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Click here for digital edition  An emergency shelter was set up at Little Bear East Arena in St. Ignace Sunday afternoon, February 10, to help weekend travelers weather a major storm that closed the Mackinac Bridge, US-2, northern portions of I-75, and highways west across the Upper Peninsula. More ... Moran Bay at St. Ignace will be bustling with activity for the next two weekends for the second annual Pond Hockey Championships and the inaugural Bayside Ice Festival, which starts Saturday, February 16. More ... In northern countries around the world, the custom of burning the figure of a snowman is a symbolic wish to bring an end to winter. In Switzerland, a giant snowman shoots fireworks from its head while it burns. In the Les Cheneaux Islands, Snowsfest participants gather at the edge of Lake Huron to burn a tall, paper snowman built by high school students. More ... Snowmobiles began as singlecylinder work sleds, powered-up to two-cylinder pleasure vehicles, and went full-speed into three-cylinder racing machines, said Charlie Vallier, organizer of the 16th Annual Top of the Lake Antique and Vintage Snowmobile Show and Ride, which will take place Friday, February 15, through Saturday, February 16, in Naubinway. More ... Miss Michigan 2007 Kirsten Haglund (left), with Marina and Lydia Brown of St. Ignace last summer, was crowned Miss America 2008 Saturday, January 26. She visited the Straits of Mackinac last summer to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mackinac Bridge. The last time a reigning Miss Michigan was named Miss America was when Kaye Lani Rae Rafko won the crown in 1988. As Miss Michigan, she was a guest at the 1987 Les Cheneaux Antique Wooden Boat Show and Festival of Arts in Hessel. (Photograph by John Torsky of Cedarville) More ... Landline telephone customers will see a drop in their 9-1-1 surcharge in July, but cellular telephone users and those using computer telephone access will see sharp increases. The 9-1-1 surcharges for landline customers will drop from $1.80 a month per line to $1.69, while the rates for those with cell phone contracts will rise from 29¢ to $1.69. More ... The 14th Annual Curtis Carnival will be on South Manistique Lake in Curtis Saturday, February 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. More ... Groups that want to host a fish fry fundraiser might now need a license to do so. Over the past seven years, Michigan has been stepping up food safety enforcement, and local health departments are being held to higher standards. As a result, local community organizations and events where food is served can expect more attention from the health department. More ... Deteriorating wood siding at Marquette Mission Park and Museum of Ojibwa Culture in St. Ignace will be replaced with either natural cedar or pine siding rather than a synthetic material, the Downtown Development Authority decided Friday, February 8. More ... Lance Cryderman, 6, of Pickford, holds his chicken, Billy Bob, which he plans to show in fairs this coming summer. See more details in the Pickford social column on page 28. (Photograph by Audrey Hutchison) More ... Four new signs designed to interpret the history of the St. Ignace waterfront landscape are finished and will be installed this spring. The signs answer questions often asked by visitors, said Deb Evashevski, Downtown Development Authority (DDA) director, who spearheaded the project the DDA board began discussing last year. More ... Five-year-old Austin Graham looks forward to the hockey rinks, but not as much to cheer for his older brother as to watch the large ice resurfacing machines used to clean and smooth the rink's ice. Two major manufacturers of the machines are Olympia and Zamboni, and Austin can tell them apart. More ... The Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing is planning an exhibit called Michigan's Roadside Attractions in 2009, and is looking for stories, pictures, and artifacts of the attractions, some of which no longer exist, that travelers have visited on their way to other destinations. More ... |
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