text: Southwestern Michigan College Sisterhood club's second campus-wide Operation Christmas Child packed 25 shoeboxes with small gifts to brighten the holiday for needy children.
  What do Cub Scouts of Pack 531 have in common with 100 Women Who Care? Both groups are among 103 units signed up to appear in Dowagiac’s Candle-light Christmas Parade on Friday, Dec. 4, which steps off downtown at 7 p.m.
  If mezzo soprano Carrie Ledet, 39, could talk to herself as a 20-year-old Western Michigan University vocal performance major, “I’d shake her and say, ‘Don’t be so hard on yourself.’ ”
  “Pigeons taught me is it doesn’t matter how low you get,” Andrews University Chaplain Michael Polite said, “the universe will give you something positive.”
  Thwarting terrorism can seem like playing the Super Bowl every day.