Join park rangers in celebrating fall and plan for winter at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The colors are starting to change, the crispness is in the air, and the heat of summer has gone; a perfect time to celebrate the season with a few special events in October at the National Lakeshore.
Glen Arbor will hold its second annual Pumpkin Fest on Saturday, Oct. 21, from noon until 4 p.m. This celebration of fall will take place at the Township Park, giving participants time to carve their artistic creations, enjoy live music and plenty of activities and contests, followed by a Pumpkin lighting at 6 p.m.
The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) Readers’ Theater presents On Golden Pond, October 20-21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, 4902 W. MacFarlane Road in Burdickville.
The Foothills Cafe & Motel, located at 7097 S. Dunn’s Farm Rd near Maple City, will host a free Overdose Prevention & Response clinic on Thursday, Oct. 19 from 7-8:30 p.m.
For the third year, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is conducting an artwork contest to select an image for the front of the park’s Annual Park Entrance Pass. The focus of the contest centers around the Every Kid in a Park program, which has the central goal of connecting fourth graders with the great outdoors and inspiring them to become future environmental stewards, ready to preserve and protect national parks and other public lands for years to come. For this reason, the art contest is open to anyone 12 years of age or younger.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was selected to receive a 2017 field trip grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF), the official charity of America’s national parks. This grant will allow fourth grade classes the opportunity to explore the National Lakeshore on a snowshoeing adventure for free and learn about winter ecology, snow science, and more in a hands-on, experiential format. This grant, part of the NPF’s Open OutDoors for Kids program, supports the Every Kid in a Park program.
Lissa Edwards can remember Glen Arbor before it had sidewalks, or much asphalt. “Everything smelled like hot sand and sumac,” she laughs, over a glass of Chardonnay. “Every once in a while a certain smell takes me back to those days. I spent every summer in Glen Arbor in the 1960s. This town is deep in my DNA.”
The Empire Area Museum Complex celebrates Heritage Day at the museum on Saturday, Oct. 14, from 1-4 p.m. A repeat feature this year include the fantastic collection of handmade Faberge type eggs made in Empire in the 1970s by Helen Witt. A must see.
At one time, it was lovely and serene. “We begin in a peaceful place in the woods among the tall timber and wildflowers of Leelanau County,” wrote author Leonard G. Overmyer in his 1999 book Forest Haven Soldiers: The Civil War Veterans of Glen Lake & Surrounding Leelanau. “A site, by Forest Haven Road and M-22, where lies the old Glen Arbor Township Cemetery. It was used primarily in the 1800s and beginning of the 1900s for the early pioneers of the area. This quiet location holds the final resting-place of several Civil War soldiers.”
Drs. Cyrus Ghaemi and Katie Krezoski-Evans have joined Dr. Nicole Fliss at Munson Healthcare’s family practice in Empire, which serves infants to elders. We posed the following questions to Krezoski-Evans and Ghaemi in order to get to know them.