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Published 8:07 am Thursday, June 26, 2003

By By JOHN EBY / Dowagiac Daily News
The 22 children ages 3 1/2-7 are in their second week of the four-week program.
They come to Tiny Talkers not only from across the district, but from Cassopolis.
June 25's guest instructors included Chieftain baseball coach Andy Kruger and a couple of his Legion Post 206 players.
After a series of stretching exercises, the youngsters were ready to swing the bats, spraying line drives into the backstop off tees.
Then Kruger laid out a diamond with his bags for a base-running lesson.
The former Heather Hoger graduated with Kruger in 1991 after their class won the 1990 state football title.
While Nash is a classroom teacher, two speech therapists, Sue Balazer and Melissa Phillips, work with the program.