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SWEET Anniversary
Sweets celebrate 40th ruby anniversary
Jackson residents, Keith and Gail Sweet recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary at Sorensen's Resort over the Labor Day weekend (2004).
They met at a 'mixer,' while Keith was attending Western Michigan University and Gail was a nursing student.
The couple were married in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Friday, Sept. 4, 1964, and honeymooned on Mackinac Island, where Keith was born and for the first two years of his life, lived in the Round Island lighthouse.
The couple moved to California, living in the Bay Area for 25 years and where Keith was a teacher, school administrator and then a business owner. Gail was a registered nurse and nursing professor while raising their two children, Todd and Krista.
In 1993, Keith and Gail moved to Jackson and owned and operated the Gate House Bed and Breakfast Inn for eight years, while they became very involved in the community. Keith has been the president of the Chamber of Commerce and on the Jackson City Council, serving as mayor for two years. He is currently a candidate for Amador County supervisor in the November election.
Keith is presently an independent realtor working at the Coldwell Banker Sutter Creek office and Gail is a nurse with the health department and Hospice of Amador. He is the current treasurer of the Jackson Rotary and board member of the Sutter Creek Business Association and the Amador County Arts Council.
They are members of Grace Fellowship Church and enjoy time with their three grandchildren. Their son, Todd and his wife Tina live in Sutter Creek with Tatiana, 10, Shane, 9 and Todd Jacob (T.J.), 7. Their daughter, Krista and her husband, Will Coleman, live in Walnut Creek, where she is a teacher.
While on a trip to Mackinac Island, the Sweets enjoyed a stay at the historic Grand Hotel, featured in the classic film, "Somewhere In Time," and fulfilled a dream they had since their wedding in 1964.
