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Saturday, July 25, 2015 Published by J-Ad Graphics, Inc. Phone (269) 945-9554 1351 North M-43 Highway • Hastings, MI 49058-0188
housands will again descend on Freeport for the village’s annual Homecoming celebration, scheduled this year for Aug. 7 and 8. A lucky bunch of 500 of them will get to stay and to continue calling Freeport home. The reasons they come and the charm that keeps them there is what the village celebrates each year. Fire chief Jim Yarger (left) is a lifer and, with his community service as fire chief, continues to pour himself into a village he’s come to know as caring and fun-loving. Lifelong county resident Howard “Hoot” Gibson will also be celebrating that love for community as an exhibitor and as a judge for the dynamic car show that returns after a two-year absence. Parades, food, free activities for kids along with traditional down home contests like horse shoes and bale rolling will give visitors a taste of what smalltown life in America once was and still is in Freeport. To preview the village’s biggest weekend of the year, turn inside.