Flag Day -- SW Michigan - nearby Three Oaks, MI -- June 17, 2018 afternoon parade

from http://threeoaksflagday.com/parade.html/

June 17, 2018 3:00 p.m.

The nation's Largest Flag Day Parade started in 1953 in Three Oaks, Michigan. In 2018, the Three Oaks Flag Day Parade is celebrating 66 years! The parade honors the American Flag, Veterans, Service Men and Women, The United States and Freedom. The parade averages over 100 units of Veterans, Color Guards, Musical Marching Units, Clowns, Equestrian Groups, Drill Teams, Antique Cars & Trucks, Drum & Bugle Corps and Antique Tractors all display and honor the American Flag in the grandest tradition that only this iconic parade has been exhibiting for six decades.

Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985) his poem "Days"

What are days for?

Days are where we live.

They come, they wake us

Time and time over.

They are to be happy in;

Where can we live but days?


Ah, solving that question

Brings the priest and the doctor

In their long coats

Running over the fields.

"God's Grandeur" - Gerard Manley Hopkins

from "The Poet's Corner" by John Lithgow:

The world is charged with the grandeur of God,

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed.  Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is here now, nor can foot feel, being shod.


And for all this, nature is never spent;

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs --

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Memorial Day 2018 (expected high temperature of 94 degrees F.) is also an air quality (Ozone Alert) action day

May 28, 2018 -- from TV station web information (WNDU dot-com)

An Air Quality Action Day is in effect for La Porte, St. Joseph, Elkhart (INDIANA), Berrien and Cass (MICHIGAN) Counties through Midnight, as the higher levels of ozone could make it unhealthy for sensitive groups.

Ozone Levels are expected to be in the Orange or unhealthy for sensitive groups range. People and businesses are urged to avoid activities which lead to ozone formation. These activities include...refueling vehicles or topping off when refueling, using gasoline powered lawn equipment, and using charcoal lighter fluid.

May 31 (Thursday) - June 3, 2018 -- Local Fun Fair and Bluegrass Music Festival

This is the 16th Annual Fair and Festival.  Free Music

Riverfront Park, 22 Sycamore Street, Niles, MI 49120

Information -- Phone (269) - 687-4332
Web Page: search at MichianaFestivals.com/

Air Quality Alert Day - May 27 - Sunday (for Berrien and Cass counties, Michigan)

AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT FOR SUNDAY MAY 27, 2018... An Air Quality Action Day has been declared by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for Berrien and Cass counties in Michigan...and is in effect for Sunday May 27th.

Ozone Levels are expected to be in the Orange or unhealthy for sensitive groups range. People and businesses are urged to avoid activities which lead to ozone formation. These activities include...refueling vehicles or topping off when refueling, using gasoline powered lawn equipment and using charcoal lighter fluid.

Positive activities include...car pooling, biking to work, delaying or combining errands and using water based paints. It is recommended that people with respiratory diseases such as asthma limit prolonged outdoor exertion.

Taste of Michiana - May 30, 2018 - Century Center, South Bend, IN -- 5 - 8 p.m.

Time:
Where:
Adults:$25
Children 6-16:
Children 5 and Under:

May 30th, 2018
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Century Center, SOUTH Bend, Indiana
$25
$10
FREE(ages 5 and under)

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There will be 40+ Michiana top restaurants and beverage companies under one roof.

The 28th annual Taste of Michiana will be held on May 30th, 2018, at the Century Center - right in the middle of South Bend’s Best Week Ever. It begins at 5pm and concludes at 8pm.

Cost is $25 per ticket and includes all you can eat and drink! Kids 6-16 are just $10 each and kids 5 and under are free!

Tickets can be purchased in advance by following the PayPal directions below and of course they will be available at the door. But by purchasing in advance you will be allowed to enter 15 min earlier and will not have to wait in the usual long line to pay for tickets at the door.

https://lifetreatmentcenters.org/taste-of-michiana

Dense Fog Advisory (May 22) -- 5:30 a.m.

for Berrien County, Michigan and N. Indiana Counties --

...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT  THIS MORNING.(Tuesday May 22, 2018).. The National Weather Service in Northern Indiana has issued a Dense Fog Advisory...which is in effect until 11 AM EDT this morning.

* VISIBILITY...A quarter mile or less at times.

* IMPACTS...Poor and rapidly changing visibilities in areas of dense fog will make travel hazardous.

A Dense Fog Advisory means visibilities will frequently be reduced to less than one quarter mile. If driving...slow down... use your headlights...and leave plenty of distance ahead of you