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August 25, 2005 / Columns

Beginning a New Healthy School Year

By Mary Pemble-Swiderski Family Nutrition Educator

School begins the day after Labor Day, September 6, for all students attending Mackinac County schools. MSU Extension offers good nutrition, fitness, and food safety tips for parents and teachers to help children have a healthy school year. More...

Mackinac Island By Jeannette Doud

847-3301 Three days last week were the worst of the summer season, bringing torrential rain and wind. Sunday morning, August 21, when the brilliant sunshine appeared, the Island took on the cleanest look of the summer. More...

Safety With Campfires a Necessity

On a cool evening there More...

Looking Back

Compiled by Ryan Schlehuber

115 Years Ago Saturday, August 23, 1890 Professor G.W. Oles, the greatest violinist in the country, will give a grand concert at the Sherwood Hotel Saturday evening, August 30. He comes here under the auspice of the M.E. More...

Brevort By Lois Molvalson

292-5581 Ann Wright of Greenville has been a houseguest of Jim and Ann Dyer of Cut River Road. Jim and Ann attended the gathering at the township hall in Epoufette last weekend. More...

Les Cheneaux By Helen Shoberg

484-2626 mink@cedarville.net

Here it is, almost the end of August. College students are headed off to their various destinations, many for the first time. It More...

Rexton-Garnet By Linda Livermore

595-7283 Hold on tight, we More...

Gould City By Marilyn McNeil

477-6925 donmar@lighthouse.net We certainly hope that Glenda Sharrett is recovering after her terrible ordeal last week when her house burned to the ground. I%27m sure that there will be many things that Ms. Sharrett will need. More...

The Cheating Game… By Name, That Is DEAL ME IN

Dear Mark, Thanks for including the occasional poker question to your column. They are always quite informative. My question though isn%27t about poker per se, but about its origins. Do you happen to know where the game of poker originates? More...