of Round Barn's Live music series, Jammin' in the Vineyard, which runs every Saturday and Sunday from Memorial Weekend through October.

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4 p.m. EST. Guests will enjoy world-class wines, spirits and craft brews while musicians from around the Midwest rock out in the

open-air stage adjacent to the beer garden.

Complimenting this impressive lineup will be delicious offerings at The Round Barn Grille to com-

plete a perfect vineyard picnic.

A small sampling of performers coming this summer to the Round Barn Live music stage includes national touring artists The Black Lillies along with local favorites like Top Secret Band, Rebecca Anne Band, Keith Scott Band, Slim Gypsy Baggage, Lady Sunshine and Mike Struwin.

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About Round Barn Round Barn Winery, located in Baroda, MI, 95 miles from Chicago, has it all: wine, beer and spirits.

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'Maybe this year?'

Sports panel opens Acorn Speaker Series in Three Oaks

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HREE OAKS, Mich.

— The nation’s finest sports writers will discuss championship prospects for the Cubs, White Sox, Tigers, Lions, Bears, Bulls, Pistons, Red Wings, Blackhawks, Spartans, Wolverines and Fighting Irish in the inaugural Acorn Author Talk at 3 p.m., Sunday May 17, at the Acorn Theater, 107 Generations Dr. in Three Oaks.

Sports fanatics can kick back with a beer and talk sports in a free-wheeling conversation with Ira Berkow, retired prize-winning sports columnist for the New York Times, Rick Telander, Senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and Sports

Illustrated and Ed Sherman, long-time Chicago Tribune sportswriter and editor of The Sherman Report.

The Acorn Speakers Series is a casual Sunday afternoon conversation with top authors and thinkers. A new program of the non-profit Acorn Center of the Performing Arts, it is curated by Allen Turner of Three Oaks and Chicago, Rhona Frazin of St. Joseph and Chicago and David Fink of Three Oaks and Chicago. The series is made possible through the generous support of Allen and Lynn Turner and Harbor Arts, a not-for-profit.

The panel discussion, which will be followed by audience Q&A will be hosted by Ira Berkow, for-

mer sports columnist and feature writer for The New York Times who shared a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer for Distinguished Commentary.

A native of Chicago, he is the author of 25 books including the best-selling “Red: A Biography of Red Smith” and three books relating to Chicago: “Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar,” “The DuSable Panthers: The Greatest, Blackest, Saddest Team from the Meanest Street in Chicago” and “Wrigley Field: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Chicago Cubs”.

Ed Sherman was a Chicago Tribune sports report-

er for three decades, covering the Chicago Bears during their famous Super Bowl season in 1985. Later he got to cover a fellow named Tiger Woods as the Tribune’s golf writer. Ed co-hosted a Saturday morning golf talk show on The SCORE, WSCR-AM 670. He is the co-author of “The Great Book of Chicago Sports Lists,” “Golf Lists Mania” and the recent “Babe Ruth's Called Shot: The Myth and Mystery Of Baseball's Greatest Home Run.” Rick Telander is a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and was a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated. He was a regular panelist on The Sportswriters on TV and

Garden club plant sale this weekend

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ARBERT, Mich. — It must be nearly summer. The River Valley Garden Club’s annual plant sale is this Saturday, May 16 at the Harbert Community Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

(Eastern time), 13300 Red Arrow Highway, Harbert, just north of the Chikaming Township Center.

The sale will include a wide variety of home grown perennials, bushes, trees, and native grasses.

Members dig up their own plants to sell at the sale, so they are locally grown and

hardy for our climate.

Prices start at $2.

Gardening books, magazines and homemade baked goods will also be available.

The sale takes place rain or shine. There is a large shelter with a roof so all the plants and baked goods are protected.

This is the 8th annual plant and bake sale for the club. The club is involved in service projects throughout the year including the Bridgman Retirement Home, volunteering at Warren Dunes and

Chikaming Open Lands and the Planting Field Community Garden.

More information is available on the club website, www.rivervalleygardenclub.org

hosted sports programming on ESPN television and ESPN Radio and WSCRAM. He is the author of eight books, one of which, “Heaven Is A Playground,” was made into a

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Books by all three authors will be available for purchase and signing.

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OWAGIAC, Mich. — The sights, sounds and even tastes of The Grand Old City’s celebration of the humanities continues this week.

The 24th Dogwood Fine Arts Festival kicked off last Friday, with events featuring the written, visual, musical and other art forms running in venues across the city through Sunday, May 17.

Artists headlining this year’s festival who have yet to perform this week include award-winning author Gary Shteyngart, who will speaking at Dowagiac Middle School Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 15 and Grammy Award-winning musician Melissa Manchester, performing at the middle school on Saturday, May 16.

Several new and returning events round out this year’s festivities, many of which are free and open to the public.

The festivities begin Friday evening with a special wine tasting, art exhibition, and vocal concert at SMC, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The Dogwood Fine Arts Festival is made possible through the generous support of the St. Denys Foundation.

For more tickets or additional information, people can call (269) 782-1115, (866) 490-2847 or visit www.dogwoodfinearts.org.

A list of this weekend’s events can be found below:

After graduating from the High School of the Performing Arts, Melissa entered New York University and enrolled in a songwriting class taught by Paul Simon.

As a back-up singer for Bette, Melissa fulfilled her childhood fantasy of playing Carnegie Hall. Six months later, she had a recording contract and was headlining at Carnegie Hall. Some of Melissa’s biggest hits are: “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” “You Should Hear How She Talks About You,” “Through the Eyes of Love,” “Midnight Blue,” “Whenever I Call you Friend,” and “Just You and I.” Melissa also pursued acting and appeared as a regular on the NBC sitcom “Blossom.”

Dowagiac Middle School Performing Arts Center Friday, May 15 — Author Gary Shteyngart 57028 Riverside Dr. Shteyngart has made his reputation with wry explora7:30 p.m. tion of ambivalent, conflicted, often frustrated love. His Tickets: Premium seating — $45, Main floor — $35, most recent work is “Little Failure: A Memoir,” published Upper level seating — $25 in 2015. His novel “Super Sad True Love Story” is the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was Sunday, May 17 — Joyful Noise selected as one of the best books of the year by more than Scholarship benefit concert with the Dogwood forty magazines around the world. “Absurdistan” was cho- Chorale. sen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New An afternoon concert celebrating the human voice.

Donations benefit student scholarships for the Chorale York Times Book Review and Time magazine; and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook is winner of the Stephen Youth Vocal Camp.

The Dogwood Chorale is a select chamber ensemble Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Thursday, May 14 — Youth Fine Arts Night comprised of Michigan teachers and community memBook Award for Fiction.

This celebration of young artists showcases elemenbers, each bringing a variety of talents and experiences in Dowagiac Middle School Performing Arts Center tary, middle, and high school student artwork and musimusic education and performance to the choir. The mis57028 Riverside Dr. cal talents. Tour the student gallery of artwork, and listen sion of this ensemble is to perform quality and entertain7:30 p.m. to the music of choirs and bands.

Tickets: Reception/Book signing and Main Floor $60, ing vocal literature as well as serve the needs of the area Dowagiac Union High School youth through the facilitation of music education activiMain Floor $25, Upper level $20 701 West Prairie Ronde St. ties.

Art exhibits open at 6 p.m.

First United Methodist Church Saturday, May 16 — Melissa Manchester Concerts begin at 7 p.m.

326 N. Lowe St. Grammy Award-winning artist Melissa Manchester was Tickets: This event is free and open to the public.

4 p.m. born in to an artistic family and was introduced to all the Tickets: Free classics, by the age of 15, she was already a published poet.

Thursday, May 14 — Klassics for Kids A new twist and creative introduction to classical music, designed especially for middle school music and vocal students, featuring the woodwind quintet Lake Effect Winds.

Each member of this ensemble combines their experiences from teaching and performing into a unique event for young music lovers.

Dowagiac Middle School Performing Arts Center 57028 Riverside Dr. 1 p.m.

Tickets: $15 — Adults; $10 — Students

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Eve 6 is among the four bands set to play at the Under the Sun Tour at Four Winds Field this summer. The band will be joined by Uncle Kracker, Sugar Ray and Better Than Ezra.

Under the Sun Tour comes to Four Winds Field South Bend Cubs catch second summer concert; Tickets on Sale May 18

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OUTH BEND, Ind. — More than merely a baseball venue, Four Winds Field will serve as an entertainment hotspot and host another summer concert, as the Under the Sun Tour — featuring Sugar Ray, Better Than Ezra, Uncle Kracker and Eve 6 — will make its way to South Bend on Friday, July 31, the South Bend Cubs announced Monday.

The nationally traveling tour will descend on the diamond at Four Winds Field, making the home of the South Bend Cubs one of more than 30 stops for the renowned artists throughout the summer. The South Bend Cubs are pleased to partner with Corona, WSBTTV Channel 22 and Sunny 101.1 for the Friday-night concert.

“We’re thrilled to bring another great event for our community to Four Winds Field,” South Bend Cubs President Joe Hart said. “We’ve had country concerts here before, and now we’re excited to appeal to another fan base by bringing in an alternative rock show. I know that I’m excited to watch some of the artists I grew up listening to perform live.”

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“Fly” and churned out other hits such as “Every Morning,” “Someday” and “When It’s Over.”

Better than Ezra released the nationally distributed album “Deluxe” in 1993, and their 1995 hit “Good” reached No. 1. “Deluxe” is widely viewed as a classic of the alternative era.

Uncle Kracker has unleashed a slew of top-10 hits, including the No. 1 smash, “Follow Me” in 2001. In 2003, “Drift Away” made history by topping Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart for 28 weeks.

Eve 6 attained platinum success with hits like the chart-topper “Inside Out.” “We’ve always wanted Four Winds Field to be more than just a great baseball venue,” Hart said. “Based on the success of our previous concerts, we couldn’t be more excited to bring more entertainment to downtown South Bend.”

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Tim Stop’s full-band tour includes Livery in the lineup Tim Stop, a Saint Mary’s College graduate frontlining for bands like Chicago and REO Speedwagon, will return to Michiana May 22 as he plays a show at the Livery in Benton Harbor.

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E N T O N HARBOR, Mich.

— If a last name sheds light on where a person comes from, it doesn’t seem to speak on what’s ahead in the case of musician Tim Stop.

With a lineup of cities across the Midwest scheduled for his first full-band tour, Iowa-native Stop (born Tim Stopolus) will play the Livery in Benton Harbor at 8 p.m. May 22, as part of the tour’s final stretch. Stop said he is looking forward to bringing something new to a familiar venue.

“I’ve played [the Livery] a few times before,” Stop said. “It’s such a neat, intimate setting…you can see the love for indy music and art there.”

Describing his music as weaving pop-rock and acoustic soul, Stop said his writing and performing success have largely been tied to a simple, bare-bones approach.

In his spring tour, Stop said fans can expect bigger versions of tracks from past albums such as Shadowbox, released in 2014, along with familiar cover songs like “The Way You Make Me Feel” — his most recent track to earn rotation on Sirius XM’s The Coffee House station.

Those in attendance will also have the chance to leave with fun free giveaways.

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While this is Stop’s first experience headlining a tour with a full band of his own, he’s no stranger to a musician’s figurative and literal life on the road.

Stop has had the opportunity of playing a number of festivals alongside legendary rock bands Chicago and REO Speedwagon before being invited to join them as opening act in their summer U.S. tour. He continued on with Chicago in touring the Canadian landscape this past winter.

“Winter in Canada was brutal,” Stop said. “I’ve played a lot of shows, but those tours [with Chicago and REO] were different.

Four to eight weeks with barely a night off…it’s definitely a grind.”

With his band’s first

stop in Dubuque, Iowa, on May 12 and the last of their 11-show lineup May 23 in Chicago, travel would seem more comfortable, if not without the continued grind.

The tour’s timing coincides with the planning of his wedding in June, which he says illustrates the tremendous support he has received from his fiancée through the demands of a touring musician.

“It’s tough to find, someone who gives that kind of support,” Stop said of his bride-to-be.

“She has been absolutely great.”

A Saint Mary’s College graduate, he says she helped inspire the University of Notre Dame’s support in his acoustic cover of popular-ballad, “Here Come

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A workout with no time to work out

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make the majority of my living as a real estate broker in Chicago. The spring market has been really crazy this year, leaving me, an already busy entrepreneur, running around like crazy. I’ve found it really hard to fit in my favorite dance and yoga classes and have just been doing what I can here and there to stay toned, flexible, and calm.

This generally involves a super urban and compact version of an efficient total body workout I’ve been doing for years.

Back when I lived in the hills of Pittsburgh and the dunes of southwestern Michigan, I would spend 20 minutes power walking up and down hills to tone my legs, butt, arms, and core while getting my heart rate going. Then I would finish up with some core and arm work followed by stretching.

Thirty minutes, and boom, you’re good.

When I moved to Chicago, I started climbing the back stairs of my building, two steps at a time, at a brisk pace. I prefer the slow, steady rise of a hill or dune to the stairs, but hey, we just do the best we can with what we have sometimes.

I currently live in a four story walk up building, so doing the back stairs up and down six times is my current cardio-punch for the total body. Following the stair climbing I either walk around the neighborhood or go right to doing some pilates, yoga, and barre moves. It really just depends on how much time I have.

I’ve really found over the years that thanks to my plant based diet, just getting in 30 or even sometimes 20 minutes of super efficient cardiototal body toning exercise four times a week can get me by in a pinch. Of course I prefer feeling like I have the time to go to an hour and a half yoga class four times a week, but the reality of life is

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The following workout I’ve devised should only take you about 25 minutes. If it’s easier for you to walk uphill outside or on a treadmill, then I suggest doing that instead. The main thing is to do it at a good pace and keep your ribs pulling in towards the midline. This will help tone your transverse abdominals which is what helps define the center line down your stomach.

Add more reps or cut down to eight or 10 if you’re just getting started. I usually do 15 or 20 reps depending on time, but that is something to work up to.

Cardio Warm-Up Up and down four flights of stairs, two steps at a time x six, or walk up and down hills at a fast pace for 15 minutes.

Core & Mat Work Down dog crunchies 2 x 3 each side: Start in a downward facing dog position. Inhale and lift your right leg high, toes pointing down and pressing through your heel. Next inhale, bend your knee and shift your shoulders over your wrists while bringing

your knee in towards your chin for a down dog crunchie. Exhale send the leg back up in the air. Inhale, bring it to the outside of the right elbow, exhale back, inhale right knee to left elbow. Exhale down dog.

Repeat on the other side.

Do this two times, holding the last one for five counts each side.

Down dog push-ups and Dolphin Push-ups 2 x 12 each: Start in a downward facing dog position and slowly bend the elbows on an inhale, exhale straighten.

Repeat 12 times then slowly lower the elbows all the way to the matt on the last one.

Clasp your palms together and make sure the elbows are inline with the shoulders.

Inhale and then on an exhale, shift your shoulders forward bringing your chin to hover over your palms. Inhale press back.

Repeat 12 times then lower your knees to the floor and rest in child’s pose for a breath or two.

Repeat.

Core Work on the Mat Tick-Tock Abs x 15 each side: Lay flat on your back and pull your knees into the chest and give yourself a hug.

Exhale and extend the legs

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away from you so that the knees are bent in line with the hips and the heels are flexed. Knees and ankles should both be hip distance apart. Take your arms out to a T and press your whole spine into the floor. Inhale and then exhale, slowly lower your bent legs to the right. Inhale center, exhale left. Do 15 on each side and then hug the legs in and repeat.

Toe-taps x 15 each side Start in the same position as the tick-tock with your back flat, spine pressing down and your knees bent, feet lifted off the ground.

Arms are by your side.

Inhale and the exhale tap your right toe on the mat.

Inhale up. Exhale left.

Repeat 15 times each side then hug your legs in and repeat.

Leg lifts: Laying flat on your back,

place your hands under your tailbone. Lift your legs off the ground as you inhale.

Exhale lower to a hover, inhale up to 45 degrees, exhale lower to a hover.

Repeat 20 times then hugs the legs in to release.

Chair Squats x 40: Next I do 40 x chair squats with my feet hip distance apart and my arms extended straight up in the air. Simply sit back like you’re in char. Hold on the 20th one for 5 breaths. Then exhale and fold forward for 5 breathes. I try and do at least 40 chair squats every day.

Leg Kicks and Ronde de Jambes: Leg kicks and ronde de jambes are great for fighting the saddlebag area.

From a standing position with the heels together and the toes turned out, I do 2 x sets of 20 kicks to the front, back and side Always hold

the last one for five breaths, switch sides then repeat.

Ronde de Jambes are much more difficult and require a significant amount of balance and strength. Start in the same position as the kicks, with your palms in your shoulders and elbows lifted.

Inhale and kick your right leg up. As you exhale, slowly round the leg to the back, lifting from the inseam of your pants.

Exhale, slowly round back to front and slowly lower the leg. It is all done with control. Work your way to doing 12 each side and reverse.

Stretch: I always finish with some seated forward folds, both legs together and wide and then some basic twists.

Kat Barry, a St. Joseph, Michigan native, is owner of Kat’s Hot Cakes vegan catering, and co author of “The New Chicago Diner Cookbook: Meat Free Recipes from America’s Veggie Diner.” She also develops recipes for eHow. com, where you can find over 30 of her vegan instructional cooking videos. She is also a certified yoga instructor. Kat currently resides in Chicago, and in her free time she enjoys practicing yoga, sampling local spirits, listening to live music, and getting outdoors. Follow @ katshotcakes on twitter. Kat can be reached via email at: kat@katshotcakes.com.

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Auditions will be held for the Kids On Stage Glee Club this Saturday, May 9, 10 a.m. KOS Glee Club is a performance group that responds to occasional requests for entertainment from corporate and public event coordinators.

The Glee Club is exclusive in that only those who audition and are chosen can perform in the group.

The auditions will be held at the KOS Theatre at The Orchards Mall on Saturday, May 9, at 10 a.m. Those auditioning will need to perform a pop or show tune style musical number using their own karaoke background cd or MP3 player.

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The Purdue Club of Southwest Michigan will hold its Spring Meeting on Thursday, May 14 at 6 p.m. at the St. Joseph River Yacht Club in St. Joseph, Michigan. This year’s guest speaker is Purdue Vice President Emeritus John Sautter.

During Mr. Sautter’s 39 year career at Purdue he also acted as host to visiting athletic teams. He will share stories of the happenings that occurred behind the visitor’s bench to include Bobby Knight’s infamous “rearranging” the chairs at Mackey Arena during a PurdueIndiana University basketball game. Mr. Sautter is currently Special Assistant to Purdue President Mitch Daniels. The club will also announce this year’s scholarship recipients. An informal meet-and-greet reception complete with “heavy hors d’oeuvers”

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Reservations must be made through the club’s website www.purduealum. org/swmichigan no later than May 8.

May 15

The public is invited to see The Celtic Tenors at The Acorn Theater at 8 p.m. General admission tickets are $30; VIP tickets are $50 for the front section/preferred seating of the theater, and include a pre-show “Meet and Greet” with the Tenors at 7 p.m. To purchase tickets, call (269) 756-3879 or go to www.acorntheater. com. For more information on the Celtic Tenors go to: www.celtic-tenors. com May 16

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Tickets will be $10 in advance and $15 day of for the all-day festival with sales scheduled to begin the week of March 30, with an additional charge for drink tickets on site.

Food will be available for cash purchase. Stone said local lodgings are geared up to host BBQ and music guests and several will offer shuttles to and from the shows.

Ticket and overnight stay information are available at stjoetoday.com/bbq or the Welcome Center at 301 State St. in downtown St. Joseph.

The River Valley Garden Club will host its eighth annual sale Saturday, May 16 at the Harbert Community Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Michigan time) at the Park, 13300 Red Arrow Highway, Harbert, just north of the

Chikaming Township Center. Members dig up a wide variety of perennials, bushes, trees, and native grasses from their own gardens to sell at the sale. Prices start at $2.

Gardening books, magazines and homemade baked goods will also be available.

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Speakers will be Mona Gehring and Lisa Ellam.

Visitors should use the east entrance to the Church. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Anita Rodgers at (574) 8756043 or Penny Bucks (574) 848-1623, or visit the website at www.

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Campsites 438 PITCHER LAKE CAMPGROUND

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Good Things to Eat

636

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FOR SALE

•Used and Reconditioned Appliances •Washers & Dryers •Ranges •Air Conditioners •Refrigerators 841 Carberry Rd. Niles (269)687-8639

Niles - 1340 Sycamore St. St. Paul's Lutheran Church Ladies Aid Rummage and Bake Sale Friday May 15 9am-2pm Saturday May 16 9am - 1pm 12pm - 1pm Saturday $5.00 Box Sale (Rummage Only)

TVs-Stereos660 Wanted to Buy 672 Video ADAMS JUNKERS AARON'S 701 Spruce St., Adam buys Dowagiac JUNK CARS (269)782-7108 We will take care of Adam Buys any customer that Repairable Cars have been with the Fixable Cars Wanted Niles Aaron's store adamsjunkers.com location.

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Berrien Center Pokagon Rd.

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May 16, 2015 at 11 a.m.

SIGN-IN STARTS AT 10 AM Auctioneer: Kent Stroud Household items, estate jewelry, misc. small furniture, old games, collectables, boxes and boxes of misc. items.

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ment #1 GUTTERS

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Antenna Service

737

Your home exterior experts.

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Lawn Service 721 2 GUYS & A LAWNMOWER

property maintenance service, residential/commercial.

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weeding maintenance, landscape bed maintenance, Spring & Fall clean up, small lawn service.

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JACOBS LAWN & BOBCAT SERVICES

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Nick: (269) 254-6634 Sam: (269) 591-5386

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2005 Damon Ultra Sport 400LX, 70,000 miles, 40 ft. long, 2 slides, 2 TVs, good tires, must see! $60,000 OBO (269)683-5986

Autos for Sale 945 2010 HYUNDAI ELANTRA (gold)

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PARTING SHOTS

History comes to life Three Oaks welcomes ‘wax characters’

Fifth graders from Three Oaks Elementary disguised as historic figures greeted guests in downtown Three Oaks last weekend. Pictured are Colin Warner and Max Nicely as Wilbur and Orvil Wright; Mazie Clark as Sacagewea; Ales Walton as Florence Nightingale and Rebecca Oman as Queen Isabella I. Leader photo/AMBROSIA NELDON