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October 1, 2000 LIGHT THE SHORE Leelanau 2000 and the Michigan Millennium Project will hold a trial run of their initiative to light the entire shore of Michigan. Camera planes and a satellite will focus their lenses on campfires along the western shore of Leelanau County on October 13, 2000. Click to read more October 23, 1998 PROJECTS UPDATED A full listing of Leelanau 2000 projects is now online. The list includes contact information and project updates. Check it out on our Leelanau 2000 Projects Page. We will also be making monthly features about projects available via our web site and e-mail to news organizations. If you would like to get on our mailing list, please send an e-mail to 2000@leelanau.com. October 28, 1996 ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE While its still three years away, Leelanau County already has it's eyes on the advent of the third millennium since the dawning of the modern civilization as Christians and Jews keep the calendar. A celebration involving the entire Leelanau community is planned for the turn of the century in an initiative known as LEELANAU 2000. This gives those living today a perspective unique in humankind's history. This a once in ten dozen lifetimes opportunity. A small group of volunteer citizens, under the auspices of the Leelanau Historical Museum, is kicking off a program of commemorative activities for this momentous turn of the millennium. It is the aim of LEELANAU 2000 to have a positive influence on all of our lives. Their mission is to help the people of the Leelanau, young and old, appreciate and preserve our heritage, understand and document our present and envision and plan a sustainable future for seven generations and beyond. Said Dick Grout of Northport, President of the organizing group, "We want the community to take this opportunity to look into history and the future--and at the same time document exactly where we are today. Who we are, what we are, where we are in the history of civilization. Only then can we, together, make wise decisions about where we are going." Organizers hope LEELANAU 2000 will bring together the entire Leelanau community: young people, working families and retirees, farmers, loggers, orchardists and business owners, artists, teachers, construction workers, homemakers, and store clerks, civic groups, churches, and those folks with specialized interests in such things as history and geology, quilting and photography, hikers, bicyclists, skiers--everyone interested in where we've been, where we are, where we are going. Individuals and community groups and local government will be encouraged to create projects to help further the goals of LEELANAU 2000. While everyone knows that the millennium is a period of 1,000 years leave to Webster's Third International Dictionary (Unabridged) to define millennium as how we live it and how we use the term: "A period of prevailing virtue or great happiness or perfect government or freedom from familiar ills of human existance." Compared with millennium, Haley's Comet is almost a daily happening, an eclipse of the son is a monthly spectacular, and a trip into outer space is like catching the 7:15 AM flight from Cherry Captiol Airport to Chicago. What form the Leelanau County's celebration takes, said Laura Quackenbush, Leelanau Historical museum curator, is up to the county's residents. Early planning efforts are aimed at setting the celebration in motion. "It's up to the people to decide what they want to do. We are open to every possible suggestion. This is not a top down even, it's a bottom up celebration." The LEELANAU 2000 Steering Committee is now making a call for other community groups, business and individuals to join with them. For more information, please call Laura Quackenbush at the Leelanau Historical Museum 231/256-7475. |
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