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NMEAC environmental awards include Leelanau County visionaries

The Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council presented its 35th annual environmentalist of the year awards in a ceremony on April 19 at Milliken Auditorium on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College. Winners from Leelanau County included: John Dindia of Lakeview Hill Farm for agriculture/farming; Sam Getsinger of Leelanau Indivisible for grassroots organizing; Tina Greene Bevington of Bay Books in the business category, and writer Kathleen Stocking for the Greg Reisig Prize for Environmental Journalism.

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He Lived by His Lights as Long as He Could: Requiem for Phil Thiel

Phil Thiel, recently departed, was in some ways mystifying. His life comprised several eras. He won fast friends in each. In his all too brief 65 years Phil was an altar boy, an Eagle Scout, a college dropout, a world traveler, a cooperatives advocate, a bioregional organizer, a hippie carpenter, an environmental activist, a writer, editor, and publisher, a champion of renewable energy, a caterer, a shopkeeper, a gonzo sports fan, a connoisseur of wine and liquor, a gourmand, and Cedar Michigan’s Mardi Gras King, circa 2014. This past March 8 he was felled by a cardiac event outside the Long Lake home his mother shared with him.

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