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Assistant Manager Mike Piaskowski shows off hundreds of Halloween masks available for sale Wednesday at the Halloween Store in The Orchards Mall. 

BENTON TOWN-SHIP —  Clowns have taken on a new meaning for Halloween this year.

Among  the earliest mentions of people dress-ing as creepy clowns dates to this summer, when a clown reportedly tried to lure children into some woods in South Carolina.

A few arrests have been  made for people dressing up as creepy clowns, but other than scaring people, the clown incidents don’t seem to have a motive. Despite the creepy clown craze, the clown costume is expect-ed to be one of the biggest sellers for Halloween.

Michael Piaskowski, assistant manager at the Halloween Store in  The

Orchards Mall, said clowns have made a big comeback this year.

“Clowns have been a huge sale, especially with what’s been going on in the news,” Piaskowski said. “It’s not stopping too many people. Our clown props are the most popular they’ve ever been. Everyone’s going clown crazy.”

Piaskowski said he doesn’t see a lot of chil-

dren dressing up as clowns, but it’s done more by their parents.

Any of the creepy clown masks with teeth and shrouded eyes are the top sellers at the Hal-loween Store. Piaskowski said he’s had to order more shipments of clown masks because they can’t keep enough in stock.

Zombies are still popu-lar, with “The Walking Dead” starting its newest

television season. That includes masks and aes-thetics.

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hil-ary Clinton have their own costume set up near the front entrance of the Benton Township store.

Piaskowski has noticed a lot of people continue to buy the Jason Voorhees costume, made famous by the “Friday the 13th” fi lm series. However, not too many are interested in Freddy Kruger or the Ghostface outfi t from the “Scream” movie series.

Some of the bigger movies that have more detail are more expensive, but the average cost for a full costume is about $49. The less popular a movie is, the cheaper a costume will be.

“All the licensed materi-al, the stuff attached to a movie, are a little bit more expensive,” Piaskowski said. “We have to pay

By TONY WITTKOWSKIHP Staff Writer

Clown, superhero costumes popular for Halloween

Crazy for clowns

Clown masks and costumes, available at the Halloween Store in The Orchards Mall, are a popular choice this Hal-loween season. 

See HALLOWEEN, page A6

BERRIEN SPRINGS — When it rains it pours.

And sometimes it pours and pours.

And that explains why the 2016 Berrien County Youth Fair didn’t stay above water.

The Fair Board had its annual meeting Tuesday, and offi cials said the fair week torrent in August con-tributed to a revenue down-turn and a $45,000 loss.

“It was a tough year. That’s not real surprise,” board Treasurer Susan Coulston  reported. “The good news fi nancially is that we survived. We did OK,  even though two

nights of entertainment were washed out, the rides weren’t going for many hours and there were inches and inches of puddles in front of concession stands.”

She said  revenue was $1.2 million, which was down $174,000 from 2015. Contributing to that down-turn were over $40,000 less from concessions and rides, $73,000 less from grand-stand show tickets and $61,000 less from gate ad-missions.

Coulston said the fair is still in sound fi nancial shape,  though it ended the year with a $45,000 defi cit, which lowered the fair’s as-sets to $374,517.

“So this year will be a

little tight,” she said. “We still have signifi cant infra-structure and equipment needs, but we will be patient and see how we can raise money.”

Fair attendance to-talled 118,409 (down 6,604 from 2015), 2,204 exhibi-tors (up 341) and 11,980 ex-hibits (up 650). Other 2016 highlights includes a roof built to cover the Barbott Memorial Stage, 640 feet of storm drain pipes replaced in the equine complex and the return of pigs. 

A slideshow of fair pic-tures included many show-ing people dealing with the rain. Board President Bruce Foster  said the offi cial rain total for the week was

8 inches.“We had a really wet

week, but the board mem-bers and volunteers worked together to make the best of it,” he said. “We have al-ready started planning for 2017 and hope the weather is better.”

Next year’s theme is “Fai-radise.”

Tuesday’s meeting fur-ther featured a report from Steve Ozinga of Kennari Consulting of Grand Rap-ids. Ozinga has been hired to develop a capital cam-paign for the fair expo arena project. He outlined a two-year time line, dur-ing which a feasibility study

By DEBRA HAIGHTHP Correspondent

Rainfall blamed for BCYF financial shortfall

Don Campbell / HP file photo

Heavy rains made horse showing a challenge Aug. 16 at the Ber-rien County Youth Fair in Berrien Springs. The fair week torrent cut into fair attendance and revenue.

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BENTON HARBOR —  For an additional $24 per year in property taxes, Lake Michigan College can fund a variety of build-ing projects that will enable it to deliver a well-educat-ed, well-trained work force.

That’s how President Emeritus/Acting CEO Bob Harrison sees LMC’s 0.48-mill, 10-year capital millage proposal, which is on the Nov. 8 ballot. LMC’s district covers Ber-rien County, Covert Town-ship and the South Haven school district.

“We have community members stand up (at presentations), and talk about what Lake Michi-gan College has offered them, a family member or a relative. They talk about veteran’s services, the Early College program, how we’ve helped changed peoples’ lives. Generally, the feedback has been very positive, about the value that the college offers,” he said.

If voters agree, the mill-age will raise about $40.3 million for money-saving improvements and ener-gy effi ciencies, as well as modernized classrooms, safety and security im-provements, and Student Support Services area improvements, on all of LMC’s campuses.

The college also antici-pates using $7.5 million that it’s collected from a community-wide capital campaign, and $8.5 mil-lion in state grants, and other investments, to help complete the projects.

“It’s important to look at what the college has al-ready done,” LMC Foun-dation member Scott Di-enes said after Tueday’s board meeting. “Over the years, they’ve (LMC) been very careful, and saved money. We’ve raised mon-

ey, so a lot of hard work in the community’s already done, to raise money.”

The $40 million being raised through the millage would be enough to meet about half of LMC’s capi-tal needs “over, probably, the next 10 to 20 years,” Harrison said.

That funding would help offset a decline in state aid, which has shrunk from about 32 percent of LMC’s budget, in 2001, to its cur-rent level, of 16 percent. It’s is a record low, an over-view posted at the college’s website states.

The impact of LMC’s capital millage would amount to $2 more per month – or $24 more per year – in property taxes for a homeowner with a home valued at $100,000, Harri-son said.

The capital millage would be the fi rst one lev-ied in LMC’s history, and would stand apart from its current operating millage of 1.78 mills, which is 24th out of Michigan’s 28 com-munity colleges, Harrison said. LMC hasn’t had a new operating millage pass since 1996.

Much of the funding will focus on LMC’s main cam-pus on Napier Avenue, but its Bertrand Crossing and South Haven campuses will also get their share of attention, Harrison said.

That desire is refl ected in the modernization of class-room and teaching spaces, for which LMC proposes to allocate $7.6 million in millage funding, and $7.7 million in college, private and state grant money.

That mixture would cov-er upgrades for 50 class-rooms, and two lecture halls, at Napier Avenue; the Bertrand and Napier Student Success Centers; the Business Education and Resource Center; and classrooms at the South Haven campus.

Other key projects iden-tifi ed for completion under the millage include:

By RALPH HEIBUTZKIHP Correspondent

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Benton Harbor yesterdayTemperatureHigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48ºLow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42ºNormal High . . . . . . . . . . . . .57ºNormal Low . . . . . . . . . . . . .39ºRecord High . . . . . . 80º in 1963Record Low . . . . . . 19º in 1990PrecipitationYesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.10"Month to date . . . . . . . . . . 2.42"Normal month to date. . . . 2.59"Year to date . . . . . . . . . . 35.02"Normal year to date . . . . 30.53"

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DO YOU REMEMBER?

TODAY IN HISTORY

25 years ago – 1991

Leaders from the field of quick printing joined Andrews University faculty and students recently for a ribbon-cutting to mark the opening of Harrigan Hall, the new home of the uni-versity’s College of Technology.

Jeanmarie Harrigan, of Cit-rus Heights, Calif., a retired special education instructor, gave $510,000 in October 1987 towards the construction of a technology building.

35 years ago – 1981Mrs. Lillian Darling, of Ben-

ton Harbor, has attained Life Master rank, highest award by American Contract-Bridge League.

The award has been won by only 32,000 among the millions

who play bridge. Life Master rank is awarded players who accumulate 300 Master Point awards for success in bridge play, with at least 50 won in de-manding regional or continen-tally ranked championship com-petitions.

50 years ago – 1966The board of education that

administers Catholic schools for the Lansing diocese is expected this week to authorize the clos-ing of three southwestern Mich-igan Catholic schools at the end of the school year. The closings will affect 161 students at the Holy Maternity of Mary Catho-lic school at Dowagiac; 151 stu-dents at the Sacred Heart school at Bangor; and 155 students at the Immaculate Conception school at Three Rivers.

Today is Thursday, Oct. 27, the 301st day of 2016. There are 65 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:On Oct. 27, 1787, the first of

the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, was published.

On this date:In 1858, the 26th president

of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was born in New York City.

In 1886 (New Style date), the musical fantasy “A Night on Bald Mountain,” written by Modest Mussorgsky and revised after his death by Nikolai Rim-sky-Korsakov, was performed in

St. Petersburg, Russia.In 1938, Du Pont announced

a name for its new synthetic yarn: “nylon.”

In 1954, U.S. Air Force Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was pro-moted to brigadier general, the first black officer to achieve that rank in the USAF. Walt Disney’s first television program, titled “Disneyland” after the yet-to-be completed theme park, pre-miered on ABC.

In 1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.

In 1986, the New York Mets won the World Series.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Janice Arlene Lowe

Janice Arlene Lowe, 80, of Rolling Prairie, Ind., passed away peacefully Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016, in New Carlisle, Ind.

Janice was born July 20, 1936, in La-Porte, Ind., the daughter of Keith and Hanna (Kru-ger) Waak. She married Richard E Lowe on Dec. 18, 1954, in Three Oaks. Janice loved to play pinoch-le. She enjoyed cooking and did a lot of canning. She truly enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren. Janice and Richard always liked getting together with their “over-the-hill gang.” Janice worked for Ameri-can Home Foods in La-Porte, Ind. She worked for Heston Bar and La Lumi-ere School as a cook. Janice also worked for Sun Acre Fruit Farm packing apples. She was also a receptionist for Farmers Insurance.

Janice will be greatly missed by family and friends.

She is survived by her chil-dren: Diana Killingbeck, Rebecca (Michael) Cronk, David (Carol) Lowe, Dan-iel (Darlene) Lowe, Brian (Angie) Lowe; her grand-children: Dena (Keith) True, Erik (Sara) Bohle, Dawn (Adam) Corbett, Kristopher Cronk, Kortney (David) Burdick, Aimee (Todd Nguyen) Lowe, Ra-chael Lowe, Wyatt Lowe, Joshua Lowe, Olivia (Zach) Raymer, Hannah Lowe; her great-grandchildren: Alex-is, Natalie, Isaac, Christina, Brandon, Jacob, Cheyenne, Zachary, Elliot, Emma, Isaac, Michael, Alex, Eli; her sister, Sharon Kline; her brother, Ronald Waak; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Janice was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Richard; and her

grandson, Benjamin.Family and friends will

gather for a graveside ser-vice at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, (Michigan time) at Riverside Cemetery, Chika-ming Township. Charles McKelvey will officiate. The family prefers memori-al contributions be made in Janice’s memory to Ameri-can Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22478, Oklahoma City, OK, 73123 and/or, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Of-fice of Development, 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL  33607. Arrangements have been entrusted to Pobocik Chapel Wagner Family Funerals, Three Oaks. Please share a mem-ory or a message online: wagnercares.com.

Eddie WatsonEddie Wat-

son was born July 7, 1928, in Honey Island, Texas.

Eddie succumbed to death Oct. 20, 2016.

He is survived by his lov-ing wife, Margrie; three d a u g h t e r s : Doris (Law-rence) Henry, Christie Al-len, Deb-bie (Neil) Graves; nine g r a n d c h i l -dren; 22 great-grand-c h i l d r e n ; three great-great-grandchil-dren; and brother, Robert (Barbara Jean) Watson.

Eddie was  preceded in death by his daughter, Rose Watson; and his parents, Willie and Novella.

A celebration of life held by the family will be at 1 p.m. Nov. 12, 2016, at Kingdom Hall Jehovah’s Witness, 281 S. Martin Lu-ther King Drive, Benton Harbor, MI 49022. Ar-rangements have been en-trusted to Hoven Funeral Home, Buchanan. Online condolences may be made at www.hovenfunerals.com.

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extra because it’s copy-righted and drives the pric-es up. We pay a premium for the licensed costumes.”

A younger differenceMore children this year

than ever before will cel-ebrate  Halloween dressed as their favorite superhero.

According to NRF’s 2016 Halloween Consum-er Top Costumes Survey, princess costumes fell to the No. 2 spot after an 11-year reign.

Spending on Hal-loween costumes is ex-pected to reach $3.1 bil-lion, with 67 percent of Halloween participants planning to buy  cos-tumes again this year, the NRF reported.

The study revealed more than 3 million children will dress as their favorite superhero, 2.9 million will dress as their favorite prin-

cess and 2.5 million plan to dress as a cat, dog or other animal.

“Yeah, most of the kids are doing superheroes and the girls are doing prin-cesses,” Piaskowski said. “Superheroes has been a key seller because of the Marvel movies.”

Costumes at the Hal-loween Store that have

been flying off the shelves among children were Teen-age Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman, Superman and the anti-hero Deadpool.

Deadpool has been a hard one to come by for kids, Piaskowski said, because the character is meant for adults.

“I thought it was kind of wired,” Piaskowski

said. “We just don’t have the smaller size for those.”

The biggest shock to Piaskowski was how pop-ular a different kind of clown has become among children.

Harley Quinn, a main character from this sum-mer’s blockbuster hit “Sui-cide Squad,” is another Batman villain. However, the Joker’s girlfriend tends to wear more revealing outfits.

“Trying to get that cos-tume in child size is hard. However, the women that are more age-appropriate for it are backing off it,” he said. “There’s been a lot of reports of women going as Harley Quinn, but because of that, I think they’re backing off. Early in the season, every-one was jumping on that, but once they saw every-one was going as (Harley Quinn), it slowed down a little bit.”

Contact: twittkowski@TheHP.com, 932-0358, Twitter: @TonyWittkowski

Don Campbell / HP staff

Skulls, rats and other creepy decorations are always popular sellers during the Halloween season at the Halloween Store in The Orchards Mall.

HALLOWEENFrom page A1

and campaign plan will be completed to raise the funds.

Fair officials have been working on the idea for at least seven years and con-tinue to work with fun-draising consultant Jack Strayer. The project could cost $17 million or more and include a 500-stall

stable, a hospitality center, a main arena with stadium seating and an exhibition hall. 

Stephanie Gumns of Stevensville was named the

Outstanding 20 Year Old Exhibitor and got  a $300 scholarship. Amanda Olsze-wski of Baroda took second place winner and got a $200 scholarship, while Kelsey Griffith of Benton Harbor received a $100 scholarship for third place.

Friend of the Fair awards were presented to Lonnie Groenke and All Services of Eau Claire. Those elected to new three-year board terms were Su-

san Coulston, Kelly Ewalt, Patrick Freehling, Linda Shinsky, Les Smith and Dan Stacey. Jon Vollman is retiring from the board and was recognized for his many years of service

The 2016-17 board of-ficers elected were Foster, president; Corey Burks, first vice-president; Tiffany Rydwelski, second vice-president; Karen Klug, secretary; and Coulston, treasurer. 

FREEHLING VOLLMAN

BCYFFrom page A1

• Critical deferred main-tenance at all campuses, for which LMC will use about $21 million of the millage funds, plus $7.2 million in college, private and grant funds.• Instructional technol-

ogy and program equip-ment ($5.2 million, millage

funds, plus $8.4 million in college, private and grant funds).• Wine and Culinary

Center ($2.7 million, mill-age funds; $2.5 million, college, private and state funds).• Energy efficiency im-

provements ($2.1 million, millage funds; $2.1 mil-lion, college, private and grant funds).• Safety and security

upgrades ($1.7 million, millage funds).

In some cases, LMC will use its state grant – or the funds it raised through the capital campaign – to off-set the various projects’ costs, Harrison said.

The college decided to study its needs at Napier Avenue first “because we have the matching dol-lars from the state, so that seemed like a good place to

start,” he said.However, no specific pri-

ority list has been drawn up before the Nov. 8 elec-tion, Harrison said.

“Our first priority is to get Election Day behind us. Once we get that done, we’ll look at what the vot-ers have told us, and we’ll adjust our capital plan-ning,” he said.

A capital millage can only be used for buying,

building, renovating or repairing assets – such as academic equipment or classroom renovations, according to a summary posted at LMC’s website. It cannot be used for ba-sic operating expenses, like payroll or utilities.

If the millage passes, LMC will create a spe-cial  committee of  dis-trict  residents to oversee use of the funds, Harrison

said.“The (LMC) board will

appoint that (committee), assuming the millage pass-es. They’ll make sure that we’re only using it for capi-tal projects,” he said.

If the millage doesn’t pass, “then we’ll reassess whatever decision the voters make,” Harrison said. “We’re all for hop-ing for a (positive) mill-age vote.”

LMCFrom page A1

WASHINGTON — Republican Senate can-didates are jumping on news of sharply rising premiums under Presi-dent Barack Obama’s health care law as they seek advantage in the closing days of the elec-tion.

The unpopular law was

already an issue in some key Senate races, a recur-ring attack line for GOP candidates and in some cases another way to tie Democrats to Hillary Clinton.

The latest rate hike news is “an exclamation point on the argument we’ve been making,” said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosper-ity, a group backed by the

conservative billionaire Koch Brothers which has been working on Senate races around the country. “Right now Republicans are really excited to talk about Obamacare and the problems and failings and how it’s hurting people. Democrats do not want to talk about it because they know they’re losing with the American people.”

In Arizona, Sen. John

McCain has been running ads lashing Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick for saying she was proud of her vote for the health law. In Indiana, where the parties are fiercely contesting an open seat, GOP Rep. Todd Young repeatedly turned the fo-cus back to Obamacare in a debate last week against former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh.

By ERICA WERNER AP Congressional Correspondent

Health premium news fuels attacks for GOP