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Click here for digital edition  This week's concerts: MJ Bishop will perform Wednesday, July 1, and the Saints of Steel drum band will perform Thursday, July 2. Both concerts are at 7 p.m. at the St. Ignace Marina. Next week's concerts: Siusan O'Rourke and Zig Zeitler will be featured in a Locals on the Bay concert Wednesday, July 8, at 7 p.m. at the St. Ignace Marina. More ... "Movies Under the Stars" will return to St. Ignace this year, bringing a large inflatable movie screen outside Little Bear East Arena for free, outdoor movies with a "drivein" feel. The showings, hosted by the City of St. Ignace, will take place at dark Thursday, July 2, and Friday, July 3. More ... Paleontologist Joseph "Paleo Joe" Kchodl will speak Monday, July 6, at 7 p.m. at the St. Ignace Public Library. He will bring his collection of fossils and artifacts from his digs all over the world, and introduce children to animals, plants, and creatures that have been extinct for millions of years. More ... Straits Area Concert Band will perform for the "Music in Mackinaw" concert series Saturday, July 4, at 9 p.m. at Conkling Heritage Park in Mackinaw City. The Straits Area Concert Band will perform until the Independence Day fireworks display begins. The Northern Gospel Singers and vocalist Suzanne Stark will also perform during the concert. More ... Laurel Christian and Joseph Petro were united in marriage Sunday, June 21, 2009, in an outdoor ceremony on the waterfront in Spring Lake with Pastor Dave Cheadle, brother of the bride, officiating. Providing vocal music were the groom's daughter, Melissa, and the bride's daughterin law, Amber. More ... The Mackinaw Woman's Club will host its eighth annual Old Fashioned Strawberry Social Saturday, July 4, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the marina lawn in Mackinaw City. The Strawberry Social offers a dish of ice cream and strawberries served over a freshly made biscuit for $4. More ... Two-session boating safety courses will be offered at the Clark Township Fire Hall in Cedarville Thursday, July 9, and Friday, July 10, as well as Tuesday, August 4, and Wednesday, August 5. The classes are required to obtain a boating license. All classes will be given by Mackinac County Sheriff Deputy Tom Sherlund from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. More ... Audrey Wyers of St. Ignace, Catherine Millon of Cedarville, and Paul Converse of Engadine were named to the dean's list for the 2009 winter term at Alma College. More ... Chad and Jennifer Davis of Milford announce the birth of a son, Jonathan Richard Davis, born April 18, 2009, at Providence Hospital in Novi. He weighed 9 pounds, 1 ounce at birth and measured 21.5 inches in length. He joins three brothers, Nathan, 10, Anthony, 8, and William, 6, at home. More ... Students, parents, and teachers from Rudyard, DeTour, Pickford, and Whitefish Township visited Paris, France, during spring break. Posing for a picture in the courtyard of the Louvre are (not in order) Brooke Beacom, Heather Salmi, Ashley Hughes, Amy McAllister, Mary Ann Otten, Ed Arbic, Carol Arbic, Jodi Soeltner, Jaelinn Soeltner, Ashley LaPoint, Shana Trotter, Becca Malaski, Jacob Bywater, Annette Malaski, Janet Paquin, Julie Trotter, tour guide Bruno Courtois, Allen Archambeau, Calah Marsh, Jordan Atwood, Theodore Merchand, Maddie Drozdrowski, Sheila Merchand, Megan Arbic, Steven McClendon, Amber Hill, Caitlyn Mudroch, Marlee Rogers, Drew Otten, and Eric Davis. The trip was organized by Rudyard French teacher Celeste Spencer. (Photograph courtesy of Celeste Spencer) More ... Officers for Michilimackinac Historical Society were elected during the group's annual meeting Thursday, June 18, at the Marina Pub in St. Ignace. Serving on the board of directors are (from left, back) Vice-president Jennifer McGraw, Treasurer Tom Pfeiffelmann, Secretary Linda Bennett, President Judi Engle, Nancy Dandona, Keith Massaway; (seated) Cheryl Schlehuber and Ollie Boynton. Missing are Prentiss Brown, Jr. and Father Norbert Landreville. More ... A young Native American man by the name of Fred Wiser, 34, of Cedarville, is carrying on the tradition of three generations. Fred makes blueberry baskets for resale. More ... Audrey Wyers of St. Ignace is home for the summer after her first year at Alma College, and is using her free time to help the St. Ignace Chamber of Commerce handle a busy summer workload. Miss Wyers is one of many workers in the area temporarily employed through a Michigan Works! program, which funds their pay and provides them to community organizations free of charge. More ... Young wrestlers ages five and up will arrive Sunday, July 5, at Little Bear East Arena in St. Ignace for the Mack-Attack Wrestling Camp, which will culminate Saturday, July 11, with the Battle at the Bridge wrestling tournament. More ... Joining crowds of car collectors and enthusiasts at the St. Ignace Car Show are many top names in the world of automotive invention, design, and customizing, invited especially to the show and the St. Ignace Car Show Guest of Honor Brunch by Ed Reavie of Nostalgia Productions. More ... Helen Thompson of St. Ignace was the winner of a new automobile in the Kewadin Casino car giveaway during the St. Ignace Car Show. "I am very excited and in disbelief," Mrs. Thompson said. Her car was in need of repairs, she said, but she won't have to worry about that now. (Kewadin Casino photograph) More ... The Rudyard Area Education Fund awarded scholarships in May at Rudyard High School. A total of $8,650 was given out to seniors planning to attend college in the fall. More ... Cedarville Middle and High School Fourth Quarter 6th Crade: Cynthia Barowski, Theodore Bowlby, Isabel Brumleve*, Alexandra Cabello, Bradley Causley, Serena Currie, Joseph Duncan, Molly Fagan, Paige Kanitz, Maddison Kohlmann, Monica Krackowskl, Joshua Lee, Marcus Malkowski, Brett Masuga, Dylan Mathews*, Kaylee Risher, Shannon Sayles, Alexis Scott, Ashley Sherlund*, More ... |
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