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Keys to feeling well rested LINDSAY GINGRICH (231) 439-9353 lgingrich@petoskeynews.com

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ou’re on your fourth cup of coffee before noon, with another pot already brewing.

Why? It was another sleepless night, and you’re feeling the effects from your head to your toes.

Sleep deprivation affects more than a third of American adults, according to a study done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“It’s like any biological system, sleep has a bell-shaped curve. Most people, if you look at adults, require 7-8 hours of sleep, but you will run into some people

who physiologically only need 4-5 hours, and you may also see people who need 10-12 hours,” said Dr. David Knitter of the Center for Pulmonary Sleep Medicine.

Sleeping less than 7 hours per day is associated with an increased risk of developing chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and frequent mental distress, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

The recommended hours of sleep each person should get daily varies by age.

Infants between 4-12 months should be getting 12-16 hours of sleep, preschoolers age 3-5 years should get 10-13 hours of sleep,

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Olympic-size opportunity Petoskey’s Lively to work 2018 Winter Olympics in broadcasting STEVE FOLEY

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he 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, are just under two months away from beginning.

For Matthew Lively, a Petoskey native and a junior majoring in media communications at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, the Olympics present an opportunity of a lifetime.

Lively along with a group of other Asbury University students will travel to South Korea for the OlymSee LIVELY on PAGE A6

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The gazebo in Petoskey’s Pennsylvania Park glows with holiday lights, as does community Christmas tree in the background, in this wintery scene in downtown Petoskey.

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‘G3’ Robotics team heads to state competition today MATT MIKUS

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PETOSKEY — A team from the Petoskey Middle School Robotics program will compete in the state competition in Battle Creek Friday and Saturday, Dec. 15-16.

The program, known as G3, has two robotics teams, the “green team” and “blue team.”

The blue team qualified for the state competition by winning the Innovate Award at two qualifying competitions — one at the Petoskey qualifying competition, and the second in Houghton.

“At both competitions, the blue team won the award because of their unique design of their robot,” said team coach Joy KarbonBolinger. “That made them extremely competitive on the field. That’s been very sucSee ROBOTICS on PAGE A6

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G3 blue team members Jacob Schornak (left), Owen Sisson and Mitchell Kranig compete in the Petoskey qualifier.

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Petoskey’s Matthew Lively will be part of a broadcasting team that will work the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

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Raptor Watch count shows high owl numbers fun things to do this weekend

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Wander Walloon Snowshoe with Dogs

Come explore from 2-3:30 p.m. Friday at the Postle Farm Preserve for a wander through the woods and fields. Well-behaved, friendly dogs are welcomed to join. The Postle Farm Preserve is located on Country Club Road near Walloon Lake village. For more information, visit www.petoskeyarea.com/event-detail/ wander-walloon-snowshoe-with-dogs.

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Boyne Mountain Holiday Open House

Many activities are planned for the seventh annual open house starting at 5 p.m. Saturday at Boyne Mountain Resort, 1 Boyne Mountain Road, Boyne Falls. Attendees can enjoy sleigh rides, a bonfire and s’mores, arts and crafts, a family holiday movie and many more happenings. For more information, visit www.boyne.com/boynemountain/events/holidayopen-house.

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The Christmas Schooner

“The Christmas Schooner,” a musical, is based on the historic Great Lakes voyages of Christmas tree ships during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

People can see the play at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Crooked Tree Arts Center, 461 E. Mitchell St., Petoskey. For more information, visit www.ltct. org.

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Santa’s Workshop

Santa will be at the Stafford’s Perry Hotel, 100 Lewis St, Petoskey. Come tell him your holiday wishes from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday. Bring your camera to this free event. For more information, visit www.staffords. com/perry-hotel/dine-perry-hotel/dining-featuresevents.

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The Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch recently announced results from its owl, hawk and waterbird monitoring this fall.

Under supervision from organization chair and licensed bander Ed Pike, researchers Nick Alioto and Frances Whalen performed owl banding surveys from Sept. 18-Nov. 10 at Point LaBarbe in St. Ignace.

In 35 nights of surveying, a total of 282 owls were captured and released.

“This fall’s count of 282 owls, is the second most abundant yield since owl banding began in 2014,” Pike said.

Sixteen of the sawwhet owls captured had been previously banded.

Lead owl bander Alioto said, “One owl recaptured by MSRW was banded as an adult in 2014 and is now at least 6 years old.”

One saw-whet owl banded by the raptor watch organization on Sept. 29 was recaptured on Nov. 4 in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, a journey of more than 600 miles from St. Ignace, Alioto said. Another saw-whet owl banded on Oct. 13 was recaptured in Chesterton, Indiana, on Nov. 11. This bird flew more than 375 miles in just under a month.

The organization’s second fall season of waterbird surveying was conducted from

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Lead owl bander Nick Ailoto holds a recently banded long-eared owl.

Aug. 20-Nov. 10 by waterbird counter Aspen Ellis at McGulpin Point in Mackinaw City.

Organization officials said this research contributes to their understanding of how waterbirds use the Straits of Mackinac during migration and helps establish baseline data for future comparisons.

A total of 26,283 migrant waterbirds of 43 different species were recorded in the Straits.

Ellis said sightings of several rare migrants included an American avocet, great and lesser black-backed gulls, a harlequin duck and a jaeger. The most commonly recorded species were Canada goose,

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vations included large numbers of red-tailed and sharp-shinned hawks. An unusual highlight this year was a magnificent frigatebird, a species expected more in Florida than Northern Michigan. The organization will analyze results from this part-time survey to determine whether to hire a full-time fall hawk counter in 2018.

The Mackinaw Raptor Fest committee launched preparations for the third annual fest scheduled for April 6-8, 2018. Keynote speaker Gene Jacobs, director of Linwood Springs Research Station in Wisconsin, will present “Snowy Owl Winter Habitat Use.” The evening banquet, which can be attended separately from the daytime talks, features renowned wildlife artist and falconer Glen McCune from Petoskey, who will bring one or more of his live birds.

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double-crested cormorant, long-tailed duck, redhead (duck), redbreasted merganser and white-winged scoter.

“Lower numbers were recorded for most species in 2017, especially long-tailed ducks,” Pike said. “This decrease could be due to a number of factors, including weather. This fall was calm and warm until mid-October, which may have discouraged duck movement until later than normal.”

This fall’s hawk count took place at Point LaBarbe, Mackinac County, from Aug. 25-Nov. 14.

The raptor watch organization has conducted spring raptor counts since 2014, but until this fall a comprehensive fall raptor migration count had never been undertaken.

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Michigan lawmakers target ‘doc shopping’ by opioid addicts seeing — pill mills and doctor shopping,” she said. “I think this will be the strongest reporting system in the nation.”

The main bill passed 86-24 in the GOP-led House and 36-1 in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Rep. John Bizon, a doctor, voted for the requirement while also opposing a bill that would sanction physicians who do not comply.

“I still have concerns that we are going to be leaving our patients, our citizens, our mothers, our fathers in pain without access to narcotics that could very easily remove that pain,” the Battle Creek Republican said. He added that “this is not a medical issue, this is a societal issue,” and additional steps are needed such as building more treatment centers.

Rep. LaTanya Garrett, a Detroit Democrat, who voted against the main bill, expressed concern that it would delay access to antiepileptic drugs for her daughter and others.

Other bills approved Wednesday would let Medicaid recipients receive medically necessary treatment for opioid addiction and, starting in the 2019-20 school year, require the state to include instruction on prescription opioid abuse in model health education standards.

LANSING (AP) — Doctors would be required to check a prescription database before prescribing painkillers and other powerful drugs under legislation that won final approval Wednesday, the latest attempt to combat Michigan’s deadly opioid epidemic.

Other bills passed Wednesday would limit the amount of opioids that could be prescribed, require a “bona fide” physicianpatient relationship to dispense drugs and require that those being treated for an overdose receive information on substance abuse services. Gov. Rick Snyder is expected to sign the measures.

The requirement for health providers to use the recently upgraded Michigan Automated Prescription System would take effect in June, with some exceptions. The electronic database tracks schedule 2-5 drugs. State officials say improvements to the system have put Michigan at the forefront of prescription drug monitoring technology.

A bill sponsor, Republican Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker of Lawton, said physicians would be able to instantaneously check a patient’s prescription history — a process that she said would take two seconds instead of 10 to 15 minutes like before.

“It will cut down on two problems we’re

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Instructor Anne Morningstar (right) offers hands on assistance to Deb Harm (center) of East Jordan during a holiday gift wrapping workshop, Thursday, at Crooked Tree Art Center, in Petoskey. Working on her own is Kathy Galbraith (left) of East Jordan. Morningstar, who once worked as a gift wrapper for a major paper company, offered tips and details to make wrapping a little more creative.

Michigan residents can track snowplows online KALAMAZOO (AP) — The Michigan Department of Transportation is allowing residents to track snowplows and watch them at work via webcam.

The department piloted the snowplow tracking program the last few years. It’s now operational statewide.

“People really seem to appreciate it,” said Nick Schirripa, a department spokesman. “It gives us the ability to share not just kind of inside information about how we’re doing and what we do, but it gives people kind of that inside look on their own where plows are

and what they’re doing.”

The department’s website features a map of the state with the option to view where the department’s snowplows are active on the roads. The website also notes which snowplows are actively plowing or applying material.

Some snowplows will also include a picture of what the driver sees out the front window.

The information on the website updates about every 60 to 90 seconds.

“It’s one piece of the puzzle,” Schirripa said. “Certainly, by no means is it the answer to every

question, but it helps form a more clear picture of what’s going on.”

The information on the website also helps the department determine where and when to deploy forces, Schirripa said.

“Monitoring snowplow speeds and material application helps us apply efficient salting practices,” said Melissa Howe, region support engineer for the department.

“Maintenance supervisors can also easily adjust shifts based on the timing of a storm so we have plows on the roads precisely when they’re needed, adding people proactively rather than reactively.”

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Be safe on the roads this holiday season

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he holiday season is in full swing and that means many things: Shopping, decorating, and gatherings with family and friends among many other activities.

Often these holiday gatherings might include enjoying an adult beverage.

We certainly can see the appeal of sipping a glass of wine with friends in front of a warm fireplace, or some “enhanced” egg nog with loved ones while singing Christmas carols around the living room piano, and, for many, a New Year’s celebration wouldn’t be

complete without a toast with some bubbly at midnight.

With that in mind — we know it’s not a new message, but its one worth repeating — we want to remind everyone to simply be safe and smart when it comes to getting behind the wheel if you’ve indulged in some “holiday cheer.”

We know its a chorus you’ve probably heard as many times over the years around the holidays as “Jingle Bells,” but its a song that still needs to be sung.

Year-round, driving while intoxicated or impaired driv-

ple die on Michigan Roads for each of the three day periods surrounding both the Christmas and New Year holidays.

(The report didn’t provide an average on how many of those are alcohol related).

On a more local level, another Michigan State Police report showed for all of 2016, there were 46 alcohol related crashes in Emmet County resulting in one fatality and 24 people being injured. In Charlevoix County, for all of 2016, 25 alcohol-related crashes were reported in 2016 resulting one death and nine people being injured.

ing continue to be among the most common misdemeanor offenses we see in our weekly court roundups.

The Michigan State Police reported from 6 p.m. on Dec. 23 to 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 26, 2016 six people died in five crashes in Michigan. Two of those crashes involved alcohol. In the same report, state police reported that 11 people died in nine crashes on Michigan Road from 6 p.m. Dec. 30, 2016 to 11:59 p.m., Jan 2, 2017. At least four of those crashes involved alcohol.

According to the report, since 1972, on average, 13 peo-

While the human toll associated with these crashes is, of course the most important factor, there’s also all of the headaches that come with a drunken driving arrest and or conviction to consider as well.

With all that in mind, we simply want to encourage everyone to be safe on the roads this holiday season. No one wants to spend the a holiday in jail, in the hospital or making funeral arrangements.

“Our View” represents the opinion of the News-Review editorial board: Ryan Bentley, Doug Caldwell, Jillian Fellows, Christy Lyons, Jeremy McBain and Steve Zucker.

Fox red puppy love Is sexual assault, misconduct

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ne of the reasons we chose Opie out of a litter of multicolored Labs in a small Wolverine home 13 years ago was because my son, 7 at the time, picked him up and then dropped him on his head.

“We better take him now,” I joked to the breeders. “He could be damaged goods.”

Truth? We had already settled on the four-week-old yellow lab over the chocolate, simply because we wanted a boy.

A few weeks after making our deposit, the breeder called me to say we had chosen a rare, fox red Labrador. (the red doesn’t show up until they are older). I had never heard of a fox red before, so I went to the internet where I learned it simply means Opie was a “ginger.”

The joke of him being dropped on the head was quickly replaced with, “Well, we have two red-headed children, it makes sense that we would also have a red-headed dog.”

And so, on the drive home with a now seven-week-old fur-baby snuggled among our three children in the back, he was named Opie after the first famous red-headed male I could think of.

He went with us everywhere.

At our first camping trip, my uncle laughed when I bathed him in the camp showers and carried him straight to our tent so he wouldn’t bring in sand or mud. Of course, the joke again was on me, for that night his stomach gave up a partially digested corn cob he had been given as a chew toy earlier that day.

We enjoyed countless camping trips with our beloved Opie. I trained him to run alongside my bike, and he would take it seriously, ignoring other dogs and distractions as he stared straight ahead, focused on pulling his master along the campsite roads.

We trained him to stay within the campsite (using wire from an electric fence) and he was quick to learn and obey.

He was a good boy, and so attached to his mom, the kids would need to distract him whenever I had leave camp, because he would sit at the border, whining to go with me, and then patiently stare at the spot he had last seen me until my return. And then, the tail wagged the dog enthusiastically with uncontained delight and, I’d guess, a little relief.

He slept in my children’s rooms at night, and by day, he curled up at my feet wherever I sat. He never took much to swimming or fetching, but that was OK with us. He was a mellow sort of fellow. Never

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Opie “Redbone” Tanner getting into trouble. (Well, almost never.)

Though he didn’t care for long car rides, he cared less for being left behind. During our first family vacation, we left him with my mom. According to her reports, he was sick with sadness the entire 7 days. So sad, he wouldn’t even eat.

So on the next vacation, I found a dog-friendly ranch out west and Opie was on his way to Cody, Wyoming and Yellowstone. He met other dogs and horses, played in the water at Jenny Lake at the Tetons, and, best of all, got to be with his family.

It’s so hard when a beloved member of the family becomes ill. Especially when they can’t tell you what’s wrong. He stopped eating on Friday. He couldn’t keep even water or his medicine down on Saturday and Sunday. A frantic trip to the vet Monday morning brought a parade of serious and concerned faces. They are keeping him for tests. He is dehydrated and weak. And something is seriously wrong.

My mind is a mess. What can they do? Is he too old for this? How much will this cost?

How much will I spend? How could I not spend every penny I have? If they can fix him, how much longer before I have to go through this again?

Grief is the price you pay for love. Love hurts. Man’s best friend. All of these cliched sayings echo with new meaning.

Real meaning.

I knew when I took that redhaired little puppy home 13 years ago that this day would come. I’ve had plenty of time to prepare. But I guess I was too busy because I am not ready.

’ll make no excuse for outgoing Minnesota Senator Al Franken’s poor choices.

I met the democratic senator at this year’s Minnesota State Fair. At the time, I was reading his latest book, “Giant of the Senate,” in which he explains why he got into politics in the first place. Franken, inspired by former Minnesota Senator Paul Wellston who died in plane crash in 2002, entered politics later than most. His goal: continue Wellston’s progressive legacy of being a champion for the people of Minnesota.

By all accounts, Franken did well. He’ll go down as someone who fought hard for net neutrality, women’s rights, LBGTQ issues, addressed bullying in schools and worked tirelessly to make sure the federal government kept its promises to Native Americans. He asked tough questions — especially to incoming cabinet members Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions — questions other senators didn’t think or just flat out wouldn’t ask.

Most Minnesotans will tell you he represented us well and we’re proud of his work.

We feel let down in many ways.

When I met Franken, I thanked him for being my voice in Washington. He really is as personable as you’d expect, funny and insightful.

Rachel Brougham How I see it He asked what I did for a living and what issues mattered to me most. There’s no joke about it — Franken really did care about the people of Minnesota and how he represented them. He said it often, “politics is all about bettering peoples’ lives,” and he meant it.

But, I believe the women.

Franken made the right choice in resigning his seat.

Did Franken’s actions with his accusers approach that of Roy Moore or Donald Trump? Not even close. Yet the two still receive the support of the Republican Party.

However, if Franken would have remained in the Senate, the Democratic Party would have a tough time making a case of why people like Moore or Trump aren’t fit to serve. Franken, along with Michigan Rep. John Conyers who recently resigned from Congress, were dead weights in the party.

While there is certainly a difference between an accidental slip of the hand during a photo op and intentionally making unwanted sexual advances on women (and underage girls), Demo-

crats needed to stand up and condemn it all.

Franken lost his seat because Democrats needed to clean house. It’s the only way to push their message that sexual misconduct and assault is wrong in every single instance. It’s their step in making it clear that women do indeed have a voice.

Donna Brazile, the former chair of the Democratic Party said of Franken’s departure that the party has zerotolerance for this behavior.

“The Democrats are going to set new standards; standards that apply to everyone,” Brazile said.

Right now, Michigan and Minnesota are feeling that new set of standards. When will the rest of the country?

What I’d like to see next?

All those Republicans (and the Democrats) who called for Franken’s resignation to now turn their attention to those in their own party who face accusations themselves.

There’s a man in the Oval Office with more than a dozen accusers who admitted to sexual assault on video.

Or perhaps sexual assault and misconduct really is a partisan issue. It’s your move, GOP.

Rachel Brougham is the former assistant editor of the Petoskey News-Review. She now lives in Minneapolis. You can email her at racheldbrougham@gmail.com or follow her on Twitter @RachelBrougham.

Renee Tanner is a News-Review page designer. She can be reached at rtanner@ petoskeynews.com

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Briefs Chronic wasting disease confirmed in deer at Michigan farm BIG RAPIDS (AP) — Officials say chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in a deer from a farm where deer are raised in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

The Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development says the disease was confirmed this week in a female deer at the Mecosta County farm.

State veterinarian James Averill says in a statement that the deer farmer whose herd is affected “has gone above and beyond any state requirements to protect ... deer from disease.�

Averill says it wasn’t immediately known how the infection made it to the herd.

The neurological disease affects whitetailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose. It’s spread through saliva and other body fluids of infected animals.

There have been about 30 confirmed or suspected infections of whitetail deer in the state since 2015.

Grant to help expand, renovate zoo’s red panda habitat ROYAL OAK (AP) — A $500,000 grant from the Holtzman Wildlife Foundation will help expand and renovate the red panda habitat at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak. The Detroit Zoological Society says the Holtzman Wildlife Foundation Red Panda Forest will provide a larger and more stimulating naturalistic environment for the animals. Three red pandas currently live at the zoo which is few miles north of Detroit.

The animals’ habitat will be expanded by about 4,000 square feet (372 square meters) to more than 14,000 square feet (1,300 square meters).

It will feature a flowing stream, larger and more complex arboreal pathway, misting areas to cool the red pandas during the summer, additional land for exploration and a variety of new nesting places.

The project is expected to cost more than $700,000.

Law ends immunity for police who have sex with prostitutes LANSING (AP) — Michigan law will no longer shield police from prosecution for prostitution-related offenses committed while on duty.

Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation this week to remove the immunity, effective in 90 days.

Michigan was believed to be the last state in the country to give police immunity for having sex with prostitutes during undercover investigations.

A sponsor of the legislation has said she does not believe officers are taking advantage of the law, but it should still come off the books.

Snyder says the bills “help ensure the ongoing integrity and

accountability� of the law enforcement system.

Court puts a leash on lawsuit by man bitten by dog HOLLY (AP) — Upset about a dog bite?

Sometimes it’s better to keep your hand in your pocket.

Thomas Cummings was bitten by a dog when he put his hand over a fence in Holly.

But the Michigan appeals court ruled in favor of the dog’s owners, saying Cummings was trespassing, even if he was standing on the other side of the fence.

In a 3-0 decision Tuesday, the court says “no reasonable juror� could conclude that Cummings had permission to put his hand over the fence, especially after the dog was running around and growling at him.

The owners said the dog was “uncomfortable with strangers.�

Michigan man gets life for killing of exgirlfriend’s mom MIDLAND (AP) — A suburban Detroit man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1991 killing of his exgirlfriend’s mother.

Fifty-two-year-old Michael Todd McIntyre of New Hudson was sentenced Thursday on one count of first-degree felony murder.

The Midland Daily News reports that a Midland County jury had convicted McIntyre in October in the killing of 43-yearold Diane Ross.

Ross was a double amputee who had no legs. She was found beaten to death in August 1991 at her Lee Township home.

The case had been unsolved, but McIntyre was arrested in March and charged after a review of cold cases turned up evidence.

One of Ross’ sisters, Lindy Barton, said after McIntyre’s sentencing that “we now have our memories and sweet closure.�

Some Ford vehicle business, strategy teams moving to Detroit DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. plans to move its autonomous and electric vehicle business and strategy teams to Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood.

The Dearbornbased automaker says Thursday that operations in a 45,000-square-foot former factory should be up and running early next year and “enable Ford teams to immerse themselves in urban mobility challenges and solutions.�

The building is known as The Factory and was constructed in 1907. More than 220 employees will work there. It sits on Michigan Avenue across from the old Tiger Stadium site.

Corktown is just west of downtown.

Ford says the move will bring together teams creating new business models into a “resurgent, diverse neighborhood with industrial roots.�

Elwood‘Woody’ “Woody� Austin, Austin, 91 Elwood 91 Elwood “Woody�

Austin passed away peacefully on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 10, at the Boulder Park Terrace Nursing Center in Charlevoix at of age 91.

He was a resident there since Oct. 13th of this year.

Woody was born in Merrill, Wisconsin in 1926. He was the youngest of 2 brothers and 4 sisters all of whom have preceded him in death. He graduated from High School in 1944, having enlisted in the Navy the year before. The day after graduation he entered Great Lakes Naval Boot Camp. Woody served on the aircraft carrier, Bonne Homme Richard, as an open gun mount Captain on the flight deck in 1945. He was discharged at Bremerton, WA. in 1946.

After the war, Woody started his career as a pharmaceutical representative and then worked for Benson Optical for many years on the road in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan. While working in Petoskey, he met Vernie Schneider McDonald and fell in love. Woody and Vernie were married on Feb. 4, 1967 and spent 34 wonderful years together. In the early 70’s he became the manager of the then Burn’s Clinic Optical Department retiring in 1991.

Woody was a very active member of the Lions Club in Petoskey, becoming King Lion in the 70’s. He moved to the Boyne City area and enjoyed being a member of Boyne Valley Lions Club in 2005.

Woody was instrumental in establishing the Eye Bank of Northern Michigan. At that time, there were no systems of fast deliveries, so the donated eyes and corneas were placed in an insulated container and transported from county to county by the Sheriff and delivered to the requested destination.

He was a member of the Inland Lake Snowmobile Club for many years helping out and doing fund raisers.

Woody also joined the American Legion Post 228 of Boyne City.

Being a World War II vet, he recruited other veterans to join the post and had the honor of serving in the Color Guard, playing TAPS at veteran’s funerals.

Woody was still actively doing this until late this past summer.

He met a lovely lady, Wilma Socia, shortly after the death of his wife, Vernie, in 2001. Woody and Wilma spent 16 fun filled years together as companions, caring for one another, traveling, socializing and enjoying each other’s company.

Woody always referred to Wilma as his “Angel�

One of Woody’s special moments was when he was selected to go on the Honor Flight to Washington a few years ago. He greatly enjoyed the comradery of his fellow vets and all the people along the way that honored them.

Woody was so proud that he was a World War II veteran, wearing his decorated cap wherever he went.

The Boyne City Community will surely miss Woody’s voluntarism especially this time of the year when he and Wilma could be found ringing the bell for the Salvation Army’s “Red Kettle�.

Woody had a way with people, getting them to talk and enjoy themselves. He carried this with him to the Care Center giving patients a little dose of “sunshine’.

Woody is survived by his dear friend, Wilma Socia and her 3 daughters, his sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, June and George Vargo, Mary Jo and John Parker and many nieces and nephews. He had many wonderful and caring friends.

In Liew of flowers, memorials can be made in his name with donations to Eversight, a non- profit organization to restore sight and prevent blindness through the healing power of donations, transplantation and research, formally known as the Michigan Eye Bank started by the Lions Club of Michigan. The address is: Eversight, 4889 Venture Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Steven J. Reese 68 passed away on Monday, December 12th in Petoskey, MI. Born in Linton, IN on August 19, 1949 to Marcia M. Reese and Arthur G. Reese II. Steve graduated from Shakamak High School in Jasonville, IN where he marched in the band and was a member of the National Honor Society.

Steve attended Indiana University and then entered the travel industry, first leading tours and cruises then owning two travel agencies in San Francisco, CA. He was so successful that he sold his companies and was able to retire at age 49.

Upon retirement Steve first returned to his native state of Indiana, settling in Bloomington. While vacationing in northern Michigan Steve found and fell in love with Harbor Springs, first purchasing summer cottage and then buying a yearround home.

In August 2016 Steve was diagnosed with late stage liver cancer, after receiving treatment at

the Indiana University School of Medicine Steve chose to live his life fully in his remaining time. Steve coordinated the remodeling of his Harbor Springs cottage from a skilled nursing facility in Indianapolis, IN. He moved back into his cottage with the help of many caregivers, went on a San Francisco to Sydney, Australia cruise and lived his life fully and joyfully.

Steve was predeceased by his father, Arthur G. Reese II and sister Stephanie J. Reese. He is survived by his mother, Marica M. Reese, nephews, Christopher Fox, Mathew Fox and great niece, Kirstin Fox. Please join us for a gathering of friends at The New York Restaurant, Harbor Springs on Saturday, December 16th from 2:00-4:00 p.m.

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A funeral memorial Mass will be offered for the repose of Woody’s soul on Dec. 27 at 10:30 am at St. Francis Xavier Church in Petoskey, with Fr. Dennis Stilwell as celebrant and Reverend Jeff Ellis, Pastor of the Walloon Lake Community Church giving the Eulogy. After Mass, The American Legion Post 228 will give Woody the honor of a Military Memorial in church. Following this ceremony, all of his family and friends will have a chance to get to gather and celebrate his life and enjoy a lunch sponsored by the ladies of the Church in the Parish Hall.

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A6 ROBOTICS FROM A1 cessful for the gameplay.”

The blue team traveled to Battle Creek on Thursday.

The green team also received the Motivate Award during one competition. The award is based on the team’s growth and success while building and working on their robot throughout the season.

“They really focused on the public outreach for robotics, when they awarded the green team,” Karbon-Bolinger said.

The teams are also judged based on the overall journey of the team and their engineering notebook, which documents the entire season.

The teammates take notes on their lessons and learning programing and design of the robot.

Karbon-Bolinger said that the members of the green team plan to travel to Battle Creek tomorrow to cheer on their fellow G3 members.

“Even though we have two teams, we keep a philosophy of being part of one big team, so we support each other,” she said.

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Petoskey Middle School G3 blue team qualified with its robot to compete in the state competition in Battle Creek this weekend.

SLEEP FROM A1 teens ages 13-18 should get 8-10 hours of sleep, adults ages 18-60 should have 7 or more hours, and adults 65 and over should be getting between 7-8 hours, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Sleep is important to your mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

While there are many sleep disorders that vary in symptoms and intensity, sleep deprivation involves not being able to obtain the total amount of sleep recommended.

“Sleep deprivation affects everybody, the manifestation tends to be different based on age,” Knitter said. “Kids who are not getting enough sleep tend towards the hyperactivity side ... in Germany, every child that goes in for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) actually gets a sleep study done, there is a high correlation between ADHD and sleep deprivation.”

Symptoms of sleep deprivation can include excessive sleepiness, fatigue, clumsiness, weight loss or gain, moodiness and lack of attention.

While some symptoms can be noted by the individual experiencing them, there are underlying health concerns attributed to sleep deprivation as well. While you sleep, you “recharge,” giving your brain and cognitive functions a moment of rest.

“I think it was a TED Talk that came up with this visual: what happens when we go into a deep sleep, the spaces between our neurons, the brain cells, opens up and it allows the spinal fluid to pass through the brain like waves

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on a beach. So, it’s described as if you think of a brain at the end of a day like a really busy beach, and at the end of that day there’s sand castles and holes and disruptions,” Knitter said. “When you go to sleep, it’s like waves coming in and they smooth out the sand and the next day, it looks pretty again. The spinal fluid, when it comes through, like these waves, it clears out protein accumulation.”

Sleep deprivation can also hinder the body’s ability to control hormones, including a decrease or increase in specific hormones’ activities.

“Sleep deprivation enhanced activity on the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis: this is the regulator of body functions such as the immune system, digestion, sex, mood, or energy usage; in addition to controlling reactions to stress,” the American Sleep Association notes.

Depriving the body of the sleep it needs to recharge and restore can have an effect on the immune system, weight loss or weight gain and even depression.

Some of the main causes of sleep deprivation of both the quality and quantity of sleep per night is overstimulating your brain prior to sleep and not being consistent, according to Knitter.

“The single best piece of advice is to try to be very consistent in when you go to sleep and when you wake up,” Knitter said. “You need to figure out for yourself how much sleep you do need to be at peak function. There’s some people who have to have 8 hours, 9 hours or even 10, so you have to answer

that question for yourself.”

One of the biggest culprits behind sleep fragmentation and sleep deprivation is the advancement of technology and our habits to bring them with us to bed.

“Unfortunately, modern technology is the worse invention with regards to sleep.

Too many people keep their phones too close to themselves and the fear of missing out, our body becomes accustom to it, and it’s reward.

Hearing your phone ding is striking your reward center and that’s a really powerful motivator in our brain,” Knitter said.

While some may seek the help of a professional with their sleep disorders, there are ways to help ensure you’re getting the right amount and quality of sleep per night.

To help quiet the mind and stop yourself from tomorrow’s worrying, try journaling, recommends Knitter.

“Get your ideas out of your head for the next day, when you close the book, it can help you sleep,” Knitter said.

Making sure your bedroom is lit with a more calming light, like a 40-watt light bulb, can give you enough light to read without overstimulating your brain.

“Some people go to the extreme of trying to eliminate blue light (light produced by screens), but my recommendation is at least half an hour prior to turning lights out, no screens of any type, no smartphone, no computer or tablet. It’s best to engage in an activity your mind finds relaxing, such as reading, or if you like, to draw or knit,” Knitter said.

pics to work the Games as part of the Olympic Broadcasting Services.

“The dean of communications there (Asbury) works in broadcasting and is on the board that helps organize the Olympics each year and is in their human resources department,” Lively said. “Because of that connection, Asbury is allowed to send students to work the broadcast with a broadcasting team that films and broadcasts the entire Olympics and package it for each country.”

Lively said he and other students will be working for NBC as part of their Olympic coverage.

“We’re actually the only university in the world that’s allowed to send students to the Olympics, no matter where they’re held,” Lively said. “Usually each Olympics about 600 students work the Games, but they have to be from the hosting country. We’re the only university sending students no matter where they’re held.”

Lively, who’ll be at the Olympics from Jan. 28 through Feb. 26, said range of duties for students include camera assistance, utilities, liaison officers and logistics.

“My personal position will be in the international broadcast center,” Lively said. “All the venues that are filmed gets sent back to that hub, we’ll package it up and send it out to different countries throughout the world.”

Lively’s title, event officer, will require a host of different jobs, even some he’s not sure of at the moment.

“The job description has a lot of words I don’t understand,” Lively said. “But from what I understand I’ll be helping different broadcast networks, showing them where they need to go, taking paperwork from one office to another for broadcasting rights.

“It’s a great opportunity.”

Lively said he’s looking forward to being in the cen-

ter hub of the Olympics and potentially meeting broadcasting personnel from across the world.

“There’ll be a lot of executive producers, presidents of networks and world leaders that’ll be roaming around,” Lively said. “I’m really looking forward to that and meeting, interacting and networking.

“It’ll be interesting to see who’ll show up.”

Lively, who chose media communications after dabbling in photography and video when he was younger, would like to eventually become a producer and own his own production company.

“I’m looking at feature development in executive offices or studio settings,” Lively said. “Developing shows that are greenlit to be produced.”

Lively, who is also on the Asbury University men’s swimming team, said discovering the college has been a good fit for him.

“I used to swim for the Harbor Springs Hammerheads and I was looking for a college with a good swim program and a good media communications program,” Lively said. “Asbury was the only one I could find with good programs for each.”

While in South Korea, Lively said he’s looking forward to taking in both downhill skiing and bobsledding when he’s not working.

“The bobsledding venue looks really cool,” Lively said. “But I don’t envy someone who has to climb all the way to the top of it.”

He also said for anyone who’s still in high school and considering media communications or film to check out Asbury.

“It’s a more well-rounded education than a film school,” Lively said.

“There’s a lot of opportunities for anyone who’s interested in that.”

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Schools closed across Michigan after snowstorm DETROIT (AP) — Many students across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula are home from school as communities dig out from a snowstorm that snarled traffic and left hazardous traveling conditions in its wake.

Some districts had closed Wednesday in anticipation of slippery, snow-covered roads and the number of closings increased on Thursday following the snow. Detroit’s public school district

was shut for the day after sending students home early on Wednesday.

The storm dropped more than 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow on parts of the Lower Peninsula, with the Detroit area seeing more than 6 inches (15 centimeters) in places. More snow is in the forecast for Friday, including heavy lake-effect snow along Lake Michigan in the northwestern Lower Peninsula.

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College event lets area students explore non-traditional occupations PETOSKEY — Northern Michigan female high school freshman and sophomore students participated in the 29th Non-traditional Career Day on Dec. 8 at North Central Michigan College.

Professional women from the community and throughout the state met with the students to help them explore non-traditional careers for women, such as architecture, archaeology, engineering, computer information systems, aviation/pilot and welding. Students selected career tracks of interest and then spent the day exploring those jobs while visiting with professional women who work in those careers.

“This event provides an opportunity for female students to broaden their career awareness and learn more about high-skill jobs that are not only in demand, but also provide a higher wage,” said Stacey Burns, educational and employment services coordinator for Women’s

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NCMC President Cameron Brunet-Koch welcomed area students to the 29th Non-traditional Career Day. The event encouraged high school freshmen and sophomore girls to aspire and excel in careers historically underrepresented by women.

Resource Center of Northern Michigan.

The goal of career day is to help girls in high school aspire to excel and to think beyond traditional women’s careers which generally pay less.

Women remain underrepresented across many occupational groups, including those in the construction trades and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields.

Non-traditional oc-

cupations offer women higher entry-level wages and higher pay as they advance in their careers.

North Central Michigan College President Cameron Brunet-Koch provided a welcome message to the stu-

dents. Before breaking into smaller groups, the students listened to an address by Debbie Dawson, an associate professor of electrical engineering technology at Ferris State University.

Non-traditional Career Day is sponsored by Char-Em Intermediate School District, North Central Michigan College, Petoskey Zonta Club and Women’s Resource Center of Northern Michigan.

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Ottawa County plans parkland project to preserve dunes project, recommending that the Michigan Legislature allocate $4.2 million toward purchasing the land. Ottawa County Parks Director John Scholtz says they’ll seek more funding as well.

The property is currently an inactive sand mining operation, located north of property owned by the city of Grand Haven that houses its Musical Fountain. Included within the property is designated critical dune areas, Grand River frontage and a manmade lake.

FERRYSBURG (AP) — Ottawa County is planning a multimillion-dollar project involving the purchase and development of new parkland along the Grand River in western Michigan.

MLive.com reports the project in Ferrysburg includes preserving a section of Lake Michigan dunes and linking more than 2,000 acres (809 hectares) of nearby parks and preservation areas Michigan’s Natural Resources Trust Fund Board came down in favor of the

Stamp to honor Sleeping Bear Dunes lakeshore in 2018 named Sleeping Bear Dunes the nation’s most beautiful spot in 2011.

More than 1.1 million people visit annually to wander the park’s 35 miles of shoreline, climb the dunes, hike forest trails and tour historic structures including former lifesaving stations.

The park also includes the North and South Manitou Islands, both popular with campers.

Its name was inspired by a Native American legend of a mother bear and her two cubs.

TRAVERSE CITY (AP) — Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan will be honored with a postage stamp being released next year.

The illustration features a sweeping view of a sandy beach, lapping Lake Michigan waves and towering dunes for which the park is famous.

The U.S. Postal Service says the Priority Mail Express stamp will cost $24.70.

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Detroit-area dog breeder convicted of animal neglect her Chien d’Or kennel. She was ordered earlier this year to remove 16 remaining dogs from the house and relocated four to a friend’s home in Livonia.

Animal control officers in Livonia inspected the dogs’ living conditions, finding the animals matted with feces, infested with fleas and lacking adequate shelter. District Court Judge Sean Kavanagh rejected defense arguments that the dogs were well kept.

LIVONIA (AP) — A Detroit-area woman whose home-based kennel drew complaints from neighbors for two decades has been convicted of animal neglect.

The Oakland Press of Pontiac reports a judge in Livonia this week found Mary Gabriel of Farmington Hills guilty of neglect and not guilty of charges of keeping unlicensed animals.

Farmington Hills officials say Gabriel, who breeds golden retrievers, kept as many as 49 dogs in

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Crews from Lyons Marine Construction use a tug to push the Ironton Ferry toward a waiting J & R House Moving trailer at the Boyne City Municipal Boat Launch Thursday.

FERRY FROM A1 Novotny said during the off-season, the ferry will undergo routine maintenance and be thoroughly inspected

by U.S. Coast Guard officials, but that might not be all.

Novotny said the transit authority board is currently considering several options for replacing the existing diesel engine that powers the vessel on its many trips back and forth across the 610-footwide Ironton Narrows, typically from mid-April to mid-November.

The board is considering replacing the current engine with a new diesel electric engine.

Novotny said one of the main benefits of the new engine would be greatly reduced noise.

“Noise from the ferry has been an issue for neighboring residents for a long time. This will bring down the noise level significantly,” Novotny said.

The current engine is cooled with a radiator similar to what a car or truck might have. The new engine would use a heat exchanger that would be attached to the hull below the waterline. This will allow the engine to be completely enclosed in a soundreducing compartment.

He explained that the diesel engine would serve as a generator to power the electric drive motor that would turn the vessel’s propellers.

In addition to less noise, the new engine is expected to significantly cut fuel usage, last longer and cost less to maintain than a typical diesel engine.

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ABOVE, BELOW: Crews from J&R House Moving use a backho and front-end loader to help pull the Ironton Ferry out of Lake Charlevoix at the Boyne City Municipal Boat Launch Thursday.

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not expected to impact fares.

On Thursday, a crew from Lyons Marine Construction used a tug to push the the ferry from Ironton to the municipal boat launch facility on North Lake Street in Boyne City.

The ferry cannot travel under its own power because it has no steering mechanism. Its trips across the nar-

Novotny said the board is still looking at prices and options, but the new engine is expected to cost somewhere near $100,000.

Some of that cost will come from federal funds the board was able to obtain, the rest will be paid for out to the agency’s budget.

He said the engine replacement, if it happens yet this off-season, is

rows are guided by a cable attached to both landings.

Once in Boyne City, crews from J & R House Moving of Petoskey used two excavators to pull 40-plus ton ferry up onto a pair of large I-beams, much like a typical boat trailer. The ferry was then moved up closer to the road where it will remain until spring.

Michigan legislators OK $23 million for contamination response LANSING (AP) — State legislators on Wednesday quickly approved spending $23.2 million to address what state regulators said is an emerging problem of drinking water contamination caused by chemicals used in firefighting foams, cleaning products and industrial applications.

Contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, has been identified in 14 Michigan communities.

It recently has drawn intense scrutiny north of Grand Rapids, where

footwear company Wolverine World Wild dumped waste sludge decades ago, and at or nearby multiple military bases.

The funding, included in a $52.8 million supplemental budget bill, would pay for response efforts, lab equipment, water sampling and other functions. Fifteen new state employees would be hired to help.

“We have no greater responsibility than to protect the public health of our constituents,” said Rep. Chris Afendoulis, a Republican

from Grand Rapids Township.

The chemicals are widespread in the environment and have been detected in blood of people and animals around the world, according to the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The agency’s website says scientists are uncertain about how they affect human health at exposure levels typically found in food and water.

But some studies suggest the chemicals might affect fetal development, disrupt hormonal func-

includes a provision allowing a planned new state veterans home in Detroit to be located outside the city, which drew criticism from Democrats. The state

tions, damage fertility and immune systems, and boost the risk of cancer.

Gov. Rick Snyder a month ago signed an executive directive establishing a PFAS team to coordinate response efforts among local, state and federal agencies.

The legislation won approval from a Senate committee and both chambers in a matter of hours, on a 33-4 Senate vote and a 109-1 House vote. It was the last day of legislative voting in 2017.

The spending bill also

Veterans Affairs Agency said it has had trouble finding an adequate place to build in Detroit.

The measure would expand the project scope to include Wayne, Oakland

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Bannon, undeterred, under siege Firefighters wary from GOP after Alabama loss despite gains on California fire

NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is catching blame from fellow Republicans for coughing up a safe Senate seat in deep-red Alabama and foisting damaging political advice on President Donald Trump.

But in the aftermath of this week’s stinging Alabama defeat, Bannon is showing no signs of abandoning his guerrilla war against the GOP establishment.

Bannon wholeheartedly backed Roy Moore, the insurgent conservative who faltered in Tuesday’s special election amid allegations that he had preyed on underage girls decades ago. The accusations prompted the national party to withdraw support for its nominee for a while, but Bannon stuck with Moore, headlining rallies for the candidate and convincing Trump to extend a full-throated endorsement.

But when Moore lost on Tuesday, handing the Democrats control of their first Senate seat in Alabama in a generation, Republicans turned on Bannon. The Breitbart News head already had made scores of enemies for declaring a siege on his own party.

“This is a brutal reminder that candidate quality matters regardless of where you are running,” said Steven Law, head of the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC for Republicans aligned with GOP leadership. “Not only did Steve Bannon cost us a critical Senate seat in one of the most Republican states in the country, but he also dragged the president of the United States into his fiasco.”

Bannon’s team vowed that its revolution would continue, insisting that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should be the one to take the blame.

Bannon’s allies dismissed the Alabama loss as little more than a temporary setback

“This is a brutal reminder that candidate quality matters regardless of where you are running. Not only did Steve Bannon cost us a critical Senate seat in one of the most Republican states in the country, but he also dragged the president of the United States into his fiasco.”

Steven Law, head of the Senate Leadership Fund

that would soon be forgotten. They expect that the Republicans cheering Moore’s loss will simply enrage Trump’s most loyal supporters nationwide, who already suspected some Republican leaders were trying to undermine the president’s agenda.

“They’re stomping on the very base they need to turn out for their candidates in the general election in 2018,” said Andy Surabian, a senior adviser to the Bannon-backed Great America PAC. He contended that “the average Republican voter across the country is pointing their finger at Mitch McConnell and the Republican establishment.”

Bannon’s team blamed McConnell for abandoning Moore, though it was a somewhat incongruous argument after Bannon warned McConnell to stay out of Alabama when Moore won the GOP primary. On his Sirius XM radio show Wednesday, Bannon credited Democrats with “out-hustling” the GOP on the ground in Alabama — praise that doubled as a swipe at the lack of Senate Republican campaign committee field staff on the ground in the state.

The fate of Bannon’s insurgency may depend on whether he can keep Trump’s ear.

In the hours after Moore’s loss, Trump was restrained, according to a White House official and an outside adviser not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.

Some in the West Wing

had hoped the loss would prompt Trump to sever ties with Bannon but the president did not seem inclined to take that step, according to the two people.

Since Bannon’s exit from the White House in August, he has remained close to the president, speaking to him frequently by phone, offering political advice and reminding Trump of his populist campaign promises. Though he had grown weary of the infighting Bannon initiated in the West Wing, Trump still valued his former strategist, telling allies that he felt that Bannon had a better feel for the president’s base than most of his advisers.

He also praised Bannon’s pugnacious spirit, seeing in his former aide a brawler similar to himself.

Bannon tried to steer Trump toward Moore in the primary but the president, confronted with conflicting advice from his staff, supported incumbent Sen. Luther Strange, who had been appointed to the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions when he became attorney general. But the president was never truly sold on Strange, and publicly worried he had backed the wrong candidate.

After Moore’s primary win, an exultant Bannon believed it was the first victory of a GOP civil war and, later, urged the president to endorse Moore even after the sexual harassment allegations surfaced. Trump initially hesitated but then fully

embraced Moore over objections from aides and Republican leadership.

Publicly, Trump on Wednesday addressed Moore’s loss by acknowledging he “would have liked to have had the seat” in the Senate as he and GOP lawmakers scratch for legislative victories.

But Trump also said, in what could be interpreted as a dig at those in the GOP who did not back Moore, that “a lot of Republicans feel differently. They feel very happy about the way it turned out.”

Bannon’s group indicated they would forge forward with plans to challenge the GOP establishment in Senate races in as many as 10 states, including Arizona, Nevada and Tennessee, though one adviser suggested that a greater effort may be made on recruiting and screening candidates.

But in the hours after the stunning defeat, many Republicans reveled in Bannon’s failure.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina argued that Bannon should have called off his guns and simply backed Trump’s first choice.

“When it comes to Alabama politics Steve Bannon should have followed President @ realDonaldTrump lead in supporting Luther Strange,” Graham tweeted. “Trump’s instincts on the Alabama race proved to be correct.”

And Rep. Peter King, R-NY, declared that Bannon looked “like some disheveled drunk who wandered onto the political stage.”

“This is not the type of person we need in politics,” said King said. “(Bannon) sort of parades himself out there with his weird alt-right views that he has, and to me it’s demeaning the whole government and political process. And last night’s election was a manifestation of the revulsion by the American people.”

FCC votes along party lines to end ‘net neutrality’ In a vote along party lines, the federal government has ended sweeping net-neutrality rules that guaranteed equal access to the internet.

The Thursday vote at the Federal Communications Commission will likely usher in big changes in how Americans use the internet, a radical departure from more than a decade of federal oversight. The move not only rolls back restrictions that keep broadband providers like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T from blocking or collecting tolls from services they don’t like, but bars states from imposing their own rules.

The broadband industry promises that the internet experience isn’t going to change, but its companies have lobbied hard to overturn these rules. Protests have erupted online and in the streets as everyday Americans worry that cable and phone companies will be able to control what they see and do online.

That growing public movement suggests that the FCC vote won’t be the end of the issue.

Opponents of the move plan legal challenges, and some net-neutrality supporters hope to ride that wave of public

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opinion into the 2018 elections.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican who said his plan to repeal net neutrality will eliminate unnecessary regulation, called the internet the “greatest free-market innovation in history.” He added that it “certainly wasn’t heavy-handed government regulation” that’s been responsible for

internet providers treat all web traffic equally, and it’s pretty much how the internet has worked since its creation.

But regulators, consumer advocates and internet companies were concerned about what broadband companies could do with their power as the pathway to the internet — blocking or slowing down apps that rival their own services, for example.

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the internet’s “phenomenal” development.

“What is the FCC doing today?” he asked. “Quite simply, we are restoring the light-touch framework that has governed the internet for most of its existence.”

Under the new rules, the Comcasts and AT&Ts of the world will be free to block rival apps, slow down com-

peting service or offer faster speeds to companies who pay up. They just have to post their policies online or tell the FCC. The change also axes consumer protections, bars state laws that contradict the FCC’s approach, and largely transfers oversight of internet service to another agency, the Federal Trade Commission.

Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat who was appointed by President Barack Obama, lambasted the “preordained outcome” of the vote that she says hurts people, small and large businesses, and marginalized populations. She outlined her dissent from prepared remarks before the vote.

The end of net neutrality, she said, hands over the keys to the internet to a “handful of multi-billion dollar corporations.”

With their vote, the FCC’s majority commissioners are abandoning the pledge they took to make a rapid, efficient communications service available to all people in the U.S., without discrimination, Clyburn said in her dissenting remarks before the vote.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California firefighters contained part of the fifth-largest fire in the state’s history but warned coastal communities Wednesday that they’re still at risk if unpredictable winds whip up again and fan the flames.

The National Weather Service extended warnings through Friday of extreme fire danger conditions throughout much of Southern California due to lack of moisture along with a possible increase in wind gust speeds at the end of the week.

Firefighters made some progress Wednesday on corralling the so-called Thomas Fire, which has spread into national forest land northwest of Los Angeles. However, they warned that the fire would continue to spread west as it eats up parched brush.

By Wednesday evening, state fire officials said the blaze was 30 percent contained but it continued to threaten Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Summerland and Montecito — a wealthy area home to celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey.

Since the blaze broke out on Dec. 4, it has burned more than 372 square miles (965 square kilometers) and destroyed 921 buildings — including at least 700 homes. It threatens 18,000 buildings and has prompted evacuations of about 100,000 people.

Elsewhere, fire officials announced that a cooking fire at a homeless encampment sparked a blaze last week that destroyed

six homes in the exclusive Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Arson investigators determined that the so-called Skirball Fire near the world-famous Getty museum was started by an illegal fire at a camp near a freeway underpass, city fire Capt. Erik Scott said.

The camp was empty when firefighters found it, but people apparently had been sleeping and cooking there for at least several days, he said.

The Fire Department was working on a plan to locate such encampments at the start of fire season next year to avoid danger, Scott said.

At the largest of the fires northwest of Los Angeles, firefighters protected foothill homes while the flames churned mostly into unoccupied forest land, Santa Barbara County Fire Department spokesman Mike Eliason said.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Eric Burdon and his wife, Marianna were among the people who fled the smoke in the small city of Ojai Tuesday.

Burdon, a member of the 1960s British Invasion band The Animals, wrote on Facebook last week about having to flee and returning temporarily to find his home still standing with ashes all around it.

“A week like this gives you the perspective that life is what truly matters,” he wrote.

A photo accompanying the post showed his handprint and signature written in ashes.

Aid group: At least 6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar BANGKOK (AP) — International aid group Doctors Without Borders said its field survey has found at least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed between August and September in a crackdown

by Myanmar’s security forces.

The group, known by its French acronym MSF, said in a statement made available Thursday that it conducted the survey in refugee camps in Bangladesh. It estimated that at least 9,000 Rohingya had died of various causes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state between Aug. 25 and Sept. 24, and that more than 70 percent of the deaths were the result of violence.

According to MSF, the dead included at least 730 children younger than 5.

More than 630,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Buddhistmajority Myanmar into Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations has called “ethnic cleansing.”

“The peak in deaths coincides with the launch of the latest ‘clearance operations’ by Myanmar security forces in the last week of August,” MSF medical director Sidney Wong said in a statement.

She said the findings were staggering,

both in terms of the numbers of people who reported a family member dead as a result of violence and the horrific ways in which they said they were killed or severely injured.

MSF said that among children below the age of 5, more than 59 percent who were killed during that period were reportedly shot, 15 percent burnt to death in their homes, 7 percent beaten to death and 2 percent died due to land mine blasts.

Myanmar’s Information Ministry has said that 400 people died following attacks by a militant Rohingya group on police posts on Aug. 25. It said most of the 400 were “extremist terrorists” who died during military “clearance operations.”

International aid and rights groups have accused the military of arson, killings and rapes of Rohingya villagers.

Myanmar authorities have blamed Rohingya militants for the violence.

More than 1 million ethnic Rohingya Muslims have lived in Myanmar for generations. They have been stripped of their citizenship, denied almost all rights and labeled stateless.

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GOP’s not all that sad; party grapples with Alabama fallout fight for the party’s soul was hardly decided with one Alabama special election.

Allies of Bannon, who declared war on the party’s establishment after leaving the White House earlier in the year, dismissed the loss as little more than a temporary setback that would soon be forgotten.

Republicans cheering Moore’s loss, they said, would simply enrage Trump’s most loyal supporters nationwide, who already suspected some Republican leaders were trying to undermine the president’s agenda.

“They’re stomping on the very base they need to turn out for their candidates in the general election in 2018,” said Andy Surabian, a senior adviser to the Bannonbacked Great America PAC. He contended that “the average Republican voter across the country is pointing their finger at Mitch McConnell and the Republican establishment.”

Conservative activist Mark Meckler did just that.

“One hundred percent of this I hang around Mitch McConnell’s neck,” said Meckler, an early tea party leader, referring to the mainstream Republican who is Senate majority leader.

At the same time, the Alabama contest sounded an undeniable alarm for Republican officials charged with defending the party’s majorities in the House and Senate next year. Under the weight of Trump’s historically low approval ratings, Alabama put their concerns on steroids.

“This was a wake-upand-smell-the-coffee moment,” said Steven Law, who leads the Senate

Leadership Fund, which is aligned with Senate GOP leaders. He said Alabama’s election, like recent contests in Virginia and New Jersey, demonstrated “sky-high Democratic enthusiasm.”

“Republicans are going to have to put forward top-quality candidates and run flawless campaigns to win next year even in states that trend Republican,” Law said.

In the shorter term, it’s unclear how the loss will affect the Republicans’ governing agenda.

When Jones is sworn into office — likely in early January — the GOP’s Senate majority will shrink to pinholesized 51-49. That increases pressure on Republicans to push their prized $1.5 trillion tax bill through Congress before lawmakers leave town late this month, a goal they seem likely to achieve.

The narrowing majority gives extra leverage to Republicans like moderate Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who’s extracted leadership promises for

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accompanying legislation shoring up parts of the “Obamacare” health care law. Collins told reporters Wednesday she was confident those promises would be kept.

“All you cynics in the press will have to be eating crow come Dec. 31,” she said.

Yet Republicans cannot abandon their policy priorities after taxes if they hope to generate momentum heading into the midterms, said Tim Phillips, president of the Koch Brothersbacked Americans for Prosperity.

“Taxes are a crucial start, but they’re going to need to do more,” he said. Jones’ victory could complicate the GOP’s goals, Phillips said, particularly “if he goes the partisan resistance route.”

“If he does, then clearly it’s one less vote and it will make things more difficult,” he added.

The GOP already faced an uphill battle for any major legislative achievements in the near term.

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Democrats would oppose any such effort.

Other initiatives, like a huge program to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure, would need 60 Senate votes to succeed. Barring a GOP effort to craft bipartisan bills from the start, it seems unlikely nine Democrats would defect to back a Republicanwritten version with elections on the horizon.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez hailed the Alabama result as a harbinger of what’s to come.

“Last night was not a fluke, it was a message,” he told reporters on a conference call.

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said Shelby, who cast a write-in vote for another Republican and never backed down in his opposition to Moore.

More than 22,000 write-in votes were cast Tuesday, more than the margin of difference between the winner and loser, suggesting many other voters refused to vote for a Democrat but couldn’t accept Moore.

Meanwhile, the former state Supreme Court chief justice said he is waiting for the “final count” in the race.

In a video released by his campaign Wednesday, Moore said that it had been a close race and that some military and provisional ballots had yet to be counted.

Moore said he was waiting for certification of the final vote by the Alabama secretary of state, which is expected to occur sometime between Dec. 26 and Jan. 3.

Unofficial returns show that Democrat Doug Jones defeated Moore by about 20,000 votes or 1.5 percent.

Moore released the message several hours after Jones urged him to “do the right thing” and concede. Moore, who is known for his evangelical politics, called the election a battle for the “heart and soul” of the country Sen.-elect Doug Jones’ stunning Democratic victory marked a major setback for Trump and top political ally Steve Bannon. They had devoted time, resources and political capital to Moore in recent days, even as he faced the allegations of sexual misconduct and espoused views that alienated women, racial minorities, gays and Muslims.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Weary national Republicans breathed a collective sigh of relief on Wednesday, a day after voters knocked out their own party’s scandal-plagued candidate in deep-red Alabama. Yet all is not well in a party confronted with new rounds of infighting and a suddenly shrinking Senate majority heading into next year’s midterm elections.

A semi-humbled President Donald Trump conceded that Roy Moore’s loss was not his preferred outcome.

He said he “would have liked to have had the seat” and an important Senate vote as he and GOP lawmakers scratch for legislative victories.

But he also acknowledged, “A lot of Republicans feel differently.

They feel very happy about the way it turned out.”

Indeed, it was easy to find establishmentminded Republicans — in and out of Washington — who cheered Moore’s loss as the impact of the Alabama stunner echoed throughout the political world.

The prospect of a highprofile Republican senator dogged by sexual misconduct accusations — and an all-but-certain ethics investigation — unnerved a GOP that’s fearful of an albatross on its candidates in next year’s campaigns.

Republican Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said that Moore, a fiery conservative, would have brought a “radioactive” element to the Senate GOP. “I’m relieved and I believe a lot of Republicans are relieved that Roy Moore and some of his people aren’t the face of the Republican Party that I know,”

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The net neutrality rules gave the FCC power to go after companies for business practices that weren’t explicitly banned as well. For example, the Obama FCC said that “zero rating” practices

by AT&T violated net neutrality. The telecom giant exempted

its own video app from cellphone data caps, which would save some consumers money, and said video rivals could pay for the same treatment. Pai’s FCC spiked the effort to go after AT&T, even before it began rolling out a plan to undo the net neutrality rules entirely.

A federal appeals court upheld the rules in 2016 after broadband providers sued.

WHAT TELCOS WANT Big telecom companies hate the stricter regulation that comes with the net neutrality rules and have fought them fiercely in court.

They say the regulations can undermine investment in broadband and introduced

uncertainty about what were acceptable business practices. There were concerns about potential price regulation, even though the FCC had said it won’t set prices for consumer internet service.

WHAT SILICON VALLEY WANTS Internet companies such as Google have strongly backed net neutrality, but many tech firms have been more muted in their activism this year. Netflix, which had been vocal in support of the rules in 2015, said in January that weaker net neutrality wouldn’t hurt it because it’s now too popular with users for broadband providers to interfere.

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YouTube, Facebook and other “platforms” than traditional TV, Smith said.

To combat this trend, Disney is launching new ESPN- and Disneybranded streaming services over the next couple of years. It could beef them up with some of the assets it’s acquiring from Fox, making them exclusive to its services and sharpening its ability to compete with Netflix for consumer dollars.

“The core underlying driver for this deal in our opinion is the impending battle royale for content and streaming services vs. the Netflix machine,” GBH analyst Daniel Ives wrote.

Not everyone thinks this is a good bet by Disney, though. Rich Greenfield, a longtime Disney critic, thinks the deal is a bad idea that ties Disney to older TV-distribution systems — cable and satellite TV — rather than helping it look toward the future.

He also notes that regulators may not like the idea of combining two major movie studios. The Justice Department surprised many in the industry and on Wall Street when it sued to block another media megamerger, AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner, in November.

MURDOCH FAMILY TAKES A BOW Rupert Murdoch built 21st Century Fox and News Corp. out of an inheritance from his father in Australia. He bought a string of papers there, in the U.K. and the U.S., building an influential platform for his views. He expanded into TV and movies, launching the Fox network and Fox News and changing the face of American news and entertainment.

“Rupert has spent many, many years assembling the components of his empire,” said NYU business professor Samuel Craig, who specializes in the entertainment industry.

Rupert Murdoch has ostensibly already handed the reins over to a new generation at Fox. His son James is CEO, while his other son, Lachlan, like Rupert, has the title of executive

chairman.

The Murdoch empire has already been divided. After a phonehacking newspaper scandal in the U.K., News Corp. was split off into a separate company for the publishing and newspaper businesses, which include the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Sun and The Times in the U.K., and book publisher HarperCollins. Now Fox is also being split up as the company sets itself up to deal with the growing power of the tech industry.

“The Murdochs realize they don’t have the same kind of leverage Disney has, the same kind of brand power,” Smith said.

It would be harder to launch a Fox-branded streaming service that attracts lots of the new generation of consumers, for example. Smith said that makes it a great time to sell off the entertainment business.

Fox is also selling to Disney its substantial overseas operations. It is offloading its 39 percent stake in European satellite-TV and broadcaster Sky after running into regulatory roadblocks in the U.K. trying to take over the rest of the company, in part because of how Fox handled the sexual harassment scandal at Fox News. Disney is also acquiring Star India, a major media company with dozens of sports and entertainment channels.

Fox will be left with the live events, news and sports, that are key parts of the traditional TV bundle. There is speculation that the Murdochs would want to recombine what’s the slimmed-down Fox with News Corp.

MIGHTIER MOUSE It’s not clear what Disney will want or be able to include from Fox in its own upcoming services. But it’s possible to make some educated guesses.

The Disney-branded service, expected in 2019, will have classic and upcoming movies from the studio, shows from Disney Channel, and the “Star Wars” and Marvel movies.

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by Republicans in Congress.

Middle- and low-income families would receive smaller tax cuts, though President Donald Trump and Republican leaders have billed the package as a huge benefit for the middle class. The agreement reached Wednesday

by House and Senate GOP leaders also calls for scrapping a major tax requirement of the “Obamacare” health law, a step toward the ultimate GOP goal of unraveling the law.

The agreement combines key elements of separate tax bills recently passed by the House and Senate, striking compromises on some of them. The Republicans are pushing to deliver final legislation to Trump before Christmas as the first major legislative accomplishment of his presidency.

both its live-TV service and the older service with a big library of TV shows.

Disney could continue to add movies and TV shows from Fox’s library to its services, making them more attractive compared with Netflix’s offerings. The combined libraries of the Disney and Fox movie and TV studios could have more titles than Netflix, Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar said.

Buying Fox’s FX networks will add edgy TV shows that complement Disney’s long list of kidfriendly series and films, he said.

Greenfield, however, notes that a lot of programming wouldn’t be immediately available to Disney. Fox movies are exclusive to HBO through 2022, for example.

Disney also plans an ESPN Plus service for next year. It isn’t a duplicate of the ESPN TV network, but it will stream tennis matches along with major-league baseball, hockey and soccer games, as well as college sports. It might be able to add more sports if Disney buys Fox’s 22 local sports networks — cable channels that show popular sports in the viewer’s region.

At the White House, Trump was eager to receive it. “The cynical voices that opposed tax cuts grow smaller and weaker, and the American people grow stronger, he said. “This is for people of middle income, this is for companies that are going to create jobs. This is for very, very special people, the great people of America.”

The business tax cuts would be permanent, but reductions for individuals would expire after a decade — saving money to comply with Senate budget rules.

In all, the bill would cut taxes by about $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years, adding billions to the nation’s mounting debt.

The legislation, still being finalized, would cut the top tax rate for the wealthiest earners — Trump among them — from 39.6 percent to 37 percent, slash the corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent and allow homeowners to deduct interest only on the first $750,000 of a new mortgage.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Disney is buying a large part of the Murdoch family’s 21st Century Fox for about $52.4 billion in stock, including film and television studios and cable and international TV businesses, as it tries to meet competition from technology companies in the entertainment business.

The deal gives Disney film businesses including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox 2000, which together are the homes of Avatar, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool. On the television side, Disney will get Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21, with shows including “The Simpsons” and “Modern Family.”

21st Century Fox shareholders will receive 0.2745 Disney shares for each share they own. The transaction also includes approximately $13.7 billion in debt.

Robert Iger will continue as chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Co. through the end of 2021.

Before the buyout, 21st Century Fox will separate the Fox Broadcasting network and stations, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, FS1, FS2 and Big Ten Network into a newly listed company that will be spun off to its shareholders. That Rupert Murdoch and his sons were willing to sell off much of the business that has been built up over decades came as a shock to the entertainment industry.

The entertainment business is going through big changes. TV doesn’t have a monopoly on home entertainment anymore. There’s Netflix, which is spending up to $8 billion on programming next year. Amazon is building its own library, having splashed out on global TV rights to “Lord of the Rings.”

Facebook, Google and Apple are also investing in video.

As consumers spend more time online, TV’s share of U.S. ad spending is shrinking. Advertisers are following consumer attention to the internet, where Google and Facebook win the vast majority of advertisers’ dollars.

“We’ve been talking about cord cutting for the better part of a decade. But now it’s real,” USC Annenberg communications professor Chris Smith said. The media companies have to compete with the internet giants for consumers’ attention — and the younger generations pay more attention to

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CHARLEVOIX – To help seniors become better selfmanagers of chronic health conditions the Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Michigan, the Charlevoix County Commission on Aging and Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine in conjunction with Partners in Aging Strategies and Training are offering several free Healthy Aging workshops in Northern Michigan.

The first class announced is the free, evidence-based Diabetes PATH Workshop that will take place 9:30 a.m.noon on Monday mornings fro Jan. 8 through Feb.12, at the Boyne City Senior Center. Developed by Stanford University, Diabetes PATH provides information and techniques to cope with the challenges associated with diabetes. The six-session Diabetes PATH workshop is for adults living with pre-diabetes or diabetes and their family caregivers.

Each two and one-half hour session focuses on

self-management tools to manage symptoms like pain, frustration and fatigue, to exercise safely at a pace that right for the individual, to develop healthy eating habits, to make action plans based on individual goals and to help prevent or delay complications.

Through weekly goal-setting activities participants become more active, eat better, and are more confident that they can manage their health. PATH is taught by trained and certified leaders who understand chronic illness and have a personal connection to diabetes.

To achieve the full benefit of Diabetes PATH, participants should plan to attend all six workshops. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Call (800) 4421713 for more information or to register, or register online at www.aaanm.org/ workshop-registration.

Other resources for diabetes education in Northern Michigan can be found at www.nmdiabetes.org.

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PIANO RECITAL First Baptist Church in Petoskey conducted a Christmas piano recital on Tuesday. Students who participated included (front, from left) Samuel Brooks, Quinn Turcott, Callie Carlson, Rowan Koetje, Tula Turcott; (middle) Daniel Keefe, Amelie Mantha, Marial Brooks, Celia Voller, Taylor Keiswetter; (back) Ben Brooks, Gabe Brooks, Sharon Smith, Alex Sweeney and Alex Carlson.

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Lesson schedule is as follows: Tuesday, Jan. 9-Feb. 27: — 3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Preschool Aquatics Level 1 (Puddle Jumpers) — 4:25 p.m.-4:55 p.m. Preschool Aquatics Level 2 (Water Bugs) — 5 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Preschool Aquatics Level 3 (Sea Serpents) — 3:45 p.m.-4:30 p.m. LearnTo-Swim Level 1 — 4:40 p.m.-5:25 p.m. LearnTo-Swim Level 2 Wednesdays, Jan. 10-Feb. 28: — 5:45 p.m.-6:15 p.m. ParentTot Session 1 — 6:15 p.m.-6:45 p.m. ParentTot Session 2 Thursdays, Jan. 11 through March 1: — 3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Preschool Aquatics Level 1 (Puddle Jumpers) — 4:25 p.m.-4:55 p.m. Preschool Aquatics Level 2 (Water Bugs) — 5 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Preschool Aquatics Level 3 (Sea Serpents)

— 3:45 p.m-4:30 p.m. Learn-ToSwim Level 3 — 4:40 p.m.-5:25 p.m. Learn-ToSwim Level 4 Saturdays, Jan. 13 – March 17: — 9 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Preschool Aquatics Level 1 (Puddle Jumpers) — 9:45 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Preschool Aquatics Level 2 (Water Bugs) — 10:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Preschool Aquatics Level 3 (Sea Serpents) — 9 a.m.-9:45 a.m. Learn-ToSwim Level 1 — 10 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Learn-ToSwim Level 2 — 11 a.m.-11:45 a.m.Learn-ToSwim Level 3 — 11:15 a.m.-noon Learn-ToSwim Level 4 — noon-12:45 p.m. Learn-ToSwim Level 5 — 12:15 p.m.-1 p.m. Learn-ToSwim Level 6 No lessons will take place on Jan. 27 or Feb. 17 because of home swim meets.

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Community comes together for Charlevoix Christmas Project JULIE COLLARD Special to the Charlevoix Courier

CHARLEVOIX — For many families, the holidays are a fun and festive time of year with a lot of special things to look forward to. For any family struggling, the holidays can be a very stressful and challenging time.

Rebecca Jeakle, cochair of the Charlevoix Christmas Project, is working hard this season to help take that stress off of those families.

“We know some people are just getting by,” Jeakle said. “The winter means higher heating bills too … it’s a lot.”

Along with her cochair, Mary Everleigh, more than 20 members of a support committee, and numerous people and organizations throughout the Charlevoix community, they are collecting donations and organizing everything to be handed out to local families today, Friday.

“People participate at every level, and on the distribution day it all comes together,” Jeakle said.

Between 125 and 140 Charlevoix families sign up to receive supplies for a holiday meal, food

staples, gifts and warm jackets. Among the local retailers, coat drives and giving trees are being held as an opportunity for people to make donations.

“The Clothing Company has a coat drive, Charlevoix State Bank has a mitten and sock giving tree, and so many people volunteer their time and talents to help make this project a success,” Jeakle said.

The annual coat drive is in full swing. This year’s number of families who have signed up for the program is now at 250, but according to project personnel, will reach 300 by distribution day.

As in past years, Jacque Dipert, owner of the Charlevoix Clothing Company, has helped to obtain the needed winter coats by sponsoring the coat drive with special promotions and advertising. Along with Dipert and her staff, the coat drive has been beneficial in providing the much needed winter coats for the whole family.

People dropped off donated coats at the Clothing Company through Dec. 11.

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Students and volunteers at Charlevoix Elementary tie together fleece blankets to give toward the Charlevoix Christmas Project. ing together to lend a helping hand to those in need during the holiday season, and Jeakle is proud be a part of such an important effort.

“People come back year after year. They are supportive and they tell us what they are doing and get help to us through a pool of volunteers and donors — it’s a great thing.

The level of support we receive is really appreciated,” Jeakle said.

The staff and students at Charlevoix Elemen-

tary are busting with excitement in their fundraising efforts as well. The entire school is raising money with a schoolwide contest to see which class can raise the most money by bringing in extra change to donate, with local sponsors for each grade agreeing to match their donations up to $400.

Second-grade teacher Christopher Isch is helping with the collections.

“The kids have been ecstatic bringing in change

to support such a wonderful cause,” he said. “I have been so impressed with the hearts of our young ones.”

Isch is also organizing Toys for Tots at the school for the second year. Members of the community are welcome to bring in toys or monetary donations directly to the school.

Julie McLean’s thirdgraders at Charlevoix Elementary are donating fleece blankets to give toward the project. Commu-

nity volunteers came in on Dec. 12 to help tie the blankets with the kids.

When they are complete, the warm fleece blankets will be delivered to be given out on distribution day.

Jeakle is excited to see everything come together.

“It’s a good project with a lot of dependable people to help. The biggest thing for me is that we are so appreciative of the support from the community,” she said. “They come and find us, sharing their ideas and offers to promote our cause and offer their help. We are grateful.”

The group is getting all of their goods organized at the Bethany Lutheran Church. Anyone in the community who would like to contribute is welcome to drop by any local store or organization to donate toys, coats or add some cozy items to the sock/mitten/hat giving tree.

For more information about the Christmas Project programs and how to donate your time, or make a contribution, contact co-chairs Mary Everleigh at (231) 5475548, or Rebecca Jeakle at (231) 547-3588.

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REVIEWING THE NEWS 50 YEARS AGO 1967: ‘67 fire loss here sets record The year 1967 is going into the record books as the worst year for fires in total loss since the News-Review started keeping records in 1939.

The estimated $90,000 loss on the Wonderland of Gifts and Toys and Christian Book Store pushes the city’s fire loss total to $294,400 (unofficially) for the year.

Worst previous year in the record books was the $243,267 loss in 1964. That year, on Sunday, Dec. 21, Puff’s Appliance and Russell’s Shoe store were destroyed.

Second highest year in the record books was the year 1952 when during the November deer season Barnum Brothers Fibre Co. was knocked out of production by a huge fire. That year the city’s losses came to $172,690.

Next highest loss year was 1966 and the biggest fire of the year came in August when Hooker’s Laundry burned.

But 1967 has hit Mitchell Street hard. On Sunday, March 5, the Gidley Building caught fire, destroying it as

well as one side of the McLellan Store (now McCrory’s). It also wiped out Clarence Oelke’s dental laboratory; Leroy Reed’s art studio; Great Lakes Cable-TV micro wave center and the Little Traverse Community Theatre rehearsal headquarters. Also destroyed were Petoskey’s street decorations for the Christmas season which were stored in the building.

Several other firms had some smoke and water damage, as did an adjoining apartment.

Final figures are not yet available from underwriters and appraisers on this fire, but unofficial estimates put the loss at $178,000. In February Petoskey had two residences destroyed by fire with an estimated loss of $22,000.

25 YEARS AGO 1992: Liftoff!: Boyne Mountain adds new 6-place chairlift for skiers BOYNE FALLS — Steve Kircher hopes Boyne Mountain’s biggest ski promotion

in years doesn’t turn into his biggest headache.

The opening of the Jillian Mountain Fellows Express — the nation’s first six-place chairlift — could attract Boyne’s largest crowd ever Friday, Dec. 18, through a six-for-one lift ticket special touted in Michigan and Canada.

But there’s a small problem: Hardly half the ski area will be open.

“I’m scared to death,” said Kircher, a Boyne USA Resorts executive.

“If we break attendance records, it’s going to be a logjam out here.”

Two days of rain have stalled snowmaking at one of the Midwest’s most popular ski areas, making it impossible to expand its skiable terrain.

Area manager Alex Campbell expects the Mountain Express and two other lifts will serve skiers on seven runs plus a new rope tow area. If any snowmaking occurs by Friday, it’ll only blanket those slopes.

“We need to put a little

frosting on top of the cake,” Campbell said.

December’s meager snowfall hasn’t helped matters as Northern Michigan ski areas brace for their busiest time of year — the holidays.

Boyne Mountain decided to get a jump on the onslaught of skiers with Friday’s promotion. It distributed 20,000 six-for-one vouchers at ski shops and ski shows in Michigan and Canada this fall.

Kircher figured even if only 5 percent of all vouchers are redeemed Friday, the Mountain will have a record crowd of 6,000 skiers.

“I don’t want to get to the point where you get too many people and we get over our capacity to handle them,” he said. “I hate lift lines personally and we’re doing everything we can to eliminate them.”

Kircher said Boyne Highlands will serve as the Mountain’s “escape valve,” honoring special tickets purchased Friday.

Special events — including live music by Jelly Roll Blues Band in the Civic Center — will be part of Friday’s festivities at the Mountain.

“It’s going to be a party out here,” Kircher said.

Kircher’s father, Everett, prides himself on being a pioneer in the ski industry, especially when it comes to giving skiers a lift.

Kircher christened the nation’s first two-seat chairlift at Boyne Mountain in 1950. He installed the world’s first triple lift at Boyne Highlands in 1963, and followed it up with the first fourseater at the Mountain in 1967.

The next logical step for Boyne was a sixseat lift. Only one other North American ski area — Quebec’s Mount Original — had one.

One visit to Quebec and Boyne’s corporate brass was sold on the idea.

“We knew it was something we had to do,” said Kircher, pointing to the need to consolidate Boyne Mountain’s chairlift system.

The Mountain Express replaced a two-place lift on the McLouth slope.

But the addition of the high-speed Doppelmayr lift boosted the Mountain’s uphill capacity by

10 percent — to nearly 18,000 skiers per hour.

The $2 million Austrian-built lift works almost identically to the four-place Heather Express detachable lift at Boyne Highlands.

Each chair detaches from a main cable and slows on a track to load and unload skiers slowly and safely. Once the chair catches onto the cable away from the terminals, it travels at a speed of about 1,000 feet a minute.

Boarding six people on a lift at once can be tricky, but Boyne Mountain staff hope their loading system will be foolproof.

“We’ll have a series of little lead gates right by the bull wheel and they will open as the chair passes,” Campbell explains. “Everybody will basically be coming in together.”

The trip to the top takes half the time of a conventional lift, meaning skiers can get more runs in during the course of a day.

“I think it’s going to be a great improvement,” Campbell said.

Petoskey school calendar FRIDAY, DEC. 15 6 p.m. JV/ wrestling, away @ Rudyard 8 p.m. V/ hockey, home vs.

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SATURDAY, DEC.16 Madrigal Lunch, Perry Hotel 9:30 a.m. V/ wrestling, away @ Hart 10 a.m. V/ bowling, away @ Sault Ste. Marie 2 p.m. V/ hockey, home vs.

Negaunee 3 p.m. FR/ boys’ basketball, home vs. Zeeland 4:30 p.m. JV/ boys’ basketball, home vs.

Zeeland 6 p.m. V/ boys’ basketball, home vs. Zeeland

MONDAY, DEC.18 4 p.m. MS boys’ basketball, away @ Alpena 5:30PM JV/ girls’ basketball, away @ Kalkaska 7 p.m. V/ girls’ basketball, away @ Kalkaska

TUESDAY, DEC.19 Steel Drum Band Visits the elementary buildings

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20 2:45 p.m. V/ wrestling, away @ Pine River 7 p.m. V/ hockey, away @ Alpena

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FRIDAY, DEC. 22 1/2 day a.m. students/staff 5:30 p.m. FR/JV boys’ basketball, home vs. TC Central 7 p.m. V/ boys’ basketball, home vs. TC Central 7 p.m. V/ hockey, home vs.

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Meetings SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16 The Open Door Christian

Coffee House will take place 7 p.m. every first and third Saturday at the East Jordan Senior Center, 951 Mill Street in East Jordan.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18 The FCEC Painting Group

meets at 12:30 p.m. on Mondays in the multi-purpose room of the Petoskey Friendship Center. For more information, contact the Council on Aging at (231) 347-3211 or (888) 347-0369.

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p.m. Tuesday. The bridge club is located at 2144 Cemetery Road, Petoskey. www. petoskeybridgeclub.com; (231) 881-0829

Genealogy Interest Group meets 3-5 p.m. every third Monday at the Petoskey Library. Bring as much family information as you are able. Each session focuses on a different topic. bmoran0016@aol.com; (231) 675-0987.

the death of a child. All bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents are welcome. (231) 347-5637.

Boyne City Rotary Club

meets 7 a.m. Monday at Robert’s Restaurant in Boyne City.

Charlevoix Lions Club

meets noon Monday at the Weathervane in Charlevoix.

MUG: Mac users group

meets from 5-6:30 p.m. on Mondays to assist each other and trouble-shooting problems at Charlevoix Public Library. This group is led by Wes Anderen, open to the public and always welcomes newcomers.

(231) 237-7340; www.charlevoixlibrary.org.

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Book Talkers meets 6 p.m.

on the third Monday of the month for discussion of new and interesting books at Charlevoix Public Library.

Beth Strawbridge, adult services librarian, facilitates this group. (231) 237-7340.

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The Compassionate Friends meets at 7 pm. the third Monday of each month at The First Presbyterian Church, 501 E. Mitchell Street, Petoskey, Please use Division Street entrance.

The December’s Service is the Annual Candle Ceremony. The Compassionate Friends is a worldwide organization that provides free grief support after

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19 Zen Buddhist Meditation

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Petoskey Kiwanis Club

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voix meets at noon each Tuesday at Stafford’s Weathervane restaurant.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20 LEGO Club ages 5-10, meet at 6 p.m. every first and third Wednesday at Boyne City District Library.

Charlevoix Library

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CHARLEVOIX — The showdown on the mat between Petoskey and Charlevoix turned out to be a comfortable victory for the Northmen in the end.

Petoskey took care of business defeating the Rayders in the final match of a trimeet Wednesday at Charlevoix High School.

“We’re slowly building into a better team,” said Petoskey coaching Nate Gross said. “We have a couple things to work on, but it was good and we’re getting better.”

After both teams took out Frankfort, it set up a winner-take-all match between

the Northmen and the Rayders. However, Petoskey was too much to handle as a team, winning five of the seven matches by pinfall, en route to a 59-12 win.

Six of Petoskey’s wrestlers won both of their matches on the day, including Jaylin Mitchell at 189, Isaac Abram-Craig at 285 and Amanda Spearman at 119. .

Gross said he was impressed with Spearman’s performance, defeating Frankfort’s Austin Moore by pinfall and outlasting Charlevoix’s Mason Fry 1711 for a decision victory.

“It was nice to see Amanda look good tonight,” Gross See NORTHMEN on PAGE B2

JOHANNESBURG — Through their first two Ski Valley Conference games, the Pellston girls’ basketball team put in comeback wins, pulling through in the final quarter.

On Wednesday night, while visiting JohannesburgLewiston, the Hornets tried a different strategy, by coming out strong from Krueger the start.

Though they forgot to close with same kind of fire.

After a 17-7 lead in the first quarter, the Greenman Hornets fell behind at the end of the third and couldn’t find their way back in the fourth, falling 39-33.

The loss moved the Hornets to 2-3 overall and 2-2 in the Ski Valley. JoBurg improved to 3-2 overall and 2-0 in the league.

The Hornets held a 2113 lead at the half, then the Cardinals outscored Pellston 13-4 and 13-3 in the third and fourth quarters, respectively.

Billie Lalonde finished with nine points to lead Pellston, Lydia Greenman and Cammie Kruger each had seven and Joslyn Lalonde had six.

For JoBurg, Tara Madej led with 13 and Brooke McKenney scored nine.

Pellston will next take a break from conference play and welcome Ellsworth on Monday, Dec. 18.

The Pellston junior varsity also took a loss from JoBurg, 48-6.

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Petoskey’s Michael Deady is awarded the victory over Charlevoix’s Seth Migda during Wednesday’s wrestling match.

The Northmen won the meet 59-12.

Expanded ‘Battle of the Fans’ to award Michigan’s top cheering section EAST LANSING (MHSAA) — The Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Student Advisory Council will host its seventh “Battle of the Fans” contest this winter to award the top high school student cheering section in Michigan, and will choose the winner based on an expanded format built to allow for more schools to remain in the running longer and with more opportunities to show how they support their teams in a fun, positive way.

Frankenmuth was named last year’s champion and presented with a banner during the MHSAA Boys Basketball Finals at Michigan State University’s Breslin Center.

Sections from Boyne City, Charlotte, Petoskey and Traverse City West also were finalists.

Schools are invited to submit a short video, via YouTube, of their cheering sections in action. Video submissions should be between See BATTLE on PAGE B3

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The Petoskey student section, a finalist a year ago, is back and as wild as ever and likely to be in the running for ‘Battle of the Fans’ once again this season.

Northern Preps site a one-stop shop for all things basketball Sports fans know the warmest place to be during the cold winter season is a local gym, and the early returns on this season show another list of talented teams and impressive players around the Emmet County, Charlevoix County and Otsego County Area.

Again, the Northern Preps Review team is poised to showcase our region’s boys and girls basketball through its new-and-improved site, northernpreps.com.

There, you will find a plethora of stories, photos and videos on teams playing in the Big North, Lake Michigan, Ski Valley and Northern Lakes conferences. On game nights, the site’s front-page scoreboard feature will allow you to keep track of all the action.

You will also find schedules and rosters for each team,

standings from each conference, and live tweets from our esteemed sports crew, Drew Kochanny, Brandon Folsom

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“I’m a sports junkie, and from a fan’s perspective, this site is everything you’d ever want for following your

favorite teams,” said Jeremy Speer, sports director of the Petoskey News-Review, Gaylord Herald Times and Charlevoix Courier. “Fans in this region are passionate about their teams, and we’ve tried to match that passion by creating a comprehensive and modern-looking site.”

As always, find free sports content by liking Petoskey News-Review Sports or Gaylord Herald Times Sports on Facebook, or by following @DrewKochanny, @GHTSports and @GregWickliffe10 on Twitter.

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Charlevoix’s Mason Fry, top, wrestles Petoskey’s Amanda Spearman. Spearman won the match by pinfall.

NORTHMEN FROM B1 said. “Sometimes, strength stuff is hard for her to work against, but she’s a real worker.”

The Northmen dominated both matches Wednesday, first taking care of Frankfort, 60-18, dropping only one match during the meet.

Petoskey’s nine victories against Frankfort, all came by pin with quick victories coming from Mitchell at 189, Abram-Craig at 285 and Wodek at 130. Each wrestler defeated their Frankfort opponent within the first minute of the match.

The Northmen also saw quality performances from Dawson Gregory at 160, Lucas Buerkel at 152 and Peter Kuburski at 140.

Despite falling to the Northmen, Charlevoix was able to pick up a victory against Frankfort.

The Rayders overcame an 18-0 deficit due to three voids, to win the match 4230.

The match came down to the final 130-pound bout between Charlevoix’s Caleb Kenwabiskie and Frankfort’s Austin Moore.

The Rayders held onto a 36-30 lead and needed Kenwabiskie to hold off Moore to secure the victory in front of the rest of the Charlevoix students.

Kenwabiskie was able to finish off Moore by pinning him in the second period, sending the gym into a frenzy as the Rayders walked away with the victory.

“I was pleased with how we did against Frankfort,” said Charlevoix coach Mike Hinkle.” So far this season, I’m pleased because we have a really inexperienced crew.”

The Rayders were hoping to walk off their home mat with back-to-back victories but the strength of the Northmen proved too much for the young Rayders.

Hinkle took on some of the blame for the Rayders’ loss to Petoskey, saying he could have keep the intensity level up after the team’s win over Frankfort.

“We were flat against Petoskey. They’re a tough team, though,” Hinkle said.

“Some of our kids were a little flat and the layover hurt us. Emotions were running high during the first meet in front of the school and they were a little flat and I probably should’ve done a better job making sure they were revved up for the second match.”

Charlevoix’s star of the day was Eric Staph, who won both of his matches by pins in the 160-weight class.

Chernauckas finished 1-1 on the day, but still impressed Hinkle with his

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Charlevoix’s Jeremy Chernauckas, left, grabs Petoskey’s Lucas Buerkel. Buerkel won the match by a 9-7 decision. ability to battle against Petoskey’s Buerkel, going the distance, falling to Buerkel by a 9-7 decision.

“Jeremy Chernauckas is our senior leader. He did well,” Hinkle said. “(Lucas Buerkel) is a tough kid, and I think Jeremy figured out in the last period, that he could work with him. Lucas is a quality wrestler and Jeremy did well, I just wish he would’ve turned it on a little sooner.”

Petoskey will now send some of its younger wrestlers to the Rudyard Bridge Brawl Friday, while the more experienced starters will head to Hart for an invitational on Saturday.

“It’s been fun,” Gross said of the season. “We still have some holes to fill, but the team is having fun.”

The Rayders will also turn their attention to the Rudyard Brawl, with hopes of improving and eventually becoming good enough to compete to a district title.

“As a team, we’ve set a goal to try and win districts,” Hinkle said. “We would like to get to the state tournament, and it’s going to take us staying eligible and our newer guys are going to have to learn fast, and so far they’ve done that. I’m pleased with how they’re learning and working. If they continued to progress at the same pace, we have a good shot of doing that.”

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Petoskey’s Jaylin Mitchell, bottom, lifts Charlevoix’s Levi Carson off the mat. Mitchell won the match by pinfall.

He’s back: Packers Aaron Rodgers preps to play Panthers AP Sports Writer

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers stayed afloat in the postseason race while hoping for nearly two months that Aaron Rodgers would return.

News that the two-time NFL MVP was cleared medically to come back from a collarbone injury finally arrived Tuesday night, coming a bit later than coach Mike McCarthy hoped — but well worth the wait for the playoff-hopeful Packers.

Rodgers is in line to start

this weekend against the Carolina Panthers.

“The strength and the flexibility came back the quickest,” Rodgers said after practice Wednesday. “It was just waiting on the bone to be ready to play.”

That clearance finally came on Tuesday night. He didn’t want to go into detail about how much his surgically repaired collarbone had healed.

He’s aware of the risks.

“Well, we’ve talked about everything, and I’m confident knowing all the information. That’s why I’m going

GIRLS Big North Conference:

Conference Overall

W L W L T.C. West 1 0 1 3 Petoskey 1 0 1 4 Gaylord 1 1 2 2 Cadillac 1 1 1 3 Alpena 0 1 1 2 T.C. Central 0 1 0 3 Lake Michigan Conference:

Conference Overall

W L W L Kalkaska 1 0 3 0 Harbor Springs 0 0 3 1 Boyne City 0 0 2 1 Charlevoix 0 0 2 1 Elk Rapids 0 0 1 2 Grayling 0 0 1 2 East Jordan 0 1 1 3 T.C. St. Francis 0 0 1 1 Ski Valley Conference:

Conference Overall

W L W L St. Mary 4 0 4 1 JoBurg 2 0 3 2 Bellaire 1 0 3 0 Onaway 1 0 1 1 Pellston 2 2 2 3 Central Lake 0 1 2 1 Mancelona 0 2 1 2 Inland Lakes 0 2 1 3 Forest Area 0 3 1 4 Northern Lakes Conference:

Conference Overall

W L W L Harbor Light 2 0 5 0 Mackinaw City 2 0 4 1 Vanderbilt 1 0 1 0 Ellsworth 1 0 1 3 Boyne Falls 0 1 0 1 Alba 0 1 0 4 Wolverine 0 2 1 2 Alanson 0 2 0 3

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As of Thursday morning BOYS Big North Conference:

Conference Overall

W L W L T.C. Central 2 0 3 0 Petoskey 0 0 2 0 Gaylord 0 0 2 0 T.C. West 0 0 1 1 Alpena 0 1 2 1 Cadillac 0 1 1 1 Lake Michigan Conference:

Conference Overall

W L W L Kalkaska 1 0 3 0 Boyne City 0 0 2 1 Grayling 0 0 2 1 Charlevoix 0 0 1 1 Elk Rapids 0 0 1 2 T.C. St. Francis 0 0 0 2 East Jordan 0 1 0 3 Harbor Springs 0 0 0 0 Ski Valley Conference:

Conference Overall

W L W L Pellston 1 0 3 0 Forest Area 1 1 2 1 Onaway 1 0 1 1 Inland Lakes 0 1 2 1 Mancelona 0 0 1 0 Bellaire 0 0 0 2 JoBurg 0 0 0 1 St. Mary 0 1 1 1 Central Lake 0 0 0 0 Northern Lakes Conference:

Conference Overall

W L W L Ellsworth 1 0 2 0 Harbor Light 1 0 2 0 Mackinaw City 1 0 2 1 Boyne Falls 1 0 1 0 Alba 0 0 0 1 Vanderbilt 0 1 0 1 Wolverine 0 1 0 1 Alanson 0 1 0 2

to play,” Rodgers said.

So it’s back to a normal week of preparation for the quarterback after making what McCarthy had considered great progress in rehab since getting hurt against Minnesota on Oct. 15. At the time, the Packers warned that the injury could have ended Rodgers’ season.

The Packers (7-6) went 3-4 with backup Brett Hundley starting to stay in the playoff race, including a 27-21 victory in overtime last week over Cleveland. They are one of four teams with at least seven wins chasing Atlanta

for the second wild-card berth in the NFC. The path to the playoffs remains tough. But Rodgers’ return gives an emotional boost to a locker room that has already drawn confidence from two straight overtime victories.

“It’s great having him back, but if the decision went the other way, it’s still status quo — we still have to win these next three games,” left tackle David Bakhtiari said.

“But obviously having one of the greatest players in the game right now makes us better as a football team.”

BOYS Player Team Gm Total Tanner Byard Pell 3 77 Seth Mann PHS 2 34 Jordan Williams Pell 3 48 Danny Kolp PHS 2 32 Hunter Malczysnki MC 3 48 Jared Hartman MC 3 46 Joel Wilson PHS 2 26 Blake Cassidy Pell 3 37 James Kersting HL 2 24 Mason Gardner BC 3 34 Josh Carlson Chx 2 22 Robert Martin MC 3 33 Max Vondra BC 3 32 Colin Smith Chx 2 20 Jake Lee PHS 2 19

Avg. 25.7 17.0 16.0 16.0 16.0 15.3 13.0 12.3 12.0 11.3 11.0 11.0 10.6 10.0 9.5

GIRLS Player Tm Gm Total Elise Stuck Chx 3 67 Emma Johnson HL 5 104 Brooke Nguyen AL 3 44 Jayden Weber EJ 4 57 Haley Jones MC 5 69 Mikayla Kersting HL 5 68 Megan Kolp PHS 5 62 Kameryn Hartman MC 5 59 Madi Bezilla HS 4 46 Samantha Somers MC 5 53 Emma Wagner HS 4 38 Sarah Morse MC 5 40 Joslyn Lalonde Pell 5 39 Josie Smith PHS 4 31 Billie Lalonde Pell 5 35

Avg. 22.3 20.8 14.7 14.3 13.8 13.6 12.4 11.8 11.5 10.6 9.5 8.0 7-8 7.8 7.0

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BATTLE FROM B1 90 seconds and three minutes long and explain how that section meets the following contest criteria: positive sportsmanship, student body participation, school spirit, originality of cheers, organization of the group, student section leadership and fun.

The deadline for studentsubmitted video applications is noon Jan. 13.

Nine semifinalists then will be chosen – three each from Class A, Class B and Class C/D – to partake in a two-week challenge where each will be required to complete 10 tasks further showing why they should be chosen as Michigan’s best student section.

From those nine, three finalists then will be selected by the Student Advisory Council and visited on a home game night by MHSAA staff and Advisory Council representatives.

The MHSAA will produce a video of that finalist after each visit, with the champion being selected by the Student Advisory Council based in part on activity on the MHSAA’s social media sites.

This year’s winner will be announced Feb. 23 and recognized March 23 at the Breslin Center.

“Battle of the Fans has enjoyed a great run these first six years and provided plenty of examples that help us teach students statewide how to celebrate school spirit,” said Andy Frushour, MHSAA director of brand management and advisor to the Student Advisory Council. “By

AP Source: Tigers agree to trade Kinsler to Angels

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Boyne City’s student section, a finalist a year ago, continues to be one of the areas best. They put on a Christmas themed night just before the winter break against Cedarville. putting a fresh spin on the contest this winter, we’ll be able to have more schools involved in the competition for a longer period of time, and we’re looking forward to the creativity of our students as they complete these challenges – which will allow us to showcase more of the great work so many are doing to support their classmates not just on one night, but all school year long.”

Rules, directions for submitting videos, plus links

to coverage of finalists from the first six years of the contest can be found on the MHSAA Website at www.mhsaa.com/BOTF This year’s finalist videos, plus the announcement of the 2017-18 winner, will be published on the MHSAA Second Half site at SecondHalf.MHSAA.com The Student Advisory Council is made up of eight seniors and eight juniors, who each serve two-year terms.

The Council acts as the

voice of Michigan’s studentathletes; it serves as a student sounding board for the MHSAA’s Representative Council, assists in planning Sportsmanship Summits, Captains Clinics and other student leadership events; participates in a yearly focus group about the state of high school sports for Michigan State University’s Institute for the Study of Youth Sports and assists with medal ceremonies at MHSAA championship events.

NORTHERN PREPS

Picks OF THE WEEK

South Dakota St. at James Madison Sam Houston St. at North Dakota St. Grambling vs.

North Carolina A&T Troy vs. North Texas Western Kentucky vs.

Georgia St. Boise State vs. Oregon Marshall vs. Colorado State Middle Tenn. vs. Arkansas State Chicago at Detroit New England at Pittsburgh

Drew Kochanny PNR

Brandon Folsom HT

James Madison

Dakota James Madison South State

Sam Houston St.

North Dakota St. North Dakota St. North Dakota St.

North Carolina A&T North Texas

Grambling

Georgia State Oregon Colorado State Arkansas State Detroit Pittsburgh

Troy Western Kentucky Boise State Marshall Arkansas State Detroit New England

Jeremy Speer HT

North Carolina A&T Troy Western Kentucky Oregon Colorado State Arkansas State Detroit New England

Greg Wickliffe PNR James Madison

Grambling Troy Georgia State Oregon Colorado State Middle Tenn.

Detroit New England

Last Week

10-0

6-4

6-4

6-4

Overall

78-62

85-55

93-50

73-47

BOWLING

Petoskey bowlers find success in Rogers City ROGERS CITY — Ethan Crane rolled two games over 200 for the Petoskey boys’ bowling team recently as they earned wins over both Boyne City and Sault Ste. Marie in Rogers City.

In the opener against Sault Ste. Marie, Crane rolled a 204, helping Petoskey to a 25-5 win, then went on to turn in games

of 212 and 186 to help Petoskey to a 20-10 win over Boyne City.

Also for Petoskey against the Sault, John Smetts had games of 194 and 191, Jacob Tripp had a 201 and 168 and Nathan Waldron also had a 222, which came as a high on the day for Petoskey.

Against the Ramblers,

Waldron added a 211 and a 189, Matt Wandrie had a 185; Henry Neumann, 185; and Smetts, 176.

The Petoskey girls’ team split with the Blue Devils in a 15-15 final score, then came up big against Boyne City, winning 28-2.

Mya Hernandez led Petoskey with a 167 and 158 against the Sault. Tatum

Weller also had a 133 and Jayme Seida had a 130.

For Hernandez against the Ramblers, final scores came in 197 and 213. Weller also added a 132.

Both Petoskey teams will next head to Dondee Lanes in Sault Ste. Marie for a match on Saturday, Dec. 16, with both varsity and junior varsity competition.

DETROIT (AP) — A person with knowledge of the deal says the Detroit Tigers have agreed to trade veteran second baseman Ian Kinsler to the Los Angeles Angels for two minor leaguers.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday night because the deal hadn’t been announced. Detroit receives 18-year-old right-hander Wilkel Hernandez and 23-year-old outfielder Troy Montgomery.

The 35-year-old Kinsler hit .236 with 22 home runs and 52 RBIs last season, but the rebuilding Tigers no longer need him. Kinsler spent four years with Detroit after being acquired from Texas in a trade for Prince Fielder, and he was generally productive, although his batting average dipped to a career low in 2017.

This is shaping up to be a busy offseason for the Angels, who landed Japanese star Shohei Ohtani.

Winter sports schedule Friday, Dec. 15 BOYS BASKETBALL T.C. Christian at Harbor Springs, 7:30 p.m.

Mackinaw City at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.

Boyne Falls at Wolverine, 7:30 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Alanson at Ellsworth, 7:30 p.m.

Mackinaw City at Vanderbilt, 7:30 p.m.

Boyne Falls at Wolverine, 7: 30 p.m.

HOCKEY Dearborn at Petoskey, 8 p.m.

WRESTLING Boyne City, Charlevoix at Rudyard Bridge Brawl, 10 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 16 BOYS BASKETBALL Zeeland East at Petoskey, 6 p.m.

HOCKEY Negaunee at Petoskey, 2 p.m.

WRESTLING Petoskey Tri-Meet at Hart, 10 a.m.

Monday, Dec. 18 GIRLS BASKETBALL Petoskey at Kalkaska, 7 p.m.

Ellsworth at Pellston, 7 p.m.

Kinross Maplewood Baptist at Mackinaw City, 6 p.m.

Alanson at Brimley, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 19 BOYS BASKETBALL Boyne City at Harbor Springs, 7 p.m.

Charlevoix at Grayling, 7 p.m.

Pellston at St. Ignace, 7 p.m.

Brimley at Mackinaw City, 6 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Harbor Springs at Boyne City, 7 p.m.

Grayling at Charlevoix, 7 p.m.

Traverse City Home School at Harbor Light, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 20 GIRLS BASKETBALL Grand Traverse Academy at Boyne Falls, 6 p.m.

HOCKEY Petoskey at Alpena, 7 p.m.

WRESTLING Petoskey at Pine River, 2:45 p.m.

LMC Quad at Charlevoix, 5 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 21 BOYS BASKETBALL Boyne City at St. Ignace, 7 p.m.

East Jordan at Cheboygan, 7:15 p.m.

Pellston at JoBurg, 7 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Petoskey at Gaylord, 7 p.m.

Cheboygan at East Jordan, 7 p.m.

BASEBALL

Need bobbleheads or Diamond Dust? Meetings show is way to go MARK DIDTLER Associated Press

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Major league general managers came to Disney World this week looking for players at the

winter meetings. Minor league GMs found themselves searching for deals, too, stocking up on bobbleheads, outfield padding and all sorts of items for next season.

Need some Diamond

Dust to dry the infield following a summer rain? No problem. A batting cage, or a video scoreboard or even someone to design a stadium? Easy.

Hundreds of booths were open for business

at the Baseball Trade Show, a subterranean warehouse one floor below the hotel lobby where baseball executives from all pro levels gathered.

“It is like an all-youeat buffet of promotions

items, staff apparel, gear, mascot costume dealers,” Class A Tampa Tarpons general manager Vance Smith said Wednesday. “It’s one-stop shopping for minor league operators.”

Smith kept coming back, looking all three days. He had a good reason: On Monday, his New York Yankees affiliate in the Florida State League changed its name from Yankees to Tarpons.

SPORTS

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NBA Glance

TV Schedule FRIDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL 8 p.m. FS1 — Md.-Eastern Shore at Creighton COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA playoffs, Division III championship, Mount Union vs. Mary HardinBaylor, at Salem, Va. 8 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA FCS playoffs, first semifinal, Sam Houston State at North Dakota State GOLF Midnight (Saturday) GOLF — Asian Tour, Indonesian Masters, third round, at Jakarta, Indonesia NHL HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. FSD — Toronto at Detroit HOCKEY 10 p.m. NBCSN — Women, Canada at United States, at San Jose, Calif.

NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. FSD+ — Detroit at Indiana 7 p.m. ESPN — Oklahoma City at Philadelphia 9:30 p.m. ESPN — San Antonio at Houston SOCCER 2:20 p.m. FS2 — Bundesliga, Borussia Monchengladbach vs. Hamburg WINTER SPORTS 4 p.m. NBCSN — U.S. Olympic Trials: Curling, mixed doubles (round-robin), at Blaine, Minn.

8:30 p.m. NBCSN — U.S. Olympic Team Trials: Speed Skating, short track (men’s & women’s 1,500m), at Kearns, Utah

SATURDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noon BTN — Seton Hall at Rutgers Noon CBSSN — Miami at George Washington Noon ESPN2 — Memphis vs. Louisville, at New York Noon ESPNU — Michigan vs. Detroit, at Little Caesars Arena Noon FOX — Butler vs. Purdue, at Indianapolis 12:30 p.m. CBS — Syracuse at Georgetown 1 p.m. SEC — Stephen F. Austin at LSU 2 p.m. BTN — Drake vs. Iowa, at Des Moines, Iowa 2 p.m. ESPN2 — Virginia Tech at Kentucky 2 p.m. FS1 — Northwestern at DePaul 2 p.m. FS2 — Oklahoma St. vs. Florida St., at Sunrise, Fla. 2 p.m. FSN — East Tennessee St. at Xavier 2:30 p.m. ESPNU — Michigan St. vs. Oakland, at Detroit 2:30 p.m. FOX — Notre Dame vs. Indiana, at Indianapolis 3 p.m. NBCSN — Georgia at UMass 3:30 p.m. CBS — Cincinnati at UCLA 3:30 p.m. SEC — Illinois St. at Mississippi 4 p.m. ESPN2 — Oklahoma vs. Wichita St., at INTRUST Bank Arena 4:30 p.m. FS2 — Clemson vs. Florida, at Sunrise, Fla. 6 p.m. BTN — Appalachian St. at Ohio St. 6 p.m. CBSSN — Oregon at Fresno St. 6 p.m. SEC — Middle Tennessee vs. Auburn, at Birmingham, Ala. 8 p.m. BTN — New Mexico St. vs. Illinois, at Chicago 8 p.m. CBSSN — Arizona at New Mexico 8 p.m. FS1 — Kansas at Nebraska 8:30 p.m. SEC — North Florida at Missouri 11 p.m. ESPN2 — Utah at BYU COLLEGE FOOTBALL Noon ABC — Celebration Bowl, NC A&T vs.

Grambling St., at Atlanta 1 p.m. ESPN — New Orleans Bowl, Troy vs. North Texas, at New Orleans 2:30 p.m. CBSSN — Cure Bowl, Georgia St. vs. W. Kentucky, at Orlando, Fla. 3:30 p.m. ABC — Las Vegas Bowl, Boise St. vs.

Oregon, at Las Vegas 4:30 p.m. ESPN — New Mexico Bowl, Marshall vs.

Colorado St., at Albuquerque, N.m.

4:30 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA FCS playoffs, second semifinal, South Dakota State at James Madison 6 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA playoffs, Division II championship, West Florida vs. Texas A&MCommerce, at Kansas City, Kan. 8 p.m. ESPN — Camellia Bowl, Middle Tennessee vs.

Arkansas St., at Montgomery, Ala. COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Women, NCAA Tournament, championship, at Kansas City, Mo. GOLF 11 a.m. GOLF — PNC Father/Son Challenge, first round, at Orlando, Fla. 4 p.m. NBC — PNC Father/Son Challenge, first round, at Orlando, Fla.

10 p.m. GOLF — Asian Tour, Indonesian Masters, final round, at Jakarta, Indonesia MIXED MARTIAL ARTS 5 p.m. FS1 — UFC Fight Night, prelims, at Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 p.m. FOX — UFC Fight Night, Robbie Lawler vs.

Rafael Dos Anjos, at Winnipeg, Manitoba NBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. NBA — Oklahoma City at New York NFL FOOTBALL 4:30 p.m. NFL — Chicago at Detroit 8:25 p.m. NFL — L.A. Chargers at Kansas City NHL HOCKEY 7 p.m. NBCSN — NHL 100 Classic, Montreal vs.

Ottawa, at Lansdowne Park, at Ottawa, Ontario SKIING 5 p.m. NBCSN — FIS World Cup, Women’s Downhill, at Val d’Isere, France (same-day tape) 6 p.m. NBCSN — FIS World Cup, Men’s Downhill, at Val Gardena/Groeden, Italy (same-day tape) SOCCER 7:30 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Leicester City vs. Crystal City 9:30 a.m. FS1 — Bundesliga, Stuttgart vs. Bayern Munich 9:30 a.m. FS2 — Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt vs.

Schalke 10 a.m. CNBC — Premier League, Chelesa vs.

Southampton 10 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, teams TBA 11:50 a.m. FS2 — Bundesliga, Leipzig vs. Hertha Berlin 12:30 p.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Manchester City vs. Tottenham WINTER SPORTS 2:30 p.m. NBC — U.S. Olympic Team Trials: Speed Skating, short track (men’s & women’s 500m), at Kearns, Utah 10 p.m. NBCSN — U.S. Olympic Trials: Curling, semifinals, at Blaine, Minn.

SUNDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL 2:30 p.m. FS1 — Stony Brook at Providence 3 p.m. ESPN — North Carolina at Tennessee 4 p.m. ESPNU — Florida A&M at Georgia Tech 4:30 p.m. FS1 — Iona at St. John’s 6 p.m. ESPNU — San Francisco at Stanford GOLF 11 a.m. GOLF — PNC Father/Son Challenge, final round, at Orlando, Fla. 3 p.m. NBC — PNC Father/Son Challenge, final round, at Orlando, Fla. NFL FOOTBALL 1 p.m. CBS — Cincinnati at Minnesota 1 p.m. FOX — Green Bay at Carolina 4:25 p.m. CBS — New England at Pittsburgh 8:20 p.m. NBC — Dallas at Oakland NBA BASKETBALL 4 p.m. FSD — Orlando at Detroit POKER 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Global Casino Championship, Part 1, at Cherokee, N.C. 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Global Casino Championship, Part 2, at Cherokee, N.C. SKIING 6 p.m. NBCSN — FIS World Cup, Women’s Super G, at Val d’Isere, France (same-day tape) SOCCER 9:15 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, West Bromwich Albion vs. Manchester United 9:30 a.m. FS1 — Bundesliga, Hannover vs. Bayer Leverkusen 11:30 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Bournemouth vs. Liverpool WINTER SPORTS 1 p.m. NBC — U.S. Olympic Team Trials: Speed Skating, short track (men’s & women’s 1,000m), at Kearns, Utah 4 p.m. NBCSN — U.S. Olympic Trials: Curling, mixed doubles final, at Blaine, Minn.

7 p.m. NBCSN — Luge, FIL Viessmann World Cup, Men, at Lake Placid, N.Y. (taped) WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noon BTN — E. Washington at Purdue 12:30 p.m. FS1 — Florida St. at Texas 1 p.m. SEC — Georgia Tech at Georgia 3 p.m. SEC — Louisville at Kentucky 4 p.m. ESPN2 — Ohio St. at Cincinnati

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Boston 24 6 .800 — Toronto 18 8 .692 4 New York 14 13 .519 8½ Philadelphia 14 13 .519 8½ Brooklyn 11 15 .423 11 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Washington 15 13 .536 — Miami 13 14 .481 1½ Charlotte 10 16 .385 4 Orlando 11 18 .379 4½ Atlanta 6 21 .222 8½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 20 8 .714 — Milwaukee 15 11 .577 4 Indiana 16 12 .571 4 Detroit 14 13 .519 5½ Chicago 7 20 .259 12½

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Houston 21 4 .840 — San Antonio 19 9 .679 3½ New Orleans 15 14 .517 8 Memphis 8 20 .286 14½ Dallas 8 20 .286 14½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Minnesota 16 12 .571 — Denver 15 13 .536 1 Portland 14 13 .519 1½ Oklahoma City 13 14 .481 2½ Utah 13 15 .464 3 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 22 6 .786 — L.A. Clippers 11 15 .423 10 L.A. Lakers 10 16 .385 11 Sacramento 9 18 .333 12½ Phoenix 9 21 .300 14

NFL Glance AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF New England 10 3 0 .769 368 Buffalo 7 6 0 .538 240 Miami 6 7 0 .462 236 N.Y. Jets 5 8 0 .385 266 South

W L T Pct PF Jacksonville 9 4 0 .692 329 Tennessee 8 5 0 .615 273 Houston 4 9 0 .308 312 Indianapolis 3 10 0 .231 212 North

W L T Pct PF y-Pittsburgh 11 2 0 .846 320 Baltimore 7 6 0 .538 318 Cincinnati 5 8 0 .385 226 Cleveland 0 13 0 .000 197 West

W L T Pct PF Kansas City 7 6 0 .538 329 L.A. Chargers 7 6 0 .538 298 Oakland 6 7 0 .462 264 Denver 4 9 0 .308 229 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF y-Philadelphia 11 2 0 .846 404 Dallas 7 6 0 .538 316 Washington 5 8 0 .385 285 N.Y. Giants 2 11 0 .154 199 South

W L T Pct PF New Orleans 9 4 0 .692 370 Carolina 9 4 0 .692 300 Atlanta 8 5 0 .615 294 Tampa Bay 4 9 0 .308 264 North

W L T Pct PF Minnesota 10 3 0 .769 309 Detroit 7 6 0 .538 338 Green Bay 7 6 0 .538 285 Chicago 4 9 0 .308 224 West

W L T Pct PF L.A. Rams 9 4 0 .692 396 Seattle 8 5 0 .615 314 Arizona 6 7 0 .462 231 San Francisco 3 10 0 .231 228 y-clinched division

PA 250 290 318 311 PA 202 294 335 343 PA 251 246 271 335 PA 289 225 304 315

PA 250 294 344 321 PA 263 262 261 312 PA 235 329 302 274 PA 265 252 317 314

WCHA Glance Overall

W L T SW Pts GF GA W L T Bowling Green 7 2 5 2 28 38 31 8 5 6 Minnesota St. 9 3 0 0 27 50 28 11 5 0 Michigan Tech 6 6 4 1 23 46 44 8 7 4 N. Michigan 6 4 2 2 22 29 26 8 8 2 Ferris St. 6 5 1 0 19 33 30 9 10 1 Ala.-Huntsville 5 5 2 1 18 37 37 6 10 2 Alaska 5 8 1 1 17 41 45 7 11 2 Bemidji St. 2 4 4 2 12 28 32 5 6 5 Lake Superior St. 3 7 2 0 11 27 43 4 11 3 Alaska Anchorage 1 6 3 3 9 20 33 1 11 4

Big Ten Glance

Overall

W L T SW Pts GF GA W L T Notre Dame 10 0 0 0 30 33 13 16 3 1 Ohio St. 5 4 1 0 16 27 26 10 4 4 Penn St. 4 4 2 1 15 34 31 11 7 2 Minnesota 4 7 1 1 14 35 37 10 9 1 Wisconsin 4 5 1 0 13 33 33 10 9 2 Michigan 3 5 2 1 12 34 41 7 7 2 Michigan St. 2 7 1 1 8 16 31 8 9 1

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NHL Glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Tampa Bay 30 22 6 2 46 113 Toronto 32 20 11 1 41 108 Boston 28 15 9 4 34 81 Montreal 31 13 14 4 30 85 Florida 31 12 14 5 29 92 Detroit 31 11 13 7 29 83 Ottawa 30 10 13 7 27 82 Buffalo 31 8 17 6 22 67 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Columbus 31 19 11 1 39 88 Washington 32 19 12 1 39 100 New Jersey 30 17 9 4 38 94 N.Y. Islanders 31 17 11 3 37 110 N.Y. Rangers 31 16 12 3 35 101 Pittsburgh 32 16 13 3 35 94 Philadelphia 30 12 11 7 31 87 Carolina 30 12 11 7 31 83

GA 74 92 77 99 108 102 103 104 GA 80 93 92 105 92 104 88 93

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 32 21 9 2 44 104 81 Winnipeg 31 18 8 5 41 107 87 Nashville 29 18 7 4 40 95 84 Dallas 32 18 13 1 37 96 92 Minnesota 30 16 11 3 35 89 88 Chicago 31 15 11 5 35 93 84 Colorado 30 14 14 2 30 94 100 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 32 20 9 3 43 98 73 Vegas 30 19 9 2 40 105 94 San Jose 29 16 10 3 35 79 69 Calgary 31 16 12 3 35 89 96 Anaheim 31 13 11 7 33 83 91 Vancouver 31 14 13 4 32 82 90 Edmonton 31 13 16 2 28 93 101 Arizona 33 7 21 5 19 75 114 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

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As Olympics near, South Korea agonizes over post-Games costs GANGNEUNG, South Korea — South Korean officials have ruled out turning a state-of-the-art Olympic skating arena into a giant seafood freezer. Other than that, not much is certain about the country’s postWinter Games plans for a host of expensive venues.

As officials prepare for the games in and around the small mountain town of Pyeongchang, there are lingering worries over the huge financial burden facing one of the nation’s poorest regions.

Local officials hope that the Games will provide a badly needed economic boost by marking the area as a world-class tourist destination.

But past experience shows that hosts who justified their Olympics with expectations of financial windfalls were often left deeply disappointed when the fanfare ended.

This isn’t lost on Gangwon province, which governs Pyeongchang and nearby Gangneung, a seaside city that will host Olympic skating and hockey events. Officials there are trying hard to persuade the national government to pay to maintain new stadiums that will have little use once the athletes leave. Seoul, however, is so far balking at the idea.

The Olympics, which begin Feb. 9, will cost South Korea about 14 trillion won ($12.9 billion), much more than the 8 to 9 trillion won ($7 to 8 billion) the country projected as the overall cost when Pyeongchang won the bid in 2011.

Worries over costs have cast a shadow over the games among residents long frustrated with what they say were decades of neglect in a region that doesn’t have much going on other than domestic tourism and fisheries.

“What good will a nicely managed global event really do for residents when we are struggling so much to make ends meet?” said Lee Do-sung, a Gangneung restaurant owner. “What will the games even leave? Maybe only debt.”

TEARING THINGS DOWN The atmosphere was starkly different three decades ago when grand preparations for the 1988 Seoul Summer Games essentially shaped the capital into the modern metropolis it is today.

A massive sports complex and huge public parks emerged alongside the city’s Han River. Next came new highways, bridges and subway lines. Forests of high-rise buildings rose above the bulldozed ruins of old commercial districts and slums.

The legacy of the country’s second Olympics will be less clear. In a country that cares much less now about the recognition that large sporting events bring, it will potentially be remembered more for things dismantled than built.

Pyeongchang’s picturesque Olympic Stadium — a pentagonal 35,000-seat arena that sits in a county of 40,000 people — will only be used for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and Paralympics before workers tear it down.

A scenic downhill course in nearby Jeongseon will also be demolished after the games to restore the area to its natural state. Fierce criticism by environmentalists over the venue being built on a pristine forest

sacred to locals caused construction delays that nearly forced preOlympic test events to be postponed.

Gangwon officials want the national government to share costs for rebuilding the forest, which could be as much as 102 billion won ($95 million).

spending an estimated $10.5 billion for the 1998 Winter Games.

Some Olympic venues have proved to be too

costly to maintain. The $100 million luge and bobsled track built in Turin for the 2006 games was later dismantled be-

cause of high operating costs. Pyeongchang will be only the second Olympic host to dismantle its ceremonial Olympic

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Winter sports facilities are often harder to maintain than summer ones because of the higher costs for maintaining ice and snow and the usually smaller number of people they attract.

That’s especially true in South Korea, which doesn’t have a strong winter sports culture.

Not all ideas are welcome.

Gangwon officials say they never seriously considered a proposal to convert the 8,000-seat Gangneung Oval, the Olympic speed skating venue, into a refrigerated warehouse for seafood. Officials were unwilling to have frozen fish as part of their Olympic legacy.

Gangwon officials also dismissed a theme park developer’s suggestion to make the stadium a gambling venue where people place bets on skating races, citing the country’s strict laws and largely negative view of gambling.

A plan to have the 10,000-capacity Gangneung Hockey Center host a corporate league hockey team fell apart.

Even worse off are Pyeongchang’s bobsleigh track, ski jump hill and the biathlon and crosscountry skiing venues, which were built for sports South Koreans are largely uninterested in.

After its final inspection visit in August, the International Olympic Committee warned Pyeongchang’s organizers that they risked creating white elephants from Olympic venues, though it didn’t offer specific suggestions for what to do differently.

Cautionary tales come from Athens, which was left with a slew of abandoned stadiums after the 2004 Summer Games that some say contributed to Greece’s financial meltdown and Nagano, the Japanese town that never got the tourism bump it expected after

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s Christmas draws nearer, ‘tis the season to be gingerbread.

The sweet-andspicy treat flavored by a lumpy little root is a big hit in the fall and winter, and you can find it in everything from cookies, coffee to edible construction projects, better known as gingerbread houses.

Now, you can even buy gingerbread-scented mascara or even dog shampoo, you know, for those of us who can’t simply get enough of it.

With the abundance of gingerbread around us this time of year, I grew to wonder where the idea came from anyway?

Well, according to “The Gingerbread Book” and by author Steven Stellingwerf, gingerbread may have been introduced to Western Europe by 11th-century crusaders returning from the eastern Mediterranean.

Its exact origin is murky, although it is clear ginger itself originates in Asia.

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The book also states gingerbread was a favorite treat at festivals and fairs in medieval Europe — often shaped and decorated to look like flowers, birds, animals or even armor — and several cities in France and England hosted regular “gingerbread fairs” for centuries.

Ladies often gave their favorite knights a piece of gingerbread for good luck in

a tournament, or superstitiously ate a “gingerbread husband” to improve their chances of landing the real thing.

According to an article published on Smithsonian.com, by 1958 gingerbread was popular enough to merit a mention in a Shakespeare play (”An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy ginger-break...”). Some

even considered it medicine as 16th-century writer John Baret described gingerbread as “A Kinde of cake or paste made to comfort the stomacke.”

The meaning of the word gingerbread has also been reshaped over the centuries, Stellingwerf noted. In medieval England, it referred to any kind of preserved ginger which in turn came from the

spice’s Latin name, zingebar.

The term became associated with ginger-flavored cakes sometime in the 15th century.

In Germany, gingerbread cookies called “Lebkuchen” have long been a fixture at street festivals, often in the shape of hearts frosted with sugary messages.

Here in the U.S., we’ve been baking gingerbread for more than 200 years. Even George Washington’s mother gets credit for one recipe in shapes which ranged from miniature kings to eagles.

According to “The New Food Lover’s Companion”, gingerbread generally refers to one of two desserts. It can be a dense, ginger-spiced cookie flavored with molasses or honey and cut int fanciful shapes such as the popular gingerbread man.

Or, particularly in the U.S., it can describe a dark, moist cake flavored with molasses, ginger and other spices.

See below for a tasty looking gingerbread cookie recipe I discovered at the Food Network’s website which will help you get ready for the holidays.

Gingerbread cookies 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly milled black pepper 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1/4 cup vegetable shortening, at room temperature 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar 2/3 cup unsulfured molasses 1 large egg

Royal icing 1 pound (4 1/2 cups) confectioners’ sugar 2 tablespoons dried egg-white powder 6 tablespoons water Position the racks in the top and bottom thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sift the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, salt and pepper through a wire sieve into a medium bowl. Set aside.

In a large bowl, using a hand-held electric mixer at high speed, beat the butter and vegetable shortening until well-combined, about 1 minute.

Add the brown sugar and beat until the mixture is light in texture and color, about 2 minutes. Beat in the molasses and egg. Using a wooden spoon, gradually mix in the flour mixture to make a stiff dough. Divide the dough into two thick disks and wrap each disk in plastic wrap.

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Refrigerate until chilled, about 3 hours. (The dough can be prepared up to 2 days ahead.)

To roll out the cookies, work with one disk at a time, keeping the other disk refrigerated. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and let stand at room temperature until just warm enough to roll out without cracking, about 10 minutes. (If the dough has been chilled for longer than 3 hours, it may need a few more minutes.)

Place the dough on a lightly floured work surface and sprinkle the top

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Using cookie cutters, cut out the cookies and transfer to nonstick cookie sheets, placing the cookies 1 inch apart. Gently knead the scraps together and form into another disk.

Wrap and chill for 5 minutes before

rolling out again to cut out more cookies.

Bake, switching the positions of the cookies from top to bottom and back to front halfway through baking, until the edges of the cookies are set and crisp, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on the sheets for 2 minutes, then transfer to wire cake racks to cool completely. Decorate with Royal Icing. (The cookies can be prepared up to 1 week ahead, stored in airtight containers at room temperature.)

Kellogg bets that bigger cereal cafe can generate buzz Associated Press

BATTLE CREEK — Kellogg Co. is hoping that Instagram-obsessed millennials can help make cereal cool again.

The food giant, struggling to break out of a four-year sales slump, is opening a cavernous new cereal cafe in Manhattan’s Union Square – doubling down on a concept that it started in Times Square last year.

The cafe will be about fives times larger and feature an Instagram station with props and professional lighting, designed to help customers perfect their social-media posts.

There’s a full cereal bar, giant murals of Kellogg characters like Tony the Tiger, a station to heat up Pop-Tarts and a special iron to cook fresh Eggo waffles.

“We want cereal to be seen as modern,” said Aleta Chase, a market-

ing executive at the Battle Creek-based company.

That’s no easy task.

Many consumers view breakfast cereal as too sugary and processed – attitudes that have dragged down the industry’s sales for five straight years. Cereal is projected to finish 2017 down 1.6 percent, according to Euromonitor International.

As the world’s biggest cereal maker, Kellogg has suffered the brunt

of the downturn. Sales of Special K, one of its top brands, have slipped 26 percent since 2012.

Kellogg has argued that cereal declines are easing as younger customers embrace it as an all-hours snack. But the turnaround has been elusive, and the cafe in Union Square is an attempt to generate some foodie buzz. In fact, it was the slew of pictures posted by visitors to the Times Square location that helped convince

the company it needed a bigger space.

“We needed something that was more experiential,” Chase said.

“There’s a more lasting emotional connection if they experience it firsthand – that’s hard to do with a TV commercial.”

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Star Wars cast reflects on Carrie Fisher’s, Leia’s legacy LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrie Fisher may have been the “madcap Auntie Mame” to Mark Hamill’s “square” homebody, but despite their differences, the Star Wars siblings got along famously right till the end.

While both skyrocketed to celebrity with their Star Wars roles in 1977 and remained inextricably linked through their on-screen family, Hamill says he missed a lot of Fisher’s life — during “the Bryan Lourd years” and when her daughter Billie Lourd was an infant. That’s why, even before her untimely death last year, he felt especially grateful to just get to spend time with his friend during the filming of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

“I’d see her periodically during charity events or when there were Star Wars celebrations and so forth. But this was the first time where we could really hang and enjoy each other. Even if I wasn’t shooting I was coming in for stunt training and this or that, hair tests, coming into her trailer and hanging out with her and (her dog) Gary,” Hamill said. “There was a comfort level we’d developed over all these years. She knew me. She knew I hadn’t really changed. She knew I wasn’t out to get something.”

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loved by all in the cast, both for who she was and what the character of Leia meant to them. Her death at age 60 came after filming had finished and deep into post-production, but presented a bit of a conundrum for the filmmakers who had anticipated Leia being part of the next film too.

“The Last Jedi” writerdirector Rian Johnson said he ultimately didn’t end up changing anything about her role in this installment, which is the eighth in the Star Wars films about the lives and adventures of the Skywalker clan. That’ll be something J.J. Abrams will have to grapple with in Episode IX, in which Fisher was meant to have a much more prominent role.

“We’ll have to find a way to give her closure in IX, but we’ll never be able to replace her,” Hamill said.

Although no one can talk

about exactly what Leia’s arc entails in “The Last Jedi,” out today, Johnson expects it will be an emotional experience.

“She is so good in it,” Johnson said. “I always think about the fans who didn’t know her in real life and grew up watching her and it’s like they’re all going through their own type of loss. It’s really going to be emotional for people who she means something to see this. I hope it’ll be good. I hope it’ll mean something to them.”

Many in the cast speak almost interchangeably about the feisty princess turned general and the unapologetic boldness of Hollywood royalty who embodied her. The women in particular recall being deeply affected by the Leia character when they were young.

“I truly remember thinking ‘She’s different. She’s not like all the rest,’” Gwendoline Christie said of seeing Leia for the first time when she was 6 or 7-years-old. “I’m thinking, ‘I want to be like her.’”

But it was Fisher’s extraordinary persona that was top of mind of everyone.

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People in galaxies far, far away and nearby are still excited about the franchise that started in 1977. The staff of the Northern Michigan Review, the parent company of the Petoskey News-Review, Gaylord Herald Times and Charlevoix Courier, shared their favorite Star Wars character.

Jeremy McBain, executive editor Darth Vader. Because ultimately Star Wars is a redemption story about Vader, an imposing figure, who was trying to do what he thought was right — bringing order and safety to the galaxy.

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Wild Game Wine Dinner set for Dec. 22 PETOSKEY - A region marked by local gamesmen, it is common to enjoy venison at home, though wild game with a sophisticated flare is a little more rare. That’s why City Park Grill in Petoskey maintains an annual Wild Game Wine Dinner tradition; this year on Friday, Dec. 22 – an ideal evening to kickoff the holiday week.

Perfect for the culmination of deer season, the dinner will feature northern Michigan game with “a bit of sophistication,” said executive chef John Norman. “We are featuring unique preparation twists for the northern Michigan game lovers to enjoy with tips for trying at home.”

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Apple Raisin Tart will be paired with wines from Sonoma County’s Wild Hog Vineyard. Travis Tasche from Woodberry Wines will guide guests through each of the four courses.

City Park Grill, a Wineguys Restaurant Group property, “was instrumental in developing the wine dinner concept more than 20 years ago,” said Bob Keedy, Wineguys Restaurant Group partner. “We love to introduce guests to wines that pair well with our housemade cuisine. And this dinner also provides guests with ideas for cooking at home after hunting season.”

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Fisher made newcomer Kelly Marie Tran realize, “How much courage it takes to be yourself when you’re on a public platform.”

“She was so unapologetic and openly herself,” Tran said. “She will always be an icon as Leia but also as Carrie. What an example. I am so fortunate to have met her.”

But Fisher’s famed frankness and spirit was only one part of a complex person, according to Hamill, who, after 40 years of knowing her got to see the nuance.

“As tough as she was and as venomous as her wit could be, she was really vulnerable in a way. Even though we weren’t really brother and sister there was sort of a protectiveness I felt.

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“When I get mad and selfish and think, ‘Darn-it Carrie, your timing used to be perfect, why now?’

You have to say, ‘At least we have that. We should be grateful for the time we had with her.’ And I do know one thing: She would want us to be laughing and happy, not morose and depressed over her not being around anymore.”

My favorite Star Wars character is Princess Leia Organa because her hair reminds me of giant cinnamon buns from Johan’s Pastry Shop. Mmmm, giant cinnamon buns!

Jeremy Speer, editor of the Gaylord Herald Times I’m not a huge Star Wars guy, but I’ve always appreciated the wisdom of Yoda. I think wisdom is something we all should look for these days.

Plus, he has a distinctive speech pattern and look.

Will Perkins, reporter for the Gaylord Herald Times I probably went through phases of Anakin and Luke being my favorites, but I think it’s tough to beat the understated awesomeness of Obi-Wan (Kenobi). He gets the job done while still carrying himself with quiet dignity and grace under pressure. Classy at all times. I want to be him when I grow up. Plus, performance-wise, Alec Guinness was a legend, and Ewan McGregor was the best thing about the prequels.

Matt Mikus, reporter for the News-Review There’s only one character who is a true star and deserves all of our praise for heroism and valor, putting himself before all others —R2-D2.

Also, an honorable mention to Chuck Donnelly, IT, who said: “I like Doctor Spock (from Star Trek) ... he has cool ears.” Also, at least two members of the Northern Michigan Review have never seen any of the Star Wars movies.

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CHARLES SCHULZ

HOROSCOPES For Monday, Dec. 18 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Today’s Birthday (12/18/17). Personal epiphanies abound this year. Weave them into long-term plans. Concentrated, persistent action leads to lucrative results. The direction of your educational exploration may shift this winter, sparking a communications flurry.

Extra silver this summer could spark a misunderstanding. Patiently listen. Lead with your heart.

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

LYNN JOHNSON

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Dreams seem within reach. The next two days bring plenty of career movement. Angels guide your choices. Stick to basics. Prepare for a test.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — The urge to travel, explore and learn grows stronger today and tomorrow. Dream big, and get into action. Organize, coordinate and put plans in motion.

FRANK & ERNEST BOB THAVES

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Financial opportunities and obligations require your attention for a few days. You and a partner can determine priorities, strategies and action plans. Collaborate.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Eat well, rest and exercise to maintain energy with a busy schedule over the next two days.

Streamline routines for heightened productivity.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Relax and follow your heart’s desire. Hang out with someone attractive and interesting over the next two days. Romance is a definite possibility.

GARFIELD

JIM DAVIS

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — The next two days are good for making changes at home. Home and family take priority. Relax, and enjoy domestic pursuits and pleasures.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — You’re especially brilliant today and tomorrow. Creative projects come together. Come up with innovative solutions. Hone and edit for simplicity and clarity.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — There’s money to be made, especially through tomorrow. Buy, sell and manage numbers. Negotiate terms, provide excellent services, and send invoices. Pursue profitable opportunities.

TUNDRA

CHAD CARPENTER AND TODD CLARK

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Take care of personal matters over the next few days. Something you’ve been wanting is within reach. Why not go for it? Take charge.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Rest and recharge for a few days. Seek out peaceful privacy. Meditate on roads traversed and still to come. Soothe your spirit with comforting rituals. Contemplate divine mysteries.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Get into a social whirlwind over the next two days. Friends share resources, tools and brilliant ideas. Participate on committees, teams and community efforts.

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JIM BORGMAN OR JERRY SCOTT

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — An exciting career opportunity is worth developing. Prepare marketing materials and a powerful pitch. Ask for the terms you want.

Connect with friends in the industry.

SUDOKU To solve a Sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box.

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DOG EAT DOUG

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CMT Last Man St. Last Man St. CNBC Mad Money CNN The Situation Room COM Futurama Futurama CW American Dad! American Dad! DISC To Be Announced DISN K.C. Undercover K.C. Undercover DIY Texas Flip and Move E! (4:00)< "Hitch" ++ ('05) Will Smith.

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Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank OutFront Anderson Cooper 360 Anderson Cooper 360 CNN Tonight With Don Lemon CNN Tonight With Don Lemon Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain Hart of the City Kevin Hart/Pain Family Guy Family Guy Hollywood Christmas Parade Page Six TV Seinfeld Seinfeld Rules of Engage.

To Be Announced To Be Announced Gold Rush "The Devil's Finer" To Be Announced Gold Rush "The Devil's Finer" Andi Mack Andi Mack (:05)K.C. Underc. Liv and Maddie Bizaardvark Andi Mack < "Descendants 2" ('17) Cameron Boyce, Sofia Carson, Dove Cameron.

Texas Flip and Move Texas Flip and Move Texas Flip and Move Texas Flip and Move Texas Flip and Move E! News The Kardashians E! News < "Couples Retreat" ++ (2009,Comedy) Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Vince Vaughn.

SportsCenter Basketball Oklahoma City Thunder at Philadelphia 76ers NBA -- Philadelphia, Pa. (L) Basketball San Antonio Spurs at Houston Rockets NBA Site: Toyota Center -- Houston, Texas (L) Around the Horn Interruption 30 for 30 "Mike and the Mad Dog" Football Division I Tournament NCAA (L) SportsCenter 911: The Bronx Body Bizarre Body Bizarre Body Bizarre Body Bizarre "The Bearded Lady" Body Bizarre Cake Wars: Christmas Cake Wars "Santa's Workshop" Cake Wars: Christmas Diners, Drive-Ins Diners, Drive-Ins Diners, Drive-Ins "Holiday Hoopla" Diners, Drive-Ins Diners, Drive-Ins Special Report With Bret Baier The Story Tucker Carlson Tonight Hannity The Ingraham Angle Fox News @ Night UFC's Road to the Octagon UFC Fight Night Weigh-In (L) Basketball Maryland - Eastern Shore at Creighton NCAA -- Omaha, Neb. (L) Boxing Premier Champions (L) State Champs! Spartan Hockey Pre-game (L) Hockey Toronto Maple Leafs at Detroit Red Wings NHL -- Detroit, Mich. (L) Red Wings Live Post-game (L) Wingspan State Champs!

(5:00)< "Four Christmases" ('08) (:10)< "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" +++ ('89) (:20)< "Elf" +++ (2003,Comedy) James Caan, Bob Newhart, Will Ferrell.

Movie < "Christmas With the Kranks" ++ ('04) Jamie Lee Curtis, Tim Allen. < "The Santa Clause 2" ++ ('02) Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd, Tim Allen. < "The Santa Clause 2" ++ ('02) Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd, Tim Allen.

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Blindspot "Fix My Present Havoc" Big Bang Theory Mike & Molly MacGyver "Bullet + Pen" ABC World News Ent. Tonight Once Upon a Time FOX 32 News TMZ Hell's Kitchen "It's All Gravy" < "Ice Age" +++ ('02) Voices of John Leguizamo, Ray Romano.

Family Feud

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Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud < "A December Bride" (2016,Romance) Jessica Lowndes, Daniel Lissing.

Family Feud

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< "Coming Home for Christmas" ('17) Chelan Simmons, Danica McKellar.

HGTV Fixer Upper "Retiring to the Country" Fixer Upper

My Dream Home My Dream Home My Dream Home My Dream Home House Hunters: O House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters Ancient Aliens: Declassified Bring It! "Crossing the Line" Bring It! Chat (:50)Bring It! Bring It! "Battle for Oz" The Rap Game "Girl, Bye" (:10)Da Brat Game /(:15)TBA The Beat With Ari Melber All in With Chris Hayes The Rachel Maddow Show The Last Word The 11th Hour With Brian Williams Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Amazingness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Lockdown "Surviving Stateville" Life on Lockdown "Notorious" Life on Lockdown "Taking the Fall" World's Deadliest Gangs Life on Lockdown "Notorious" (4:00)Curling Olympic Trials (L) Speed Skating Olympic Trials (L) Hockey Olympic Trials United States vs. Canada IIHF (L) Henry Danger Henry Danger The Loud House Lip Sync Shorties < "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" ++ ('14) Alan Ritchson, William Fichtner.

Fresh Prince Friends Friends Snapped Snapped Dateline: Secrets Uncovered Snapped Snapped Snapped Law & Order: S.V.U. "Influence" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Informed" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Clock" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Recall" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Uncle" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Confrontation" (4:00)< "Pan" Superstition Z Nation "Mt. Weather" < "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" ++ ('09) Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Z Nation "Mt. Weather" Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Bellator MMA (:15)Cops Cops Family Guy Family Guy Seinfeld Seinfeld Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory ELeague "ELEAGUE Cup: The Championship" Pt. 3 of 3 from Dec 8 (:15)< "Gay Purr-ee" ++ ('62) Voices of Paul H. Frees, Red Buttons.

Movie < "The Shop Around the Corner" +++ ('40) James Stewart. < "Holiday Affair" +++ ('49) Robert Mitchum.

Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress To Be Announced To Be Announced To Be Announced To Be Announced To Be Announced (4:50)< "De-Lovely" ++ ('04) (:05)< "The Family That Preys" ('08) < "Kramer vs. Kramer" +++ ('79) Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman. < "Running With Scissors" +++ ('06) Ralph Fiennes, Annette Bening.

Bones "The Twist in the Plot" Bones "The Doll in the Derby" < "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" +++ ('99) Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Liam Neeson. < "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack ...

(5:30)< "Kung Fu Panda 2" ++ ('11) Jack Black.

Steven Universe King of the Hill Cleveland Show Cleveland Show American Dad! American Dad! Bob's Burgers Family Guy Family Guy

HIST Ancient Aliens LIFE MSNBC

MTV NG NBCSN NICK OXY i SYFY SPIKE TBS TCM TLC TMC TNT TOON

Ancient Aliens Bring It! "Rumble in the Jungle" Hardball With Chris Matthews Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Inside the World's Roughest Prisons

TRAV Ghost Adven. "The Titanic Museum" Exp. Unkown "Mayan Apocalypse" TRUTV Imp. Jokers

Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers TVL M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H USA < "Little Fockers" ++ ('10,Com) Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller.

VH1 (5:30)< "What to Expect When You're Expecting" ++ ('12) Cameron Diaz.

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CSI: Miami "Innocent"

CSI: Miami "Lost Son" Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Boot Camp: Reali "Petty Little Liars" Boot Camp: Reali "Petty Little Liars" Criminal Minds "Extreme Aggressor" M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H (5:50)< "Sully" ('16) Aaron Eckhart, Tom Hanks.

Vice News All Def Comedy < "The Take" ('16) Richard Madden, Idris Elba. < "Deepwater Horizon" +++ ('16) Kurt Russell, Mark Wahlberg.

(5:50)< "La La Land" ('16,Com) Ryan Gosling, John Legend, Emma Stone.

True Blood "Strange Love" All Def Comedy < "The Last of the Mohicans" +++ ('92) Daniel Day-Lewis.

Movie (:05)< "Midnight Special" ('16) Jaeden Lieberher, Michael Shannon.

Movie < "Within" ('16) Erin Moriarty, Michael Vartan. < "Orphan" ++ ('09) Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, Vera Farmiga.

(4:30)< "We Were Soldiers" ('02) Rush: Time Stands Still (:45)White (:15)SMILF (:45)Shameless < "Con Air" +++ ('97,Act) John Cusack, John Malkovich, Nicolas Cage.

(5:40)< "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" ++++ ('15) Daisy Ridley.

Outlander "Eye of the Storm" Power The Girlfriend Experience "Family" (:55)Girlfriend E Movie (:20)< "The Great Escape" ('63) Movie < "The Da Vinci Code" +++ (2006,Drama) Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Tom Hanks. < "Angels and Demons" +++ ('09) Ewan McGregor, Tom Hanks.

WGN Blue Bloods HBO HBO2 MAX SHOW STARZ STZEN

Josh Gates' Destination Truth Josh Gates' Destination Truth Josh Gates' Destination Truth Josh Gates' Destination Truth To Be Announced Loves Ray Loves Ray Loves Ray Loves Ray Mom Mom King of Queens King of Queens Modern Family Modern Family < "It's a Wonderful Life" ++++ (1946,Drama) Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart. < "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" +++ ('11) Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart. < "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" ('12)

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Off the Record Global 3000 Euromaxx Hig American Forum Heirloom Meals Christmas Getting to the Nutcracker Christmas Festival "Love Divine" Danube American Health Paid Program Paid Program Speed Skating (L) Golf Father/ Son Challenge PGA Site: The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club -- Orlando, Fla. (L) The NFL Today (L) Football NFL (L) (:25)Football NFL (L) Paid Program Paid Program Just for Laughs Paid Program James Beard Found.

World of X Games "Real Snow" Lights,Camera,C'mas!

Spaces Missing Fox NFL Sunday (L) Football NFL (L) The O.T. (L) Herd for the Holidays Paid Program (10:30)< "White Christmas" (‘54) (:15)< "Miracle on 34th Street" ++++ (‘47) Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara. < "Happy Feet" +++ (2006,Animated) Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, Robin Williams.

OzzyandJack "Pearls of Wisdom" Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars < "300" (‘06) Monsters Inside Me Monsters Inside Me Monsters Inside Me Monsters Inside Me Monsters Inside Me Monsters Inside Me Don't Be Tardy Don't Be Tardy Married to Medicine The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Real Housewives of Atlanta (6:30)Paid Program State of the Union Fareed Zakaria GPS CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom Paid Program Paid Program Cleveland Show Paid Program Hollywood Paid Program Rules of Engage. Rules of Engage. < "Muppets From Space" +++ (‘99) Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz.

Homestead Rescue To Be Announced To Be Announced Homestead Rescue Alaska: The Last Frontier Alaska: The Last Frontier (11:00)< "Descendants 2" (‘17) Descen. (:35)Bunk'd Good Luck Jessie: NYC Christmas Austin & Ally Bizaardvark Bunk'd Jessie Toy Story < "Toy Story" (10:00)Sunday NFL Countdown (L) Bowling Cheetah Championship Bowling Chameleon Championship Basketball North Carolina at Tennessee NCAA -- Knoxville, Tenn. (L) E:60 (10:00)Fantasy Football Now (L) STIHL Timbersports STIHL Timbersports STIHL Timbersports Basketball Ohio State vs. Cincinnati NCAA -- Cincinnati, Ohio (L) (11:30)USGA Rev. Basketball Florida State vs. Texas NCAA (L) Basketball Stony Brook at Providence NCAA -- Providence, R.I. (L) Basketball Iona at St. John's NCAA -- Jamaica, N.Y. (L) Tennis Champions Cup Champions -- Lincoln, Neb. UFC Unleashed Xterra PistonsLive (L) Basketball Orlando Magic at Detroit Pistons NBA -- Detroit, Mich. (L) America's News HQ America's News HQ Fox News Sunday The Journal Editorial Report America's News HQ The Greg Gutfeld Show (:20)< "The Polar Express" +++ (‘04) Voices of Leslie Zemeckis, Tom Hanks.

Prep & Landing Prep&Land.2 Movie < "The Santa Clause" +++ (‘94) Judge Reinhold, Tim Allen.

(11:00)< "Dumb and Dumber To" +++ (‘14) < "Ride Along" (‘14,Act/Com) Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo, Ice Cube. < "The Heat" ++ (2013,Comedy) Melissa McCarthy, Michael McDonald, Sandra Bullock. < "Christmas Festival of Ice" (‘17) Eldon Hunter, Taylor Cole. < "Christmas Next Door" (‘17,Rom) Fiona Gubelmann, Jesse Metcalf. < "The Sweetest Christmas" (‘17) Jonathan Adams, Lacey Chabert.

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MSNBC Live With Alex Witt MSNBC Live With Alex Witt MSNBC Live MSNBC Live MSNBC Live MSNBC Live (11:00)< "The Parent Trap" ++ (‘98) Dennis Quaid, Lindsay Lohan. < "Mean Girls" +++ (‘04) Rachel McAdams, Lindsay Lohan. < "27 Dresses" ++ (‘08) James Marsden, Katherine Heigl.

Ghosts of Pearl Harbor The Long Road Home "Black Sunday" < "The Hurt Locker" +++ (2009,Thriller) Anthony Mackie, Guy Pearce, Jeremy Renner.

(11:25)Soccer Liverpool at AFC Bournemouth EPL (L) Premier League Goal Zone (L) Dirt Racing -- Imperial, Pa. Curling Olympic Trials (L) The Loud House The Loud House The Loud House The Loud House SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob The Loud House The Loud House The Loud House < "Dawn of the Dead" +++ (2004,Horror) Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Sarah Polley. < "Battle Los Angeles" ++ (‘11) Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Aaron Eckhart. < "Tomorrowland" ++ (‘15) (11:00)< "Draft Day" ++ (‘14) Kevin Costner. < "Forrest Gump" +++ (1994,Comedy/Drama) Sally Field, Gary Sinise, Tom Hanks. < "The Shawshank Redemption" (11:30)< "True Lies" +++ (‘94) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Arnold, Jamie Lee Curtis. < "Horrible Bosses 2" +++ (2014,Comedy) Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman. < "Get Hard" ++ (‘15) 90 Day Fiancé "Welcome to Real Life" 90 Day Fiancé "Out of Nowhere" 90 Day Fiancé "Wake Up Call" (10:25)< "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the S... < "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" ++++ (‘77) Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill. (:15)< "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back" ++++ (‘80) Expedition Unknown Expedition Unknown Bizarre Foods "Civil War" Food Paradise Food Paradise "Taste of the Town" Food Paradise "Big Beef Paradise" Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Carbonaro Carbonaro Carbonaro Carbonaro Carbonaro Carbonaro Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Law & Order: S.V.U. "Fallacy" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Shaken" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Ripped" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Paternity" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Retro" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Wildlife" ++ ++ Movie (1991,Crime Story) Ice-T, Judd Nelson, Wesley Snipes.

(2001,Drama) Omar Gooding, Snoop Dogg, Tyrese Gibson. < "New Jack City" < "Baby Boy" < "Bad Boys" Movie (:45)Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution (:25)< "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" ++ (‘09) Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf. < "Lights Out" (‘16) Teresa Palmer.

Vice Principals Vice Principals Vice Principals Vice Principals Vice Principals Vice Principals Vice Principals Vice Principals (:05)V.Principals (:35)V.Principals (:05)V.Principals (:35)V.Principals Movie (:25)< "Boiler Room" +++ (‘00) Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Giovanni Ribisi. (:25)< "Invincible" ++ (‘06) Greg Kinnear. (:10)< "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates" (‘16) Movie (11:15)< "Personal Shopper" (‘16) < "Certain Women" (‘16) Laura Dern. (:50)< "Mother's Day" +++ (‘16) Jennifer Aniston, Britt Robertson. (:50)< "Bad Moms" + (‘16) Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis.

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5:30

Newshour.

Steves' Europe Doc Martin "Dry Your Tears" Festival of Carols W Austin City Limits Appearances Red Green Show Globe Trekker 7&4 News at 6 NBC News Wheel Fortune Jeopardy!

Will & Grace Superstore Dateline NBC Saturday Night Live 7&4 News at 11 Sat. Night (L) 9&10 News 6PM Weekend News Paid Program Paid Program NCIS: Los Angeles "767" S.W.A.T. "Radical" 48 Hours 9&10News11PM (:35)BigBang (3:30)Football Las Vegas Bowl (L) Just for Laughs Just for Laughs Charlie Brown Ten Days in the Valley Ten Days in the Valley Full Measure Outdoorsman Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program UFC Fight Night Site: Bell MTS Place -- Winnipeg, Man. (L) Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Hell's Kitchen "It's All Gravy" (5:30)< "Happy Feet" +++ (‘06) Elijah Wood, Robin Williams. (:15)< "White Christmas" +++ (‘54) Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby. < "Miracle on 34th Street" ++++ (‘47) Maureen O'Hara.

(5:00)Live PD Live PD /(:05)Live PD "Rewind" Live PD (L) Pit Bulls-Parolees "Sui's Choice" Pit Bull-Parolee "At Your Service" Pit Bull-Parolee "The Noble Heart" Pit Bull Parolees "Merry Pitmas" Cat vs. Dog Cat vs. Dog (5:30)Wives NJ Housewives Atlanta "Petty Party" The Real Housewives of Atlanta < "No Strings Attached" +++ (‘11,Com) Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman. < "No Strings Attached" (‘11) Undercover Boss Undercover Boss "DirecTV" Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss "Sky Zone" Undercover Boss "Vivint" Smerconish CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom The Eighties "Raised on Television" The Eighties Sheriffs: Sheriffs: Cleveland Show Cleveland Show Family Guy Family Guy Bob's Burgers Bob's Burgers Seinfeld Seinfeld King of Queens Movie Moonshiners "Snake Bitten" Moonshiners "Shine in the Sky" Moonshiners "Lightning Strikes" Moonshiners "Pony Express" Moonshiners "Second Chances" Moonshiners Raven's Home Raven's Home Raven's Home Raven's Home Raven's Home Raven's Home Raven's Home Stuck in Middle Stuck in Middle Thanos Threat Walk the Prank MECH-X4 (4:30)Football New Mexico Bowl NCAA -- Albuquerque, N.M. (L) Football Camellia Bowl NCAA Site: Cramton Bowl -- Montgomery, Ala. (L) SportsCenter Football Division II Tournament NCAA Site: Children's Mercy Park -- Kansas City, Kan. (L) Volleyball Division I Tournament NCAA -- Kansas City, Mo. (L) Basketball Utah at BYU NCAA (L) (5:00)America's News HQ FOX Report Saturday Watters World Justice With Judge Jeanine The Greg Gutfeld Show Watters World (5:00)UFC Fight Night UFC Site: Bell MTS Place -- Winnipeg, Man. (L) Basketball Kansas at Nebraska NCAA -- Lincoln, Neb. (L) UFC Fight Night Post-show (L) UFC Fight Night Post-show Golf Life "Major Series of Putting" State Champs! Lions Live (L) Tennis Champions Cup Champions -- Lincoln, Neb. Golf Life Fantasy Football Hour (4:55)< "The Santa Clause" (‘94) (:05)< "Elf" +++ (‘03,Com) James Caan, Bob Newhart, Will Ferrell. (:15)< "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" +++ (2000,Fantasy) Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Jim Carrey.

(5:30)< "The Heat" ++ (‘13) Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock. < "Grown Ups" ++ (‘10) Kevin James, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler. < "Ride Along" (‘14,Act/Com) Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo, Ice Cube. < "Finding Santa" (2017,Drama) Eric Winter, Jodie Sweetin. < "Christmas Next Door" (P) (‘17) Fiona Gubelmann, Jesse Metcalf. < "With Love, Christmas" (‘17,Dra) Emillie Ullerup, Aaron O'Connell.

Property Brothers at Property Brothers at Property Brothers at Property Brothers at House Hunters Renovation House Hunters House Hunters The Rise and Fall of El Chapo < "Black Mass" (2015,Crime Story) Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Johnny Depp. (:35)Pawn Stars (:05)Pawn Stars (:35)Pawn Stars GrandpaC'Mas /(:15)< "My Christmas Prince" (2017) Alexis Knapp. < "Dear Secret Santa" (‘13,Dra) Jordin Sparks, Bill Cobbs, Tatyana Ali. < "Snowed-Inn Christmas" (‘17) Andrew Walker, Bethany Joy Lenz.

AM Joy The Rachel Maddow Show The Last Word The 11th Hour MSNBC Documentary MSNBC Documentary (5:00)< "Mean Girls" +++ (‘04) < "The Parent Trap" ++ (1998,Family) Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Lindsay Lohan. < "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" ++ (‘05) Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt.

To Catch "Cocaine Cocktail" To Catch "Cocaine Suitcase" The Long Road Home < "The Hurt Locker" +++ (2009,Thriller) Anthony Mackie, Guy Pearce, Jeremy Renner.

Alpine Skiing FIS Hockey NHL 100 Classic Montréal Canadiens vs. Ottawa Senators NHL -- Ottawa, Ont. (L) Curling Olympic Trials (L) Henry Danger Henry Danger Henry Danger "Danger Games" Henry Danger Full House Full House Fresh Prince Fresh Prince Friends Friends (5:30)< "Battle Los Angeles" ++ (‘11) Aaron Eckhart. < "Tomorrowland" ++ (2015,Adventure) George Clooney, Judy Greer, Britt Robertson. < "Dawn of the Dead" (‘04) Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Full Frontal Search Party Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress American Gypsy Wedd American Gypsy Wedd American Gypsy Wedd American Gypsy Wedd American Gypsy Wedd (4:55)< "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" +++ (‘02) (:05)< "Star Wars: Episode IV -... < "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" ++ (‘05) Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor.

Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adven. "Apache Junction" Ghost Adventures Ghost Adven. "Edinburgh Manor" Ghost Adventures "Pythian Castle" Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Hack My Life Hack My Life Hack My Life Hack My Life Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Movie < "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" ++ (‘12) Josh Hutcherson. < "Mad Max: Fury Road" +++ (2015,Action) Charlize Theron, Zoe Kravitz, Tom Hardy. Modern Family Modern Family < "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" +++ (‘12) Robert Pattinson. < "Grease" +++ (1978,Musical) Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, John Travolta. < "Grease" +++ (‘78) (:10)< "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" ++ (‘09) (:40)Boxing HBO After Dark -- Montreal, Que. (L) < "Going in Style" (‘17) Michael Caine. (:15)< "Unforgettable" (‘17) Katherine Heigl, Rosario Dawson. (:10)< "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" +++ (‘91) Kevin Costner. < "The Bodyguard" (2016,Action) (:05)< "The Legend of Tarzan" (‘16) Alexander Skarsgård. (:10)< "S.W.A.T." ++ (‘03) Colin Farrell, Samuel L. Jackson. < "Die Hard With a Vengeance" +++ (‘95) Bruce Willis.

(5:30)Shameless < "Bridge of Spies" (2015,Thriller) Mark Rylance, Austin Stowell, Tom Hanks. (:05)Rush: Time Stands Still < "The Rendezvous" (‘16) Raza Jaffrey, Stana Katic. (:35)SMILF

SUNDAY AFTERNOON WCML-WCMU / PBS WPBN-WTOM / NBC WWTV-WWUP / CBS WGTU-WGTQ / ABC WFUP / FOX AMERICAN MOVIE CL. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ANIMAL PLANET BRAVO CONSUMER NEWS CABLE NEWS NETWORK CW DISCOVERY DISNEY ENT. SPORTS ENT. SPORTS 2 FOX SPORTS 1 FOX SPORTS DETROIT FOX NEWS CHANNEL FREEFORM FX HALLMARK HOME & GARDEN HISTORY CHANNEL LIFETIME MSNBC MUSIC TV NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NBC SPORTS NETWORK NICKELODEON SCIENCE FICTION SPIKE TV SUPER STATION LEARNING CHANNEL TURNER NETWORK TV TRAVEL TRUTV USA NETWORK VIDEO HITS HOME BOX OFFICE HOME BOX OFFICE 2 CINEMAX SHOWTIME

5:00

This Old House Hour Under the Radar Milk Street Woodwright's Motorweek Out of Doors Wild. Journal Martha Bakes Weeknight Meal The Great British Baking Show Give Soccer Tottenham Hotspur at Manchester City EPL (L) Speed Skating (L) Golf Father/ Son Challenge PGA -- Orlando, Fla. (L) TBA Basketball Syracuse at Georgetown NCAA Site: Capital One Arena -- Washington, D.C. (L) College B-Ball Basketball Cincinnati at UCLA NCAA -- Los Angeles, Calif. (L) Paid Program Football Celebration Bowl NCAA Site: Mercedes-Benz Stadium -- Atlanta, Ga. (L) Football Las Vegas Bowl NCAA Site: Sam Boyd Stadium -- Las Vegas, Nev. (L) Basketball Purdue vs. Butler NCAA (L) Hoops Extra (L) Basketball Notre Dame at Indiana NCAA -- Bloomington, Ind. (L) Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program (11:30)< "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" +++ (‘66) < "The Haunted Mansion" ++ (‘03) Jennifer Tilly, Eddie Murphy. < "Ice Age" +++ (‘02) Voices of John Leguizamo, Ray Romano. < "Happy Feet" Who Killed Tupac?

Who Killed Tupac?

Live PD Live PD The Vet Life The Vet Life "Miracle Puppies" The Vet Life "Not So Easy Riders" Pit Bulls-Parolees Pit Bull-Parolee "Pit-mas Miracle" Pit Bull-Parolee "Lost and Found" Watch What Happens Live RelationShep "Shepspeare in Love" RelationShep "Double the Trouble" Vanderpump Rules "Masquerade" Vanderpump Rules "Unfaithful" Don't Be Tardy Housewives NJ Paid Program CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom Vital Signs CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom Hollywood King of Queens Cleveland Show Paid Program Rookie Blue "Might Have Been" Rookie Blue "Bad Moon Rising" Elementary "The Deductionist" Elementary Dirty Jobs Dirty Jobs "Snake Researcher" Dirty Jobs "Penguin Keeper" Dirty Jobs "Snake Wrangler" Moonshiners "Intruder Alert" Moonshiners "Last Call" (11:00)< "Descendants" (‘15) (:05)Andi Mack Stuck in Middle Bizaardvark Bunk'd Jessie Raven's Home Raven's Home Raven's Home Raven's Home Raven's Home SportsCenter Football New Orleans Bowl NCAA Site: Mercedes-Benz Superdome -- New Orleans, La. (L) Football New Mexico Bowl NCAA (L) Basketball Gotham Classic Louisville vs. Memphis NCAA (L) Basketball Virginia Tech at Kentucky NCAA -- Lexington, Ky. (L) Basketball Oklahoma vs. Wichita State NCAA -- Wichita, Kan. (L) UFC Tonight UFC's Road to the Octagon Basketball Northwestern vs. DePaul NCAA (L) UFC Fight Night Pre-show (L) UFC Fight Night UFC (L) Basketball UNC - Greensboro at North Carolina State NCAA (L) Basketball East Tennessee State at Xavier NCAA -- Cincinnati, Ohio (L) Soccer Bayern Munich at VFB Stuttgart DFL -- Stuttgart, Germany America's News HQ America's News HQ The Journal Editorial Report America's News HQ America's News HQ (11:35)< "Mickey's Twice Upon ... (:05)< "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (‘93) (:45)< "The Polar Express" +++ (‘04) Voices of Leslie Zemeckis, Tom Hanks. (:55)< "The Santa Clause" (‘94) (11:00)< "American Reunion" ++ (‘12) Jason Biggs. < "Let's Be Cops" ++++ (‘14) Damon Wayans Jr., Jake Johnson. < "Christmas With the Kranks" ++ (‘04) Jamie Lee Curtis, Tim Allen. < "The Heat" < "Christmas Incorporated" (2015,Drama) Steve Lund, Shenae Grimes. < "Christmas in Evergreen" (‘17) Ashley Williams. < "Sharing Christmas" (‘17) Bobby Campo, Dave Koz, Ellen Hollman.

Buying and Selling House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters To Be Announced To Be Announced Caligula: 1400 Days of Terror The Definitive Guide to the Mob < "The Santa Con" (‘14) Melissa Sagemiller, Barry Watson. < "Becoming Santa" (‘15) Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross. < "A Christmas Reunion" (‘15) Patrick Muldoon, Denise Richards.

MSNBC Live Velshi and Ruhle MSNBC Live With Alex Witt MSNBC Live MSNBC Live MSNBC Live MSNBC Live < "Blended" +++ (2014,Comedy) Drew Barrymore, Bella Thorne, Adam Sandler. < "Friends With Benefits" ++ (‘11) Justin Timberlake, Patricia Clarkson, Mila Kunis. < "Mean Girls" +++ (‘04) Airport Security: Colombia Airport SecurityCo. "False Bottom" Airport Security "Cocaine Cargo" To Catch "Loaded Luggage" To Catch "Pills and Powder" To Catch "Cocaine Connection" Leauge Live (L) Echoes: ND Awards "2017" Tractor Pulling -- Wheatland, Mo. Car Matchmaker Basketball Georgia at Massachusetts NCAA -- Amherst, Mass. (L) Alpine Skiing FIS Power Ranger The Loud House The Loud House The Loud House < "Albert: The Little Tree With... SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob The Loud House The Loud House +++ ++ (11:00)< "The Adjustment Burea... < "The Book of Eli" (‘09,Adv) Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Denzel Washington. (‘09) Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Movie < "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half Two and a Half (11:30)< "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" ++ (‘08) Adam Sandler.

Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends The Spouse House The Spouse House Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress (10:55)< "King Kong" +++ (‘05) Adrien Brody. (:55)< "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" +++ (‘99) Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson. (:55)< "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clone...

Man v. Food Man v. Food Man v. Food Man v. Food Ginormous Food Ginormous Food Food Paradise "Cheese Paradise" Food Paradise "Like Mama Made" Food Paradise "Dockside Dining" Carbonaro Carbonaro Carbonaro Carbonaro Carbonaro Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Inside Jokes At Home Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers (10:00)< "It's a Wonderful Life" < "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" +++ (2007,Adventure) Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp. < "Men in Black" +++ (‘97) Will Smith.

(10:00)< "Love Actually" (‘03) < "What to Expect When You're Expecting" ++ (‘12) Cameron Diaz. < "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" +++ (‘11) Kristen Stewart.

(11:30)< "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardr... Newspaperman HBO First Look /(:50)< "Logan" ++++ (‘17) Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman.

The Fight Game < "Play Misty for Me" +++ (‘71) Clint Eastwood. (:15)< "Enough" ++ (‘02) Bill Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Jennifer Lopez. (:15)< "Fifty Shades Darker" ++ (‘17) Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson.

(11:45)< "Yes Man" ++ (‘08) Jim Carrey. (:25)< "Taxi" ++ (‘04) Jimmy Fallon, Queen Latifah. < "The Layover" (‘17) Alexandra Daddario. < "Dude, Where's My Car?" ++ (‘00) (11:15)Rush: Time Stands Still (:15)< "Jaws" +++ (1975,Horror) Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider.

Shameless < "Vertical Limit" +++ (‘00) Robin Tunney, Chris O'Donnell.

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DECEMBER 17, 2017 11:00

11:30

Newshour.

Dest.Craft The Lawrence Welk Show Last Tango Halif "Holiday Special" Masterpiece Classic "Victoria: Doll 123" Stories Mind Lines 7&4 News at 6 NBC News Football Night in America (L) (:20)Football Dallas Cowboys at Oakland Raiders NFL Site: Oakland Alameda Coliseum -- Oakland, Calif. (L) (:35)News at 11 (4:25)Football NFL (L) 60 Minutes Wisdom of the Crowd NCIS: Los Angeles "All Is Bright" Madam Secretary (:35)News11PM Big Boys News UpNorth News Full Measure < "The Sound of Music" +++ (1965,Musical) Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Julie Andrews.

Paid Program Paid Program A Christmas Story Live! (L) Mark T. Barclay Robert Jeffress Two and a Half Two and a Half < "Happy Feet Two" ++++ (‘11) Robin Williams, Pink, Elijah Wood. < "Scrooged" +++ (‘88,Fant) Karen Allen, Carol Kane, Bill Murray. < "Scrooged" +++ (‘88,Fant) Karen Allen, Carol Kane, Bill Murray.

(5:30)< "300" +++ (‘06) Lena Headey, Dominic West, Gerard Butler. (:05)Live PD (:35)Live PD < "The Rock" +++ (1996,Action) Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Sean Connery.

Monsters Inside Me Inside Me "The Organ Shredder" Monsters Inside Me: Extra Deadly Inside Me "All I Got For Christmas" Monsters Inside Me Inside Me "All I Got For Christmas" Housewives Atlanta "Petty Party" Atlanta Social The Real Housewives of Atlanta Married to Medicine The Real Housewives of Atlanta WatchWhat Housewives Atl. Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank The Profit "Monica Potter Home" The Profit "Pacific Hospitality" The Profit "The Blues Jean Bar" CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Special CNN Special CNN Special CNN Special The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Saving Hope Family Guy Family Guy Cleveland Show Movie < "The Spy Next Door" ++ (‘10) Amber Valletta, Jackie Chan.

Alaska: The Last Frontier Alaska: The Last Frontier Alaska: The Last Frontier Exposed Alaska: The Last Frontier To Be Announced Alaska: The Last Frontier (5:30)< "Toy Story" ++++ (‘95) < "Toy Story 2" +++ (‘99) Tom Hanks. (:40)< "Toy Story 3" +++ (2010,Animated) Tim Allen, Tom Hanks.

Bizaardvark Andi Mack K.C. Undercover SportsCenter SportsCenter SportsCenter ESPN Films 30 for 30 "Nature Boy" SportsCenter Basket.

Poker World Series (L) Poker World Series (L) Poker World Series Poker World Series Poker World Series America's News HQ FOX Report Sunday OBJECTified The Next Revolution Fox News Sunday OBJECTified (4:30)Basket. (L) Soccer Kick in for Houston -- Houston, Texas Herd for the Holidays UFC Fight Night UFC Site: Bell MTS Place -- Winnipeg, Man. UFC 212 UFC (4:00)Basket. (L) Pistons Live Post-game (L) Focused Poker Five Diamond Classic WPT Bull Riding Championship Poker Five Diamond Classic WPT Poker Five Diamond Classic WPT (5:35)< "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" +++ (‘00) Jim Carrey. (:15)< "Frozen" +++ (2013,Family) Voices of Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Kristen Bell. (:45)< "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" < "Grown Ups" ++ (‘10) Kevin James, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler. < "The Night Before" +++ (‘15) Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. < "The Night Before" +++ (‘15) Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. < "The Christmas Cottage" (‘17,Drama) Steve Lund, Merritt Patterson. < "Romance at Reindeer Lodge" (P) (‘17) Nicky Whelan. < "Enchanted Christmas" (‘17) Carlos PenaVega, Alexa PenaVega.

Flip-Ft. Worth Flip-Ft. Worth Flip-Ft. Worth Flip-Ft. Worth Hawaii Life Hawaii Life Hawaii Life Hawaii Life Beach Hunters Beach Hunters Caribbean Life Caribbean Life American Pickers American Pickers American Pickers: Bonus Buys (:05)American Pickers < "The Flight Before Christmas" (‘15) Ryan McPartlin, Mayim Bialik. < "A Perfect Christmas List" (‘14) Marion Ross, Ellen Hollman. < "Wish Upon a Christmas" (‘15) Larisa Oleynik, Aaron Ashmore.

Meet the Press Kasie DC MSNBC Documentary MSNBC Documentary MSNBC Documentary Movie MTV's Floribama Shore MTV's Floribama Shore < "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" ++ (2005,Action) Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Brad Pitt. < "American Pie 2" ++ (‘01) The Long Road Home The Long Road Home Long Road Home "The Choice" The Long Road Home Long Road Home "Abandon Hope" StarTalk "Interstellar Space Travel" Alpine Skiing FIS Luge FIL -- Lake Placid, N.Y. NASCAR Xfinity Series Award Show Sports Jeopardy! Sports Jeopardy!

NickyRickyDicky Full House F.House Full House 2/2 Full House Fresh Prince Fresh Prince Friends Friends < "Santa Hunters" (‘14) Benjamin Flores Jr..

(5:00)< "Tomorrowland" ++ (‘15) George Clooney, Britt Robertson. < "Jeepers Creepers 3" (2017,Horror) Meg Foster, Jonathan Breck. < "Skyfall" ++++ (‘12) Helen McCrory, Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig.

(5:00)< "Get Hard" ++ (‘15) Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Search Party Search Party Search Party Search Party 90 Day Fiancé: More to Love "Breaking Point" 90 Day Fiancé (:05)Unexpected (:10)90 Day Fiancé (4:15)< "Star Wars: Episode V - ... < "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi" ++++ (‘83,Adv) Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill. Good Behavior (SF) Good Behavior Food Paradise "Better With Bacon" Food Paradise "Hotel Hot Spots" Food Paradise Food Paradise "Fire It Up" Food Paradise "Hey Butter Butter" Food Paradise "Lay It On Thick" Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers At Home At Home Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Law & Order: S.V.U. "Zebras" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Solitary" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Turmoil" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Gray" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Smoked" Happy! (:50)Happy!

(5:30)< "Bad Boys" +++ (‘95) Martin Lawrence, Will Smith. < "Training Day" ++ (2001,Thriller) Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Denzel Washington. < "New Jack City" ++ (‘91) Ice-T, Wesley Snipes. (:55)< "Warcraft" (‘16,Action) Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Travis Fimmel. < "The Fast and the Furious" ++ (‘01) Vin Diesel. (:50)< "Two Fast Two Furious" ++ (‘03) Tyrese Gibson, Paul Walker. (:45)Roll Stone (:05)V.Principals (:35)V.Principals (:05)V.Principals (:35)V.Principals (:10)Def Comedy (:45)< "Wilson" (‘17) Laura Dern, Woody Harrelson. (:20)< "American Splendor" +++ (‘03) Hope Davis, Paul Giamatti.

(5:50)< "Good Will Hunting" +++ (‘97) Ben Affleck, Matt Damon. < "Independence Day: Resurgence" ++ (‘16) Liam Hemsworth. < "Strange Days" +++ (‘95) Angela Bassett, Ralph Fiennes.

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Friday, December 15, 2017 •

Local Distant Stars to release debut album ARIELLE HINES

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A local band will distribute its debut album in a unique way, a temporary tattoo sheet.

Distant Stars, a rock band that has performed at venues such as the Upstairs Lounge, City Park Grill and Festival on the Bay, will release its album, “Distant Thunder,” on Christmas. Also, the band will be releasing an e-book to go with the album, “Self-Righteous Loverboy.”

Jakey Thomas, the frontman of Distant Stars, said the band has customized sheets of temporary tattoos, which includes a download code for the album and e-book on the back. The tattoos contain images from the book, and the sheets will be available at the band’s shows and

eventually online.

“I have been kind of thinking about it as the world’s first album to ever been released on temporary tattoo sheets,” Thomas said.

The inspiration for this project started years ago after Thomas had a dream about a homeless girl breaking into his

house. Afterwards, Thomas documented the dream in a journal.

Thomas noticed some aspects and symbolism of the dream manifested in his real life. He was also going through emotional changes during that time, and he wrote music to work through those feelings.

“I honestly put it on the back burner for about five years until I had the opportunity to go to a studio,” Thomas said.

The music from the album loosely goes along with the book’s moods and themes, Thomas said. A handful of songs on the album have been performed publicly.

He noted the e-book, described as being a fictional romantic drama, is similar to a novella.

“I tried to give it (the album) a dreamy vibe.

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on the same page and looking forward to continuing to work together in different formats,” Drury said about the change in bass players.

A preview of the first chapter will be released on Instagram at @distant.stars.

Folks can get the album online at bandcamp.com and iTunes.

For more information about the band or the project, visit www.facebook.com/ distantstars/?ref=br_rs or www.youtube.com/ user/distantstarsmusic.

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According to Thomas, the band officially formed in February. Besides Thomas, the band consists of Tai Drury, Alex Riesenbeck, Ian Burke and Andy Fettig.

Drury and Riesenbeck are also members of “The Marsupials.”

Thomas currently plays bass for “The Marsupials,” but the band will get a new bass player come spring.

“The change is a benign one, we are all

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Encore Financial Group Denise Croake • 877-636-2673

Bingham Insurance Services Jackie Letts • 231-547-4062

Harbor Brenn Agencies Dave Brossard/Lee Holbrook • 231-347-8113

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Hubble Insurance, Bruce Hubble (231) 347-2503

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Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Stephen Selden • 231-347-8542 Kevin Whitmore • 231-838-7805

Larkin Insurance Group Ryan Liabenow • 231-947-8800

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Madigan/Pingatore Insurance Services Christine Lewis • 906-635-5233

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Friday, December 15, 2017 •

These local houses of worship

ALANSON Alanson United Methodist Church 7330 Chicago Street www.umcalanson.com Sunday, Dec. 24 - 9:00 a.m. - Christmas Worship Service. Message by Pastor Susan Hitts, “Glory To God”. All welcome!

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 5:00 p.m. - Christmas Eve Candlelight Service. Come and enjoy the Christmas Story, Readings, and Carols. All welcome!

Alanson Church Of The Nazarene

welcome you in this holiday season.

Christ Episcopal Church 200 State St. (231) 547-6322

PETOSKEY

Officiant - Rev. Thomas P. O’Dell

Emmanuel Episcopal Church

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 7:00p.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite II

1020 E. Mitchell (231) 347-2350 The Reverend Greg Brown

Reception in Parish Hall following service

Community Reformed Church 100 Oak Street, Charlevoix (231) 547-9482 Please join us for our services on Sunday, December 24th.

7489 Mission Road Corner of 68 & Mission Road, Alanson (231) 548-5462

Sunday Worship Service, December 24th at 10:00 a.m. at Community

Come Worship With Us Sunday, Dec. 17 - 11:00 a.m. - On this Third Sunday of Advent we are reminded of the Joy that comes to the world through Christ.

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 11:00 a.m. - “Glory to the New Born King” On this Fourth Sunday of Advent we are reminded of the peace that comes to the world through Christ.

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 5:00 p.m. “More Than An Heirloom” Christmas Eve Candlelight Service.

Charlevoix Middle/High School at 6:00 p.m.

Lake Life Church 7400 North St - Alanson School 231-412-0130 www.lakelife.church Pastor Daniel Vandock Sunday, Dec. 24 - 10:00 a.m. - UNEXPECTED .. When you plan on the ordinary, the UNEXPECTED will change everything.

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 4:00 p.m. - Christmas Eve Service

Reformed Church Sunday, Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, December 24th, at

First Congregational United Church of Christ

Sunday, Dec. 24, 9:00 a.m. - 4th Sunday of Advent Service Sunday, Dec. 24, 4:30 p.m. - Family Christmas Eve Service preceded

by Christmas Carols at 4:00 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 24, 10:00 p.m. - Formal Christmas Eve Liturgy preceded by Christmas Carols at 9:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 25, 10:00 a.m. - Christmas Day Chapel Service

Epsilon United Methodist Church Epsilon (8251 East Mitchell Rd., Petoskey) The church is located on the corner of East Mitchell and Silver Creek Roads.

Rev. Eun (Cloud) Sik Poy

101 State St., Charlevoix

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 11:30 a.m. with Pastor Cloud

(231) 547-9122

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 5:30p.m. Candlelight Christmas Eve Service All are welcome to join us at the church for this special service celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior.

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 10:30 a.m. - Sunday Worship Service Christmas Eve Services Christmas Eve - 7:00 p.m. Family Service with Candle Light- Children

First Baptist Church of Petoskey

Assembling the Nativity Creche.

502 Michigan Street (231) 347-2038 Pastor Casey Smith

There is no 11 p.m. service this year.

St. Mary of the Assumption 1003 Bridge Street, Charlevoix (231) 547-6652

Sunday, Dec. 24th - 10:00 a.m. Celebrate Christmas with a special service of carols, solos and short vignettes! If you can’t join us in person, tune in live on WMKT 1270 AM

Fr. Peter Wigton

BOYNE CITY/BOYNE FALLS

Genesis Petoskey

Sunday, Dec. 24

www.genesiswired.com (231)487-0081 Pastor Norm Byers

All are welcomed to join us at Boyne Valley Catholic Community for the celebration of the Christmas Season!!

11:30 p.m. Christmas Carols with the choir

Boyne Valley Catholic Community St. Matthew, Boyne City; St. Augustine, Boyne Falls; St. John Nepomucene, Praga www.jamcc.org 231-582-7718 All are welcomed to join us at Boyne Valley Catholic Community for the celebration of the Christmas Season!!

Christmas Eve: 6:00 p.m. - St. Matthew’s, Boyne City 9:00 p.m. - St. Matthew’s, Boyne City Christmas Day: 9:00 a.m. - St. Augustine’s, Boyne Falls Eve of Mary, the Mother of God (December 31st) 5:00 p.m. - St. Augustine, Boyne Falls Mary, the Mother of God (January 1st) 10:00 a.m. St. Matthew – Boyne City Feast of the Epiphany, (January 6th and 7th) Jan. 6th 5:00 p.m. St. Matthew – Boyne City Jan. 7th 9:00 a.m. St. Augustine – Boyne Falls Jan. 7th 11:00 a.m. St. Matthew – Boyne City

Christ Lutheran Church

5:00 p.m. Children’s Mass Midnight Mass Monday, Dec. 25 - 9:00 a.m. Mass (no 11:00 a.m. Mass)

EAST JORDAN East Jordan Community Church Sunday, Dec. 24 - 10:00 a.m. Morning Service Evening Service: Joining at Walloon Lake Community Church Monday, Dec. 25 - No Service.

East Jordan United Methodist Church 4th and Esterly, East Jordan (231) 536-2161 Pastor Craig Pahl Sunday, Dec. 17 - Sunday School Christmas Program during 9:00 a.m. Worship Service Sunday, Dec. 24 - Christmas Eve Worship Service 9:00 a.m.

Sunday, Dec. 24 - Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 5:00 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 25 - FREE Community Christmas Day Dinner 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

HARBOR SPRINGS

1250 Boyne Ave., Boyne City (231) 582-9301 Pastor Michael Teuscher

First Presbyterian Church

Christmas Eve - Candlelight Service 5:00 p.m. Service of Lessons and Carols Christmas - Communion Service 10:00 a.m.

www.fpchs.org

Episcopal Church of the Nativity 209 Main Street. Boyne City (231) 582-5045 The Reverend Greg Brown Sunday, Dec. 24 - 7:30 p.m. - Christmas Eve Candle Light Service

First Presbyterian Church Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Broschart 401 South Park Street, Boyne City 231-582-7983 Sunday, Dec 17 - 9:30 a.m. - Songs of Advent Bible Study followed by 11:00 a.m. Worship Service Sunday, Dec. 24 - 9:30 a.m. - Songs of Advent Bible Study followed by 11:00 a.m. Worship Service Sunday, Dec. 24 - 7:00 p.m. Candle lighting service with communion

Corner of Lake & Cemetery Roads (231) 526-7332

Sunday, Dec. 24 Worship - 4th Sunday of Advent 10:00 a.m. - Service with Communion Christmas Eve Worship - 5p.m. - Intergenerational: Christmas Drama

10593 Seneca, Charlevoix 231-348-2086

www.jesusislordbayshore.org

Rev. Ward Potts, Senior Pastor Sunday Dec. 24 - 9:00 a.m. Morning worship observed as the 4th Sunday of Advent.

Sunday Dec. 24 - 6:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

New Life Anglican Church 219 State Street – Petoskey www.newlifeanglican.com (231) 347-3448 The Rev. Michael J. Bridge officiating Sunday, Dec. 24 – 10:00 a.m. - Fourth Sunday of Advent Worship Service Sunday, Dec. 24 – 7:15 p.m. - Christmas Carols; 7:30 p.m. Christmas Eve “Lessons & Carols” Worship Service - this service shares the Christmas Story from Eden to the Incarnation with scripture readings and hymns Sunday, Dec. 31 – 10:00 a.m. - The First Sunday after Christmas Day Service Wishing you a Merry Christmas & Blessed New Year

Petoskey United Methodist Church Dr. James P. Mitchum, Pastor 1804 E. Mitchell

9:00 p.m. - Glorious Music, Candles & Lots of Carols

(231) 347-2733 www.petoskeyumc.org

Harbor Springs United Methodist Church

10:00 a.m. - Dec. 24

343 E Main Street, Harbor Springs (231) 526-2414

Christmas Eve Service - One service at 5:30 p.m.

www.umcharborsprings.com Sunday, Dec. 24- 11:00 a.m. – Christmas Worship Service. Message

by Pastor Susan Hitts, “Glory to God”. All welcome!

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 7:00 p.m. – Christmas Eve Candlelight Service.

Come and enjoy the Christmas Story, Readings, and Carols. All

Monday, Dec. 25 - Christmas Day Community Dinner from Noon - 2 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 1 - 11:00 a.m. Worship Service Life Tree with potluck at 5:30 p.m.

The Catholic Communities of L’Arbre Croche

324 South Park St., Boyne City (231) 582-9776 Rev. Eun (Cloud) Sik Poy

Jesus Is Lord Community Church at Bayshore

& Lots of Carols

welcome!

United Methodist Church of Boyne City

Sunday, Dec 17 -10:00 am -Petoskey Middle School Sunday, Dec 24 -10:00 am - Petoskey Middle School Sunday, Christmas Eve - 6:00 pm - Pennsylvania Park Christmas Tree Join us for hot cocoa, the Christmas story, & singing carols

231-526-2017 www.cclcparishes.org Rev. Joseph P. Graff, Pastor Rev. Joseph Blasko, Associate

Sunday Worship Services

St. Francis Xavier Church 513 Howard St. (231) 347-4133 Rev. Dennis Stilwell Sunday, Dec. 24 - 5:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. - Music program half an hour before each.

Monday, Dec. 25 - 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. on Christmas Day

Trinity Missionary Church 600 N. Division Rd. (231) 347-3362 www.tmchurch.com Pastor Steve Beigle Sunday, Dec. 24 - 10:00 a.m. Christmas Eve Worship Service

Christmas Eve 10 a.m. Morning Service 7 p.m. Candlelight Service - will be a combined service with UMC Boyne Falls at the Boyne City Church.

Holy Childhood of Jesus Church 150 W. Main St, Harbor Springs

Zion Lutheran Church

United Methodist Church of Boyne Falls

Sunday, Dec. 24th - Mass 5:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.

500 W. Mitchell St. (231) 347-3438 Rev. Matthew Peters, Pastor

3057 Mill Street, Boyne Falls (231) 582-9776 Rev. Eun (Cloud) Sik Poy

Holy Cross Church

Christmas Eve 9 a.m. Morning Service 7p.m. Candlelight Service will be a combined service with UMC Boyne City at the Boyne City Church.

Sunday, Dec. 24th - Mass 7:30 p.m.

United Methodist Church of Horton Bay

1987 Zulski Rd, Larks Lake

WALLOON LAKE

Sunday, Dec. 24th - Mass 5:00 p.m.

Walloon Lake Community Church

4961 Boyne City Road, Boyne City (231) 582.9262 Rev. Michael Neihardt Sunday, Dec. 24 - 11:00 a.m. Service. Join our series, “The Light That Leads Us Home” Sunday, Dec. 24 - Christmas Eve worship will be at 6:00 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 25th - Mass 11:00 a.m.

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 p.m. Services

6624 North Lake Shore Dr, Cross Village

St. Nicholas Church

INDIAN RIVER

Sunday Service 10am with refreshments after church Christmas Eve candlelight service 11:00pm

04320 M-75 www.walloonchurch.com

Monday, Dec 25 - No Service

www.crossinthewoods.com

Monday, Jan. 1 - 10:30 a.m. - Mass

104 State Street 231-547-5269 Pastor Randy Hitts chxumc@gmail.com

Sunday, Dec. 31 - New Year’s Eve Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

7078 M-68, Indian River (231) 238-8973

Barnard United Methodist Church

Charlevoix United Methodist Church

Monday, Dec. 25 - 10:00 a.m. Service

Sunday, Dec 24 - Morning Service Times 9:00 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Evening Services 4:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 4:30 p.m. & 8:00 p.m. - Mass

Saturday, Dec. 16 - Christmas Hymn Singing Program 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 24 - Christmas Eve Worship Service 10:30 a.m Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 8:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Cross In The Woods

CHARLEVOIX 15978 Klooster Road • (231) 547-5269 Pastor Craig Pahl

Sunday, Dec. 24 - 6:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Candlelight Communion Service

Monday, Dec. 25 - 10:30 a.m. - Mass

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Services Bookkeeping Self-employed Certified Public Accountant offering payroll and bookkeeping services at reasonable rates. Serving Northern Michigan. Contact Kristina Pethers, 231-838-8380 or kristinapethers@gmail.com

Construction Alert. Alert. Alert.

Emergency Snow / ice removal.

Advanced Home Improvement/ Roofing /Handyman services.

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Health Care

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The Grandvue Nurse Aide Training Program

Early Deadlines

is offering a class January 8-24, 2018. Classes will run Monday-Friday, 7 am-3:30 pm. Cost for the program is $400, due at the time of registration, to cover tuition, books, and TB skin test. Students who successfully complete this program will be eligible to take the state licensing tests for CNA certification and begin their medical career.

Registration forms will be accepted through December 22 or until class is full. Stop by 1728 S. Peninsula Road, East Jordan, to register; call Jane Korthase (231) 536-2286 with any questions. (231) 536-2286

Landscaping Alpine Landscape. Firewood delivery $70/cord. Leaf cleanup.

Snowplowing & salting. Debris hauling, Afton driveways, brick pavers/walls. Trees/stumps removed. Gaylord (989) 370-3915.

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Thursday, Dec. 21st

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Reasonable rates.

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Alcona Health Center, Pellston Clinic Full-Time Clerical Support Staff Pellston Clinic is currently seeking a full time Clerical Support Staff. Establishes initial contact with the general public, registers patients, verifies medical insurance coverage, itemizes patient charges, accepts payments and follows all policies and procedures. Schedules routine and follow-up appointments and related clerical functions. â&#x20AC;˘ Full time health benefits include: medical, vision & dental, â&#x20AC;˘ Paid vacation and holidays â&#x20AC;˘ Retirement savings plan â&#x20AC;˘ No weekends/holidays Required: High School diploma or general education degree (GED) required. Six months related experience and/or training preferred Send a letter of interest and resume to AHC Pellston Site Manager, 3434 M119, Harbor Springs, MI 49740 EOE

EXPERIENCED PAINTER $200 per room. Patching, priming, painting. Insured.

(231) 838-6765 PAINTING Call Gardner Painting Company for a free estimate.

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The other will provide behavioral health counseling to patients in our Harbor Springs and Indian River clinical sites. Assesses patientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with mental health and/or psychological issues, creates and manages care plans with a care team of primary care providers. Acts as the health center resource for behavioral health. â&#x20AC;˘ The LPC or MSW must be licensed by the State of Michigan as a Licensed Masters Social Worker â&#x20AC;˘ Experience with electronic medical records and mental health billing is preferred â&#x20AC;˘ These positions offer full benefits: â&#x20AC;˘ Medical, Dental & Vision â&#x20AC;˘ Paid vacation and holidays â&#x20AC;˘ Retirement Savings plan â&#x20AC;˘ Monday through Friday no weekends or holidays Send letter of interest and resume to: AHC BHC Director, 5671 N Skeel Ave, Oscoda, MI 48750 EOE

Employment Administrative Human Resources Director

The Human Resources Director is responsible for the HR function including policy/procedure; staff development; employee relations; regulatory compliance; recruitment and benefits.

Required: Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree, minimum five yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience in human resources; two yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; supervisory experience.

Salary: $47,501 to $66,320 with excellent benefits.

Please apply at www.norcocmh. org/job_postings.html E.O.E.

Education

HARBOR SPRING PUBLIC SCHOOLS

is now accepting applications for the follow positions: *Full-time Elementary Counselor *Part-time Music Teacher (K-2) The complete posting can be view at www.harborps.org/employment

INLAND LAKES SCHOOLS

is accepting applications for a Teacher Aide/Paraeducator.

For complete details go to www.inlandlakes.org Click on the District tab. Select â&#x20AC;&#x153;job postingsâ&#x20AC;?. Send resume and letter of interest to Inland Lakes Schools, c/o Brad Jacobs, 4363 S. Straits Hwy., Indian River, MI 49749 or email to aclancy@inlandlakes.org.

The first review of applicants will be held on December 21, 2017.

Healthcare/ Dental

PUBLIC SCHOOLS of PETOSKEY has the following openings: -----------------------* Long Term Substitute for Elementary Special Education * Multiple Academic Para-Professional Positions * Noon Hour Monitor/ Secretary Sub Position * Substitute Custodians -----------------------Please go to www.petoskeyschools.org for further details.

General

Applications Now Being Accepted

for 2018 Seasonal full time positions at Mackinaw Mill Creek Camping for: camp office registration, camp store, and housekeeping positions. Housekeeping, possibly also doing outside duties. Must be available Monday through Sunday, summer season and available Labor Day Week-end. Great positions for student or retirees.

Email application or resume to: us23office@gmail.com

ELECTRICIAN/ JOURNEYMAN Looking for hard working people with good attitudes. Must be physically fit. Experience preferred. Competitive salary.

Please contact Herzog Electric 231-547-9790

New Dimensions Construction

Harbor Springs.

Has immediate positions available for skilled carpenters.

Qualified persons should call (231) 838-4162

Seeking Lead Carpenter, Carpenter & Carpenter Helper Seeking a career craftsman, willing to train the right individual. Full-time, year-round work with full benefits and profit sharing. Contact Maryann at McBride Construction, Inc. Monday -Thursday, 8:00am to 2:00pm at (231)348-2749.

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Medical Support Staff â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Full Time Float Position

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The Behavioral Health Department of Alcona Health Center is currently seeking two full time MSWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or LPC. One will provide school-based individual group mental health services for the Petoskey High School during the school year. The LPC or MSW should enjoy working with children and adolescents as a team member in an independent setting

Education

Charlevoix-Emmet ISD has an immediate opening for a Special Education Teacher.

Found Please visit the website for more information and to apply.

Found Cat: Young white male www.charemisd.org/aboutus/ with 2 different color eyes. jobs Found on West Michigan St. in Boyne City. (231) 582-6902

Friday, Dec. 22nd & Friday, Dec. 29th Our office will close at 2 p.m.

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Rickyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home Maintenance Snow Removal, sand and salting. Tree removal. Servicing northern Michigan. (231)8385440 or (231)203-3664.

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Custom tile showers and flooring. Over 25 years experience. I design and build, as well as remodel, existing baths. Free estimates. Insured. Call Gary Cuttitta any time (989) 928-2796

Snow Removal

Monday, December 25th & Monday, January 1st (no paper published)

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Remodeling/ Home Improvement

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPERVISOR The City of Petoskey has an opening within its Department of Finance for a full-time IT Supervisor. This position manages the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technology operations and implementation of new IT systems and policies and is responsible for operation of entire data and voice networks.

Minimum qualifications include: (1) College associates degree, additional education is a plus; (2) Five yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience in managing information technology and computerized secure network; (3) Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Cisco Certified in relevant areas; and (4) Self-disciplined and able to communicate and work well with others.

A complete job description, application and further information may be obtained from the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website www.petoskey.us, or by contacting Sarah Bek at 231-347-2500 or sbek@petoskey.us.

Applications must be received by 5:00 P.M., December 21 The City of Petoskey is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Community Health Center, Harbor Springs, Petoskey Child Health Associates, Pellston Clinic, Indian River Clinic, Cheboygan Clinic & Pickford Medical Sites Alcona Health Centers is currently seeking a full-time Medical Support Staff to work as assigned in the above clinics. Travel is required.

Assists in examination and treatment of patients under direction of a Medical Provider. â&#x20AC;˘ Must possess certificate or diploma from an accredited nursing or Medical Assistant program. Current State Medical Assistant Certification/Registration or current State of Michigan RN or LPN license. â&#x20AC;˘ Prefer 6 months+ of medical office experience. â&#x20AC;˘ Knowledge of Electronic Health Records, Internet, Microsoft Word and Excel preferred â&#x20AC;˘ Full time health benefits include: medical, vision & dental, â&#x20AC;˘ Paid vacation and holidays â&#x20AC;˘ Retirement savings plan â&#x20AC;˘ No weekends/holidays Send letter of interest and resume to: AHC Clinical Supervisor, 3434 M119, Harbor Springs, MI 49740 EOE

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Healthcare/ Dental

Adult Services Coordinator

Seeking a full-time professional to support individuals with a mental illness in Petoskey and surrounding areas. Monitors person-centered plans of service. Advocates for and assists independent living. Prior work with adults with a mental illness required.

Applicants should have a minimum of a BSW, documented experience as a QMHP or the ability to possess the minimum of an LLBSW or LBSW license through State of Michigan. Starting pay $15.95 with excellent benefits.

See full job posting and apply at http://www.norcocmh.org/ job_postings.html.

LTBB OF ODAWA INDIANS

• Behavioral Health Manager • Great Lakes Fisheries Biologist • Pharmacy Technician

Full job descriptions available at: www.ltbbodawa-nsn.gov Apply at or send application (available on website), resume & cover letter to: Human Resources 7500 Odawa Circle Harbor Springs, MI 49740 PH: 231-242-1555 FAX: 231-242-1565 EMAIL: hr@ltbbodawa-nsn.gov

Assistant Dietary Manager

RESIDENTIAL ADVOCATE

for domestic abuse shelter.

Responsibilities include assisting families, staffing crisis phone line, and general upkeep of shelter. Full-time position with overnight shifts Monday through Friday, weekends, and holidays.

Send resume to Jamie Winters, Women’s Resource Center, 423 Porter Street, Petoskey, MI 49770. E.O.E

RESIDENTIAL ADVOCATE

Great full time opportunity for applicants interested in working at NCCMHs 24-hour crisis treatment program. This position supports adults experiencing a mental health crisis. This is a full time day-afternoon shift.

Must have flexibility to work occasional midnight shifts. Mandatory every other weekend.

Must have good driving record.

Training is provided. Pay range $12.14-16.70. Full time with Medical/Dental/Vision/Life/ Generous paid time off. Apply at http://www.norcocmh.org/ job_postings.html E.O.E.

SHINGLE ROOFERS

needed in all experience levels!

Great pay w/ medical & dental insurance, and room for advancement. Call 231-347-4722 for an interview today!

TRUCK DRIVER

Kilwin’s Quality Confections, Inc. is committed to providing a superior customer experience by supporting our 100+ franchised chocolates, fudge and ice cream stores in 26 states. With planned growth in new and existing markets, we are looking to add to our team of truck drivers in the Petoskey area.

Our drivers not only deliver product to franchised stores around the country, they also serve as ambassadors to our store owners and customers.

Deliveries are hand unloaded into the stores. Trip lengths are typically 4-6 days. All applicants must have a Class - A CDL with outstanding customer service skills. This is a year round job with a competitive hourly wage and benefits.

Please send an email and resume to: careers@kilwinsfranchise.com

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full time 40 hrs per week.

Assist in supervising & coordinating activities of all employees involved in food production & service. Use skilled food preparation & sanitation techniques to prepare & serve. ServSafe certification required within six months of hire. Dietary and management experience required. Excellent benefit package includes health insurance, generous time off, paid term life insurance, and employer paid retirement.

Send resume to HR, Bay Bluffs ECMCF, 750 E. Main Street, Harbor Springs MI 49740 or fax to 231-526-8467 or view www.baybluffs.org and apply on line. E.O.E.

Dietary Aide/cook: part time position 20-29 hrs. per week for a 24/7 Long Term Care Facility: If you are self-motivating, friendly and have dietary/food service experience, we have a position for you. Shifts may vary 8, 10 or 12 hour with varying start times depending on need, week days or weekends.

Double time for holidays worked & paid time off.

Send resume to HR, Bay Bluffs ECMCF, 750 E. Main Street, Harbor Springs MI 49740 or fax to 231-526-8467 or view www.baybluffs.org and apply on line. E.O.E. FRONT OFFICE DENTAL MANAGER The ideal candidate must be personable, self-motivated, organized and possess excellent communications skills, with the ability to multi-task in a high energy environment.

Dental office experience is preferred for this full time position which offers 401k, dental benefits, vacation and holiday pay.

If you fit this description, please send resume to: James Hanchett DDS 11404 N Straits Hwy Cheboygan MI 49721

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Healthcare/ Dental PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION SPECIALIST

Housekeepers full time/ 40 hours per week/ schedule may vary: If you are self-motivated and willing to go the extra mile, friendly and outgoing, we have a position for you. 1st shift is 8am-4pm and 2nd Shift is 3pm-11pm weekdays, every other weekend & rotating holidays. Two full time positions with excellent benefit package including, health, dental, vision and life insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, wellness program and a great support team. Apply in person at Bay Bluffs, 750 East Main Street, Harbor Springs, online at www.baybluffs.org or call 231-526-4406 if you have questions EOE

to work as a group leader with adults challenged by psychiatric illnesses at the Petoskey Club.

Assist in skill building, task completion, vocational rehabilitation, job development/coaching, and facilitation of social/recreational activities. Includes evening, weekend and holiday shifts, and occasional travel. Excellent organizational, time management, and communication skills. Psychiatric rehabilitation experience, education/ training in rehabilitation or human services preferred. Valid Michigan driver’s license or chauffeur’s license, with good driving record.

Full-time starting pay $13.73 with excellent benefits.

Apply and see full job posting at http://www.norcocmh.org/ job_postings.html

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Houses for Sale publisher’s notice:

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD tollfree at 1-800-669-9777. The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

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CNC Technician

2 stools, bar height, carved wood from Crate and Barrel. $75 (231) 526-6036

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Antique bedroom set, maple, good condition. Full-size bed.

Dressing table and chair. Dresser. Mirror. Each piece, $100.

(231) 487-9303.

Bike girl’s, new, Disney Princess, 2-wheel bike with training wheels, 10”. $35.

(231) 881-3273 Blue Canning jars, $2 - $5 each.

(231) 347-4048

SOUTHWOODS PUB AND GRILL Hiring: Servers, Bartender, Cooks.

No experience needed.

Apply anytime.

1007 Spring St. Petoskey MI. 231-487-1710

Chandelier, Nice 6-light brass chandelier with glass accents.

Extra long brass chain. Great shape. $35 (231)439-3286.

China Set, 78 pieces, Noritake Catolyn Pattern, 10 5 piece place settings. 1 Oval Platter, 2 Vegetable Dishes, Salt & Pepper, Gravy Boat, 10 Fruit, 10 Soup, Butter dish, Sugar & Creamer. $300 Pristine condition (231) 838-3324

Christmas Tree with stand, artificial, fire retardant, 7’ high, looks full and natural. $29. (231) 347-2772

For more information please call (231)487-7426

Christmas Wreath, artificial, 36”, decorated, $25. (231)3475425.

Merchandise

Or visit our website for more opportunities!

Contractors. Huge, highly secure, tool box on wheels, called gang box, 60”wx30”dx49”h.

Market price $1,200. Selling $600/firm. (989) 448-0262

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Free TV, with converter. 19 inch. Works Great. Farmhouse Oak dining table, 38” round, expands to 60” (231) 547-1105 oval with 4 chairs, $250. Oak FREE, couch, great condition.

TV stand, 52x45x15, holds 36” (2) chairs, good condition. 3rd TV with smoke glass/cabinet chair, cute, sturdy, but needs storage, $100. Oak component work. Call (231) 487-9303 stand, 25x28x16, with smoke glass doors, 3 shelves, $50 or Antiques & $125 for both. All excellent conCollectibles dition. Call evenings (231) 3477464, leave message.

Fenton Art glass. Made in U.S.A. (no seconds). Animals, Football Hoodie, MSU, Extra vases, pitchers. Approx. 650 large, green therm-a-fit. New, pieces. 50% all pieces. Call has tags. $80 value, asking $40.

(231) 237-0313.

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CAROL FAY

231-330-3999

231-330-0876

JAMIE KARDOSH

TRISH HARTWICK

231-838-2095

PETOSKEY

• Great neighborhood w/ lake views • 5 bedroom, 3 baths • Cathedral ceilings, large windows, fireplace • Beautiful kitchen w/ granite, huge center island • 2 bedrooms on main including master suite w/ covered deck • Family room & game room w/ 3 additional bedrooms • Interior workshop • Large, wooded lot w/ fire pit & privacy Directions: US 31 towards Bay Harbor, turn left on Parkview Dr, left on Mayberry Hill, left on Greenfield Dr, left on Woodland Dr.

NEW PRICE $384,900

PELLSTON

$219,000

JAMIE KARDOSH 231-838-2095 Follow me on twitter @spartan4u Visit my web page www.jamiekardosh.com

MEADOW VIEW FARM

• Beautiful 30 acre farm with barn & Glorie Be building • Farm house renovated in 2001 over 4300 sq feet • Gourmet kitchen, Aga stove, twin Sub Zero refrigerators • Butlers pantry, hardwood floors & outdoor wood burner • Paver patio with pergola • Fenced pastures for the animals and riding trails

MLS # 453042

$789,000

CAROL FAY 231 -330-0876 carol@carolfay.com EY SK TO PE

• Well established restaurant • Close to Pellston Airport on the gateway to the UP • Many new upgrades - too many to mention • Loyal returning customers year round with new customers daily • Existing outside seating and room for expansion • 1 bedroom apartment up with great rental history • Turnkey business with tons of opportunity • Call for a list of upgrades! Must See!

MLS #452033

OPEN HOUSES & NEW LISTINGS

231-838-0411

Sun., December 17 • 1pm - 3pm 1114 Woodland Drive

W FR AT O ER N T

• Master Suite features walk-in closet and private bath • Great Room with fireplace, slider to deck, 6 panel doors • Open Kitchen with island, pantry and all appliances included • 2 Car attached garage, city water and sewer, and natural gas, 2x6 wall construction • Still time to choose your own floor coverings, counter tops and colors • Quality built by Stuck Family Construction

Ammunition, 22 long rifle shells, box of 500. $50.

(231) 548-2915

Bread machine, Farberware, excellent condition. $50.

(231) 547-2627

trish@trishhartwick.com

$179,900, 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths

75 year old 7’ plow blade, $95.

(231) 340-1573

Restaurant/Bar

TRISH HARTWICK 231-838-0411

The “Macintosh”

4 BRIDGESTONE BLIZZAK REVO WINTER TIRES, including 4 original equipment Ford Taurus 16” wheels from a 2005 Taurus. Tire size 215/60R16.

About 50% tire life remaining.

Used during winter season only. $225. (989 350-0720

Become part of a team who promotes a healing and healthful environment.

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Call Tim Fore, Broker @ 616-437-3509 for a Private Showing

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Day, Afternoon, & Night shift -Housekeeping experience preferred - Utilize Innovative Technology - Perks include: Excellent Benefit Package Shift premium: $1.00 - $1.50/hour • varies based on shift

MLS 453589

Conveniently located off W. Garfield in Charlevoix

Bargain Buys

EJ, a leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of access solutions for water, sewer, drainage, telecommunications and utility networks has an immediate opening for a CNC Operator at our Water Products facility located in East Jordan, MI. The qualified candidate must have experience running a CNC machine, Blue Print reading and performing quality auditing checking. Previous experience with Doosan Horizontal Lathes and G-Code reading a plus.

Candidate must possess a High School Diploma or GED. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a stable, respected company which provides a competitive wage and benefit package.

EOE For a full job description and to apply online, please visit www.ejco.com and apply under our careers section.

Nursing Leadership Opportunities – Tendercare Gaylord

Come grow your career today with one of Michigan’s most hard working and dedicated teams of nursing professionals. Be a part of a 4 star facility where you can gain experience and advance your career. We offer a wide range of clinically complex experiences including Ventilator Dependent Care, Long Term Care, Memory Care and Short Term Rehab. Full and Part time positions available with a market leading benefits program, sign on bonuses and student loan forgiveness as well as the opportunity for advancement for qualified applicants. Multiple positions available including: • Unit Manager/ADON Memory Care; RN Required • Unit Manager/ADON – Short Term Rehab; RN Required • MDS Assistant – RN Preferred • RN Supervisor • LPN Supervisor Call 989.732.3508 now or apply online at www.tendercaregaylord.com

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• 2.46 Acre lot • Good family neighborhood • Mostly wooded • On a dead-end road

MLS 453089

$14,900

MARK ASHLEY 231-330-3999 www.PetoskeyProperty.com

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Misc for Sale

Making over $20,000 a year?

Confused about home buying?

We may be able to help you buy a home! Ask about Home Buyer Education or 502 loans.

Lindsey, Northern Homes CDC 231-582-6436.

Gun, Mossberg Partriot, 7mm Mag with scope, less than box of shells through it. $650 or best offer (231) 330-3203

Ice Fishing: Mora auger, $30.

Spud, $10. Buddy heater, $60.

Tip ups, $3 to $8. Rods, $8 to $15. (231) 547-4138 Model cars and trucks, downsizing, large collection, cast steel, all years, makes, colors, sizes. $5-$50. Priced to sell.

Ted, (231)881-4601

Houses for Sale

Dining Table, Round 42â&#x20AC;? (62â&#x20AC;? w/leaf) wood Canadel pedestal dining table. Washed Hazelnut color. Like new. $350 OBO. 231.437.3180

Mud/snow tires, 1/2 life on Snow Tires, 4 Bridgestone steel rims. 195/65/15. $80 for R18 with chrome wheels, like new.

(313)617-4078 both. (231) 330-5979 Petoskey Area Printer, Dell Photo All-In-One 926. And 2 new ink cartridg- Used Tires, Most sizes. Also es. (9XL color /9XL black). $25. new tires. Reeds Quality Auto Repair. 231-347-0308 (231) 537-2741 Youth Bedroom set, like new!, Propane Heater, Mr. Heater Stanley Oak 7 piece set, capBig Buddy, safe for indoors, up tains bed, Tempur-Pedic matto 18,000 BTU, new, still in box. tress, night stand, desk /chair, $75 firm. (231) 357-4571 3 tall drawer/shelf units. Must Recliner, excellent condition. see!. $1200 OBO 231-838-8230 Dark blue power recliner. $250.

(231) 347-7509, between 9 a.m.

Wanted to Buy and 4 p.m.

Recliner, ottoman, Ekones, Stressless, Navy. As is, $90.

(231) 242-4656

CASH PAID: for Snowmobiles. Dead, Dying, or unwanted 1980-2018 any condition easy Record Collection oldies but transaction. Cash in hand any goodies: Sinatra, Springsteen day (231) 373-6908 Rock, contemporary, classical (60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s). Too many to mention. $5-$40. Ted, (231)8814601 I BUY junk cars and trucks. $25 - $125.

Sewing Machine, Sonata Call (231)218-3815 Model 6621 Sew Ease. $100.

(231) 203-4352

Snow Scoop, 30â&#x20AC;? wide, galvanized, for driveways and roofs. $25. (231) 582-3765.

Saxophone Wanted to buy.

(Tenor saxophone) Intermediate Snowblower, NEW Simplicity, or Professional level. (231) 439deluxe single-stage, with elec5181 tric start, and snow shredder auger $600 or best offer (231) Snowmobiles/ATVs Wanted 497-6030. will consider most 1990-2017 running or not damaged ok as Snowmobiles: well. Paying cash!! Will come to *1992 Polaris Indy 500 $700. you to pick up anywhere! Call or *1997 Skidoo Formula III 600. text 231-881-3618. $950 (231) 548-0031

Star Wars books, (17), $15.

Jonathan Rand books (18), $20.

Coca-Cola Barbie, $50. (231) 347-0340.

The Imaginext Systems for children 4-10 years old. (6) big boxes. $75. Call 231-347-0087.

Rentals

Unfurnished

Registered AKC Fox Red Labrador Retriever Puppies.

Christmas wreaths, all siz- (3) Female and (3) Males. Ready es, fully decorated starting at to go January 3, 2018. $800. $11.95. Garland, Bundles of Call 231-487-1893.

Boughs, Red Sticks, Swags, Grave Blankets, Babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Breath.

Pre-Cut Christmas Trees. Apples, Squash. Monday-Friday, 9-5:30, Saturday, 9-5, Sunday, 12 to 4. (231) 347-6735.

Must See!!

Open daily, Nov. 22 - Dec. 24 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Pre-cut trees or cut your own.

3133 S. Pleasantview Rd. Harbor Springs (231) 838-9826 or 838-4646 BUY SELL TRADE new or used model trains. Lionel, MTH, Marx, American Flyer, Bachmann, Mantua, MRC, Model Power, Accurail. Call after 12noon, (989)389-3881

Houses for Rent

Accepting Applications for 2 bed, 2 1/2 bath, 1000 feet from Petoskey Library. Unfurnished, 1 year lease. $1,200 plus utilReferences needed.

Petoskey and Conway 2 bed- ities, room units, $700 and up. In- Non Smokers. (231) 330-3948 cludes major utilities. Good ASPEN VILLAGE, Gaylord, credit required. Lease. No dogs now accepting applications. 2 or smoking. (231)838-1111. or 3 bedrooms with 1 or 2 baths.

Petoskey, 2 bedroom, $600. $650-$950/month includes garNo smoking or pets. Referenc- bage pickup. Clubhouse with es, credit check. Deposit. Year fitness center. (989)732-4417. lease. (231)347-8851.

Newly updated Petoskey Petoskey/Harbor Springs Cozy walkout, 2 bedroom, area. Young Seniors, age 55 2-1/2 baths, garage, fireplace, plus, 1 bedroom, $620 free garden deck, close to town. heat. Single 4 plex, quiet, coun- References, year lease. $1,650/ try setting. Photos on-line. month. 231-838-6321.

(231) 622-2004

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Request For Bids

Request For Bids

LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY BANDS OF ODAWA INDIANS Invitation to bid

Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians are accepting proposals for on call handyman for several rental properties. Provisions governing these Invitations to Bid may be found on the LTBB website under Bid Proposals or the link below.

WWW.LTBBODAWA-NSN.GOV/PROPOSALBIDDING

Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farm Market

Bosma Christmas Tree Farm

Garage/

Downtown Petoskey, Large 1 Storage Space bedroom. No smoking, No pets. $600 per month + heat, deposit. Storage units for rent, heatMonth to Month (231) 347-9878 ed optional. Charlevoix Mini Storage, (231)547-5838.

Dogs

Tires, 4 Bridgestone Blizzak WS80, 225 65/17, used one AKC registered Golden Reseon. Sold car kept tires. $399. triever puppies. 4 male/2 female. Ready for their forever (231) 620-5342 home 12-23-17. Brimley, MI. Call/Text 906-322-4428. $850.

Limited Registration.

Misc for Sale

Villas for Rent

Petoskey: 1-2 bedroom semi 2 Bedroom/2 bath furnished furnished. Over looks the Bay. condo, Charlevoix Country Club. Washer & dryer, 2 flat No tobacco. No pets. screen TVs, Bose stereo, gas Credit Check $640 month fireplace, dishwasher. $1,250 (231) 838-6784 a month includes utilities. Call 231-582-1540 for more info.

Apartment

Charlevoix. Newly constructed 1 bedroom, 1 bath. 1-1/2 miles from town. Private setting.

Includes water, sewer, plowing. Washer/dryer in unit. $875/ month. (231)675-5829.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Food and Beverage Concessionaire â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bayfront Park CITY OF PETOSKEY Request for Proposal: City of Petoskey is seeking a concessionaire to provide seasonal food and beverage services at the concession stand area located at the Resource Center Building at Bayfront Park.

Proposal Documents and Submission: Proposal specifications and proposal forms are available online at http://www.petoskey.us/bid_posting/index.php or at Petoskey City Hall, 101 East Lake Street, Petoskey, MI 49770.

Real Estate

(B-12/12,12/15) Request for Qualifications for Architectural Services

Houses for Sale Loan/Grants

to help buy and rehab a home.

Northern Homes CDC. 231-582-6244.

Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB), is looking for architectural firms to submit a Statement of Qualifications to become eligible for a possible interview regarding a project to evaluate two (2) properties and provide potential uses and cost estimates for uses and later to design and provide construction administration for the projects . LTBB is a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe having headquarters located in Harbor Springs, Michigan. Although, this solicitation is for a specific project, Qualifications Statements are held by LTBB for a period of time and may be considered for other projects. Also, experience working with LTBB is ranking factor for future projects. The selection process will be conducted in accordance with standard Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) criteria and procedures. If you have questions on only the standard process, you may call QBS at (517) 332-2066 or e-mail questions to mail@acecmi.org and reference â&#x20AC;&#x153;QBSâ&#x20AC;? about the standard selection procedure or you may go to www.qbs-mi.org.

Office Space for Rent Charlevoix Office Space for lease, 800 sq. ft. $500 per month. Ample parking and desirable highway exposure. (231) 547-4486.

Rooms for Rent

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Vacation Rentals

Olde Town Naples Florida, 3 bed, 2 bath, first floor. Central Gardens Association with full length heated pool. Available January 2018. $3,000 Monthly only. Pat Verhelle 231-881-4321

Auto Cars - Used

1978 Ford Lincoln Mach 5 $2000 or best offer. (989) 3063788

1987 Cadillac Brougham White, runs good. $2000.

(989) 306-3788

1999 Mercury Marquis, 4 door, 136,500 miles. New tires, Alanson Rooms for rent. Com- new parts. Rides like a dream, pletely furnished. $400 a month, runs good. $1,800. (231) 536private bath, mini fridge. $300 0572. deposit. (231) 373-7522.

2002 Chevrolet Monte For rent. 2 or 3 beds with at- Carlo, 142,000 miles. Very tached bath. $175 or $200. Incl clean. Good tires. New battery. utilities, cable, WIFI. No pets. Runs good. Navy blue. $2,100 Alpine Country Inn, off Old 27, (231) 536-1183 north of Waters. (989)732-2703.

2006 Chevrolet Impala. Runs Rooms for Rent Extended very well. Needs no work.

Stay. Construction rates avail- $1,250/best. (989) 350-0567 able. Includes: housekeeping, cable TV, phone, microwave, 2011 Ford Crown Vic, good fridge, WI-FI, utilities. No smok- condition, used, with dog cage ing/pets.

Coach House Inn, and back seat. 108,041 miles.

1011 US-31 North, Petoskey. Asking $2,300. (231) 547-4046 or (231) 342-2905.

(231)347-8281.

2013 Subaru Impreza 2.0i Premium Sedan, Symmetrical AWD, 35 combined MPG, heated seats/ mirrors, Weather-tech Looking for a Winter Cabin mats, aluminum wheels, 61,600 Rental? We have 3 Month rent- miles. $13,900 (231) 548-1800 als available. Starting at $1150.

2-3 Bedroom Fully furnished, Call Sandy Mattingly @ Pine Cone Properties 989 858-1120.

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Request For Bids

Request For Bids

CITY OF PETOSKEY

2018 West Lake Street Project

INVITATION TO BID Sealed bids for the installation of +/- 2,100 feet of Water Main, +/11,000 square feet of Concrete Sidewalk, +/- 2,800 feet of Concrete Curb & Gutter, +/- 800 tons of HMA Pavement, (3) Storm Manhole structures, and other related appurtenances, clean-up, services, work and materials will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, City of Petoskey, 101 E. Lake Street, Petoskey, MI 49770 until 2:00 PM local time, January 10, 2018, at which time the proposals will be opened and read. The bid opening is open to the public. NO BIDS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 2:00 PM. Bid documents, plans & specifications may be reviewed at City Hall, 101 E. Lake Street, Petoskey, Michigan, or may be obtained at www.petoskey.us/bid_posting/index.php. All bidders will be required to register as plan holders. Failure to register may result in the Bidder not being informed of Addendum, and lack of acknowledgement may result in the bid being rejected as nonresponsive. A pre-bid meeting will be held at 11:00 A.M., Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at City Hall, 101 E. Lake Street.

Questions regarding this project should be addressed to Joseph Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Benchmark Engineering, Inc., Harbor Springs, Michigan 49740, via email at benchmark607@gmail.com or telephone (231) 526-2119.

The City of Petoskey requires contractors and subcontractors be pre-qualified prior to commencement of construction. A Bidder who is currently pre-qualified to bid work in the City of Petoskey, is qualified to bid this project.

The successful bidder shall be required to enter into contract with the City of Petoskey and to provide proof of Workers Compensation and Public Liability insurances.

Please submit your bid in a sealed envelope clearly marked with â&#x20AC;&#x153;City of Petoskey â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2018 West Lake Street Projectâ&#x20AC;?. The name of the company submitting the bid must also be clearly marked on the outside of the envelope.

The City of Petoskey reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals and to award to the bidder whose bid best serves the interest of the City. The contract completion date is June 15, 2018.

Bidders acknowledge that no contract is created until a written contract is approved by the City Council and executed by the City. The City is allowed to perform additional investigation after Council action and prior to execution of the actual contact.

Four copies of your Statement of Qualifications should be sent to the following address and received no later than 3:00 pm, December 29, 2017.

No proposal may be withdrawn for a period of 60 days from the day of the bid opening.

Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. Attn: Housing Departmet, 7500 Odawa Circle, Harbor Springs, MI 49740

All proposals shall include a bid bond or bank letter of credit in the amount of 5% of the contract amount.

(B-12/15)

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Petoskey: 2 bedroom, $875 month, plus security deposit. Includes utilities. No smoking / No pet. Now taking applications. Charlevoix: 3 bedroom 2 bath, (231) 347-9489 $1,200 month, plus security deposit. Option to buy. Includes Windmere Pines Apartwasher/dryer, 2 car garage. ments, Harbor Springs, now accepting applications for Close to Ski Hill and Lake Michwait list 1 & 2 bedrooms, rent igan. References needed. No starts at $545.00 (Based on in- pets/smoking. 231-547-6600, come if qualified), Barrier Free 231-342-2905. unit available, contact John samhunt59@yahoo.com 231-330-2333, Susan 800-968- Petoskey: 3 bedroom, 2 bath.

1792,. Equal Housing Opportu- $1000/month plus utilities. nity, TDD 711, This institution is Includes washer/dryer. Close an equal opportunity provider. to High School. Available now.

(231) 409-3031 Condos/Duplexes/ No pets. No smoking.

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Tires (4), 205/60R16 92R Blizzack. $90. (231) 622-4773 Tires, (2) Cooper. Slightly used.

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Cars - New

New 2017 Ford Fusion, clearance time, priced to go!!! Only $17,999 with rebates. Call Bob or Alan for details!! Bob Mathers Ford. (231)582-6543

UNIT 1 $550,000 • UNIT 2 $650,000 Call Mac today at 231.838.7700 to schedule a personal tour.

Mac McCarthy, Broker/Owner • 231.838.7700 • mac@gaslightgp.com • 215 Howard St., Petoskey

Snowmobiles

Trucks

2012 Ski-Doo TNT 800 4,100 miles, like new condition $5,700 Call 989-860-0415 for more information

1974 Ford F-250 California truck, no rust. 80,000 original miles. Too many new parts to list. Best offer over $5000.

(989) 448-2590

SUVs & 4 Wheel Drives

2001 Dodge Sport 3/4 ton, with 7-1/2’ Western plow, newer tires. New alternator and battery. $3,700 or best offer. (989) 731-1334, after 5 p.m.

Vans

Motorcycles

1998 Ford Windstar. Must Sell!

Runs great! Does not leak or burn oil. New tires. Over 180,000 1996 Kawasaki 800.

2007 Cadillac SRX, V6, auto- miles. $600 or best offer (231) $2000. (989) 306-3788 matic, air, 3-row seats, leather, 330-3334 Call after 4pm full power, moon roof, dual air, cruise, 148,000 miles. Blue w/ Pickups gray interior. $4,499. (231)4371994 Chevrolet 1/2 Ton 4 3501.

2006 Chevrolet Uplander LT, budgetofcharlevoix.com wheel drive with plow. Runs 72,000 miles, 6 seats, loaded,, good. $3,500 (989) 732-3324 Very good condition. $3,100.

231-838-8947

2006 Ford F-150 XLT super cab. V8, automatic, air, trailer tow, full power, bed cover. Grey 2-tone, 131,000 miles. $8,999.

(231)437-3501. budgetofcharlevoix.com

2008 Dodge Ram 1500 SXT crew cab, 4x2, V8, automatic, air, trailer tow, 189,000 miles, silver. $5,999. (231)437-3501. budgetofcharlevoix.com

2008 Chrysler Aspen Limited, 4-door, 4x4, V8, auto, air, leather, moon roof, 3rd row seat, trailer tow. Vanilla.

151,000 miles. $7,999. (231)437-3501. budgetofcharlevoix.com

2008 Jeep Patriot Sport, auto, air, full power, AWD, 4-door, aluminum wheels, tinted glass, beige, 125,000 miles. $5,999.

(231)437-3501. budgetofcharlevoix.com

Snowmobiles 1998 Polaris XC600 and 1995 Skidoo 300 80 CC Touring E. $1,700 for both (will not separate). Located in Waters MI. (248) 701-4432

2010 Ford Edge XLT, 4 door, 2004 Yamaha SX Viper. Elec- AWD, V6, automatic, air, full tric start and reverse. $2,200 or power, 155,000 miles. Silver. best offer. (989) 619-2393. $8,499. (231)437-3501. budgetofcharlevoix.com 2005 F7 Arctic Cat, or2015 Chevrolet Equinox; ange, 7,400 miles. Many All wheel drive, 36,000 miles, off extras.

Garage kept. lease. Like new. Warranty, well $2,550, firm. equipped. $16,900 Ed’s Used TEXT ONLY, before 8 p.m.

Cars (231) 536-7953 (231) 838-1548.

Looking to transfer vehicle 2011 Yamaha Nitro. Electric lease. 2018 Chevy Equinox LS start and reverse. Excellent (Charcoal) AWD. 15,000 mi./yr. shape. $5,100 or best offer. $309/mo. Lease expires April, (989) 619-2393.

2020. Call/Text (231) 838-7885.

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The final 2 units are now under construction at Petoskey Lakeview Condominiums. The Developer has saved the best for last with these two Northwest facing units! Perched on a high ridge these 4 Bedroom 4 bath boasts 180 degree panoramic majestic views of LittleTraverse Bay capturing Petoskey’s famous Million Dollar Sunsets. Between Petoskey and Bay Harbor directly across from the LittleTraverse bike path, you can’t beat the view or the value.

Contact Mac for floorplans, finishes and completion schedule.

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3273 VALLEY ROAD, PELLSTON

PRIVATE 75 ACRES OVERLOOKING A WONDERFUL POND AND MAJESTIC WOODS. Log sided custom built home with all the bells and whistles! Open floor plan with plenty of room for entertaining on both the main floor and the partially finished walk out basement. Lower level is set up for extended family or all those up north guests. Soaring stone fireplace flanked by built in media storage. Huge master en-suite features a Koehler garden tub, cozy gas fireplace, marble bath floors AND a luxurious whole body spa shower. Two additional 30 x 40 pole barns.

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CHARLEVOIX COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SYNOPSIS DECEMBER 13, 2017

Public Notices Bear Creek Township

POSITION AVAILABLE Bear Creek Township is accepting letters of intent for an opening on the Parks and Recreation Committee. This position is paid per diem and anyone interested in applying, please send you letter to Bear Creek Township, Judy Mays, Clerk, 373 N. Division Rd., Petoskey, MI 49770.

The deadline for accepting letters is December 22, 2017. If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 347-2455.

Judy Mays, Clerk (L-12/11,12/13,12/15)

Zoning Ordinance Amendment- Adopted

The Eveline Township Board of Trustees adopted Ordinance No. 1212 of 2017, an Ordinance to Amend the Eveline Township Zoning Ordinance, Section 4.6 Waterfront Greenbelt and Water Quality Protection Alternatives and Section 10 Definitions on December 12, 2017. The provisions of this amendment will become effective on December 23, 2017. A public hearing was conducted by the Eveline Township Planning Commission on September 13, 2017. Additional information can be obtained by contacting Sandi Whiteford, Clerk at 231 536-3533 or evelinetwpclerk@gmail.com.

The regulatory effect of this amendment: The amendment relates to Waterfront Greenbelts and Water Quality Protection Alternatives. The amendment will allow for limited alterations to waterfront greenbelts for views and lake access. The process requires the submittal and approval of a Waterfront Greenbelt Landscape Plan (WGLP).

(L-12/15)

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Eveline Township 2013 Chrysler Town and Country Handicap mini van with side ramp. All power.

Excellent condition. Only 26,000 miles. Call Ris for details in Lansing 517-2308865.

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The Charlevoix County Board of Commissioners met in the Charlevoix County CommisGarage Sales sioners Room on December 13, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. Six Commissioners were present.

Motion approved the agenda as 5861 Charlies Run presented.

Harbor Springs Motion approved the consent agenda as presented.

Dec. 15th & 16th Motion approved ResoluFriday & Saturday tion #17-118, Approve County 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Expenditures.

Motion approved Resolution Great Items For Sale!! #17-119, Grandvue Operating Patio Set, Pool Table, Tools, Transfer.

China, Furniture: Bedroom The District Sanitary Code reSets, Household Items, quires the Board to appoint 5 Linens, Books & More!! people to serve, currently there are 3 Commissioners on the Northern Michigan Real Board. The issue was tabled Estate Services and the matter will be revisited (231) 838-1301 at the January 2018 meeting.

Motion approved Resolution #17-120, Agreement for Extension Services.

Motion approved Resolution #17-121, Service Agreement.

Motion approved Resolution #17-122, Computer Replacement.

John Haggard discussed a consolidation election on Beaver Island. Motion approved to direct civil counsel to prepare the necessary resolution to go forward.

Kevin Shepard reported on the website statistics and reviewed Misc. employee changes.

Board members presented their Equipment liaison reports.

Chairman Evans cancelled the Ford 4000 tractor with 7’ blowmeeting December 27th. The er. $6,000. Both in good condiChairman set the next meeting tion. (231)526-7980. on the 2nd Wednesday in January per the normal meeting schedule.

The meeting was adjourned to the call of the Chair at 10:40 a.m.

Complete copies of Board minutes can be found on the County website, www.charlevoixcounty.org.

Cheryl Potter Browe, County Clerk (L-12/15)

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Hay for sale, 1st cutting, square bales, $4. 1st cutting alfalfa, $6. Second cutting alfalfa, $8. Straw, $3. Spider Web Ranch, 5413 Whitehouse Trail, Gaylord. (989) 983-4401.

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