Schedule of EventsFriday, Oct. 4CarnivalRides and games with Elliott’s Amusements. 5-9PM

rEd Hawk varSity FootballCedar Springs Red Hawks vs. Northview at 7PM

FirEFigHtEr MEMorial ParadEParade route on Main St. Begins at 8:30PM

rEd FlannEl grand lodgE5PM to 12:30AM $5 cover. 21 or older. Local band Kronik Payne from5-8PM, Foolish Plezyer Band from 8:30PM-11:30 PM.

aMEriCan lEgionLive Band Cross Creek 8PM-12AM

Saturday, Oct. 5Flag raiSing CErEMony8:45AM. Presented by the American Legion Glen Hill Post #287, Cedar Springs Middle School Marching Band.

FlaPjaCk brEakFaStAll you can eat breakfast! Hot dogs will be available for lunch from 11am to 1 pm. At the Red Hawk Elementary Cafeteria. Part of proceeds will be donated to the West Michigan Veter-an’s Fund.

rEd FlannEl blood drivE10AM-2PM: West MI Bloodmobile on Main St. between Maple and Oak.

bEd raCE obStaClE CourSECheck in at 10 AM. Race begins at 10:30 AM. Bring your own bed or rent one from the Festival.

rEd FlannEl CHildrEn’S ParadEParade begins at 9 AM. Children decorate bikes and wear cos-tumes in their own parade! Parents are encouraged to walk with children. Please provide bicycle helmets.

rEd FlannEl Car SHow10am-2pm: Admission is FREE. Cost per entry is $15, registra-tion at 9:30am. Vanderhyde Ford West Lot, 345 N. Main St.

rEd FlannEl antiquE FarM traCtorS & EnginES SHow – at CEdar SPringS MuSEuM10am-2pm: Admis-sion is FREE to tractor show and family events. Museum tours from 10am-2pm. Cedar Springs Museum, morley park

CEdar SPringS youtH Football7:30AM – 9PM Games all day

rEd FlannEl MarkEtPlaCEAll day event with many different vendors of different types! Elm Street.

CarnivalAll Day: Elliott’s Amusements carnival rides and games. Ash and Beech Streets

MarCHing band CoMPEtition9am: high school marching bands predent half-time shows in competition. Red hawk stadium, cedar springs high school

giant artS and CraFt Fair9am-3pm. Over 90 vendors of hand made items. Red hawk and Beach elementary schools

aMEriCan lEgion bingo-Carnival StylE10am-5pm. Everyone welcome!

PoorMan PullErS Mini rod traCtor PullWeigh in at 10am, event runs from 11am-2pm. Free admission. Elm Street pulling track, west end of elm street

judgEMEnt day PullErS3pm: FREE admission. Weigh in 2pm. Pull begnis 3pm. Pulling open to public, if tractor meets Club rules. Call Tina Smith at 636-4976. elm street pulling track-behind the former festida foods

aMEriCan Martial artS inStituE dEMonStrationNOON: FREE ADMISSION. THE FIRESTORM TEAM PERFORMS. MAIN & ELM ST.

CEdar SPringS rotary FaMouS CHiCkEn barbECuE1am-5pm: Chicken dinner with all the Trimmings. CHERRY AND MAIN ST.

rEd FlannEl grand ParadE3PM: More than 120 entries of floats, bands and entertainment. Be sure to wear RED or the Keystone Kops will arrest you. Parade begins promptly at 3pm! Main & Muskegon streets

rEd FlannEl ParadE grandStandStop by and see Sue Harrison, who has announced the parade for 20 years. Main & Ash Streets.

3rd annual CornHolE (bEanbag) tournaMEnt12:30PM: Classic bean bag toss tournament with two divisions. $40 per 2 person team or $50 day of contest. Check in between 11am and noon. Cash Prizes! Red flannel grand lodge tent, American Legion, Main & Beech st.

EuCHrE tournaMEnt NOON: Cash Prizes! $15 per person or $20 day of contest. Red flannel grand lodge tent, American Legion, Main & Beech st.

rEd FlannEl grand lodgENoon to 12:30AM $5 cover. Must be 21 or over. 1PM the Lum-bertown Cloggers. The Foolish Pleyzer Band from 5 to 8PM. Kronik Payne from 8:30PM to 11:30PM. Red Flannel Grand Lodge Tent, American Legion, Main & Beech ST.

aMEriCan lEgion – bingo9 AM - 5 PM Live band Wayne & Co. 7 PM - 11 PM. Everyone Welcome. American Legion Hall, Main ST

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As a young newlywed whose husband worked for the Clipper girls, Mary Goller-Kilts could not have imagined that she would one day be Grand Marshal for the festival they made possible. She will be 81 in six weeks.

“I was initially very surprised,” she said, about finding out she had been voted in as the 2013 Grand Marshal. “I didn’t think I was de-serving.”

But she couldn’t be more wrong. “The Fes-tival is extremely proud and thankful for the many years of Mary’s outstanding dedication to the entire Cedar Springs community,” said Michele Tracy-Andres, President of the Fes-tival. “Her outstanding community service in several organizations is very impressive and exactly what we look for in a Red Flannel Fes-tival Grand Marshal. It’s very obvious Mary loves Cedar Springs and especially the Red Flannel Festival! Her connection to Festival Founders, Grace Hamilton and Nina Babcock is very special to us. The Red Flannel Town is a better place because of her involvement.”

Mary grew up in Grand Rapids. When she was 8 years old her father passed away, and when she was 12, in 1945, her mother died. She had an older sister who was 16 and stayed with relatives, and Mary went to St. John’s Catholic orphanage and attended Catholic Central High School. She graduated from cosmetology school in 1949.

She met her future husband, Oscar Goller, a veteran, when he took some girls dancing in Grand Rapids in 1951. She was 18 years old. “It was a whirlwind romance,” she recalled. She moved here to Cedar Springs in February 1951, turned 19 in April, and was married by June. Oscar worked for the Clipper Girls—Grace Hamilton and Nina Babcock—as a li-notypist, and the couple rented an apartment from them for a time. Grace, who was also a real estate agent, soon found the couple a house—the one Mary still lives in—near Ce-dar Springs High School, for $2,800. “We were very close to Grace and Nina,” remarked Mary. “They were very affectionate people.” Mary said she would go into the office and help clean up, and would help out the festival by handing out flyers to the merchants. She also got to meet Jerry Ford, our future presi-dent, who used to attend the Festivals. “That was exciting,” she said.

Professionally, Mary worked for both Modern Cleaners here in Cedar Springs and Uptown Cleaners in Grand Rapids. When Tom Cooper, her former manager at Uptown, bought Modern Cleaners, he asked her to re-turn here and manage it. She retired at age 73 after 52 years in the dry cleaning business.

In 1973, she also found a love for volun-

teering with the American Legion Auxiliary. “I joined for the vets and for the children,” she explained. Mary has served in several differ-ent roles in the Auxiliary, including state pres-ident. She is currently Unit 287 Chaplain and Membership Chairman, Girls State Chairman, Education Chairman, and Funeral Luncheon Chairman. But her heart is in the Salon of the 8/40 in northern Kent County, an auxiliary or-ganization she founded that is committed to fundraising and scholarships for respiratory diseases in children. The money raised goes to National Jewish Hospital in Denver, Col-orado.

“I went and visited and saw the great work they do there,” she noted. Mary said their Sa-lon has grown to 44 partners that also make ditty bags for the kids at DeVos Children’s Hospital. “I feel this work for children is the most important thing in my life,” she said.

Mary and Oscar adopted two children, Addie and Oscar Alan. Mary now has three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She and Oscar were married for 45 years.

Two years after Oscar died, Mary met Don Kilts, also a veteran and a widower. They mar-ried in 1998, and were married just under 10 years, when he passed away. Since then, she’s kept very busy in her volunteer work.

Throughout her life, Mary has always pro-moted Red Flannels, both personally and through the American Legion, and finally has the opportunity to do it in a highly visible way—as Grand Marshal of the 2013 Festival.

“It is with a humble heart I accept to serve as Grand Marshal for this coming year 2013,” she said. “Rest assured that I will continue to promote our town, flannels and its great people in memory of the founders of our Red Flannel Town, Grace Hamilton and Nina Bab-cock.”

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Voters who qualify may choose to cast an absentee ballot. As a registered voter, you may obtain an absentee ballot if you are:

age 60 or older.physically unable to attend the polls without the assis-

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in jail awaiting arraignment or trial.unable to attend the polls due to religious reasons.appointed to work as an election inspector in a precinct

outside of your precinct of residence.Those who wish to receive their absentee ballot by mail

must submit their application by 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. Absentee ballots can be obtained in person anytime through 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 4. Voters who request an absentee ballot in person on Monday, Nov. 4, must fill out the ballot in the clerk’s office. Emergency absentee ballots are avail-able under certain conditions through 4 p.m. on Election Day.

Voters may notice a slight change to the wording of the affirmation statement that appears above the signature line on applications to vote in the polls and on absent voter bal-lot applications. By signing the application, the voter at-tests that he or she is a U.S. citizen. The revised application forms also remind voters that they must be citizens in order to vote.

Michigan law requires voters to provide identification when at the polls on Election Day or when obtaining an absentee ballot in person at a clerk’s office. They will be asked to present valid photo ID, such as a Michigan driv-er’s license or identification card. Anyone who does not have an acceptable form of photo ID or failed to bring it with them can still vote. They will be required to sign a brief affidavit stating that they’re not in possession of photo ID. Their ballot will be included with all others and counted on Election Day.

Voters who don’t have a Michigan driver’s license or identification card can show the following forms of photo ID, as long as the identification is current:

Driver’s license or personal identification card issued by another state.

Federal or state government-issued photo identification.U.S. passport.Military identification card with photo.Student identification with photo from a high school or

an accredited institution of higher education, such as a col-lege or university.

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Two charged in death of State Trooper

Three die in related accidents on U.S. 131 TuesdayStanwood woman dies in deer-related crash

Deputies are identifying the woman killed in a chain-reaction accident involving a deer as a Stan-wood resident, but say it appears the driver who rear-ended her vehicle was following too closely. The crash happened at about 9:30 am on US-131 south of Post Drive early in the morning of Tues-day, September 10. The highway was closed for nearly three hours.

Police say Anneke Jacoba Marek, 32, was killed when her car was hit from behind by a car driven by a Walloon Lake man. According to deputies, Marek was southbound on U.S. 131 south of Post Drive around 9:15 a.m. Monday when a deer ran in front her car. Marek braked hard on the freeway to avoid the deer.

Another car, driven by Gary James Rende, 70, ran into the back of Marek’s car, pushing it off the freeway. Marek was killed in the collision.

Rende was not injured, but his wife, Barbara, 66, suffered

A Stanwood woman was killed when her car was hit from behind.multiple non-life-threatening injuries. She was transported to Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition Monday afternoon.

Deputies say it appears Rende was following too close to Marek’s vehicle. They are sending the case to the Kent County Prosecutor’s office for review and possible charges.

Traverse City men killed in seven-car crash

way due to traffic backup. Witness statements taken on the scene indicated that

Two Traverse City men where killed when anoth-er driver failed to stop for backed–up traffic on south-bound U.S. 131 at around 8 a.m., according to a report from the Michigan State Police. Troopers are inves-tigating the fatal accident in Plainfield Township.

Preliminary investigation showed that a 2013 Ford pick up truck, driven by a 57-year-old Sparta man, was southbound at Post

Drive when the vehicle struck several vehicles that were stopped in the road-

the driver of the pickup was traveling at a high rate of

A Luther, Michigan couple is being charged in the death of Michigan State Trooper Paul Butterfield II, who was shot earlier this week, while making a routine traffic stop in Mason County.

According to the Michigan State Police, Trooper But-terfield stopped a vehicle on Custer Road near Townline Road in Mason County about 6:20 p.m. Monday evening, September 9. At 6:23 p.m., a passing motorist called 9-1-1 to report finding Butterfield on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head. Butter-field was airlifted to Munson Hospital, where he passed away during emergency sur-gery.

Based on information But-terfield relayed to dispatch about the vehicle he stopped, a suspect was developed. Through a series of incidents in the area, troopers located the suspects at a gas station/convenience store in Well-ston, in Manistee County, at approximately 8:30 p.m.

When troopers approached, the suspect displayed a hand-gun, pointing it at one of the troopers. One trooper fired, striking the suspect.

The two suspects were tak-en into custody. The male was transported to the hospi-tal with a non-life threatening gunshot wound.

The two suspects were identified as Eric John Knysz, 19, and his pregnant wife, Sarah Renee Knysz, 20, both of Luther. Mason Coun-ty Prosecutor Paul Spaniola announced that charges were filed Wednesday against the couple. Sarah Knysz was arraigned Wednesday in 79th District Court on a two-count felony complaint: Accessory after the fact to the murder of Trooper Paul Butterfield, which is a felony punishable by up to five years confine-ment and/or a $10,000 fine; and unlawful driving away of an automobile, which is a felony punishable by up to five years behind bars. A preliminary exam was sched-

uled for her for September 25 at 1 p.m. and bond was set at $250,000 cash or surety. She was remanded to Mason County jail.

Eric Knysz will be ar-raigned on his charges once he is returned to Mason County. He is facing four charges: Count one is homi-cide-murder of peace officer for the murder of Trooper Butterfield, which is pun-

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Voting deadline nears in Red Flannel Art Review

Steve Anderson, the metal sculptor who designed the Cedar Springs Red Hawks at the high school and athletic stadium, cre-ated this frog for Probst Floor Coverings and Draperies to display.

The Red Flannel Festival is holding its own version of ArtPrize here in Cedar Springs. The Red Flannel Art Review opened Labor Day, with 21 businesses featuring 22 artists.

Residents will determine the winner by their vote, and they are being asked to vote only once. Voting will end on Wednesday, Septem-ber 18, and winners will be

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This Facebook photo shows the couple charged with killing a State Trooper.

State Trooper Paul Butterfield II

count 1. Count 3 is carrying a concealed weapon, a felo-ny punishable by up to five years in jail or a $2,500 fine; and count 4, unlawful driving

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