About 200 women are expected to fill the hallways, classrooms, and cafeteria at the St. Ignace Middle School Saturday, May 3, for the first Woman's Perspective Expo. The event will highlight women's issues and include workshops, exhibits, shopping, and door prizes. Organizers are calling it a stop, shop, and learn event.

The expo begins at 10 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m. Admission is $5.

Workshops will be offered every half hour on topics including financial planning, gardening, child custody issues, will and estate planning, gardening, makeup tips, medical issues, organization, and meal planning. Financial advisor Kimberly Medler will hold a workshop on money and power, and author Mary Seger, who wrote of "Invite Joy Into Your Life," is scheduled to lead a workshop on menopause.

About 25 exhibitors will have information and shopping booths including clothing, baskets, plants and gardening supplies, cosmetics, jewelry, golf supplies, and educational opportunities. Massages and manicures also will be available. Mackinac Animal Aid Association will have a food booth.

The expo is sponsored by Woman's Perspective magazine. Co-publishers Kathy Keaton and Susan Tamlyn-Massaway of St. Ignace are expecting to draw women from area counties including Mackinac, Luce, Chippewa, Otsego, Cheboygan, Emmet, and Charlevoix.

Attendees can register for prizes at each booth and event door prizes include a day at the spa, three hours of reorganization, a facial makeover, and writing of a will and testament. Proceeds from the event will benefit the St. Ignace Parent Teacher Organization.