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He eventually retired from the City

of Battle Creek in 1997, he said.

“I was full time/full time,” he said.

“I worked there and when I came

home, I was still on duty. When

you’re a part paid firefighter, you’re

always on call. She knows. We start-

ed different places with the boys and

ended up somewhere at a house fire

or whatever. When you were home,

you were on duty.”

Newton remains a paid on-call

department, he said.

The couple remembers having

attended the parade in the days of the

Carl and Marti Laupp when Carl was

the fire chief.

“At that time, we stood down there

when the only thing that went by was

two or three horses and buggy and a

couple cars and fire truck,” he said.

“And now look at it. It’s huge, which

is nice.”

While the couple attended some

Home Grange meetings, they never

officially joined.

Since his retirement, Larry has

enjoyed working in his wood shop.

Besides their two sons, they have

five grandchildren and “five or six”

great grandchildren.

Larry said he was honored to be

grand marshal.

“It’s nice to be chosen,” he said,

“although I told my boys when they

asked me about it, I told them, ‘I

think they’re scraping the bottom of

the barrel.”

Curtis Roberts, also retired

from the Newton Township Fire

Department after 29 years, said he is

very proud of his parents and feels

the timing for them to serve as grand

marshals is good.

“They’ve done a lot for the com-

munity,” he said, “being part of the

fire department and having the fund

raisers for all the fire equipment.

They’ve just been a part of the com-

munity for a lot of years and helped

Carl and Marti for a lot of years.”

The couple rode in the parade on a

carriage owned by Darrell and Kathy

Wieas of Burlington.

“The do this for the community

every year,” said Curtis. “They take

the time to decorate this and put it all

together and make sure everybody’s

comfortable.”

Everything from tractors and horses to classic cars and floats joined the

Independence Day celebration on July 4. (Shopper News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

PARADE

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