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Designs By Judy Looks to garner Best of Jackson florist Designs by Judy needs your help. By Jennifer Couch
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Designs by Judy needs your help. We have made it to the top 3 spots in the Best of Jackson in the florist category. How cool would it be to have a florist from Grass Lake take the top spot and be the best florist in Jackson county. Owner Judy Wollet has been in business for 37 years and is very deserving of this honor. Judy started her career at MSU where she got her horticulture degree. After getting her degree she did an internship at Saline Flower Land before she took over a small corner in her parent’s farm stand. Before long she had
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overtaken the entire stand and it became Designs by Judy Florist & Greenhouse.
hard to make your DBJ experience as enjoyable as possible.
The first few years or so it was just Judy, & her mom Ruth. Judy worked two jobs and coached Varsity Volleyball. She got a lot of help from her 10 brother and sisters. Before long one of her brother’s came on full time. As the business grew, more people were added and she now has a staff of one full time, six part-time and six seasonal employees. She has an adorable store that also sells garden, home decor and gift items.
On top of selling fresh flowers, she also has five greenhouses that sells annuals, perennials, flowering trees & shrubs. She grows many of her own annuals and perennials. Her greenhouses are open from May 1st to the first frost. She also provides many of your other gardening needs like mulch & dirt.
Judy’s love of flowers and plants show in everything she does. She has worked very hard to make her business what it is today. She is a full-service florist and her funeral work is some of the best in the county. She loves making arrangements that bring smiles to people’s faces. She and her staff are second to none. They go above and beyond to help their customer with their shopping experience. Whether it’s helping you pick out the perfect perennial for your garden, to picking out the perfect flower arrangement to say your last goodbye they are always there for you. They try
This time of year, Judy and her staff are busy making grave blankets, fir balls, and winter pots. They also sell wreaths, stone topper and cemetery cones. Of course, being a full-service flower shop, they can meet all your other holiday needs, whether it’s a gift item or a centerpiece for your table they have you covered. This award would prove to Judy that all her hard work and dedication has indeed payed off. So please, go to https://www. surveymonkey.com/r/QF8KVDC to vote for her and her amazing staff. Because Grass Lake is a great place to call home.
Christmas Festival of Lights - A history The 2019 Festival of Lights is set for December 7, 2019 HISTORY
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The Christmas Festival of Lights program drew an amazing number of people into town in its first year during the Christmas season of 2010. Searching out all of the cookies they could find, visitors turned out for a marvelous day to open the Christmas season as hundreds of kids visited with Santa at the Depot, while the Fire Department collected canned goods and toys for those less fortunate during this season of giving.Santa Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the day was the “Cookie Tour”. Each family picked up their passports for the cookie tour and set out collecting cookies at 25 different locations around town and throughout the community. Whether it was just walking through downtown, or taking the horse and wagon rides to the Coe House Museum, most shuttled throughout the area seeking the stamps on their passports for a chance at the Christmas basket prizes at the Depot. With the afternoon pretty much occupied by looking for cookies, listening to music at the Depot, or simply wandering the businesses downtown, most occupied their time
at one end of town or the other until the parade got underway at 4:00 p.m.
An overall enjoyable day throughout Grass Lake, the spirit of Christmas was well underway thanks to the key coordination of Jennifer Crouch and Sharon Coppernoll and the crew of people that they put together to pull off another fine community event.
The streets were lined with people at the start of the parade with a host of creative attempts at lighting up, and sounding up, their different approaches in parade floats, all of which culminated in the lighting of the tree on the grounds of Whistlestop Park at 5:00 p.m. Hundreds of cups of hot chocolate were consumed as everyone awaited the arrival of Santa for the lighting of the tree adorned with more than Grass Lake Festival of Lights 8,400 lights. At the designated Saturday December 7th 2019 time, the Mayor started the countdown as Santa made the Breakfast with Santa 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM Pancake breakfast at the Grass Lake Charter Township Fire Department final connection to light up the 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM tree to applause and oooh’s and Into the Galaxy Cookie Quest Begin at Whistlestop Depot then visit participating businesses to gather tasty galaxy aaahh’s. As the spirit and hot themed cookies and collect stamps from each place you visit! Return your completed chocolate warmed the hearts, passport to the depot for a chance to win the grand prize basket! Grass Lake native and Jackson Visit with Santa 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Don’t forget to put your letter to Santa in the North Pole mailbox! County’s Rose Queen Casey Crafting Time 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM McKay autographed pictures Roaming Goat will be open for kids to make Christmas cards to send to Meals on Wheels for a line of little girls inside the participants on Christmas morning! Depot. Raffles & Wreaths 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Visit the Whistlestop Depot to peruse the basket raffle! Baskets are loaded with toys and goodies for various ages. There will also be a wreath silent auction!
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Kicks off at Lafayette St. traveling through downtown, ending at Lake St. Sing Christmas carols and enjoy hot chocolate compliments of Grass Lake Lions & Leos Club at the Whistlestop Park. Raffle Basket winners announced following ceremony.
Grass Lake Travel Club will also be selling hot dogs during the parade to raise funds for their trip to Galapagos Island in April!
Proclamation of Thanksgiving Raymond Tucker Cordani rtc@thegrasslaketimes.com Editor’s Note: On this day, the final Thursday of November, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Thanksgiving Proclamation on November 28 in AD1861.The Grass Lake Times is publishing the address in its entirety This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America's national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders similar to this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving. Sarah Josepha Hale, a 74-year-old magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on September 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She explained, "You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution." Prior to this, each state scheduled its own Thanksgiving holiday at different times, mainly in New England and other Northern states. President Lincoln responded to Mrs. Hale's request immediately, unlike several of his
predecessors, who ignored her petitions altogether. In her letter to Lincoln she mentioned that she had been advocating a national thanksgiving date for 15 years as the editor of Godey's Lady's Book. George Washington was the first president to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, issuing his request on October 3, 1789, exactly 74 years before Lincoln's. The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise." According to an April 1, 1864, letter from John Nicolay, one of President Lincoln's secretaries, this document was written by Secretary of State William Seward, and the original was in his handwriting. On October 3, 1863, fellow Cabinet member Gideon Welles recorded in his diary how he complimented Seward on his work. A year later the manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops. Washington, D.C. October 3, 1863 By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence
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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Grass Lake Charter Township Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing at the Grass Lake Charter Township Hall, 373 Lakeside Drive, on Thursday, December 19, at 7:00 p.m. for the consideration of a Zoning Text Amendment for the Sand and Gravel Mining Ordinance. Written comments concerning the Text Amendment may be sent to Grass Lake Charter Township Planning Commission, 373 Lakeside Drive, P.O. Box 216, Grass Lake, MI 49240, any time before the hearing. The Text Amendment is on exhibit at the Township Office and is available to see on the Township’s web page. Grass Lake Charter Township office is open Monday thru Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Doug Lammers, Zoning Administrator Jere Hinkle Chairman, Grass Lake Township Planning Commission
of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are
at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.
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WANTED: TURKEY, DEAD OR ALIVE Raymond Tucker Cordani rtc@thegrasslaketimes.com The boy named the turkey “Jack.” He grew fond of the bird, led it around by a leash through the Rose Garden behind the Whitehouse and fed it corn kernels, not realizing that he was, in effect, fattening Jack for the slaughter. Today we celebrate Thanksgiving Day. President Abraham Lincoln established this perpetual memorial in 1863. The War Between the States was raging but Lincoln declared that the final Thursday in November would be set aside for giving thanks to God, to be thankful for what we have and what we don’t have. As the story goes, the thanksgiving turkey arrived at the Whitehouse and the President’s son, Tad, 10 years old, befriended the fowl. But when the butchers came for the bird Tad burst through the doors of the room where his father was meeting with his cabinet and cried, “Father! They’re going to butcher Jack!” Honest Abe rose to his six-feet-four-inches of height, tugged the lapels of his waistcoat, and said, “I’d like to help you, son, but you’re too young to vote.” Later at dinner he said to his wife, Mary, “Pass the gravy, Ma, and what’s the score of the Bears-Lions game?” Tad went to bed without supper that night while Jack selfmedicated with more corn kernels. The Book of Sirach offers praise to the Lord saying: “And now, bless the God of all, who everywhere has worked great wonders, who fosters the people’s growth and deals with us according to his mercy.” Thanksgiving Day became a federal holiday when, during the height of the U.S. Civil War, President Lincoln proclaimed it a national day of “Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” Today the traditional holiday turkey is thankful for having received its pardon. While nearly 50 million turkeys are served up every Thanksgiving (I prefer it deep fried), two lucky gobblers are given stays of execution. In 1989 President George H.W. Bush remarked that the turkeys appeared “understandably nervous,” but added, “Let me assure you, that these fine turkeys will not end up on anyone’s dinner table. They are granted a presidential pardon right now.” The birds, so dumb they didn’t know they were turkeys, were very grateful, but what about the 50 million minus two that didn’t get off? Continued pg7...
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CHURCH DIRECTORY First Waterloo UMC Crusade for Christ MinistriesCorner of Parks and Territorial, House of Prayer Waterloo Township 6288 Mt. Hope Rd., Grass Lake Rev. Georgie Dack Pastor Melvin L. Parker Sunday Worship – 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship-10 a.m. Sunday School – 10:15 a.m. Monday Bible School - 7 p.m. ------------------------------------------------------Grass Lake Assembly of God Christ Lutheran Church Rev. Wesley Edie 4250 Page Ave. Michigan Center 2900 Mt Hope Rd, Grass Lake, MI Sunday Worship - 9:45 am Sunday School - 9:30am Pastor Ryan Prondzinski Sunday Worship - 10:30am ---------------------------Divine Wings Spiritual Fellowship Kid's & Youth Programs, Sun. - 5pm Senior Chapel, Fri. - 10:15am 7446 Cain Road Jackson ---------------------------Fellowship Service @10:30AM Grass Lake Baptist Church Sundays Facebook @ Divine Wings Fellowship 939 E. Michigan Ave., Grass Lake Pastor Tim Butterfield ---------------------------Sunday Worship – 11:00 a.m. Faith Baptist Church Sunday School – 10:00 a.m. 4030 Kalmbach Rd. - Chelsea Sun. Evening Worship – 6:00 p.m. Pastor Adam Summers Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 p.m. Sunday School - 10:00 a.m. ---------------------------Sunday Worship - 11:00 a.m. Grass Lake UMC Sunday Evening - 6:00 p.m. Rev. Lawrence Wiliford Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. 449 E. Michigan Ave., Grass Lake ---------------------------Sunday Worship - 10:00 a.m. Family Worship Center Sun. School 10:30 a.m. 1901 Mt. Hope Rd., Grass Lake ---------------------------Pastor James Bryde First Church of Christ, Scientist 522- 4062 147 E. Michigan Ave website: www.grasslakefwc.com Jackson, MI 49201 email: pastorjames@grasslakefwc.com Sunday Worship 10:00 AM Sun Worship and Sun School 10:30AM Wed Testimony Meeting 12:30 PM Youth Ministries (6th -12th grade) www.christiansciencejacksonmi.com Sunday 6:30 P.M ------------------------------------------------------Harvest Baptist Church Waterloo Village UMC 17999 Washburne Rd Village of Waterloo Pastor Kelly Daniel Rev. Mary Barrett Sun School – 10:00 a.m. Coffee/Adult Sun. School Sun Service, 11:00 a.m. Sunday Worship – 11:00 a.m. Sun Eve Service, 6:00 p.m. Visit Creator’s Closet Free Store Wed. 7 p.m.Bible Study/Prayer Open Mon. & Sat. 9-Noon
Salem Grove United Methodist Leoni Baptist Church 3320 Notten Rd. Grass Lake 245 N. Portage Rd, Leoni Township Between Chelsea and Grass Lake Pastor Tom Duckham Pastor Mary Barrett Sunday services: 11 a.m. marybarrett@yahoo.com ---------------------------Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. Michigan Center Bible Church ---------------------------150 Broad St, Michigan Center St. Barnabas Episcopal Church Sunday services: 10:45 a.m. 20500 Old US -12, Chelsea Sunday School classes: 9:30 a.m. Fr. Bill Stech ---------------------------Sunday Worship – 10:00 a.m. Our Lady of Fatima Church www.stbarnabaschelsea.org 911 Napoleon Road, Michigan Ctr We are an open and affirming Fr Satheesh Caniton Alphonse, SdC congregation frsatheesh@fatimaparish.net ---------------------------Confessions 3:30-- 4 p.m. Saturday Mass 4:30 p.m. St. Jacob Ev. Lutheran Church Sun. Masses: 8:00, 10:30 a.m. Pastor Kurt Uhlenbrauch ---------------------------12501 Riethmiller Rd. Pious Union of St. Joseph Sunday Worship – 10:15 am 971 E. Michigan Ave., Grass Lake Sunday School & Bible Study 9:00 am Fr. Leo Joseph, SdC ---------------------------Phone: (517) 522-8017 St. John’s United Church of Christ Masses, M-T-TH-F-S 11:30 a.m. Gary Schooler, Pastor Wed 8:30 a.m., 270 Bohne Rd., Grass Lake Sun. Mass 10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship – 10:30 a.m. ---------------------------Sunday School - 10:30 a.m. Mt. Hope Bible Church Communion: First Sunday of month 12884 Trist Rd, Grass Lake ---------------------------Facebook @ Mt. Hope Bible Church St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church www.MountHopeBible.com 361 E. Grove St. Pastor Dr. Alan Mackey Michigan Center Corporate Worship: 517.764.2950 Sunday @ 11a 11:00 a.m. Sunday Service Bible Study and Prayer: 9:30 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday @ 630p ---------------------------The Federated Church Rev. Clive Heyd, Pastor 519 E. Michigan Ave, Grass Lake Sunday Worship - 10 am Sunday School - 11:15 am Wednesday Bible Study - 9:30 am glfederated@gmail.com
100 Years Ago From the Archives FAMOUS DUNBAR BELL RINGERS At the Liberty Theatre Monday Evening, December 1 1919
Bell ringing was brought to America first, in the 1840’s, by the late P. T. Barnum. In connection with the appearance here on the Lyceum course Monday evening December 1, of the Dunbar Male Quartet andi Bell Ringers, it is interesting to note that the art of bell ringing was brought to America first, in the 1840’s, by the late P. T. Barnum. While touring England he heard a group of church bell ringers practicing upon hand bells and he conceived the idea of using a large peal of bells and playing more elaborate music. These bells were made in England as the world’s best bells always
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have been, but in conformity with the great showman’s unfailing originality as an advertiser, he dressed the players, both men and women, in the costumes of Swiss peasants, and called the company “Swiss Bell Ringers” For many years this company toured the United, States in wagons before railroads were at all general. The art at that time was so successful that my grandfather recalls most vividly the visit of the Swiss Bell Ringers to their native towns. After Mr. Barnum the art of bell ringing was not revived in any worthy way until 1898, when Ralph Dunbar and his brother, Harry, founded the famous Dunbar Bell Ringers. Ralph and Harry Dunbar continued with this company until 1912. The company which will appear here was organized by Ralph Dunbar and is most worthy to bear the Dunbar name. which the younger people will be barred.
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LETTS CREEK SOLAR PROJECT
Join us for our open house! Date: Thursday, December 12 Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm Location: Grass Lake Town Hall Senior Center 373 Lakeside Dr, Grass Lake, MI 49240 This will be an opportunity for folks to learn more about our project, ask questions, and share their thoughts in an informal ‘one-on-one’ setting. Interested individuals can come anytime between 6:00-8:00 p.m. Letts Creek Solar is a 15 MW solar energy project that is proposed for Grass Lake Charter Township, Jackson County. This low-cost, low-impact, environmentally sensitive form of energy is building a cleaner future and creating economic benefits for Michigan and the local community.
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The Recipe Exchange FROZEN APPLE SALAD Dear Lynn, Does anyone have some great recipes for left-over turkey? 1-8 oz can crushed pineapple, 2 eggs, slightly beaten Cheryl from Jerome well drained, save the syrup 1/2 c sugar Dash of salt 3 T lemon juice Cindy from Lapeer is in charge of making the White Christmas Salad for holiday 2 c finely chopped red apples, 1/2 c thinly sliced celery dinners. It is a family tradition that reaches back many generations. Lisa from unpeeled 1 c whipping cream Coldwater says her favorite recipe for a holiday salad is for Frozen Apple Salad. Rick from Cass City sent in his savory recipe for Cranberry-Raspberry Salad. Please stop DIRECTIONS: Measure pineapple syrup, adding water if necessary by my blog, Lynn’s Musings for a visit at www.lseckerle.wordpress.com. Send recipes to make 1/2 cup. Pour into a large saucepan. Add eggs, sugar, and requests to The Recipe Exchange at lynneckerle@gmail.com. salt and lemon juice. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until thickened. Chill. Stir in pineapple, chopped apples and celery. WHITE CHRISTMAS SALAD Whip the cream and fold in carefully. Pour mixture into a 1 1/2 quart square dish. Cover well with aluminum foil and freeze until firm. 2 c crushed pineapple, 1/2 c lemon juice When ready to serve, cut into squares. Garnish with thin slices of undrained 1 c sugar apple sprinkled with lemon juice. 2 envs. unflavored gelatin 1/2 c cold water 1 c grated cheddar cheese 1 c chopped pecans CRANBERRY-RASPBERRY SALAD 1 c chopped celery 1/2 c halved maraschino 1 c whipped topping cherries 1 env unflavored gelatin 1/2 c raspberry-cranberry juice 2-4 oz boxes of cranberry or 1/2 t ground ginger DIRECTIONS: In a large saucepan, bring pineapple raspberry gelatin 2 c boiling water with juice, lemon juice and sugar to a boil, stirring 1-14 oz can whole berry 1/2 c cold water constantly. Meanwhile, dissolve gelatin in cold cranberry sauce 1-12 oz bag frozen raspberries water. Add to hot mixture. Remove from heat. Stir well. Cool until mixture begins to gel. Carefully stir DIRECTIONS: In a small bowl, sprinkle gelatin over raspberry-cranberry juice. In a in cheese, pecans, celery and maraschino cherries. large glass or ceramic bowl, mix flavored gelatin with ginger. Pour boiling water over Gently fold in whipped topping. Turn into a lightly all and stir until gelatin is dissolved. Stir in cranberry sauce, cold water and unflavored oiled mold. Chill until firm. gelatin mixture. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Break up clumps of frozen raspberries. Stir the raspberries into the gelatin mixture. Let stand for 5 minutes. Spoon into a serving bowl. Refrigerate for at least an hour. Pretty garnished with fresh raspberries and orange slices.
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Euchre THIS Friday night November 29th at the Wolf Lake Yacht Club. 357 Highland Dr., Jackson. Starts at 7:00 and you don’t have to be a club member to play. $5 to play, 25 cents a euchre. Bring a snack to share and BYOB. Euchre is every other Friday night.
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR FRIDAY
Al-Anon meeting 10:30 am. 12 step program for anyone afflicted by another’s alcoholism. Location: First Presbyterian Church in Jackson. 517937-9503.
SATURDAY
Road Runners meet every Saturday at Roaming Goat at 7:50 a.m. Check out their Facebook page @GLRoadRunners for more information. Lost Railway Museum meets on the second Saturday of each month. Open to the public; volunteers welcome.
SUNDAY
Music Academy Jackson School of the arts. 5:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 634 N Mechanic Street in Jackson. For more details call 517-784-2389
Sunday Brunch at N. Kitchen and bar from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Full breakfast, beers, spirits. 2115 Bondsteel Dr. Jackson.
MONDAY
Grass Lake Yoga Intermediate Flow 6:30-7:30PM at Grass Lake Medical Center. $5 donation goes to GL Farmer's Market. GrassLakeYoga.com.
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Grass Lake Village Council meets the first and third Tuesdays at 119 N. Lake Street at 7:00 p.m. Grass Lake Charter Township meets the second Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Township Hall. American Legion Post 252 meets at Ryan’s Restaurant on the second Tuesday of the month at 9:00 a.m.
WEDNESDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous Grass Lake Group meets weekly at 7:30 p.m. at Grass Lake Federated Church 519 E. Michigan Ave. Grass Lake Masonic Lodge meets the first Wednesday of the month at Village office building - 119 Lake Street
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10194 meets on the third Thursday of the month at Grass Lake United Methodist Church. 449 E Michigan Avenue.
Upcoming Events
10th annual Festival of Lights. Theme: Christmas in the Galaxy. Saturday December 7th 10:00 a.m. at the Whistle Stop Depot in Grass Lake Village. Lunch with Santa at 2:00 p.m. at the Grass Lake Senior Center. Check out details on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/ GrassLakeFestivalofLights/ Potter Center Season at Jackson College. Multiple music groups scheduled from September to May 2020. Season kicks off with The Guess Who and many contemporary recording artists.
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to get me to do something about it. I can’t feed the world but I can feed one, and to that one, it can make all the difference. You may remember last year we did this Reverse Advent Calendar together and our community helped to provide food for families in need. Well, it was such a success last year that we are going to do it again! This Reverses Advent Calendar was created by passionatepennypincher. com and the idea is simple: Instead of having a candy advent calendar through the month of December, you have a reverse advent calendar where you pay it forward to food pantries during the holiday season and give back to help others in need!
Happy Thanksgiving Grass Lake! Hope you have your fat pants on because it’s time to eat! I hope you all enjoy this Thanksgiving Day with your family! We will be watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade and of course…. FOOTBALL!!! We are smack dab in the middle of the holiday season and Christmas is just a few weeks away! ‘Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la, la la la la! You sang that didn’t you! I know I did as I was typing it out Downtown Grass Lake looks beautiful all lit up with the streets adorned with holiday banners and lights and our upcoming Festival of Lights coming up on Saturday, 12/7! During this time of year, something that puts a lump in my throat is thinking about the children and families that are in need of food. It gets me right in the feels every time when I think of a child being hungry and not having any food to eat. We take for granted the fact we can open our fridge or pantry and have food readily accessible whenever we want. There are Continued from pg2... President Lincoln wasn’t heartless. Listening to the boy’s pleas to spare Jack from his dark meat fate, the Great Emancipator granted a reprieve and freed it, establishing the tradition. “The year that is drawing to its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. They are gracious gifts from the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy,” Lincoln aforesaid.
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families out there struggling to put a meal on the table every day. Personally, for me, it doesn’t matter how they got there. It’s honestly not for me to judge. For me, knowing there are hungry tummies and practically hearing the little kid’s voice saying “mommy I’m hungry” is enough
This week’s pay it forward idea is just that. This is a perfect thing to do with your office, school or family. Stick a box in the kitchen at your office and share this list and each person can sponsor one day (one item) to help fill the box. For classrooms, have the kiddos sponsor one item, or get your family involved and make a trip to Frank’s or the Dollar Store and make it a family outing that you can do together!
That was a stretch. The American Civil War suffered more causalities 625,000—than all other conflicts engaged in by the United States to this day. Even in the midst of the war our homeland had the presence of mind to be grateful for the blessings she received as one nation under God. Freedom is exercised in relationships between human beings and the Creator. Every person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. The right to exercise freedom,
especially in moral and religious matters, is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of the human person. Those rights must be recognized and protected by civil authorities within the limits of the common good and the public order. Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God. Gratitude works both ways. We are grateful for what we have, and grateful for what we don’t have. The biopsy turned out to be benign. They have passed away but are no longer suffering. We made the mortgage
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Right here in Grass Lake, we have a local food pantry that accepts non-perishable donations to help families in need. The local pantry has limited hours, so, to make delivery easy on you, I will do a community wide collection for anyone that wants to donate! Drop off your donation to me on Saturday, 12/14 from 12-1pm at Frank’s in the parking lot. I will park in the back of the lot near the steel clothing bin in a white SUV (pulling into the parking lot from Michigan Ave I will be on the right side). All donations will benefit the local food pantry at Grass Lake United Methodist Church located at 449 E. Michigan Ave. If you would like to donate your items yourself, you can call for hours at 517-522-8040. Thank you to passionatepennypincher. com for the great idea and THANK YOU, Grass Lake, for participating in this reverse advent calendar again this year to help feed families in need this holiday season. Last year we collected an entire truck load of food! Let’s show others what impact we can make as a community when we lock arms and come together to care for those in need! I hope this can be the start of a new holiday tradition for you, your family and even our charming little community of Grass Lake!!! This is our 2nd year doing this together and what a difference we can make! Happy paying it forward this week friends and Happy Thanksgiving! payment this month. Sure, my commute is a half-an hour longer but thank God I found another job. We live as one nation under God; the forebears knew this and they offered our country to Providence. Revisionist historians pervert that truth but the true story, His-Story, cannot be denied because God can’t lie and God can’t die. Enjoy the football and the pumpkin pie but go easy on the bird.
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This re-creation of the holiday’s traditions will include tours of the ten-room farmhouse, the authentic log house, several outbuildings and the one-room Dewey School. Hand-decorated greens, home-made baked goods and gift items will be available for purchase. Free cookies and cider and live music will be among the offerings for this homespun weekend. Concessions will be available. Adults ..........................$5 Seniors 62+ ..................$4 Children 5-12 ..............$2 Under 5 & Members Free —No Pets— Service Dogs Welcome
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