Mother’s Day Brunch at Leelanau School discontinued
The Habitat for Humanity Mother’s Day brunch held annually at The Leelanau School and co-sponsored with Glen Lake Schools is being discontinued. This year Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 12.
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Friends of Sleeping Bear seeks Heritage Trail ambassadors
Become a Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail Ambassador by attending the training scheduled for Saturday, May 11, at 1 pm.
National Park to conduct prescribed burn near Bass Lake
The National Park Service (NPS) plans to conduct a prescribed fire in two burn units the week of May 7 in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. This is the first broadcast (wide area) prescribed fire to ever be held at the National Lakeshore and is the start of using fire as a management tool for the years to come.
Glen Arbor Arts Center offers plastic art, pastels classes
The Glen Arbor Arts Center offers two classes in May to help re-ignite creative juices: PL*ART Basics on May 4 and Soft Pastel for Beginners on May 14-15.
Glen Lake Library hosts groundbreaking ceremony
The Glen Lake Library in Empire will host a groundbreaking ceremony for its library expansion project on Saturday, May 4, at 11 AM.
National Lakeshore hosts antique apple and pear tree pruning workshop
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will be hosting its popular annual pruning workshop on Friday, May 3, in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District. The workshop will be held at the Kelderhouse farm, four miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22.
MSU Extension holds pruning workshop
Michigan State University Extension will host a pruning workshop on Friday, May 3, from 9 am-12:30 pm at the NW Michigan Horticultural Research Center.
National Lakeshore seeks Teacher-Ranger-Teachers
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is recruiting two Teacher-Ranger-Teachers (TRT) to spend the summer in the park learning about the resource and developing education programs. The deadline for applications is Friday, May 3.
Bay Theatre shows Wendell Berry film
Crosshatch Center Art & Ecology, Leelanau Historical Society, Leland Township Library and Suttons Bay Bingham District Library are teaming up to host a screening of the award-winning Sundance documentary Look & See, a powerful cinematic portrait of Wendell Berry—farmer, activist, and undoubtedly one of America’s most significant living writers.
Glen Arbor Arts Center hosts yarn bomb Maker Day
The Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) is hosting a yarn bomb Maker Day on Sunday, April 28, from 1–3 pm at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.