A powerful opportunity awaits Leelanau voters on Nov. 5. The Leelanau County Commission, in a bi-partisan vote, is offering voters the opportunity to make a significant difference for families raising young children and to entice young families to move to the County. Because, healthy resilient families are the backbone of a thriving community.
The Leelanau Women Artists will host a members’ show of basketry, fused glass, jewelry and painting, Oct. 4-5 at the Leland Old Art Building. An opening reception with the artists will be Friday, Oct. 4 from 5-7 p.m.
Holland, Mich. resident Jon Ornée swam from Pyramid Point to North Manitou Island on Friday, Sept. 20. The 7.4-mile swim took him 2 hours and 50 minutes. He believes he is the first person to accomplish the feat.
On Wednesday, September 25 at 2 pm, the Leelanau Historical Society & Museum and Leland Township Library will host award-winning author and oral historian Martha Bloomfield for a talk titled “Michigan Immigrants: Romanies, Hmong, and Many More” in the Munnecke Room at the Library.
In a world where florists purvey orchid corsages and online orchid vendors are legion, it’s enlightening to learn that glimpsing native wild orchids will only be on nature’s schedule. Late last year, to see some very carefully attended Showy Lady’s Slippers in full bloom, I broached the possibility of a visit to one of the Leelanau Conservancy’s northerly natural areas with Conservancy land steward Emily Douglas and volunteer Chuck Dickerson who, with his wife Janet, has been doing much to foster the orchid population there. Late this June, the “Showies” were flowering and we converged at the preserve, access to whose sensitive habitats is restricted.
Leelanau UnCaged unfolds on Saturday, Sept. 28, filling the village streets with song, dance, food and art — plus fun directed specifically at kids. Entrance is free.
Before big box retailers and the omnipresence of factory-manufactured clothing, people made clothes by hand. Two local artisans have taken up the mantle of slow fashion, and are creating garments and hats one piece at a time. They’ll talk about their studio work and show their wares at the September 29 Talk About Art interview at 2 pm at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Student activist Liam Bottoms led Leelanau School students to join in the worldwide walkout to protest against global climate change on Thursday, Sept. 20. Millions of Students and many adults from around the world walked out of schools and workplaces to demand immediate action against climate change. The walkout was planned ahead of the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Action Summit which will be held on September 23.
Susan Braymer is passionate about what she does. And what she does during the vast majority of her waking hours is run her and her husband Bill’s Laurentide winery in Leelanau County. Opened in 2012, Laurentide is the culmination of shared dreams for doing something in the wine business that started bubbling many years ago. Wine is part of Susan and Bill’s love story, on the table at celebrations, guiding their vacation destinations, and a source of endless learning and conversations.
Empire residents Reuben and Mary Ann Chapman benefit greatly from ShareCare, a nonprofit that links Leelanau County seniors to the services they need to live independently and well. Rueben, who lives with Parkinson’s disease, gets rides about once a month to doctors in Traverse City. Mary Ann drives him for the major appointments to learn what he needs, but ShareCare helps with the routine visits.