Rockford City Market

The Rockford City Market, which takes place every Friday night, had a great turnout this past weekend. Thousands of local residents, as well as people from out of town gathered on the waterfront to enjoy gifts, food, and drinks from local vendors.

 The Last Degree performed their versions of today’s popular music hits, and had many people dancing and singing along with them. Many locals enjoyed Vintage Restaurant’s famous bacon-cheddar fries as they walked through the market. 

When market vendors packed up the party didn’t end their, crowds headed down to the strip to local bars and restaurants where residents partied even more.   

Rockford City Market

In an effort to help the downtown, the RockfordCity Market was put into place to help bring more people and more businesses to the downtown area.

 The market takes place every Friday night and is a place where residents gather to walk through local vendors tents that are selling knickknacks, gifts, apparel, food, and drinks.

 The market has been a place where more people can utilize the downtown area, which has been a recovering area in recent years. Since the market first started in 2010 there has been more traffic downtown resulting in new businesses starting up downtown.

 This weekend The Last Degree will be performing under the pavilion as the main event for the Market. 

Packing for Europe

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Recent Calvin College graduate, Jon Hoskins eagerly packed for his two-week backpacking trip across Europe Sunday evening.

Hoskins had never been out of the country before and was struggling with what to pack for this two week long excursion.

Hoskins has gone on many trips before this but none where he had to pack in just a carry-on backpack.

After ripping open the package in which the backpack came, Hoskins began laying out his clothes in an attempt to pack it all.

After compiling outfit options Hoskins then tried to place all the clothes into his backpack where he then realized it wouldn’t fit all of his things.

Without feeling discouraged, Hoskins took all his clothes out and tried to roll them up as a way to save space in his backpack.

Just when Hoskins thought he couldn’t fit all his things in his backpack, he placed his final shirt in the bag and zipped it up.

“I didn’t think it would all fit, but after rolling all the clothes, it fit perfectly,” said Hoskins.

           

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            A recently graduated student plans to pack for a two week backpacking trip to Europe. JonHoskins has always had a love for traveling and is eager to travel acrossEurope with his friends.

            Ever since he graduated from high school, he and his friends had dreamed of going to Europe after they graduated college.

            Hoskins is planning on packing all of his things into a backpack, something he has never done before, but he accepts the challenge with open arms.

            “I’m not sure if I can fit all of my things into this backpack, but I guess we’ll find out,” said Hoskins.

            Two weeks worth of clothes is a lot of stuff to pack into one backpack. Will he be able to pack it all?