Around 100 students and Mount Pleasant residents experienced their past
and saw their future all in one sitting Saturday.

A record number of people attended the sixth annual Psychic Fair,
sponsored by the Open Grove Society in the Bovee University Center
Rotunda.

“We did extremely well this year,” said Laura Potts, Litchfield
senior and Open Grove Society president. “We were just shy of 100
(people) last year, and we were already at 70 by 1:30 p.m.”

RSO members used tarot cards and runestones to give psychic readings
to students.

Tarot cards can be used to tell the past, present or future while
runestones are small stones with symbols on them, each having a
different meaning, that predict the future.

Algonac junior Kimberly Pawelski said she has attended numerous
psychic readings in the past.

“I like to hear what they say,” she said. “She said I am trying to
figure out who I am, and I’ll agree with that.”

Washington senior James Logan said he is rather new at reading for
strangers, but said he has been reading for his friends for years.

“Mostly I read from a book depending on the card the person draws,”
Logan said. “I read a little bit from the book and usually people end
up saying, ‘Oh, I get what you’re saying.’”

Mary Jeakle, who works at Windwalker Products in Jackson, has been
attending shows for the past 15 years.

“I got started in this because I like the pretty stones and making
necklaces, so I sell them to feed the habit,” she said. “It’s a fun
hobby.”

Shelby Township freshman Kelly Case said it was her first time
getting a psychic reading and she had fun.

She said she was skeptical, however, of what she was told.

“He kept telling me I was looking for something more serious in life
and that I just needed to hang out,” Case said. “He had a lot of long
pauses, so I don’t know if I believe him.”

The fair is the group’s largest fund-raiser of the year, Potts said.
Readings cost $5, with $3 to $5 going to the Humane Animal Treatment
Society (HATS) organization to help the Isabella County Animal Control,
1105 S. Isabella Road.

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