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what his daughter Carol considers a significant percentage of her parents net worth. Maury, who suffers from a cognitive disability due to his advanced age, was in the jewelry store for a watch battery when he spotted the bracelet, according to Carol. La Jolla does not have a return policy on custom orders, which the 14KT yellow gold bracelet adorned with 29 full-cut, 14-carat diamonds was classified as, despite the Branch family saying that Maury simply pointed it out in a glass case, after which the stores staff plucked it out and packaged it up for him. The staff at La Jolla ran two credit cards before the second card, with an $18,500 limit, was cleared by Visa. Credit card companies will typically raise a good customers limit on a line of credit in good standing in the event that the creditholder is attempting to make a purchase beyond the previously standing limit, which is what the Branch family understands happened. The family points to the first credit card being denied the point at which the La Jolla staff should have noticed that Maury is hard of hearing, has a detached retina and is generally somewhat confused, despite having a sharp sounding and confident manner of speaking. We called the credit card company and confirmed this morning that the refund had posted last night, Carol said last Wednesday. Ive been dealing with this for three months and going through all of the channels available to us trying to get it resolved. According to a letter submitted by the Branch family to the state attorney generals office, the purchase was made on Jan. 25 of this year when Maurys wife drove him to La Jolla. She went into the store after her husband when she felt he was taking too long but went back to the car when he said he was waiting for a package. It wasnt until Feb. 23 that Carol, while at her parents residence at Silver Maples in Chelsea, opened the credit card statement
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Branch family grateful for La Jolla refund

By Sean Dalton
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The Chelsea man who bought a $25,000 piece of fine jewelry thinking he was getting a more modest $25 rhinestone adorned bauble was recently issued a refund by La Jolla Fine Jewelry. Maurice Maury Branchs family pursued every avenue the Better Business Bureau, creditors, the state Attorney Generals office and finally the mainstream media in an attempt to get the retired economics teacher back

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Phil and Jennifer Tolliver, former owners of True North Beef Jerky Co., stand with Bob Pierce, executive director of the Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce. The Tollivers will open Smokehouse 52 this fall.

By Krista Gjestland
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Smokehouse 52 coming this fall

Downtown Chelsea will soon be rife with the smell of barbecue as yet another new restaurant plans on moving to Main Street. Smokehouse 52 owner and area native Phil Tolliver said hes been wanting to open a barbecue restaurant in the area for quite a while. Its always something I had in the back of my head, he said. I thought now is the time to strike. Chelsea needs a barbecue restaurant. Tolliver has been interested in smoking meats both at home and professionally. He owned True North Jerky on Old U.S. 12 until he sold the business a few months ago. Im a foodie at heart, especially with barbecue, he said. It becomes who you are. People love to do things and it becomes their hobby and smoking meats has always been mine. Smokehouse 52 will be opening on 121-125 Main Street, and the New Chelsea Market, which is currently in that space, will be moving to a new, bigger location. Tolliver said his restaurant is going

to focus on simple, classic barbecue in a family-friendly and casual environment. Itll be a barbecue-dominant menu, he said. At the end of the day, I want to remain a barbecue place. The menu will focus on what Tolliver called the four main food groups of barbecue: pulled pork, ribs, chicken and beef brisket. The simple menu, Tolliver said, is part of what makes barbecue so great. The beauty of barbecue is the simplicity of it, the approachability of it, he said. Its universal. Barbecue isnt about overthinking. Smokehouse 52 will fill a niche for barbecue in the area, Tolliver said. Really within a good 45 or 50 minutes there is nothing that is really close to Chelsea, he said of the areas barbecue choices. As to the type of barbecue hell be cooking, Tolliver said Michigan doesnt have a distinct flavor like other regions in the country do. So he wont be concentrating on one particular style. There really is nothing regional,
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St. Barnabas invites the community to attend three special concerts this summer and explore some of the many ways music brings meaning to our lives. Concerts will feature local favorites Gemini in a family program entitled Music and Meaning from the 60s on June 23, Kathryn West and friends performing classic music for strings and keyboard on July 27 and Doug Howell presenting Meaning in Contemporary Christian Music on Aug. 18. All concerts will be held at St. Barnabas, 20500 W. Old U.S. 12, Chelsea, just across from the fairgrounds. All the concerts are free, and light refreshments will be served. Gemini, the performing name of twin brothers, San and Laz Slomovits, will perform music from the 1960s, when songs became a key way of expressing and seeking meaning in personal and collective life. Ann Arbor-area favorites San and Laz grew up on the music of the folk revival, the classic songs of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary,

Joni Mitchell and more. Nationally known for their award-winning music for children and families, the singers and multiinstrumentalists will also perform original songs, including settings of poems by ancient and contemporary poets. Kathryn West and friends will perform classic music for strings and keyboard. Through the music of Bach, Mozart and Dvorak, the group will help listeners explore the meaning of music that educates the emotioans. Doug Howell will perform some of the pianovocal music hes shared with thousands in concert halls, churches and coffee houses across the country. Now a local resident, Howell has been recorded by such artists as Chris Christian and B. J. Thomas, and his music and arrangements have appeared anywhere from radio to the NCAA Final Four theme to animated storybooks like Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. The latest of his six solo albums was released in 2010.

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