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Page 6/The Sun and News, Saturday, July 29, 2023

Good Morning Bedlam brings Midwest folk music to the stage in Caledonia

Shari Harris
Contributing Writer
The community enjoyed
another installment of the

Caledonia Summer Concert

Series.

People in chairs, on blan-

kets, and sitting in golf carts

spread across the Community

Green Park lawn on Tuesday

evening to take in the show,

featuring a pair of artists.

The opening act was

Aaron Jonah Lewis, who

hails from Detroit and plays

ragtime music with the banjo

and fiddle.

The headliner was Good

Morning Bedlam, a Midwest

folk band from Minneapolis,

Minn. The group entertained

the audience of about 200

people with a mix of cover

songs and several original

songs. The band members

include Isaak Elker (guitar

and vocals), Victoria Elker

(bass and vocals), Katherine

Seeger (violin and vocals),

and Dawson Redenius (trum-

pet and keyboard).

Children in the audience

were invited by the band to

dance along while they per-

formed. Though technical

difficulties occurred during

the last part of the show, the

band members took it in

stride and began telling jokes

to keep the audience enter-

tained.

They closed out their set

with an upbeat sing-a-long.

There are still two more

chances to enjoy an outdoor

concert at the Community

Green this year, which is set

directly in front of the

Caledonia branch of the

Kent District Library. On

Aug. 8, concert goers can

hear CJ Chenier and the Red

Hot Louisiana Band. On

Aug. 22 comes the Schrock

Brothers with Peter

“Madcat” Ruth.

Opening acts begin at 6

p.m. and headliners start at 7

p.m. Food trucks are also

available during the shows.

KCC Express Enrollment Event to

offer fast-track services, chance

to win free credits Aug. 5

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• Kellogg Community
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  pus in Battle Creek in August
  for current and future stu-
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  enrollment in preparation for
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  KCC’s Express
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  held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
  on Saturday, Aug. 5, on
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  The event, which is free and

open to the public, will offer

students everything they

need to be prepared to start

classes this fall, including

financial aid assistance,

placement testing, academic

advising and onsite registra-

tion.

Express Enrollment Event

attendees will also have an

opportunity to enter a draw-

ing for a chance to win three

free credit hours at KCC for

the fall semester.

Individuals who are new

to the college and interested

in attending the event should

bring the following informa-

tion with them:

• A photo ID


• Transcripts from high
  school and all colleges
  attended


• ACT, PSAT or SAT
  scores (scores from tests
  taken within five years can
  be used in place of KCC’s
  placement test)
  For more information
  about the Express Enrollment
  Event, contact KCC’s
  Admissions office at adm@
  kellogg.edu or 269-965-

4153. The first classes of KCC’s
      fall semester begin Aug. 28.
      Student registration informa-
      tion, including links to regis-
      tration instructions, policies,
      tuition and fees and other
      information, is available
      online at kellogg.edu/regis-
      tration.

proposed future budget at the
July 20 meeting. SOLitude
has proposed a $190,
budget to the board for 2025,
with changes in funding in
several key areas. The com-
pany has proposed reducing
the amount of its aquatic her-
bicide treatments from
$127,500 in 2024 to $112,
in 2025, while increasing its

aquatic plant control over-

sight expenses from $17,

in 2024 to $25,000 in 2025.

The company proposed rais-

ing its water quality testing

expenditures from $9,500 in

2024 to $11,200 to 2025, but

those costs could further

increase if the scope of test-

ing is expanded, as some

lake residents would like to

see.

“With permit restrictions

and the board’s general

direction, (the aquatic herbi-

cide treatment) category

should account for increas-

ing the use of peroxy-

gen-based algicides as the

primary product used to

manage nuisance and inva-

sive algae,” SOLitude aqau-

tic biologist Pete Filpansick

wrote in his estimate to the

board. “Recent lake manage-

ment efforts have continued

to decrease the need for her-

bicides, but the GLIB should

be ready to continue manag-

ing invasive growth in the

canals and be ready to treat

any new infestations of inva-

sive species out in the lake.”

The budget proposal sets

aside $24,000 in contingen-

cy, and Dugan said that

amount could be tapped for

expanded water quality test-

ing.

“The $24,000 is extremely

generous to take care of

those things that rear their

heads,” Dugan said. “I would

say that we’re even in a posi-

tion to do extra testing right

now, with the contingency

that we have.”

GLIB receives $190,

in funding annually from

Barry County, and has not

requested any change in that

funding from the county for

the next three years, GLIB

Chairwoman Vivian Conner

said.

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OPTOMETRIST

Good Morning Bedlam, a Midwest folk band hail-

ing from Minneapolis, headlined the Caledonia

Summer Concert Series show on Tuesday evening.

Detroit-based ragtime artist Aaron
Jonah Lewis opened the show, seen
here plucking on a banjo as his dog
accompanies him on stage.

Three-year-old Reese dances in

front of the stage, enjoying the music of

Good Morning Bedlam on Tuesday

evening in Caledonia.

A steady crowd formed at Community Green Park

in Caledonia on Tuesday evening for the latest install-

ment of the Caledonia Summer Concert Series.

(Photos by Shari Harris)