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Rafting the Joe

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SOUTH BEND—When was the last time you thought to yourself, “I want to go white-

water rafting. Let’s go to South Bend?”

That may sound odd, but the fact is, South Bend has been pro-viding adventures for whitewater rafters and kayakers for decades on its East Race Waterway. In fact, the waterway will be celebrating its 30th anniversary when it opens for the summer on June 7.

“Something you should know is that, where the whitewater is, it’s a natural part of the St. Joseph River,” said Amy Roush, adminis-trative assistant supervisor of aquatics and volunteers with the South Bend Parks and Recreation Department. “We just took a natu-ral thing and cemented it, put in marks and so forth, so it could be used for recreational purposes.”

While that portion of the St. Joe is short—just 1,900 feet long, it normally runs at a flow rate of 450 to 500 cubic feet per second. In fact, it’s such a powerful stretch of the river that it was used to gener-ate power by many factories in the 1840s.

The East Race Waterway has also generated a sizeable amount of income for the city of South Bend since it opened in 1984. While it originally cost $5 million to build the course and surrounding park facilities, the Parks Department reports that the East Race is in part responsible for more than $78 mil-lion in economic development, including apartments, town homes, restaurants and businesses in that area.

“The Indiana DNR, the Parks Department and the City of South Bend all collaborated on the proj-ect,” Roush said. “The DNR was interested in the project because it included a fish ladder and it would also be a place for their people to do their swiftwater training.”

In fact, as Roush noted, fire-fighters from all over the country come to South Bend to do swiftwa-ter training at the Indiana River Rescue School.

That alone should be a clue that taking a ride on the East Race is not for the faint of heart, and the Parks Department takes safety at the park very seriously.

“It’s kind of like a rollercoaster in water,” Roush explained. “I don’t want people to think it is just canoeing. It’s ranked as a 2 on the scale, so there is some whitewater. There are drops and swells and eddies.”

For that reason, all rafters must be at least 54 inches tall and at least 16 years of age or accompanied by an adult. That doesn’t mean that

beginners aren’t welcome, howev-er. The Park Department will sup-ply all of the necessary gear, including rafts, helmets and life jackets. Each rafting trip costs $5 per person, and rafters do not need to carry their rafts back to the start of the course.

“About 80 percent of our rafters are new to rafting, so it’s important that people know that we have life-guards all down the waterway in case anyone needs help,” Roush said. “They are not just lifeguards. They all go through swiftwater training.”

Similarly, beginning kayakers also like the East Race because it’s a controlled environment where they will be supervised, and it pro-vides a good place to learn new

techniques like rolls. However, kayakers must supply all of their own equipment, and there are cer-tain requirements that must be met.

“All kayakers must have kayaks with inflatables in them as well as skirts. They also need to have their own life jackets and helmets,” Roush said. “They also have to transport their own kayaks, and it’s a half-mile back up to the start.”

Because kayakers are supplying all of their own equipment and transporting their crafts, the cost for them to use the waterway is only $15 per day. In order to mini-mize the trek, many kayakers make use of a boat launch located about half-way down the course, staying in either the lower or upper stretch of the river there.

With more than 300,000 people having used the course recreation-ally over the last 30 years, the East Race Waterway is a unique ameni-ty that South Bend has to offer both area residents and tourists. And, with a variety of other facilities at the park, including the fish ladder and five miles of lighted walk-ways, it is a pleasant place to visit even if you plan to stay dry.

More information about the park, which is located at 126 S. Niles Ave., can be found at www.sbpark.org/parks/east-race-water-way, and Roush can be reached at (574) 235-9372 by those with addi-tional questions.

Rafting the Joe

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The East Race Waterway is a great place for beginning rafters and kayakers to try out those sports. Lifeguards trained in swiftwater rescue are stationed all along the banks in the event that a rafter or kayaker requires assistance.

East Race offers unique view of river

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COLOMA—If you’re looking for a place to take the family for a

relaxing, fun day on Father’s Day weekend, you may want to check out Coloma’s 4th Annual BBQ, Blues and Cruise, sched-uled to take place on June 14.

“It’s going to be a beau-tiful day in Baker Park,” said Chana Kniebes, com-munity development coor-dinator for North Berrien Community Development, organizers of the festival. “There is a rain date of June 15 if the weather doesn’t cooperate.”

As in past years, admis-sion to the event is free, thanks to the sponsorship of local businesses, and it will include entertainment from four popular blues bands.

“The music will start around 2 p.m. and continue until 10 p.m.,” Kniebes said. “There are going to be four musical groups that are coming, and three of them will be brand new this year. The fourth band—Rum Boogie — is return-ing, and they will be play-ing on the Spotlight Stage.”

Main Stage acts for the festival include Gee Daddy’s BIG Blues Revue featuring Martila Sanders, the Out of Favor Boys and

Crossroads Resurrection.“I work on this every

year with Randy Pompey,” Kniebes said. “He’s a huge blues fan, and he’s a great judge of which acts to bring in. He will also be the emcee for the event.”

Organizers recommend bringing lawn chairs and blankets to sit on while enjoying the music.

“It’s an alcohol-free event, so it’s a great time to relax and not worry about a thing,” Kniebes said. “It’s a great family event.”

The day’s festivities will actually begin at 9 a.m. with a classic and muscle car and motorcycle cruise-in sponsored by Coloma businesses. Vehicles can be entered to compete in vari-ous categories, and T-shirts will be given to the owners of the first 100 cars that are registered. Organizer Tony Bertucca can be reached at (269) 208-9486 by those with questions.

Along with listening to blues music and viewing classic cars, event-goers will also have the opportu-nity to sample foods from various local vendors.

“We plan to have sever-al food vendors, including Piggin’ and Grinnin’, which is very popular for their barbecue in Benton Harbor, and also the Phoenix Grill from Watervliet. They’ll be doing polish sausages and brats for those folks who

don’t like barbeque,” Kniebes said. “We try to have a good balance at this event.”

Amateurs will also have the opportunity to show off

their own barbeque recipes and possibly take home a plaque in a BBQ Cook-Off. Registration for that com-petition will continue through June 11, and those

interested can contact Kniebes at (269) 468-4430 or chana@coloma-waterv-

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BERRIEN SPRINGS—“If you think of Brick, you say to Brick,

‘What do you want, Brick?’ And Brick says to you, ‘I like an Arch.’ … It’s important, you see, that you honor the material that you use.”

These words from famous architect Louis Kahn have stayed with Mark Moreno since he was a freshman architecture student in col-lege.

“What do the materials want to be?” asked Moreno, now an associate professor of architecture at Andrews University and director of the Renaissance Kids Architecture Camp. “I liken that to the children. They also have aspirations, but they can’t achieve them without

working with others — just as a brick can’t be an arch by itself. It needs other bricks.”

While the themes and projects have changed over the years at the Renaissance Kids Camp since 2008, the guiding ideas of collaboration and personal aspiration and have remained constant.

“We try to do something different every year and respond to challenges from parents,” Moreno said. “One of the parental challenges was that the kids build something ‘real.’ So, we built a sitting space outside of the School of Architecture.”

Moreno’s campers, who range in age from 5 to 15, have built a variety of beauti-ful and useful structures in collaboration with Moreno’s architecture students, as well as with artists from Water Street Glassworks and the Krasl Art Center.

“We now have five con-structions we’ve built —three are on campus, and two are not. The sixth one will be built at the Krasl this year,” Moreno said. “Building something real has its challenges, but it’s great because the kids can count on being able to come back when they have kids and say, ‘I built that!’”

Their creations include a Whisper Dish at the Curious Kids’ Discovery Zone (2010), five masonry piers in front of the Curious Kids Museum on the bluff (2011), a fire pit with seven masonry piers at Andrews University (2012), and a stone wall and a bicycle rack, also at Andrews (2013).

This year, campers in each of the seven camp sessions will collaborate to create a sit-ting space along a pathway on the grounds of the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph. For that reason, one of the camp ses-sions will be held at the Krasl, while the others will continue to meet on the Andrews cam-pus in Berrien Springs.

“Julia Gourley, the execu-tive director at the Krasl, asked me if we could help design the landscape there so that people would hang out on the grounds of the art museum more,” Moreno recalled.

“So, my students designed seven proposals for a master plan redesign of the grounds. As a result of their studies, the students noticed a pathway from State St. to the Krasl. One third-year student, Gian Penaredondo, designed and presented this proposal to Julia, and she loved it.”

While each camp group will work on an age-appropri-ate aspect of the project, the final construction of the sit-ting area will be left to the oldest campers, ages 12 to 15, who will attend the last ses-sion.

“We’ve been trying to get all of the kids in the camp to build a piece that will be incorporated into the design,” Moreno said. “Some will cre-ate and fire ceramic pieces—you’ll see those in the final design that we build.”

If all of these sound like rather unusual activities for a summer camp, that is because they are.

“I’ve been told that we are one of only five architecture camps like this in the country, so it’s relatively unique,” Moreno said.

Students also work on learning to draw things from different perspectives, and

they will work with smaller materials to create additional projects.

“Basically, it’s a lot of hands-on, a lot of collabora-tion,” Moreno said. “We have thousands of materials to engage the kids creatively. We have miniature bricks and stones, and we have large LEGO blocks that they can build structures with that are so big that they can go inside them. In fact, we just had a donation of wooden sticks to build with. It’s a full camp. We try to pack in a lot.”

This year’s theme, “Design for All People,” is based on the curriculum that

Moreno is teaching his col-lege students.

“A lot of empathy goes into design, and the message I want the students and kids to get is that the Americans with Disabilities Act should not be back-burnered,” Moreno said. “So, we’ve got 10 wheel-chairs, and the kids will be in wheelchairs for part of the week so they get an under-standing of what that means.”

Moreno is also working on lining up mock clients whose needs must be considered when the campers are design-ing projects.

“At the end of the week, the kids will make a presenta-

tion to their families to show the things that they’ve designed,” Moreno said.

If this type of camp expe-rience sounds like something your kids would benefit from, Moreno noted that there are still spaces available in many weeks of the camp.

More information and reg-istration materials are avail-able at www.renaissancekids.weebly.com, and the camp also has a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/renais-sancekids.architecture. In addition, Professor Moreno can be reached at [email protected] or at (269) 932-5055.

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In 2010, Renaissance Kids campers worked on the Whisper Dish at the Curious Kids’ Discovery Zone. In 2011, campers built five ma-sonry piers in front of the Curious Kids’ Museum on the Bluff, and in 2013, campers including Viginia W. worked on a bicycle rack.

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In 2010, Renaissance Kids campers worked on the Whisper Dish at the Curious Kids’ Discovery Zone. In 2011, campers built five ma-sonry piers in front of the Curious Kids’ Museum on the Bluff, and in 2013, campers including Viginia W. worked on a bicycle rack.


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BENTON HARBOR/ST. JOSEPH—“To brighten the future, we

must illuminate the past.” That is the principle by which Lest We Forget operates.

Founded in 2001 by a small group of Berrien County veterans, the nonprofit led by Don Alsbro seeks to educate the public about the sacrifices that have been made by our service people over the course of American history.

Over the years, Lest We Forget has fulfilled its mission through a number of activities, such as the creation of docu-mentaries that present the oral histories of local veterans. It also promotes patriotism by organizing a variety of events year-round.

Certainly the most well-known of those events, Lest We Forget is once again orga-nizing its three-day tribute to veterans at Tiscornia Beach in St. Joseph as well as in Benton Harbor at the Southwest

Michigan Regional Airport. Taking place from June 20

through 22, the event will focus on historical events that happened during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Significantly, the event will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Allied beach landing at Normandy.

While the three-day sched-ule is packed with events that run from sunrise to well past sundown, a number of high-lights stand out. More infor-mation about the weekend’s events can be found at www.lestweforgetusa.org and on the Facebook page, Lest We Forget USA.

For example, on June 20, re-enactors, vehicles and “War Birds,” or vintage military air-craft, will be arriving at the airport throughout the day, including a C-47 military transport plane.

At Tiscornia Beach, the Vietnam Huey Helicopters will be offering memberships and rides to the public begin-ning at noon. Event-goers will also have the unusual opportu-

nity to ride in a World War II landing craft at Tiscornia Beach that day. Those rides will continue throughout the weekend at the DNR boat ramp in Benton Harbor.

On Friday evening, “A Walk through History” will be presented at Celebration Cinema in Benton Harbor from 7 to 9 p.m. The evening’s program will include film clips from the three featured wars, as well as presentations by three recipients of the Medal of Honor: Hershel Williams (World War II),

Duane Dewey (Korea) and Allen Lynch (Vietnam).

Saturday’s events begin at the airport when the “chow hall” opens to the public at 7 a.m. Then, military vehicles and troops will begin depart-ing for Tiscornia Beach in anticipation of the weekend’s highlight.

At 10 a.m., Lest We Forget will stage a reenactment of the invasion of Allied forces at Normandy. The largest, most complex amphibious invasion in history, the attack involved 7,000 warships, 11,000 planes

and 200,000 men. While the reenactment at

Tiscornia could not possibly rival the original event in size or scope, it does cost between $60,000 and $90,000 to stage the event, but it—like most of the weekend’s events—is free to attend. It also presents a rare opportunity for the public to witness a rendering of the event that includes authentic military vehicles and re-enac-tors who take their roles very seriously.

The Normandy reenact-ment will be followed by a presentation, “Inchon Remembered,” honoring vet-erans of the Korean War, and it will include a flamethrower demonstration.

The focus will then return to World War II with a reenact-ment of various events that took place in the Pacific Theater of that war, including the invasion of Okinawa and the Battle of Iwo Jima.

On Saturday afternoon, events will resume at the air-port, where the Vietnam War will be the focus, with presen-tations by renowned veterans and a Vietnam reenactment, which will include two aircraft that were used in Vietnam, a flame thrower, authentic vehi-

cles and the 25th Infantry Division, known as the “Wolfhounds.” A flag retire-ment ceremony will also be held that afternoon.

To round out the day, the Fiskar’s Hangar will be trans-formed into a “canteen” at 6 p.m. The entertainment will include a 1940s fashion show and an a cappella performance by Grand Rapids’ Voices of Freedom, followed by an eve-ning of swing dancing to the music of a big band, The Moonlighters.

Sunday will also include its share of exciting, historically-related events at the airport, including a 20th century museum, a re-enactment of a World War II church service, an appearance by General Patton-impersonator James Goodall and various flag drops and flyovers, including the Missing Man Formation. The Liberty Jump Team will also engage in a World War II ground battle re-enactment at 2 p.m.

With a full slate of activi-ties planned at several venues in the St. Joseph-Benton Harbor area, Lest We Forget’s seventh tribute to America’s veterans is neither to be missed nor forgotten.

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TOP: Soldiers rush to storm the beach from their gator after landing on Tiscornia Beach. ABOVE: Soldiers advance up Tiscornia Beach during the recreation of the Normandy Beach Invasion.

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cool drinks and icy sweet treats. Some of the best summer desserts are simple seasonal berries paired with whipped topping or ice cream. While it’s not quite berry season yet, the warm-er weather can’t help but get us thinking about the juicy summer bounty ahead.

I know I’m not alone in this, because I got an email from a customer of mine from when I used to sell my vegan foods at the farmers markets around Michiana. She wanted to know if I would be willing to share my Coconut Cacao Whipped Cream.

This is a recipe I came up with a few summers ago when I had a craving for something chocolatey, but I didn’t have any avocados around to make an avocado mousse. I can’t take total credit for the recipe, the coconut whipped cream rec-ipe it’s based off of, was sent to me by a college friend

who responded to a post I made as fairly new vegan looking for a natural substi-tute for whipped cream.

Both of these recipes are incredibly good, palate pleasing to health foodies and junk food junkies alike, and are whipped up in liter-ally minutes. The only limi-tation would be if your guests aren’t huge fans of coconut. The plain whip particularly has a distinct

coconut flavor, but I truly feel it tastes like a natural cool whip.

These don’t hold up well in heat, so be sure to keep them cool until ready to serve. They go great on fresh fruit or as a topper for strawberry shortcake.

Kat Barry, a St. Joseph, Michigan native, is owner of Kat’s Hot Cakes vegan catering, and co author of "The New Chicago Diner Cookbook: Meat Free Recipes from America’s Veggie Diner." She also develops recipes for eHow.com, where you can find over 30 of her vegan instructional cooking vid-eos. She is also a certified yoga instructor. Kat cur-rently resides in Chicago, and in her free time she enjoys practicing yoga, sampling local spirits, lis-tening to live music, and getting outdoors. Follow @katshotcakes on twitter. Kat can be reached via email at: [email protected].

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Fernwood hosts furry friendBy JILL McCAUGHAN

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NILES — If you or your child loves both animals and

art, then Fernwood has an event that will give your family something to talk about for a long time to come.

From 1 to 3 p.m. June 15, the botanical garden will host Nancy J. Bailey and her Morgan horse Clifford, one of the only equine artists in the world. An artist herself, Bailey has been training Clifford since he was 2 years old.

“I got him when he was 2 years old, and he is now 23, so we’ve been together a long time,” Bailey said. “He really likes to pick things up, so I taught him to retrieve things when he was very young.”

As a horse, of course, Clifford cannot use his hooves to pick things up. So, he uses his mouth to retrieve objects, as well as to paint and to perform a variety of tricks. He is also house-trained.

“Horses have almost prehensile lips, so Clifford paints with a sponge that he holds with his lips. He’s mostly an abstract impres-sionist,” Bailey said with a laugh. “We argue over color and composition all the time.”

Bailey taught Clifford to perform his various feats by using a technique com-monly known as ‘clicker training’ and with food rewards. She has also trained a border collie, Pil, whom she may bring along on the Fernwood visit.

“Clifford loves to work for peppermints, and he also loves Twizzlers red licorice,” Bailey said. “He loves painting with water-colors and other nontoxic paints that you use for kids.”

A veteran of many visits to schools and libraries across the country, Clifford provides Bailey with an engaging opportunity to talk with children about empathy and respect for all living things.

“I also talk about cogni-tion in horses and how other things have feelings,” Bailey said. “It’ll be an informal presentation. Clifford will paint pictures and do some of his tricks.”

The afternoon will also include a “meet and greet” when children will be

allowed to pet Clifford.“He loves that, but he

can sense when someone might be afraid or nervous, and he’ll just pass by them. He has a sense about who wants to be close to him,” Bailey explained. “He’s very good-natured and loves to play practical jokes.”

When she is not work-ing or playing with Clifford, Bailey focuses on her own work, which sometimes relies upon Clifford as a subject, and she has won several awards for her equine art.

“‘Eclectic’ is a great word for me. I like to work in acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink, and pencil. I seem to go through phases,” Bailey said. “My subjects are mainly animals. Sometimes I paint Clifford. I also do a lot of birds.”

While Bailey’s work has been exhibited at Fernwood in conjunction with that of other artists, about 30 of

her pieces will soon be fea-tured there. The exhibit will run from June 20 through July 27 in the Clark Gallery, and she will be present at the opening reception for the show on June 22 from 1 to 3 p.m.

As a native of Drummond Island, one of Michigan’s northernmost locations, Bailey has had a lot of opportunities to encounter and paint animal life.

“It was a great place to grow up,” said Bailey, who now lives with Clifford and Pil in Charlotte, Michigan.

In fact, she and Clifford enjoyed living on Drummond Island so much, she wrote a book about their life there, “Clifford of Drummond Island.” That biography will be available at Fernwood, and guests can have the both the author and the subject sign a copy of it.

“He is the only horse in

the world that signs his own books,” Bailey said.

The program on June 15 is free with paid admission to Fernwood, thanks to sponsorship from the Buchanan District Library,

the Buchanan Scarecrow Charities and Gloria Smith-Carney. In addition, Fernwood members and Buchanan Library card-holders will be admitted to the botanical garden

for free.More information can

be obtained by calling Fernwood at (269) 695-6491 or by visiting their website at www.fernwood-botanical.org.

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Together for 21 years, Nancy Bailey and Clifford have travelled around the country, giving presentations for children and signing copies of their book, “Clifford of Drummond Island.”


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Well, you do, and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg. All it takes is a short jaunt up the Blue Star Highway to South Haven sometime between June 12 and 15 for the Water Front Film Festival

“It’s been named among the top five film festivals in the world by the Screen Actors Guild. It’s up there with Cannes, Sundance, South by Southwest and Cinevegas,” said Patrick Revere, media spokesperson for the festival. “People don’t believe it when we tell them that, but that’s what we’re doing.”

How did a film festival in Michigan get to be rated alongside the likes of Cannes and Sundance?

According Hopwood DePree, a founder of the festi-val as well as an actor and filmmaker himself, it has to do with the atmosphere and the way that the festival treats its guests—whether they are filmmakers or audience mem-bers.

“It comes down to bring-ing the filmmakers together with the community. That’s the key,” DePree explained. “As far as the ratings go, it seems to come down to our focus on treating the guests well—celebrating the fact that they’ve achieved the making of a film, and con-necting them with a really receptive audience.”

In terms of taking care of the audience, the organizers of the Water Front Film Festival have made sure that they provide an opportunity to view a variety of quality films in a setting where guests can enjoy a wide range of activities, all within walking distance.

“When this group of peo-ple sat down in 1998, they decided, ‘We want to have a laid-back Sundance,’ and it’s just a wonderful experience,” Revere said. “They do an amazing job of programming the movies, and when you wrap that up with such an idyllic setting, it’s a captivat-ing experience.”

The founders—Hopwood, his two sisters Dana and Dori, Kori Eldean and Judy Smith—came up with the perfect recipe for a film festi-

val by sampling a number of them for themselves.

“We were filmmakers our-selves, and we had made sev-eral films, taking them to film festivals all around the world for about 18 months, and we got to see what worked and what didn’t,” DePree recalled. “We really felt, ‘Wouldn’t West Michigan be a great location for a film festival,

especially as a venue for independent films?’”

While the festival called Saugatuck “home” for its first 14 years, organizers decided to move the event to South Haven last year.

“This is our second year in South Haven,” Revere said. “We moved to increase the festival’s reach into south-west Michigan and Chicago.

We’re looking toward creat-ing a ‘middle coast’ film venue.”

Water Front’s success in Saugatuck led to more com-munities wanting to get involved, and that fit in well with the festival organizers’ long-term plans.

“We really feel that West Michigan is a wonderful place as a whole, and we wanted to showcase other communities as well,” DePree said. “We’d like it to grow into a year-round orga-nization that takes place in many of the towns along the coast.”

The success of the film festival can also be seen in the number of submissions that the programming group receives for review each year.

“The programming group is a nationwide group made up of volunteers. They take over 500 submissions and whittle them down to just shy of 80 each year,” Revere explained.

A full schedule for this year’s films with synopses can be found at www.water-frontfilm.org, and tickets can be purchased there as well.

“The thing that’s special about the festival is that you can come into town and scale it on an individual basis. You can spend $12 and a couple hours, or you can make a day or a weekend out of it,” Revere said. “We want to make it very useable.”

Another attractive aspect of the festival is the opportu-nity it provides for audience members to interact with filmmakers, actors and other people involved in making the films.

“Because we want the experience to be collabora-tive, we expect at least one representative from each fea-ture film to be present,” Revere said. “Then, we have Q & A panels and workshops after each screening, and the filmmakers will take ques-tions from the audience.”

As a world-class film fes-tival that takes place so close to home in a setting as beauti-ful and accessible as South Haven, Water Front seems like the perfect choice for a weekend of early summer entertainment.

“It’s really a lot of fun,” DePree said. “Come down for opening night. We’ll have music on the beach, a beer garden, and an outdoor screening of a film on an inflatable screen at sunset. It’ll be a great way to kick off summer!”

Photo by Dianne Carroll Burdick

TOP: Hopwood DePree, one of the founders of the film festival, loves the laid-back atmo-sphere that South Haven provides for the four-day event. ABOVE: This year’s film fes-tival posters were created by “popaganda” artist Ron English, and they will be available for purchase at the festival.


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June 6

The fifth annual Swinging for Sculpture Golf Outing and Party will begin with a shotgun start at 1:30 p.m. at Berrien Hills Golf Club. Golfers will have the op-portunity to participate in lively games and con-tests including the most loudly dressed and most artistically dressed golfer. Afterwards, fresh and fill-ing food from Ray’s on the Green will be served buffet-style. A silent auc-tion will offer unique combinations of art, food, sports and services and live music by the ever-popular Slim Gypsy Bag-gage will round out the evening. Cost is $140 per person. Proceeds will benefit the purchase of a new sculpture by the Krasl Art Center.

The Potawatomi Zoologi-cal Society will be host-ing a wine tasting event, The Grape Escape from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Potawatomi Zoo. Tick-ets are on sale now and cost $35 per person and include a tasting glass, wine samplings and food sampling from area res-taurants. Tickets can be purchased online at po-tawatomizoo.org, over the phone by calling (574) 288-4639 Monday through Friday, or by vis-iting any open admission gate at the Potawatomi Zoo. Proceeds from The Grape Escape will ben-efit wildlife conservation, new naturalistic exhibits and education programs. For more information on Potawatomi Zoo please call 574-235-9800 or visit www.potawatomizoo.org.

Radio Harbor Country is having it’s second BikeN-Brunch ride. Riders will depart from an artist’s pri-vate country home near Three Oaks and ride 15, 30 or 45 mile loops through some of Harbor Country’s most beauti-ful bike trails. Registra-tion begins at 8:30 and the ride begins at 9 a.m.

Afterward, a gourmet brunch of farm to table food from local restauran-teurs and growers will be served at the farm There will also be a tour of the artist’s studio and the WRHC radio station.

Berrien County Crime Stoppers will host a golf outing fundraiser with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. The organization is seek-ing sponsors at various levels. Teams can sign up for $300. Send checks and entry forms to Ber-rien County Crime Stop-pers, P.O. Box 273 St. Joseph, MI 49085.

Explore Michigan with Sarett Nature Center at 10 a.m. The group will visit a private preserve in southern Berrien County and the new Galien Riv-er County Park. Bring a sack lunch and dress for the weather. The cost is $20. Please call (269) 927-4832 to register.

The Dowagiac Jazz Band will be bringing back its tradition of doing a per-formance at the Beckwith Theater as they have in the past. There will be two shows, one begin-ning at 6 p.m. and anoth-er at 8 p.m. Prices are $5 per ticket and seating is extremely limited. Tickets can be purchased a head of time form C.J. Brooks at Union High School.

June 7

Songwriter and com-poser Bryan Edington will present a debut con-cert of his original work at the Box Factory for the Arts, 1101 Broad St., St. Joseph at 7:30 p.m. Join-ing him on stage will be guitarist Joe Gyamati and singer Matt Baumgartner. Tickets are available on-line with PayPal at /www.boxfactoryforthearts.org/calendar/#edington or at the door. Cost is $10 gen-eral admission; $8 stu-dents and seniors; chil-dren 12 and under free.

Kayak the Black River with Sarett Nature Cen-ter 11 a.m. The $20 fee includes transportation and equipment rental. Call (269) 927-4832 to register.

SBMA, 88.1 WVPE and Century Center invite the community to join them for an evening on the St. Joseph Riverfront as they kick off summer with live music, local artists and libations from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Cash bar and refreshments available. Members should bring their ticket.

Every person in the au-dience is considered fair game in the show as Christopher Carter again visits The Acorn and reveals the innermost thoughts of dozens of people in the audience. Carter is considered by many to be one of the world’s greatest mind readers, but he’s not psy-chic. He’s just in the busi-ness of playing with other people’s minds. Come see him at work at 8 p.m. at the Acorn Theatre. Tickets are $25.

iThe June meeting of the membership of Barn Swallow Theatre is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the theater located at 22334 U.S. 12 East of Edwardsburg, Michigan. The agenda will include a wrap up of the May per-formances of “Old Time Radio” and continuing plans for the June pre-sentation of “Always...Patsy Cline” on June 27th, 28th, and 29th. Theater maintenance and renovations will re-quire all board members and input from the com-munity membership as we move into the sum-mer schedule. For infor-mation, contact Carol at (269) 445-2511.

June 8

There will be a South Bend Record and CD Collectors Showfrom 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Com-fort Suites, 52939 Indi-ana 933 at Cleveland (1/2 mile of Indiana Toll Road Exit 77). Admission is free. Contact Ken at 574-329-1483 or [email protected].

Play Geocache Bingo at Sarett Nature Center any time between 1 and 5 p.m. Pick up a bingo card, then search for film

canisters containing bin-go balls. Admission is $3 for adults. A list of way-points will be posted on Sarett’s website (www.sarett.com) after May 30.

June 9-13

The Elkhart County Parks will offer a Junior Indiana Master Naturalist Day Camp from 9 a.m. to p.m. June 9-13. The Junior In-diana Master Naturalist program is a state-spon-sored program designed to bring together natu-ral resource specialists with young people ages 9-12. The camp fee is $90, if registered by May 15, or $110, if registered after May 15. Registra-tion deadline is May 30. More information such as a tentative schedule can be found on the Elkhart County Parks’ Facebook page or by calling our Administration office at (574) 535-6458.

Kids On Stage is offer-ing MADD Camp for be-ginning theatre students going into K-4th grade in the fall. The camp will take place Monday through Friday, at the Kids On Stage Theatre located at the Orchards Mall in Benton Harbor. Camp times are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Campers will prepare and perform mu-sical numbers and dance routines; make their own props, costumes and set pieces to create their own telling of Disney’s “Frozen” while perform-ing several musical num-bers from the popular movie. Registration fee for the camp is $185 with a $25 Early Bird Discount for those who register by June 1. For more information visit Doug Fordyce’s Kids On Stage at www.kidsonstage.com or call 269 313-2795.

June 10

iThe Berrien County Democratic Women will host their monthly meet-ing at the St. Joseph Pub-lic Library. Social time will begin at 5:30 p.m. At 6 p.m. Benton Harbor resi-dent, Samantha Jordan, campaign organizer, will speak. Samantha has a bachelor of arts degree in communication stud-ies with a focus on public relations. Samantha will

speak about building re-lationships with the me-dia, plugging into local women, and the social media and how to use it for political campaign-ing. The last event of the evening will be the regu-lar monthly meeting of BCDW.

June 12-15

Barn Swallow Theater hosts “An Evening with Original Playwrights” fea-turing local authors. Di-rected by Bev Smith.

June 14

South Bend will offer an-other Parent’s Without Partners Dance from 7:30 p.m. to midnight at ZB Falcoln’s Hall, at the corner of Western and SHeridan in South Bend. Admission is $7. For more information, call (574) 256-9326.

i Learn the history of the oldest church in south-western Michigan. visit the nearby cemetery and see the graves of the people that established much of southwestern Michigan,Smith’s Chapel, is a State and National His-toric Site Chapel is now used as a wedding, fam-ily gathering and funeral location. The open house runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 29858 Redfield Rd., Niles, Mich.

June 14-15

The Twin City Players (TCP) will hold auditions for a Second Stage pro-duction. Auditions for the August production of My Big Gay Italian Wedding by Anthony Wilkinson will begin at 2 p.m. on Sat-urday, June 14, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 15. Participants will be asked to participate in readings from the script. A pre-pared monologue and a short a cappella musical number are recommend-ed, but not required.

June 15

R&B recording artist Lyfe Jennings returns to the Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, Ind. at 7:30 p.m. The show

also includes comedians Luenell, Honest John, Pierre, and is hosted by Gino J. Tickets are $45 and $100 and are on sale at 2 p.m. April 26 by phone at 574-235-9190 or 800-537-6415, or on-line at morriscenter.org.

He isn’t a talking horse, but Clifford the amaz-ing Morgan horse from Drummond Island, Michi-gan, can do just about everything else. See for yourself as Clifford will be center stage at Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve from 1 to 3 p.m.

Michigan’s longest run-ning wine festival, the 30th Annual Lemon Creek Father’s Day Fes-tival and Corvette Show will return from 12 to 6 p.m. Tickets for individu-als over 21 are $10 at the gate. Those under 21 are free with adult supervi-sion. Activities for chil-dren and adults will be offered.

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Good music Good timesLeader photos/AMBROSIA NELDONHundreds of people visited Riverfront Park in Niles for the opening night of the Bluegrass Festival Thursday. Bands such as The String Doctors and the Balos Family (pictured) performed in Niles' amphi-theater, while children and families frequented kid-die rides and fair food stands in the park.

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