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Jolly Pumpkin beer receives awardOro de Calabaza voted one of best by Men’s JournalBy Sean DaltonHeritage Newspapers

Men’s Journal staff writ-ers Christian Debenedetti and Seth Fletcher recently named the “25 best beers in the world,” amongst which was Jolly Pumpkin’s original signature ale.

The craft beer scene has been exploding in recent years, and small batch imports such

as Jolly Pumpkin are making it onto more and more retail shelves.

“It’s easier than ever to drink obscure brews from around the globe,” the beer critics wrote. “At the same time, the American craft scene keeps getting better as ambitious brewmasters pioneer new methods and styles”

The explanation for the Jolly Pumpkin’s inclusion stated that the authors couldn’t resist

busting open and sharing the oaky, spicy, floral, and slightly

tart Oro de Calabaza beer over wood oven pizza the minute (they) get it.

Jolly Pumpkin owner and founder Ron Jeffries didn’t mind his Oro de Calabaza

beer winning under those cri-teria, particularly given that it was the very first product his

beer business offered, and it was in fact the very first batch of beer that his company cre-ated at their Dexter facility.

This is Men’s Journal’s seventh annual beer survey in which beer enthusiasts weigh-in on a “been there, drank that” guide.

“So far (the beer) has taken a silver medal at the Australian International Beer Awards and it’s won bronze and gold at the Great American Beer Festival – the most prestigious in the country,” Jeffries said. “Oro was one of the first beers that we made. It was the first beer

period – the first and the second batches of beer that we brewed at this facility here in Dexter.”

He said that winning awards is fun whether it’s the original recipe or something new.

“It’s nice to know that you can still design great beer,” he said.

Aware of how immodest he may sound, Jeffries said that it’s hard to keep track of all of the awards Jolly Pumpkin has won.

“We really put a lot into mak-ing great beer here, so we have a lot of winners – it’s really

“It’s nice to know that you can still

design great beer.”

RON JEFFRIES

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CLAY FACESamuel and Gabriel Fitzpatrick play with clay at the Dexter Art Center’s open house event. For more coverage of the event, see page 23-A.

Photo submitted by Anne Kornow

Park settles into principal roleBy Sean DaltonHeritage Newspapers

Mill Creek Middle School’s newest building principal says he’s looking forward to enrich-ing his student’s lives in many ways.

Hyeuo Park was hired on Aug. 16, and after spending a couple of weeks preparing in an empty building, he was eager to interact directly with students.

“Every day it’s something,” he said. “Right now the kids love my iPad, so I’m walking around and they want it. I tell them that if they can punch in the four secret numbers I’ll give it to them.”

Despite years spent as a classroom teacher at Logan Elementary School in Ann Arbor, Wood Acres Elementary School in Bethesda, Md., and even a couple of years teaching in Seoul, Korea, Park can still be surprised.

“One student actually got the four digits right on my iPad, but that’s because he saw me punch-ing them in when I was visiting an art class a couple of days before,” he said.

Park said he was drawn to Dexter after a decade teaching in Ann Arbor because of the Dexter Community Schools philosophy of “educating the whole child,” as opposed to merely focusing on test scores or employability.

He was the coach of minor-ity affairs at Logan, being an Asian-American educator with experience teaching abroad.

Parks said his time in Korea

was like working in two differ-ent worlds.

“I was teaching English in Korea to 50 students at a time, so it’s a different education system and a much different culture,” Park said. “It’s so funny, because being Korean-American. I know the Korean culture, but to be immersed in it to where everybody knows it and everybody is following it – I went into culture shock.”

Park wants to enrich the students at Mill Creek with all of his unique experiences, and feels that Dexter is the ideal place to begin the administra-tive portion of his career in education.

“They don’t have to travel to a distant country to get to know it. They can learn about other countries here and be open-minded people in a homo-geneous culture,” he said.

Of course the basis for learning about other cultures involves having good role mod-els to create a foundation of decency coupled with altruistic curiosity in students.

“The staff here has natural tendencies as good role models to the kids, so these children are already ‘grown up’ in certain ways making them good kids,” Park said. “We’re going to continue to foster that sense of wholeness and growth.”

Park said that in some respects, it’s easy to form an outline for how he wants Dexter’s children to grow: basically the opposite of some

Photo by Sean Dalton

Students at Mill Creek greet their new principal, Hyeuo Park.

Chicken broil set for Oct. 2Knights of Columbus fundraiser benefits local area charitiesBy Daniel LaiHeritage Newspapers

The Dexter Knights of Columbus will host their annual fall chicken broil during Apple Days weekend in Dexter on Oct. 2 and 3.

“This is the first year we’re having our broil during Apple Days in order to improve sales and generate more money for local charities,” member John Finke said.

The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. or until din-ners are sold out both days at

the Knights of Columbus Hall, 8265 Chelsea-Dexter Road. The dinner is $9 and includes a half chicken, baked potato, cole slaw, roll and butter, and beverage.

Finke said the chicken broil has been a community tradition for over 20 years and serves as the Knights’ largest fundraiser.

“The Dexter Knights of Columbus has been hosting its spring and fall chicken broils for as long as I can remember –– and I’ve been a member since

1987. Like our other major events such as the Tootsie Roll Drive and the Lenten Fish Fry,

the proceeds support various charities, mostly in the Dexter area,” Finke said.

Some of the charities that

benefit from the chicken broil include the St. Louis Center, Dexter Senior Center, Faith in Action, and Dexter Family Services.

“Our mission is not to make a profit on the broil,” Finke said. “We are here to support local organizations in town that serve the needs of the community.”

In the spring, proceeds from the broil, which next year will be held in conjunction with the Memorial Day festivities, typi-cally benefits local veterans, he said.

In the past, the Knights have held their fundraiser separate from other events in the village.

“We’ve been re-evaluating how we’ve done some things,

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