AUGUSTA, Mich. - Colleen McNamara, a five-year veteran of MSU’s governing body, was elected chairperson of the university’s Board of Trustees on Friday. McNamara, who joined the board in 1995, replaces former Trustee Bob Traxler, who resigned in August to accept a position on the Mackinac Island State Parks Commission. “It’s really an honor,” McNamara said Friday.
The stories on Harvard Professor Stephen Jay Gould and discussions with MSU President M. Peter McPherson, Ronald Fisher, director of the Honors College, and others is among the most exciting articles I’ve read in my nearly 40 years at MSU.
We have all done it. Scanned through popular “girlie” mags to search for the perfect ’do, the top 10 ways to catch his eye or the fab five diets of the year to lose 10 pounds in a week.
I am writing in response to Tom DeKorne's letter (“‘U’ women are not always nice,” SN 9/22). In it he basically said that only shallow, one-night-stand-seeking guys go to bars or parties.
Rebecca Titus: Titus Farms in Leslie.517.910.3002Growing alongside her parents’ crops, Rebecca Titus became accustomed to the world of farming at a young age. Titus attended MSU and graduated with her masters in Horticulture in 2008, which according to is the art of planting and managing gardens, such as vegetables, fruit, and ornamental.“This farmer’s market is the reincarnation actually of an old farmer’s market that I went to when I six-years-old. . .it stopped for a while because it ran out of farmers and the traffic wasn’t that great. So when I was in college, one of the people who ran that market actually approached me and said, ‘Do you want to help us consult and figure out where we would put a new farmer’s market?’ I was a sophomore and hung out with them a for a while. We figured out where to put one. We’ve been going to this farmer’s market since its conception six years ago. It’s celebrating its sixth year.” Farm's been open since '82. Mom had food allergies so tried natural foodsAbby Rudnicki: First year of managing the market.Graduated from MSU in 2014? with a degree in communications and a cognate in behavioral sciencearudnic@cityofeastlansing.com“So the EBT and the double up food bucks program. So EBT is the government assistance food program. So the way it works is the people who bring their snap bridge cards in can take money from their account and EBT coins. So for every ten dollars you get ten dollars extra in these little silver coins . . . double up food bucks can only be used on fresh produce. So only fresh fruits and vegetables. . . It’s a really really great program and it encourages healthy eating along with offering more assistance for people who need food. So that’s been a huge thing for us at our market and something we’re incredibly supportive of. . . We’ve always accepted snap bridge cards . . .” “This is going to sound super cheesey, but (my favorite part of the market is) the sunrise and setup. Watching the bustle between vendors, seeing everything laid out perfectly before customers show up, all the colors and smells. It’s soothing,” Rudnicki said. Julia Kramer Residential College in the Arts in Humanities with a minor in Spanish and a specialization in sustainable agriculture and food systems ustomer’s Bridge Cards, gives out tokens for the Double Up Food Bucks, and helps to explain the program to customers** Find out exact year for double up coins**Grant from MEDCOnly market in the state of Michigan with all Michigan made products. Christine Miller: Spartan Country Meats in Webberville.Graduated from MSU in 2000 with a degree in Animal Science with a focus on food processing.517. 375. 6337Manages at the Meridian Farmer’s Market**How long she’s been managingMother of three sons that help out.Also sells to: Red Haven Restaurant (address?)Farm Fresh SeafoodMid Michigan Meat“Doing Spartan Country Meats is our fifth year, but we’ve also owned a custom poultry processing business for five years prior to that. We’ve been doing poultry, either raising it or raising and processing it ourselves for almost nine years. . .”How do you like it at this farmer’s market?“It works out really good. A lot of people in the Lansing area appreciate knowing where the food comes from, and how it’s raised, and the processes it goes through from going to a live animal to meat. That works out really good for people.”So this is all natural?“Yep, this is all natural. We don’t use any hormones or antibiotics. They get grass, grain, and water. The grain they do get is all natural, no animal byproducts in it. And then the poultry we process on our own licensed facility on our farm. We don’t do anyone else’s so there’s no cross contamination, there’s nothing injected into them. Some of the bigger industries dip them in bleach, I’ve heard, just to kill any germs. They get a cold water bath from well water that’s tested for anything that’s bad in it. . . We do that fresh every Friday. So every weekend at markets we have fresh chicken from May to October. So we do enough of where we freeze it and sell it during the winter also at Meridian winter farmer’s market.”Why’d you pick all natural?“That’s the way we did it as a kid. We didn’t use any of that stuff.”Your parents were farmers?“No, we did it for 4H. We were more of a sheep farm growing up, but we did chickens and stuff like that for 4H animals, and we never did that with the sheep either. That was the way I was raised doing it, and there’s no need to give them anything anyways.”“Being able to provide good, wholesome meats to the folks in the Lansing area along with our own family.”Sara Beer: Spoonful of GranolaGraduated from Central in 1993 with her bachelor’s in Communication Disorders. Husband works at MSU in the Journalism/ Advertising department. Ear Nose and Throat. Started from her dad and not always snacking right.“It’s beautiful here “Several hours per batch.”
It's become a familiar scene, really. Confetti falling, players celebrating and everyone looking around wondering what on earth they had just seen. Everyone, that is, except for the players and coaches on the MSU sideline.