ZIP'S REPAIR

Record-Eagle photo/Jan-Michael Stump
Tools sit in a patch of sunlight as Vern "Zip" Flees works on a riding lawn mower in his Lake Leelanau shop. Flees, who retired from a career in masonry and excavating, said lawnmower repair has more of a hobby for him over the last 4 or 5 years. Flees said he is starts working in the garage, which used to be to village's fire station, around 6 a.m. "The birds aren't even tweeting yet," he said.

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