Les Cheneaux
By Helen Shoberg 484-2626 helenshoberg@centurytel.net
Valentine's Day is upon us once more with candy, hearts, and flowers popping up all over.

Annie Eberts of Cedarville and one of the players on the St. Ignace Squirts team, fires a shot at the goalie during a districts game held at the Little Bear East Arena in St. Ignace Saturday, February 9. The team finished 1-2 during the weekend tournament.

In celebration of Valentine's Day, the Les Cheneaux Community Library has a wonderful display of the fancy, old-fashioned valentines that open out and are festooned with paper lace, just the way they were made so many years ago. The display is on loan from Nadine Cain and it is certainly worth a stop at the library to see that bit of the past.

John Duncan was the $100 Lions Club lottery winner February 5.

Everyone should be able to keep busy during this coming Snowsfest. The Izzard Blizzard dance will be a new feature from 9 p.m. to midnight at the Community Center Saturday, with prizes to be awarded.

We are getting our share of snow. It should all make for a wonderful time next weekend. The fishing contest began February 8.

Speaking of fishing, can one imagine the thrill of fisherman Joseph Carr when he hooked on to that 43-inch pike pictured in last week's paper? That is certainly the dream of every fisherman.

A note from Bruce and Susie Taylor from Arizona will be interesting to many. Bruce is the son of the late Jean and Aldren Taylor of Cedarville and the brother of Dick Taylor of Pickford. Bruce wrote to tell of the honor recently bestowed upon their daughter, Laura Jean, who has received a Design for Asia Award for 2007 from the Hong Kong Design Center for her Philips noise canceling headphones. She is the first person to win this award for two years in a row, having won previously for her portable speaker design. Laura joined Philips Design in Hong Kong in February 2003. She is a senior designer for Product Design at Royal Philips Electronics. She is a 1999 graduate of Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in industrial design.

I am proud to mention that our grandson, Maxwell Shoberg, has earned a 4.0 grade point average and is on the dean's list at the Manhattan School of Visual Arts in New York. Max, the son of Richard and Varaporn Shoberg of Nanuet, New York, is a talented young artist and we're very proud of him.

Those of us left in the Victor Shoberg family were sorry to lose Con's sister last week. Adele Shoberg Rosevear passed on at the age of 94 at the Botsford Nursing Home in Farmington Hills. "Del," as she was known by friends and family, was the last surviving child of the original family of Victor and Anna Shoberg. Always a very bright, lively, and ambitious woman, Adele attended Cedarville School, was graduated from Sault High School in the days when the Cedarville School did not offer a high school completion, and attended Western Michigan College. She taught school and in later years was a very successful real estate saleswoman. She and her husband, Osborn, lived in Bloomfield Hills during their married life, where Osborn was a design artist for General Motors Corporation.

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