By Staff
Coldwell Banker Real Estate Specialists and its employees need your help as they help a needy Niles family.
Coldwell Banker has generously agreed to sponsor this year's Niles-Buchanan Habitat for Humanity home. That's about a $50,000 commitment.
Nancy Butler and Coldwell Banker have donated $10,000 to that effort, and Coldwell Banker employees here have raised another $11,000. However, they still need about $28,000 to complete the project.
That's a difficult challenge, particularly because so many here donated generously toward the Jimmy Carter Habitat work project recently in Benton Harbor.
You can help with the Niles-Buchanan Habitat/Coldwell Banker home and enjoy doing it at the same time. Habitat is hosting a sausage and corn roast today from noon to 5 p.m. at the Niles Elks Club, 1322 Canal St.
Dinner includes sausage, corn, side dishes and a beverage. Cost for adults is $7, children $4 and children under 4 are free. For tickets, please call Mary at 683-4507, ext. 26.
All proceeds go to benefit this worthwhile project.
Daily Star reader Beverly Lonergan sent an email recently asking us to do a story explaining why Niles is called the City of Four Flags.
Ms. Lonergan, here's your answer, thanks to information garnered from the Support the Fort website. (I found it by Googling "Fort St. Joseph.")
They took the fort by surprise and made prisoners of everyone there. The men then raised the Spanish flag, looted the fort, and set off the next day for St. Louis.
Thus, Niles is known as the City of Four Flags because the French, British, Spanish and American flags have each been raised as the official flag here, symbolizing control by those countries.