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Volume 121 ~ No. 13

September 30, 2026

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  CHARLYZE JONES . . . and her family attended "Clash for a Cure" hosted by Freeland during Friday night's football game against the Eagles. She is pictured with her mother, Kristin.  (Photo by Chip DeGrace)

Jones takes challenges head on, whether golf or facing cancer

  For Charlyze Jones, she likes the challenges presented when tackling a tough golf course with her Frankenmuth varsity girls’ golf team.

  That resilience is showing today, and she is now facing, head-on, another challenge: fighting cancer.

  The senior has continued to play as much as she can this late summer and fall, as the Lady Eagles are currently 5^th-ranked in MHSAA Division 3 as they begin their descent to the MHSAA Regional on Monday, October 5, with the goal to qualify again for the D-3 State Finals.

  First, let’s meet “Miss Charlyze.”

  Charlyze Jones is a bright, beautiful, and wonderfully spirited 17 year-old attending FHS. She does well with her classes, and is quite a talented artist. She has been a hostess for nearly three years at her parents’ eatery, Slo’ Bones BBQ Smokehaus. Jim and Kristin Jones have owned the establishment for more than a dozen years.

  Jones has been a member of the Lady Eagle varsity golf team for five years, and she began to learn the management of the sport her eighth grade year as a team manager. She is also a member of the FHS varsity girls’ track and field team, and this spring will be her fourth year in the program.

  Charlyze states she likes the competition of sports, however, it is the relationships with her teammates, coaches, and even competitors that brings her the most joy.

  Her journey to battle this disease began in her final chaotic weeks of her junior year. Charlyze happened to notice a lump above her collarbone and thought “that’s weird.” Thankfully, she told her parents, who, in turn, consulted their doctor. He was cautious and wanted “to be safe.”

  It was determined the lump was Stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. This was early in the summer.

  Charlyze has been in treatment at the University of Michigan’s Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor where the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology team,” has given her tremendous care,” Kristin Jones said. To date, she has had three surgeries and four chemotherapy sessions – many in August and into early September during the golf season – and she has persevered. .....

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