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August 20, 2009 / Social

Long Term Care Residents Visit Mackinac Island

Mackinac Straits Long Term Care residents enjoyed a busy afternoon on Mackinac Island Thursday, July 23. More...

Burger Bash To Benefit Nancy’s Place Thursday

A "Burger Bash" will be Thursday, August 20, at the VFW hall in St. Ignace to benefit repairs being made to Nancy's Place, which sustained marginal fire damage earlier this summer. Burgers and fries will be served from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. More...

Gold Wing Riders Head to St. Ignace for Diabetes

The Gold Wing Road Riders Association will visit St. Ignace on a Midnight Ride to raise awareness and funds to support the fight against juvenile diabetes Saturday, August 22. More...

Golf Scramble To Benefit Hockey Association

The St. Ignace Hockey Association is hosting its 12th annual golf scramble at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 22, at the St. Ignace Golf and Country Club. The tournament will have a shotgun start for four-person team. More...

Neiman, LaChapelle

Heather Neiman and Kevin Peter LaChapelle were married Saturday, July 11, 2009, at Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Heather is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neiman, Jr. of Raleigh, North Carolina. More...

Hayden Sigelko

Tim and Danielle (nee Grondin) Sigelko of Ferrysburg announce the birth of their daughter, Hayden Ellen Sigelko, born June 5, 2009, at Muskegon Mercy Hospital in Muskegon. She weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce at birth, and measured 20 inches in length. More...

Cox Takes 21.75-inch Bass

Terry Cox with his wife, Phyllis, of Hessel caught a smallmouth bass measuring 21.75 inches in length and weighing 4.5 pounds Sunday, July 26. Mr. More...

Youth Volunteer in New Orleans

Cierra Barker (from left), Bryanna Litzner, Patric Schlehuber, Judy Fenlon, James Halberg, and Danielle Ford pose during their lunch break helping to build a house with Habitat for Humanity Saturday, More...

Nettleton, Martin Attend SIM Model Training

Two local educators have completed a training session on effective teaching methods to help struggling adolescent students. Angela Nettleton of the Eastern Upper Peninsula Intermediate School District and Nichole Martin of St. More...

Family Picnic To Be Saturday in Mackinaw City

The Mackinaw Area Visitors Bureau will host a family picnic at Conkling Heritage Park Saturday, August 22, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. More...

St. Ignace Marina Concert Performers Announced

Bayside Live! and Locals on the Bay

Willy Springsteen will perform for Locals on the Bay Wednesday, August 19, and Common Cent$ will perform for Bayside Live! Thursday, August 20. Both concerts are at 7 p.m. at the St. Ignace Marina. More...

Chairs Will Be Auctioned for Charity Saturday

Residents and visitors may bid on hand-painted Adirondack chairs Saturday, August 22, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the parking lot of First National Bank of St. Ignace. The decorated chairs have dotted the business landscape in St. More...

Nelsons Will Celebrate 70 Years of Marriage

Bob and Rose Nelson of St. Ignace and Tucson, Arizona, were married 70 years ago, August 19, 1939, at the Methodist Church parsonage in St. Ignace with Reuben and Georgetta Hunter as their attendants. They owned the Four Star Motel in St. Ignace. More...

Jedidiah Brady

Kevin and Heather (nee Stearns) Brady of St. Ignace announce the birth of their son, Jedidiah Frederick Brady, born Tuesday, August 11, 2009, in a car en route to a midwife’s home in Rapid City. More...

Ensign Fleet 31 of Les Cheneaux Completes Three-day Regatta

The Ensign Fleet 31 of Les Cheneaux completed its 2009 summer series with a three-day regatta Wednesday, July 29, through Friday, July 31, on Muskie Bay. The fleet sailed two races on all three days with eightto 10-knot winds out of the southwest. More...

McCumber Will Perform in Park

Mackinaw City

Kort McCumber will perform for the “Music in Mackinaw” concert series Saturday, August 22, at 8 p.m. at Conkling Heritage Park in Mackinaw City. Mr. McCumber has played more than 1,000 live shows throughout the U.S. and Europe. Mr. More...