I’m sorry I didn’t see this correction sooner. I just made a box to place in Thursday’s issue. Thanks for your comment!

Skyler

Warren Creative Designs LLC are happy to announce the planned opening of their new location at 257 South Main St. in Onsted MI. The storefront location will operate under the name of Music and More Midwest. Along with continuing to service our school, religious facility and non profit customers established over our 20 plus years in business, we will have a retail location to serve area musicians. Final date for the opening of the storefront location will be the last week August with a Grand Opening later in September.

We will be a full line dealer serving the guitar combo market , hobby music and mature music segments with things like banjo, ukuleles, harmonicas and specialty instruments e but will have an emphasis in drums and percussion as well as band and orchestra. We are currently making adaptations to the location to create a better environment for our new and established customers.

As a company we started out selling band uniforms, accessories such as shoes, gloves, flags, flagpoles, tape, fabric field supplies, podiums, carts, PA systems and other products related to school, religious and non profit music programs as well as providing drill design, guard design and show production for band indoor guard and percussion and drum corps.. Several years ago, we added a number of instruments, accessories such as mouth pieces, drum sticks and heads, amps, guitars and various percussion instruments. Our new location will allow us to offer a greatly expanded access to the top instrument suppliers in the world such As Jupiter, Mapex, Pearl, Conn Selmer, Ludwig, Tama and Yamaha Drum sets and a full line of Music Magazines.

With the new storefront, we will be adding a wide selection of name brand drum sets in all price ranges, instrument rentals, an enhanced selection of all the products mentioned earlier as well as several new brands. We will feature a large selection of printed music including individual pieces for most instruments as well as many book collections, how to and method books. We will also be featuring a number of magazines related to various instruments, styles of music and buyers guides.

Another aspect we will be adding to the area in early fall will be the availability of a lesson program. We will offer lessons in all instruments in which interest exists. We will utilize local musicians and music professionals to provide their expertise in these areas and support them with a wide range of print music as well as instrument rentals and sales. We will offer instrument rental and leasing for students from 6 to 96 and beyond. We will also have several lines of beginner, step up and professional level instruments either in stock or as a special order opportunity for sale.

True to our roots as a education service organization, we will have limited storefront hours during the busy band Camp season in late July and early August but will expand hours through the remainder of the year. In addition to our wide range of products we also offer Program development and production for marching band, drum corps and indoor percussion and guard. In addition to the design and production aspects we also have professionals available for consulting, seminars, rehearsals, and clinics in all related fields including winds, percussion, guard and marching and movement.

We look forward to this new opportunity to serve our clients and supporters and the addition resources and involvement we will bring to the area and the local music community. Until our opening you may reach us by phone at 517 467-2003, 517 592-3997 or 800 947-5877. You can also many of our products on our website http://www.musicandmoremidwest.com.

Adrian College students will be offered a 5% discount on many products with the presentation of their student ID

I was privileged to be invited as the keynote speaker for the Women’s Diversity Conference March 26th at Adrian. It was a pleasure to spend time at the college and to get to know some students, faculty and community members who took time on a Saturday to discuss these important issues. Thank you all for welcoming me to the campus!

I’m commenting here to clarify a few points about how my speech was described above. While I did describe the profit motivation that has led some businesses to promote the concept of “diversity,” I did not say that their efforts had nothing to do with U.S. law. In fact, the role of law in requiring affirmative action goals (often described as “diversity initiatives”) and enforcing anti-discrimination policy is complex and varies by the size and nature of the employer. My point was that the term “diversity” glosses over or even erases the power differences and injustices that are highlighted by a focus on equality.

I would also like to clarify that I don’t consider the term “diversity” and the customer-seeking corporate practices connected to that concept as part of the “earlier days of the equal rights movement.” I think that the corporate diversity approach is something that has become prevalent over the past 15 to 20 years, following the earlier movements in the 1970s and 80s that focused more on equality.

My comments regarding activism around Palestinian rights and about race within the U.S. environmental movement were also a bit more complex than is represented above. If there are readers of this website who would like to understand my larger argument, I’d be happy to share the original speech. Feel free to contact me through my organization’s website, http://www.sugarlaw.org.

Again, I truly appreciate the opportunity to meet the Adrian community and share some of my ideas. I am also pleased that the Adrian College World recognized the importance of this conference and chose to inform readers about the learning that occurred that day.

Thanks, and keep up the passion for learning and informing!

Congratulations on the competition outcome. I’m a member of the Chemistry Club and the University of Michigan-Dearborn and I’m curious as to how you guys got involved in this event? I’d love to have my school represented at events such as this in the future. Thank you, Alberto Lopez.