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his Republican party do not seem to get how important our freshwater is. They think pipelines should carry oil. Water is far more valuable than oil and Michigan sits on 20 percent of the world’s freshwater supply.

Bergman’s opponent understands this and has pledged to take this message to Washington.

We can and should be the center of a major effort to develop technologies that Michigan can supply to the rest of the world. The Republican party of Teddy Roosevelt knew that conservation was the true conservative value. Unfortunately Republicans sold out to the oil and extractive industries years ago and we the taxpayers have been left with their bills.

Dr. Daniel Wickham, Petoskey

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Young Voters Are Important

I hope young people will vote this fall, bearing in mind the consequences for their futures. The most important issue is global warming; Left unchecked, its consequences will be huge and terrible for them and their children.

Republicans, including Trump, are global warming deniers. Pence even promotes the use of coal – possibly the worst contributor to atmospheric CO2.

Republicans will cut taxes on the wealthy, increasing the concentration of wealth at the top, to the detriment of middle and working classes. Republicans want to privatize social

Barbara Abbott, Lake Leelanau

New Team

In 2010 Rick “the nerd” Snyder took over the Governorship of Michigan and vowed to work with the Republican legislature to solve all of Michigan’s problems. Snyder began with a billion-dollar cut in business taxes, much of it taken from the education budget. To help balance the budget the GOP legislature increased taxes on seniors and families with children.

Snyder promised the tax cuts would create jobs, but six years later job growth has been anemic and Michigan’s schools are in the bottom 20 percent in student achievement.

After three successive highly-paid emergency managers, Detroit schools are worse than before. The children of Flint have been poisoned by a penny-wise and poundfoolish decision to skip proper treatment of water. Now Snyder is using millions of your tax dollars to defend himself from legal charges arising from the Flint disaster, while he has appointed a former British Petroleum lobbyist to head the Department of Environmental Quality.

It is time to send in the other team. Vote Democratic for Michigan legislators on November 8.

Alice Littlefield, Omena

Water Over Oil

As a former enlisted man, I discovered how rigid the mindset is at the senior officer level. Generals think they should be “obeyed” and they get used to it. That is not a characteristic that serves someone in a deliberative body like Congress. I started a company in Petoskey 15 years ago to produce technology that allows us to treat human waste and protect our vital freshwater resources. General Bergman and

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Three Generations of Soldiers............................10 Life After Wartime............................................12 Maritime Museums.............................................14 The Healing Power of Guitars...........................15 Veterans for Veterans......................................16 Something Wicked.............................................17 Seen.................................................................18

Counting Votes

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Forget the hoopla about rigging elections.

We have plenty of potential for problems just by errors built into our system, and sadly they happen too frequently. For instance:

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Does your vote count, or will it even be counted?

security, making it disappear into Wall Street. The list goes on and on.

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Did you know that over 15 percent of absentee ballots in some precincts in Grand Traverse County were not counted in the August primary? That was more than enough votes to change the outcome of the election, and unfortunately neither the candidates nor the voters will ever know if their vote was counted.

There was a recount on the Green Lake 2013 millage election, and one precinct was uncountable because of a small error (procedures have since been improved).

Elsewhere, there have been cases of candidates losing by one vote, but there was no recount because of a simple error.

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Spectator/Stephen Tuttle...................................6 Style.................................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates.................................26 The Reel.......................................................27 Advice Goddess..............................................28 Crossword.....................................................29 Freewill Astrology...........................................30 Classifieds......................................................31

Voter mistakes on election day are caught by ballot scanners and a new ballot can be issued, but mailed in ballots are not afforded a second chance, unless the election challengers accept some minor discrepancy.

Consider being a poll watcher or an election challenger to provide extra eyes to help ensure procedures are followed. That is how we know our elections are honest.

David Petrove, Interlochen

Did You Know?

The GOP controls: 248 of 440 seats in the House, 54 of 100 seats in the Senate, 31 of 50 Governorships, and 70 of 99 state chambers.

And they want you to believe Obama is ruining America!

Add to the above that corporations have sent Americas jobs overseas to improve their bottom lines, not Obama. Then there is the “do nothing Congress” for the past eight years, spending 30 hours of the week raising money to get re-elected. Is anyone listening?

Ronald Dykstra, Beulah

There’s No Comparison

Trump and Clinton had the same experience campaigning: Somebody jumped up on the stage. One candidate waddled off quickly with the Secret Service; the other stuck to her guns, despite the urging of the Secret Service and kept on talking.

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Little wonder that Putin is doing what he can to get Trump elected. He recognizes the type of the cowardly bully, can think circles around him, and push all the right buttons.

Little wonder, too, that he is doing his best to assure Clinton’s defeat. He knows she is the smarter and more courageous candidate. And he has experienced her toughness firsthand when she stood up to him as Secretary of State.

We can’t have a man leading this fine democracy whose ignorance of domestic and foreign affairs is rivaled only by his lack of interest, whose contempt for women is rivaled only by his contempt for all of you good and patriotic citizens who pay your taxes, and whose emotional maturity is that of a 10-year-old.

Please, don’t assume Hillary is a shoo-in.

She isn’t. Trump’s true believers will all vote. You and your patriotic friends have got to vote, too.

Porter Abbott, Northport

Affordable Housing Is Good Business

From our oldest area businesses we learn this to be true: no pickers, no product.

Development with intentionally integrated affordable housing is not charity. It’s just good citizenship, good sense and good business.

As we consider the character of Traverse City, there are two lines of reasoning in which we would wisely consider affordable housing as an essential factor.

First, some look at “vertical development” allowing tall buildings as creating excessive density downtown, changing the homey character we enjoy. But if we avoid that increased density, population growth takes the alternative route – horizontal sprawl.

And the low-wage workers needed by the downtown employers will be pushed even farther from their jobs and public transportation.

Second, we have lately been considering tax revenue generation as a key factor in determining best land use. According to this, low-cost housing generates less tax and falls in line behind higher-cost housing. But housing for workers ought not to be merely a part of a liberal agenda or an act of charity.

As the region’s fruit-growing industry grew, farmers developed their land not only with revenue-producing trees and vines, but also housing for the workers. Worker housing on the farms is not a revenue-generator, but a capital cost as essential as machinery and materials. And workers are provided with housing not out of charity, but out of awareness of their value to the enterprise.

Liberal or conservative, we need affordable housing to be considered as good business as well as good caring.

John Daniels, Traverse City

It’s About Character

I love Traverse City. In my lifetime TC has cleaned up the waterfront and opened Hull Park, the Tart Trail and other recreation areas; it has great culture and outstanding restaurants. All the changes show that TC

can grow while still keeping its “small town character” and best qualities. That’s what attracts residents and visitors alike, all of which bolsters our economy.

Last year I learned to my surprise that the City Zoning Ordinance allows 100-foothigh buildings in the downtown C(4)(c) district with a Special Land Use Permit (SLUP) – i.e., all along State Street on both sides from Pine to Boardman. Besides the Pine St. project, a “tall” building is being planned next to the Park Place. If unchecked, soon State St. will be a canyon of tall buildings. Those urban canyons are exactly what visitors and many residents have left to come to Traverse City. If we lose our character, we will kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

Clearly building heights have been controversial. History shows that the 1999 Zoning Ordinance is out-of-sync with community’s desires for the last 20 years.

There has been constant pressure since 1994 at the Planning and City Commission as well as the ballot box to keep building heights to six stories or less. Yet city hall has not addressed the issue, probably because it does not fit the New Urbanism ideology of a few. Proposal 3 allows the people to decide.

Vote “yes.”

Judy Nelson, Traverse City

Development At All Costs?

Other cities have put limits on building heights because that is what their citizens wanted. Those cities are doing quite well as popular tourist destinations; Naples and Savannah are two good examples.

Those who oppose Proposal 3 ask us to rely on the system and its “vigorous vetting process.” But how has that worked for us lately? The process failed completely in its recent test on tall building projects because the SLUP process was botched from beginning to end. The Pine Street developers failed to submit the necessary information and merely asserted that they met each SLUP criteria. City staff and commissions just repeated those unsupported assertions and and voted to approve the SLUP anyway, not long after three new commissioners took their seats last year. It was development at all costs, the fix was in, and it was not a thoughtful process.

Judge Rodgers vacated the Pine Street project SLUP for a lack of evidence, and he told the city commission to revisit it. To date the city has failed to do so. The developer has not been forthcoming with required information, and some on the commission and staff apparently are clueless about how to evaluate an application.

By contrast, the new Munson neo-natal center has done it all right; they propose a tall building in an appropriate place with no public subsidies, so it should be approved.

It is time for residents to have a voice on future tall building projects. I have more faith in the voters of the city than in the process as it is today. Vote “yes” on Proposal 3 and don’t be misled by all the rhetoric, misinformation and doomsday predictions.

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Kent Anderson, Traverse City

URBANISM PART OF TRAVERSE CITY’S DNA opinion

By christie minervini This week we learn if Traverse City residents will require a public vote on every new building proposal over 60 feet. Regardless of the outcome, Proposal 3 has shown that our community desperately needs to have an adult discussion about the larger issues of growth and development.

After reading Grant Parsons’ harsh attack on New Urbanism in the October 17th issue of this publication, I am compelled to help set the record straight. While I hold Mr. Parsons in high regard, I also have great respect for the ideas and people he has so unfairly criticized.

Mr. Parsons: “Instead of collaborating with residents, city hall spackled over all questions with a “one answer fits all” New Urbanist policy, tacked a veneer of “affordable housing” over luxury condos, and declared it a done deal.”

New Urbanism is not a “policy.” It is a planning and development approach that encourages walkability, connectivity, mixed use and diversity, mixed housing, quality architecture and urban design, traditional neighborhood structure, increased density, green transportation, sustainability and quality of life. Housing downtown, however, is a policy— on the local, state and national levels.

Downtown development opponents have consistently questioned the Pine Street developers’ plans for affordable housing without clearly recognizing that the Michigan State Housing Development Authority doesn’t consider applications for low-income housing tax credits until a project has its local approvals. This includes receiving a Special Land Use Permit (SLUP) from the city.

We know that they were likely to receive the credits from the state, especially considering its proximity to urban amenities and public transportation. This was never a guise— a major partner had a successful history of developing affordable housing, and this was part of their plan from the beginning.

I also find it disingenuous stating that city hall didn’t “collaborate with residents” when planning, even though they were working within current zoning and more broadly, the framework of the Grand Vision— a regional approach to development which channels most new growth toward already built-up areas, and which is based on the preferences and comments of nearly 15,000 area residents.

Mr. Parsons: “City hall did not decide the tall buildings project based on city zoning.

It adopted New Urbanist ‘dense downtowns’ policy. It decided taxpayers should pay millions, and cranked up a PR campaign.”

economic, health, and environmental impacts on communities.

Buildings from 68-85 feet are currently envisioned and allowed in the small C-4c district just to the south of our historic downtown along State Street. Developers can build up to 100 feet in these areas with a SLUP and this has been part of our zoning code since 1999.

I have written about Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in the past, so in the interest of brevity: Both Downtown Development Authority (DDA) TIF and Brownfield TIF invest captured funds for a fixed number of years and in a defined district, which in turn benefits the community with vastly-higher taxable property values. But for these incentives, little or no redevelopment takes place.

Lastly, there is no proof that the city “cranked up a PR campaign” to promote density. The city and the DDA did contribute $5,000 each towards a $30,000 study of Grand Traverse County tax values. No one can argue that the results, which showed that higher-density properties generate disproportionately higher property taxes, were in any way manipulated or altered to give these findings. Indeed, this was leadership responding to critics by actually doing the math. Unfortunately for Mr. Parsons, the math doesn’t support his claims.

Mr. Parsons: “No doubt, some city hall functionary read a book – or attended a taxpayer-funded junket – and listened to some pinhead from a large metropolitan area pitch a doctoral thesis version of snake oil.”

I suspect that had Parsons actually read a New Urbanism book or attended a conference, he wouldn’t be making this assertion. New Urbanism’s emphasis on smart growth has been broadly recognized and utilized by urban planners, architects, developers, community leaders and historic preservationists all over the country.

Finally, there is nothing “new” about New Urbanism. Although it arose as a movement in the 1980s, it is based on centuries-old principles of how our best cities and towns have been built: walkable blocks and streets, housing and shopping in close proximity, and accessible public spaces. This has gradually influenced many aspects of real estate development, urban planning, and municipal land-use strategies — including those in Traverse City.

This is a baseless accusation, as there is no evidence that a “dense downtowns” policy was used in place of city zoning. In fact, the uses and scale proposed on Pine Street were consistent with the City’s Master Plan and zoning through the SLUP process.

Over the years, Traverse City Planner Russ Soyring and planning commissioners, along with many city residents, have advocated for including some of New Urbanism’s best practices in the City Master Plan and zoning ordinances. These are not the ideas of fools or charlatans. These concepts form the DNA of Traverse City’s birth and growth. Rediscovering these concepts, and then building upon them, has contributed to the evolution of Traverse City, and to the very character that some opponents claim they are trying to protect.

Planners have encouraged density in urban core areas because it offers an alternative to the sprawling, single-use, low-density patterns that have been shown to inflict negative

Christie Minervini owns Gallery Fifty at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, and is active in causes of education and homelessness in the Grand Traverse region.

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top five 1 GROUNDWORK GROWS LOCAL FOODS Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities is expanding north.

They plan to open a Petoskey office in early 2017 and launch an initiative called the “Northern Farms Foodshed” in Emmet and Charlevoix counties.

The program will work to expand farm-to-school programs in the region, attempt to get healthier options at food pantries and meal sites, and expand food assistance programs at grocery stores and farmers’ markets.

Ultimately, Groundwork hopes to expand the markets for local farmers.

Groundwork will host three community meetings in the region in November.

The first takes place Nov. 9 from 5pm to 7pm at Petoskey Farms Vineyard and Winery. There will be meetings in Charlevoix and Boyne City on Nov. 10 and 17. For more information, visit www.groundworkcenter.org

bottomsup Royal Farms Unpasteurized Apple Cider Stew Patrick McGuire and his wife, former National Cherry Queen Sara Veliquette, are the owners and operators of Royal Farms, where they’ve been serving up their famed Montmorency tart cherries, plus pies, preserves, and other goodies, all summer long for years.

Once fall arrives, though, the farm is all about its apples: Snow Sweet, Cameo, Candy Crisp, and Crimson Crisp, plus one of northern Michigan’s favorite apples, the Honeycrisp. If you’re ready for sweet apple heaven (and who isn’t this time of year?) try the farm’s Honeycrisp apple pie or a sweet, fresh-dipped caramel apple.

One of the most anticipated outpourings of apple season is of course apple cider, and many say that Royal Farms’ is one of the best in the region. Its unpasteurized apple cider is a perfect old-fashioned autumn treat — crisp and sweet and ready for the company of a sugared donut. Given that 15 pounds of pressed apples make 1 gallon of cider, you can easily imagine how much apple flavor is stuffed into each glass.

Royal Farms’ apple cider is always great cold, but don’t forget that it also can serve as a super-seasonal holiday beverage when mixed with a dash of cinnamon and spirits and served up hot in a festive mug.

Royal Farms is located in Ellsworth at 10445 N. US 31, 231-599-3222.

— Kristi Kates

Izzy & the catastrophics American roots group Izzy & the Catastrophics stitches together rock n’ roll, swing, surf, honky-tonk, & bebop. They perform on Sat., Nov. 12 at 8pm at Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey (presented by Blissfest; tickets: blissfest.org), & on Sun., Nov. 13 at 4pm at Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. 947-9213.

FROM THE BATTLEFEILD TO THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR A disabled Army vet launched his own business thanks to a program that encourages entrepreneurship among veterans.

Travis Mandenberg was among the first soldiers to see combat after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result.

Mandenberg struggled to find a meaningful vocation and eventually discovered a love for photography and videography.

That led him to start a multimedia production company in Traverse City and as a disabled vet, he got financial and business support from the VA Accelerator Program.

Mandenberg’s company focuses on corporate, commercial and event videos, but he’d like one day to produce a television show.

To learn more about Mandenberg, visit http://tfmstudios.com. To learn more about or donate to the VA Accelerator Program, visit www.vaaccelerator.com.

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VOTE ... OR NOT

APPLE DUMPLING spectator by stephen tuttle

A whole Michigan Jonathan apple baked in a flaky crust topped with caramel.

It’s almost over. For many of you, it’s already mercifully, blissfully, thankfully over.

What is it we’re going to get, or already got, for our votes? And does it really matter? If we took the political ads and mailers seriously, it would be pretty obvious nobody is worthy of our votes.

There’s a stark contrast between the major party candidates at the federal level, but none of them have much new to offer. Politicians claiming the sky will surely fall if we don’t elect them is hardly a new strategy. Donald Trump’s explanation of things might sound different, but once you find an actual policy hidden among the hyperbole, you discover it’s all been proposed — and mostly rejected — before.

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The folks we elect impact our daily lives, in ways large and small, starting when we wake up and not ending until we drift back to sleep ... on a mattress regulated and approved by the government.

Despite campaigns that too frequently appear to have slithered up out of a septic tank, our decisions on election day are pretty important.

Having said all of that, let’s skip on by the entire “It’s your patriotic duty to vote” business.

Even if you stayed home eating leftover Halloween candy and watching bad movies, you are still entitled to all the rights and privileges of voters.

It’s a bit more difficult discerning the differences between local candidates, especially legislative candidates, because they’ve mostly just insulted each other for the last couple of months. The advertising from the state parties and third-partyindependent entities has been even worse.

The only good thing about this year’s foulsmelling political ads is that they were all so bereft of real information they encouraged us to do a little research on our own. Lo and behold, some of the candidates actually have real positions on real issues. Who knew?

Speaking of research, did you do yours on the boards of regents candidates? Do you have any idea what they actually do? Did you know they receive no compensation for their eight-year terms?

These people we’re electing make decisions. Lots of decisions.

They decide how much tax we pay, where we can live, what we can build, where we can drive and in which direction. They decide whether or not we can fly and to where, the kind of education our children receive, if we can or must have health insurance. They can decide what we can grow and where, what is in what we eat, if we have clean water.

They decide what we can put in our bodies, who gets to cut our hair, who gets to call themselves a doctor or a lawyer.

They decide if we go to war and which of our young men and women will be put in harm’s way.

They decide what we can send out of the country and what we can bring into the country. They decide how much you pay

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to use all those amazing gadgets to which we’ve become addicted. Locally, they even decide where we can go for a swim.

The same constitution giving us the right to vote noticeably does not require that we do. You, as an American citizen, get to decide who will represent us at the local, state and federal levels — or you can decide to simply skip the entire thing.

Maybe you don’t believe your vote matters or there are just no candidates in any contest at any level who have earned your vote. Maybe you’re just too busy with work or the kids or both. Maybe you just don’t feel like it.

But if you don’t vote you don’t have the right to complain about the government, right?

As long as the government involuntarily takes some of our money in the form of taxes (as it does, at a minimum, every time we purchase much of anything) we’ve earned the right to offer our opinion.

Voting is not the entry fee for participation in our communities, whether it’s doing honorable volunteer work or grumbling about our government. The ubiquitous “I voted” sticker, which many of us wear with pride, is not anall access pass to anything. Even if you stayed home eating leftover Halloween candy and watching bad movies, you are still entitled to all the rights and privileges of voters.

The best reason to vote might be the most selfish: to prevent others from electing someone who will impact our daily lives.

Maybe it would help to remember that the people with whom you have the strongest political disagreements always vote.

Your one vote might not make a difference in the final outcome though there have been plenty of elections decided by a single vote. But wouldn’t it be nice to know you at least canceled out the vote of that person?

Crime & Rescue MOTHER AND DAUGHTER KILLED A mother driving with her three children crossed the centerline and crashed head-on with a tow truck, killing the 25-year-old woman and one of her daughters.

Two children – a 6-year-old and a 10-day-old -- were airlifted to DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids and expected to survive. The mother and an 8-year-old girl were killed at the scene, Benzie County Sheriff’s deputies said.

The car caught fire after the crash and the tow truck driver and a bystander were able to pull the two surviving children from the vehicle. The tow truck driver suffered only minor injuries.

Deputies believe the woman fell asleep at the wheel. The crash occurred on Homestead Road in Benzonia Township at 4:53pm Nov. 1.

TAINTED CANDY REPORTED A parent found what appeared to be a piece of razor blade in a Tootsie Roll handed out on Halloween in the Village of Wellston.

Manistee County Sheriff’s Undersheriff John O’Hagan said the possible sabotage appears to have been an isolated incident and after several days no other tainted candy was reported. He said there were no leads in the investigation.

A mother told police that the object appeared in a piece of candy given to her 16-month-old child at a “trunk-or-treat” event at the Norman Township Hall.

UNRULY HOUSEGUEST ARRESTED An intoxicated houseguest prompted a woman to call police and flee her Leelanau Township home.

Deputies responded at 6:33pm Oct. 31 to an Omena Road home where a woman said that her 46-year-old boyfriend threatened her with a pair of scissors.

She said she’d been dating the Mt. Pleasant man for two months and that he was staying at her house but that he became intoxicated, started throwing things and pushed her before he threatened her with a sharp object.

Deputies arrested the man for domestic abuse, malicious destruction of property and possession of marijuana.

OVERDOSE REVERSED A man hanging out outside of a Cadillac gas station seemed off and people suspected he was on drugs.

Cadillac Police arrived at the Admiral station on South Mitchell Street at 4:33pm Nov. 2 to find the 28-year-old Mesick man frothing at the mouth. The man was on the ground and barely breathing.

Officers administered a dose of the opiate overdose reversal drug Naloxone and administered CPR when he quit breathing. When the man came to he admitted he used heroin, police said.

Paramedics took him to the hospital.

Cadillac officers have carried Naloxone since December and this was the first life they saved with the drug, Capt. Eric Eller said.

MAN WHO TOOK LIFE PLEADS Alanson resident Nickalas Willard Murrell pled no contest to a charge of drunk driving causing death and to one charge of attempted unlawful use of a motor vehicle and he will be sentenced as a three-time habitual offender.

The 26-year-old is accused of taking his employer’s van, driving drunk and causing a crash that killed Lorri Dawes, a 38-year-old mother of two from Grand Rapids. The crash happened July 23 on M-119 north of US-31 in Emmet County.

Dawes’ husband and two children suffered serious injuries in the crash.

WOMAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS Police who responded to a suspicious

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vehicle parked on the side of a highway in Elmwood Township on Halloween found a woman slumped over the steering wheel, a victim of a suspected drug overdose.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Bugai Road near Hoxie Road at 10:54pm where they found a 54-year-old Traverse City woman passed out in the driver’s seat of a green Chevrolet.

Deputies found an empty bottle of prescription pills that had apparently been filled earlier in the day.

The woman was taken to Munson Medical Center to be treated for a drug overdose and deputies submitted a request for charges of operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs and driving on a suspended license.

MAN CHASED INTO WOODS; ARRESTED When state police received a tip that a vehicle stolen in Missaukee County was near Fife Lake they tracked down the pickup and tried to pull over the driver.

The driver sped off and led police on a chase down two tracks, across snowmobile trails and into a swamp.

A trooper damaged his patrol vehicle in the woods and had to stop; the suspect also abandoned his vehicle in the woods near Fife Lake Road and Mayfield Road in Grand Traverse County.

Police arrested 35-year-old Leslie Robinson after a lengthy pursuit with a tracking dog. Robinson had several warrants for his arrest and will face a variety of new charges.

ANOTHER HEROIN DEALER SENTENCED The latest of numerous cases of people charged with bringing heroin and cocaine from Detroit to sell in Traverse City ended with a prison sentence.

Larry Davis Jr. will serve 10 to 20 years in prison for delivery of over 50 grams of heroin after he was sentenced in the 13th Circuit Court Oct. 27.

Davis was found to have spent almost a decade bringing drugs to northern Michigan from downstate, according to Traverse Narcotics Team investigators. Davis’s case was the last of a string of related drug investigations into a drug pipeline from downstate to northern Michigan, according to a TNT press release.

Hanson’s son, Luke, had gone to Community Mental Health in Traverse City that morning to say that he had been doing yard work and gotten into an argument with his father two days earlier. Luke Hanson told his caseworker that his dad, who he lived with, got angry and took out a knife and lunged at him, deputies said.

Luke Hanson said he took out his own knife and swung it at his dad but that he wasn’t sure whether he injured him. Deputies found the older Hanson in his yard with his neck slashed. Luke Hanson faces a charge of open murder.

MAN DIES IN FIRE A man died in a Roscommon County garage fire.

Neighbors noticed the building ablaze at 6pm Oct. 31 on West Houghton Lake Drive.

Roscommon Township firefighters arrived and extinguished the fire. They found an adult male body inside the garage, state police said.

Troopers from the Michigan State Police Houghton Lake Post are investigating the origin of the fire and the cause of death.

The last-minute plea was held on a weekend so that jurors called to court for a trial scheduled to begin on Oct. 31 could stay home.

PEDESTRIAN STRUCK AND KILLED A 63-year-old Adrian man up north on a fishing trip was struck and killed as he walked to his motel from McDonald’s before sunrise in Bellaire.

Robert Fultz was walking near the fog line with traffic when he was struck in what appears to be a tragic accident, Bellaire Police Chief Bill Drollinger said.

The Kalkaska woman who was driving was not cited. The incident occurred at 7:09am Nov. 2 on South Division Street near Alden Street.

PLEA HELD IN COP SHOOTING Charlevoix County Circuit Court convened on a Sunday afternoon so that a man about to stand trial for shooting and injuring a police officer could plead guilty.

James Franklin Cook, 54, faces up to life in prison on convictions of attempted murder, resisting arrest causing serious injury and three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon.

Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies spotted Cook in a stolen car in May 2015 and approached him, leading to a standoff in which Cook drew a weapon and fired.

Deputy Fred Hasty was struck and injured.

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SON ACCUSED OF KILLING DAD A 31-year-old Acme man is accused of stabbing and killing his father.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a Bunker Hill Road home Oct. 28 where they found Milton Hanson, 70, dead.

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Round Up The Usual Suspects (“Youth Pastors”) Sentenced to six years in prison for sex with teenage girls (September): former Youth Pastor David Hayman, 38 (Hackensack, New Jersey). Sentenced to six months in jail for sending inappropriate texts to teenage boys (August): former Youth Pastor Brian Burchfield (Shawnee, Oklahoma). Charged and awaiting trial for impregnating a 15-year-old girl (October): Youth Pastor Wesley Blackburn, 35 (New Paris, Pennsylvania). Sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual abuse of a 16-yearold girl (September): former Youth Pastor Brian Mitchell, 31 (North Olmsted, Ohio).

Charged and awaiting trial for luring teenagers into prostitution (October): Youth Pastor Ron Cooper, 52 (Miami). Sentenced to 90 days in jail as part of a sex assault case involving a 13-year-old girl (September): former Youth Pastor Christopher Hutchinson, 37 (Parker, Colorado).

An “Ant” Version of Hell Researchers in Poland reported in August the “survival” of a colony of ants that wandered unsuspectingly into an old nuclear weapon bunker and became trapped.

When researchers first noticed in 2013, they assumed the ants would soon die, either freezing or starving to death, but, returning in 2015 and 2016, they found the population stable. Their only guess: New ants were falling into the bunker, “replacing” the dead ones.

Thus, ants condemned to the bunker slowly starve, freezing, in total darkness, until newly condemned ants arrive and freeze and starve in total darkness -- and on and on.

Judicial Activism Jackson County, Michigan, judge John McBain briefly gained notoriety in October when a Michigan news site released courtroom video of a December 2015 hearing in which McBain felt the need to throw off his robe, leap from the bench and tackle defendant Jacob Larson, who was resisting the one court officer on hand to restrain him.

Yelling “Tase his ass right now,” McBain is shown holding on until help arrived -- with Larson perhaps undermining his earlier courtroom statements claiming it was his girlfriend, and not he, who was the aggressor in alleged stalking incidents.

Names in Florida News Arrested in October and charged with kidnapping a 4-year-old girl in Lakeland: a truck driver, Mr. Wild West Hogs. Arrested in West Palm Beach in August and charged with trespassing at a Publix supermarket (and screaming at employees), Mr. Vladimir Putin. And in August, at the dedication of a new unit at Tampa General Hospital’s pediatric center, longtime satisfied patients attended, including Maria Luva, who told guests her son, now 8 years old, was born there: Ywlyox Luva.

Perspective In 1921, researchers for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife stated categorically in a journal that “the one predatory animal” inspiring practically nothing “good” is the mountain lion, but recent research in the journal Conservation Letters credits the animal for saving the lives of many motorists by killing deer, thus tempering the current annual number (20,000) of driver-deer collisions. Even killing deer, mountain lions still trail pussycats as predators; researchers in Nature Communications in 2013 estimated that “free-ranging (U.S.) domestic cats” kill at least 1.4 billion birds and 6.9 billion small mammals annually.

Least Competent Criminals On the way to the police station in Youngstown, Ohio, on Oct. 19, after being arrested for, among other things, being a felon in possession of a gun, Raymond Brooks, 25, asked an officer (apparently in all seriousness) whether, after he got booked at the station, he could have his gun back. (The police report did not specify whether the officer said yes or no.)

Recurring Themes -- Sovereigns! The director of the Caribbean Cultural Center at the University of the Virgin Islands, facing foreclosure of her home by Firstbank Puerto Rico, decided she was not really “Chenzira Davis-Kahina” but actually “Royal Daughter Sat Yah” of the “Natural Sovereign Indigenous Nation of ...

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-- “Emotional Support” Animals: Daniel, age 4 -- and a duck -- accompanied a woman in her 20s in October on a flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Asheville, outfitted in a Captain America diaper and red shoes to protect its feet, occasionally (if inadvisedly) giving the woman a peck on the mouth. Reporting the event was author Mark Essig, who has written favorably about pigs but admitted he’d never before been on a flight with “companion poultry” and mused whether Daniel, gazing out a window, experienced an “ancestral” yearning to fly.

-- The Art of Smuggling: At press time, Leston Lawrence, 35, an employee of the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa, was awaiting a court decision on charges that he stole $140,000 worth of thick gold coins (“pucks”) that, over time, were taken from the mint in his rectum.

The mint’s “highest security measures” never turned up a puck on or in Lawrence; he was arrested after the mint investigated a tip that he had sold an unusual number of them for someone of his pay grade.

Government in Action Mayor Paul Antonio of Toowoomba, Australia (pop. 100,000), admitted he had picked an uphill fight, but still has recently been handing out cards to men on the street asking them to help the city (in unspecified ways) become completely free of pornography. Though the city has several tax-paying sex businesses (even a strip club and a brothel), Antonio’s message (augmented by public confessions of men burdened by their porn habits) is directed at the internet’s ease of access to images of male “dominance and power” over females.

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“THEY DON’T WANT TO BACK US UP WHEN WE COME HOME”

The Northern Express talked with three generations of soldiers and learned that northern Michigan is a relatively good place to be a veteran, but it’s never been harder for veterans to return from war.

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hree soldiers sat down with the Northern Express over donuts and coffee to talk about what it’s like to be a vet in northern Michigan. The men span three generations, but they echoed one sentiment: Today’s new vets have it tougher than ever, and there should be more support for them when they return home.

The Express talked to Richard Rizzio, born in 1925, an Army vet who served in World War II and fought in the Battle of the Bulge; Larry Lelito, born in 1946, a Marine Corps vet who saw 13 months of combat in Vietnam; and Martin Wilcox, born in 1960, a retired Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Northern Express: Two years ago the Department of Veterans Affairs was rocked by scandals. Its leaders vowed to reform and improve the delivery of health care. How is that going?

Larry Lelito: I think they’re going great, around here.

Martin Wilcox: Definitely. Around here. Especially the Traverse City area.

Lelito: I spent the winter in Phoenix, and it’s not as good out there as it is here. They have more problems.

Richard Rizzio: They’re trying to get the “choice” program going, and it’s not going very good, but they’re working on it. This is where, if you need medical help, and it’s farther than 40 miles, you can go to another doctor.

Wilcox: Or, if you’ve been on a waiting list for a period of time, you can see a civilian doctor.

Rizzio: They’re working on it. Overall, we don’t get near the complaints or the problems we hear from down below. In fact, everybody seems to be happy with the situation here.

Express: You all sound pretty positive about northern Michigan. It’s a good place to be a veteran?

Wilcox: This area is more friendly toward veterans. I got to go to a lot of places, visit a lot of different communities, and people are not always there for the veterans. I can say, this area up here — Traverse City, Kingsley — they’re there for the veterans. They help out a lot. It makes a difference to a lot of veterans.

The community up here, it’s not a military town, but the patriotism for the vets is there.

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Anywhere they go, if they see you are a vet, they acknowledge you.

Lelito: I’ll tell you something, when I got back from Vietnam, one of my jobs was traveling around the United States, setting up an honor guard for people that were killed over there. And also I was an MP — I would go and pick up guys that went AWOL. So I got to see what was going on around the United States and the view of Vietnam veterans, which was very, very poor. A lot of times you couldn’t wear your uniform because you were advised not to in certain cities. I visited Traverse City when I was still in the service. Never been here before. And I came here, and I was welcomed, and there was no bias or anybody against the war or anything.

Everybody just treated me normal. That was 1969. And I thought, after traveling around the United States and seeing all the things I’d seen, I thought, I’m coming to Traverse City, and that’s where I’m going to live.

Express: What do you think are the biggest challenges nowadays for the younger vets, either in northern Michigan or in general?

Lelito: One big problem is these vets that are coming back from these wars — and I could say this for any war — they need a rest period. They need a period to regroup, not have

bills coming in, and just to find themselves and take a year, or maybe more if they need it, and be supported by our community and our government. Not to have to go out and find jobs, but to take care of their families, get reorganized into civilian life. But no. The way it is, is, you get discharged, you have to go to work. You have to find a job.

Wilcox: You hit it on the head. You need that transition period. When you’re coming back, especially when you served in-country, you get in a mindset, and it’s a nasty world where you’re at. And when you come back, you’ve still got a lot of those thoughts going through your head.

Rizzio: Yeah. It takes a long time to clear.

Wilcox: I’ll give you an example. When I first got back to the states, I was driving a car, I was always wondering, “Wow, is there an IED [improvised explosive device] up there or what?”

You’re just having thoughts of what was going on when you just left. And you need that transition period to readjust to civilian life.

Rizzio: There’s a big difference between the guys coming home today and the guys coming home when I did. I really don’t believe we had anywhere near the pressures coming

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out of World War II. Instead of post-traumatic stress, it was battle fatigue or combat fatigue, but the toughest part of coming back then was that thousands and thousands and thousands were coming back. And jobs just weren’t there. So you took whatever job you could. But I see what they guys are going through today, and I tell you, I had it easy compared to what they’re doing.

Express: What would you propose? A mandatory rest period?

Lelito: The veterans’ office here can look at your record book and make a diagnosis real fast. Anybody that has been in combat and has shed blood for their country automatically deserves top priority. And anybody that went off to serve their country, not necessarily in combat, but in a foreign land, they need top priority also. They need to be cared for, they need to be taken care of, and they need that rest period. When I got back from Vietnam, I got dumped off by myself. I didn’t come back with a group of guys. And I had $300 to make it back to Traverse City, where I wanted to live. And I still smelled like the jungle and gunpowder. I was a scout sniper. I was in combat for 13 months. And there was no rest period. No nothing. And you need that. You can’t just come out of that scene there, where there’s death all around you for 13 months and then come back to civilian life. You just can’t. It’s hard.

Rizzio: You know, the big difference between the guys coming back today, and Vietnam guys, too, and us, back in World War II — we knew who the enemy was. We knew the good guys. We knew the bad guys. The regular army, the Wehrmacht, they wore green uniforms. The bad guys were in the black uniforms — the SS troopers. They were the real tough ones. What am I getting at? We knew basically what was going on and what we had to do. I look at the guys coming back today, and I’m thinking, “My God, they know who they’re fighting, but they can’t identify them.

They don’t know what’s going on until the damn bomb goes off or some idiot fires out of nowhere.” So this is why I think they’re having so much brain trouble. All this tension of wondering. I wouldn’t want to be there today.

There’s absolutely no way I would go. To have to go through that pressure, not knowing who’s the bad guy? Is he the bad guy? Is he the bad guy? And all of a sudden you’re bombed.

And now these guys have to come back and live a normal life, with all that pressure. That’s why we’re having so much trouble. You call that a war? It’s a war, but it’s hell to put the guys through that.

Lelito: You come back a different person. You’re

not the same as before you left. Your spirit has been broken, and you’re a new person.

Lelito is a mentor at the Peace Ranch, south of Traverse City, where veterans can spend therapeutic time with horses. Lelito believes this is transformational.

Lelito: A big help for people that are suffering from combat stress is being around other vets that have been through the same thing, because you can hold each other up, you can give each other knowledge. You take a group of veterans in a therapy group, whether it’s Peace Ranch or through the VA, you start to bond, and you get to know each other, and you bounce off one another. When one guy needs information, we brainstorm it. With that amount of brain power and with that many guys that have had situations, somebody’s bound to have an answer to your question.

All three veterans agreed that despite the relatively good conditions for veterans in northern Michigan, the VA on a national level doesn’t do enough for veterans who are returning from seemingly endless conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are angry more isn’t being done to combat the struggles that veterans encounter finding jobs when they return to civilian life. They are outraged at the rate of suicide among veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wilcox: Right now you have an all-volunteer military. If you don’t have people that are going to serve willingly, the draft will come back.

Rizzio: And what incentive is there for them to go in when they see this kind of stuff?

They’re coming back with brain injuries more than ever before. They’re coming back, having trouble getting jobs. Case in point — I’m not going to mention the person’s name, very close friend of mine, I know her well.

[She has] two sons, both in Afghanistan. One of them comes back, he’s perfectly normal.

The other guy’s a bloody mess. He can’t come out of it. It’s the way different people react to what they go through. I think you’d be nuts to go in today. I wouldn’t. And you’re not going to call me a coward. I went through nine months of straight combat. I’m highly decorated. It’s a tough call for the guys today, a very tough call. What’s the answer to it?

Lelito: The answer is to treat the veterans better. It’s simple.

Rizzio: We understand this. But the public, the government, the press — how do you get to this? It’s got to come from the top. Our VA is a nightmare as far as I’m concerned. Not here in Traverse City, but overall.

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Lelito: The veterans themselves need to raise hell. That’s what Vietnam veterans did. It was a stigma, and we weren’t going to put up with it. We fought ’em and won. There’s 5,000 of us that got together and formed a class action lawsuit over this Agent Orange thing, and we won, and it got things rolling.

Now these people coming back, they need to fight. They need to get things straightened out in our government or become part of the government, whatever it takes. One thing I’ve noticed, these troops coming back that have seen intense combat, they’re so stunned. They are stunned. They can’t fit in.

They need us to take care of them.

Lelito believes the government should start a program that would take some of the veterans who have not been negatively impacted by combat, train them and employ them to take care of veterans who are suffering from combat stress. That would provide more employment for vets and offer another layer of help.

Express: You believe that veterans today face tougher challenges than ever.

Rizzio: This situation we’re going through now, with what’s going on over there, it’s not going to end tomorrow. I hope I am wrong.

But I can see this thing going on and on and on, the way we’re doing it. It’s not the kind of wars we’re used to fighting, where you get in and you stop ’em. And all these guys are coming back with that same feeling, with the pressure, the mind problems. Somebody’s got to straighten this out.

Lelito: These vets are struggling much more than even I would say the Vietnam veterans that were stigmatized when they got back.

These reserve guys that have served four or five tours of duty in a foreign country, their families are broke up, their jobs are broke. They joined the National Guard as pretty much a weekend warrior or whatever. Well, they get deployed, they go over to Iraq, Afghanistan, wherever it might be. They serve their time, they come back, their job is still there. Normally their family is still there. They get deployed a second time. Then they come back and their boss [says], “Geez, this is the second time,” and the wife is distraught, and the kids don’t know their dad like they should. Third time’s a breaker. It’s a job-breaker, a family-breaker, a life-breaker. Everything goes haywire then for them. If they’re lucky enough to have things together and then go on a fourth or fifth deployment, which is not uncommon, their life is destroyed. It’s just the way it is. And I see it over and over and over again. And that’s wrong.

Wilcox: It’s one of the issues that’s going on right now, you can watch it on the news. You

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got troops in there, in combat situations, right now, that are taking fire, they’re in bad areas.

But is our nation calling it a combat zone? No, they’re not. They’re not even calling it a police action. You watch the news — you’ll see soldiers from the 101st right now, over in Iraq, fighting. All right? They are taking fire. In fact, we just lost one, a guy from the Navy. But the current government is not calling it combat.

Rizzio: It comes down to one thing. They want us to go in the service, men and women. They want us to go in, without any argument, but they don’t want to back us up when we come home. In other words, we can go in, that’s OK — they want guys to keep on volunteering to go in. But the care is not there when we come home. Not so much back in my day, but now. They’re not being looked after. They’re not getting the backup they should get.

VETS MILLAGE VOTE COMING UP IN GT COUNTY

A millage to fund the Grand Traverse County Veterans Affairs Office will be on the ballot this Tuesday, Nov. 8.

The county is asking for .12 mills to raise $563,000 per year for six years. The measure would cost the average county homeowner $.78 per month.

The office connects veterans with services and benefits available through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund. Currently, the department is funded through the county’s general fund.

The veterans who talked to the Express praised the county office and the work of its staff and executive director, Charles Lerchen.

Vietnam vet Larry Lelito said the department is crucial to the lives of veterans and deserves to be funded. Without the countylevel services that enable vets to navigate the larger, labyrinthine world of veterans benefits, Lelito believes many vets would be lost.

“Sometimes I still wake up and can’t believe that I get the benefits that I do. The health care. The pension. Everything. And it’s because of the veteran’s services at Grand Traverse County Veterans Affairs Office,” Lelito said. “These people are first responders. They are unsung heroes. They don’t get enough credit for what they do.”

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Waugoshance Light Station, circa 1931, 19 years after its abandonment. Rusty but still in good condition. (Photo courtesy of the Gail M. Snow family collection.)

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By Kristi Kates f you’re a lighthouse aficionado, or if you’ve taken any of the sightseeing cruises that go past Waugoshance Point, just south of Mackinaw City, you might already know that the Waugoshance Lighthouse is falling apart. In fact, it’s crumbling so badly that it’s considered one of the most endangered lighthouses in the world and is even included on Lighthouse Digest’s “Doomsday List.”

What you might not know is that the lighthouse is in such bad shape because it was bombed by the United States Navy.

“It’s been known for many years that the lighthouse is in such horrendous condition because it was used for target practice during World War II,” said historian Terry Pepper, the executive director of the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association. “But the nature of how and why wasn’t widely known until the past three years or so.”

Pepper extensively researched the lighthouse to get the answers to this puzzle. His investigations included researching historical information from the National Archives in Washington D.C., plus various other archives and libraries across the United States, including several in Michigan. Much of it correlated with information shared by personnel at Wilderness State Park, where the lighthouse is located. We talked to Pepper to learn the lighthouse’s story.

Northern Express: So how did you confirm that an actual bombing was the reason the lighthouse is so destroyed?

Terry Pepper: There were ordnances [bombs] found in the water around the lighthouse, plus what they thought was some sort of chemical residue. Wilderness State Park and the state of Michigan felt it was necessary to investigate what was left, to make sure that it wasn’t unsafe. So they brought a research company in, and they ended up with huge reams of information that they shared with me as a historian.

Express: What was Waugoshance Lighthouse’s story before the bombing?

Pepper: In 1851, when the lighthouse was built, it was actually the first freestanding lighthouse in the Great Lakes. It was built to guide mariners around the turn from the Straits of Mackinac into Lake Michigan, through very shallow water. It was also the first lighthouse with a Fresnel lens in the Great Lakes, and it served as a primary navigation source. So unto its own self, it’s a historically important lighthouse.

Express: So how did it get from that elite status to being a lighthouse in trouble?

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Pepper: The red-and-white-striped White Shoal lighthouse [just northwest of Waugoshance] was built in 1910, and it basically rendered old Waugoshance obsolete. They took the equipment out of the Waugoshance Lighthouse and then just walked away. It wasn’t even locked up.

Back in the ’30s, you could just go in and walk around in there. So here’s this lighthouse sitting out there, not being used. It’s still owned by the federal government. And it’s slowly decaying. Then we got into World War II, largely because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Once that happened, it was realized we needed to build a force of aircraft carriers and train [pilots] to take off and land from and on the carriers. So they proposed the idea that a couple of aircraft carriers be put on Lake Michigan.

Express: Why Lake Michigan?

Pepper: The Germans were causing havoc in the Atlantic with U-boats, and the Japanese were controlling the Pacific. So they were looking for somewhere safe to train and settled on the Great Lakes.

Waugoshance Light Station, circa 1900. The lighthouse was painted white with a red roof and a red band on the tower. A large, 100-foot-square pier of protection served to protect the soft limestone foundation. (Image courtesy of the National Archives in Washington.)

Express: Did they bring full-sized aircraft carriers into Lake Michigan?

Express: What happened after the three months of testing?

Pepper: Actually, the Navy purchased a couple of old side-wheel steamers and converted them into aircraft carriers called The Wolverine and The Sable. They were sailed into Lake Michigan, and the whole operation was based out of Navy Pier in Chicago. The pilots would take off out of Glenview [near Chicago], the Wolverine and Sable would steam out into the lake, and the pilots would practice.

Pepper: The program was deemed to be feasible when the drones were able to be controlled remotely. [Pilots] found that they could drop bombs and torpedoes onto the lighthouse, and they were also able to crash the drone planes right into the lighthouse. They kept improving the drones, then, after three months, [the drones] were considered useable and a workable way to wage war. The program in the Great Lakes was ended, and they moved on to test the drones on islands in the Pacific. But they actually only used the drones a few times during wartime; the U.S. soon dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and the war was effectively over, so the drone planes were no longer needed at that time.

Express: Did this work well? Was it a good method for training?

Pepper: Well, yes — even though over 100 aircraft ended up in Lake Michigan when they didn’t succeed! [Twenty-seven aircraft have been recovered since World War II.] Express: And we’re still down by Chicago at this point, correct?

Pepper: Yes, but there’s much more to the story. The Japanese had started flying highly powerful planes loaded with explosives right onto the decks of American aircraft carriers.

Express: Like kamikaze pilots?

Pepper: Yes, the Japanese would volunteer for this. Even though it was suicide, it was considered a great honor. So the U.S. was trying to figure out how to counteract that, when a man named David Sarnoff [of RCA radio] said, “I think if we were to put a television camera in the aircraft, we could remotely operate it, unmanned, with a pilot in a second plane controlling it using radio signals.” The Navy became interested in this, so they provided funding and established a drones program starting in 1942. But to continue, they needed to be able to transport the drones to the Pacific, where they could attack the Japanese vessels. The safest place to test this also was deemed to be Lake Michigan. They established a naval air station in Traverse City, moved the equipment and drones there, and looked for a more remote place to test them. This ended up being the area around Waugoshance Point.

Express: So the lighthouse became target practice.

Pepper: Exactly. The abandoned lighthouse was still there. The Sable sailed north from Chicago to the west arm of Grand Traverse Bay, the drones were loaded onto it, and the carrier was sent into the Straits of Mackinac.

Then, over three months, test attacks were made on Waugoshance Point and on the lighthouse itself.

Express: What happened to the lighthouse? It was just left there with all the damage?

Pepper: Well, when it was being bombed, everything inside combusted. So there’s no roof and no floors. Later on, some time in the late ’70s or early ’80s, someone even stole the iron stairs from inside. So, yes. It’s in very bad shape. If you go out to Waugoshance Point today, you’ll still see the tubular frame of an airplane glider sitting there, and divers have found inert ordinances in the water. In 2005, the Navy’s Underwater Ordnance Recovery Unit came up to Waugoshance, and identified several inert bombs on the lake bottom. They detonated them safely in the water, and now the whole area is considered safe.

Express: I see why the lighthouse is considered endangered. Are there any plans for it?

Pepper: It’s now owned by a non-profit group, the Waugoshance Lighthouse Preservation Group.

[The group’s members] had an engineering study done, and they want to try and stablize it, to see if they can put a roof on it and preserve it. But it has to be structurally sound first.

Express: It sounds like it could really teach a lot of history, if it were finally made safely accessible to the public.

Pepper: That’s the thing — its story is particularly interesting because it encompasses a great deal of time, distance, and history. It’s still one of the most historically significant lighthouses in all of the Great Lakes.

For more information, visit terrypepper.com, waugoshance.org, and lhdigest.com.

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By Kristi Kates Take a road trip into a watery world of artifacts and exploration and explore the lives of working and military sailors. If you’re looking to immerse yourself in the seafaring life, these four maritime museums are a great place to start.

GREAT LAKES SHIPWRECK MUSEUM

Whitefish Point Opened in 1986, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has long dedicated itself to researching shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, pulling all manner of information from the remnants these ships leave behind. Many of the organization’s finds are collected in this extensive museum on the Upper Peninsula’s Whitefish Point.

The museum respectfully hosts the ship’s bell from the most well-known Michigan shipwreck, the Edmund Fitzgerald, and also showcases the NEWTSUIT, the specialized underwater diving system that retrieved the bell from the wreck. The museum campus, which features nine historic structures plus new buildings, welcomes 60,000 visitors a year, earning it a nod from the Discovery Channel for its Edmund Fitzgerald information and attracting hordes of archaeologists, historians, educators, divers, sailors, and civilian visitors.

Find it: 18335 N. Whitefish Point Rd., 888492-3747 More information: shipwreckmuseum.com

MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM

South Haven Expect five buildings worth of permanent and visiting exhibits covering all aspects of Michigan maritime history, plus insights into boat building and a tall ship, the sloop Friends Good Will. Far more than a pretty accessory, the ship serves as the museum’s “floating classroom” and also offers short sail tours so guests can experience boating on the Great Lakes. If you’d like even more on-water experiences, you can also take a short excursion on the museum’s USCG 36460 motor lifeboat, the lifeboat that starred in the recent Disney movie The Finest Hours. Back on shore, the museum’s newest exhibit, Mysteries Beneath the Waves: Wrecks of the Sunset Coast features locals shipwrecks the Hennepin, the Ann Arbor No. 5, and the Mystery Sloop.

Find it: 260 Dyckman Ave., 269-637-8078 More information: michiganmaritimemuseum.org

DOSSIN GREAT LAKES MUSEUM

Belle Isle The anchor of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was transferred to this museum on beautiful Belle Isle, with the facility itself sitting on The Strand on Belle Isle Park, alongside the Detroit River. A special emphasis on Detroit’s role in maritime history is one of the focuses of this museum, which also hosts one of the largest collections of model ships in the world. Another highlight is one that will take you back to the golden age of Great Lakes steamer ships: the fullyrestored smoking lounge of the SS City of Detroit III. And the newest permanent exhibit, Built by the River, lets you “steer” a longship down the Detroit River, allowing you hands-on insight into the Motor City’s river-fed commerce. A wide range of changing exhibits, plus films and lectures, round out this museum’s offerings. Bonus: If you plan your visit during a weather-accommodating time of year, you can also enjoy Belle Isle’s scenic parks and picnic grounds.

USS SILVERSIDES MARITIME MUSEUM

Muskegon The USS Silversides is a WWII submarine that conducted more than 30 war patrols after the Pearl Harbor attack. Today, it’s enjoying a well-earned rest in Muskegon, where the sub serves to help visitors “relive naval history” in all its powerful, rumbling glory — especially if you’re lucky enough to be on deck when the sub’s still-working engines are fired up. Also on display in the water is the USCGC McLane, a United States Coast Guard cutter. Back on land you’ll find the brick-and-mortar museum, which offers a wealth of information about the war in the Pacific, the sailors who served there, and Silversides’ role in that war. The more ambitious can book an actual overnight stay on the submarine itself, for a truly unique WWII museum experience.

Find it: 1346 Bluff St., 231-755-1230 More information: silversidesmuseum.org

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By Kristi Kates A lot of servicemen and women leaving the place they were stationed leave behind the things they’ve accumulated. In one marine’s case, it was a guitar, which he sold to David Kirvan, then on a tour of duty in Vietman, for $5. Little did that marine know, his simple exchange would inspire Kirvan to later lead a music program that would help countless other vets.

Guitars For Vets is a simple program that’s just as it sounds: Guitars are provided to veterans, along with lessons, to help them readjust to civilian life and cope with stresses incurred during military tours and battles. “The program was started by a guitar instructor from Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” said Kirvan, the coordinator for the Grand Rapids chapter, which is the only Michigan base for the organization. “He was working with a Vietnam vet and saw how playing the guitar and having music in his life helped the vet cope with the effects of having been in Vietnam.”

The nonprofit organization has over 50 chapters across the United States, all offering free lessons — and guitars — to any veteran who wants to participate. “Any vet can come in, get a loaner guitar, and start lessons,” Kirvan said. “After they complete 10 lessons, we give them a brand new guitar — although sometimes they end up wanting to just keep the guitar they learned on!”

The loaner guitars are donated, much like the one that initially brought Kirvan into the program.The the new guitars are ordered from Kraft Music, a company that Guitars For Vets contracts with to receive substantial veterans-only discounts from Yamaha. “We hold fundraisers to help pay for the guitars, and the main headquarters also has big national donors,” Kirvan said.

Lessons at the Grand Rapids branch are held every Wednesday night, and they draw veterans from all over the region. Some vets drive an hour or more to attend, while others are local to the area veterans home where the lessons take place. A graduation certificate is awarded to each vet after he or she completes all 10 classes. “We often get guys who have already been through the program, stopping by just to sing a few songs and play guitar too,” Kirvan said. “So there’s a lot of camaraderie, and it’s good for vets to get to talk with other vets.”

The success rate is what keeps Kirvan and the whole organization going. To date, Guitars for Vets has fulfilled over 20,000 lessons and distributed over 2,000 guitars for free to military veterans.

Kirvan said most of the vets are visibly affected in a positive way as they learn to play music. “One guy from Battle Creek was in the war in Afghanistan. He was disabled and had a comfort dog he’d bring with him,” Kirvan said. “At one time, he was really knowledgeable about music, but the closed-head injuries he got had caused him to forget stuff. The classes helped him open up a lot, and he also recovered a lot of his original musical skill.”

Another story regards a vet who’d just returned from three military tours in the Middle East. “He’d been on the front lines, and he’s had some real issues since he’s been back,” said Kirvan. “Learning the guitar really, really helped him. He ended up going to a retreat out east with five other infantry guys, where they all met up with a songwriter and wrote a song about their military experiences. He’ll be performing that song at his guitar lessons graduation soon.”

For more information on the program, where to donate guitars or funds, and how to participate, visit guitars4vets.org.

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Project Cherry Tree Aims To Create One-Stop-Shop For Veteran Care In Northern Michigan

By Beth Milligan

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hen former U.S. Marine David Mikowski returned from the Vietnam War after serving in combat in 1967 and 1968, he recalls coming home “like all veterans did from the Vietnam War: dazed and confused about what to do next with my life.”

Mikowski, now an economic consultant for Grand Traverse County, says he was “lucky enough” to obtain a college degree and go on to have a professional business career following his service to his country. But he recognized early on “that services for veterans – and resources to get those services – were slim at best,” he said.

“That’s everything from housing to G.I. Bill information to college loans to healthcare. All of those things were very, very difficult to obtain,” Mikowski said. “That’s was 50 years ago…and not much has changed.

The system has gotten a little better, but you can still fall into the abyss. Veterans are still facing the same issues they did back then.”

Mikowski, who discloses he “proudly” still regularly utilizes veterans counseling services to navigate the traumatic reverberations of combat, is passionate about helping his fellow veterans access the care and benefits that will help them also heal and thrive in civilian life. “I want to see a change because of how it’s affected me personally,” he said. “It’s a calling for me. I’m going to pay it forward to the community I grew up in.”

Mikowski’s ambitious plan: to launch a full-service veterans care community in northern Michigan that will act as a onestop-shop for healthcare, housing, education and job training resources. Nicknamed Project Cherry Tree, the initiative has already attracted a formidable list of advisors and committee members since its August launch, including high-ranking military members, U.S. Senators, hospital CEOs, college presidents, business owners, and community politicians and leaders.

“We have assembled some of the smartest minds in the U.S. from every business and community genre,” said Mikowski, who is a co-project manager on Project Cherry Tree along with Grand Traverse County Planning Director John Sych. In addition to seeking nonprofit status, Project Cherry Tree’s leaders hope to create a 25-county test pilot program in northern Michigan officially backed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that could become a model eventually replicated in communities across the country.

“What’s different with this (from past efforts to reform veterans care) is we now have

federal support to change this 75-year-old sys- time. If you live in Charlevoix or Petoskey tem, and make it easier and less cumbersome or Harbor Springs, you don’t have anything to access these resources,” said Mikowski. available to you immediately. Access to serMikowski is referencing the June release vices is a huge and ongoing problem.” of the Commission on Care report, a series Another official spoke of veterans strugof federal recommendations made by a blue- gling to find transportation to downstate apribbon panel convened by Congress. The pointments, missing multiple classes or job Commission on Care was tasked with ana- shifts to travel hours for healthcare visits, lyzing VA operations and veterans’ access and being bounced around between varito healthcare through the Veterans Health ous clinics. One veteran the official recently Administration (VHA) and providing sug- worked with was struggling to make repeated gestions to improve both. trips downstate for crucial medical services, One of the report’s key recommenda- while also trying to hold down a job and find tions is to have the VHA “establish high- housing with post-traumatic stress disorder performing, integrated community-based (PTSD). “He’s trying hard to work within the health care networks.” In layman’s terms, system, but it’s just been very difficult,” the ofthe report calls for creating local networks ficial said. “It’s be so great if he had something of both VA clinics and private healthcare local he could access and use.” providers that allow veterans to access the Beyond the critical goal of expanded lofull range of treatment and care options cal healthcare options, Project Cherry Tree they need in their own has identified several key backyards. goals for improving opThat’s critical for the But instead of portunities and quality of 640,865 veterans in northlife for veterans in northern Michigan, who cur- driving downstate, ern Michigan. Organizers rently average a 320-mile, hope to eventually build five-hour round trip for what if veterans long-term care and indean appointment at the pendent living facilities for nearest VA medical center could receive veterans, construct a lodgin Saginaw, says Project ing facility for veterans Cherry Tree officials. Ex- treatment at Munson and their family members pected changes in the next when visiting Traverse two years could increase Medical Center in City for healthcare servicthat average to a 500-mile, es, streamline educational eight-hour round trip – Traverse City? resources, and connect with eastern Upper Pen- Or at McLaren veterans with jobs and insula veterans enduring jobs training. even longer trips.

Project Cherry Tree Northern Michigan But instead of driving also hopes to establish a nadownstate, what if veter- in Petoskey? tional cemetery in northern ans could receive treatMichigan, honoring local ment at Munson Medical veterans with a “final restCenter in Traverse City? Or at McLaren ing place” in their home region.

Northern Michigan in Petoskey? With the Partners at the Project Cherry Tree table VA now looking at expanding those types of working to bring those various program to life local community options based on the Com- include leaders and representatives from Munmission on Care’s recommendations, Project son and McLaren, Northwestern Michigan Cherry Tree hopes northern Michigan can College, Grand Valley State University, Goodbe one of the first areas to get such an in- will Northern Michigan, the Grand Traverse tegrated healthcare network off the ground.

Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Grand Two officials within the VA, speaking Traverse Pavilions, and the VA for Grand Traoff the record, shared their frustrations with verse, Leelanau and Benzie Counties. the existing clinic system and confirmed the U.S. Senator Don Riegle sits on the adneed for expanded healthcare options for visory committee, as does Michigan Senator area veterans.

Jason Allen. Two brigadier generals, a major “If I were to get sick between yearly (pri- general and a vice admiral are also advisors, mary care) visits, that’s a problem,” one of- representing the Coast Guard, Air Force, ficial, a combat veteran, said. “If you don’t Army and Marine Corps. Doctors, develophave health insurance, it’s a bigger problem. ers, real estate agents and economic developIf there’s an emergency, it’s not well-known if ment experts are also lending their expertise. the VA would cover those costs; it’s not clear At a recent October Project Cherry Tree how it all works, and it doesn’t work all the committee meeting, members provided up-

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dates on different subcommittee projects they were working on – including housing, education and healthcare efforts – and brainstormed additional services and resources they could extend to veterans as the program gains traction. Grand Traverse County Commissioner Dr. Bob Johnson – a Coast Guard veteran who also sits on Michigan’s Veterans Facilities Board of Managers – shared an update on legislation that could eventually expand housing options for veterans in northern Michigan.

Executive Director Mindy Buell of grief counseling center Michael’s Place, meanwhile, spoke about guided grief support groups for veterans and families who’ve suffered losses, as well as connecting veterans who utilized their services to other community resources. She also spoke about the need to help employers of veterans understand the challenges their employees may be facing. “We have co-workers and owners who have no idea how to help grieving employees, and therefore (those employees) can lose their jobs,” she said. “We help them understand, and also help (the employees) learn to be productive in the workplace.”

The diverse gathering reflected a wide range of community expertise – much of it contributed by veterans who’ve had their own struggles and experiences transitioning back to civilian life and navigating the system to access resources. Those members expressed enthusiasm about the opportunity to give back to their fellow veterans, and to help Project Cherry Tree meet its goal of “earning national recognition (for northern Michigan) as the best place in the country for returning veterans.”

Retired Major General Michael Lehnert said reaction to Project Cherry Tree’s proposal has been “universally positive” from the Military Officers Association of America.

Grand Traverse County Administrator Tom Menzel – who accompanied Mikowski, Sych and Grand Traverse Band representatives to Washington D.C. in September for meetings with the VA and Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters – says those gatherings went “extremely well.” Menzel is optimistic Project Cherry Tree is in a “prime position” to receive VA backing and become a national test pilot for veterans programming.

“The key is we’ve gotten in front of the right people who are able to make decisions, and we’ve established those relationships,” Menzel said. “We’ve got a program that will meet the VA’s goals, and we’re out in front of everyone else on this. The timing is right for us to really do something that can make a difference.”

For more information, visit www.facebook. com/projectcherrytree.

Photos courtesy of Sister Studio, Cadillac

Something Wicked That Way Goes City Opera House transports fans to big show

By Kristi Kates Based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire book, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the musical Wicked is a unique twist on the novel and film that inspired it, The Wizard of Oz. Wicked isn’t seen through the Kansas eyes of one Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz), but instead through the very different viewpoints of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Galinda, aka Glinda, the Good Witch. But like The Wizard of Oz, the musical itself is a glorious, colorful production that’s a must-see for any theater fan, so Traverse City’s City Opera House has arranged a special excursion to take locals right to where the magic lives.

“Broadway Bound! is the best of Broadway without the trip to New York!” said Kristin Dockter, marketing director at the City Opera House (COH). On Nov. 12, COH hosts will guide a first-class trip from Traverse City to East Lansing’s Wharton Center (on the campus of Michigan State University) for a VIP performance of Wicked.

The COH selects one Broadway Bound! trip each fall and one each winter/spring.

Since 2012, the program has taken guests to see big-ticket shows like Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, and Motown the Musical.

“Full Broadway shows are not presented in northern Michigan,” said Thom Paulson, COH development director, who will be one of the hosts on the bus for Wicked. “There is not a venue here that can handle the technical requirements of a Broadway show, but Wharton Center for Performing Arts is a Broadway-level venue, and Wicked is one of

the best-selling of those shows. It’s a fun and exciting change of pace.”

“The bus ride itself is on a luxury motor coach with the hosts,” Dockter said. “They’ll often tell you points of interest along the way, and we have a gourmet boxed lunch on the way downstate. The guests set the tone for how much entertainment and engagement happen on the ride, but it seems something fun happens each trip. One trip we had some very talented guests who got the bus singing the Broadway tunes from the musical!”

Once at Wharton, Broadway Bound! guests get dropped off right out front, have Zone 1 —“aka awesome!” said Dockter — seats, and an experience that includes access to the Wharton Center’s exclusive Jackson Donor Lounge. Open one hour prior to performances as well as during intermission, the luxury lounge offers VIPs the opportunity to relax and enjoy light refreshments, socializing, and private restrooms. After the show, Broadway Bound! guests enjoy a private dinner before boarding the bus for the trip back Up North.

Wicked looks at the untold story of the witches of The Wizard of Oz, but from a different angle: The two witches’ relationship started as a rivalry that turned into a friendship — until the world decided to label one witch good and the other one wicked. The musical score, which includes now-famous songs like “Popular,” “For Good,” and “Defying Gravity,” prompted The New York Times to call Wicked the defining musical of the decade.

“The backstory to The Wizard of Oz and the twist, from what we all knew growing up … is so creative,” Dockter said. “I have seen Wicked in Chicago, and at Wharton Center,

and I still love being [transported] to Oz. I love all the green and glitter of the set, and the national tour cast delivers! Plus, with the Broadway Bound! excursion, there’s no driving [but a lot of] yummy food. Perfect!”

The Broadway Bound! excursion to the 2pm matinee of Wicked at the Wharton Center departs Traverse City on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 9:30am and returns at 9:30pm. For more information, visit cityoperahouse.org.

• The green complexion of the character Elphaba is created with MAC’s Chromacake in “Landscape Green.”

• A typical production of Wicked requires about 250 pounds of dry ice per show to create all of the dramatic fog needed during the storyline.

• The novel upon which the play was based, Wicked, by Gregory Maguire, still appears on bestseller lists 17 years after its initial publication, in large part due to the effects of the musical.

Wicked Fast Facts

• Wicked has been performed in 13 countries and in several different languages, including Dutch, Spanish, German, Korean, and Japanese.

• Nine million people have seen Wicked on Broadway since it began performances in fall 2003.

• On its national tour, the show’s audience nearly doubled: 17 million people have seen Wicked at non-Broadway shows.

• Merchandise sales for Wicked, including T-shirts, jewelry, and toys, have exceeded $150 million.

• The musical has achieved so much recognition that Elphaba’s costume and broom from the original production are on display at the Smithsonian Institute.

• The show has won over 100 major international awards, including a Grammy, three Tonys, and six Drama Desk awards.

• The rumors are true — there’s a Wicked movie in the works, with a release date tentatively set for December 2019.

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NORTHERN SEEN 1 Ryan and Kelsey Novotny celebrate Halloween with Jessica Vallance and Chad Fortune at Castle Farms’ Fright Night in Charlevoix.

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2 Maurie Allen and David Ford share a laugh during the Traverse City Ticker’s Recess at Captain’s Quarters.

3 Joyce Richey and Sabrina Pinero greeting customers in Halloween style at the Grain Train in Petoskey.

4 Cierra Freese and Shelby Lane at Treetops Resort’s Halloween Party in Gaylord.

5 Mama Lu’s owners John Larson and Adrienne Brunette at Recess.

6 Ann Miller accepting her new Apple Watch she won from Maurie Allen at Captains Quarters during Recess.

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7 Devin, Jordan and Joe enjoy Recess at Mama Lu’s in Traverse City.

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“HOW TO GET RICH & IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK”: A talk given by former U of M women’s swimming coach of 27 years, Jim Richardson.

For athletes, parents of athletes & coaches who take pride in the focus of sportsmanship & good character. 4:30-5:30pm, West YMCA pool, TC. Free. RSVP: kathy@ gtbayymca.org

-------------------PIANO WARS: A fundraising performance to benefit Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital. Held at Crystal Mountain Resort, Thompsonville. 6pm cocktail reception, 7pm dinner, 8pm dueling pianos. Tickets, $75. 231-642-7685.

-------------------29TH ANNUAL CRAFT SHOW: 8:30am3:30pm, Immaculate Conception Parish Centennial Hall & School, TC. Featuring over 80 exhibitors, a luncheon & more.

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LAMB’S RETREAT SONGWRITER CONCERT: Featuring Cliff Eberhardt, Amy Rigby, Louise Mosrie, Buddy Mondlock & Brett Perkins. Hosted by John D. Lamb at Birchwood Inn, Harbor Springs at 8pm. $15. 231-526-2151.

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LADY PALOOZA!: Shop & support local lady run small businesses at VFW Post 2780, TC from 10am-4pm. Find ‘Lady Palooza!’ on Facebook.

-------------------EVENING IN A JAPANESE GARDEN: This Gala Fundraiser for the Northwest Michigan Ballet Theatre will be held at the Gilbert Lodge at Twin Lakes, TC at 6pm. The theme reflects the ballet company’s main production of The Princess Peony, scheduled for two shows on February 4, 2017. Featuring live music by The Acme Jazz Project, hors d’ouevres, local wine, beer & cider, dancing by the Northwest Michigan Ballet Theatre, & more. Tickets, $40. mynorthtickets.com

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BELL’S ICEMAN COMETH CHALLENGE: This 29-mile mountain bike race from Kalkaska to TC is conquered by professional & amateur athletes from around the world. 9am-4pm, starting in downtown Kalkaska. iceman.com

-------------------TOAST THE SEASON: Enjoy local wine & fare along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail from 11am-5pm. Tickets are $75 for couples or $50 for singles & include a featured wine & food pairing at 24 wineries, a souvenir wine glass & a holiday gift. lpwines.com

-------------------AC PAW CHRISTMAS CRAFT SHOW: 10am4pm, West Bay Beach Resort, TC. Featuring 27+ local artisans, a pet microchipping & vaccination clinic, photos with Santa Paws, & more. Proceeds benefit AC PAW’s animal rescue efforts. Admission is free. ACPAW.org

-------------------29TH ANNUAL DICKENS’ CHRISTMAS: 9am-3pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Featuring local & international artisans, the TC West Bella Voce Carolers, & more. Proceeds benefit Missions & Scholarships. 947-6698.

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44TH ANNUAL ZONTA FASHION SHOW: 11am-2pm, Ovation Hall, Odawa Casino, Petoskey. “Celebrate!’’ will highlight the latest fall & winter fashions for more than 30 retailers in the Petoskey-Harbor Springs area, & include an elegant lunch, entertainment, a silent auction & more. Live music by Michelle Chenard & Elizabeth Stoner. Tickets, $55. Proceeds benefit improving the status of women & girls.

Find ‘Zonta Club of Petoskey’ on Facebook.

-------------------34TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR: 10am3pm, Bellaire High School. Featuring over 30 area artisans. bellairechamber.org

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MOZART TO MOTOWN: With The Motor City Brass Quintet, featuring some of Detroit’s most versatile brass musicians. 7:30-9:30pm, CTAC Theater, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. $25 members, $35 non-members & $10 students. crookedtree.org

“A FLEA IN HER EAR”: A comedy of errors centered around supposed infidelity & mistaken identity. 2pm & 7:30pm, Phoenix Theatre, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets: $15 full, $13 senior & $10 youth. interlochen.org

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TOAST THE SEASON: Enjoy local wine & fare along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail from 12-5pm. Tickets are $75 for couples or $50 for singles & include a featured wine & food pairing at 24 wineries, a souvenir wine glass & a holiday gift. lpwines.com

-------------------EMPTY BOWLS FUNDRAISER: 11am-2pm, Hagerty Center, TC. Enjoy soup & bread from local restaurants, live music, a silent auction, & receive a handmade bowl provided by community members. Benefits Goodwill’s Food Rescue program. Tickets: goodwillnmi.org/ emptybowls

-------------------BOW-WOW-ERS HARBOR VINEYARDS DOGS & WINE EVENT: 1-6pm, Bowers Harbor Vineyards, TC. Join the Cherryland Humane Society & adopt a dog or cat, or have a glass of wine or cider to support Cherryland Humane Society. bowersharbor.com

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FIELD GUIDE BOOK SIGNING & PRESENTATION: With James Dake, education director & author of Grass River’s newly released “Field Guide to Northwest Michigan.” 1pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. grassriver.org

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CLEAN UP & GREEN UP: 9am-3pm, American Waste, 280 Hughes Dr., TC. Fourteen area companies join the Michigan Green Consortium to accept a whole host of items that can & should be repurposed & recycled. Info: cleanupgreenup.com

-------------------THE BAY FILM SERIES: Presents “Our Little Sister.” 2pm & 5pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. $9.50 at door. thebaytheatre.com

-------------------“MARY POPPINS”: Presented by the Northland Players at The Opera House, Cheboygan at 2pm. Adults, $13; students, $9 & seniors, $10. theoperahouse.org

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OTP AUDITIONS: For Tony Award-winning show, “Company.” There are roles for six men & eight women, ages 25 to 65. 7pm, Schmuckal Theatre, lower level of Old Town Playhouse, TC. oldtownplayhouse.com

As part of TC Beer Week (Nov. 11-17), the Great Beerd Run will be held on Sat., Nov. 12 at GT Resort & Spa, Acme at 10am. This is an untimed 5K run with on course beer tastings. Includes a post-race beer tent featuring a Best Beard Contest, race grub, music & beer. 21+. thegreatbeerdrun.com

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“THE MESSENGER”: This documentary chronicles the struggle of songbirds worldwide to survive in turbulent environmental conditions.

7pm, Northern Lights Recreation, Harbor Springs. Presented by the Petoskey Regional Audubon Society. Free. 231-675-7222.

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INTERLOCHEN WOMAN’S CLUB BAKE SALE: Held across from the Interlochen Public Library starting at 7am. Proceeds help fund scholarships, library, heating for families in need, the fire department & more. 231-642-1767.

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TC CHAMBER BUSINESS EXPO: Featuring more than 140 exhibitors from 9am-4pm in the GT Resort & Spa’s Governor’s Hall, Acme.

This event is preceded by the Chamber’s Economic Outlook Breakfast from 7:30-9am in the resort’s Michigan Ballroom. tcchamber.org

VETERANS RECOGNITION EVENT: 11am4pm, Michigan Works! Center, TC. Featuring the presentation of colors, learning about services available at the Veterans Resource area at the Career Café inside the Michigan Works! Center, hotdogs, & more. NWMichWorks.org

THANKSGIVING MENU ALTERNATIVES: 7pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Find out what vegetarians do on a day Americans consume 46 million turkeys. Featuring Chef Eric Hanson. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org THE BAY FILM SERIES: Presents “Our Little Sister.” 6pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. $9.50 at door. thebaytheatre.com

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VETERANS APPRECIATION LUNCHEON: 11:30am-1pm, The Rock, Kingsley. Includes the Kingsley High School Jazz Prism performing, U.S. Coast Guard Commander Gregory Matyas speaking, & more. Free. 922-4911.

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JUDSON LAIPPLY: This creator of “Evolution of Dance,” motivational speaker & inspirational comedian will be at Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC at 7pm. Free to students. 995-1118.

-------------------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Zips 45th Parallel Harley-Davidson, Gaylord. $5 for Chamber members. 989-732-8000.

-------------------INTRO TO FILM-MAKING: Local film director & cinematographer Haynze Whitmore will discuss how he turned a childhood hobby into a career. 5:30pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. petoskeylibrary.org

THE BAY FILM SERIES: (See Mon., Nov. 7)

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Mon -

Ladies Night - $1 off drinks

& $5 martinis w/ Jukebox

Tues - $2 well drinks & shots

OPEN MIC W/HOST CHRIS STERR

Wed - Get it in the can for $1

w/DJ DomiNate

Thurs - MI beer night $1 off

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IAF DOCUMENTARY: “Disturbing the Peace” will be shown at the State Theatre, TC at 6pm. Free. nmc.edu

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ARTIST TALK: With Scottish born, San Francisco based contemporary post-impressionist painter Angus Wilson. 7-8:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Tickets, $10. crookedtree.org

all MI beer w/DJ Fasel

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Friday Nov 11: Happy Hour: Joe Wilson Trio

Then: EVERYDAY JUNIOR

Saturday Nov 12:

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“ELF, THE MUSICAL, JR.”: 7pm, MainStage Theatre, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented

by OTP Young Company. Tickets start at $6. oldtownplayhouse.com

EVERYDAY JUNIOR

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Sunday Nov 13 : NFL Sunday Ticket

“SOUTH PACIFIC”: Presented by the Elk Rapids Players at The HERTH, Elk Rapids at 7:30pm. Tickets: $18; $15 seniors & students; $10 ages 10 & under. ertownhall.org

THEN: KARAOKE

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-------------------AN EVENING WITH AN AUTHOR: Featuring Sr. Mary Navarre, author of Tapestry in Time – The Story of the Sisters. 7-9pm, Elk Rapids Historical Museum. elkrapidslibrary.org

-------------------GT MUSICALE PROGRAM: 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Featuring Dr. Michael Conrad, pianist & faculty member at Interlochen Arts Academy. Free. gtmusicale.org

-------------------PETS NATURALLY EVENT: Join Dr. Lynch as he discusses acupuncture & herbs. Learn how Traditional Chinese Medicine can be utilized in formulating your pet’s diet. 6:30-8:30pm, Pets Naturally, TC. Free. petsnaturallytc.com

-------------------ARTISTS FROM INTERLOCHEN: Faculty Violin Recital with Ara Sarkissian. 7:30pm, Kirkbride Hall, GT Commons, TC. Tickets: $24; $10 youth. interlochen.org

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THE ART OF: Grandmothering: Tea & conversation with local grandmothers. Enjoy storytelling & sharing. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Grandmother Power. Noon, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Free. dennosmuseum.org

nov 11

friday

FREE VETERANS BREAKFAST: 8-10am, Iron Horse Café, NCMC cafeteria, Petoskey. 231-439-6399.

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COMPLIMENTARY HAIRCUTS: For veteran & service members. 9am6pm, Love Hair, TC. Family members of the military will receive 50% off haircuts. Tips will be donated to Tips for Troops. 933-5300.

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Over 20 Taps * New Food Menu Weekly Specials!

Happy Hour: Monday - Friday (3 PM - 6 PM)

*Additional charge for toppings

Monday: $10 Classic Burger* & Pint (6 PM - 9 PM) Tuesday: $2 Tacos (6 PM - 8PM) & $2 Pints (6 PM - Close) Wednesday: Progressive Pint Night (6 PM) Thursday: $2 Pint Night (6 PM - Close)

Sunday: Right Brain Brunch & Beer Cocktails (11 AM - 1 PM) 225 E. 16th St., Traverse City • 231-944-1239 rightbrainbrewery.com

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STORMCLOUD BUILDS COMMUNITY: Stormcloud Brewing Company, Frankfort will donate 50% of all pub sales from 4-6pm to the Frankfort American Legion, John A. Mortenson Post 221. They will also continue their Veterans Day tradition of serving free, one-topping flatbread pizzas to active & retired military personnel. Free pizzas are available from 11:30am to 10pm. stormcloudbrewing.com

-------------------“MESSAGE OF THANKS” HONORS LUNCHEON: For veterans in northeastern MI. 12:30-3pm, Eagles Club Banquet Hall, Gaylord. Free tickets. Featuring music, a keynote speaker, haircuts, rifle squad honors, & more.

RSVP: 989-350-2229.

-------------------VETERANS FOR PEACE PRESENTS ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCE: 8am-3pm, Open Space, TC. Veterans from the local area will be remembered with a name reading at noon, following a taps tribute.

-------------------2016 WORLD SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS: Test your strength endurance & cardiovascular fitness against some of the top athletes in the

world at Concept 2, Harbor Springs, who is hosting a 1000m time trial World Championship, Nov. 11-13. Schedule by calling: 231420-2381. baytennisandfitness.com

-------------------“MARY POPPINS”: Presented by the Northland Players at The Opera House, Cheboygan at 7:30pm. Adults, $13 & students, $9. theoperahouse.org

-------------------BELLAIRE FARMERS MARKET & YARD SALE: 9am-1pm, ASI Community Center. bellairechamber.org

-------------------“ELF, THE MUSICAL, JR.”: (See Thurs., Nov. 10)

-------------------HARVEST TURKEY DINNER: 5-7pm, Williamsburg United Methodist Church. Free will donations. wumctoday.com

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LADIES OPENING NIGHT: 5-10pm, Downtown Petoskey. Sales, drawings, refreshments, hors d’oeuvres, & more. A Doe Camp will be held at Stafford’s Perry Hotel to win prizes off the buck pole, with doors opening at 8:30pm. business.petoskeychamber.com

-------------------HOLIDAY ART MARKET: 3-6pm, Montessori Children’s House, TC. traversechildrenshouse.org

-------------------A CONVERSATION WITH DEAN STRANG: Of Making A Murderer: An Unfiltered Discussion. 6-7:30pm, The State Theatre, TC. Tickets: stateandbijou.org

-------------------TC BEER WEEK: Nov. 11-17. Today includes the TCBW Pub Crawl. Stop by several TC restaurants & bars to earn a passport stamp for your free t-shirt. 6-10pm, Downtown TC. traversecity.com

-------------------“TIGHT LOOSE”: Celebrate Teton Gravity Research’s 21st birthday with this film at City Opera House, TC at 8pm. All attendees receive a free lift ticket to Shanty Creek. Info: cityoperahouse.org

nov 12

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“MARY POPPINS”: (See Fri., Nov. 11)

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LAMB’S RETREAT SONGWRITER CONCERT: Featuring Michael Smith, Ronny Cox, Sally Barris, Whit Hill, Michael McNevin & Rachel Garlin. Hosted by John D. Lamb at Birchwood Inn, Harbor Springs at 8pm. $15.

231-526-2151.

-------------------HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE: 10:30am-6pm, The Red Dresser, TC. thereddressertc.com

-------------------AUTHOR SIGNINGS: Beginning at 11am at Horizon Books, TC. Info: horizonbooks.com

-------------------2016 WORLD SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS: (See Fri., Nov. 11)

-------------------JRAC HOLIDAY ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: 10am-4pm, East Jordan High School. Featuring over 40 vendors. Admission by donation.

231-536-3385.

-------------------TOAST THE SEASON: Enjoy local wine & fare along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail from 11am-5pm. Tickets are $75 for couples or $50 for singles & include a featured wine & food pairing at 24 wineries, a souvenir wine glass & a holiday gift. lpwines.com

-------------------ANNUAL SKI & SNOWBOARD SWAP: A chance for the community to sell gently used ski & snowboard equipment at outrageous prices - with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the GT Ski Club. Held at TC West Middle

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TC CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL: 10am2pm, City Opera House, TC. Offers a sampling of books for the whole family from a variety of MI & national publishers. Featuring kid-friendly activities & crafts. Free. tcchildrensbookfestival.com

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HOLIDAY ART MARKET: 10am-4pm, Montessori Children’s House, TC. traversechildrenshouse.org

-------------------“ELF, THE MUSICAL, JR.”: (See Thurs., Nov. 10)

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IZZY & THE CATASTROPHICS: This American roots group stitches together rock n’ roll, swing, surf, honky-tonk, & bebop. 8pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Presented by Blissfest. Tickets for members: $15 adult, $7 student. Non-members: $20/$10. blissfest.org

-------------------AGED TO PERFECTION: Senior Readers: 10am, lower level of Old Town Playhouse, TC. Planning & rehearsals of forthcoming Christmas shows. 947-7389.

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-------------------LEE GREENWOOD: The artist who sings “God Bless the USA.” 8pm, Ovation Hall, Odawa Casino Resort, Petoskey. Tickets start at $10. odawacasino.com

-------------------HOW TO BUILD A HOME LIBRARY/BOOK COLLECTING 101: 6pm, Landmark Books, GT Commons, TC. Free. 922-7225.

-------------------FREE DENTISTRY: 7am, Beacon Dental Center, Gaylord. For patients in need. 231237-5100.

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FREE YOGA: With Sarah Daniels – Meditation in Action. Yoga-45.com, Gaylord. 989-5988080.

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Done,” & others. 8pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Tickets: $35, $30 for museum members, & $40 at the door. dennosmuseum.org

-------------------HOLIDAY BAZAAR & SOUP LUNCHEON: 8am-3pm, United Methodist Church, Downtown Harbor Springs. Free admission. Soup luncheon: $7 adults, $4 children; preschoolers free. Proceeds benefit the missions of the United Methodist Women.

nov 13

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2016 WORLD SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS: (See Fri., Nov. 11)

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GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA’S SUNDAY SERIES: WITH PAUL SONNER & FRIENDS: “Three Bs” with a Twist. 4pm, Castle Farms, Charlevoix. Free will donation taken at door. glcorchestra.org

-------------------“MUSIC TO KEEP WARM WITH”: Presented by the Charlevoix Circle of the Arts Armchair Theatre at Charlevoix Circle of Arts at 2pm.

Featuring the music of The Friends of the Charlevoix City Band. Suggested $5 donation. charlevoixcircle.com

-------------------“SOUTH PACIFIC”: Presented by the Elk Rapids Players at The HERTH, Elk Rapids at 3pm. Tickets: $18; $15 seniors & students; $10 ages 10 & under. ertownhall.org

-------------------STAFFORD’S WEDDING SHOW: Plan your day with a variety of vendors & wedding professionals at Stafford’s Bay View Inn, Petoskey from 1-4pm. $5 at door; brides & grooms welcomed at no charge. staffords.com

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HOLIDAY WINE MARKET SWIRL: Hosted

by Symons General Store at CTAC Galleries, Petoskey from 5-7pm. This celebration will pair 30 wines & appetizers. Also enjoy music by the Crooked Tree Jazz Ensemble. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 day of. crookedtree.org

-------------------INDOOR RIDE TO END POLIO: (See Sat., Nov. 12)

-------------------TC BEER WEEK: Nov. 11-17. traversecity.com -------------------TOAST THE SEASON: Enjoy local wine & fare along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail from 12-5pm. Tickets are $75 for couples or $50 for singles & include a featured wine & food pairing at 24 wineries, a souvenir wine glass & a holiday gift. lpwines.com

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DIVE DEEP INTO SELF EXPRESSION: Explore yourself & life using drama, movement, sound, storytelling & contact. 3-6pm, TC. $10 suggested donation. 231-421-3120. meetup. com/ InterPlay-TC/

TC BEER WEEK/GREAT BEERD RUN: Nov. 11-17. Today includes The Great Beerd Run (5K) at GT Resort & Spa, Acme at 10am. This is an untimed run with on course beer tastings.

Includes a post-race beer tent featuring a Best Beard Contest, race grub, music & beer. 21+. thegreatbeerdrun.com

-------------------PETER YARROW: Peter’s gift for songwriting has produced songs from Peter, Paul & Mary, including “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” “Day is

oldtownplayhouse.com

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CONTRA-DANCE: Hosted by the Bayside Travellers Dance Society at Twin Lakes – Gilbert Lodge, TC. 7pm: Intro to Contra-dance.

8-11pm: Contra-dance. Adults, $11; students with ID, $7; members, $9. dancetc.com

231.947.2210

IZZY & THE CATASTROPHICS: This American roots group stitches together rock n’ roll, swing, surf, honky-tonk, & bebop. 4pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. 947-9213.

ANNUAL SKI & SNOWBOARD SWAP: A chance for the community to sell gently used ski & snowboard equipment at outrageous prices - with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the GT Ski Club. Held at TC West Middle School from 10am-1pm. Drop off is Fri., Nov. 11 from 6-8pm. Info: www.gtskiclub.org/

INDOOR RIDE TO END POLIO: Nov. 12-19.

Presented by Rotary International District 5500. Vern Gauthier, owner of Fit For You Health Club, is offering free use of his gym to ride or workout during this week, if you are there for this ride. Info: ridetoendpolio.org

November 10, 11, 12 @ 7pm November 13 @ 2pm

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT STUDENT FOOD DRIVE: Through Nov. 19. Donate in red bins located in Osterlin Library & the Health & Science Building on main campus of NMC, as well as Parsons-Stulen Building, TC. nmc.edu

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Celebrating 60 Years!

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expires 11/30/16

INCLUDES: Stone Grind • Edge Sharpen and bevel Minor Base Repair • Hot Wax Ski Binding release check • (Bring a Boot) * Additional charge if bindings need to be adjusted or re-mounted.

946-8810 • 800-346-5788

US31 N. near 3 Mile Road • Traverse City • 49686 www.donorrskihaus.com

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DOWNTOWN

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FRIDAY NIGHT FLICK - $3 or 2 for $5 - BFF Night!

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IN CLINCH PARK

DRIVE: Oleson’s Food Stores in Petoskey & Charlevoix are hosting a “Dollar Drive” Sun., Nov. 13 through Thanksgiving Day to support domestic abuse survivors & their children utilizing services at the Women’s Resource Center of Northern Michigan’s Safe Home. wrcnm.org

Depot Coffeehouse: Fridays from 6-7:30pm at After 26 Depot Café, Cadillac. Enjoy coffee with dinner or dessert while listening to live entertainment. 231-468-3526.

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MIDWEST TWILIGHT: This painting by Glenn Wolff has been installed on the south wall of the Omelette Shoppe, Cass St., TC. dennosmuseum.org

AMATEUR RADIO TECHNICIAN CLASSES: Presented by the Cherryland Amateur Radio Club in the training room for New Approaches Center, TC. Meets every Weds. for about 12 weeks, starting Oct. 26. Free, but you must have a copy of the American Radio Relay Leagues Technician Class workbook, version 3. www.cherrylandarc.com

-------------------COMPULSIVE EATERS ANONYMOUS HOW: Held every Thurs. from 5:30-6:30pm at Friends Church, 206 S. Oak Street - at 5th Street, TC. For more info: traversecityCEAHOW.org

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YOGA 1-2: With Kelly Stiglich 500-ERYT at GT Circuit, TC on Tuesdays at 5:30pm. $10 suggested donation. gtcircuit.org

-------------------OM GENTLE YOGA: With Kelly Stiglich 500-ERYT at GT Circuit, TC on Saturdays at 10:30am. $5. gtcircuit.org

-------------------MCLAREN NORTHERN MI DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: Meets the second Mon. of each month from 7-8pm at the John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. northernhealth.org/wellness

-------------------SUNDAY 1:30 • 4:30 • 7:30 PM MON & WED 2:45 • 5:45 • 8:30 PM TUE & THU 2:15 • 5:15 • 8 PM 231-947-4800

DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: 12 Step Meeting. Held on Tuesdays from 7-8pm at Munson Community Health Center, east door, Room G, TC. For info, email: tcdajp34@gmail.com

-------------------ADOPTION SATURDAYS: Pets Naturally, TC hosts one dog & one cat from the Cherryland Humane Society on Saturdays from 11am2pm. www.petsnaturallytc.com

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INDOOR FARMERS MARKET, THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Held in The Mercato on Saturdays, beginning Nov. 5 through April 29 from 10am-2pm. thevillagetc.com

-------------------BLISSFEST JAM SESSIONS: Every Sun., 1-4pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Bring your instruments or just sing along or listen. www. redskystage.com.

-------------------COLORING CLUB FOR GROWN-UPS: Held on Wednesdays from 12-1pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Free. crookedtree.org/tc

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BOXING FOR PARKINSON’S: Parkinson’s Network North meets at 10am every Mon. at Fit For You, TC for these free sessions. gtaparkinsonsgroup.org

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In Downtown Petoskey

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Gather your girlfriends who would rather shop for bags over bucks and scope out Downtown Petoskey for your ultimate holiday wish list!

Shop from 5-8:30 p.m.

Doe Camp (Stafford’s Perry Hotel) Starts at 8:30 p.m.

Prize Drawings start at 9 p.m. www.PetoskeyDowntown.com 22 • November 7, 2016 • Northern Express Weekly

“JUST FOR US” BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Meets the first Tues. of every month from 6:30-8:30pm at the McLaren Northern MI John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. 800-248-6777.

-------------------SONG OF THE MORNING, VANDERBILT: Free yoga classes, Tues. – Fri., 7:30-8:30am. songofthemorning.org

-------------------TRAVERSE BAY BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION: Held the third Thurs. of every month from 7-10pm at InsideOut Gallery, TC. traversebayblues.com

-------------------PETOSKEY FILM THEATER: Showing international, indie, art house & documentary films on Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays.

Carnegie Building, 451 E. Mitchell St., next to Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Donations welcome.

For schedule find ‘Petoskey Film Theater’ on Facebook. 231-758-3108.

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-------------------PROTECTION: This Woodland Indian screenprint by Jackson Beardy is installed on the east wall of Cuppa Joe, 1060 E. Front St., TC. dennosmuseum.org

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“MAKING ART TOGETHER”: The Northport Arts Association will host this open studio every Thurs. from 10am-1pm at the Village Arts Building, Northport. northportartsforall.com

-------------------10TH ANNUAL “ART OF RECOVERY: The Human Journey”: Sponsored by Northern Lakes Community Mental Health, this exhibit celebrates the resiliency & healing power of people & features art by professional & novice artists. Held at the G.T. Circuit, TC. Runs through Nov. 14. 935-3099.

-------------------PLEIN AIR PAINTING EXHIBIT: Presented by the Plein Air Painters of Northwest MI at the City Opera House, TC. Runs through Dec. cityoperahouse.org

-------------------“OTHER WORDS FOR NATURE”: Runs through Dec. 15 at the Cowell Family Cancer Center, TC. 231-392-8492.

-------------------5TH ANNUAL FARM TO FRAME JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Through Nov. 30, Aerie Restaurant, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. From the seed to the harvest, & from the market to the plate, this exhibit highlights phases of local agriculture & food production. crookedtree.org

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A PRJCT OMNI & WAREHOUSE MRKT EXHIBITION: Selected artists’ work from around the world will be shown & sold in the halls of Warehouse Market, TC through Nov. 30. warehousemrkt.com

-------------------AIR SHOW: Featuring work created by 33 artists who have participated in the GAAA Artist-in-Residence program. Runs through Nov. 26 at Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. A panel discussion will be held on Sat., Nov. 5 at 1pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

-------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - SOLILOQUY: Detroit Society of Women Painters & Sculptors: Through Nov. 19, Gilbert Gallery.

- Back to School: CTAC Teachers’ Exhibition: Runs through Jan. 7 in the Atrium Gallery. crookedtree.org

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - A Walk Through Michigan Seasons: Featuring landscape artists Alan Maciag, Margie Guyot & Lori Feldpausch. Runs through Dec. 3. crookedtree.org

-------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - Permanence & Impermanence: Iceland – a Land of Temporal Contrasts. By Jean Larson.

Runs through Dec. 31.

- Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon: The works of renowned photographer Paola Gianturco. Runs through Dec. 31.

- Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection: On display through Nov. 27. Featuring 27 images by 7 artists in stone cut, stencil, lithography & etching/aquatint. dennosmuseum.org

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Featuring original arts and crafts Gourmet Lunch Served East Jordan High School Over Forty Vendors Admission by donation at both doors

For further information contact JRAC (231)536-3385, or jracubfi@att.net

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Tues-Sat 5pm to 9pm Order at the bar

Food @ The Little Fleet

seafood driven

Holiday Gift Market

Sun, November 20 ~ Sun December 18 *Opening reception November 20* Refreshments and Entertainment One of a kind affordable gifts Tote Bags, ‘Flavors and Visions’ Cookbooks ‘Writings’ by JRAC Writer Group

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serving up.... lobster rolls smoked whitefish clam chowder crab cakes

JORDAN COMMUNITY NIGHT

Dec.1, 5:00 - 8:00 pm JRAC open for children’s crafts

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saturday, November 12, 2016 just by shopping Downtown!

For every purchase you make at the participating stores, 15% of the sale will be donated to the organization of your choice! It’s easy to support your favorite nonprofit, plus get a jump on your holiday shopping!

Look for the shopping bag and balloons!

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THANKSGIVING ON THE MOUNTAIN November 24 | 11am-4pm Enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving buffet, without stepping foot in the kitchen, at the annual Thanksgiving buffet in the beautiful Crystal Center. See a complete menu online at crystalmountain.com/thanksgiving Reservations required, call 866.348.0885.

Adults: $26, Seniors: $22, Kids 6-12: $13, 5 & under: free

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Bublé is best defined as Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra retooled for today’s contemporary radio, and his albums never fail to deliver, mostly due to his consistent, strong, and distinctive “crooner’s voice.” His latest continues this trend with a tracklist of engaging and warm tunes, from the catchy “I Believe in You” to the popera of “On an Evening in Roma.” A duet with the otherwise bland Meghan Trainor (“Someday”) actually works well in this context, as does Bublé’s ghostly, remarkable take on Brian Wilson’s pop staple, “God Only Knows.”

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Before you think that we’re Rickrolling you (the term for sending someone to a link on the internet that ends up being Astley’s ’80s hit, “Never Gonna Give You Up”), we’ll confirm that Astley actually is back with his first No. 1 record in 29 years, conjuring up sounds richly reminiscent of Sam Smith.

It’s tough for any artist to return after that long — especially one who’s become a meme — but Astley does so in impressively respectable form via the first single “Dance” and the blue-eyed soul of tracks like “Angels On My Side” and the vaguely U2-ish “I Like the Sun.”

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He first gained attention as the boyfriend of the aforementioned Meghan Trainor, but Puth is actually a performer of his own merit (which he’s been showcasing as an advisor on the current season of The Voice). With his own voice a diluted combo of Bruno Mars and Nick Jonas, Puth’s tracks on this album are basic pop with an R&B feel and heavy on the ballads; longingly bruised tunes make up the bulk of the album’s set. It’s all pretty tepid stuff, with the exception of a midtempo duet with Selena Gomez (“We Don’t Talk Anymore”), which, after the rest of this trudge, seems positively speedy.

Cheyenne Jackson – Renaissanc – PS Classics

Jackson has chosen some interesting numbers on this retro set of jazz, rockabilly, and bolero numbers, and they work well with his choices of arrangement, keeping things interesting without veering into inaccessibility. A Broadway/television-transfer-turned-pop singer, Jackson has a strong voice and works well with others, especially in his lighthearted cover of “Something Stupid” with Jane Krakowski. But he’s still more of a song stylist than a true artist, veering too often into lounge-singer mode and relying more on his jazz-hands performance style than emoting through the music.

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BY KRISTI KATES

Pop singer and actor Jordan Fisher is currently riding high on the charts with his debut Top 40 single, “All About Us,” and its follow-up single, “Lookin’ Like That.” Now he’s moving from pop to Broadway to take over for original Hamilton cast member Anthony Ramos. Ramos is departing the cast on Nov. 20, and Fisher, whose most recent on-stage performance was as Doody in Fox’s live television production of Grease, will take on Ramos’ characters, John Laurens and Philip Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton’s eldest son.

Ramos is leaving to take on a lead role in filmmaker Spike Lee’s upcoming Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It …

If you’ve ever wanted to be a fly on the wall during music industry inside happenings, you won’t want to miss this new cover story in GQ Style featuring super producer Rick Rubin and musician Kendrick Lamar. The two, who had never met prior to the GQ story, sat down for a chat at Rubin’s Shangri-La Studios in California and hit it off so well that they began collaborating on music right after the GQ meetup was over. Kendrick is working on the followup to his album from earlier this year (titled untitled. unmastered.) so it likely would be perfect timing if he and Rubin were to come up with some new tracks together …

Last week we told you all about the nominees for the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall

of Fame, which include Bad Brains, Jane’s Addiction, ELO, Janet Jackson, The Cars, and Chic. This week, it’s all about the 2017 Songwriters Hall of Fame, for which songwriters become eligible for induction once their songwriting career hits the 20 year mark. The nominee list includes Jay Z, Taylor Swift collaborator Max Martin, Gloria Estefan, Sly Stone, the bands Chicago and Kool and the Gang, country artist Vince Gill, and Michigan’s own Madonna. The chosen honorees will be inducted next June …

Influential singer-songwriter Kate Bush is returning with a new live album called Before the Dawn, a set that aims to capture the the concerts she performed during her threeweek residency at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 2014, her first live shows in over 30 years. The album matches the performances’ structure with three discs, one for each set of the show. The first is primarily her radio hits; the second focuses on her 1985 album, Hounds of Love; and the third pulls tracks from her 2005 album, Aerial. The album also includes a previously unreleased song called “Tawny Moon.” Arriving in outlets on Nov. 25, the album can be purchased as a three-CD set or four vinyl records …

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK: Want to work out in presidential style?

Check out the newly released playlist that President Obama compiled while guest

editing Wired’s November issue. POTUS’ list includes cardio-friendly tracks by Icona Pop, Nina Simone, and the Black Eyed Peas, among others. You can listen to the whole thing at wired.com/2016/10/potus-workout-playlist …

MINI BUZZ: Band of Horses will gallop into the Orbit Room in Grand Rapids on Nov. 9 …

American alt-rockers Blue October will perform at Grand Rapids’ The Intersection on Nov. 10 …

The DeltaPlex, also in Grand Rapids, will welcome The 1975 on Nov. 12 …

Kid Cudi has several versions of his new double album on the way; you should be able to snag it this month in streaming, digital, and physical versions …

Vintage folkster Donovan will be honored

with the John Lennon Real Love Award at the 36th Annual John Lennon Tribute concert, which will be held Dec. 2 at New York City’s Symphony Space Theater …

The Avett Brothers have two Michigan shows coming up: one at The Fillmore in Detroit on Nov. 10 and one at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids on Nov. 12 …

And these artists have albums coming up this week … Emeli Sandé’s Long Live the Angels … Enigma’s The Fall of a Rebel Angel … Sting’s 57th and 9th … and In Flames’ Battles … and that’s the buzz for this week’s “Modern Rock.”

Comments, questions, rants, raves, suggestions on this column? Send ’em to Kristi at modernrocker@gmail.com.

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JACK REACHER 2

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ack Reacher, that film you may vaguely remember hearing about back in 2012, got a sequel. So how is this star-driven crime thriller sequel that no one was really asking for?

Pretty much what you’d expect: fine, formulaic, and forgettable.

Tom Cruise returns as the titular Reacher, a former military cop turned itinerant vigilante who makes his way across the county from seedy motel to rundown roadside café, fighting injustice “his way.” When he’s not doing his off-the-grid defender thing, he’s flirting over the phone with the woman (Colbie Smulders) who took over his position. When he finally arrives in D.C. to meet her, he discovers that his would-be lady love has just been arrested for espionage. Naturally, Reacher breaks her out, and the two fugitives find themselves at the center of a conspiracy plot involving the big baddie of the tarnished GWOT era, a military contractor. The production has a certain level of quality to it, and director Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai) has some chops. Yet it lacks personality or distinctiveness, and it fails to kick the fledgling franchise into high gear. For anyone outside of Reacher’s readers (the film is based on the popular 21-novel-strong series by Lee Child), this is simply standard genre fare elevated by Cruise. Because no matter how you may feel about Cruise IRL, his commitment to a role is truly unparalleled. It’s like he really is doing God’s work, and for a few moments — especially after he flashes that trademark smile — you just might be convinced of it too.

Thank goodness for Tom Hanks. He’s an undisputed national treasure and a genuinely compelling actor who can carry any role with aplomb — as already evidenced this fall in Sully.

But even though Hanks is once again keeping things from crashing, here his ability to keep things afloat has nothing to do with the plot.

In Inferno, the latest in the Da Vinci Code franchise from director Ron Howard, Hanks is basically the only thing making the movie even remotely interesting. You’d think a raceagainst-the-clock thriller to stop a catastrophic event from happening would naturally be sort of compelling, but it isn’t. But at least Hanks is, and that’s worth more than just something.

Hanks is Robert Langdon, the quick-thinking symbologist who, in the two previous installments (2003’s The Da Vinci Code and 2009’s Angels and Demons), unspooled the mysteries of the last descendant of Christ’s bloodline and foiled a papal conspiracy, all using his encyclopedic knowledge of history, symbols, and art. Yet Langdon somehow still manages to be incredibly boring as a character.

He’s like Indiana Jones without the charm and steeliness, merely connecting the dots to X-marks-the-spot. Sure, there are car chases and gunplay and exotic locales, but he’s neither a full-on Bond type nor a nebbish dork with greatness thrust upon him. He’s just there, an in-between, going through the motions. Langdon played by anyone besides Hanks would be a cardboard standee.

The film begins with a strange preamble: billionaire geneticist Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster, Hell or High Water) is engaged in a TEDlike seminar about how the exploding human population is dooming us all. It’s an annoyingly direct setup of what Langdon will be up against: Zobrist has secretly engineered a deadly virus that will kill billions, all in the name of preventing the complete destruction of humanity. The name of his virus? Inferno, after the classical work of the same name by Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

How can Langdon find and stop Inferno before it’s unleashed on the world? With clues hidden in Dante’s works, naturally.

But Langdon doesn’t yet know that when he wakes up in an Italian hospital with partial

amnesia to grownup wiz kid Dr. Brooks (Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything) filling him in on how he got there. Langdon’s few memories are very stylized and contain the kind of imagery you normally find in heavy metal videos, and they pop up and crowd the frame so often that you want to physically swat them away. After a close scrape with a female assassin, Brooks and Langdon agree to team up to try and solve their way through a series of uninspiring clues that will lead them to the virus.

Frankly, I don’t really remember how they do it, which speaks to just how forgettable this film is.

But one of the rare parts that stands out is when they run afoul of Harry Sims (the terrific Irrfan Khan), a tidy, unassuming man who runs a global security company embroiled in all the choicest conspiracies, Inferno included.

I’d watch a whole movie just about Sims; that’s how compelling Khan is in the role. Here Khan and Hanks are one in the same — great actors making the best of flimsy material.

Inferno makes the mistake of putting everything (and therefore nothing) on the line and expecting you to take the bait. The clues, set pieces and revelations that should ignite your interest in what is going on fizzle out like wet firecrackers, leaving your mind to drift to other, more interesting stories — like the National Treasure films, where a giddy, wideeyed Nicholas Cage solves puzzles hidden in historical documents while slipping you syrupy lessons of American history you don’t even know you’re swallowing, all in the name of solving delightfully trivial mysteries.

Those are historical conspiracy films done right.

They’re fun. Inferno is too outlandish to be fun.

It’s takes itself entirely too seriously and suffers as a result. If only the film had just a modicum of the fun Hanks is having on his press tour (David S. Pumpkins and that Big rap rewind, amirite?). So if you can’t heft such grandiose subject matter without allowing for some tongue-in-cheek layers to reach the surface, you shouldn’t even bother. And you, my friend, shouldn’t bother with Inferno.

Meg Weichman is a perma-intern at the Traverse City Film Festival and a trained film archivist.

THE ACCOUNTANT

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he Accountant, a thriller starring Ben Affleck (America’s least-favorite Batman) is a film that has no idea what it wants to be. Is it a standard thriller? A corporate espionage whodunit? An Autism message film?

A dysfunctional family saga? After watching it, you won’t be sure, and the sheer number of storylines thrown at you in the two-plus hours it takes to get through it will leave you bewildered and disappointed yet also a little impressed.

Because this is a movie that takes itself so seriously, you will be tricked in to taking it seriously too. Ben Affleck is this accountant, see? And he’s a high-functioning autistic one who’s not only great with numbers but also a trained assassin. Wolff works as a small-town CPA to prevent exposure and lives in a mundane suburban ranch, but when he’s not helping Midwestern housewives, he’s gallivanting around the world performing accounting feats for the world’s shadiest organizations. But instead of helping bleach the books of a drug cartel or terror network, Wolff’s latest job is finding missing funds at a robotics company, which somehow ends up proving just as dangerous. The Accountant isn’t a colossal failure, or even one that anyone will remember. It’s just overloaded, underperformed, and asks that• Outdoor the viewer take its word for everything. pool

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ailed as the literary heir apparent to Gillian Flynn’s publishing phenom Gone Girl, Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train filled that buzzed-about, compulsively readable, suspenseful book-club void, and naturally, a feature film quickly followed. But while both film adaptations have “girl” in the title, and enigmatic missing blondes at their centers, The Girl on the Train is no Gone Girl, primarily because director Tate Taylor (The Help) is simply no David Fincher (Zodiac). But that being said, if you liked the twisty thrills and lurid intrigue of Gone Girl, and you don’t go in with Fincher-sized expectations, you will enjoy this melodramatic and moody murder mystery, especially because of the powerhouse performance from Emily Blunt. Blunt plays Rachel, a damaged mess of a divorcee who longingly stares out the window on her daily commute into Manhattan, sipping vodka out of a water bottle and yearning for the life she used to have with her ex-husband (Justin Theroux). Every day on the train she goes by the house they used to own together, only now his new wife (Rebecca Ferguson) and the baby Rachel could never conceive live there in her place. To cope, Rachel turns to fantasizing about the gorgeous couple (Haley Bennett and Luke Evans) a few doors down, only to have those fantasies upended when she sees something shocking, and the next day she wakes up blacked out, bruised, and covered in blood, FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL without CHARLEEN AT—231-933-4800 any memory and to the news that the “perfect” wife of her reveries is missing. It’s a great hook. And whether you know OR CINDY AT 231-421-9500. the ending or not, you’ll want to see how it all plays out. So that, combined Blunt’s naturalistic, heartbreaking Conveniently located on South Airport Rd, a quarter milewith west of Three Mileand in Traverse Cityportrayal, means this is a ride worth taking.

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And if I go out with a guy, when do I have to tell him? I’d like to wait till we build a bit of a relationship.

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Having kids shapes how you live. It isn’t like some weird hobby you occasionally do on weekends, like roadkill taxidermy or yurt bedazzling. And sorry — even if you’re far prettier in person than in your profile photos, being “striking” is just a figure of speech; it’s unlikely to cause a concussive brain injury in a man, leading to big personality changes that give him a sudden longing to stepdaddy up.

Not disclosing that you have kids until a guy is emotionally attached to you is what evolutionary psychologist David Buss calls “strategic interference” — using tactics (including scammy ones) to try to get another person to go against their evolved interests.

For example, it is not in a man’s genetic interest to invest time, effort, and resources into another man’s children, which is why men evolved to prefer women who do not already have children, as opposed to saying, “Well, she’s got 12 kids…I’ll take experience over 20-something hotitude any day!”

Our emotions are our internal police force.

They evolved to protect and serve — protecting us from allowing things that don’t serve our interest. Your hiding that you have kids will make guys angry, including those who’d be interested in you, kids and all. The problem goes to character. If you’re dishonest about this, what else will you be dishonest about?

The right thing to do in online dating is to give men who will ultimately reject you the info they need to do that right away -- keeping them from wasting their time and yours. (Otherwise, it’s like seeking a new accountant by interviewing plumbers.) Being honest will narrow your pool -- down to those who are actual possibilities for you, like divorced dads who’d be open to Brady Bunch-ing. There are also

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a few kid-loving guys out there who never got around to having any and would find it a plus that you have some ready-made. All the better if some other guy’s on the hook for the kids’ private school, Ivy League educations, and wintering in rehab on St. Barts.

Bert And Urnie

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: I’ve been dating a widow for two years, and I feel inadequate compared with her dead husband, whom she always describes in glowing terms. He liked to dance; I don’t. He cooked; I don’t. He didn’t drink; I do. I understand that she was very happy with her late husband, but this constant comparison with him is wearing on me.

— Mr. Boyfriend

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: It’s always exciting to see a man rebound after a serious setback — except when you’re the new guy in his widow’s life and the setback is that he was cremated three years ago.

As for why your girlfriend keeps inviting the Ghost of Husband Past into your lives, consider that thoughts — like those glowing ones about him — are driven by emotions. And consider that emotions aren’t just internal states; they also act as signals -a form of person-to-person advertising. For example, research by social psych grad student Bo Winegard and his colleagues finds that grief seems to be, among other things, a kind of broadcasting of a person’s “proclivity to form devoted bonds with others.”

(In other words, “Trust me! I love deeply!”)

As for what your girlfriend’s signaling with all this late-husband reflux, maybe she’s telling you to back off — maybe because she fears another big loss. Maybe she wants you to try harder at something — which isn’t helpful if it’s being somebody else entirely.

Or maybe she just misses her late hubby (or feels guilty for being happy with you) and this is her way of keeping him around — in some form.

Ask her — in the most non-snarly, loving way — what she’s trying to communicate to you when she waxes on about him. Tell her it hurts your feelings — giving you the message that you’re failing her somehow.

Maybe she’ll start appreciating what she has instead of being so focused on what she buried. (Date night shouldn’t involve your waving goodbye to your girlfriend as she goes off with a picnic dinner to the cemetery.)

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BY ROB BREZSNY

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don’t be someone that

searches, finds, and then runs away,” advises novelist Paulo Coelho. I’m tempted to add this caveat: “Don’t be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away -- unless you really do need to run away for a while to get better prepared for the reward you have summoned . . . and then return to fully embrace it.” After studying the astrological omens, Scorpio, I’m guessing you can benefit from hearing this information.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now and then

you display an excessive egotism that pushes people away. But during the next six weeks you will have an excellent chance to shed some of that tendency, even as you build more of the healthy pride that attracts help and support. So be alert for a steady flow of intuitions that will instruct you on how to elude overconfidence and instead cultivate more of the warm, radiant charisma that is your birthright. You came here to planet Earth not just to show off your bright beauty, but also to wield it as a source of inspiration and motivation for those whose lives you touch.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Passage du

Gois is a 2.8-mile causeway that runs between the western French town of Beauvoir-sur-Mer and the island of Noirmoutier in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s only usable twice a day when the tide goes out, and even then for just an hour or two. The rest of the time it’s under water. If you hope to walk or bike or drive across, you must accommodate yourself to nature’s rhythms. I suspect there’s a metaphorically similar phenomenon in your life, Virgo. To get to where you want to go next, you can’t necessarily travel exactly when you feel like it.

The path will be open and available for brief periods. But it will be open and available.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Modern toilet paper

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): “How often

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I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller. I don’t fully endorse that perspective. For example, when I said goodbye to North Carolina with the intention to make Northern California my new home, Northern California is exactly where I ended up and stayed. Having said that, however, I suspect that the coming months could be one of those times when Fuller’s formula applies to you. Your ultimate destination may turn out to be different from your original plan. But here’s the tricky part: If you do want to eventually be led to the situation that’s right for you, you have to be specific about setting a goal that seems right for now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you were an

appeared in 1901, when a company in Green Bay, Wisconsin began to market “sanitary tissue” to the public. The product had a small problem, however.

Since the manufacturing process wasn’t perfect, wood chips sometimes remained embedded in the paper. It was not until 1934 that the product was offered as officially “splinterfree.” I mention this, Libra, because I suspect that you are not yet in the splinter-free phase of the promising possibility you’re working on. Keep at it. Hold steady. Eventually you’ll purge the glitches.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Go ahead

and howl a celebratory “goodbye!” to any triviality that has distracted you from your worthy goals, to any mean little ghost that has shadowed your good intentions, and to any faded fantasy that has clogged up the flow of your psychic energy. I also recommend that you whisper “welcome!” to open secrets that have somehow remained hidden from you, to simple lessons you haven’t been simple enough to learn before now, and to breathtaking escapes you have only recently earned. P.S.: You are authorized to refer to the coming weeks as a watershed.

obscenely rich plutocrat, you might have a pool table on your super yacht. And to ensure that you and your buddies could play pool even in a storm that rocked your boat, you would have a special gyroscopic instrument installed to keep your pool table steady and stable. But I doubt you have such luxury at your disposal. You’re just not that wealthy or decadent. You could have something even better, however: metaphorical gyroscopes that will keep you steady and stable as you navigate your way through unusual weather. Do you know what I’m referring to? If not, meditate on the three people or influences that might best help you stay grounded. Then make sure you snuggle up close to those people and influences during the next two weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Musician and visual artist Brian Eno loves to dream up innovative products. In 2006, he published a DVD called 77 Million Paintings, which uses technological trickery to generate 77 million different series of images. To watch the entire thing would take 9,000 years. In my opinion, it’s an interesting but gimmicky novelty -- not particularly deep or meaningful. During the next nine months, Capricorn, I suggest that you attempt a far more impressive feat: a richly complex creation that will provide you with growth-inducing value for years to come.

CANCER June 21-July 22): The coming

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Do you know

weeks will be a good time to fill your bed with rose petals and sleep with their aroma caressing your dreams. You should also consider the following acts of intimate revolution: listening to sexy spiritual flute music while carrying on scintillating conversations with interesting allies . . . sharing gourmet meals in which you and your sensual companions use your fingers to slowly devour your delectable food . . . dancing naked in semi-darkness as you imagine your happiest possible future. Do you catch my drift, Cancerian? You’re due for a series of appointments with savvy bliss and wild splendor.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I have always wanted

. . . my mouth full of strange sunlight,” writes Leo poet Michael Dickman in his poem “My Honeybee.” In another piece, while describing an outdoor scene from childhood, he innocently asks, “What kind of light is that?” Elsewhere he confesses, “What I want more than anything is to get down on paper what the shining looks like.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Leo, I suggest you follow Dickman’s lead in the coming weeks. You will receive soulful teachings if you pay special attention to both the qualities of the light you see with your eyes and the inner light that wells up in your heart.

about the Lords of Shouting? According to Christian and Jewish mythology, they’re a gang of 15.5 million angels that greet each day with vigorous songs of praise and blessing. Most people are too preoccupied with their own mind chatter to pay attention to them, let alone hear their melodious offerings. But I suspect you may be an exception to that rule in the coming weeks.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’ll be exceptionally alert for and receptive to glad tidings. You may be able to spot opportunities that others are blind to, including the chants of the Lords of Shouting and many other potential blessings. Take advantage of your aptitude!

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Greenland sharks

live a long time -- up to 400 years, according to researchers at the University of Copenhagen.

The females of the species don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 150. I wouldn’t normally compare you Pisceans to these creatures, but my reading of the astrological omens suggests that the coming months will be a time when at long last you will reach your full sexual ripeness. It’s true that you’ve been capable of generating new human beings for quite some time. But your erotic wisdom has lagged behind. Now that’s going to change. Your ability to harness your libidinous power will soon start to increase. As it does, you’ll gain new access to primal creativity.

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