The Glen Arbor Arts Center offers a fairy house building day Sunday, May 26, 1–3 pm at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. Instructor Michelle Auchello leads the workshop. Cost is $20 per fairy house.
On Sunday, May 26, from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church in Empire, the Guadalupan Torch Committee will provide delicious homemade Mexican food for sale to dine in or take out.
The Empire Area Community Center will hold its next Empire Emergency Fund Concert on Sunday, May 26, from 4-6 pm at the Platte River Inn. in Honor. This month’s performers are singer-songwriter duo Griffard and Arrowood.
The new owners of Anchor Hardware in Empire—Jody and DC Hayden, who own Grocers Daughter Chocolate—will hold a fire sale on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, from 9 am to 5 pm. Everything in store will be discounted 50 to 70% off.
The Northport Arts Association is having an Attic Art & Vintage Fundraiser Sale Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, May 25, from 8 am until 4 pm, and Sunday, May 26, from noon until 4 pm at the Village Arts Building, 301 N. Mill Street.
A Plow Day groundbreaking ceremony and celebration of National Historic Preservation Month will take place at the Leelanau County Poor Farm Barn in Myles Kimmerly Park near Maple City on Saturday, May 25, from 10 am until noon.
With the Leelanau Conservancy’s Wildflower Rescue Plant Sale just 10 days away, volunteers were on a mission to dig 500 trillium plants in just over an hour. Four workers met up in Northport to car-pool to the Garthe Farm, where owners Gene and Kathy Garthe met them with open arms.
Terry Gretzema stepped down in March after serving as Glen Arbor Township’s Treasurer for 15 years.
On Sunday, May 26, at 1 pm, M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson—authors of Historic Leelanau: Recognized Sites and Places of Historical Significance (Leelanau Press, $20) will visit the Cottage Book Shop on Lake Street in Glen Arbor.
In celebration of the 100-year anniversary of the League of Women Voters Michigan in April 2019 and passage of the 19th Amendment in 2020, the Leelanau League will feature Elaine Weiss, author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote as the keynote speaker on May 22.