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Knights of Columbus have been holding chicken broilsin May and October for 20 years.

Knights broil up successBy Sean DaltonHeritage Media

Hosting the Knights of Columbus’ Memorial Daychicken broil on the actualMemorial Day date was agamble.

But this year the gamblepaid off and set anotherprecedent for the yearlyK of C event, according tomember and volunteer roastmaster Russell Lynning.

“We didn’t know how this

was going to go … having iton the actual day when theparade and everything elsewas going on, but so far it’sworked out for the best,”Lynning said, as a fellowvolunteer ran up to the broilpits with an empty tray,

exclaiming that there wereonly six chickens left at thetent.

“Turn up the gas,” he toldLynning.

“That’s a good problem tohave,” Lynning said with asmile and a raised eyebrowafter advising his fellowKnight to hold down the forta few minutes longer.

In May and October theKnights hold three days of chicken broils – one aroundMemorial Day and two con-

secutive days around AppleDaze.

Last year the Knightsplanned the broil to coincidewith the yearly Dexter fallcelebration and were metwith similar success.

A lot has changed over the

years aside from event tim-ing. A drive-thru operationwas added approximatelyfive years ago and is cur-rently where the bulk of sales originate.

The former chickenbroil venue was also awayfrom the village on NorthTerritorial and Dexter-Pinckney roads.

“It’s a lot easier herethan when we used to doit (there),” Lynning said.“This is so much moreconvenient. We’ve got every-thing we need here – elec-tricity, water, the whole bit.”

The chicken broils havebeen raising hundreds andthousands of dollars for

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Good or great? Bakery’s T-shirts a

close copy to clothingstore across the streetBy Sean DaltonHeritage Media

When Dexter Bakeryowner Karen Dudekstarted selling her “Lifeis Great … bakeries makeit better” limited editionpromotional T-shirts, shedidn’t realize what she wasin for.

To celebrate NationalBakery Month this June,

Dudek began offering thetwo T-shirts, one blue andthe other green with theaforementioned catchphraseand either a cupcake or aplate of donuts next to asteaming mug.

After an online news blogwrote an article about the$14 shirts, the communitystarted pouring criticismon Dudek via the blog’scomments section due tothe shirts’ similarity to Lifeis Good Clothing.

“Unbelievable, this is oneof the most disrespectful

things I have seen in thistown,” a reader named Annewrote to the site.

Commenters made refer-ence to a potential copyrightinfringement that Dexter’sLife is Good clothing storeowner Lisa Zahra couldmake.

Zahra was dealing withfeelings of anger anddisappointment at herstore Friday, May 27 on thecorner of Main and Broadstreets.

“It was a wrong businessmove on her part,” Zahrasaid of Dudek’s decision tosell shirts that mimic herstore name and the font usedto display it.

She said it’s particularlyfrustrating when a businessowner also goes outside of the village to place an orderfor a promotional productthat could have been ful-filled in the village by abusiness owned by a Dexter-area resident.

Zahra, a Dexter Townshipresident, has been operatingher business in the villagefor nearly a decade now, andwas in fact the first outlet

for the Life is Good brand inMichigan.The company was found-

ed by two New Englandsmall-town residents whobegan by selling out a lot of 48 T-shirts at a street fair inCambridge, Mass.

The company now hasstores nationwide, andoffers more than just T-shirts.

Zahra says that afterreporting to corporate,nobody knew what to makeof the situation.

“They said they’ve never

By Sean DaltonHeritage Media

Thousands of peoplelined Dexter-Ann ArborRoad fromKensington toAlpine streetson both sidesof the curb.

By that and every othermeasure, the village’s 2011Memorial Day Parade wasa resounding success, par-ticularly given the fact thatthe village governmentspearheaded it this yearmore or less alone.

In years past the Ameri-can Legion has taken amore central role, butPost 557’s leadership leftthe parade to the village

and at the lastminute votedat an organiza-tional meetingnot to have a

public ceremony at theMonument Park gazebo.

Village President ShawnKeough said after theparade was over that hefeels positive about therelationship with thelegion and the prospects of 

moving parade cooperationback in the other directionin 2012.

“As I was standing therewatching the wreath pre-sentation, (a legion memberin the color guard) lookedover at me and smiled andsaid, ‘This is neat,’ whenthe parade started moving,”Keough said. “And at theend, he reached out andsaid thanks for doing thiswith us – we’re going to dothis together.”

Keough thanked the

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“It’d be differentif the Dexter

Bakery werefour towns away,

but we’re in

town togetherright across

the street fromeach other.”

LISA ZAHRALife is Good clothingstore owner, Dexter

Photo by Sean Dalton

Dexter scouts walk in the parade bearing their standard and the American flag.

 Village leads parade

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