The “Roaming Boomers”, David and Carol Porter, have featured Glen Arbor on the American Association of Retired People’s (AARP) blog. Here’s how they reminisced about Memorial Day weekend in our town:
The Glen Lake Association has received a 2011 National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) Award – one of four winners selected from organizations throughout the United States. The award honors associations for their extraordinary achievement in Fish Habitat Conservation.
The Michigan Land Use Institute today published its eighth annual Taste the Local Difference farm and food guide and launched its brand-new “Spend Ten Local Dollars” campaign, which urges Northwest Lower Michigan residents to pledge to buy local grown food products every week.
Pathways to Sleeping Bear and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has released a dazzling new video that extolls the virtues of the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail, the 27-mile multi-use trail that will parallel M-22 and M-109 in and near the National Park. Construction will begin on the Heritage Trail late this summer.
The national wedding magazine, The Knot, has named The Homestead resort north of Glen Arbor as the 2011 Best of Weddings pick among wedding venues nationwide. The Homestead, as well as other northwest-lower Michigan wedding destinations including the Inn at Bay Harbor in Petoskey, Crystal Mountain Resort in Thompsonville and Mission Point Resort and the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island were featured in a story today in the Grand Rapids Press.
With a storefront right on M-22 in downtown Glen Arbor, owners of Crystal River Outfitters, Matt & Katy Wiesen are opening “M-22 at Crystal River Outfitters”. This store will feature the full line of M-22 apparel and accessories, plus a wine-tasting bar.
Elberta, in nearby Benzie County, could fall prey to Governor Rick Snyder and the GOP-controlled Michigan legislature’s controversial Local Government and School District Accountability Act. This means that debt-ridden and financially troubled Elberta could fall under government financial review and, hypothetically, the town could be disbanded and turned over to non-elected Emergency Managers.
Over in Empire, on Saturday, February 19, the crazy among us jumped into a hole carved in South Bar Lake. Word on the street is that those folks will thaw out by Memorial Day, in time for the tourists’ arrival. Here are photos from this year’s Empire Winterfest:
Glen Arbor held its 11th Annual Winterfest on Saturday, February 19, featuring the popular Perch Fishing Contest, and the Chili Cookoff. Last week’s thaw made the fish skittish, so while 54 entered the contest, only about one third of them brought in a perch to be measured.
Catching the blues at this park in northern lower Michigan means gazing from the Empire Bluffs at a body of water (Lake Michigan) that resembles a length of tissue paper waiting to be tucked into an Easter basket. Pastel blue grades into cornflower, and a layer of violet underlies the chill yet delicate surface.