March 30, 2009

The DigestWhat’s Happening at KVCC

What’s below in this edition Fret ‘play-in’ (Pages 1/2) The Funk Brothers (Page 9) Fretboard fest (Pages 2/3) Helping KAFI (Page 10) Thanks, vets (Pages 3/4) Surviving layoffs (Page 10)

Chris Smither (Pages 4/5) ‘Bridges’ opps (Pages 10/11) Teaching art (Pages 5/6) ‘Play ball’ (Pages 11/12) Student art show (Page 6) Reading Together (P-12/15) Wellness screens (Pages 6/7) Eying Earth (Page 15/16) Give blood (Pages 7/8) Lots of astronomy (Pages 16/17) ‘Going Green’ talks (Pages 8/9) Motown at The Zoo (P-17/19)

And Finally (Pages 19/20)

☻☻☻☻☻☻7 in Fretboard Festival’ ‘play-in’ tonight

With a booking to play in the fourth annual Kalamazoo Fretboard Festival as the prize, seven bands and performers have entered a play-in competition that will kick off the 2009 event this weekend

Performers of all genres of music have been invited to apply for the festival’s new wrinkle. The only restriction is that an instrument with a fretboard must be among the person’s or group’s arsenal.

For those who can’t make it to the museum this evening, the a film crew from the Public Media Network is taping the event. Here are the broadcast dates on the Charter Communications cable system: Friday (April 3) at 7 p.m. on Channel 22; Saturday (April 4) at 6 p.m. on Channel 95; Wednesday, April 8, at 7 p.m. on Channel 22; and Thursday, April 9, at 2 p.m. on Channel 95.

Chosen to play gigs of up to 10 minutes at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Friday (March 27) are:

♫ Belfast Gin, a six-member group that plays Celtic, folk rock and Indie music. The Kalamazoo group includes Laurie Laing, Geoff Stockton, Allen Geise, “Rudeman” Callen, Richard Koontz and Aaron Miller.

♫ The St. Joseph duo of Waverland featuring Justin McIver and Ryan Kuhnlein.

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♫ O’Possum, a trio that includes KVCC Student Success Center advocates Diana Haggerty and John Chapman.

♫ Soloist Micalea Kingslight of Kalamazoo.♫ Carmea, a trio featuring guitarist Catherine Ellis of Kalamazoo, cellist Rachel

Alexander of Lansing, and mandolinist Alma Muxlow of Kalamazoo.♫ Papa’s Front Porch Blues featuring Gretchen Ross. ♫ Guitar soloist James Brown of Vicksburg, who worked 15 years for Gibson in

Kalamazoo and is a member of the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society.The Friday-night “play-in,” as well as all festival events, is free and open to the

public. It is sponsored by the Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation.To enter, musicians and musical groups had to submit a demo tape, CD or

weblink of their work, along with a brief biographical sketch. Selected by judges, the winner must be able to do a 45-minute gig on Saturday.

Through late Sunday afternoon (March 29), the 2009 Fretboard Festival will feature a dozen performances by stringed-instrument virtuosos, instructional workshops for people who want to learn to play, and family-friendly activities.

The museum’s website (www.kalamazoomuseum.org) contains details about performers, locations and times.

Dozen concerts booked for Fretboard FestivalThe Kalamazoo Valley Museum’s salute to the local legacy of “pickin’ ‘n’

singin’” will feature a pair of outdoor concerts, weather willing. Free to the public and nothing to fret about, the fourth annual Kalamazoo

Fretboard Festival will host a dozen concerts, 17 workshops, hands-on activities for children, vendors, and presentations on Saturday (March 28) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday (March 29) from 1 to 5 p.m.

It is sponsored by the Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation. The event will be held in both the downtown-Kalamazoo museum and Anna Whitten Hall.

However, another new wrinkle for the 2009 festival is a Friday-night “play-in” competition when local musicians vie for a chance to perform as part of the Saturday line-up of concerts. The “play-in,” to be decided by a trio of judges, is set for Friday, (March, 27) from 6 to 9 p.m.

Among the other performers on Saturday and Sunday will be:

♫ Brothers Kalamazov and headliner Steppin’ In It are the Saturday-afternoon outdoor bookings slated for the courtyard between the museum and Whitten Hall.

♫ Joel Mabus, the nationally known fretboarder and veteran of past festivals.

♫ Rachael Davis, as both an individual musician and with her family group, Lake Effect.

♫ Gerald Ross, a virtuoso on the traditional Hawaiian steel guitar and ukulele.

♫ Patricia Pettinga and Bill Willging, who specialize in traditional blues and folk music.

♫ The country-and-western twang of The Two Choices Band.

♫ Bluegrass music from The Mossy Mountain Band.

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♫ the duo of String Cheese.

♫ Jordan Lunardini.

♫ Friends of the Kalamazoo Folklife Organization.

♫ Celtic Roots. Several of the performers will double up as leaders of workshops on their

specialty instruments, including the hammered dulcimer, upright bass, cello, violin, banjo, dobro, acoustic guitar, and ukulele.

They will be joined by Miles Kusik (classical guitar), guitarist Mark Sahlgren, Jackie Zito (mandolin), Rock Bartley (clawhammer banjo), Nathan Durham (bass guitar), and David Bunce (banjo).

Mabus, nominated for the top award of the International Folk Alliance, will demonstrate how techniques of playing with a flatpick or with fingers produce different style of music on the acoustic guitar. Ross will show how to play a jazzy, swing style of ukulele.

Zito, co-founder of the Kalamazoo Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra and a library assistant at KVCC, will span the history of her instrument in her workshop, while String Cheese’s Ali Haraburda and Diana Ladio will show how their specialties – the fiddle and cello – can become the melodic instruments for an entire band.

Sunday’s concerts and workshops are targeted for families. In addition to sessions that will demonstrate the skills needed to begin to play a fretted instrument, there will be a special “Songwriting for Kids” workshop led by Tiyi Schippers.

Another will focus on an instrument “petting zoo” and getting young children involved in these genres of music. Hands-on activities for children 6 to 12 are part of the Sunday attraction.

Also booked for Sunday is a presentation by Tom Dietz, the museum’s curator of research, about Orville Gibson and the beginnings of the Gibson Guitar Co. in Kalamazoo.

In between workshops, performances and demonstrations, visitors will be able to view exhibits.

Among those sharing their knowledge and their wares will be professionals who make Heritage, Kingslight, Big Bends, SVG and other brands of stringed instruments.

The first festival in May of 2006 attracted about 800. It was switched to a March date in 2007 to avoid competing with the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International and future conflicts with the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival.

The 2007 turnout that packed the museum and Whitten Hall led to the decision to move to being a two-day event last year.

For more information and events scheduled for the fourth Kalamazoo Fretboard Festival, call (269) 373-7972 or visit this website: www.kalamazoomuseum.org. Information is also available at the festival’s Facebook page.

KVCC salutes vets with Tuesday Appreciation Day With a 16-foot silhouetted wood sculpture of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima leading

the salute, KVCC will pay homage to those who have and are serving in the U. S. armed forces on Tuesday (March 31).

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The KVCC Student Veteran Association is hosting an observance of Veterans Appreciation Day in the Student Commons from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

In preparation for the two-hour tribute, boxes and note pads have been spread throughout the Texas Township Campus so that students, staff and instructors can drop off thank-you notes and state their appreciation for the service of U. S. veterans.

Veterans Appreciation Day is being held in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth.

While KVCC students who are veterans will be treated to lunch, members of the public are invited to take in the programs and presentations that can assist veterans in their pursuit of an education and in their adjustment to civilian life.

On campus will be representatives of service organizations for veterans that can provide information about employment opportunities and job placement.

KVCC officials will be there to talk about admissions, counseling, advising, financial aid, support services for veterans, and assistance that is available through the Student Success Center. They will be joined by their peers from Western Michigan University, Kellogg Community College and Lake Michigan College.

On display that day will be an exhibition by Lest We Forget Our Vets Inc. of Portage. Established in 1999 by a Vietnam War veteran and dedicated to those who have served their countries in the military, the showcase spans more than 50 years of uniforms, medals, patches, magazines, photos, maps and souvenirs.

The mission of the organization’s “Military Road Show and Traveling Museum” is to educate and inspire people of all ages by bringing military history to life. Among the artifacts are a 1940 World War II motorcycle and uniforms from that conflict through contemporary times. It also features a “Vietnam Wall” that contains the names of 53 Kalamazoo County residents who died in that war.

Music will be part of the acknowledgement as Michelle Bouman’s KVCC Chorus will perform, along with the trio, O’Possum, that includes two advocates in the college’s Student Success Center, Diana Haggerty and John Chapman.

More information is available by contacting Colleen Olson at extension 4744 or colson@kvcc.edu.

Artists Forum to welcome Chris Smither Guitarist Chris Smither, who plays folk, roots and blues as he spins stories – some

of them linked to his battle with alcoholism – is the Saturday, April 4, Artists Forum attraction in KVCC’s Dale Lake Auditorium.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert are $15 and are on sale at the KVCC Bookstore, the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, and at the Lake ticket booth the night of the performance.

Smither has performed in The Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Australia. He’s been featured in major folk festivals in Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Boston, New Orleans, Newport, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Now it will be a Kalamazoo audience’s turn to hear this product of the nation’s musical melting pot. Smither’s New Orleans-bred style has been compared to blues legend John Lee Hooker with a bit of Hank Williams thrown in for good measure, while his “sand-blasted” voice has been called “equal parts gravel and molasses.”

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Rolling Stone called a Smither performance “weathered singing and unhurried picking” accompanied by his own brand of amplified toe-tapping. Bonnie Raitt calls him "my Eric Clapton.”

Co-sponsored by the college and the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation, the last of the four Artists Forum bookings for 2008-09 features the roots rock of the Dave Alvin Duo on Friday, April 24.

With 12 albums to his credit since his first one in 1970, the 64-year-old Smither stressed his accomplishments with the bottle instead of his musical talents during a 17-year stretch.

Producing only one album over that time span, Smither told The Record, the daily newspaper serving Bergen County in New Jersey, that those 17 years of “Lost Weekends” were not total losses.

“I was drunk the whole time,” he said in 2007. “I don’t regret it, though. I’m doing pretty well right now, and I wouldn’t be the person I am now if none of that happened. It’s hard to regret something that made you what you are.”

Since he returned to the entertainment game about 22 years ago from his base in Boston, he’s been composing songs about the same topics as he did as a young adult, but there are new perceptions to add to them.

“What is immediately recognizable to anyone who has encountered Smither on record or in live performance during the course of the last four decades,” states his webpage, “are his been-there, done-that voice and the crystalline, wordlessly eloquent sounds of his finger-picked acoustic guitar.”

Smither says he recognizes the young artist on the front end of his long struggle from his present perspective.

"He got sidetracked, and he learned a lot, but it's definitely the same guy," he says. "The other interesting thing is that I had to go through all the horrible stuff to get where I am now. It's part and parcel of the animal that's walking around today.

“It's unfortunate that I stayed so unproductive for so long,” Smither said, “but at the same time, I couldn't write the kind of stuff that I write now if I hadn't gone through it. I wouldn't realize what it is to be a human—not really. I might think I did, but it wouldn't be the same."

Smither narrated an audio book of “Will Rogers’ Greatest Hits” and contributed an essay for a book titled “60 Things to Do When You Turn 60.” One of his compositions, “Slow Surprise,” was recorded for the soundtrack of Robert Redford’s “The Horse Whisperer.”

For more information about this concert and others in the Artists Forum series, contact Dave Posther at extension 4476 or dposther@kvcc.edu.

April 1 deadline for ‘Jump to Japan’ art gigTo help preview the opening of the next nationally touring exhibition about Japan,

its culture and art forms, the Kalamazoo Valley Museum is looking for people willing to lead some instructions in drawing.

As part of the third annual “Night at the Museum” on Friday, May 8, that will kick off the opening of “Jump to Japan: Discovering Culture Through Popular Art,” a cadre of art instructors – or people who feel comfortable teaching folks to draw – will

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lead informal classes in animation and “manga” (the Japanese version of comic-book art). The free drawing classes and a tour of the exhibit will run from 6 to 9 p.m.

Prior to the evening, the volunteer instructors will be schooled in how to guide children, families and individuals in teaching these two forms of artistic creative expression.

The deadline to apply is April 1. The contact person is Jennifer Austin, special-events coordinator at the museum, at 373-7970 or jaustin@kvcc.edu. Each prospective volunteer must submit a portfolio.

“Jump to Japan” will begin a four-month stay at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum on May 9.

Jointly developed by the Minnesota Children’s Museum and The Children’s Museum in Seattle, “Jump to Japan” showcases that nation’s amazing culture through activities based on animation, manga, woodblock prints and traditional scrolls.

April 6 last day to enter student art showKVCC students will be showcasing their best efforts in calligraphy, drawing, oil

and acrylic paintings, watercolors, mixed media, ceramics, sculpture, in black-and-white, color and alternative-process photography, and digital graphics at the college’s annual art show on the Texas Township Campus in April.

The 2009 Student Art Show will open for public viewing with a reception for the artists, family and friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Student Commons Forum on Wednesday, April 8, and conclude on Thursday, April 16.

The deadline to enter the juried show is Monday, April 6. Students should drop off their entries in the Forum between the hours of 4 and 6:30 p.m. that day. To be eligible to submit art work, students must have been enrolled from August 2007 through this April.

They will be vying for prizes for best-of-show, and for first-place, second-place and honorable-mention selections in each category. Faculty will also be choosing recipients of merit awards for students who have demonstrated growth in ceramics, photography and two-dimensional art.

Guideline sheets for entries can be picked up from any art or Center for New Media instructor. Each piece to be entered must have its own entry form. The limit is two entries per student.

For more information, call 488-4505. Refreshments will be served at the opening reception.

Employee-wellness assessments at ACC this weekSue Avery, a registered nurse who is the new wellness coach and coordinator for

Holtyn and Associates, is conducting free wellness screenings and counseling through April 21 for full-time KVCC employees and their spouses who are both new to the college’s program or continuing participants.

The scene switches to the Arcadia Commons Campus on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (March 31-April 3) for employees in Anna Whitten Hall, the Kalamazoo Valley Museum and the Center for New Media.

Beginning with the 2008-09 initiative, two key changes have gone into effect:

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● KVCC’ers and spouses can book their own appointments through their own computer instead of making a telephone call. This can be done by going to the Holtyn website: www.holtynhpc.com. and following the directions.

● Appointments now span 30 minutes instead of 20, meaning the available time slots are on the hour and half hour.

The Texas Township Campus appointments began on March 11. While payoffs in the past have focused on one’s personal and individual health, it

is now starting to pay off in the pay checks of employees.The one-on-one appointments include a glucose analysis, an HDL and cholesterol

evaluation, a blood-pressure check, a body-composition reading, an assessment of cardio-respiratory fitness, an overall health survey, an individual fitness assessment, and a personal consultation.

The 30-minute screenings can be done on work time. For more information, contact Blake Glass, manager of the college’s Employee Wellness Program, at extension 4177 or bglass@kvcc.edu or Avery at (269) 267-3712 or savery@holtynpc.com. She can be contacted for assistance in enrolling in the wellness program for the first time and in registering spouses.

All full-time staff, faculty and administrators – and their spouses -- are encouraged to sign up for this college-sponsored program, even if previous screenings had not identified any health risks.

Participants should wear comfortable, loosely fitting clothing. Short-sleeve tops are recommended. Fasting is not required, but it is advised not to consume caffeinated beverages two hours prior to the assessment and to refrain from smoking.

The testing is paid for by the college.“Our employee-wellness program has been successful in helping to control

health-care costs for the college and in assisting staff members achieve their personal goals,” Glass said.

Wednesday is roll-up-your-sleeves day for bloodKVCC faculty, students and staff can take part in the winter-semester American

Red Cross blood clinic on Wednesday (April 1) from 10:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on the Texas Township Campus.

Prospective participants must have a photo identification, a driver’s license, or a blood-donor card. Donors must also know the exact names of the medications they are taking or have taken during the last month.

Those who are at least 17, weigh a minimum of 110 pounds when fully dressed, and are in good general health may be eligible to donate blood at this clinic, which is sponsored by KVCC’s Phi Theta Kappa chapter.. To schedule an appointment, type in www.givelife.org and plug in “kvcc” into the sponsor code. Walk-in donors are also welcome.

Every 12 seconds, someone in the United States receives a life-saving transfusion. In Michigan, that translates to about 2,000 units of blood a day. A pint of blood is truly the gift of life.

The process, which can be repeated every eight weeks, takes about 75 minutes, most of which involves registering, taking a donor’s medical history, and staying in the refreshment area. The actual blood-donating part takes between six and 10 minutes.

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The donor gives a little less than a pint of blood. The typical blood transfusion in a hospital amounts to 3.4 units (pints) of blood. The average adult has eight to 12 such units flowing through his/her veins.

It is recommended that donors eat within four hours of donating. Donors should also drink extra water and fluids prior to rolling up their sleeves to

replace the volume being donated and to prevent low blood pressure. Keep up the process after the donation.

Coffee and tea really don’t cut it because their caffeine causes the body to lose more fluids than taken in by consuming those liquids.

Eating foods loaded with protein and carbohydrates (bread, cereal, fruit and lean meat) makes the process more comfortable.

No fooling, here are a few more reasons for rolling up your sleeve on April 1:♦ Volunteer donors are the only source of blood products for hospital patients.♦ Approximately 20 percent of the blood used in the United States is donated by

students.♦ One donor can save as many as four lives with a single donation because each

donation is divided into its component parts - platelets, plasma and red cells.♦ All donated blood is tested for transmitted disease.♦ You cannot contract the HIV virus or any other infectious disease by donating.♦ Those with sickle cell anemia, cancer, heart disease, leukemia and other major

illnesses may need blood transfusions to survive. Some 22 percent of the people who need transfusions are over the age of 65 and

consume 52 percent of the donated blood. About 5 percent of the U. S. population donates blood.

According to the Red Cross, a “reasonable” supply of blood needed for emergencies is a three-day inventory in each region.

There are some days when this part of Michigan can bank on only a half-day’s backup. The inventory must be constantly replenished because blood’s various components each has a shelf life.

Blood transfusions are also needed for life-saving medical responses, hip and knee replacements, heart surgery, hysterectomies, and treatments for many chronic conditions. Thus, the chances are great that members of all families will someday need this gift of life.

The American Red Cross also reports that a potential donor might be thwarted because of a low iron level, which impacts one’s red-cell count in the blood.

The answer is to take supplements or eat more high-iron foods - red meat, fish, poultry, liver, fortified cereals, beans, raisins, and prunes.

Consuming Vitamin-C-rich foods enhances iron buildup in the blood. Citrus fruits, broccoli and tomatoes can do that job.

‘Going Green’ speech deadline is TuesdayFormer and current communications students are eligible to take part in a speech

competition that focuses on the environmental health of Earth. Organized by the KVCC communications faculty, the “Going Green” competition

will culminate with public presentations on Tuesday, April 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Student Commons Theater.

The top four finishers will share $500 in prize money.

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The competition is open to the first dozen students – presently or formerly enrolled in a Communications 101 class -- who submit applications by the deadline.

The participants will each take a global or grassroots perspective and present a speech – five to six minutes in length – to introduce the audience to “environmentally sound processes, products and/or practices.”

The April 7 event will be open to students, staff and the public. The deadline to enter is Tuesday (March 31).Visual enhancements using props and software are encouraged. Each

presentation will be judged for creative and innovative content, effective delivery, and the quality of the visual enhancement. The winner goes home with $200.

Applications are available by contacting instructors Patrick Conroy or Steven Ott.

Motown’s unknowns next offering at Stryker TheaterFans of the Motown Sound know the hits of The Supremes, Martha and the

Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, and other big-name performers based at Detroit’s “Hitsville USA.”

But the foot-tapping, groovy music in the background was, for the most part, produced by a combo that nobody ever heard of or remembers.

The long-overdue spotlight will be turned on April 9 as part of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum’s Thursday-night series of international and independent films.

“Standing in the Shadow of Motown” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary Jane Stryker Theater. There is a $3 admission fee. Financial support for the series is provided by the KVCC Foundation.

In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a 14-year period, they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era.

By the end of their phenomenal run, this unheralded group of musicians had played on more No. 1 hits than the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined - which makes them the greatest hit machine in the history of popular music.

They called themselves the Funk Brothers. Forty-one years after they played their first note on a Motown record and three

decades since they were all together, the Funk Brothers reunited back in Detroit to play their music and tell their unforgettable story.

The production included all kinds of archival footage, still photos of the group with the scores of Motown performers they shared the stage with, narration, interviews with many of these famed folks, re-creation scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and 12 live performances of Motown classics with the Funk Brothers backing up contemporary performers.

Released in 2002, “Standing in the Shadow of Motown” is the true story of the greatest musicians who performed almost anonymously. .

Including American-made films that relate to museum exhibits that will be on display at the time, here are the film bookings in the Stryker Theater through spring:

April 16 – “Eldorado” (Belgium) April 23 – “The Five Heartbeats” April 30 – “The Violin” (Mexico) May 21 – “Marion Bridge” (Canada).

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KAFI seeks volunteers to make May festival specialWith more than 70 events planned so far for the fifth Kalamazoo Animation

Festival International, the college is looking for a cadre of faculty, staff and students to serve as volunteers and help make the four-day event in downtown Kalamazoo a success.

Slated for May 14-17, the festival has attracted 555 submissions of animation from 42 countries in the competition for $15,000 in prize money. The finalists will be viewable in a series of screenings during the festival, while professional animators from the major production studios and networks will be leading workshops and seminars.

“This is a great opportunity for any person interested in animation, film or any aspect of creative work,” says Anna Barnhart, the festival’s volunteer coordinator. “Volunteers will witness a major industry event taking shape as well as meet many big players in the expanding field of animation.”

Those who volunteer will act as greeters, runners, ticket takers, workshop monitors, gallery guides, and special-event helpers, Barnhart said. They will receive a free ticket to attend a seminar, screening or panel discussion for each four hours that they work.

Students must be at least 16 to become a volunteer. The four-hour time slots on that Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are 8 a.m. to noon, noon to 4 p.m., 4 to 8 p.m. and 8 p.m. to midnight.

Orientation sessions in Anna Whitten Hall are scheduled for Tuesday, April 28, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and Monday, May 4, at the same time. The deadline to sign up as volunteer is April 20.

For more information and an application form, visit: www.gokafi.com, or contact Barnhart or Nikki Unterkircher at kafi@kvcc.edu, or by phone at (269) 373-7934.

A how-to seminar on surviving job layoffsThe Student Success Center’s line-up of events and activities through the end of

the winter semester includes seminars on steps for surviving a job layoff. Slated for April 15 will be Chris Palmer’s presentation on “Surviving a Job

Layoff.” The representative of GreenPath Debt Solutions will speak at 2:30 p.m. in Room 4370 on the Texas Township Campus.

A pair of resume workshops are slated for April 22-23, each from noon to 1 p.m. in the Student Commons Theater.

For more information about these and upcoming workshops for students during the winter semester, contact Pamela Siegfried, the center’s life-resources coordinator, at extension 4825.

Minorities interested in science can cross ‘Bridges’Instructors should be alerting their minority students about taking advantage of an

opportunity to sample careers in science this summer. The application deadline is April 30. Admission decisions are made on a first-

come, first-served basisFive KVCC minority students took advantage of an opportunity to sample careers

in science during the summer of 2008. They were among a larger student contingent taking part in the 2008-09 National

Institutes of Health’s “Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program” through the Western Michigan University Department of Biological Sciences.

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In addition to the 30 hours of experience that will pay $11 per hour during the spring and summer months, students could also be assigned up to 15 hours per week during the 2009-10 academic year.

The mission of “Bridges” is to offer minorities enrolled in community colleges the opportunity to relevantly explore scientific fields, enhance their academic accomplishments in science courses, and smooth the path toward a degree in a science field at a four-year university.

Taking part in this kind of endeavor teaches higher-order thinking skills, which is an important component of anyone’s education. “Bridges,” which promotes institutional collaborations between community colleges and four-year universities, is a function of the National Institute of General Medical Studies, one of the National Institutes of Health.

Joining KVCC in taking part in the NIH Michigan Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program at WMU are Grand Rapids Community College, Henry Ford Community College, Kellogg Community College, and Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor.

The WMU experience focuses on careers as biomedical and behavioral scientists who would spend their working years seeking the causes of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, mental illness, and other biologically impacted maladies.

“Bridges” seeks to nurture minority students to consider careers in these fields because of the growing need for trained scientists in one of the fastest-growing industries in the U. S. economy. Similar programs in Michigan are based at Wayne State University and the Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids.

The program liaisons at KVCC are chemistry instructors Robert Sutton and Charissa Oliphant.

Application information and directions are available by contacting Sutton at extension 4175 or rsutton@kvcc.edu or Oliphant at extension 4402 or coliphant@kvcc.edu.

There are a limited number of positions available so applicants are advised to take prompt action. An application can be downloaded from: http://www.wmich.edu/bios/bridges.index.html.

KVCC applicants should submit their completed documents to either Sutton or Oliphant.Kalamazoo’s baseball legacy to get air time in April

The offering in April on the Kalamazoo Valley Museum’s TV show traces the community’s connection to America’s pastime and its many links to Major League baseball.

“Baseball in Kalamazoo” with Tom Dietz, the curator of research at the museum, will be aired by the Public Media Network (formerly the Community Access Center) on Channel 22 on the Charter cable system at 7 p.m. on Sundays, 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. on Fridays, and 11 a.m. on Saturdays. The featured artifact in the segment will be some vintage household appliances to illustrate the impact of rural electrification in Kalamazoo County in the 1930s.

The earliest reference to baseball in Kalamazoo appears in the April 20, 1859, edition of The Kalamazoo Telegraph in an article encouraging local boys and men to organize teams. Some games, using earlier rules, were played in Bronson Park.

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In 1862, President Latham Hull led the way for the Kalamazoo Village Council to prohibit games there for fear of damaging the trees.

From that beginning, the Kalamazoo region has had a fascinating baseball history, according to Dietz. From minor league teams in the late 1880s to community and company teams, Kalamazoo shared a passion for the national pastime.

The first College World Series was played at Hyames Field on the campus of Western Michigan College in 1947.

One team featured a left-handed first baseman, George H. W. Bush, but the University of California would defeat the future president and his Yale teammates.

The Kalamazoo Lassies would represent the city in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, winning the championship in 1954, the final year of the league’s existence.

Today minor-league baseball in the form of the Kalamazoo Kings, former champions of the Frontier League, is still a popular summer recreation.

The Kalamazoo area has sent several native sons to the major leagues, including Mike Squires, Leon Roberts, Neil Berry, Charlie “Paw Paw” Maxwell, and, of course, the New York Yankees future Hall of Famer, shortstop Derek Jeter. Many who played their college baseball at Western Michigan University also made it to “the show.”

Dietz has been working with the PMN and its video productions coordinator Katie Reid to film monthly episodes that showcase an episode of Southwest Michigan history and the artifacts that help tell the story of this part of Michigan.

2009 Reading Together events continuing The 2009 Reading Together selection of the Kalamazoo Public Library, a trio of

memoirs of a New York Times columnist who is still based in his southern roots, is the focus of a series of special events.

Kalamazoo's annual community-reading program will bring Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg to town for a free presentation on Tuesday, April 14, during National Library Week.

KVCC’s Jim Ratliff is a member of the selection committee that chose Bragg’s “Ava’s Man,” “The Prince of Frogtown, and “All Over But the Shoutin’.”

Here’s what is booked through March and into early April: ● Friday (March 27) from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library

downtown – The “Genealogy Lock-In” will invite those interested in tracking one’s ancestry to probe the resources of the library’s Local History Room.

● Monday (March 30) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Oshtemo Branch Library, 7265 W. Main St. – a discussion of Bragg’s books.

● Wednesday (April 1) from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Kalamazoo Public Library in downtown Kalamazoo – “In Praise of Cornbread” will explore the origins, styles and tasty variations of an edible that is found on dinner tables throughout the United States but which reigns supreme in the South.

● Saturday, April 4, from 10 to noon -- “Intro to Genealogy” sessions are held once each fall, winter and spring in the third-floor computer-training lab at the Kalamazoo Public Library. The workshop will detail how to trace a family tree, and how to use Ancestry.com, Heritage Quest, and the library’s extensive historical resources. Registration is limited. Call (269) 553-7808.

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● Monday, April 6, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Oshtemo Branch Library, 7265 W. Main Ave. – “Family Reunions” will feature Jacque Eatmon, who will guide a “Talking Circle,” an exercise that can help family members share traits, values, health, and childhood stories. Participants should bring a valued keepsake.

● Wednesday, April 8, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Powell Branch of the Kalamazoo Public Library, 1000 Paterson St. – “Memoir Writing” will show how this exercisecompares to storytelling. Rather than the full scope of an autobiography, memoirs focus on events and their impact on the writer. Learn how to sift through the past to capture meaningful moments still vivid in memory. Registration required by calling (269)553-7960.

● Thursday, April 9, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the Davenport University campus, 4123 W. Main – “The World Café” will have Mary Jo Asmus hosting a conversation about Bragg’s memoirs using the “World Café model”—by engaging collective intelligence and stimulating creative thinking about questions that matter.

With colorful language and emotional honesty, Bragg recounts in “All Over But the Shoutin’” a turbulent and poverty-stricken childhood in rural Alabama that gave rise to a career in journalism that led to the profession’s No. 1 prize for reporting.

It is described as “a sensitive but never self-pitying look at the fruits of his father’s abuse and abandonment of the family, and at his mother, who bore the brunt of the pain.” Bragg’s mother absorbed the cruelties of an alcoholic husband haunted by his service in the Korean War, and gave her life, in endless cotton fields, to make a living for her three sons.

In “Ava’s Man,” Bragg celebrates his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, a heroic figure whose life was symbolic of a people and way of life nearly gone today from the Southern landscape. It is also a study of the history and culture of the rural South, richly seasoned with all-but-forgotten lore and language.

“The Prince of Frogtown” completes the cycle of Bragg’s stories about his childhood. Bragg was convinced the last thing he wanted was to become a father. Now married and suddenly step-father to a young boy, Bragg looks back to move forward. Through conversations with people who knew his father, Bragg builds a picture of who Charles Bragg really was, searching for shreds of goodness in him. Stories about his father alternate with chapters about the developing relationship with his step-son.

Copies of the three books are located in KVCC’s libraries. Reading Together invites people of all ages from all walks of life to read and then

discuss important issues raised by a selected book. Thousands of county residents have participated in six previous Reading Together programs.

The Kalamazoo Public Library leads Reading Together with the collaboration of libraries, educational institutions, health and social service agencies, cultural, civic and religious organizations, businesses, the new media, and local governments throughout Kalamazoo County.

The Kalamazoo Community Foundation helped the library launch Reading Together with funding for the first three years with grants from it Better Together initiative. The library now provides major support for the program. Foundation grants, gifts and contributions from collaborating organizations make it possible to offer Reading Together to all of Kalamazoo County. KPL program specialist Lisa Williams coordinates the program.

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The book-selection process continues Reading Together’s tradition of democratic community participation. A group of community members considers dozens of titles gathered from last year’s evaluation process, suggested by library patrons, staff, and community leaders, and recommended by librarians and educators.

Committee members read and discuss the suggested titles with these guidelines in mind. A good Reading Together book features:

● an author who will come to Kalamazoo during the Reading Together period;● beautiful prose that fosters an appreciation of literature;● availability in multiple formats such as large print, audio recording, Spanish;● reading level, vocabulary, length, and subject matter that appeals to adults as

well as high school and college students;● treatment of social issues relevant to our community.The trio of books was chosen for 2009 because Bragg’s memoirs of home and

childhood are related but not linear. They sufficiently connect so that readers could start with the newest book, “The Prince of Frogtown,” and then move on to one of the others.

Bragg says he learned to tell stories by listening to the masters -- the people of the foothills of the Appalachians. They talked of the sadness, poverty, cruelty, kindness, hope, hopelessness, faith, anger and joy of their everyday lives, and painted pictures on the very haze of the early evening when work faded into storytelling.

Bragg was born in Alabama, grew up there, and worked at several newspapers before joining The Times in 1994. He covered the murder and unrest in Haiti while a metro reporter there, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jonesboro killings, the Susan Smith trial and more as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. He later became Miami bureau chief for The Times just in time for Elian Gonzalez's arrival and the international battle for the little boy. He is now a roving correspondent based in New Orleans.

Bragg received the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 for his stories about contemporary America. He has twice won the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award, and more than 50 writing awards in his 20-year career. In 1992, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He has taught writing in colleges and in newspaper newsrooms.

He lives in a shotgun double house not far from the levee and the train tracks in uptown New Orleans where he says he has cultivated several fine weeds in his back yard. He likes to fish when he can find the time. He has not fished in two years.

“Ava’s Man” recounts the story of Bundrum, a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, made boats out of car hoods, and knew how to pack a wound with brown sugar to stop the blood. He could not read, but he asked his wife to read him the newspaper every day so he would not be ignorant. To Bragg, e was a man who took giant steps in rundown boots, a true hero whom history would otherwise have overlooked.

In the decade of the Great Depression, Bundrum moved his family 21 times, keeping seven children one step ahead of the poverty and starvation that threatened them from every side. He worked at the steel mill when the steel was rolling, or for a side of bacon or a bushel of peaches when it wasn’t. He paid the doctor who delivered his fourth daughter with a jar of whiskey.

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He understood the finer points of the law as it applied to poor people and drinking men; he was a banjo player and a buck dancer who worked off fines when life got a little sideways, and he sang when he was drunk, where other men fought or cussed. He had a talent for living.

His children revered him, Bragg wrote. When he died, cars lined the blacktop for more than a mile to say goodbye to “Ava’s Man.”

Earth’s satellites track what’s going on down here

We can hardly see them, but they can see us and – from way up there – they tell us about weather patterns that can predict deadly storms, the potential damage of forest fires, the snail’s pace of glacial movement, and the deterioration of the ozone layer.

As lunar landers and rovers paint electronic portraits of the on-the-surface environment of solar-system planets far away, a squadron of satellites orbit Earth anywhere from 180 to 22,000 miles above sea level constantly scanning what’s going on down here.

NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) is the focal point of “Eyes on Earth,” an interactive science exhibition that has begun a three-month mission at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum.

Produced and developed by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, it examines how satellite observations are made and what humanity can learn about the Earth using space technology. Much of the complexity becomes more understandable through the use of such earthly toys as marbles and puzzles.

Designed primarily for families and school groups (upper elementary through adults), visitors learn what a satellite is, discover the different types of orbits, and explore cutting-edge technology similar to that used by EOS scientists.

Through April 19, “Eyes on Earth” will bring these concepts "down to earth" through a combination of fun, accessible interactives in a playful and "spacey" environment that explores three major areas -- satellites, orbits, and satellite technology.

By designing a satellite, visitors learn their composition, their types and functions. They will get up close and personal with an imaging camera, a solar panel, an infra-red heat sensor, a communications transmitter, and a magnetometer. Whatever is designed, its performance can be tested.

Once comfortable with the scope of the exhibit, visitors can sample EOS missions that explore a global issue currently studied by scientists via satellite – holes in the ozone layer, urban sprawl and how that is impacting climate, and weather-system tracking.

All gathered information is sent to stations around the country and analyzed by meteorologists to assist them in forecasting weather and predicting the magnitude and locations of storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other catastrophic weather events.

Using marbles and varying launch trajectories, visitors of all ages can gain an understanding of orbits and how scientists use different ones, from circular to highly elliptical, for satellites to accomplish a variety of objectives such as mapping, surveying, photographing, scanning and monitoring the planet in one day. The science and technology behind telecommunications satellites are also explored.

Satellites gather data for scientists who chart ocean temperatures to build an understanding of how those massive bodies of water affect the weather.

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At one station, a visitor can watch as the satellite passes overhead, measuring personal "altitude" as well as the height of everything else in its path. That’s how a satellite measures wave height, wind speeds, tides, ocean heights, water temperatures, and changes in currents.

The relationship of the Earth spinning on its axis and the satellites that circle the globe is told with the help of phosphorescent paint that helps leave a glowing trail that illustrates the orbit. Those combinations – the planet’s rotation and the satellite’s orbit – are key to scientists gaining knowledge about the Earth’s surface.

One of the exhibit’s main lessons analyzes the importance of the planet’s ozone layer and, if it continues to deteriorate, how that will damage Earth’s natural ultra-violet-ray filtration system so essential to life as it is now known. There are also stations that explain the climatic phenomena known as El Niño and La Niña, and offer an up-to-date report on the status and health of the planet that humanity calls home.

Complementing “Eyes on Earth” is a gallery of stunning photographs and data renderings of the Earth as obtained by EOS satellites. The 16-square-foot images are hung on stylized rocket stands and are accentuated by audio samples of actual NASA satellite-launching missions.

The images include a rendering of a hurricane, the Earth at night, views of the globe from various satellites, and space views of natural landmarks.

In “What Goes Around Near and Far,” exhibit visitors can gain a perspective of what the planet looks like from beyond the upper reaches of the atmosphere. This illustrates how NASA scientists use both close-up and wide-angle images to conduct their studies and reach their goals for building knowledge.

“The Bigger the Better” demonstrates the importance of lens size and aperture when it comes to the detail and clarity of an image from a satellite. Different sizes and openings bring this lesson home.

“The goal of ‘Eyes on Earth’ is to show the holistic exploration of Earth that is being conducted from the vantage point of space,” said Ray Vandiver, vice president of exhibits for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, “and how the information gleaned from NASA missions helps us learn more about how natural processes affect us and how we might be affecting them.

“Many of us are fascinated by space exploration,” he said, “but few of us know how much is being learned about our planet through NASA’s efforts.”

This is the second exhibition created by the Oregon museum to be on display in Kalamazoo. Prior to “Eyes on Earth,” “Moneyville,” which explored the concept and history of bartering and coinage, also spent three months here.

Launched in the fall of 2002, “Eyes on Earth” has been booked into museums in Des Moines, Tallahassee, Burlington (Vt.), Pierre (S. D.), Oak Ridge (Tenn.), Ontario, Wilmington (Del), Hampton (Va.), and Morristown (N. J.).

Visitors in these communities were able to gain much insight and knowledge about the orb in the universe that they call home – assuming, naturally, that they are all Earthlings.

Look at what’s up there in ‘100 Hours of Astronomy’Two nights of celestial viewing of what Galileo saw for the first time 400 years

ago in his telescope will mark the opening of the International of Year of Astronomy (IYA).

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On April 3-4, the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society will join forces with the Kalamazoo Valley Museum as part of the International Astronomical Union’s “100 Hours of Astronomy” celebration by inviting the public to take a closer look at what’s up there --- way, way, way up there.

Using much more sophisticated and technical equipment than Galileo had in 1609, society members and museum staff will point their telescopes to provide views of the moon, the vast plains called Maria, chains of mountains and craters. Further east, the planet Saturn will come into focus, revealing the rings that remained a mystery to Galileo.

Eric Schreur, the museum’s planetarium coordinator, said the free stargazing will begin at 8 p.m. on both that Friday and Saturday, and continue until people’s eyes grow tired of the celestial sights.

The telescopes will be set up in the courtyard south of the museum and adjacent to KVCC’s Anna Whitten Hall.

Also planned at 7 p.m. on April 3 will be a special program for cub scouts, as well as a planetarium show about how to find constellations using a star map. The scout program has limited seating, carries an $8 fee, and requires pre-registration.

The concept of “100 Hours of Astronomy” is derived from the fact that, beginning on the evening of April 2, backyard stargazers around the world will set up their telescopes to give public audiences the chance to look up close and personal skyward.

As the earth turns into its shadow, observers in different cities will keep a continuous watch on the night sky until four days have elapsed. Major observatories around the world will participate by streaming webcasts to audiences in distant cities.

Throughout the four-day period, somewhere around the earth a telescope will be aimed into the night sky.

Another IYA goal is to have millions of people viewing the night sky through telescopes of their own.

Some people have telescopes buried in a closet or garage. The Telescope Amnesty Program invites people to bring them to IYA events, including those at the museum, where experienced stargazers can demonstrate how to set them up, or tune them for better performance.

Exhibit brings bit of Motown to KalamazooRunning through Sept. 27 in the first-floor gallery, the Kalamazoo Valley

Museum’s exhibit of “Meet the Velvelettes” features costumes, memorabilia, and photographs that tell the quartet’s story as individual women, and their historical context as part of Motown’s “Hitsville U.S.A.” phenomenon that brought black music into the mainstream.

“Meet the Velvelettes” is sponsored by the KVCC Foundation and coincides with the 50th anniversary of this genre of music.

While riding a wave of popularity as the Motor City recording company’s No. 1 female singing group, the quartet followed the advice of Motown mogul Berry Gordy. “Where Did Our Love Go?,” a song ticketed to become part of The Velvelettes’ repertoire, was instead assigned to another group. Diana Ross and The Supremes never looked back.

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Yet, neither has any of The Velvelettes. Two of them based in Kalamazoo followed other career paths and gave up the glitz of show business for the strong family values that shaped them.

But they have recharged their singing batteries enough to take their act to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and England’s distant shores.

Barbee-McNeal, raised in Flint and a pianist since the age of 9, formed a singing group with cousins and sang gigs around the community. They even cut a record.

When college called, the group broke up. She chose Western Michigan University because of the reputation of its music school. In the fall of 1962, she and new-found friends won a $25 talent contest on campus as the five-member Velvelettes -- Mildred “Milly” Gill (Arbor), a graduate of Kalamazoo Central High School, and sister Carolyn “Cal” (Street), then a student at Loy Norrix High School; friend Betty Kelley of Kalamazoo, who was destined to be part of Motown’s Martha and the Vandellas; and Barbee-McNeal’s cousin Norma in Flint.

In the audience that evening was a student who mentioned a new recording studio in Detroit might be interested in the smooth style of The Velvelettes. The student was Gordy’s nephew.

In December of 1962, the minister-father of Cal and Milly drove four-fifths of the quintet to Detroit during an ungodly snow storm. It was a cold day and a cold call. They didn’t know where the Motown studio was, and Gordy’s staff had no clue who was stopping by that gloomy Saturday.

A receptionist gave the group the cold shoulder until, walking out the door, Barbee-McNeal encountered the producer who had orchestrated her first group’s record back in Flint. Nothing like being in the right place at the right time.

The Velvelettes, the first act from outside Detroit to be signed by Motown, got into the door because somebody was coming through the door. They began crossing paths regularly with the likes of The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Four Tops, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, The Supremes, and a kid named Stevie Wonder. By 1964, The Velvelettes were the typical quartet as Kelley joined Martha Reeves’ popular group.

Gordy’s operation did it all, from booking the shows to buying outfits. Very important was for his performers to pass muster with “The Charm School Lady,” Maxine Powell. As a one-woman den mother, coach, disciplinarian and chaperone, she taught Gordy’s “family” the social graces, how to be in show business, how to act professionally, how to sit, walk, talk and use your hands, and how to be interviewed.

None of the Kalamazoo-based Velvelettes gave up their schooling for a full shot at show business. Bertha and Milly stayed on as WMU students, and Cal completed high school. They were the only Motowners either still in college or high school.

When “Needle in a Haystack” made it to No. 13 in the nation, The Velvelettes jumped to the big time, garnering the ultimate honor — a call from Dick Clark to appear on his TV show. The quartet was also part of one of Clark’s star-studded tours that included Bobby Freeman, Johnny Tillotson, Brian Hyland, The Drifters, and Lou Christie.

With “Needle in a Haystack” doing well, the group was called into Gordy’s lush office. A composer ticketed “Where Did Our Love Go?” for the Velvelettes, but because

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The Supremes hadn’t gone up the ladder quite as far, Gordy asked whether the song could be given to the Ross trio. Sure, no big deal.

The focus shifted to The Supremes when the song went to No. 1, the first of five in a row for the group.

After being knee-deep in the Motown thing for nearly five years, show business and its grind started to get a little old for three members. Bertha, Milly and Norma hung up their hip-hugging costumes in 1965, while Cal, who had married one of The Temptations, stayed in the business for another three years.

The Velvelettes each went separate ways — marriage, motherhood, divorce and careers. Cal was working at The Upjohn Co., Bertha was teaching choir in the Kalamazoo Public Schools, Milly was a registered nurse in Flint, and Norma was a marketing director for a hotel in her home town.

However, on occasions, they polished up the act and performed, especially when rock ‘n’ roll’s nostalgia era arrived with the explosion of “Oldies But Goodies” radio stations.

By 1986, they were back in Detroit as part of a retro look at the legacy of Motown, singing with many of the studio’s legends at the splashy Fox Theater. A year later, they toured England with Martha and the Vandellas.

The Velvelettes were part of the billing in June of 1998 when Motown brought all of the biggies back for its 40th anniversary. The museum’s new exhibition is part of the

golden-anniversary celebration. And finally. . .

Church bulletins are nuggets of solid information for members of the congregation, but they sometimes use words and sentence structures that can carry a different connotation: The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."

Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.

Don't let worry kill you off - let the church help.

Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving Church bulletins are nuggets of solid information for members of the congregation, but they sometimes use words and sentence structures that can carry a different connotation:

Don't let worry kill you off - let the church help.

Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.

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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on Oct. 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.

Eight new choir robes are currently needed because of the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.

The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.

Potluck supper Sunday at 5 p.m. - prayer and medication to follow.

The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoons

This evening at 7, there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.

Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. is done.

The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday

The Low Self-Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. Please use the back door.

The eighth graders will be presenting Shakespeare's “Hamlet” in the church basement on Friday at 7 p.m. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

Weight Watchers will meet at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

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