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Grow Operation In Lowell Raided by WTF Squad

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Aided by a pack of sniffer dogs and supported by weaponized military style transport vehicles, 17 members of the West michigan Task Force Dedicated and United in their Directive to End marijuana sales (aka WTF DUDE) surrounded a building on Main Street in sunny, downtown Lowell with firepower, Taco Bell meals, poorly worded subpoenas, and hand cuffs at the ready. When the WTF team battered down the doors at 208 East Main Street, they were greeted by a reportedly massive grow operation utilizing highly sophisticated warming mats and the latest in indoor lighting technology to maximize growth.  "We walked in on an operation that must have been months in the planning and execution stage," reported Staph Sargent Billy "Much" Adoo. "The growing area occupied an estimated nine square feet and it was a pretty impressive set up for a rural community way, way far away from Grand Rapids and genteel society." With the aid of a small pile of Lowell...

Cast of Freaky Friday - yeah, its me again.

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Dear Cast, Crew, Parents of Same, and EVERYBODY involved in Freaky Friday, I am compelled to gush, brag, cheer, and generally whoop it up for everything I saw and heard at the Sunday matinee performance of your most excellent production. My introduction to the incredible job of putting on a musical at my favorite High School happened last year when Mary Poppins stunned me. (Read that blog here: Mary Poppins Review. ) I have to confess that as I was taking my seat yesterday I kind of wondered - is it going to be as good as MP? Could this group knock my socks off?  Yes, yes, and yes.  It was outstanding. Everyone did a great job. I have never seen this musical before, but Emma and McKenna did such great jobs they will forever be the Blakes in my mind. If I ever see another production of Freaky, they will have to measure up to you two and you set the bar pretty dang high! It is a good thing I know Anna Doyle is NOT a snot ball - she was so good at being Savannah...