There's a big, huge banquet, we have 600 people out at it. All the farm families bring in pies and desserts and salads and there's beef and pork, and there's three long tables just loaded with food. It's held in the floral building. Where, incidentally, the Voets held their wedding reception. An office with a view On most days, the century-old Ionia County Courthouse is as quiet as church after mass.
Footsteps echo on the marble floor.
Two grand, wood-carved stairways lead from the formal lobby to more modest offices. Voet works on the third floor in a bedroom-sized office. It sits near the narrow stairway leading to the cupola, with its mind-clearing view of Ionia. He likes to take visitors there. He has spent nine years in this part of the courthouse, first as an assistant prosecutor, now as prosecutor.