Metro Times Detroit has a brief review of Good Harbor Golden from Charles Psenka's Leelanau Brewing Company:
Michigan has lots of things: seasons, snowmobile trails, smokestacks, raccoons, water, artisan-brewed beer. We prefer the latter for drinking, especially when it sports a head of lively foam over hazy gold and tastes of early season apples and a Lake Michigan breeze. Aged in French oak, Leelanau Brewing Company’s Good Harbor Golden is as refreshing as it is complex. Its lemon and hay aromas might not be for everybody, but we know what we’re drinking with our next walleye dinner.
More about Good Harbor Golden from the Leelanau Brewing Company.
Sleeping Bear Dunes, January 2007, photo by O. Joy
This photo is one of a great series of shots from January along the Lake Michigan shore!
The Traverse City Record-Eagle has a feature on Suttons Bay School's new superintendent Mike Murray. Murray starts today at Suttons Bay. Mr. Murray was a principal at Traverse City Central High School since 2003. Before that, he was principal at East Junior High for 11 years and spent 14 years in Germany teaching children of military and civilian personnel for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools.
Read Former TCAPS principal at helm in Suttons Bay in the Record-Eagle.
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that the new slogan and logo for the cherry industry has been unveiled. The slogan is "Cherries. Not just another berry." and the new brand was designed at the behest of the Lansing-based Cherry Marketing Institute by Jeff Manning. Manning created the wildly successful "Got Milk?" campaign and explained that it is designed to position the cherry as a "super-fruit" like blueberries and cranberries and that "cherries will be depicted as the "incredibly nutritious fruit that no one knows about."
"We’re moving away from pictures of beautiful cherry pies and cherry blossoms which are very sweet and very 1950’s and 1960’s. We want consumers to think of cherries as something they will eat in 2007."
Read New logo, marketing campaign draw buzz in the Enterprise and learn more about cherries than you can imagine at the Cherry Marketing Institute. You can also get more articles about cherries from Leelanau.com.
The Leelanau Enterprise wonders if two separate discussions regarding the future of tourism in the Leelanau Peninsula may end in the same place.
Business owners are flocking to privately sponsored "listening sessions" being held throughout Leelanau County, while a major discussion was held last week about the possibility of establishing a county-wide convention and visitors bureau with authority to levy an assessment on hotel guests.
Since I am involved in the "listening sessions," and we're not done listening yet, I don't really have much to say regarding this other than it is a very interesting article and you should definitely read New tourism initiatives pushed in the Enterprise.
Photo credit: Port Oneida Sunset by Jim Sorbie.
Winter at the Lodge by Greg Jollife.
Greg regularly posts some great photos from the Jolli Lodge and elsewhere in Leelanau on his blog - check it out!
News from the Week
The week's top story was the sad news of the passing of Hanley Denning, founder of Safe Passages, an organization that seeks to help very poor children who live in the dump of Guatemala City. The Safe Passage organization draws a lot of its support from the Leelanau/Traverse City area and folks around here are seeking help to keep the organization going. Other stories included a report that the BayView development in Suttons Bay may include an office district and a listing of projects to be funded by Grand Traverse Band 2% grants.
The Week's Weather
Snow and 20s, more snow and 20s, snow and 20s again - yep, this week was pretty much what people expect when they think of January in Leelanau County.
January 18, 2007: Wet snow & upper 20s (30Ëš/24Ëš)
January 19, 2007: Light snow & 20s (26Ëš/19Ëš)
January 20, 2007: Partly sunny & low 20s (24Ëš/10Ëš)
January 21, 2007: Cloudy, light snow & teens (23Ëš/12Ëš)
January 22, 2007: Cloudy, light snow & 20s (30Ëš/14Ëš)
January 23, 2007: Cloudy, light snow & upper 20s (30Ëš/24Ëš)
January 24, 2007: Snow & 20s (24Ëš/16Ëš)
Click for the Leelanau news archive from January 19th - January 25th, 2006!
The Northwest Michigan Human Services Agency's annual Gift of Warmth Gala with been held this Saturday (Jan 27) at the Waterfront Conference Center in Traverse City. The event raises funds to help heat the homes of people in crisis in Leelanau, Grand Traverse and other Northern Michigan counties and features wine, hors d'oevres and chocolate along with live music from TC Celtic and a silent aution.
For tickets contact NMHSA at 1-800-632-7334. For more information about the event and organization, please visit the Northwest Michigan Human Services Agency web site.
Photo credit: Fire in the Fireplace by Sailing Nomad.
In Death of a hero, yet her vision lives on, Jacob Wheeler of the Glen Arbor Sun writes:
Hanley Denning, the founder of Safe Passage and a guiding light of hope for families in the Guatemala City garbage dump, was taken from us in a tragic car accident on the night of Thursday, January 18. She was returning from the capital city to her home in nearby Antigua after attending meetings to establish a day care center so that children in Safe Passage could leave their younger siblings in good hands while continuing their studies — an impossible luxury for most Guatemalan kids, yet one realized by more than 550 children who are now part of Safe Passage.
The Safe Passage organization draws a lot of its support from the Leelanau/Traverse City area and you can learn much more about Hanley Denning and Safe Passage from the link above and also by visiting the Safe Passage web site.
Photo credit: Beth Price, Priceless Photography
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians will disperse just under $1 million to a variety of government and nonprofit agencies in the region as part of the state-mandated slot machine gambling agreement.
In addtion to a $75,000 Government to Government Agreement payout to Leelanau County, funding requests were approved to pay for the replacement of the track at Suttons Bay School, to help fund a village police officer in Suttons Bay, to help fund repairs at the Suttons Bay Public Library, $60,000 to purchase address signs for 2,000 homes in Leelanau County, almost $40,000 for the Strengthening Leelanau Families programs (Family Support Team, Baby Pantry and Laundry Project), $20,000 to the County Planning Department to digitize old maps.
Read GT Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians gives out close to $1M in the Record-Eagle.
Photo credit: Luck by Lemanz R ... and how cool is it that a picture from halfway around the world fits perfectly with this story?
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that Suttons Bay village officials have been working to facilitate the possible creation of a new office district at the north end of the village where Phase Two of the BayView project is currently under construction. According to Suttons Bay village president Larry Mawby:
"...all of the office space we currently have in the village, and throughout most of Leelanau County, is too small to accommodate some of our fastest-growing businesses. In fact, we may lose at least one high-tech firm now operating in Leelanau County unless we can find a place for it to grow."
Read Need for more S-B office space spurs talks in the Leelanau Enterprise.
Photo Credit: Suttons Bay by Dan Geddes
