Noon at Senior Services, 08337 M-140, South Haven
NO ZOOM
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Join us for a wonderful lunch and entertainment by the Lighthouse Connection Quartet. The Lighthouse Connection Quartet sings four-part harmony, primarily in the barbershop style of music. Using contemporary arrangements, they perform a variety of music, including patriotic, spiritual and ballads. They love sharing their joy of singing with community groups throughout southwest Michigan and northwest Indiana.

We will call our Annual Meeting to order at noon. Our Board of Directors will be elected and installed during the meeting. After this short meeting, we will enjoy a delicious lunch prepared by Senior Services.

By John Wemlinger

John Wemlinger has become a master of the military romance, winning writing awards for nearly all of his seven novels. He often tells his readers, “The good news is today anybody can publish a book. The bad news is today anybody can publish a book.” Find out what he means as he talks about the why he writes and how.

John Wemlinger is a retired U.S. Army colonel and a veteran of the Vietnam War where he was a helicopter maintenance officer. In retirement he has become an award-winning author of seven novels writing about what he knows best, the military and its culture. He sits on the board of directors of the Michigan Library Foundation and he and his wife, Diane, reside in Onekama, Michigan.

By David Benac, Ph.D.

Rainforest Radicals presents the first history of one of the most innovative and successful environmental organizations of the late twentieth century. Rainforest Action Network (RAN) emerged in 1985, when it took over a fledgling effort to protect rainforests from transnational corporations funding the expansion of tropical cattle ranching. It excelled at using nonviolent, civil disobedience in dramatic campaigns that captured the attention of the public, media, and RAN’s corporate adversaries. As a result, two decades later rainforest conservation went from a niche academic topic to a fixture in American popular culture, the rights of Indigenous people had gone from ignored or romanticized to at least considered in discussions of the management of their ancestral homelands, and RAN had scored a series of victories over some of the planet’s largest corporations.

David Benac is an environmental and public historian of the post-WWII United States. His research investigates grassroots environmental action, popular perceptions of nature, the science of ecology, and the philosophy of ecocentrism. Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing (University of Nebraska Press, 2026) explores the radical environmental movement of the late twentieth century and international coalitions of grassroots groups devoted to supporting indigenous rights and environmental protections. Dr. Benac also works as a consulting historian, writing land-use histories for land-management entities.