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“Running Bear 5K Run” darts through Glen Arbor
Sports/Adventure, Upcoming EventOn Tuesday, July 23, the Glen Arbor Women’s Club (GAWC) hosts the seventh annual “Running Bear 5K Run/Walk and ½ Mile Kids’ Run. This event has become popular with locals and tourists alike. Last year, 700 adults and children took part. The 5K event is open to everyone. You can run or walk, so young people as well as seniors can participate in the 5K. The younger children are not forgotten and can participate in a ½ Mile “Kids’ Run”. They run/walk the half mile and each child will receive a ribbon and an ice cream cone from Riverfront Pizza & Specialties. Bring the whole family and join the fun this year.
Dining at the Western Avenue Grill
Business Feature, Food/Organic LivingIf you are a local or a frequent visitor to one of Glen Arbor’s premiere dining spots, you probably call this restaurant the WAG. The popular Western Avenue Grill is located in the middle of town on M-22 and adorns the streetscape with its handsome stone- and wood-clad building. The dining room has white birch bark beams and boasts a fisherman’s theme. The WAG has both indoor and summer-outdoor seating. Inside you will find a cozy bar separated from an inviting dining area with small tables and booths. The back of the restaurant includes an additional space for private dining parties.
Best-selling author Priscilla Cogan visits Glen Arbor
NewsFrom a northern Michigan village, best-selling author Priscilla Cogan launches her latest novel, Clinging To The Moon and engages in a whirlwind book tour from Maine to Minnesota and states in between. The novel tells an unexpected love story and centers on the theme “that accidents can happen to anyone,” says Cogan. “Clinging To The Moon is a book about there being no guarantees in life, which is why my motto is to live intensely, love fiercely, and to always have two Shelties.”
Glen Lake Artists Gallery finds new roots
Business FeatureAt nearly three decades old, the Glen Lake Artists Gallery is among the area’s longest-running galleries. Now, after 24 years in the same building, it has moved to a new location between Lake Street Studios and the Glen Arbor Art Association.
Manitou Music Festival features Mulebone, THUMMp
Upcoming EventOn Sunday, July 21 at 8 p.m. the blues duo Mulebone will perform outdoors at Studio Stage, located at Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor, as part of the Glen Arbor Art Association’s Manitou Music Festival. The rain location is the Glen Arbor Town Hall. The festival is celebrating its 23rd season of jazz, classical, blues, folk, country, celtic, bluegrass and world music on the Leelanau Peninsula.
Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear makes major repairs to Boekelodge
Historical FeatureOff a two-track road south of Empire lies the historic Boekeloo Cabin/Boekelodge, one of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s most popular sites, built as a homestead cabin in the late 1800s. Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear (PHSB) has been working to restore this beautiful building and site since 2005. Last summer PHSB’s contractor did a beautiful job of restoring the logs of the cabin. This summer Preserve will be working from July 18-20 on the windows, chimney, gables and interior, as well as repairing the gate, boardwalk and privy. Volunteers are needed for the nonprofit work group’s project for each of those days, starting at 9 a.m. Volunteers with good carpentry and window glazing skills are preferred, but general “unskilled” volunteers are needed as well.
This Land, This Water
Poetry/EssayTraverse City author Jerry Dennis will read “This Land, This Water: A Winter on the Great Lakes”, excerpted from his book “The Windward Shore” at the July 14 oil pipeline protest at the Mackinac Bridge.
Pitcher Plant
Photo SpreadThe lovely pitcher plant (Sarracemia purpurea) lives in the extreme acid conditions found in our local peat bogs and fens. A nearly spherical flower with showy pinkish-purple sepals is borne at the end of a scape (leafless stem) that can reach two feet. Unusual leaves, springing from the base of the plant, form tubular “pitchers” that fill with rainwater. The pitcher leaves have a flared lip that serves as a landing strip for insects. Inside the rim, downward pointing fine hairs and a numbing secretion cause the bugs to fall into the water, where they are digested by a whole ecosystem of organisms living in the “pool”. When an older leaf is sliced open, a collection of insect parts can be seen at the narrow base of the leaf. The pitcher plant is a carnivore like the Venus flytrap, supplementing its diet with insects to compensate for the nutrient poor environment of a bog.
Claudia Schmidt, Dean Magraw perform in Empire
Upcoming EventOn Tuesday, July 16, at 7:30 p.m. the Beach Bards will present a House Concert performed by Claudia Schmidt and Dean Magraw at the Happy Place Lodge (Gerry and Charol Shiffman’s home) at 10120 W Phillips St in the Village of Empire.
Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra croons in the Dunes
Upcoming EventThe 15th annual Dune Climb concert will take place Sunday, July 14 at 7 p.m. Imagine a beautiful summer’s evening at the foot of the Dune Climb in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, hundreds of families enjoying their pre-concert picnics and then a musical program provided by artists of national stature: this is the magical mixture which has filled audiences with warm memories every year since the first Dune Climb concert in 1998.