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Bygones Days: A look at the Wayland area’s past, Part 225

July 20, 2016

25 Years Ago — July 24, 1991 Linden and Eva Anderson were selected grand marshals for the annual Wayland Summerfest parade. Lindy is mayor and assistant principal at Wayland High School. Eva is a beautician at Harlequin Hair Fashions. High school sweethearts, they were married in 1966, just a couple...

Hopkins High School NHS has Red Cross blood drive

July 20, 2016

The Hopkins National Honor Society teamed up with the American Red Cross for a recent summer blood drive. There were 33 donors, which means the potential to save 99 lives. The NHS plans four more blood drives planned for the year and members hope to have a total of 200...

Scottsville Clown Band plays for Main Street celebration

July 16, 2016

The Scottsville Clown Band was among the groups that provided entertainment at the four corners of downtown Wayland Saturday in the seventh annual Main Street celebration. Also featured were feature cultural performances from members of the Gun Lake Tribe, Dee Jay the Clown and two live bands, The Factory and...

Bygone Days: A look at Wayland area’s past, Part 224

July 13, 2016

25 Years Ago — July 17, 1991 Tom Rumsey, enforcement officer for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, has blamed dredging for recent sightings of dead fish in the Rabbit River above 135th Avenue to 6th Street. The unpleasant discoveries were made just two years after the chemical Thiodan was...

Bygone Days: A brief look at Wayland area’s past, Part 223

July 6, 2016

25 Years Ago — July 10, 1991 Michael VanSledright, 24, of Grand Rapids, suffered third-degree burns to his left hand and forearm after he was struck by sparks from a misfired shell during the fireworks display at Gun Lake. A volunteer with the Gun Lake Protective Association, he received treatment...

Observing the Fourth of July with a big boom

July 4, 2016

Robert M. Traxler, vice chairman of the Dorr Township Planning Commission, chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals and "Army Bob" columnist for townbroadcast.com, annually celebrates the Fourth of July with a cannon burst in his yard. "The birthday of our nation should be celebrated with the firing of cannon."...

Lilly’s encouraging story told by Spectrum Health publication

July 2, 2016

Lilly Vanden Bosch's fight with aplastic anemia has included radiation, chemotherapy, a successful bone marrow transplant and clinical trial treatment for a CMV virus. (Chris Clark | Spectrum Health Beat) The latest Spectrum Health Beat publication includes a feature story about Lilly Vanden Bosch, the 10-year-old Dorr girl who has...

Bygone Days: A brief look at Wayland area’s past, Part 222

June 29, 2016

25 Years Ago — July 1, 1991 Dorr, Hopkins, Caledonia, Gun Lake and Charlton Park all were planning Fourth of July celebrations, including parades, fireworks, and a political address by State Sen. Dick Posthumus in Caledonia. In Dorr Township, Fire Chief Bill Fifelski brought back the restored “Number One” fire...

Flying Aces! group entertains kids at Steeby Elementary

June 27, 2016

The Flying Aces! were special guests Monday morning at Steeby Elementary as part of the continuing Wayland Union school district “fantastic” summer free lunch series. Children watched the exciting performance by the Pro Flying Disc Team and enjoyed a free lunch afterward. Art Attack also will get under way at...

1969 WHS grad Barb DeVries in the battle of her life

June 25, 2016

Barbara Hydorn Keil DeVries, a 1969 graduate of Wayland High School, has seen many challenges in her lifetime, but her biggest one has just arrived — brain cancer. DeVries this week begins radiation and chemotherapy, but the tumor is inoperable, her doctors have told her. “They told me they can’t...

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