For every sport, fans still will be required to wear face coverings when entering the facilities and moving around the stadiums, but they can remove masks when at their seats. Hand sanitizer stations, touchless transactions, mobile tickets, grab-and-go concessions options and frequent disinfection of the facilities will continue to stay in place.
Baseball
Full season ticket holders who renewed before the Feb. 1 deadline will have seats at every home game. Single-game tickets will not be available this weekend, but they will be expanded in several intervals over the course of the season. The left-field seating will be open for fans to bring chairs with the barbecue areas opening up as well.
Oskar Oelke, 81, of Stevensville, passed away, Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at Spectrum Health Lakeland Hospital in St. Joseph.
The son of Albert and Leokadia (Senft) he was born the youngest of three siblings on March 12, 1939 in Klementynów, Poland.
Oskar spent his early life in Bielefeld, Germany, immigrating to the United States in 1956. He attended trade school at Lake Michigan College, earning a certificate in Tool & Die. He spent 40 years in the trade, a majority of that time at Precision Mold & Engineering. Oskar enjoyed spending time with other local German folks, and as a young man played soccer for the Kicker’s Club. He met his wife Anita at the DANK in 1965, where over the years they both enjoyed listening to live German music at dances and other social events. He was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Stevensville, where he often volunteered as an usher. His joys in life revolved around his family and children, and was lovingly referred to as Opa by