Ice Follies Planned for March 4 at St. Ignace

Award winning figure skaters and ice dancers, as well as local skaters and a performance by the LaSalle Saints of Steel Drum Band, will be featured when the Mackinac County Child Protection Roundtable presents an Ice Follies Fundraiser Sunday, March 4, 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 Level figure skater Lyndsay Schrader and Novice Level figure skater Kortney Boyle.

Ms. Schrader has been competing since age eight and is a double gold medalist. She is a member of the Northern Michigan University Figure Skating Club and coaches for the Marquette Figure Skating Club.

Ms. Boyle started skating at age four and has competed in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. She is a member of the Marquette Senior High School Figure Skating Team.

Nine figure skaters from the Little Traverse Figure Skating Club of Petoskey will perform at the Ice Follies. Included are six-year-old Dominick Murray, who has won eight figure skating medals in the last three years, and eight-year-old Cecilia Murray, who has won 12 figure skating medals in competitions in the past three years. These figure skating performers have won a combined total of more than 100 medals in the last five years, competing all over Michigan.

Several members of the Alpena Figure Skating Club will also perform. The 21 members of the club have competed in many Michigan events. Artistic Champion Samantha Dawson will perform; she recently won three first place medals in the Port Huron Competition and competed in the Chicago Artistic Invitational in January.

The Hiawatha Figure Skating Club of Sault Ste. Marie will bring several figure skaters to perform in the Ice Follies.

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 parttime at the Mackinac County Sheriff's Department.