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The Friday July 29th's BRAC-fest Rally to Support the 110th Fighter Wing and the Air National Guard base was a tremendous success thanks to the support of this community and many hard working volunteers. Fridays rally welcomed BRAC Commissioner Samuel Skinner in a warm, patriotic and memorable way. On behalf of the City of Battle Creek and the Battle Creek Chamber of Commerce, we'd like to give special recognition to the following contributors. Sherri and Gordon Dull of Flag Force One for organizing 287 volunteers in a human flag, pictured beautifully in Saturday July 30th Battle Creek Enquirer thanks to a crane thoughtfully provided by Buck's Crane. Other donors supporting the Human Flag were: Hunt Club, US Lumber. Bauchmen Hebble Funeral Home, American Legion Post 298, Women American Legion Post 298 and Sons of the American Legion Post 298, Bucks Crane, Precision Industries, Kellogg Community Credit Union, Gordon Rosberg, Sheri Swain, Republican Party, WMU College of Aviation Line Dogs. Community Integrated Recreation and C12 Inner City Program bused volunteers to participate in the flag - helping make history in Battle Creek. The WMU College of Aviation was a great host. Special thanks to Dave Powell, Joe Guilfoyle and Tracey Henry of WMU. Kellogg Arena and G2 (G-Squared) Productions provided the staging, sound system and patriotic music, and Besco Water Treatments kept our crowd healthy and cool with bottled ice water. The media did an excellent job promoting and covering the rally. Thanks to WIN98.5 and WBCK for live broadcasts, AccessVision, WWMT, WOTV, Fox17, and, of course, the Enquirer for the stirring images. Thanks also to the many volunteers and workers not mentioned here, who helped make this a successful event. Our rally did what we needed it to do. We welcomed Skinner in a memorable way, demonstrated our support for the Air National Guard Base and sent a clear message that the base should be removed from the list for closure.
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