Award winning figure skaters and ice dancers, as well as local skaters and a performance by the St. Ignace Fire Department Volunteer Clowns, will be featured when the Mackinac County Child Protection Roundtable presents an Ice Follies Fundraiser Sunday, February 26, at 1 p.m. at Little Bear East Arena in St. Ignace. Proceeds will be used for child abuse and neglect prevention awareness programs in Mackinac County.

Tickets are $5 per person or $20 per family (up to eight people) in advance, or $6 per person and $26 per family at the door. Tickets are available at Little Bear East Ice Arena, St. Ignace Chamber of Commerce, Bentley’s Restaurant, LaSalle High School, and the Michigan State University Extension office.

Highlighting the two-hour performance will be Senior Ladies Level figure skaters Jenna Robinson and Lyndsay Schrader. Ms. Robinson is the State of Michigan High School Junior Ladies Champion, Senior Level Artistic Champion, and Triple Gold Medalist. Ms. Schrader is a Double Gold Medalist. Both are members of the Northern Michigan University Figure Skating Team in Marquette. Nine figure skaters from the Little Traverse Figure Skating Club of Petoskey will perform at the Ice Follies. Included are fiveyear old Dominick Murray, who has won eight figure skating medals in the last two years, and seven-year-old Cecilia Murray, who has won 10 figure skating medals in competitions in the past three years. These figure skating performers have won a combined total of more than 90 medals in the last five years, competing all over Michigan.

The Twin Bay Figure Skating Club Skaters of Traverse City will feature ice dancers and synchronized figure skaters medal winners.

St. Ignace figure skater Elizabeth Pudenz has been skating for 12 years under the direction of Patrick Stonehouse and is a Juvenile Free Style MoveShields Level skater. Miss Pudenz is the daughter of Jerry and Ann Marie Pudenz.

Also from St. Ignace is Preliminary Figure Level skater Stacy Oglethorpe, a two-year member of the Hiawatha Figure Skating Club of Sault Ste. Marie. She will compete in the Marquette Figure Skating Competition March 25. Miss Goldthorpe is the daughter of Dave and Donna Goldthorpe.

Matt Bowlby, disc jockey at Northern Star Broadcasting radio station in Cheboygan, will be the master of ceremonies. Mr. Bowlby resides in St. Ignace with his wife, Lori Wilkins, and is employed part-time at the Mackinac County Sheriff’s Department.