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Leelanau County Commissioner Candidate Forum
Upcoming EventElection season kicks into high gear in Leelanau County next week, as the Grand Traverse Area League of Women Voters holds a candidates forum for Leelanau County Board of Commission candidates (Districts 4, 5, 6, 7) on Monday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Leelanau County Government Center.
Leelanau Conservancy, Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy win awards
Talk of the TownTwo Northern Michigan land trusts received Land Trust Excellence Awards for collaborative leadership in land conservation and promoting the work of land trusts in Congress. Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy and Leelanau Conservancy were selected by the Land Trust Alliance of Washington, D.C. from more than 1,700 land trusts across the country to receive its National Land Trust Excellence Award, which was presented at Rally 2012: The National Land Conservation Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Sept. 30.
Toast the season with Leelanau wines
Food/Organic Living, Upcoming EventThe Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail carries on a great holiday tradition in Northern Michigan with the 2013 Toast the Season wine tour either of the first two weekends of November. Choose your weekend to tour the wineries of Leelanau — either Nov. 3-4 or 10-11. The tour is self guided and participants may visit member wineries each day in any order desired, between the hours of 11am to 5pm Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Empire Museum wins Historical Society of Michigan Award
Historical FeatureThe Empire Area Heritage Group, steered by local history guru Dave Taghon, won a State History Award late last month from the Historical Society of Michigan at the 138th Annual Meeting and State History Conference in Monroe, Michigan. The State History Awards are the highest recognition presented by the state’s official historical society.
Empire Museum Heritage Day offers first glimpse of sunken boat
Historical Feature, Upcoming EventThe Empire Area Museum complex will open its doors to the community and area visitors for the annual Heritage Day event, 1-4 p.m., on Saturday, Oct. 13. This year’s gathering takes place during the organization’s 40th anniversary celebration.
Cherry Republic hosts music, Lord of the Gourd
Business Feature, Upcoming EventCherry Republic will host a fall celebration at its Glen Arbor location on Saturday, Oct. 13 from 2-5 p.m., as it hosts acoustic folk rock guitarist Eric Nassau and The Lord of the Gourd carving colorful pumpkins and gourds. Children’s activities will include pumpkin and cookie decorating, spit the pit into the giant pumpkin, pumpkin ping pong ball toss, donuts on a string etc.
Worldwide Photo Walk on Sleeping Bear Dunes
Photo SpreadPhotographer Ken Snyder will host a free Worldwide Photo Walk at the Sleeping Bear Dunes on Saturday, Oct. 13 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The walk leaves from the Glen Haven Cannery Boathouse and is open to anyone with a camera who loves to take pictures and enjoys meeting fellow photo enthusiasts.
FIESTA to Benefit Guatemalan Children
Upcoming EventOn Oct. 26, Great Lakes Friends will host its seventh annual FIESTA to celebrate our community’s commitment to 550 children of families living in unimaginable poverty at Guatemala City’s garbage dump. Since 2005, Great Lakes Friends has raised nearly $170,000 to support the work of Safe Passage, a nonprofit formed in 1999 to bring hope and opportunity to these children.
International films continue at Bay Theatre
Upcoming EventThe Bay Film Series presents “The Intouchables” Oct. 14-16. This French comedy is based on a true story of friendship between a wealthy quadriplegic man and his street-smart, ex-con caretaker. An irreverent and uplifting ‘feel-good’ story which has broken box office records across Europe.
Glen Arbor tennis courts get facelift
Photo SpreadGlen Arbor’s tennis courts are getting a facelift. Molly Connolly took this photo on Monday, Oct. 8, and reports that, despite the rain, the crew was out working again the following day.