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GriefShare grief support
group, every Tuesday, 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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CHURCH HAPPENINGS
Heal Your Heart Grief Support
Group, first Thursday of each
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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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Any church “Happenings” item
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until the event has occurred.
found Joshi’s map. We would like
to proceed with getting a mural for
Galesburg.’”
So Lemon started the process all
over again.
Lemon’s service on the Kalamazoo
Area Transportation Authority
connected her to Bike Friendly
Kalamazoo.
“My husband, myself and our two
daughters bought 15 bicycles from
Billy,” said Lemon about the shop
that closed after Gillespie’s death
last year. “We mountain biked, we
did triathalons. We went down there,
‘Billy, this is what we need’ and he
was, ‘Ok!’”
Lemon said she has been riding
bikes since she was about “four or
five” years old.
Gillespie’s oldest son, Don
Gillespie, and his wife, Wendy,
stopped by the painting party to take
it all in.
“It’s awesome,” said Don Saturday.
“I don’t even know how to describe
it. It’s really nice. I knew he meant a
lot to the community. Now we get to
see how much, getting memorialized
like that.”
Also participating in the painting
session was Don and Wendy’s son,
Shane and wife Sammie Gillespie
and their children - Billy’s great-
grandchildren - Truett and Wade
Gillespie.
“It’s really awesome that he includ-
ed my grandfather,” said Shane, who
remembers working in his grandpa’s
bike shop. “I know he’d be really
proud, seeing everybody out here, all
People who knew Billy Gillespie and
know artist Patrick Hershberger, as
well as community members who
were just looking for something fun
to do joined the painting session.
(Shopper News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)
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the kids. He really enjoyed what he
did, helped a lot of people.”
Don Gillespie explained that his
dad started the bike shop in 1981
after a series of job losses.
In fact, Billy was not a bicyclist
at the time, but Don, the oldest of
Billy’s five children, was.
“When I was a kid, I did some
races and stuff and he bought a bike
and he decided he loved it,” said
Don. “Then he started the shop and
he was so generous with the local
kids. Everybody loved him and he
ran the shop until he couldn’t do it
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