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All Saints Superfest, Sept. 13-
15, grounds of St. Joseph Catholic
Church, 61 N. 23rd St. Details at
stjosephbc.org. (8/15)
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Swiss steak dinner, Saturday,
Sept. 21, 5-6:30 p.m., Christ United
Methodist Church, 65 N. Bedford
Road. Details: christumcbc.org. (9/12)
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Contemporary gospel quartet
Stronghold, Sunday, Sept. 22,
11 a.m., Cornerstone Community
Church, 3030 Beckley Road. Info:
[email protected] or
979-5478. (9/12)
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Welcome Wednesdays program,
each Wednesday, First United
Methodist Church, 111 E. Michigan
(next to City Hall). Chair yoga, 4:
p.m.; meal, 5:30 p.m.; games or Bible
study, 6:30 p.m. All welcome. (9/28)
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GriefShare grief support group, everyTuesday, beginning Sept. 3, 6-8 p.m.,
Cornerstone Community Church,
3030 Beckley Road. For info & to
register: 979-5478. (8/1)
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Men’s Christian Breakfast, first
Saturday of the month, 8:30-10:
a.m., Family Altar Chapel, 14844
6-1/2 Mile Road. Free. Info: Howard
Phillips, (269) 274-5390. (8/25)
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Heal Your Heart Grief Support
Group, first Thursday of each month,
6:30-7:30 p.m., Love in Action
Community Ministries, 203 Bowers
Ave. (8/25)
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Free hot meals, fresh food boxes,
every second Friday of the month,
starting at 5 p.m., Overflow Church,
3515 W. Michigan Ave. (7/22)
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Museum Board, to name a few. “One
is to raise awareness of the airport
because a lot of people in the com-
munity aren’t really aware of what
we have.”
Years ago, it was a passenger air-
port.
“Back then, 50 years ago, every-
body knew what was going on out
here,” said Shaw at the airport last
Thursday. “There was a lot more
awareness of people because they
probably traveled in and out of here
a lot. Since the airlines moved to
Kalamazoo there’s this opinion that
nothing happens out here. ‘We don’t
have any flights here.’ So there’s
‘what goes on out there?’ ”
What people don’t realize, and he
wants to change is the awareness
that it’s one of the city’s largest
assets as one of the city’s largest
employers.
“Collectively, we have Western,
Waco, Duncan, the Air Guard and
it’s the second busiest airport in
Michigan, second or third dependingwhat statistic you look at,” he said,
“in general aviation. So that’s proba-
bly because Western and Duncan are
flying in and out of here constantly.
“And,” he continued, “there’s so
much that people don’t know about
this airport. And when we lost air-
lines a few years ago, it was a mixed
blessing.”
That event, he said, paved the way
for Duncan, which was Kal-Aero, to
locate in Battle Creek.
“And that was probably the cata-
lyst that got everything going here,”
he said. “And then when Western
(Michigan University School of
Aviation) took over the terminal
here, that was huge. So these things
happened because we lost our air-
lines.”
Formerly known as W.K. Kellogg
Airport, now known as Battle Creek
Executive Airport at Kellogg Field,
once had terminals for North Central,
Air, Wisconsin and, American
Airlines, to name a few.
“We had several airlines that actu-
ally flew out of Battle Creek,” he
said. “We used to have commercial
flights here. After World War II, it