Holiday Marketplace

Check out the Holiday Marketplace at the Glen Arbor Township Hall on the weekend following Thanksgiving, opening at 7 p.m. on Friday evening, Nov. 23, and running through Saturday, Nov. 24, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Holiday Marketplace follows Glen Arbor’s famed Pajama Party sale at various stores around town from 5-7 a.m. (yikes) on Friday, Nov. 23. You’ll be sleepwalking!”
Photo by Joanne Rettke

Glen Lake Community Library holds children’s holiday book drive
Press release
A special holiday tradition continues as the Glen Lake Community Library kicks off its ninth annual call for children’s books, November 14-December 15. The Friends of the Library, in cooperation with Glen Lake School’s Parenting Communities program, are seeking donations of new books for children in our community whose families are in need of assistance this holiday season. Kathy Bartell, the coordinator for the “Parenting Communities” program for the Glen Lake Schools compiles a “wish list” of boys and girls from preschool through age 11. She calls on such groups as Head Start and the Glen Lake Elementary School as well as her own “Parenting Communities” program for names of families that need assistance. Any family can find themselves in hard times and the goal is to make sure the children still have some holiday joy in the form of a special book. The list is available at the Glen Lake Library in Empire and at the Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor. Donors are asked to purchase a book for a child on this list and deliver it gift-wrapped to the library by December 15. The Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor will kindly provide a 20 percent discount on any books purchased for this program. Last year, over 120 books were donated. The list grows longer every year, so please help us bring the joy of books to these children for the holidays. The best part of this Book Drive is that we know all the books go to children in our own community. Thank you for your continued support.