Member Publications Saturday, July 21, 2012 Published by J-Ad Graphics, Inc. Phone (269) 945-9554 1351 North M-43 Highway • Hastings, MI 49058-0188 T he fourth annual CK&S Railfan Festival will celebrate Woodland’s place in the history of the former Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Railway. The G.W. Spindler Memorial Library will host this year’s event Saturday, July 28, in Woodland. Standing in a railbed leftover from the railway’s path through Coats Grove is festival co-founder John Conor. Activities planned for the festival include hundreds of photos and articles from the CK&S’ colorful history. Speakers will share stories and information about the bygone days of the railroad’s highs and lows, as well as classic railroad tunes performed by the Blue Water Rockers. CK&S souvenirs will be sold to raise funds for historical markers to be placed along the railroad’s route to mark and preserve the history of the CK&S Railroad. The event is sponsored by the Kalamazoo Model Railroad Historical Society and offers fun for the entire family.
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The fourth annual CK&S Railfan Festival will celebrate Woodland’s placein the history of the former Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Railway. TheG.W. Spindler Memorial Library will host this year’s event Saturday, July
28, in Woodland. Standing in a railbed leftover from the railway’s path throughCoats Grove is festival co-founder John Conor. Activities planned for thefestival include hundreds of photos and articles from the CK&S’ colorfulhistory. Speakers will share stories and information about the bygone days of therailroad’s highs and lows, as well as classic railroad tunes performed by the BlueWater Rockers. CK&S souvenirs will be sold to raise funds for historicalmarkers to be placed along the railroad’s route to mark and preserve the historyof the CK&S Railroad. The event is sponsored by the KalamazooModel Railroad Historical Society and offers fun for the entire family.
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Happy Anniversary Bosley Pharmacy1. Art Park is a free 4 week art camp that will run daily (Monday-Thursday 9am to3pm) through August 16 at the First Ward Park next to the Hastings ManufacturingCompany. The camp is open to kids in 6th through 12th grades. Art Park is free andstudents may sign up for one week or all four weeks, or drop in at the open ses-sion daily from noon until 1:30. There will be numerous activities daily and you canfind out more information or sign up at 269-945-2002 or online www.thornap-plearts.org. The program is designed to challenge the students, help them elevatetheir self-confidence and standing in the community. It is also meant to promote theHastings’ First Ward Park and to change the pride & image of the park. These artpark programs are sponsored by the Thornapple Arts Council, The BarryCommunity Foundation and the Hastings DDA and promise to be a great additionto our community’s art projects.2. The Buzz Youngs Legends Golf Classic, the major fundraiser of the year forthe Hastings Athletic Boosters, will be held on Saturday, August 4, at the RiverBend Golf Course. The tournament is a 4-person scramble with a 9am Shot GunStart. The day always includes drawings, contests, a raffle, cash prizes and more.Sign up today for this great event ($75 includes golf, a shared cart & dinner). Youwill not only be helping fund Hastings’ athletic teams, you will also be honoring thisyears legend, Mike Murphy, who will join a list of over 20 previous recipients. Ofcourse, the tournament honors the memory of “The Legend,” George “Buzz”Youngs. To sign up or for more information call 26-945-2742. Sponsored by theHastings Athletic Boosters & J-Ad Graphics.3. In celebration of their 6th anniversary, the award winning, Best MichiganMicrobrewery, Walldorff Brewpub will hold its annual Blues, Brews & RockingBBQ Street Party next Saturday evening at the corner of State & Jefferson inDowntown Hastings from 6pm until midnight. The party features ice cold Walldorffbeers on tap, food from the Walldorff menus, including a special hot BBQ menu andentertainment from four bands. General admission is $5, so gather your friends andcome on down to enjoy the show.4. The Pierce Cedar Creek Institute will hold its annual fundraising event nextSaturday evening 6 to 9 pm at the institute. “A Midsummer Night’s Green” is acasual evening of delicious food, wine & music. Activities include a strolling dinnerusing local farms & vendors in the area, wine from Cascade Winery of GrandRapids and silent & blind auctions. Tickets are $25 for members, $40 for futuremembers. Call 269-721-4470 to reserve and place or to get more information.5. The Fridays at the Fountain concert series continues this Friday with a per-formance by the Jackson French Quarter Jazz Band, playing their brand ofDixieland music from noon until 1:30pm. Bring lunch or buy lunch downtown andenjoy the show. Come & go as your schedule allows, the show is free to all. Rainlocation (HA!) is the Hastings City Bank Community Room. Sponsored by theThornapple Arts Council, the City of Hastings and local businesses.6. The Hastings Public Library Summer Reading Program Dream Big - Read thisWednesday at 2pm features a 4-H Dog Demonstration, showing you what thesedogs can do. Everyone is invited to this free presentation at the library.7. The No Family Left Indoors program this Tuesday evening is “Tree-rific”.Through hiking & games participants will learn the natural history of common trees.The program is free from 6:30-8pm at Charlton Park and is sponsored by PennockHealth Services. Check out the series by visiting www.barryoutdoorfun.com or call-ing 269-721-4190.8. July 30 is the final registration for the 11th annual Hastings Elks Charity GolfOuting to be played on August 11 at the Hastings Country Club. Proceeds will sup-port the Family Support Center to aid in the prevention of Child Abuse in BarryCounty, formerly Child Abuse Prevention Council. For details, contact the HastingsElks Lodge or the Hastings Country Club for registration forms.9. The special event next Saturday at the Gilmore Car Museum is the annual“Mopars at the Red Barns” show featuring an all Chrysler Product Car Show &Swap Meet with hundreds of muscle cars, antiques and special interest vehiclesfrom Dodge, Plymouth, Desoto, Chrysler & Imperial. The special event admissionof $9 includes the show and all Gilmore Museum Exhibits at no extra charge (under11 get in free). More info at 269-664-5595 or log on to www.gilmorecarmuseum.org.10. The Riverbank Music Series of concerts features the “Blue Water Ramblers”playing folk, country & bluegrass this Friday evening from 6:30 until 8:30pm inStagecoach Park, Downtown Middleville. All concerts are free and sponsored bythe Middleville DDA.11. The Rock the Park 2012 Summer Concert Series will feature the Rock Band“Haphazard” playing for your enjoyment this Thursday evening at 7pm in the LakeOdessa Village Park. The concerts are free to all.12. The Lyrics on the Lawn music, sponsored by the Friends of Putnam PublicLibrary, concludes its season this Thursday beginning at 6:30pm with a perform-ance by “Maiden Voyage” on the library lawn in Nashville. Performances are freethanks to local sponsors and the Thornapple Arts Council. For more informationvisit www.putnamlib.org.13. Anne’s Health Foods in Downtown Hastings sponsors its monthly “PlantPowered Potluck” this Wednesday at 6:30pm. Bring a vegetarian dish to pass &join in the fun of sharing recipes, ideas & delicious foods. Tea & water is compli-mentary, plates & cutlery is provided. For more info [email protected]. Woodlawn Meadows Retirement Village on North East Street in Hastings willcelebrate their 10th anniversary next Thursday with an Open House from 1 to4pm. You are invited to visit and check out the facility while you enjoy hors d’oeu-vres, refreshments & entertainment by Harpist Hannah Truax.15. Hastings: What you always wanted your hometown to be.
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Since its first studentsgraduated in 1877, HastingsHigh School, like every com-munity’s high school, hashelped discover potential,launch careers, and changelives. For the past severalweeks, the Reminder has vis-ited with past graduates toexplore why Hastings HighSchool has been so mean-ingful in their lives.
The first reality checkAdam Sheldon got when hearrived at Baldwin-WallaceUniversity near Clevelandwas the money he had to payan accompanist whenever hesang.
“Patti LaJoye would gowithout cost and play for meat all my solo and ensembleconcerts,” recalls Sheldon,24, of one of the most influ-ential teachers he had atHastings High School. “Igot to college and I had topay for an accompanist --and then they just play anddon’t coach? It was a bigeye opener.”
For a young man who’sworld blasted into a neworbit when he discoveredmusic as a middle schooler,Baldwin-Wallace was aneye opener itself. A smallliberal arts college in Berea,OH, just outside Cleveland,Baldwin Wallace is wellknown and respected for itsConservatory of Music, anacademic community withinthe university which encour-ages its students to crosstrain their musical gifts withother fields such as business
and education.Sheldon didn’t know it at
the time he rolled into townin August, 2006, but thechoice of Baldwin Wallace -- suggested by his counselorat Hastings High School --was a portent that dramati-cally formed and changedhis life.
“Every year, 120-130 stu-dents apply to theConservatory and 20 get in,”relates Sheldon. “When Iwas looking at colleges, Iwas looking at size becauseI didn’t want to be a number-- I never was in Hastings.Baldwin Wallace has about3,000 students and the cam-pus and the town are almostexactly like Hastings. Eventhe people are like the peo-ple in Hastings. I loved thatpiece of it.”
Though he’d already beenadmitted to anotherMichigan college, Sheldonknew on his BaldwinWallace visit where his nextstep needed to be taken. Heused the phone of a BaldwinWallace administrator tomake his call of decline tothe Michigan school.
From that day nearly sixyears ago, Sheldon has not
looked back -- and he creditshis Hastings education andthe Hastings communitywith making possible whatappears to be the beginningof a meteoric career.
Today, Sheldon is the pro-gram associate to the opera-tions and finance managerof the CommunityPartnership for Arts andCulture of GreaterCleveland. CPAC became aservice provider to the artsand cultural community in1997 when The ClevelandFoundation and The GeorgeGund Foundation commis-sioned a regional, communi-tywide strategic culturalplan to determine the needsand concerns of related non-profit organizations. Whenthe study was released in2000, CPAC became theconduit for implementationand evaluation of fundingand programs throughoutthe region.
Sheldon’s current work,in part, involves the granti-ng, the auditing, and the per-formance evaluation of 20artists and programs each ofwhom receive $20,000 fromCPAC’s $400,000 share of aCuyahoga County cigarettetax passed for arts and cul-ture programs in 2006.
“That’s about one-third ofmy job,” says Sheldon, “it’sthe financial piece of ourorganizational audit.Another one-third is meet-ing with artists who mayhave an idea on how to selltheir work and helping themdesign a business plan thatfits their need. The otherone-third is an educationalinitiative in which I may sitdown with an organizationthat serves kids to talk abouttheir needs, to construct abusiness plan, and to period-ically look at performanceevaluations to see if they arewhere they want to be.”
If it all sounds a bitadvanced from solo andensemble work and the
occasional Sundays that hestill uses his music inchurch, Sheldon hasBaldwin Wallace andHastings High School tothank for that, too.
“I was heavily involved inmusic for four years in highschool,” says Sheldon, “butmy side interest was withTracy George and theBusiness Professionals ofAmerica. I learned presen-tation skills and I went tonationals twice -- once inFlorida and once inCalifornia -- to compete inthe national finals. As Ientered my senior year atBaldwin Wallace, I wasinterested in starting anadventure and there was nobetter avenue for it than amaster’s degree program.”
One problem to starting amaster’s program arose:Sheldon was still an under-graduate still to complete hissenior year.
“It started first with a lotof chatting with a lot ofadvisors,” Sheldon chuck-les. “They were concernedabout my ability and whatbackground in I had in busi-ness. That’s when I replied,‘Let me tell you about whatI did in high school.’”
Sheldon was immediatelyadmitted to a master’sdegree program while com-pleting his senior yearcoursework due as much,perhaps, to the project heproposed for his master’sdegree thesis as the fact thathis high school had providedan ideal preparation for theadventure on which he wasabout to embark.
Drawing on his earlierhopes to be a music teacherand to the concerns that heand most of his fellow musicstudents had with curricu-lum emphases moving awayfrom the arts and closer tomore intensive work in sci-ence, technology, engineer-ing, and mathematics,Sheldon proposed workingwith curriculum specialiststo explore the connectionbetween music andimproved reading skills.
Heading a team of 12
undergraduate students,Sheldon launched a programwith 62 underprivileged sec-ond- and third-grade stu-dents in the Akron PublicSchools in which music wasconnected to readinginstruction. After one year,reading fluency increased by12%. Suspecting that musi-cal rhythm could be a spe-cific effect, Sheldon and theteam customized theapproach for a second yearand recorded a 17%improvement in reading flu-ency.
The results have pushedSheldon to national renown.He recently returned from aconference in Baltimorewhere he presented his find-ings to a national musicteachers conference. Twoweeks ago, he was workingwith college textbookauthors in Washington, D.C.to integrate his experiencefor future music educators.He’ll be travelling to similarconferences in Chattanooga,TN and Ohio and will bepresenting at a music thera-py conference in Chicago inOctober.
Today, the project hebegan continues with whathe describes as a “powerfulgroup” of undergraduateswho write grants and imple-ment the program for whichhe now acts as an advisor.He also recently finished themaster’s degree program inentrepreneurship and humanresources.
“It all goes back to beingsuccessful in middle schooland high school and havingthe support I had around mewhen I was at Hastings HighSchool,” says Sheldon, wholaughs when asked if he wasa high-performing highschool student.
“I was not the best highschool student,” he con-tends, “in fact, I was awful.I think Patti knew the reasonI didn’t do well was becauseI was involved so much inwhat I really enjoyed, themusic and BPA.
“That all changed when Igot to college because Iknew I had to step up my
game to be successful. ButBaldwin Wallace was amaz-ing because, after highschool, it became the placewhere I could focus on thosethings I loved the most. Iremember thinking as afreshman that now I get todo my passion for fouryears. When I graduated, Iwas in the Top 20.”
Everyday, when he looksback, Sheldon knows how itall happened.
“I think it was the devo-tion of those teachers totheir students,” he assesses,also including middle schoolchoir director Karen Schoenwho “got me started” in theworld of music. “Thoseteachers were able to wit-ness and to recognize and toeven nourish interest andpassion and talent. WhatI’ve been able to accomplishis a testament to them.
“Patti offered me oppor-tunities, she’d stay afterschool to work on musicwith me and, if I wanted totalk to her about musicschools and where I wasgoing, she always had thetime.”
The joy for those teacherstoday, certainly, is knowingthat Sheldon is returningthose same considerations topeople in his life today --including the second andthird graders of Akron,Ohio.
There’s also advice he’shappy to share with currentHastings High School stu-dents.
“Don’t forget yourextracurriculars,” Sheldonintones. “Although the coreacademic program was afantastic experience, it allcame down for me to theextracurricular activities inwhich I was involved. It gotme the job I have today andthey still keep me motivat-ed.”
Good news for students,for teachers, and for arts andcultural leaders all overCleveland and the world.
Also a heartwarming notefor Hastings, Michigan.
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Just Say “As advertised in the Reminder” Hastings Saturday, July 21, 2012
Adam Sheldon
This special message brought to you by …
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Celebrating 25 years
Adam SheldonHHS Class of 2006
Parents: James andTeresa Sheldon
Current residence:Shaker Heights, Ohio
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Using music and rhythm to improve reading fluency in settings like this one in theAkron Public Schools has gained Adam Sheldon national renown.
Hastings grad using Saxon rhythm to make a difference
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