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VOL. 136 NO. 5 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2024 http://www.thebattlecreekshopper.com

BATTLE CREEK

SHOPPER NEWS

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Daniel Jones has been CEO at The Haven the last seven years and has been with the ministry for 14
years. Photo by John Hendler See story on page 2

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150 unsheltered people in our community.

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Veterans Day 2024 at Fort

Custer National Cemetery

The 110th Wing Base Honor Guard Legion

Riders (American Legion Post 298) make

their way to the podium at the start of the

Veterans Day ceremony at Fort Custer

National Cemetery. Photo by John Hendler.

BY JOHN HENDLER

Editor

Several hundred people turned out for

the 2024 Veterans Day Program at the Fort

Custer National Cemetery on Monday, Nov.

11.

Col. Frank J. Walker, Retired USAF/ANG,

and Chair of the FCNC Advisory Board

served as the Master of Ceremonies.

The program included invocation/bene-

diction by Pastor Jamey Nichols of Living

Hope Community Church; opening remarks

by Fort Custer National Cemetery Director

Rodney Heard, patriotic music by Jonathon

Barnes and fourth-grade students from

Comstock STEM Academy, Honors from the