34 Thursday, July 4, 2024 BATTLE CREEK SHOPPER NEWS http://www.thebattlecreekshopper.comWILL KOWALSKI
Sports Editor/Asst. Editor
The local organization Love In
Action Community Services is hold-
ing two special events – scheduled
for this month and in August – in the
upcoming weeks.
- First, Love In Action Community
Services is holding a Bobby Holley
Appreciation and Kids Day in honor
of community activist and performer
Holley on Saturday, July 20 from
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the parking lot
Love In Action Community Ministries to host Holley, Race Around the Creek events
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There will be kids’ games, food
and music by and for Holley – and
there will also be a bike-walk-ride-
anything-like-a-bike parade on the
site for Holley.
“Bobby has done so much for our
community. We just want to do
something for him in return. ... We
want to show Bobby just how grateful
we are for his compassion and gen-
erosity through the years,” said event
director Mary Anne Head-Dunston.
“We are also trying to raise funds
to provide Bobby with several bikes
to give away,” added Head-Dunston,
referring to Holley’s annual summer-
long program of giving free bikes
to youngsters who turn in essays on
“Why Do I Need a Bike?”
Note: The process of bike and/
or monetary donations for the free
bike program, along with completed
essays, can be completed by contact-
ing Holley at (269) 275-7991 or at theChurch of Living Water.
For more information about the
Bobby Holley Appreciation and
Kids Day on July 20 – during which
there will also be giveaways, good-
ies, activities and free food – contact
Mary Anne Head-Dunston at (269)
348-3700.- And, Love In Action Community
Ministries will hold its third annual
“Race Around The Creek” – also a
fundraiser event – on Saturday, Aug.
17, with the start-finish-base of the
event being American Legion Post
298 on North 20th Street.
Last year’s “Race Around The
Creek” drew a field of 23 three-per-
son teams – with the event promoting
lots of family fun via teams of three
(more if children are involved on a
team) driving around Battle Creek to
specified sites, with each site provid-
ing clues as to where the next site
location would be.
Awards last year were presented to
the top finishers, and all participants
were eligible to win one of the 75
door prizes available as well as par-
take in a race-ending luncheon.
Registration is open from July
1-Aug. 10.
The “Race Around The Creek”
event will again feature a 9 a.m.
check-in and a 9:45 a.m. mandatory
drivers meeting – with the “race” to
get underway at 10 a.m.
“We have been fortunate enough to
get help from American Legion Post
298 this year as a co-sponsor,” Head-
Dunston said.
Funds raised by Love In Action
Community Ministries organization
go to helping people in need dur-
ing the Thanksgiving and Christmas
holidays – with the organization also
preparing and serving meals every
Friday at the SHARE Center in town.
As is the case with the Bobby
Holley Appreciation and Kids Day
on July 20, contact Mary Anne Head-
Dunston at (269) 348-3700 for more
information, and also if one is inter-
ested in donating one’s time or assist-
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