Michigan Chapter I, Battle Creek
"Gold Wing Road Riders Association"
"Friends for Fun, Safety and Knowledge"
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Welcome to the "Cereal City Wings" website. If you love to ride, laugh and have a great time on your Gold Wing drop us an email or stop by and join us for Dinner. Our meeting place will change as of May 2004. We will be meeting at the Captain Luey's located 181 E. Columbia Avenue in Battle Creek. Supper hour starts at 6:00 PM and meeting starts at 7:00 PM. The date is the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
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For the latest Chapter news click this link to our Newsletter
The Cereal
City Wings are located in Battle Creek, Michigan know
as Cereal City USA. Our community is
where
the cereal giant Kellogg's
started back in 1906. Our Chapter is a very active supporter of the Michigan
Rider Education Program thanks to the tireless efforts of our
Chapter's most famous Couple, Ron and Jan Smith, Michigan's Rider
Education Ambassadors. Through the
raffling of Jan's Raggedy Ann dolls and Ron's beautiful Bracket
Clock, they have raised thousands of dollars to help make the
Rider Education Program of Michigan one of the most successful
programs in the Nation.
Come join us on October 3 for our annual DIRT-J Free Fun Run, hosted by Chapters D, I, R, T, and J. This is a free fun run traditionally serving as the last organized riding event of the season in our area. Go to the District Event Page to download the event flyer. We will have it posted later in the summer as the event date draws closer. So make plans to join us and be rewarded by a piece of Jan Smith's World famous Fudge.
We're
proud of our community and the prosperity
that the Kellogg Corp. has
brought to our families and community.
Come visit what the Discovery
Channel calls “the second best factory tour for kids anywhere!”
Kellogg's Cereal City USA is located here in Battle Creek, Michigan,
the birthplace of ready-to-eat cereals. Tours are available at Kellogg's
Cereal City website.
A short history on Kellogg's
In 1894 Dr. John Harvey
Kellogg was superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and Health
Spa in Michigan. His younger brother, Will Keith Kellogg, was the
business side of the team. The Sanitarium (better known as the
“San”) taught their patients to eat healthy and encouraged them to
stop drinking coffee, alcohol, eating meat, and smoking tobacco. As
Dr. Kellogg always said, “Eat what the monkey eats, simple food and
not too much of it”.
The great discovery
At this point in their lives the Kellogg brothers, with the help of
Dr. Kellogg’s wife, Ella Eaton Kellogg, had already produced many
new products. Their ultimate goal was to create a
substitute for bread. One evening after cooking a batch of
wheat, the Kellogg brothers were called away from the kitchen.
Although the dough was rather stale, the next morning they decided to
force it through the rollers. This time instead of the long
sheets of dough, thin flakes were produced.
They knew they had
discovered something great, but they had no idea how great! In 1906,
after years of disagreement with his brother over the production of
flaked cereal, Will Keith Kellogg (W.K.) founded the Battle Creek
Toasted Corn Flake Company and its most famous product, Kellogg’s
Corn Flakes®.
Times
visited Updated
02/12/2006
Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, Snap, Crackle and Pop and Dig'em the Frog are all Trade Marks of the Kellogg Corporation
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