FARMERS MARKET
The Boyne City Farmers Market, which has earned a reputation as the best farmers market in northern Michigan, opens the 2012 outdoor market season today, Wednesday, May 2, at Veterans Park. This is the 30th anniversary for the market and this season is shaping up to be one of the best ever under the direction of Rebecca Harris, who was hired this past winter, as the market manager. The outdoor market runs from 8 a.m. to noon every Wednesday and Saturday, May through October. The opening of the outdoor market season comes after the successful first year of the indoor Boyne City Farmers Market. More than 15 vendors participated in the weekly indoor market and plans are already underway to have the indoor market again next year. Boyne City is one of the few communities in northern Michigan to offer a year-round weekly farmers market.
The outdoor market will feature more than 60 regular producer vendors, all local and all serving the best that northern Lower Michigan has to offer including seasonal fruits, vegetables, and herbs; gourmet baked goods and preserves; eggs and cheese; honey and maple syrup; meat, poultry and fish, potted annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, and cut flowers; plus a juried craft market with unique handmade items for your home or a special gift.
New this season is the creation of a “Friends of the Market” support group formed to support and help grow activities at the market. Volunteers are being recruited to help on market days and in planning special events. Lucy Hartlove is serving as chair of the newly formed group.
The Boyne City Farmers Market is a program of the Boyne City Main Street / Downtown Development Authority. It is governed by an 11-member committee consisting of vendors and community members. For more information visit the expanded farmers market website at www.boynecityfarmersmarket.com or contact market manager Rebecca Harris at 231-330-2704. You can also contact the Main Street Program at 231-582-9009.
LET’S DO LUNCH
Boyne Area Senior Center, 411 E. Division St., is open to the public for daily lunches. For seniors age 60+, the donation is $3, for ages 60 and under. $6. For daily information call 582 6682.
United Way Invests Donor Dollars
Char-Em United Way is pleased to announce a wide range of Community Investments to help support effective health and human service programs in Charlevoix and Emmet Counties in the coming year. The programs focus on meeting the community’s needs for Education, Income and Health.
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Char-Em United Way Day of Action on June 21st Promotes Literacy
Fewer Americans today are likely to earn a diploma than their parents, a distinction not shared by any other industrialized country. Char-Em United Way will join organizations nation-wide in celebrating a Day of Action on the longest day of the year, June 21st, to work to meet this growing community need.
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May 2
TRAIL FUND-RAISER
Mark your calendar for Wednesday, May 2, when Red Mesa Grill will host a fund-raiser to support the Boyne City-Charlevoix Recreational Trail from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. All proceeds from the Daily Special Entree and the Casa Margarita will benefit the trail. Red Mesa Grill is located at 117 Water Street in downtown Boyne City. Trail volunteers will also be on hand to accept donations, and a silent auction will also benefit the trail fund. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the trail fund through the Top of Michigan Trails Council,
click here and then click the yellow “Donate” button for the Boyne City to Charlevoix Trail Fund. You may also send a check to: Top of Michigan Trails Council, 445 East Mitchell St., Petoskey, MI 49770. For further information or to donate an auction item, call the Boyne Area Chamber at 231-582-6222.
May 5
Buff Up Boyne
It will soon be time to give Boyne City a shine. Buff Up Boyne, Boyne City’s annual community-wide spring clean-up, is Saturday, May 5, from 9 a.m. to noon. The Boyne City Main Street Program, organizer of the event, is calling all residents, civic organizations, and schools to lend their shovels, rakes, and brooms to give Boyne City a shine during the annual cleanup. Volunteers will be sweeping, picking up trash and raking up debris from the city’s sidewalks, parks, alleys, and along the waterfront. Volunteers are asked to meet at Sunset Park in downtown Boyne City next to the Boyne Area Chamber of Commerce to sign-in, get instructions on what areas need to be cleaned, and receive trash bags and gloves. Volunteers are also asked to bring their own rakes, shovels and brooms. Refreshments will be served in the morning and lunch will be served at noon. For more information, contact Hugh Conklin at 582-9009, or email mainstreet@boynecity.com.
Boyne District Library
Water Safety Program at Veteran's Park 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. in the pavilion
May 8
Char-Em school millage renewal vote
A yes vote by voters in Antrim, Charlevoix and Emmet counties on May 8 will help area school districts provide support programs and services for students with special needs. The Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School district is looking to voters to renew 1.16 mills for four years to support special education programs and services for more than 1,350 students throughout the district with disabilities. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
May 10
Boyne District Library
Morel Mania: Get ready for the Mushroom Festival with tips and anecdotes from local expert Tony Williams 7:00 p.m.
May 12
Back Porch Coffeehouse
The last Back Porch Coffeehouse for the season will be held Saturday, May 12th at the Charlevoix Senior Center building, and will feature Kelly Shively and Norm Hausler!
Kelly Shively and Norm Hausler are a pair of seasoned musicians who have played with many Northern Michigan musicians and also on their own, as solo singer/instrumentalists. Kelly brings her original songs of family and home, along with her interpretations of traditional mountain and Celtic music. Norm’s deep baritone voice lends itself to country classics and provides a wonderful harmony for Kelly’s soprano vocals. Norm is enjoying learning to accompany Kelly with “mountain modal” tunings on his guitar, while Kelly surprises with turns on her fiddle, harp, banjo and a variety of other instruments. You never know what tunes and arrangements these two will offer...but you are sure to smile and hum along.
Suggested donations are $5/person, $10/ family- all donations are for the scheduled performers. Light refreshments are available at no charge… cookie donations are always welcome! The musical evening is for all ages. Kelly and Norm will play from 7 to 8:30 p.m., followed by a circle jam session- musicians and poets of all ages are welcome to join in.
Directions to the Senior Center building: From US-31 on the south end of Charlevoix, turn west onto Carpenter St. (between the Pizza Hut and Flap Jack Shack). Continue .7 mile on Carpenter to the corner of Norwood Rd. The Senior Center is the large white building on the left of the intersection. Parking is available both in front and behind the Center. The facility is fully accessible. Contact: 231-622-2944. Please respond to this number or this e-mail if you have received this message in error or wish to be removed from our contact list. We hope you can join us for another warm evening of community and music, and we hope you will share this information with others who may be interested.
May 16
Ride of Silence
Boyne City area bicycle riders will hold their annual Ride of Silence at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, to honor cyclists who have been injured or killed and to raise awareness for safe riding. The riders will meet at Veterans Park at 6:30 p.m. and at 7 p.m. they will ride at an easy 12 mph pace to Whiting Park. They will join thousands of cyclists worldwide in a silent, slow-paced ride to honor fallen cyclists. Why does this ride exist?
* To honor cyclists who have been injured or killed.
* To raise awareness that we must follow the Rules of the Road.
* To let motorists and cyclists know we must share the road.
There are no registration, no fees, no t-shirt. Participants are encouraged to wear a black armband to honor a cyclist who has been killed and/or a red band to honor a cyclist who has been injured while out riding. Helmets are mandatory. For more details contact Lisa Kruzel, 231-622-2421 or Michael Sheean at 231-582-4030.
May 17-20
Mushroom Festival
The Boyne City Mushroom Festival includes great food, morel hunting and an exciting lineup of live music. The music starts at 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 18, when the Thornetta Davis Band performs under the heated tent in Veterans Park. Rock n’ roll band Audio Circus performs at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 19. Tickets for both concerts are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. On Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m., TNT & Northern Nites perform, presented by the Northern Michigan Cancer Crusaders. Admission is by donation on Sunday. The festival is packed with fun: carnival rides all four days, and a craft show and outdoor recreation show Friday through Sunday. Friday highlights include a morel seminar, guided hunt and the Chamber’s Wine & Dine gourmet event at 5:30 at the Beach House restaurant. Saturday starts with a morel breakfast, the Lions Club National Mushroom Hunt, the Taste of Morels from noon to 3 p.m., the Great Morel Giveaway at downtown stores at 4 p.m. and a a Private Property Morel Hunt at 4:30.
May 18-19
Boyne District Library
Friends of the Library Used Book Sale, Friday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
May 19
BOYNE ARTS COLLECTIVE
welcomes the return and upcoming performance of Bob Marshall, at the BAC Stage from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, May 19. Tickets are $10 in advance including refreshments, call 582-2226, or purchase at Boyne's Boyond Borders. Bob Marshall's rich baritone voice and sublime guitar work will make your day. This cowboy, singer/songwriter will make you laugh and warm your heart.... visit with Bob and listen to his great originals, parodies and covers...he does it all.
May 21
HISTORY SPEAKER
The Charlevoix County History Preservation Society's History Speaker Series continues with “Ordeal on the Ice”on Monday, May 21, at 7 p.m. in the Charlevoix Depot Museum on 307 Chicago Avenue in Charlevoix. Guest speaker will be Geoffrey D. Reynolds. On February 8, 1936, Boatswain's Mate Earl Cunningham (1895-1936) interrupted his day off to come to the aid of two fishermen stranded on an ice floe that starting moving out into a Lake Michigan blizzard. The rescue ended tragically, leaving Cunningham the only U.S. Coast Guard service person from the Charlevoix station ever to perish in the line of duty. Next month’s program will feature Bob Morgridge discussing “Smelt Runs and Smeltania in Boyne City during the 1930s and 1940s” at 7 p.m. Monday, June 25 in the Boyne District Library Community Room.
May 25
50-CENT ICE CREAM
Alpine Chocolat Haus is sponsoring a fund-raiser for the Boyne City Little League Friday, with 50-cent ice cream cones and root beer floats from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
RUMMAGE SALE
Area residents are invited to participate in a community garage / rummage sale in the parking lot of the Water Street Center all day Friday. Bring your sale items after 8:30 a.m. or just come and shop at the corner of West Main and Front Streets. The sale is being organized by Donna Prevost of Sun for the Soul, 582-0410.
May 27
DRAG RACES
sponsored by the Boyne City Police Department will be held from noon to 6 pm. Sunday at the Boyne City Airport. Cars, trucks, snowmobiles, motorcycles and dune buggies will be racing on the 1/8-mile side-by-side track. Drivers can race for $30. Admission is $30 for racers, $10 for spectators; children under 10 are free. Info: 231-582-6611.
May 28
BENEFIT BREAKFAST
for the Boyne City Booster Foundation will be held from 7 to 11 a.m. Monday at Boyne City High School.
