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A collaboration between Buntings Cedar Market, local deer hunters, the Empire Area Community Center (EACC), and the Empire Area Community Food Pantry is supplying high-quality protein to families experiencing food insecurity during this hunting season, which runs the second half of November. A total of 14 deer (and counting) have been donated by local hunters to the Harvest with Heart Deer Donation Program, just a couple day into this year’s rifle hunting season. The initiative is financially supported locally by donations through EACC and its new Basic Needs Initiative Fund, which launched during the federal government shutdown and pause in SNAP benefits. Venison processed at Buntings will be donated to the Empire Food Pantry, which is run out of the Glen Lake Church in Burdickville.

The Glen Arbor Players Reader’s Theater troupe has scheduled auditions for the award-winning play “Bus Stop” by William Inge. The auditions will be held on Monday, May 6, at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church and Tuesday, May 7, at the Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City, both at 7 pm. The play will be performed at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church from June 6-8.

The Glen Arbor Players will stage Oscar Wilde’s most endearing comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, on June 23-25. Troupe co-founder, Harriett Mittelberger will direct a large and very talented cast with over 200 years of collective theatrical experience. The play takes place in London circa 1895 and has been called “A trivial comedy for serious people.” Wilde displays his wit and genius at capturing the foibles of the British upper class.