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Yankee Springs Bible Church

8900 Duffy Road

Middleville, MI 49333

"Shining Forth God's Light"

Sunday Morning Worship ........................10:00 a.m.

Community Group ..................................11:00 a.m.

James L. Collison, Pastor

http://www.yankeespringsbiblechurch.org

Good Shepherd

Lutheran Church

908 W. Main Street, Middleville

(Missouri Synod)

Sunday Worship ................9:30 a.m.

Pastor: Rev. Peter Berg

http://goodshepherdlcms.googlepages.com

Church: (269) 795-

SERVICE TIMES:

Sunday at 9:30am & 11:00am

20 State Street, Middleville, MI / http://www.tvcweb.com

Local Church

Directory

Saturday Evening Mass ...................5:00 p.m.

Sunday Masses ...........9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

@ St. Paul Lutheran Church

& Preschool

8436 Kraft Ave., Caledonia, MI 49316

Office 616-891-8688 • Preschool (616) 891-

http://www.stpaulcaledonia.org

Sunday Worship:

8:30 a.m. & 11 a.m.

Fellowship

9:45 to 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School

10 to 10:45 a.m.

Whitneyville

Fellowship Church (^)
4935 Whitneyville Ave, between 52nd & 48 th^
(^)
Praising God through
Hymns  Reading God’s Word  Special Music
Worship Services Prayer Meeting & Bible Study
Sunday 10 am & 6 pm Wed nesday 6:30 pm & 7 pm (^)
Pastor Ed Carpenter - 616-868- 0621
Sermons online: WhitneyvilleFellowship.org
Middleville committee to
review sign regulations for
new zone districts
Greg Chandler
Staff Writer
The Middleville Planning
Commission is holding off
on rezoning properties along
Main and State streets until a
subcommittee has a chance
to determine how signs
should be regulated in the
new zone districts.
The commission’s
Ordinance Committee will
take up the signage issue for the
transitional mixed-use and
transitional industrial zoned
districts at an Aug. 15 meeting.
Commissioners are pro-
posing rezoning 27 parcels
that are currently zoned
medium-density residential
along Main Street as transi-
tional mixed-use, along with
four parcels along State that
are proposed as transitional
industrial.
“If these zoning districts
were adopted without any
sign regulations, it would
require a use variance to
allow for any sign additions
or modifications, requiring
public hearings that aren’t
necessary,” Village Planning
and Zoning Administrator
Doug Powers said.
The creation of the new
districts is meant to make the
properties more attractive for
future development and would
meet requirements of the
state’s Redevelopment Ready
Communities program. A
public hearing on the rezoning
could take place next month.
The Ordinance Committee
consists of commissioners
Amanda Pullen, Maria
Dahlke and Di Wilke.
New Lee Elementary
School principal named
Greg Chandler
Staff Writer
Lee Elementary School
will have a new principal
when classes resume later
this month.
Megan Wonders, who has
worked for Thornapple
Kellogg Schools for the last
15 years, has been named to
serve as principal of the
school that serves the dis-
trict’s second and third
grade students.
Wonders most recently
served as Title 1 coordinator
for the district, assisting stu-
dents who need extra time
and instruction in reading,
working primarily at Lee
and Page Elementary
Schools. She previously
taught fourth grade at Page
and was a literacy coach at
Lee.
Wonders also has seven
years of teaching experi-
ence in other school dis-
tricts.
“As an educational lead-
er, I believe in establishing
a collaborative learning
environment with high
expectations,” Wonders
wrote in a letter that was
sent out to Lee parents this
week. “In addition, build-
ing relationships to encour-
age academic and social
growth is essential. I look
forward to supporting stu-
dents, families and staff in
the continued climb towards
success.”
TK Superintendent Craig
McCarthy said that Wonders
“has a broad base of experi-
ence at the elementary level,
which makes her uniquely
qualified for this role.”
“She has had the oppor-
tunity to work with all the
teachers at Lee Elementary
in (her) previous roles. Her
collaborative contributions
have been instrumental in
assisting our third-graders
meet the state of Michigan
reading standards,”
McCarthy wrote in an
e-mail to the Sun and News.
Last fall, Wonders was
honored by the Thornapple
Kellogg Education
Association with its Above
and Beyond Award for her
work. In nominating
Wonders for the honor, Lee
teacher Marnie Reynolds
said that Wonders helped
prepare reading intervention
schedules for more than 20
teachers at the school.
“She trains staff, she pro-
vides materials and she’s
always willing to meet with
individual staff members
about students they have
questions about,” Reynolds
said last fall. “She helped
develop and organize our
summer tutoring program
for students that qualified.
She met with teachers,
trained them on the materi-
als that they were going to
use, and provided them with
everything they needed.”
Wonders’ husband, Matt,
is a health and physical
education teacher at
Thornapple Kellogg High
School. The couple has two
children – a daughter who
is a sophomore at TKHS
and a son who is in seventh
grade at the middle school.
Wonders holds a master’s
degree in educational lead-
ership from Grand Valley
State.
Megan Wonders
Middleville TOPS 546
The July 31 meeting opened
with the secretary’s report and
roll call. There are two new
fish in the fishbowl.
Sue’s program was on
“Stress and the Aging Body.”
Polls show that older, healthy
and socially connected people
are better at handling stressful
situations. Older people navi-
gate away from potentially
stressful situations. One study
says older adults credit positive
emotional stimuli and discredit
negative stimuli. When the
brain senses stress, it releases
cortisol. Exercise can bring
these levels down. Release
valves include asking for help,
taking stress breaks, smiling to
yourself to signal your brain all
is well, walking, volunteering
and making your bed.
Sue’s other talk was from
the July/August TOPS maga-
zine, “Choosing Your Focus.
Joy is Always an Option”.
What you focus on, grows. If
you focus on negativity, your
brain will look for confirma-
tion to support that belief. If
you look for joy, you will find
joy and will also create joy.
Joy is always a choice. Your
situation may not change but
your perspective can.
Maryellen lost the Ha-Ha Box
The meeting ended with
marching in place as the group
recited the TOPS pledge.
TOPS, a weight loss support
group, meets every Monday at
Lincoln Meadows in
Middleville. Weigh-in is from
3:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., followed
immediately by the meeting.
Press the white buzzer for entry.
Anyone with questions may
call Virginia, 269-908-8036,
or Maryellen, 616-318-3545.
The first meeting is free.