The Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail has announced the launch of Sips & Soups. Proceeds from this SOUPer wine and soup tasting event will be donated to Leelanau Christian Neighbors to help restock the local food pantries after its holiday needs are met.
Photo by Robert Bushway, robertbrucebushway.com Snowpocalypse 2.0? Will we see ice caves again along the shores of Lake Michigan this winter?
It began last March over at Woodstone. While Karen and Peter Van Nort were off in sunny Arizona, their house sitter was out walking their dog one day when an acquaintance drove by in a Glen Arbor Outdoor truck. He mentioned that he was checking their clients’ vacant homes as a precaution and asked if she had checked the Van Nort’s basement.
Nearly 10 years ago, in August 2005, this community newspaper published a celebratory feature story titled “Old Cowboy, New Tricks”, about the late Bill Bricker. In 2011, online commenters using anonymous email addresses suddenly began to allege that Bricker had sexually molested them and other underage boys. The accusations of pedophilia became more and more serious, and seemed to coincide with the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal.
So, you’re a woman of a certain age. You’re looking into the mirror that is TV, and the idealized face reflected back looks nothing like the one you’re wearing. What’s a girl to do?
I wanted to have African-American relatives long before I learned that, through marriage, I did. It just made sense to me that with the Stocking family in America for almost 400 years that sometime, somewhere, somehow, we had married people who were black.
Burdickville historian Tom Van Zoeren reports that Dottie Lanham passed away on December 30 — five days after her 90th birthday. She was born on Christmas Day in 1924. Van Zoeren penned the book Dottie Lanham of Burdickville: Images, Recollections, and Observations of a Northern Michigan Woman and Her Community.
Readers’ Theater is casting “Motherhood Out Loud” on Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Art Association, at 6031 S. Lake Street in Glen Arbor. The cast consists of one to two men and four to 12 women, directed by Harriett Mittelberger. This off-Broadway play will have three performances Feb. 27, 28 and March 1. It is a valentine to all women and the men who love and respect them encompassing a series of monologues and scenes that demonstrate the hilarity and pain of motherhood. As a readers’ theater format, actors will read from the script so there is nothing to memorize. For further information call 231-334-6112.
The most popular Glen Arbor Sun story of 2014 was an investigative article in February that featured a proposed canopy air walk in Kasson Township, near Burdickville, that never materialized. Local opposition to Mark Evan’s “air walk” was nearly unanimous, and passionate. Our story attracted thousands of views, and 55 comments.
The Fine folks at Leelanau Coffee Roasters are “Giving Back” to the community this Friday, Dec. 19, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., with a Customer Appreciation Day combined with a fundraising effort for the Empire Area Community Emergency Fund and the Empire Food Bank.