The progressive dinner was well attended Saturday evening, December 12. The first course was at the home of Charlie and Gayle Lamoreaux at Point Aux Chenes. Assisting were Nancy Smith and Dottie Glashaw. The next stop was Trinity Lutheran Church in Brevort for the salad course with Lois Movalson, Jerri Rose, and Morgan Gustafson, after which Joe and Sharon Chalmers and Joyce and Tom Gustafson were in charge of the main course. Then it was on to the home of Jeff and Pat Cranson of Wildwood Lane, where Pat Cranson, Pega Kennedy, Sharon Smith, and Ann Dyer presented an array of desserts. It was a lovely event as always.

Joyce Gustafson has a pair of doves and some woodpeckers at her bird feeders this week.

Shari Baron spent some time home with her husband, Ray, after caring for her mother in Livonia. It was good to see both Shari and Ray Sunday morning, December 13, at Trinity Lutheran Church.

Dottie Glashaw, Joyce Gustafson, Sharon Smith, Pega Kennedy, Gayle Lamoreaux, Beatrice Zak, and I journeyed to a madrigal dinner Friday, December 4, at the Kewadin Theater in Sault Ste. Marie. All of the entertainers were dressed in the medieval style of merry Old England in the 1500s.

Jeff and Pat Cranson spent the weekend at their home on Wildwood.

Thora and Jack Shepard held their Shepard Forestry annual dinner at the Whitetail restaurant in Brevort. Russ and Susie Nesberg catered the meal, attended by 22 associates.

Jamica Diamond and Gary Revord have had a fire going in the teepee at their residence on Schoolhouse Road. Friends and neighbors often drop by for an evening.

Barb Merchant and Jim Smith of Indian River were weekend guests of Jack and Thora Shepard.

Mark and Brenda Spencer have closed the Wildwood pastie shop for the season.

On their way to Indiana to visit family, Charlie and Gayle Lamoreaux took a detour to Bloomfield Hills to visit Clarence Kalmer, formerly of St. Ignace. He and Charlie were schoolmates as was Dave Movalson and his brother, Sharkey Movalson. Gayle reports Clarence makes the best chocolate chip cookies.

Mary Ann First was diagnosed with the H1N1 flu this past week.

Our neighbor, Roy Ragland, was hospitalized a few weeks ago with an infection.

Get well wishes to Gerrie Hetsler, who is recovering from a broken hip.Happy anniversary to Jim and Jerri Rose December 10. Hope you had a wonderful day.

Happy birthday to Marilyn Jean Berry, Bill Borland, and Donna LaLonde December 17 and Jenny and Jessie Humphrey December 19.

We welcome new neighbors, the Gil Miller family, formerly of Sault Ste. Marie.