The Enterprise reports that Glen Lake senior Marissa Treece was named Michigan Female High School Athlete of the Year by the Detroit Athletic Club. Treece is a track and cross country star for the Lakers but in giving the award, the DAC is recognizing more than just athletic prowess:
Treece earned the award not just because of her athletics. She has a 3.97 grade point average and participates in Project Heroes and Pals, where older students are paired with grade school students in a mentoring program. She is also very active in the county 4-H program, raising champion steers and pigs and some sheep.
The week's weather was pretty up and down - sun to thunderstorms, frost to 80s, we pretty much ran the full gamut of spring weather. Except for snow of course. Which I think we can all agree is OK.
May 10, 2007: Mostly cloudy & low 70s (73Ëš/44Ëš)
May 11, 2007: Sunny & upper 50s (59Ëš/43Ëš)
May 12, 2007: Sunny & upper 50s (57Ëš/37Ëš)
May 13, 2007: Sunny & upper 60s w/ morning frost (70Ëš/30Ëš)
May 14, 2007: Early morning thunderstorm, then partly sunny, breezy & 80 (81Ëš/45Ëš)
May 15, 2007: Mostly cloudy, scattered light rain & upper 70s (79Ëš/46Ëš)
May 16, 2007: Mostly cloudy, light rain & 40s (47Ëš/41Ëš)
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that with the onset of Colony Collapse Disorder, Hornfaced bees from Japan are receiving increased attention from fruit growers. The bees reportedly handle cold temperatures and windier conditions than honeybees. Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station Director Nikki Rothwell says "Our goal for the hornfaced bees is not to replace the honeybees, but to supplement them."
A article reports that unlike honey bees, hornfaced bees don't store honey and are solitary bees, meaning that they don't have queen and worker bees. Each female hornfaced bee mates, makes a nest cell of mud, collects nectar and pollen and lays eggs. Male hornfaced bees, unlike honeybee drones, also contribute to pollination.
The photo is courtesy the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station and they have more great pictures of hornfaced and honey bees and more information about the bees as well.
The Leelanau County Planning Commission invites you to join in a special presentation about environmentally sensitive design on Friday, May 25, 2007 at the MSU Horticultural Research Station. Environmentally sensitive design is a development option that landowners and local governments can use to accommodate growth, while preserving the natural resources that are so important to Leelanau County's economy and quality of life.
Speaker Robin Green will review the basics of environmental design, how she created a highly-successful planned community with these concepts, and how it could work in Leelanau County. She will also highlight an environmentally sensitive residential project she worked on with the City of Tecumseh, MI. The project involved not only reviewing plans for the site, but also included drafting a new section of the zoning code to accommodate conservation development. Speaker Deb Callison will talk about perspective and what "change" adds to your life.
There will also be a bus tour of developed and undeveloped areas in the County. The Public is invited to attend and you can register and get all the details by calling 231-256-9812 or by email to tgalla@co.leelanau.mi.us.
With last night's rain, the morels should be popping in the woods today. The Leelanau Enterprise has a pair of features to aid you in the quest for these elusive and delectable mushrooms. In the first (Morels tasty - and elusive), Amy Hubbell takes a walk through woods and memory with Bucky Noonan who advises to look in old apple orchards, near poplar & ash trees, but also dying trees and logs. Your yard is often a good place too, especially for white morels.
The second (A morel hunter's checklist) offers a checklist with good tips including the use of a walking stick to poke through the leaves under which morels often hide.
From the high vantage point of Miller Hill, you can see the continuing pattern of bluffs and bays. Sleeping Bear Bay gives a strong impression of the lobate shape of the ice that created it. If you had stood here 11,000 years ago, you would have seen the waves of ancestral Lake Michigan lapping up at the base of Miller Hill. The lowland between here and Lake Michigan is a sand bar consisting of a series of low ridges and troughs parallel to the shoreline, formed as ancestral Lake Michigan receded. The Crystal River, hidden in the woods below, flows along the troughs making many hairpin turns at low points as it seeks a path to Lake Michigan.
From Miller Hill you can also see Sleeping Bear Point at the western end of Sleeping Bear Bay. In 1914 and again in 1971, landslides occurred at Sleeping Bear Point. Each time about 20 acres of land slid into Lake Michigan. A smaller slump occurred in early 1995. Because of geologic conditions, it is likely that landslides will occur again in the future. Shoreline currents and wind carry sand to the Point where it accumulates until it becomes unstable. The sloping bottom of Sleeping Bear Bay can tolerate only a limited amount of accumulation. When too much sand builds up, storms or saturation with melting snow can trigger a landslide.
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that there will be a pair of benefit screenings of "The Namesake" on Friday (May 11) and Sunday (May 13) at The Bay Theater in Suttons Bay. Note: The Namesake is rated PG-13. Adults & teenagers only-this is NOT a kid's movie
A team of six fourth and fifth graders from Leland captured the OM State Championship in their category last month in Traverse City and will compete against children from throughout the U.S. and 50 foreign countries later this month on the campus of Michigan State University.
The Bay Theater will screen the movie "The Namesake" on May 11 at 6 p.m. and May 13 at 2 p.m. as a fundraiser for the local OM team. The movie is rated PG-13. Tickets are $15 each and are on sale at the Leland Public School office, Kejara's Bridge coffee house in Lake Leelanau, the Leland Mercantile, the Pennington Collection in Northport, and Hansen Foods in Suttons Bay.
Lots of sun, some overnight rain and great temperatures - hard to beat last week for sure ... especially when you add in the cherry blossoms, trilliums and morels!
May 3, 2007: Sunny & low 60s (66Ëš/32Ëš)
May 4, 2007: Sunny & upper 60s (71Ëš/36Ëš)
May 5, 2007: Mostly sunny & upper 60s (68Ëš/37Ëš)
May 6, 2007: Sunny & upper 60s (69Ëš/30Ëš)
May 7, 2007: Mostly sunny & upper 70s (80Ëš/46Ëš)
May 8, 2007: Mostly sunny & low 70s (73Ëš/53Ëš)
May 9, 2007: Early clouds, late sun with mist all day & 60s (69Ëš/44Ëš)
Fifty high school and middle school students from Leland Public School and St. Mary's School of Lake Leelanau — will take center stage in a joint production of SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE!, which debuts Friday at Leland's Performing Arts Center. SHRL! Is a high-energy, colorful musical based on the series of short educational films that aired alongside ABC TV's Saturday morning cartoon lineup throughout most of the 1970s and 80s.
There will be seven shows, starting this Friday, May 11, and continuing on the 12th, 13th, 18th, 19th, and 20th and you can get details and ticket information by calling Leland School at 231-256-9857.
An interesting thing about the performance is that it demonstrates how a public school and a private school are working together to offer arts experiences for their students in a time of dramatically shrinking budgets.
I don't really see any way that I can get out of this post without a YouTube video, so here it is!
The Enterprise reports that Glen Lake senior Marissa Treece was named Michigan Female High School Athlete of the Year by the Detroit Athletic Club. Treece is a track and cross country star for the Lakers but in giving the award, the DAC is recognizing more than just athletic prowess:
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that with the onset of Colony Collapse Disorder, Hornfaced bees from Japan are receiving increased attention from fruit growers. The bees reportedly handle cold temperatures and windier conditions than honeybees. Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station Director Nikki Rothwell says "Our goal for the hornfaced bees is not to replace the honeybees, but to supplement them."
With last night's rain, the morels should be popping in the woods today. The Leelanau Enterprise has a pair of features to aid you in the quest for these elusive and delectable mushrooms. In the first (
