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A SSOCIATED N EWSPAPERS OF M ICHIGAN P AGE 3 J ULY 14, 2011 C ANTON - P LYMOUTH - N ORTHVILLE

Canton teen plays in national finals

Girl Scouts visiting colleges

Music Man

Spotlight Players begin auditions tomorrow night for production

Back in time

The Ottawa Longrifles re-enactors are camping at Mill Race Historic Village this weekend, July 16-17. They are a group of re-enactors who dress in 18th century clothing, camp with period equipment, make early American crafts, and shoot muzzle loading firearms.

They will present demonstrations on campfire cooking and baking, fire starting, powder horn scrimshaw, rifle building, fid-dle music, candle dipping, bullet molding, spinning, weaving, and making decorative

ceremonial tomahawks.

There will children's games from noon until 2 p.m. onSaturday.

The event is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on both Saturday andSunday.

Mill Race Village is located at 215 Griswold inNorthville.

The event is sponsored by the Northville Historical Society. For more information call (248) 348-1845 or visit www.millra-cenorthville.org.

Friends looking for Tyler Brooks to join them in a game of baseball thisweekwill be disappointed. The Canton teen is in Phoenix, AZ, competing in the 2011 Aquafina Major League Pitch, Hit and Run Competition and will be among the lucky fans to attend the Major LeagueBaseball All StarGame. Brooks is one of 24 national finalists in the competition and fin-ished with a top three score nation-ally in his age group. He competed during theMajor League Baseball's All Star week, with the winners determined last Monday as part of Gatorade All-Star Workout Day,

where they competed on-fieldprior to shagging flyballs during the Home Run Derby. All finalists and the newly crowned winner will then attend theAll-StarGame. More than 650,000 young players participated in more than 4,000 competitions acrossNorthAmerica tomake it to the finals. Brooks had to work to advance through three levels of competition, including Team Championships at Comerica Park in Detroit to move ahead to the National Finals at the 2011 MLBAll-StarGame.

Brooks won the team competi-tion at Comerica Park for the sec-

ond time in three years. The 14-year-old started playing team sports at the age of 3 when he joined the Greater Canton Youth Baseball and Softball Association (GCYBSA) T-Ball 1 Team. He's an avid Tiger's fan, who claims first baseman Miguel Cabrera is his favorite player. He currently plays second base and pitcher for the 14U Canton Cardinals. Entering SalemHigh School this fall, Brooks plans to try out for both the base-ball andbasketball teams. "This young athlete represented himself and theCantonCommunity very well," said Sports Recreation

Coordinator Ann-Marie Carravallah. "He should be proud of his accomplishments."

The Aquafina Major League Pitch, Hit andRunCompetition is a core baseball skills competition open to boys and girls ages 7 - 14, which gives them an opportunity to showcase their talents in pitching, hitting, and running. Participants earn scores determined by individ-ual performances in each skill event. The top three overall scores for each age group across the coun-try have earned an all-expenses-paid trip to Phoenix during All-Star weekend.

Girl Scout Cadette Troops 40844 and 40010 from Northville are going strong all summer, mak-ing this the summer of the MichiganCollegeTour.

Led by Chris Kowalczyk, Lori Stapp, Fran Nayh and Cheryl Hayes, the seventh and eighth graders are visiting eight Michigan colleges in or near the 34 counties covered by their Girl Scout council, Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan. Each trip includes a stay at aGirl Scout camp property. Kowalczyk calls the trips “getting a head start on college” and said she wants her girls to be aware of all the opportunities that in-state schools offer. Ally Laycoe wants to be a veterinarian's assistant or an animator for Pixar or Disney and

Shannon Hayes is thinking about going into special education. Jennifer Kowalczyk wants to pur-sue her golf game, perhaps as a professional athlete, or become a first grade teacher while Marin Furuyama is undecided.

The girls make time for Girl Scouts every Wednesday during the summer, despite busy sched-ules filled with swim teams, church camps, softball and babysitting. So far, the girls have seen EasternMichigan University and the University of Michigan, and have stayed at Camp Linden and Camp Crawford. Their U-M tour included lunch at Blimpy Burgers, a campus landmark. Next week, the girls will take a break from the tour, so that 10 of

the 25 girls in the two troops can serve as program aides at Girl Scout day camp at CampMaybury in Northville. At the end of July, seven girls fromTroops 40844 and 40010 will attend “Night Owls” at CampMerrieWoode in Plainwell. As “Night Owls,” the girls are looking forward to sleeping in all morning and going swimming, hiking and star gazing at night. Then the rest of the two troops will meet up with them at Camp Merrie Woode for the weekend “on the road again,” visiting Albion College, and Western Michigan University. As they “college shop,” they will also try out Camp O'the Hills, in Brooklyn, and Camp Oak Hills and Camp Deer Trails, both in Harrison.

And they will visit Michigan State University, Hope College, Schoolcraft, Oakland, Calvin, and Madonna.

The girls, all students at Meads Middle School and Our Lady of Victory School in Northville, have

noticed, “how much walking you have to do” on a college campus. They also commented on “how small the dorm rooms are,” trying to imagine all of their stuff crammed into half of a typical bedroom.

Tyler Brooks suited up to play ball for the 14U Canton Cardinals in Canton.

There's trouble in River City and The Spotlight Players are responsible…or will be when they bring a local production of The Music Man to the Village Theater in Cherry Hill onSept. 16-25. Meanwhile, the group is seeking a full cast of char-acters, along with a bar-bershop quartet and a marching band for the pro-duction. Auditions for actors, musicians and singers from 8-99 years old

will take place beginning at 7 p.m. July 18 and 19 at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill, 50400CherryHill road inCantonTownship. TheMusic Man tells the story of fast talk-ing traveling salesman Harold Hill, whose con is to persuade towns to invest in a boy's brass band that never materializes. But Hill gets more than he bargained for in River City when his love for the town librarian provokes a dormant conscience. Famous songs include 76 Trombones, Ya Got Trouble

in River City, Gary, Indiana and ‘Til There Was You.

The audition will consists of cold read-

ings, a short dance taught at auditions and a singing portion. Those interested in being in the marching band, should bring their instrument to auditions and prepare 16 measures of their choice of music. Barbershop quartets should all audition on the same night as a group.The music and audition form are posted at www.spotlightplayersmi.org.

Spotlight Players is the resident adult theater group at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill. Formerly the Plymouth Theater Guild, Spotlight Players is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and has been are of the community for 65 years. For more information about Spotlight Players call (734) 480-4945 or visit www.spotlightplayers-mi.org.

Famous songs include 76 Trombones, Ya Got Trouble in River City, Gary, Indiana and 'Til There Was You

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Ottawa Longrifle reenac-tors examine their authen-tic 18th century weapons, above, before a demon-stration of marksmanship, while at right, a member shows his camp making skills. The group will pres-ent free demonstrations in Northville this weekend.

Members of Troop 40844 visited the University of Michigan recently.