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36 Thursday, July 4, 2024 BATTLE CREEK SHOPPER NEWS http://www.thebattlecreekshopper.com

WILL KOWALSKI
Sports Editor/Asst. Editor

Battle Creek adult city league base-
ball teams are idle during the current
Fourth of July holiday weekend, but
will get at it again full force start-
ing July 8 – with playoffs then set to
begin July 22.
The winner of this summer’s play-
off series will head to Manistee to
compete July 26-28 in a National
Amateur Baseball Federation
regional series – with the winner of
the regional advancing to the 110th
annual NABF Major Division World
Series that will take place Aug. 1-4
in Lombard, IL.
This will mark the first time in
several years that the NABF World
Series will be played outside of
Battle Creek. The Southern Michigan
Amateur Baseball Association
headed by Terry Newton concluded
a 10-year run hosting the Series last
August.
For the previous 10 years, the win-
ner of the adult city league playoffs

Jack McCulley, right, is manager of the Battle Creek Merchants adult city league baseball team, and he is also again

this season director of the league. (Shopper News file photo by Will Kowalski)

Adult city league baseball teams busy with league play

earned the right to be the host team

for the World Series, and the playoff

runner-up had also made the Series

field on a few occasions over the past

decade.

But that has now changed, with

B.C. no longer being the site for the

Series.

Jack McCulley, manager of the

Battle Creek Merchants squad, is

again director this year of the city

league.

That said ... following is the

remaining regular-season adult city

league baseball schedule for 2024,

plus more information about the set-

up for the city league playoffs:

• July 2: Battle Creek Merchants
  vs. Battle Creek Shamrocks, 6 p.m.,
  Bailey Park’s Morrison Field, one
  9-inning game.


• July 3: Battle Creek Merchants
  vs. Battle Creek Beavers, 6 p.m., and
  Battle Creek Beavers vs. Battle Creek
  Shamrocks, 8 p.m., at Morrison Field,
  9-inning games.


• July 8: Battle Creek Beavers vs.
  Battle Creek Shamrocks, 6 p.m., at
  Harper Creek High, one 9-inning
  game.


• July 9: Battle Creek Merchants

vs. Battle Creek Shamrocks, 6 p.m.,

at Harper Creek High, one 9-inning

game.

• July 10: Battle Creek Merchants
  vs. Kalamazoo Maroons, 6 p.m., at
  Nichols Field, one 9-inning game.


• July 16: Battle Creek Merchants
  vs. Battle Creek Shamrocks, 6 p.m.,
  at Nichols Field, one 9-inning game.


• July 17: Battle Creek Merchants
  vs. Kalamazoo Maroons, 6 p.m., at
  Harper Creek High, one 9-inning
  game.


• Playoffs July 22-24: Battle
  Creek Merchants vs. Battle Creek
  Shamrocks, best of three series. All
  games will be 9-inning games.


• Note: In recent action, the Fort
  Wayne Jackers won the third annual
  Carl Angelo-Russ Bortell Memorial
  Tournament played at Bailey Park.
  The Jackers defeated the Shamorocks
  7-2 and the Merchants 4-1 in the
  tourney.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

CITY OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN

PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 @ 4:00 P.M.

Room 301, City Hall, 10 N. Division St.

SPECIAL USE PERMIT #PSUP 24-0001: Petition from Ethan VanderWeele, requesting

a Special Use Permit for property located at 14005 S. Helmer Road for a Farmers Market.

The property is zoned “AG, Agricultural District”. Pursuant to Sec. 1240.04, 1251.15 and

1281.05 of the zoning code. Parcel # 0071-00-890-0.

This hearing is being advertised and will be conducted pursuant to the requirements of

Public Act 110 of 2006, as amended for the purpose of receiving public comments. Writ-

ten comments concerning these items may be submitted in advance of the hearing to

the City of Battle Creek, Department of Planning, 10 N. Division Street, Ste. #117, Battle

Creek, MI 49014 by Monday July 22nd at 12:00 pm. These written comments will be en-

tered into the public hearing record. Any member of the public may appear at these hear-

ings either in person or represented by counsel. Any questions please call the Planning and

Zoning Division at (269) 966-3320.

The City of Battle Creek will provide necessary reasonable auxiliary aids and services, such

as signers for the hearing impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being considered

at this meeting, to individuals with disabilities at the meeting upon seven (7) day notice

to the City of Battle Creek. Individuals with disabilities requiring aids or services should

contact the City of Battle Creek by writing or calling the following: Planning and Zoning

Division, P.O. Box 1717, Battle Creek, Michigan 49016, Phone: 269-966-3320 / TDD: 269-

966-3348.

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