Bobbaroo!

Save Saturday, August 11, for a special event at the State Theatre in Kalamazoo. Starting at 4 p.m., fourteen bands will play a benefit concert for Bob Hill, a 2005 Gull Lake High School graduate. Bob suffers from a genetic disease, keretoconus, that, if untreated, leads to blindness. Bob started going blind during his senior year at Gull Lake. Last year, a benefit concert at the Richland Area Community Center raised $1,200 for a corneal transplant for one eye; this year's concert will pay for Bob's second surgery, and any extra will be donated to the next benefit concert.

If you'd like to make a donation, make a check payable to First Presbyterian Church of Richland, mark it "Bobbaroo," and send it to the church at 8047 Church Street, Richland, MI 49083.

Even better, come out to a great concert on August 11. Admission is free, but please bring a generous donation! Bands will include Frontier Ruckus, Eyes of an Enemy, Asphodel Fields, Patience Patients, Olivet, Red Amendment, Fernelity, The Giving Tree, Daywalker and the Skychild, The Kinds, Common Shiner, and Combat Corduroy, a Gull Lake-related band that includes Annie Jennings (PAC '06), Brandon Jennings, Logan Castle (PAC '04), John Petro, and Andrew Watkins. It should be a great evening for a great cause.