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Laura and Bruce Hood have finished their teaching careers at the Leelanau School after 31 years. Bruce delivered an emotional graduation speech at the school’s 93rd commencement ceremony on June 1 that included these words: “I believe our lives, like careers, are made from the moments, the unpredictable times that happen when you are together, that fill in all the time between the milestones, those moments that you will remember for the rest of your life, the ones that shaped who you are and set you on a course for who you will become. Our challenge is to live those moments, to understand them for what they are before they become only memories…” What a bunch of moments and memories these master teachers have shared with more than three decades of students!

On July 9, the Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra (BASO), under the direction of Tom Riccobono, will perform the world premiere of Ransom Lake and Platte Plains as part of their concert program featuring Manitou Winds. The concert will be held at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church (8190 Lincoln Rd, Beulah). The Manitou Winds ensemble includes Jason McKinney, a composer and arranger of orchestral and chamber music who lives in Maple City; horn player and guitarist Laura Hood who lives in Cedar, as well as bassoonist Lauren Murphy, piccolo and flutist Sam Clark, clarinetist Anne Bara, and reader and narrator Jan Ross.