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WILL KOWALSKI
Sports Editor/Asst. Editor
The Woodstock tribute band
“Magic Bus” will make its way onto
the Friendship Park stage this Friday,
Aug. 2 when the six-member group
performs from 5-7:30 p.m. at the
fifth of six Vibe@5 free music events
scheduled for this summer.
David Bauman of Ambassador
David’s Productions LLC – who
along with Kellogg Arena are the
ones responsible for putting on
Vibe@5 in downtown Battle Creek
again this season – had high praise
for “Magic Bus.”
“The ‘Magic Bus’ band is the
Midwest’s premiere Woodstock trib-
ute band. And the band ran a contest
for a free concert, and I won. They
are outstanding,” Bauman said, “and
we would have never been able to
afford them if we hadn’t won the
contest.”
“Magic Bus” follows the group
“Leave Those Kids Alone” on the
Vibe@5 performance list for 2024.
“Leave Those Kids Alone” was
made up of four teenagers from
Windsor, ONT, and they rocked a
large Vibe@5 crowd on a sunny and
comfortably warm Friday early eve-
ning on July 26 at the corner of State
Street and Capital Avenue NE.
“Leave Those Kids Alone” was pre-
ceded on the Vibe@5 stage with Beatles
tribute band “Toppermost” on July 19,
the “Iconix” group from Kalamazoo
on July 12 and “Denise Davis & The
Motor City Sensations” on July 5.
After “Magic Bus” performs this
Friday, this summer’s Vibe@5 series
concluded on Aug. 9 with “Moonshot,”
featuring 50s to today’s hits.
Event-goers to Vibe@5 are remind-
ed to bring chairs or blankets to sit
on, and to dress for the weather.
Spectators may bring their own water
and/or soft drinks as well as food with
them on every concert night. Plus, bev-
erages and food by local vendor Chef
“N” Ultimate Catering & Carry Out
will also be available for a fee at the
site for each event.
Friendship Park is also part of
the Downtown Battle Creek Social
District Area, which means that adult
drink purchases at a downtown bar or
restaurant (poured into special cups)
can be consumed at Friendship Park.
In case of inclement weather on any
particular Friday, Vibe@5 will be
moved indoors to Riverside Golf &
Banquet Center – with the announce-
ment to be made on the Kellogg
Arena Facebook page on affected
Fridays by 4 p.m.The band “Magic Bus,” a Woodstock
tribute group, will provide a free
Vibe@5 concert this Friday starting
at 5 p.m. at Friendship Park in
downtown Battle Creek. (Photo provided)Woodstock tribute band ‘Magic
Bus’ on Vibe@5 stage Friday
Jeniece “Jeni” Wert is
Oaklawn’s newest PA-C (physi-
cian assistant-certified), working
out of Oaklawn Medical Group’s
Tekonsha office.
The office is located at
2218 Old US-27 North
in Tekonsha, and can
be reached at (517) 767-
4038, Monday-Friday
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wert was born in
Texas, and grew up
in southern New
Mexico, but ended
up going to college at
Western Michigan University in
Kalamazoo.
Wert earned her Bachelor of
Science in Psychology, and also
minored in biology at WMU.
During her time in Kalamazoo,
she met her husband, Mitch, and
after getting married, the couple
moved to New Mexico.
Wert earned a Master of
Education in Special Education
from Eastern New Mexico State
University and then became a
teacher for four years.
“Teaching was the hardest job I
ever had,” she said. “I loved teach-
ing, but it was tough. I had a lot
of students who had more basic
needs outside the classroom, andI always felt like I could be doing
more, and so I went back to school
to become a PA.”
Wert then went on to earn a
Master of Medical Science in
Physician Assistant
Studies from Yale
University in 2020.
She did most of her
rotations at Oaklawn in
Marshall during 2019-
20.
Wert recently left
Frontier Direct Care in
McAllen, Texas, where
she was on call 24/7 for
her patient panel for all questions,
concerns and emergencies, pro-
viding recommendations on how
patients should proceed.
Wert medically managed various
chronic conditions, such as hyper-
tension, diabetes and asthma, and
acute conditions, such as COVID-
19, influenza, urinary tract infec-
tions and abscesses
She also performed well-woman
exams and performed minor in-
office procedures.
At Trinity Health, also in south-
ern Texas, Wert acted as a primary
care provider for two shelters.
Wert and her husband will live
in Tekonsha wth their three chil-
dren.Jeni Wert, PA-CNew PA-C joins Oaklawn
Medical Group in Tekonsha
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The ReminderThe band “Leave Those Kids Alone,” made up of four teenagers from Windsor,
ONT, performed a variety of rock hits on the Vibe@5 stage on July 26. (Shopper
News photo by Will Kowalski)