A Plow Day groundbreaking ceremony and celebration of National Historic Preservation Month will take place at the Leelanau County Poor Farm Barn in Myles Kimmerly Park near Maple City on Saturday, May 25, from 10 am until noon.
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Two popular area trails—the Leelanau Trail and the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail—were among this year’s inaugural picks for the Pure Michigan Trail and Trail Town designation program.
The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore enjoys a healthy relationship with a nonprofit group of local volunteers, Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes, which has pitched in to keep trails and parking lots plowed, collect trash and keep toilets clean and accessible during the federal government shutdown.
The acting president’s shutdown of the federal government, now nearly a month old, has furloughed approximately 800,000 workers nationwide. One Leelanau County resident considered an “excepted employee” is an air traffic controller at Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City. He spoke with the Glen Arbor Sun under the condition of anonymity, citing a government “gag order”.
Fans of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore are invited to attend a fun and informal snowshoe hike and chili dinner on Sunday, Jan. 20, to help support Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes—the nonprofit group whose volunteers maintain the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail and help in other ways during the federal government shutdown.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore announced on Saturday, Jan. 12, that areas of the park will once again be accessible to visitors in the coming days, despite the continued federal government shutdown. The Park will use revenues generated by recreation fees. However, the Empire visitor center, ranger talks and programs will remain unavailable until the government re-opens.
Despite Donald Trump’s federal government shutdown, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will remain as accessible as possible while still following all applicable laws and procedures.
Natalie Lomske, a native of Northville, Mich., and a frequent visitor to the Sleeping Bear Dunes, won this year’s Project Cinema MI screenwriting contest. Her script, titled Sheets of Sand, will be turned into a movie by local filmmaker Rich Brauer, who began filming in late September.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has issued a prospectus soliciting proposals for the award of a concession contract to provide ferry/tourboat services to the Manitou Islands. The new concession contract will be for a term of 10 years, beginning on its effective date, which is estimated to be Jan. 1, 2019.
Once again this year Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is conducting an artwork contest to select an image for the front of the park’s 2019 Annual Park Entrance Pass. The focus of the contest centers around the Every Kid in a Park program, which has the central goal of connecting fourth graders with the great outdoors and inspiring them to become future environmental stewards, ready to preserve and protect national parks and other public lands for years to come. For this reason, the art contest is open to anyone 12 years of age or younger.