Les Cheneaux
By Helen Shoberg 484-2626 helenshoberg@centurytel.net

New Kewadin Shores Hotel front office manager Joseph McGruther is training with front desk clerk Toni Hutchins. (Photograph courtesy of Kewadin Casinos)

Easter is upon us and we're still surrounded with snowbanks. Upon returning to Cedarville after a wonderful vacation in Sedona, Arizona, I found the sight of snow was a little bit disappointing, but the spring sunshine will soon melt it all away.

The red rocks of Arizona are quite a contrast from the woods and waters of Michigan, but there is certainly a lot of beauty and history in that part of our country, too. My hosts, Aubrey and Rosemary Mills, who have a beautiful home overlooking the mountains.

Arriving back in Michigan, I found half of the town of Cedarville was in Lansing for the boys basketball semi-finals. Although the boys did not win the game, they can be proud once again that they made it to that semi-final game and we salute them, as well as the Lady Trojans, who also had a very good season.

We are proud, too, of the Cedarville Quiz Bowl team. The team will compete in the state finals in a couple of weeks.

A spirited group of Cedarville Trojans basketball fans (from left) teacher Carrie Carr, Les Cheneaux Elementary secretary Susie Rutledge, school technology coordinator Janet Haske, and teacher Kathy Tassier join together Thursday, March 13, in the hours before the Cedarville boys basketball team played in the Class D semi-finals game in East Lansing. Muskegon Western Michigan Christian ended the team's 51-game winning streak in semi-final play by winning 77-65 at the Breslin Center.

The State Solo and Ensemble musical group from Les Cheneaux also performed very well last weekend.

Anote from Dan Platzer, known to many in the area as Dan Keeney, a former resident of Cedarville, told of finding old postcards of the Victor Shoberg Resort on an online auction site. The cards show our home as it appeared in about 1951, along with several of the old, log cottages and 1951 cars. That was fun to see.

With many of the snowbanks still three feet high, little girls will probably not be wearing patent leather "Mary Janes" and fancy, little Easter bonnets on Easter Sunday this year.

We hope the Easter bunny will still be able to distribute baskets full of eggs and candy. He may be able to wear skis, as he did several years ago when our children were small. We could see his ski tracks coming from town, across Cedarville Bay, and right up to our front door.

On a more serious note, Easter Sunday is a religious holiday; we may all go to church and pray for peace.

Joseph McGruther, a Cedarville native, has been hired as the new hotel front desk manager for the St. Ignace Kewadin Casinos Hotel. Mr. McGruther has six years of local hotel experience and is currently attending Bay Mills Community College to earn an associate's degree in business administration. He began his employment with the hotel February 25.

Mr. McGruther will oversee 13 staff members in the front desk and guest service area of the hotel.

William and Teresa Heise of Marquette Township have started a new business, William's Wood. They sell firewood and will deliver locally and to places as distant as Sault Ste. Marie, St. Ignace, De- Tour, Rudyard, Pickford, and Paradise.

They also sell woodstoves. They are seeking a portable sawmill to process other woods and make craft woods.