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If you have a closet full of gently used coats, your local Girl Scouts will find them a home for someone in need...Girl Scout troop # 362 is presently doing a coat drive ....looking for gently used, clean coats for citizens of Charlevoix County who may be in need. Coats will be distributed for free to families of need through "Tabitha's Closet" located at the Assembly of God Church in Charlevoix. Locations to drop off coats... Ed's Used Cars & Huntington Bank, for more information call Missy Bender 231-357-2255 or Michelle Nowka 231-536-2532
Mitten Trees will be located in our three local banks, Charlevoix State Bank, Huntington Bank and Bay Winds Federal Credit Union. Trees will be going up on Monday, November 28 and will continue until December 14. Please don't feel limited to mittens only - hats, scarves, socks and slippers are also welcome. All items will be distributed by Care & Share.
December 22-January 2
January 1
January 2
January 3
January 5
JV Girls Basketball - Away vs Boyne City, 6:00 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Away vs Boyne City, 7:30 PM
JV & Varsity Boys Basketball - Home vs Mackinaw City, 6:00 PM
January 6
Varsity Boys & Girls Basketball - Home vs Boyne City, 6:00 PM
January 7
Competitive Cheer - Home, 10:00 AM
JV & Varsity Girls Basketball - Away vs Harbor Light, 2:00 PM
Glow in the Dark Play Extravaganza. This fun filled play is perfect for the whole family from age 1 to 101. The performance will be the final exam performance of the East Jordan High School Theer Team including our exchange student from Chile and an amazing drum solo by 3 precision students from the East Jordan High School Band. Saturday at 7:00 PM in the East Jordan Community Auditorium. Entry by donation.
January 8
January 9
JV & Varsity Girls Basketball - Away vs Alba, 6:00 PM
January 10
JV & Varsity Boys Basketball - Home vs Charlevoix, 6:00 PM
JV & Varsity Girls Basketball - Away vs Charlevoix, 7:30 PM
JV & Varsity Boys Basketball - Away vs Mackinaw City, 6:00 PM
January 11
JV & Varsity Girls Basketball - Home vs Alba, 6:00 PM
Artist Gathering will continue during the winter - each Wednesday. They will meet at the Jordan River Art Center in the lower gallery. Fresh flowers will be provided each week. All artist wishing to be together to participate art are welcome. There is no fee or preregistration. On occasion mini-lessons may be presented be someone attending. Some videos may be shared. The JRAC art library is available for use. When the East Jordan School is closed so is the art center. It should be noted that the summer plein aire scheduled has already been planned. For further information contact Karen Kimmell, 231 582 0683mailto:kakimmell@ gmail.com. or Nancy Carey 231 536 7912, mailto:ncarey@charter.net
January 12
Competitive Cheer Away at Charlevoix 7:00 PM
JV & Varsity Boys Basketball Away vs. Boyne Falls 6:00 PM
January 13
JV & Varsity Girls Basketball Home vs. Harbor Light 6:00 PM
Girls JV & Varsity Basketball Home vs. Boyne Falls 6:00 PM
January 13-15
January 14
The show starts at 7:00 PM at the Community Auditorium featuring all local talent. Advanced tickets on sale now at the Chamber office, by calling 231-350-0751 and downtown on Friday night during the Main Street activities. Tickets also available at the High School box office the night of the show. There will also be a silent auction before the show.
Wild Game Potluck - Saturday, 6 pm - Come out to the Martha Wagbo Farm and Education Center for our third annual wild game potluck! Join us at the Wagbo farmhouse at 6pm and share in the bounty of northern Michigan foods. Bring a dish of wild or local food to pass if you can, but it's not required for attendance. The potluck wraps up with a showing of the film The Complete Angler at 7 pm. Set amidst the beauty and tranquility of Irish and English waterways, this visual poem celebrates the joys of nature and literature, of solitude and beauty and the elegant art of fly fishing. Free and open to the public. For more info, call 231-536-0333. Located three miles south of East Jordan.
Charlevoix Senior Center, 7:00 p.m. Our musical guests for the evening will be Peacemeal String Band (Dale and Maureen Scott) with special guest John Richey. Peacemeal String Band has provided a variety of string music to Michigan audiences for the past 25 plus years. Featuring multi-instrumentalists Maureen and Dale Scott, the ensemble mixes Appalachian style old-time fiddle, claw hammer banjo, hammered dulcimer, tenor guitar, 6-string guitar, and harmonica with vocal harmonies. Add John Richey with his multi-faceted fiddle playing and energetic vocals, and the musical fun multiplies! The featured performers will share their music from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Following the scheduled performers, we will have a “circle jam session”. Suggested donations for the evening are $5/individual, $10/family. All donations are for the scheduled performer(s). Light refreshments are available at no additional charge.
Directions to the Charlevoix Senior Center: From US-31 (Bridge St.), turn west on Carpenter St. (between the Pizza Hut and Flap Jack Shack). Travel .7 mile, turn left into parking area, or turn left on Norwood Road to park in front of the Senior Center. The facility is fully accessible. Contact: 231-622-2944.
January 15
January 16
January 17
January 18
January 19
Ski Team at Schuss Mountain 4 PM
JV Boys Basketball Away vs. TC St. Francis
JV & Varsity Boys Basketball Home vs. Harbor Light 6:00 PM
The East Jordan 6th Grade class will be holding a Washington D.C. trip fundraiser. Spaghetti Dinner on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at the East Jordan Middle School from 5-7 PM. Ticket price is $6.00 single ticket and $20.00 family ticket. There will also be a Silent Auction and Bake Sale. Tickets can be purchased from any 6th Grade student or at the door.
January 20
Varsity Boys & Girls Basketball Home vs.TC St.Francis 6:00 PM
January 21
Competitive Cheer Away at Gaylord, 10 AM
JV & Varsity Girls Basketball Away vs. Ellsworth
Wassailing Winter Celebration- Saturday, January 21st, 6pm- Join the Martha Wagbo Farm and Education Center for a potluck and winter celebration. Wassaling is an ancient rural tradition of toasting to the health of an orchard in hopes that a bountiful crop will ensue the following year. A community celebration, Wassailing is done on a January night beginning with a feast and libations, followed by a short procession to the orchard where toasts are made and torches lit. Bring a sled! Immediately following will be a sledding party! Free and open to the public. For more info, call 231-536-0333. Located three miles south of East Jordan.
January 22
January 23
January 24
JV & Varsity Girls Basketball Home vs. Kalkaska 6 PM
Competitive Cheer Away TC West 6:30 PM
JV & Varsity Boys Basketball Away vs. Kalkaska 7:30 PM
January 25
JV & Varsity Boys Basketball Away vs. Wolverine 6:00 PM
January 26
Ski Team, Crystal Mtn. 5:00 PM
JV Boys & Girls Basketball, Home vs. Grayling, 6:00 PM
JV & Varsity Girls Basketball, Home Vs. Wolverine, 6:00 PM
January 27
Varsity Boys & Girls Basketball, Away vs. Grayling, 6:00 PM
JV & Varsity Boys Basketball, Home vs. Alanson-Littlefield, 6:00 PM
January 28
10:00 am - 4:00 pm with break for lunch - POLYMER CLAY Instructor-Babs Young
Students will learn a technique to make pins, pendants and /or earring using an imprint technique developed b Julie Picarello. the technique involves layering contrasting colors of clay, imprinting shapes and holes into the clay then making slices that will yield a multicolored surface with texture with finished pieces to take home. Cost: $40.00 which includes a #15.00 kit fee. At sign up time further instructions will be given. Contact Instructor Babs Young, Phone 231 645 2220 or mailto:babsy@elkrapidsnet.com
On January 28 and February 25 from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m., experience the solitude of the wilderness as you snowshoe by torchlight at Camp Daggett. Bearcub Outfitters of Petoskey has once again graciously sponsored this family-fun event. Afterward, come in from the cold for a cup of hot chocolate, freshly baked cookies and to warm-up by the crackling fire in camp's beautiful main lodge. Buy raffle tickets for great Bearcub products with all proceeds going to Camp Daggett. Admission is free, donations are encouraged, and snowshoes are available for all ages!
January 29
January 30
JV & Varsity Boys Basketball, Home vs Boyne Falls, 6:00 PM
January 31
JV & Varsity Girls Basketball, Away vs. Alanson-Littlefield, 6:00 PM