Daily slices of life in Michiana
Bus Kelver, left, of Osceola, reminisces with fellow members of the Mishawaka Horseshoe Pitching Club including Gene Ingle of Edwardsburg, Mich., on Wednesday, July 18, 2012, at Bendix Park in Mishawaka. A group of lively old-timers gather at the park every Wednesday to toss horseshoes and engage in some friendly trash talking. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Lily Strang, 6, listens as Bethel volleyball coach Kevin Ulmer talks to his players before a volleyball match against Grace College on Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, at Bethel College in Mishawaka. Strang, who suffers from Fanconi Anemia, signed a letter-of-intent to become a Bethel Pilot and was issued jersey No. 14 thanks to Team IMPACT, an organization that pairs children with serious chronic illnesses with college teams. On this night, the college collected donations in place of admission fees for Strang as part of a send-off. Strang is set to undergo a bone marrow transplant followed by a long isolation period. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Jedediah Wells, of South Bend, reacts as a couple youngsters paint his neck during Downtown South Bend First Friday on Friday, April 5, 2013, along Michigan Street. Wells allowed passing patrons to grab a paintbrush and paint him from head to toe, including his teeth. He referred to himself as a “living piece of graffiti.” (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Don Dodd leans on a barn door on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at his syrup farm near Niles, Mich. Warmer than usual temperatures have kept Dodd’s Sugar Shack busy with a steady stream of sap flowing from hundreds of taps in and around the farm east of Niles. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Mackenzie Griman, 11, discusses a question with her team, the Battling Wizards from Mishawaka Catholic, during the Battle of the Books on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at Penn High School in Mishawaka. Several area fifth graders took part in the battle, answering questions from six chosen books. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Six-week old Henry yawns after a lactation consulting meeting with his mother, Dory Durham, on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, at Memorial Hospital in South Bend. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Kelsey Cramer carefully adjusts her cap with some help from Brenda Bickel, a member of the school’s General Studies alumni board, reflected in mirror, before the Indiana University-South Bend commencement exercises on Tuesday, May 8, 2012, in the Purcell Pavilion at Notre Dame. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Isaro Simental adds green to the word “side” as he and Sammy Aguire, background, paint a mural on the side of the Little Mexico West Side Barbershop on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, along Western Avenue in South Bend. Simental, who is also a barber at the shop, and Aguire had been working on the mural for about two hours by 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, but had already completed a barber’s pole that spanned the height of the building’s east side. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Marysia Rzeszutek shares a laugh with a family member as she adds a raspberry filling to a paczki, a type of cream-filled Polish pastry, on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at Baker’s Dozen Bake Shop in South Bend. Rzeszutek and her husband, Chris, own the shop and expect to make between 2,500 and 3,000 paczkis for Fat Tuesday. The pastries are a traditional treat for Polish Catholics before lent. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Alicia Nagy, center, listens to a speaker with her children Julia, 3, and John Bosco, 1, during the Rally for Religious Freedom on Friday, March 23, 2012, on Jon R. Hunt Plaza in downtown South Bend. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Dr. Kevin James, director of the Civil Rights Heritage Center in South Bend, chants as he and hundreds of hoodie-wearing participants march on Thursday, March 29, 2012, westward on Washington Street in South Bend. The march was part of the One Million Hoodie March nationwide marking the death of Travyon Martin, a teenager who was shot and killed while wearing a hoodie by a community watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla. last month. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Abdullah Karim huddles up with his girl’s basketball team after an informal practice on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, at the South Bend Career Academy. The academy recently added girl’s and boy’s basketball. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
April Boughton attempts to blow a bubble as she competes in a game styled after NBC’s “Minute to Win It” on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at Hannah and Friends in South Bend, Ind. Boughton, 22, suffers from Prader-Willi syndrome. The condition is characterized in part by a constant sense of hunger that can lead to extreme binge eating. She comes to the facility a few times a week to play games and to groom horses at the stables. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Molly O’Leary, center, shares a laugh with fellow Marian High School classmates as they prepare to march in the school’s commencement exercises on Friday, May 25, 2012, at the Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Stella Hall, 2, glances back at parade participants behind her as she rides with her father, Bryan, in a community Memorial Day parade on Saturday, May 26, 2012, morning in Granger. The parade started at the home of Dr. Mark Lavallee in the Farmington Square subdivision. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
