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Celebrate history Elkhart County hosts annual festival

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LKHART, Ind. — For the last 175 years, Bonneyville Mill has been the heart of many ideas and dreams, from Edward Bonney’s vision of a bustling town in the 1830s to the supplier of hydroelectric power in the 1930s. Today, Bonneyville Mill remains at the center of Elkhart County’s rich agricultural heritage, and Elkhart County residents

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are excited to celebrate that history for the second year in a row. Visitors from all over Michiana are invited to visit Elkhart County parks at the Second Annual Bonneyville Mill Heritage Day event to celebrate this rich history on Saturday, Sept. 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is fun to be had for all ages, so organizers encourage those interested to bring the entire family. Attendees can take part

in hands-on activities and exciting contests, such as panning for gold, playing corn hole, dipping candles, eating a donut on a string, participating in a greasedpumpkin race and much more. They can watch sawmill demonstrations, the grinding stones working away in the mill, a live, actionpacked pony pull or the gifted hands of crafters showing their skills. Visitors can also purchase a unique gift from the Mill

Gift Shop, buy delicious baked goods or fresh produce from the Farmer’s Market or get a delicious bite to eat at one of many food vendors. Admission is $3 per person or $7 per vehicle. Parking is at the Briar patch Shelter on County Road 8. More information such as a schedule of events and directions to Bonneyville Mill County Park can be found at www.elkhartcountyparks.org or by calling (574) 535-6458.

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Ed Bagatini and the New Swing Orchestra returns to the Box Factory for the Arts Sept. 6.

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n describing his jazz band, the New Swing Orchestra, Ed Bagatini emphasized the groups “unbelievable rhythmic action,” and “great chord changes.” “It's a band you want to listen to. The instruments, how they're woven in,” he mused. The New Swing Orchestra has been making music together for four years now. Many of them already play in Bagatini's other music ensembles. “We're featuring the

best of the best,” he said. When the popular jazz band takes the stage at the Box Factory for the Arts Sept. 6, the band will be featuring some new arrangements. The New Swing Orchestra features a number of area musicians. Jim Allen plays the drums for the New Swing Orchestra, Rob Funk takes the stage on baritone saxophone, Eric Oliphant lights up the group with his guitar, Jay Crouch swings on the trumpet, Tim King belts it out on the bass, Christopher Keech creates slick sounds

on the alto saxophone and Andy Kolosowsky rounds out the group as tenor saxophone. Bagatini plays trombone and writes and arranges each piece of music the band plays. “It doesn't sound like the old stuff from the ‘50s and ‘60s," he said. "We're pretty jazz-oriented." Songs featured in their lineup include “Stardust,” and “What are you doing with your Life?” Tickets for the New Swing Orchestra at the Box Factory are available at the door or via PayPal online at

http://www.boxfactoryforthearts.org/calendar/#bagatini at $10 general admission; $8 for students and seniors. Children 12 and under admitted free. Beer and wine will be available for purchase at the concert. For more on Box Factory events, visit the Box Factory online at www.boxfactoryforthearts. org or be a friend on Facebook. To learn more about the New Swing Orchestra, visit them online at www. bagatini.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/edbagatini.

Young artist visits Box Factory Sept. 13 Riversong Music Society 2014 Young Talent Showcase will feature James Neary, an award-winning young singer-songwriter from LaPorte, Indiana at the Box Factory for the Arts on Saturday, Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door or by PayPal online at www.boxfactoryforthearts.org at $10 general admission; $8 for students and seniors. Children 12 and under admitted free. The winner of the Acorn Theater’s Singer-Songwriter contest in 2013, James Neary is an extremely talented young artist. In 2014, he released his first CD, described by one reviewer in these words: “Fantastic music and vocals from one talented young singer-

s o n g w r i t e r. Blues meets folk meets alternative, all sung with passion and p o w e r through an unbelievable vocal range. With lyrics heartfelt and honest, each song stands on its own, offers a glimpse into the artist’s life, and leaves the listener with goose bumps.” In addition to his original songs, James will also perform his unique arrangements of a variety of “cover songs.” His interpretations bring

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SPOTLIGHT

Famous TV personality performs at Four Winds

EW BUFFALO, Mich. — Celebrity Howie Mandel was made famous by television shows dating back to the 1980s, and has become a household name thanks to hosting game shows such as “Deal or No Deal.” However, visitors to his concert at the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo next weekend are sure to see a plethora of Mandel's other talents. Howie Mandel has remained a constant force in show business for over 30 years. His versatile career has encompassed virtually all aspects of the entertainment spectrum, including television, film and stage. From his work on the Emmy Award winning “St. Elsewhere,” to the international animated children’s series “Bobby’s World,” Howie has become a mainstay of the American comedy scene. He has done countless comedy specials both on cable and network television, has hosted the hit game show “Deal or No Deal,” and his own syndicated talk show, “The Howie Mandel Show.” He also continues to perform 200 plus concerts a year throughout the United States and Canada. Howie is also executive producer of many shows with his production company, Alevy Productions, one of which is the TBS series “Deal With It,” which returned in March 2014 for a second season. He currently serves as one of the judges on NBC’s summer hit talent competition series “America’s Got Talent,” alongside Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howard Stern. More information on Howie is available at www.howiemandel.com. Four Winds New Buffalo’s Silver Creek Event Center is a 1,500 seat, multi-use facility that is located next to the casino floor. In addition to hosting concerts, the 17,000 sq. ft. event center can be reconfigured to host a variety of meetings, special events, conferences, and banquets. Details on concerts at Silver Creek Event Center are available at www.fourwindscasino.com/events. Reservations and Information To make a hotel reservation at Four Winds New Buffalo or for more information on Four Winds New Buffalo, Four Winds Hartford, or Four Winds Dowagiac, please call 1 (866)-4WINDS1, (866) 494-6371 or visit www.fourwindscasino.com. Additionally, be sure to like Four Winds on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fourwindscasino and follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fourwindscasino for information on the latest offers and promotions.

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CUISINE SCENE

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hen most Hoosiers think of weather problems and crops it’s cornfields that come to mind. But the winter cold is the big issue of 2014 for farmers of a different type – vineyard managers. The frigid cold of early 2014 damaged up to 25 percent of the state’s grape crop, according to Purdue’s Bernie Parker Bruce Bordelon. “It’s very widespread in the northern part of the state,” he said. “From the Bloomington/ Columbus line and north the damage is pretty severe.” The extreme cold temperatures damaged the vine structure in many vineyards. “So a lot of us are retraining vines from the ground up,” Bordelon explained. What that means to those with the cold weather issues is that sections of the vineyard restarted may be out of production for two years. “We’ll have a light crop next year,” Bordelon said. “There should be a partial crop in two years then back to full production in 2017.” One of the hardest hit vineyards was the state’s second largest at Oliver Winery. The Creekbend Vineyard just west of Oliver’s tasting room on Hwy. 37 suffered damage to 20-25 percent of its vines, according to vineyard manager Bernie Parker. “We’ll be making less than half of the Creekbend (label) but Creekbend is only about three percent of our total production. There is an economic impact because we’re still having to put in the same effort in the vineyard to re-grow these vines. It may take more effort.” Parker had to restart 9,000 of 36,000 vines in the 54 acre vineyard. The largest portion of the Oliver wines though are produced from grapes purchased to produce their signature and popular sweet wines. The higher-end Creekbend wines are grown in their vineyard. The bulk of that vineyard is planted in Chambourcin, Traminette, Vignoles, Chardonel, and other typical Indiana wine grapes. Others who suffered damage may have been able to recover a crop with good vineyard practices. “Grapes are an amazing plant in their ability to produce fruit,” Bordelon said. “We always adjust the production through pruning and cluster thinning. We usually have way more fruit than we really need. With some of these (grape) varieties, with lighter pruning, we’ll still be able to have close to a full crop.” Down south Ted Huber saw little damage in his vineyards atop the Ohio River Valley hilltops. We’re probably going to pull off an 85-90 percent grape crop,” Huber said. We had a little bit of minor damage in one vineyard so by choice we decided to do a renewal on it. It still had one-third to a half crop on it anyway, but it just made a lot of sense to take it out of production.” Huber has the state’s largest vineyard but is the second biggest wine producer. Oliver is by far the state’s biggest wine producer with the second largest vineyard. Oliver buys the fruit for much of its 300,000 case production. Approximately half of the Oliver total production is the popular sweet wines.

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PARADE ENTRY FORM Return Entry to: Kellie McCombs P.O. Box 672 • Niles, MI 49120 (269)687-9294 Name: _____________________ Age: _________ Type of Entry (please describe) ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Contact Person: ___________________________ Phone: _____________________ City: ________ For more information

www.fourflagsapplefestival.org Entries will be judged on: • Best use of theme • Most Creative Entry For each of these categories: Decorated Bikes, Motorized Vehicles, Strollers, Wagons and costumes Following the Parade: Free hot dogs, snacks and beverages for all. Free games, prizes, Magic show starting at 2:00. Bounce House and Boy Scouts Bridge too. Refreshments provided by: Apple Festival, Curious Kids Museum and Greater Niles Community Federal Credit Union. Games sponsored by Niles Service League and McDonalds. • All Children Welcome when accompanied by a parent • No animals please

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OUTH BEND, Ind. — Visitors to downtown South Bend’s First Friday will have a unique treat to view this week, created by children from all over the Michiana area. During their classes, the South Bend Museum of Art Summer Clay Students (ranging from 7 to 12 years old) created a unique garden totem at the museum to be presented to the public during the ribbon cutting on Sept. 5. Kathy Fodness, longtime SBMA ceramic student and now instructor, directed this project.

During SBMA's Youth Clay camps 2014, each group of students carved their own ceramic cylinder as part of a whole totem, culminating in four totems for the garden. Kathy encouraged interaction and class discussion by allowing each group to choose their own theme for the totem. Each cylinder making up the totems represents a unique expression of the students' ability with clay, and each totem its own piece of art, following a theme of Nature, Aquatic, Outer Space, or Seasons. “I wanted (the students)

to experience the excitement and the pride of being part of a collaborative art installation that projects happy vibes out into our community,” Fodness said. As a set, the four diverse totems are viewable from both inside the Carmichael Gallery as well as outside on St. Joseph Street. Visitors are invited to join SBMA and the studetns to celebrate their accomplishments and see their work in person. The event will consist of a ceremony, refreshments and photographs.

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Make your own granola bars

hen I decided to sign up for a trek to Machu Picchu, I know I'd have to step up my travel snack game. For many, many years I've taken trail mix with me on trips. In fact, having trail mix around is a great way to keep,from snacking on junk food on busy work days too. Making your own is quick, easy and inexpensive. I figured the same had to be true of granola bars. I'm a very seasoned baker and most of my healthy cookies are basically granola bars anyway. I figured this was the perfect opportunity to come up with a sure-fire granola bar recipe, which is something I've really wanted to do for years. The result was so easy and delicious that I was actually afraid I'd eat them all before I even left Chicago! You can change out different nuts and seeds to fit your fancy. Just keep the proportions and you'll be fine. These get thrown together in minutes

and are perfect for your work or gym bag, or to send with your kids for a pre-practice snack. Wrap the finished bars in foil and store in the refrigerator or freezer. They are soft and chewy, which I prefer to the hard, crunchy kind. 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

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Students exhibit artwork connected through narrative

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Bethel artists created a number of pieces for a show in memory of a former classmate who died in an auto accident. The piece above was created by student Emily Maceda Leon.

ISHAWAKA — The “Drawing Tales” art show will open on Friday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. in the main studio, located in the Art Center at Bethel College. The event is free and attendees will have a chance to win a free selfportrait or family portrait drawn by senior visual arts major Stacy Lamb. The show will be dedicated to Rayna DoBrodt, a former Bethel College stu-

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dent from Mishawaka, Ind., who died in an auto accident in July. Guests are welcome to make donations in DoBrodt’s memory to Creative Goodness, with Chasing Rain Foundation in the memo line. Donations can be mailed to 55855 Bittersweet Road, Mishawaka, IN 46545. “Drawing Tales” will feature student art completed during Bethel’s spring 2014 drawing II class. Associate Professor of Art Katharine Schmidt said that the class focused on portraiture and figure, eventually putting pieces together to create a narrative. Beginning with skull studies and work on shading, students then worked up to portraits, eventually progressing to anatomy and figure studies and placing those figures in context with other objects. Schmidt eventually told the class she wanted them to tell a story together with their art. Students Mike Armstrong, Sam Blayee, Rachael Coad, Emily Maceda Leon, Emily Peacock, Mary Pottenger and Hannah Reinke from the drawing II class will be exhibiting their artwork in the show. "This show is significant to me because it allows

me to share a piece of my life with not only my classmates, who have seen my drawing progress from a blank page to an intimate story, but also to my peers and those who come to interact with this piece,” says Leon. “I hope to not only share this drawing with viewers, but I also hope to move them to think deeply about their time in this life and the next.” Bethel College is an accredited Christian college offering associate, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in more than 70 areas of study. The current enrollment of more than 1,800 includes students from 34 states and Puerto Rico, 10 countries and 16 percent from culturally diverse backgrounds. In addition to its beautifully wooded 75-acre main campus in Mishawaka, Ind., Bethel also offers specific academic programs at sites in Fort Wayne, Ind., Dowagiac, Mich., and St. Joseph, Mich. Connect with Bethel online at BethelCollege.edu, or via Facebook (Facebook.com/ BethelCollege), Twitter ( T w i t t e r . c o m / BethelCollegeIN), YouTube ( Yo u Tu b e . c o m / BethelCollegeIndiana) and Instagram (Instagram.com/ BethelCollege).

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Cemetery Lots 617 YOUR E-CIG EXPERTS Vaporizers & e-hookah DAILEY CEMETERY Heating Over 50 liquid flavors. Corner of Dailey Rd. & US 31 Tobacco Dunning St. NOW IS THE 50552 US 31 N, South Bend TIME to purchase your lot in (574) 271-0333 this beautiful cemetery. Single lots only $125, 4 lot 666 family plots $500. Prices Miscellaneous increase to: Single lot $250, FOR SALE 4/$1,000 on October 1st, s n o w m o b i l e / m o t o r c y c l e 2014. Contact (269)445- trailer $300. 18 ft. Bass 8485 boat $3,000 OBO, 15" TWO BURIAL SPACES custom wheels & tires $500 Mission Hills Cemetery in the (269)683-8434 Old Rugged Cross Garden. SORTED LUMBER Lot 301, spaces 1 & 2, Black walnut, mostly milled, $800. (817)879-2794 $5-6 per board foot. (574)485-8497

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repairable scrap and unwanted vehicles, top dollar paid. Call or text for a free quote today. Free towing. Kevin (817)437-0450

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Submit calendar events by email at offthewater@ leaderpub.com or visit the Leader Publications office at 217 N. Fourth Street, Niles. Sept. 4 On Thursday, Sept. 4 at 6:30 p.m., the Heritage Museum and Cultural Center will host a program by Robert Myers. Myers will present the recently uncovered history of St. Joseph poet Ben King’s involvement in the Whitechapel Club, an exclusive society that operated in Chicago during the late 19th century. LEGEND

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The “Drawing Tales” art show will open on Friday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. in the main studio, located in the Art Center at Bethel College. The event is free and attendees will have a chance to win a free selfportrait or family portrait drawn by senior visual arts major Stacy Lamb.

First Unitarian Church of South Bend is having a reception in honor of the opening of their new church building at 801 E. Washington Ave, South Bend. It will be on Friday, Sept. 5th starting with the ribbon cutting at 5:30 p.m. This will be followed by an art opening with works by well-known South Bend artist, Glenda Bixby. There will also be a performance by Toradze Studio and world renowned pianist, Natasha Stojanovska. There will be refreshments. More info at (574) 234-6588.

Fire Arts, Inc. invites the public to an exhibit of portraits. This exhibit, “Portraits, Self and Otherwise,” will be open Sept. 5 to Oct. 31. The show will feature portrait work created by the artists of Fire Arts. There will be representational and abstract pieces in bronze, stone and clay, as well as portraiture done in jewelry, glass and pottery, with a smattering of some 2-D work. The opening reception for portraits, self and otherwise will be the Sept. 5 First Friday, 5 to 9 p.m. As always, there will be artists that evening working in the studio. Sept. 5-6

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Sept. 5 The South Bend Museum of Art will host an artist mixer from 5 to 9 p.m. Everyone is invited to mix and mingle as the museum celebrates artists with art music, treats and libations.

The Tin Shop Theater in Buchanan will present “Old Rugged Cross,” a gospel musical the next three weekends, beginning Sept. 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Sept. 7 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $9 for students and seniors and $5 for children. Call (269) 470-0571 for group reservations Sept. 6 Ed Bagatini’s New Swing Orchestra will perform at the Box Factory. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $10 general admission; $8 stu-

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Lemon Creek Winery’s 8th Annual Harvest Festival is Saturday, Sept. 6 from noon to 6 p.m. There will be live music by Venitia Sekema & The Madre Luna Band. Admission is $10 and there will be grilled food available for purchase.

Rock band Blue Oyster Cult, with hits from the 70s and 80s including “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” “Godzilla” and “Burnin’ for You,” takes the stage on Saturday, September 6 at 8 pm CT in the Stardust Event Center at Blue Chip Casino, Hotel & Spa, Michigan City, Indiana. Tickets start at $35, and can be purchased by credit card at Ticketmaster.com or in person at The Gift Box in the Blue Chip Casino pavilion. Guests must be 21 or older, with a valid state or government issued photo ID.

be purchased online at howard.andrews.edu or at the box office by calling 888-467-6442. Classical radio station 90.7 WAUS is a media sponsor for this concert. Sept. 10-11 The Lake Michigan College Theatre Department will hold auditions for its fall drama production of “Galileo” on Sept. 10 and 11 at 7 p.m. in the Hanson Theatre of the Mendel Center for Arts and Technology. Call-backs will be held Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The performance will take place Fridays through Sundays, November 7 - 9, and 14 16 under the direction of Dr. Calvin McClinton, director of Theatre at LMC.

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On Sunday, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m., the Howard Performing Arts Center will present The Petar Jankovic Ensemble, a string group of two violins, viola, cello and guitar. The concert will include arrangements of works by Debussy, Shostakovich, DeFalla, Piazzolla and Albeniz. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for Andrews University faculty and staff, and $5 for students. They can

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The Krasl Art Center is pleased to announce that its fall class schedule is online and registration is open. Additionally, the Krasl Art Center will host a free Studio Open House on Sept. 6, 2014

St. Patrick’s County Park will host a Grandparents’ Day celebration between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to bring a picnic, enjoy a scavenger hunt or stop by the Brown Barn for a quick craft, among other activities offered. The gate fee is $3 for St. Joseph County residents and $4 for residents outside of the county.

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