SPY’s Community Newsletter
(7/14/24)
2024 Farmer’s Picnic Grand Marshalls
Tom, Sherrie, and Jay Wacha have been selected as the 2024 Grand Marshals of the Sunfield Farmers Picnic. Tom & Sherrie were both born in Ionia and grew up in Lake Odessa. Both started kindergarten together, and they were Lakewood High School Sweethearts, Class of 1963. They married June 20, 1964 and have two children, Jane and Jay. They celebrated 60 years together this year.
Tom and Sherrie and family moved to Sunfield in 1963, making it their new home. Tom worked at Oldsmobile for 31 years. Sherrie had daycare at their home for 20 years. After retirement they volunteered for D.H.S. (Eaton County) for 14 ½ years. Transporting clients all over Michigan; even delivering food stamps in Eaton County. During Tom’s employment at Oldsmobile, he became Village of Sunfield Treasurer; retiring after 44 years this year. Tom enjoyed working with the seven mayors and many council members through the years.
Jay has spent many years with the Sunfield Farmers Picnic. First he was a gate guard allowing individuals with handicapped parking permits through the gates either on Second Street and Logan or at Park Street and Third Street. Jay has been a volunteer board member since 2019 to present and currently works for Peckham.
They are both members of the Sunfield United Brethren Church. At one time, Tom was Sunday School Treasurer, Sherrie was Sunday School Superintendent. They still do visitations to shut-ins and hospitals for the church Tom was with the Habitat for Humanity for 10 years as Treasurer, Building two houses in Sunfield and two houses in Lake Odessa. He was also on the board for Manna’s Market for two years. Tom is now Treasurer of “Friends of the Library in Sunfield; Sherrie also is on the Library Board and Friends of the Library. In addition, Tom has served on the Sunfield Community Foundation Board for 20 years.
The Sunfield logo was created by Sherrie when Jack Smith was supervisor; earning a $50 savings bond at that time. Sherrie was a member of the Lakewood Area Choral Society for 35 years, retiring in 2020. Tom and Sherrie enjoyed many concerts and traveling with the choral state side and to European countries. So many wonderful memories.
Sherrie sends a note of encouragement to shut-ins every month. This is her mission. They still are transporting friends to the hospital and doctor appointments.
Tom and Sherrie don’t want to toot their own horn. They give credit to our Lord and Savior – He is our rock!
Thank You Trash Pickers!
Project Chairman Derek “Captain Highway” Desgranges would like to send out a BIG Sunfield Area SPY salute to the following fine folks who helped out on our second Adopt-A-Highway trash pick-up of the season this past Saturday, as well as some of the folks that took advantage of the option of participating earlier in the week. The ditches were a might soggy in many places due to the rain we’ve had the last couple of days, but the job got done thanks to these intrepid folks. Thank you:
Dewie Miller
Craig Mulholland
John & Sandy Fisher
Jim & Diny Peabody
Steve & Christina Grosshans
Job well done pickers!
From The Sunfield Library
Just a reminder that your vote yes on August 6 for a very small millage increase to benefit the Sunfield District Library would be greatly appreciated and allow the library to continue with its regular hours and services. If you have a taxable value of $100,000 the increase amounts to about 10 cents per day. The library helps serve the Sunfield area in many ways and this slight increase is much needed. The total millage for the next 4 years would be 1.00 mill per year. If you vote absentee, make sure and see the proposal at the end of the ballot. Otherwise be sure and vote on August 6. Thank you in advance.
The committee Say Yes For Sunfield
“Fire In The Hole” Golf Scramble Returns
(See attachments at the end of this Newsletter)
Parting Comments
· Deep Thought of the Week: I’ve learned that I don’t have a right to complain about something if I had the power to change it and didn’t.
· Notable Quote: “One of the consequences of such notions as “entitlements” is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.-----Thomas Sowell.
· That’s Puny Department: Back in my college days I once had to drop out of communism class because of lousy Marx.
· Did You Know Section: Along with “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “Happy Birthday,” “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is one of the most recognizable songs in American history. Written in 1908 by songwriter Jack Norworth and composer Albert Von Tilzer, the tune was one of many popular baseball songs that made waves at the time. But unlike those other onetime chart-toppers, the catchy song went on to become an intergenerational cultural fixture, traditionally played during the game’s seventh-inning stretch at stadiums across North America. You would think this legendary anthem for America’s pastime came from a diehard baseball fan, but the truth is that neither Norworth nor Von Tilzer had ever even been to a baseball game when they penned the tune.
The idea for the song came to Norworth not while he was sitting in the stands, but instead, of all places, on the New York City subway. According to legend, he was taking a trip across town in spring 1908 when he saw a subway advertisement for a New York Giants home game at Polo Grounds stadium in upper Manhattan. Inspiration struck the songwriter, and he quickly jotted some words on a scrap of paper. Von Tilzer completed the music shortly after, and on May 2, 1908, the pair registered the song with the U.S. Copyright Office. On the same day, an ad for the sheet music appeared in the entertainment trade paper the New York Clipper, and before the year was out, it was the No. 1 song on the pop charts. In 1940, Norworth finally attended a Brooklyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field, where he was honored for his contributions to baseball. He claimed it was his first baseball game.
Despite its early success on the charts, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” doesn’t appear to have been played or performed at a Major League Game until the 1934 World Series. It was much more recently still, in 1971, when Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck caught legendary announcer Harry Caray singing the song to the entire stadium (possibly not realizing the public microphone was on nearby) that it became the essential singalong tradition that it remains today.
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