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When I first started reading the works of Russell Amos Augustine Kirk in the fall of 1989, that most joyously fateful of seasons, I had no idea I would wind up three decades later having spent much of my adult life reading him, writing about him, and holding a position named in his honor. At the age of fifty, I happily and proudly stand in his shadow. Of all of the things I have learned about him, though, nothing has impressed me more than the man’s charity, his saint-like dedication to all around him: the poor; the lonely; the disabled;...

Thursday, September 25, 2003 By Theresa D. Mcclellan The Grand Rapids Press MECOSTA COUNTY -- Martiny Township Fire Chief Aaron Holsworth was worried enough Monday as a bomb squad investigated homemade incendiary devices discovered at Ice Mountain Spring Water Co.'s pumping station. On Wednesday, the chief learned the radical and violent Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility. "It kind of changes my whole outlook," he said. Holsworth and his family live across the street from the pumping station on 13 Mile Road east of Big Rapids. "When an organization this big, that is known throughout the whole country, is making their...