KALAMAZOO, MI — Lois Ellis began bringing her daughter Terri Sage to Carousel Ice Cream within the Nineteen Sixties.
Almost 60 years have handed, and Carousel is lengthy gone, however Ellis nonetheless brings her daughter to the positioning the place the ice cream parlor as soon as stood. One in every of many regulars who frequent Nina’s Café, at 1710 W. Predominant St. in Tiffany’s Village purchasing heart, Ellis makes it a behavior to eat on the cafe a number of occasions per week.
When requested why she retains coming again, she mentioned: “The environment. It’s residence.”
There’s additionally one thing to be mentioned for the cafe’s choice of breakfast sandwiches, French Toast with cinnamon butter and the American Fries, she mentioned.
Certain sufficient, Ellis, like so many others who frequent the comfy diner — which seats simply shy of fifty friends — is greeted by identify upon arrival.
“About 70% of our clients are regulars. Now we have those who come for breakfast after which again for lunch‚” mentioned Todd Meyer, who opened Nina’s in 1998 together with his spouse Pam, naming it after the couple’s solely youngster after which 1-year-old daughter.
Nina is now 25 and has no real interest in sometime taking up the restaurant, Meyer mentioned, however she does prefer to make strategies as to how he ought to run it once in a while, reminding him her identify is on it.
Except for loyal clients, Meyer mentioned, the restaurant is constructed on loyal employees, though they did undergo a little bit of a changeover because of the pandemic. Nonetheless, there’s staff like 32-year-old front-of-the-house supervisor Cheyenne Hill, who has been greeting and caring for Nina’s friends since she was 15 years outdated.
“She is aware of all of the regulars and what they need and the way they need it. Most of them don’t even know what they need,” Meyer mentioned of Hill, with amusing.
Choices are each plentiful and inexpensive at Nina’s with favorites together with the breakfast moist burrito, Buffalo rooster hash, the specialty waffles — of which a complete web page of the menu is devoted to — and the French Toast, which is made with one’s alternative of house-made banana nut or white bread.
Along with a web page filled with waffle choices — that options all the things from waffles benedict to bacon waffles to southwest corn waffles, to the “Elvis,” consisting of banana, peanut butter and chocolate syrup.
Nina’s additionally presents greater than two dozen six-egg omelet on the menu. Selections vary from shrimp and cream cheese to meat lovers to spinach and feta, ham and cheese and extra.
Breakfast and lunch are each served throughout all open hours at Nina’s. For these on the lookout for lunch, the cafe has an intensive burger menu, 16 totally different wraps to select from and loads of different sandwich choices, together with grilled chili canine, BLT canine, New York canine and Chicago canine. Half sandwiches, served with a cup of home made soup or chili are favorites for these on the lookout for lighter fare, Meyer mentioned.
And whereas Carousel Ice Cream has not been a part of the restaurant’s identify since 2003 — it opened as Nina’s Café and Carousel Ice Cream. Visitors can nonetheless see a wall-sized portray from the outdated ice cream store once they stroll in and so they can nonetheless deal with themselves to a wide range of ice cream deserts, from totally different sundae picks to strawberry shortcake to floats and extra.
“There had been two companies, Carousel and an ethnic restaurant, (Eurasia), each of which had gone out of enterprise earlier than we moved in,” Meyer mentioned. “We advised the proprietor of the purchasing heart we wished to take each and put in a breakfast restaurant. On the time, that they had the rights to Carousel Ice Cream and, as a part of the settlement, they mentioned that we needed to preserve have ice cream and preserve Carousel within the identify for 5 years.”
So, for the primary 5 years, Nina’s operated as a breakfast and lunch spot by day and stayed open till 10 p.m. serving ice cream. As soon as the settlement ran its course, they dropped Carousel and centered on the cafe.
“With out the ice cream who is aware of if this factor would have gotten off the bottom,” Meyer mentioned. “In some methods, we predict that settlement was a blessing in disguise. Individuals knew Carousel Ice Cream, so that they got here in for ice cream after which they have been like ‘oh you serve meals?’”
As for the individuals they serve, they’re the principle motive individuals like Hill have labored at Nina’s so lengthy, the front-of-house supervisor mentioned.
“Since I’ve been right here since I used to be youthful, I’ve plenty of regulars,” she mentioned. “Plus, my proprietor, my boss is sort of a second dad to me. I’ve been right here by means of all three of my children being born. So yeah, it’s like a household.”
Nina’s is open from 6:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and eight a.m. – 2 p.m. Sunday. The café is closed on Mondays. For extra info, go to ninas-cafe.com or name 269-373-NINA (6462).
The restaurant, because it does every year, will likely be closed the week of July 11. The household is taking its annual week-long trip to the Higher Peninsula and provides its staff some relaxation.
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Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a church service in Detroit and rally young voters at Michigan State University as part of a campaign swing through Michigan on Sunday.
Two days before Tuesday’s presidential election, Harris is planning to make four stops in Michigan, according to a senior campaign official who declined to be identified in order to provide information on the yet-to-be-announced details of the trip.
The Democratic nominee will speak at a church and visit a restaurant in Detroit, a Democratic stronghold and the state’s largest city. Harris also will stop in Pontiac before the evening event in East Lansing, where MSU is located, the official said.
Harris held a large rally at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Monday night.
Turning out college students in East Lansing and Ann Arbor could be key to Harris’ hopes of winning Michigan. Also, East Lansing is located in the hotly contested 7th Congressional District, where former state Sens. Curtis Hertel, an East Lansing Democrat, and Tom Barrett, a Charlotte Republican, are vying for an open seat in the U.S. House.
Harris is locked in a competitive race for Michigan’s 15 electoral votes with Republican former President Donald Trump. Michigan is one of seven battleground states that are expected to decide whether Harris or Trump leads the country for the next four years.
Trump is visiting Michigan on Friday and will hold a rally at Macomb Community College in Warren.
A late October poll of 600 likely Michigan voters, commissioned by The Detroit News and WDIV-TV (Channel 4), found Harris was beating Trump by 3 percentage points, 46.7%-43.7%, with 7.3% of the participants saying they planned to vote for a third-party candidate. Another 2.1% said they were undecided.
The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Four years ago, Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump in Michigan by 154,188 votes or 3 percentage points, 51%-48%.
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MSU football: Video analysis of the Spartans’ 24-17 loss at Michigan
Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch and Detroit Free Press MSU beat writer Chris Solari break down the Spartans’ 24-17 loss at Michigan.
EAST LANSING — The loss to Michigan cost Michigan State football one of its best defensive players for 45 minutes of football
It’s an inopportune loss at an unfortunate moment — with No. 13 Indiana’s high-powered offense up next.
Linebacker Jordan Turner will miss the first half of Saturday’s game against the Hoosiers (3:30 p.m., Peacock), leaving the Spartans without their leading tackler in the heart of their vastly improved and swarming defense.
“Very unfortunate. A little bit of a crazy call, in my opinion,” fellow linebacker Jordan Hall said Wednesday. “But we gotta keep pushing on, keep moving on. We’ll miss him in the first half, but we’re going to keep preparing out through the week and get ready for him to contribute like he always does in the second half.”
On the final play of the third quarter in Saturday’s 24-17 loss to the Wolverines, Turner crashed down as U-M’s Alex Orji took a shotgun snap and faked a handoff. Turner met Orji in the hole, with the running quarterback spinning off the initial contact for a 3-yard gain.
During the TV timeout between the quarters, replay officials reviewed the hit and cited Turner for a targeting penalty. He was ejected from the game, missing the final 15 minutes. U-M scored four plays later, with running back Donovan Edwards throwing a 23-yard touchdown pass to tight end Colson Loveland as the Spartans’ linebackers and safeties overplayed the run with Turner out of the game.
“We practice making the right form tackles, so it’s not something that I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m going into a tackle,000 like, I need to keep my head up.’ It’s just something that we practice and it becomes routine,” Hall said. “Sometimes in the heat of the moment, depending on the angles and whatnot, stuff happens. Which I think happened in JT’s case in the slightest bit.”
MSU coach Jonathan Smith on Monday said the school challenged the call to the Big Ten after the game, and league officials denied MSU’s appeal. Turner will be eligible to play in the second half for the Spartans (4-4, 2-3 Big Ten) against the Hoosiers (8-0, 5-0), per NCAA targeting rules.
That likely will move Hall, a sophomore, into Turner’s spot next to Cal Haladay in the middle of Joe Rossi’s defense, which held U-M leading rusher Kalel Mullings to just 18 yards on 13 carries Saturday and limited Iowa star Kaleb Johnson to 98 yards (75 of which came on one late touchdown run) on 14 attempts in an win a week earlier. It also will expand the already-growing role of senior Darius Snow and Wayne Matthews III.
Turner leads the Spartans with 48 tackles, with five of them coming in Saturday’s game at U-M. The 6-foot-1, 231-pound fifth-year senior, who transferred to MSU from Wisconsin in the offseason, also has three sacks, an interception and two QB hurries.
“He’s really important. Obviously, you’ve seen the plays that he’s made,” Snow said of Turner. “He’s not just a good football player, but he’s a great leader and vocal. We’re just gonna have to play, and we’ll get him back in the second half, which is cool. But I have confidence in Jordan Hall, I think he’s a great player.”
MSU ranks 45th in the nation in run defense, allowing 129.6 yards on the ground, and is tied for 23rd nationally in giving up 315.9 yards per game. The Spartans will try to continue that trend against Indiana’s high-powered offense that ranks sixth in the nation in total offense (487.6 yards), 24th in rushing yards (200.6) and second in the Football Subdivision in scoring (46.5 points)
Hoosiers starting quarterback Kurtis Rourke suffered a thumb injury on his throwing hand during a game two weeks ago and sat out Saturday’s 31-17 home win over Washington. Rourke had surgery last Monday but, according to ESPN, the Ohio University transfer is expected to try and play against the Spartans.
Backup Tayven Jackson was 11-for-19 for 124 yards with an interception along with passing and rushing TDs against the Huskies, while running back Justice Ellison, a Wake Forest transfer, ran 29 times for 123 yards and a score.
“The only thing I know is they’re going to have a quarterback,” MSU secondary coach Blue Adams said Wednesday. “My approach is the guy that they put in is going to be the guy to give them the best chance of winning. And I think in college football, especially at the level that we we play on, I think every quarterback is a legitimate quarterback. They can throw the ball well, and they can call plays and manage the game well.
“So the only thing I can kind of prepare for is that dude is going to be a good player, and so we kind of attack it that way.”
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