Family-owned Maple Disposal puts customers’ needs first

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor With one truck and a goal of giving nothing but the best possible service and price, Dave Barron bought Cedar Disposal from Waste Management in the spring of 2002. The solid waste collection corporation, headquartered in Texas, had acquired the company from original owners “Art and Mike” when the pair […]

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Glen Lake Garden Club takes “A Step Back in Time”

Press release On a sunny and breezy afternoon, Tuesday, June 19, members of the Glen Lake Garden Club and their guests celebrated the completion of the club’s 30th year at an afternoon picnic at the historic D.H. Day Farm. Owners Don and Annette Lewis, graciously opened their beautiful farm for the Garden Club’s event to […]

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T.R.A.M.P.S. aloft in Empire

By Mike Buhler The Traverse Area Model Pilots Society took to flight at the Empire Airport last Saturday, with hundreds of model airplanes, and several hundred participants and spectators from across the Great Lakes region. Doug Sattler (below) is typical of the members, a ten-year enthusiast from Traverse City with 19 airplanes. Asked about when […]

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Remembering Dick Owen

To the Editor: Summer is here, but someone is missing. Our dear friend — owner of Tiffany’s ice cream parlor, baker of hot cakes and cookies, leader of Empire Days and whatever else needed to be done, resident curmudgeon, and most generous of spirits underneath that tough shell — Dick (aka Rich) Owen is gone. […]

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CSAs: Northern Michigan’s Growing Crop of Farms

By F. Josephine Arrowood Sun contributor In the past dozen years, a new crop has been growing in northern Michigan — one whose spirit harks back to ancient growing practices and sense of shared endeavor. In Leelanau County alone, six Community Supported Agriculture farms aim to reconnect small-scale, sustainable production with those who purchase and […]

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Looking East for the answers to addiction

By Ian Vertel Sun contributor Buddhism is a philosophical theory about the mind. It is a “precise science of the mind,” says David Hendricks — a science of nature, and of consciousness. With this understanding of the nature of the mind, locals Sharon and David Hendricks have applied their Buddhist teachings and philosophy toward healing […]

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Chef Mario brings gusto Italiano to Homestead resort

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Mario Deruda has a food motto: “keep it fresh, keep it simple.” That blends well with the cuisine at America’s Freshwater Resort, where Chef Mario arrived in mid-May after The Homestead resort hired the native of the Italian island of Sardinia as its executive chef. “I’ll be making traditional central […]

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“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” — Robert Frost

The new beachscape at the Empire waterfront. Will the wall block the lake view from the parking lot? Photo by Norm Wheeler Stay tuned for coverage in future issues of the Glen Arbor Sun. Also to come, later this summer, we’ll chronicle the fight to protect historic objects in the Crystal River; we’ll learn about […]

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“Sunshine” comes to Glen Arbor

By Norm Wheeler Sun editor In the 1950s there was a performer who made the rounds of the town and country elementary schools in Oceana County every year. His name was Louie Parsons, he was a big gangly guy with glasses, and his puppet show was the highlight of the year out at Benona School, […]

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Glen Lake grads open ZeroHour Gaming

By Pat Stinson Sun contributor A little more than a year ago, Dustin Sielaff and Jason Lewis, (Glen Lake class of 1998), were just getting their bearings as new business owners on Traverse City’s west side. Fourteen months and a move across town later, the pair has established themselves as the twenty-something, low-key proprietors of […]

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