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Empire hosts Songs and Stories of Sleeping Bear, Library hosts Climate Change presentation

This Sunday, Jan. 28, the Friendly Tavern in Empire hosts an afternoon of music, stories and poems highlighting the history of the Sleeping Bear Dunes area. Anne-Marie Oomen and Norm Wheeler will present “A Stone That Rises,” a dramatization of pioneer life in the settlement of Port Oneida, while Chris Skellenger and Patrick Niemisto will perform various songs inspired by local lore. The performance is presented by the Empire Area Community Center, with donations accepted to support their emergency relief fund. Join the fun from 4-6 pm at the Friendly Tavern in Empire.

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Glen Lake Library hosts blood drive

The Glen Lake Library in Empire will host a community blood drive on Tuesday, Aug. 29, from 11 am-3:30 pm. The collection will be managed by Versiti Blood Center of Michigan, the primary supplier of blood to hospitals throughout the state. The summer months are a more challenging time to collect these critical supplies, so donors are encouraged to participate. This will be the second drive hosted by the library this summer.

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Glen Lake Library hosts Road to Empire author

The Glen Lake Library in Empire will host local author John Wemlinger on Tuesday, August 15 at 6:00 pm. Wemlinger will present his newly-published novel The Road to Empire, which follows the journey of a young helicopter pilot from the small town of Empire, Michigan in the wake of 9/11.

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Glen Lake Library begins Summer Kids Program

The Glen Lake Library in Empire will begin its summer kids’ program schedule on Thursday morning, June 15, at 11 am, with a special performance by the PULSE Saxophone Quartet. Programs will take place every Thursday morning through August 17, featuring a variety of activities including music, art, nature exploration, exercise, and magic. All programs are presented free of charge, with no advance registration required.

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Glen Lake Library hosts “arm chair traveler”

In recognition of the United Nation’s World Oceans Day, The Glen Lake Library will host art lecturer Linda Young for an illustrated talk highlighting works by 19th and 20th century artists. Her “arm chair traveler” program will cover paintings across the globe including the Arctic “Sea of Ice,” Denmark’s coast, the Mediterranean, the eastern seaboard of the United States and the Caribbean. The program will be offered on both Thursday, June 8, at 7 pm and Friday, June 9, at 10:30 am.

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Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes present Picture-Perfect Sleeping Bear book

The Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes will present Picture-Perfect Sleeping Bear: The Rest of the Story at the Glen Lake Community Library in Empire on December 15 at 7 pm. Modeled after Paul Harvey’s famous radio program: And Now You Know the Rest of the Story, there is so much more to tell than what fit into the pages of our best-selling book. After a short introduction of the book, the following featured speakers will share funny and informative insight into our area history.  We invite attendees to bring their own stories and photos to share. Photographs can be set out on tables or shared through a jump drive on a computer screen.

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Glen Lake Library holds children’s holiday book drive

A special holiday tradition continues on Nov. 19 with an annual call for children’s books. The Friends of the Glen Lake Library are once again collecting donations of new children’s books for children whose families are in need of assistance this holiday season. 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. 

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Garbage Dump Angel

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Editor/publisher of the Glen Arbor Sun, Jacob Wheeler has written a new book titled “Angel of the Garbage Dump: How Hanley Denning Changed the World, One Child at a Time” (Mission Point Press), which recounts how a young woman from Maine launched a school in the hovels of the Guatemala City garbage dump and helped pull thousands of children out of the teeming filth of one of the largest urban landfills in the Americas. Join Wheeler for any of the following upcoming readings in Leelanau County: Suttons Bay Library (with Bay Books), Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 6 pm; Glen Arbor Arts Center (with fellow author Anne-Marie Oomen) Saturday, Nov. 26, at 11 am, and Glen Lake Library in Empire (with Cottage Book Shop), Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 7 pm.

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Glen Lake Library hosts Christine Yared, May 23

Join the Glen Lake Library—based in Empire—for a conversation with Christine Yared, author of Private Love, Public School , a 2022 Michigan Notable Book.

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Voters asked to fund Glen Lake Library’s ongoing operations

On August 3, residents of Empire, Glen Arbor and Kasson Townships will be asked to consider a property tax assessment to fund ongoing operations of the Glen Lake Library, a treasured community resource which opened last September in a new building in Empire.

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