Soccer-crazed England narrowly missed “bringing it home” and winning its first Euro Cup since 1966—after losing on penalty kicks to Italy on July 11—but Britain will nab a star Glen Lake Laker to suit up and play in goal this fall. Becca Nowicki, the star keeper who graduated this spring from Glen Lake High School, will play soccer in England this coming fall. Nowicki was courted by Macclesfield FC International Academy, which is based in Preston, north of Manchester.
Glen Arbor’s popular annual Running Bear Run is back in 2021. Join the event on July 27 for a wonderful day with family and friends. Everyone is included from little ones to Grandma and Grandpa. There are nine age categories from 10 & under to 70 and up. You can run the 5K or take a more leisurely walk. The kids will have the “½ Mile Kids’ Run” to chase that bear. The Running Bear Run is back to charm the kids and to make great photo ops for all.
Northwoods Hardware owners Jeff and Georgia Gietzen have announced the purchase of property directly adjacent to their current business (where Wildflowers was located until last summer). The Gietzens anticipate the purchase of 50 percent of the remaining south lot by mid-July. The Wildflowers property had previously been purchased by a developer with plans to build condos, but is no longer moving forward with the development.
Lynne Rae Perkins, an award-winning Suttons Bay author and illustrator, has released a new book, “The Museum of Everything.” The book, a kind of map—or as publisher Harper Collins calls it, an invitation to go on “an imagination-fueled journey through the living museum that surrounds us all—is the museum. And the museum has in it, among other things, a cloud, a shadow, an island that could be a stone in a puddle.
To say that last year was rough for our local hospitality industry is to severely understate the case. Restaurants and caterers have had to retrain staff, let go many, move most of their seating (when possible) outside, reduce indoor capacity, and limit contact between staff and clients to the bare minimum. Some shifted to purely take-out. Some had to close. For caterers, a summer that promised 20-30 events was reduced to two. Some clients chose food trucks instead of the originally requested sit-down, full-service meal.
The opening reception for the 29th annual Art Leelanau benefit art exhibition and sale takes place at the Old Art Building in Leland on Friday, July 23, from 5-8 p.m. The show highlights the work of more than 80 artists with connections to Leelanau County and covers a range a mediums. Proceeds support both the Leelanau Community Cultural Center’s (LCCC) general operations fund and the many artists who live full or part-time in Leelanau County. The exhibit will continue through Wednesday, July 28.
Beatrix Hills, a 13-year-old actor from Suttons Bay, won’t just get to perform in the play “Ugly, A New Pop Musical”—which is based on Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Ugly Duckling”—she and other youth actors get to write, direct and choreograph the show.
Music returns as the Lake Street Music Festival tunes up this month (behind the Center Gallery across from Cherry Republic). And the variety of art available here continues apace. The newest addition to the Lake Street Studios complex is Rinco Bros. Coffee Roasters.
Immigrant farmworkers Pedro Francisco and his wife Juana Miguel met President Joe Biden on July 3 during the Commander in Chief’s visit to King Orchards in Antrim County. “What they do for King Orchards is invaluable,” Juliette King McAvoy told Biden. “Our business is what it is because we have the skilled people, skilled laborers that are here.”
As of Friday, July 9, the Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department reports that 70.4% of residents 12 and older who are eligible in the health department’s two-county jurisdiction have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. While that’s great news, there are still age groups and areas that are lagging behind.