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Newtown Township
Public Accuracy Notice
Newton Township will have a Pub-
lic Accuracy Test on Friday July
19, 2024 at 1:00pm at the Newton
Township Hall, 11003 91⁄2 Mile
Rd., Ceresco. The test is to proof the
accuracy of the voting equipment
used at the August 6, 2024 Primary
Election.Mary Aldrich
Newton Township ClerkSTATE OF MICHIGAN
37TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
FAMILY DIVISION
CALHOUN COUNTY
PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF
HEARING REGARDING
PETITION FOR NAME
CHANGE
CASE NO. and JUDGE
2024-1665-NC
HON. TINA YOST JOHNSON
Court Address: 161 E. Michigan
Ave., Battle Creek, MI 49014
Court Telephone No: (269) 969-
6518
TO ALL PERSONS, includ-
ing: whose address is unknown
and whose interest in the matter
may be barred or affected by the
following:
TAKE NOTICE: Lashanda
Richardson has filed a petition
for name change. A name
change hearing will be held on
8-2-24 at 9:00 a.m. at Calhoun
County Justice Center, 161 E.
Michigan Ave., Battle Creek, MI
49014, Courtroom #249 or via
zoom before Judge Tina Yost
Johnson to change the name of:
Moria Lenore Reid to Moria
Lenore Richardson; Orion
Steven Reid to Orion Allonte
Richardson.STATE OF MICHIGAN
PROBATE COURT
CALHOUN COUNTY
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Decedent's Estate
CASE NO. and JUDGE
2024-363-DE
Court Address:
161 East Michigan Avenue
Battle Creek, MI 49014
Court Telephone No:
(269) 969-6795
Estate of Matthew Moses
Downing, Jr., deceased.
Date of birth: 9/30/1956.
TO ALL CREDITORS:
NOTICE TO CREDITORS:
The decedent, Matthew
Moses Downing, Jr., died
2/06/2024.
Creditors of the decedent
are notified that all claims
against the estate will be for-
ever barred unless presented
to Kerry Patrick-Michael
Kurek personal representa-
tive, or to both the probate
court at 161 E. Michigan
Avenue, Battle Creek,
Michigan 49014 and the per-
sonal representative within 4
months after the date of pub-
lication of this notice.
Date: 4/01/2023
Nelson Karre P27639
70 West Michigan Avenue
Suite 450
Battle Creek, MI 49017
Kerry Kurek
65 Rose Street
Battle Creek, MI 49017
269-282-1895STATE OF MICHIGAN
COUNTY OF CALHOUN
PUBLICATION NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
Decedent's Trust Estate
In the Matter of the Carol L.
Reading Revocable Trust dated
7/3/2012, as amended.
Decedent's date of birth:
10/12/1931.
TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: Your interest in this
matter may be barred or affected
by the following: The decedent,
Carol L. Reading, living in Battle
Creek, Calhoun County,
Michigan, and died on 6/3/2024.
Creditors of the deceased are
notified that all decedent's assets
were held by the Trustee at dece-
dent's death, and the decedent
has no probate estate.
Creditors of the deceased are
further notified that all claims
against the trust estate will be
forever barred unless presented
to: Marcia A. Owen, Trustee and/
or the attorney's office represent-
ing Marcia A. Owen as Trustee
within 4 months of the publication
of this notice. This notice is pub-
lished pursuant to MCL 700.7608.
If a probate estate is opened in
the future for the decedent, this
notice is intended to satisfy the
requirements of MCL 700.3801.
Notice is further given that the
trust estate will be thereafter
assigned and distributed to the
person(s) entitled to it.
DATE: July 2, 2024
Housley Peters Law Office, PC
Diane K. Peters P52818
905 W. Michigan Avenue, Suite A
Marshall, MI 49068
(269) 248-6500
Marcia A. Owen
15822 13 Mile Road
Battle Creek, MI 49014
269-274-2239High School in 2009. There were no
offers from college coaches to run at
the next level, but that didn’t mean
that running would not continue to
be a part of his life.
“After high school, I enrolled at
Michigan Tech to study chemical
engineering,” Lewis said. “I kept
running casually. Winters were
brutal, but I tried to get out and run
when I could.”
As is a natural progression for
many runners, Tyler would begin the
transition from the 5K to longer dis-
tances. While still in college, he ran
several half marathons. In time he
would branch out from this distance.
“I ran my first marathon, the
Bayshore Marathon, in 2011,” Lewis
said. “In the realm of running it
became the next logical step for me.
It was a positive experience and
I finished my first marathon with
a time of 3 hours and 34 minutes.
After finishing Bayshore I felt an
overwhelming sense of accomplish-
ment. I definitely wanted to chase
this feeling again.”
Running had been an important
part of Tyler’s world for almost a
decade. He hadn’t considered him-
self competitive, but always sought
improvement.
He had graduated from the 5K dis-
tance and made the jump from the
half marathon to the marathon.
Life was good as a former over-
weight middle school student who
had turned himself into an athlete.
Running was great, but out of curi-
osity, he wanted to add an element to
his running.
“I was home from Michigan Tech
in 2013 after my junior year of col-
lege. I decided to sign up for a triath-
lon,” Lewis said.
Many first-time triathletes attempt
a sprint distance (750-meter swim,
20-mile bike and 5K run), but Tyler
wanted to step up his game right
from the start.
“I jumped right to a Half Iron Man
(1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike, 13.1-
mile run), the Steelhead Triathlon in
Benton Harbor,” Lewis said. “My
race experience was very positive.
This helped cement in my mind that
I wanted to be a triathlete. My finish-
ing time was 5 hours and 39 minutes.
The run portion was my strength,
followed by the bike portion and
then the swim portion, but eventual-
ly, the bike turned into my strongest
discipline.”
Tyler felt comfortable with the
Half-Iron Man distance. It remained
in his wheelhouse for a few years.
He had always been a runner and
was still a runner, but now he was
also a cyclist and a swimmer. He had
found a new passion as an athlete.
“I participated in Steelhead for the
next three summers,” Lewis said. “I
started getting comfortable with this
distance. The next logical step was to
try a Full Iron Man (2.4-mile swim,
112-mile bike ride, 26.2-mile run).”
Training for and completing a Half-
Iron Man triathlon is no walk in the
park – but swimming, running andbiking twice as far raises the level of
commitment to training.
Tyler was ready for this challenge.
“I signed up for the Louisville Iron
Man 2018,” Lewis said. “The train-
ing for a Full Iron Man is significant.
I spent between 15 to 20 hours a
week training. In the middle of the
training cycle, I would have to do
an hour bike ride on Saturdays and a
two- to three-hour run on Sundays.
“At the peak of the training sched-
ule, I would do a 6-hour bike ride on
Saturday and then jump right into a
13-mile run. Sunday would then be a
long run of 15 miles or more.”
Tyler’s experience in Louisville
was difficult, but this didn’t diminish
the emotional impact that it had.
“My first Iron Man was miserable,”
Lewis said. “It was cold and rainy,
but when I finished it was very emo-
tional. I kind of caught the bug and
wanted to do more. My finish time
was 13 and a half hours.”
Tyler continued to train on his
own, but he longed for something
beyond individual improvement. He
wanted to make a shift and focus onracing against his competitors.
“In 2019,” Lewis said, “I decided
that I wanted to get serious about
the competition. A teacher of mine
from high school has a son, Mike
Hermanson, who competed as a
triathlete and also was a personal
coach. I hired Mike as my coach. I
followed Mike’s script and started
training for Iron Man Arizona in
November of 2020.”
The world shut down before Iron
Man Arizona, but this didn’t stop
Tyler from completing the distance.
“It was canceled two weeks before
race day because of COVID,” Lewis
said. “All my races were canceled
that year.”
Like many runners during COVID,
Tyler improvised when it came to
races being canceled.LEWIS
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